The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-04 00:00:00

TIM TRANCE AT TURVILLE.

A spode oaree.posd.nt of the DaUy Telegraph hes
visited the girl at ursine near Great Marlow,who, it
Li alleged. he boon in • iran.. for nearly two years.
Hs thue describes the interview :—The turned-down
sheet daoloud the fare of a girl who looked fully the
us reported to be—foitrteen. She wee lying at a
distance of about four yard, from the window and
with her back to It; but, before I gsve any particular
attention to bet, I hid put back the window curtain,
and there was light ',sough. She has d.rk brown bar,
thick, and street lookiog. The girl's feu is by no
MIMI cadaverous. There is flesh on the cheeks,
which bare • pinkish tint, and there is some colour in
the thin lipe. The eyes ore calmly closed, as though in
heathy sleep. I ventured to Mu One Oi ths lid, and
to touch the eye beneath—to par the tip of my finger
berm at, in fast—but there was not even a quivering
of this syelsah. Her poaltiou in the bad is • natural
one. She Ilea on her loft side, and her cheek rests on
he open hand. "She was always used to Ile like that
before *be was sill clad," the mother informed ma; aed
whenever she was obliged to leave the child by herself
she plued her hind so bemuse she appeared to be
much more comfortable. I took hold of the girl's
disengaged hand, and found that it we oils warm
and moist, and that the finger nails Isere neatly
trimmed, The finger, are not In the least stiffened,
•
and may be closed on the hand as freely as those of a
glues( person. It is not a skeleton band, neither are
any of the little girl's ilinto Bo emulated as, under the
extraordinary circuinstanoes alleged, might be 'spouted.
I measured the fore-part of the arm by spanning it. I
eould barely make my thumb and middle finger meet
This would glee eight and • het inches al the sir
onnolorenoe of the arm. The shad's body is very thin,
as umpired with her limba, but I have use children
In hospital, who have ultimately overcome their dimes,
much thinner. There is not mach subetanse In her
Seth, however; it is soft and Lobby; or, as her
mother expressed it," laintny•" I placed my bends on
her foot, and was startled to find them almcet tee-cold.
They were always oold, the mother said—so much so
that she found It nemeary to keep a hot eater bottle
always ready to ass, in case other means snob as
friction failed to bring warmth into them. As regards
the breathing, it is so feeble that it is Uwe
leoposidbe to detect it ; you 0111121204 fee it by holding
the cheek to her mouth, and only the faintest Sutter
Is fait when the hand is laid over the region of the
hurt.
This is not the first hotline of trues in the Trilling
family. The child's father lay throe weeks speechless
and measles before be died; and • brother of the
father—l have oaly the woman's unsupported state-
meat for this, be it borne in mind—lay six mouth/
and • week In the same condition before his demise.
The mother of the entranced girl has curried a seioud
husband, • man named Sadler, an agrisnitural labourer,
earning twelve shillings • week. Kra. Sadler haa had
twelve children; but there are only two of them at
borne beside the insensible girl, and they are boys of
ten and fifteen years of age, able to earn something.
Up to the age of eleven the child Ann Trilling enjoyed
perfect health; than, however. she was afflicted with
almossees in her sock. To get get owed of thus she WM
admitted Into Reading Hospital, whore, for seventeen
week., the was treated. Ultimately the hospital
authorities, mording to the mother'. amount, dis-
charged bar, on the ground that they could do no 1310111
than they had dons. It was on • Tuesday theit the child
came out of the hospital, and, there being no more "u-
-vulae method of 'tarrying her hues she we. plaited
is what las mother demi:hes sa a "jolting old girt*
As sou sis the readied hams the obildjor the fire
tins In her life, wu weird with fits, began to grow
drowsy, had fresh fits frequently, and, recovering,
was drawee sal. This camenued until the Thursday
following the Tuesday on which she left Reading
Hospital—the 29th of Marsh, 1871, was the date—and
on the evening of that day she routed hers,:lf, and
began to talk to her mother about her pains, rolling
her she wished she oould die and he at rest. The
mother', narrative Is, that she told the little girl to
pray, and that they prayed together—the child roek•
ing berme( to ani fro, with her hands Moped, gradually
losing warnerd over herself and growing more and
more and more convulsed, her sync rolliag wildly and
!ter limbs twitch!. g. The mother, alarmed at tips.
Bymptons, sent immediately to Dr. limmond, at Stoke
Church, but when he arrived, to us her own expression,
'the child was Assa down." That is to say, she had
sunk into a stabs of Insensibility in which she now
remains. for etuoral months leer iranimato condition
was disturbed by fits of • kind *helm to those which
at first attacked her, and during her convulsions she
would utter moaning sounds as though in pole; bus
from the 29th March 1871, until the pewee tiros—
tweet; -two months2ths has never ones volgotarily
moved fr, soy pceltloc in which she ham been laid,
has never opened her eyes to look about her, nor
uttered say ward or wand or mads say Ara that she
wet smissious of living.

