The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

ecncral Neb3o.

REPORTED SHIPWRECK .1310 C.REAT LOSS OF
.LIFE.

i( 4 received Friday in anticipation of
the cowing of t p.tralian wail report the total loss,
ilea? Cape Nor:l.l,o4erlan.l. i:ie of Augtist, of
the screw steamer Ardeuill.in ~iipposed to be
front A.lelahle, whereby no fewer than 531 lives w,re
lost, only 25 persons being saved

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ALTERATION IN THE LAW OF DITORCE.-111 the
now Act " To make further provision concerning the
Court fur Invoreo and Matrimonial Causes" there is a
chime which- will shortly come into operatimi. The
Court will sit -before team, and then, in any petit!on
presented by a wife praying that her marriage may Im
dissolved, by reason of her liti•band having been guilty
of adultery coupled with cruelty, or adultery coupled
with desertion, tl:c husband and wife respectively shall
be competent and compellable to give evidence of or
relating to such cruelty or dwortion.

VISIT or THE RIGHT liox. JAMES WILSON TO
MASCIIESTEIL—The Right Hun. JAIIIIC% Wilson will visit
Manchester this week. On Tulay (this day) afternoon
he will meet the members of the Cotton Supply Associa-
tion, in the Mayor's parlour, at the Townhall ; and most
probably a deputation from the Bradford Chamber Of
Commerce will previously, on the same day, have an in-
terview with bins, at the office of the association, in
Sewall's Buildings. On Wednesday forenoon the right
hon. gentleman will confer with the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce, at their offices in Yurk Build-
ings, King Street; and at noon on that day lie will be
present at a special meeting of the members of the cham-
ber. The right hon. gentleman will be the guest of
Thomas Bailey, Esq., M.P., at Hayes Leigh, Stretford;
and members of the bodies named will meet him there
at dinner, invitations being given for Tuesday (this day)
and Wednesday evenings.

The diligence from Bologna to Rome was Assailed by
three armed brigands on the night of the :kl/th ult. The
spot chosen for the onslaught was near Retaliate, a very
hilly district, and the horses were brought to the ground
by a strong rope which the robbers had stretched across
the road. Amongst the passengers were a colonel of
Papal Infantry, who sat very snug with his sword
between his legs, and • vicehrigadier of gendarmes,
who sprung upon the bandits. anti used his sabre to such
purpose that he wounded isle and put the others to
flight, their blunderbusses fortunately missing fire. By
his courageous conduct he Saved 8,0006CU111 (11,733),
which were being conveyed to Rome under charge of
the conductor, besides the personal property of the
travellers. Ile has consequently been promoted, besides
receiving a gold medal anti a gratification of 30 scndi.
PERIODICALS Hi PIIST.—ACCOEdiIIR LO the regulations
affecting the transmission of stampetl publications
through the post, as laid down in the British Postal
Guide, there lutist be nothing printed on the cover of a
newspaper but the name and address of the person to
whom it is sent, the printed title of the publication, and
the risitssl naine and address of the publisher or vendor
who scuds it. It appears, however, to be the practice
of many news agents in London to have other words
than those specified above printed on the covers of the
newspapers went by them through the post, such am
"sent by," " from, &c., and there is reason to believe
that such newspapers has hitherto been allowed to pass
unchallenged. It has, therefore, been decided, under
the circumstances, to abstain (non charging newspapers
of this kind with postage until the Ist of January next,
and to allow publishers of newspapers and news-agents
in London hi use up, during the interval, any stock
of covers which they may have on band with the
objectionable words upon them. It must, however, be
distinctly understood that the newspaper regulations
will be strictly enforced frum the commenceineut of the
next year.—ltowLaND HILL, secretary.
THE KING Or HANOVER ArniOUND.—TIIC COUrier of
Hamburg has some details of the inisadventure which
befel the King of Hanover on the EII14:—" The steamer
left on the month, of the 17th, at 9 o'clock, having on
n hoard the Ki.% tlnie Que en, the Ileredit,ry Prince, the
Princess, the ladies and gentkmen sf th s ',sort, M. do
Buries. Minister of State, and other personages of dis-
tinction. The steamer ran aground on a sandbank in
the easteni branch of the Ems. She was s.-en both
from Norderney and Norderdeich, hut the wind was so
high that no boatman of Nordemey even thought of
going out to the steamer. An official of Norderdeich,
however, put off in a boat, and a 4 /I 0 was slowly coming
up to the vessel !Ito ste..iner which plied between F:tilb-
den and Nerderncy was seen approaching. The King
and his party were much pleased to see her, as their
position was dangerous, and cis the e apply of provisioi
on board was but small. The Embden steamer saw this
signals made, anti, cast anchor at • short distance from
the King's vessel. I;ut neither of the steamers had a
boat. Meanwhile the Norderlich ferry-boat haul ar-
rived. and the Royal Family got into it. 'rue (paten
and the ladies entered the little cabin, while the King
and all the gentleuien in re obliged to remain on dtck,
exposed to heavy rain. But the end of their misfortune
hail nut some, as midway the bunt grounded on a sand-
bank, and could not approach eithi r of the steantent.
'There was now no alternative but to wait soine hours,
exposed to wind and rein, without food, until the title
should have run down sudiciently to allow of returning
to ths first boat on foot. But when they arrived there
IIJ food was to Inc. had. At last the storm passed over,
and boats arrived with provisions and wine, which
enablecl all to wait with patience until the sea allowed
the vessel to float."

