The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

Erneval Nctos.

nit Bishop of Hereford died on Thursday evening at
eight o'clock. The deceased prelate had for the last
year or two been in • very precarious state of health ;
the immediate cause of death. however, was concussion
of the brain, ornasioned by • severe fall from a chair in
his own dining•room, the previous Saturday afternoon.
The Right Rev. Dr. Rena Dickson Hampden. •
descendant of the celebrated John Hampden, was born
In Barbadoes in 1793.

Ii • recent intcrest;ng lecture to the 80061 Science
Aseociation, Dr. Letheby, snalysist tolhe corporation of
the City of London, mentioned that w•ter is put into
milk, lard or dripping into butter, chicory into coffee,
and black tea is '' (seed with black lead ;" the green is
siso "got up" with minerals, powdered gypsum, and
Prumian blue. Hence the public have a great desire to
patehase articles that are guaranteed to be pure by
well-known firma. In no commodity is there mare
general dissatisfaction than in tea moral:lardy supplied,
and in no individual instance h. there been more
satisfaction, than by puretiming the strictly pore tea,
hearing the signature of "Horniumn k Co., London,
original importers of the pure tea." It is supplied in
ataled packets, to tho:lpublio:at a cheap rale, by Z,111.11)
Kent&

Tug "WAstr's" Stsvwt.—ln these "piping times" it
firers for •sbio of war to come home with such a log of
smart and calve serviee as that of the little Wasp, 13
guns, Captain Norman 'Wingfield. She was paid off
on Wednesday at Portsmouth, and only 70 of her
original crew of 175 were on board ; the rest have died,
been killed, or invalided. Bbe haa been buzzing about
the ears of the rascally clave-merobants on the East
African mast, where she haa captured 11 slave-dhows
and set free about 500 slaves. In May of 1865 the
"Wasps" had a stirring fight with • large Arab slaver,
eontaining 285 captive Degrees. AU the officers
were wounded, and twelve of the seamen on board the
piano*, and cutter. Midshipman Campbell, In band-
ing the dhow, was hit in the abdomen with • wooden
stave, and knockel overboard, but picked himself up,
"came on" again, and fought like a hero whose
"stomach for fight" was wholly irrepressible. Once
the Wasp captured • slaver, and pot three men on
board as • prise mew; but the Arabs, who had been
secured, managed to get loose, murdered the English-
men, and re-took their craft, Then the brave little ship
has been punishing the Nicobar savages, whose
cruelties to merchantmen have been abominable. At
Latham Island, seventy miles from Zanzibar, she again
did good, but very different service, recovering £20,000
of ivory alone from the wreck of the ship Mews—the
men bringing up 3,000 tusks from the bottom, for
which they had to dive through • mess of oil, pepper,
chillies, and other waif and stray from the lost vessel.
Thus, bmides £3,041) wages to be paid on Wegnecielt
the crew hut nearly £13,000 to take m prize and solsage
money. Well bussed, Wasp Wall stung, Wasp I
There are sailors yet, It cams, In her Majesty's navy,
and ships that can do good work for their cost

