The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

(Senna' Naos.

LORD NAPItIt of hiseala bss been presented with
the freedom of the city a Edinteargh.

Tits BALLOT. —llr. Gladstone has just intimated his
willingness to consider the question of the ballot.

LADY VOTER3.—In the course of the registration for
EASI Kent, the barrister WWI called upon L., consider
'whether the HMOS of 33 ladies should be retained upon
the hot. 'racy had not been objected to by either party,
and the court decided that under the cireurnstances it
could not strike them off the register. They will there.
torn be :Eluded to exercise thcfranchise in the approach-
ing mutest.
EITHAORDINART DRATH AT A CHILD.—An extra'
ordinary and fatal aocident occurred to • little boy named
George Woolley, (We year. of Ar on Monday, at th..
vills.e f Chilwell, near Nottingham. It appears that
the little fellow was running to meet his father, who is
ae agricultural labourer, with • toy windmill in his
'mouth, whi n be stumbled and fell, the handle of the
toy being forced dcwn his throat. Ilia father lifted
him up, and took out the stick, but the wound bled so
re racily that the poor little fellow died soon after-
wards-

TUE HEALTH or THE QCEEII. —We are in • preition
to state that since her sojourn in Switzerland the
Queen has greatly improved in health. The untoward
eyinplouis which out her Majesty and her sobjeem oo
smash wereauees have yielded so hi fruits mountele sir
end she rhaogo of scene in the most romantic* of
European countries. The benefit, indeed. has been an
suarked that the nation may look forward hopefully to
her Majesty's resuming (at least partially) those public
(hairs front which she has been no long and so unhappily
ostrangeJ.—The Laitett.
Tile following translation for the Chinese letter,
received many years eines with the first consignment
of Iforniruan'e pure tea, per ship Cherokee, is •
literary curiosity ; the original is still preserved it nes
trauelated by J. Summers, Esq., proles...B. of Chinese,
Kings College, London :—" The tea shipped is truly
best. prepared with additional etre, without powdered
colour put on leaf, which the experienced educated
merchant will take notice. We honoured by your in-
structions will continuously regard them." Mitiouan
Hosh, to London foreign merchants, Hornimans.
Tat: 8141101. Or OX Y 0111) ”!1 R AT coupen.
—At the reopening of Prince Sisborough parish church
on Tuesday last there was • great gathering of clergy.
men and others, when the Bishop of Oxford preached.
The preacher in his discourse referred to the "great
strong hulking men who came to church and were too
lazy to kneel." ilia experience of that diocese extended
to • quarter of • century, and i's prevailing sin was to
treat the Deity as being patronised by them when they
came to prayer, and especially so when they came to the
Hely Communion. His lordship then chnouneed the
old four-cornered pews as harbour' for laziness.—
Warrington Guardian.
flotAgiivar'n Pit..La.—Bad legs, wounds, ulcer', and
all descriptions of sores are immediately cured by the
proper and diligent use of these inestimable preparatious.
To attempt to cure bad ley. by plastering the edges of
the wound together is a folly ; for, should the akin
unite, • baggy, diseased condition remains underneath
to break out with tenfold fury in • few days. The only
rational and perfect treatment is to reduce the inflate
mation in and about the wound, to soothe the neigh•
hosting nerves, to cool the heated blood, as it mimes
along its vessels, and to render the thin, watery,
'chorea" discharge consistent and healthy. Happily for
Buffering humanity, Holloway's Ointment, Resisted by
indiesious doses of his Pill", accomplishes them ends
with unfailing certainty.

FICJIIAN DISCOVXRIge IN BRIMNORAW.—On Thurs.
day • dimovery of important Fenian document. was
made in Birmingham. On Sunday afternoon a house in
l'ark-street, which is chiefly inhabited by Irish people,
suddenly fell to the ground, the inmates sustaining
rather severe injuries,and some of them having a narrow
escape with their lives. On Thursday.while some work-
men were engaged in removing the deltrii of this fallen
building, they came upon some curiously-written papers,
which, from their nature, were at ones handed over to
the police. The documents, on examinstion, proved to
be a detailed list of instructions issued for the guidance
of the members of elle Fenien Brotherhood. Minute
directions are given as to the raining and
drilling of men, and the organisation of a system of
e•-e•et pliee to circumvent the Government, together
W tin instructions as to eonducting correspondence, and
bow to sat in certain emergencies. The authorities me
making inquiries into the matter.
EXTIAORDINART ELOPENTST AND CAPTDAL—ON
Saturday an elopement of an estraordinary nature took
pace from Dorian), all the parties concerned being in
humble life. There lived In that city, near a place
called Six Put, two married men, named Templar and
Stoker, who both worked in the MIDI mid-mica The
wife of Templar is the mother of 14 children, whilst
Mrs. Stoker Is the mother of six. On Saturday morning
Stoker and Mrs. Templar left Durham together, the
amorous old •ornan taking with her no less that £lOO
Is gold, a gold watch, • silver watch, and two guards,
the property of her husband, who,although only a miner,
bail iiimiaged by bin frugality to scrape this property
together. On Templar returning home on Saturday
fro work he found his house empty, his wife gone,and
his:bildien in a slate of great anxiety. He at ones
started for Liverpool, went to the Prinee'elanding stage,
and caught sight at Mr.. Templar and her paramour as
they were about embarking foe New Yarklon board the
City of Ant we rp. They were at ones taken i uto custody.
and on their being searched at the bridewell the sum of
£4 15s. was found mon them, together with • watch
clonging to young Templar.

