The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

Vampohirt.

THI subscriptions in connection with the let* boat
maiden! at Madeford. whieh amounted to £56 12s. hare
been di.tribute I, t Mr. Newlyn'. Hotel, by the Mayor,
as follow. :—Charles Pride, coast vierdsinan, £2l 8.4
Widow French, Ell 14.. 13d. ; Miss Vick, Ell 14a. ;
Miss B. Vick, Ell 14e. Bd.

The directors of the Bank of England have rained the
the retool discount from 94 per cent, at which lt wen
fired on the 19th ult., to 3 Pin amt.
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figs Majesty has been graciously likened to confer
the honour of e baronetcy upon Mr. Thomas Edward
Moos, of Baby House, Lencashire.

Mr. Charles Fremantle, pri.ate secretary to the Prime
Minister, has beeu appointod to the office of Deputy
Master and Controller of the hint.

LEOTARD hu fallen from the traps.. at Bottom, and
sprlaned hie amble to badly that he will probably be
unable to perform for five or air months.

Tun Queen of the Belgians is in an interesting situa-
tion, as well no her aleter-ia law.

A subscription is being made in Drogheda to moot a
stone monument nest the grave of the young man,
Woods, shut during the election. The stone is to have
an inscription signifying that he "died in the came of
his country."

Mr A bbott, the defeated candidate for the represents-
iloll of the city of Cork before leering the city enclosed
to hie agent • cheque for t7OO, to be dietributed among
the local charities in certain specified proportions.
Thomm Fallon and Daniel Daxbury hay
commited for trial on the charge of murdering Thomas
Whitteker, in Frantic Ann-street, Blaekbare, daring
the election riot&

THE NATIONAL VERDICT.
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eft Of the 493
members w o sit for oonstituenmes in England and
Wales, have bad to fight for their scats, and 116
have been returned atopposed-70 io 37 countess, and
46 in 38 towns. The count es in which there have
have been no rantests are A ngleuis, Bedfold. Brlck*
lDock, Bucks, Hut and West Cheshire, Nast and West
Cornwall, West Cumberland, Dorset, West had 15°°*4
Eases, Flint, Glamorgan, Beat Glousater, North Hule.
Huntingdon, North and Mid Lincoln, Merionetb,
Montgomery, West Norfolk, North Northampton,
North and South Northumberland, North aod South
Notts, Oxford, Pembroke, Radnor, Rutland, West
Somenet, Went Suesex, Westmorland. South Wil 5,
West Worcester, and the Northern Division of the
West Riding. Ti,. anoontested boroughs were Bridport,
Caine, Cardigan, Dorchester, Dudley, East 11 O.
Eye, Flint, Grentbam, Harwich. Huddersfield, Hunt•
ingdon, Kendal, Lemmata°, Lincoln, Liskeard,Malton,
Marlborough; Middlesborough, Montgomery, Morpetb,
Newport, Petersfield, Radnor, Shaftesbury, Shoreham,
Stamford, St. Ives, Stoke-on-Trent, Swansea, Moister*,
Tiverton, lynemoutb, Walsall, Wenlock, Wilton,
Wolverhampton, and Wycombe.
The total number of votes polled for candidUcs in
England and Wales has bun 2,065,507, of which
1,231.450 have been given for Liberals, and 824.067 for
Conservatives. There tithes a helium in favour of the
Liberals of 407,393 votes. There are 265 Liberal
members, 58 of Whom maintained their meats without !
a contest. Thus the 1.231,450 votes, divided between
the 206 Liberal members who fought for their seats,
gm to each an average of 5,978. Of lb. 227 Con -
Live members of England and Wale., 57 did not fight
for their meat,, and dividing the 824.000 woks between
the 170 who did light, there is an average of 4.847 votes
to etch. The Liberels hoe thus a balsam in Ragland
• and Wales of 1,131 votes for each M.P. that underwent
la sonteet.

