The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

ND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1866

Tag Rib, Watts, nub fluoit.—Yhe obi
boat, Rod, White, and Blue, of 25 tone. Captain Hadino
Which has mai* such MI extraordinary passage scrota
the Atlantic from New York, abd put InAo Margate •
low dos since, bee arrived in tha Themes offOreenbitle.
As before stetted, there ire only two pension in the
boat. Captain Hudson end bit mate, F. R. Fitch.
There wee also • dog on board, which, however, died
shortly after leaving Matipte on her wsv mond to the
Thames. On the 15th, in It. N. long. I'M
au-ost ntlulnishu the but struck something vary solid,
and slsoeitug out the port bow, all psi, rot ; stopped ship's
headway, but found she did not leak. After the 15th
did not re any sail until August 6, when they spoke
and went alongside the barque Princess Royal, of yu.
month (N S,), lone. 21 W., seven days from Dublin for
Qnebee. On the 6th a blind sea came U on port quatter,
chick thrrw the muniature ship on her beam ends I ohe
righted in half • minute. Pth, the boot was again
tin owe on her beam ends. 14th, 27 miles N. of Ilabsot,
shipped a hoary sea which threw the ship for the fourth
time on her beam ends, and had to bale out the water.
14th, noon. made the Rill of Portland. loth, blowing
heavy and got towed into Margate. Thero wsi no
chronometer in the boats anti the ship 0.5 worked by
dead reckoning. Captain Heaton and his companion
were only enabled to hake their provisions warm on very
few ocertaiona, owing to the sea making over them.
They kept watch and watch, and when they landed at
Rotate they were in a somewhat distressed condition.
The beat is of iron, 27 feot long, and 6 feet 1 inch hewn.
Bite carried 120 gallons of water for the voyage.

ALLZOED MISMANAGOIINT OP A GREAT Wgiregap
Blasco LIJIL —A gentlemen whn has lately bad
occasion to traverse repeatedly the Wilt. and Somerset
branch of the Great Wanton. Hallway, extending from
Westbury to Weymouth, and who bias had opportunities
of ascertaining the feeling of the inhabitants of almost
every town on that branch, and of the official, at every
Malawi, draws, in a Plymouth contemporary, • deplorable
picture of the condition of affairs. Widespread and
thorough disaffection mem, to be running through the
whole community. So meagre is the moomodation
provided, so exorbitantly high are the farm in many
Flame, and in meanly cutting is the policy of the com-
pany, that the competitors of the Wilts and Somerset
line—the London and South Western and the linstol
and Exeter Companies—reap • considerable profit from
the mere feet of the aversion of the inhabitants to travel
on the Great Western line wb it can be avoided.
The fares are not only high, but most unequal, and in
taking tiokete at some stations between Weymouth and
Brietol, twenty miles may be mided to the length of the
journey, and the price of the ticket be then lees than
for the shorter trip. The station-masters at many of
••., . have *h, norteretiz
the most part clowniab countrymen, end both are et
Ignorant of or indifferent to their duties. The same
oblervations apply in part to the guards who traverse
the line. This deplorable state of things reenita from
• screwing and close shaving policy, very far removed
from economy, not affecting wages merely, but litt'e
privileged and amenities, which, when discontinued or
denied, serve to irritate men and make them sullen.
The same unworthy treatment of the men was recently
attempted at the engine works at Swindon, but its folly
and unprofitablenem Imre there more quickly made
apparent, and many of the causes of discontent have
been removed. At one time sonic of the leading dachas
at Swindon deemed it to be inconsistent with their
persoesl safety to travel on the engine'.

FATAL Ern:mum—At certain seasons disease
hemmes epidemic, and runs its destructive course on.
checked unless some purifying mama, such as Holloway's
medicines exert, be used to leaven its virulence and to
destroy its seed. Nature abounds with remedies for all
the ailments incident to mankind, and happy is the man I
who, like Professor Holloway, hits upon the night
remedy that will reach the recondite gonna of disease,
without which eertainly it is • vain thing to attempt its
cure. This orign of diseeze has all along been the puzzle
of physicians, who are often baffled by eonfiietiog
symptoms, apparently pointing to different
cause Hence they scoff at the notion of an
universal medicine like Professor Holloway's, simply
because they have been unable to dimover the primary
cause of all disease. and the means which will remove it.
