The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

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defendant was as good as lie looked, be "would do."
The plaintiff went down to roe her father at Salisbury,
&lid the defendant also went there to obtain the old
gentleman'a consent to the marriage. The negotiation
was set on foot, and as the lady would eventually have THE WAR AND THE ('ITT.—On Friday evening •
as inueli /1,4 5:4410 from her father, who was old and crowded meeting was held in the London Tavern,
paralytic, the latter thought the defendant ought to flishopagate Street, under the presidency of the Lord
make a settlement upon lii,, intended. The defendant, Mayor, when the following resolution was carried :
however, said lie did not think of doing that. bet lie " That in the opinion of this meeting it is of the highest
would make his will to leave her all he had. Thu I importance to the honour and interests of England that
wretttuirertTtahie
appeared to lie satisfactory, and the intended pair she should observe strict imoartiality between the con-
owratrreoantittiille.oubitoitiinnierailt,
laeivicil
rrtiile'sawnedreallo bewasnia"r;i7didenrivadshasortfitlim.liej, ?viol didi niflll'eaLtiirnagliTi gv.. alliances 3
and were to take furnished Apartments until they could to plications endangering that neutrality." Anil on
obtain a suitable house ; but this happy time never the moue day the Court of Common Council iletenuined
came. and the mile esplamil ion the defendant could give " That a dutiful and loyal address be presented to Her
for this delay was that lie was laid up and had got a bad Majesty a:presider of the deep regret of this Court at
feet. The plaintiff and her sister also noticed a change the commencement id hostilities beta ten Austria and
,in hi., demeanour mei a coldness of manner which France and Sardinia ; and its decided conviction that
induced them to ask for an explanation of his intentions. the best intereats of Englauil will ho consulted by the
Ile said he fully intended to marry the plaintiff, and, observance of the strictest neutrality outiaistent with ,
being questioned as to whether he had gut any organic the security and honour of the nation."
disease, lie 1i3i.1 he Lot not, that it was only his bad DEATH Or M. JuSEPHSTURGE.—Mr. Joseph Sturge.
foot and general debility. On that lleCall he promised the well.te em oilieathmeet of Bit, ~ ~, gh,,,,,, died
to call on the plaintiff the mit meriting, but instead eioldenly on Saturday inurnitig week. Ile aas in the
of doin...; en be Peet his solicitor. Evidence was given act of prepacriug for a ~,,, ruing excursion, what be fell
1 that the defendant hail a salary of about MO a )ear from Ism chair and instantly expires!. Death's attriliuted
I besides income from other KoUTCCR. to iliacaee of the beret. Mr. Sturgis was distinguished
The dc.fence was. as set forth in defendant's plea. (list by the amiability of his disimaition end great generosity ;
lie Wia, too ill to marry. and that to du so would hose hut he was hest known by his advocacy of " peace-at-
been dange-ous to his life. Evidence was given to show
that the defendant bad been obliged to &trent himself . any-price principles," and his support of the present
temperance and reformatory movements. Ilia visit. in
f ruin his office on account of illness, awl a enigeon company with other membern of the Society of Engle's,
was calk., , who Mahal that in Nee/ender lie was to St. Petersburg, with the object of demanding the late
,offering trout inflammation of the (mt. The surgeon Emperor of Remits from the war which ultimately
also aided that Ise was suffering from iserioun dismiss, teruguated at Sebastopol, will be well remembered ; hilt
id the lwart, and that it would have been dangerous for lie possessed twiny excellent points of character. He
him to marry. was a sincere friend of the working chaises ; and lie
More the trial was concluded it was arranged establiebeil and individually supported • reformatory
between the eel that the plaintiff about have a for juvenile criminal. at Stoke, near Browsgruve.
verdict for 1100 ; but the defendant, who had at one
time given his coming to this arrangement, revoked it. SIERDER AT LEDBERY.—HERKFoRD, Wednesday.
Considerable excitement tinned in conaequence, but in The little town of Lathery. in Herefordshire, was
the reselt the defendant gave his consent, and a verdict ye•denlay alarmed by the intelligence that a bumble
• woman who
was taken for (list aniouut. murder was committed on the body of
1.14411111.Vri, ED*. was left in charge of the Memos of Mr. George Masefielil,
solicitor of that town, who lives some Elegance sway.
It apoears that Mr. Mascfil.l, having gone to London,
left the clerks usually employed. and the ileceesed
woman, who lived in the Louse as a kind of charwoman.
