The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-02 00:00:00

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It was stated in the Court if Bankruptcy on Tuesday
that all the creditors of the Union Dniconnt Company
will receive 20s. in the pound upon their claims.
The question of the currency and the bank rate of in.
terest Ims at length become one of most exciting inter-
est in thy city of London. The long continued pressure
of last year, and the threatening increase if
that pressure during the present year, has forcibly
demonstrated the necessity of something being done
to remedy, or, at least to modify it. A pro.
litninary' meeting of members of several of
the largest city firma, including those of
Mesas. J. and A. Morley; Messrs. Bradbury, Great-
ores, Beale, and Co. ; Messrs. William Leaf and Song.
Mr. Robert Slater (of the Arm of Morrison. Dillon.
and Co.), Arc., was held on Tuesday, at the counting.
house of Messrs. Morley, in Wood-stmt. Great inter-
est was manifested, and all were agreed as to the dis-
astrous nature of the evil as affecting not uuly the
largest and wealthiest merchants, manufacturers, and
traders, but as deeply affecting also the employment
and the wages of the operatives. The prevailing igno-
rance &WI apathy of the publis and the indifferexce of
the press to this subject was deeply deplored ; and it
was determined that a committee should be forthwith
formed for the purpose of diffusing more general infor.
matiou, and stimulating • more general appreciation
of thin importance of the subject animist mercan-
tile men in particular, promoting its discussion
in the public press and soliciting the opiaiens and
oh-
ta g the co-operat.on of the chambers of commerce,
Ice„ throughout thavenntry. To these objects it was
understood the laboun of the committee would in the
first instance be chiefly confined.
The Board of Trade returns have been issued for the
month, and five months ending 314 of May. Foe the
mouth the total declared value of exportation kes
reached I:11,206,070, against 810.969388 in the slim
period of 1860, and £10,485,744 in 1859. The increase
thus established is £256,882, iu favour of 1861 rontraeted
with 1860, and £720,326 contrasted with 1859. In the
live mouths the totals were £49,780,573 for 1861,
against £52,337,268 fur 1859, or • decrease of £3,003,003
compared with the form , and • decrease of £2,556,736
compered with the lath
Some of the Railway Companies are show-
ing decreased traffic, as might have been expected. The
London and North-Weistern Railway traffic returns bas
this week a decrease of £3,811; the Great Western •
decrease of £2,167; the Great Northern • decrease of
£1,461; and the London mad klooth-Wesdern an increase
of £3,00. The forthcoming return a th4Litricethire
and Yorkshire Company, will, it is said, show an
increase of £7OO.
The Sir Allan M^Nah, Capt.. Thomas A. Chapman,
arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, after • splendid run of
29 days from Charleston, bringing 2,=.1 bales of eutton,
the rate of freight fee which umlaute to £4700. The
fortunate owners of the M'lirsti are Messrs. Leech.
Harrison, and Forwnod, of Liverpool.

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SHOCKING MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS
MOTHER, AN!) ATTEMPTED MURDER OF
TWO CHILDREN, AND ATIIIIIPTED SUICIDE
OF THE MURDERESS.
On Wednesday morning the neighboughood of
Somers-town was thrown into a state of great et-
'Bement by its being known &het • woman was in
custody on the charge of having poisoned one of her
children, and that the end two other children sem still
in very iinininent danger.
The facts which can be relied upon appear to be
these .—On Tuesday evening about six o'clock, from •
knowledge that came to certain persona a woman of the
aaa.d Jane Y 1111411004, recidirg at 15, Northampton.
street, Someriptown, was suspected of haring visited
certain thetniete and surgeons' shops and purchased •
' quantity of landsman, knowing that she and her three
eltildren were in their room by themselves. odd all being
quiet, suspicions were aroused. and infortustion was
forwarded to the pollee station at Somers-town.
Inspector Stokes, of the S division, with commendable
alacrity, at once proceeded to die hones with Polies-
constable Abisham Keble, 121 8, sod found that the
facts were too true. YLr. Butherui, the surgeon, of the
Si. Pancres.romi, was called in, and found that not only
the woman, Jane Palethorps, who is between 35 and del
yews of age, and of rather prepossessing features, but
her children, Richard, six years of age, Thomas, four
yean of age, and Harriet, three year* of age were all
meeting from the effects of taking poison., but their son
Thomas was dead, and was then lying in her arras.
The three parties who were then alive were still in
a very dangerous state, and Mr. Butherin at once
directed their removal to the infirmary of the St. Plutons
workhouse.
A ceb having been procured, the unfortunate parties
were conveyed to the St. Pancras Workhouse, and the
porter (Goodman) at once sent for the assietant house
surgeon, who, with the aid of Mr. Buttierio, abstracted •
great deal of poison from all the parties. The comae,
is in the custody of Inspector Stokes, who has directed
that a police thostable thrill be kept with her day and
night.
On making a search in the mother's apartments a
letter was found addressed to him. Kent, of North.
ampton, which stated that she (the unfortunate woman)
was is great distress ; that she wanted all her goods sold,
as she was about leaving this world, and the proceedsl
she wished to be applied towards paying her bread bill
and other little incidental mimosas
From the information that has come into the bands
of the polite, it appears that the husband of the woman
has been separated from her for about ten mouths, and
that she has committed this lash act in consequence of
it. having been stated Hut her husband had gone to
Australia with another woman.
In her room were found two bottles containing poison,
and both were marked "laudanum.
On Thursday she was taken before Mr. D'Eyncourt,
at the Clerkenorell police court, On II charge of murder-
ing one of her children and attempting to murder her-
self and the two others. According to the evidenee, it
appeared that the poor creature was exceedingly food
of her children, that she was reduced to the greatest
I depth of destitution, often being unable from ill health
Ito do any work, and that her husband's conduct preyed
I greatly upon her mind. She was remanded for a week,
and in the meantime was sent to tho infirummy of the
prison, an she was still suffering severely from the
erects of the poison she had taken.

