The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

Grntral Nets.

Bra Ryan CAIRNS has accepted the Lord Justice.
ship of appeaL
Tr is rumoured that the Duke of Somerset is proper
to; a defence of hie adrnioistration of the navy.

By the abeorption of the flenoverian army, the Duke
of Cambridge loots the rank of General in that service.

THE directors of the flank of England at their weekly
anard meeting on Thursday made no reduction in the
rate of discount.

A Comm Conservati•e Registration Association
undrr the sanction of the leaders of the party, is in
coarse of formation.

Two WHALPII were captured at Cleeedon nu Wednes-
day evening. One was 23 feet Irreg, and weighed nearly
5 lona, and the other wee 18 feet long.

Amos° • litaT of young pig' reared by Mr. Elias
Barber, of Castle Cary, is one beautifully striped, and
very much resembling a young zebra; several of the
others are curiously spotted.
Wg regret to announce that the cholera has made its
Appearance in Highbridge. Several eases hare proved
fatal. Every precaution is bring taken by the authorities
and tar burnt in the vicinity of the outbreak.

'POING so 1% xr Is THE lIAITEIL —Laxt week, lo
Scarborough, a labouring aim named George Dennis.
who lost his wife on Monday, married another on Tues-
day, and she presented him with a daughter on Thursday.
George deserves a leather medal for his feat.

waturr a poor labouring man named Pcittyfoot tree
digging in a pit on Wandsworth Common, a eeam of
wave gave way, and he was buried beneath roma tone
of superincombent earth ; yet he beet for three dart
afterward.. At the inquest the jury returned a ...Hid
of accidental death.

Tag datements In Yr. Stephena's apee^h which ex.
cited the wrath of the Church Convent at York
"amounted simply to this—that sa a mixture of spirits
and water was always termed 'grog,' so one of wine and
water (in the chalioe) could be oalled nothing elm than
'negns.'"—Ccrrapondssat of &andard.
IT will be "'ratifying to both landlords and farmers
to learn that the Lords of the Treasury hare authorised
the Commierioners of Inland Revenue to allow to land.
lords the proportionate amounts paid by them for rattle
plague rates, and also to make similar allowances in
reaped of any abatement of rent granted in oonaiders-
tion of the Ids of the tenant from the cattle plague.

011ZAT FIRE AT MATLOCK. —A terrible fire broke out
at daybreak on Wedawsday morning in Messrs.
Hackett's tape mills, Matlock, Derbyshire. The mills
were totally destroyed, and the damage is estimated at
ClO,OOO. A man named Hallam, a bell.lnumer, perished
in the A amea The fin is said to have been canned by a
defect in the fine of the blacksmith', shop attached to
the premise.. Messrs. Hackett sire insured.

rue organised trades of Sheffield met on Wednesday
nirht, and formally signified their "utter detestation"
of the resent outrage in that town, "not only on account
oi the heinousness of such offences, but also because
they materially damage the Trade Societies of the town
and country generally, as well as retard the progress of
Trade Union prinmples." And, "with the view of
proving their sineeritv in the matter," they determined
to offer a reward of £lOO for the detection of the person
or persons who blew up Ferneybough's house.

Tag Mayor of Oxford gave a banquet on Wednesday
evening to the members for the a-runty and borough. in
the county and many other gentlemen. Mr. Cardwell
ezpressed a strong hope that when Parliament met the
question of Reform would be eonaidered in an impartial
spirit. Mr. Henley, speaking with raefeete to the
We changes in Europe, warned tin an who had brought
them about of the responsibility they had incurred.
lie insisted that something must he done in the nest
lonian of Parliament towards settling the Reform
question.

