The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-07 00:00:00

Central Nelms.

CREOBOTE T. fiz•-Siczzetut—lf the efficacy of this
simple remedy--siz or seven drops of creosote, taken on
loaf-sugar as often as regmired—were better-known,
numbers, no doubt, who now dare not venture upon the
water, would avail themselves of the pleasures of • trip
by water as freely as they do now by land.

THE FOURTH ESTATE AND THE HoCHE OP COMMON/S.
—The House of Counnons, says &contemporary, is much
the same as when we left it six weeks ago' until we arrive
inside the House, where we notice that the reporters'
gallery has been lengthened to accommodate about ten
more members of the fourth estate. This has been done
by taking in, at each end, • piece of the members' gallery,
or. as we heard remarked, the fourth estate has trenched
upon the third, which it has often done before.

A MAIL TKAIN o FIRE.—As the mail train due at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, about 6 o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing, was backing into the York station, a fire was dis-
covered by the pointsman in the tender which =COW-
panics thy travelling post-office. An alann being given,
the guard in charge, Mr. Challoner, instantly rushed
into the midst of the fire, guided by his coadjutor, Mr.
Fife, and subdued the flames. The amount of dasnage
to letters and newspapers is reported to be considerable;
but the Newcastle letters escaped.

Tux lit RIC EN HEAD RIOTERIL—The following men
were brought before the magistrates at Birkenhead, on
Thursday, for being concerned in the late riot.; in that
place. Patrick Farrell was charged with breaking the
windows at Mr. Laird's works, and assaulting several of
the workmen. James McGuire and Thomas Murphy
were charged with attempting to rescue the former
prisoner ; and lAurenceTaggartand Thomas Shuiin were
charged with being engaged in the riot. After a length-
ened investi;ation the last four prisoners were held over
in sureties for their good behaviour during the next
two months. Farrell, who had taken • prominent part
in the disturbance, was committed to take his trial at
the assizes.
AUETRIAN AND FRENCH SEAXEN.—Some uneasiness
has been created in the port of Cardiff by the excited
conduct of Austrian and French seamen during the last
few days. There ore a large number of Austrian vessels
taking refuge in the port. and • great deal of ill-feeling
subsists between the crews of these and of French ships.
On Friday a considerable concourse met with knives and
revolvers, and a riot was expected, but the police suc-
ceeded in dispersing the mob without an outbreak hav-
ing occurred. On Saturday a French vessel was leaving
the port with her cargo when some Austrians hurled
stones on to the deck, and a light was again nearly
taking place. The animosity between the men of each
nation is exceedingly strong, and it has been deemed
advisable by the local authorities to order the militia
under arms, in case of a breach of the peace. The Aus-
trians are unable to leave, except in neutral vessels,
and they are not, unnaturally, restless under the restric-
tion.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—Tbe question as to the
immediate prospect of re-establishing telegraphic cow-
munication with America will be decided on Wednes•
day. The company are then to hold an extraordinary
meeting to submit the terms they have obtained from
the Government, and to see if £tioo,ooo—the required
amount of new capital—can thus be raised. It appears '
that the Government are ready to guarantee a aivelend '
of 8 per cent. per annum for 25 years, provided the
cable is in successful operation and capable of conveying
100 words an hour. Mao, that they will pay £1.1,000
per annum for messages. The company, moreover, are
to be allowed to spend £20,000 out ut the new guaran-
teed capital in attempts to make the existing cable avail-
able. They are likewise to centimes to enjoy the bene-
fit of the original arrangement for a payment of £14,01:10
