The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

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The potato° crop of Ittr.9 promises to turn out the
finest grown in Ireland since the good old timmi, when
the market value of the article of food ruled from Is. to
Is. 6d, the cwt.

KIELI WILLIAM'S STATUE, DritiAN.--Preparations
are being made for the insertion of a drinking fountain
into the western aide of the pedestal of the statue of
King William, rollege-green, Dublin. Fur upwards of
a century and a half much liquid has been consumed to
the " memory" of King William. The material thus
imbibed, however, has been generally of a quality much
atronger than water, and has been limited to the more
ultra portion of our oionitrynieri. Henceforward the
libntion• under the shadow of King Witham ciii be
confined to Ina(' water, 111111 will be partaken of by Her
Majesty's subjects without distinction of political opi.
nions. . . . .

The Derry Grordian, in announcing the departure of
the Ajax, screw steamer, from Lough Foyle for Lough
Swilly, states that Captain Boyd had intended to make a
longer stay in the Foyle but for the attempt of a
Roman Catholic clergyman to interfere with the disci-
pline of him ship. It appears that a petty officer and
sevend of the crew of the Ajax, beirg Boman Catholics,
attended chapel on Sunday week, in the neighbourhood
of Bovine, when the officiating priest required them to
remain after the ColleiliPiUll of the usual service, that
he might read to them some printed statement
respecting certain matters that had lain the subject
of in•iniry at the Admin.lty while the ship lay in
Kingstown harbour, and which it may he recollected
were brought under the notice. of the House of Com-
111011S lately by Hr. John Pope II .sitey. As WWI
as the mreice was os r the officer and men TONI 11110
left the chapel, hut his rev, mace neee elides., prof:ceded
to read the statement re:etnal to from one of the
Dublin newspapers. Captain Ito) .1 u oil ii two' the
Roman Catholic Bishop, who resi4,.; at Moville, the
same eveaing, and mpresented what had oceurred,
whereupon lir. Kelly is repot-tall to have odd that the
irk. t acid indiscreetly, but that he would make fur-
ther inquiry into the transaction. 11,re the matter
serum to have rested, for Captaiu Boyd had no further
communication front the hi lop up to Tuesday eveli-
ing. and at 4 o'chek the following ruing the vessel
sailed from the Foyle, where the Ajax would have
remained much longer but for the intenuedoling of the
clergyman.
°enlace IN Wl.:24lllEATll.—Thomits Scully, caretaker
over the Log of Culnamier, Westmeath. summoned to the
Kelbeggau petty sessions five men, of the families of
Ryan and lirehan, for having trespassed on his master's
property, and taken therefrom bog manure. The offend-
ers were fined. On the evening of the mine day
Scully and his brother Michael were peaceably return-
ing to their hotues when they were overtaken by the
delinquents, who beat them with bludgeomi and stones,
no as to put their lives in imminent danger. This out-
rage was perpetrated within • few yards of the spot
where Jessop was no fouly murdered; and the Scullys
would, in all probability, have experienced in like fate,
had not the wife of one of their mmilanta intimated the
approach of some police. Her alarm caused the ruffians
to fly (across the very fields which, it is said. desK.P.,
murderers in their retreat), leaving their victims
almost lifere=l The principal offenders have as yet
, evaded justice.