The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

arntral Net°ls.

Mn. LLOYD, 6 Think' magistrate, is sad to have
beaten • lad most unmercifully for touching his bet to

him I

IT is said that the Government Reform Bill will
propose to oonfer the franchise on every person who
pays inoome tar, or whose assessed tares amount to 40i.
ayear.

01:totroValv (lnaas), the Fenitn, has been found
guilty of treseon-felony, and sentenee 1 to penal s.rvt-
tude for life, the most severe sentence passed by the
Special Commission.

AT • Cabinet Council held at Windsor on Monday,
Sir Henry Storks was appointed Governor of Jamaica
during the inquiry whioh is about to be made into +he
ontbrer,k in the island. The appointment was remitted
lams night, the notion stating that "it may be advisable
for Mr. Eyre to attend the inquiry."
CaImBRIDGM-HOIIBII, BO well known ss the town house
of Lord Palmerston, has just been let by Messrs. Green,
of ilond-strbek, as agents, to the Naval and Military
Club, which at present has premises at 21, Hanove -
*paw; The term* are .E 3,000 a year on letute. This is
an inoreaie of £l,OOO per annum.

THIC Great Eastern Railway Shareholders met yester
day, and were naturally in a very bad humour with the
directors for borrowing £380,000 without their consent.
The culprits were, however, ideninifled against the con-
sequenom ; but &resolution was carried requesting them
to resign. The shareholders are to meet again six
weeks hence to receive an answer.
• Thu Yzureirroit C.ees.—ln the llnit Division of Ibe
Oehrt of Session on Thursday, the ease of Longworth or
Yelverton agahmt the Saturday Review was brought up
on a motion for anew trial, the ground for which was
that the verdict of the jury was contrary to evidence.
the Motideiwas sent te the summery roll, aad the Judge's
notes ordered to he prtntati.

A mswavorrotr amident happened to the Dover end
Calais mail steamer Samphire on Wviinesday night
She was on her voyage to Calais when she was run into
by the American barque Fanny Hook. The forward
eompartmanta of the steamer itete filled with wateri
She *as, however, towed to Dover. There, labor fore
cabin, the bodies of one gentleman and two ladies were
found. The mails were all ravel.

TER manufacture of the new Atlantic cable is proceed
ing actively ; and the Great Bastian is chartered to go
to sea next June for the double purpose of laying • new
cable and repariug that which has been hectored. Th.
1100 wiles ot the table now stlbmerged is said to be in
the most perfect order; and although the buoys
attached to the end of it have been lost, its exact
position can be determined by solar observations.

QUIIIIORLAND EICIGRATION.—nO.Ship " Light of the
Age, 1,287 tons burden, belonging to Messrs. jarnes
Baines and Co., sailed on the 9th December from
Greenock, for Queensland, Captain J. R. Porter, Com-
mender ; Surgeen-Superititendent, Dr fierrison. The
"Light of the Age" is the 70th vessel chat has sailed
on the Land Order System of Emigre ti, under the
m imediate direction of the Queenals Government.
She contains sl2 dirided into p assisted,
and free passengers, and consisting of members of
124; single men, 270; single females, 13.

MR. BRIGHT ON ONTION-HOLDING.—On Wednesday,
in reply3ci a tote of ameba, sad in allnaton to an obser-
vation that Mr. Bright had not been invited to take an
office of dignity and emolument, Mr. Bright asid be
had notbeen ambitions of office, hut it might 'become
his atttylo• accept office under certain circumstances.
It that should be sd, it Was a bold figure of speech t
speak of it at all', let them depend upon it dist it would
only be when be was thoroughly'oonvinced that it was
consistetit'witb the petition be held as their representa-
tive In Parliament, and the advocate in some sort,
humble and inefficient as it might be, of the great mum
of his fellow countrymen.

Ti Cam pr THI Ran. S. HAWORTII.—Th will , be
remembered that in September the Bev. a Haworth.
vicar of Salhowee and Wrexham, Norfolk, Was fined by
the Taverham magistrates for an assault on • yonngarirl ,
whom it was alleged he had seduced. A eommislioo
appointed by the Bishop of London to investigate this
and another -charge has some to the cdoehudovi that •
priced facie ease his been made out for further inquiry,
.ad She matter will therefore be proceeded with In the
Court of Arches. The proceedings before the eornmil-
don— which was presided over by Mr. C. Evans, Chan-
cellor of the biome of Norwich—were conducted with
closed doors. .

A STAG AT flti.—The captain of the smack Gains-
boroegh Lass reports that going out to sea on Wednee-
the 29th ult., they packed My • fine nag. in the
White Booth Roads, in the Humber, Though nearly
exhaustel when taken on board, and donsefitteetly very
quiet, he soon mine round, and, after being refreshed
with carrots, cabbages, /co ,-he took it into MS bead 410
I knock everybody down who With near him, and bade
fair to t .ke charge of the ship. They managed, how-
ever, to keep him till next morning, when meeting a
smack boned to Hall, they traus-shipped him, glad to
get rid of such • passenger. The captain, when he
Arrived at Hull, handed him over to Mr. S. Fern, who,
after sectd-hrg his led, at him into hie carts and rightly
,stesaing to whom he belonged, drove him to Burton
Constable, where he is now browsing in the park, none
the worse for his trip to sea. It appears that Sir Clifford
Constable's eaghounds met on the 29th at Radon and
the stag, being pressed, took the Bomber, and was
picked up as described.

STUN= TP Tinnt.--a.Abent five months ago a man
named Coltman married a daughter of a oomfortahle
farmer named John Whelan, holding • farm on the
townland of entrails dose -to the village of Curtin,
county Tyrdna. ho 41T altar iiarri7e, it is said,
respecting his *He of being eatie4ate at be time he was
married, he sent her home to her lathe , Colhoon re-
+ides some six milee distant, but swears be had • re-
markable dream, in which the ery of an infant so
dietitian,' him that he oonld not rest. He next day
proteeded to his father.io-law's house, and the fleet
salami he heard on entering was the ory of • child,
exactly like what he heetd in the dream. At all events,
on Wednesday fles months after marilaith hid wife was
confined. From information sworn by Colhoon, search
wan made, and the child's bode found in the chttroh-
' yard of Harkin where it had been placed' stealthily at
night. Yesterday, the 11th, a coroner's inquest was
held; there were fourteen persons on the Jury; • pciat-
molem examination was made br Ors. Conan and
lath..., who proved that the *Mid was a full-grown
child, had lived. was he.lthy, bat had died of neglect,
no food of any kind having ever entered its stomach.
It WV proved the child lived for twenty-tie hours, and
&tad stifraVon. The jury returned an open verdict,
Died of neglect, bat that there we, no evidence to
*hoar Who neglected it,* kn. The matter is one which
stems to 4161%W-farther inquiry.—luablin learn%