The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD HERESIM

On Friday death cut off in Lord Herbert one whom
nature had intended for a Prime Miuister. It is quite
certain Unit, had he lived, he would before long have
attained that honour, if not by virtue of extraordinary
intellectual qualities, yet by force of character, by
charm of manner, and by aptitude for business. Sc
was one of the ruust winning statemen of his time, and,
by aid of a greet social faculty, rose above men who
were on other grounds superior to him. What was
most remarkable in him was hisansiety to do everything
well. Ilia labours were unceasing ;he never spared
himself; ho gave up life and luxury for toil and trouble
and if be did not die in lawless, it was in hareem that he
earned his death. It w.is not merely in the
fulfilment of duty that he was thus self-sacri-
ficing ; he was equally unsparing of himself in
the discharge of those social obeervanees which men
usually bend to the eonvenitnce or humour of the
moment. With great manliness of clue:eater there
wins curiously intermingled an extraordinary desire to
please. Ile studied and strove to please, and heightened
by all the arts of style the natural attractiveness of
his character. He had in his favour every social
advantage—high birth, a great estate, a happy Lome,
• handsome person, irresistible manners, many *mom-
plishumuts, a ready address. He made the most of all
this, si that is good nature seemed to be always
overflowing, his (limbic,as to be always unbounded,
and his power of pleasing to be always undivided. So
he won upon all comera, and won most upon them
who knew him best. Men would give up to
Sidney lierbert what they would punt to
no one else, lie inspired no jealously ; for his
superiority was less the result of brilliant parta
than of that indefinable charm from which
there is no appeal. Add his power id work and of
public speaking to his rare power of making friends,
and you have the possible Prime Minister, That power
and lone of work, we grieve to say, has killed him, as it
has killed many another statesman, before his time.
He gave up the enjoyments of wealth and a brilliant
home for the great rime of polities, and has been
known to pau • whole sunnier and autumn in London
with only perhaps a day and • night at Viiltun. He
drove a giaid constitution too bard, and at Christmas
last bean to feel that sentence of death had been
le seed upon bin,. There is some reason to think that
stein then, hail he given up all work, he might hive
recovered. All that lie did was to leave the House of
Commons and try the comparative repose of the peer.
age, still retaining his office as Minister for War. The
consequence has been fatal. He dies of overwork at the
air of 51—a great loss to society, • still greater loss to
his party.
His term of office has been signalized by three great
events—by the creation of an imposing Volunteer force,
which lie has had to organis, and control ; by the &mal.
gaination of the Indian with the Royal army, which he
has also bad to superintend ; and by the ascertained pre-
eminence in the field of rifled minim. It is not likely
that, for years to come, another Secretary for War will,
in time of peace, have to deal with any change" that
can be compared to these. He was fully alive to the
magnitude of the questions which lie had to decide, and
no Minister could have brought to bear upon them
more intelligence or wore zeal. Lord Herbert lear-
ned oti the 12th of August, 1846, Elizabeth, daughter
of the late Lieutenant-General Charles she a'Cuort, by
whom he leaves six children, four sons and two daugh-
ters, hid eldest son, Oeorge Robert Charles (now Lord
Herbert), having unupleted his eleventh year last
mouth.

A TRAOIC Arrata.—A tragedy, attended by cireum•
stances of considerable mystery, and not likely now to
1,, cleared up, has just occurred at Clapham. A short
tine suite the body of • lady named Littleton was found
in the long pond on the comet's., awl rumours were
soon afloat which tended to implicate the husband. An
inquest was opened by the coroner, and adjourned till
Thursday. In the meantime Mr. Littleton, evidently
excited by the reports affecting his chancier, committed
suicide iii his own house on Sunday afternoon.
Juilgrig (rum the stateu.ents wade before the coroner.
however, there does not appear to be sufficient grounds
for •ffixing any 'thug& to the character of the
unfortunate man in connection with his wife's death.
