The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-04 00:00:00

Cenerai Nebms.

PAIMPOBTL—The names of the agents who have been
appointed to issue Foreign-Aloe passports at the follow-
ing porta, are :—Dover, Samuel Metcalfe Latham, Esq.;
Folkestone, Francis N. Faulkner, Esq.; Southampton,
W. J. Le Feuvre, Seq.; Liverpool, Nathan Lither-
land, Esq.

BROTHERLY Love. —A rule for • criminal informa-
tion for libel was refused in the Court of Queen's Bench,
last week, to Mr. John B. Gough, the teetotal advocate,
who complained that • oertain Dr. Lees, also • teetotal
apostle, had charged him with being habitually intoxi-
cated with opium and other narcotics, which he denied
on affidavit. Lord Campbell conceived that Dr. Lees
was nbt actuated by malice, and that the cue was not
one for the court.

COMMITTAL OF A CLERGYMAN FOR AIIBAULT.—The
Rev. Mr. James, a graduate of Cambridge University,
hu been committed by the Mayor of Oxford for •
month and day, with hard labour, for disorderly eon.
duet, and assaulting the inspector of the University
police. Mr. James, who had only left the workhouse
that morning (where he has recently been an inmate,
and of which he was at one time chaplain), is well
known in the counties of Oxford and Bucks.
REFORMATORY SCROOLL—It appears from a punt-
nientary return just issued, that there are 41 English
protestant reformatories and 5 catholic, with accommo-
dation in the first for 1,771 boys and 316 girls, and in the
second for 478 boys and 255 girls. The actual number
of inmates in the protestant reformatories is 1,374 boys
and 330 girls; in the catholic reformatories the num-
bers are 457 boys and 115 girls. In Scotland there are
22 reformatones with accommodation for 2,121 in.
; the actual number is 813. The return is made
up to the 31st of March last.

REMOVAL Or MR. GLOVER TO THE QUILEN'S PRISON.
-It Will be recollected that Mr. Edward Auohmuty
Glover was convicted at the lad session of the Central
Criminal Court for making a false declaration as to his
Qualification to sit as • member of Parliament for
Beverley, and was sentenced to four months' imprison-
ment in Newgate. At the time of the sentence an ap-
plication was made that he might be removed to the
Queen's Prison, but Mr. Justice Crompton considered
that he had no power to grant the prayer, but intimated
that if an application was made to the Home Secretary
he should not oppose it. Since the conviction, Melva
Lewis and Lewis, the defendant's solicitors, have made
an application to Mr. Secretary Walpole, and the result
has been that on Monday Mr. Glover was removed by
warrant, granted by the Home Secretary, to the Queen's
Prison, there to undergo his sentence of about three
months' imprisonment longer. The warrant of removal
WM granted under • particular Act of Parliament,
which empowers the Secretary of State to remove pri-
soners from one gaol to another. Mr. Glover is con-
as a first-dam misdemeanant in the Queen's
Prison.

DIATH 01 THI RIGHT Roe. SIR JOHY DODSON.—
We regret to announce the demise of the Right Hon.
Sir John Dodson, who expired last Tuesday night at his
residenoe in Seymour-place, Mayfair, after • short
flees. The death of this learned gentleman will be
deeply lamented by a large circle of professional friends.
He was the eldest sou of the late Dr. John Dodson, of
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, and was born in 1780. He
married, in 1822, Miss Pearson, eldest daughter of
George Pearson, M.D. The lamented deceased was edu-
cated at Oriel College, Oxford. where he graduated B.A.
in 1801, M.A. in 1804, and D.C.L. in IEIOB. He was •
member of the Middle Temple, of which he ultimately
became • bendier. He was appointed Advocate of the
Admiralty in 1829, and Adrooate•General in 1834, on
which occasion be was knighted. On Her Majesty's
accession to the throne hie patent of appointment
was renewed. In November, 1841, he was appointed
Master of the Faculties, and in 1859 Judge of the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Dean of the
Arches, when he wee sworn in as • member of Her
Majesty's Privy Council. The learned gentleman was
formerly M.P. for Art. from July, 1819 to March,
18113.

