The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

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Brno A NAN'S NOSE 017.—Thomas Winter, a
seaman belonging to New York, was taken into custmly
on Wednesday by the North Shields police on a charge
of biting off the nose of Thomas Brown, another seaman.
They had been drunk, and had quarrelled in a public
-
house, and, while wrestling on the floor, Winter had
taken Brown's nose into his mouth and bit the end of it
off. Brown is seriously disfigured. _

GOVERNMENT Eniuttsriox.—ller Majesty's Emigre
-
lion Commissioners chartered on Thursday afternoon,
the 2rd inst.. the Grand Trianon, 1,049 tons, belonging
to Messrs. Coltart, Sons, and Co. to sail from Direr.
pool for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l4 14a. gd vet
statute adult; to be ready for the reception of passen-
gers on such day as the Commissioners way appoint,
between the 14th and 21st of December.

A I'STRALIAN GOLD.-A few weeks ago we gave the
particulars of the finding of 2,400 ounces of gold in 10
weeks at the Australian diggings, by two young gentle-
men who went thither from the neighbourhood of Lan-
caster—Mr. Watson and Mr. Latham. Among the

names of the cabin passengers lost with the unfortunate
Royal Charter we find that of Mr. Watson, who was
coming home for the purpose of being married to •
young lady in Preston.— Preston Guardian.

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THE etIIFEW DELL AT WEST H.tm.—The tolling of
the curfew bell, which has been at 8 p.m. from time
immemorial in this parish, and the tolling of • bell
between h and 6 in the morning, have ceased from the
period eburch•rates were disallowed. Mr. Go
fledge,
the clerk at All Saints, intimated a few weeks since to
Mr. George I)acre, that many of the old inhabitants
were desirous that the curfew bell should toll again,
when that gentleman voluntarily offered to pay the ex.
penile ; consequently the bell was tolled again for the
first time on the 29th ult.

SOIREB__ TO 3iF.S.NRS._
.CODDEN AND BRIGHT.—The

financial Reformers of Liverpool will shortly commence
their campaign by • sob* in the Philharmonic-hall, at
which Messrs. Cobden and Bright will he present.
()wing to the absence of Mr. Cobden on the Continent
they have not yet been able to fix a day for the demon-
stration, but it will probably take place towards the
end of the present month or the beginning of December.
The soriee is intended to be followed by • public meet-
ing on the night afterwards in the Amphitheatre, over
which Lord Brougham is expected to preside.
SHOOTING ON THE DUKE OP RUTLAND'S ESTATE.—
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, Sir John Thorold, and Colonel
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_
Tyrwhitt shot through his Grace's preserves at Cheve-
ley•park, near Newmarket, and in one day killed WO
pheasants, 30 partridges, 100 hares, and 17 rabbits.
During 17 days shooting his Grace the Duke of Rut-
and his friends—three inns per day—have killed 702
pheasants, 2,233 mirtridges, 634 hares, 172 rabbits, one
woodcock, and one landrail • total, 3,740 head, and with
that shot by Lord George Manners, on the outside por-
tion of the manor in September, made a total of 4,437
head.
WILLINGTON COLLEGZ.—The greater portion of the
grounds surrounding this college, has been laid out with
shrubs, and the work is still going on under the oc-
casional inspection of His Royal Highness Prince Albert.
A large lake has been formed, and several men are en-
gaged in completing it and rendering it fit to receive a
supply of water. A bathing place in the open air has
also been constructed for the use of the students during
the summer months. Since the opening of the college
the washing has been executed in London, but an exten-
sive laundry is now in course of erection near the col-
lege, and machinery for heating water, drying. kc., is
being fitted up by Messrs. Amos, Neasbor, and Sons, of
London.

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LETTERS, kc., FOR AMERICA, rid CORR.—To facilitate
the carrying into effect of the new arrangements' made
for sending mails to the United States and British North
America, rid Cork, on Saturday, the sth inst., and on
every alternate Saturday subsequently, it is necessary
that all letters and newspapers intended to be forwarded
in these mails, and which may be pouted after the latest
time when it has hitherto been impossible to post them.
should either be prepaid by means of postage-stamps (as
in the Ca ie of hooks) or he forwarded unpaid. No money
therefore, will be received in payment of postage upon
the letters and newspapers in question, and if not pre-
paid by means of !damps, such letters, kc., must be
dropped into the box as unpaiil.—By command of the
Postmaster thmeral, }tow LAND HILL, Secretary.
General Post-office, Nov. 3, 1851).