FETE AT KNOWsLEY-11ALL.-011 Tuesday afternoon a
rural Pre was given to the children of the Prescott
schools on the grounds at Euuwaley-hall, the festivities
being immediately under the auspices and direction of
Lady Emilia Stanley. The Earl of Derby, and his
Countess were prudent during the whole of the scene of
enjoyment, as well as Lady Cecilia Molyneux, and a
large party from Croxteth. The Hon. Mrs. Fielding,
Miss St. Clair, Colonel and Lady Wilbrahani and two
daughters, Colonel Webb, and others. At 2 o'clock the
children arrived at the hall, and were conducted to the
exter.aive lawn at the back of the edifice, when the scene
of rural tuirth began in earnest. The Prescott brass
band played some excellent Dangle during the afternoon,
and while the children amused theinaelves by races,
swings, football, and other juvenile games. The sack
racing was engaged in with great spirit, there being a
clerk of the course, • judge, men to tie the sacks round
the necks of the young jumpers, and other preparations
far surpassing in fun the Great St. Leger or the
Derby. Shortly b fore 5 o'clock the lively tones of the
band, playing "On, Stanley, on !" summoned the
children to form line soil march to the long room in the
stableyard, usually used as the tenants' dining room,
where tea had been propared in abundance for the
numerous young party. They were met on approaching
the eutranus by the kindly hand of Lady &UM& Stanley
on the one side and her illustrious parent on the other.
Lord Derby was quite" at home "—never was he seven
happier than in the midst of these little children. At
the conclusion of the repast Mr. Sampson, of the
National Schools, proposed three cheery for Lady Emma
Stanley, Lady Derby, and the Earl of Derby, which
were successfully given with all the vehemence of which
juvenile lungs are capable. The younger part of the
visitors were then conveyed in omnibuses and other
conveyances, engaged for the purpose, to Prescott.
MARVELS WiIoUGHT WITUOCT 31111ACLIM.—We are
told that miracles have ceased. Possibly they may have
been discontinued in order to give full scope to human
intelligence. Certain it is that the wonderful develop-
ments and achievement* of science in these latter days
have rendered direct supernatural interposition in hu-
man affairs unnecessary. This is especially true of the
improvements in medical science. Two thousand Saar,
ago Thomas Holloway would probably have been
deemed • worker of miracles. The cures effected by his
Pills and Ointment would have been considered super-
natural. Even now they are looked upon a, marvels;
yet we know that the medicines which have healed the
sick in all parts of the world are the legitimate fruits of
profound thought, unwearied study and research, and a
long series of practical experiments. It is a singular
fact, and one that eatablislies beyond question Professor
Holloway's theory of a common origin of disease, that
the people of every country into which they have been
introduced have considered them :specially adapted to
the complaints west counnon iii such country. The
reason is that they el:crate upon the deleterious princi-
ple in the blood of the patient, which is the immediate
' cause of his disorder, whatever it may be, and hence
' their effect is alwayis aaletaiy. lit Canada every set-
! tler on new land who has ever tried them in intermit-
tent or bilious remittent fever, will aver that there are
no diseases in which they work iueli wonders as in these.
The Canadians also are impressed with the belief that
the eutancell,. and glandular disorders to which violent
extremes of beat and cold render them peculiarly sub-
ject, arc nion: readily eradicated by thc Ointment than
any other diseases for which it is prescribed. It is in
evidence, however, that just what tin se great remedies
are doing for Canada, tiny are doing for all nations
under the sun. It NO liamm
es indeettliat the ailments
upon which the preparations excite the most direct and
powerful influence aro precisely those which are the
chief scourges of British An.e:ica, and hence they seem !
to be, and in one sense are, more especially required in !
that region than in souse other countries. But their on-
bounded celebrity, and the enormous increase of the de-
mand for them in one colonies, indicate their value more
significantly than any eulogism we could bestow. With-
in a few years they have become ataples of the medical
market throughout North America. 'I be constant in-
iuiry for them renders it inexpedient for any drug
how.: or apothecary's shop
to be without them. The
druggist who does not keep them, makes, in effect, •
tacit admission that he is unacquainted with the wants
of his =Women. His stock is not merely incomplete ;
it lacks two essential articles which the sick 11144 and
will have/ some rource or other. Such popularity
as this is the meed only of superlative excellence, and it
places the superiority of Holloway's remedies beyond all
controversy.

