The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

DAEACis 701 A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Tbateher r. the Cambrian Railway Company.—Th•
plaintiff Is • commercial traveller, of Weston-taper.
Mare, and oa the 3r4 of April, while in a train on the
defendant.' rail any, a oolliaion occurrent, and he sustained
injoriee that prevented him following hie usual pursuits.
Alter a long cooeultation between lb* learned counsel
on either aide, Mr. Coleridge *mewled to aooept •
verdict for £1,750.

INOLCZNT •INUCILT ON • CHILD.
George P on bail, wee indicted for assaulting
lamb Holmynrd,ayne, a little girl, ten Years of MP. OS
Taunton, on the 191 h of June. The fury found the
Pd.:mar PURL and he was sentenoed to 12 mouths.'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
11•1111.•00117111 AT NAM
BerrOtt. 18, labourer, was indicted for the
mensienebter of Arthur Bush, at Bath, on lb' 23rd of
May. Prisoser Lad deceased had • quarrel. and the
former Ara.* Huh and knocked him down. In falling
bin head came in contrast with the kerbstone. He was
taken up insensible an I renreged to the Bath Hospital,
where he died • day or two afterwards from the fracture
of the skull. The prisoner was found guilty and
sesassoad toots wea's laaprileamand with bard laboar.

general Nets.

Tel Admiralty have decided on abolishing Deptford
dockyard at the end of next March.
THE ORCIIIISTIUL Untos.—This assoeistion, which
achieved so much popularity under the direction of the
late Mr. Alfred Mellon. has been revived under the
(Fraction of Mr. F. Kingsbury.

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Two Clyde fishermen, having recovered the body of •
youth named Morgan, who was drowned there,demanded
£lOO from the father before they would give it up.
The police interfered and their rapacity was checked.
A MlLLl°,Aiste.—The will of the late Sir Benjamin
Lee Cuing cot, Bart.. has been lodged in the Dublin
Probate Court. The personalty is sworn under
£1,100,000. The stamp duty on the probate amounts
to I:16,500.

Tea Megorete OF NATAL.-If the Duke of Bucking-
ham does not object to a royal niandite being issued,
the consecration of the Bev. W. K. kfurorie u Bishop
of Itaritsburg is expected shortly to take place in this
oountry.

How To DMNOT BLIMIT.—It is said that blight
may be destroyed by taking an ounce of quassia chips,
boil in water for half-an-hour down to • quart, as it
cools add an sumoe of soft soap. Smear the twigs with
the mixture, or Op them in it.
Ma. JEFFILOON DAVIS, the ex-president of the Con-
federate Stake of America, landed in Liverpool on
Wednesday, and met with • cordial reception from
those who sympathised most actively with the Southern
cause. Hr. Davis is aocompanied by Mre Davis god
family, and intend. remaining in this swanky for • for
weeks.

FAILOII 0? THU 1866 A TUNTIO °MILL —The
announoement that the Atlantic cable of 1866 has failed
will be received with general regret. The fact was
notified to the Secretary of the btock Exchange on
Monday afternoon by Eir R. Glass. chairman of the
Anglo• American Telegraph Company. The second cable
still maintains the communication between the American
continent and Europe.

MINDITINIAL AND JUDICIAL CH•NOCL—Lord Kayo,
it is said, is to be Governor-General of India, although
Sir John Lawrence's five years of office do not expire
until November next. It is farther stated that Lord
Derby's second son, the Hon. F. A. Stanley, is to be
the Llvil Lord of the Admiralty, in MIOOOOOII to Mr. Du
Osee. Chief Baron Kelley awl Lord Justice P.M, Wood
are spoken of ea the new law lords. Lastly, it is stated
that the Solicitor• General ia to have one of the judge-
ships to be created under the provisions of the new
Ihibery r reeentlon Act.

