The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

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COUPLYTIOX OF Tilt MED 9sa TILEOBATH.-111se
Majesty's powiewsions at Aden are bow in telegraphic
cowmen, ation anti Lgypt. The brat tetssiram was
transinittaal to Sues, through the Red Sea Telegraph by
Brigadier Coglash, the pootical resident at Allen, du
Saturday, the 2Atil nit., aim its reccpesou at Suez wise
„ag,,„ade., • - e minuses.
Pahrr... • .. E LD. - I 41011.; Lw
travel. •oith two suing ids.,iogsapoeni
irmn r.. • r . to be numbered. The) fosoow the
army Wil.UOli. II ittit toey Pr•,ve
ful with it, popular biricsreye titiyid of she uifferent
capitals of Europe, with the hope of bring able to eskh
the life and movement of the battle-field. With theme
two intrepid artists, a no less intrepid English amateur
will ascend in the balloon, ~nd add los counsels and
experience to the boldness of their talents.
Tng New 1:11 EN T. —Sir W. Erie will succeed
Sir A. Cockburn as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
and, although it is not oificially settled, believe it is
most probable that Mr. James Wilde will succeed to
the Puisne Judgeship vacant by Sir W. Erie's promo-
tion. Lord Bury loss accepted the office of Controller
of the Household. Mr. Bagwell has been appointed one
of the Lords of the Treasury. We (Gfae) ere &litho-
ria.,d, in confirming the appointment of Mr. Samuel
Laing as Financial Secretary of the Treasury, to state
that the lion. member far Wick has for several years
withdrawn from all connexion with commercial under-
takings, with the exception of one or two foreign
railcar', the directorship of which he has resigned on
taking office.

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LOS,. Or A SLOOP AND ONE HCNDILED AND SIEVEN
LIVES. —The mail steamer Ethiope, Captain French,
arrived on Thursday night week at Liverpool with the
West African mails. She has brought 1,775 ounces of
gold dust. By this arrival we have details of the loss of
Her Majesty's sloop Heron, on the 9th of May, in lat. 4
N., long. 14.50 W., being 200 miles from the coast of
Africa, at roar o'clock in the morning. She was caught
in a tornado and instantly capsized. 107 of her crew
were lost. Captain Truscott, his gunner, boatawain,
sixteen seamen, four Portuguese, and two Krootuen saved
themselves in a boat, which was picked up by the Main,
of Liverpool, and conveyed to Sierra Leone. Com-
mander Truicott, Oeorge Heydon, boatswain, and
Kettle, a private of Marines, died on board the Ethiope,
on her passage to Liverpool, of yellow fever. Previ-
ously to her loss, the Heron captured a slaver, after a
chase of 12 hours. The slaver bad arrived at Sierra
Leone in charge of Lieutenant Chapman and • prise
crew.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening last 141
accident of • fatal character occurred at the village of
Broughton. It appears that • man named Wilding was
employed in sonie fields belonging to Mr. T. Bonham,
farmer, and was in charge of • hayeart, which had to
cross the rails to get from one field to the other. The
man was about to cross the line with the cart just as the
train for Aylesbury was due, and, perceiving, that it was
then coming up, and fearing that the horse would be
knocked down if be did not prevent it from crossing, he
went to the horse's head for the purpose of stopping it,
when, unhappily, he was knocked down by the buffer
and killed instantaneously, the top portion of the head
being entirely severed from the body, and the brains
being scattered about the rails. All the fingers, with
the exception of one, were likewise cut off one of the
poor fellow's hands. The engine-driver saw the deceased
but was unable to pull up in time to save his life, as the
train was proceeding at about the rate of 30 iniles an
hour. The deoeased was a married man with a family.
APPLEBT-HEATH oi FIIIS.—On Saturday afternoon
a fire broke out on Burton Fell, the property of Mr.
John Wybergh, one of the Crossfell range of mountains.
It appears that the fire was discovered on the previous
day by • farmer who was looking after his stock, but
having no idea that it would extend far, be took no
step* to extinguish it, although it is alleged, a canful of
water at that time would have been sufficient to put it
out. Since then, owing to the extreme dryness of the
moss and heather, aided by • strong easterly TAW,
the fire has made considerable progress, having reached
, Hilton Fell, the property of the Sari of Lonsdale, ar.d
spread over an extent of ground roughly estinisted at
1,000 acres. The fire has got a strong hold of the peat
itim.s, among which it smoulders until it reaches the
dry heath when it bursts into flame and then rapidly
spreads. An attempt has been made to extinguish it by
digging • deep trench to cut off the communication, but
whether this plan will be successful remains to be
seen. This fire will entirely destroy the prospects of
the sportsmen for the season, as the birds are mostly all
sitting at this time of the year.
