The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

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THB CONPIIIHONAL AT BOTNI•HILL.—The Bishop
of Oxford his intimated to Mx. Greeley that an inquiry
will take plaoe into the Boyne-hill oonlesaional case.
"Th. inquiry la to be limitsid to the simple question is
to whether the statements made reapitoting Mr. Orsaley's
curate, in oonnexion with the women "ADO name ham
so often of late appeared in the public journals be or
be not son-set,"

A Swiss MILLTONATRI.—We have already men.
toned the death at Baal* of M. Merlin, who was pro.
bably the wealthiest inhabitant of liwitserland. He Mu
left the bulk of hiller,* fortune, amounting to upwards
of 40,000,000 f Nines, to his wife for life, and after her death
it will go to the town of Haile, his birthplace. He has
bequeathed about four millions to some oollatersl rela-
tions, and a similar coin to be divided among some
charitable inatitutions, micsionaries, his ;ascii-cal at-
tendants, his notary, clerks, servants, lco. By • singu•
lar clause in him will hi. Harlan has given to all parties
who were indebted 10 him at the time of his death a
year's interest on their respective debts.

CATOHINe • THIEF er ELECTRICITY.—VarioiIe et-
temple having rowdy been ludo to rob the dipot of
the Eleotrio Telegraph Company our the lithoreditoh
Terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway, an in.
pnious plan wee curried into operation a few days ego,
which retulted In the upture of the thief, who, being
taken before the magistrate at Worship Strut, Wil NUM.
warily sentenced to three months' imprisonment with
hard labour, The insane of detection were asi follow.
Committed wine were planed oonneotlng i bell in the
ofliee at the station to such a manner that any one
effecting an entrinee into the atone department would
nuessarily displeme a current of electricity passing
through the wires, and thereby eauee the bell to ring,
Mr. aoh, of the Electric Telegraph °Moe, under whose
directions then arrangements were made, had taken the
preeaution to have polio, aid at band whenever the
alarm wee rung, end the result was the approhenelon
of the thief. _

GRICINWION AND THS MAIN DIAINAGI donstig.—
A meeting of the Greenwich District Board of Works
was held on Wednesiday evening at the bowd.room
adjoining the Mitre Tavern. Greenwich for the
purpose of taking into consideration the proposed
ilacing of the outfill and the construction of deodorising
works in the Greenwich marshes. The °hair well lie•
oupied by Mr. Alderman Wire, and there wee a largo
number of members present from the parishes of Bt.
Paul and Bt. Nichols., Deptford, including the hamlet
of klatohaut. Captainßouth, in a brief Weir's., moved
the following resolution :—" That any propcisition for
an outtall at Greenwich, end for deodorising or defence
Mg the sewage of the southern side of the metropolis in
or near the Greenwich marshes, is highly objectionable,
and fraught with danger to the health of the Inhabitants of
this populous district ; and this Board, therefor*, pro-
hate against any suoh plan or project, the offset of
which would be in injurious to persons and property in
this district, baler carried into effect" The motion was
seconded by Mr. Reeve, and carried unealuioutly.
Am:moms or A WARD IN CHANOZIY.-11 is not
often that the vigilant watch which the Court of Chan-
eery kespe over it. wards has been so successfully
thwarted as in the resent ease of a young and wealthy
lady of the ego of 17, who for some years past resided
with her mother in a county town in Sussex. A lieu-
tenant in one of the line regiments stationed near the
town, not being disposed to go through the formality of
obtaining the Chaneellor's consent, and unwilling to
wait until the lady had arrived at that mature ap when
the assent of his lordship would not be required pro-
posed, and the proposition niet with the approbation of
the lady, that they should elude the oare of the stern
dragot of the Court of Chancery. A few days sinoe the
pleasant little villages, the town of Walalmin, and some
other plume in Norfolk, were visited by the young
couple, and lest week the marriage of Lieutenant
end Miss —MY duly solemnised in the (lurch of
Soutliripp, by the curate of Archdeacon Glover. There
were, of ;mune, many ansiour inquiries after the mis-
ting lady, and Inspector Fiold, with his assistants,
assisted by all the power of the awful Court of Chen-
eery, was scouring the wuntry in every direction. The
lady was at length tracked to the secluded village re-
ferred to, but only in sufficient time for her pursuers to
learn that the bird and her mete had flown. After many
inquiries it was found that on the evening after the mar-
riage the 'happy pair" had travelled to London in the
emtpl of a first-olue railway carriage, which they had
specially engaged. Thither the fugitives were followed
by their tireless pursuers. Once more the latter were
behind time, and they had the satisfaction of learning
that every arrangement had been made reepeeting the
pomports, and that the request of Lord Mahnethury to
give aid and unmoor to Mr. and Mrs. —, "British
traveliers visiting the Coutinent," had been duly owl-
plied with by the authorities at Boulogne. Last week
the bodied ofeser promedod to Paris to disturb the
serenity of their honeymoon by Nerving them with the
terrible notiees of the Court of Chancery. In the capi-
tal of France. however, these notices are nothing more
than waste paper, and the happy couple, in long as they
reside there, trial defy the threats of the all-potent Lord
Chancellor.