The clerks left the eigablielnuent st the usual hour on
On the Syrstmoofr.tihi:rg. calenrk.spirliuzgisnigghtot
.nt!Thoistfi
Tuesday evening. leaving nobody but the woman there.
e horn.on
tied gam—the house had been brukeu into during the
night, and the puor woman foully murdered. Her body '
was lying in the middle of the fluor of Mr. Maaefield's
remit, with • bruise, and cut across her forehead, and
marks of strangulatiou about her throat. Beshles
(hie, her clothes had been set on fire as elm lay, and the
middle of her body was burnt to a cinder. The floor at
the room and the flesh of the murdered woman were
still burning when the clerk arrived, and he threw on
water to extinguish the tire. These are all the par-
ticulars we have as yet been able to gather. The name
of the poor woman, who iii about ft° years of age, we
have not learnt. The inquest is to be held on 1 hursday
afternoon. We are not aware what property was
stolen, as this could not be known until the return of
Mr. Masefield, who had been telegraphed for to Londou.
The police have been diligent in their inquiries, but up
to the preeent time no clue has been obtained to the
perpetrators of the horrid act. ,
GREAT Fuse AND EIPIASION IN THE City,—On j
Friday morning, between the bouts of 6 and 7 o'clock, '
an extensive lire broke out in the premises belonging to I
Messrs. Hubbock and Co., wholesale oil, coloonuen, ,
and dry salters, situate in Lime-street, City, and ex- '
tending into Fenchurcleatreet. The building had not
been lung erected, and was six floors high, each ware-
house being filled with goods of a very inflammable
character, such as turpentine, paint, saltpetre, sulphur,
!cc. It seems that while some of the men employed on 1
the premises were stacking away a number of carboys ,
filled with turpentine, one of the iumiense bottles fell,
the glass split, and the spirit running out came in con-
tact with a light, and in an inatant the turpentine was
in a flame, firing in rapid succession various other
carboys, which exploded one after another with a noise
like musketry. A great number of engines were soon
at work, with a good supply of water. While the fire-
men were at work, several other carboys of spirits ex.
lauded with such force as to hurl down route of the
walls, and the brigade narrowly escaped. Nothing
daunted, however, the men, in spite of the risk, kept to
their task, but they bad not entirely succeeded
in getting the fire extinguished at noon, although danger
of any further extension of mischief was over. The
lose must be very considerable. Three men have
been taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where their
wounds have been dressed. A young man, named
Watts, was, it is euppoeed, in one of the upper rooms,
and it is feared that his life has been sacrificed.

EXTENSIVE EMMERT AT 1.4.110 AM:SLANT:I'B.—AI
West her Polire Court, on Wednesday, ElisabriA
Philhim, a shabbily-km.o, dissipated-looking sum .n
About thirty years of age, wag charged with the following
extenaive rubbery at Lord Auckland's, Bishop of Bath
and Wells. W. Grosvenor-cresmiat, Knightsbridge.
Mary Edwards, housekeeper to Lord Auckland, said in
July last, prisoner, who was then, to all appearence, a
very retuoctable person, was recommended to the family
by a house agent as being clean. industrious, and
loneat. In August last she was left in charge of the
110UKV, witness accompanying the family in the country.
She returned to town on Wednesday, and missing all
sheets and blankets, asked prisoner about them. She
said she had pawned them, and her another shortly
afterwards came and said she did not think all was
right. Witness asked prisoner for the tickets, when she
said she did not care what was done to her if Ale were
not sent to prima% but witness said she must give her in
charge as she had taken so many things. She then
produced no less than seventy-four pawnbrokers'
duplicates, relating to sheets, blankets, counter-
panes, table cloths, and other articles, all belonging to
the family, and some of them havitg a coronet upon them.
William Brooker, 257 B, proved taking the prisoner
into custody. lie took seventy-four duplicates from her,
forty-five of which related to blankets. The property
had been pledged at six different places. from the
middle of August up to the end of April.—William
Crisp Yarnell, assistant to Mr. Chapman, pawnbroker,
I, Queen's-rowl, Pimlico, produced thirty-two duplicates
relating to articles plededat his employer's. The highest
pledge was six shillings. Prisoner had pawned all the
articles, and was a "regular customer." Mr.
