The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-30 00:00:00

Varittirs.

A NTIQU IT T OF THE PIO .—The pig is the existing re-
preieintative of • very ancient race of mammals which
lived and died upon this earth long before there were
Christians to devour, or Jews to abhor, their flesh.
The arsine species of wild-boar that was hunted by oar
forefathers Was contempmary with the mammoth, the
cure-bear. and the longhaired rhinoceros. Some
pen.ons imagine that geology deals only with basil
shells or fishes ; but there is • vast deal of interest
attached to the geological history of the predecessors
and representatives of our domestic animals. We
know that the wild ancestor of our domestic pigs IMO
it' existence hefsre the separation of England from the
Continent of Europe; and that tbe hunter, had hunters
then lived, 'night bane chased the boar through forests
the site of which DOW is occupied by the waves of the
English Channel. Mammoths, tigers and rhinoceros/its
perished, but the wild luar lived, and lives still, on the
Continent of Europe, though extinct here.—Old Bowes,
by the Rer. W. S. Syn.:nuts.
PROTESTANTS AND 11111 FILILNCH LEADING JOURNALS.
—The Rev. Mr. Fisch, who has been some time in this
country pleading the cense of the Evangelical Church of
France, among many other encouraging statements with
reference to the aileancing influence of Protestantism in
that lend, slays that the chief editors of the three most
prominent journals of Paris—the Journal des Meats
the Prase, said the Silde—am Proteatants.
NAPOLEON 111, AND TEE ENGLTIE CHURCII.—La
reply to an application made by the English Chaplain of
Biarritz to the Einperor of the French, the Emperor
has forwarded the munificent donation of 2,000 francs
(ESO) towards the funds of the English Church lately
erected there. The building. including site and fittings,
has cost about El,OOO. The parsonage is vested in the
Colonial Church and School Society. During the past
winter the English congregation has numbered about
100.

FOUNDERID at Sus.—Captain Arthur Campbell, of
the Morning Star, thus details a melancholy event which
took place on the 224 of March :—"On the 224 of March,
at 7 a.m., when steering out by south of Cape Henry
(east coast of North America), I fell in with a schooner
in • sinking condition, ultimately came up with her,
but unfortunately could render no immediate assistance,
u the wind was blowing a perfect hurricane at tbe time.
1, however, ran as close an 'safety would permit to the
schooner, and attempted to save the crew, but failed.
I again made • second attempt, and while doing so the
schooner went down gent foremost, with all bands on
'mead, within two cables' length of any ship. I then
ran the Morning Star close to where the vessel went
down, in ordvr to more easily pick up •ny of the crew
who might come to the surface ; in thin last act I wan
also divappointed, as after the schooner went down
there was not a trace left behind to show that such a
sad and deplorable event had occurred hut • few minutes
before. I read the name of the schooner on her stern,
hut in the excitement and confusion at the time I