AOOIDINT ON TEI SOUTH•WHISTEHN RAILWAY.—On
Monday an inquest wan held by Mr. Carter, at Kingston,
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from Woking was passing at the rate of 20 miles an
hour. The unfortunate man was a oarman in the sin
ploy of Mr. Parker,_ New-town, Kinpluid, and was at
the station on nunday afternoon, intending to take •
trip to Hampton-court. The Woking train gave the
usual shrill whistle u it approached, and peened through
the station without stopping ; but it ii supposed that
the ,leceased had his face turned In the opposite direc-
tion it the time; and, not observing the danger he was
running, he incautiously stepped on to the rails, and his
body was cut In pleas by the up train. The jury r.-
turned, verdict of " Accidental death, through the de-
oessed's want of caution," at the same time reoommend-
leg that when two trains meet at a station • porter
should be placed to warn persons against crossing the
line.
A FIVER VILLAOI mit BLICEINGHALSHIRL—Fever
has been prevailing in the village of Great Horwood,
near Buskinghun, to such an extant lately as to newish
tate an inquiry into the cause. The number of cases
which occurred up to July 0, were 125. The deaths Imre
been eighteen. The populetion was commuted in 1851
at 704 • therefore out of every six persons one has already
fallen lii; and of those that have had it one of every
seven haii died. Dr. Henry Acland, Regina Professor
of Medicine in the Oxford University, in an elaborate
and oarefully-writton report on the cause of this mortal-
ity, says:—" The modes of origin of fever are—deatitu-
, Eton, bodily and mental depreuion, oontagion, over-
crowded dwellings, putrescent animal end- vegetable
matter, and an insufilloient supply of fresh air—or, as it
I. called, bad ventilation—and we must attribute in veil-
' oun degrees the pershrtenoe of the affection to the last
four, and ecieulally to bed ventilation. The evil la most
grievous in sleeping-rooms. ' We can do no more,' said
one admirable woman, 'that, keep clean what we have,
We cannot get our landlord to give us more air, or maks
the windows we have to open'--' Women,' he said, 'ape
beet shut up.' Some of the small cottages at Wigwell
are models of personal oleenlineas and of neatness on the
I part of the inmates, 'Die fault is not in them, but in
their tenement'. Bo offensive do the bedrooms of wine
biome where the windows are near the door, that one
said to ins, 'I often awake In the night stifled, and ine
and my husband go and sit at the window."
" HALTBD Wita.."—A few days ago as old James
Walker, the parish clerk, woe digging a pave in the
burialground attached to Brainotous old Church, lie
came upon the Walton, of a " thrugh" or alter tomb,
imbedded in the sail, at is depth it about 15 lushes from
the surface. Upon the stone were carved the unie of
the De Mullen., the Dames, and tile Howerde quartered
with the Durso hod near the piece where It wee found
there was also diseavered a spur of thd period,
"Whin melted mosctroonere rode llis hill.
"And busies blew lot belted WM."
It will be misinbered that it Mai by the mania/a of the
heiress of Thoinas de Maltcu Margaret de Holton, who
was carried off in the night thus from Warwielveralle
by Rajah de Deere to whom the had been betrothed;
limit braworth p 1111.114 to the fondly of Deere I and ft
was by the marriage of the heiress of the Duns that it
subsequently pasted to Lard William Howard, Lord
Carlisle, wits is now staying at Haworth, has examined
the stone, end has expressed his belief that it bulwarked
the grave of Belted Will, and he Intends to make farther
eseavatlone IP soon es he obtains the consent of the
clear. Haworth Castle he in the parish of Brampton,
and it seems not at all unlikely thal the parish ohureli
would be Billeted as the burial plus of Lord William
Howard, He dierl it Haworth in the year 1040, during
the recaps, of the plague, and if, ac has been alleged, lie
fell a vm to that fearful dhow he would, as hi usual
In sueli easel, be burled In hie elothee i this may amount
for the snding of the spur near the plus of the "opposed
Interment,
A 7AIIIIIII 001111 MID 1,011 ITIALING A LANII.—AI
the petty seeelone of the New Inc district of Ulainorpn•
shire, cm Friday week, Mr. Rees Jones, a highly respect.
