The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

enteral littos.

ARRIVAL OF MR. CORDER TROY ANERICA.—Mr.
Cobden arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning by
the steamer Indian, which reached the port at about 10
o'clock. He was received by his brother, • deputation
from his constituents at Rochdale, Mr. 8.. Gladstone,
and a number of other gentlemen resident in Liverpool,
numbering altogether about 200, who cheered him
loudly as coon has he was perceived on deck. The hon.
gentleman on landing proceeded with his brother in a
cab to the Adelphi Hotel, where he received numerous
addresses during the day.
ANOTHIR Cu ANNZL TELEGRAPR.—The Submarine
Telegraph Company's new cable between Boulogne and
Folkestone was successfully submerged on the 26th ult.
The cable is the largest and strongest yet constructed.
It contains six conducting wires of gauge No. 1 sur-
rounding a hempen core ; these wires are covered with
hemp, and the whole is enclosed in 12 iron wires of
guage No. 0; the weight per mile amounts to just upon
ten tons. After submersion perfect signals were in-
terchanged upon all the six conducting wires, and when
the connecting links of land wires are completed and
the cable opened for business every accommodation will
be secured for rapid interchange of telegraphic corres-
pondence between England and the continent. The
cable was manufactured and laid by Messrs. Glass, Elliot,
and Cu., the contractors.

CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE IN STOVES AND GRATES.—
We are informed that Dr. Bartlett, of Bedford-row, has
patented an invention, by means of which the smoke
from new coals passes through • fire made by wale from
which all the smoke has Inen burnt, thereby consuming
the smoke and economising the fuel. This invention
can be applied to any ordinary grate or furnace, whether
marine, locomotive, or stationary. Its application ap-
pears, from the drawings of it, which have been exhibited,
to be very simple, and the fire can be easily replenished.
By direction of the Prince Consort, the invention was
tested in a stove in the waiting-room of Buckingham
Palace, which was worked for 12 consecutive hours
against another stove of precisely similar size. The re-
sult was that the quantity of ooal and cinders consumed
was little more than half that used in the stove to which
the invention was not applied.
NEW Beurr.--Soun interesting experiments were
made • few days since at Vincennes to ascertain the accu-
racy in firing and the distance traversed by anew musket
bullet proposed to replace the bullet fired from the rifles
with which the Chaaseurs and Zouaves were armed. It
is said that this new ball, independently of its superiority
both in precision and distance, offers the remarkable
advantage of being fired from • smooth barrel, by which
the rifled barrel may be dispensed with, which is so
troublesome to keep clean dunng a campaign, and is so
difficult to load. General Courtigis, Inspector-General
of the Imperial School for Teaching to Fire who has
given a favourable opinion as to the merits Of the new
ball, directed the experiments, of which the following
are the results :—Of 100 balls of the old fashion fired
from • rifle, at 600 yards distance 43 struck the target,
and 14 balls at 800 yards. 0( 100 newly-invented balls
fired from a smooth barrel, at 600 yards, 65 struck the
target, and 39 at 800 yards—being a difference of 25 per
cent, in favour of the new ball. A still more extraor-
dinary fact is, that the new ball will kill at a distance
of 1,500 yards while • rifle ball is not effective at more
than 1,000 yards. Major Nessler, the present director
of the Imperial School of Firing, is the inventor of the
new bullet.

ELECTION PETrriona.—The General Committee of
Elections consists of the Right Hon. Sir Francis Ba-
ring, Bart., the Right Hon. Mr. Spencer Walpole, the
Right Hon. Sir William Somerville, Bart., Sir William
Miles, Bart.' Mr. Henry Ker Seymer, and Mr. John
Bonham Carter. In nearly every instance the corn.
plaint is grounded on the charge of bribery, treating,
intimidation, and undue influence. At Berwick-upon-
Tweed the corruption is said to have been gross, open,
notorious, and systematic. At Limerick the petition
dates that the freedom of election was violated by set-
ting order and authority at defiance. At Newry, the
petitioner, Mr. Kirk, the opposing candidate, accuses
Mr. Peter Quinn, or his agents, of having, among other
illegal practices, resorted to the improper making up of
the poll books. The election of Mr. Bowyer for Dun-
dalk is sought to be set aside on account of the nomina-
tion of Sir John M'Neil having been disregarded by the
returning officer. The total number of petitions
already presented is 59,-58 members are peti-
tioned against. 29 of whom are Conservatives and 29
Liberals. With respect to Aylesbury, where there was
the double return of Mr. Smith and Mr. Wentworth,
the petitions are no less than five. There are four peti-
tions both against Beverley and Athlone, three against
Weymouth, and two against the following places—
Preston, Great Yarmouth, Peterborough, Kingston-
upon-Hull, Wakefield, Carlow, and Barnstaple.