With regard to Mrs. Littleton, the jury returned a
verdict of Found Drowned; and it having been found
that of late Mr. Littleton bad given evidence of insanity,
• verdict in his case was returned accordingly.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT WAKEPIeLD.— On Tuesday
evening a desperate attempt was made to murder •
woman at Wak..field. The person charged with the
offense, is Thomas Scott, • stonemason' aged fifty-two
years. It seems that Scott's wife died some time ago
and after that event Ise formed the assmaintance of •
yomig married woman, who is generated from her hus-
band, named Caroline FLUTIRE*. His brews to have
become jealous and violent, and urged her I, narry
him, but she reload. !lore than once, it is alleged,
he attemptul to injure her. ass.] being in fear she
left Wakefield and went to York. Recently she re-
turned to Wakefield, AWI Scott continues' to visit her.
tin Tuesday afternoon they were at Clorksou's eating-
house, isi Kirkgate. lie asked her to go not for •
walk, and chic consented. Whilst she wan preparing
he mune close to her, amid laying one loped on her
shoulder, with the other he discharged a pistol close
to her six's!. The pistol was loaded with No 1
shot. Fortunately, however. • belt, and the
thick stays worn by Mrs. Furness preveuted the
shot from penetratiug, and the woman was not much
injured. As she at once "escaped from the room no
further harm was done to her, snit Scott was appre-
hended. lie was committed fur trial at the midges.
Attutitite Ft et le Tooter PSTMLIT.—As one mis-
fortune succeeds another people content themselves
with repeating the well-polished proverb about such
things never coming singly, and wondering why it is
so, while the simple explanation is that no amount of
experience will teach caution end care to those who are
naturally or habitually careless. The disaster in
l'ooleystrcet, so recent that its extent is not yet
estimated, was on Thursday supplensented by another
Bre in warehouses nearly edjuining, and stored with
valuable property. The outbreak took place in what
is stalled Davis's Wharf, and vrae with difficulty pre-
vented from extending to other promises, nor was it got
antler until • wipes amount of damage was done.
Row it originated of course nobody knows, or at any
rate nobody who is likely to tell.

The re frixAing aedsustaiassg propert in of lea depend
on the quantity of theme it contain e ; the early spring
leaves have always most of We essential quality, for an
ounce of this floe Tun contains 10 grains ; the autumn
crop has but little, and is conm.mently rerp defieurat
in jlarunr. The English pay for and desire to Wain
the choice tea, but often have the autumn crop through
a deceptive practice the Chinese have of "foray" or
colouring the withered leaves ; for minerals
are used to snake all appear alike, and
,nobles the Chinese to pass off the /ow brown in
place of the best. Merchants derive greet profit from
the practice, but the celestials thenuelres never use
coloured Tea. Hoimix AN & CO. LOndan, knowing that
sterling quality is preferred before mere appearance,
Import all without powdered colour on the surface : the
Green is of • natural dark olive (not Usiels), and the
Buick not inteneely dark. This tea is to be had only
of Horisintan's Astern : for LOCAL hetese advertisement
in this day's paper.
The present Sultan promises to be every bit ea
extravagant as his predecessor, for we notice with
indignation that warmly three weeks have gone over
his Mai time his &seem to power, and he has already
appeared before the publie with not leas than Woe
new Hale !—PwicA.

SHOCKING I NHL'S! A KITT. —On Monday, at the Dews-
bury petty semitone, the bench trere engaged in investi•
gelling a charge of chocking brutality to a child by its
father. The child, a girl not 6 year* of age. was brought
into court by it. mother, and it was patent to all that it
had suffered Irian gross illusage for a length of time.
The rightarin and leftthigli were crippled in consequence
of their not having being set after being broken hy the
lather's brutal treatment mune thee ago. Its flee was
bound up with linen cloth, and the appearanmsof the
little sufferer was that of a child not 3 years ,hl, it
being touch stunted in growth. The father, Alfred
Shepley, labourer, of Roberttown, near Dewsbury, was
charged with brutally kicking it on the face on'Satur.
day, the 3011, ult, whereby he hail caused a wound
which had entirely penetrated the left cheek. The
evidence showed that Shepley went home on the after-
noon of the day above named, in a state of partial
intoxication, and seeing the little girl playing on the
door of the kitchen, deliberately kicked it on the face
with his iron-eusl boot. The mother, who was in the
house at the time, hastened to the child, and having
rescued it front her husband endisavoured to staunch
time blood which towed comouslT from the wound, but
being unable to do so she took it to the house .of Mr.