NEWSPAPERS. —A voluminous correspondence between
the board of Inland Revenue and various proprietors of
newdpapers on the subject of the registration of news.
papers and of securities on the pubiication thereof,
since June 1855, was published on Friday. Only one
cane of prosecution for alleged violation of the laws
relating to registration and security is mentioned in this
return—it is that of a Mr. John Heap, the printer of
the Bury Times.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN RAILWAT PAADVNGRIIB
AND GUAHINS.—Mr. J. O'Neill, of Liverpool, propose"
niixle of establishing a communication between pea-
sengers in a railway train and the guard and engine
driver in awes of emergency. The invention consists of
a series of iron bard, one planed under each carriage, and
suspended near the centre, so as to allow the heavier
end of the bar to fell when detached from a latch, caus-
ing the lighter end to ruse, and in doing no to strike the
latch on the next carriage, and releme the bar belong-
ing to it, and 60 on until a similar bar is acted on under
the guard's van, in which it rings a bell. Should the
guard think St he communicate" bye similar means to
the engine driver. A chain or wire is fixed to the
latch of each carriage and brought inside for the use of
the passengers, who, 11 disengaging the latch, transmit
the signal along the train to the guard. The barsi and
fastenings are so contrived as to easily admit of the car•
rigs' being taken off or attached to a train.

FIRS IN THE Flit PLANTATIONS NEAR WOKING.—
A fire, which burnt throughout the whole of Friday
night and Saturday and Sunday, has destroyed plants-
tions near Woking over an extent of fI,OW or 8,000
acres. The desolated tract extends from the village of
Pirbright over the steep picturesque eminences known
as the 3fitchet hills and towards the Primley ridges. It
seems to have commenced near Firbright, on a lonely
road through a large fir plantation, and which leads
from the Guildford road. From the fact of its having
evidently connuenced here on the wayside, it seems
probable that its origin was accidental—though this is
by no means certain, as the plantation was several times
on fire during the past year. The final conflagration
commenced among the furze and gorse and heaps of
pine cones that lay about. Fed by these most inflam-
mable materials, it seems to have spread very rapidly,
advancing simultaneously along the old Guildford road
and towards the Mitoliet hills. The views to be got
from these steep heights into the country below were
picturesque beyond description, and the little glens and
shady dales that lay between the ridges were exceedingly
beautiful. Now nothing can exceed the desolate aspect
of the scene. All except the largest trees have been
consumed, and the scorched and blasted appearance of
these only makes the desolation still more striking.
The whole extensive range of the lifitchet heights ap-
pears like so niany huge mounds of charcoal, the black
look of which contrasts most sadly with the rich green
hills and plantations to be seen around. An intense
silence, too, prevails. Not the sound of a bird, nor a
stir of any living creature, breaks a stillness that is
actually painful.
HORSES v. STEAK.—On Sunday morning week, upon
the arrival in York of the down mail from Normanton,
great oonstenuition was caused by the appearance of the
engine, the front part of which was nearly covered with
blood and pieces of flesh and hair. Inquiry was imme-
diately made by the officials at the station, and they
learned that the accident occurred under the following
circumstances :—The train in question left Nornianton
at 2.49 a.m., bringing the mail from the south, and on
arriving somewhere between Ulleskelf and Church
Fenton the engine driver and fireman perceived two
dark objects at some distance in front of them. The
driver immediately shut off the steam and slackened
the speed of the train; but his precautions were of no
avail, as the next instant the buffers of the engine struck
two horses which had strayed on the line by some means
or other, knocking one of them into a ditch some distance
from the rails; the other horsi was literally pounded
to pieces. The force of the concussion was such that it
threw Reynolds, the guard, who was in his van at the
end of the train, quite off his feet. The train at this
time was running at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The
guard immediately put his break on for the purpose of
stopping the train, which was soon accomplished. The
extent of the accident and the narrow escape of the
passengers were now apparent. The two carriages imme-
diately next to the engine, which were fortunately
empty, lied been thrown off the rails, and dragged a
distance of 300 yards. Had the couplings of these
carriages given way the consequences might have been
fearful, as the whole train would probably have been
thrown off the line. Measures were immediately
adopted for the removal of the carriages and the pro-
ceeding of the train, which was effected after a delay of
about 40 minutes.

