The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-09 00:00:00

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TIM An Journal opens with we attractive arile• on
relics of Chsrlea 1., which of *nurse, treats of the
" martyr King's."or " ssotst-of-kines" as hole 'lnn:m.l7
regarded—association with art, MIMI indicate. the nature
end whereabouts of the unhappy monarch's most in-
teresting relics. Here is an odd paragraph-
-The block on which Charles waa beheaded nue In the
v....et...i5m .4 Lod) Fade. anal was .44 at the dispeead of her
etketa. at Little near Chlppinc Ulettorater.
I .to not know wi st to. bee.rne of this. but it cmild he
i4entitie4 hy the Iron .tapie. fixed ic the aidea for the perinea
.4 Meshy- the Kiln( dee.. If I...often-A any nadatance."
Knobs- House, one of the nem' cit•raning seats in charms
ins Kent, i• this month's " Stately House of England
ocessionally oi on to tie people," and its beauties are
richly Illurrated and entertainnigly described. A paper
on
elect,reni• tallurgy shows thst thin bronchi of art•
industry is now largely employed, and has been brought
to •hill state if petfection. John Burr. a iicotoh
artist, after the manner of Wilkie, is secleetod to
illustrate this month's chapter on " British artists,
their style and character." The Bolognese painters
maintain the reput..tion of the old Italian artotsfor gr-nius
and Icing. A biogrepbiosl sketch of Wiest:, a Wigan
astist who died in llifikie worthy of insertiou in the Art
jonriva/ as showing the triuniphs in store for vitality
perseveringly cultivated. Other papers awl an interest-
ing epitome of the minor topics of the month. make
tip, es usual. a value number. The steel plates this
month ate —"Jack is t.ffice" by Landsevr ; "Pirates of
the Mediterranean playing at Dior for Prisoners," and
the nymil of the 'thine."
Tke Animal World for November Is even a better
number thou the fret, which, we ere glad to Sod, has
won nuttier.' hearty commendation. Poetry and
prrise, anecdotes and stories, essays and biota, aro
cemlimed IS Cu interesting InanneT. to 1.1.0•0 as Mary
ii"ntlt says in the oPs nine piper on the sae, that
there is nothing like patience end kindnms for milling
forth the good qualitie• of enimals. Many of the
sufferings to which the poor amid, natures we u-si ore
subjected, Cr, often, we would fain hope, the oonse.itience
of want of thourht rather then of vnant.,n cruelty, end
the Anima/ World will render goal servic • by directing
attention to their needs and capabilities, while the
mod influence of its lessons may haply serve to make
us all more tender hearted and loving one towards
soother. We wish it success as an interesting additlon
to our megssion literature, yet still 1110/0 that it.
humane too-ion nay iturekly produoe good results. To
this end it is impott.ut that those, who have the man-
agement of settle should read the Anima/ World, and
we trust that all who have the means will aid its sirs
gelation amongst those atones.
Oar 0•016 Fireside continues to supply • pleasant
vio-iety of wholesome reeding for the family circle, and
metit• • huge circulation.

Ilarderirke's Srience•Gossip is chatty and Interesting,
and pre-ents a tote', of information fey even such as
Lawn but • smattering of scientific knowledge.
Mist. nut Wm—Thacker-ay says : •• I never knew
• man to die of love, certsinly ; but I have known •
twelve-stone man go down to nine stone five under •
disappointed passion, so that pretty neatly In quarter of
him may he said to have p-tished, and that in no Antall
portion. Ile has conic beck to his can aim subsequently,
perhaps fusser than ever; scull new aft ction has
cloud round his heart mei it, and usivie them com-
fortable. II .If A f pan,, at luaing • woman result
front vanity noire than affection. Moiruver, under
his dismpointnient Penn took to writing verses. When
a man's grief or passion is at this point it may be loud
but it is tint severe. When • gentleman is cudgelling
his brain to lint any rhyme for • sorrow' besides
' borrow' and • toquurrow; his woes are neatly at an
end.