That some such discovery mast have been made by the
well-known Professor Holloway ere= evident from the
innumerable and totally distinct dimness which have been
speedily cured by biz simple pills and ointment. For
instance, what more distinct in their apparent nature mid
symptoms then intermitteut fever and rhenmatiant ? And
y et these great eeourges yield alike to Professor Holloway's
remedial. We might Instance very many other opposite
diseases in which these remedies have been equally eta-
Meat, invariably securing the re-establishment of health
and always without that dreadful prostration of the pa-
tient, so generally witnessed after protracted treatment
with ordinary medicines—as it were plainly proving that
thepatient has been vitally iej tired Moonlit itu lion as much
by the medicines administered as by the disease which
they were to cure I Such, howeeer, is not the case with
Professor Holloway's treatment and medicines, which
seem to reach directly the very source of the disease, aid
to quench it completely. All 'aperients° testifies to the
masers of his practice, and, therefore, we must conclude
that he has discovered the true principle as to the cause
and origin of all disease. Mere professional prejudice
has been confessedly overthrown by the unvarying
success of these remedies, which have secured what
the combined learning and talent of the faculty have
attained, namely, universal dissemination. Let
any man. if be can, calculate the difference between the
number of applicants for" medical aid," ea it is millet
at a public dispensary, and the innumerable multitudes
who are the daily recipients of Holloway's remedies!
Every succeeding year increases the impossibility of
computing the rejoicing votaries of Professor Holloway
and the wretched devotees or rather devoted beings
who still wander to the temples of the often-failing
Ateitulapius.—Hosse Correepotadria.

EXTRAORDINARY &RJR AT • FUNTRAL.—John
Owens, • journeyman locksmith. resided, with • wife
and fear children, in lodgings in the house of Willim
Whitehmme, 1,, Temple, street, Woleerhempton, their i
only room being the front parlour. After three month's
grieves, Hiner, during which everything that eould be
parted with was either sold or pawned to bay food, and
two of the children were sent sway to peruses who were
charitable enough to keep them, the poor man died on
Friday. One hour before his death an szeoution
put into the house. The bailiffs w.ore merciful, and let
the 'rides/take sway her bed and what remained to her
to a neighbour's. But for the charity of other neigh-
bours, the dead husband most have been taken to the
workhouse to be buried by the perish. This was
.pre-
vented by a liberal subscription, immediately organised,
the very poorest adding their mites. Enough was
railed to pay for • decent funeral. A man was bought
and the cerpos laid in it, and there the deed lay alone in
the desolate room, which had so lately been to the
living at best but • desolate home. The neighbours
had charity ; the very bailiffs too ; but not it would
awm the landlord, Whitehouse, and his erste. They
had themselves • "distress " in the house ; but fellow.
suffering did not make them wondrous kind to the poor
eidow. As soon as the bailiffs were out of the house,
Whitehouse tesolved that the corpse should not be
earned forth until some 161. rent was paid. They not
only looked the dead body up in the empty room, but
drove some ten large nails into the sash of its window
outeide, nailing it firmly to the framework, to prevent
the with and its oontents being taken out by that way.
The widow and her friends were ignorant of them pro-
ceedings until Tuesday, when the funeral was to take
place. When the hares was driven to the house the
undertaker and his men were informed by Mr. White-
house that he would not allots the corpse to be removed,
and he ordered them out of the hell passage in language
not befitting above. where death is. Remonstrance was
In vein, but an excited multitude that had gathered
round the door proved stronger, for they sabered the
purge and broke open the portent door. Among the
first to enter was the landlord and big wife, who, in
great fury, clang to the eoflic, and a terrible scene of
violence ensued, in the presents. of the mortal remains
of one eternally at rest. At length Whitehouse and
his wife were drugged from the coma, which, with its
corpse, was catried out of the boom ; and there, in thi
open street, amid a large measures, when* rage was
bushed by the dread solemnity of the act, the coffin was
screwed down. It was placed in the hearse, and the
funeral party thus shockingly disturbed, proceeded to
the cemetery. A large number of those who bad con-
gregated round the house followed the hearse, but a
great number remained in.front of the boom to vent
their indignation with groans at it. oecupents.—Ber-
ming/tam Daily Gazette.
