The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

eourt anb fashionable Intelligence.

MR. DUMAS:LI left Loudon for Osborne on
afternoon, to have an audience of Her Majesty.
Friday
PIINCD ALFRED'S WOUID.—M the telegraphic infor-
mation respecting the ohmeeter of the injury received
by his Royal Minses the Duke of Edinburgh can be
depended on, the nation has to be thankful that the life
of the Prince has been saved by one of the most extra-
ordinary escapes which has ever been recorded in the
history of gun-shot wounds. If the ball, which, we are
told, entered the back half an inch from the spine, and
in • downward direction, had taken the course which in
nine hundred and oinetymine cases out of every
thousand it would have taken, it could not have failed
to pieroe the heart sad great vessels, the lung. diaphragm
and intestines, or liver, snob an injury to any of these
viscera being almost certainly fatal. Thai it should
have traversed a distance of twelve and a half inches
on the outside of the ninth rib, and lodged under the
skin of the abdomen, without even touching the
peritoneum, is all but incredible, and the fast, if true,
will add another to the few extraordinary eases in which
balls have 'glanced from their natural direction and
taken • totally unimpeded course. Cues are on record
In whisk • ball entering the hip came out at the heel.
where it entered the temple and passing over the bones
of the head lodlred at the opposite aide. Mr. Lawson
narrates • case in which a min of shot striking the eye
passed from side to side under the conjunctive; and a
ease was communicated to the Surgical Society of Ireland
about a year ago, in which a bullet was removed from
the heart of a man who received It in the battle of
Salarnanea 33 years previously. —Medical Preis and
Circular.

Sentra! YON.

AN elderly lady who hes prat died at 11111wrion,
Tanoton, has lett £2O to her servants to maintain and
care for a favourite cat.

THI ABYSSINIAN CAPTIS/11.--BuppeSiSH ths leo
Abyssinian osptives to have left immediately for home.
after their liberation, they may be looked for in about a.
month from the present time.
Armenian to the Owl the mm required to purchase.
the frish lines independently of that necessary to put.
them in thorough working order—is, in round numbers,.
twenty-one millions sterling.
Tee Rev. B. fipeke haa returned to his pariehionvrx.
to their great delight, in renewed health. On Sunday
he took part in the smuie-s at thelish Wake Church.
It is understood that the rev. gentleman will make
another continental tour during the summer.
SIR ROBSST NAPICS. ie recnelion of the gallant
services of Bir Robert Napier in Abyssinia. the Queen
hem been pleased to appoint bile as ordinary member
of the military division of the Knights Grand Cross of
the Honourable Order of the Bath.

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Mr. Tnatc's case was again before the Irish Comet of
Bankruptcy and Insolvency on Thursday. The watery
has beyn further adjourned to enable the &Ogaden°, of
Mr. McHenry to be procured, the inaolvent's dissisarge
being opposed by the Ebbw Vale Iron Company. Mr.
Train &dared tbat the 'matter was entirely political.'
After the hearing he wa.s driven back to the Marshals's&
in an open carriage, drawn by white boron, and cheered.
by • oonaidtrable crowd.
Tits Fgslaw Tainern.—Ann Justice has been cele-
brating her escape from the gallows by getting bombly
drunk, end presiding at an Inch riot in Little Paiteney.
street, London. In the midst of the rejoicings a coster-
monger named Lee. yielding to the irresistible influences
of the place and the occasion, stole • pint pot full of.
coppers, and was handed over to a pollieeman and,
removed from the midst of hie friends. All this time
Ann Justice !stood at an open window, with her hair
loose, clapping her hands, and sareaming out "a
Fenian victory," ind her supporters were breaking each-
other's b. sic in the atrset below. It was • long time
before Pulteney-street liras quiet again, and the rejoic-
ings of the Fenian victory were only limited by the
. inevitable operation of the laws that regulate public.-
houses.

ff alt/Rll MID ART.—The Chinese are proverbia4 for
dexterity aod eaassit issomcfattlf it tint eurPruiLlT
that most of the tea et mad Zeeland is " got up,*
or coloured, to make Om withered leaves appear to the
best, a custom &Wording extra profit In tbe moiler, but
misleading the oonsomeit am to the value. Heraimaa
and Go., London, have for many years found it
advantageous to secure LAM, preference, by barman
tea without any powdered colour mitts surface, keeping
entirely to the choice spring growths, that hare no
worthless brown leases to be disguised with coat at
powdered mioeral colour. The list of Agents who selli
Horniman's delicious and strong tea is advertised in•
this paper.
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RZWOLTS OF TIM CLICRIZIIVIILL OUTII•O3.—By thir
diabolical act six persons were killed, outright six more
died from its effects, according to the coroner's inquests,
fire, In 'addition, owe their deaths indirectly to this
means. one yonng woman is in • madhouse, 40 mothers
were prematurely 110126120€1, and 33 of their babes died
from the effects of the explosion on the women ; °there-
of the children are dwarfed and unhealthy. One mother
Is now a ravis.g maniac ; 120 persons were wounded ; 50
went into St. Bartholomew's Okay's-inn-lane. and King's
College Hospitals ; 15 are peroureently injured, with
loss of eye., legs, arms, ke. • besides £20,000 worth of
damage to person and properly.
COltelri•TlON OF • Blsllol..—The festivel of St.
Philip and St. Jenne was chosen for the coosesration at
Canterbury of the Venerable the Hon. C. A. HATA.,
Archdeacon of Wilts, to the bishopric of Oikaltse,
vacant by the resignation of Dr. 'Troyer. The new
bishop, who was born in 1813, is brother of the Earl Or
Malmesbwry. He was educated at All Souls' College,.
Oxon, where he obtained • fellowship, and we. after-
wards for eight years rector of Wilton. In 1883 he was
appointed Archdeacon of Wilts and vicar of Brembill.
The crocesien attracted a large attendance of Churchmen.
The pennon was preached by the Rev. T. J. Carter,
rector of Clew.
MAIs•011e OF TEO 1./EIIOCIIITO.—Aa ioquert has been
held at Deptford, on the body of • male child, the
illigetimate eon of Mrs. Illimbeth Simmer. The woni.n
as attended by • Mrs. Snaps, a midwife, and shortly
after the birth of the child was found to be dying front
Injury do the side of the head. It had been sent out in
the bitter odd to a doctor's immediately after its birth.
Dr. Anderson said that the death arose from • Battening
of the side of the head, calmed either by • fall or • blow.
' The mother of the deceased, Mrs. Billups, and others,
denied all knowledge of how the injury was indicted.
The jury returned an open verdict, censuring Mrs,
Bump and three other persons onneerned.—Another
inquest was held in Deptford, on the body of • male,
child of • domestic servant named Jane George. Mrs.
Billups took away the child an boar after birth, and it
; died in her collar the nest day. Dr. Fisher, who made
a pen ...erten examination of tire body, found that •
quantity of water bed been imbibed, amid that death had
renalted from convulsions. Mrs. Hi limps said that she
I had placed the child in a bath because ..1t was ill, but she
could not account for the water found in the body.
The jury returned the following verdi et. that the
decreaaed child died from convulsion., but whether the
, convulsions arose from natural MUM or oth the
I evidence fails to prove.