TIIE TELEGRAPII IX THE MEDITERRAXEAX.-011T
Malta corresjondent announces the successful laying
down on the 22d of September of the cable from Cape
Passer° to Malta by the Ikrwick. &misted by Her
Majesty's ship .Irgus, which had twice previously ran
over to the Sicilian coast without carrying out her
object ; fruArated by the state of the weather. The
communication by another cable (the portion used of
the ruptured Cagliari one) was. up to the 22nd of
September, not yet open to the public, as the land lines
in Sicily connecting it with Messina were not yet
completed. The Elba, on the 19th of September, was at
Alexandria, receiving over from another vessel the
cable originally intended to be laid down to Candia, but
which, owing to the great depth of water, is now to be
laid down to Rhodes, whence it will communicate with
lido and thence to Constantinople and the continent of
Europe.—The Tines.
Mutputous ASSAULT OX A WIFE.—On Friday after-
noon an inquest was held at the infirmary, Sheffield,
before Mr. T. Badger, coroner, on the body of Hannah
Biliney, the wife of Abraham Binney, edge-tool forger,
living in Little Sheffield. The deceased died on Thurs-
day night from injuries which she had receive(' at the
hands of her husband on the morning of the lith insbuit.
On that day they quarreled, and, beck. • g exasperated
with each other, she seized a poker, and the husband, a
heavy deadly-looking sand haunner. The deceased
did not . strike her husband with the poker,
but lie struck her on the head several times
with the liaminer, causing • comminuted frac-
ture at the back of the skull. He was sober at the time
he counnitted the dreadful outrage. After hearing the
evidence, the jury found the prisoner guilty of man-
slaughter, and ho was committed on the coroner's war-
rant to take his trial at the ensuing York assizes.

TIIREE COLLIERY ACCIDENTS NEAR Winstt —A
fatal colliery accident occurred at the Cheshire Hole Pit,
Whelley, near Wigan, belonging to Messrs. Wright and
Mercer, on Tuesday. By this shaft two seams of coal
are worked, the one lying at • distance of 25 yards above
the other, and it was at this seam that the deceased, a
lad named Samuel Taylor, was employed. About noun
on Tuesday, he was assisting to remove some empty
wagons from the pi eye, when by sonic mean, lie missed
his footing and fell to tha Motto:lt of the shaft. lle was
imineditdely taken to the surface, and every assistance
rendered him. Mit he expired in a very short tuna sifter.
war.. On Friday morning an accident, caa,ing the
death of a man name,' Withers, occurred at the
beam., four-feet mine of the Moss-hall Coal and Cannel
Company, Ince. About half-past eleven o'clock in the
forenoon he was engaged " hohng," or making prepara-
ti•ni for a shoi. whon th.• coals ho was about to re
fell upon mot instantly killed him. On Wedne,lay
morning a fatal accident occurred at the Green tilate
(olliery. Writhtington, belonging to Mr. C. ttearishrick.
A lad named John Golding. aged 14, was following his
usual occupation of a drawer, when a stone, weighing 5
or 6 cwt. fell upon him and killed him on the spot.