A Huai Pitlegit VIOLIN.—" A paragraph has ap-
peared in several journals," says the f:nir'arle," to the
effect that 31. de lieriot had sold his famous violin to M.
Wienawski, for a sIUII of 20,(100f. This announcement
is premature, as the pretended sale was merely an offer
made under the following circumstances :—The two
celebrated violinists happening to meet last summer at
Ems, M. Wienawski, after playing on M. de Ilkriot's
violin, at )Laggini, in his apartment, in the presence
of Platti and Seligniann, asked him if he felt inclined to
sell it. 'Yes,' answered M. ,he lisrmot, 'hut not for lens
than 20,000121 Thereon 31. Wienawski expressed his
desire to purchase it, notwithstanding the high price,
and 31. de llitriot having assured him that he el hl he
most happy to see the instrument in his possessi tttt .
'rho young artist asked perndssion to delay his final
answer till the coming winter, after his return from St.
Petersburg."
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lams or A COOLIE SHIP AND 365 Lives—Captain
.1. Bentham, the co 11111 l ander of the Shah 'khan, Coolie
ship, burnt on her voyage f ruin Calcutta to Mauritius,
gives an account of the terrible accident. The fire. the
cause of which is unknown, occurred on the 27th
,-f dune, in lat. 12 S., long. 75 E. It broke out
between decks, and everything was promptly done to
extinguish it. Water was poured in. and all apertures
for ventilation closed up. In vain. however; it burnt
slowly but irresistably, aid on the 29th the longboat was
got out and provisioned. The other boats were also got
ready, and rafts made. About 310 Coolies got on these
rafts, and the fire having entirely got possession of the
ship she was abandoned. As the rafts had no provi-
sions, the Coolies must have perished. The boats were
picked up five days afterwards by a French vessel.
FATAL RESPLT OF A DRUNKEN FHPAK.—One even-
ing last week, as Mr. Hall, the mansger on the workout
the Deeside Extension Railway, between Aboyne and
Ranchory, woo proceeding homewards from a walk near
the latter village, accompanied by his wife, they were-
accosted on the road by a railway labourer, who pushed
up rudely against the lady,—an insult which her
husband naturally resented by shoving him indignantly
aside. The fellow, who was intoxicated, advanced
again, however, and made an attempt as if to embrace
the lady, who became alarmed, upon which Mr. Hall
gave the navvie a smart blow on the side of the head
with his fist. The man fell, and it is presumed must
have injured his head in falling, as he became insensible,
and died in two days after the unfertunate occurrence.
On learning of the fatal result, Mr. Hall at once pro-
ceeded to the chief police authority for the county and
reported the circumstances, giving bail for his appear'
afar when called upon.
GALLANT Costa:cr.—At daybreak on Wednesday
morning the Coastguard look-out man at Tenby ob-
served a dismasted vessel anchored about two or three
miles to the eastward of that place, and evidently in
great distress. It WU blowing at the time a most
furious gale, and the sea, white with foam, VMS making
a complete breach over the vessel, upon whose deck
some men could be discerned. The Hon. B. F. Boyle.
Lieutenant R.N. who is in command of the Coastguard
at Tenby, directed the lifeboat to be immediately
hunched, and, with the lifeboat's crew (consisting of
four Coastgnardsuien and mine fishermen of Tenby) pro-
crested in the height of the storm to the vessel's relief,
and happily succeeded in extricating the crew (two men
and a boy) from their perilous situation. They were in
a most exhausted state, the vessel being nearly full of
water. It being found impracticable to return to Tenby,
th. y pull, d in for Sundenifoot (a small harbour distant
about four miles), where the rescued seamen were safely
landed.