BREAKFAST : A BECCLIKFUL EXPIERIKRIT The d
Serriaoaulte has the following 'flint..rc very Ir--
simple articles of food which can bout ao many W.07,r.
and important dietary properties as mem
on the nerves asta gentle stimulant, it provides the bOltli
with some of the purest elements of nutrition and at
the some time corrects and invigorates the action of the
digestive organs. These beneficial effects depend in a
great Ille•RUf0 upon the manner of its preparatios
but of late years such close attention has been given to
the growth and treatment of cocoa that there is no
difficulty in securing it with every useful quality fully
developed. The 'Mauler enemas which lir. Epps
attained by his honneopathie preparation dooms baa
mover been surpassed by any experimentalist. Far anal
wide the reputation of Eppia coma has spread by the
simple force of its own extraordinary merits. Medical
men of all shades of opinion have agreed in recommending
It as the safest and most beneficial article of diet for
pansies of weak constitutions. This superiority of •
particular mods of preparation over all otheraLs is.
remarkable proof of the great results to be obtained
from little causes. By a thorough knowledge of the
natural laws which govern the operations of digestion
and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine
properties*, wellmlected cocoa, liz. Epps has provided
our breakfast tabled with • delicately flavoured
beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bill*.
It is by the judicious ale of each articles of diet that
• censtitation may be gradually built up until strong ,
enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds
of subtle maladies are floating around as ready to
sneak wherever there is • weak point We may
escape many • fatal shaft by
_keeping overselvee
well fortified with pars blood sad • ProrsitT
monad BUNK