Civic EXJCITIIINT.-111 1800, on November 8, the
usual f an were kept up with great spirit at the
Mansion House, it twine Om day of the Lord Mayor
(Combo) retiring front canoe, and the assumption of his
duties by his Nyco mor, Sir W,tlhiaan Staines. The
honest knight lovel his pipe, and was accordingly in-
dulged with one. In yielding up hit place cud honours
to him, the late chief magistrate, eomitlie, had the good
nature to share in the humour of his succomor, and they
were observed. after diem r, lighting their pipesat one
ornate like the Duke of Buckiugharrile two Kings of
ltretitford, smellir,g at one nosegay. Aldermen &piton,
when he beet at the corner of Ironmonger-lane In
Cheapvide, had • strange mode of reit, siting himself on
the morning after a civic feast; leaving his shop, be
would go to the pump in Ironmonger-lane, and there
taking uff his wig plaice Li- bstu head beneath the cooling
stream. .

MAnglltn PACT ANTI PItEneCT.—I fancy it in one of
my elrefeereioned ideas—that women would try to live
up to • higher standard, to appear and to be better, if
men halo them up in the ereene estiniatton as formerly ;
and that men would not he quite so odious, so coaxes.
mi ;gement, so I& 11.11, and no ill-mannered as they are
If women showed them that they 4:exacted them to be
*thereto*, awl were not teu tolerant when they fall short
of their expectations. rho "old-fashioned courte-y,"
which is extruct in manner., an., rely upou it, an
external indication of a yen different mural position
held by wenten from that which they now occupy. Vice
had its terrible piece and power under the former reorma
suo; but they were more distinct from the piths and
the power of virtue, honour, and reapectethility than
they are now, and surely that was souretleine ts be
valued. It cannot have been veined ants ouget to
have been by women, for it rewt hove been always is
their power to uselatarn, to coloree the distinction, to
prevent the gradual mingling and blending of Hie ideas
awl the manners of two separate sociel well .s. They
have Air-gated their ptelogative, and will probably
ilnel it di(loult to resume, when the exigencies of society
and the iocreesiegly deeperate aspect of the marriage
question shall have driven them to try to restore, the
former or ler of " Altai A mutat is WI Heroes"
us Tiasley's 21fogazisse,
MATILIVIuNIAL EIPORT.—In the •.rly settlement of
l'irginis. when eh• adventurers were principally tan. I
married men, audit wasdeemed ecousary to export such
women a. oun'.ll, preluded upon to quit &glues, OS
wives for the planter,. A letter sec .napanytter a AN-
web f these matrimonial exiles, dated Leidon,August
12, 1621, is illuerreeive of the manners ot the times, and
thecormetu then felt for ti.e welfare of the colony and
for female virtue. It is as follows :—" We send )ceu in
the ship One widow and eleven maids, for wives for the
people of %%resole ; there bath been especial care bad
in the choice of them, for there lead not one of them
been received but upon good commenthetions. In cue
they cannot be preeeutly married. we desire that they
ise.y be put with rev. ml househoulders that have wore.,
till they can be provided with husbands. Tb. re are
nearly fifty more that are shortly to COMO`, and are sent
by our HOD. Lord thel Treasurer, the Earl of Southamp-
ton, and certain worthy gentlemen, who taking ihto
their coneideration that the plantation can never flourish
till femthes be planted, and the respect of wives and
children for their people on the soil, therefore have
given thls lair beginning ; for the reimbursing ef whose
charges it is ordered that every man that marries give
ono hundred arid twenty pouads of best leaf tobacco
breach of them. Though we are desirous that tbe !
marriage be free, according to tbe laws of nature, yet
we would not have these meials deceived, and married
to servants, but only to such freemen or tenants as have
means to maintain them. We pray you, therefore to
be fathers of them in this business, not enforcing them
to merry agsmst their wills."