Paynter asked how he came to take in io many things
without making diligent inquiry. Witness replied
persons were in the habit--not liking to enter a
pawnbroker's theinsslves of sending others to

pledge fur them, therefore hit suspicions were not
annum' ; besides the things were not brought all at
once, but one after the other.—Mr. Paynter thought the
very circumstance of the repeated visits should have
rendered witness more suspicious.—Janies Butterfield,
assistant to Mr. Crany, 24, Eseter•street, Chelsea,
produced twenty two duplicates. relating to articles, all
pawned by prisoner at Mr. Crany's. Witness knew her
face well.— In answer to questions from the magistrates,
the two assistanbi said they had only hrought a few
of the articles with them. Nothing they had with them
had a crest upon it, and they did not know that there
MAX a crest upon anything pawned by the prisoner.—
Mr. Paynter WIIA at a lois4 to conceive what the police
had been about to allow nearly eighty bundles to go out
of lord Auckland's house, fur months past, on the
average of nine or ten per lb. They must have
known that the family were not in town.—The police
replied that they hail not ben aware of that circumstance.
Mr. Paynter was of opinion it was their duty to know
it. in order to keep a more watchful eye upon the
preinises.—Another pawnbroker produced five pledges
between December and March. Prisoner was the
person who had brought thein.—Mr. Poynter WAS about
to cm 't the prisoner, but on its being intimatesh that
s large amount of property was not yet produced,
she was remanded till Saturday.

A Chmenivmasi cosoarrrrti FOR M.o:mt,Arnitypm.
An inquest WAs held last week at Penciled, Llantrivoint,
before Mr. Lewia Rtsice, coroner. on the body of John
Jenkins. aged 14 years, who wail killed while descend-
ing a pit at the Wein Colliery, in the rarish of Lien-
billed, in consequence of the chain by which he and two
men were being lowered having got out of gear. The
enilliery is the inroperty of the Rev. Thomas Hughes
Jwies. ricer of Pendinybin, and Mr. Llewellyn Price, of
Korvilstime. The circumstances under which the ACCi-
lent took place having hewn detailed by varinua wit-
neatea, Mr. 11101111.4 Evans, Government Inspector of
Anne, for tine district, nieposeill that be had liel•Latea
thr machinery of the colliery in Siiveinlier. 1856..114
then pointed out to tine engineer certain ill:feet., which
he requested might be ouumiunicateil to the proprietonn.
lie Abui wrote a letter to the proprietors, pointing not
that they were liable to penalties for not obeerving t me
provisiseis of the Local Melee Incpection Act, at the
same time sentliug them sumo rules an I a copy of the
report of the inapectora of mine.. He had inspected the
inachitiery since the accident. IRA 101111,1 11.1 break
Atached to the chain used for roicnui ciii lowering
' Persons, neither woe there a prorer indicator to show
the position id the load in the abaft. as re.iiiired by the
Gth general rule of the 18th and 19th of Victoria. Car.
108, lire. 4. If there had hem ii break to hinlil tine car.
nage in tile abaft, the life if the ileeeaseil would have
been srvisl. The jury tincrenninull returnmi A verdict Of
nontmlauginter ag mina tine n.roinrictors. the Her. Thom,'
finglica Jones and Mr. Liewellio Price. who were coin
initteit fine trinl at the nest ii.aizea at Cardiff. but were
admitted to bail under the authority of an Act of Pat--
bairn:lit. which received the Royal es.elit juat before the
late dissolutlon. The two men whin were in the carriage
with the deceased we in • dangerous state.

Mit. BRIGHT ARV THE EIIFF.RI,R OF THE FRENCH.
—At the recent elect: for East Cumberland an excit-
ing scene occurred. Mr. W. James, an ex-M.P., in
reeantite, his former Liberal opinions, adduced as one
reason that lie had beard Mr. Bright give expression to
sentiments implying that he would fain be dictator of
England ! In a letter to the Editor of the Carlisk
ExcHnimer Mr. Bright replies in the following tenon
"I observe in your paper of Saturday last a report of a
speech delivered by a certain Mr. James at the East
Cumberland election. In that speech Mr. James is
rel.orte4 to have used these words —'He. had heard Mr.