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forgot it."
Tue TALGARTH MUIDZIL —The final sentence of
the law was carried into effect in front of the gaol at
Brecon, at 8 o'clock on Tueaday morning, upon William
Williams, who was convicted at the Brecon Assizes in
March for the wilful !wader of his aunt on the 19th of
October, 1860. The culprit had lived in the service of
an uncle, on • farm about seven miles from the house
where his aunt resided. at Fawydden. Talvuth, about
20 miles from Hereford. Williams slept at her house
on the night of October 18, and seemed on good terms
with Lis relative. He took with him a gun, which he
usually carried about his uncle's farm for hirddieeping.
The next day, in the afternoon, his sister went into an
adjacent field for some hay, taking with her a little boy,
an illegitimate son of the aunt. Williams was at this
time in the fold-yard, and his victim was in the house
sitting in a high-backed chair by the fire picking wool,
Just as the sister was rut:mine she heard the report of
fire.arms, and running forward, met her brother
coming out of the house, who exclaimed that his aunt
had shot herself. It vu subsequently found, bow'
ever, timat it won a murder whieb had been co Iced,
and that Williams was the murderer. Since the
culprit's sentence, which was accompanied with •
recommendatioe to mercy, but which Mr. Justice
Byles warned him could hardly be expected to avert
his doom, the miserable youth (for he was only 19 years
of age), for the fir-'t time subseqiient to the crime,
appeared to realise his awful situation. He has been
attended with the moat sedulous earnestness by the
Rev. David Price, RD.. chaplain to the county gaol.
Ile has been visited by his relation., the final parting
with whom was of the most affecting description. He
attended Divine service in the chapel on Sunday, and
heartily joined in the responses. tiiloo tile arrival of
Mr. Maybury, the liniler-Slieriff, shortly after half.
past 7 o'clock. that gentleman, accompanied by Mr.
Luenhury, the governor of the gaol. proceeded to the
cell and informed the wretched man that the hour was
come when he intuit meet his fate. his fortitude quite
forsook him, *nil he burst into hitter and jorsionate
flood of tears, which the exhortations of the Rev. Mr.
Price could not allay. The process of pinioning having
been gone through with mach difficulty, the culprit
rallied a little, and shook hands with the governor,
thinking him for his great kindness, and also for that
of the officers of the prison. He acknowledged the
justice of his sentence, but expressed, in pentience
Anil hope, a belief that lie would receive pardon for
his crime. The procession having arrived at the drop,
the fatal knot was quickly adjusted, and while most
earnestly joining in the burial ureic*, es read by the
chaplain,. the IsMt was withdrawn, and, after a momen-
tary struggle, the wretched youth mused to smut. Them
was • vast number of persons present, and a feeling of
commiseration pervaded them from the extreme youth
of the culprit, and his lamentable state of ignorance.
After hanging the usual time the body wee cut dos D.
and in the course of the day was buried in the preeints of
the rel.—Globe.
Bccrrrtett Cessna A neenares.—The Rdildnerph Wit-
ness notes a number of anecdotes and incidents con-
nected with the Census which are finding their way into
the Scottish papers. According to the Dunfermline
Prue, • military gentlemen in that vicinity aould not
by any possibility get his domestics to disclose their '
sees, until he threatened to put down all the young
woman under his roof at forty. The threat hod
the desired effect. Memory was suddenly recalled;
the girls were none of them above twenty. The
Falkirk Herald vouches for the following :—An 0111111 W
rater tells us that in his district an old gentleman, whose
authenticity is indisputable, bas witnessed in one
family the sixth generation. Another man had his
age and that of his wife set down as 604 and 801 re-
spectively, instead 61 and 61. An elderly spinster,
when asked for her age, which she had left blank in
the schedule, ordered the enumerator to be goes out
of lier house for • blackguard! A Fife paper states
that one irate female sent one of the enumerators to
the right about face, characterizing him as having " a
pretty stock of itniindence to ask any decent woman's
okipation." The following is reported by the Angus
pipers, under the head Brechin :"—An one of the
enumerators was going his rounds the other day, he
called upon an old woman for the purpose of leaving a
schedule; but no sooner had shown himself at the
door, than he was somewhat startled by the following
exclamation :—" Gee awa,' gee nun'; yov needna some
to me for mair siller forth. kirk. furl hamming to myself'."
The Greenock eldrertiser states that daring last week
the enumerator of • poor district is one of the burgh
parialies distributed his schedules among the house-
holders, intimating that he 'etchl return for them upon
Monday morning. On telling upon that day, however,
he was couaiderahly astonished to find that fourteen of
the houses were shut up, their oocnpanta having in the
interim decamped with hag and baggage, under the
idea that they were about to be saddled with • tax !
The Maven, Daily Review says :—" One timorous
dame. in • poor locality, astonished the enumerator by
exclaiming passionately,—'l3se awa wi' your papers,
man. Div ye think I dinna ken ye. tho' ye has na on
yer sodger'm else'? Gee awe vi' ye ; I've got no
bairns fit for sodgers.' The good lady had taken it into
her head that the serving of the schedule was • pre-
liminary to the impressment of her two sons into the
m ilita."

CUM of ASTIDIATIC Covens. IC.. I Ycovil,, IT De.
Locornis Pruioxic WARS/I.— From Mr. Inc. Oaail., Medicine
Wershonee, opposite Stuckey's Rank, Yeovil. " Gentlemen,—
Ai • proof of the excellence of Dr. Loooek'a PuMonk Wafers,
I may mention the following; came :—A lady called and
purehmed a 2s. 9d. box, and observed that she had heard a
good character of them and ma determined to Mee them •
trial, having suffered for year. from an asthmatic cough, and
spent pounds n other medicines, and all to no purpote. A
few week. after the same lady called again, when I asked her
if she 'owl found any benefit front the box ; she replied that
• she had been completely cured by them,'—merely one 2s. Dd.
box. Other ins'ancre are from time to tme occurring, which
prove the cable ~f these lounges above all other medicines for
pulmonary d seems, coughs, cold., tic. LICK Ohms." To
singers and public speakers they are Invaluable for clearing and
"'lengthening the t"lca They have e pleamat taste. Price
la. lid., b. Dd., and Ils per box. Sold by all dromrata.
CAUTl.,2l.—Every box of the OINUT‘E medicine has the worth,
" DR. LOCOCICRWAFERS" lu &We letters on a red ground
In the Government Stamp, and without which • ords ALL *as
&NO /A ildreentoX.