PUBLIC OPINION.—A WHOLESOME REVOLUTION.--•
Amid the conflicts of public sentiment it is pleasant to
observe that there is one subject upon which all parties,
sects, and classes think alike. We refer to the benefi-
cent reform in the practice of medicine of which the
distinguished Professor Holloway is the author. What-
ever way be the difference of opinion asto the Ixst cures
for political evils, there arc none as to the best remedies
for disease. The experiment has been made, and its
success is assured by an uninterrupted series of triumphs
extending over many years, and covering every variety
of human ailments. All plots of parties, all schemes of
political aggrandisement, sink into insignificance when
contrasted with the scope and objects of an enterprise
which showers its remedial influence wherever death
threatens or physical pain exista. To explain the uses
of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, to point out the eel--
tainty and rapidity with which they operate upon the
elementary germs of disease, to recount the cures which they
are daily accomplishing in casesthathavebeen pronounced
beyond the reach of medicine, to reproduce here the
proofs of their infallibility with which the public jour •
nals throughout the world continually teem, would be to
fill our columns with information always familiar to an
intelligent people. In the wooded wilderness and the
inhospitable marsh, in the gilded saloon as in the lowly
cottage, on the fishing grounds, on the borders of the
inland seas, and in the pasture lands of the interior, as
in the densely populated towns, everywhere thew prepa-
rations are reckoned among the necessaries of life. Fever
and ague, dumb ague, bilious, remittent, rheumatism,
asthma, and all other complaints that are the concom-
itants of exposure and privation, the effect of a viti-
ated atmosphere, are so readily and uniformly controlled
by the Pills and Ointment, that all cismes swept and
use, and acknowledge them to be the one great world's
remedy for disease. In towns where luxurious living
and the thousand indulgences of social life lead to many
of the maladies produced by other causes in the country,
the beneficial operation of these medicines has been no
less marked and palpable; and their popularity, founded
as it is upon the daily experience of the sick, must con-
tinue to increase as long as ease is preferred to pain, and
veracious testimony has its due weight with the com-
munity.
THE OUTRAGIC IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The
adjourned inquest touching the death of the unknown
woman who was supposed to have been murdered at
Prince's-end on the t.bh May, was resumed on Saturday
week. The Coroner stated that he had received a
reply from the Secretary of State (Sir G. C. Lewis) in
answer to his applications to allow the prisoners to be
brought before him, and that he stated he was unable
to make the necessary order. The only means to bring
them before a jury would be by habeas corpus, and he
did not feel justified in going to so expensive • process.
--Sergeant Tubman said,—l first heard of this affair on
Sunday evening, the 'Mb of May. I received informa-
tion that something was going on wrong near the Moat
Colliery, and despatched Police-constable Williams to
the spot. I saw the body of deceased when it was
taken from the canal. I noticed severe bruises on her
face. Her nose was flattened as if from a blow. Her
bosom was lacerated, and her thighs were discoloured
and bruised as if from blows. From information I
received I apprehended the prisoners on Sunday, the
sth ult., upon a charge of violently assaulting a woman
unknown. Upon taking the prisoner Watkins into
custody, he said, "Have you got the others?' I said,
"No." He then gave me the names of the prisoners
Allen, Edward Acton, William Acton, V'ereday,
Richard Cation, and Richard Catatan, and said they
were as bad as he, and did the Lime as himself. The
other prisoners all admitted seeing her at the Moat
Colliery. I know the spot where the body was found.
It is about five yards from the hovel where deceased
was seen with the prisoners. The door of the hovel
faces the canal. Upon visiting the spot I noticed that the
ground was much trodden down between the hovel and
the wharf With reference to a young man, named
Robert Davies, having said in Bilaton, while intoxicated,
that he was one of the murderers of the unfortunate
woman upon being questioned, he denied all knowledge
of the a:ffair. Mr. Underhill, surgeon, deposed to mak-
ing a pea stork* examination of the body of the
deceased. He found an extensive scalp wound, but the
skull was not fractured. There were other bruises on
different parts of the deceased's body. He was of
opinion that the woman was not dead when placed in
the water. The Coroner, in summing up the evidence,
said that a more disgusting, unmanly, or atrocious case
had never been brought under his notice. The jury,
after about an hour's deliberation. returned • verdict
of "Wilful murder" against the four prisoners, Joseph
Allen, Thomas Walker, Edward Acton, and Edward
Fereday, they also appended • note of appreciation of
police-sergeant Tubtnan's vigilance in conducting UN
case. Great excitement was manifested in the neigh-
bourhood at the result of the inquest.