per annum from the United States' Government. In
return they are to surrender the exclusive right of land-
ing cables on the eliores of Newfoundland. The direc-
tors consider that these conditions should induce the
shareholders to subscribe the necessary amount, espe-
cially as the risks of the work will be greatly reduced
not only by the experience gained, but by a variety of
new precautions. They propose to guard by • policy of
insurance against accideuts or loss from the process of
subiners,ing the cable, and also that the contract for its
manufacture shall be accompanied by provisions for ita
efficient electrical working for a considerable period.
The new capital is to be in the form of preference shares
of £5 each, entitled to all the Oct profits of the company
up to 8 lier cent., and to divide all further profits with
the original shareholders. A reconstruction of the
Board is at the saute time to be effected, as well as •
reduction in the number of members. Finally, the
directors point to the urgent claims of the undertaking ,
from its advantages in • tolitical sense. "If England," 1
they remark, "were compelled to take up arms for the
defence of her colonies or her commerce, its absence at
such a crisis would be a national disgrace,—• calamity
the more bitter on account of its easy prevention, con-
sidering the perfect facility with which the work can ,
now be brought to completion, if a wenn and public- '
spirited effort be made."
THE DREAT DRAWBACK ON LABOR.—A NE'W Virg
or TH SuBJECT.—It would be interesting to know the
amount of productive power annually Irlthdruten from
the sum total of human labour by sickness, and the
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amount aoraatttly restored to that stun total by medical
treatment; but the details connected with such with-
drawal and restoration would be of still greater interest,
could
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gl"Zerrerinuedat '' With such infoinuttion
e the relative values of the
medicines in use, and, rejecting the trash, adopt and
administer only the true specifics. In sonic of the
unhealthy districts of India, where at certain seasons a
large portion of the population is prostrated by fever and
other complaints indigenous to • climate alternating
between extreme heat and rain, statistical inquiries of
the kind suggested have been made, and the results
disclose the remarkable fact that Holloway's remedies
are decidedly the most reliable medicines in all diseases
of this class. It is stated that of the person% using them
in the first stag. of sicknese, very few have found it
necces.sry to ebandon their daily avocations; and that of
the sick who resorted to them in the crisis of their
disorder., a greeter number have been cured than by all
other preparations combined. Assuming, in the absence
of rebutting testiniony, that this statement is true, the
immense popularity which Professor Holloway's Pills
anti ()lament have aoluireti in the West Indies, and
other tropical climates, Is not surprising. The prestige
of their reputation in England, and her far and wide
spread colonies, as well ss in the United States of
we find them the expiration id •
America, may have favourably introduced them, but as
, quarter of &century
the leadiag medirines in all parts of the world, the con-
I elusion that their (eine hal been self-achieved is inevi-
table. Presuming that our readers know what iegood
for them, and can distinguish a remedy froin a poison or
a medicinal eepafire which does neither good nor harm,
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we congratulate them on their sagacity in adopting two
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except those of age and precedent. We have, as
becomes no, a most devout respect for such monuments
of the past MI are entitled to it, but not the slightest
veneration for the attligNities of error, within which
category a multitude of regular prescriptions are in.
eluded.

