The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

r A MOST remarkable phenomenon was witnessed is
litiminwhant ow linesday. Dating a wart of tie ems-
ing the town vu enveloped in &home total risrimesn,
end Win in the sfwesst•ii II we as Suit as ta the
mildie of a winter's night. At boll:miriade there wail
a moderate fall of rain, with little '

A NM in • GRAM —A few cloys ego, soon after
the sextoo of the parish of AUristoe £nbb.t &Wag •
grim% a robin took a great fancy to 664 new dosetarl,.
and soon built& nest in it. She must haws worked hard
io somplote her design in so abort a space, for when the
sottos went as the following day to see that all Utley
were as he left then the right before, he sew the roils
Pop oat from her hiding place, and to his greet adasia-
went found her net.

Tnntyonw BILL Usstnurroitst.--It apposes from
the Reta-ci that Earl 11.0111•1111 and Mr. Gladstmes,
Imelda, their Reform Bill, rand be regarded as allies of
Dr. Coteorno. In a lest:ling article of its Wednessliteis
ions, our eontemporary remarks that "it is to be bops&
that this question of reform may be settled owe for
by POlllll measure whieh may satiety the pledges both er
Whip and Tories, and yet not altogether nude:solo
the foundsUons of the Boriptare,*

NATIONAL TINFIRAICIN I.4lllooL—Tho annual most.
lag has been held in Eisler Hall. The result of sa
inquiry instituted by the Leanne showed that lis•
misators of roligion in England and Wales, conneohed
with the temperate/I movement, numbered 2.748,
tribute,' as follows :—Church of Rephiod. 600; ocingre-
istionalista, ISM; baptists, 260; wetibrysna, 190; Welsh
0,1,;.;4;,; methodists, 332; primitive methodists, 454;
united methodist free church, 146; bible chrlidissa, 146;
presbyttirlans, methodist new connexion, weskyoq
rebruoirs, Ise., 110. The cash account chewed an
income of 0,596 13s. bid, and sa sspeodlture of
£3,888 ss. 10d.

IIiaHUSS 01 POPOLATIOX.—WIaIIat the births were
136,747 the deaths were in the mine time 138, and
the mows of the former over the latter was 68,504. The
natural increase wika 660 daily; but tbis wee distributed
by migratory teodendee, always in 1/filre 0p051105.
re. total number of entifirtnia 'meg= in England.
Bootless', and 'reload, was 39,672, of about 11,000
cam of English origin. lytib emigration from theme.,
porta was nearly double that amount. Of the total
number 33,000 emigrants had chosen the United Mates
for tb. in &ideation, and 6,000 Australian Colonies. Or
the 21,000 Irish emigrants, 19,000 went to the United
States. Butignatiew dealined greedy is the drat quarter
of 1866; but it has again increased, sad was.. agave ail
in the two previou. years 1863-64.—Rsgiarer's Rawls.

I A DIBANTIIOOB nti broke oat on the premiss* aces.
pled by &Irma. Nil Brothers, tobansonids, Uremia*le
street, London, on Wednesday night. A daughter of
one of tbe firni, Alice Nis, sir years of age, and a dent
and diamh man, named %%Them Con, periebed In tbe
dame.. It appears Host the shop-tiny, who was wood
by to OIC ipe, was in the shop when the fire broke oat,
and ran upstairs, and alirmed the servant girl, who
wan nursing one of the children. film run down the
etaireaae and avowed. ,Tbe boy naught Ms Ails. nadir
his arm, and tried to follow. Hs got down to the drat
door landing, when she screamed and got sway from
him. He groped about to lind her, but weld not, and
the smoke and heat suffocating him, la• crawled to the
front window, where he was dragged out nearly dead.
The body of the porter, William Oss. was found tinder
the window of the second door, where he had bison....

