The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

IBILIDPOlt!

enutal Ntins.

THE Gineolidateil Bank will, in all probability, ro•
open on Monday orzt.
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Ti Glasgow Ind week the police destroyed nearly
IWO dogs, animals of all breeds and sixes.
Tun distn,e between the operatives and their em-
ployers at Barnsley haa terminated in a comproinite.
Mica ETU, blAter of Mr. Eyre' late Governor of
Jamaica, is now atating in retirement at Shank lin.
Tut a iabt iDIIOIIIIO-a that Sir J ,bn Peter Grani,
Its Looknant llovernor of Benicia, will be the new
GOlllif nor of Jamams.
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A comas HOSPITAL i. to be eetablished at War.
oanster, in • 'small farin-house in Portway, kiodly
granted by the Marquis of Bath.
TRIFLE Bianc—on Friday laxt the wife of Mr.
Buoklea, of Stortford•lane. Che.trrfirld, gave birth to
three children, two girls gni 4110 buy. All are doing

A MZULT periodical, remarking upon the absurdity
of many after-dinner MAMA, suggests that " Vaocina-
Mow, and may it take !" would be more app,opriate than
a majority of thaw given.
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Tel JAMAICA CuMillgliflolf HIMORT. part 11, is in the
form ol a lino blue hook of anon- than 1000 pages, and
in addition to the mattnr in the appundix contains
49,15t1 qui s•ions and their answer..

TIIIILE las report, we are sorry to say that the tinder.
prst %as Arpin b,oken out in Ireland, within the infest. il
listrict. The disiased animal, were killed, but not
without sonic resistance on the part of tbe owners.
CATTAIM STRICKLAND, brother to the authoress of
—The Queens GI England," who is in his eighty-seventh
year, waa attacked the other day by • bull, in a field •t
Plaatow, and was so much hart that it is doubtful
whether be will recover.

ONSRAND, OURNIT, AND 00.—In the Court of
Chthoery, Kindarsley has en
order upon six petitions for cautioning the voluntary
windlng.op under the supervision of the court, the casts
of the petitioners to be paid out of the relate.
Tus pliers' impression in London is that Ministers
being unwilling to go out, will cootrive to stay in; hut
moderate men of all parties are against dissolution;
though the Conservatives say if Ministers resort to •
damolution, such s step at this moment would give a
&mu majority to tbe Opposition.

BOIL'S ItzrwaioN AT NoTTINGH A IL —A fearful boUer
explosion matured at the goads station of the Midland
litallway, Nottingham, on Tuesday night, resulting in
severe injuries to no persona The driver, Joseph
Tansley is not expected to reoover; the fireman end the
guard sr. in • precarious eonditson.

AGRA AND .11IASTRRN Alen BANK. —The shareholders
have unanimously resolved to wind up the company
voluntarily. Sir Fitzroy Kelly said tint, if they were
unanimous, and the court agreed to • voluntary
winding.up, he maw no rearm why they should not
forthwith enter on the question of re-opening the bank
Tea Aair.—The Duke of Cambridge has made •
role under which the proceeds of the eommisinns of
officers selling outwhile under age are to be handed
over to their parenis and guardians, and not to them
selves. This regulation I. intended to check the evils
indicted on young °dicers by money-lendera and others.
CHOLRRA OR SHIPBOARD. —The troop ship Durham,
from Calcutta, on the 215th February, arrived in the
sound on Wednesday afternoon with the right wing of
he 80th Regiment ands detachment of the lit bat...alio.,
of the 18.1 i Regiment. Cholera broke out among the
troops at the commencement of the voyage. Seven
coos terminated fatally, but the last ease occurred on
march .

Thu unirrerray.—A story is going the rounds of the
Liberal Clubs that liar Bajosts, previous to her de
texture for Balmoral. motored Karl Russell that, in the
event of war being declared on the Continent, and a
hostile rote on the Reform Bill rendering it requisite
,or the Ministers to tender their resignation, she would
not wept it, Lad they must abandon the Bia altogether.
—Olotoworwt.

A agar rainful railway accident is reported from
Sheffield. It appearn that a paseenger by the Indian.'
esc.irsion train to Button, on Thursday morning, on
pawing the works of Messrs. Firth and soo, threw otr
several oopper• Some workmen who were standing
near commenced *crumbling fin- them, and at the male
moment • mineral train Game up and ran over one at
the poor fellows, killing him on the spot.
SINGULAR DI•TH OF • Cow.—A cow belonging to
Yrs. Kent, Dimaa-street, Newcastle, has escaped the
danger of the cattle plague,to owns to its end in a rather
peculiar manner. The animal had died soddenly in an
unaetrunt.ble way, and on being subjected to • poet.
stork.% eliminated° it waa found that a darning motile
had got i.obedded in its beart. The needle mast have
been swallowed with it. food, and ending Se way into
the aorta caused mortification.