IT Ins been definitely fixed that the Bishop of Caps
town will earl for his South Mclean diocese with Mr.
Meerorie, the uew Bishop for Natal, on the 9th of
October.
Thu Pall Mall GlazeUe metals' a report that the
Marquis of Bute, whose majority bee been celebrated
with so much rejoicing at Cardiff, during the week, has
formally joined the Romeo Catholic Church. [The
Marquis denim it.)
Th. /rye mail, whilst proceeding from Holyhead to
London, appears to have had another narrow amps
Near the Tamword station of the Trent Valley line a
number of eletelayere were at work, and some large
pieces of timber wore lying between the metals when
the mail approached. The engine struck the timber,
and several pieces were violently driven into the front
break van. Fortunately the train did not leave the
rails, and the passengers olleapodueinjered.
Hearn or Sin Joint Due PAUL—The death is
announced of the notorious Sir John Dean Paul, Bart,
at the one of the banking firm of Strahan,
list.., sigs
Paul, 66'
l, and Co. It WY early in June, 1855, that
the well-known and respected house of Straiten, Paul,
and Bates 'topped payment ; and at the first meeting
of the creditors on the 26th of the mune month it was
found that securities bad been fraudently told and
" deposited" or pledged, which were the property of
various customers of the baud. The step from the
Court of Benkruptey to the Howstreet police-office was
• short one, and following a series of remands, the three
prisoners were finally committed for trail OD the 13th of
September. These proceedings were the talk of the
town, Sir John Dean Paul had been • leader of one
section of the religions world, and anecdotes concerning
him were rife. He had been trusted and looked up
to by all conditions of men u • model baronet, • good
banker, and • pious man. Respectability itself was
shaken by his fall ; and the story of his capture in the
train, and of the pity he expressed to the policeman for
his partner Strahan, who " had £lBO,OOO • few years
since, and who has list every penny—he • man with
nine children and a beautiful home at Dorking," were
told mournfully as showing bow snob • man felt upon
detection. After an adjournment on a technical plea,
Mauro Straka's. Paul, and Bates were tried on the
29th October before Mr. Justice Willes, Mr: Baron
Alderson, and Mr. Baron Martin, and were convicted
and sentenced to fourteen yam' penal servitude. A few
years since It wee understood that the two survivors
Fete granted tiokete-of-leave, and until now the
world has heard little of the first celebrated and after-
wards notorious Sir John Dean Pas/.
A Server Comom—A German gentleman, Living In
the State of New Jersey, may Moles the credit of the
most extraordinary invention ever brought before the
notice of the public. The American tapers give a long
account of it, and it is necessary tom), that the amount
appears to be well substantiated. The inventor BOerns
to he well known, and his invention was tried in the
presence of GOO spectators. His name is Vetter.
Filled with the idea that many persona are buried alive,
Mr. Venter has constructed what he calla • safety
coffin. Ills larger than any ordinary dean, and under
the bead is "a receptacle for refreshments and restora-
tives." The top part is movable, and a box shout 2ft
square is carried from this lid to about • foot above
ground, where it would appear like • chimney. The
top of the tube or pipe is /severed with • lid opened by
a spring inside, and just below it is • bell connected
with a oord. If the cord is pulled the bell rings, and
the spring throws back the cover of the chimney.
Cleeta are nailed to the side of the box, and if the
person in the coed chooses he can mount on a sort of
ladder to the top and get out to the open air. "Or
otherwise," says the description of this wonderful con-
trivanee, "the individual can rest at ease, munch his
lunch, drink the wins, and ring the bell for the sexton
to oo.ne and assist him oat." Mr. Voider tested his
Invention by permitting himself to be hurried alive.
A grave, fift deep, was dug, and the inventor got into
the collie The band played • dir4e,wreatlos of flowers
were laid upon the ooMo, and in • quarter of • hoar Mr.
Wester was " effectually buried." He was to have
remained in the grave two hours, but the crowd became
impatient, and after the Lapse of • hour and • quartet
the signal for his re-appearance was given by 004 of his
Leal/tants. "A minute after Mr. Veskr, mudded,
steppol out of his living grave, with no more perceptible
exhaustion than would have been ceased by walking
two or three blocks under the hot run." The crowd at
, one. roded to embrace and congratulate him. Weather.
ever such a story told, except in some wild legend
HOW CaLCMYT DOM uta littaltlige,—l never saw
but one hanging in my life. On that occasion my
duties brought me into close conta^t with the culprit
himself. I attended him on the scaffold and was with
him up to the last. The newspapers described the
execution in the usual terms. They did not describe
what I saw or heard. It may be they were justified
in not doing no ; it may be even, now when publie
executions have happi y become • thing of the past,
that I am not justibed in recording an unprofessional
view of the tragedy I witneemd. My plea is, that I
have never yet read what has impressed me as
truthful meount of any such scene. Al it can servo no
possible purpose to mention real names I will simply
date that the etecutieu referred to took pleas at •
northern seeze town not very recently. The condemned
was an old man of at least seventy; his offence, the
brutal murder of an old woman, his wife. I first saw
the old man. say Gilt., at seven o'clock on the morn-
ing in question. He was sitting in his cell, his head
bent forward, and slowly shaking from aide to side,
not with trepidation, but with the tremulous palsy of
old age that was natural to him. Ile was evidently a
man of dull sensibilities, and in whom feelinr had
become still more numbed by the oonaciousnear of his
approaching fate. Ho had passed • good night, and
had freely partaken of that hearty breakfast, which, ,
strangely enough, all such felons do partake of for
their 'eat. The governor of the gaol entered to bid him
farewell and to introduce the sheriff. Gam shook
hand, with both, he stolid and emotionless. There
was • little pause. They expectedsome one else. It was
the only tikes Odee showed any feeling at all. He
stopped shaking, and looked furtively but eagerly
towards the door. Even that was only the emotion of
Impatience. Calm•alt entered. A mild gentliefiwed
inan---shiirt, rather stout, with plentiful grey heir. I !
can see him as I write—his eyes full and grey, though
small, and sweet in their expression. He does not
"shamble" as he walk., nor does he talk warmly. He
walks softly at such times, Lain the pretence of impend-
ing death, and his voice is by no mean" unpleasant.
His walk, his Toes, his expression, and his manner,
are, in fact, completely immuring. They were so to
Odes. Having been introdueed to his executioner,
and seen the calm self reliant look of his eyes, Giles
became perfeatly calm, and resumed the monotonous I
shaking of his head from side to side. I can testify '
that whether from age or mental stupor he was the
least affected of us all, and I am told this is usually the
ease. lielf-past seven o'clock struck, and the prison
bell broke out in • harshly solemn tell. While we were
getting ready to leave the cell it began -Toll 1 As
we walked along the corridors it went on—Toll 1
It struck on all our hearts—Toll! except
Having entered the pinioning room the chaplain ?man
the solemn service of the dead. "I am the reettrree-
Sou and the life—Toll I " Whosoever lived and
believeth in me shall die"—Toll. Caleraft pro-
duced a small leather portmanteau. Opening it, he
disclosed his pinions, spare straps, and two ropes.
The pinion is simply a broad leather strap or sureingle
to go round the waist, having strong loops on either
sole through which were mused the straps to secure the
elbows. The wrists are then fastened by another strap.
" It's my own invention," Calcraft whispered with come
modesty; "the old edema used to be very bad, they
hurt the poor fellows so. They noel to strap their
elbows tight behind them and form them together at
the back, and then strap the two wrists. together.
The waist strap an. every purpose, and is not the
least uncomfortable. There" he whispered to Giles
(for the chaplain still read oe), when he had arranged
the straps, "that doesn't hart you, my good fellow?"
" No, .ir, it's very comfortable." And the chaplain
still read on, and the bell broke in like a solemn amen.
For since by men came death"—Toll. "Shake
hands with me, Giles," said the mild man with the
grey hair; "way you forgive me. You shall not be
tortured." " I forgive thee, mister;" and he offered
his poor pinioned bands, like fins, which Caleraft shook
kindly. "There's one thing I should like 'ee to do,"
said Giles. "Yes," mid Oelmuft. "Will 'ee tell I
when its comes. Thee know what I mean r "I
will," said the ezeoutioner. Toll The leeson was
not yet finished. None of us paid attention to it.
or to any of that part of the service (least of all did
Giles), save when the solemn bell sired out like a
solemn voice from the sky ; "Heal that !" Then we
remembered the word or two that had gone before. To
we the reeding of the clergyman sounded like the
babble of • dream, and the bell, and the gentle old
man, and the pinioned murderer the only realities.
(Toll! "And how are the dead raised up r) I saw
Calcraft return to his black portmanteau to select the
rope. Intent, against my will, more on the details of
the dreadful tragedy than on the service, that only
broke oat on me in snatabes, I pointed to the cord, and
whispered "New r "Oh no; the Mine I've used this
three years." ("Changed as in a moment" Toll!) "I
thought you always had • new rope?" "Oh, dear,
no. ' "Is it silk, I had heard so." "No ; the very
best of hemp." He gave it into my hand. A supple
cord, soft as silk. as dick as my forefinger. ("Oh 1
grave where is thy victory?" Toll 1) "And the cap!"
" Ah, yes! It's the sherin—the one they use here—
but it'e a had one. I would rather use my own. Look
here"—and he took from the portmanteau a mall bag,
like silk, and inserting his hands in it, !Seedbed it out
to an enormous size—" that'u the one, if they would
only let me use it." It was the only professional
remark he made, The lesson was done. Toll I Toll!
Toll 1 The bell ceased. It was the service by the
grave. We joined in the procession. "Man that is
born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is
full of misery." Chanting this solemn dirge in
monotone, the chaplain led the way along the passage
and up the ladder staircases to the prison roof. Giles
followed, shambling uneasily from the straps about his
legs, but otherwise in less outward concern than any of
us. He seemed to derive relief from the palsied away.
ing of his head which was natural to him. As be
mounted the scaffold, afreetless murmur, like • great
sigh, went through the sea of white op-tarned fates
below—then • hush. Cates& come to the poor culprit,
and drew the cap over his face, to hide the sea of faces
from his 'yet, then he fixed the rope—with long pains
to arrange the knot in the most merciful plaice, and to
judge the amount of fall. While this was doing Odes
worked his bands—all that were free of him—up and
down in the attitude of prayer. The chaplain was read-
ing a prayer. The reporters said he prayed. They
we" wrong. I was close to him and I heeled what he
said, His words was addressed to Calcraft "Tell me
"ieter—be I Rein' now r "No," said the executioner,
" tell you when." The prayer was done. "Tell
i.ne, mister," mid Giles again, "be I going sow?"
No," said Calassft, "I'll give you a sign. When I
shake hands with
an knelt
yisuyoi will
Pin rahass.tthGs'il minuteleft."" Me shapl
did not, or would not bear. "Be I going now?" he
said,_Cala-aft came and shook Ms pinioned hand,
blem you I" he said gentle "for it in now r
and he slipped away. All hie sense.-
quickened by the
knowledge that only one half minute of precioua life
reanained—only one hall minute? Till tio• he had been
numbed and lulled into the belief that it nu • loag
way off. Now it was come. He broke out, as rapidly
ea hs could Libigr;
soul 1 Oh tor!,
have mercy on my
tr.:. mil I Oh,
" Oh, Lem. OD My poor
t
Lord, hare— Cr, Mine ! And was • fall,
and something was swaying to and fro, to aad fro, till at
Innt it became steady, and twisted from right to left,
leis to right. And there was the noise of a crowd that
had been silent, that drew a Wag
relief, and woke up LAW lie to go goat sa
isighhuiebr" of
Aiiik Yew BOWL

