The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

year.
The Grand Crone of the Order of St. Leopold has
been conferred uu Prince Richard Metternich.

INDIA.

BomaAv. Doe. 27.

Great indiunation has been capressat in the
Legu•lative Council at the Nlysore grant. Publio de.
uninstrations are being got up against it.
The right of adoption has at last been explicitly
conferral upon the native Princes.
The collection id the income tax is proneeding
quietly. but has hardly commenced.
The import trade has been resumed after 6 weeks'
suspension.

lbs(-4. the pro, i.t tuombern of the !sower House, but
who :at in Parliament st ally time
(hng le rio I when Sir William list r filled Lb.
ottie • of :wet, t.iry to the Lrle of Commissioners of
Her Majestj's Treasury.
FATAL Aceiprstr., ise Captain Barton, of the
schemer yacht Fenian.. lying up at L iiiitigton, was
coming from Co NCA to ItYlkit. where lie resided, in the
Emerald ateampacket. .4 4Otithalliptoll, onSAtUrdAr,
when between ti e two places, the skylight at the time
being open. he pitched backwards on the engine, and
by the time the engineer could stop the engine the
poor fellow's head was severed trim his body. He was
literally smaalleil to atoms, except his feet. The
fragments seem gathered together, sewed up in a
blanket, and carried eshore to hia residence at Rya.
His wife and five children were removed to a neigh-
bour's house.
ltreAltkant.e Cato: or Polcuistrio.—A very strange
affair ham occurred at Dies, Norfolk. A few days Sine/
Albert, the youngest son of Mr. R. Aldriab. a trades-
man living in the town, was taken suddenly AI and died.
in a few hours, niter ',offering iminfid convulsions. TWO
other members of Mr. Aldrich.., fa dy were attacked
in a similar mummer, bit recovered. The qmptenni of
the decca., I were the, of bilious diarrhcea, wed he
WAS filllllll by a surgeon to be in • semi-eornotose sem-
dition. Tin aurgeon gave him a powder, and caned
again in an hour or two, when lie found thst another
medical man had been summoned to the bedside of the
sufferer, and that the symptoms were still more alarm-
ing, the -hild being convulsed, the pupils of the eyes
eery much diluted, and the tliumlis curiously turned in..
The poor boy died in the cour.c of 24 hours after.
be Wag first attacked. A peal morreni examination was
made of his body, which presented a perfectly
healthy appearance, with the exception of a perfora-
tion in the stomili about the size of A shilling—such as
might have been caused by the Kellen of a strong cor-
rosive poison. The stomach del dot present the appear-
ance generally caused by the administration of arsenic
or corrosive aubliniate ; hut the examining surgeon is of
opinion that the death of the boy was occasioned by ths
presence of poison in 1115 system, although he cannot
indicate precisely wle(t that poison was. Ou theme (auk
being %toted, at an inquest held by Mr. 4 S. Bignoidr
deputy-coroner for Norfolk, the jury requested that an
! adjournment might take place in order that the stoutach
might undergo • proper analysis. This the deputy.
coroner said he should not feel ft his duty to order. The
jury then inquired the law on the subject, and, finding
that the coroner had the option of acting as he pleated
in the matter, they requested that • copy of the deposi-
tiens should be forwarded to the Home Secretary-
This course being also objected to by the deputy-
coroner, the jury unanimously declined to Wens a.
verdict. The inquiry M•a eventually adjourned to.
enable the deputy-corouer to consult the coroner for
the county upon the course to be pursued. If further
action is not tiken in the matter there will be some
',labile dissatisfaction.
THY. ito.th Mutturn.--Sir Fitzroy Kelly had Mr.
Cole, ol the Western Cirmt, have been retained on the
part of Mr. Sylvester, to show eau-e agsiiist the rale
obtained by tie ate irney- general in the last term, to
quash the inquedtion taken in thin extraordinary case,
that a uew inquiry may lie had before commisaioners.
The ease will 'tot come on for argument during the lime
week in the term. hilt a special application wili.e mad.
to the court to :fix is (lay so AS to ellitiOle Sir Richard
Bethel' to attend. (in the part of Mr. Sylvester a vitt
nnotber of affidavits have been sworn, and it is abated
that very serious charges will be made against certaisx
persons i.f endeavouring to baffle the inquiry, and also
a„.iiiist the police.

