The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

Central Nebn.

li.tn Lerma,' Poona) Irsrain.— The regulation
recently promulgated, that after the 111th insA. all inland
letters should be prepael, is repealed ; and the rules
previou..ly in force as regards inland letters, eitl.er wholly
unjetid or inoilleently paid, will henceforth be reverted
to. Ily command of the Postinaster4leneral, Ihiwlciul
Hill, Secretary. lieneral Postmfflce, Feb. 24.
A W.n.t.o-nn ItAnEY.— An inquest wax held on
Sitemlay, at ItranthiraiteCumberland, on the body of
Willis's, Garnett, of
taker, when a verdict of Acti•
dental death cal returned. It Appears that the ileces•
"el lout been to rockerinotith horse fair with a young
hone, and ill going hoine, or moon arta Ida return, lie
took it into his head to show Ins fellow servants, a fa
Itsrey, how tractable and iiiiiet the at i i iii al was which
he had in chsrge. lie fir 4 crept between its forelegs,
tinder its belly, and having performed them: and other
inameuvres with success, lie ventured so far as to creep
between the hind legs uf.the animal, He imssed through
safely, but just as lie was rising the lure with tine foot
pushed bias doff a little way, and with tin other atruck
him on the head and killed him on the spot.

'riir Rolf aL 3lsxv.—An unexampled amount of
activity, we are told, exist at the Jlint, in coievieisuence
of the great demand for Alyce coin. Seven presses; are
ounetantly engage.' its atemping. and they throw at
nearly a million of pieces per week. Foreign minte are
as budly employed in the creation of email 1111 l
whilst the mints of Ihmthey, Rehgal, and Madras are
being enlarged to double their original sizes, its order to
meettlie strain which Is likely, under the new organize.
tiun of thing* in dm, prissidenciee' to come upon them.
The enlarge.' Calcutta Mint will toimat 21 coining ',mimes
—three times an many as the Royal Mint seeuesses—asid
will be capable of producing liou,ollo coins per day.
This may give some faint notion at the gigantic scale
mein which thin,' need lie arranged to meet the re-
isuirensente of thelndian empire.
Jr-time:o.Y Ann ATTISIIPITO Meenzn.—On Monday
evening a very noel affair occurred in the admit,. of
Sunderland. There are several pitmen's cotters in the
neighbourhood of Pemberton (olliery, on the north Hide
of the water, and one of them ic occupied by a pitman
'missed Hodgson. licorice Binning, a miner sitondola,
was endeavouring to pay his addreseee to his ileughter
Margaret, but hail nit been very successful in his suit.
On Monday night ho visited Hodgson's resicicuicc, Awl
hail an interview with Ina daughter Margaret. He had
&sensed her of walking with another young lean. She
had told him that she would have nothing to do with
him (Ili 111 l ing). and he replied that he WoUlli take care
that else should have nothing to do with any
%Visite she was sitting out a chair in a leaning petition he
pulled a pistol 4ilit of his pocket &lid allot her in the
forehead. The swift, of the explosion broug'it the other
members of the family into the room, but when they
opened the diem of the room Binning ran out of the
house. The girl was found bathed its hlood, and Lill-
con.cions. Several shots have been taken out of her
brio', and site is its • very dangerous state. limning has
not been heard of sinee, and it is euppoecid that he has
destroyed himself. The girl icc 1,1 years of age, and he
was 19.