GIADIITONL—Mr. W, K Gladstone writes
as follows to the London papers :—Though re-
luctant to attempt any encroachment on youi
space with refers:me to personal matter., I feel
that I have DO alternative, at • time when
personal charges, however irrelevant, WO employed
ae the means of injuring or impeding • great cause.
Within the laat fortnight, or thereabouts, the following
statements, purporting to be of fact, have been
amicluotudy circulated respecting me in different parts
of the country :-1. That when In Rome I made
arrangements with the Pope to destroy the Church
Iletablishment in Ireland, with some other like matters,
being myself • Roman Catholic at heart.-2. That
during and since the Gevernment of Sir Robert Peel I
have resisted and (till now) prevented the preferment
of Dr. Wynter.—& That I have publicly condemned all
support of the clergy in the three kingdoms from
Church or public funds.-4. That, when at Balmoral.
I refaced to attend her Majesty to Crathie Church.-8.
Thai I have reeeived the thanks of the Pope for my
proceedings respecting the Irish Chureb.-6. That
lam • member of a High Church Ritualist congre-
gation. Aware how, in times of public excitement,
rancour grows sod gathers through the combined
action of eagerness, credulity, and levity, I will
not bestow • single ,harsh word upon any of those
statements. Neither will I advert to the erase to
which some of them may b• ch.; for I am determined
to avoid, she long as it may be ptadble, envenoming •
great political controversy, and what I think • noble
cause, with the slam/eta of religious bigotry and
hetred. But I will, in the first place, declare that these
statements, one and al. me untrue, in letter and in
spirit, from the beginning to the end. And sines it is
impossible for me to continue entangled, as I have
ressot4 been, in the searches and oorreopondences
which such lotions entail, I venture to request all persons
whatmover that may he interested in the coattail., if any
like statements should hereafter come coder their view,
In the interest of truth to withhold their belief. To
more vague and general charges this is not the plaoe to
refer.

NI.IOII ENDING IN 'OI."—W. have recently, on
more than one occasion, drawn at4eution to sorne
striking ooinoidencise ; mini:adenines in name and
trades, mincidenoim in averages, and ; the fact
that tti• same number of thousands will, each week, for
many weeks together, visit name nubile museum, or
go night after night, with few to „me; t, p.
timing dramatic entertainment. Beteg Up &inn, in a
railway carriage • few night. ago, the obeermtion, be-
longing to the mem class of fang, occurred to as that
▪ large proportion of oar most eminent men in their
various paths bear al name ending in "on.° nes we
have -Bacon, our greatest philosopher; Byron, sad
Thompson, our greatest descriptive posts; amksoe;
Buxton, and Colston, some of our gram phimetbm.
piste ; Gibbon, our most eminent binaries ; Clarendon,
not far short; Gibson, °mot our beat soulpters ; Hilton
and Haydon, amongst our beat histories' painter.;
Incledon, our greatest ballad-singer; Jameson, our
greatest female writer on art; Johnson and Addeo°,
our most distinguished essayists; Lyttoo, out greatest
living novel-writer: Milton, our greatest epie poet;
Murchison, our most distinguished geologist; Newton,
our greatest astronomer; Palmerston, the most English
of staksimen ; Stephenson, our. greatest railway engi-
neer; neer ; Tennyson. our greatest hying poet; Wellington,
our greatest military o.omander twith Napoleon for
; and Nelson, our
.greedest sea-captsin. As
amonget men of lamer rank. Ben Joneon, Cluitterton,
Hewn, Wharton. Emerson, Simpson, John Britton,
Alison. Paxton, Rawlinson, Bennington; Watson Gor-
don, Noel Paton, Hepworth Dixon, Merk Lmnee. °eel.
ner Wilkinson, James Fergusaon, Donaldson, Sir
Thomas Watson (oar first PhYsieSan), and many others
will recur to the memory. Sanely tilts is very remark-
able, nitd, so far m we know, the observation has never
been made Wore. All these names speak of progress:
they ory, " Exorislor r &Ito herself mays, as mob
name is repeated, "Os r The oirownstances that
'msgan may be given as the seem of their labours, and
that those lines were penned in Brompton may
eine seriously to curry on the terminal eoineidence,
though thej do not hear on the original observation.
Preen the Oteddsw, an excellent and most ably oondeeted
'rashly pew for the artddkot, editaser, operative, and
arlitta

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a rise of 7d. in barley;

CURRENT PRICES

Walla
Una, Kant, to
Di 11...
" Dittoorbito,... —to
" Ditto, ote, . Ili to 78
Norfolk aed Web's.

red ~ OS to 74
Ditle. deer Le

Malting 116 to 17
Distilling 37 to 41
Grinding ... 33 to 36

64•41, NoriOl-4-,- sod
Sotolk . OM to 74
Kintoton and Wore 68 to 74
Broon. 64 to 64
lig.

24 to 36
Ekotch, teed 26 to 31