Tag GALL Teeter.- Professor James Buckman, of
Bradford Abbas, Dorset, writes to the editor of the TIMM
as follows :—" Having been one of the earliest observers
of the appearance of the gall Motet in this country, I
lan bear testimony to the rapid increase of the pest, and
also to the mischief it has done. and is doing, to the
young oak trees. Some 15 yeses since I first saw the galls
In quantity on • scrub oak hedge at Dewlish, Devon.
At that time they had not got so far as Gloncestershire,
but three or four years after! met with a few in Oakley.
park, Cirencester, the seat of Colonel Bathurst. These
had increased in about three veers to such an *skint
that bushels might have been gathered in a short space
:bhp?. uaelitniallrarge-qe:Outies of galls the nasal
trees were almost bare of them, and the few
that remained were pierced to the centre with a
rough, triangular hole, sad the maggot was gone, ,
and beneath the trees I found hundreds of galls
that had been rifled in like manner. On close obser-
vation I was much interested to find that toe common
tomtit had at length discovered that a dainty ht maggot
was contained in these go Is, and so in satin/ them had
dons much good, es the pest hats been less in that
district ever since. In Dorietehire. where lat present
reside, it is not uncommon t 0.,. young trees with
hundreds of galls upon them. 2 last year made •
drawing of • little twig on which were 62 galls. The
tomtit is scarce here, and perhaps even the few we have
have not yet found out the fiat of an enclesed maggot
' lint to be wondered at, seeing that I daily meet
. . . . .

X-rith people who are donna- lof this. It may adored
your morresposideni "C." and others to know that
gathering the galls before the insects have left them
eertainly mitigates this 'orient evil, as, from having
collided • couple of seek, in Iffitt on a farm of VO
acres I have mot seen them in anything like the em
quantity sines They would, I think, pay for eolleeting, as
I have made excellent ink from them, and though they do
not contain the amount of genie acid of the nut gall of
commerce, they may be obtained for the mere expense of
collecting. How or when this 'flied first came among
us it would, perhaps, be difficult to say, but, though it
has certainly spread over the country at • lucid rad,
it hes been many years about it, and therefore what
connection it OM have with the cholera, es suggested by
" would be still more difficult to make out. It
surely cannot have more to do with that dread disease
than the many other landed gall lamed which we have
always had among us."

Tue 011111llAGL—The project of Mrs. (Haddam to
found a permanent orphanage for the children bereaved
of parents by the cholera has provoked a good deal of
earrespoudenee, pro and con, touching the wisdom of
much • step and lb. erosivity tor it. 8.0.0.. in Tuesday's
Tula, calls attention to some of the didieulties and
dangers which must inevitably flow from their too great
multiplication. No study, DO expense's, no possible
amociation of human beinp, however zealous, however
lifted, can products a system which shall rear a large
number of children together with anything hke the real
advantage' of an ordinary parental Theirs is,
after a son, an ever-on-thehne Ida from bedtime
to the time of going to rest spin, low the whole
twenty-four hours., it is ever an attempt to raw
from cools duty's station to the aszt—penctually,
with ocatioold shunting for resreatices sad feed-
ing. The greet, the, f fear owseary wit is that

this ther-on-thelln• nesting Is antegonistie to their
Ireton welfare, if their fitter, life is to be othof Mabee'
labour, either in thrvibe dr at any trade. It is a hard
taping, but I know it to be true, the World's early
service, be it domestic or in the shover week room, it,
as the rule, • very bard service. To most it youth
should have been trained in no over sythematio delicacy.