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Mr. Baraewoon.—Tlie nalenebely death of Mr.
Braidwood, the respected chief of the Fee Brigade, has
producel a profound feeling of regret among all classes.
He was highly r.apecmo by • very large circle el
friends, and his sad end has excited much grief among
his men. He was appointed superintendent of the
London Fire Brigade on its establishment in 1833, and,,
it was through his ability and nnweered emertions that
the force attained the efficiency which now so
prominently distinguishes it. On all matters affecting
the security of the Government and other publie
buildings he was consulted by the authorities, and of
late years he held an appointment from Government as
a kind of superintending inspector of the Royal Palaces
and various public establishments with reference to
their protection from fire. Ile was conspicuous fee
watching over tb• movement of Isis men when they
were likely to be paced in any great peril, and be
would not preinit his men to take up • position or to
enter any place unless he was satisfied that they were
not exposer' to any unnecessary risk. He was in his
61st year, and has left • widow and six cbildreu to
hunent his sad loss. He WWI a member of several
scientific institutions. The Rev. Dr. Cumming of
Crowe-court, referred to the death of Mr. Braidwood.
who he observed had been upward& of 15 years pet •
member of his congregation. Dr. Cumming stated
that Mr. Braidweod hed for many years been • leading
and influential member of the various educational and
benevolent immaiinees ecieneeted with his church,
that he was marked in all his opinions and muse-
Sons by no ordinary good WW, dtV011(10418, and
energy, and that to his wisdom and discrete* he
owed much of the enema' that bad crowned his
exertions. The rev, doctor remarked that of all the
men he ever met Mr. Braid wood was the most practical,
self-denying, and disintereeted. He had known hint
spend two days in investigating the elements of a
difference between two good men on the same com-
mittee, and rejoicing with no ordivary delight on
finding, or rather creating, • happy "issue out of all.
His was real genius, whether in Jailing with a material •
conflagration or • moral dispute. Palace, forbearance,
rich common sense, sod a general sympathy that
endeared him to all admit! Dr. Cumining to state
that he had lost no common ally an account of his
numerous and successful efforts to do good—for these
were the distinguishing excellencies of his friend. Dr.
Cumming said lie felt his sadden removal ao ordinary
calamity to his dock, his Scottish countrymen. and
his labours as a Christian pastor ; "but," said the
preacher, "be died on the poet of duty, sod whether
it was the battle-field, or at the bead of the fire brigade,
the holiest place on earth on which to live or die WM
not on encaustic soil, or on emaciated pavement, but at
the post of daty."—The melancholy death of Mr.
Braidwood has created great sympathy in Elinbnrith,
of which city he was native, and where he first distin-
guished himself in the management of fires. Mr.
Braidwood was the son of • respectable tradesman in
the Scotch capital, and was bern there about the year
1800. In 1824 he joined the polioe establishment
there, and undertook the organisation of a regular
fire brigade. Before his plans were far advanced, and
before be had either his force or his origin., in work-
ing order, occurred the great conflagration of 1e24, the
most memorable and extensive fire in the annals of
Edinburgh, and in which a great cartel the High.
street, including the steeple of the Tron Church. was
burnt down. At thit fire Mr. Braidwood first exhibited
those qualities of cool determination, great daring, and
skilful management which he has so often pet to good
purpose in the fires of the metropolis. A pamphlet
which he published in 1832 on the mune and means
of extinguishing fires Goa gave him more than local
celebrity, and led to his retrieval to London. Many
stories are still told of the intrepidity and presence
mind he displayed daring the eight years he was fire'
tuaiter at Edinburgh. On one occasion be carried first
out barrel of gunpowder, and then another, through the
midst of • fire from a cellar through an ironmonger's
sbop, thus preventing, at the utmost personal risk, ao
explosion which might have caused great destruction
of life and property. On another occasion, above 30
years ago, he narrowly escaped the sad fate which
ultimately befell him, being struck by some of the
fragments of • falling roof, in consequence of which be
was so mush injured that he had to be removed from
the scene. Mr. Braidwood nay be said to have 1041°
his native city the legacy of a well appointed and well
organised brigade, his plans laving been fully
Matured
before he left, and sines that time well carried out.
The refreshing and sesta Ming properties of tea depe.sd
on the quantity of areas It mintairs ; the early apnea
leave* have always most of thlseenntlal quality, fires
ounce of this fine Tea °maim 10 grains ; the autumn
crop lAA but little, and is consequently eery &Attest
in Ammer. The English pay for and desire to oho*
the choke tea, het often have the mama crop through
a deceptive peseta* the Chinese have of "facing'. or
colouring the withered leaves; for mineral.
are seed to make all appear alike, and
enables the Chinese to pant off the iter brown a
place of the best. Merchants dative great profit from
the practice, but the eckeriala thtutsettes never me
coloured Tea. Holsratag k Co. London. knowing that
sterling quality Is preferred before mere apmaroooe.
Import all without powdered colour on the surface the
Green is of a natant dark dim Noe blettoh), t"„.
Back not istissely dark. This tea is to be had only
°I /fortitude'. Aetna: for 1400aL Mee shallot/less
is this day's paw.