ATTACK NV AN OVNKDNIVEN BuhuW:N.—On Tues-
day night a singular and somewhat serious attack was
made by an overdriven bullock upon Mr. Honeyman,
builder, North Shields. Mr. Honeyinan was taking •
half -glass of brandy in • tavern kept by Mrs. Johnson,
in Clive•street, in company with Mr. Taylor, another
builder, when they were suddenly disturbed by an over-
driven bullock, which rushed into the passage of the
tavern and forced its way through the tap-room to
where the gentlemen were sitting. It immediately at-
tacked Mr. Honeywell, awl haying got him into a
corner commenced to gore him. Mr. Tayior, however,
struck at the animal, and having attracted its attenti
to himself he leapt over the bar counter, and the bullock
leaped after him, turning on all the taps of the spirit I
casks as it did so; when, Mr. Taylor having opened •
side door, the bullock followed him, and WWI thus got
out of the house into the street. It was shortly after
captured by the butchers without doing further damage.
Some of Mr. Iloneyinan's rile are reported to he broken,
and he in otherwise • good deal injured. Mrs. Johnism
suffered considerable loss by the spirit taps being set
running.
MATH OF AN OLD INDIAN Clitrr.—The Great
Spirit hiss released another of the aborigines from his
earthly tenement, and taken his spirit home. Con-
deamin, the oldest chief of the Ontonagon band, died
last week. He was nearly 100 years old, being quite a
led and remembering well the first mining enterprhe
undertaken in this county, near the forks of the Onto-
nagon, and in the vicinity of the famous "copper rock."
This mining was done under the superintendence of
Alexander henry, at which time the subject of our
sketch was about 10 years old. In the early part of
the present century he lisd a terrible encounter with a
black bear, near the Auierican landing, some 12 miles
above this village, the marks of which lie carried to his
grave. When found on the bank of the river he was
almost dead, the flesh being so torn fmni his baek and
sides as to expose the bones and ribs in several different
places, and life was despaired of for some days, but his
iron constitution filially overcame wounds which any
ordinary man must have sunk under, and he recovered.
His antagonist, a full-grown bear, was found dead but a
few rods from where the chief was picked up, his body
being pierced in a number of places, and finally through
the heart, by his mortal combatant. Peace to the ashes
of As noble an Indian as ever threw • tomahawk or pad-
dled a canoe !—Loke Superior Journal.
LADIES' PUCK ETS.—At the Middlesex Sessions on
Wednerley last there were two ic three proAccutions
for picking the pockets of ladies in public vehicles, and
Mr. Pownall (chairman of the Bench) having remarked
that in each case the proseentrix had her pocket on the
outside of her dress, made the following woeful observa-
tions, as to this careless haoit :—" This matter" he said,
" was very simple in itself, but it was one which ought
to receive 1101110 attention, as to whether • woman who
so wore her pocket, and was in consequence of her own
carelessness robbed of her purse, ought to receive her
expenses as a witness. They ought to be more careful.
If a woman got into an omnibus with her pocket so
exposed in the front of a dress as to excite dishonestly-
disposed persons to help themselves if they could to
what that pocket contained, the fault was almost bey
own. Besides this the pockets were so exposed that
any persons riding in the omnibus might be charged
with having his hands in improper contact with the
pocket of any lady be might he sitting next to. Ladies,
he would take the liberty of observing, if they wished
• to avoid the inconvenience, as well as the loss of being
eased of their purses in public vehicles, would do well
I to do as their grandmothers, or grisaix:dmothers
did,—wear their th under eir ta, where
• they would be but secure from t sae mischievous
depredations. It was reallis_i jltrange matter that per-
sons would not take precaution to protect
themselves from this sort of

MELANCHOLY MEATH OF AN INFANT.—A child three
months old, the son of a man named Dodson, residing
in Vincent-place. March-street, Groves, near I.mA%,
came to its death CO Monday under the following cir-
cumstances. The child was cross, and his father ad-
ministered to it some .pirihi of turpentine in mistake for
gin and water, and death emued in less than an hour.
The coroner's jury found that the infant had been acci-
dentally killed in the manner described.
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EXTRAORDIN It V OCCCIIRENCE.—On the 26th of
September last, Mr. Je,iuc Leonard, farmer, of Martleet,
near Hull, lost a lartm and valuable iww. Hills were
circulated offering £2 reward for the recovery of the
pig, but nothing was heard of it until the 29th of Octo-
ber. On that day the men on the farm commenced to
cut into a straw stack, when to their astonishment they
found the lost Mg, embedded eight or nine feet in the
straw, and she had evidently been disturbed by the con-
duct of the men. how she has managed to exist with-
out food or water during this 33 days is • mystery. She
has lost beveral stone in weight, but otherwise secunu
healthy.

On the occasion of the Emperor's visit to Gimpiegne,
the new imperial train prepared by the Northern Com-
proly was used for the first time. It consists of nine
carriages, in which are four sitting rooms, communica-
ting with each other. The principal
the Emperor and Empress, is lined with gmen watered
silk and morocco leather, the roof being of dark bird's-
eye maple. The second carriage iS divided into two
parts, one forming a summer saloon, which can be
thrown open on all sides, and the second being designed
for • dining-mom. The third saloon LI intended for the
l'rince Imperial and his gouvernantes, and the fourth
for the holies and officers of the imperial loniveholds.
The other carriages are fitted up AS a kitchen and offices.

A Navvy KILLED BY A PCBLICAN.—A navvy Was
killed on Tuesday night, in consequence of being struck
with a poker by the landlord of a public-house in Wor-
cester. The house is called the Angel Inn, and two
navvies had been drinking there all the afternoon. At
night, shortly befote twelve, the landlord came to put
them out, when • row commenced, and one of the men
followed the landlord to the bar of the public-house.
The landlord took up the poker to defend himself, and
struck the drunken loan several tine', when his comrade
came up to help, and rJecised &blow on the bead which
laid him prostrate. The police were called, and took
both of the ni.vvies into custody, the wounded man re-
fusing to have Ilia heal dressed. In the morning lie
was found dead in his cell. The landlord is in custody
pending a coroner's inquest.