PASLIAMENT•IT PAPLIPAL —Oa Wednesday morning
the following parliamentary papers wu issued :—"Stati.,
tacit ab.traet forth. Uniaed limgdorn in each of the last 15
years from 1851 to 1868, thirteenth number."—" Seventh
report from the mend committee on Railway nod
ranal hdlg." "Quarterly reports of the engineers at
the harbours of refuge at Dower, Alderney, and Portland
for the year ending 31st Kush, 1866."

DL•TH IT FALLING INTO • WKLL. —On Wednesday,
•n inquest was held at Stratford, on the body of David
Phillips, aged 14 years. Deceased was amusing himmlf
by throwing his cup over a well, and in •ttenipting to
catch it lost his balarce and waa precipitated to tit,
bottom, On recovering the body of the deceased it
appeared that his teed ha 4 struck the bucket in his
dement, and that he must Lye been stunned by th.
Wow, and consaquently death was instantaneous by
drowning. Verdict—Accidental Death.

A•PARAOIIS AND THE FIEECE ENPZROL A
few day. since • sample of AMP•rafq. was emit by Mr.
George Hawn, Bart .n-Hill, Brigtol. to the Emperor
Napoleon. Mr. Raacell ha. received • very courteous
aeknowledement, dated from the Tuileries, nod eigned
by the Adjutant-General of lb. Palace., who orates th .1
the eeparage. had been used at the Imperial table "and
•ppreciated ails deserves to be." Mr. Hawiell, it will be
remembered, obtained the first prise at the recent
International Horticultural Exhibition in London.
MILANCHOLI MDINT.- -A little girl named Julia
Enter, eight yew. of age, with two ether litUe girls, was
planing in the enclosure of Grafton-equov, Clapham,
on the evening of tbe 15th inst., and was endesvotoisg
to climb to the top of • largo vase filled with earth an
flowering plants, of which there are several in the en-
closure. The child, in endeavouring to sinell the
perfume of the flowers, pulled the vase over, and it fell
with great force, knocking her down and rolling upon
her. Medical aid WAI oaHed in, but ahe died on the
following day of severe internal injuries,

TM, LATIC MB& Calll.TLL—The following affectionate
epitaph for the graseidone of his wife has been written
by Mr. Thomas Carlyle ,--" In her bright oglstenoe she
had more sorrows than are common, but also a soft in-
vinethibty, • elearnem of discernment, and a noble
loyalty of beart which are tide. For forty yeah s's
the true and loving helpmate of her hudsind, and
by act and word unweariedly forwarded him as nom-
elre c ,aid in all of worthy that It did or attempt.-'I
She died at London, 21st April, 11165, suddenly .nateloNi
away from him, and the light of bin life as if gone out.

MYSTERIOUS DISETTFARANCIL-- Mr. James lAnedell
at Wellington-. Square, Eluting., has been inisatng siner
the evening of Thursday week. It appears that on the
evening in question Mr. Landfill took a walk to St
Lsonnrd's, wtth his wife and another member of his
funily, and leaving them near the Subscription Gardens
Paid he should azteod his walks little further westward.
They expected to meet him on leering the gariens, but
did not do to, and although strict inquiry has been made,
it appears that be haa not yet been heard of. The
general impression in that he has met with an untimely
end. He had a large sum of money in his po.session.

A CHPD HCCIDIPITALLT ii•PORD.—A child, six
months old, whose west% named Clark,llve at Harlon,
within two miles a South 81.111da, was accidentally
bung on 'Wednesday. The child had fallen 1111*- p in
bed, and the mother had placed • chair alongside In
order to prevent its falling out. A few minutes after-
wards dm went book to the room to see if the child war
still a-leen and found the infant hanging by the chin to
the tor oi the rail of the chair. She at onoe rim to the
bedside, but to her great ecomaernation found (hot It war
dead. It is thought that the child had awoke, and in
Its endeavour to get out of bed had sanght the roll of
the chair with its chin, and bad not been able to fret-
itself