To promote health the Parliamentary Committee on
food adulterations was appointed; there is, however,
000 hurtled custom still in full force, the merehants
continue to allow the Chinese to cover tea with mineral
colour, purposely to increase the prodt, as it enables
the infecior brown leaves to be passed off at high rates
with the bast. Horniman and Co's teas command
general preference, as they are young I , Ntrong,
wholesome, and free from mineral facing powder.
Imitations are offered, therefore observe that the Diana.
tore of Horniman and Co. is on
tveh paeket. 2,638
•tnita in arear aPor:minntecia. ; those in this locality are *Aver.
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ATROCIOUS CASE OF ILL-17/IAOL —Some months ago •
Mr. Brent, resident of Poplar, died, leaving his wife the
mortgage deeds of • howw. The son, who had been a
gold digger in Andrallk anxious to obtain possession of
the deeds, returned to this country on bearing of his
father's death, and, ',lording to the testimony of.
married sister, "(militantly and systematinelly knocked
his mother about." One night he pushed her into the
streets, and kept her there until morning, and on another
°cession he poured over her two gallons of water mined
with mud. The poor woman avowed that "that was
her death, for she
Ultimately she died. The medical testimony, however,
was not sufficieot to show that Mr& Brent died from
the effecte of her son's brutality, and the jury were
reluctantly compelled to retern a verdict of "Death
from natural causes," with an appended censere.

How RAIN MAT BE OBTAINED : UROUL fir.arun TOR
TRI VOLUNTEERS-lir. If. Grafton, Tollington Park,
Lonion, having been asked by some Fulham market-
, gardeners if he could make the Thames overfiow their
lands wittout endangering the light banks, or bring
down the occasional cloud which repeatedly coma just
ready to fall hut does not, replies : I now think that it
Ii possible to do the latter with greater safety than the
former. It is • well known fact, and to the emit of
'Duly • gay review day, that the repeated fire of
artillery dors so abate the atmosphere, that if there
happen to be soma passing cloud near, rain ls the result.
Now if some of our local volunteers could bring some
of their great guns to play on fitting occasions, I am
sure • good object will 1,, attained. The powder will
be well spent, and tend to produce peace and plenty,
something more profitable than all the noise which has
from time to time been made to record and proclaim by
means of the cannon's mouth that we have ceased to be
at w•r.

Ton IRISH CHO ICH. —The Irish Church COM •
missionere report was presented to Parliament on the
day of the prorogation. The material points of the
recommendations are said to be these :—A reduction in
the nucnbar of dioceses from twelve to eight, by dis-
tributing Cashel, Kilmore, Meath, and Halals*
amongst the adjoining sees; the lowering of tbe incomes
of the bishops to £3,000 each, with I:500 extra for those
who have to attend in the House of Lord.; the reduc-
tion of the income e the Primate to 1:6,000, and of the
holder of the see ef Dublin to 0,000 sh.tuld he remain
an archbishop, and to £4,500 should he be turned Into
, • bishop ; the abolition of all cathedral eatablithrnenta
except those attached to the eight surviving aces ; •
reduction in the salaries and in the number of arch-
deacons : the giving of encouragement to tenants under
church leases ha purchasie the perpetuity; and the
relieving of incumbents from the management of
glebe lands. Sundry recommendations affecting tie
distribution of incomes ere also included in the
report. The Standard says that this report will give
that opportunity for reforming the Irish Church which
the present Ministry have always been willing to
embrace. Whether all the changes which the own.
minion recommend ace wise or prudent can only be
decided by earefal inquiry end discussion, but, at
any rate, the measures which they sagged demand
cowl !oration.

