The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

The MUTINEERS of our ARMY and NAVY
—INDIA v. THE PRINCESS ROYAL

enural Ne 1335.

TUC HIAVT GALES or OcTonga AND NOVEMBER
Lase.—The unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane,
of the night of the 240. of October last WWI unexampled
in its work of destruction in our maritime records.
During the whole of that day not a single casualty,
with one trifling exception, -occurred either on the
shores or in the seas of the British Isles. When the
Royal Charter recommenced her voyage from Queens-
town on the morning of that day every one on board cal-
culated almost to a certaiuty on • safe arrival at Liver-
pool before the evening closed. Indeed the noble ship
was opposite Holyhead when the gale began to freshen
up ; and what eels." mently happened to her and her
unfortunate crew and passengers hiss be s " house-
bob! words" in the housed of these ialande But per-
haps it is not so generally known that during that awful
night and following day 195 vessels were wrecked, 113
of them becoming thoumusis of pieces, with the loss of
614 of our fellow creatures, including those who per-
maimed fr the Royal Charter. It is satisfactory to tind
on the other side that, notwithstanding the fearful and
terrific character of this now celebrated gale, 190 persons
were rescued from the wrecks by lifeboats, the roa'set
apparatus, and other means. From the 'lsth to the
3lst of October the total number of shipwrecks was
246, drowning 667 persons, showing that only two men
perished from the 32 wrecks that occurred between the
27th and 31ot of the ninth, and that their crews,
amounting to 126 men, were safely rescued Irons their
perilous position. On the Ist of November, however,
the gale again was most furious; 36 veseele were
wrecked on this day, from which 29 persons were lust,
and 73 men saved, :31 having been rescued by lifeboats
of the National Lifeboat Institution and other bodies.
The 'shipwrecks that took place from the 2nd to the 9tli
of November did not framed the average rate of losses.
But the auininary of the whole work of destruction
from the 25th of October to the 9th. of November is die-
teeming in the extreme to contemplate. It is as fol-
lows :—Total shipwrecks, 92.; total lives lost, 746. It
is gratifying to find that on three occasiona 487 lives
were rescues! by lifeboats and other means from the sad
wrecks.
THE TASMANIAN SCBMARINI CABLE.—The first sub-
marine electric cable of any considerable length in this
part of the world has now been successfully laid anti
opened for public use. The PA/ miles of Ha.. Straits.'
thus annihilated, so far as the communication of intelli-
gence is concerned, and the island of Tasmania is fur
many important purposes as closely united to the main-
land of Australia, as though no sea rolled between them.
This, it will admitted, is • work of some magnitude
for these colonies, and is creditable to the enterprise of
Victoria and Tasmania, who have theiuselves found the
whole of the funds for the undertaking. In this case
the object to be gained is worth even some annual expen-
diture in excess of returns, if the line cannot Ise maintain-
ed without it; for there can be no question that to Tas-
mania the advantage of instant communication with
them colonies suust be very great. The annual trade
transactions between that island and the mainland are
stated by the Launceston papers to be now represented
by • sum amounting to more than £1,000,000 sterling,
and, as the markets of the one colony are entirely regu•
lewd by threw tithe others, it cannot be °thermos than
a matter of deep importance that a close intercommuni-
cation should exist between them. One chief source of
risk and expense said to be connected with thia line is,
that it has been laid in four separate sections—firot,from
the north aide of King's Island to Cape Otway on the
Australian coast, theta in the opposite direction (row
King'a Island to Hammock's Island, thence to Circular
Head on the north coast of Tastnania, and from that
'mint along the coast to the entrance of the Tamar,
where it joins the land line to Launceston and Hobart
Town. F this arrangement the shore ends of the
cable are numerous, and all of them are said to be con-
siderably exposed to injury from the nature of the places
at which the landings have been made. Under those
circumstances it is being urged upon the Governments of
Victoria and Tasmania that they should at name incur
the additional expense of procuring from England suffi-
cient surplus cable to make good any injury which ei-
ther of the four sections may sustain ; and this, we think
is • very reasonable suggestion, seeing how many chances
of acideut the line is exposed to.