CAPTION TO PLYMOUTH BINEDICIUL —AI the
Plymouth Ragged &boob Beaux, opened on Wednesday
there was, amongst the articles for sale, some woter
from the wall of St. Koine, which water, it Mbar/wad.
hod i aupremaney to whither. er of a married couple irob
drinks it. It was in refereooe to this poteat liquid
that the laureate Southey wrote—
" I hastened as soon ea the wedding we. dew&
And left my wife laths porch;
But Pfaitli she bad been wiser than me.
For she brought a bottle to ehereLs
Although offered for sale upon a stall at which two no.
married lodise wore the presiding divinite., it waa under.
stood that bachelors, con templating matrimony, might
purchase at enlisweed prima

Trit 11,-1311171110110N BILL.—The Pall Mall Gaset
believes them is truth in the report tbat Government
intends to gronp small boroughs instead of dle-fran-
chising them. 'nem are obvious advantages in WM
system. No boroughs which now return members am
depri •ed of direct repreeentation. No rotate am dis-
qiudified by having their qualifications measured by tibie
county instead of the borough Mender& Bribery and
loodlerd influence areas° both checked in some degree.
Where • candidate wiggly be tempted to bey om borate'
be would be staggered where the perchers must inelode
th rve orfour in order to make his return ears. On the otber
hand if the groping is well managed, no set of boroughs
would be left under the control of any One great proprietor,
and the chances of landlord domination would teas be
materially reduced. About fifty mete will, it is sail.
be transferred by the new Hilt In Mr. Bright's scheme,
it will be remetuhered, firtv-siz Knalleh b iroughs were
to be absolutely deprived of moronic hatioe, while thirty.
four were to loge one of their two members.

A KAMM baptism of adults, In conneetion with the
Plymouth Brethren, took place in a brook MI the moot
at Adrift's, on Sunday week. The temperature waist
freezing point at the time. Several hundreds of persons
attended to witness the flipping. A ftfrr • public servies
the immersicas took vlaos. Mr. Bickley. of Yemeni
odici•ted, waisted by Mr. Myers, of BristoL Mr:
&Arra • youth in the employ of Mr. Green. groper,
Albridge, and Mr. Broom, shoemaker, ot Cheddar,
with sold woman of Cheddar, named Hutson, were the
converts. Amusement was °caseload by the difficulty
experienced in endeavouring to keep down the women's
drew, which was extended, and became similar to an
inflated baloon, and rendered it necessary to perform
the ceremony of dipping twice. The parties were im-
mersed in the clothing they ordinarily wore, and in
shish they had earns to the moor. One of the MCP
bolted as soon ea he got frets the water on terra firma
barr-headel, shivering, sad dripping wet. De had to
go newly before he had the opportunity cif
getting • dry suit, while the °then were takes bask in
• wham.

A Damn CHILD 81111 T DT RAILWAT.—On Thursday
an inquest was concluded at Gay's Hospital, on the
body of • atild. a week old. undi r the following ci mum.
stenos. :On the 160 of January last, a deal box was
forwarded by seine unknown perms from London Iltridge
by the Routb-Reatern Its.lway, bearing the address,
John Miller. 100th Company, Royal Mariam, Wool.
with. To be called fere' In February the box was
sent beak to London, as no one ola mad it, and it was
l.ft In the lest properly Mlles until the end of April,
when it was °relied. and the b dy of a 'Mid was die.
covered in it. Dr. C. White stated that the child had beam
b .rn alive, and had Hr.(' for, week, but owing to the
state of deeorepesitien of the body, b. could net tell
what was the calve of de.th. A marine. named biller,
on being Interrogated by the polies, aid that the only
vie be knew we. Harriet Greenwood, who lived at
Inutosteat. This person, oil being esainised before the
ooroi.er, denied all knowledge of the boa and its contents.
Th. jury returned an open verdict el "Found dead in
box."