To btu Rewiring abbot fit the vet threshold lif oth
brbad earning we most have had wine doisethii
thumping in onr childhood, being made to
work early—against the grain—under many
• disadvantage; to be "ever ready and willing" is the
great element of &nooses in the hard service to which
poor orphans are mostly destined. Real home life in
;it dywewlieiperisoo!
ththeehpzra,niht,owweertroonlapparedd.ireto, tisheadtes;
all, not en bad a preparation for the rough senior, at
loth' often been informed by excellent authorities on
ltoowatwntgatesoe, ttohrotohgeh whiliglhhoerthstewicbildoref ninoldwittiapool
br have
fe.l
the subject that the children of Institutes, Orphanages,
he., when trued in after-life but too often disappoint
the hopes of tboth wbo had watched their rearing. I
am not tureolsth. I admit that to many of these
orphans their own home was • scene of all that could
corrupt. You have brought them up, as you argue, In
a pure atmosphere; you may have kept them from the
least suspicion of the amount of evil to which their
own homes would have exposed them. I admit
it; but I must question the policy of this perfect
ignorance of evil as any safeguard against the day when
it most be abruptly met and endured. I altogether
deny that any watchfulness can altogether exclude front
large masses of children • great amount of corruption;
they may be forced to °enema it, but there is in every
orphan the old from-Adam taint. Wall in your
Orphanage—let the severest piety any phase of it can
afford be the guardian, evil will come in, and a little of
It will Imre. ri a great mass of child life. Kay 'eery
bleating attend the noble efforts of those who in good
faith support these institutions I But I would equally
pray that they should vigilantly watch thole operation,
and strive with all their power to adapt them to their
real end—sending children out into the world, fitted to
I fight its battles, win its breed; not making them
mere model training-cages, presenting interesting
pictures of liveried childhood, healthy from good food,
moral from absence of temptation, religious by rote;
eating, working, playing, worshipping to rule; the
reared offspring of a well-officered, large, ornamental
building—objects to admire as a picture, but weak, very
weak, to encounter the ills of the life for which you
have reared them. I firmly believe that a good system
of putting out to farmboase., the families of tradesmen,
clergy, and others of limited means, paying liberally for
their board and education, choosing carefully the horoes
Thus hired, would Is inspection and every expense cost
less and do far more good than any plan yet tried. It
would be easy to cheerio the home in accordance with
the intentions you form for the child. lam confident
very many children would thus acquire friends on the
spot who would more than supply • bed parent's loss;
they would be trained for • life of industry by those
who would have learnt to love them and care for them
' as for their own. But 5.0.0. would not in the meantime
dispense with, nor doer he in any way desire to injure
the position of existing Orphaned's,. At least be
would not interfere with them so long as the present
condition of the workhouses rootinuee what it is.