On Wednesday a number of the additional hands
ordered by the Admiralty to be taken on at Chatham
Dockyard were entered at that establishment, the
entries being confined chiefly to labourers, very few of
the mechanics required having as yet offered them-
selves. All the establishments are now working early
and late, and the utmost activity prevails not only in
the shipwright department, but also in all the factories
and workshops, in pressing forward the work ordered
by the Admiralty to be comideted. The vessels now on
the stocks, and which are being pushed forward vigo-
rously, are the Atlas, 91, the Bulwark, 91, the Un-
daunted. 51, the Rattlesnake, 21, and the Orpheus, 21,
in addition to which two other ships will be commenced
as soon as the necessary arrangements have been made.
'Elie Rodney, 91, and the Severn, 51, are both in dock,
being lengthened and altered into *crew steamers, and
the Ariadne, 26, is being rigged and prepared for the
1 pendant.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly
general meeting held on Thursday at the society's house
in Hanover-square, 1)r. Gray, vice-president, in the
chair, his Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Colonel
J. M. Caulfield, and Messrs. John Scott, W. C. Hewit-
son, C. Lrooth, T. H. Stewart, J. Woolf, H. Woodward,
St. Leger Glyn, and R. Towns were elected fellows;
the Hon. Charles A. Ellis, Major Hay, Mr. C. H. Mills,
and Mr. A. T. Bruce were proposed as candidates for
the fellowship ; and the Rev. John Fry, of the Cape of
Good Hope, and Mr. D. G. Elliot, of New York, were
proposed as corresponding members of the society.
The report from the Council, among other things,
stated that the number of visitors to the gardens during
the present year had already amounted to 331,187,
showing an increase as compared with the same period
of 18.-.8 of upwards of 19,090 persons.

REM ARK ABLE CASE 1,1, SOMN AM BELll4ll.—About nix
o'clock on Monday morning. the 24th ult., the gov,r-
ma* at Mrs. Ilarrington's school in Chespaer•sluare, was
greatly alarmed on awaking by the discovery that a
'ill', girl. thirteen veara of age. Wil.) 41W:11Y% slept with
her for security— Mrs. Ifarringtin having been mutioned
as to her sleep-walking Kin...unities—had kit
and was nowhere to be found. The household was in-
stantly aroused. and as V.OOll SS a conveyance could be
obtained, Mr. Harrington, thinking that she had pro-
bably gone homewards (as she had on a previous ores-
:dim walked a considerable distance in her sleep) started
off in that ilk, cti ttttt and found her at leklingliam, &bolt
a mil:: and a-half from her own home. A labourer, who
knew her, had found her walking on the road asleep,
with • frock and mantle over her night dress, and a pair

of 1;x7t:.;;;Ier feet, but withoa bonnet', stockings,
or under clothing. Taking her by the arm he led her
into his cottage, and having placed her before the tire
she soon afterwards awoke. On being questioned by
Mr. Harrington she remembered nothing of what had
occurred, beyond a notion that some one on the non 4
had asked her why she had not laced her boots. Before
leaving home Mr. Harrington examined his premises,
and found that the child (who must have left his house
at a very early liour, as she reached Icklington, quite
seven miles distant, about seven o'clock) first attempted
to get out at the front door, the chain and bolt of which
were found unfastened ; but the door was doubly Wesel,
and the lock goes so stilly that R little halal could not
turn the key. She then appears to have unlocked a
door at the back of the house, and to have crossed the
garden, making her exit by a shsor in ltridewelliane,
which she left wide open. The bottom bolt of this door
goes NO stilly that she probably had to knock it with a
brick to move it, as Mr. Harrington has frequently
done himself. She has since suffered &little from weak'
! Hess, but has experienced no other ill effects from her
singular moonlight walk in the frosty air.