Bright any, after Louis Napoleon had seised the reins of
power in France—he had heard Mr. Bright say, when
they were taking a message from the Lords to the
Commons, that "any man iu any country had a right to
place himself in a similar position if lie could." Now !
that remark had made a strong impression upon his
mind at the inoinent, and indumil him to believe that
Mr. Bright, able and eloquent as he is, had some views
different to Reform, and made him believe that lie !
himself would like to he in a similar position in Eng-
land.' I du not know Mr. James, although I presume I
lie must have been in Parliament since I have had a
seat there, hut I have no recollection of him. I write
merely to say for his benefit, and for the benefit of those
who heard his speech, or who have read a report of it, !
that there is not a syllable of truth in the statement lie
has made about me. Ido not think I have been among
those taking a 1111041ge from the Commons to the Lords
during the last ten years, and I sit quite sure that Mr.
James never heard me make use of the observation he
has attriliuhal to me, or of anything resembling it.
Every effort of my public life has btvai to discountenance
snything like a concentration of power in the hands of
any ono WWI. Or of any CIASS; and no man in England
has more constantly denounced any appeal to violence or
force for the attainment of political objects than I have.
Mr. James must have a very bad memory, or must care
little for truth."

MR. DRUMMOND, M.P., ON RIFLE CORPS.—The
eccentric member for West Surrey, our old friend Mr.
troeiitosnoht pagftoom, aonlicloonrrot.
Henry I) I, has just published some brief Re.
sauda on the Forsteitiois Yu/sparer Rifle Curps,
iii
psiiiplillt if
Inediogere. of Mr.
Druminond
emjcusaperienee a* a commander
of: nenteetlferriv:oluniiin.te.aehr:coforiuse.nede:.alarye
riflears. of
ty vo-
lunteer
our rural villages, and the hon. and in every sense,
gallant member. proposes to form companies of 60 each
at Guildford, Dorking, Reigate, Cliertaey, Farnham,
and Godalming, all to be united under one or two field
officer.. No one should hold any "rank "am an officer
who has wd served in the army of the Queen or the
East India Company. One adjutaiit And one bugleman
is all the " staff " required, and for these the public
should pay. Mr. Drummond, on the question of
uniform, en important a point in the estimation id
•• aulart, vain young men," averts Cult it must be
cheap, and adapted to all. The hon. member writes as
follo
invisible.
y of oe
thot tiatib,e:
eisba.tcr:u:lwnilf4infrwrcoliiinfinttfr,:;:at
ibro,
eluiltset.obeconotiritildrir
drpo..tisechieihr:
common round frock, such as is *roma by labourers.
iivad
some wAterproof material to hold the cartridges. 10. i
throat, with or without a neckcloth underneath it, hut
black or green wide-a.ake list. The rouod frock of
unbleached linen M the moot invisible colour ; tad.
colour has been adopted by several nsgiumuts in tie
East Indira ; it is the colour of stubble, decayed fern.
leaves, sticks. ite. It can be worn over or withont any
under clothing. Tim kets in front should alai,
he an cde of Fonts waterproof material, by waded
means the caps, powder flank. kc., are Always kept dry.
Food for the day may be kept in k
ime_eta similarly matte
behind. The frock should be open and button in fro"t •
Intl reach to a little above the knee. ; by which "tea"'
there will he a skirt under wlliel, to keep the rifle dry
in wet weather. A small waterproof collar may be car-
ried also to protect the nape of the neck, and the top of
the ahouldera in heavy rain. Each elan must procure
bin own rifle, taking care to climeo that which has the
bend in the stock beat adapted to hie own length of neck
and arms. In thews curia much depends on nicety
if
details. Lagy slovens are made to be allot, not to shoot
the enemy." The value of such small detached corps
as those proposed by Mr. Drummond in the narrow
roads of England, lined as they am by hedges, ditches,
and wood*, is obvious. They would effectually, check
the advance of the main army of an invading force by
coaled men. The moral effect of • volunteer corps
"begagisentngfortwheardibb7thliew eienenniyant! drifiveemouent our own
also be immense, proving to the invader (whom
Mr. Drummond rather gratuitously SWIMS to be the
" ruler of the French") that Englishmen "never will
be slaves "under a foreign yoke. Mr. Drummond hopes
therefore that ' all men who are younger and more
active than he now is will apply to the Lod-Lieutenant,
and take other necessary gels forthwith to efface this
mind useful object." "If 1,000,000 rifle muzzles," he
adds. "line the hodpes between the west and Loudon,
any invader will think twice before he makes his sp.
peArance. The people must rise up to defend them-
selves." Ho says Mr. Drummond, and Ida idea is not •
bad one.