The rumour that the Bithop of Brechin bad seceded
to the Church of Rome is contradicted.
The abdication of the King of Denmark, Frederick
VII., in favour of the hereditary Prinoe Christian, and
his early departure for Algeria, is talked of.
Anothei body of Mormunites, thirty-seven in number.
of whom no lens than twenty-live were women, left
Landon on Monday for Utah. They were collected
obiefly (ruin Hertfordshire, in which county converts to
the doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints are said to have
been very numerous of late.
A statue of the late Sir Charles Barry is to occupy a
place in the new Houma of Parliament, with some ap-
propriate motto in the sense of that on Wren's monu-
ment " Circumspiece I" A statue of Turneri, the
painter, is to be planed in St. Pure nathedral.
A liver coin of the time of Robert Brno was recently
dug appear Yarrow.

LOSHON THZ FUTURE SEAT Or THZ PAPACY.
The Indepoidance Beige, in its number of the 22d.
contains Cie following communication front • Pans
correspondent:— "One of my colleagues in the tack of
correspondence hall already transmitted to you infer-
illation respecting a decision of the Holy Father,
amiroved by 21 Cardinals, which institutes Cardinal
Wiseman, the Primate of England, as reptesetitative of
the Papacy in the event of the decease, the deposition,
or the abdication, whether forced or •oluntary. of the
Sovereign Pontiff. The information which I have
received completely harmonises with that already given.
It is now in my power to complete it by additional
details. It in not Cardinal Antonelli who, as might
have been supposed, has undertaken the working out
of this decision (to which the Church attaches the
highest importance), but Cardinal Alticri, ranicrlengo
of the Church, and who, in the event of Pius IX. 's
death, is to common the Conclave. The number of
Cardinals adhering to the arrangement far exceeds the
number of 21, while those who still express some
hesitation are not above five or six. The opponents
are—first, Cardinal Marini, of the order of deacons.
President of tLe Court of Appeal, and who presided
ever the secret conferences held from time to time at
the dwellini of the Reverend Father de Regis, in the
'treat Dew Anina. Next comes the Neapolitan
Cardinal Camillo di l'ictro, the l'resideut of the
Council of state, who enjoys the reputation of being a
Liberal, but really is not so. Ha would have a nval
in the old Cardinal de Angelis, who is looked upon as a
, saint, lives in his archbishopric, and never comes to
Rouse, and in another Neapolitan Cardinal, Jerome
d'Andrea, who, however, likewise attcnded themeetinge
held iii the housef Ether de Regis, brought thither
by his colleagues and by the Piedmontese Cardinal
Gaude, of the Dominican order, who has just died at
the age of 52. To these must he a hied an old Corsican
eardilial named Saeelli. Cardinal Blarini hoped to
have formed a p ,rty, which would have received the
support of Frame; but the restoration to health of the
Holy Father has brought many things to • standstill.
The Cardinals are much too knowing for them to venture
to commit themselves by any acts of imprudence or
premature and hasty steps. I believe that at Teri*
certain illueions were entertained respecting the
infinente which might be brought to bear upon the Car-
dinals ; it was hot long before the mistake was discovered.
!Ms IX. has, in fact, had the idea of withdrawing to •
mona.stery, and has repeatedly expressed this ides to the
prelates by whom he is surrounded. They have
diverted him from this thoueht by Selling him that it
was on bib part a duty of conscience to struggle against
the evil which menaces the Church. That is said to
funtish the explanation of the energetic words addressed
by the Holy rather to Gereral de Nose, at his audience
just before returning to France. He convened with
him a long time, and presented him with a Roman
inosaic on bidding him farewell. "The present is not of
any great value," he said to him, "but now I am very
poor."
Mtatemee ROBBERY—On the morning of Wednes-
day last a most mysterious and /Ariel roller; was perpe-
trated at the Angel Hotel, Doncaster. While Mr.
, Thomas Pye, the son of the landlady, was in bed • man,
whom he describes as rtoucand wearing • moustache,
entered his bedroom, and although the man saw Mr. Pye
was awake, he deliberately took up Mr. Pye's trousers
and ahatracted therefrom a £5 Bank of England note, a
note of equal amount of the Whitchurch and °toaster
Bank, and about £l3 in gold. Mr. rye immediately
sprang from his bed to collar the man, but did not
succeed. The robber they ran off and endeavoured to
get out of Mr. Pye's tight in some of the lobbies with
which that part a the hotel abounds. Mr. Pye's
object was to meet the fellow at the point where the pas-
sages end at the head of the staircase, but this he did
not do. He gave instant alarm, and the police were
sent for. Sergeant Hanson, of the Borough force, went
and made • most minute search of the rooms, but did
not elicti anything that would lead o the detection of
the thief. An hour after he had left the hotel Miss Pye
found at the door of an unoccupied room half of the
Whits:thumb and Glocester note and ten sovereigusi, but
how they came here is not known. The police are
actively engaged in investigating the case.