THE SAILUS'S HOMIL—The following is an extract
from • letter dated Great Yerinouth, December IL—
• We are very much cbSged to you for receiving the
subscriptions for the Sailors Home Refuge. 1 think that
since the public meeting, nearly E 1,01.10 has been col-
lected. We have now a practical illustratiot of the use
of such an institution. There are now at the HOMO 3
seamen who were rescued from the mast of • sunken
vessel, to which they had been clinging for more than
60 hours. For three nights and two days they held on
this uncertain support—about eight feet above the rag-
ing sea —a ithout feud and almost without clothing. One
of the men took off his shirt and held it out as • signal
of distress till it was blown from his feeble grasp. The
vessel struck upon the Harborough Sand on Friday
evening, at 9 p.m., and they were not rescued till ten
o'clock on Monday uiorning—a case of most remarkable
endurance. It was but A small vessel, a smack with four
hands, the fourth, a boy, climbed the mast with the
others', and held on till the tieturday, when lie became
exhausted, and relaxing his hold slipt down into the ilea.
One of the men went down after him, seized him end
dragged him up the mast again, but there was nothing
to which to lash I , and no crosstrees or spars on which
to rest, so that during the night, when almost senseless
with cold and fatigue, the poor boy alipt down again,
and was lost in the darkuess. On Sunday they were
tantalized with the hope of immediate suceour, a veiled
saw their signals and heard their cries, and sent • boat
to their relief, but, after buffeting with the wind and
tide, they had the tification to see her give up the
attenipt and return to the vessel. Then it was that black
despair took poseesaion of them, and they gave them-
selves up for lost ; but clinging to their frail support for
an hour or two longer they heard a gun lire. 'I his gave
them fresh courage, for they took it to be a signal, as in
fact it was, that their cane was known, and au attempt
would be made to save them. The vessel stood and
communicated with the shore, and a boat put off to
swatch for them, but they were such • speck on the ocean
that, night sowing on, they could not be seen, and they
returned on shore. For the third idght, therefore, they
had still to cling on, expecting every uluuseut that the
mast would go over and bury thew in the deep. Ou the
Monday morning the shore boat made another attempt,
fell in with them at ten o'clock, and landed them at
Pulling, inure dead than alive, whence, as soon •• they
could he utoved, they were brought to the Sailors' Humus
here, their swollen limbs and benusubed (mules and
ghastly countenances testifying to the sufferings they had
undergone. They are now receiving all the comforts
which are so essential to their restoration to health, but
it will be some tune before they will be able to leave
their present quarters. I hope I have not weariest you
with all this, but I wished to furniah you with an answer
to the question 'What's the use of it!'"

Tilt MlLlatolla DIRSINRIOSII IN ST. GIORGeS-IN
THR•EART.—On Sunday there were four services, as
tonal, at the parish church of St. Oeurge's-in.the-East,
at one of which the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, offici-
ated. That conducted by Mr. Hugh Allen, pa of
quietly. but the other three, in which the regular paro-
chial clergy were engaged, were interrupted by hissing
and coughing, the interruption'. proceeding entirely from
boys and girls, who evidently looked upon the matter
as a gissl joke. Some few grown-up persons made a
point of "saying" the responses in a loud tone, in order
to destroy the effect of the choristers' chanting, but
their efforta were weak and by no means successful. The
morning service was performed by the Rev. C. F. Low-
der, who also preached, the Rev. Bryan King reading
the lessons. The rector's afternoon service was inter-
rupted in the usual style, bet the police gave some
I gentle hint,
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sailed with • general tit of coughing. He preached •
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" Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah
is everlasting
rev. gentleman chil not tarn his face to the Altar, • pro-
ceeding which has always hitherto occasioned an out-
break of feeling on the part of the people, and it war
therefore be fairly assumed that the clergy are willing to.
make concessions as far as they can do so without vio-
lation of principle. It ought,
to be stated that Mr. Mackonochie has within the last
few days refused the vicarage of St. Saviour's, Leeds
which was offered to hiui, rather than desert the recto;
in the present excited state of the parish. At the close
of the evening service a large body of people followed
the choristem through the streets to the Mission-house,
in Wencher-square, but beyond hissing and hooting they
were guilty of no voilence.
