The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

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EXPLONION IN SOVTH ETAPPORDNHIRX.—An explo•
Dion occurred at the Curbyl.'s Ironworks, near Kingswin•
ford, on Monday. Two men were killed, Milt four or lire
others shockingly burnt. The men were about to tap a
furnace to let out the molten pig iron, when, from some
derangement or other, probably the leakage of a vent,
the accident occurred.

RKTIAIN or SIN. W. RWINCI.L. THIS "Ti mrs" CRIMEAN
CoRRENPuNDENT. After long RlMetlee, and much
illness and fatigue, Mr. William Russell is once inure
sae at home. He arrived at Marseilles on Tuesday, and
wasi to start for England immediately on the expiretion
of his quarantine. He is safe, and one would be glad to
add sound, but • fall f ruin his horse while campaig g
haa brought on • lameness, which will prove, it is feared,
incurable.

THIC EARL or Cove/47111%—Ra 16 years the title 0
the Earl of Coventry has been held by a minor, and
during the whole of that period the family property in
Worcestershire and elsewhere has been accumulating.
The young Lord Gains of age on Monday week, and the
event was celebrated by festivities on the largest scale
ever known before in the district. On 11, ednesslay
night his Lordship gave a ball to the tenantry and their
friends, and the festivities did not close until the
end of the week. There has been no such public ode-
hration in Worcestershire within tke recollection of the
eldest inhabitant, the Coventry name being very much
respected in the country.
Tith Ebite-rilie Riots AT HANDullt. —At the Ran.
bury Borough Court, on Monday week, about 30 isirsons
were summoned for damaging the property of various
tradesmen during the election which took place on
Saturday week, the 30th of April. Mr. T. O. Judge
appeared for the coundsinanta, and Mr. Vl'. Brunner, of
Oxford, for the defendants. The whole of the defendants
were friends and supporters of Mr. Samuelson, the dip
fcated candidate, and oil the day in question, which was
polling .lay, they attacked the WAWA in the marketplace
that were occupied by persons who had voted for Mir C.
Douglas, and afterward. proceeded to the residences of
several of the most prominent of that 4entleinan's sup-
porters, including the house of Mr. Fairbrother, where
between fift and tit) panes of glees were broken. The
houses, of Mr. .1. (lasey and Mr. 'Thompson, the Rein
Deer Inn (Sir C. Douglas's committee-room), the Red
Lion Hotel (where Sir Charles resided denting his stay in
the borough), the Bank of Messrs. Gdlet and Co., and
other houses were also visited, and in all of them great
damage was effected by the mob. When the Mayor ap•
!eared on the hustings for the purpose of declaring the
state of the poll he was met by a volley of eggs, stones,
said other missiles, which were aimed at him and at the
windows of this Townhall, and when Sir Charles Douglas
was on his way (ruin his committee-ruom to the Red
Lion lie was grossly assaulted by the roughs," and but
for the timely interference of his friends, there is no
doubt Le would have beell seriously injured. Such WAN
the state of excitement which prevailed in the town that
Sir I 'harks Douglas, finding his election secure, quietly
withdrew, and proceeded from the Aynhoe station to
London. For several hours the town was completely
in the hands of the mob, the small number of police
being quite unable to maintain order, and although
between &land Rtspecial constables were sworn in, thesis
lawless proceedings were continued until late at night,
and damage to a considerable amount was done in
various parts of the town. Mr. Brunner, on behalf of
the rioters, ackno ',ledges! their guilt, and they were dis.
charged on undertaking to pay the whole expense of
the damage dune to property and the cost of the atiiii•
Monies.