A MIL BENT TO FAISON TOR TAKING A SPRIG 07
LAVANDlL—ltisstAted that at Colchester, before Major
Bishop, Mr. Tabor, and Mr.Savill. Slid, Darned Viao,i%
Harmer, charged with taking • piece of lavender
from • bush against • wall. affloiulive the high road,
was sentenced to be imprisoned. with hug lak,ute,
for 21 days.
ATTEMPTED IttIRDRI AND sumps AT BlepreeD._
On Thursday morning, William Astley, mewling with
his wife Elisabeth, first cut his wife's *met with a
razor, and then cut his own. Both survive, however,
and are likely to recover. Shortly Wore six o'clock a
wan named Fawcett beard a woman screaming, and on
rising fross bed be observed the wife of Asa", standing
at the chamber Triad°w acreetuing and holding her heal
to her neck, from which blood flowed pi °Neely. He
deemed and hastened to the house. Ile found Aetley
had cut the throats of both, and took means to secure
the weapon, an old rasor, with handle, to prevent
d further mischief. Mr. G. P. Smith. surgeon, stanche
the wound, of both. The men is suspected to be suffer-
ing from lunacy—it malady, iii, said, hereditary in his
family. Jealousy is ..signed u the (*Om of the crime.
MISS BICKER AND TM FRANCIUM—The wain, of
women to the franchise has found • very energetic
advocate in Mies Booker, the lady srhuou, a recent
occasion, discoursed so delectably before the maw we.ce
section of the British Auociation on the "Two Ilexes
of Man." The contention of ,this lady before the
revising barrister it Manchester was that he had no
right to infer the lex of a claimant from the name. For
example, Miss Becker protested against the assumption
that • Mary Ikaide was a lady, hem,. in Ronian
Catholic countries boys are frequenUy named gg.,7 in
order to place them under the protection of the saint of
that name. The musing barrister wee clearly posed
when Kiss Becker pointed to several names on the roll
in which it was impossible from the Christian name to
distinguish to which sea the applicant belonged. Tbe
revising barrister at last, finding that Mi. Becher was
disposed to be troublesome, told her that he should be
happy to hear her in any distinct csse,but he could not
hear her upon any general objections upon the whole
register. Miss Beaker shortly afterwards left the couit.
HOLMWRIPPING • WITL —At Themes police-smut
William Barrett, a labourer, of lithadwell, was brought
up on remand before Mr. Benson, charged with assaulting
be wife inn very brutal manner.—Mr. iiceigh, a serve.
said that three of the woman's ribs were fractured, anti
that she was covered with weals and contusions. the
could not leave the Loudon Hospital at present. She
mast remain there under medical treatment some Wu*
longer.—Mr. Beason Do you think she can appear lure
In • week's timet—Witwees: It Is probable.—Mr.
Benson: If she is well enough send her here in • tab.
The expense of. cab is a secondary consideration. We
want her evidence.—The statement of Donald Mazy,
275 K, was terrible. A few nights ago the prisoner Game
home armed with &large horsewhip, and Bogged his wife,
who was in bed, and who had uo other garment on but
her chemise. The poor creature, who is sever months
advanced in pregnancy, weld offer no resistance. He
flogged her "within an inch of her life ;" he trampled
upon her and broke three of her ribs, ands. wee
removed to the London Hospital, braised and eoutgsed
all over her body.— The Prisoner on the first examination
mattered that his wife was in the habit of getting drank.
He was asked if he had anything to say why he should
not be remanded for another week. He made no reply.
—Mr. Benson: You are remanded lor a week. .