MR. WAI,I4)I,L'M rilt,ltell•HATES Bitd.. —Like most
of the product' of the Derby Cabinet Mr. Walpole's
Churclurates Hill is (peephole with ingenuity. it be-
Nino to the class of infant prodigies who are too iiitelli-
gent to live. The world is too rough, its way. are bin
hanl, end its corners too angular, for the elleeet4 of
these highly wrought and delicate organizations. We
fear that the Heform Dill which the Ministry brought
forward this week will present another instance of
their fatal fondness for complication and refinement.
Whatever they have tO du they iiet in tion such •
max- of wheels, and cranks, /111.1 pulleys, that the itien•
tal vision if ordinary mortals is fairly at It 10. to follow
the working of their design. Even where the thing
can be imagined in successful operation under flammable
circumstances, one cannot help thinking what
happen if all this elaborate machinery should get out of
gear. Thu question of church-rates is really a Very
* 11l pie one. The church of England has an inilobitable
right to this tax liii the grant of a majority of the rate.
payers, hut the church has reached a point in its history
at which its legal rights are in excess of any claim which
it MI enforce with decorum or ellleitiOltiill 14,1 V slang,
common consent among enlightened churchmen has
long ago decided that the establishment is far hours
embarraseed than profited by its claim to church-rates,
and the only point to he aettled is the condition upon
which so inconvenient a possession rhould be ren ced.
'file objections to giving it up without any equivalent
at all are, firstly, that such a course would relieve the
landowners of • debt to which they are justly liable,
sinee it constitutes a charge immemorially fixed upon
their property ; and, pecottilly, that it might leave the
church unprovideit for in regard to those expenses to
which the rate is applicable at present. An answer to
these object has so often been afforded that it is not
worth while to do more than refer to them here.
The gratuitous concession mole to the land
.1111Ot he showed to lie in itself, au evil to any
one, and the apprehension for the needs of the
church is a libel un the known liberality of
churchmen, when we consider that the grows prosluct id
the rates is only about 01111,01111. But how does Mr.
Walpole's proposal meet these objections! It cannot be
denied that the thavernment measure fully deserves the
praise accorded to it on all sidrs for its conciliatory
character. It is NO conciliatory that it gives op all the
principle on which the church may fairly think itself
entithA to stand, if it be in ill-advised as ti stickle for
principle to the ilisreganl of obvious policy and con-
venience. After the passing of Mr. Waljeile's lull any
person who likes to sign • declaration to the effect that
he conscientonaly objects to a cliiirch•rate is to be then
and thenceforward exempted from the charge. One
might reammalily think that here was an euil of all the
difficulty attaching to the question. In assenting to
this arrangement the bitter portion has been swellowe.l.
When the church has thus divested itself id all preten-
sion to nat. lily, by admitting the claim of Dissenters
to be ex tttt erated from contributing to its support, it
*VIM a very poor satisfaction to keep up the theory of
its ounne with the land. Vet for the sake of pre.
serving this apparent dignity the House Secretary has
csitistructed his ingenious scheme.

