The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-28 00:00:00

APPALLING SCENE ON A WINDERMERE
STEAMER.

On Tue..lay. in consequence of the large untidier of
excursioniets fruin Peestio for Win 'enemas, and the
cheap train thither from other towns, Bowness wu very
much crowded, and the three steamers on the lake were
loaded with passengers front the various landing places
Anxious to view the beauties of the locality, and to enjoy
the pleasure of a sail on the queen of the lakes. One of
the idealisers of the Windermere Steam Yacht Company,
the Lady of the hake, left the pier at Bownetut for
Ambleside, at a quarter past twelve o'clock, with deck
anil cabin pamengeri, variously estimated at from 200 to
400, being considerably more than the legal number
and more apparently than elm was able to carry.
Persons left behind on the pier were astounded to see
her lurehing and rolling on the water as though in •
Jitney sea, as elle passeel away ; the paddle-wheels being
alternately lifted entirely out of the water. Before she
hail proceeded a mile on her journey, water made its
appearance in the cabin, to the surprise and consterna-
thin of the passengers, which increased with some when
they found that it gained in height. The cabin pas-
sengers rushed on deck in a state of the wildest alarm,
the ladies shrieking for help and the pane became
indescribable, when the cry that the vessel was
sinking went through the dense mass of people on
deck. The captain had ascertaitied beyond doubt that
the vessel had sprung a serious leak, ran ashore on the
Lancashire side of the lake, where the Hawkswortb
rigid sll,rus.chen the water, and a little to the north of
I.:envois Wand. Item the confusion bemuse worse
roof otualwl, some of the passengers leaping into the
water aud struggling to get ashore, to the Imminent risk
,if their lives, and many received severe sprains And
bruises. Ties, females were entirely immersed in the
water, one of them heing the daughter of Mr. Fearnlev,
of Lune-street, Preston, who leapt into the lake from
slicer terror ; happily, both were safely rescued. The
majority, however, were got whore without either
bruise or immersion. The passengem remained on the
bank of the lake until the returning steamer from
Ainbleside, it having been signalled lf.r by the etemn-
whistle of the sinking vessel, came up and took them
off for Bowneas. The fright of the passengers was
greatly increased by the suspicion that the boiler hail
burst. This arose front the extinction of the fire by
the water, which rums rapidly after the leakage was
discovered. The great volume of steam thus created
caused thus the same feeling to be shared by persons
on board the other vessels on the take, who, when
they MAW the steamer run ashore, were convinced
wine serious accident had occurred.

THE Queer's PROCL AL ATION. —Wo read in American
newspapers of companies of recruits from Canada on
the one hand, and of expectations on the other of strong
privateer crews from European countries, and especially
ruin England. We truer our cou ntiy men will scathe dif •
erence between the temptation of aiding an oppreiesed
people to throw off an insufferable yoke and rushing into
the strife in which two sections of a republic are con-
tending for a principle of government. It k not often
that in the former ewe foreign recruits do so much
good as harm, and in the American ease there is no
excuse whatever for meddling. As for the adventurers
who would seek plunder, at sea, they take their chariot,
of the halter, sod it may be well perhaps, if they find it.
Their Sovereign lan now warned them, and if they
outlaw themselves, they are answerable for their own
fate.—Oner us Writ.
Tie REV. MIL. HATCH'S C ANC—On Wednesday
morning the Rev. Henry John Hatch, M.A., who in the
sitting after lut twin obtained a verdict against Messrs.
Lewis and Lewis, his attorneys, for negligence in
conducting his use (when he was indicted at the
Central Criminal Court), attended at Wcatiiiinster Hall,
in company with Mr. Holt, his solicitor, and other
gentlemen, and hail a lengthened consultation with Mr.
Montagu Chambers, Q.C., the reverend gentleman's
counsel. It is the intention of Mr. Hatch, through Mr.
Chambers to move the court for a few trial on the
ground that although the verdict was in his favour it
ought to have boon accompanied with substantial
damages, when the charge of negligence wan proved to
the satisfaction of the jury. The sum of 40s. awarded
by the jury does not entitle the reverend gentleman to
cods, unless upon a certificate from the Lord Chief Baron,
who tried the case. .