eotusioit or Two RAILWAY THAINIS IN A TUNNICL.
—On Friday afternoon week, an alarming collision
took place between two trains in the tunnel of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway between Bradford
and Low Moor, It appears that a few minutes after the
3.25 passenger train left Bradford for Manchester, it
was followed by an empty train whoee iiestination was
Low Moor. On the latter train reaching the Low Moor
tunnel, iusteed of being signalled to halt at the top
until the first train had passed through, the engine.
driver was allowed to go on, and the consequence was
that the empty train ran into the Manchester train at a
spot abont 300 yards from the other end of the tunnel,
which is • mile in length. The Manchester train con.
ended of one first-ebuis and two eeciond-elase carriages, a
van. and the engine and tender. One of the second.
class carriages Man driven against the engine with such
force that the buffers were smashed, and • portion of
the front of the carriage was broken, while the bodiesof
the other carriages were all dashed from their trainee.
James Hoyle, the engine-driver of the passenger train,
was thrown down, and the guard, Joseph Firth, who
Iran WIWI in his box at the moment of the
had his head fumed quite through a window, Beth
men, however, escaped with only • few scratches.
There were about 40 passengers in the train. They
were thrown violently against each other, and. an may
be supposed, were in • state of great alarm, which was
increamal by the darkness of the tunnel and the uncer-
tainty as to the cause and extent of the mischief. Tile
engine was detached from the carriage next to it by the
breakage, but the driver immediately atopped it, and
the engine of the empty train having alio been stopped,
time whole train was soon brought to a stand. None of
the carriages had been thrown off the IMe, and by fasten-
ing the engine to a bar of the broken carriege the Irani
was taken forward to Low Moor. Several of the pas-
sengers were more or lees injured, and one of them (24. r.
Maude, painter, Bradford) is still confined to his houae,
and attended by a surgeon, but it is believed that tile
injuries he haa received are not of a'very dangerous
character. The accident was entirely owing to a breach
of the rule laid down by the railway company, which
requires that every train entering the tunnel shall hare
panned quite through it before another is allowed to
enter. A signalman is employed at each end of the
tunnel to insure the observance of this rule, and though
they both maintain that they signalled properly in this
instance, yet one of them must have neglessed his duty,
or the assialeali °oak not hare happened. The two
men are in the service of the Greet Northern Compeer.

Gli r. this case an order has been
MIMIC to ToOrtin attl dt4rlttallt t1f.43./1/11, diirng tilft
185:/. MIA IO114:11t 3t opera or enniert in
London other thaw at the ktiyal Italian Opera. Covent
tiarden 'except private awl gratis tiontairtai, witl t the
writtAt peruieedits of the pi iiiitift and partieulorly
frion alitgeng at the Theatre Royal. Drery Lune: and
ti rettraill the front permitting
I:razioni to sing at Drury Lane flieatre or ekewhere in
London.

Kt:Lt.:ION RF.VIVKD IN W%1.E14.—A monitor revival
li.. eting was held last week at Itryneog. near Owestry.
"Ti. religionsexcitement hail gut to it, a pitch." iciya
the the, Al ill A ,frertior that it 1,1 unls arable ;
nothing will do bit ch yet. awl that I. it iy on Nutillay,
from 7 a. in. to 11410 p.m., and every nt in the week
besides incetinga bk.: the :shove. The feeling at pre.ent
seeilia impressible. Bo IA neglected : in Nut,
your tailor awl shoeinaker have no time. We believe
tiiat the excitement ia chiefly confined to the counties
'of Cardigan, Merieneth, and Montgomery."
"(201C1 METIIIIS" rim LIVENPOI/L.--A sow
gestian was laid before the the 31.1.3.4 Ducka Board on
Thursday, by the collector of Customs fur the rimming-
on lit of sworn corn meters for the port of Liverpool, on
the mime pliticiple as in vogue at London and Hull.
Thu chairman et.ited that they had no authority to ap.
point such officers, and Mr. Huhleck, a member of the
imaril, remarked that a large pru;iortion of the grain
which Mei. into Liverpool was not measured except for
duty, mid if the Customs thunglit it was improperly
levied they might appoint such officers themselves. If
the "cental" were universally adopted, all complainta
respecting irregularity would he avoided.

A PETITIoN illoM THE MINE.—At a meeting of
miners held at Ashton last week, • petition respecting
working time of young children was agreed to; as also •
petition fur the passing of a law to by a tax of one far.
thing per ton upon all coal and ironstone raised, for a
fund for the support of widows and orphans of those
who lose their lives in the mines. fur the education of
their children, and for the establishment of A miners'
Wine. They also pray for a clause which shall provide
for • proper system of training boys to mining, in order
that miners inay be a more intelligent and efficient class,
and that their labo mur ay be
.. a rendered less liable to
fatal accidents. A levy of t pence per member and
ohms penny a month, for e payment of expenses,
was agreed to.
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811.-KAING eASE.—An old woman, named Frances
Hodgson, supposed to be about 80 years of age, was
found dead in her house, at Great Crosby, last week.
It appears that the old woman was • comparative
stranger in the place, and lived a very secluded life;
hut, not having been seen for nearly a fortnight, the
neighbours, prompted by suspicion, looked in through
the window, when the deceased was seen lying on the
kitchen floor, and partly devoured. A considerable por-
tion of the face had been eaten away, several of the fin-
gers gnawed off. Biel the eyes picket! out. The ring
finger, with the ring still upon it, was lying in the hack
yard. Three cats belonging to the deceased were in
the ti use, and a number of fowls. It is supposed that
the cats, stimulated by the cravings of hunger, had
eaten portions of the body, and that the fowls, from a
similar cause, picked out the eyes. When the officers
entered, one of the cats was sitting upon the deceased's
shou'.der. From an examination of the body by the
surgeon, he was of opinion that the woman had died
front natural causes, and that she had been dead about a
week.

