The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-30 00:00:00

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ACK rm.—lmmense shnabs of mackerel have been
observed oil the Northumberland coast during the past
week. The most remarkaLle thing is that quantities of
them have found their way into the principal rivera,
and on Monday a great number were observed up au
high as the Northumberland Dock. On Tuesday morn-
ing 1,1:4) fine usackend were caught by the salmon nets
at the mouth of the Tyne.

A MAG NI 1 ICIINT BLYVIIKT. After the funeral of
Lord Henry Seymour, which took place early in the
morning ot Saturday week, at Pere La Chaise, in his
mother's vault, only attended by Lord Hertford,
Vicomte Darn, and five members of the Jockey Club,
his will was opened, and the hospitals of Paris were
tumid to have inherited a rent-roll equal to mom
sterling per annum. As all this property came through
his mother, the late Marchioness, England had no claim
on it: indeed the testator, born in Paris, never set foot
on British soil inlhis life. Four favourite horses enjoy
an annuity and exemption from saddle work. Other
annuities are named unnecessary to notice.
THUNDERSTORM. —Oll Thursday evening the metropo-
lis was visited with a thunderstorm of a very severe
character, both as regards the lightning and the peals of
thunder. The former was exceedingly vivid, and con
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tinned in rapid succesaion till it commenced raining.
when the streets in many parts of the metropolis became
most inconveniently flooded. The weather having been
very hot during the day it might naturally have been
expected that the rain would bring with it a lower
temperature, but such was not the case. The therino-
meter continued as before. and the atmosphere carried
one back to the middle of July, when everyone coin-
planed of the rapid transition from an English to an
Indian climate.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT FROM CRINOLINE.—An acici•
dent which bu been attended with severe, and possibly
fatal results, happened a few days since at an archery
meeting held in the grounds of Mr. W. Wilshire (late
M.P. for Yarmouth), near Machin, in Hertfonlshire.
It appears that Mrs. Cliesshyre, the wife of an Essex
clergyman, who was among the party, and wasdressed
in the prevailing style of fashion, suddenly sat down on
the grass, and in doing so snapped one of the steel hoops
which supported her dress. Unfortunately the sharp
end penetrated her body, and inflicted a severe internal
wound. Medical attendance was fortunately at lisaid,
and the hemorrhage was stopped with the greatest
difficulty. The lady still remains in • most precarious
state.

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SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LIVERPOOL SHARE.
BROKEIL—At the Liverpool Police-court on Thursday
hist Mr. Yates, barrister, apoeared on behalf of Mr.
Patrick Bulfiu, of Dublin. to ask for a w•rrant against
Mr. Roberts, of the firm of Ituakell and Roberta, share-
brokers, of Liverpool, for having misappropriated a
certain number of London and Holyhead stock to the
amount of about £4,000. Mr. Yates stated that Mr.
Roberts had had entrusted to him by Mr. Bulfin 400
Chester and Holyhead stock, upon which he was to
raise • loan, and that Roberta was likewise instructed
to purchase other shares in the Eastern Counties Rail-
way. This stock he was to hold over but, without any
instructions from Mr. Bulfin, he made away with the
whole stuck, and hence the present application for a
warrant. Mr. Preston, after hearing Mr. Bulfin in
corroboration of Mr. Yates's statement, at once granted
a warrant for the apprehension of Roberts.
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN.— On Thurs.
ing, shortly before 9 o'clock, a fatal accident occurred
within a short distance of the Kinney Station of the
Great Northern Railwy. lt appears that the foreman
of the platelayers of the division of the line between
Coliwy Hatch and Hornsey was walking down the line
superintending his men, and giving them instructions to
be careful on account of the heavy fog or dew which was
prevailing at the time. He had not gone far down the
line from the Hornsey station, when the unfortunate
man was met by the 9 30 up Midland train, which,
owing to the density of of the fog, he had neither seen
nor heard approaching until close upon him. Before
the poor fellow lied time to get out of the way he was
struck by one of the buffers of the engine, and pushed
forward a distance of 40 or 30 yards, and the who'o
train passed over him, literally cutting him to pieces.
Death was of course instantaneous. His remain.' were
conveyed to an outhouse at the Railway Tavern at
normalcy, to await an inquest.
, A NELANCHoLT AFFAIR.---At St. Gall, in Switzer.
land, a few days ago, a young workman and workwunien
having married, went with their friends to a public
, house, to eat the wedding feast. Will% the mirth awl
fun were at thvir height, the report of a tire-arm was
, heard, awl the young husleuid, to the consternation of
' the party, was struck is the bead by a ball and fell dead.
The same lull before hitting him grazed his wife's
neck, all,l after passing through his head Imlged in the
I shoulder of one of the guests, wounding him rather
I Severely. It tunicd init that the fatal shot was fired
I by a workman named Boppart, but quite unintentien•
ally. He being • friend of the newly-niarried couple
and being about to join the wedding party, of which
his wife was one, thought fit to fire Ids gun in their
liononr, but by mistake he charged it with • ball cart-
ridge ioitead of one with simple powder. Boppart was
no oftt.cted at the fatal event and at the comments made
on it W., the townspeople that the day after he drowned
himself in a pond.

