The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-07 00:00:00

enteral Nctins.

Trifis Irish Registrar-General reports the death of. man
from hydrophobia caused by the bite of a cat.

A Gaul ARRAIGUIRNT.— A mecond•class comply.-
meat in all trains is exclusively reserved for ladies on
the Bristol and Exeter line.
Tun will of Artemis Ward, whose proper name was
Charles Ferrer Brown, has just been proved in London,
and the personalty in this *wintry was sworn under
iNOO.

THIS LIBERAL WRIT. —Contrary to expectation, Mr.
Brand has been induced to oontinue, as long as health
enable him, in the offies of whip to the Liberal party.—
Diddis Ereaiag Mail.
BURIID LIES. —WII US 011VViell were at work on
Monday in a deep cutting near Colyton, • large quantity
of earth suddenly gave way, and completely buried •
young man named Long. Hie lifeless body was man-
cated soon after tbe accident.

SRO? ST • VOLI7/11.11111.—A girl named Catherine
Fraser. fourteen yenta of age, was accidentally shot
near Glasgow on Monday afternron by a rifleman, who
was practising. She was killed instantaneously. The
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an being lovertigsted.

SIRTIRLY Aereenoc.—Two maiden ladies named
Hind.', one aged 79, and the other 75, daughters of the
late Major Hinds, were last week buried in one
grave at Fpping. One of them died • few years ago,
and the other had the body enclosed in • leaden coffin
and kept it in the house till her own decease. She
was accustomed every day to place frtsh flowers on the
ocien.
RITURN or THE GARAI' EA/RI/M.—The Great
Eastern steannhip returned to Liverpool on Tuesdey
ii,,roing from Bran, where she strived with only 191
instead of the anticipated 3,000 passengers. The
enterprise of the French company is • (template failure;
and the unfulfilled eegagenant with the Great Ship
Company is said to be likely to lead to considerable
litigation.
A 11•11nMEDAlt BkalllBlll7.—Among the name* of
those called at the bar on Tuesday in the Middle Temple
appears that of Budreedeen Tyabjee. This gentleinau
is • Mehomedao, and the first overcalled to the Eoglish
bar. The oath. of allegiance, Ito, were administered
to him in the usual terms, but he was sworn on the
Koran. He intends to practise at the bar in Bombay,
where he will be the first disciple of the Prophet who
has ever held such a position in India.
Perrariuuurn or Innuirrni.—There are now be.
tween 2,000 and 3,000 shareholders in compound' hewed
upon the principle of uniting the interests of the capi-
talists with the intonate of the workers, and there are
at lewd 8,000 to 10,000 workpeople employed by these
companies. The.. geuauLems are doily ineraming. We
may add to this constituency • large number of nem.
mereial men, friends of social progress, investors, and
others, who, though not actual participators in the work,
are watching the movement with greet interest.—
Industrial Partnerships' Record.

RISCAPI O." PINTA*" TRnld A MAIL TRAIN. —OM
Thursday aftertoon, whilst the mail train from London
was nearing Tam worth Station, a Fenian prisoner in
charge of Serjeant &rage, A division of the metropolitan
police. and Constable Gunning, of the Irish oon-
stabulary, who were taking hini to Dublin, made a
bound to the carriage window and went through before
they could stop him. On the arrival of the train at the
station an engine was despatched to look for the fugitive
but to no purpose. No trope of him mild be found.

A PRODIGY .—A boy preacher his appeared in Wales,
who, according to his admirers, is to extinguish Mr.
Spurgeon. This promising youth is Master Enoch
Probed, who has just completed his 11th year. On
Easter Sunday he preached to crowded eongrega Hon.
in the Baptist Chapel at Oladestry, Radnor. A local
print says of him—" He has a sweet and powerful voice,
which be manages welL Hi. delivery is remarkably
distinct, and his bearers were astonished at scab
marvellous truths from • boy of sash tender years."
After preaohing two sermons en the Sooday Master
Probert spoke at length on the following day to the
Sunday ocholars.—PaU Mall Gazette.
Tug following translation of the Chinon, letter
received with the drat consignment, per ship Cherokee,
of Hornimaa's Pure Tea was rendered by J. Summers,
Esq., Professor of Chinese, King's College, London.
The original letter has for many years being preserved
as a literary curiosity. " 28th day of Third Moon, in the
year Kweilisiow. Thetis shipped is truly beet, Prepared
with additional oars, without powdered colour put as leaf,
which the experienced educated merchant will take
notice. We honoured by your instruction. will coo.
tinuously regard them. MINQOAII iiollo. To London
Foreign Merchants, Hornbeam."
A WOHILUIGI-CLASS ORGANISATION.— A largitoomber
of delegates from the COlllllllllllOll Work Mean
Associations in different parts of the country met last
week in London, for the following obiects—a. To st4oteat
the formation, and to foster the growth when previously
formed, of Comervative Associations In Great Britain.
ues ; to improve the dwell.
tetonda.ttant
toatoa.the registrar; to oppose the spirit which
in.
of the
„ewkisTirc ainst ciscies, members of such Conser-
vative Awociatioca in the esosomlcal outlay of shah.
earning.; to prowiote the education of it. working
as. member.; to provide aid against time of Weimer
and W 406 of eloiffewio 9lsitations ; and to promote •
swims of Hie aerarnses Among its monikers."

