The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

THE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT DOVER.

DOVER, THURSDAY. I
The interment of the victims whose lives were
sacrificed by the late fatal gun explosion at Areheliff Fort
has taken plan to-day. As before announced the funeral
of Lieut. Thompson was strictly private ; but the inter-
ment of Sergeant Monger was attended by the fullest mili-
tary honours. It task place this afternoon amid inch de-
monstrations of woe as have never before been witnessed in
the town of Dover. Nearly the whole of the shops were
closed, and despite a pouring rain which descended in sad
accompaniment to the mournful obsequies of the occasion,
the streets were thronged with spectators.
Applications to join the funeral procession had been re-
ceived from the commanding officers of a number of artil-
lery corps belonging to the Cinque Poeta and tho county of
Kent • and in a few instances similar ragman had been
forwarded from places beyond these limits. Applications
to the same effect bad also been received from
each of the regiments stationed in the n and from
the Royal Artillery. The civil auth ties also evinced
their respect by a request to attend, in which they were
joined by the clergy and a number of the meet influential
townsmen. In short, there appeared on all hands a desire
to exhibit the deepest tokens of respect which could pos-
sibly be manifested ; and the fact that a volunteer should
have been interred with such honours as the remains of the
ill-fated Sergeant Monger have received to-day proves no
less the hold the volunteer movement has taken upon the
public sympathies than sorrow for the lot of those who
have suffered by this most melancholy event.
The funeral confge started at about half-past 2 o'clock
.rom the Military Hoepital, Western Heights, to which the
remains of Sergeant Monger were taken immediately after
the accident, and from which they had not been removed at
all until they were taken to their last resting-place. The
procession was headed by a firing party of the Royal Artil-
lery, followed by the bands of the Dover Volunteer Artil-
lery Corps, the 60th Rifles, the 47th, and the Royal Anil-
lazy. The corpse, borne on a gun carriage drawn by seven
bones, followed, the two clergymen who were to perform
the funeral service walking a little in advance in full
canonicals. The pall, a union-jack, was borne by four of
the deceased's brother sergeants, viz. Sergeants%gulden,
Beaufoy, Cotten!, and Ellenger. The body was followed
by a mourning coach, which was occupied by the near rela-
tives of the deceased, after which the procession moved in
the undermentioned order, vie. : let (Dover) Obelus Ports
Artillery, Royal Artillery, 47th Regiment, 60th Elides,
_24th
Kent Mee, sth Cinque into Rifles, 6th Canterbury Mee,
6th Kent (Chatham) Rifles, sth Canterbury Rifles, 2nd
Cinque Ports Rifles, 9th Surrey Rifles, lit Company Cinque
Ports Rides, Civil Service (London) Rifles, London Male
Bripde, 4th Northampton, 4th Cinque Porta Rifles, 11th
Kent Artillery, Deal and Walmer Artillery, 22nd Cinque
Ports Artillery, 3rd Cinque Ports Artillery, Itaruvate
Artillery, Folkestone Artillery, 2nd South Midillftex Rifles,
Dover Volunteer Cadet Artillery Corps, Corporation pre-
ceded by Mace covered with Crape, Load Clergy, Dover
Volunteer Rifles.
One of the most touching features of the procession was
the presence of some representatives of the Dover Volun-
teer (*tint Corps, in the formation of which the late Lieut.
n took a very active and conspicuous part. Each
TCI4 per y:is corps wears a uniform cap, the scarlet hued of
which on this occasion was covered with crape.
The procession passed through Hawkesbury-street,
Strand-street, Snergateetreet, King-street, and Queen.
street, to the cemetery of St. Mary, where the interment
Wok place. Throughout the proceedings rain descended in-
cessantly,
but this seemed to have no effect whatever on the
crowds, which were so closely wedged as to render some of
the streets almost impassable.