11 lOUS DISCOVILIT OF THI BODY Olt A CHILD
IN • RAILWAY CA lIRIAGE.-Beuse excitement Wke
created at the Midland Railway station, Leeds, on
Wednesday morning, by the discovery of the body of • i
new-born male child, under circumstances of grave stue. .
picion. It appears that on Monday night, a gentleman ,
going to Kirkstall got into one of the grist,-clam carriages
attached to the 10.40 train for Bradford, and immeili•
ately after the train had been put in motion he noticed •
large brown paper parcel on one of the *eau. lie looked
out of the window and called to the porters that there
was • parcel in the carriage, but the train was already
out of the station, and it was too late to leave the par-
cel behind. In the meantime his suapiciona bad been
roils d by tbe peculiar form and "feel of the isroel.
Subsequently the parcel gave off such an unquestionable
odour u to ji.stify the officials in examining it more
' closely, and the polies having been sent for, it was
1, opened in their prvienoe. It waa then found to contain
the dead body of a full-grown male child, but there was
j nothing externally to indicate whether it had been born
alive or not. The coroner, however, MU communicated
with and he at once ordered • post mortem examination
! to be made, and opened an inquest Saturday morning.
! The
_case
.is involved, as is usual iu such instances, in a

good deal of mystery.
Tux Coxvier Ettes Iterrint.—The Home Secretary
has felt himself justified in advising tbe extension of the
royal prerogataie to this miserable woman, convictei at
the late Gloucester assixes of the murder of her husband.
Her sentence will be commuted to penal servitude for
life. This result is owing to numerous applicatione on
the prisoner's behalf, based principally on the ground of
the gross ill truatuient she suffered from the deceased.
It may be remembered that the jury accompanied their
verdict with a recommendation to a similar effect.—The
Writers Times says:—" Her conduct in gaol has been
somewhat remarkable. At first, we hear, she refused
to eat, but subsequently she said she was not going to
faint or to laughed at on ter trial, and, therefore, the
night before her trial she hail bolo° mutton, •to keep
up hir strength; which she ate voraciously. She ex-
pressed her &termination to ple4l guilty, and on being
told the judge would not allow her to do so. asked
, ' What's the use of telling a lie,about it?' ldr. Powell,
who was to have defended her, sitigzehtect that she should
apply to have the trial deferred, and in the meantime
her defence might be properly get up. ' No,' she re-
plied, ' l'in sure to I.e found guilty, and I may as well
be hanged now as in six niontlue tour.' She also ex-
pressed a wish to be hanged in preference to having
, penal servitude for life. A great number of philantru•
phists have applied at the gaol to see her, une of whom
expreased a wish. as he phrased it, 'to hear from her
dying lips the confeivilou that lice melancholy talc and
that of her husband was attributable to alcohol.'
Were the prisoner's life extended fortwo years she could
not in that thee read all the religious tracts and ;Jinn-
i phlets which have been forwarded fur her perusal."
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CRYWCAL PALACE.—The 1111Mber of visitor' to the
Crystal Peace on Tuesday, at the Foresters' Fete,
63,181 was by far the largest which has ever been col-
lected there, and exceeded by more than 17,000 the num-
ber on the same occasion last year. The conduct of this
immense meat throughout the day was in every respect
admirable •' hardly a single case of drunkenera was ob-
served, and the greats order and good humour pro•
veiled. The visitors spread themselves over the whole
of the grounds, as they have never done on any former
occasion, and the result was that not more than the most
temporary pressure or incor.venience was at any time
felt in the building, it will hardly be believed that no
damage whatever was done to the property of the com-
pany within or without the Palace. Fully two-thirds
of the visitors mune by rail, and the arrangenie.nt by
which this enormous throng of more than 40.000 were
brought to the Palace end conveyed beck refiects the
credit on the officers of the Railway Company.
For s'altne hours during the morning the !rammer' deli-
vered at the Palace exceeded 12,000 an hour--i.e., 1,000
in every five minutes. Measures were adopted by the
managers of the Palace by which the excursionists' from
the country, who formed a 'arms proportion of the
vlsi-
tars, were enabled to reach their return trains with very
trilling delay. The managrment of the refreshment de-
partment, by which the creature domforta of this great
multitude were supplied, seems to have given universal
satisfaction, and though the Foresters make no profes-
sions to be a "temperance society," the free drinking
fountains lately erected in the Palace were literally be-
sieged by thirsty visitors throughout the whole day.
The annual demonstrations of the Forestershave steadily
increased in popularity since the first year that they
attempted one, and having now assumed an importance
possessed by those of no other society of the day. If
these gatherings continue to IN: conducted with the same
admirable Gorier and good feeling that waste abundantly
manifested on Tuesday, we can only say that ac think
they are worthy of the most strenuous support.