MARRIAGE OFFERS IX SWEDEX.—The following
rather singular project has just been presented to the
Chamber of Noblea of the Swedish Diet. Baron Create
proposed that, from the age of 15, young girls should be
allowed to answer of their own accord, yes or no, to any
suitor for their hand. M. Montgomery opposed the pro-
ject, declaring that at the age of 15 love, tough strong,
was too blind, and that the age of 25 was indispensable
to be able to tam clearly on so important a question.
Baron Alstroeiner treated such an objection as madness,
and proposed to the Chamber to decide who was in the
right, Baron ('rents or the Apostle Paul. The Baron re-
plied that the words of the Apostle applied to pater-
nal authority, which was very severe among the Jews
and the Romans, and could not now be invoked when
manners and customs had so much changed. Baron
Alstroeuier said that if the Chamber were to adopt the
project, blonnonians would become general. Baron
Cieuu replied warmly that it was ridiculous to talk of
Mormonism, that his project was A serious one, and cal-
cidated to have a salutary effect on manners and ideas.
The project was referred to a committee.
A CENTEN N--11. Lambert, the fenilletonist of
the Cwirrier de Paris. gives the following curious
account for the exactitude of which he fully vouches
--" A person named Roger Largois has just died at
Paris at the age of 100 precisely, day for day, and even
hour for hour. It was at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of
the 10th of December, 1759, that he was born, and at 1
o'clock in the aftennion of the 10th of Irecember, 1859,
that lie died. He was • very remarkable personage,
having excelled as painter, engraver, poet, and musi-
cian ; and yet lie was totally unknown to the public,
because he would never consent to exhibit or publish
any of his productions. His father was a hosier of the
Rue Saint Denis, and destined him for trade ; but
Roger at an early age manifested a strong taste for
the arts, and passed the greater part of his time in copy-
, big the works of the great masters, and principally of
Raphael. He displayed so much talent that his father,
who had a fortune of 30,000 f. a year to leave, resolved
to let I follow his bent. He even allowed the boy's
, godfather, an Englishman. to take him to London for
instruction, and there the godfather procured him les-
sons from MAMMA and Fuseli. Old Largois having
died. Roger came to Paris. and, having received his
father's property, resolved to devote himself exclusively
to poetry and art. And as the taste of the day in both
appeared to him to be vicious, he deterinined to follow
out his own ideas; and in order to du so completely,
without being influenced either by the criticisms of ma-
temporaries or the caprices of fashion, lie further de-
termined to keep his works to himself. He caused a
house to be built on his plans in the Boulevard de Mont
Pentium, and annexed to it a vast painting room and
two picture galleries. There he laboured incessantly
year after year in painting and engraving; in "nip,-
ing poetry and in setting it to music. It was chiefly In
his walks that he composed his poetry and his music,
the rest of his time being passed in Isis painting-room.
He carefully preserved all that he produced, and all his
productions are collected in the two galleries—his
poetry. music, and engravings in shelves along the wall,
and his paintings ranged according to date. These
paintings show that, although at first he was a brilliant
colouriA. lie was hut an indifferent designer, and that
afterwards lie laboured to unite the two qualities—design
and colour. Most of the subjects of his paintings are
allegorical ; but he was also an excellent portrait
painter. and lie lies left not fewer than 49 portraits of
Isis wife, wl he tenderly loved—his rule being to
make one on each anniversary of her birthday. The
day before his death, he said to his wife, ' I shall die
ot4.11; 111;11:71.7":yltifgre: 11; edraeiir t tonaelkeinvgi you—we
palette,it,rebuiltahvel h
bsaid.ra"p
• Remain as you are; 1 will make a last sketch of your
Anil lie executed it with marvellous fidelity and power.
He leaves • win. aged 75, and &grandson nearly 50. and
by their efforta, combined with Ids own frugality, his
revenue had increased from 30.000 f. to between 50.000 f.
and 00.010. Theee two gentlemen propose to exhibit
his paintings and engravings. and to publish his poetry
and music. That the works will excite great curiosity
is not doubted."