A Hann CASL —At the divisional petty minions at
Thorpe, Ewe', on Monday (before Messrs. F. M. Nichols
and F. Foaker), George &elate, aged 60, by trade •
journeyman bricklayer, of St. Osyth, was summoned for
non-payment of £4 65., arrears under • justice's order,
calling upon him to pay 2s. per week towards the suppott
of his grandchildren. The information was laid by Mr.
D. Mustard, who isclerk to the board of guardians as
well as clerk to the bench. The defence was inability
to pay. blaalain said his earnings as an old man Were
very precarious; that he already maintained one grand-
child, the offspring of • son who had been drowned;
that be was now in debt in consequence of attempting
to keep up the payment.; and he put io an influentially
signal memorial expressing an opinion that the man was
unable to pay 'le. per week. It also appeared that some
months ago an execution was put into the mates house,
but his goods were not worth 305., and rather than the
poor old man should go to prison a friend lent him the
money to pay the execution out. Defendant now sub-
missively prayed the magistrates to show a merciful
sionsideration towards him, for he assured them that he
should be glad to support all his grandchildren like bad
the means of doing so. The Chairman (Mr. Nichols) said
he considered the order was not out of proportion to
the defendant's means, and the amount, with 10e, costa,
must be paid, or in default execution would issue.
Another defendant, whose wages were 13s. per week,
with a sick wife to maintain, was ordered to pay la. per
week tawards supporting a mother, and 10e. wets.

!THE CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A Lire GUARDS-
xi/C.—Km:thud Robins, trooper of the lit Life
,r Guard', who woe charged with the murder of Eliza
Shield, a young woman with whom he was keeping
company, was brought up on remand, before a fa
bench of the magistrates of Northampton, on Wednes-
day. The deceased girl and Robins were on very
intimate terms, and she was anciente by him. Ate
' quarteri.t paitotblio oen'cldocltthoen
who
ortil of Sunday,
him
some hours, were seen tatting together in the street.
At half-past two o'clock shrieks were heard proceeding
from the river aide, and were succeeded by a plunge
into the water. Deceased was found in the river still
alive by a mu named Gutsy, who loft her and went
for • policeman, before whose arrived the unfortunate
woman was beyond the reach of human help. Robins,
who was the last seen with her,was taken into custody,
and on the first hearing of the ease there were several
suspicious circumstances against him. From the
evidence of Wednesday it was deer the deceased um-
witted suicide. Shortly before she was found in the
tester she Iry men going down Bridge-street in the
direction of the river, and she was then in an excited
state ; and during the two weeks prior to her death
eLe was frequently board to state that she would
destroy herself. After a patient hearing and a few
minutes consultation, the mayor said the magistrates
were unanimously of opinion that the evidence bad
established the innocence of the prisoner, and he would
therefore be discharged, a decision which was received
with ringing cheers, which were taken up by the
multitude waiting °plank,.

"Till TROIS? CHAgitr."—Hefore Mr. Thomas F'
Firth and Mr. William Crowther (chairman of the
Dewsbury board of guardians), at the Dewsbury Court-
house, on Monday, James Berry, .woe-begone old man,
who bore the appearance of baying been kept abort of
food was placed in the dock under the Vagrant Act,
and charged that be, having no visible means of sub-
sistence, bad that morning been found in an enclosed
place for an unlawful purpose. When asked what he
had to say, he stated that he was too old and too weak
ts work ; that he had resided in Lepton for live-and-
twenty yeara, but had now no home, and that he had
for some weeks been wandering about, sleeping where
he could, and getting • few victuals how ho could.
Poliee-constable Markey related that that morning at
an early hour he visited the glue works belonging to
Megan. lidner, at Thornhill Lees, and there found the
prisoner slaving on • board, not far from one of the
litmus, where bottles were made. Witness awoke him
and asked him what be was doing there, on which the
prisoner answered that he bad nowhere to go to, and
that he was almost ready to die with banger. The
prisoner was very feeble, and when witness was taking
him to the Dewsbury lock-up, he was obliged to let him
lean against walls for support. He also told witness that
he was quite unable to work, and that though he had
mural daughters they were married, and so burdened
with children that they were quite unable to do northing
for him. In answer to the bench, the old man said he
was sixty-four years of age. lie had been in Golcar
Workhouse, but he irell now turned out on the ground
that he was able to work and get • living for himself.
he had no strength for anything. After consulting
together, the justices said they should send him to prison.
for three weeks—Prisoner: oh, don't mond me to prison,
—The Bench: We do this, for we think it will be the
truest charity.—Prisour : Don't wad me to prison. —A
Constable: Stand down. The old pauper—he was only
a pauper—stood down, and in due course he was taken,
in the truest charity, to the hours of correction at
Wakefield.—Dewstary Reporrer,
Economist. Or • Corm-noon KIMPIVS WIT&
The elopment by the wife of a coffee-house keeper, Mr.
Thomas Hubbard, of Buckingbam-plue, York-road,
Islington with • cab man named Barnaby
BMgenshlw, again came before the Clerkenwell
magistrates. Brigenshaw was charged with stealing
dresses, a gold watch, and other articles, worth LW.—
The wife appeared in court, and did not evince the least
shamt—Tbe prosecutor stated that since the remand he
had missed a great many articles, and his wife had even
taken away his children's things. The watch and seals
she fetched out of pawn the day before she went off with
the prisoner. She also collected the rent from the
lodgers, and took that away.—ln answer to Mr.
he said that his wife bad threatened to leave him before
she did so. They had been "nagging" all the week,
bacons, he bad ueertained that she was too intimate
with the prisoner. He struck her with Lis back hand
on the Thursday previous to her elopement with the
priaoner, because she bad been out drinking with the
poisoner and some women, and when she came back and
he spoke to her, she said that she could get a better man
than him any day. She called hire filthy names, and
that made him strike her.—Mr. Lewis, for the defence,
contended that no cue had been madeout, and said that
if the goods of a husband were taken with the consent
or privity of the wile it is not a larceny. Before this
eau was made oat it must be shown that the prisoner's
intention wu to assist In • felony, lie cited cases in
support of this view.-11r. Cooke said he thought he
ought not to be asked to give his ieci.sion until the whole
case was aompletecl.—Mr. Lewis then called the wife.—
Mrs. Alice Hubbard, on being sworn said: lam the wife
of the prosecutor. I have been married to him twelve
years last August. I left my husband's residence last
Saturday week. We could not
agree, because he went
to foot races dog fights, and rat matches. Before I left
I told hiss I should leave, I told him no several times.
I took away my things tat the time of my leaving. I
had a watch, bet the prisoner did not know I bad one.
The prisoner did not, before assisting to put the box on
the cab, see any of the articles it contained. It was at
my request that he put them on the cab. Up to that
time no familimunty had taken place between us. I did
not see him on the Saturday or the Sunday after leaving
my husband's home. I %WM going to my home in the
country on the Monday following, when I met the
prisoner in the Gray'sinn-road. tip to the Monday
night nothing wrong had taken place between me and
the prisoner. (The prisoner and the witness laughed at
each other, and seemed to think the matter &good joke.)
The prisoner has not from first tolast intonneddled with
the things I removed, and has never seen them, There
was a reward of El offered fur the apprehension of the
prisoner. Seeing that, I and the prisoner went to cny
husband's shop in a cab, and my husband gave the
prisoner into custody— Mr. Cooke said that there were ,
many oases on the point, bet the result he had arrived
at In this was that this did not amount tea
Whet weighed strongly in his mind was that there was
no evidenee that the box coutained anything but the
wearing apparel of the prosecutor's wife. Justice
Oolvridge had held that if an adulterer assisted a wife
to remove her wearing annexe's that wise larceny, but
that decision had been upset, and it was now had and
sited on by all the courts that if a wife elopes with an
adulterer, it is no lasso, in the adulterer to assist bar
In carrying away her wearing apparel only. This case
broke down busses it was not shown that the prisoner
knew what was in the hon. The prisoner was aissobarged.
The wife of the prosecutor, as the prisoner was leaning
the Maths rushed and aught hold of his am and
kissed his. When they got into the street they wore
hissed.