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roirrum.—" By • thorough knowledge of the natnrei
laws whisk govern the operations of digestion and
by a careful appllaation of the doe p.
parties of well-selested woos Mr. lipps has
our broaktast MMus with a delicately &moored bever•
ago which may as.. as many heavy dealers' bilis.—
°ilk! Service GaZtigg. Made simply with Boiling Water
or Milk. Book paoket le labolled—" JAMS Erre sod
liemteepatidc Chemist& Leaden."
Maxoraoroza or 0000 A. —" We •111 now glve an
amount of ties rooms adopted by Mews. Jame Nppe
mad Os, maostacturen A dietetic &Alaimo, at their
works Is tin llesloa Reed, Leadoo"—Bee article Is
O•a!elts Hceoceicold Gad*:

Mr. fia—sids, inesnmes broker, has recovered a pal
for £7.000 him lb. Mario, underwriter. The policy
was elfeeted OD a (tomtit, el wine shippoc for Kr,eiaod
io "the" Murillo, sad •hich woo thrown overbeerd in
a pia
• speshil mereopeadent of Ibis Lutdoc reiepreat has
minded lite at .al tames reported tress Terrill., sear I
Gnat Mariew, where a girl aged 14 has remained in
bed ter=liewit years without any sip 01 hya sim
rdiku sad palmation.

The Earl of Breadslbane has been appointed
a Lord-in-Waiting to her Majesty, in the place
of the Marquis of Huntley, resigned. The earl
will, at the same time, be created a peer of the
United Kingdom.
The tactics of the Opposition in dealing with
the Irish University Bill would seem to be to
destroy the unicn of the Government supporters,
by creating at once distrust and dissatisfaction
with regard to tho constitution of the governing
body of the University. Mr. Bourke will move
to-night that the names be revealed before the
Bill is considered. A good deal of opposition to
the details of the measure begins to show itself in
Ireland. England does not trouble herself very
much about it, apparently.

