The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

enural Nibs.

litoTlll3 10FATT1713 Iva returned to Norwich. Tb•
monastery, however, is still closed.

MR. °LAWTONi is about to take a tour with Lord
Clarence Paget through the Mediterranean, and will
probably visit Rome.—Bery Post.
SHOCKING ACCIDIXT.—A retired exciseman, named
Smedley, was killei on the Midland Railway, near
Nottingham, on Tuesday evening. He had gone to
meet his wife, and on crossing the railway was ant to
pieties by an express traio.
Ten HYDE PAIL. Mora—Lord William G. Osborne
has forwarded to Sir Richard Mayne a cheque for k5OO,
the amount of • voluntary subscription to assist those
among the pollee who have been injured or disabled in
the recent disturbances at Hyde Park.

FIRM COTTAGU BURNT DOWN.—On Bs,turdsy
4th inst., s fire broke out at the village of Islip, the
first station from Oxford on the Buckingham end
London and North-Western Railway, which in a very
short time caused 15 poor familes to be homeless; their
houses, with their furniture, being entirely consumed.
It was nearly three hours before an engine from Oxford
arrived, too late to save any of the eottages.

BALL PRACTICE PITRAORDIVART.—There is • party
of religious enthusiasts going about the country, called
the " Hallelujah Rand." A few day. ago they visited
Derby, and placarded the town with this notica :—" At
nine o'clock the Soldiers of the Cross will open Are in the
Market-place on the kingdom of the devil. A procession
will be formed to proceed at once to the geld, when a
moond volley will be fired on the armies of his Satanic
Majesty."

RIARDEN has even notice that he will, Dent
session, introduee • Al for the repeal of the Act of
Legiiihttie• Union between Great Britain sad Ireland,
and to restore the Constitution of 17f2; also for the
permanent appointment, cr daring the pleasure of the
'liven, of one of the Royal Prince= of England to the
viceroyalty of 'lreland, at • suitable income, to be paid
out of the revenue o Ireland.

Tait Arts),Ttc Caeca was on Wednesday inisessmitly
occupied with commercial news, and for 01141
alone over £lOO was paid. It may seem scarcely
hie, but it is actually a calculated fact that, aeoording
to the present rate of the cable's working, if kept fully
occupied, it coi earn upwards of £1,500,003 per year,
and this estimate is based only upon its being able to
send three words a minute.

Tue WERLRYAN CONFIRINCI.- At the Wesleyan
Conference on Thursday, • Building Committee wu
appointed to superintend the erection of • theologies'
institution at Headingley, at • cost of £12,000; and •
committee was also appointed to comider the deeirable-
soo of the erection of another theological institution
In the ntighbourbood of Birmiughani, ft was also
decided to appoint the Rev. W. B. Pope miocessor to
Dr. Hannah in the theological chair at Didabcry.
TERRIBLE RILMILT OT • 10•RRIEL. —TWO brothers
were quarrelling at Hartlepoo • week or two ago for
the pmenUen of eclair, when it came to pieces in their
hawk The younger threw the chair-legs at the other,
who returned the blow with the upper pert of the 'heir,
knocking down his brother, who afterwarda became in-
eensible. A pion, of his skull had to be removed in con-
sequenoe, and he has since died. At the inquest, the
jury returned a verdict of "Death by misadventure."

Tug Punk llama& —The Daily News ye that
after all the warninp we have had we ought by this
time to be in the enjoyment of an abundant and con-
duit supply of pure water brought from distant moms-
tank fad • every requirement of health and
refreshment Seventeen years ago, when a day of
humiliation and prayer was publicly appointed on
amount of the cholera, the lade Dean Buoiland declared
in Westminster Abbey that this wee the great religiose
lemon taught by the calamity; and predicted that until
we honestly assumed the duty of making edepusts pro-
vision for a fell supply of pure, fresh water, seeeseibls
to the poorest and most 111111101,01111 dense of the poop's,
we should be repeatedly visited by the ecoluge. fie

words bave bow fulfilled. It is annotinred tho th.
Oovernnsent irdend to propose a day of I,liatio,
but it will be in vain to ta siege Heaven w.th
while we persistently neglect its nio..t obsomi ce-4
leave., crowded popolation loan une,rtwo %iv!
.uppllV of the moans of health. ant in it ear
it to he ireued give them water %hit!! or,l, M
VCll,tle of disease. if, notwiths.an,inct th.. I
we have reeriveil, we nmit te Ink..th.• rt, t
prewieti••ti f, we tipsy pray, but we wall t i.tly
to ponder an esitl.natlon gir•o „„ ~1,•
tO N.D.` whit leng ~,;,.„ I

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4., on S.lturdar bi4..t a • . ,

gie3t excitement in . .
between the Engli•li Firm 'I my,
the construction of the Si. rr. 1„.
It appears that the Fri nch t• 1.1
contractors, Messrs. Warinai r
sine 7.1 X) French 11.1111rie4 to emirs te with 11,..
n.vvies (shout the 'aloe in tarots.). wi r
An, per day. 'Fhe Frenchmen eitrarin4 to a, f
pir day, and some even as low a• 24 41. lu em,«
of the Frenchmen we...king for so much 1... „,
the Englishmen, the Smili•limen came to tl.••.;.•!, '''"
tion on Saturday of miring r•ery 1.-
line. At abont half•past ten o'el.wk i•i t ,
went to • farm house at Blowers 11111,
Frenchmen, and put Lim ir thresit int... ~
them out, and smashing the wiudows at •'
When they went to the house the) (mind
men, woman, and children el it he'd 11,
navvies rapped at the door for some time
landlord would would open it, bet as soon., he i,
struck him. d3wu with • I,lnd;teon, und
Frenchmen, with their wives 51.1 children, out , t,
house in their bed clothes, and one pohr
had been confined shout • fortniaLt In' vi u.i, p 1
‘
hard that she should remain in the mei...,
turned h. r out also with the rest. No te,lmertem
present at this time, but a m3n rode hit I, fl
station at Torobridge, and Superinteu.si t limes
di•patched a body of policy, liesdel hob., f',4
erwds Their arrival stayed fiirther
that in the meantime several buts had h
by them, until Monday morning, when tle: E
na••iev, armed with bludgeons mime two an a 1i•111.,4t.
In length, drove the Yreochmen in her., I. lore E.,
the Edenbridge station, where the imlice w,r, ow,. •
them. Tbe Frenchmen had drawn tie a
and were brandishing them gib .ut, and re,
the riot would have resulted in • general ilau;:it,,ftd
it not b,en for the enterference of th, fmli,e. Limber
about GO. When at Edenbridge state'', tle
navvies were kept in the •illage, thi Frei
• hove the stration , tbe police being dation.' beta..
arrangements being made for other hielies tidy-
gether with • detachment of military to be in reaiMee
when called upon. Several of the French navy..
needed to Osted, in Surrey (on another lami, tis
greater portion remained at the Edenbri.lae
under the protection of the pollce until u;
receivcd front the Home Secretary how they are
dispesed. On Monday morning all the Lee, .1,;, es,„
closed in F.denbridge, excepting two, in owv•eouet,
the not, and business was to a certain extent st a.,
still, The greater portion of the
resented work on the line on Tuesday mono g oil Me
town was generally quiet. An Englishman a
it,fore the Tonbridge magistrates and ren.m.d.u.