Coanurriny AT ELIECTIONS.—The Notwich town*
council have abandoned certain plans projected with a
view to check corrupt practices at municipal elections,
it being found impossible to attain anything like united
action on the subject. The council, however, have still
under consideration certain suggestions for the new Re-
form Bill. These mu4gestions include the prevention of
systematic and organized canvassing, and propose that
between the day on which the returning officer shall re-
ceive a writ for electing members and the day of election
any person desirous of becoming • 'candidate shall in-
scribe his name, residence, and condition in a book to
'be provided for the purpose. It is further proposed
that nomination proceedings shall be abolished; candi-
dates to be at liberty at their discretion to issue printed
addresses to the electors, but not to interfere in any
way in the managements or control of elections ; the re-
turning officer to provide one printed voting pm er to
each elector who shall apply in person or by agent for
the same, each voting paper to be signed by the voter
on delivery, and to be attested by the clerk of the re-
turning officer; a closed boa to be provided by the re-
turning officer and to be placed in each polling district,
and the returning officer's cleric to enter in a poll-book
the number on the registry and the name of the elector
delivering a voting paper, And to deposit it unopencd in
the boa; the voting papers to be examined by the re-
turning officer on the following day in the presence of
ti a candidates and two of their friends, and the result
to be declared in open court the following day; candi-
dates not to be liable to any expense whatever, but the
cost of elections to be borne by the county or borough
in which they take place ; the returning officer after an
election to offer a reward of i'2s to persons who can give
evidence as to bribery ; the returning officer in the event
of bribery to petition the House of Commons, and the
cost of inquiry to be charged on the town or county,
candidates infringing these regulations to be ineligible
for ever to sit in the House of Co ns and to forfeit
e 500; guilty electors to be disqualified and to forfeit
£lOO, and in default of payment to be imprisoned for
any term not exceeding one year; and culpable non-
electors to be for ever debarred from acquiring the right
to vote and to forfeit £lOO, ke.

DEASTRUCTION OP A COTTON MILL BY FIRE.—We are
sorry to have to report the almost total destruction of
the Withy Trees Cotton Mill by fire. The mill is situ-
ated about three miles from Preston, at Ramber-bridge,
and was contiguous to the highroad from Preston to Cher
-
ley and the south The building, which consisted of five
storeys and an attic, was constructed of atone, and has
been once before burnt down, about 27 years ago, and
also suffered considerably at the handsel the bat the
"plug drawing.' in 11442. The mill was the proiwrty of
Messrs. It. Eccles and Co., and gave employment to some-
where about 250 hands, who will through the calamity
be thrown out of work, or he compelled to seek it else.
where. The ins .hinery co:lsl.:tea of from 16,000 to
17,000 spindles, and 270 looms, and the entire vaille of
the property deatroyest amenete to hetwten auxio and
1215.000, which is hfrtufilt.le covered loy insurances ill
the Manchester, the Yorkshire, the Sun,iind the West of
England offices. The fire bnike out about seven o'clock
on Monday night. The heeds left work as metal at six,
and the gas lights were carefully extinguished, but after
that time the imp g-niaster and an engineer, or smith
were engaged for some time in the repairs of some por-
tion of the machinerylin the third storey. and the only
conjecture as to the origin of the fire is that they must
have opened the lamp they were using, and a spark
must have dropped upon 110100 waste, or among
sonic of the cotton, Alld have smouldered until the de-
parture of the men. However this may be. about 7
o'clock the fire waa discovered, and the engine belonging
to the establishment was speedily got into play. The
flames, however, fanned he the .dormy wind that pre-
vailed at the time, rapidly. made I cad, ant' at the sug-
gestion of Mr. It. Ashworth, a horseman was despatched
to Preston for assistance, and Mr. Marriott and a num-
ber of the fire brigade proceeded at once to liamber-
bridge. Upon arriving there, it was at oilee seen that
any attempt to save the body of the building would he
entirely unavailing, the interior of the building being
one vast body of flame, and roaring like a furnace,
lighting up the country fur a considerable distance, and
the lurid glare reflect.' in the sky being seen for miles
round in every direction. The roof and most of the
floors at half-pod nine had fallen in, and the heions
that supported the various storeys were in • !mid
state of combustion and at • white heat. The (sling
in of each storey was a fearful sight, disuse clouds of
sparks being tent skyward, followed by • quick hissing
flame that ...lied with avidity to settle upon and lick
up with tongues of fire the shattered fragments of
timber as they dscenoled. Each fall was distinctly
ebserved from Preston, clouds of sparks and volumes of
flame thereby engendered, throwing additional dashes
athwart the sky. There was a considerable quantity of
cotton packed in the upper storey, and when that fell
to the base the fire raged with additional fury, the
tight packing of the cotton causing it to burn like peat.
and, when fanned by the geode o/ wind, to glow with
the most intense heat. A little before 10 (o'clock the
north gable fell with a dull deadened sound, and the
manner of the fall in itself showed the heat of the
flames raging within. Instead of felling longitudi-
nally or in a compact mass, the entire wall collapsed
or seemed to crumble within itself, the stones, no
doubt, being calcined by the extreme heat. After
this the flames had entire possession of the interior of
the main building. The shafts of the machinery on the
basement Boor continued standing until fused by the
intense beat, and after that fell with • crash into the
general ruin. The new or south end of the building,
which is principally fireproof, and consists of the boiler-
house, the engine-house, and the scotching-rooms, were
' preserved from the general destruction.