Parliament has been as dull as the weather,
and the public have been compelled to consider
In all its bearings the new army organization,
initiated by Mr. Cu-dwell. The more it is
examined the greater is the favour with which it
I. received. By friends and foes alike is the
scheme commended, even Sir John Pakineton—
the last Conservative War Minister—on Friday
evening freely saying "In regard to the plan
for the amalgamation of the troops at home by
depot centres, he thoroughly approved of it, and
believed that it would turn out to be onc. of Ole
best plans ever adopted by my War Minister in
recent years." There are to be in England fifty
infantry districts, in Scotland eight, and in Ire-
land eight. Of artillery districts, there are to
be eight in England, two in Scotland, and two
in Ireland; and there will be two cavalry dis-
trict.. The composition of the brigade of an
Infantry district will be. as • rule, two line batta-
lions one of which will be abroad, numbering
620 men in each battalion; two Militia batta-
lions, • brigade depot, • Rifle Volunteer Corps,
and the infantry of the Army Reserve. At
Dorchester the brigade will consist of four line
battalions. The linked battilions are to be
drawn together as closely as possible, so as to
give great facilities to officers who wish to come
home from India without breaking their c gi-
be:ion with their corps. The colonel in com-
mand of a district will have charge of the train-
ing of recruits, both for the Line and the
Militia; the training of the:Militia and Volun-
teers the registry, payment, and training of
the Reserve; and will supervise inspection', re-
cruiting, the care of the arms and stores,
.and
military instruction. He will be invested with
the command of all the regular, auxiliary, and
reserve forces. He will direct as he may think
fit the employment of all offieers, and supply the
commanders of auxiliary troops with the staff
necessary to discharge the duties of the corps
while they are not under training or instruction.
He will be able, on receiving °edam, to assemble
with all their personal equipment all the forces
under hie commend; and every general officer
commanding a group of these districts will be
able, on receiving orders from headquarter', to
assemble not only with their personal equipment,
but with their camp equipment, all the forces
under the general offioer's command, without
having recourse to headquarters in London.
There will thus be in England • number of
localized little armies each complete in Reel!,
and able to act at the shortest pordble
notice. This is substantially the system
which enabled Prussia to outstrip France
Iso signally in their great contest for
time at the beginning of the war of 1870.
Another hint has been taken from German
experience whioh will be of great value. There
Is to be an official whose position is to resemble
in some measure that of the German Chief of
the Staff, an officer whose business it will be to
collect every poedble kind of intelligence that
could be useful to those directing military opera-
tions in any part of the world where England la
likely to have work to do. It is by the existence
of something of this sort on • small scale that
the Canadian authorities owed the rapidity of
action by which they soon put down the Fenian
raider". Mr. Cardwell's conception of the
duties of this Intelligence Department are almost
poetically large. "Whatever," he said, "the
matter may be aa to which the Commander-in-
Chief or the Executive Government requires
information, the Intelligence Department is to
furnish the necessary information upon it at any
moment." It is strange, after hearing of the
scope of this machinery of omniscience, to learn
that it,is only to cost the country £1,200 • year.
Much of the information exists or is already
being accumulated through different channels,
and the £1,200 a year is to be the ulary of a new
Aver, who ia to put together and harmonize
what is now scattered and unconnected. If he
is in the least worthy of his place, he will be the
cheapest bargain England has had for a long
time. But Mr. Cardwell is probably right in
making a modest beginning. The utility and
the labours of the Department will keep con-
stantly growing, and if we spent on it ten time"
the amount now proposed, we should be spend-
ing money well.

But while working out these great principles,
Mr. Cardwell has not been unmindful of details;
and he above all other Ministers, may lay claim to
be regarded is the soldier's friend, Insomuch as,
while reducing the Army Estimates in the
aggregate, without resorting to the depletive
plan which Mr. Fowler proposed on Thursday
evening, he intends raising the soldiet's pay.
The present pay of the infantry soldier is nomi-
nally, 14d. • day, with Id. • day added for beer,
when on home stations. From this 15d, there
ia deducted 40. a day for rations, leaving the
magnificent pay of laid. • day. The War
Secretary proposes to ruse the pay of the rank
and file, ao that the soldier shall Dover receive
less than ls. • day in hard cash; and, moreover,
the hospital deductions will, ass rule, be reduced
from 10d. to Bd. The condition of the soldiers
will thus be considerably improved. In these
days of high wages, when workmen already well
paid think nothing of striking for another 10
per cent., it seems strange to speak of the
soldier's position being improved by his having
another lid a day, but we must bear in mind
the old proverb, that an inch on • man's nose
makes a difference, and that the soldier's pay has
hitherto been so absurdly small that even a
moderate addition will be • boon.
Perhaps it is jut as well that no hasty attempt
should be made to alter the time of year for the
sesembling of Parliament. Precedents of the
assembling of Parliament in November scarcely
support good faith in the theory that sitting
earlier would mean risking earlier. Here are
the dates of the prorogations of Parliaments
which hays assembled in the present century
before Christmas -Met Nov. 29, 1802, pro-
rogued the following Aug. 12; met Nov. 22,
18041, prorogued July 31, 1804; Nov. 30, 1812,
July 22, 1813; Nov. 4, 1813, July 30, 1811;
Nov. 8, 1814, July 12, 1815 ; Nov. 21, 1826,
July 2, 1827; Dec. 6, 1831, Aug. 16, 1832;
Nov. 20, 1837, Aug. 16, 1838; Nov. M, 1847,
Sept. 5, 1818 ; Nov. 11, 1852, Aug. 20, 1853;
Dec. 12, 1864, Aug. 12, 1856; Dec. 3, 1857,
Aug. 2, 1858. Doubtless there was generally, if
not always, special horniness that necessitated an
autumn session. Assuming the business to be
ordinary, what then? IV•11, a,ito
present appearances Parliament might sit 111 day
and night all the year round, and yet not keep
dear of legislation. There is almost as amok