Of the 57 seata in Scotland which have beos ailed up
to this time, 26, in the proportion of 16 eounty to
10 borough ',ate, were not contested. The counties
which thus escaped the turmoil of a political struggle
are East and West Aberdeen. Argyll, Banff, Berwick,
Claokmannan, Dumbarton, Elgin and Nairn, Feder,
Inv,roesa, Kincardine, North Lanark, Renfrew, Rom
and Cromarty. Stirling, and Suinerland. The towns:
- Abetdien, Edinburgh, Elgin, Iladdingtoe, Hawiek,
Inverness, Kirkcaldy, Perth, and St. Andrews. The
total number of votes polled for candidates ham been
123,410 for the Liberals. and 73,391 for the Conserve-
titres. The Liberal Wanes of votes in Scathed is,
therefore, 100,019. Of the 50 Liberals returned in
Scotland up to this time, 23 obtained their seats with-
out • contest. Dividing the 123,000 Liberal votes
between the 27 members who fought for their entry
into Parliament, no average of 4,645 falls to each.
Of the seven Conservative mem writ returned for
Scotland only four fought for their seats and dividing
them between the 23.391 Conservative votes given, esch
woeld repre.ent 5,844. When, however, we deduct
from the total number of Tory votes, the 10,814 given
to the unsuomeaful candidate at Glasgow, it is seen that
each of the Conservative memb re who fought • contest
represents only 3,141 votes, or 1,300 under the average
given for the Liberal members.
Ireland reterne 105 member*, in the proportion of 66
Liberals to 39 Conservatives. No less than 69 sedate in
the sister island bavebeen uncontested, 56 in thecounties
and 13 in the towns. The uncontested counties were !
Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Donegal,
Down, Ferannagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare. hilkency.
King's County, Leitrem, Limerick, Londonderry, Long-
ford, Louth, Mayo, Moneghan. Queen's County, Roe
common, Tipperary, Wicklow. Tyrone, Waterford,
Westmeath, and Wexford. The boroughs in which
there were no contest. were Armagh, Memel, Coler-
aine, Downpatrick, Dungannon, Ennis Kilkenny,
Kindle, Lisburn, Mallow, New Roes, Tridee, and Wee.
ford. The number of votes given in Ireland was
! 89.461, in the proportion of 53,379 for Liberals, and
' 36,942 for Conservatives. There was thee • balance in
favour of the Liberals of 17,297. Of the 66 Liberals
returned only V, were called upon to do battle for their
seats. and dividing between them the 53,372 vote', eaah
woold represent an *verses of 2.426. Of the 39 Conserv-
ative members only 12 fought their way into Perlia-
meat, so that each represente an average of rather
over 3,000 votes. This is • somewhat higher proportion
than that represented by the Liberals; but it must be
remembered that Sir Arthur Guinness. 11. P. for
Dublin. represents 11,0011 Teary votes, and that Mr.
William Johnston, one of the members for Belfast,
repreeente the like number, as there were were throe
Conservative candidates for that borough.
. .

Throughout the elections the highest number polled
was by Mr. Dalgliah, at Glasgow, who same in at the
head with 18,231. Tbe highest number recorded for
an uneuccessful candidate esodieded lA.OOO. and this
number was polled by Mr. Massey, at Liverpool. The
lowdst winning number is ehowit by Captain Daweon
Dame% at Porisslington-68.
Diatinguishing the three kingdoms, the following
table shows the total number of votes recorded on each
side, with the Liberal balance :
Liberal Conservative Liberal
Vote. V.or. Majority.
England and Wale. 1.431,450 b 21,0.17 ... 07,393
Scotland 121,410 ... 2,1. 111 ... 100,019
Deland
1,408,20 024,709
-- • ••

153.540

There is imotber test, that of population, which allows
that the Liberals represent the majority. The 92 on.
stitneno.es gained by the Liberal, throughout the election
eontain a population-of 6,611,950, while the 69 woo by
the Conservatives contain a population of 5,177,534.
The balance on the side of the Liberal. is thersfore
1,434,116.

FATAL WAOKIL —A men named Cable, in North
Carolina wagered two gelions of tar against • quart of
brandy that be could drink • quart of Wendy and then
walk to his hono, • mile distant, before becoming
insensible. He drank the brandy, waked ball the
..listanoe, than sank down, saying, "Boys, I've lost the
bet," and instantly expired.
A question involving the liberty of eon•cietice ha
just been decided for the 6rst time, in Italy, by the
Court of Lucca. A witness in a criminal ciao refused
to take an oath, on the ground that his religion forbade
it. For tits refusal he was committed by the Correc•
Collet Tribunal of Pisa. On appeal, however, the
Lucca Court held that be was just,fied in the position
he had taken up. The Florenee Naziowe draws atten-
tion to the cam as one of importance, and expresses it.
approval of the judgment of the Luoca Court.
FOOL Plo.Y.—The foulest piece of foul play that I
have yet beard of conies, by report, from New York. !
A wretch, too debased to turn an honest penny, has
been imposing upon credulous sensation•monger• by the
exhibition of • live but, avowedly and apparently,
headless fowl. The prodigy was manufactured with ,
Yankee cunning and heathen barbarity. The bird's bill
was cut off, ita eyes were pierced oat, it. brain was
partly extracted, its head and neck were skinned, and
the skin was drawn up 1.0 as to make it apparent that
the bird never bad a head. It appears that a poor
rooster lives for several weeks after tide operation, and
that the brute of • showman has been practising his
cruelty for a considerable time. Now he has been
stopped, and is to be punished. His penalty should be
an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.—Orice a
Week. _

