The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

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A TREMENDOUS InkA.—A member of the Academie
dee Sciences of Paris, who is also an eminent chymist,
has invented an apparatus which he thinks will enable
human beings to breathe as freely at the bottom of the
sea as on the surfaee of the earth. He proposes to form
an association for collecting all the treasures now lying
at the bottom of the ocean, and estimates at about
£800,000,000 sterling the harvest of treasure to be
gleaned on the route between England and India only.

SUICIDE IN A WATER-Burr—On Wednesday morn-
ing, as police-constable Snell, 132 It, was passing along
the Lewtshatn-road he was called to a house in Charles-
terrace, occupied solely by two maiden ladies (sisters)
named Steward, which at that time had not been opened
aim:* Monday, when one of the sisters left for the
country. A search was then made for the other sister,
but no trace of her could be found in the house. A man
named Ryder, whose son was occasionally employed in
the house, then went with the constable into the back
yard, when they discovered the unfortunate lady's body
in the water-butt, which she must have had some diffi-
culty in reaching. The officer succeeded, with assist-
ance, in getting the body out, but life had then been
extinct some considerable time. The deceased was 56
years of age, and of late her manners are represented
to have been very strange.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—LiverpooI, Jan. 6.—
Last night a young lady named Mary Flood, aged 29, of
Liverpool, was crossing the Lancashire and Yorkshire
line of railway at the Sandhills station, about two miles
from this town, when she was run over by a passenger
train from Liverpool and killed on the spot. Martin
Manley, a provision-dealer of Liverpool, states that he,
the deceased, and several other occupants of a train
from Formby got out at the Sandhills station; that they
were crossing the line when he perceived a train close to
the station, proceeding at full speed ; that he had time
to reach the opposite side; that while running on he
looked behind and perceived that the deceased had
turned back, but that before she could get out of the
way she was run over. Her skull was crushed, and her
brains protruded. A fatal railway accident also occurred
last night at the Edge-hill station, on the London and
North-Western Railway. A man named John Jones
was crossing the line, when he was overtaken by a pas-
senger train, knocked down, and decapitated.

BESOT CRUELTIES.— In further illustrations of Sepoy
cruelty, a correspondent of the Medical Times writes as
follows :—" The cases I am able to give you at present
are only two: for of the many one hears whispered in
drawing-rooms, it is of course impossible to ask the de-
tails at once. The first was related to me by the daugh-
ter of a late Indian general, and is of a lady who re-
turned, I believe, in the Ripon, and herself wrote
previously to say that she had lost her nose and ears.
The second I also learnt from the family of a general
officer. It is of a young widowed lady (living with her
mother at Reading) who has lost both her hands and
both her feet, and whose child has also lost its feet.
Other cases at Blackheath, Torquay, and elsewhere I
have heard of vaguely, but am not able to give you their
details now. In two or three weeks, however, I ex-
pect to receive other data for your use from friends at
Cheltenham and the Church Missionary College. The
Church Missionary Society alone, I believe, have re-
ceived intelligence of many women in Calcutta who
have lost not only the noes and lips, but the breasts also,
and still live."

THE LATE MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT TORQUAY.—
Jane Stone has given birth to a male child, the offspring
of her lieducer, and assailant, Jonathan Roose, who has
to expiate his crimes by a life of bondage and servitude.
The deplorable condition of the unfortunate girl has
very justly excited the sympathies of the inhabitants of
Torquay, and a public, meeting of sympathy was held
there on Monday evening last. Acting on the sugges-
tion of the magistrates, to whom a numerously signed
memorial respecting the subject had been previously
sent, a committee was formed to raise funds "for the
purpose of administering to her immediate requirements,
and any surplus arising from such public appeal to be so
applied for her use and benefit as the trustees who may
be appointed for that purpose shall think fit." An
active canvass is to be immediately made, and there is
no doubt but that a goodly sum will be raised for the
poor girl, whose frightful disfigurement will probably
render her quite incapable of supporting herself at any
period of her life. A similar movement has commenced
m Exeter, her native city.