Voroet eanutg Exprtoo. too math business in the Hones of Commons as
in the Divorce Court.
Sines Mr. Pttoseoll published his famous book,
TUESDAY. MASON 4 ,1673. some of the porta particularly notorious for sending
out ships that never come back have been seised
NOTES OF THE WEEK. with • painless/to desire for an inquiry into the
The Queen on Thursday held • Court at Buck- subject, although previously they always opposed
highs= Palms. The Court was in mourning anything of the kind as an interference with
for the Empress-Dowager of Austria. The private rights,. 7ths argued by some shipowners
members of the Royal Family present were the that losses at sea are inevitable, and to some
Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of extent this is no doubt true; but here are two
Edinburgh, the Prince and Princess Christian, facts on the other side: as to ocean traffic, no
the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke and Cunard steamship has ever yet been lost on the
Duchess of Took. The Maharajah Duleep Sing Atlantic; as to coasting smacks, the colliery
and the Maharanee were at the Palace. The Beet of Mr. George Elliot, M.P. and his partners,
Queen, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of which are almost constantly on the water, and in
Wales and the othermemhers of the Royal Family, all weathers, have for many years suffered
entered the Throne Room shortly after three neither loss nor even serious casualty. Obviously
o'clock. The Queen wore • black silk dress, with • an inquiry Is imperative, and if the remit should
train trimmed with crape, and • head-dress, be to dimepate the unfavourable impressions
with • long veil of white tulle and black crape which now prevail, so much the better.
lime, surmounted by • coronet of jet. Her The curates have • friend in Mr. Gladstone,
Majesty also wore jet ornament; the Hiband who unfortunately for them, can help only to
and the Star of the Order of the Garter, the the extent 11260. In contributing this sum to
Orders of VictorM and Albert, and Louise of tbe Christie' Augmentation Fund, he dwells on
Prussia, and the Saxe Coburg and Gotha Family the feet that they are the hardest worked and
Order. The Princess of Wales wore • dress of black worst paid class of the community, and he writes
poult de sole, with bouillons of tulle, tunic of black forcibly on the obligation of society to do what
lace, ornamented with garlands of black cherries, it can to improve the condition of the curatee
train of black poult de sole, trimmed with black
satin and lace. Ornaments pearls and
diamonds. Head-drew—a tiara of pearls and
diamonds, feather' and veiL Orders—Victoria
and Albert, Catherine of Russia, and the Danish
Order. Her Majesty returned to Windsor on Sa-
turday, where the Court will stay till about
Easter, when Her Majesty will probably visit
Osborne. About the beginning of May the Queen
will very likely make • trip to Scotland. This weak
the Prince of Wales began by holding • levee at
St. James's Palace on behalf of Her Majesty,
and on Tuesday goes on • visit to the Duke of
Rutland at Belvoir Castle. The Princess re-
mains at home.