Thomas Dransfield. Mr. Dransfield deposed that the
child, who was the illegitunate daughter of the prisoner,
was brought to I ' on Saturday evening by its mother.
lie found its left cheek entirely cut. through, the mused
being rather over two inches in length. He applied
the proper dressings. The child he knew 'hid been
grossly ill•treated since its birth. On erawitling it.
body he found that both it. right arm Mot left thigh
had been broken, and that they bad never received
I surgical attendance. The clothes of the_ehili when it
was brought to hint wen quite stiff with WS.. Fame
sergeant Stevens said the child was the offspring Cf the
priaoner and his wife, but it had been born before their
marriage. The prisoner had often ill-treited It, and
had caused the injuries not only to its urea and, tfiigh,
but to its cheek, though the former bed been dose
some tone since. The child did not weigh inomithan
Ildb. There was proof to show, if necessary, that it
had been gnorsly neglected by its mother Mad. The
little girl's mother, who behaved in • very dipping and
unfeeling manner in court, was severely censured by
the Bench; and het husband, the prisoner: who pleaded
"Guilty" to the charge made against hini, WWI com-
mitted to the Wakefield House of Correction for six
calendar months with hard labour, and ordered.; at the
expiration of that terin, to dod sureties f* kb , good
behaviour for another six months.' ' .' , • ~
At the Meidatone Assizes, •th TiathidwYi 'N'opary
Crowther use trird for the manslaughter of a hey nalthe
Henry Miles. The priminer had been. empforyed to
her!) the birds (min an orchard, baying a ion, touted
with shot for that purpose. Fancying, kof saw. A bird
in one of the trees lie fired and allot, nbt a bfrd, but
the boy Miles, who had climbed into the Mee. ,It was
shown to be an act of pure misadventure, mad the Jury
returned • verdict of acquittal.
Dr. Griffiths Jones, a quack doctor,. sea lerought
up on remand at the Guildhall on Ronda', charged
will
lh fotorglinit.anHod
puhti? rißenguia.wbattrorryttedn4eatecultin
irthue ,
directed by the Crown in consequence what transpired
In the Probate Court, where Jams might to prove the
will. After the exansinatioe of wisiessig. 4,,biob
occupied • considerable tins*. Mr. Alderman . Ulla onni.,
witted the prisoner for trial. .
BRUTAL TIIKATMENT OF • C.4111.0.—At Hilgaird, •
few days ago, the attention of mai!. of tet la Meath
of Church street was attracted the of * Ist:,
whom parenta are dead, and ito with * gth "pep
sister, live with their step-father.a. MIMS named /I .
It anon transpired that 11.'co
lepl base Ism* . the
poor orphan child in • moth l; . ttl ona , , ir ,ikat
which waa but too palpable twin, ' ..
left upon her potion. Her hid vili, 1". , A were
fearfully bruised, and dreadfuillik 144 .‘ iifisr•
perceptible upon other purts ate* thadys :Ai: ..