HHOMING DEATH IN A DIAIN.—On Thursday night.
.bout eleven o'clock, three men entered the blaida Drain.
Hastings—which is made of ifetl—for the rurpoes of
chewing it. They had made coseiderable progress,
when then was &fearful rush of water, mused by the
heavy fall drain. Two of the moo, with great difficulty
and after much exertion, effected an escape ; but the
third. named Henry Winter, a yonag =se 29 yesrs
old, was either drowned or suffocated. His body ha.
Dot yet beam found, and it is supposed that either it ham
been carried through the iron trapping out to
can,_ or that it lodged in some part of the drain.
The authorities at, opening the drain in several
plaoes in the hope of reeorering the body.
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Lova LICITZILS /11011 THE SI.A.--There was cast
ashore on Sunday et Shirrs., about four miles art of
Dunbar, • bundle of letters, about 320 in number, which
have pried between • Mr. Maxwell, of London, and
Visa Dunlop, of Mhos, residing, for the most part, at
Edinburgh. The lettere were tied up in a white
csmiaric hiindkerchief with a light bias border, having
the initials of the gentlemen in one of the corners.
The letters bear the poid-oMos dates of 1861. 1862, and
1863, and seem to be brimmed in the order in which
they were rni to their destinstiou. In one of the
parrs of letters there is a morriage earthier, dated
the 21s1 November, 1815
A 01111104 M statensest wee made to the marristrate at
Limber Police-court as Thursday. A dealer in old
clothes said that a few der ago be bought of a woman
a the dirrict of the court • itor which had belonged
to her decried husband. The dealer pve 5.. 61.1..
the coot, and took it to Pettimoot-lans, where be told it
to another dealer for fo. The new moires's examined
the Gnat rosily, and toned frit balf.a-crown in ate of
the porter, and tiro £4O in note• sewn up In the lining.
The first purchaser applied for half of this, and on
being refused, went to re woman from whom he had
bought the cook and told her of the affair. She scl-
vised him to go to the polies-murk and be did eo. The
magistrate mitered inquiries to be mods into the Gass.

BOY 00119 BY • 00w—On Saturday evening Mrs.
Arbon** wife of the foreman at Bankton Mans, along
with bet daughter and son, tbe latter a Sae boy fan
years of ass, emit Into a field to remove • calf. They
had got the animal into a wheelbarrow, when the cow,
excited with the interference with her offspring, and
probably also by the eight of a red shawl worn by Mrs.
Arbuckle, attacked and knocked the latter down. The
boy in his anxiety to save his mother bravely rushed in
sad endeavoured to timid( tbe cow. which turned opal
Lien, caught him in the belly on her horns and tossed
him Into • ditch, where he lay ep%rimtly deed. 01
salaams arriving, the boy wee taken home, and woe
found to be severely injured. Mrs. Arbuckle was not
mush hurt. —lefiabwrgh Conran*.

A MAI GORED TO MTN RE A BOLL—A wooer's
incised was hold on Tuesday washing Um thatia
JamttiF tilEditirbooorot prod to death by
ball to Baia* tartan, Meek
toot Aidloree el As

appeared Chat the deceased, vbo was subjeek to flte,
went se big own request to tie op the bull, which was
locos in the yard, • duty be had often performed before.
The doeseeed stumped to drive the bell into the abed,
when it ran et him and gored him in a severe manner,
aid tooed him into the field, where be laid until
meistacce siva,. id He died two hours •fterwsrds. The
jury imineshately returned • verdiet of " aecidential
death.', Mr. (toad, tile owner of the bull, stated that
it had none' bc(ne shown a iliariwition to attack any
one, but it &honk. be at ono. slaughtered.
A Tents SWARM or Bars. - A correspondent writ-
ing to thy Jourmal of flor,calturt says —'On: the
20th of May. three Bret swarms belonging to a oottager
in (big neghbolith...l all came off, pitched together,
and were all put into • largo ordinary straw hive, with
• hole in the top. Upon lifting the hive le the reeninr,
we found it more than full of bee., so that in placing it
on the stand, many were compelled to crawl outside.
The owner was much alarms I. and knew not what
steps to take, hut after a little portuasion I inducted
him to dress another hive, remove the stopper from tbe
other, and piece Vie newly dreamed hive upon it. I
visited us. on the following day and several times
minty, irlien I fully espects-d to have seem large nembers
killed, instead of which I have not been able to d mower
one deal bee, but, found them all working well tazether,
and in • few days hope to remove the super well filled
with DOW hooey."