A FIXALI Pecnottinoc.—At the Sheffield work.
house there is • curiosity. A woman was admitted on
the 17th of Auguat, and from that time up to a day or
two ago, she had been b•lieved to be deaf and dumb.
She pretended she *paid not bear what was addressed
to her, and positively held her tongue for nearly two
months At length she found her tongue, and she
mate use of it to some tune, rattling out words at snob
• rate that it seemed to those about her she was deter-
mined to make up for lost time. When she went to the
house her Immo wet represented to be Mary Smith, but
it now turns out that her name is Ann Knapton, of
Hawtnarsh. - ILteffield ledependestf.
MUTH tencean Osmt.ggeirrlon re Einionco.—
Mary Phillips, •ged 213, Mile-end, London, the wife of a
dock labourer, had a very good voice, and was fond of
singing out with great strength to amuse herself. On
Thursday morning she was singing as usual, and she
meld be heard, all over the house. Suddenly a heavy
fall was heard, end upon • woman running upstairs she
found the deceased lying on her face on the Boor. A
surgeon we. called in ; he found her quite dead. She
had ruptured the pulmonary artery through the exertion
of tonging. The deceased's WO and the arterial vessels
were week, and the exertion of singing. as the deceased
used to do, on as to be heard in the street. proved too
muoh for them, and her death was the result.
Ac EXT11•011DI WAIT CASDIDATI. —Mr. Kavanagh,
of Borth, has addramed kite electors of Wexford as •
candidate for the seat which will become vacant on the
promotion of Mr. George. He is an sble and spirited
gentleman, the descendant of a race of Irish Kings, and
having a great prderige with the permantry on that
&amok He la much respected as • landlord and a
country ger.tkman. Though be baa neither feet nor
hands, he follows the hounds in gallant style, and does
many other things which are truly wonderful. If re-
turned, he will have to be carried to his seat in the
House of Commons. No Liberal candidate haa yet
entered the Said whist him.

Pranerre !tenorlli Comm° MAOHINI. - This
machine is oonstraeted for expeditiotudy and thoroughly
corking bottles of almost every kind, and is especial!,
adapted for bottling wines, &let, sps, ho.,
It is so simple and well-arranged in Its construction
that it may be eltered to snit the height of the different
rises of bottles. The two levers, hand and foot, working,
at the same time, moderate the pressure so evenly that
there Is no risk of breaking the bottles's in the ordinary
method. It is PO easily worked that a person spas.
eastomed to bottling may by its use bottle equal to the
most experienoed bottler. Pries of machine
Sole Inventor and proprietor, J. Parrett. Burwell,
Somerset. " Mattafaoturer of Parrott's Improved Cider
Coloring."

BRIGHT'S F•Lell A eannon.—There was another
reform demonstration bat Timidity at Glasgow. The
numbers assembled were great, es • matter of swum,
and the resolutions were as extravagant as usual. In
the evening Mr. Bright spoke at the City Hall, where
he had positively • fonotrinir4 five Members of
ParHimont. There was an ad presented to him,
and of this document It is sufe cot to my that it was
as preposterous as any which have prue&ei it, though
It did not quite, in style, rise to the bunkum level a
the Manchester " address." The features of Mr.
Bright', speech are his manipulation of figures; his
retail of political gossip in the manner of " I says, says
I, and he says, says be," his designation of the present
Parliament as "putrid;" his assertion that any as men
pairing through Temele•bar would make a better
Parliament than this one; sad one or two observations
of similar sagacity and wiadom.—The Era.
EXPOSING • CHILD IX • DIX Or LIOIEL
attention of the Nottingham magistrates was reeently
directed to certain performances in connection with a
menagerie at that time in the town. It appeared that it
was customary for • child some three or four years of
age to be put hta lieu' den at one stage of the perform-
ante, and it was asked that some steps should be taken
to put a atop to such • dangerous and Improper pro-
eseding. On the part of the proprietor of the exhibition
It wee alleged that there was not the slightest danger to
the boy, as the lions were young ones. The magistrates
agreed that such so exhibition was neither • proper nor
• pleasant one, but could only recommend that it be
diuontinned. The menagerie was subsequently moved
SO Lelesster, and the Mayor of that town at once pro-
hibited the exhibition of the child in the den.
FINIon Fran. —On Saturday weeks number of magis- !
Irate and town ootincillors assembled at the Liverpool
police station to witness experiments with the Fenian
combustible fluid recently seised. A portion of the
laid was poured on • quantity of loose cotton and
sticks, and in shoat 40 minutes it spontaneously
ignited. A bottle unitaissing fluid was then dashed
against • wall, which Immediately bonnie a mass
of flame. The spectators were deeply impressed
with the destruedve quality of the Said. Many
persons have doubted the eiddsmee of • Fenian organ-
isation in Liverpool, but the pollee eases which are
cooing to light will tiOddOriro tAs an instance of
the marvellous nnextinguisheble qualities of the liquid,
we may state that a short time ago Mr. Supt. Hewitt
pouted some of it on ootten, wool, and wood chip, sad