The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-19 00:00:00

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

. The police bare muds a nice Mew over the Cannon
Street pourthir, abd the City detectives have lost I
mach of their prestige. They are usually reckoned
the cleverest police in the world, mild) superior to !
the Metropolitan; but they made • mistake and stock •
to it. However, they have some apologists and
even supporters here —people, who, in spite of the I
prompt verdict of the jury, and the declarstion of
the judge that the prisoner wee "more that hot
guilty, he was innocent," shrug their shoulders or j
shake their heads, or boldly avow their belief in the I
guilt of the Man Smith. Unfortunately for than
wrongheaded people, I en.rally find, On pueblos
inquiries, that they have Dot reed the evidence, or
have at least omitted that for the defence lest they
should be prejudiced. And this is how some ofi
what we cell public opinion I. formed! But, amid I
tli. satisfaction expressed that au innocent man
has escaped, there comes the ominous reflection
that a murder may be committed in the eery blurt
of London at an early both. Of the night, and its
perpstratat agape with impunity.
lam afraid I must now retract the expression in
my last respecting the undoubted descent of the
Rhy vas family from two European sovereigns. and I
do so with pain because I 'maid fain have left this
unfortunate and impoverishid family the rag of
comfort they might have found in even illegitimate
dement from royalty. But I must yield my own
Ore-rionoeived notions on ex parte statemente to the
verdict of the jury, after • searching inquiry. As I
read the verdict, Mrs. &urea the mother ef Mra.
Rhyves, is dedared to have been redly Olive Wilmot,
daughter of Robert Wilmot (brother of the clergy.
man), and the roman., of the descant from a Princess
of Poland (supposed wife of Dr. Wilmot', through
daughter who married the Duke of Cumberland,
Iris merely the invention of a diseased brain, as were
all the forged documents pi-odttoed in support of it.
That the Abysse family believed in the genuineness
of their delta I have no doubt, and most people who
kite* anything of them thought there was something
in it, but the unsubstantial evidence of • great
delusion has crumbled under tbe rough handling of
the law.

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The Great Beaters is to sail hem Shallows with
the new Atlentlo cage on iiiitarday, the 30th inst.
I understand, that, profiting by the experience of
list voyage, such precautions have now been taken
that • repetition of the previous failure will be very
unlikely. Let OA hope so, both for the sake of the
shareholders in the company and of the publicßnt
if we are suddenly dravrn into *at *line the cable
is being laid, might not some prikateir swoop down
upon it Here it aahsä, for the Fenians to win
renown, though not much else, because they could
bake little of the cable unless they cut it up and
mold it to some marine store dealers.
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Our Loodon locial-sti—tWOri"tisir;sel t 5 set an
example of stupidity to all the kingdom. Among
other abase. we Wm exposures every week of our
workbottas system, if one may call mismanagement
a system. I touched upon one case last week.
I have another flagrant one to notice now—of it,
casual pauper, raving with fever, being thrust into •
small ward with fifteen other inmates, giving gash I
only 250 cubic feet of air, while the one fever patient
required six or eight times se much. The poor
creature died early in the in well he might
and all the won-khans authorities could plead at
the inquest, in excuse for their mismanagement, Was
that they had to take M all casuals who applied;
berme the overcrowding. But if all applicants are
to be 'take, in," they are surely not to be so
cruelly " done for." SPECTATOR.