Until their "disgraceful" state Is remedied "let general
charity take all means to minister to the thturd wants of
these poor orphans." •

THE INAUGURAL A DIMMERS IT THE
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
Mr. Grove's inaugural eddrem as President of the
British Association, says the Tates, exhibit, in a
triumpt ant light the progress, of science, the
subtlety of it. observation, the grandeur of its
discoveries, and the wide view which they
open out into the realms of nature and her lawN
their harmonious operation, their marvellous unity and
system, the prodigious male of the forms they engender,
and the mode in which the greatest variety of offsets
results from the simple.* principle*. The material
universe thus becomes, as the man of science unfolds and
discloses it to our view, • theatre of power each at
appeals to the poetry as well as to the philosophy of
man, and Mr Grove's language rises to an linagicative
vigour and 1o:doom ac be exhibits the vastness of the
area on which one and the same set of lawman sorties,
and the ohyndeal and magnetic homogeneity of all the
parte of the universe. It is all oos emaposition, one
organisation. "The evidenoe of continuity as pervad-
ing the universe) does not stop at telescopic observation;
chymistry and physical optics furnish us with new
proofs of it. Thom meteoric bodies which have from
time to time come so far within reach of the earth's
attraction ea to fall upon its surface, give. upon analysis,
metals and oxides similar to those which belong to the
&treater* of the earth." 11. Daubree, indeed, has made •
nistoorite,and synthetic chymistry can number among its
miraculous feats the mama manufeeture of one of them
mysterious visitants. Nor is the universe of infinite
space so smpty as men need to imagine it. First, it is
inhabited by an infinity of worlds; but, more than that'
we now discover that the intermediate sprees between
Use pr at heavenly bodies have more oocupante than
we imcgmed, that beside the planets and beside. the
asteroids there are meteorites. The meteorites are bet
liliputian planets, and could we apply the neoserarr
*mutiny we should find "that our solar system ia Arad
with pier steer belles, varying in eise from that of
Japiter-1,240 timer larger in volume than the emtb—
to that of • cannon ball or even • pistol bullet." And
ee when we go from Mycelia' anal "to those attributes
of matter which are now r as forms or modes
of action, we find the evidence of continuity still
stronger. What are magnetism and electricity? Forms
ao universal and so apparently connected with matter
is to be regarded as two of its invariable at-
tributes." And so with light, heat, and thymic&
affinity. Heat and motion "are modifieetions
of each other," and beet is motion and motion
hese dynamically, or in the productive energy
of forge. Our seientifie orator shows bow this
discovery tends to connect all the parts of the universe
together, and to exhibit them as mutually borrowers and
lender!, or rather ac dependent on • great dock of pro-
ductive force, which supplies the menu= in each as it
arises. It was the startling suggestion of Mayer "that
by the drag tam the earth's rotatory motion in the
friction of the tidal waves, the velocity of the earth's
rotation must be gradually diminished. and that thus
this rotation must ultimately came altogether, unless
some compensatory motion from some other quarter
existed" to remedy the defeat. What is this compotes-
tory action? "We know," says Mr. Grove, "of no
problem in celestial dye:mice more deeply interesting."
He ruggeste, however, "• solution of this problem in
the enormous force of beat radiated from sun, earth,
and planet' into space," and after radiation not COW
armed. What become* of this vast and ever-multiplying
stook of force? "Does it not more, or contribute to
more, suns and planets r flue, the very rotation of our
earth would depend upon a common fund of productive
force which is gathered from every part, to return thither
when waited. We shall not follow the President of the
British Association further upon this sublime track of
inquiry. The triumphs of synthetical ohymistry, and
the prospect of the practical and profitable r. sults to be
expected from them. ere then disarmed. and the
President promises an inexhaustible stook of heat for our
railways from the creative powers of mien.e when our
midfields give way. Him address exhibits sr th striking
vigour and effort the victories of physical Moroi upon
the field of obeervation and experiment. He approaches
however, in the tatter part of his address, • sablesim:
which scams has not been, and is not eapable of b
so successful. Science diaooversfacta, but when it amass
to ultimate canoes and the o ination of things, this
whose has to take a more Wang step. Mr. Grove,
however, courageously ventures into them unfathomith •
waters; he makes • transition from the experimental
Self of science to the speculative, and enters upon the
much-debated question of the Origin of Species. Upon
this question then, the President stake his views with
modesty, and with an admission of the great difficulties
which attach to it. He decides in favour of the hypo.
thesis of a gradual growth of every 'peeks by a nature
law out of some pre-existent organism, or in favour of
the Darwinian theory. He arrives at this concha ion
upou the pound of facility of
ecl emotion and
evidence, from thelityriidimenraranNateresinosemionsl7. yr
shown in embryos, and from the metamorphosis
of plants. He asks the question,—Which is more easy
to conceive, an elephant being produced without a
previous organism or with one? "ma find elephant
must in some way or other have physically arrived on
this earth. Whence did be come? Did ire fall from
the sky? Did he rise moulded out of'a mass of amorphous
earth or rock? Did he appear out of the cleft of a
Meer Mr. Grove decides that it is difiland to imagine
this, and that facility of conception is on the wide of the
first elephant having mime from • previous organism.