was soon greeted fog the
father. Several polinemeMtliaminilactiL
as yet, be has managed to elude

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ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES., ...1
FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT IX PLYMOUTH SoUrtD.—kn
accident of a very melancholy nature occurred on Ifon- dtitffirtt. 'lPildtm—
day afternoon. The day had been nuusnelly actually, naasolelYs• to pestiveantlitil slivrtarsis::xtb•Nsa
mid the midden gusto of wind from the enuth-east no Penlon Whiff 11113111rpremiser at the has :his'
rendered it exceedingly dangermis for small boats to.. Xrajfigrit=iter Almti.trittzAm the
the Julliee
_o! the thuntifftls. Led tor_ealteric iiitiotal°67...mand
tipertBopili....dpilid.in,l.:nnthed boaatoit:,
pi.wahirthlyea:aidoellenohgle.p.unnpedteirsmr‘tehite.,,
46ditrilibkin1F-7
clifl'unia67thilli-r"eri'fit ;:d.WM' I.4l.e".‘aWiit'`dinado7;ffir'd hilthe
1141110,i iii,,. Raker, Elisabeth Linker, her cousin, and
Ti.vplienis Brown, were desirous of proceeding from OW lit'-'"HC°6ol4.:l4"l4Bl•4lllB6l4•Bffilirthrliteme
(outdo to the Leda steamer, which was to leave Mittid °lrA° 4QBLigr.P.9l4 ot.t ,142.A.P0 11117, *Awe they
bay pier for Porteinontli at 6 p.m. Ellen Baker, • little •
• „eirl, had come from Portsmouth a fortnight ago to visit .41111411infltAtkil'ffilf•411:thirt h 411280 hed
her grandmother, nettling at Couide, and wu aboet to passed oink. a spies+ i ing et, see
return home by Vie Leda. The three took abut at the only frnWnthinvinkt' kr. bnd7, but by the
creek, in Sutton Pool, which was antler the charge of scorching of the shirt
_emreamending with the satire
two young men, named Thews' Luke and William on the spine. A1146411.00%-ball the cap worn the
Hill. All went well until the boat wee under the USW ?IRV Pet ' Itg tattitittlig. iimil
when a sudden guat of wind calmed the sail to jibe ted ,; o etc.!
rarit
miset the boat, mid all five verse= were thrown into Mite . •Ipt_thep • 6 MW on tile • ' head
water. TIIO little girl, Ellen Raker, and Tryphenia tide% the ''jirevicealy call hjea.
Brown, immediately tank and did not rise again. 11j11 Externailylthere wag id marks, but ,the maids' Of the
who swain towards the shore, was picked up, illui .eatl! crimitheeddit MOM Vibe C04t40 'join .IF, Milk
Elisabeth Baker caught hold of Isigir's legs, and by Ifie °milt. A mist*, ,51Itlfrechilitt qv,. the
help of her crinoline the two were enabled to keep storm 'burst his t nee n 1 KW, sail
above water until two caulkers of her Majesty's dock- o,„n Vine te.hie. erptli,' 744:161 tiOssaief.
yard, cause alongside and picked them up. The young
_.r"..trtek'rlann+r,lie ell' '' WAI queer.
woman, Brown, was under an eagagement to be married utunlf In the firenhete. He went op to his. and
within a few days. bun dbe was qalteirad. Theifi In wry retereed a veal*
Nonix Rulers ST A C ABNAX.—A few days ago • that Mee demand wet killed., lig ' • . B• 1004
mage to tu'ehitriney. thelbe ' met
boy eleven years of age fell into the Thames from da
lila death Uinta dammed.
Cadoganpler, (*belies, .in 'fen of nearly • hundred LeOßlOtit' BEM,' CZ Vititirti.—At the Castle of
reunite It being nearly Melt. water at the time his Exists,. ss p„,,,,,. ._,_ ,
Jentli was inevitable, had not s'ealtemb, named Joseph iteraisis
... """••• ',Wm tie *matt megideliten, Mr.
Stolle, plunged in and necomated ifi reseuing him heist arawtoe,. tomer inatufeetaner, of Wwiwk,
ifillenitfttel aLiara efttifiatifling thertenffine by what appeared an inevitable fate, but not before wring Felt he writing on certain sp(s=
'the bey had been carried • tortaiddrable distance by the amd introdemel other war into thePnitt
'kite, which was running fery strong at the time, oldie 41th/tempi 1.,4110,, aweir., ow tm„iddilimam
0,...
Mg the courageous cabman to meta eon ll
•'siderable i, inland. i Aneßnt.4 •
tance, Ana dive several times.' The boy was Iwc.°lllt.
-ashore in an insensible state, 'his ptesdreer being very toirerkshaff daelVaehet, Ile tlic seenseUer ender much exhausted. .. . .
acoeecit'
IA itett been agreed by the Inked Bounne to
*lnfinite: DEATH or &linty,' OF tilljrreTT dkinent for £1,400.