Ma. OLLDSTONZ 111 Sorra Lancusarm.
Mr. Gladstone addressed a crowded meeting of his
tionstitnents at St. Helen's, on Wednesday, and met
with • most entliusiastie reception. Tile right hon.
gentleman congratulated the country on the passing of
the Reform Bill, but raid that it was hampered with so
many vexations restrictions that the work could not be
regarde I as finidied, and an attempt would probably
be mad., before long to remove the existing anomalies.
He *bowel that the present Government had Adopted
measures which hail added little leas than £1,000,000 to
the permanent expenditure of the country,and he urged
all Liberal constituencies to exact from the supporters
of the present Government who appeared before them
as candidates some explanation r f this undoubted fad.
With respect to Ireland, he explained the steps which be,
In conj action with the other leaders of the Liberal party
had taken, in order to offer to that country the prospers.s
of future peace, tranquility, and prosperity. For those
steps he had not the slightest apology to offer. On the
contrary, be rejoiced in the success of what had been
already done, and regarded it an an augury of future
complete suttees'. Considering the fact that the dearest
privilege—liberty—had been suspended for nearly three
year*, be was astonished at a recent statement of the
Prime Minister, who had the hardihood or infatuation
to congratulate a festive party of his friends on the state
of Ireland. It was like the conduct of a military despot,
who, having trampled all liberty under foot with his
armed forma, declared that order at last existed. When
personal liberty was suspended they were arrived at •
stage only short oflnivil war, and the leaden of the
Liberal party felt that it was their duty to consider this
dark and menacing fact. They asked themselves if they
stood clear in the arose( the world ; whether the laws
and ininitutions of Ireland were such as they could
maintain in the midst of • civil or foreign war.
If not, let them not wait for • civil war, but set them
right without delay, and then with a clear conscience
and trio reliance upon Providence await the issue. H.
was glad to think that the great Liberal party recognised
this great public necessity, and were determined to see '
jeans' don.. He would not now go into details, but
with respect to the tenure of land in Ireland, it would
be the duty of Parliament, as soon as it had settled the
other great question, to deal practically with this great
question, so as to secure, without violating the rights of
property, to the cultivator of the land the (mite of his
Industry, and induce him to remain in the land in which I
be was born, instead of seeking a home across the I
Atlantis, drives th-re not by legitimate causes, lint by
the operation of unjust laws and institutions. The Irish
Church, as Lord Lytton well observed, was the greatest
of Irish bulls, for it was called the Irish Church because
it was not the church for the -Irish. That question all
parties agreed could not rest as 11w.,. The question
aeon., bow von it to lie dealt .100 The addrentes of
their political opponents were singularly vague and
negative ; but the question was not what they objected
to, but what they meant to do. It was the duty of •
Government to take the initiative, and not leave it to
the Opposition. But it appeared the Government
candidates had received instructimis to be cautious, and,
above all, to object to Mr. Glad.tnne. They were ready
to remove the abuses of the Irith Church, bet if they
really did this there would be nothing left. They meant
to transfer the clergy from Connaught and Munster for
the benefit of the Protestants of Ulster ; but the tithes
of Connaught and Munster were meant for their benefit,
and this would be rosily • revolution, and like the tinker
who made ten holes whilst he repaired one. They would
I create far more abuses than they remedied, for the real
fact was there was no basin whatever for the existence
of the Irish Church; and all these mamas for its
Internal reform were utterly futile. Like cheap razors,
these whemes wereonly meant to sell. anvil would never
be the basis of practical legislation. In 1835 they threw
overboard ten bishops to &epeese the ravenous wolves,
who were now again In hot pursuit, and it was pro-
posed to throw over to them four more bishops. He did
not wish to thrpw over son bishops, butte allow each
eommunion to decide upon and provide for its own
wants, independent of the resources of the State.
He ridiculed the walled Irish policy of the Govern'
mint, and declared that there was only one course open,
to abolish the Irish Church, for the enigmatioal whereas
of the Government to establish religious equality by
levelling up and net*blnlinig • Roman Catholic
University out of the consolidated fund were so im-
practicable as to be unworthy of serious discussion. It
was said that the loaders of the Liberal party were
pitman; • course dangerous to Protestantism and to
the English Church, but in the former cage they would not
have had the support of the great body of Noecon-
, ferrnista, and in the latter there was no perrallel
between the ense of the Irish Church and the case of
the English Church. no one discharged none of the
duties of • State Church. The letter did so solely in a
great part of the country, and even in the most
populous to push co
a degree that many not con.
sorted vigil/re:would deeplt regret her downfall. In
former times the people of England would allege that
not electing their representatives they were not re-
sponsible fee a poliey towaid Ireland condemned by the
whole civilised world, bet their privileges re-
sponsibilities were now alike enlarged, and it was their
duty to exercise SD intelligent careful tholes with
respect to all these great qutistions, and send to Parlia-
ment men who were determined to settle them at ones.
The tight bon. gentleman then returned his seat amidst
load cheers. Mr. Grenfell afterwards addressed the
meeting. A vote of confidence, deelaring both candi-
dates It and proper representatives for South
lawasklia, wee serried by aoalaatatioa.

Court anti fasbionablt lutellignct.

THE Doke of Edinburgh hag gone one visit to Paris.
at-icily incognito.
Tag infant diosi,ter of the Prince and Princess of
Wel., was baptist I, on Ti.uisday, by the Bishop of
London.