PROSTITUTION IN THE METROPOLIS.—On Wednes-
day afternoon a meeting of delegates, consisting of
the clergy, churchwardens, and vestrymen of the most
influential metropolitan parishes, was held at the cham-
bers of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, Lin-
coln's-inn-fields, for the purpose of taking into considera-
tion the state of different parts of the metropolis more
especially the most crowded thoroughfares of the west
end, in reference to the flagrant exhibition of street
prostitution that nightly disgrace those localities. The
Rev. T. Gamier, of Marylebone, presided. Various state-
ments were made to prove the extent of the evil com-
plained of, and ultimately a resolution was moved by
Mr. Acton—" That the gentlemen present pledge them-
selves to use their best efforts to strengthen this com-
mittee by bringing to its support such influential persons
as they can induce to loin them in the object for which
they are associated.' Mr. Churchwarden Rose, in
seconding the motion, said the reason why girls were
brought o rer from foreign countries was that the traffic
was carried on here free and independently. He ob-
jected to the wording of the Act of Parliament, as one
part stultified another. In any new measure care should
be taken to prevent the importation of foreign pro di-
totes, to prevent street walking, and to alter the style
of evidence required in prosecuting keepers of brothels.
The resolution was carried unanimously.

ROYAL NATIONAL lars-BoaT INSTITUTION. A
meeting of this institution was held on Thursday, the
7th inst., at its house, John Street, Adelphi. Thoman
Chapman, Esq., V.P., FEB., occupying the chair.
There were also present at the meeting several dis-
tinguished officers and gentlemen. Mr. Lewis, the
Secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meet-
ing, the silver medal of the society and £2 were voted to
Mr. D. O'Sullivan, of the Coastguard. £2l to ten other
men for rescuing, at the great peril of their lives, the
crew, consisting of eleven men, of the Austrian brig,
San Fratilla, which during an awful gale of wind, was
wrecked off Black Ball Head, on the coast of Antrim,
on the 2nd ult. A reward of £2 each was also granted
to two fishermen, for putting off in their boat and rescu-
ing, at the risk of their lives, the crew of th4ee men of
the smack Lady Emma, which, during a heavy gale of
wind, sank on Irvine bar, on the 15th ult. A pilot
boat, manned by Fix men had previously attempted to
reach the wreck, but the two fisherman persevered, and
fortunately succeeded in taking off the three men. The
fisherman's boat was filled by the heavy seas rolling into
her, and the whole were in very great danger of perish-
ing. A reward of £7 was also voted to seven men, in
consideration of their valuable services in putting off
in their coble and rescuing, at the risk of their lives,
the crew of five men of the brig Zillah, of Whitby,
which, during a gale of wind, was wrecked off Win-
terton, Norfolk. During the past month the Institution
had transmitted to the Australian governors several
sets of life-boat and transporting carriages. A com-
munication was read from the Board of Trade, expres-
sing their approval of the manner with which the Insti-
tution managed its life-boata, and promising their con-
tinued support from the Mercantile Marine Fund in aid
of the contributions of the public towards the main-
tenance in full vigour of the Institution. It was reported
that the Norfolk Shipwreck Association had joined the
Institution. The Inspector of Life-Boats to the Society
had, thereupon, immediately proceeded to examine the
life-boats on the Norfolk Coast. His report, which was
read to the meeting, was full of recommendations
regarding the renovation of some of the life-boats
Measures were adopted to carry out forthwith those
recommendations. The Institution had at preamt, it
WAS said, seventy life-boats in connection with it, to
most of which was attached 00ZAWASIS or masters and
a volunteer crew, who went afloat in the boats every
quarter for exercise. The average expense of each life-
boat, in this respect alone, was CX a year; besides the
large expense of keeping the life-boat establishment in
thorough state of repair. The Society is also now
, building life-boats for Hastings, Holyhead, Groomsport,
Ardmore, and several other places, and its liabilities for
these and for boat-houses and triumporting carriages, are
nearly £3,000. Under these circumstances the Institu-
tion makes an urgent appeal for public support, which
we hope will be given to it, for amongst the many useful
societies in Ma country, none is more valuable than the

National Life-Boat Institution, By the death( of
Admirals Earl Spencer and Sir Francis Beaufort, together
with that of the Earl of Ilchester, the Institution had,
it was said, lost liberal annual contributors to its funds.

