The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-06 00:00:00

WIMBORNE.

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WICBLIT•11 1111111111011•Ilt M12177(0.—A public
meeting waa held in the Wesleyan Chapel on Wed-
nesday, when the Rev. John M'Renny, of Great
Queen-etreet Chapel, London, and the Rev. Alfred
Gioltna, Wesleyan missionary, Gibraltar, attended
111 • deputation. The reported number of the
members throughout the miegion field is 69,896, 1
besides 3,399 members on trial for Church member.
alp. 369 misaionaristi, and 73 on trial. The Rev.
Alfred Giolma gave a very Interesting statement of
his conversion from Popery to Protestantism, and
promises by all appearanoe to be an exceedingly
useful and efficient missionary in Spain. There was
a very fall attendance at the meeting, and the
collection was in excess of that of last year.
Courry Pouce, Wednesday. Before J. T.
/3aakett and W. L. Adye, Eeqrs.—John Prior, coal
dealer, of Caste Mullen,eras brought up on a warrant,
charged with turning his wife out of doors, whereby she
Wears* chargeable to the union. An orra..gement having
his, nolo to ropey the pariah officers, and allow the
1r Man • weakly maintenance, the defendant was die-
eharged.—Famov. —James Shepherd, alias Crowther,
who gave his address Blackfriare-road. London, but who
is a native of Ebbseborne Wake, Wilts, was charged by
Superintendent Boynton, with stealing • quantity of
tools from the workshops of Mews. Kendall, of Cash.
moor Inn. He was also further charged with stealing •
coat, basket, cap, and necktie, from a stable at
, Ebbesborne. Ph Millard, of the Wilts Constsbulary,
applied that the prisoner might be handed over to him,
although the property found was in the hands of Super-
intendent Boynton, and the owner of it present. The
Bench readily complied with the application, and per-
mitted Mr. Boynton to hand over the prisoner to the
constable to be taken before the justices at Hicdon,
thus sating on • different principle to the
borough magistrates at Poole, in • late case of
sacrilege in this district, when the prisoners were
apprehended in that borough.—William Weedon sad
Eli Fowler, labourer,. were charged with stealing •
pickaxe and skippel shovel, the property of Mr. Hob.
good, brickburner, of Lytchet t Minster. Both prisoners
pleaded guiltvoind were sentenced to 21 days' hard labour
in Dorchester gaol.

Ax &HMCO! YACHTSMAN'S VOTAGE.—The iron
schooner yacht Thems, of about 140 tons, belonging
to Captain T. B. lithium, is now dismantling at
Southampton, having remedy returned from • somc•
what remarkable voyage to the Sandwich Islands
' and back, under the command of her owner. The
Tbemis left England on the 17th of April, 1864, her
owner and captain being accompanied by his wife
and her attendant, and a crew consisting of a chief
offioer (who had been. a naval lieutenant), second
mate, carpenter, sit able seaman, steward, cook, and
' boy. Teaching on her way out at Madeira, Tent.
riffs, Rio, in the River Plate, and Port St. Julian,
the richt., on the 30th of August, rounded Caps
Virgin into the Straits of Magellan, clearing them by
Cape Pillar, at the western entrance of the Straits,
early on the morning of the 12th September, being
• week or ten days before (in those latitudes) the
vernal equinox. On the 13th of December the yacht
sailed from Callan, on the west mast of South
America, for the Sandwich Wands, having an un•
broken distance of over 5,000 miles of seaway to
traverse, and the command had entirely devolved
upon her owner, the chief officer, who was the only
other person on board acquainted with the science of
navigation, having died off the island of klassafaera
lon the 4th of November. Hawaii was made in 40
days, and from the 22nd of January, 1886, till the
29th of November, the Tbemis WAS kept cruising
about among the Sandwich Islands, every anchorage
in them being once, or oftener, visited. The Themis
left the islands on the 29th of November on her
homeward voyage, taking the track to the south.
ward through the Marquees group. Valparaiso was
reached on the Bth of February, 1866, and at this
port the yacht was thoroughly re6tted for the great
' feat of her voyage, her owner having determined to
return home through the Sermiento Channel and the
Straits of Magellan. It may be mentioned that the
flarmiento Channel is an additional inner navigation,
breathing torth.weet and north from the western
part of the Straits, of over 300 miles in length. His
object in this was to judge for himself as to the
advantages of navigation through the Straits in a
considerable saving of distance and an evasion of the
tremendous seas and much of the inclement weather
for which the higher latitudes rounding Cape Horn
are so tuienviably notorious. Leaving Valparaiso on
the 21st of February, the yacht on the 19th of March
(onrresponding to the time of our autumnal equinox)
entered the Gulf of Penes and the Sarmiento Chan.
eel round Byron's Island, a spot to be remembered
as that on which the wager was lost from Anson's
squadron in 1741. On the 23rd of May the Theron'
finally cleared the Straits of Magellan, and again
rounded Cape Virgin into the South Atlantic, the
interval having been employed in the careful explora-
tion of every inlet and channel in this intricate
navigation, the examination of anchorages and plates
for supply or shelter, and mcertaining the oxidants
and correct position of all known or suspected dan-
ger.. These investigations, extending over • period
of two months, were carried on amid the difficulties
of frost, sleet, darkness, storms, and narrow winding
waters, so well known to navigator, frequenting
these inhospitable regions. The yacht called at
Montevideo, and left that port for England on the
12th of June. The most lamentable incident of the
voyage was the death, on the 6th of January last, of
Mrs. Hannam, the wife of the captain, whose re-
mains were carefully preserved on board the yacht,
and on arrival buried in the spot prepared for them
in Dorsetshire.