SPRING GARDRIIING.—Mfacintha. Tulips, Crocuses,
and other Bulbs, from Holland, are sold by auction
esery Wednesday and Saturday. and frequently on
Monday, at half-past 12 precisely, by Mr. J. C. Stevens,
at his Horticultural Sale Rooms. 38, Hinz-street,
Covent-garden, London. Catalogues on application.
Brwsee GARDEN °retail°Na.—ltun the Dutch hoe
between the rows of winter Spinach. Onions, and similar
crops. Before doing this, ere that the thinning is nose-
rattled; Spinach should he left four to sin inches, young
Carrots (for the present) one inch ; Onions may be left
to be drawn for salads as requred. Soot applied as a
terrace dressing wag very beneficially on the soil, if
applied at this time ; young crops of green vegetablas
will show • marked improvement under such treatment,
especially if combined with frequent stirring of the soil
between the plants by the hoe or digging fork. The
prospects of the potato crop are much better than
appeared possible some time hick. In many cases
numbers of young potatoes have been produced directly
from the stalk of the plant, and, durinr the present
favourable weather, have grown rapidly to • useful
size. In other instances, the secondary tubers bid fair
to be • better crop than those first produced though, of
course, the latter will be the larger.
AROBRIaIIOP MANNINO ON nig SUNDAY LIQUOR
'rearm. —Archbishop Manning addressed • public
meeting of the Spitafielas Total Abstinenee Association
on Wednesday eveuing, and dwelt at considerable
length on the Sunday trade in intoxicating_ drinks. The
archbishop referred to the failure of Mr. John Abel
Smith's bill last session, and suggested that probably
many members of Parliament, hoping for re-election,
did not wish to make enemies of the publicans. He
hoped that in the new Parliament such • measure
would be adopted, and he was sure that the working
classes would welcome legislation in snob a direction.
This had to • very great extent been proved by the fact
that in Manchester, and especially to the factories, •
very large number of petitioners had supported the
principle of Mr. Smith's bill. He could not see why
the shops of butchers and bakeri should be closed
almost all day on Sunday while the publioibouses were
open during so great a part of that day. He spoke also
against the custom of young Persons, sometime,
children, frequenting public houses, a custom which he
heard was increasing, and also against the custom of
families sending servant-women to public-houses, where
so mush evil was often seen and heard...
...