SINGULAZ 00017111101 CO AT • PLIWIZAL. —At the
funeral of Mkt K nay fitelletd, daughter of Me, nia
Stallard, of Dundry, which took plus recently. a
rather Mauler incident happened. At the coneinsion
of the funeral service, and after the Rev. Kr. Bout.
Sower had gone home, one of the relatives of the do-
omed thesgbt be saw the even move u it lay in the
grave. He hastened to Yr. Boutdower, who, on hearing
the report, returned to the grave. By Bat hi,DO•4 with
the consent of the fatties% Mr. Paul stofla,d, the men
was unscrewed; and the lid having been raised, it was
evident that the some had not moved, and that the
suspicion that the woman might not be dead was quite
unfounded. To satidy all tbe pumas whom the affair
bad attracted to the spot, • glees was procured and
placed to the lips of the diseased, but not the slightest
smpiratiout was apparent. Mr. Bouteower further
poetised out the fact that the angers of the deceased ex-
I hihited unmietakeable signs of deoompositut, and the
father Lod friends Wing perhertly satisfied, the was was
screwed down again. and the burial soseptued. The
yeas( woman had been dead &sun days. It is the
=stoat in the perish to ring a "marriage peal" over the
Intel...eat of a young unmarried female. This was
being done at the time of the alleged moving of the
wen.

PHI MORTAL/TT IT MI BLAME NOIITIL—Tbo Re
glare: General in his new report takes the following
remarks :—lf the map of Ragland were shaded to
represent the rates of mortrlity of last qsarter in the
registrable district., the eye, travelling from the lighter
month to the darker north would be latently drawn to
ntous dragnets on the Mersey; sod th
:u=t ei
onwoeld he wad whether shot the bled:
death, or other plague, imported with bales of meratiaa
dim, bad been lately intranewl into its bay and
apologia seaport. Happily this bat not been the case-
but
fever, probably developed or aided by the mild anti
damp atincepbere of the scam, and by overnrowdiag
in on ineresehig poptiation, ha been buy sod fatal in
Liverpool, and in other towns of the s. pie emote, ad
of Yorkshire. The annul mortality of the borough of
Liverpool in the three months was egoweire, and de•
mends immediate and eartiot oonsideratioe ; it rose to
4596 per out. This implies that if this datb-rate
were in-inteined for a year, forty-az persons out of •
thousand in the population would die In that time, or
titan more them died in Glasgow, its northern rival,
ninet en more than in London. The morality of the
city of Manchester, though far lees than that of Liver-
pool, was higher thee in any other of the thirteen
selected towns of the Unita Kingdom; it was 3142
per oat, and that al Leeds was hardly ions.
QUASTULT TIMM or 111.1111AGIS. BIRTHS, LTD
Dlalllll.—no Registrar Gamier@ return, are again
honed, namely, marriage, October. November,
Deetesbm. I 88& Birth. and deaths, January, February,
Mute, 1866. The registers of the United Kingdom
ended in %ember list; that the births of 266,663
dilwassichildsbeircee,:":"Rwarentil:;n:eitifedadia,:rsstboimsatsmante Itatiabfrireei::::tittsopelowichgesladisreirdndino t
aba4 %g
;:g
This retain mamba the and deaths regirtered
by 2.200 Rairtme in all the diettlets of England daring
the winter quarter that ended on March 31M, 1866 ; and
the guarriages is 12,836 churches or eigapas, about
5,363 registered Mar of worship uneeenerred with the
Established Cherub, and 641 Elopetintendat Risittrars'
°Moe% is the quarter that ended on Dee tabor 81m,
1866. If abigh tarries...rate is scanted se a bulb:Witt
of well-being ml commitment In the mat bulk a the
people, the present return is highly satiefamory ; for in
the lest garter of am !at year the -rate
was unanally, pease. enpaciadeetedly. high all over
the eountry. The natural (Teeth of the popelatiou, on
shown la the birth-registers, has been active for •
time; and it wee well mahrtabseilje the
lint Wee months of the presest year. agairest
latter fat must he set the high awn slay which pre-
vailed dared the era. pried rattly In amesqessee
of ervtoorulogisel meditioes ed shames% aefearesushile
to health. Weddings ere always the meet isedeeet I.
the Christieas glitter. and in that et 1814 the marriade-
reit was 2,022; but within the made el the temperisee,
namely I tea years 111211-05 a este se high as 21 sec
mot le without say aumpie with the Made
al that whieh is wigppiiakty the primal Mara.

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