NOTTINGH AIthHIRC. —On Tu ti;etening Ift, John ' . Rime it aane.e—At the Nada& Arsine on Thum
Brewster, an, minent soliciter of, ottisngham,. who Las
.daThAlfreFl lsord, • young man, 18 y ef ege, the sea.
held the office of deputyleheriff of eteingtuttnthire for of alarm_
_,
._er was Smithfield ki 4. y Orrin* fee
a great many years, met his death udder eery die:eking ,haeltig *ell • piece of wood semen 'tberails of the
circumstances. Seely in the evening Mr. Brewster bad Xassent Gee 'es Railway oe the 10th of Jelly, thereby
shim Iffi shimmed the performance of cieldie, at the . Barrack- epdengering the lives of • esessugus ereennieg thnesoa,
yard, Nottingham, and after returning Immo partook Is inassiffir hnwac. .Cinef Jodie,' Untie told the
of supper as usual. He reniaincd in conveuellon with prisoner he had reederwlhjumelf liable to transportation
his Niuily instil about 11 o'clioek;' wheat Liiiill bade for life.
him "good night," and retired terbeL Almost inniatH Ahab* Pcosionsii.--Cisat exedimibotinsadusidioned
distely afterwards they were aroused by the 'benefit et at ' , its Monday •by . that a lsdy,
their sister. Upon going to the allot they found Medi, pipe Atm Rftwiand, been governess
father lying al the bottom of the steps leading into tte. In ni of Toed Cliften, a foe% erds of
garden, hie head being fearfully bruised. A sargeocr 10 , - • beim poisoned. ''-- ' • a
was sent for, but the ' unfortunate kentleante never i oar. b,,,i attribitiail it se sepia of air, us,
rallied, and aspired han alf hourafterwards. A coroner's s, with whomebei was Asying recommended a
inquest wan held on Wednesday. and from the medical pregeeiptioewhish was wade op pl tdeci,re of rhubarb
tutinitaiy adduced it was supposed that the deceased and landerioni;and knotting dialler. GriMths,
wa, seised with an effusion of blood to the head, which 'AZ of Bideford, wrie enrelnl imci Fee shit went to
canoed him to fall down the steps, and • verdict to that Ida ' li and asitealor Arid-peony- isturth' re of
effect mei retained. Mr. Brewster was fil years of age, r ; and Wes aro! 'of hodlitifittni; 'lt the
and • member of the Town Council. trim ft *as 'A Presidg
,n,'llye..,A pti! 'Vs 'nitres
THE Hl' lICIDII op LORD ASHISUHTOWB WNW AHD. WitfialitiOn talking ' 6 Orttelettle *tomb libilktorlawd
An in 'neat Wall held on Wednesday, before Mr. Lang- Wu 'en it fikr fiendlie_lBl,l'fofirint. Warne% that
hau., to inquire into the death of James Meson, who , aleblelt nnbrly ant welled:oi- uilifeiti iciod Ite On the
denizymiitmor-tf bislang, albs residents of Lord ' r., *Sea 164 .191. ch saldeghetitgr we"
Ashburton. in Piccadilly. From the evidence it fp- ' ,
... dee:eagle ' Laid that slit ifentelleis ' skis.' - Mrs.
reared that the deceesed was of very unsteady habits, Mocks peened out the 'of Chem' ' ' ' and
' ind was Much mixed up with betting traneactions, and MIA Ihneibuitt intinedint:ei It illfiiiit ' Lila
40r.
had received notice to quit his lordship's berries on it nu' ['amend& 'en: IIFTI . wt down to inner
account 4 his insobriety. The jury returned • verdict abbilt ona Adonis,' and tbotit . *4114.11,, .•again.
of "Temporary insanity." Deceased's brother lived The'disneakiml told, "I timid' n Wei Isinispel
..13h•
with Wm ewe late durum of -Medford der Ilil yoararbut tho preferred tying still a little lon' i iividlidil iiilffingly,
dectued WWI lIVVer in their service. "1 don't know how ~le f ilt.nU=AiPer,
Actinium Ti A Votonimat.—A nielancholy sod- but I feet Very orenTortalde
dent occurred on Moutday, to a member of the 4th coin- WY hsr,dhinking it for the best.. !Rat t:"..hrtik half.