Thu FIGHT TOR TON CHAlcriossurr.—There was to
bane been • grand rize•aght on Saturday week for the
ehempiersiiip and 1500 tbe combatants being Worm&ld
sad Oltaidwin. The South-Enstern Railway Company
provided a special train, it bating been arranged that
the fight 'Mould come off somewhere down that him,
but ildwio did not appalr at the tiTstittlyplace,
hyviog either soctdentally or InuomionoUr mimed bie
way. The train therefore returned W London, and
t.carams Were dhpwtehed to him at Farnborough,
nio re it semi he had found himself, to bring LIM
town ; and one of these memages did bring him up.
though too late for to retrieve his morning's default
of appearance at the London Bridge station. The 'win
whom he vise to have fought chanted the stakes, and
hie demand we/ allowed by the referee.— Pall Yell
GozdUe

A WHITE BEAR AT Lsube.—A bear (supposed to
hove escaped from the menagerie of Moro% Stevens,
which was exhibiting in Soltingham at Nester) hos
recently been seen rimming in the fields about two mi!es
from the temu. It was first observed by MOM ewe who
were milking rows, and they punned it, but it got oat
of the way. Tbe some evenog it was seen on the other
side of the Trent, caving evidently Pease the river, a
distance of shoat 100 yards. A young -en named
C.eksyns, who eras ploughing in the neighbourhood of
West thidgeford, suddenly mole non the beets, and:
time ploughmen, becoming alarmed, hmtily beat. en-
treat. Malayan rave information to the octanl:. potire„
several of whom minced the beset, but lost all from of
it when they arriv.4l at Itridsefonl cover in e.onseq 'woe,
of the darkness. The animal is atilt at large.—lfau.
cheater Gagardiax.

Tele SSIDICR in with the greatest
tion that we are enabled to state th.t the whole of the
infantry in the szmy in the United Kingdom are at this
moment .upolied with the Snider rill., while there is an
abond•nce of atm/coition ready for their nes. All the
diffieuties to which we have from time to time alluded
have been overcome, and the report. from all districts
announce • perfect satisfaction with the arm as •
practical weapon. A considerable quantity of converted
11 arms are in rtore reedy to be served to regiments on
their return from foreign service. It is isrteoded
immediately to 'sane these arms to the army abroad,
commencing with Gibraltar and Malta. Application
has hero made by the Volunteers of Canada for the
supply of the arm to that force. A 'bort rifle has been
adapted for the woe of the 'Frith constabulary. The
country may, therefore, rest content that, pending the
rip zunents that are, to be conducted by the Committee
on Small Arms, prolonged ea they must he, our military
forces are, in the respect of broteloloading riled arms,
In as advanced and latidastery • position as can be
dative& —The Owl.
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LORD Dater Ow Reiroan.— A deputation of the
Conservative Central A 1100611tIOR had an interview with
the Earl of Derby and Disraeli em Tuesday. when
the noble Earl among other things mid :—We desire to
bring in as large a number as possible of Ahem who shall
be found capable of exercising the franddia. soberly and
intelligently hut how are we to draw tla line of dis-
tinction' That ie the great question Imo pending
between us and those who Sr. in opporeakm to the
bill. I have always thought it was a misteia in the
Ad: of 1832—although I wee • party to it —IL at the
original lino of £lO was fixed ma the line; but the !hums
that prevailed up to that time made the repressetotive
,1 system of trik country a mockery, and so ssomplet4r
I was the popular feeling aroused that £lO was accept, ui
as a middle term upon which we might safely reel,
But I' is quite sear that the rent a man par cannot ha
a teat of his re.peolability—(hear, hear). The CIO .111
n arbitrary line ; the man who pays £9 may fairly aalt
what difference there is between him and the £lO
householder, and the man who pate IN may say the
same :.nd so on—(hear). Indeed there is not • single figure
upon which you can pet your finger and say 'Hers is
the line between property and poverty, and between
respeetabilily end nonwespectability.' It is a false
measure upon which to roomed, and that false measure
Is now that which the present opposition is endeavour-
log to uphold rainiest the Government Sill. We have
thought it much better to break down that hard and
arbitrary line, and to ascertain if we cannot take
another and, better basis {cheers). We propme tc •
take these two testa. Instead of taking a pre:case
figure, se propose to take the personal payment or
rates as • guarantee that the lIILD who offers that pop-
meat ie willing to bear his she-is of the State burdens
at the same time that he takes the privileges of the
eon:Citation. We ask also for a test of residence. And
why ? Because there is in large towns a vast amount
of migratory population, who are the least reepeetable
and the least valuable portion of the community, sod
who are the least known to their neighbour, and upon
whom we think it advisable not to lavish the franchise.
We therefore alaim a c: rtain yr.-Hod—be it one year.
a year and a half, or two years, for that is • matter of
fair disonesion--soithat !the franchise shall inch& all
those who are permanent householder., and (occlude that
mixed and migratory population which have no
permanent connexion with the towns—(cheers)."