The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-10-15 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BRISTOL—BRUTAL ASSAULT.—On Tuesday the inhabitants of Temple-street were thrown into • state of great alarm, by the report that a young woman had been &linnet murdered by her mailer's son. Crowds of people gathered about the home where the ort:ot:se was alleged to have been committed, arid upon p lug to the spot we obtained the following particulan of the affair. The victim is • young nonsaannented Catherine Rimini, who for some time past has soled Is the capacity of servant at Mr. Bush's, Muammar. Inn, Temple-street. The son of Mr. Bush, about 118 years of age, has been in the habit of " chilling" this young wollIal) of late, upon what be termed her preview soneeetion with the town, although it Is arc. ted that not the least blemish can be attached to her character, and words have ensued between them, and lie has upon more than one oceasioa threatened to take her life. So lamb alarmed has she been that be would be carryieg his threats into execution, that it was only on Monday that she prevailed upon Serjeant Holliday, of the Sed Buffs, her brotherin-law, to go to the Commit House to get a warrant out against young Bush, in order WA he might be bound over to keep the peace. The Beath refused to grant the warrant, in consequence of some informality in the application, and it appears that the young man had beard of the application having been made, and instead of conducting himself better toward, the young woman, he was worse than previously. On Tuesday night he commenced with Ids usmil 'subject— the previous misfortune of the girl—end elm told him that she was as good mot he or any or his family. Mr. Bush, senior, had left the bar in her charge, and because she would not allow his POll to have the management, after the alteration refereed to, he soddenly jumped up, and taking hold of ber by the hair of her head with one hand, he commenced a savage &Meek upon her with the other. He struck her four or live murderous blows in the face, literally smashing her nose in, and leaving her senseless upon the door be ran off, and has not been heard of since. The poor girl was completely saturated with blood, and her face presented an awful spectacle, being perfectly one mass of raw flesh. Medical attendance was speedily rendered, and her wounds were dressed. Her assailant has made his escape.  The Anglo-French Treaty is 'taperingly producing an excess of riches in articles of English manufacture in France. It is stated on tbe authority of • Rouen paper of some commercial reputation, that already a hundred thousand tons of English manufactures have arrived at Havre, and that the locomotive resources at the command of the railway company there are insufficient for the transit of the goods to Paris. On the Belgian frontiers the same large accumulation of English producta is going forward. . . . _  _ Cou.lcalta.—The total number of collieries in Great Britain, at prevent, is estimated at 2.664; of thaw 1,943 are in England. 236 in Wales, 406 in Scotland, and 71. in Ireland. In 1867 the coal produce of the United Kingdom exceeded 66.000,000 tons. The value at the pit's month of the quantity annually raised is estimated at £16.700,000, and its mean annual value, when consumed, at about £20,000,000. Besides this sum, it is estimated that the iron extracted yearly from the coals raised is worth, at the mouth of the furnace, fourteen and one half millions sterling. The total capital invested in the trade is supposed to • teed eighteen and a half millions sterling: In 1861 tne number of persons employed is our coal Lass was 2I%000; at peasant Ware an at WA • quartet al • millioa.—Mechanici Nagrasias.