pany of the 2'Jth Middleset Rifles. The company bad pest, Mrs. Wilcocks went *tat . lee; and tibia the
been invited by their commander, Captain Ibbetson, to blwiloat sem removed, the observed that Miss Rowland
dine at Illuid with thq Aril twee Volunteers, ;Newtons bisathed slowly. Her hand', were cleuebed,face swollen,
to which they performed holl,o • evolutions in the pre- and eyes shut. Mr. Wikocks, ow being apprised of her
acme of the officere and their friends. While doubling condition, went for Dr. Jones, brit KW Rowland died.
round the centre • volunteer named William Day stun.' An adjourned iiiiirest was held en Tweeday at the New
bled, and the bayonet of his rear rank man penetrated Inn, nhen three surgeons who sitteided a post *oriels
his calf nearly 'even inches obliquely. Mr. Davis, a examination gave endemic, 'and fit half-past ten
gentletuan who happened tot.. on the ground, kindly o'clock the nervily ternsinebed, end the
lent hie carriage, in which the poor man Was inenedi- jury after considering the case, returned the
ally conveyed home. following verdict :—"That Frances Ann Rowland died
II TRTEHIoUII KOBBCRT AT BRIGHTON.—Count Bat- from the effects of Isudsnwn, iaadsertently supplied by
thyany occupied a bedroom at the New fiteyne Hotel Mr. Thomas Griffiths,
_instead of tincture of rhubarb."
during the Goodwood RAMS and the Brighton meeting. The foreman remarked: 11-. Coronet and gentlemes,
In the meriting when he arose he missed from his dregs- we have bad a most painful duty to perform, but from
ing table • scarf pin, some gold sleeve links, • purse the evidence given this day it wee impossible for us to
containing • few sovereigns, a blotting case, fr.c. An come to any other conclusion %au thet tepee by you.
inquiry war inimediately instituted, anal not one of the Let me say that we hold Mr. Thomas Griffiths in the
servants was suspected of coniuritting the robbery The highest sateen,. and believe him and know him to be
hotel was opened at six in the morning, and ahoy who highly regarded by everyone who knows him. I sin
had to rise early speaks of seeing& gentlemanly4ooking 1 'peaking for myself and thowbole body of jurymenl
man in the peerage on the Ird door, aid supposing him ' Great sympathy is felt here for all camerned, and Mr.
to be one of the visitors to the hotel, Ice took no notice Griffiths, from his high undarniehed chat-actor, has his
of him. share.
THE FATAL non' Berwitos Two Penmen On haocciNG RAILWAY AOCIDTIC2.—:On Weal:Wetly
Holtsketek.—Willitin Farmer, agriculturist, residing afternoon the depute coroner for Sheffield held an
at Meadows Farm, neer.Churchatoke, was arrainged OW inquert at the Station Hotel, fiwinfou, on the body
Monday evening at the iihreembury Assists, on the of James ithearwood. • labourer, who had been in the
chugs of feloniously killing and 'lying Williain Corn- employment of Moen. Charinsworth, of Swinton-
field, farmer, of Little Stratton, • Village about eighteen common. It appeared that en Monday night, about ten
Mr.