A lox CAUWIT IN LOIIBAILD-STRNICT.— About a
week ago Mr. Phillips. proprietor of the Langbourn
Coffee-house, in Ball-court, Lombard-street, was aroused
in the middle of the night by a police•constable, who
informed hint there were thieves in his kitchen. Mr.
Phillips immediately got up, and, descending to the
basement story, made a minute examination of his
premise., without, however, discovering any intruder or
traces of anything, beyond some disturbance of his
cooking utensils, whizh, at the time, lie attributed to a I
cat. Occasbnal noises were heard during subsequsnt
nights, but the cat was pronounced the disturber, and
no further notice was taken of the circumstance until
Wednesday morning, when one of Mr. Phillips'.
Fervaut, having occasion to go into an unfrequented coal
v“ult, started a flue dog•for, which, on being discovered,
gave chase, and after creating alarming consternation
among the kitchenmaids, ran to earth under some of
Allsopp's ale barrels in the beer cellar. It was some
time before anybody could be found with the requisite
courage to unearth " Heynard," but at length one more
steady than his followers got fast bold of his brush, and
dragging hint out train his beery quarters, carried him
off in triumph to Leadenhall-market, whence, on
inquiry, the animal is said to have escaped about three
weeks since. • . .

A NOTnER (:ft.1!:10LIN. A.C9DENT. —An accident

occurred on Wednesday at the residence of Mr. E.
Ward, tiomerset-street, Whitcchapel, which, it is
feared, will terminate fatally to Mitie Pleibe Crinley,
aged 21. The unfortunate sufferer is weak in intellect.
Her crinoline took fire, and she ran from the kitchen
into her betl-rootn, enveloped in flames. Iler screams
brought aesietauce, and she was conveyed to the London
Hospital, where every assistance was rendered, but not
the slightete hopes are entertained of her recovery.
PEACE socrErr.—This society held its forty-fifth
anniversary on Tuesday evening, the 21st inst., at
Finsbury Chapel, hloorfiehle. The report, (read by the
secretary, the Rev. 11. Richards) after severely
coil-
ileiouiiig the proceedings of the allied governments with
reierenie to the Clinwee war, referred with praise
to the exeitions of Mr. Cobden with respect to the
new treaty with Frame, the coinniittee expressing their
conviction that nothing would lend to draw cheer the
buds of sympathy and peace between the peoples of the
two countries. The
.society had seen with deep regret
the state of affairs in. America, and had prepare.' an
address to the American people on the folly of a
fratricidal war, awl that halms had been forwarded to
all the public authorities in America. Great success
had attended the agents of the society throughout the
country, many meetings bad been held and lectures
delivered, and in only three towns had they met with
opposition, and that from parties engaged in the
volunteer moveineet. Large quantities of publications
atel tracts hail been issued. Ihe report concluded with
a reference to the lamentable state of the East after all
the blood and treasure spent in the Crimea. The
financial statement showed the receipts to be
£3,140 7s, 21, the expenditure 1:2,101 his. bd. ; leaving '
• Wawa: in hand and invested, of £3,038 ide. UI. On
the motion of the Rev. Robert Hamilton, of Brighton,
the report Wall adopted. Resolutions in favour of the
objects the iiisciety has in view were adopted, and
after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting
separated.
HAVELOCK'S STATUE.— Tuesday was • remarkable
day in the iii.tory of Siiiiderland, and on few occasione
ha. there been such au immense gathering of people as
there was witnessed in the borough, the occasion bring
the inauguration of the Havelock statue of Aberdeen
granite, in large solid blocks, the height being about
fifteen feet, and bearing the following inscription :
"Havelock. Born sth April, 1795, at Ford Hall,
Biahopwearniouth. Died 24th November, 1857, at
Lucknow." This statue is of bronze, by
Behnes, 2 tons 15 cwt. in weight, and 10 feet '2 inches in
height. The countenance is striking and expressive,
though the figure, as • whole, is by no means effective.
As a likeness it is said to be very accurate, and to have
been pronounced by Lady Havelock to be all that could
be achieved.

Two own wore recently detected at the wthhintoo
Nat y yard Au* she* with sawdust.