The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-03 00:00:00

/Crate anb Comintret.

SAGACITY Or THIt ARCTIC • recent liture
upon his experience in Arctic life Dr. Rae said,— 'On
the journey I saw a very curious instance of the sagacity
of the Arctic fox. C,onecione that I was aiming at him,
he tucked his tail under his legs, cocked up his ears, and
endeavoured to look as like • hare as possible (which is
an animal comparatively worthless). Another fact of
this kind occtured to me while being detained at a par-
ticular place, where our favourite amusement was trap-
ping wild animals. Our mode of doing this was with
a sprir.g-gun connected with • bait, which, when
touched, produced the explosion. One instance showed
us that a fox, either from observation of • companion's
fate or from hard-earned experience, had gone up to the
gun, bit off the cord connected with the bait, and, the
danger being averted, went and ate the meat in com-
fort. And it is a common occurrence for the fox to
make • trench up to the bait, seize it, and permit the
charge to
_pass over his head."
L E FAT•TIUIT.-011 WectlleSday, Mr. Blackburn. the
coroner for the borough of Leeds, held an inquest at the
Rock Inn, Brainley, relative to the death of a man
named Edward Stowell, whose body had been found in
the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, near that place. The
deceased, who was 34 years of age, was • cabman in the
service of Mr. Midgley, livery stable keeper, Bradford,
and on Monday night he took his cab for the purpose of
proceeding to Bromley, • small town about seven miles
off, in order to bring a lady back. He was seen driving
his cab a little after midnight near Medley, • short dis-
tance from Bramley, and the next morning his body
was found in the canal at Rodley. The two horses in
the vehicle were also drowned. The unfortunate man
had, it is supposed, been sleeping on the box, and had
by mistake driven into the canal. He was described as
• sober person, —in fact, quite a model cabman, and he
did not appear to have been worse for liquor on the
night in question. The jury returned • verdict to the
Out that the deceased had been drowned, but there
was not sufficient evidence to show how he got into the
water.
BAD TOBACCO IN FRANCZ.—Several provincial jour-
nals. particularly thou published in the department of
the North and of the Pas de Calais, have been for some
time filled with complaints from consumers of tobacco
of the bad quality of the article, of which the Govern-
ment has a monopoly. It appears that the Parisian
snuff-takers are no butter tiatisfied than their country-
men in the provinces. Several cases of disease of the
mouth, palate and bronchial tubes, are attributed to the
bad quality of the tobacco in use.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR. BENNIE.— We regret to
learn that Mr. Burnie, the engineer. while crossing the
Blackfriers-resid, on the lot inst., on his way lionie, was
knocked down by the horses of • coal-wagon, both wheels
passing over his legs, dreadfully lacerating them. Ile
now lies in a very precarious state, attended by Mr.
Lawrence, the eurgeon. Dlr. Bennie was picked up,
put into a cab, and conveyed to his house in Whitehall-
TR/ ROTAL CHARTEIL—A further sum of treasure
has been recovered from this vessel, comprising 456 i
sovereigns, 11 rupees, 4i ounces of golddust, one email
CUP ignot, and • piece of an ingot of gold.
ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
, —An accident of a serious character occurred on Tues-
day evening last, at the Ripley terminus of the Midland
Railway. As the train (due at Ripley 7.15) from Derby
approached the Ripley station the engine-driver appears
from some cause to have overlooked the signals, and
brought the train on to the station at full speed. As
soon as lie perceived his error he 'dint off the steam, but
as the rails only extend sonic fifty yards beyond the
station, and before the speed could be materially
slackened, the engine ran with yeat violence into the
embankment of the terminus, literally ploughing up
great blocks of stone several hundred-weight each,
turning them over with perfect ease for several yards,
until it reached the boundary fence next the turnpike
road, where it came to a stand. The consternation
amongst the passengers may be imagined. By the vio-
lence of the concussion they were tossed pell-mell in
all directions—men, women, and children in heaps were
filled with dismay, and when they scrambled out of the
carriages—some rubbing their heads, others limping,
and a considerable number using their handkerchiefs to
their bruised faces—the scene was exciting in the ex-
treme. Fortunately beyond a profusion of bumps and
bruises no further injury was sustained by the pas-
sengers. The engine. which is a new one, Appears to
have sustained considerable injury ; the buffers were
smashed, and the uuderwork torn and dislocated. A
messenger rode off to Derby to report the arcident,
and a special train was afterwards despatched from
Derby to Ripley. A pilot engine, with crane, se., was
sent up at noon the next day, accompuied by • num-
ber of men and several officiate of the coin pany. The
surgeon to the Midland Company also visite,' a number
of the passengers in Ripley. on We,lnesday. to ascertain
the nature of their injuries, and fouud all progreasiug •
favourably.