rilessifortouton.Sultirdee;fsebundrej
J... MThr. e Chocurbeot
ft
tphreoseenaiie tweirten, atnhed olicalnockuk,ottli.efpdreoeuslthe
was the
purposel Roali:?ritneAlhlanow's
.beeHr.house, at
same as throe brought forward at the inquest, end on worm for liquor when be departed. It seems be pro-
the 01:1121Si011 of the charge before the siegidratos. The ceeded along the Midland Railway, and when paeans'
prisoner'
est having been found guilty, was sentenced to through the Kihilierst cutting, was knocked down by
three uitlis' imprisonment. • luggage train. The driver of the Wain in quatioa,
... George Shaw, from Derby, stated that he was driving
A Batt Cueronite.—At the Liven:out Police-000, a luegage train on Monday night, and as he was passing
on Tuealay. • respectable-looking men, named John Kilibunt cutting he observed the deceased on the
Valentine. the mate of a ship, was charged With break- railway. Witham' was proceeding northwards, and was
ine an organ, the property of A etreet-onpinist, named met in the cutting by another lassau train going
Brine Antonia, on Monday night. It appeared how the southwards. Anticipating that the deceased bed got
evidence that at the. Mute in question the complainant injured, Shaw i.nilini up his hairs it she twit°. 'dation,
was passing along Whilechapel, when the prisoner went and on examining the carriage, found a quantity of
to hum arid, after using some not over-complimentary human hair adhering to an axle box. He went back
language, demanded him in it. peremptory unurner to with the engine and a wive and discovered the
"play up the ' Lass o'Gowrie,'• it being his favourite deceased's Italy in the "six-foot" of the railway in the
tune ; and on the coninlainant stating that it was Kilnherst cutting He was quite dead. He had
beyond the capabilities of his instrument to do so. and .
that consequently he could not comply with the prism o chin, both legs were cut off, and one hand had bees
er's request, Valentine called the player a bad name, received a severe wound on the back of his head and
erected from his arm. His body was removed to the
and coutineneed kicking the organ, doing damage to the Statioa Inn at Bwititon; After hearing the above
extent of f 2 10s. The case was settled by the delete evidence the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
dant paying the damage. death."
DlsmsTltoelt FIER IX YOKIEHHIRZ.—EarIy on Seine'
day morring an extensive cotton mill, in the occupation
of Mr. Jamie Walton, at Robert-town, near Dewsbury,
Yorkshire, was destroyed by fire in the space of three
hours. There were aix brigades end engines on the spot
in a few ITHOHtes after the diroovery of the fire by •
woman who live.. near to thir place. Mr. James
Hemingway, the owner of the buiffilng, suffers a heavy
less, and Mr Waiton estimates the damage to stock,
machinery, Su., at £4,000, width is nearly covered by
insurances in several provincial 'offices. The origin of
fire is unknown.
THHEI PERSONS KILLIID lIN kIGIHTFIYG. —4. severe
thunder dorm visited the East . Riding of Yorkshire on
Saturday. At PA, • village three Miles from Beverley
a man named Watson Patrick Wed three of his children
were engaged in • field hoeing termini. They bought
refuge from the rain under • widampreading tree, There
the whole party were struck by lightning. Patrick, his
IDOil Tipetili, aged nine, and his daughter, Remy, aged 13,
were killed on the spot. The third child, a girl, aged
12, was dunned, and lay in &nate of insensibility for
some time. On recovering her seeing she was able to
crawl on her hands and knees to a neighbouring house
and inform the inmates of what had happened. An
inquest has been held and a verdict was returned of
"Accidental death."

A /I•N 11•1101:78LY 131.10R1D IT • MAD BULLOCK.—
On Thursday morning an infuriated bullock. whirls
bed bean drivea about and bunted for • considerable
period. tamped from the New Cattle Market. and
elated the greateat alarm in the neighbombeod, by
nearly killing one man and Gaming some destruction
of property. On Lresking away It Warrebasely persued
by a troop of men, who; booting and shouting,
increaaed tie wikinew of Me animal. until it became
completely mad, when it furiously rushed at • man
who was passing by, knocked him down, and .merely
trampled upon him. He then left Ann. and. dashed
at several other persons, who only escaped by Making
• precipitate retreat into the nearest sheltering places.
Al, length the animal, its fury being eornswhat spent,
ran into an unfinished buil.ling, when alter much
diflletilt7, it was secured. Tbe injured NMI was in
the meantime conveyed to the Qrsat Northern Hospital
King's-woes, whore Mr. A. W. Valli*, the house
surgeon, found that he had instituted very severe
injuries, his collar bone being broken, and his bead
frightfully cut and bruised, so that his state ia con•
sidered very precarious.

