The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

Srmu anb Nabu.

DIZZITION BY Al °esteem—The young officer of
the 7th Fusiliers, accused of theft tit Gibraltar, has vir-
tually admitted his guilt, and escaped the punishment
for oae mime by committing another. He has broken
his arrest and has deserted. It is believed that be ham
made his way to Algiers, and, of course, will never
again been seen in England. In the meantime he has
been cashiered by the authorities. It is, however, •
seesiderable satidaction to the regiment generally that
there can now be no doubt whatever about the culprit,
as the petty thefts which bad taken place in every
directioa, and of every possible description of article,
had excited a most painful degree of uneasiness and
SUMO of disgrace. That the young mut should ran
such • risk is marvellous, when it is remembered that
be was amply supplied with money, and bad letters of
credit to • considerable amount.
An extraordinary court-martial has tust been held at
Chatham. A person named Henry Warner, who
=1„ the garb of a sailor, was charged with harms
from the 17th Laneers, at Baslakel, in the
Crimea, so far back as the Bth of August, 1856. The
prisoner admitted the Ina of the desertion, but attri-
buted it to • tecatterary aberration a mind. He further
stated, that on wing himself up as a deserter be was
in irons the captain of the ship in which he
placed
taken service, but on the matter being referred to
the Horse Guards, they disowned him. The captain was
examined with reference to there circumstances but he
vas unable to recollect whether they had mourned. The
issue of the trial will not be known until the proceedings
have been laid before her Majesty.
Tag WABILIOR.-114, Warrior appears to be •
decided success. Til• ship arrived at Queen's Town on
Tuesday
'evening,:rbere she was, al course the "observed
of all observers • and during the Toyer, she steamed,
ee with sails l, fully 18 miles an hoar, and wee per-
fectly steady, although the wind rime to • real topsail
breeze. The Resew, with Admiral Smart on board,
was her companion, but the Warrior had frequently to
p half speed, se as sot to law sight of her consort.
Lord Clarence Paget and Mr. Drummond of the
Admiralty were on beard tlis Warrior. The splendid
versa was throws °pea to the public on Thursday and

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCB.
Corrial. Asta.-71ie Church Miesionary Society has
determined to ecommessos a new mission at two or three
of tbe great towns on the Upper Indus, in the hope of
thus obtaining • means of aeons to the people of
Central Ads The travelling merchaat tribes, which
annually demand the peers of the mountains in vast
caravans, would thus be broaght in contact with the
Gospel They are mostly of a manly, open, and reso-
lute character, and if woe to Use truth would be mem-
ers of life in those interior countries hitherto inst.
eessible to the European missionary. The British
Commissioner in the Trans-Suticj States, has offered
£l,OOO toward, the establiahment of this MiStioll, and
the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjaub has promised
a further donation of 1.300.

CALMS (?ua.sca.)—Th. annirereary services in con-
nection with the Calais branch of the Missionary
Society was held in the chapel of St. Pierre, on the 22nd ,
and 23rd alt. On the preceding &lobelia, the annual
sermons were preached, both in English rind French, by
the ministers of the circuit, the Revs. R. Moore, and J.
P. Cook. Of the meetinge, the first, on the Tuesday, ,
was in French; the other, on the Wednesday. in
English. At both we were favoured with the presence
of OK Rev. Charles William Free! (from the Dover ,
circuit), and of the Rev. Williem Tomas, from Boulogne, '
who le dill strong and hearty, alter fifty-seven years
palmistry, and whom words of wisdom are ever welcome
amongst ma. May he yet brain-devoid to the church
for many years to come. The attendance was larger
than on previous occasions, and notwithstanding the
d.prseeed state of the lace trade, the collections were
nearly In advance of those of lost year. 'The mis-
:..:72itreptripero havey.also. this yea
that we r, been
ansarrencriez-.
In the mediate of the year.
LONDON 1111110N11 IN CHINL. —By the last mail we
are sorry to learn that the Rey. Mr. Dawson, • gentle-
ma of fortune, who with his young wife had dedicated
themselves to the mimic° work in Chi's', is now on his
way boom, biting obliged to leave on beecnot of his ill-
health; and And Mrs. Rdkins, the wife of ooe of the
mod able midionaries in China, died in August, • sad
lons to all the inimions, Ruropeans have never known •
more sickly season in the north of China.
Lord Grog* Gordon Lemnos, M.P. for Lymington,
has presented to the line old church at Lymington a
gained glass window of three panels, representing the
the Mailing to the Cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, after Holbsin. The colours, especially the
thereby and purple, are gorusly brillient, and the
.groupin.r of the figures very skilful. It will be great
embellishment of the church.
At • meeting of clergymen and lay members of the
Church ef England, held in Manchester on Wednesday,
under the presidency of Mr. W. J. Cornett, M.P., raw
lotions were passed in favour of the general adoption of
the weekly offertory, and recommending "professing
Christians to set dart • stated portion—say not less
than • tenth—of their means and income for religious
and charitable purposes."

DrIRWED 80101111.—Ou Moody morning.
apestablo ma, mood 7yode:4*k Goode, committed
suicide at Leominster, in • determined manner, by
hie hod oa IS rails in foot of • goods train.
tadag rasagied body proented • horrible appears:am
Doomed, who waa married, and had sin children, his
wife being also moiewts, ma, it was statod, may much
bolded la hie ammaista with his mailer, Yr. ?robot,
opal martian% widish is supposed to beet preyed on hid
Wad. sod lid ho Ski cassdesias ot lb. determined