able farmer, routing lands at Ystrodyfoderg, wail brought
up on a charge of itealinua lamb, the properly of a
neighbouring farmer, MCl'llonifte Joseph. It appeared
from the 'widens§ that kir. Joseph la a somewhat ex-
tensive fleck-muter having upwards of 1,100 sheep and
lambi on hit farm, The acenand, Mr. Rees Jones, also
owns a considerable number, Latterly Mr. Joseph's head
shepherd hao missed from his flock four or five lambs,
and aa they were all marked with the distinctive mark
which hie nook bear, and by willoh they are well known
by the various took-masters of the district, itwas known
that they could not have strayed, but most have been
dishonestly abstracted, Inquiries were consequently
made, and the other farmers of the neighbourhood were
on the look out. A lamb wee at length recognised on
Kr. Jones' land from which the pitch mark which dia.
tinguislied Mr. Joseph's flock had evidently been re•
moved and the mark of the prisoner eubatituted. The
ewe, the mother of the lamb, having been taken to the
field, the animals Immediately recognised one another
and bleated, and thelamb ran and sucked the ewe, thus
affording oonvincing proof that it had belonged to Mr.
Joseph's flock. The magistrates expressed their regret
at seeing the prisoner placed in such a position, but said
they felt it their duty, after the evidence which had
been edduced, to commit him for trial at the sessions.
In consideration, however, of his previous character,
they would accept good ball for his appearance.

TRI OXFORD A.A. EIAWINATION.—We are induced
to think well of the University examination scheme.
Now for the result of the Oxford examination held in
June. The find thing which must strike every one who
looks at the analysis to which we have referred is the
vast proportion of failures to IllOcel&011. Of 1,239 candi-
dates who entered their names, 89 did not appear to be
examined, so that the persons actually subjeoted to ex-
amination only numbered 1,150, and of these 1,150 only
429, or about three-eights, succeeded in satisfying the
examiners. We were quite sure from our own know-
ledge of middle-olds education that the principal cause
of this failure of five-eights of the oandidates arose from
that went of thoroughness in instruction which is so
fatal •characteristio of many of our schools, especially of
those which are conducted as private speculations. We
were hardly prepared, however, to find that the result
so completely verified our conjecture. By far the
greater proportion of failures, we learn, arose from igno-
rance of orthography and arithmetic—in plain English,
the candidates could not spell, and could not add,
subtract, multiply, and divide. This is sufficiently
astonishing and mortifying, becauee it shows not only
the pupil's ignorance, but what is of infinitely greater
importance, the master's utter want of knowledge of
that ignorance ; for we can hardly suppose that a school-
master who was aware Mitt his scholars were deficient
hi these respects would have sent them into time ex-
amination. But we oertainly were surprised to find
that many of the candidates (63 out of 171 among the
senior') would have obtained honours, so great was their
proficiency in the advanced subject', if they had not
failed in such ordinary and ever-day matter' as ortho-
graphy, writing, analysis and paving, arithmetic, geo-
graphy, English history, and English composition. We
• really hardly understand -how a lad who shows •
fair knowledge of Latin can fail In English compoeition,
I or how another who is up in quadratic equations should
find the rule of three • danlerous stumbling block. But
, incomprehensible as it may be, the fact still remains,
' and shows the extent to which elementary knowledge ill
neglected in our middle-class schools for the sake of
getting boys on in more showy branches of learning.
It appears, indeed, that the time given for answering
the questions on these preliminary subjects was unduly
I abridged, and that hardly nufnaient time was given for
revising what was written ; but even after making
allowance for this eircuinetaeoe, there Is still a large
pereentap of failure for which it will hardly account.
I There are two other reasons for the large oomparative
number of failures which we are glad to notice, because
they show that all the blame did not rest with the
schoolmasters. The first is that many of the candidate'
were timers children, 78 of them being between 12 and
19 years of his, who can but just here doe* froiu the
hands of the nursemaid, and whom the University can
never have intended to examine ; while the second hi
! that the examination was a perfectly new thing, and
' therefore the schoolineeters could only guess at this
degree of proficiency which would he exacted from can.