CILIA? DeSTRUCTION Or COTTON BY FRS.—AI
enormous destruction of °cotton resulted from a fire at
Livorno.' on Wednesday night st the aouth end of the
town. The premiws in this case are two earshot...s—
one in Parliament and the other in Britton-street—the
division between them being only spoilage. The build-
Inge which are three-storied, are the property of
Mews. K. Ilarbord and Son, and were Idled mainly
with cotton. In the beasment was about 200 too• of
logwood, belonging to Meters. Brows, Buckley, and Co.,
and in the other part of the builiing there was no less
than 1,600 bales of cotton, the greater part of which is
probably destroyed. The principal part of the cotton
belonged to Brown, Shipley. and Co., and the remainder
to Raab°. Brother& Taylor, and Co., T. Bwire,
and Walton, Bolton, and Co. The fire raged for some
considerable time. The tattoo is insured, but to what
sunount is not known. The warehouses are insured in
the loyal.
Al AMERICAN EMIGRANT SHIP FIRED nrro IT •
Barnes Was or Was. —By the arrival of the City of
London at Liverpool on Thursday we learn that much
excitement had been camellia Neve York iii consequence
of the announcement that the Amer.. ship Soren.
Captain lion's, had bees fired into by the .team-rani
Achillu when off Bantry Bay. The Syron, after being i
brought to, was boarded by a boat's crew from the
Achiles, and the officer in command, after ascertaining
that the Syrea was bound from Liverpool to New York,
in•isted upon Captain More telling him why he and bus
ship were off the west of Ireland. The bringing to of
the Syron, the firing at a ship with a large number of
emigrants on board, by inch a vessel as the Achilles,
without the slightest provocation, demands an explana-
tion. Every British naval officer ought to know that
-11 outward bound veosels from Liverpool to America
mast necessarily clear the Irish coed, and therefore the
general impression is that the person in charge of the
Lobilles has to • very greet extent, exceeded his duty.
AIIIVAL or •ir AIItiLICAN Mr•CADeur.—The
Illi•ntonomoh, American monitor h. arrived at
Queenstown. ancompan iet by the United State. war
summers Angola.. and Aohalot. She has ancomplisbed
the ocean trip in only • few dui more than the Inman
grainer City 1 Boston, both vessels having left on the
same day. This is the first of a series of trips to test
the qualities of the. monitor& Tbe Miantonomob
thlre towthoert'utnewot.soo. no,
uccundteaaraninfibli7iso arnnot.oP:la ni
ynd'deeti and
destitute
of spars and rigging, but her ball at • little distance
seems so low es barely to mark • line goon the water.
olviut 13i feet only ming above the surface. She is
268 f,. long, 59 ft. broad, and 1500 tons burden. Her
,hell is for the most part an oblong box, fined away at
e store, and yet more sharply at the bow, but having
in her main length • bottom as fiat as the aides and tor.
It is esid that they are on their way—the monitor to
China and the others to the &kith,.

MYITtaIOCS POInoRIMO —An inquiry made by Me.
Cockcroft, the coroner for Santis Northumberland, and
sill''', at the Tillage of Fouteland, sod which has ex-
tended over two maths, into the circumstances of the
&atlas of three brothers named Stubby, who cettopied
Donkio's Farm, near that village, was regained on
Tbundsy. In the early part of the year the deceased.
'trout, powerful Northumberland fanners, with the
ebeh, of their household, were prostrate with illness,
and it was doubtful whether it wee occasioned by the
unsanitary condition of the surroundings of the farm-
house or by slow poisoning. They hart the beet medical
advice, but the three brothers succumbed to the attack
and died. A good deal diseusaion took oleos se to the
, iny•teriotu circurnstanoes of these men's deaths, and
the very eerions results which bad followed the i 11120.4
I of the other p-rsons who had been ill—for the survivors
I are all more or leas likely to be invalids for life—and
the inquiry bowing been put into the bends of the
county oonstabnlary, the body of John Bushby •as
disinterred, and the viscera were the result id
which loft no doubt that he had died from the effect* of
arsenic. Notwithstanding, however, the long and
patient inquiries which have been made by the coroner
and jury. no clue has been found as to how the poison
bad got into the persons of the deceased men, whether
had been administd red wilfully or had got into their
food by Accident. Mrs. Stubby, of Allendale —110•0
went to the farm while the men were ill sad dying, and
who appears to have been poisoned also, for she is quite
taralysed and haa been confined to her bed 16 weeks
being unable to attend, and the coroner and Jury feeling
disinclined to dose the inquiry without having first
penetrated the mystery of the violent death of the
throe brothers, they hare adjourned the inquest until
the 30th of August.
A 11.DZIN ENGLISH DULL, An allllllling story
acmes from Newesatle-under.Lnine, where it has been
the one topic of vain. during the Isit few days. On
Wednesday evening four professional gentlemen,
residing in that town were playing billiards, when one
offered to bet that be could make • certain stroke.
which produced a rejoinder from one of the others that
he declared we. an insult and an attack on his honour.
High words followed, and presently the Injwed one
eisllenged his ansailant to a settlement of the dispute
with pistols. This was accepted, and the other gent!,
men were requested and consented to act as seconds.
It should be stated that only the eballenger was really
in earnest in the affair, end that the others regarded it
ass joke. To make along story short, the four repaired
to the house of one of them; pistols were borrowed, but
only • pair of horse pistols woo procerallide, and these
were loaded by the woods, who put in the powder,
but unknown to at lawn one of the principals, slyly
dispensed with balls. The challenger, who was throngh•
out quite iu earnest, having actually Made his will, the
party adjourned to the garden, a secluded orpot, and
were placed 30 pastes apart, and the weons were
handed to them. At a given signal both fired, and the
challenged felL His second ran to him, and in raising
dexterou-ly smeared his face with a red colouring
having all the appearance of blood. The other stood
-till. a. if rooted in the spot, pale as death, and trembling
like a led, when be we the effect of his fire. The body
of the fallen man w•s corned into the hon-e. and surgeons
were sent for. or pretended to be aeon for, bat no one was
able tocome. When thee.halleoger re-covered full poem. Con
,if him senses his distress was painful to witness. He
took the hand of his supposed dead opponent, piteously
moaned his fate, and cried aloud. After lying still for
sometime, the dead maa could stand it no longer. He
laughed and jumped no, startling the other even more
than before, but presently it dawned upon the mind of
the valient ehillenger that he had been hoaxed, and,
amid the laughter of the others, be rushed not of the
house in a state of mind more easily iinagined than
described. The whole story looks like • hoax, but its
truth is vouched for by erne, at least, of the parties to
this modern Engliali duel.