HOW GAIIIIIALDI CIOSSLD TUN Tlctio.—A letter
from Vercelli ill the SA* says: The manner in which
Garibaldi crowed the 'Mario and WSW the Austrians,
who acted on inforinatiou o'otained by their spies, was
110 UP, and may now be divulged without danger. He
left Turin with 3.700 men; and the day after his
departure he quitted BieUa and proceeded to Borgoma-
nero, where lie paired the night and part of the next
day. He then prepared his plans, and put them in
harmony with the instruotious given him at heed-
iinarters. The principsl object was to cross the
Ticino, and effect the passage and invasion without
danger to himself or men. Garibaldi knew that all
these men risked their lives inasmuch as before
becoming soldiers they were refugees, and by bearing
arms they incurred, accordieig to the Austrian code, the
penalty of death. 14e accordingly spread the report
that he intended to stop at Arena. and be even wrote
himself to have stores and lodgings prepared there, and
, the churches fitted up for the reception of hoer". No
' sooner had he sent off these orders by special mes-
sengers to Arena, which is en the Ingo Mag-
giore, than he gave orders to his men, each of whom
carried two muskets, to leave for Ceilidh:lto, where they
crossed the Ticino is a ferry-boat to Moto Cakode, and
by a forced march proceeded to Varese. The Austriaas,
on learning bow they had been tricked, assembled it
(lalarata, and intercepted the lime of the Ticino at Varese,
I believing that they would ti•erekry cut off the retreat at
the force and surprise it. Garibaldi troubled himself
little about that proceeding, and iodated the towns and
villages to revolt. His success in this was so great that
he lied to write to the King for 8,000 muskets aPd 8,000,
great coats. Foreseeing, however, an attach OR Varese,
lie barricaded the town,—which does not man that he
barricaded himself in the town. That done, be left 200
of his men, who, with the assistance of the popalation
heroically misted the Austrians, who soon attacked the
;
place. In the meantinie he marched with the min
body of his army from the town towards the hills • and
sometime after, surprising the enemy in flank, deli:ant
and routed them. The Austrians retired in great dis-
order and only re-formed at Camerlata, a very important
position, from which Coin° can be defended without
great loss. But Garibaldi scarcely left them the time
to count themselves, as be attacked them again, and
after a sharp combat, in which many of their ofliciers
were killed, dislodged them. He then entered Como,
where lie obtained a positive triumph from the popula-
tion. All tht country is in full insurrection. Young
men are putting themselves is uniform and arming
themselves. All classes, without distinction—nobles,
peasants, citizens, men, women, and children—an. pre-
pared for resistance. Garibaldi has taken the precau-
tion of being able to supply the populations with arms
and ammunition.
M e king AT Oc,oavaT, WONCIATillOglag. A
shocking affair, exceediug in its painful character that
which recently occurred at West Bromwich, took place
Tuesday morning in Furnace-row, Oldbury. This street
is situate in aback part of the town, and in about the
centre house of the row lives • miner of good chareekv
named William Foster. He has been userried many'
years, and his family consisted of two daughters, Eliza,
aged 16; Susannah, about 8; and • flue bag. John, 10
years old. Two or three months ago another daughter,
older than Eliza, died after a were illness. From this
time, the wife, Hannah, 41 years of age, and a woman
of most kindly disposition, has been in a low despooding
way, not seeming at times to know what she was About.
Still matters in the house want on in the tumid way, and
not the least suspicion existed that the w somee stand
was, in fact, unhinged from grieving for her lost daughter.
However, after the family had retired to rest on Mayday
night, the father was aroused from his sleep by bearing
his little girl, who slept with her beother, call out,
" Eliza, mother's cutting Johnny's throat!" Simultane-
oudy Foster and his eldest daughter sprees out of their
beds. The latter seized hold of her mother's basil,
containing a razor, covered with blood, and the father
was horror-stricken, and as he rays, paralysed, at
seeing that his wife had cet the throat of little Johnny,
nearly severing the Lead from the body. In two
minutes the poor boy was a corpse. Whether Fimsisiet
that moment also laid bold of his wife is not clearly
I ascertained, for she, trading that Eliza persisted in beldam
I down the hand which still firmly grasped the reser,
I with desperate energy drew her hand away, and thi;
razor, condos in couatet with the fingered her daughter
nearly cut of either two or three of them. Foster at
, this time lost apparently all sellipossession. He ram
down stairs, could not open the front door to give the
alarm, but forced it open with the poker, and some
neighbours, whom be aroused, having returned with hint
I to the home, beheld Mrs. Foster descending the stairs,
blood streaming from a large wound in her throat. Her
husband then took her in his arms, and for three hours
! supported her in this way. Mr. Cooper and Mr.
Beattie, surgeons, were sent for to the house, and
attended as soon as possible. Finding the boy quite
dead, the former sewed up the wound in the mother's
throat, but he gave no hope that she will recover. Mr.
Cooper also dreamed the nearly severed fingers of lair
daughter. These are all the facts which could be
gathered, for Foster himself, as may well be suP
is really not at present in a state to give anythinglVa
clear amount of the terrible scene.