DEATH OF DR. LOUIS SPOHR. - The death of this
eminent musician was quite tranquil. He had been
confined to his bed for eight days, and his complaint
was of such a natnre SS afforded not the least hope of his
recovery. As soon as the melancholy intelligence
r.-ached P.rom wick. the two brothers of Dr. Spobr—one
the father ..f the Countess iianerma (better known as the
celebrated hiaq.it, lloselio Spolir). the other assessor of
the ducal chambers, both residents—hastened to Hesse-
(' ate', and welt, pn:sent at the last services paid to the
illustrious master. Ile funeral of the groat coinposer
was marked by many reverential tokens honourable alike
to the living and the dead. The Princo Electoral of
Hesse-Cassel gave orders to his Court Menthol to arrange
the whole of the procession, which was half an hour in
length. The Queen of Hanover sent palm aad laurel
branches to &curate the sarcophagus. The choruses of
the funeral services were executed by the 'leading
members of the Opera and the Grand Ducal ChapeL
Pupils of Dr. Spahr, scattered all over Germany,
arrived at various stages of the ceremony to pay their
last tribute of respect to their master—one or two coin-
ing from Holland. Dr. Spohr was close upon his 99th

year.
FALNOUTll.—Another of those heavy gales, with which
the coasts have been lately visited, occurred here on
Monday, commencing at midnight and lasting without
any p,reeptible diminution until Tuesday midnight,
being just 24 hours, during which extended period it
blew a terrific gale from west and west-north-west. The
roads and harbour were filled with shipping (wit much
under ISO sail), but no damage or injury of any kind oc-
curred by either collision or driving. Several old trees near
the town were blown down. and buildings =dated.
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ilasiTleilielr.o-rt, to the eastward, the F;ench three
'nested schooner the Amphitrite, of Dunkirk, Azibert
master, from Newport, bound to Alexandria with coal,
went on shoreon Pendower beach, between Gerran's and
the Gull rock, about dark, on Tuesday evening. She
had pieviously anchored in the bay, and might have
rode out the gale but the two cables parted, and, fortu-
nately, two Coastgnardsunen of the Gerran's station
having gone on board on seeing her situation were
enabled to run her for the saltset place. The crew were
sairetl, and the vessel, should the weather moderate,
may yet be saved. People have been despatched from
Falmouth to render assistance.
Exissounisanr STORY.--Several times on Thursday
week • person of respectable exterior and gentlemanly
deportment called at the residence of a provincial re-
porter residing in a midland town, wanting, as he stated,
to see the said reporter. The latter reached home
shortly after? o'clock, and almost immediately after his
arrival a knock was heard at the door. It proved to be
a man in the garb of a farm labourer, with • note ad-
dressed to the master of the house. He appeared
flushed, as if " put about," and had a dogcart at the
door. He said the letter was from his ernployor. On
opening it, it was found to bear the name of • country
squire, who lived at an ,isolated spot some four milee
distant. The note was written in an hasty manner, and
wasscarcely more than an illegible scrawl. The writing
of the squire was not known to the reporter, and he
therefore accepted it as genuine. The purport of the
note was that his (the squire's) housemaid had just
deliberately, while having tea, cut the throat of the
nurse through finding her the night before cue unissued
within the arms of a former sweetheart of hers, and
that he had ventured to acquaint him of the affair,
thinking that he might want to know about it as
soon as possible. The note added that the reporter
might ride with his man in the dogcart, if be liked to
go that evening, and lie would send him back by the
same means. He mounted the dogcart, but when
about half way to the squire's residence he was suddenly
seized by the throat by the seeming farm labourer and
his money abstracted from his pockets. Attempting to
get away, Isis powerful assailant thrust him to the bot-
tom of the conveyance, held him by the throat and
threatened to murder him, presenting at the same time
what appeared to be • pistol. By dint of much per-
severance he released himself, but was immediately
pushed out of the cart into the road, and away galloped
the horse with the robber. The note was, of course, a
forgery, ansl the dogcart had been borrowed by a man
from the proprietor of a roadside inn, under the plea
that the said squire "had just been taken seriously ill,"
and that he wanted it to fetch a doctor as quickly as
could be. The horse and dogcart were found the follow-
ing morning in a field adjoining the road, about •
quarter of a mile from their owner's house. No trace
of the villain has yet been ; but we may
emotion that the servant girl during her master's
al. nce communicated to a fellow-servant her belief
that the " gustlesnan" and the country-fellow were one
and the same Person.
BRIG 1NIMGI: NEAR ROME.—MO Chevalier Gaidi's
enthusiasm in the cause of arclueology and art has more
than once (Nty a letter from RUllle in a contemporary)
hrought him into personal peril in the more desolate
I parts of the Campagna round Rome. A novel kind of
ainasta.r. however, for a lover of antiquities beset him a
. .