A-litoT'S KNOWLEDGE or TUC TEN COSINIANDWENTI4.
—A small, ragged urchin, who gave the name of James
Tierney, summoned to the Liverpool Police Court on
Tuesday A woman named Hannah M'Avoy for an assault.
The complainant, who was smaller in stature than the
generality of lada of 13 years of age, was mounted upon
a seat and interrogated by the presiding inagidrate
(Mr. Heath) as to lIIS knowledge of the value of an
oath. "Now, my boy said the worthy magistrate,
" have you ever been taught God's holy command-
ments.', Boy.—" Yes, Sir." Mr. heath--" Well,
what do they say about telling the truth?' Boy.—" I
am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the
land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage."
(Laughter). Mr. Health (smiling).—l don't mean that
commandment ; do you know the ninth command-
went ?" Eloy.—" Thou shalt not forget thy neiglibour%i
wife, thou shalt not forget thy neighbour's house."
(Renewed laughter.) Mr. [teeth.—" Don't you know
the last commandment but one?" The lad appeared to
oe ignorant of the commandment to which bin wor-
ship referred, but upon soum of the words being re.
peated to him he readily proceeded. " Thou shalt not
bear false wane.; against thy neighbour." This wsi
deemed satisfactory, and the juvenile complainant gave
evidence to the effect that the defendant hail made a
kick at him. After hearing the case the Bench dis-
missed the summons.

EXCAVATIONS AT WR.IXITTKIL—The obetacles thrown
in the way of these interesting exploration's by the
ignorance of the farm tenant 'lave been renewed by
the interference of the landlord (Chet/eke of Cleveland),
who takes the greatest interest in the undertaking. Two
acre+ of land, adjoining the excavations which have
ISTOVIDd SD important, have been let to the committee of
excavations for • year, mei the men are now at work
again on the old spot. This ground has been well
fenced of, so as to prevent any interference with the
works in future, and it will be for the advantage of
science that riotous should only he admitted under
certain restrictions. Unfortunately this tenant Made
the greatest and most important part of the site ; hut
during their temporary exclusion from this part of the
liv of Triennium the workmen have been employed ai
several places in the fields of other tenants, in a way
which may perhaps be beat mimed trying experiments.
Al the 'southern corner of the city wall remains of a
building, perhaps a tower, were found, which may have
been connected with the defence% of the entrance Co the
town from the river, climb this position commands.
Where the 01141,111 wall appears to have run, also HSU
the river, a considerable slumber of skeleton* were
found, laying almost as if they had been killed there
iii fu icing the town--the skull' presenting uniformly a
very remarkable deforuiity, which appears to have an
ethuoligical intermit. Nut far from them was found •
well, of very good masonry. iii the northern part of
the ancient town the eacavators Caine upon the paving
of • street in very good condition. Interesting objects
of antiquity were found everywhere and will enrich the
museum at Hlirewthury.
Tiik ALIA:Gen Poisson's° AT RietinoND.—ln refits
Tenn to the death of Isabella Banks's, at Richmond,
under the suspicion that she hail been poisoned, • fast
has transpired which throws additional suapicion on Dr.
Kinethunit, who ran away with her, thesis:waxed having
only completed her will in favour of the sinned a few
week* before her death. Profesfor Taylor detected
arsenic in an enclosure Sent him for analysis by the
doctor. of Richmond, who had been unable to account
for the continued intim of the deceased, and the in-
efficiency of the medical.' they administered. Dr.
Julius ounsidered it him duty to lay the facts before a
magistrate, and • poetmiortem examination WWI minks
by Mr. Itichusl Harwell, of Charing Crum Hospital.
and Mr. Palmer, a surgeon of Mortlake. The whole
Intestinal tonal was placed in • jar, sealed, mei for.
warded to Dr. Taylor. Profelesur Taylor tested the
bottle No. 2, the result confi liia previnua con.
elusion, that there was decidedly anemic in the liquid.
The quantity of arsenic wia very cinch, and the
symptoms under *kWh the holy lied sufferesl were pre-
timely such aa would he prisluced by treatment with
euntintioul small don of it. Mr. Hinethunit alone waited
WI Ole lady, and lie gave her whatever sloe took in the
way of food or medicine. At the Richmond Police
Court on Wednesday it was proved that Dr. Smethurat
married MISS Minikes, although his wife, who is
older then himself, is still living. An unpostml letter
addressed to his legal wife, and couched in affectionate
langnage, was found in his pocket. Further evidence
was brought forward to allow that while Miss Minikes
was ill he induced her sign a will constituting him her
sole executor and legatee. This the prosecution con-
tends furnialies • clue to the motive which might prompt
him to the cuminisaion of the crime.