BROOKING hIURDRIL—At • lone farmhouse with a
cottage adjoining, about half a mile from the gates of
Lyme Park, Cheshire, • frightful murder was committed
on Thursday night. Henry Bloomfield, about 35 years
of age, occupied a small farm in Lyme Handley. His
conduct had frequently exhibited symptom; of insanity;
but his wife, who is of • respectable family, and ie highly
spoken of, had always been opposed to any scheme for
placing him under restraint, confident of her own ability
to manage him. On Thursday evening they retired to
rest, when a married sister of Bloomfield and her little
boy, who were in the house that night, went to bed in
an adjoining room. The sister was awake, when, about
half-past 10 o'clock, she heard her brother get up and go
down stairs. She got out of bed, but not before Bloom-
field had returned with a cleaver, had dragged his wife
out of bed, and was inflicting blows on her head with all
his strength with this tremendous weapon. When
several men entered they found Bloomfield quietly lying
on a sofa down stairs. On being asked what he had
been doing, he answered composedly, "I've killed the
Devil." On going upstairs they found the poor woman
lying on the floor, amid streams of blood flowing from
nine several wounds, but still, it is said, alive ; she is
stated even to have lived far two hours after. Bloomfield
has since said that he had a "mission," and that the
Lord told him he was going to kill his wife; when he
replied, "Nay, Lord, I'll kill her myself ; " and he went
immediately and fetched the cleaver. Bloomfield is now
in the Macclesfield county look-up, where he continues
singing and praying, after his fashion, at intervals. An
inquest has been held on the body, and a verdict of
"Wilful Murder" returned against Bloomfield.
BARBAROUS EXECUTIONS IN CHILL—The Overfeed
Friend of China of the 15th March says .—" One of the
recent victims was a woman from the rebel districts,
who actually killed a Mandarin as he was riding on
horseback. For this she was doomed to be cut in pieties.
The horrid process of cutting to pieces has already
been described in these columns, and there is no nem-
sity for full details; but we are told by a gentleman who
was present that before they tied her arms to the cross
she made those signs which Roinan Catholic converts
are in the habit of employing when appealing to the
foreigner for protection. Her cries, however, were in
vain, and her breasts, the fleshy part of her arms, the
calves of her legs and thighs were cut off (the woman still
living) before the knife was thrust into the abdomen,
and twisted up and round the integurnents of the
heart. 13 men were beheaded at the same time. It is
greatly to be regretted, we think, that these barbarities
cannot be made to cease while we are in Canton. Among
the people the opinion has grown, no doubt, that Queen
Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon sanction atrocities
of this kind. Indeed, it is • remarkable fact that the
panio of goods' moving increased after this display of
' blood ' in a three-fold ratio to its previous existence.
We have been told, though the source of our informa-
tion is not of the best, that the deed having reached the
ears of the 'Dictator ' (Colonel Holloway and Captain
Du Chenes are nonentities in the oommissionership) he
remonstrated with Peh, who assured him that the
woman was executed by the express oommanda of the
Emperor for the murder of her husband and his second
wife. Her real crime was either as herein given, how-
ever, or the greater crime of being a Christian. The
fact of the woman having crossed herself to the English
witness may not be disputed. 'So exasperated was lat
the sight,' said our informant, 'that with difficulty I
restrained myself from using my revolver on the infer-
nal blood-craving fiends."

ATLANTIC TNLBORAPII.-A few week. ainoe the plan
of the new paying-out machine to be used in the next ,
attempt to submerge this gigantic cable was in course of ,
construction at the works of Messrs. Easton and Amos,
Southwark. It has now been perfectly finished, and
during the last day or two has been in full operation,
and fitted with • short length of the coil to illustrate
practically its mode of working, the facilities which it
affords for paying out the rope, and the simple but ef-
ficient manner in which the jerk on the wire, caused by
the sudden rise of the vessel to a heavy sea, is almost
entirely obviated. During the short time that it has
been at work in the yard of Messrs. Easton and Amos
it has been daily inspected by the chief engineers and
mbohaniats in the kingdom, whose criticisms and sug-
gestions for improvement were freely invited by the
Board of Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
The whole of the important part of the machine may be
said to consist of Appold's self-regulating brake, which is
so adjusted and so constructed as always to exert •
oertain amount of resistance (whichean be regulated) by
the revolution of the wheel, to which it is applied.
More than this fixed mount of resistanoe, whatever it
may be, it cannot produce. This well known brake
was first exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in
the new labour machine constructed for prisons, in
order to ensure a certain amount of work from each con-
vict. It is made of bars of wood laid lengthways across
the edge of the wheel, over which it laps down firmly,
and on to which it is held with massive weights fixed to
the ends of levers. It is the number and size of these
weights which regulate precisely the degree of resis-
tance to the revolutions of the wheel. The wire will be
wound up from the hold of the vessel, pan four times
over the two double main wheels, which are each con-
nected with the brake or friction drums, part the register
which indicates its rate of paying out and strain upon
the cable, and then at once into the deep. The strain
at which the cable breaks is nowt., and to guard against
any chance of mishap not more than half this strain
will ever be put upon it. The brakes, as • rule, will be
fixed to give • strain of about lfowt., and the force re-
quired to keep the machine going, or about 8 cwt. more,
is the utmost that will be allowed to oome upon the
wire. Thus the force required to sever the cable can
never be exerted even by accident or mishap, no matter
who may be in charge of the machine nor how much the
vessel may pitch and roll. The chief beauty of the
new machine is that, while nothing can add to the fixed
strain of the brakes, anyone, no matter who, can in a
moment same them as much as he thinks necessary, and
until, in fact, there is no resistance at all, beyond the
8 owt. strain on the wire, which, as we have said, is
required to keep the machine turning. During the last
two or three days that this machine has been at work
the value and simplicity of the whole apparatus have
been made so manifest that it is evident, as far as the
paying-out machine is coneerned, all that mechanical
skill can affect le aid of the great undertaking has been
acoomplished. Both the Niagara and the Agamemnon
will each be fitted with one of these paying-out
machines, which, of course, when connected with and
turned by steam, can be used for the purpose of under-
running or drawing back the cable in case of any hitch
rendering such a rather dangerous operation necessary.
A preliminary expedition will start from this country
about the middle of this month, when both the Aga-
memnon and Niagara will steam away into deep water,
and then try • variety of experinients connected with
submerging the cable with a view of ascertaining prim-
thirdly the value of this new apparatus, and also how far
some suggestions which have been made with regard to
buoying it at intervals can be carried out. During this
brief experimental cruise every known test which clan be
attempted to prove the eficieuey of the paying-out
machines, and those for under-running, /to., will b.
resorted to, and the result of the experience thus ob-
tained applied to improving any little defects which may
exist in the apparatus before the final sterling of the
expedition in jun..