Cerruti! or SUPPOSED MI"RDEBERS.-011 the night
of the 10th of October tut. Thomas Geraghty. of Cunlae,
was waylaid and assaulted in the barony of Tore, parish
of Mayne, Ireland. and his body found on the 12th of 1
the same month in the bog of Derrya, tHllpporKH to have
Mr. Harris has received the title of Envoy Extraor-
been drowned. Four men, named Hugh Kennedy, dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty
James Fagan, and Thomas and Patrick Geraghty, bro- I the Queeu of Rutland in Switzerland.
tilers, who immediately abecon.led, were suspected of I Lord llowden has publicly expressed his sympathy
having perpetrated time foul deed, and steps were at once with the war carried on by Spain against Morocco, and
taken for their apprehension, but without success. A has contributed £4O to the national fund collected in
reward, however, of C5O having been offered, fresh u pert of that war.
efforts were made ; and it being believed that the sus- lixtensive fortifications are now in progress for the
pected individuals had come to Englioid, Sergeant I more efficient protection of the harbour of Milford and
Kinsey and Constable Morton, of the Westmeath police, the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke.
followed, and, after considerable exertion. obtaiued in- 'General Blunt died at Southampton on Saturday
formation which led them to suppose that Fagan was I week, at an advanced age. He distinguished himself
located in Stockiort. They therefore visited that town, in the Peninsular War in the Portuguese service, and
and pet themselves in communication with Mr. Moores.
to
foughtit
ore
the superintendent, who cp-
utrusted eim e twee to
Marshall. This intelligent officer set to work in earnest. I to the dee of his death.
and on Monday evening succeeded in tracing Fagan ,I out Faga,
An Emilie!' naval officer and fifty sailors arrived at
whom be found living in lodgings in Heaton Norris. On Ise.ient on Saturday week with the Europeen, a vessel
bring taken to the lock-up, and confronted with the bought in England for the French Government.
Westmeath officers, a mutual recognition ellowed he The special services at St. Paul's were commenced on
was the right tun. We understand the prismer has Sunday. The serinon was preached by the Bishop of
stated that lie did not take part in the affray, but was London. On Sunday, January S. the sermon will be
merely passing by at the time. On Tuesday, Thosuu
preached by the Rev. Daniel Moore, Si. A., Incumbent
Geraghty was also apprehended at Oldham. fur the same I of Camden t'hurch, l'ainberweil, and Golden Lecturer
offence, and both I,ris,imers will be conveyed by the oni. at St. mar,:atet,a Lethhary.
mars to Ireland, on the charge of wilful murder. . A new bridge, supported on cast-iron beams, which
ANOTHER ELOPER ENT. —We have this week to TeaOta crossed the railway
near the Walton Station, Lance-
the elopement of the wife of Mr. Smith Bannerman (a , shire, suddenly gave way on Friday week, and fell a
gentleman of large property living at Mimeo'', near heap of ruins on the line. It is believed the intense
Maidstone), with the Rev. A. W. Green, curate to the I frost which prevailed during the night caused the cast-
Rev. Canon Moore, at Ilunton. It seems that the pain- iron beams to give way.
ful fact was discovered by Mr. Bannerman on his return The Corecolemelmenees of Madrid, in giving the text
from a day's Milieu!, ; and there can be no doubt that , of several manuscript prayers to Mohammed found upon
the elopement had Ceen plainest many weeks before, ard the penmen of the Moors, states one of them contains
only put off for a favourable opportunity. The guilty 5,000 times the words "God is merciful !" repeated
couple were traced to Gravesend, but they had got four over and over again without any other sentence what-
hours' start of their pursuers, and Mr. Bannerman only ever.
leanit that they had crossed the water in a boat that Mr. Albert Smith was attacked by an apoplectic it on
had been off Gravesend for some weeks. It is stated Friday week, and for some time his life was despaired
that they bad been seen with a brace of loaded pieta's, of. There now appears some prospect of his recovery.
as if determined upon extremities in case they luel been The ordinance of baptism by immersion was on Sun-
overtaken. The affair has occasioned the most painful I day week administered to a young lady at a stream at
feeling among all classes of the community in the Osford. The stream Wls frozen, and the ice had to be
neighbourhood where it occurred. The curate, Mr. broken in order to accommodate the lady.
