The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-20 00:00:00

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Nzw ACT RILATING TO P•WIIIIROMIII. —By a
new act of parliament all the provisions against pawn-
brokers which were restricted in their operation to the
metropolitan police districts are now extended to all
parts of England.
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Lucirga MArcnza—A young girl of 14 has just
died in Cumberland, and it has been proved before a
coroner's jury that she poisoned herself with eating the
ends off • box and a half of leader matches.

GREAT FIRE IN LIVERPOOL.-A condagration, which
was visible for miles round, occurred in Liverpool on
Wednesday night, which caused the destruction of the
workshops and other premises of Messrs. Kilpin and
Montgomery, builders and contractors. The damage is
estimated at from £lO,OOO to £15,000. The stock was
insured in the Yorkshire Fire Insurance Company, and
the buildings in the Manchester Insurance Com-
pany.

EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD Hoer. Her
Majesty's Emigration Conunisaioners chartered two ves-
sels on the 15th inst.—viz, the Derwent, 410 tons, be-
longing to Messrs. Wilson, Barter, and Slater, to sail
(non Liverpool to Aloga Bay, at .Cl 3 Gs. Sd. per statute
adult, and the Maria Seines, 7A6 tons, belonging to
Messrs. Smiles and Co, to sail from Southampton for
Table Bay, at £l3 fls. per statute adult, both vessels to
be ready for the reception of passengers on such days as
the Commissioners may appoint between the 10th and
Vivi of November.

MUTINY ON BOARD A MERCIIANTRAN.—On Monday
week seven seaman, being the greater portion of the
crew of the bark Thomas Blythe, of London,
bound to the Mauritius, and which was com-
pelled to put back to Falmouth in consequence of the
drunkenness and mutinous conduct of the above sea-
men, were brought before the local magistrates at
Falmouth and sentenced to a fine and to 12 weeks' im-
prisonment with hard labour. The master was so ill
from overwrought feeling and watchfulness for five or
six nights as to be unable to attend the hearing.
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Tits- Port's ILLN tas.—Letters from Rome of the 7th
mention that the life of his Holiness is placed in extreme
jeopardy by the same complaint which carried off his
predecessor, Gregory XVI., erysipelu in the leg. The
physicians attending his Holiness have held out hopes
that he would be able to go the next day, the Bth to the
church of Santa Maria del Popolo, to perform his cus-
tomary devotions to the Virgin, but it is by no means
likely that he can stir from the Vatican. A letter from
Bologna of the 9th states that the swelling in the leg is
extending, and is likely to affect the chest. Cardinal
della Geode, the nephew of Leo XII., has been sent for
in all haste to the quirinal, for the purpose of being
entrusted with some important functions.

THE REFORM MOVIMENT.—A private meeting WILI
was held at Newall's-buildinp, Manchester, on Tuesday
evening, of the council of the Lancashire Reformers'
Union, to consider the moat advisable course of action
for promoting the advance of the Reform cause during
the present recces'. It is understood that the Union
are disposed to promote a vigourous agitation, and •
number of lecturers are to be engaged, among whom Mr.
George Thompson is named as one of the principal. It
is also proposed that a great meeting shall be held at the
Free Trade Hall on the eve of the next session of Par-
liament, on the Itefono question, at which Mr. Cobden,
Mr. Bright, Mr. Gibbon, and most of the leading
Reformers of the kingdom, will be invited to be
repseut.