THE SWISS WHOLVIACZ PolBollo.—The Court of
Assizes at Geneva he. just been occupied with the trial
of the woman Jeaoneret, 32 years of age, who we.
aosused of having poisoned nine persons. The prisoner
was by occupation • sick nurse. and thus had opreor-
tonitiee of administering the deleterious ingredient
which she employed—namely, atropine, the active
principle of bellado3a. Sbe does not appear to have
had any personal dislike to her victims, bet to have
experienced a strange delight in witnessing their suffer.
legs. She managed to procure the drug by feigning a
weakness of sight and pretending that she required It
for her eye.. Enough was found in her poseetuion to
kill forty people. The facts of so many of her patlente
dying unexpectedly at length attracted attention, and
the suspicions of the doctor who was attending the last
cue In which she was employed being aroused, he took
precautions. and she was at last detested with the vials
In her poseeftion. Upon being interrogated she at
once admitted what she bed done, but declared that she
had oaly given the narcotic to soothe the sick under her
cure. The bodies of the persons who have perished by
her means were exhumed and a post-mortem examina-
tion made, the scientific evidence proving that they had
died from vegetable poison. The prisoner did not
exhibit the ',lightest emotion when brought into the
presence of the corpses. On the trial her counsel argued
that she was a monomaniac; but the medical men whe
examined her repeatedly during her incarceration
declared that though of • highly nervous and excitable
organisation, she was not of unsound mind, and was
perfectly responsible for her acts; neither was there,
they said, bar foundation for the pretended weakness of
the eye& The prisoner remained perfectly cool and
collected during the trial, being prepared with an answer
to every question addressed to her. As was inevitable,
she was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years'
hard labour.

EtreUrloS or MONTI AID T00N1771.--Ifonti and
Tognotti were executed at seven a.m. November 24, at
Rome. Almost op to the last moment hopes were
entertained that the live. of the prisoner, would be
spared, but these were dispelled at noon on Tuesday by
the appearance of the These are wooden boards
which are placed at the corners of the street, and
ineoribed with the name, ages, ant descriptions of the
ooademoed men, the place and hour of their execution,
and also an invitation to the faithful to meet in certain
churches and there reoite prayers for the dying. Th.
e ,ndeinned were two working
Mend 33. One of them leaves behind him a widow and
' and the
five children. At five o'clock the executioner
priests went to the crondentned men and they wooer-
dusted to the Conforteria, or the chapel, %tore,
according to custom, they received the lest eonsolef ns
the brethren n the
of religion. Exactly at seven a.m,
the Beheaded
, bliserioorde left the Choral of St. Jobs.
entered.
and proceeded to the Conforteria. theyodetia the
In about ten minutes they re-epre.— 0? If
older of the condemned men.
.The executioner marched
masons, aged respectively
in front °Ube prisoner, whose arms were tied behind his
back, and who was supported by his confessor. The
executioner first amended the scaffold and gave a glance
round loose that everything was in order ; he was almost
in front. A brother of the llwericorde held a crucifix
t,,,..dietely followed by the condemned, who appeared
very weak, and kept repeating' fdiscrioorsie." Almost
Immediately afterwards the head fell. Lifting the
dissevered head by the hair, the executioner showed it
to the troops, and then placed it on the scaffold beside
the body, which his assistant had taken off the plank.
He then wiped the knife with a sponge, and raised it to
its former position, while his assistante threw sawdust
upon the pools of blood which trickled through the
woodwork of the scaffold. After that came the tarn of
the younger criminal. Again the brethren of the
Miserioorde entered the Con.orteria. The unfortunate
criminal, who was in a very excited state, begged for
mercy. The confessors tried to calm him, but in vain,
and at last he was led forth, a white cloth having been
thrown over lila head in order that be should not see the
body of his companion. His sobs and cries were barely
audible, he could scarcely sustain himself, and in a
Itrenitdous voice kept repeating " Misericords." The
priest assisted him to mount the steps of the scaffold,
and gave him sheoloUott while the assistants were
binding him to the fatal plank. Even as the knife
descended the cry of" illiserioorde" rent the morning
air. The executioner showed the heed to the troops
as he had done the first, and then the bodies were
plaited on a cart and carried to the skunk of at. Joha
the Beheaded.