POTATolll.—io—diZo7Zi—to dig ?—that's the quo.-
lion: to whieb theory replies, Don't And why? It
will be granted that the tuber lea moraine or storeboue
of food, on which the" eyea" or sweets may draw when
circumstances deemed. Mader ordinary olimmetanceia
the tubers are lifted and stored away before any such
demand is made, but in this clic:optional season the pre-
cocious sprouts declined to remain in the condition of
"eyes," or, what the botanist would tall, latent bads,
but boldly and defiantly thrust themselves out,lengthend
into shoots, and then, from circumstances over which
they had no °entre', ceased to grow in length, bat
resolved themselves into small tubers. The explanation
of the process we take to be this: the sprouting was
caused by the excessive hest, acting on unripe potatoes
—mark, unripe potatoes; we do not think the proems
would occur to any extent in ripe potatoes. Hest
alone would not produce sprouting, rather the
contrary. Moisture is also needed. Whence came
the moisture? Not from the rain,•sa the promos
was noted before the rain fell ; hence the moisture
mast hsye come from the parent tuber, which In
It. unripe condition contains considerably mere water
than when ripe. When the supplies thence derived
were exhausted, the sprouts, as we have said, resolved
themselves into tubers. If this explanation be correct
—and physiologically it cannot, we think, be impugned
--then the practical inference is, dig not. l'he old
tuber is exhausted of moisture, its chemical composition
Is materially altered by the change' attendant on the
growth of the sprouts, and hence it has become com-
paratively worthless. So with the young tubers, they
are small, and not yet in condition; they are still
growing and depositing the starchy and other materials
that render them valuable—that is, prescmine the
haulm to be still motive, and likely to be so for some
weeks to come. Let, then, the young tubers alone till
they grow bigger and better: they will never make a
first-rate crop--granted, still half • balls better than
none. The conclusion that as physiologists we should
draw in such cases would be, either to dig before any
" supertuberating" is manifest, or, if unfortunately
that process has set in, to make the best of a bad matter
by waiting.
Etch-nos Eirsacera —I suspect very few person.
not actively engaged in electioneering have any idea of
the expense even of an uncontested election. The line
between legal and illegal expenditure is very vague and
indistinct, and for obvious reasons neither succardul nor
tineuceessful candidates are much prone to talking about
the outlay they have incurred. Ido not say that many
members are not returned free of expense. If you are
supported by strong territorial intei est, if you possess
strong local influence, or if you enjoy great class
popularity, whether deserved or unde.erved, you may
be returned at very little cost to your own pocket.
The money, it is true, comes out of other people's
pockets; and, however independent you may be, you
are still conscious of certain obligations towards those
who have paid for your return. Cases, however, of
this kind are necessarily rare. If you want to go into
Parliament, and know of no constituency which desires
your services, not only in general hut in particular,
' you put yourself in communication with the electioneer-
ing agents, and suggest your willinzness to sontest any
eligible Vacancy. You are told that in swill • con-
stituency there is likely to be an opening for a °mai-
date of your political principles. and are given to under-
stand more or less delicately that you must place at the
disposal of your agent • certain sum of money. What
that amount may be vsriesi, of course, according to the
circumstance, of the case. But I don't think I should
he far wrong in saying that, ur.der ordinary eircum
stanom, you will not have much change left out of a
couple of thousand pounds when the election is over, and
you bead—or do not head—the pill. And all Mi. money,
let me add, has been spent on legitimate expenditure. If
you once take to bribery, there is absolutely no limit to
the outlay except the length of your purse. How the
bill is erectly made out, neither you nor anybody elm
can tell with exact certainty. Heating., placards,
advertisements, committee-rooms, meseengers, cake,
hotel-keepers, publicans, and, above all, lawyers, figure
amongst your espouses. All you know is that you have
had, in one form or other, to retain the services of any
number of your constituents ; that you have paid them
prettylmuch what,they:have asked; and that generally,
in the phrase appropriate to such occasions, you have
set money going. A friend of mine some years ago
contested a very large constituency. The borough was
an extremely Liberal one; all the candidates were men
of ditto rent shades of Liberalism ; and the only
question was, which shade would best snit the taste of
the electorr. My friend was a good speaker, and
was well received by the constituency, not the loss
so because he wan notoriously a man of limited
MOWS. During the course of his =yam, he received •
visit from the local solicitor, who was said to have a
good deal of influence amongst the electors. In very
plain words the attorney informed the candidate that
his speeches had given satisfaction in the borough ; and
that he should be glad to support him subject to the
understanding that the lawyer's bill should run up to
a hundred pounds or No. He was • poor man—so the
lawyer stated, I believe, with truth—he had a large
family dependent on him; be always cleared a hundred
pounds every contested election; and. if the candidate
could not afford to pay this amount, be must reluctantly
support one of the other more opulent competitors. To
, this request my friend could only express his regret
; that he could not afford to pay for legal services; and,
finding that similes- expectations were entertained by
all his most influential supporters, be retired from
the contest. In the instance alluded to the candidate
was new to his business, and the constituent was
perhaps a little more outspoken than is commonly the
case. The negosiations are usually conducted in a less
direct manner, but the net result is the seine. Let it
be understood that the hundred pounds demanded of
my informant was in no mese • bribe. In case of his
requiring any amount afterwards, a perfectly genuine
lawyer's hill would have been produced, The candidate
would have been charged so numb for consultation, so
mach for letters, so much for inquiries; and the
services charged for would have been really rendered.
All the attorney required was that in return for his
Influence he should have what Is called • retaining fee.
This experience is common to all competitors for Par-
liamentary honours. The wheels must be greased, or
else the electoral machine will not function effectively.
That the grease is laid on with lavish liberality is a
matter of certainty, but how iamb of it could be spared
without injury to locomotion it would Mule even an
electioneering expert to determine.—Mr. B. Dicey is
ilacatillitut'afilitgazine for &vends?.

001 IN mamma.

TIMEDAT. —Ba/is:Jury : Short trade at late
Liverpool A large retail hnsinef a in wherit at the
ertreine rates of Friday.—Steffield : Demand for wheat
quiet at late I,th:ea.—Mali : Small supply of wheat,
and English rather dearer, new white making rag to
60a, new red 48s to 54s per quarter. Foreign quiet

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WEDIII:6IMY.—Mark-Lavie : Both English and foreign
wheat • slow trade at Moods;" pfIOU. Barky very
6rm.—Bortses : Na. white wheat, Ma to 60'; oow
red, 49a to 52s per 36 stone. —Newark: Red, Ms to
56., white, 56. to 60s per 36 stone. Quiet demand.