otwirhh:bemimt.ter elagooftphaithengAiL°aniprpbri—itmiotr:food:thetsibrineiallifitotlicyttit:ebtbeeloti
army and navy is greater than foamiest civilians. This
itartling (set has been auffloiently proved in most
eoantries. One cause of illness is probably want of
occupation begetting vice ; but it the Mlle time it may
be questiooed whether the remedies employed for the
cure of actual dieesse are always appropriate or calculated
to achieve the desired melt. We rea.enther • striking
.ustance to the point. It is wail known that a very
!err per esnhisci of our troop. is cionstan,ly rendered
ineffective by the two prominent demo., ith obioit
nature mitigates licentiousness. We had the fact to
which we allude from the pullout himself. He said he
sailed from India in • dilapidated state of health,
alter trying all the remedies prescribed by authority to
no effect. when. his oondition being perceived by an old
Indian officer, be indnoed him to try Holloway's pills
sod ointment. The patient had no faith in tbe thing.
and assented to the trial in th• belief that if the
medicines did him no good they could not certainly
make him worm than he woe Cheat, however, en,
moat &reelable wee Ma surprise to Ind almost Immediate
relief from the very remedies widish be had been
amostomed to laugh at, es • mere eatch.penny quack
production sod Micah:poi nostrum I "inn few weeks"
said he, "Holloway'. pills and ointment cured me
eouipleeely." Forte ere proverbially stubborn thins.,
and one like the meant, attested by an acknowledged
scoffer, and communicated to one totally indifferent to
. the matter, 'peaks velure is favour of Profesero
Holloway's remedies, to which so many millions are
grateful, for death prevented and health rendered.
To no clam of men have the remedies been more in.
valuable tins' to emigrants, so often doomed in a far-dia.
tent lend to suffer from otherwise irreparable diseases ;
and these everywhere testify to their painless benefit
end uniform success Amordieig to atatistios in the
poesension of Thomas Holloway, the eras settlers tent
• out to the Grand River be the New England Ormayany
in 18313, ware required to provide themselves with a
boveehold medicine of their own choke. Their choice
was Holloway's two world-famous remedies, henceforth
to be the seeerforgotion items in the emigrant's dors.
With such bete before u—and we might add many
more—oan we doubt that the name of Holloway will be
known In after ages ea the watebward of health and
strength sad immunity from disown, when even Harvey
Abernethy, Asti y Cooper, and Brodie are forgotten.—
Oolcesial Gerrespostdrat.