'Wats'. In future, they will understand this better,
and will Ohne be able to save theinielves and their
pupils from mortifying and damaging failure,
flan( mltOlt CBLOROI.OIII.—A young women died
at Epsom, on Friday week, under chloroform, at the
I house of Mr. Keeling, • dentist, who practises exten•
I sleety in Kent and the neighbouring counties. The fade
I of the osie are as follow", and strictly in acroordanos with
the evidence given at the impala i--The deceased, • re.
markably tall fine young woman of twoand-twenty,
lived as • servant with Dr. Barrett, a physician residing
In the adjoining parish of Ewell. She hold • very high
place in the esteem both of the doctor and of his lady,
being more of • companion to the latter than • depict.
dent. For some time past the dedded had suffered
from toothache, and laving witnessed the nuatemafill usa
of chloroform, administered by Mr. Keeling, in the ease
of her mistrial and in that of two sona of Dr. Barrett,
okildren of 10 and 12 year' of age, she wiehed to avail
herself of the seine means. She consulted Dr. Barrett,
and from that gentleman's persmmal knowledge of the
"tat, of uninterrupted health enjoyed by the deceased
for the lad seven years he, without time slightest Malta-
Non or misgiving, wrote an authority for the extraction
of the offending tooth with the aid of chloroform, not
suspecting the 'lightest risk from Its use. Deosased
took tha paper, and, accompanied by her mistress,
walked to Epsom to the establishment of Mr. Keeling,
who proceeded to operates. requested. It appears from
the evidence at the inquest held on Saturday that Mr.
Keeling desired merely to deaden the nervous sensibility
of his patient—not to produce unoonsoiousneu. The
quantity of chloroform edinini stered WS/ deordingly
very small, but its effects were most unexpected and
distressing. She Inhaled the chloroform from the nap-
kin she held in her hand for a brief time, and on being
ached if she will ready replied "not
,yet," again
sniffed at the napkin, and then said "now.' The tooth
was almost instantaneously extricated, a slight move-
ment of the jaw followed, when deceased appeared to
faint, and, notwithstanding the use of powerful restore-
Myr promptly and continually applied, she never
rallied. Messengers were despatched all over the town
for medical assistance, and to Dr. Barrett himself.
Thie gentleman was fortunately going to Epsom and was
met by the messenger, who informed him of the danger
of his servant. He hastened onward, and on arriving at
Mr. Keeling's found life utterly extinct. Other assist-
antes speedily arrivedl but, of course, it was useless.
The distress of the mistress of the deceased, who wit-
nessed this awfully sudden departure of one whom she
greatly valued, was as poignant as it wee unavailing.
Mr. Keeling's nerve never once forsook him throughout
this most trying beano, and the whole of the evidence
went to show that no blame could or should attach
either to the mode of the adminietration of the chloro-
form or the promptness and fitnese of the means taken ,
to combat its distressing results, although, unhappily,
unavailing. The jury found • verdict of "Accidental
Death," sequitted Mr. Keeling of the slightest blame,
but desired to recommend the OSQUOUR UN of chloroform
, n trifling operation' in future. With reference to this
'expression of opinion on the part of the jury Mr. Keel-
ins &sired to explain that he had in his evidence, at the
reqsest of the coroner, but with some hesitation, in de-
ference to the medical men present, expressed an opi-
nion that death in this instance was Issued by the ad-
ministering a esishates quantity of chloroform, the ,
patient not powwowing sufficient vital energy to ;waiver
from its effects. He did so with the intention that ,
wherever a report of this ease mightgo medical men and
others may see that a Wiliillll4lll quantity of chloroform
administered with the greatest caution may cause death, I
and, eueh being the cute, it is desirable thet it. nee in
operations of a minor character roke he avoided.

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A S Dtiermsiv.—The officers of the
inland revenue in the Blackburn distrait, Lancashire,
having for some time had their suspielone directed to &
farmhouse belonging to, and occupied by, Janes Monis,
at Park•low, sear Haslingden, they list week discovered
• complete distillery beneath the farmhouse, and from
which there wee internal communication. This waa co-
mm hated alter two days' search. A leaden pipe,
fixod to the wall, was tzased to the turf room, whore it
• disappeared under the flap of the Boor. On the flags
being removod, an opening, two feet broad and eight
deep was found, at the bottom of which an °filar who
descended disoovered & oiler, about 8 feet square. In
this place there were a truck and a quantity of empty
totultem, was
et then found, which lea
by 8 feet. Here were
found worm, still, and all neosssary apparatus for the
inanufactlure of illicit spirits, together with several jar.
aotcherAosn°tllahre,r about
and (up of spirit. The chief part of the apparatus wu
made of tin, and was of such large dimensionithat it had
to be broken to pieces before it oould be removed. It la
believed it must have been made in the plus whirs it
was found. Immediately the offioers entered the pm.
mires Morris drove sight bead of cattle from the farm
amid it is not known what he has done with them.