EXECUTION AT GLASGOW.
OLAtinow. Jac IL&

This morning, blowfly after tl o'clock, Petrick Lunnay,
who ea* convicted at the last Glasgow Winter Circuit
Court of the murder of James Ca.t.itly, masee,
Alexandria, Dumlsartousbire, on the 11th of November
last, suffered the extreme penalty of the law in front
of the county•buildinga, Dimiltarton. The murder at
casaidy was, perhaps, one of the most atrocious which,
hos ever been perpetrated in this quarter of the country,.
the unfortunate victim having received no fewer than.
14 stain from his infuriated assailant. The jury, who.
found the prisoner guilty, front some inaufliciently
explained cause, recommended Itin to mercy, but no
person who had heard the trial, or who subsequently
read the evidence, bad any hope that the jury's reoom•
mendation would for a moment be taken into one.
siderat ion. There was no palliative circuntstionte in the
ease. The murderer and his victim were bedfellows—
had beim so for several week's, and on the evening prior
to the perpetration of the brutal deed had supped
together in their lorlgimphouse in Bank-streell.
Alexandria, and in eoniequencie of Soule jocular
eapressions made use of by Cassidy, Lunnay became
excited, and insisted that their difference should be
settled by • fight ; and, for the purpose of pounding his
opponent to better advantage, Ito stripped off his coat
and called upon the latter to prepare. Pour Camidy
did not appear anxious to fight ; indeed, front all that
has transpired, he was rather averse to such • proceed-
ing, and the initiatea of the house having, to all appear-
%Luce, pacified Lunnay, the men, after some little delays
let the &pertinent for the purpose, as was believed, of
retiring to bed. flue sequel is soon told. The
%murderer returned to the apartment lie had shortly be
fore left in such • condition that the initiates of the
'souse bad sio doubt that he had been after mischief
that be had again allowed his passionate feeling to get
the better of him. TIM. ',unitise proved too true ; for
It was ascertained that Lumley, in the most brutal
atrocioua, and cowardly manner, had attacked his
unarmed opponent a ith • clasp•knife, stabbed him as •
butcher would the inflated portion of • carom while
skinning it, and left hint lying in the street with his
Ide's blood oozing from 14 places. It Wit• not, then, to
be supposed, looking to the aaful enormity of lbe mime,
that the recommendation of the jury would be
noticed. Indeed, we believe that Mr. Traynor, the
risotter's counsel, euileavuured to get up • petition in
Ids favour in Dumbarton, but the feeling was so Work
egainat the murderer that the attempt was unsuccessful.
Ito tio'clock this tnornitig a few spectators had &seem-
tiled in front of the countrbuildiogs, probably to
secure a goal itosition, and from t, e tuorbiti curioeity
whiten Some persona feel in anticipation of any unusual
event of importance. A posse of policemen was ate-
turd at the gate, and sonic time afterwards the whole
police force was inuatereel, and formed a semicircle
round the scaffolding, leaving an open mace in front.
The morning as yet was extremely dark, the sky being
etvered with heavy clouds, and except for the light from
the County .Ituuse,and two or three adjoining gas.lampe
it would have been almost impoesible that the few dosen
people who Were in thestreet l•null see the inatruntent
if death a few yards in front of them. Indeed, it
teemed doubtful, so dark Was the morning, whether it
would be light coot at tt o'clock. the hour fixed for the
execution ; but by that time the Morning had broken
considerably. 'rim crowd increased, but there was
little excitement. Much less than might havu been ex-
pected in thi• town. During the previous evening e
considerable slumber of permit* were upon the streets,
and a few lounging shout Churelt•street, in front of the
ty tuildingu. It was evident, however, that the
eurios:iy to witness the execution WU not very intense,
as not mom than 2.50 U apectatore were present this
morning Shortly before 8 o'clock the governor of Ow
trill 111111,tell over the prisoner to the charge of the
Provost and magistrates of the burgh. Calmat
intoned hi in in the •estibUle of the gaol, in presence
„1 It.d,op Murdoch Mad the 1t.,. Mr. Jellonald. 11.•
murderer evineed no emotion while being pinioned.
the did not utter a single word, but appesred firu.
and betokened as much as possible the same callous
indifference OA, indeed, he had done from the 'moment
the murder WWI ill%COVered. His appasvanes wee.
ne v ort hagg•ril, and 11!,1 face very pale. The proem-
oun was then formed headed by t wooonatables with drewn
Worts. The prisoner, behind whom was Calcraft, fol-
lowed, attended liy the Roman Catholic bishop sod
p-iest. There were also present the Rev. Mr. Gray,
the eltaplain of the priamt, and Sheriff Steele. At the
priattn gate they were rmoived by Mr. Macintosh, Pro•
vost, attd the proceasion itiarated, without halting,
through the plot of enclosed ground between the prison
and the county buihting, mid through the latter to the
waffuld. Ott a signal from the Lialom to the eseetttlenee,
tie. spring was touched, and, with a 'widen jerk, the
unfortnit.tte man VIM KIINItCIIIIII.I in the air. The body
VMS interred within the precinctsof the prison.

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