Mr. Whittinghans, • farmer of Dalbory Lee, between
60 sad SO years of age, was defendant la in action for
breach of promise of marriage at UND Derby eadeas on
Satuniay. The injured fair one was Nies Redford, a
dressmaker, about half the age of the promise breaker,
and else estimated that her fee lap had rustained £2,500
worth of damage. The jury awarded her IMO.
At llevagisaey. the drift boats have been taking from
1,000 to 10,000 pilchards per boat each night they have
been able to hill. At Mousse's Bay the driving boats
continue to take good catches. They have taken (ruin
2,000 to 4,000 per boat, which sold at (ruin 2.. to ts. Sd.
per 100.
A local paper has the following :—" A few days since
a gentleman was walking up a street in Gloucester
when he recognised an old (riend, • few paces in ad-
vance of him, who, to his astonishment, was *ruing
under his aria a short, dirty, and nearly worn-oat
broom. This friend was proverbially known among his
acquaintances for Itis extreme attachment to an umbrella
Ole was a bachelor), which he insatiably carried with
him when out walking. Alarmed fur his friend's state
of tined, and sealable of the ridicule which he was obvi-
ously drawing moo himself from the passers by, Om
palleinan hastened after him, and, accosting him,
directed his attention to the object of the popular
amusement. To his increased astonishment the friend
blushed ecarlst, glanced nervously round him, and,
slipping the ii testable broom under his oust, hurried
off. nos ludicrous mistake arose through • momentary
absence of miud. The friend, upon leaving his office,
where his duties required the most unremitting atten-
tion, hail taken up the broom, which stood near his
umbrella, instead of the latter, and pasting it under hia
arm left for his house.
4 "Brighton paper of Wednesday tap :--" It will at
a glance be seen that our fashionable column displays
ad loess of visitors of very einsolderablo ..rfent. far
excerdoig what we have been accustomed to in runner
years. This is doubtless owing to the insesesed
facility of tralle afforded sy the London. Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Company," ix. Did those visitors
of very considerable extent" arrive in leery goods
trains! And when has the ram of grants sprung
from all at mum
At the Newton Abbott Potty Bastions, Mu Jack.
MAU., a farmer's daughter, was charged by 111ise1seth
Jahns for ersoulting nor on the 164 h ult. The com -
pianism{ sail that on the tight of the 16th.a/t. she went
into • bye lane near her bower, by haraalt. ftg the par.
of seeing the comet, which her neighbours had
Ebefogs Wei her was a oary " wonderful thing."
dit the was paw to this IwDS
_wjr,fi tenieekith
tletottb ewer her shinkters, she aretthugegued.ut, who
wee accompsusied by Ler father, bat abs did not speak
'to either of thaw UN hod 1104 hen ire tbekans eery
Um, when she bed been thirkikw no a "funeral see
sow end praying to God, Wore the defendant
jumped upon bet sad stretched laer lee times on one
arra and came on the other. This tresensist shocked
bee go mush that else was taken " speech-
less, and could not move for souse time." Elbe
afterwards showed her arras to her neighbours. When
she called at the defendant's house fur an explanation
for her violent conduct, the door was slammed in her
face. She then ant for the policeman to give her in
charge, hot he was from hoot°. Mr. Francis, who sis-
ter the defendant, addremed the Bench st some
reet:All , and called the defendant's sister and father, who
denied that the a.smnilt bed teen committed. The
letter stated that be believed the complainant to be a
witch. It was only about • week since he had s pig
that could not stand ; he had also lost cattle which had
been " attended by • farrier." Ile was persuaded that
bh dafaghter did not commit the sesselt ooenplained of,
The Beek add they °cad not help feeling surprised
that people Amid bo so saporetilloss es to believe in
miteheruit,,and Sued th 3 defendant 14a. ILL, ineluding
, owls.
•. On gelrerday, Yr. Bdward Honig, polio* of Use
Manchester end Salford Elaitableoodepleatielellenesy,
-laid the foundatiou nee* of • wevring abed pt Coln.,
lidfd,7ol/ Inoms, whisk will Torkid as, ow 0.-
00*_!.-Olter.,„arstatlMAlssulawit,etartilre,traatitgar. •
Lied
Mabtileibl for ° lain: to be Aosta .6
future time.