The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

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THE RED SE/ TELEDRAPH.—The Red Sea Telegraph
Company received a telegram on Wednesday morning
from Aden, announcing that the cable had been success-
fully laid to that place on the :Ntli ult.
EhccrioN PETlTlONS.—Petitions have already been
presented to the House of Comnione against the late elec-
tions for Ashburton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Aylesbury (a
double return), and Great Yarmouth. They have been
referred to the General Committee of Elections, and
' will be tried in due course.

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CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO LORD Ehcor.—A
deputation, consisting of Mr. Gregeon. M.P., chairman;
Mr. Crawford. ; Mr. Matheson, M.P. • Mr. Dent,
Mr. H. G. Gordon, Mr. Buxton, Mr. liarnett, Mr.
Thorne, Mr. Hyde, and Mr. Saintebury, Secretary of
the East India and China Association, waited on Wed-
nesday by appointment upon the Earl of Elgin, at his
residence in Clieshamplace, and presented to his Lord-
ship a congratulatory address, to which his Lordship
replied.
THE DELIVERY OF THE AMERICAN MAIIS.—The
Post-master General has issued instructions to the effect
that in a few weeks each mail steamer of the Cunard
Coinpany arriving at and tailing from Liverpool for
the United :states will have on board two lettersorters,
whose duty it will be to sort and arrange the letters,
newspapers, Le., so that they may be ready for
delivery the moineut they reach the l'ost-office. This
arrangement will be hailed most joyfully by the mercan-
tile community.
A MiliTeßY CLEARED UP.—Sin months ago a Mr.. 1.91-
nings, of Burythorpe, wits missed, and,as it was supposed
he had been murdered, two rower& of £ao each were
offered for the recovery of his body and the conviction
of the supposed murderer. On Wednesday, a ellepherd
living near Melton, found the decomposed corpse of the
missing man in the river. On the medical examination
• wound was found in the ode of the deceased, but it
was not pronounced to be sufficient to have caused death
mid a verdict of "Found drowned" was therefore
returned. He was of intemperate habits. 1
HOMICIDE IN BIRMINCII A young man named I
Payee, • journeyman hairdreseer, at Ihruainghain, was 1
shot by the bead matter of a national school, named I
Bugg. The latter, who ii in custody, states that it was '
an accident ' • and the deed does not seem to have been
premeditated, as the weapon WILS brought down by a
servant in a public•homie to the bar. where Payne and
Bugg were drinking. But Bugg hail reason, it seems to
be jealous of the decease I, who appears to have been
carrying on an intrigue with Mrs. Bugg : hut an inquiry
has eisilel in a verdict of" Death by Misadventure."
Lusatia AT 'Me C tre. —There still exists a great de-
mand for labour in this uoloiiy. "The 2,000 emigrants
(-ay. the Cape Mail) who have arrived UN ler the present
*cliches have rather increased than satisfied the demand
for almost every description of labour, and if an equal
number, or ta ice as many, arrive this year they sill
find little difficulty in securing good wagea and goal
prospect.' ; for, besides the want of steady and ox-
tent-used agricultural servants. domestic servants,
mechanics, and artisans, we shall require for public
works now in regrew'. or about to be co 1111 l ienced,
many hundreds, by-and-by wont. thousands, of excava-
tors, or navvies, masons, bricklayers, carpenters, black-
smiths, and the innumerable nondescripte that form •
part of every busy hive of working men.
A New IDLA.—Caplain W. A. Drayson. of the Rope
Artillery, has published a small volume entitled "'the
Earth we inhabit," in which he argues that our earth is
constantly growing larger, and our distance from the Sun
increasing. He observes that measured degreca of the
meridian in modern times have often been longer than
those of older time; that the telegraphic cables crack and
no cause is ever assigned but accidents, which are
" forced into the argument" to avoid the more easy and
natural hypothesis of the growth of the earth. With
the growth of the earth, there is also the growth of its
orbit, and increase of the length of the year. Hence, an
explanation of the apparent long lives of the antedilu-
vians. If the year were thirty-six days in the time of
Adam, then Adam's 980 years are 03 of our years—and
as on.