Tun Quenn'e 1111111•7011 POO MS. PRADODT.- A
facsimile of the Queues gift to the great Amorkian
philanthropist, is now on view at Mr. Dlekinsons' I
galleiv. in Old Bond-street, Loodoe. I. the present
stags of the wnrk, only the watercolour, from which the
enamel on gold Is afterwards to be done, in now shown.
however, glees a fair idea of what the effect of the
whole will be when lashed. But the word " minia•
tare" seareely represents whet the Importance as
regards the site of the likenem will be, for, though only
half length, the painting 1. 14 inches boas by nearly W
lashes wide. For the first time her Majesty sat in the
only robes of state she has wore sines the death of
ik•Prinall Ooeseert —the eostame in white she was dressed
at the moats% of Parliament. This wee • hime silk dream
mid a loag bleak velvet train, bolds trimmed with semis..
Over her Mary Bharat sap Ls the demi-grown, while the
Kohl-poor and one rich jewelled arose, presented by
Peace Albert, form her ornaments. To eemplele this
portrait her Mafeety gave Mr. Tilt several beg Wattage
and bee now impressed her isacrwlilled eponym' et the
watercolour obriern at Ms. Diskieses'e. Thin, however,
Is but the aoarowsesearot of the proem. The portrait
is to be &me la wand by XL 1311. fa • Pasha al per.
samial paintiass, to brief out all tba
their oaken. b!osw bp bllit 17.41
F 411 '•
gylbereny ate &set

to which they are subjected is ea inkier as to b. only
•bort of that which wosid foss gold. *Ai the no ,t
esionsiteciere is nee emir, neither to let the picture ham
too sumo, nor, above all, isool too rup•dly, es it usther
case the enamel would wreck. So km. an en.nd
p.,rtraii has never been attesupted in thi country. it
Les, therefore, b--en found neme.imry t biuld a lIMAIi
in farness speeislly for the execution of the w
it will take about es weeks to coo:soma
when the picture will be mounted in • from. of
got surmounted with the crown enamelled 00th.
cartel in colours. Alto/eater it will form • gift worthy
tvsth of her Mssjes'y and of the gentleman to whom aim
preeeete it. After being submitted to the Queen on its
completion it will be forwarded to Mr. Pmbogy, oh.
intends to deposit it where it may be best seen in a
large institution winch be hiss founded in Boston, h.
native town.

RIFLE MATCH AT Two TsloCaaTlO YAlLO.—(let
Wellneeday at the Milton range, n. sr Gravesend, there
was an exciting and interesting competition at 2.000
yards—that is. at a dist.nee sonsidsrablv above • mil,—
for a prise offered by the Notional Kiss aesoeiatioo.
Tos eompitition wan limited to rides of a nuyja".of
in weight., *salmis' of talueope, and an
entrance fee was only Liii WM •ipecited that mnnn
gunins kers would enter, There was ieveml bus
only eve competitors •ppesuid —namely, Colonel Halford
Mr. (late captain) Edward K's., now of the London
Scottish ; Mr. Miller, honorary member of tbn
Klee, and Mr. (Private) Metford, of the umeregianni,,
all four well-known good shots, with Mr. Morcott, the
ganinsker, of the linym•rket. The bar tirst-nipand
gentlemen Bred with a ride of Mr. Metford'e invention,
and which won the prise last year; and suitors on the
round, among whom were Lord Bury. Lord Kuhn
• Colonel Kennedy, and Captain liildmay, were not alp:
in lexprewang their surprise that the gunmaken of N.
I.nd should have left • eimpetition of the cherubsr in
the bends of an amateur, for that Mall that Mr. listforif
claims to be, alhiet be has taught the trade many Mum.
and given some ideas which thy have not hen slow to
patent. The day was nearly all that could be desired,
only in the morning there was too much mirage, and e
little too much wind. The only competing gamester
Ira. not successful in obtaining his sighting, and it is
no wonder ; the ride was evidently (-A up hastily, and
little posTinas practice could be obtemied, for targets ••
2.000 yards are not easily found, and with a new ride at
Lbs distance much previous prsaties is necessary for
UlOOBOl to be looked for. Mr. lieroota, who was mach
applauded for his pluck in catering, withdrew after
some unsucessidal shots, and the general result of the
shooting is shown in the following detailed wore s-
-

Total.
Col.Hallord 00022002233024222334..36
Kr. Metford 0030320342 3 0 3 2 0 2 0 3 2 2 34
Ur. Rom
Mr. Miller 3 0 4 0 0 4 0 2 0 4 3 0 2 0 3 4 3 3 2 0 ..37
Them Were! 4101, that the prim, £25, was not won
algal the hot shot eras fired. The marking was the
gems am at Witnheldon voters, 2; centres, 3; and bull's
eyes, 4. As will be NW the elevation was beet at last
when the oompattitors had got wed to the weapons,
and when the mirage bad diwappeered with the sun.
The grooviog of the name is a secret, and Mr. kletlonl,
having worked out hie ideas previously for some one
elve's benefit, will not tall hie charge Of SOY of the
peculiarities of this invention, whisk dads great tamer
among the admirers of ride shooting who competed
on Wednesday. Tb• marking on the range was every-
thing which could be desired, and at the eocelasion all
parties retired apparently highly retitled. There was
to have been • competition for lareachloader• at 1,200
yard., but as no other competitors than Mr. Illetfori
and Colonel Halford (with a ride of Mr. kletford's
Avention) appeared, tbe competition fell through.