I'WIPOBI.O iiOeI.IVARDM AT LIVIAPOOL.--The pro-
ject of forming boulevard,' around Liverpool wm
messed at • epochal meeting of the Toes' Council Wed-
nuaday. The report embraced two soliemes—one for an
outer boulevard, extending front .tighurth Po.t.onice to
the north end of the town, its extreme length from shore
to shore being nine miles, and It' width, as laid 41.1Wi1.
00 yards ; the semnd, or interior, boulevard COIIIIIIIeIICIA
at Prince's Park and terminates at the clip.: of Lord
Derby's boundary rued, running close along the boundary
of the town. It. whole length is seven Index, and its
radial distance from the vitriol' from 214 to
2'75 Mika. A memorial (ruin the inliabitinte of in
Otis-park, signed by 9,000 working men, was presented
to the Council in favour of the (urination of
a public park, and preferring the second buide•
Yard if either scheme were to he adopted. The
engineer's report included a aeries of suggestions for
Improving the approaches to the town, widening and
altering existing street', !cc. The mammies are roughly
set down at £142,000 for the first boulevard, and
£147,000 for the second. It was "dated at the meeting
that the total costa of all the auggested implovementa
would be about 111.1100.000, and it was conjectured that
A rate of lid. in the pound for 30 years would meet the
whole of the expenditure on the works. It was also
reposed that an extensive line of sewerage all round
the town sLould be constructed at the IMMO time as the
boulevard'', by which a seeing in money and time would
he effected and the health of the town materially
henefitted. It was resolved, after an animated di.-
coviiini, to refer the subject back to the committee for
final con•iideration.

A l'Eu•Le Komi?Hoyt Cureig.—The Chicago cor-
respondent of the tiro. York nous enmities that journal
with rather A doubtful story. In 15.% • Miss
Richardson, of Cleveland, took passage in the vessel of
A relation for Green Bay, where she WA, to be married.
During the passage the officers and men because intoxi-
cated, and. during a gale. the vessel WM washed on an
ishuid "in L .ke Superior, near the Braids coast, and
north-west from Isle Royal." The captain and crew
leaped overboard as the vessel struck, and Ili.. Richard-
son and her couiiiii (the mate) Were about to follow, when
a spar from the broken and chattered mast fell to the
deck, striking the mate upon the head and instantly
killing him. Mies Richardson'a courage forsook her at
this awfu, sight, and she sank insensible upon the deck.
When she came to her senses the storm wroo dying away,
atol the vessel was fast among the rocks, about a mile
from land. 117 her lay, the mutilated body of her
at the sight of which she nearly fainted. Sum-
moning up resolution, she got up some trunks from the
cabin, lashed them to a spar, tied a life.preaerver round
her, and floated ashore, acrid • heap of barrels, boxes,
Ix. Nothing could she me of the crew who had left the
slop. When night approached she became very dismal,
and knelt down and prayed. Presently she YAW a dark
Irate floating ashore, and wading into the water she
dragged it to land. It contained buffalo robes, some of
which were dry, and kept her warm during a deep
'dumber winch (ell upon her that night. Next morning
she set to work to save everything she could from the
sea, and WY fortunate to find • mite of sardines, from
which she made • hearty meal. On the second day
alie continued collecting the cargo, and found sufficient
provisions' to last her for four years. On the third day
the waves threw up the dead and bruised bodies of the
crew. In the pocket of one of them (her cousin) she
found • box of matches. She slag shallow graves, and
interred the dead. She does not say how she procured
water. After the lapse of sit weeks she became wore
contented. She had teeniest to catch flab, and cook her
provisions withoiat • dove. She built • hut, and,
though she suffered considerably during the winter, got
inured to its severity. Occasionally the saw yowls,
but could not attract their attention. On the 21Sth
February, 1859, after she had been three years alone,
Pogue Indians from the British shore visited the island,
with whom she returned to the British territory, and
was forwarded to Fort William.

