The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

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Soi Twt)tpTON.—Tk Mail, &c., March 9.—The
Royal Mail Company's steamship Avon, Captain
Richard Revett, was despatched to-day with the
mails for Lisbon, St. Vincent, the Brazils, River
Plate, &c.; SI passengers, £53,227 in specie,
jewelry value £2.1,600, and a full cargo. The
Thames steamship, belonging to the same company,
Captain West, haring undergone • thorough over-
haul and refit, leaves on Thursday for intercolonial
service on the West India station, calling at Nladeria
to land a mail, passengers, and freight. The screw
steanier, Hamburg°, Captain Tudury, on her way
from Hamburg to the Spanish purts, came into dock
yesterday afternoon for coal, and proceeded to-
day.
GoVERNMCNT EMU: esTinx.—Mer Majesty's EMl-
gration Commissioners receive(' tenders on Thurs-
day fur ships to proceed to Adelaide. South Australia,
and to Algos Bay, Cape of Good Hope, both vessels
to be ready for the rum ption of passengers on suck
clay as the Commissioners may appoint lbetween the
lsth and 2sth of April.

WINCIIILSTER.— The A adorer Murder. Mr.
Baron Watson, in charging the Grand Jury neces-
sarily utade some comments on this important case.
He observed that two primmers, Thomas Alexander
Banks, and Emma Banks, his wife, were indicted
for the wilful munler of William Parsons, a linen.
draper, on the night of the 22n1 of November. The
deceased left his home at nine and was not seen
again by his household ; next :ing his hotly was
I found in a field in such a state as to leave no doubt
! of a most brutal murder having been committed.
An ash stick, six feet long% mas lying near—tho
evident instrument i ith which the deed was perpe-
trated. The deceased's watch and money were
I perfectly safe in his pockets. Between haltpast
! nine and twenty minutes to ten several persons
heard cries of murder anti the sounds of blows com-
ing from the fields about a quarter of a mile from
the town, and from this it was considered clear the
murder was committed between half .past nine and a
quarter to ten. The prisoners were not arrested till
! some days after the murder. The important wit"-
' tion for the jury was whethensufficient evidence of
suspicion existed against them. At nine o'clock the
female prisoner was passed on the road walking,
and when asked to get up and rile in a friend's
vehicle she refused. The party in the vehicle went
on to the Railway Tavern, and there they find the
male prisoner. who shortly leaves, saying he should
be bock in a quarter of an hour. At ten o'clock both
prisoners were seen walking together back towards the
town. The question arose where were the prisoners
from about a quarter past nine till ten, they not
Laving been seen during that interval, and the possi-
bility existing of their having been at the scene of
the murder only a quarter of a mile off, The evi-
dence against the prisoners were entirely circum-
stantial, but when there was a complete train of cir-
cumstances that evidence was perhaps the best. It
seemed that the female prisoner took a dress from
the deceased's slop on the 21st of I hdober, but it
did not clearly appear whether the act was looked
upon as a theft or not. The husband had seen tho
deceased about the affair, and had been heard having
warm words. There was a suggestion of a famili-
arity between Cal w all and the deceased, but
nothing in the depositions went to that er.tent so as
to prove it. llly ud appeared to be created through
the taking of the drcss. If the evidence was not
conclusive the jury better ignore the bill, as if
they found upon weak testimony and the prisonm"
were acquitted. they could not hereafter be charged
again if better evidence came to light. —Upwards of
forty witnesses were subpanmed for the prosecution.
Mr. made Q.C., awl \lr. Poulden were retained
for the Crown; Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., M.P., and
Mr. Coleridge defended the prisoners. The case
excited immense interest. On Wednesday the
grand jury reported that they hail ignored the bill
vent up against the prisoners. Mr. tmleridge. the
juniorcounsel for the defence, subsequently made an
application to Mr. Baron Watson that a pair of
trousers that had been taken fn on the house of the
accused by the police authorities should be given up.
His Lordship said he could make no such order in
the matter respecting the trousers. The grand jury
having found no bill, he could merely order that the
prisoners should at owe be discharged from the
custody of the gaoler. The prisoners were accord-
ingly released.
At Andover a man and woman are in custody on
a charge of bigamy. The primmers arc hushand mot
wife, and, strange to say, the man hail signed tho
register at his wife's second auarriage, she
dating her her husband in the saute %ay on his 2, 1.4.3)1 lt
marriage.

CA/al/A..1 Porrtra NATtgALWolff, bimonthly parts.
octairo' dapettee each, ntagnificentiy ihuvtrated. The
dexign of thiv undertaking t to tortnnt to familia a work
which will prove excvedingly amusing and holnactive. Each
tart will contain illmstrationv executed In the Art style of art,
%Inch thur will render it • heautiftil pieturo book. The text,
it Mk being truly witnlille, will be written in a popular style,
melt Latin term *ill be rendered In English, Anillirrierulll
and illuxtrationa will be loterverxed, deacrildise of
the Ntructure, habit, and haunt• of manta'. :.0 that tu,
venue member...la family will ill,4111: NO fatten-44A1 ii tottmlo
them welenue each monthly part tof Illustrated.
Natural Illstor,."

Wu.--Great chancrs are taking place every year in tt.
V.n.unipti.m of Wines in this country, and tin taste for sitting
down for many hours after dinner and drinking heavy and hi -
toxicating wines is happily fast Kiting sos too t100,,,000 go.ooll
light sill,. e Inch if taken in unideristion assist.
ill hub nal act as a TCoOtOolfatille to delicate health. But it is
sorthv of attention and should call t„riti
th^4 the ito, of wines does hot •itase in proportion to the
population and accumulath nid stealth lii this country. Ti..
!mile of 12,57. influennal the consuuitition of wires consider-
ably. clues lug during limps...l yasr In comparison with lar.7. a
in Portugal %hies of 383...50n in Spanish
110.142Kallowi. In l'xiich 50.494 gallons. and the produce of
most Other countries in pniportion. whilst the iinly exception
that ohms. an Increase, in in ounce from the (Lite of (Mod
Hope to the extent of 270.100 gallons. For Use last ten years
the consumption of Portugal a ines in comparison with olltee
countries has fallen off very cubnnlulcubsik. OKI Spanish has re-
manent nethmarY. Whilst the use of the lighter a ines of France.
Sicily. nod the tape I If t :A/Ogi ll.ujC has nearly doubled. and will
doubtless go on {unceasing, if thew countries csiiitinue to send
os good rinds...me wine., as by far the largest quantities of
eines 2,11: 110 W consuniod at inc.ls and not after so n former
)CST. and Consemoutly a preference sill alMa)il be given to
the lighter descriptions. For this statistical information we
are indebted to the Annual Circular of )Lessrs. W. and A.
itII.IIEY. of 357. Oxford Street, London. and of Dublin and
Edinburgh, which house by official returns paid duty tut
rear un South Atrium Wines Mono to tbs extent of 56,64

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LONDON MARKETS.

(Br RLECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MARK-LANK, MONDAY, MARCH 14.

We had a fair supply of English and foreign
wheat at our market to-day.
Trade was dull at laat week's prices.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

MONDAY, MARCH Id.

Our market was supplied to-day with two
thousand:six hundred beasts, and eighteen thou-
sand sheep.
Trade improved.
Beef, best quality 5 2
Mutton, ditto