The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

So mere etzbitt.

Th. DUMMY' MURDER. --At the assizes held at
Taunton on Tuesday, before Mr. Baron Martin,
Matthew Wedmore and Charke Wedmore were,
after • full hearing of the came, found guilty of the
charge of wilfully murdering Sarah Waterman, on
the 9th of January last. The learned judge, who
was mach affected, gave them no hope of mercy,
and passed in the usual form the sentence of death.
—ln the Nisi Prime Court, the Calle of Hine v.
Guppy, wee heard. It wm an action on • horse
deal between the plaintiff • farmer living at
Donetabire, and the defendant,who lives in the same
county. The jury, after being locked up, returned
a verdict for the chintiff, damage. 211e.—DtrmiA-
VON 07 CHARACTIA.—T7eIO36O/1 (vicar of Ilminster)
v. &riven. After • very long hearing of this case,
which has excited conaideraWe interest in this and
the neighbouring counties, the jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff. Damages 1.800. The
verdict was received with applause.

Tors:grog ELlCTlON.—Visooust Palmerston was re-
elected for Tiverton on Thursday, without opposition.
His lordship was loudly applauded. He WS& pretty
closely questioned by Mr. Rowell& as to the domestic
policy of the government, to which he replied in his
usual happy style, provoking continued laughter.
Attowenogn ro Tuesday, at the
Norfolk Amiss*, Ilse grand jurisoide tio following ws-
sentiment ;—" We, the grand jury of ths °Dant, of If or-
folk, desire to express to Her Majesty'. judge, of assize
our opinion that the present scale of allowances to wit-
nesses at anises and quarter newtons is such.. may
produce in many oases a failure of public Justin% We
think, therefore, that the scale requires revision, and
hops that your Lordship will represent this matter to
the proper authorities, that attention may IND directed
to ths cans, of complaint which now exists." Mr.
Justice Williams intimated that every attention should
be paid to the presentment.
Tits leaves taken from the Tea plant in the early
gpr UN/ when full of virtuous juices, are by far the best;
as the season advances the crop increases largely in
paiway, but decreases greatly in quality; towards
Autumn the leave' become almost flavourless. This
latter growth was formerly all sold at low rates under
its real name,—BoAta :—but this dingy common tea,
together with the best have long been made to appear
atilt by being covered by the Chinese with the same
ioodered mineral colours and mixed off with ths fine,
to the great loss of the C.:flaunter. (See Parliainentary
and Lancet Reports). Ti,. way to avoid the come-
gumless of this objectionable practice is by purchasing
Black aorta that are not made intensely dark, and all
Greens of • dull olive As,., without may bluish colour on
the surface. Horniman and Co., London, import such
Puns TRA, and supply the same in packets, through
their authorised Agents, as Loom. LW advertised in
this Paper.
ILKOZNPTION PION SLAVE:MT.—More than £2,000 has
been collected in thecountry,chiefly arnongthe Wesleyan
body, for the purpose of ransoming font American
slaves. The sum collected was double the amount
required, and therefore another member at the family
will also be redeemed, and the residua applied to pur-
chase a small patch of ground in Ohio, where the now
hake) family intead to settle down."
MI INDIAN FANINP.--A public meeting NY held in
the Egyptian Hall, Mansion-house, on Thursday after-
noon, for the purpose of devising measures for alleviat-
ing the distress in ledia. The Lord Mayor presided,
and was supported by several members of parliament.
The Lord Mayor, the Hon. A. Laniard, Sir E. Hymn,
and other gentlemen moved and seconded the resolu-
tions, and at the Wow it was announced that Mr. Glad-
stone had headed the subscription list with VA ; the
Bank of England subscribed 1.1100 ; the Agra and United
Service Bank, 11300; Oriental Bank 1300 ; Goldsmiths'
and Moroer's Companies, £2OO each, besides other
large eta.
MALIGNANT Ewan in Liciraroor..—An uncomfort-
able feeling exist. in Liverpool, ceased by several cases
of very malignant fever having oecurred there. The
fasts, so far as they can be at present gathered, are
these :—Some time ago, an Egyptian fripto having
arrived in the Mersey, one or two of the crew had been
seised with fever of a most malignant type they
were conveyed to the Southern Hospital, where ono of
them died. The fever, or one of an esosodingly
similar character, made its appearance almost simul-
taneously with that event among the attendant& at the
hospital. The fever originating on board an Egyptain
vessel has given rise to the rumour that it lath. plague.
The improbabilitos of any such epidemic arising on the
shores of the Mersey are rendered all but conclusive
by all medical testimony, nothwithatanding which
considerable anxiety has been stetted.
Tun BTIIIIII IN THZ BUILDING TIUDI.— On Thum
day morniog meetings of delaptas and others were held
at tie headiaarten in Rochester-place, and at the
house of the masons, Mama-street, Lambeth, for the
purpose of considering their present position. Nothing
definite has transpired to load to the hops that there
may be a speedy termination of tha strike • on the
contrary, there is every reason to fear that it will
be prolonged. It is rumoured that on Monday the men
at Messrs. Trollope's, and one or two other large firms,
will turn out, thus throwing some hundreds more men
on the funds of their trades onion, pd to casual con-
tributions which may be received from the country. At
Mown. Kolks' in Pimlico, and at Mears. Lucas' in
Lambeth, some few plasterers and masons ars at work,
bet these do not belong to the union, and are con-
sequently regarded by the unionists as black sheep.
The Messrs. Lucas, who have the contract for the
building of the Great International Exhibition in 1862,
deelsrs that the strike shall not in any serious way
interfere with ths progress of the works, and that by
one class of labourers or another they shall be resumed
in the course of next week.

A CAIibIIITO -.1.4;T105t-tr'--.—.About 20 minutes past 6 00
Wednesday evening, the 8.60 goods train with •
her of empty cattle-trucks attached from Birmingham,
due at Camden Station at 6.65, was nearing the Kilburn
Station, Willesden, when one of the empty cattle
-
trucks suddenly became detached, causing thereby
a separation of three trucks and • goods van. The
enginedriver perceiving the mishap increased the spited
of his engine, and in consequence got clear of the in-
evitable catastrophe that ensued. The truth that became
detached got entangled with the three others, compos-
ing the hind part of the train, got of the rail, drugging
the rest with it, and the whole came into violent
collision with the station building's, knocking down the
corner of a brick wall 15 inches thick, and
completely destroying that part of the station
called the porter's lodge, the passengers'
covered waiting platform, 40ft. long, part of the Inas-
live IMO railing surrounding the station platform,
entirely demolishing the van and the three trucks, and
Presenting a scene of great confusion. While this
work id destruction was going on the engine-driver,
with, the remaining portion of the train, made the beet
of
"'" way to Camden for artistes," and Mr. Anderson,
the foreman of the locomotive department, with 90 or 40 workme,,. promptly arrived at the aeons, and by
midnight the line was sign clear for traffic. The pas-
senger trade was la no way impeded, inasmuch as the
line on which the esaideet warred is excluateoli_f••
the goods Idia wt... 0 this point and the Weet Junction, and east be hawked up, as was done
In this Instance, until MO Loose, u„....ary, without
any
important interference with the ordinary trails of the
read. Fortunately no loam or in)." to life vu:sas.
Mined.