PorcLaTtox OP ITALY.—The Amour io astiatito
/fitiniao for 1868 publishes the following details, which
are of interest at the present moment :—" 'the popula-
tion of Italy amounts to no less than 27,107.047
inhabitants. They are divided into 15 circumscriptions
—eight, containing 19.913,304 souls, and under Italian
Governments ; and *even, with a population of?, 1111,743
obey foreign rule. Italy contains 110 provinces and
10,012 communes, and is one of the countries in which
the largest cities Anil towns are to be found, 19 of them
having 1111 l re than W.UUO inhabitants. and B—ltome,
Naples Palermo, Venice, Florence, Milan, Genoa, and
Turin - eseced 11/O,OOU. Almost all the popula-
tion are It ~,,, au Catholics, the number of those who pro-
fess other Christian creeds only amounting to 36,6i6, and
ill, Jews to 41,497. The births far exceed the deaths;
the increase in the population is particularly remark-
Able in Sicily and Tuscany, where it may double in 73
years. Italy alone has very nearly one-half as many bishop
rice As there are in the whole of Europe; 256 out of it.
The avurage is 90,000 Catholics for each diocese, and in
the Homan States there is one bishop for every 400,000
acids. The regular and secular clergy of both sexes count
in Italy, 189.0tSb and they are, as compared with the
number of the population. as Ito 142. The clergy are
1111 l re numerous in Sicily than in any other part of
Italy, or perhaps in the world, the number of priests,
monks, or mum being 33,203,0 r 1 out of 60 inhabitants.
There are nearly 300 journals published in Italy, of
which number 117 are in the Sardinian States, although
they contain only one-fifth of the total population.
About the middle of 1858, Italy possessed 1,757 kilometre.
(live eights of a mile each) of railways completed,
2,339 in course°, construction, 634 for whichconcessions
had been granted. One of the principal branches of
industry is that of the prialuction of silk, and in ordi-
nary years the value of that article is trine 2110,000,0001.
ill 230,00,000 f. Lombardy alone, which is only the
15th part of Italy, produces one-third. The revenues
, of Ciedifferent I talian Statesamount to about 600,000,000 f.
and the expenses to 6141,044,0001. The public debt is
2,000,000,00 W. Commerce is active, but business is
much impeded by the high tariffs in many of the States
and by the hoes of Custom-homes. This mercantile
marine of Italy is more numerous, in proportion to the
extent of the country, than that of any other nation in
Europe, England excepted."
RAGGED SCHOOL liEloN.—The 15th annual meeting
of this society was held on Monday evening week in
Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. In
opening the proceedings, the noble Chairman congratu-
lated the meeting on the position at preaent attained by
the Ragged School inurement. There were now 23,00 U
children in the schools, 160 edifices, 369 paid teachers.
360 paid monitors, 4,000 children in the industrial
classes, and 326 shoeblacka, whose earnings amounted to
about £4O/0. During the last year 1,740 scholars had
been mit out to domestic service or other employment,
and 568 bad been rewarded for having continued 12
months in the same situation, anil brought certificates of
good character. His Lordship expressed his conviction
that but for the efforts of the promoters of Ragged
Schools, London could not now be kept in order by the
largest standing army; yet he believed that no clams,
when properly cared for, would yield a larger harvest of
honest, sober, moral citizens than the inmates of these
schools. He regretted that the number of voluntary
teachers lied fallen ott and appealed to the friends of the
movement to give their personal attendance and assist-
ance at the schools. The report, read by the honorary
secretary, Mr. Lucke, gave a variety of details, in addi-
tion to those mentioned by the chairman, respecting the
results of the past year's operations. The total sum
raised by the various schools and refuges during the last
year was stated to he P. 28,600, in addition to £4,640, the
receipts of the Union, making • total of £33,240. The
penny banks in connexion with the schools were Olin
number, and had received during the year £4,300. In
One SChOOl • farthing bank had been established, in
which 941 boys had deposited £l2, all collected in far-
things. The report was unanimously adopted, and reso-
lutions commending the society's operations were agreed
to by the meeting.