The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

POOLE.

MORAVIAN MISSIONS. —A sermon was preached
on Monday evening at the Baptist Chapel by the
Rev. Samuel Davis, minister of Harley•street
Chapel. London. The rev. gentleman took his
text from Isaiah xi., v. 9. In conclusion he gave
a brief history of the Moravians, their religion, and
missionary efforts. He stated that the Moravian&
bad carried on their missions to the heathen nations
for more than a century, the congregations of
which consist of about 73,000 persons, of whom
about 40,000 are British subjects.
FIRE BRIGADE—We are glad to hear that efforts
are being made to establish a fire brigade in the
town. We heartily wish the project may prove
successful. _ . _

COLONIZATION 07 INDIA—H, Denby Seymour,
M.P. for Poole, has been appointed on the Select
Committee for inquiring into the desirability of
extending and improving the colonization of our
Indian empire.
POOLE LITERARY I NSTITUTE. —A lecture was
delivered on Tuesday evening in the Townhall, by
the Rev. E. L. Berthon, of Bouremouth, on the
" Laws of Hydrostatics." The rev, lecturer ex-
plained the laws and principles of hydrostatics in a
plain yet masterly manner, and illustrated his ob-
servations by exhibiting an invention for taking
soundings, and another for ascertaining the speed of
vessels, invented by him and used in the Queen's
yacht. He also exhibited a small screw steamer to
which this invention is applied in miniature, and il-
lustrated its working by propelling the steamer by
clock-work in a tank of water. The lecturer also in-
troduced a model of the collapsing lifeboat invented
by him and generally adopted by the Lords of the
Admiralty. Mr. J. N. Welch presided, and a vote
of thanks was accorded by acclamation to the rev.
gentleman for his instructive and interesting lecture.
Prrrx SESSIONS, Thursday.—Henry Dontony
summoned for not maintaining his family, was com-
mitted for I month to Dorchester gaol. —George
Oxford was summoned by Eliza Conway for the main-
tenance of her illegitimate child. Oxford did not ap-
pear. Superintendent Inkpen proved the serv-
ing of the summons, and the case was gone into.
The magistrates made an order for Is. 6d. per
week.

-ft-te Rev. George Clark Green, clerk, of Ring's
College, Cambridge, was, on the 26th instant, licensed
by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the perpetual
curacy of Hamworthy, formerly a chapelry to

Sturminster Marshall, but now constituted a aspirate
benefice with care of souls, 011' bhe nolnifistiosaL the
Rev. Provost of Eton College,

WIMBO ENE.
We are requested to state that the aeoeunt of tlia
facture delivered by Mr. Freeman at Wimborne,
winch appeared in our last impression, was net
farniehed:by our usual Wimborne correspondent.
FAIL—A gentleman from Kaman on the occasion
of our fair lost three five pound notes and 10 in
sovereignty. The police had observed a loose charac-
ter following the gentleman, and it is presumed she
must have availed -herself of some inattention on his
part to relieve him of his purse, which has been ad-
vertised as lost property, and a reward of £5 offered
for its recovery. Paymeet of the notes has been
stopped, but they will, of course, have been des-
troyed, the net profit to the thief being the £lO
oigy.
PEPPY SEMIONZ, Friday.—(Before W. C. Lambert,
gen., Chairmen, D. P. Grant Dalton, C. J. Parke,
Chas. Yorke, Peers., and Major Portman.)
William Coos, a publican of 11111112preEt011, was fined
10e. and costs, ferretailing cider after half-past eleven on
the night of Friday fast, on the information of Superia-
tendent Baynton. p.c. Simonds proved the case.
Anthony Osmond, a sweep, who, as well as James
Bounders, tailor, has on many occasions contributed to
the county rate for similar misdeeds, was fined fig. and
101, eoste, for being drunk and disorderly in the streets,.
—Two man named Cherrett and Proud, were summonet
for trespass and fishing on the lands of the Rev. J. H..
Austin, at Frothing, who set up an exclusive right to
the fishery, which wm produced in court —For the de-
fence several witnesses were called, who showed that a
bond fide claim of right by various other parties had
been not only claimed but exercised over the same pro-
perty and water as that on which the trespass was al.
leged to be committed. Upon this (after some reflec-
tions between the advocates as to irregularity of address
to the bench) the court dismissed the summons for want
of jurisdiction—the subject being one of right.—Mr.
Dickinson conducted complainant's cane, and Mr.
Focoek, in the absence of Mx. Freeman, who had been
retained, the defendant's.

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THORNEURY.—Monstrous Cruelty.—On Samba,
week some miscreant perpetrated a most malicious
and distardly offence on the Camp Farm, at Elber-
ton, near this place, the property of R. C. Lippincott,
Esq., and occupied by Mr. Gosling. A sheep, folded
with a number of others, which in the morning was
quite well, was found in the afternoon in great suffer-
ing and in a dying state. It was killed, and in its
windpipe and stomach a thorn stick about nine
inches long and three quarters of an inch thick was
found; it having evidently been forced down its
throat. A reward of .£lO has been offered for inform-
ation, which will, we hope, be the means of bringing
the wretch to justice.

SOUTHAMPTON.
THE CHINA bfAILO.—ARRIVAI. OF RiFTIGSZS FROM
LUCHNOW.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamship Colombo, Captain T. ft.. Field, arrived at
Southampton on Friday morning, bringing a small mail
from China, Ceylon, Alexandria, Malta, b.e. The Cal-
cutta mail, which should have come by this vessel, was
lost in the Ara. The Colombo left Alexandria on the
13th of March, Malta the 17th, and Gibraltar on the
21st. The Cohnebo brings 107 passengers--via, 42 first
class, 24 second, 27 children, ana 14 deck; and on freight
111 packages of specie, value £56,782 sterling; 33 boxes
of oranges, 365 boxes of almond', 22 boxes of dates, 37
boxes of valuables, 263 bales of cotton, 39 packages of
elephants' tusks, and 110 packages of general mention.
dims. Among the passengers by the Colombo were the
following from Lucknow :—Lady Inglis (daughter of
the Lord Chancellor, and wife of the late Commandant
at Lucknow, Brigadier-General Inglis) and three chit.
dren ; Mrs. Bruene and four children; Mrs. Ruggles,
Mrs. Apthorpe and two children, Captain Lawrence,
lieutenant Foster, and Lieutenant Cook. Great interest
wee, of course, excited to catch even • momentary
glimpse of Lady Inglis, who, we are happy to say,
looked well and cheerful, despite the suffering, and
privations she has been called upon to endure. Much re-
gret is felt at the lose of her ladyship's diary of the siege,,
in common with nearly all the baggage of the pas-
sengers, by the wreck of the ill-fated Ava steamship.
Lady Inglis was welcomed on board the steamer by her
brother (Colonel Thesiger), sister, and cousin (Captain
Tinting R.N.); while others of the Luelmow heroines
were received by their respective relatives and friends,
the mutual interchange of affectionate greetings render-
ing the scene on the deck of the noble steamship one
to be long remembered by those who witnessed it. Major
Isaacs, of the 82nd, who lost an arm in General Wind-
ham's disastrous affair at Cawnpore, was also • pas-
senger by this packet.
The Mayor and other members of the Local Relief
Committee were early on board the Colombo, in pursuit
of their philantrophic mission; but the only case calling
for their interposition was that of a female servant, the
wife of • sergeant, who lost everything she possessed in
the Ava, and also £lB which she had saved from her
hard earnings in India. The poor woman received a small
gratuity from the gentlemen in question, who silo for-
warded her to London, and intend to lay her case before
the general committee in the metropolis for their COO,
inderation.