The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

THE FOLLY OF COLONEL DAWKINS.

Colonel Dawkins is a sad essmple of the folly of not
shaking hands gith a lord when you have the opportu-
nity. Many people would almost give their ear, for
the ch•noe which Colonel Deakins declined to avail
himself of. and it is by no means impossible that there
larks in the Br.tigh Mout a feeling that a man who
declines the honour of a peer's recognition files so
distinctly in the fees of Provideme that he need not be
astonished at any amount of misfortune that may
thereafter fall upon him Certainly Colonel Dawkins
has h-d what might be Idiomatically called a peck of
trouble, and it all hngan with his refusal to shock, bands
with Colonel Lord Rokeby at Ash. lie had been on
duty and was hungry. He retired to the luncheon
tent, for the innocent pursese of refreshing himself.
Colonel Lord Hokeby had also been in the tent. His,
two, had been refreshing, end it was in leasing slier a
pleotant refection, that his attention was culled to
Colooel D 4 II lino by another offleer, who
"Dawkins." Why he recognised the colonel's presence
in this •mhiguous and peon., manner is not apparent;
but it suffictd to draw Lord Hokeby's notion upon the
ill.lbted gentleman in a mininer which, though kindly
yrpoint, was about to prove very fatal to him. Colonel
Dawkins would not have it at all. There had been
previous disputes. If we may Jed,* by the @hence
revelations of law courts and military inquiries the lives
of °Moms sod gentlemen are lull of disputes. They
employ their time In writing letters which they subse-
t:penny hare to withdraw. They kirep company with the
wrong people They are haled before their colonel for
Doc being „untriyealy eoctisl with certain other people.
Is fact, utiless the times th.t come to light are those of
very excieptionablit men, the lire* Of Ornallra are a curious
compound of punctilio and tetchiness and irritation,
with the aggravation, as suggested is this ease, that
yonr oolniel may grind his teeth at you one day and
insist upon your shaking hands with him on another.
Colonel Dawkins was not to be served in this way
without showing reeentntent. He was the son of a
soldier who had served with distinction under Welling.
lon. He himself had gone through the Crimean
campaign with credit. He knew his value, and when
Toni Rokeby held out his hand to him his mind sem
immediately filled with reminiosnces of his wrongs. He
would not take his lordship's hand, but he hot the
pres.nes of mind to give the proper military saute, and
a. Lord Rokelly returned it he thought all was rocht.
Alas I this is not a country in which a man can refu-e
to shake hands with s lord, especially if the lord
is a 0010661, without being sorry for it. Ere long
Colonel D•wkins wee placed under arrest for in-
sulting his colonel, though he then and alwlys
stouly insisted he had committed no military
offeces He was kept under arrest for eleven days,
though be pretests he ought to have been tried by mart,
martial at the end of eight days, and he was di-charged
from arreet without any formal acquittal or settlement
of the oherge spinet him. He &might in vain for a
court of inquiry—he meld gain no sort of redress.
Other troubles aune apou hint in the regiment, and the
ccl o ft was that the Horse Guards decided that his
logo tyg sus nnboarslsly bad, and he bad to resew and go
upor, pelf pay. Poor Colonel Dawkins's Iliad of griefs
came on rriday to an isslonoas end in the Court of
Comnial Pleas. The moral—always to shake bands
• lotd if you have the opportunity—id very much
strengthened by the face that whatever evils a refusal
msy involve too in there is no relief to be had in • court
of 1... As ofßeer, at any rate, Is helplem if the
a hogities and tribusole if his own profeedon cannot
help lom. Coloncl Dawkins "shed ootiting better while
I. cootnued in the tersioe than to be properly tried ;
but the rulers of the army either thought that • man
who would not sh•ke hands with • lord, hit colonel,
must be incurably bad t. moeied ; or that an incurably
6.4 tempered man would commit that or any other
enormity with an impracticable onecropulousnese which
set him beyond the pale of ordinary justice. So
Colonel Dawkins never got a fair hearing, and might
think himself well off In getting his half-pay. And
when, after all this, Itemises into • court of petiole and
"trek., as a deprived soldier, damagos for illegal arrest
and lose upon selling his connahmulos, Mr. Justice
Willes tell. him it lea purely military metier in which
the law menet at all interfere. It is preley evident
that 5141 ana4 pisos ler a soul" who sans°,
nee‘her his sad auks boas with his island
lioanei ashy say destPool"&"Bitar•

jortign Nnttlligtnct.