w days ago. He hot ben to Naples for the purpose
of purchasing some recently discovered and interesting
objects. but was suddenly recalled to Rome before hav-
ing had time to complete the negotiations. Returning
to Rome with the courier in the wail coach. while pass-
ing • cane plantation in the locality di celebrated for
brigand exploits, between Velletri and (hilliest°, about
half an hour after dark, a whistle was beard, awl the
postillions it 111111111111 l stopped their bor-es, dismounted
and prostrated themselves with due submission in the
dust. Three highwaymen innuediatele ran nut from the
canes and prevented themselves on both sides of the car-
riage, demanding money from the iourier and the (be-
valier Guidi, who was the only pa: stinger. The brigands
whose face, were masked, were armed with guns and
daggers, which they held up to Worm compliance with
tLeir requests. Signor Guqii at once gave up his watch
and a il..zen piasters, which he had for his tavellitig ex-
pen•ss in his wai i dcoat pocket, but the brigands nti-
mated with scornful gesture that they were not going to
be satisfies' with a paltry emu like that. Signor Genii,
who hail with him • sum of WO scudi, which lie had
takes with hint for the purchase of autiquities at Naples,
perceiving or fancying that the brigands had information
• f that fact, reluctantly drew forth his bag of gold, bid-
ding them observe that the sum was correct; " for,"
:ays he inurement, "I was only three days in Naples,
and I was not even obliged to spend anything for my
dinners, as I dined the first day with the Prince of Bisig-
nano, the second with the Apostolic Nuncio, and the
third at a convent of friars." The brigands having
grimly listened to this explanation, pocketed the cash,
and hauling out the courier on one side and the cheva-
lier on the other, piano," them with their faces down-
wards on the road, one of their number mounting guard
with levelled blunderbuss over each of their prostrate
victims, while the third robber jumped into the vehicle,
which he actively rummaged for more hidden treasures.
Nor would their operations probably have coine even
then to • speedy conclusion, had not distant carriage
lights announced the arrival of the diligence from Rome.
Signor Guidi requested his plunderers, before their final
leavetaking, to return him some trifle to enable him to
get some cordial at Gensano to restore him • little from
the agitation which so unexpected an interview had
caused him, upon which the brigands, after consulting in
whispers, returned him and the courier the watches
which they had previously taken from them, doubtless
considering that portion of the spoil more likely to lead
to detection than the silver and gold coinage of His Holi-
ness's realm.
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THE HOTEL CHARTIL—LIVEREOOL, Saturday.—A
gentleman who arrived early this morning from the
wreck states that very few additional bodies had been
washed ashore, and he accounts for it on the supposition
that the great majority of the corpses are still confined
in the body of the ship, some parts of which he believes
are still entire. Divers have been despatched to Moel-
fra, but our informant thinks that as a great portion
of the vessel's rigging must be entangled with the
wreck, they will have some difficulty in getting inside
the vessel. At low spring tides it will be possible to
obtain a footing on the wreck. Many persons con-
tinued to arrive in search of relatives and friends, and as
the accommodation was exceedingly Welted much in-
convenience was experienced. ne inquest on the
bodies was commenced on Friday afternoon, at Limn-
allgo Church, before Mr. William Jones, coroner of
, Anglesea, and a jury, who were sworn in Welsh. It
was an impressive sight when the coroner, standing at
the Communion-table, surrounded by the group of dead
axd mangled corpses, amid the audible sobs of those
who had recognized their friends, commenced Ili, mel-
ancholy task. Mr. Moore, solicitor, of Warrington,
before the opening of the inquest, asked the coroner
what course he intsnded te pursue. The coroner
thought lie should be sainted, under the melancholy
circumstances, with he identification of the bodies.
Mr. Bright, on the part of the company owning the
vessel, unsleitook to have soy of the surviving crew
present also would he able to give any information. Mr.
James Russell, who said his father lived in Linlithgow-
shire, and who was one of the passengers who escaped,
recognized John Smith, son of Ediuund Smith, Mrs.
Wicdroli (companion to Mrs. Fester, also in the vessel
arid lost), Catlierine Margaret Russell, and Richard
Reed. Mr. Foster Etna st Grindlow-house, Mauches-
ter. Mrs. Vi-oodrors husband is expected home by the
tleurge Marshall. Richard Walton, of 22, Duckworth-
street, Brunswick-road, Liverpool, identified his brother
James, between 21 and It. Thomas Ootterside, 6,
Clare-street, Lis/trim 01, printer, identified John Emery,
Stone, Staffordshire. The coroner then proceeded to
Penhio. Church, where he also charged the jury with
the investiration into ti e circumstances of the death of
the bodiis lying there. The inquests were adjournid
until Wednesday, at 12 o'clock. In reply to an
application, the coroner undertook to have an interpre-
ter provided. Several parties were present who stated
that they were prepared to vindicate the character and
mi inory of Captain Taylor. The vessel, it is stated,
made no water until she broke up. The ladies, it was
arranged should go trot; but before opening the saloon
doers the vessel parted in two, and stopped all commu-
nication. Mr. Samuel Henry, a jeweller, from Adel-
aide, who had been confined on the ground that lie was
insane, was among the number in the Illanallgo Church.
Mr Clover, a gentleman of fortune is also among the
number, and a large sum of money was found on his
istmaan. Writing-desks, likenesses, a part of the post-
office, and various other relics have teen washed up. As
some very inaccurate particulars have been published of
the melancholy fate of the Rev. Charles Yore Hodge,
who was a passenger from New Zealand by the Royal
Charter, we publish the following authentic particulars
gleaned from a local correspondent :—The rev, gentle-
man was appointed to the vicarage of Clareborough in
1844, and -shortly afterwards his wife, from. souse un-
settled disposition, proposed to visit some distant rela-
tion in New Zealand. Notwithstanding all the remon-
straees of her husband, she proceeded to the antipodes
without a guide, protector, or friend. After remaining
souse years there, she returned to this country' and
again took up her residence with her husband and chil-
dren, of whom she was the mother of ten,—seven sons
and three daughters. She, however, could not rest
long in this country, and ultimately peosnaded her hus-
band and part of her family to accompany her to New
Zealand. For this purpose the iev, gentleman applied
to and obtained leave of absence from the bishop of his
diocese for two yeara, but, at the expiration of that
period, not returning, a monition was issued for his im-
mediate return to his cure. It was in obedience to this
mandate that the rev. gentleman was returning in the
Royal Charter. when be met his melancholy fate. Mr.
Hodge left behind him in New Zealand his wife and
three eons. Three sons and one date:liar see at present
In England, the others having dh d in infancy. Mr.
Hodges only brother, the Rev. Maury Van Bide,
M.A.. perpetual curate of Middleton, seer Tamw.
is at present engaged in the sudan. b sly detsy of watch-
ing the shore in the immediate neigh of the
wreck, seeking to recognise the person of the deceased.
Mr. Hodge
.was univenally respected and held in high
esteem by his for his deep-rooted isiety and
sincerity in all things,