THE ROBBERY FROM THE CORN EX9HA.SGE.—On
Tuesday afternoon at the Manchester city sessions,
before the Recorder, Charles Browness, a foreigner,
pleaded "Not Guilty" to an indictment charging hint
with having, at the Corn-Exchange, in Manchester, on
the 10th alt., stolen a pocketbook tontaining .C 3,111 18s.
in notes, bills, kc., the property of William Thompson
and another. The prosecutors are Messrs. William and
Frederick Thompson, trading under the firm of Messrs.
James Thompson and Son, as corn infilers, t WeJte-
field. Mr. Bowler conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Wheeler appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Frederick
Thompson, from whose desk in the Corn-Exchange the
money was stolen, was first examined; and he was fol-
lowed by Mr. Thomas Thorpe and Sergeant Shandley.
The facts of the case must he in the remembrance
of our readers, especially from the cleverness of the
capture of the thief by Shandley and Thorpe; and
the evidence given wns almost verbally the same
as that which we published after the examina-
tion of the prisoner before the magistrates. After the
witnesses had given their evidence the prisoner was
advised to plead " Guilty," and did so. He was at once
sentenced by the Recorder to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for one year. Thep sentence was received
with applause by the occupants of the gallery, but it was
soon suppressed. The prisoner is a gentlemanly-looking
man, with an appearance of being older than he is de-
scribed in the calendar (28 years). He was plainly but
respectably dressed, with a light overcoat, closely
buttoned round the neck. During the evidence he stood
with his hands stiffly beside him, and his eyes were
closed, except at very short intervals, when he slightly
opened them and looked towards the witness box. He
seemed scarcely conscious; but, after his counsel had
spoken With him on the subject of pleading guilty, his
face Hushed, and he had more than once to wipe away
tears that started to his eyes. He heard his sentence
without further emotion.

STATISTICS OF NEW SOUTH WELES.-Turning to OUT
Australian empire (for so it may be called), we com-
mence with New South Wales. The total population of
that colony in 1855 was 277,579 souls-viz., 158,523
males and 119,056 females. The number of births was
10,344, the number of marriages, 2,765; and the num-
ber of deaths, 4,0'22. In 1855 (to which year our re-
marks refer) there were 476 public and private schools,
and 14,305 male and 12,878 female scholars. 14,667 im-
migrants arrived at the public expense, and 3,116 at
their own expense, of whom 6,750 were males, 6,380
females (upwards of 14 years), and 4,553 males and fe-
males under that age. The total immigration from 1851
to 1855 (both inclusive) amounted to 52,816. The total
number of convictions in 1855 was 526. The public re-
venue amounted to £1,660,711, and the public expendi-
ture to £1,675,024. The total quantity of land under
crop in 1855 was 170,070 acres, of which 86,369 acres
were under wheat, 34,407 under maize, 4,476 under bar-
ley, 2,614 under oats, and 9,158 acres under potatoes. The
produce was-1,335,446 bushels of wheat, 1,016,494
bushels of maize, 64,887 bushels of barley, 49,865
bushels of oats, 38,296 tons of potatoes, 1,512 cwt. of
tobacco, and 43,067 tons of hay, 1,030à acres were
planted with the grape vine in 1855, and the produce
was 115,614 gallons of wine and 1,426 of brandy, The
live-stock included 157,159 horses, 1,858,407 hcrned
cattle, 68,091 swine and 8,603,499 sheep. There were
31 boiling down establishments in 1855, for which
223,134 sheep and 23,459 horned cattle were slaughtered
producing 61,839 cwt. of tallow. Tanneries, steamship
building yards, steam saw mills, breweries, and soap
factories are the principal factories in • numerical point
of view; and in 1855 there were manufactured 35,760
yards of cloth and tweeds, 47,435 cwt.& of soap, 1,376
cwt. of tobacco, and 110,000 cwt. of refined sugar.
The average wages of labour in 1855 were as follows :-
Yin (without board and lodging), carpenters, 155.;
smiths, 15e. ; wheelwrights, ltis, and bricklayers, 17s.
per diem; and with board and lodging, farm labourers,
£3O to £4O a year; shepherds, £3O to £35; plain
(women) cooks, £25 to £3O; housemaids, £lB to £25;
laundresses, £25 to £3O; nursemaids, £l5 to £2O;
general house servants, £2O to £25, and dairywomen,
fie., £2O to £24 a year. All rates of wages have risen
considerably since 1851. The above statistics refer to
the colony of New South Wales exclusively.

RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLY.—The following graphic de-
scription by Dr. Conolly on an engraving published in
the Medical Times from a photographic portrait of a
young woman labouring under religious melancholy will
be read with interest :—" In this form of melancholy
there is no worldly despondency, nor thought of common
calamities or vulgar ruin; but a deeper horror: a fixed
belief, against which all arguments are powerless, and
all consolation vain; a belief of having displeased the
Great Creator, and of being hopelessly shut out from
mercy and from heaven. This portrait, therefore, does
not reflect the figure of patients so often recognised in
asylums, sitting on benches by lonely walls, the hands
clasped on the bosom, the leadea eye bent on the ground,
and the unvarying gloom excluding variety of reflection.
It represents an affliction more defined. We discern
the outward marks of a mind which, seemingly, after
long wandering in the mazes of religious doubt, and
struggling with spiritual niceties too perplexing for
human solution, Is now overshadowed by despair.
The high and wide forehead, generally indicative of
intelligence and imagination ; the slightly bent bead,
leaning disconsolately on the hand; the absence from
that collapsed cheek of every trace of gaiety; the mouth
inexpressive of any varied emotion ; the deep orbits and
the long characteristic eyebrows; all seem painfully to
indicate the present mood and general temperament of
the patient. The black hair is heedlessly premed back;
the dress, though neat, has a conventual plainness; the
sacred emblem worn round the neck is not worn for
ornament. The lips are well-formed, and compressed;
the angle of the jaw is rather large ; the ear seems well.
; a force of character appears to be thus indicated,
as well as a capacity of energetic expression; whilst the
womanly figure, the somewhat ample chest and pelvis
(less expressed in the engraving than in the photograph)
belong to a general constitution out of which, in health
and vigour, may have grown up some self-accusing
thoughts in an innocent and devout, but passionate
heart. For this perverting malady makes even the
natural instincts appear sinful; and the sufferer forgets
that God implanted them. But the conflict in the case
before us is chiefly intellectual. The meditations of that
large brain are not employed on worldly cares, nor even
on affections chilled, nor temporal hopes broken. They
are engaged in religious scruples, far too perplexing for
its power to overcome. In the meantime all the
ordinary affections, from which consolation might be
derived, are shut out. Soon, perhaps, the scruples
themselves will appear crimes.. To escape future punish-
runt, bodily mortifications must be endured; severe
fasts, or some self-inflicted pain. Under these, the
, bodily strength, usually impaired in the commencement
of the attack, becomes further impaired. The digestion
becomes feeble, and even the sparest meals occasion
suffering. Emaciation takes place; often proceeding to
an extreme degree. The uterine functions (for the sub-
jects of this form of malady are usually women,) are
suppressed. Paroxysms of excitement may occur, with
sudden activity in the prosecution of schemes of vaguest
import; but with these futile efforts misgivings become
mingled. The thought of suicide, often suggested,
becomes fixed; and such varied and ingenious efforts
are made to carry it into effect as to cieniand incessant
vigilance. Yet, even in this state there may be days in
which the mind is tranquillised, and needle-work is
resumed, or the music of happier times is played once
more. But these gleams are transient. The mind
loses its energy; debility invades every function ;
pulmonary or mesenteric disease supervenes; the limbs
become anasarcous ; and the wretched patient is only
relieved by death."
STRIKE AT THE MANCHESTER WORKHOUSE FARM.
—On Wednesday there was again an outbreak of dis-
content among the pauper labourers employed on the
Manchester Workhouse Farm at Crunipsall, and Thurs-
day morning they suspended work and marched down
in a body to the workhouse in Bridge-street. The board
of guardians were holding their weekly meeting, and a
deputation of six of the men was admitted. They made
a variety of complained, chiefly that they were ordered
to work while snow was on the ground, that they were
not sufficiently paid for their labour, and that the
articles of food given them as relief in kind were not of
the value represented. Mr. C. H. Rickards, who
presided, censured the men for coming down in a body,
as the guardians would not yield to any attempt at
Intimidation. If the men had any complaints they.
ought to have brought them before the committee who
met at the farm on the previous day. The farm bailiff '
would exercise his discretion as to when they should
work. The law did not allow payment of wages for the
labour of paupers and the amount of relief must be left
to the relief boards. Mr. Hodson, deputy-chairman,
stated that everything supplied to the labourers was of
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the best quality, 'and wasetipplied at a rather lower cost
than it could be purchased at the shops. Samples of
all the articles were produced. The interview lasted for
a considerable time, and the men ultimately returned to
the farm on the understanding that they should have
their dinner given to them as usual, and must conform
to the rules laid down by the guardians.