GUY Friwxxa. —A wan to study with a curious
art wan the stiff bronzed fellow, with sandy baud and •
fell of thharn hair, now stapling In this Tudor room,
before judges of such high fame and power, and anti/ey-
ing those lords of war and masters of law as lightly as
though the inquiry were some tavern jest ; mitring the
false name of Johnson. the false description of a serving
man ; and only laughing roughly when they found him
out. Tell, strongly buble and 35 years old, he stood I
before them in the prime of all hie powers. His face I
was good, in some of its aopects fine, ilis ttures were
those of gentle life; his weds, though few, were choice ;
and hi. bearing spoke of both the cloister and the
camp. Deepite the grime upon his bends, the 'rites of
coal and powder, he was evidently • man of birth.
efountjoy could see that he had been • soldier ; North-
ampton Nand him an adept In the schools. Even Cecil,
who knew more about him then he liked to bay, was
smitten by hie jaunty sir. "He inns more dismeyed,"
wrote the Secretary of State, "than if he were taken
on the highway." All that could happen to cross his
purpose and crush his spirit bad come to puss. Hu
plans bad failed, hie friends were scattered. his cause
was lost. Behind him lay the wreck of a life; before
him lowered the gaol, the rack, the gibbet, and the
yelling crowd. All that he could call No on earth was
a day of feverish pain, an infamotie death, • memory
laden with a luting curse. Yet the man was rook.
The lords bed spent a sleepless night, and be had
'limbered like a child. They had been touing on
beda of down, while he had been 'tropics on a
plait of strew. They had sought for rest under painted
ceilings, and be had ',WO dreaming lightly in the
darkest dungeon of the Tower.— /ler Majesty's Tower.
By William Hepworth

Tug "fool and month" ilissope has broken out in •
mild form in several districts is Hampshire.
24 OMAR •ND SVICIDI Is DARBTSHIZZ. On Tuesday
• man named Willies, Hitchcock murdered his wife
our Helper, Derbyshire. (Inc of the poor wom•o's eye'
had been knocked out of the socket, and bar head was
completely battered. Hitchcock was aperehendtd aid
when told that his wife was dead lie only laughed. (to
Thursday Hitchcock bung himself to the bars of the
cell window by his neckerchief.
:.t7lOlll AND ATTVIIPTLD kleglieg.—A grocer, named
Basler. It Mercian. Surrey, who had for some time p.m
been leadine • dii•iptited life, during which he had
frequently quarrelled with his wife, returned home from
a tavern on Wednesday night very mush the worse for
drink. An altercation en.ued between him and his
wife, which ended in his making • determined attempt
to take her life. The woman. however, escaped. and
tt Boler then cut hie own throat, and died almost
Immediately.
lautiscas og Inc BICH HIAK.- It is reported that
a vessel which left Seihay for pcarl fiatiii.g about
Wednesday Island, barmy 2-2 Imo was boarded by the
natives who murder's] the men, killing the captain also,
by throwing • spur on at the skylight whilst he was
asleep in the cabin, end gull set fire to the ohip. The
captain's will (Mrs. Caemedatsa) and son bad also been
aboard the vessel, said are ouppoted to have been
carried off by the native.. PS • ILVenge for the loss of
emu of the women of the leinn.d who had beau carried
off on • previous occasion by )turopa.,
A DVINTOSI OF • LiIVILOOTue.I.7 the
divers employed at the Landing Pier worm,. Doug,:
while engaged In 11,3101 k tbe concrete blocks sande;
,
water met with • startlinged as the diver hinted! adventure. 4k.
fish, probably u much astonish
presented itself with extend's] jaws in the atstude
ettA,k, and but for the presence of mind of the diver
would probably have Relied one of the limbs of the
eubmarine workman, and, with its formidable array es
both, have instantly out through the indiarubber dm*.
'Da diver, as when usually engaged below water, was
armed with the 'estuary offensive wei.pone, orient
which he promptly thrust Into the reptile's month, but,
isteining his presence of mind while disabling it,
firmly kept it boll, and instantly signalling to the man
iu chat,' of the pomp wee rapidly damn to
in see, bringing se the same time the vanquished fish.
in examination it proved to be what is commonly
called byre • gilliperne, or gilliperkin, hut, prorl
d•finml, amordingly to Mr. Brown, the engineer .o the
vvrlts. as the "toed fish" or "fishing frog. 161
measurements are--from the tip of the snout to the
PAot be toil, ilt. fon ; across the aboalder from fin
to 6n, ; and se,..et the mouth, extending viirtiaelly
end boon:Downy, 'um—Melees Herold.