The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-11 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

The Lord Chancellor:- is7s—iippointed Richard
Hare, of Weymouth and Meloombe Regis, in the
county of Dorset, gentleman, to be a Commissicser to
administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery in
England.
The public debt of Jersey is about £lBO,OOO of
this £90,000 is guaranteed by the Jersey States.
£BO,OOO by the imptit and harbour dues, sild
£ll,OOO by the public markets.
A lighthouse is at length to be erected on the
Hanoi., a group of rocks to the south•weet point of
Guernsey. This will prevent the numerous ship.
wrecks on the channel islands.

Acciuzirr.—On Sunday evening, Mr. Hatton, jun.
saddler, of this town, accidentally broke his leg,
while at the Nag's Head Inn, New-street. Dr.,
Brown was stunmoned, and he immediately set the
fractured bone, and with the assistance of the police
the sufferer was conveyed home.
FATAL ACCIDENT To A LUNATIC.—On Saturday
forenoon an inquest was held at Foreton Lunatic
Asylum, before Mr. G. Symonds, coronor, on the
body of an inmate, named Robert Dickett. It ap-
peared that on the evening preceding, one of the
keepers having discovered deceased m the wrong
bed, Dickett ran to his own cot, and in turning
round a corner, fell on the flags and struck his heed.;
causing concussion of the brain. The jury unani-
mously agreed to the verdict of " Accidental Death."
FATAL ACCIDENT.-00 TUESdAf morning last, all
inquest was held at the "Boot Inn," before
Mr. Look, deputy-coroner, respecting the death of a
boy, named Charles John Hawkins. Two lads,
named William Roper and James Burt, deposed that
they were in a field with deemed, who went into
another field, where he got up into • tree not far
off. He was observed by them to fall. A lad
named Clarke was standing near enough to the tree
Ito touch it, but he did not do so. George Allen, a
carpenter, at Chickerell, deposed that a little
after 2 on the previous afternoon, he was in George
Churchill's orchard, and heard something fall; he
listened, and heard a faint cry. He went to the door
leading to the field, and saw the deceased lying 01l
the ground. Witness lifted him up, but at his re-
quest put him down on the ground again. A few
minutes afterwards he was very sick. Witness
fancied he was getting worse, as blood was flowing
from his mouth and nose. Witness carried him to
cottage, washed his face, and he seemed to recover.
He had his cart, and took him home to his mother.
Shortly afterweada he expired. Dr. A. C. Fenoulhet,
said, he had no doubt the death of the deceased wee
produced by internal hemorrhage, caused by the fall,
and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.
ASSAULT. —At the Police Court on Tuesday,
Theodore Brunel was charged with assaults. Bull'
Gillingham deposed that she was sent to shut the
shutters, at nearly 10 o'clock on Monday night, when
the " gentleman " caught hold of her. She resisted
and her mother came to her assistance, and both went
into the house. He said something but comphtln*
ant could not tell what. After they were inside
defendant struck at witness's mother with a stick.
They screamed "Murder," and a man came down to
their assistance. Eliza Gillingham, mother of the
last witness, corroborated the evidence of her daugh-
ter, and added
°that the defendant struck at her with
a stick, but she avoided the blow. He also struck at
the door, finning away a part of the wood-work.
John Brewer stated that he saw the defendant pala
the Backwater with a girl. He afterwards heard
defendant beating in the door of complainant's hour-
Defendant said he was "beastly drunk," and mis-
took the complainant's house for his own lodging'.
He promised it should not occur again. Fined is
or two months' imprisonment. Defendant was re•
moved to prison.