While the offioem were investigating the premises
Morris told them that their labour would be all in vain,
and smarted his innocence of the charge of being an
Illicit whisky spinner. On Saturday he wee taken
before the Blackburn magistrates and convicted in the
, penalty of L'3o and casts ; in default he was sent to
gaol for three months, He was considered to be a very
religions man, and was frequently sun reading hfil
Bible.
NNNNNNN PATTON OP 011111WS011.—ISIIII0NSPIMS
or Ms. TOWNSIVD.—On Thursday evening, • 'lump
flatly attended meeting of elation of the borne of
Greenwich (convened by circular), was held at the Lord
Nelson Tavern, Trifalgirtroad, Greenwich, to receive
Mr. Townsend, M.P., and hear an address from that
gentleman as to his future intentions with regard to the
representation of the borough. The chair was occupied
by Mr. Cherritt, of Woolwich, Mr, Townsend, on pre•
tenting himself, MN received with loud cheers. He said
he fell that its had no right to keep HI. attached to
hill name unless he mold fully perform those onerous
duties which appertained to a member for such an lint
portant borough as that of Greenwich, He had :14
them on the hustinp that whenever the tins. emir
that lie could no longer area them eftelently, he w
resign his trust into their hands. He had fully ea.
!adored the subject, and believing that such time had
arrived, and, added the hon. member (who *poured to
be labouring under emotion( I hereby reidgn Into year
kends, ind the hands of the eloelore of this bon*, the
mat in Yerliament which they freely amordetto in. by
an immense and overwheluting majority, They were
probably scrprisal to hear that he had delermlziliss
to future adopt the profemion of the Mogi. A p
offer had bun ma& to him, mid ache woe meet and:
out to pay off Ine debts, he had determined to
that offer, He thought they would not condemn%
for this decision. (Mot,
_lima_ When rush asp oo
Itheridan Knoseles and time Hon, W. Thorpe, 6011 01011
Lord Uhanoellor of England, /Amsted the "lop at a per
tendon lie thought that it eould not but be doomed its
honourable ailing. He was yet bill a young mon, and
he would never root soliallod until be hod geld to his
creditors every file and jut debt,
AS AMATILIII W4TOSI,-11 111 not perhem gene.
rally known that the °Moen of the Itoneas4r pollee
form have a canine companion dosing their poreenintlep
lions through the WWII at night time but mish is really
the feet, Poe nearly three years past a deg of the
shepherd brood has been In the habit of moonipmq ng
the policemen while out on night juty, end during this
whole of that Mine the anima has never ones !Aged
being 111 his post, When the men loam the olio to
on their beats at he'll's,t nine it night their eon
friend Is always found waiting for them In front of E
Guildhall, and no matter whit the weather may be,
whether hot or *old, wet or dry, he keeps their ann.
piny until morning. " Ladle," la the dog is called, Is
not very particular which officio he goes on with first,
but before the night to ever he nester fells** AM them
all, for he knows their beide se well lathe oldest pokes.
man on the finest At els o'clock In the morning, he It
again in front of the Guildhall, and m soon Si the men
go into the polleemeloo, he either Mote off home at onto,
br don No after just peeping into the station hove", At
dory time lie will not go near any of the form but one,
and at :might he generally takes that polloeman'" beat the
first if he hie on duty, "Ladd!'" is not only a genii
eompanion, but he hits also more than once proved him.
self a good detective, and it It due to him to say that on
one otteamion especially the polies succeeded In spiv,.
bending a prisoner through hls inetrumentslity, but he
has not yet been rewarded with • testimonial, The dog
is an old animal, and why he should take such a liking to
his hlne•ooitted friend' we know not. Ito never Iv
longed to one of them, and we understand they give
him very little encouragement to keep their company,
but still he will go, and on one occasion, after travelling
on foot from ladule to Doncaster, he actually went on
duty at night as usual, and roniained with the men until
their thins expired at 0 o'clock the following morning,