The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

&rural Nita,

The weekly return of the birtbeined deaths la Londe.
continues to be greatly below the tau years' average.
The number for loot week was about 100 belie that
which the average would have made it, while the births
are on high above it. The only limase at premat ap-
proaching to an epidemic ix scarlatina, which ie making
rather serious attacks on young children. The mortality
in the City is also greatly below the ge.
As AULD Puisonea.— The case of Mr. Miller, wile
haa been imprisoned fertyeeven years for • debt whisk
it is doubtful if he ever owed, and who still remains in
custody in the Queen's Bench, has excited the attention
of some charitably dipomid persons, who are eserl I.
raising • subscription for linn, which it is lsopeJ will
place him in • position above penury, The pour maa has
already reached his 77th year, and without some illa
incidence will, by the operation of Um new Beakraptcy
Act, be soon thrown penniless on the world.
N....1MM ESCAPE FROM DNOWNIIIO.-011 Saturday
afternoon two gentlemen, aecompanied by two young
ladies, were being landed in • small boat from the
steamer Eva, which plies on the loch, whoa the small
boat suddenly capaised, throwing Um whole party late
the water. The crinolines of the ladies enabled them
to gust until they were rescued, bat the gentlemen sank
to a depth of several feet. Upon coming to the seems
one of the gentlemen was horrilled to find that be had
got entangled in the crinoline of one of the ladies. With
great presence of mind, however, he dived and obese up
clear of the "hoops." The captain of Use steamer,
seeing the imminent danger in which they wore *clod.
jumped overboard, and succeeded in supporting am of
them until assistance was procured. Eventually they
were all landed safely. though in • very exhausted *MSc
The conduct of Captain M'Ctillana, of the dauber Eva,
was most praiseworthy, as be was, no doubt, the micas
of saving at least one of the party from drowning. The
ladies also have, in • great measure, to (hack the ampli-
tude of their crinolines for buoying than up.. In of them having afterwards naively remarked that
better lifepreservers could not be fated.
EITILLONDINLIT CONDUCT 0/ • LANDT.D PlO.
PILIITTOL—Tha Baptista of Narberth have beea se good
as their word. It will be remembered, says the Waters
Daily Press, that the proprietor of • burying grated
near that place refused • place of burial for the bed, of
11.. Rev. D. Griffiths, • Baptist Minister, sinless a tax
of one halfpenny, to which he claimed • right, we. paid
for the privilege of sepulture. This was resisted by the
deacons of Ffiynon, and the proprietor had the grave
411 ed up. Sublequently the body was interred at
Narberth, but Mr. Roes, &solicitor, called • meeting of
the Baptist church there, when it was unanimously
resolved that the body should be exhumed, and
deposited by force, if necessary, in the place where Use
deceased gentleman bad during his lifetime expressed
• wish that his hours should lie. 7U exhumation and
reinterment took place on Monday, upwards of tire
thousand persons having been present. The gate of the
burying-ground having been shut, and the proprietor
having again refused entry to the funeral party unless
the halfpenny wee paid, a brawny blaakemith, Instruc-
ted by Mr. Rees, broke open the barrier. The grave
was speedily re-opened, and the burial coasunimated.
Liter which the crowd retired. Mr. Lewis, the pro-
prietor, it is reported, is to prosecute Mr. Rees for the
part he ha. taken in the business.
A recent statistical return show that the intercom.'
between London and Paris is increasing. The member
of passengers at Boulogne from or be England has
amounted to 108,7108 in the first tea months nub.
prment year. There were 91.786 passengers in the .or-
responding period of 1841. Than a dilemmas is
presented in favour of 1861 of 16,973, or 84 per cent.,
attributable in part to increased facilities and the
abolition of passports, and in part to the operatioa of
the Commercial Treaty in augmenting the trate foe
business purpose..
The confirmation of Dr. Baring (late Bishop of Glow-
oester) as Bishop of Durham, took place Is Yoe*
Minster on Wednesday forenoon.
Sam Collins, the celebrated coal, singer, has passed
through the Bonkroptcy Court. His estate has pal&
Gs. 84. in the pound, and Conimisaioner FllllO gave him
a fint-elssa certificate.
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P. "COLD Bata."—On Sunday morning, betweea tea
and eleven o'clock, a man was observed, in a nude state,
in the river near Stapleton Church, Bristol, apparently
enjoying the bath most thoroughly. Some of 1,610t111.
by, seeing • man in the water on such a sold morning Is
November, walked down to and asked him what
he was there for, and he at once replied, " Per my