The remains of Lieut. Thompson were interred in a pri-
vate manner in the family vault in the churchyard of
Sibertswould, a village about six miles from Dover. The
only persons present at the funeral beyond the deceased
ffieinan's immediate CODD6RiOSS were Capt. Wollaston,
Lieut. Court, Lieut. Stilwell (officers of the artillery volun-
teers), and ?dr. S. Finals, the treasurer.
Some idea of the respect in which the late Mr. Thompson
was hold may be gathered from what transpired at the
meeting of the town council, held yesterday, when Alder-
man Astley, who is also a captain iu the volunteer corps,
gave expression in a most feeling speech to the esteem felt
for the late Mr. Thompson by the corporation and his fellow
townsmen generally, and concluded by moving --" That
this council cannot proceed to the election of a suc-
cessor to the late Mr. George Thomas Thompson, the
coroner of this borough, without first recording an expres-
sion of their heartfelt rionow at the loss which the corpora-
tion and the borough have rustaimid by his sodden and un-
timely removal from the useful sphere lie filled amongst
them. Upright in life, urbane in manner, intellectual in
his pursuits, and distinguished for taste in art, he was a
very valuable citizen, and commended himself to the warm
regards of all associates. And the council, in common with
their fellow-townsmen, deeply lament the distressing ten-
dent which has cut off in the prime of life one so greatly
esteemed, and who has so long discharged the duties of an
officer of this corporation to their entire satisfaction." Mr.
Wonfold seconded the resolution, deeply deploring, like
those who had preceded him, the cause which rendered such
a motion necessary, and which called forth their testimony
to the worth al a gentleman whom no one could value more
than himself. The resolution was carried by acclamation.
At the same meeting it was resolved that a stained window
should be erected in the Town-hall, by public subscription,
to the memory of the late Mr. Thompson. At the Tomo-
hall the corporate dog hes been half-masted since the day
of the accident, so completely has the sad
s paled se a calamity over which the town mourns

raa 4177.1111P711D MISCUE FROM THE
194PZMONE.

The following account of the attempt made by
the Rev. Mr. Pries to rescue hie wife from the "Abode of
Love," which we briefly reported in our impradoe
Wednesday last, is from the Waters Counties Herald :
"The latest seceder from the Agapemone, the Rev.
Lewis Price, is determined not to lose his wife and her
fortune of 6,000/. without a struggle, and in that resolve
he will assuredly be supported by public opinion. Hav-
ing freed himself from the thraldom and delusions of
Henry James Prince, the Welsh curate is using his
best exertions to free his lady also. Mr. Price quitted
the Abode of Love in the early part of this year, hav-
ing been previously separated from his wife by ' the
Beloved's' directions some six weeks. In May last
we recounted the fruitless efforts the husband had
mode to get possession of his spouse, and the fact
that before a judge in chambers she had declared that
she woe not detained in the Charlinch residence
whist her inclination. Since that time Mr. Price seems
to have quietly submitted to hie deprivation, but the deci-
sion of the Vice-Chancellor in the case of ' Notti4 v.
Prince' has aroused him once more to exertion. It is no
secret now that Price was a man of no property when
Harriet Lancaster Nottidge was informed by Prince it
was the ' will of God' she should take the Welalunan
fur her husband, and that the 6,000/. he acquired by his
marriage has been transferred to the impostor who asserts
that he is the Holy Ghost. Any proceeding Mr. Price
may take for the recovery of his wife's fortune must be
materially affected by her evidence, and to the ordinary
motive of affection for his lady there is thus added the
desirability of obtaining her aid and testimony in favour
of a suit against the man she now mewls as her spiri-
tual saviour. Former watchinp outside the house and
grounds, with a policeman within hail to prevent a breach
of the peace, having proved unavailing, Mr. Price made a
hold attempt to get possession of his wife on Friday last,
with the help of three stout men not officers of the law.