FRIGHTFUL OccrattENcE.--At the sale of stock at the
Thornhill show on Tuesday, an occurrence of a frightful
character Wok place. Just after the man in charge of
the bull belonging to Mr. Brown, Holm, had entered
the ring, the animal attacked him with its horns, and,
having tossed him up in the air, when he fell on his
back, it gored him severely, ripping up the left thigh to a
fearful extent, and otherwise injuring him; and had it
not been for the heroic manner in which Mr. W. Star•
geon, foreman to Mr. Charles Payne, flesher, Dumfries,
attacked the furious annual with his stick, it must have
killed him outright. Fortunately, plenty of medical
assistance was at hand, and the poor man was at once
properly attended to. Dr. Wallace, Holywood, assisted
by Dr. Hastings, at present residing at Longmyre,
Thornhill, skilfully sewed up the wound in the thigh,
while Dr. Scot, of Craigmuie, and Dr. Russel, Thornhill,
aided all they could by their advice. The Oman was then
removed on • board to a friend's house in the village
where he is doing as well as can be expected. We
understand the bull rushed at Mr. Brown himself •
month or two ago, and injured him pretty severely.
Under these circumstances more caution ought to have
been used in bringing such a vicious brute to such a
crowded place as an agricultural show.

THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOH:, FRANKLIN.-A corres-
pondent of the Times placed the following suggestions
before the admiralty and the public :--To recommend
the Treasury to refund to Lady Franklin the sum she
has oink in fitting out and paying the Fox and her crew,
somewhere about 1:10,000, and to move Her Most
Gracious Majesty to grant the widow of the Admiral,
who fell in the execution of his duty, • home for her
declining days in her pa/ace of Kensington. It is not
certain that Lady Franklin would accept the one, or
that her failing health, which now detains her in
Southern France. will allow her to avail herself of the
other, but the offers would be none the less graceful, or
better express the warm sympathy of the world at large
for her noble sacrifices and exertions. Captain M'Clin•
tock should, by order in Council, be allowed sea time as
• naval officer while he commanded the Fox, and receive
his well•merited knighthood. The officers and crew of
the Fox ought to get the remaining £10,011) reward for
solving the fate of the lost expedition. Lastly, as an act
of common justice, the Admiralty might offer some repa-
ration to the son of their old secretary, John Barrow,
for having rudely placed him, • young and Ale man,
upon the retired list, for no other offence than that of
having been the first man in 11447 to urge a re:cue of
Franklin. the last to say that further efforts to solve his
fate WM needless, and the tried and faithful friend and
supporter of every naval or mercantile sailor who was
willing to devote hi. energy or ability to the solution of
that glorious problem—the fate of Sir John Franklin
and his 140 followers.