Green, had always been looked upon with respect for Mr. Wright, the comedian, so popular at the Adelphi
the faithful discharge of his clerical duties, and Canon Theatre, died at Boulogne on Thursday week after a
Moore. the rector of Hunton, had a particular regard long and severe illness. Mr. Wright, who was in his
for him. The lady lias property in her own right forty-sixth year, was originally intended for a commer-
amounting to £lOO,OOO. cial career, lie made his first appearance before •
LoHtloll audience in 1837.
, The Board of Trade have issued the official report
I on the inquiry into the loss of the Paramatts, wrecked
on the 30th of June last on a reef called Horseshoe,
lying off the Island of Anegada. The report attri-
butes the loss of the ship to the default of Captain
Boynton. her commander, and the Board of Trade have,
in coneequence, directed that his certificate be sus-
pended for 12 months.
Lord Elgin was formally installed as Lord Rector of
the University of Glasgow on Thursday week.
MM. de Rothschild have formally contradicted the
statement that they bad purchased Russian Railways
for the sum of 100 millions of roubles.
Montalembert has been undergting private examine-
thin as to the contents of Ide late pamphlet, and it is
deemed better to let his production circulate than to
allow eloquent speeches in defence of • free speech in a
court of justice. Accordingly, the pamphlet may now
be purchased in Paris.
A testimonial was presented to Sir John Pakington
by the inhabitants of Worcester on Wednesday. It con-
siesta of an elaborately-wrought silver-gilt shield, forty
inches in diameter.
Henry Edward Fox, Lord Holland, died at Naples on
Sunday week, in his 118th year. With him the barony
becomes extinct. The Kensington estate goes to Lady
Lilford.
Robert Dundu Duncan, Earl of Camperdown, eldest
surviving sou of Admiral Duncan, victor of Camper-
down, died on Thursday week. Ho was a Whig LH
routes; had sat in sixteen Parliaments, and was one of
the mildest member" of the Moues of Peers. He is sea
ceeded in the title and estates by Lord Duncan, member
for Forfarshire.
The Cullenite party in Ireland, according to a Rowan
Catholic journal, propoees to lend a" representative" to
the Congress ! It his,, not yet been determined whether
the party shall send • men oriel or • "delegate."
A young girl, a descendant of Racine, bas been
bronglit up at the expense of the Dramatic Authors'
Society of Paris ; but the cost of providing a fitting
career for her being too great for the funds of the moiety,
they have determined to open a national subscription
in her behalf. The Emperor has subscribed 10,00)
francs, the Empress WO, and the Prince Imperial
1,000.
The North-West London Reformatory Institution
wants to raise £l,OOO by the end of March. This is
necessary to uiaintain the institution in its present state
f efficiency. It provider a refuge for youths discharged
from prison, teaches them trades, and starts them in an
honest career.
Visitors to the National Glittery will regret the
absence of Hogarth's pictures; and it haa been sug-
gested that a collection of the whole of his pictures,
which are scattered about in the Sloane Museum and
elsewhere, would make an exhibition of very great
ixterest and use.
The works at the Floral Hall, Covent Garden, are
now being carried out with vigour, there being upwards
of one hundred ineu at present engaged.
The Russian Government has sent three million silver
million silver roubles to Sebastopol to be distributed
among those who suffered loss during the siege. The
poor creatures have waited four years for compensation.
The political correspondence of the Count de Chain'
Lord, otherwise lienri V., is announced by M. Dee%
Brussels. The book, described as an " Etude politique.
is to cionairt of letters written between the years 1841-
at.
The public crier announced to the shopkeepers the
•
chief town of a canton near Vvetot, that Colos, • shoe-
maker, would not henceforth pay any debts contracted
by his wife, who had quißesl her home. The shop-
keepers thereupon announced (by the same crier) that
they would give the wife any credit as long as the re-
mained away from her husband.
A petition to Parliament is being signed in the City
declaring that there is • deplorable and ruinous depres-
sion of British navigation, and that "all' who are
engaged in the whipping trade now find themselves sub-
jected to " euormous losses" aed threatened with
"total ruin."
We regret to ecord the death of Wilhelm Oriente
the younger of the two brothers who have contributed
no much to the knowledge of German antityGerasen
folk-lore, and the history of the German
The War-office Committee appointed DOS SDI?
question of an uniform for the volunteer corps.i.
the country hare recommended that the tueu7sa-lib•
of a brownish-grey colour, and that the odour of the
facings, and shape and colour of the nether garmenin.
should be left to the taste of the !several corps.