healtb."—Weriera Daily Press.
PRIBO3IIIOI BREIT TO GAOL NT ERN &Cann I—NO
small amusement was created in Hereford • few days
ago by the arrival of two men at the Barton station, per
rail from Ledbury, each enveloped in a each. The pri•
loners had stolen some meat from a Mr. COlO, butt-hero
residing at Lealbury. Previous to being teken before
the magistrates they were taken to the nation boast is
that town, where they tore up Into sompleta shreds
every article of their wearing apparel. Sacks were eon.
sequently procured, • bole was cut through the bottom
of each for the offenders' heads to go through, and Is
this novel garment they were taken before the magi,-
' trates, who sentenced each of them to three months'
imprisonment. In the same extraordinery garb they
were taken to Hereford, where the grotesqueness of
their appearance excited mach amusement as they were
conveyed from the railway steno, to be county Jane*.
AN ENGLIEH SOVEREIGN AND THE ENGLINN LAN.
It is not too much to say that any ceremony in which
this "Hope of many kingdoms" his as yet borne a part
has been more gratifying to his future subjesta, 00f
has had a deeper and more real fighiliolooll than that
which took place on Thursday, when he was formally
admitted • Counsel learned in the law, and a Beadier
in the Middle Temple. It is the recognition of the om-
nipotence of law in this kingdom, especially graceful
and becoming in one whose family ••• their, pososseiou
of the throne to the insolent disregard of sainting laws,
which vase, hibited by the representative of another
branch of his home. James if. broke the laws, not
only in the epirit but in the letter. His future eneoseser
will observe them not oily in letter but in spirit ; and
he will obeerve them the better that be has thee taken
upon hinieelf an engagement to study them. The
attempt has often been made to draw a dintiageicia be-
tween legal and constitneoual principles, but, in truth,
they are inseparable, The oonstitution is meetly the
meet extensive and couiprithcinive interpietation of the
law; It is, in fact, the law itself, as applied to the whole
nation, and at times to the whole of Herons; while the
law, technically so called, is the application of mania
tutional principles to individuals. The law, the., Is
both ita subdivisions, civil as well as eoasiltstio.al, is
what the Prince of Wales has bound himself to study;
that by fully apprehending the foundations and peewi-
ts's@ of both in their union as well as In their divinely'
be may be best able to guard against all inclination, an
any time, to overstep the limits of either. The satins
ass be so strong as when it most fears to over.
step the just righta of in sovereign ; the sovereign ass
never be so powerful as when 1,. founds his power ea
all exact knowledge of the rights of his subjects, end oa
00003i0040010 that any attempt on his pert to overstep
them would—so far frau) being an Unionism% of greater
power—be, not only a sign, but a 06410 of wealtans.
Against both ouch dangers, the ceremony of Thursday
in no small guarantee. Nolgains lepee Amelia
stutari was the stern declaratioos of the harms of old;
It has, in later times, been often spoke. of a. the sew
lug rule of the whole nation. It has sever received •
stronger confirmation than on the day whoa the Heir
of this kingdom condescended to 011f0t Mimedf amain
the members of that prolamine whom offlee is to ex.
pound and maintain the laws, which, though, like all
human things, susceptible of gradual improvement Is
' their details, the feeling and experiesee of wes have
thus determined shall, in this country, to is Aar 'it
and principle', immutable. Prom "The Priam of Wales
at the Temple," in TA4 London Review.

MAC" AND H . We *atrial the fdlowlng hem
wakes Spirit of de Amu of Oatober 15 :--Tiee
Spurtreg Life, in ref naing Heenan's shallow* to NYS,
to fight for 10.000 dollars aside, dikes Heinous, if he
wanta to nuke money, to come over te Loeden neat
spring. during the World's Fair, and it will promise him
" • golden barred." This is rather • wide &sage el
too. from the bouncing challenge pet forth • while age
by that journal hi behalf of Maas, for £OOO aside, and
as much more as Reams would pet sp. Emma now
wishes to close with this offer. sod to fight for 23.000
said.; and, with the view of making the satin equal.
he proposes to lay aside the quiestion of the bait, and
give or take COD beaus tar the privilege af ahooniegt
either side of dm Atlantic for the fight, Tao Apiperoug
L(fir mai time lingessible meditletts, berme Maas
wand is.,. England as the Cbampiee. sod YAMS
give odds to wed HIMISIM then, this,
Heine* will meet dam in England far the belt sad tee
thommed dollars aside, sees up What di the beam
of Macs may to that? Lem ineemy wield lontly For
*soul to have his Womb' hem