A Horst iN FINE. DALL %NT RESCre OF A
I.lllLO.—About three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, a
tire broke mit in a three-storeyed house in E 1;e-street,
thsk.alreet, Shudelidl, each story if which is occupied
by different families. An old man and his wife were
sitting in their room, on the second gamey, when, it is I
supposed, the old 'inn set a straw bed on fire with the
aches from his pipe. The old couple Made their escape ,1
down stairs on discovering the fire, and at the s.iiiie time
two young children, who lived on the mine level, ran
to the room above, into greater danger. Mrs. Emma
Dee and her child were the only occupants of the third
storey until the two little ones joined them. The flamee
and smoke ascended the etairease after the fniptiees,
and Mrs. Dee found that egrees by the etaircalic wee ain•
pumible. fihe then ran to the window, which in her
terror she could not open, and, breaking the glees, slie
cried to sonic men who were passing in the street to wive
her. They quickly collected together solne bag. of cot-
ton under the window, AIM the mother threw out her
own child. The men partially caught it, and broke its
fall ; hut, it tumbled through their bawls upoli the bags,
mid ramped unhurt. By thin time a ladder lind
obtained. which. however. was not long enough to reach
the window. The woman dropped a second chili' to ,
the men on the la,ltler, from wl 't fell upon the bags,
and was also unhurt. The elmike Inow lweame over.
powering. and Mrs. the- could tei longer remain in the
*tom. She got through the window, awl hung by her
hands from the window-sill, About 30 feet from the
g I, while the men were busily splicing two ladder,*
together in order to rescue her from her dangerous.
position. Hy this tons' a large crowd hail collected and
the excitement was very great. The ladders were moon
ca -etc& when it was found that they just reached
the woman'a feet. A man ran up them, awl brought
her sefely to the ground. Several inilividuels then
mounted the ladder 'Ai rescue the third chill, which
still remained in the room ; but they were driven hawk
by the ke that booted in dense volume from the
window. After a few moment* of dreadful ituspense,
Mr. Hagshaw, jun., stepped forward front time croeil,
ascended the ladders, and entente! the rmiiii. Ile
searched for the child, but could not find it. Alt' gh lie
bean' it crying. Itepeatielly he came to the window for
a fresh supply of air, an.l then turned hack into the 1
room to renew his search. After groping about on hie
hands and Knees upon the floor, for wine time, he came
in contact with the child, which lie carried to the 1611-
.lov, and handed to the own Who Were width'" . on the
ladder. Ile then descended himself, at t stiffocated.
This gallant act excited the admiration of the bystanders,
by mime or wl it was immediately revolved that a
aulocription should be entered into for the ',unite,. of
signifying to Mr. Bagshaw their appreciation of his
noble conduct. Ile is one of the firm of Itagshaw and
Son, cabinet-makere, TI tttttt asettrael.
I)lll.‘pyi.r, Sre,amwoaT EarLoslON.—The outer lock
of the Eastern that., Dock at Cardiff was the scene of a
most dreadful disaster on Tuesday morning. It appears
that about half-past 10 the steam tug Black Eagle, re-
cently purchased by 31easra. Angel and Elliott. shire
brokers, had arrived from London. The steamer wore
up with her colours flying, kc., and one of her owner*,
Mr. Elliott, was on board, SA well as Mr. tieorge Jen-
kins, agent to the Britt. all being an XioUs to witness the
first trip of the steamer. .Iccordis.gly, at the time
stated, the Eagle was about ti• tow out the Milo. of Suie
derland. The steam, it is said, was blowing off at a
very high pressure, awl in order to hear the instruc-
tions of the captain the man at the engine placed liii
hand on the safety-vele to keep it down. Immediately
afterwards the steamer blew up, and it iiiii wise pieces of ,
timbere, and six poor fellows (four of wl are shire
dead), all fell among the general crash that endued.
.Ae I
a matter of course. hundreds of persons at that period
of the clay were standing about that part of the locks
where the accident occumel, and it hi truly marvellous
how so many escaped : as it Was. seven were wounded '
more or lens; a Dutch seaman hail his thigh broken,
and some their amid. le.c. The lamentations of the ,
friends sit the unfortunate &tweet-it, who rushed froin
place to place to identify the ',mho., were truly heart-
rending. (Me poor fellow was thrown a distance of 115 ,
yards from the steamer. Ida bodY being horribly man-
gled. Among the dead was the captain of the Black
Eagle, Evan Edwards, of Cardiff, who has left a wife
and five children. The pepsins taken to the infirmary
are chiefly those who happened to be etaniling near the
steamer at the time of the accident. hp to 12 o'cleck
a.m, the body of Mr. Jenkins has not been found ;
parties are still engage,' in searching f.o. it. The
wounded men were at once conveyed to the infirmary,
and are receiving every attention at that eecellent insti-
tution. Mr. Angel, who happcndl to be standing on the
quay near the Steamer, also received very severe injuries
about the face awl head. Ile was taken to his hoese
immediately, and Dr. l'ratt was promptly in attendance.
Mr. Elliott, as we stated before, was on board the Black
Eagle, and was standing on the paddlebox ; this geotle.
man, we regret to etate, among other injuries, has lost
the sight of one of his eyes. To allow the force of the
explestion, one piece of iron, which ineasUred 1.; feet
long by 41, inchee. fell through the roof of a large work.
lag 'heal belonging to Messrs. Hemingway, at a distance
of 150 yards. Another piece of iron a kin weight, being
the lower part of the boiler, fell about 50 yards front
I the deck of the steamer. Mr. Henry Clenients, *in-
sulting engineer to the Newport awl Cardiff Companies,
went immediately on board the ill-fated boat. which was
then on fire, and gave orders to tow her out on the mud
bank, and prevent further damage to the skipping by
opening the semeeks, and thus letting on the water.
The fire was soon put out, the eteamer being a complete
wreck. One of the men, named Walters, taken to the
infirmary, has since died, thus making six moo who
have Wet their lives by this sad catastrophe.

Itrat III:ARANTER icirrv.- -The annual meeting
of this company was held oh Thurwlay at the maces
I. N. Julaision, KN., in the chair. The report mad
showed a steady progress of the •asciety during the year.
and a &mend was 'impost il at the rate of three per
cent. per min 1111 l upon the paid up-capital, which was
an mei-ease over the preceding year. The report and ac-
e mots were unanimoualy a•lopterl. The Hon. William
Napier was re-elected a dir..etor, ant J. H. Lloyd, Esq.,
was elected in the place of W. 8. lludgkinson,
Eme.,
IN It I,l' IN 80 MAN I). • -Nearly every tenth Scot,.
man is it bastar.l. Toe registration retunis lor the year
show that over .4:otheol 111 that year the illegiti•
mate births nuiaher.ii 9,2.i5 moitot 91,9.* legitimate,
the former hying as nearly a. poasible one to ten of the
latter. This is a state of thing* nowise flattering to
their self-esteem, and rirottlinatii, instead of glorifying
their heroes, whether of the sword or of the pen, hail
better he inquiring whether the race of heroes is not
extinct, i.e., if heroism is to have aught to do with
virtue.