BAPTISM OF THOMAS
.000PEIL—Leicester having
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formerly been the scene of Mr. Thomas Cooper's labour.;
as a lecturer and political leader, considerable interest
has been excited in eerie... eircles by an important
change which has talsen l eel the public career of the
Chartist poet aud free-thins..,,, lecturer. Mr. Cooper
has now become cons erted to the most orthodox opinions,
and is lunch attached to the sentiments of the Wes-
leyan*. Having, however, a strong belief in the ordi-
nance of bsiaisin he has somilit connexion with the
General Baptists. Accordingly Mr. Cooper was on
Sunday baptised by his old schoolfellow and fellow
townsman, the Rev. J. F. Winks, editor of the Baptist
li,pository, and admitted a member of the &peed
Church usemblingin Carley-street. Leicester. Although
the ceremony took place at seven o'clock in the morn-
ing there was a large congregation present at the service.
Mr. Cooper preached three tiniee during the day to
large congregations, and lie is about to attend the
annual meeting of the association as a representative of
the Church he has adopted.
WELLINGTON COLLEGE—His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort visited the College on Monday. His
Royal Highness presided in the Hall at the announce-
ment of the prizes by the Head-Master, and addressed a
few words of advice and encouragement to the boys,
especially commending the spirit of kindness and gene-
rosity which had marked this their first half-year
together. His Royal Highness, on the petition of the
Captain (Mr. Boughey), gave an additional week's holy.
day, as a special favour, in honour of opening the Col-
lege by Her Majesty. Several prizes of much interest
are announced, in addition to the ordinary school prizes,
for the coiupetition of Midsummer, MO, and the suc-
cessive years. Her Majesty has graciously signified her
intention of giving an annual gold medal to the boy who
in moral conduct and general proficiency shall be con-
sidered the moat deserving. His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort will give an annual prize for historical
study; the Archbishop of Canterbury, for religious
study; the Earl of Derby, for French ; and the Council
of Governors will give prizes for • Latin essay, for Cer-
ium, for mathematics, fur chymistry, and, lastly,
for botanical collections made in the neighbourhood of
the College, which is one of the richest fields for British
flowers in the country.
VALU•BLZ GIFT TO THE NATION.—On Sunday week
Mr. Jacob Bell died at Tunbridge Wells, in his
49th year. He died of bard work. In the full expec-
tation of death, and in spite of a most painful malady,
he could not desist from his labouni, and in • half-faint-
ing state was buckled up to his work till within an hour
before he breathed his last. The principal part of these
labours was directed to the raising of his profession,
which was that of a diepensing chymist. He spent a
fortune in starting and advancing the Pharmaceutical
Society, which bids fair to embrace before long all the
clipnists and druggists of Great Britain, and which in
the meantime has raised enormously the educational
standard of the class. Those who knew the liberality
of the man, and how much good he did in a quiet unas-
suming way, will not be surprised to bear, what he kept
• profound secret from even his moat intimate friends,
that he has bequeathed the best of his pictures to the
nation. Among them are the following a Landseer's :
—"The Maid and the Magpie," exhibited last year at
the Royal Academy ; the celebrated picture of the
" Shoeing," "The Sleeping Bloodhound," "Alexander
and Diogeneat." "Dignity and Impudence," and the
" Defeat of Comm" In addition to these there is
"The Sacking of • Jew's House," by Charles Landeeer ;
there are a couple of landscapes in which Lee and Sid-
ney Cooper have united their efforts; there is O'Neil's
picture of "The Foundling examined by the Board of
Guardians;" there is one of Ward's best historical
works—" James 11. receiving the news of the Landing
of the Prince of Orange;" there is the "Derby-day" of
Mr. Frith, which, however, has to fulfil certain enpge.
menta with the engravers before it can appear in the
national collection ; and, to crown all, there is the
"Horse Fair" of Roes Bonbenr. This last is not the
law lecture of the "Horse Fair" with which every-
body is familiar, hot a smaller edition of it, painted annul-
taiieously. In everything hut size it is afar simile of
the larger CanTl44, and it is the original from which the
engraving lies been made. There are 13 pictures. aud
the commission for • fourteenth has been given to Mr.