SINGULAR DZATH.—On Tuesday an inquiry was I
instituted before Mr. Wakley at the City of York,
York-road, Islington, into the circumstances attending
the death of a poor little child named William
Nicholas Pegas, the infant son of Lieutenant W. J.
Pegas, who was drowned ender the subjoined singular
circumstances : Lieutenant Vegas, the deceased's
father, residing at 18, River-street, the deceased's
mother, and other witnesees, were examined, from
whose evidence it appeared that on Friday evening
the deceased was left alone in the kitchen for a few
minutes, when the little fellow, who waa very strong
and active, although only 8 months and 12 days old,
managed to scramble upstairs into the yard, and, ob-
taining admission to the washhouse, where a pan of
water was standing on the floor, be crept up to the
pan and fell head foremost into it. In this condition,
with his head and a portion of his body immersed,
he was immediately afterwards discovered, and several
medical gentlemen were sent for, but the vital
spark had fled. The coroner commented upon the
exceedingly peculiar nature of the case, and the jury
having recorded a verdict of " Accidental death by
drowning," the inquiry terminated.
A New PHASIC OF RETIVALDOI. There has been,
for some time back, for public exhibition, in this town,
a case of" convicted" imposture which equals anything
yet met with in the history of the delusion. At 28,
Birch-street, there was to be seen, up till Friday last, a
woman, apparently about thirty years of age, tattooed
in different parts of her body like • red Indian. The
imposture having been detected, the show has beeu
closed since the above date, by command from a certain
quarter, although the poor people of the neighbourhmsl
still assuuie that the delusion was the work of the Spirit
of (;0.1. in her breast was imprinted a large red, fiery
cross, done in the rudest style imaginable. On one
breast is inscribed the word "Jesus," and on the other
side "Christ." A few days ago, upon one of her arms,
"Seek ye the Lord " was plainly visible: but from wine
cause or other this has been effaced, or "faded away."
as the people of the house express it. The woman took
the " revivals" at the first meeting in the Botanic Gar-
den, where she was " striken." From that time till
now she has been deaf, dumb, and blind by turns, until
at last • miraculous dispensation of the Holy Spirit
has been favoured her. Visions and glimpses of the
other world, casting into the shade the absurdity of Joe
Smith's religion, have all been part and parcel of her
conversion. On Sunday week she awoke out of one of
these seraphio dreams with the above-named lloPer*
saintion upon her person, and since then has been
almost deified. Crowds of people visited her during
the past week, and the proceeds of the exhibition—un-
til, unfortunately for herself, it was "closed "—were
" gratifying." On one day lls. were realised. The
lettering was the worst performed we ever saw, being
evidently the work of sonic unskilled person, more
resembling Chinese hieroglyphics than the alphabet;
yet in the minds of the diseased and infatuated multi-
tude it is nothing short of a revelation.— /troika.* Whig.

MCKIM Or • BRIT'S CIMW.—WICE, Sept. B.—The
crew of the Huntress schooner, which had shipped a
cargo of berrinp in this harbour, were rescued by Ni.
new lifeboat on Tuesday last. The yawl was out in
the bay on Monday, when it began to Now strongly
from the north-east. She was warned to proceed to
sea. Her crew did not think it necessary to do so,
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was immediately prepared and put to sea, fully manned,
there being 15 of the crew, with Captain Tudor,
R.N.. at the helm. The crew of the schooner, to the
number of wren, with the master, were taken off,
and the boat safely returned to shore. In doing so,
some heavy seas struck the lifeboat in rapid succession,
placing her for a short time in great peril. she,
however, behaved admirably, the seltecting valves
reLeving her of the heavy WU that broke into her;
and she ultimately succeeded in entering the harbour,
amid the cheering of hundreds of spectators who had
congregated on the quays. The weather having
moderated, and the crew having been again put on
board, the vessel proceeded on her voyage. This valu-
able lifeboat is on the plan of those adopted by the
I Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and was liberally
I provided, thoroughly equipped, for Wick, by the Bri.
I tish Fishery Society.

DEATH OF M. DRUMM, C.E.—We remt to an-
nounce the demise of Mr. Brunel, the eminent civil en-
gineer, who died on Thursday night at his residence,
Duke-street, Westminster. The lamented gentleman
was brought home from the Great Eastern steamship at
midday on the sth instant, in a very alarming condition,
having been seised with paralysis, induced, it was be-
lieved, by over mental anxiety. Mr. Brunel, in spite of
the most skilful medical treatment, continued to sink,
and at half-past l 0 on Thursday night he expired at the
comparatively early age of 54 years. The deceased es,
the only an of the late Sir Mark lambert Brunel, who,
for his many public works at Yortaulouth. Woolwich,
and Chatham, and more paiticularly the Thames Tun-
nel, received the honour of knighthood from Her 51.jeety
in PHI. The late Mr. Brunel was the engineer of the
Ore .t Western Railway from the formation of the com-
pany, and all the greet works on that line VIM coin.
pitted from his designs and supervision. The magnifi-
cent bridge at Salta& is another work of his engineer-
ing ability; and, as most of our readers are aware, the
leviathan steamship, the Great Eastern, was the 1a.4
and greatest of his professional undertakings, and with
which his name will ever be associated. Mr. Brunt
Watl bent in England, but him father was a native of
Normandy, and a gentlemen by birth. Owing to the
troubles of the first French Revolution, be was com-
pelled to emigrate to the United States, whence he came
to England in 1799, end was employed at Portsmouth
Duckyanl to complete the block machinery. Sir M. I.
Brunel was educated foi the church, bnt lr love of
scientific pursuits led to his embracing the petifes-ion
of which he ultimately became one of the leading mem-
bers.