BOILER EXPLOnION ON THE TTNIL —On Sunday morn'
Big, as the William and Mary steam-tug was taking
vessel from the Tyne to sea, her boiler exploded
with considerable violence, knocking down and scalding
the enginentan, Williatu Gibson, very seriously. The
explosion blew the tubing out, and scattering the tot
coal from the furnace about, set fire to the boat. The
predicament of the poor fellows on board the steamer
was noticed from the Gorgon war-ship lying in Shields
harbour, and a boat's crew, accompanied by the surgeon
of the ship, put off to their assistance. Another steamer
was got alongside and towed the burning vessel on to the
Lowlight shore, where she was scuttled. The iscalded
engineman was removed on shore, and it is thought that
he will recover. The vessel is very much damaged. The
rest of the crew of the steamer escaped uninjured.
SHIPWRECK AND LOSS Or TWENTY•THRIE
The ship Lady Hood, tons burden, homeward-hound
from Raogoon to Liverpool, was lost on the 20th of
April, near the mouth of the Kronine River, in the
neighbourhood of Good Kloope, and all hands save three
perished. The ship, it appears, was laden with rice.
She left Rangoon on the 24th of February, her crew
numbering twenty-six. The captain had on board his
wife and child. About the 18th of April th sighted
land, when they stood off and soon lost sight slit. The
next day it Gine on to blow a heavy gale, with hazy,
thick weather, which continued the following day,
when, about four a.m., the captain discovered he was
fast driving on • lee shore. 0,11 hands were called to
wear ship, but she refused, and about five o'clock the
ship struck the rocks and became a wreck. Three of
the crew succeeded in reaching the rocks in safety,
although they were much bruised and injured.
lIORRIBLE MURDER IN STAVFORDSHIRE.—A fearful
murder his been committed in South Staffordithire. On
Thursday week the body of • female was found floating
on the surface of the canal, near Moat Colliery, Prince's-
end. The deceased appeared to be about twenty-two or
twenty-three years of age, and her dress indicated that
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she was a hoatwoutan. She was fearfully bruised, and
there was • wound on the right side of the head about
an inch in length, evidently produced by a blow from a
blunt i n
stated that he could not say whether the deceased was
dead wi
she WAi in, lie imagined she mast have struggled. Four
men, Tholurei Wilkius, Edward Acton, William Acton,
be.x fromami examined
the tiposon'e body
and Richard Calstan. forgemen, have been arrested on
suspicion. Thomas Priest. • puddler, stated that he saw
the four men in custody and others with the deceased,
near the spot where the body was found, on the previous
Sunday
the prisoners. The body of deoemed h" net Yet been
end that the had been abused by each of
identified, and has therefnre not been interred.
THE WILL OF 11 RON DE GoLDSMID. —The will of
the Baron de Goldsmid, with nunieroux codicils
thereto, has been brought into Het Eajeaty'. Court of
Probate. The personal estate is sworn shove a
" million." the highest a 1111 l out in the Peale of atauni
duties. The will hears date the 15th of July, 1853. It
contains a large provision for hie wi.low, the Barone."
de Goldensid. with the option of residing at St Julio's-
lodge. and li.ving the we of the Wick, at Brighton.
and liberal provieions fur his daughters. The Brighton
and Hampshire estates, with 000,000 to be 'Aid omit in
other estates, and the mansion of St. Julin's-Indge
(subject to the occupation thereof by the Serene's.), are
the present Baronet. and his
and
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merllill and other Kest estates
upon Mr. F. D. Goldamid, the deceased's only
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hat settled
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his male haws. A tuong • variety of other
legacies and provisions for grandchildren and others,
there is a bequest of I:1,000 to be divided between his
tenants, and legacies of £3,000 to the University
College, London, for maintaining Professorships of
Hebrew and Geoloppg £1,0130 to the Jews' Hospital,
£l,OOO to the Jews Infant School, and E 2.000 to the
Synagogue in Margaret-stivet. The two sons and two
brother* of the deceased are appointed executors, and
the two sons are made residuary legatees. The deceased
was largely interested in Bra:Wien Stook and other
foreign funds, and the teetausentary papers give to the
executors • discretion extending over a period 01 10
years for tbe conversion of those pores of hie Neste.