The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET, AUGUST 17.
Consols for money aro Di t to 94, amount, 91 3.16
to 34 3-16.

GREAT PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION.
This (Monday) morning, notwithstanding the un-
settled state of the weather, many hundreds of panel,s
have gone to the Crystal Palma) for the purpose
Irlakiceig urals„h! the. t "SereaaturgestrOf ktinit
and tho Constitution." For many weeks past
great efforts have been made by the National
Protestant Union, the Church Association, and
other bodies to make the demonstration a success
so far as numbers are concerned, and immense
quantities of tickets have been disposed of. For
1.814011 ticket holders gratuitous demonstration tickets
have been provided. Lord Fitswalter, formerly, Sir
brook Bridges, Sect., will take the chair, and in the
soiree of the day meetings will be addressed by several
well-known Protestant advocates and friends of the Irish
church.

LORD AND LADY DIGOT and Hon. Miss Digby have
arrived from town at Mintern House, Dorset.
MR. AND TR/ HON. Mu RABRLRIGH and Miss
Ilashleigh have arrived at Herb, House, Wimborne,
from their town residence, Hill-street, Berkeleraquare.

Tau Mersey Docks and Harbour Board is about to
oaks Its first payment to the poor-rate of LiverpooL
The sum is £IO:000:
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--THE Prince and Princess of Wales left town on
Monday for Abergeldie Castle Aberdeenshire, where
they intend to remain six week:.

WHOLESALE SALEGHTIR OP DISEASED SHEEP.—
Above 2,000 sheep infected with small-pox have been
landed in the port of London, but the presence of the
disesae having been discovered they were condemned and
slaughtered on the wharves.
A FATAL WAGER.—The Bury Post gives an account
of an inquest held at Brome, near Eye, on the body of a
labourer namel Crawford, who made a wager that he
would drink a bottle of rum and work afterwards. lie
drank the luiu and died the lame evening.
A SINGULAR INVESTIGATION took place at the
Chapter-house of Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday,
The Bey. R. T. Taylor, rectcr of a pariah in Cornwall,
was charged with a breach of the Church Discipline
Act, he having refused to bury two children belonging
to a shoemaker named Goad, because they had not been
baptised by a clergyman of the Church of England,
but by a Wesleyan minister. The charge was
supported by two Wesleyan miniaters, and the
Commissioners found a prima lave case against the
dtfonlant.

COLLISION nrnrarN Hue. W•IIIIIOR AND ROYAL
OAK.— A very serious collision oceurred daring Friday
night between H.M.S. Warrior and the Royal Oak.
The Channal squadron left Portland on Friday morning
for Ireland. and at night • strong gale sprang up from
the southward, and a heavy sea was running. When
about ten miles south•west of the Eddystone the
W.drior and Royal Oak came into violent cotillion, and
the latter sustained very considerable damage. For.
tunat ly no lieu were lost, and no ono was injured by
the madlent.

TRIAL FOR MURDEFL—Tho trial of John Haskell, a
sergeant in the ~rd Huffs, for the murder of Hobert
Synun, a private in the same regiment, at Horfield
Barracks, on the ilOth of April last, took place at
Gloucester assizes on Wednesday. The prisoner was
spoken off as a sober and well-sonducted man, and for
some year. had been a teetotaller. On the day of th•
murder he had taken some drink, and this sec us to
have greatly excited him, the change in his conduce
being ...Lessr.sca 111, mos.* a Lio oosssrsao.s. evou 1
in he entered the barack-rquale with a loaded rifle, and I
fired at random amongst the men who were scattered
about, but fortunately no ono was struck. Prisoner
fired his rifle a second and third time with • similar
result, and then proceeded to the sergeants' mess-room. I
Synon followed him, and when going up the steps, the
prisoner, who stueal in the passage, fired at him, and I
the poor fellow fell deed. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to ten
years' penal servitude.
Suociaso MULDER. —A shocking murder has been
committed at Stonely, near Kinibolton, Hunts. The
victim of the outrage is an old woman S 8 years old, and
bar murderer in her eon, • stalwart labourer, about 50.
The men, George Leeton, has been abandoned by his wife,
and took refuge in the miserable hovel occupied by his
mother. Ort the night of the 30th ult.he went home about
I 'o'clock ; his mother, who slept ins bed on the same
floor, bad then retired to rest, the poor old woman
being very ill. The following morning a daughter-in-law
wait in early and found her mother deed. She was
lying across the tel in a slanting direction, with her
face buried in a pillow and • quilt fastened tightly
round her meek. The son was sitting quietly by. When
taken into cuatody he coolly observed," She hit me first."
Yr. Sprague, surgeon, who made a post mortem exami-
nation of the body, was of opinion that the deceased died
from violence; that she was rendered partly insessible
by the blows received ;and that her death was completed
by suffocation. A labourer, who works with I.ecton,
stated that the as-cased had said that he would not
maintain his mother, and that the relieving officer had
said she would have to go to the union. The jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder against the son.

lIIDE SOLD, pursuant to an order of the
Ugh Court of Chancery, made in • cause of Mato
V. BURNELL, with the approbstion of the Judge to whose
Court the said cause is attached, by limns.
GADSDEN, ELLIS, k SCORER, the persons appointed
to sell the RAtne, at the MART, TOKENHOUSI YARD, in
the Cm or LONDON, on TUESDAY, the 23th day of
AUGUST, 1868. at two o'clock precisely, is 12 Lots,
one fourth part of certain FREVHOLD ESTATES,
situate as follows :—Nos. 30. 31, and 32, Oxenclen.
street ; No.. 27,29, 29, 30, 30), 31, and 32, Coventry.
street; end Noe. 65, 66. 67 and 68, Princes-street,
Haymarket, all in the city of Westminster, late the
property of Fernmumt Comte, Euj., deceased.
Particulars and conditions may be had (gratis) of
GEORGE JAMES ANDREWS!, Emil., Solicitor, Dorchester •
of Mews. Hinnies. tlos and Durrerr, Solicitors 63,
Chancery-lace, W.C.; of Tnonse Cooties, Seq.,
Solicitor, Dorchester ; of Messrs. Lot-amend PITTIELD,
Solicitors, 3, Gray's Inn-square; of H. A. TEMPLER,
~ Solicitor, Bridport ; of Mears. WHITES, RENARD,
and FLOID, Solicitors, 1:1, Barge-yard Chamber..
Bucklenbury ; of Glum snoozing, Req.,_ Solicitor,
Dorchester; of MENUS. DANGEITTILLD and FRASER,
Solicitors, 26, Craven-street, Strand; of 11. J.
MACARTHUR, Esq., Solicitor, =, Essex-street, Strand; at
the Aucrwm MART; and of the Socnoxins, No. 18,
Old Brostbstreet, City, E.C.