THINUIDAY.—BnatoI : Moderate supply of English
wheat, end a good sale, at fully last week's priors.
Fine WM pies of foreign wheat seam and quite as dear ;
inferior kinds neglected. Malting barley in plentiful
supply, and the weather being cooler, there was more
demand, at full rates; grinding gd per qr. dearer for
Black Sea qualities, but Irish being in larger supply,
was pressed ex ship at 64 to Is per quarter under
the late extreme currencies. Oats in lair request, at
our quotations. Indian corn Bud beans rather dearer.
Wheat: American, red prim', 55s to 561..; Polish
Odom, Nieobicif, soft, 50. to 5 b
5s ; Eubanks, urtli 50.
to 'l2s; (Mirka, Taganrog, Doe, he., soft, 45s to 48e ;
(Mirka, Odom. Menke!, soft, sla to 53, • Bardiaesli
Marianople, soft, 53s to 54s : English, red and white,
new, 53. to 158 a. Barley, English, good to fine malt.
ins, per quarter 44s to 48*; Irish ditto, 42, to 46. ; Irish
and French, grinding, per 400 lb., 344 to 35*; Danube
and Mediterranean: 30s to 31.5. Flour, English, good
seconds, per 28011 x, 39. to 41a; United States,
Canadian, hr., sweet superfine per barrel, 28s to 295.
—Gloucester Moderate supplies of English wheat at
this and the neighbouring markets, for which there is
fair sale at a slight decline from last week's rates;
foreign sells In retail at late values. Malting barley
firm; grinding more sought after, and fully rid per qr.
dearer. Oats are in fair request at former currencies.
Beans, peas, and maim unaltered—Devises: Wheat
in good supply, but was held very firmly for an advance,
so that only a moderate trade was effected, which was
done at the extreme rates of last week, and in come
instances fid per sack more money was obtained.
Barley was in large supply, but these were not many
prime mmples on offer; prices were the turn in
favour of the buyer. Other grain maintained
full rates, except vetches, which receded 6d per quarter.
Wheat, best white, Ns to 60*; best red, 52s to 58. ;
inferior sorts, 44s to Ms. Barley, 38. to 50s. Floor,
flue, 451 to 48.; other qualities, 404 to 45e. Beet breads
Is 24 the Blb Icel.—Birmingham : A. leas sups ly
of English wheat, which sold at an advance of Is to 3.
per qr. Foreign bald for more money. Barley the
turn higher. Oats rather dearer. Beans firm. Peas
unaltered. —Manchester : Moderate demand for wheat,
both English and foreign, and no alteration in prices
was observable. Flour moved slowly, at barely late
rates. Oak were ld to 2d per 45 lbs., and oatmeal Is
per load lower. Beans receded 6d to Is per quarter
whibit Indian corn brought fully the previous currency:

FILIDLY.—Mart•Lase : Market *nastily supplied
with English wheat. For all kinds the demand ruled
very inactive, at prices about eqrsal to Monday. Fall
average quantity of foreign wheat. The transactions
were chiefly in retail; nevertheless no quotable change
took place in prices. There were some very fine new
Baltic wheats on offer. In floating cargoes of wheat
very little business was transacted. Other produce
afloat was firm in value. Fine barley was scarce, and
in good request at extreme rates. Grinding and distill-
ing sorts were firm. Malt moved off steadily, but no
advance took place in prices. About an average business
was transacted in oats, at full quotations. The supply
was tolerably good. Beans and peas were very firm;
bat the sale for flour was heavy. Seeds and cakes
ruled about stationary. Liverpool; Attendance
small, bat business good in wheat, both for consumption
and to hold over, at 2d to 3d advance linos Tuesday,
Flour in fair request, at full prices. Maim in good
demand, at extreme price.; mix. I. 364 3d. Other
articles quiet, and unchauged.—Wakeileid Wheat
trade steady; fine white Is dearer ; red held for a
similar 'drum*. but sale was checked. Barley, unless
floe, rattier lower.

SATURDAY.— Dorchester: Inspector's return, wheat 50s
t, 575, average 43s 91d ; barley 42m 1048e,average 44s 9id
per qr.—Bala : For wheat the quotation was from
52s to 60s. per qr. Very little done in barley, which
was quoted 401 to 465. Oat. have • quiet retail sale, at
from 26. to 32s per mak. Beaus sold at 50s to 541, and
peas a 142.. to 4111 per qr. Secends flour is at 40s to
42. per sack, and bread et 12.1 end 13d per loaf.
Taunton : Good attendance and supply, and a tolerable
stroke of business was done, at the following quotations:
—Wheat, 6e 9d to Is per bushel; mattes barley,
5s 41; grinding, So; oats, 3i Pd; beans, 6, Pd; peas,
7s ; flour, 101; tares, 11s.— Waresiluter : Attendance
good, and supplies large. For wheat in some instances
on advance of ls. was obtained, but the bulk of the
business was at previous mime. The quotation did not
exceed 59e. For malting barley the most extravagant
priors were asked, but there was no great disposition to
bey, and • quiet trade must be reported, at last week's
rates. The quotation may be returned at 46a. to 50s
per qr. for malting, and 40e to 44s for grinding qualities.
In other corn there was but little paring. Gets made
from 26s to 34a; beans, 46s to to 541 ; and pease, 440
to 545, Vetches sold at 9s to 10. per bushel
and rye at 37. to 43e per qr. Flour was quoted 411 to
43s per sack. Yeovil: Attendance thin, but
supplies more than proportionate. As a concession of
Is per qr. WM acceded to for wheat, a fair amount of
business was ultimately done. The quotation was from
50s to 565. The barley trade was very quiet, and the
highest price we heard of was 45is per qr. Gots were
quiet at 21s to 30s ; beam, 44s to 56e; and peas 424 to
58e per qr.