On the night preceding the adventure he slept at the lamb
Inn, adjoining the institution of which he was formerly an
inmate. According to arrangement his three assistants ar•
rived at Charlinch from Bridgwater in a fly, between 4 and 5
o'clock in the morning, their mission lt* protect him
from the fury of the Agapemonitee. He forthwith scaled
the gates, entered the grounds, and secreted himself near the
conservatory, which he was aware lin. Price was accus-
tomed to Tian, his backers remaining in the roadway ready
to obey his call. Time wore on, and nothing particular
transpired till about nine o'clock, when the watchers beard
Mr. Price say several times, I will have you, Harriett!' This
exclamation was followed by a piecing shriek of ' Murder,'
uttered by a female voice, and the trio at once jumped
over the rads in front of the laundry, and over the second gate
leading to the grounds of the Agapemone. Here they
were met by twenty or thirty persons, who stopped their
further progress, insisted that they had 'no business on
thaw premises, and in reply to their assertions that they
had business there because they had heard sonic one crying
' Murder,' ordered them off, and compelled them to return
back to the road. They saw Mr. Price and Mm. Price
down upon the lawn, surrounded by some thirty or forty
persona—nom women, and children. In a few minutes Mr.
Price himself was forcibly ejected, and the four invadmehed
to come away crest-fallen, their enterprise having failed. It
appears that Mrs. Prise was seen by her husband wandsg
through the garden alone ; he thereupon left his biding-place
and desired her to leave with him; she refused, and be
seized her round the waist to carry her away. Then it was
that she cried out Murder,' and threw herself upon the
ground. As soon as the alarm was given the Agaptimo-
nites came out in full force with astonishing promptitude.
Part of their number rushed to the gate to keep out the
three men, and the others crowded round the husband sad
wife struggling on the grass. Several men, it is said,
threw themselves upon Mr. Price, and it is further aimed
that the Rev. Mr. Starkey knelt upon his chest and forced
him to release his lady. After she had got from him he
laid bold of her again, but was wrenched away, end
turned out at the gate. Although a strong and determined
man, he was no match for thirty or forty opponents. The
arch- Agapemonite, Prince himself, was not present at the
melee. There con be little doubt that the dwellers in the
Abode of Love bad got scent of what was about to take
place. Information as to the waiting horse and fly, and
the three mange men sauntering about was probably
conveyed to them, and measures at once taken to defeat
the project evidently on the point of being put in motion.
Near half-past six in the morning a dosen or more labourers
and haymakers left the Agapemone, apparently with the
intention of pursuing their avocations in the fields of the
farm. An hour later one of the carriages with two
homes attached quitted the ' Abode,' and its errand
must have been to briug back the labourers by another
route, for when the period for action arose all the la-
bourers, who had been seen to leave, were in the grounds
to drive out Mr. Price and his coadjutors. That the dr
sign was discovered is also clear from the rapidity with
which they mustered when Mrs. Price shrieked, for they
were out before the three men iu the road could get half-
a-dozen yards, and are described as having swarmed
like bees in a secoud of time.' Mr. Price, though several
times defeated, does not seem to be a man easily daunted.
We wish him more success in his next may. Hen
convinced that if he can release his wife from the influence
of Prince. be can shake her belief in the delusions she now
credits. If she be made of the same stuff as her deceased
sister, Louisa Jane Nottidge, this will be a more
task than he imagines, for it will be remembered that the
relatives of that lady tried every means to disabuse her
mind of the monstrous notion that Prince was Gad Almighty,
sod bad eventually to place her in a lunatic asylum, for the
two-fold purpose of dissipating her mad belief in an im-
postor, and keeping her out of his clutches. They were un-
sucessefuL Whether Mr. Price will be more fortunate re-
mains to be proved. A more resolute attempt to release
Mrs. Price from the Agapemone was to have been made on
Monday night or Tuesday morning; but it wee ascertained,
after every arrangement bad been made, and Mr. Price and
his helpers were on their way to the scene of operations, that
the lady had been removed from the Agnpemone. Whither
she has been taken remains at present a mystery."