SEPOT MUTILATIONS.—Mr. W. C. Edgell writes to
the Guardkin :—" As many have doubted, and do still
doubt, about the stories of the shocking mutilations of
women and children in India, I think it right to send
you an extract from • letter which I have received this
morning. A lady is writing of her brother just arrived:
S. saw three ladies, friends of • friend of his in Cal-
cutta, without their 'noses and ears, and one had only
four fingers left ; all the others were out off.' There
can be no doubt of the truth of this stetement."
A CLEKQYMAN KILLED ON A RAILWAT.—Abont 8
o'clock on Tuesday evening the Rev. W. P. Brook,
curate of Holy Trinity Church, Ely, was returning on
foot from the outlying district of Prickwillow, and was
walking, by permission, on the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, when, seeing • train coming up, he stepped on to
the other side of the rails, and wee knocked down by a
returning train on the line on which he had stepped and
received such injuries as caused his death the same even-
ing. He was 25 years of age, and was the only eon of
Mr. (1. Brook, one of the town-councillors of the
borough of Leeds.
GROAT FIRE IN Sr. ICATHERINT'S DOCI.—A ATE
61NA* out in St. Katherine's Dock on Tuesday night.
Thelend engines, the moment they arrived, were set to
work from the dock, and a plentiful supply of water
was furnished by the East London Company. The
powerful steam floats were also put into requisition.
By nine o'clock the scene that presented itself was snob
as only the ruddy pencil of a painter could depict ; the
flames shining through the different windows of the
Tower, where the soldiers were beating the roll-call, and
the reflection of the flames shining upon the bell and
arose of St. Paul's end the spires of the city churches,
almost gave one the impression that a niilitary engage-
ment was going on. Before 12 o'clock the fire began to
succumb; but it was far, even at that hour, from being
entirely extinguished. The damage done amounted to
several thousand pounds; but great as the loss is, it at
onetime threatened to be vastly more important.

MrIRDIR AT IPSWICH. —Just before 6 o'clock on
Friday morning information reached the pollee station
that • murder had been perpetrated in a house situated
on the Mount, in the parish of St. Mary Elms. Supt..
Carver, of the borough police at once went to the spot,
where he found a woman about 40 years of age, named
Studd, the wife of a baker named Henry Rolph Studd,
lying on the floor in an insensible state, caused by blows
inflicted with • poker by a man named Ebenezer Cher-
rington. The poker, which was a rather large one, was
found considerably bent from the blows given. Mr.
Mills, surgeon, was soon on the spot, and discovered
that the poor woman had been struck in two places on
the head, one just above the temples and the other
just underneath the ear. She lingered about an hour,
when death released her from her sufferings. A
daughter of the deceased was present when the blows
were inflicted. It appears that as soon as Cherrington
had struck the blows he made his escape, and had not
been apprehended, notwithstanding the whole of
the police force are in search of him. Time
accused, who is of diminutive stature, and only
23 years of age, served his apprenticeship to the
husband of the murdered woman. For some
time peat their appears to have been an intimacy Of, it
is alleged, a criminal nature between the poor woman
and the accused—so much so that more than one quar-
rel had taken place between Cherrington and his fbrmer
meter (Studd). Against the wishes of Studd, Cher-
rington would visit his hOuse, and quarrels between
them have been the result--so much so sate call for the
interference of the borough magistrates. The unfor-
tunate woman has left a family of seven children, the
youngest being about six years old.