AT repent masquerade ball at Chicago an angel with
wings wore spectw.
It Is reported from Sebastopol that the Russians
are restoring the Melaka.
Tun Persia brings DOM that the FOUISSUI under:Spear
reeroased the Cutaditan Fiends: on the gib inst.
A Porrincsi edict tas be issued for the establish•
ment of a decimal coinage in oonformity with that of
I taly.
Iwo roe TB! STouls.—Considerable amounts
a coin, tete, and jewels, arrive at Pans daily from
Pram* 7, Austria, and Italy.
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THI Nisi al Dsoroark nowirod, too the 15th look, in
prisms orioles., AL Damao, the Frewth Min who
delimrwl a lettor .to Us Majesty from the Emperor
Napoleon.

FROM MADRID it hot boon oflcially 111111011.410 d there
that the eereP•4ll a the Peri& i Cfl One part a
th" Speniah Beet proceeds to th• Philippine Islands and
the other to kilo he Janeiro.

_
HESS iS of princely improgiq• n•
Duke of Beaufort, whore horse Ceylon this yeor Woo the
Grand Prix dv Paris. bee given 7,500 f. to the Poor ol lb*
twenty errondimeroente of Perla and 2,f00f. to the
Kash& Protestant Churoh of Cluntilly.

Hill MIT; a deputy of Darmstadt, deolared n the
Chamber the other day that Freiherr von Varohnler,
the Wartenthers Minister. had declared at • p•blic
meeting that "he would rather belong to the devil than
to Prairie, and that he would rather be • Frenchman
than a Premien."

A CANADIAN adventurer named Findson is building •
metallic lifeboat, twentraix feet long and six broad,
which is to he .hip—rigged and to carry • ern. of 000
mao. In it Ino purposes to sail next spring from Quebec
to London and thence to Paris, where be will exhibit
hi. ...eel—if he ever gets there—et the Exhibition of
1867.

A Cfrutone Craioronv took place in Pns during the
usual Wrdrividay morning service in the English chapel
in the Rue d' Agueesesu. A young Chinese received
the rite of adult baptism from the Rev. Edwerd Forbes,
chaplain of that °hunch. The young Oriental joined in
the mervicie with greet devotion, pronouncing the &NOM
words with distinctness. An Indian was likewise
baptised et the esme time.

THII ladies of Lensing. Michigan. are adopting • new
style of dress. It appears to rassist of cloth pasta like
those worn by roes, and an old.faahioned Indian
"wainpus" or sa,k, which comes joid above the knees.
Everything Ise •id to bang from t he shouldere, doing away
with tight lasing, and alleged to be very coodective to
health. It does away with hoops pd skirt', and
immenely decreases the Issly in balk. It is an easy
°seisms, and will probably be better liked when custom
makes it fashionable.

Flogni-nrau Toe FOOD 13 FAlllll.—Tbe Prefect of
Police tel issued certain insulation. under which the
sale of horw•ffeab is permitted in Paris. The animals
are to be killed in public slanghter-houses in the
prwenoe of competent government oflltdals after •
previous examination; the meat is to be stamped before
It. removal, which is to be effected in dosed vehicles
and the shop• which are alloted for ita sale will be
indicated by apeenal signs. Any restaurant selling
how-flesh without clearly announcing the fact, or who
shall fr.utulantiv mix it with other west, will be liable
to posiebseet eider the peuel soda
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A Petunia('Pio Irv=Yloe.—The Anatrian
four ale *mobilo terrible secounteof the newly Invented
torpedo. which are to "shiver the timbers" of the
Italian fleet is the Adriatie. Extraordinary results are
expected from these artificial enbmarine monsters, whose
destructive powers are tailed into play. sooordins to the
current deserietioa, by the aid of • camera obeyers, and
of an electric wire connecting the mine with the camera.
..as 1000 a• the Im.g. of a vessel appears upon a certain
point on the radium of the earners the shoos is imparted
and the weeeel is blown to atoms." So n.y our news-
p•pers,' after the Pre= of Vienna. The 'mishits!,
witch to this philanthropic invention haa been riven by •
oertain Colonel Ebner, of the Austrian Service.—
Morning Herald.

EIFCl7llnle Or Tian ARAB% 701 11117ILDEll.—The
journals of Al eria state that three Arabs. recently con-
demned to death at the amines of Mostmasem for the
mnrier and robbery of a M. Botinsan and tidal..
(iv:dread, at HUM, were emented a few days back in the
town where their trial took place. Immense crowds of
the natives were present, and the women especially were
remarkable for their empire's, to witness the horrible
.nootael• After the act of justice had been aceoni•
;liaised, the father of one of the men, and the relations
of the others, who had obtained pennimion to
inter the bodies in the cemetery of their tribes, were
seen to emend the maffold without betmyleg the
*lightest emot on or shedding • tear, and then, hewing
attached the beads to the bleeding trunks with palm
lemma, they wrapped on the corpse. it lines, and,
having enured thorn on the backs of mules, silently de-
parted with them to thetr respective encampments.