SAMPLES OF COTPON FROM WEST AFRIC•-4. Aspi-
ball Turner, M.P., has kindly forwarded to the Altos
of the Cotton Supply Association an interesting case of
samples of cotton and cotton yarn which he has just re-
ceived from Dr. Livingstone. The sample of cotton is
excellent, but the most surprising sample is a ball of
yarn, spun by the natives, weighing 16f0z., the cost of
which is one foot of calico, or Id. The other samples of
yarn are well spun and very strong. This cotton was
grown in the valley of the Shire, which is 100 miles
long by 20 broad. The natives spin and weave it for
their own use, and we are informed that so abundant is
the cotton in this valley that • vast number of cotton
trees are annually burned to the ground. The naviga-
tion of the Zambesi and the Shire is open to the centre
of this cotton valley during • great portion of the year.
It is evident, therefore, that • large supply of cotton
may be readily obtained from this part of Africa by the
adoption of an effective agency. Dr. Livingstone de-
serves the utmost support, both of the Goiemment and
of his countrymen, in his most zealous efforts to develop
the vast productive resources of the regions he has now
openml to commercial enterprise. The samples above
referred to are on view at the offices of the Cotton
, Supply Association, Manchester.—Marickeffer Geordie*.
fioNlisTY 1i THADZ.—The following paragraph from
the Ki/maniock Pon of the 10th inst. cannot, I think,
, be too widely made known. I was for • time in the em-
ploy of Mr. Lang, and respect him very cinch :—"
Thomas Lang, nurseryman, late of Kilmarnock, but
now of Ballarat, Australia, has just remitted money to
pay off, with principal and interest, those creditors who
at his sequestration had claims on his estate of any
amount under £1 0. He also intends, as soon as possible
to discharge in full all the other debts that were thou;
owing by him. This is an act of honesty which, com-
paratively speaking, but seldom finds its parallel in tlie
commercial world. It is performed with a good grace.
The shield of the law was thrown over him before lase.
ing here, and lie WWI by that law no longer bound, even
should fortune again sunk on him, to liquidate these
debt:. limb,ing so, however, lie has acknowledged •
higher law—the low of conscience. if not that of Scrip-
tore. It is much to he regmtted that the same princi-
ples of integrity do not govern all those engaged in busi-
ness; and this example ought to be held up to than, and
1 to the rising generation, as one worthy of their imita-
tion. Noise can grudge Mr. Lang the prosperity which
has followed his efforts in tbs. land of bisedoption. No
i prosperity can be too great for men actuated by motives
so upright, and we hope he will long continue to
enjoy that prosperity. The looney was remitted to •
gentleman in town, who has this week been disburs-
ing it."

SCOTCH BANKING.—TIie proprietors of the Comtner-
Mal Bank of Scotland, at their annual court, have
adopted the directors' report, and passed resolutions to
capitalise £200,000 of the bank's reserved funds. The
paid up capital is thus raised from £OOO,OOO to £lOO,OOO,
and the additional stock has been allocated rateably,
without a call, among the stockholders in the proportion
of £lOO new atock for every £3OO formerly held. The
new stock will participate in the next Midsummer divi-
dend. The undivided profits, or rest, after carrying
this measure Mk, effect and paying the dividend in
! January, will amount to £237,537.—At the annual
general meeting of the proprietors of the National Bank
of Scotland the profits of the past year were declared
. to he upwards of £94,000. Out of this sum • dividend
at tie rate of 8 per cent, was ordered to be paid, and MI
addition of £14,000 was made to the reserve fund, which
now amounts to £160,000.

BIRMINGHAM, Dee. 29.—The forthcoming quarterly
meetings of the ironinasters of South Staffordshire sail
East Worcestershire were preceded this afternoon by the
usual preliminary meeting of the trade, which took
place at the Hotel, Dudley, Mr. Philip Williams, the
chairman of the association, presiding. The attendance
MIS about an average. The trade was represented as
being in a generally sound and healthy, but not buoyant
state, and there appearing to be no circumstances exist-
ing to indicate the desirability of any change in prim,
a resolution was passed in favour of adhering to those
which were re-confirmed three months Ago. One of the
subjects which engaged attention was the proposal for
converting the Regent's Canal into a railway, and • de-
cision was come to that the niost determined opposition
should be offered to the contemplated measure, Mr. R.
Smith, Mr. William Mathews, Mr. John Hartley, and
Mr. S. Id. Blackwell were depithil to take such steps as
they might deem advisable for effecting that object, Mr.
Hartley was also requested to bring the question before
the Chamber of Commerce at Wolverhampton, and Mx.
Mathews before the Chamber at Birmingham.