Tea New ATIANITO C•BlA.—Early next month a
Irv& attempt will be made to connect the New World
with the Old by laying a new telegraphic cable in the
depths of the Admire. It will also be endeavoured to
remedy the list failure by grappling the old wide,
where it now 11•11 at a depth of nearely four mile, MI
Me bottom of the wean, raising it to the sadism, joinirg
Oa to what was at first • part of it, and thus accepted-
isg the oommonmalson with Newfoundland both by it
sod tbe new cable. The preparations for the expedition
ire now on the eve of completion. The Gre.t Ifemern
at Sheerness is taking in the last portion of the neM
cable. It is conetincrted on the seam principle as Met
Mirth now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic, bus
certain improvements have been effected in the detail.,
tie resell of which is that it is stronger than the former
me, having a besetting strain of no lore then eight tom,
and yet at the same time lighter and more fesible.
Besides the machinery for paying out the sable.
machinery for picking it up if needed is peeperel at both
Hu bow and the stern at the ship. The machimory for
paying out is bet little altered, but it has been to e me
*Omit re-modelled ; the gear has been strengthened,
and any portions whir& &me been found de-
fective or injured by wear have been taken out and
replaced. The new mashiee for picking up the cable will e
worked by a pair of cylinders of 70 horse wiser. co, -
Arnaud by Meseta John Penn end Boa, of Green etc'.
Ti. picking-up machinery is similar in principal to
that which was formerly employed. The principle
•
• &Ferenc* is that two drums are matloyed, Bo that in
paring round these four times the strain his spres4
o'er a larger area. Thirty tons is the calculated real -tin •
power of the grieppling cable. It is sot expected that
Ha strain at the shwa, in cam of baring to pick up
the cable, can ever rise to six tone, more especially AS
Mr. Smith, the electrician, will, oa this occasioe, be
elabled to keep spa constant test for amminuits of
current, as well as • ammiant test of Insulation during
time paying ese, initeed of merely applying these tests
pertodimlly, as on dm last voyage. Honer, if • fault
thould occur in the eable, this will be speedily discovered,
if not at the moment say defect arises at least almost
immediately after the defective portion of the
gable has been immerged in the water, and thus
there will not be any probability of having to pick up
any wesiderable length of the ew.le. Tim pi•eing•ap
machinery at the 16,01, is precisely dinner to thst •t
the mere. The Great Eastern takes out several boors,
B"me of which ens of very Lorne Mee, as that if the
weather became so rough as to neceritele their cutting
and buoying the cable, it would not be emitter of much
difficulty to recover it. Her bfriesty's ship Terrible wall
newel pany the expedition as before, to render al.',
usi.taeoe in her power, and two large stammers, call d
the Albany and the Medway, are to aecompany her .
tenders. Both of them vowels are fitted up with pick ing•u P
machinery, that on bawd the Albany being of the old kind
with • single dram, while that of the Medway is like the
mashine on board the Great fasters, erne with the
double drum. There will. therefore probably be • good
opporntaity on this 00116A06 for deciding en the relative
merits of the two plans, as each madam is ealealated to
resiet the tame strain, six, 30 tons. The Albany and
Medway take a quantity of cables and other twittery to
assist in picking up the old sable, and the Medway
also takes out 430 miles of cable, which will of werree
be transferred to the Great Pastern to lay down when
needed.