THE RECENT MURDER NEAR LERDS.—The eROII4 to
detect the murderers of Richard Broughton, the old
man who, it will be remembered, was attacked and
robbed by two men in • field at Roundhay, near Leeds,
on Saturday afternoon the 6th inst., and died the follow-
ing day from the injuries inflicted upon him, have been
continued up to the prevent time with unremitting
energy, and, fortunately, there is some reason to hope
that the culprits may yet be brought to justice. Several
men suspected of the crime have been apprehended by
the police at different times since the murder was com-
mitted, but they could not be identified, and were
accordingly set at liberty. Two of these men, who
were taken into custody near Northallerton on Satur-
day, were discharged by the Leeds magistrates on
Tuesday last. On the same day, however, information
of an important character affecting two prisoners in
Wakefield House of Correction was received at Leeds,
they having been identified as two men who were in
the field where Broughton met his death shortly before
the murder was committed. The prisoners are, William
Appleby, of Bolton, but who has resided for the last 10
years at Bradford, and Walter Bearden, of Sheffield.
They are at present awaiting their trial for • burglary
colninitted a few days ago at Batley. They are each
about 28 years of age, and are men of bad character. At
the tittle they were identified by two persons they were
in cotupany with several other prisoner; and attired in
the dress worn in the prison. The Leeds justices have
determined to apply to the Home Secretary for an order
For the removal -of the men from Wakefield to Leeds.
Another important clue obtained to the discovery
of the murderers has just been made public,
it having hitherto been deemed expedient by the police
to keep it secret. A heavy stick or bludgeon, with
some blood and hair attached to it, was picked up near
to where Broughton was attacked, and the watch stolen
from the unfortunate man was found to have been
pledged at the shop of Mr. Barrios, pawnbroker, Dyer-
street, Leeds, within about two hours after the murder.
Whether the two men at Wakefield, or either of them,
can be connected with the pledging of the watch or the
posemion of the bludgeon, the examination before the
magistrates will show.
SALL OF POISoN ITS RESULT/I.—A striking MRS
occurred at Montrose on Wedneiday week. It appears
that a man named Francis 1/uncan, a shiprigger,
belonging to Dundee, called at the shop of Mr. Burrell,
chyuie.t, about midday, and asked for ;sonic preside
acid for killing rats, lie was informed by Mr. Burrell
that the article was not usually applied to such a pur-
pose, and was refused. Duncan then went to • mound
shop of Mr. Burrell, at the High-street Port, where be
asked for oil of vitro' (sulphuric acid) from Mr. John
Clark, the young man ill attendance, who questioned
Idol as to the intended use of it, and who, in answer to
a question, intorno*: his customer that it was 1
poisonous, ,but that it was a very cruel and
torturing method of killing vermin. This ap-
peared to excite doub a in the man's mind, for imme-
diately be inquired for prussic acid instead, and Mr.
Clark retired for • minute and returned with • bottle
duly labelled with the article required, but which
meantime he had filled with pure water and a few
grains of Rochelle salts to give it a flavour. A small
bottle being filled therewith, the man asked if it would
kill, and was informed that such a phial of mid would
kill half • doxen people. Having dipped his finger in
the liquid, and applied it to the tongue, he expressed
himself satisfied. as he used it often to cure toothache;
and, on being cautioned as to its use, he left the shop.
Meanwhile information had been lodged at the police
office of the theft of a silver watch from the bowie of
Mrs. Reid, lodginghouse-keeper, Shore Wynd, the
property of one of her lodgers, acid it was saspected
that Duncan, who had been lodging there, was the
thief. The police, after an active search, had succeeded
io recovering the watch at a pawnbroker's; and, hav-
ing their suspicions confirmed as to the guilty party,
ret out in his track, and succeeded in apprehending
him. Just, however, before the officers reiaed him he
drew forth the fatal phial, and instantly swallowed its
