The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-12 00:00:00

TIIE ROAD MUIWER.

Flown. —lt has been rumoured at Trowbridge
that Mr. Kent has resigned hos odic,: of Inspector of
Fay:tones, and at is isicl that the Government will
give him another situation, which w ill remove bins
(row the scene of the event whieh lias hpught him
and his family into such mien, bode noloriety.
We Isheen (sa)s the /Irish,' Po 4) we are correct
in stating that the inquiry int. the recent 'minter
at haul, which Mr. Hughes. tile chief of tile Kith
imbue. awl Mr. Inspector Norris have set on foot,
and upon which they has e us molded much time,
labour, and money, will Out be abandoned. Whilst
the highest lave court in the kinwheil W. 1.0 .104 her
atin# on the question iif reopening the ingliiry tas.
hastily clewl 17 the corner, those rasrcuciuwl
officers ounsidered it decorous to elation from toktag
any decisive *tame ; hut, if we are 1.4 misinformed,
they have well far from inactive, and have, indeed.
being placed in I.4aenni..ll of oice or two 'mitten'
which; although nut of great importance in them-
selves, yet tend to strengthen the chain of evidence
in sumo .rt lif a theory N lull, from all e.srly point in
their inquiries, they had felt themselves eviiniamol.
17 the i..rce of circusiumowes, Las adopt Wu shall
Out tic surprised to hear of their rep g, in a very
short time, their ia•rsi.cal. investicati-iiii at it•ss.l
am' in the neighbourhood. w hien ins eltlatic,lla they
have ilescoutinuell, we understand, for the resautut
above 'minuted.

CHARD. —A few days since as Mr. mimett, jun..
was shooting on Sutton Timms rabbit as wen to
run acroas the hedge. Mr: lilnioniett followed% it,
and the keeper, in endeavouring to 64.0, him, in-
cautioudly let the gun dlip through hid hand on to
the gro 1, Mr.l)..tomett being at the time about
three yards in front ot loin. 'file gun immediately
exploited, and Mr. Dounnett received aid.ut twenty
shots in his arm Anil one in his forehead. hail be
received' the whole or the charge it would
have killed, bun instan•aneously. After he hail re-
covered from the shook he was able to walk to It. ad
(40.., to chi house of Mr. N. White, where Mr.
Snook, surgeon, was in attendance. The wound'
were at once attended to, and the patient was then
able to return to Colleigh.
H•ttver's CHARITY. —Mr. Sylvester IVY elected in
the place of Mr. Coneybeare, deceased ; and another
vacancy occurred last week, Mr. Cluirley haviug
died at an advanced age.
Stlitiam DE %Till AT FORTON.—Tlact jury in the
case of Mr. (bawler, deceased, ("unit a verdict of
" %bed from the v i.itation of Goa."
MAMS/ICATE.s. CLICHICS firms. —rildwiril 'Trod
navvy, earn brought before .1. C. Ltlikluu, Eel., for
cruClly treating his wife. The poor womaii d face
exhibited obvious signs of the brutality of her hute
band. She stated she had been married sixtedni
years, and hail hail six children, and hail hems 'sub-
jected to the itrut:ll treatment in her hunleinil for two
years past. It was all occasioned by drink, and when
be was in that emulation sled went in fear of her life.
—The brutal fellow i'leadeil the drunkard's otenie,
au.l the worthy inagistrste Id.uudi him over in .1:40
and to tinil two sureties for £2O each, to keep the
peace towards his wife for 6 ..... nths. tlitfortuustwly
he prdeurwl hail on Um folloeing day sod wad
liberated.

Bunerto..—Siolilea Defilk.—A II inquest was held
no W'whiesilaeat UNIT this eitv, before
W. tlaisford, E..qui the hotly of Mary Reed, who
was discovered to be 'lead by a police constable, on
kliinitay week, on a boundary wall near her parent's
residence. It was stated that she hail on the pre-
vious evening, when she was in good health. though
subject to palpitation of the heart, attended at the
village church, awl was accompanied part of the
way tome by a young man, an acquaintance. Being
late, it is conjectured she cominesimil running,
which brought on her complaint, and, while resting
herself on the wall, it is assumed that she ruptured
lilmal.veasel, and ilk,' before she c,,nitl raise an
alarm. Several pursue gave evidence, and the
jury, after & brief deliheration, returned a verdict
that the immediate cause of death aa syncope,
the result of losonorrliage in the bowels, but whether
accelerated by violence there wee no evident.* to
show."

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Tat EARL OV 8114VTIMBURY ON CHRIKTII.IN
EUCCATIoN. —A very large and in'uential meeting
ti•ik platy on :shimLev week. in the great hall of tho
Victoria Rooms. in connection with the Young
Men's Christian Associatian. It was attended liy a
large nuulber clergsiiien and iiiiiiisiers o ,arinua
ilen-tniisations. The Earl of Shaftesbury primiled,
and delivered a powerful sadness on the reltgt•ma
aspect of the times, and the necessity which esista
for increased earnest Christian action.