The SOLICITORS' BENIVOLeet Alle0C1•11011.—( /roes
a Leedom eiwresporsdent).—On Fridet •••oll•g. 22.1
Instant, the Lord Chief Justice of England, presided at
• very rectrecte dinner held at the Re. Las of Court
Hotel, Holborn, London, which took place in a ogegni-
ficent, cheerful, lofty diningball or courtyard, with a
aimed root, on behalf of else Solicitors Benevolent
Amotiation—a moot a:collect insaitution, established
within the last few year", for tl.• purpose of &Fordo,:
succour in lime of trouble and hour of need, to tl •
widows and orphans of members of the prolamine be-
longing to the amocietioo, who may have died in
Indigent dromedaries' caned by events, the happening
of wbitth is beyond the engerity and care of man to
prevent. His lordship, whom all were planed to s. ein
ieseelleut health and spirits, wee well supported by he
Hon. Yr. Justice Lush, one of the ledges et Her
Mende Court of Qoeen'e Bench, Mr. Rdward Jame
QC., Mr. Miller, QC., Mr. Powell, Q.C., and several
other eminent Qu en's Counsel, Mr. Anderson, the
chairman of the marecietiou • Mr. Harrison, the deputy
chairman ; E. P. rebn;y, Piebobary ;Kr. Led,
Crom
bie,the able Low Secretary to the London and
South•Westere Railway Company • Mr. W. S. Cookson,
and a large number of the heading lloliclk,g, is London.
From the country, we observed were also present —Mr.
Eeleey, Salisbury; Mr. Freeland FUut.r Mayor .1
Wsrebsm, Dometehire (two of the steward.), end •
host of highly reepretable solicitor'. The table.,
(arranged in horse-shoe Isabion), and estirodim tb- toll
length of the very large ball, were completely filled,
many hundreds must have been there. The muacal
arransemeses were in the beet pomible taste.
Our friends at Dotehesser, who so well under-
at .nd this pleasant and refined addition to
.hat is good and useful for its own sake,
will like to hem the names of the wings given,
accompanied au the peso, all under the control and
guidanee of Mr. W. J. Fleldieg to whom thanks ere
especially due. The gram WM solemnly and beautifully
ming. The glorious `God ism the Queen," just as
such a song deserve.. (Can we meek higher than Ibis
of any piece of music 1) A very pretty song fem. Saint
Valentine sweetly gam by Miss Kob.vti,e Heoderen,
which is very popular amasses the ladies, as it deserves.
at din time particularly. "The Brave old Temeraire."
sang by Mr. Winn like "a true Briton," and followed
by • very lively bunter's quartet, by Rd ward Loder
" Sally in oar Ailey." We beard thls song at Wareham
once by Mr. Robert Ryan when hit. Gerard Starr,
M.P., wee is the chair, mid should tomb like to bear
It again. Mr. W. J. Fielding gave it riobt welL
•' Terenoe's Farewell to Hathlem" made our hearts leap
into our mouths. Miss Palmer did this full justice.
" Hail to the chief who Is triumph ellvitocon." by
Leans, needs us fancy that, like Rob Roy of old, our
foot was on our waive heather. Bet the song of the
evening more rapturously moored wee "The Flaxen
Headed Plough Boy, by Montero Smith." It is
rather altered Mies we learnt to play it to • fiddle
acoosopeniment la our younger days, hut il•••• tbrillici
and sem home to all presest. Tbe emending meg
"Who Mall win, ke.," was well gives, hat gain
kayoed our humble eomprebewice 111 The (bed
Jetties performed his tede ea be always did
from the beetinniag, gad always doge re the Bomb, sad
elsewhere, like an able lawyer end perfect gentleme.
Re certainly bas a silvery magus like Nosier of old.
Then the homed, pieaaad sessible fere of Mr.
Julies Lush, every one wee glad $0 5.0; may God send
hiss health and strength long to fulfil his judicious
and useful muse its one al Her Windy's Judges.
How well and suitably the judiciously arranged been
were all gives, and by whom, we have not sow spew Ira
tell, eagles it to my, that every Ming pined oit
should do, and that the &sweeties teal reap • rich
hems* from it. we ans setitied. Mn. Goble. the
judicious sad medal esperintendeet duernil, Uld to
doubt reatimeL the amen Meeks of these whom thank'
were of isoeseet to her. Mr. RM. the hedefatigsble
secretary, read oat • noble list of sulteeriptions after
some of the Mist tomes. To crown all donee the who)*
day the " Royal Standard of Ragland" proudly boded
from the outside turret (meet eraionental it 6) of tb•
Inn. of Court Hotel, and wee heady observed. Th•
dining bell wee teetotally bung with ilega There ii •
serious old legend told, that this bell was the site of as
old edge yard, used ley Cimarron troopers is led
happy timee than at present, reed most people. in 0"
mkt lag mother, mein only a seen=
extreme misery whisk Alselsins, Owl lie his sasoretebn
wisdom has emu It to ordain mist in the world,
foe wiser PtuPeese than week Anne mortals like our-
•lmis laS feeble& Lad, beit sot nut, we trust RA
11011141 of Use shaesholdege in the Imo of Ooort, aor
ether hotel or Weer speosIMMA, will have came tri
Wilk *ill 414. 1114 flanliwoo, MIL altogether ill Kee.
a• unmoor. •bos vilik ebbe fro
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