There can be no doubt that Mr. Grove is right open
the fact of the greater facility; the question, however,
Is sure to be raised on the other side whether facility of
coneedion is a perfectly infallible test of truth. Some
will ray that it is not, especially when what we are
dealing with is the entirely mysterious and inootspre-
=l; if,r beginning 'z.r anything
It...t°,.Liartf.blLLl 1
• beginning of thinp le tote, that impossibility
argumentatively, count for meth. The beginiciiann:t
the smallest and most rudiment.' organism is as diffi-
cult to °emotive as the beginning of an elephant.
Such an argument, therefore, to be logical involves the
rejection of any beginning of things at all, and this
rejection implicates us immediately in the most insoluble
nietaphyal and religious difilaultica It must be
ismemberei, also, that to put the proof of an hypo-
thesis upon the ground of facility of conceptim is so far
to absndon even the very profession of having proof of
it from fad, bemuse nobody could suppose that, wers
there solid proofs from fad forthcoming, such en intan-
gible test as that of conception would be adopted. Mr.
Grove, indeoLvery fairly and candidly Waits the inade-
quacy of all proof from facts for the Darwinian theory.
"The physical breaks in the stratification render it
next to impartible to fairly tram the order of suseession
°ref misorisnirslebyoelathere words,eidv" the proof byprooortea i tbeleau•Redfas'ilor
supposed facts from history is not forthcoming, and
never will ba—The Standard notions the Tastier
the speonliatiom referred to In Mr. Grove's
address. The popular fancy playing upon these
high speculations, is necessarily bewildered. It is
an awful thing to be told that the moon is made of
bismuth or silver; that we ere living in mighty currents
sod rapids of magnetism ; that fresh spheres are being
incessantly crested by the prodigious best which is float-
ing about without a local habitation or • name, and that
we thail not exist long enough, as • tomes, for this
tremendous form to replenish our seal fields. At the
same time the daring intellect of the association shadows
forth certain consolatory Mamie le this g.,,i, glebe of
ours. What if the maids of Africa, whish have so long
uselessly drank ia the sunbeams, should fertilise after
many molder, and reproduce the natural wealth they
have absorbed? Mr. Grove is inisildeat that, in the
course of time, we shall reap a harvest of valuable
results from the tidal wave. Gradually, therefore, we
may see the satire 'Teem of nature constructed tor us
by schism upon • &Mind pls., from the ff. and
Saturn's ring to the rocks beneath our took and use
dust of the desert. Perhaps thesexers of Manes
morsionally demand too moth sad es too freely,
when one mathematician scouted tos bemuse his
patois proved nothing, and mother derided the
Dame poet for sot widerstanding the qualities of •
prism. We Foetidly agree with Mr. Grove when
he declares that • large majority el tourists know
nothing whatever about the vest and maths maims
going on in the ac.s monad them. Gas they be
impeded to? Ought they? The proforma of mimes Is
6 man who labours for the world, which Mini by the

mulls of his toil without aftreatioling itself wholesale
I. the proem. Tkia is reosonable, or Arno man should
mit bread oho is not an agriculturist. Gives, that
every boy and girl know how two sabot feet of Tripai
&late tiontainod 40 billions of boil infesnria the soul of
ths British Assostatiou might be retitled, and a hard-
headed intent might immediately Inwood. "6",..,111111_,ed
by the stimulating fact, to study iFaradif on the "..."
Phenomena of Gold Films and Gold Fluids, but would
the daily bu-ineas of life be snore wisely conducted
The British Association it ienble asserablago of think-
ing and studious men, oontaining, no doubt the in-
evitable average of bore.; but let no; scienes be dis-
couraged, or deem itself barren because lour
61°UraInnini up the Rhine or in the Mediterranean
consults Zadkiel to ascertain the time of day. It is too
much to expect that we, all of us, whatever OUT oath'
nations, should never eat gams without knowing what
bush was beaten for it.