contents, and then placidly informed the officers that
he had taken poison, and would in a few minutes be
beyond the reach of human law. The consternation
ensuing was immediate, and a medical gentleman was
promptly sent for, who had the satisfaction of finding
emetics and other appliances, suggested by the probable
nature of the supposed poison, followed in a few
minutes by the revival of the poor man, who, under
the impression that he was really dying, MIA no less
astonished himself at being so easily rescued from
otherwise inevitable death. He has since been exa-
mined and couonitted to gaol, and is none the worse
for the dose. The good judgment and discretion shown
by Mr. Olark is this instance deserves the highest coin-
mendatton, as unquestionably, had he not exercised the
tact displayed, the poor mates life, in all probability,
would have been sacrificed.
PERILOUS VOYAGE AND SKILFUL SEAMANSHIP.—
Some few months ago instructions were received in Eng-
land by Mr. John Watson, of London, who is • contrac-
tor of the undertaking, to despatch to Bahia a small
screw boat to ply in connexion with the Bahia. Railway.
Acoordingly, a pretty little craft was built of steel plates,
and as it was utterly imponsible to steam such a distance
even had she been freighted with coal, it was resolved
to send the Little Lucy to Bahia under sail alone, al-
though only 20 tons register. To obviate too great buoy-
ancy, which would have proved fatal in • squall, she
was loaded with 18 tons of cargo, and started from the
Tees on her long and perilous voyage. On reaching Fal-
mouth the captain and crew, becoming fainthearted, put
into that port and declined to proceed further. A Ines-
sage was then sent down to Liverpool, with the object of
procuring a captain for the little vessel. Ultimately
Captain Richard Breekon, a member of the Liverpool
Mercantile Marine .Imociation, and the all-but success-
ful candidate for the schoolship Collwey, offered to navi-
gate the vemel to Bahia. After much difficulty • crew
was got together, but so fragile was the appearance of
the tiny lock that one of the crew absolutely jumped
uverla,ard no less than six times in a vain attempt to
escape, the g.illant captain on each ocmsion capturing
I the would-be runaway. On the 20th of April last, the
Little Lucy again being ready for sea, Captain Breckon
hoisted sail, and fearlemly steered down channel, his
friends at Falmouth bidding hini a sorrowful adieu, with
the conviction that be never would reach Bahia. The
bold captain, however, had no such fears; he had been
to every part of the globe, was thoroughly familiar with
every trade, and, having confidence in liii little craft,
with a full and lowing sail the Little Lucy bowled down
channel, and the result proved that Captain Brockon's
judgment was right. Nothing of importance occurred
until the vessel reached the Bay of Biscay, when she en-
countered two severe gales, but, miraculously as it seems.
*he weathered both nobly, rising like a cork to every
wave. There is no doubt that to the unparalleled sea-
manship of Captain Itreckon was due mainly the safety
of the vessel and her crew. After clearing the Bay of
Biscay the Phoebe Dunbar, a large ship belonging to
London, with passengers on board. descried the Little
Lucy, and, astonished to me so small a craft in mach •
latitude, the master signalled to Captain Drookon• his
wish to communicate. Accordingly the lather ran his
tiny vessel under the quarter of the Mobs Dunbar,

when 100 opera &Mee and taileseopee were levelled at
the miniature ship beneath. After parting from the
Yliorbe Danbar the Little Luny enasuntered tolerably
line weather, and at length, thee a Pel ag days
from Fahnosth, Captain Breclsoielleakered ia, where
the appeelltooll of bis feleelereated,seni yet be eapested,
• great sensiitoos. When the length she voyage ia
considered, the sinallsers of the mead in which it was
made, the short time in which it was accomplished, end
the dangers and nab to be encountered, the voyage 01 the
Little Lucy is an event perhaps without parallel tee
courage, skill, and daring. Captain Breakon is now jji
Livirpool, and it is to be hived that the rare gualitieu
he pommees may find s fitting sphere fee their develop-
ment.