Frank Stone, but what is the nature of the subject, and
whether any progress has been made in the work, we
are unable to may. One thine is certain, that the public
have received fnam Jacob Bell a most valuable gift, and
we may add that the testator has attached no conditions
to the acceptance of his legacy. Such a great public
benefit is the fitting clew to a life of much public use-
fulness.

MR. BRIGHT'S DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE
MINIATRT.—rhe Mame/teeter E.ram iner of Wednesday
(Mr. Bright's provincial organ) says ;—" In looking
over the list of the new Ministry one name will occur
to every one as ' conspicuous by its absence ;' we refer,
of course, to Mr. "fright. His claims to a place in the
Cabinet, judged solely by his political abilities and the
weight of his persons' character, are so obvious and in-
disputable, that some mystery is supposed to rest upon
his exclusion. To set misapprehension at rest we deem
it advi.ble to state that there is no mystery stall about
the water. He has not been asked to take office, and
we believe that no fact could be more in unison with
his personal inclinations; but why this course has been
adopted towards one whose Parliamentary influence is
so great, whose preeminent services to the CRAM of
lteforui are acknowledged on all sides, and who, if any
member of the section of the Liberal party to which he
belongs were to be admitted to office, had certainly a
prior claini,—this is a question more interesting than
difficult of solution. Such things have, doubtless, an
inner as well as an outer history, but the whole case
may be easily comprehended without descending to
recondite surmises. That Mr. Bright's political pnnci-
pies were not deemed an insuperable bar to office is
obvoions from the selection of Mr. M. Gibson and Mr.
Cobden, whose views are identical with his own. The
objection is a suiall one. Mr. Bright, by his eloquent
advocacy of great truths, has had the insufferable mis-
fortune to render himself personally obnoxious to • few
proud and feeble oligarchs., whose influence is mighty in
the serener heights of aristocratic Whiggism, and not
unfelt perhaps at Court; and to their intrigues. inces-
sant and bitter, be is indebted for the privilege of
remaining unattached. What could be more natural?
Exclusion from office on such grounds is the best tribute
which could be paid to his abilities and his political
worth. We have only to add that if the necessities of
the Cabinet, and the desire to retain power, compel
them to co-operate with Lord John Russell in fulfilling
the just expectation of the Liberal party, then it will
undoubtedly receive the support of the country, and of
the independent party in Parliament • but if the same
dishonest intrigues which have characierieed the admis-
sion into the highest pleatsj Cabinet of incompe-
tent men, and the known secret opposition to the more
liberal policy of Lord John Russell of • portion of those
who have already violated their deliberate pledges,
should ultimately prevail, then we may red assured
that there will be a speedy end of Lord Palmerston's
Administration, and the reign of Whig incompetency
will be closed for over."

TILLIGSAIIII To GIBIALTAL—The saiehog witr co'
the Cootinent has placed in so striking a light the im-
portanee of earwig" a omens of telegraphic continuants-
time with the British msmiona in lb. Mediterranean,
indepeoilent of any continental medium, that Govern-
ment have esteftd byte arrangements for laying down,
apecily as ineelide, a telegniphie cable direct Irons
Faltuvtrth to Gibraltar—a dietetics of 1.100 nautical
melee. Although the line ia at ',regent to he carried
only to thbrnlT.r, itS eltimate esteusion to Yalta and
fe. tliie ti
einuna iy had
irell il.reetee
Alexandre, there to form a juoction with the wires to
indai, is mod to he decided an.
CON TU"VENTED 1111.41CTIon RETTINII.—The Clerk of
fba limeetreni againstuounceci ostii,e returns that
for
etio T ue.iY
ROOOLOIIIIIII,III, the boroughs of Great 1 amoral', Band-
wich, Athlone (trio). Cheltenham. Kidderminster (I,
. laugh), Bridgwater, Lyme Regis, King:doe-upon-Hull
(two). Newry, Frome, King's County, the boroughs of
Weymouth (two), Trenton, Windsor, Chatham, Peter-
borough (tau). Beverley (three), Carlisle (Peat laughter
mid ironical cheers from the Opposition), thsadalk, and
Wakefield, the county of Ilerioneth, the herough
Dover (a laugh), Boilinin. and Carlow (two), dm comity
of Kent, and the borough of Barastaple (two).