The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-06 00:00:00

THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST
A NAVAL OFFICER.

The court-martial on Lieutenant Corte, of the G
for being concerned in certain hoarse on the Adiniieltr,
was continued on Thunder on board the Wire] Adelaide,
at Devonport, —Mr. Itsitert Bell, principal clerk at the
Admiralty, stetted that, from bo experience, the telegram
•ent in December, ordering the Goshawk to proceed to
• oould not have emanated from the Admiralty in the
form in which it was received. Wanen also gave evidence
as to the letter which was reeeived by the Admiral..,
dated from the ship Ralston. C trk, January 18th, 1879,
gating that a vessel had been seen on tire. with •
suspicious-looking sturner in company. Inquiries were
made, and it woo ascertained that the ship Ralston had
been It Cork about the date of the letter. A letter wits
sent by the Board of Trade to the master of the Olin
Ralston, at Greenock, and the reply was • repudiation of
the letter.—After some further evidence as to ) the different
fame telegrams and letters received by the Admiralty,
Captain Buckle was farther examined. He stated that on
March 99th he informed the prisoner that grave suspicion
attached to him of having written the fictitious telegram,
and letters. The prisoner denied having done so.
Witness called his attention to the similarity of the hand-
writing, and he admitted it; but said somebody must
have copied hi, writing. His attention was then called
to the simdmity of the stattemery with that used onboard
the Goehawk, and he then aid whoever wrote the fictitious
menages must have had WONG to Lieutenant Suckling's
cabin. Be persistmiltried haring written the
massages or the letter, lf. Witness added that Is.,
the coarse of his inquiry be took up a small writing-cue
belonging to the primmer, and found in at three routine
notes. He remarked that they were very similar to
s
certain of the fictitimu telegrams, and the prisoner
admitted writting one of them, but sold the second was
written by Kr. Alexander. the chief engineer, and the
third by Mr. Bennett, one of the engineers. }laving com-
pared the fictitious mesuges and letters with the baud- ,
writing In the log, he could come to no other conclusion
than they were all writtes by the prisoner—Mr. Mumitt,
engineer of the ikehawk. denied having written the note.
On Monday, Match 44th, the Goshawk was under orders
to sail from Queenstown, and be telegraphed the prisoner
to come on beard on the following Suede). The Mi.:arr,
who was at Janes telegraphed back that he could not
leave on account eithe rough
on board the
weather. lie did not come
until

Tat WWIT OF 'ENGLAND ISANN..—The fund being
raised by the Mayor of Exeter fur the relief of the
destitute shareholders of the West of England Bank
I now =mite to 4000.
W aIIikELAIL
i THE AOCIDITIT TO CATTA/N COVITIMAT.—Captain
verely injured b Win
'no New Orermas —Mr. Peseinsd Miter, for C"Y, who "" " "
the wombs= Burial Bawd, mveitim for taw., for thrown from %bone at the Nester Monday slaw,
e,„ctieg a wall rowel the new ma*" db. mid stk, at Raster. 4 local volunteers, has recovered from
work connected thernothzsemerinversessr tbs alma williciantly lo come out of doom, but as both
which may be men at hb oe. .th wrists are broken he will be waable to return to duty
to be chUvorod labor this the lab. 11. "7 for a ormidembis tkii°

WHAT TDB WORLD SAYS
When Lord Cue!maned retu-us to Eintiend his friends
hill hardly know him. lam aseured by one of kis staff
that be looked twelve yews older the day alter 'sandal&
Tneu the disaster to Captain hlttritsrtY we. • terrible
shock to the General, and seemed to ats him sUll more.
AllAnob, the eoldters and the tubite at the Cope, as at
home, Lot Chelmsford re. defundure and &mutants, the
butt, tetdontinetinn. But, WI • rule, the fosse of hie
whit ,rtT.Atcy spatnd to thrn persehetly their warstost
symtatht. notwithstanding that by cat on fenetics
among them he has been twice publicly msultel in the
Street'.

The affieers at the Cape have doffed all the ornaments
wliicit make them snuck for the enemy, al they are now
only distinguished from the private by having torn t'
braid from their tonica. Ras es are vronibited to all,
horn the general downward,. When the colonial leen,.
Sitars heard that the 91st Highlanders were coming, they
fiend th•mseives in a curious fix ; for tiiey Eel o used an
Act forbidding men to walk about with uncovered leg,.
This regulation—which wee. of course, originally directed
by the propriety of the white man against the aboriginal
(whams of his dusky brother—would certainly have been
infringed by the wearing of the kilt; and it must there-
fore have been • relief to these worthies to find the canny
Scott equipped In treas• Thy kilt would be • terrible
I pediment in the bush, and it it never likely to be worn
iu active warfare again.

The construction of a laager appears to be very generally
misunderstood, especially by the illustrated papors. This
I. the trus fashion of it: the bull :eke form the inner
eject.; then cumo 0 succe.ive conceal' ric circles waggons
winch ::re: flit equare open eardd, lioraes„ and waggons
again. These inn-r ant outor rings of uaggona have Ikcii
cQnluseil ; and the illwitrators, by stopping short at the
inner ring. and altizrither 001 i We^ the outer ring and the
hors v, have represented as insufficient a very effectual
&steno:.

LIM Durham Inn obtained some benefit from the
miners' strike. In order to keep the men employed in
slack times there his been a great deal more coal
excavated than could p..nsibly hi got al of, and va.t h.. ape
O. it, estimated at a hundred thou-end tom, lie round the
mouths of L ni Durham's pits. From Ion.: exposure thin
coal has greatly deterioratul, and i mouth ago would' not
hnve fetched sixpence a ton, could ony purchneer hive
been found for it. Bat since the strike beau, greet
quantities of these neglected block diemoull have been
wash% for steam and furnace purpoe s. Four hundred
tons were sent away in a singgl linty from one pm. Thus il
in that the pitmen. hint, id of injuring the maateri, acLu
ally put money iuto their pockets.

Everybody knows that Job was patient under a great
many mi.; but it i not generaLy und,ratood that
wounded literary sensibility was among them Such,
however, on the authority of C iptain Symth, one of the
Conservetivo candidates for Bath, appe irs to have been
the c Addrisming a meeting limt week the gallant
captain made reference to "n celebrated author who, after
one of his works had been badly ec dal by a revie r,
remarked, '0 that mine enemy would write • b velt
It will be interesting to those gentlemen "who have failed
in literature and art," and tee thode other gentietlem who
o'ject to being told that the) nave failed in either, to
learn that their quarrel is such an old one.

I met a etrange peucee.lon last Sunday afternoon in the
Kentigh-town.ro : a brass band playing the " Mermaid-
gime," a hearse with four red flags, six or seven Private
carriages, some with ladies inside, nearly a thousand
WOG marching in orderly 'finite, and a couple of banners
bearing the levied. "Social Democratic Association—
English Section." Everyone wore or carried • few yellow
dowers, and the carriages were filled with wreaths of a
similar colour. Thine who took pact in this novel
gathering were above the artisan rln, many of them
gentlemen, lime of Garman and some of Irish nation-
ality ; but what struck me ita especially noteworthy was
the determined and earnest expression on the face of every-
one. It seemed to me • singularly influential body to bail
from Rosestreet, Soho.