TIIF LOOS OF THE SHIP PREMIER, OP BRISTOL.—
The t.lhoving report of the loss it Ode vessel appears in
the 5.,;/e Ong i 1 fr :—" Sailed from Liverpool on the
12th f 1 slay with a cargo of machinery, iron, tee., for
Bombay. Nothine particular occurred until about the
lot of duly, when we experienced • heavy gale, which
veered Iron N.W. to S.S.W., with a tremendous cross
sea, which caused the ship to labour and strain exceed-
ingly. being then in lat. 31 S., long. 23 Y. Experienced
variable weather fr the 3rd to the 9th. with a pro-
digious swell from the southward, the ship being very
unen,y, and suffering dreadfully under the counters.
rtri the 10th had a brick gale, with a high confused srn.
At 4 p.m. discovered that the ship hail sprung a leak.
The gale continned with great violence, and the leaks
increased very considerably, and hail great difficulty in
keeping her free. Sighted the Island of Tristan da
Amodio in the 11th, rounded the ship to under the lee
cf the Hand, and endeavoured to discover awl stop
the leaks, but could not seccefel. meet terrific
gale now came on from N.N.W., with sufhlem and
violent female, storm:manic-a with whirlwinds ;
reefed the maintopsail and lay the ship to on the pert
tack, expecting a sudden shift from the southward; the
pumps were worked with extraordinary vigour and
great exertion, the water !till gaining on us. On the
following day were driven by the violence of the gale,
and a north-easterly current. 45 miles to leeward,
pumps conetantly going. (hi the 15th, finding that the
water gained au us rapidly, and that the crew were
worn out with fatigue, NSW that the boats were all clear,
and at 5 p.m, saw a mil, which proved to be the Hama-
verian brig Amisia, Arends, from Leer fur Melbourne.
Showed signals of distress ; the brig then bore down and
lay by the Premier till night. The crew were now quite
exhausted from pumping. At about 11 a.m.. Captain
Arends received all hands on board the Andeia, and
bore away for Simon's Bay, distant about I,OIXI miles,
this being the nearest port. A short time after the
crew got on board the brig the Premier was seen to
founder. Arrived at Simon's Bay on the 31st of July.
Captain Stroud on behalf of himself and crew, return'
his sincere thanks to the captain and officers of the
Ainisia for their kindness and attention while on board."
THE STOLEN CHILD.—The Journal Loiret gives
the following further details of the taking away of M.
Hau's child: - " In consequence of the accounts pub-
lished in the journals every one throughout the country
was on the gut rire respecting strange children, and M.
Jutrel, commissary of police at Orlearee received
information lately that a young child had been
brought the morning before to • woman named
Rigault, residing in the Faubourg Bourgogne, and who
takes in children to nurse. The person who brought
the child wee • young woman who had given neither
name nor address, but who lied promised to call the fol-
lowing day. The same person bad, it appears, called on
the woman Rigault about a fortnight before to ask
whether she would take charge of a child, and, on re-
ceiving an affirmative reply, had promised to return
M. dutrel immediately went to the house, and Saw the
child, whom lie immediately identified, from its agreeing
exactly with the description given in the journals, and
without delay he rent off • telegram to M. Boa. The
next point was to effect the arrest of the guilty parties,
and after considerable trouble this was effected, both
the young woman and her mother being found living to-
gether in an outskirt of the town. Nothing is positively
known as to the object of stealing the child, but the fol-
lowing is the report current :—The young Wlllll2ll, Willi
is 10 years of age, is said to have had, while living in
Paris, intiniate relations with a young man of respect-
able Isosily, whout she hoped to indium to marry her.
On her return to Orleans, in order to obtain the realiza-
tion of • promise which bad been made to her, she
feigned pregnancy, and in due time a confinement, of
which she informed her lover. In order to be able to
make her story good in the event of his coining to Or-
leans, elle mominitted the crime for which she has now
to answer. Both the mother and daughter have, it is
said, mule a complete avowal. Another account states
that the girl had recently given birth to • child which
had died, and fearing that this fact would probably pre-
vent the marriage, she conceived the plan of eubstitu-
ting another child for the one she had lost." The Druit
has the following additional details respecting M. Ilun's
child :—" It has been asked what the anonymoue letter
Was of which M. Ilua announced in the public journals
that he accepted the propositions. That letter was not
I from the woman who carried off the child, but forms en
episode apart. It was written by some swindler, dazzled
I by the offer of • reward of 10,000 f. for the recovery of
the child ; but it modestly only asked for onedoilf of the
sum ' But,' it said ' five notes of I,ooof. each in an en-
velope, and address them to the name of P'"re
reeten'e --,' and it promised even before the
should be sent off to give indications as to where the
child was. Another anonymous letter bearing the post-
mark of ha Rocha Ouyon, was thus conceived :—' It is
without any hope of personal profit that I give you an
indication on which you may rely. The child is (here
the town, street, and number in which the child was
were stated.) But I beg of you to remit to the commu-
nity of the—, at Paris (here a ndigious ormatuunity of
females was mentioned), the 10,000 e. promieed.' Ano-
ther curious episode occurred. The pelisse mid pelerine
which the child had on when stolen were picked up in
the Rue to mph:, ami SCIli to Slailaine Boa, the slay
before the child was restond, causing her great anxiety.
The things were found by a woman named Guerin, and
she told her neighbours of the findiug. Among these
pen..., were a couple named Matti's, and they, having
rea.l iii the journals of the of the child, thought they
might derive profit from the reesseeion of the thingfi
They therefore begged tsebe intrusted with them Onthin
false pretext that they Wished to tend them to a. friend
of thefrs who was about to have a child baptised The
woman Guerin consented; and the couple Martin ha.
mediately took them to M. end Muse Hue, who at ones
reeognixesl them. In giving up the things, the couple in-
timated. that they were on the trace of the child, and
might la a few hours be able to recover bins and M.
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in consequence, aftethresaseenefor
swindling
great veinelencethe, laid •
cheating her, and claimed from them the 600 f. as lief
complaint iticatese
promeutor.