BRAT'S TRACTION ENGINE. Arrangements were
' made by the directors of tlray's Traction Engine loin.
1 pail for all experimental trip 11:echo:Islay, to draw four
, I laden coal wagons, of &gross weight of 2.2 tons, from the
' Great Northern Coal llepOt to t% estomister and back.
The engine started with the load with the greatest ease,
I and proceeded up the incline out of the station, but in
'1 the accent the aplinter•bar of the first neaten broke
I away. The wagon was then secured oy rope lashings,
I hut this derangement so seriously Mkt-fermi with the
I progress of the other wagons as to make it imprudent to
1
go on through the crowded streets. The wagons were
acconlingly taken back to the depot, and the engine
; alone pursued the route originally intended, passing
1 amid the carriages in the public thoroughfares with the
: greatest facility. It is intended on an early day to re•
I alllllC the experiments with trucks calculated to have
1 such a heavy weight as to demonstrate the power of the
entitine. yi, enon • ELErrtitji.--Dzet.aßaTloX or THE
POLL—On Friday rning the declaration of the poll
was made by Mr. Tamplin, the returning officer, from
the !indulge in Park-creaent, Portland•plaee. Pad-
dington —Janice, 1,047; Romilly, 1442. 31arylehotie
James, 2,401; It •Ily, 1,1/15. st. Pancras—James,
3,31114 ; Itomily,. 1,327, Grand total—James. ll,ltti ;
Itomilly, ;%15.1. Majority for James, :1,449. lie theu,.
fore declared that the election had fallen upon Mr.
, Edwin Jame., 4j.1. (Loud cheers.) Mr. James then
i proceeds...l to address the electors, and, seconding a
1 motion of • vote of thanks to the returning officer. ob.
Nerved that the acandalima expense to whicli candidates
were put for hustinge was low of the first abuses of the
electoral system calling for reform. end adding his belief
that not sic weeks wolibl elapse before he should appear
there again. thus indicating the probability of a ilissolu•
thin of Parliament.
rug lion. i; •,,inic Firgwili.tan'is FOX•Ill il. N ii...
These hounds met iii front of Burghley !louse, the wag-
stificent Elizabethan residence of the Manful* of litchi,
on Monday week. There was a large &ill, including
several ladies and a good sprinkling of " gentlesuen in
pink." The " meet' being withia • mile of Stamford,
many of the townspeople were induced to saseuible to
see the 1 ~,,, iele " throw off." When Tolll &bright.
" the premier huntsman .4 1.:HA1L...1," le.l Ilk hounds
towanla the house, surrounded by the horsemen waiting
to take part in the chase, the some was very interesting.
oil leaving the park the sorer called the Rutland% was
drawn, but it proved a blank ; Ow Irmo& Moat made for
the plantations which skirt the eolith side of the Cpper
Park. The first cover hail scarcely been left when three
or four hounds' acuusinemied by one of this whippers•in,
started a bitch box. To escape frulll her eIIVIIIIes ltey•
load ~,,, untra a wall, but alighting 4•11 the other side in
the iiiiilat of the pack she met with inattuitimeouti death.
Amongst those who ware "in at the death" were the
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and the Mai. F. e.:031, the youthful AOllll
Lord Burghley. Thu Bon. I 11.,r1r4 Fitswilliam gave the
ehleat
.the
,brualt, imuteoliately after which each was
. . .

I "blooded' heir ireeo heatuea;ed with the blood of the
! fox), a cure y utually praetteed upon thole, who are
I mortal for the tint time at the death of* fox.

NAE.II.IION IMINAPA NTT. A CANDIDATE rim EM•
1•001SIENT IN THE EN.:11,111 liEllVlcl{.—At the last or-
dinary meeting of the M.incliester Literary and Phi
liociety the !Ivy. W. re:al the following
extr.ict fro's; a letter of thu TI aa Basilan'
l.lateil lf.ickiiry, August 14, MO:1h containing an ac•
count of a visit which he hail just paid to the !hike of
Ili-attain, in which the following message occurs, and Mr.
liaskell wished to know whether any member of the
society could confirm the statement tnaile in it :
" Admiral co.hy told in., one circ tai,.,.- which wax
CDTious. When lie was l'oninianiler•in-Chief in the

Moliturraheali, daring the laat war, at the time that
we were in pooDelijint Itt Corsica, and when sir Gilbert