AxoTnita An ROHS MIRKA Ml.—The Academy of
Sciences has received detailed ccounts of an aurora
which occurred on the 12th ult., clog the third remark-
able one this year. It became eible at Nantes about
7 p.m., and was observed at Moans in its fullest glory
half an hour later, by M. Lamisdat. In the Vosges.
M. I'. Laurent perceived it about 4 p.m. and describes it
as resembling a vast conflagratin, of a brilliant prig-
inatic red, and extending from lie ii. W. to the IS
that is, over half the borizot nearly. The clouds.
driven by a south-westerly wid, were at first all
luudimus, but as the intensit of the phenomenon
docreawd, thy gradually assimel a deep brown toil.
M. Laussedat gives further pariculars : he remarked
from six to seven stripes of whit. light radiating from a
centre situated below the florae. At about a quarter
past 8 two distinct luminous sissies were formed: one
between the tail of Ursa Majo and the head of the
Dragon: the other enveloping he Corona Borealis and
extending at times as far as Lyra. The luminous
intensity of these two musses ras very variable, and
seemed to increase in the one as i dimished in the other.
A white ray was suddenly seen Iv dart through the mass
near Ursa Major. The moon hid a strong halo, and
contributed much to dim the hint of the aurora. No.
falling stars were seen at this tine. At 40 minutes past
9, three luminous lUSILICS were firmed ; one W.N.W.
near the horizon between Hercule and Serpens, another,
as before, near Ursa Major, ant the third east of the
latter, nearly approaching tie Polar Star. Five
minutes later, the firstmientiosed mass of light WAS
extinguished, and the remainingtwo increased in inten-
sity, forming like a frame round -Irsa Major. Soon after
a large pale orange-coloured ray issued from the mass
situated near the tail of Ursa Maor, darting beyond the
head of the Drrgon ; it appeared and disappearedseveral
times, sometimes appearing double. There were traces
of similar rays in the other mass, and about 48 minutes
past U a falling star was perceived. At 10, the pheno-
menon had ceased.