The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

erntral Nom.

THZ Rev. James John liornby, M.A., of Brasenose
Osford, Sooond Master ot Winchester College, has be.
'Listed Head Master of Eton College, as successor to Dr.
Balstou.

THE farther hearing of the St. Alban'. ritual cue
will eommence on the 9th instant. Mr. Stephens
having opened the case on behalf of Mr. Martin,
the promoter of the auit, Mr. Coleridge will proceed
on the name aide on the first day of the assumed hearing,
THE Weeleyans have lost • venerable and faithful
servant by the death of Dr. Hannah. The deceased
gentleman took cold a few days ago, which resulted ia
congestion of the longs, and he succumbed to the attack.
At the time of his death he was the oldest member of
"the legal hundred."
TTSTIMONIAL TO AN EDITOIL—A very handsome
testimonial, consisting of a .ilvor salver and upwards
of .1:61X), was presented on Tueaday ta Mr. T. Latimer,
the proprietor and editor of the Wester's Tiniest, for the
service* he has rendered to the Liberal party and to
the GUSH of civil and religious liberty for nearly forty
THZ mystery of the false lights which have led to no
many eased* being stranded on Wliitburn rooks ia
believe I to have been aolved by tho discovery of a
recently occupied hut in'Frosbwater bay, up the chimney
of which was found • piece of wreck of timber, on one
end of which was a in.., of rope yarn and pitch and
ter, similar to a pitch mop need on hoard ship, but it
had no appearanee of having been in the water.

THE KIreENUE RETURNS of the qusrter and year jest
closed show • net deerea.e in the public income of as
mush as £806,955. The diminution has taken plsce
mainly in the Exeime and the Income and Property Ts:,
the first of which shows • decreale of C 379,000, and the
second of £429,000. On the other hand, the eu•tonle
have yielded 11:114,000 more tat" in the werresponding
gonrter of 11466.

ANOTHIII I.ADT VOTICR.—The Manchester iralliißer
states that another 111•nchester laity ham reciorded her
vote, but this time exercising • municipal, and not a
parliamentary right. During the polling for a eandidate
to supply the rampancy In the Orford ward of that city.
Mien Jessie Goodwin presented herself, and, her nem.
bring found on the roll of the citizens of Manchester,
her vote WIN received.

Trig death on Friday of Mr. William R. Godson, who
had for nearly twenty years occupied the position of
superintendent of the London and South Weetern
}Laibray, and whose connexion with that line date, from
its first opening, is announced. Ile had been suffering
from severe illness for several month., and during that
time lost Ins wife.

TFIN Board of Trade returns for the month and eleven
months ending the :30th November show a falling off,
although not to a serious extent, in the trade of tbe
'vaunter. The 'vine of the exonrta for the month Is
£14,879,789, agaimit P 15.080,430 in November, 1866.
The total f.v the eleven nvutbs of this year is
£167,931.37k against £173,913,222 in the corresponding
period of 18611.

BABY FAllll:lo.—The coroner's inquiry Into the death
of an infant that had fallen • victim to baby farming,
took plue on Monday at St. Luke's, London, and emus
light was thrown on this kind of business by lirs.
Thorne, who bad obtained her livelihood by taking
children to nurse. Her charge warn ra. a week, and she
got the children by advertising in • Clerkenwell paper.
She did not "adopt" them, and had no intention of
doing so. She bad taken children in this way for
twelve months, and during that time three had died
—an extraordinary mortality. She confessed to never
having had more than three at a time, as she considered
Cast number se many u rite could properly n'...le•
The jury attributed the death of the child to congeation
of the lungs from want of natural nourishment and
care on the part of Mrs. Thorne, and they thought that
some steps ought to be taken to alter the system of
baby farming. The coroner was requested to write to
the Home Secretary on the subject, and lay before him
a summary of the evidences taken in this tone.

" LeSTO well alone." "We do not get Tea relatively
so cheap and good as this in England," said a British
visitant while quaffing the pure infusion in • Mandarin's
verandah.—" No." replied the Chinese merchant, 'we
make you up sorts pretty well to look at, then foreign
merchant much pleased. Now, this is. fact, for the
colouring of the leaf foe English supply is done to
enable the Chinese Tea-men and others to increase their
profits, for the powdered mineral colour misleads the
consumer's judgment, as it makes the faded worthies,
leaves to look like the good, and enables all to be passed
off at • full price. Horniman and Co., London Original
Importers of the Pure Tea, knowing that dry paint
cannot improve tea, and that oonsumers require good
and cheap tea, and prefer to "leave well alone," have
long imported very strong and cheap Tea, without
powdered colour on the leaf, and aupply it seemed in
packets. See advertisement in this day's paper.
HOSRIBLIS CASE OF STARVATION TO DRAM. —An
Inquest has been held at Oxford on the body of Martha
Harris, 64 years of age, the widow of a railway eon-
tractor, who had been for some time in • deplorable
state of destitution. Having tried life in ths workhouse
for a short time she preferred misery without. On
Christmas-day she sold two old pennants for a penny,
with which she purchased some 'bread. A day or two
after a neighbour entering the room, found the poor old
woman on the bare floor, naked, without any fire,
clinging to an old broken-backed, rickety chair, and
gnawing her arm in the agony of hunger and of death.
When the jury went to view the body it was found
'fill on the floor, the dress upon it consisted of a stock-
ing on one foot only, and a dirty rag which nee tied
round the neck. A bit of sacking bad been ebn,ern
over the body for the sake of tleceney. The old rickety
'hair to which she had clung in her dean agony was
the only piece of furniture in the room.
Tag LAST New THING IN Vgarngnin._The Chyme
Review inserts the following letter, under the abo.e
heading, apparently not at all perceiving the delicate
neralfiage of the writer, who is obviously burlesquing
the E.C.1.7.s :--Sir,—Like your respected correspondent.
"M." and "ED. Cree," I am one of those who am
[sit) quite tired of the gloomy and funrral dress no
many of our priests appear in, even at the altar; and,
aa I could not thing of doing anything like other people,
am net thinking of trying to introduce ooloored
ebneemen I have, therefore, had the most lovely
cassock made of a sky-blue silk, with • long train; over
thin j ern going to wear an alb trimmed with reel
old point, and a large and ample noire ontilrle
chasuble, made very full to fall in foirls, like a lady
',bawl • of course, beneath Bib • ooloured dole can be
won, nil, I fancy, will not be like anything those
peer creatures the " modern ROOMS." wear; and if I
like to say it's just what is represented in a (moos in
the Catacombs, who is to contradict me' Though,
ht to represent a priest in full canonicals,
turns out to be a portrait of Symphrovia, the grand-
thob by, they do say that the figure which was at
bayrs the
mother of one of the early Popea. Why, too, abould
prime wear the gloomy black hat? I have adopted
• space one; and, all wear it slightly on one side, it
has • most festive appearance. I Rama you I never
saw a modern Roman priest thus arrayed. A friend of
mine tella me that at least am early as the beginning of
the fifth century black was considered the popular
colour for clerical habits, and that a cassock is part of
ampogrieerte
priest's daily
attire ; but bless me, if we take rush
as those of any authority by way of
we shall be running into the ridiculous error
things like other people, which all who
gaily removed from modern Romaniam
oapi,
uhtehtodeeyonb:dt, .ihr
gang
d, and Puritanism on the other," ought
carefully to avoid. Eagerly looking for some fresh hint
In the way of gay, cheerful, lively, festive attire, I
remain, yours, kw, Qtniqtrtn.