Elliott was tiovenior.tieneral of the island, General
Paoli introduced Bonaparte, then a young man, to the
tiovenior an.l to the Admiral as a friend of his who
would be glad to be employed in the service of England ;
but these wise turn, 11.4 haVing Levater's skill in
physiognomy, rejected the proposal, which obliged
Hionapare to offer his Services V. the French, and this
was the rise of lionaparte's fortune... I had often
heard that Boom arte had offered Isis services to the
English mid been rejected, but I hardly gave credit to
it till I learned it front Admiral Cosby I reit.- Mr.
Hopkins and Mr. Roberts, said that, in their boyhood,
they had often heard a similar statement made, but

were not awareon what authority it ended.
Hatanret. EXPLoalori IT I /KRELL, NECK
dreadful explosion of fire-dadip took place
on Saturday in Wit'thew House Colliery, belonging to
Hemrs. Hraticker and Co., the circumstance of winch
are very unusual in c ....lion with mining operations.
in the " Tower 11111 tlividon," Stal yards south of the
entrance of the mine, thew to a " goof," tor stoppage to
fence off ohl workings), near to wlddi Henry Fair-
barna bored the hole for tiring a blast ; but as he had
bored into what is termed the " fast," or aolid coals, the
powder was not stillicient to remove the hard Maas, ant
tlw dame of the charge found its way into the
r 44 yards gliNtant. In this "goat"' therc Must hare beidi
some foul air, which, being centrally located, did not
ajnwar to the fireinan's lamp, art he examined it before
Fairhurst fired his blart : and the fuse sending the
ke thither. caused Ili explotion, by which Ashurst,
the fireman, Henry Fairhurst, Peter Fairhurst, T 1 as
Heed, and two drawers, nained datnell and John Herry•
were blown instantly against the ssle of the pit. John
lk-rry was killed on the spot, ho neck being aislocated ;
he was also burnt by the tire danip. Jaine.l Hurry had
his anal broken a,. t s., places, Thomas Heed had his
ankle dislocated, and the others win injured by bruises,
without broken Isnies. Souse of tlw Mopping., of the
works were blown down ; and as the pit is a very buge
one, with plenty of air, it it fortunate the explosion did
not travel beyond the " goal" already Mentioned, or tlw
lota of life would have been terrible. The pit it con•
aidered ar well ventilated, and is worked with safety
lamps.
RAMAN ANTB,WITIKS I.IaMMX.-1111ring aO,llO
late excavations for building purposes, on a plot .$f
ground which had served am a cenudery for the southern
or lower din . of landuni Roma 111111 l several Inelnen-
Wes of the onCe busy population of this colmiy hide
114*11 brought to light. l'hese consist not Indy of frag-
ment., of inserilwd *tuner, sherds of funeral vessels,
aniplior.e, patellas, kc., aonie of the latter 44 the fine
red texture known as "Sainian ware," bat also of too
or three unbroken cinerary urns and a gracefully shaped
jug, believed to he tlw same whirl, those ancient people
design..te.l by the name of " urceut.“ asl4l used by them
both for di -.tic and relig. purpo.,!. Thi, latter
was found about four feet below the sward, and the
Urns, fro:,, thy coarseness of their fabric, were
those tared by the plebean order. and contained the
deposit of all that could be collected from the quentlied
embers of the funeral pile, were exhumed .about the
Milne distance from the surface. It would seem Irons
the litany diaCoveriot on this cite -vie., the ground at
the south-west corner of Hotisotertreet, mljoi ll ill g the
north gable of the well-known Roman house in the
suburbs of Wigford, that this, like the cemetery of the
upper Ilannan t4*ll, Was a 14.111CMIlat alaillitalll enclosure.
Among the several indications of its extent may he
Mentioned inscribed slab* and wrtions of temelated
flooring, formerly and nwently met with when tlw
ground liar beam disturbed in this locality. In Gougii's
ettowleri may be seen the engraving of an entire slab,
found at the begioning of the last century by some
eXCaliatora digging for wand at the back of the adj ll ill
old bnil.ling. Tite slab has been inscribe.' over a large
portion of its surface, which WAs stink and surrounded
by the kind of Wing that char:WU:l.4es thrsti
gravestones, but the antiquaries of the .lay were not
able to decipher tin' reading from the decaytal state of
the soft and friable ishderial on which it was
awl the slab was allowol to perish f the popular
indifferent* with which such things Were regarded.
Similar, though less; entire slabs, and many fragments of
such have at different timer since Imam tenon! up M
sinking wells, cellar., kc., near. in these recent exca-
vations inay be iiimtSnied two inscribed pieces, now in
the pmeimelion of a collector of thew, object, but
whether or not decipherable we are unable tol MAW.
The precints of this necropolis, it lusty be inferred,
skirted a considerable length of the ViCUS or agger by
which the swamp funning the southern boundary of
this Homan colony was boded, and it was most likely
abandoned as; a place of sepulture when the fresh man-
pants of the place became Christians in the Stli century,
fresh sites having also been chosen for their church.,
and the remembrance of tide important feature of all
Rowan towns sank into an oblivion from which iii. not
even now entirely reicuml.