The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-06-19 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.  . The police bare muds a nice Mew over the Cannon Street pourthir, abd the City detectives have lost I mach of their prestige. They are usually reckoned the cleverest police in the world, mild) superior to ! the Metropolitan; but they made • mistake and stock • to it. However, they have some apologists and even supporters here —people, who, in spite of the I prompt verdict of the jury, and the declarstion of the judge that the prisoner wee "more that hot guilty, he was innocent," shrug their shoulders or j shake their heads, or boldly avow their belief in the I guilt of the Man Smith. Unfortunately for than wrongheaded people, I en.rally find, On pueblos inquiries, that they have Dot reed the evidence, or have at least omitted that for the defence lest they should be prejudiced. And this is how some ofi what we cell public opinion I. formed! But, amid I tli. satisfaction expressed that au innocent man has escaped, there comes the ominous reflection that a murder may be committed in the eery blurt of London at an early both. Of the night, and its perpstratat agape with impunity. lam afraid I must now retract the expression in my last respecting the undoubted descent of the Rhy vas family from two European sovereigns. and I do so with pain because I 'maid fain have left this unfortunate and impoverishid family the rag of comfort they might have found in even illegitimate dement from royalty. But I must yield my own Ore-rionoeived notions on ex parte statemente to the verdict of the jury, after • searching inquiry. As I read the verdict, Mrs. &urea the mother ef Mra. Rhyves, is dedared to have been redly Olive Wilmot, daughter of Robert Wilmot (brother of the clergy. man), and the roman., of the descant from a Princess of Poland (supposed wife of Dr. Wilmot', through daughter who married the Duke of Cumberland, Iris merely the invention of a diseased brain, as were all the forged documents pi-odttoed in support of it. That the Abysse family believed in the genuineness of their delta I have no doubt, and most people who kite* anything of them thought there was something in it, but the unsubstantial evidence of • great delusion has crumbled under tbe rough handling of the law.  -• The Great Beaters is to sail hem Shallows with the new Atlentlo cage on iiiitarday, the 30th inst. I understand, that, profiting by the experience of list voyage, such precautions have now been taken that • repetition of the previous failure will be very unlikely. Let OA hope so, both for the sake of the shareholders in the company and of the publicßnt if we are suddenly dravrn into *at *line the cable is being laid, might not some prikateir swoop down upon it Here it aahsä, for the Fenians to win renown, though not much else, because they could bake little of the cable unless they cut it up and mold it to some marine store dealers. _ _  Our Loodon locial-sti—tWOri"tisir;sel t 5 set an example of stupidity to all the kingdom. Among other abase. we Wm exposures every week of our workbottas system, if one may call mismanagement a system. I touched upon one case last week. I have another flagrant one to notice now—of it, casual pauper, raving with fever, being thrust into • small ward with fifteen other inmates, giving gash I only 250 cubic feet of air, while the one fever patient required six or eight times se much. The poor creature died early in the in well he might and all the won-khans authorities could plead at the inquest, in excuse for their mismanagement, Was that they had to take M all casuals who applied; berme the overcrowding. But if all applicants are to be 'take, in," they are surely not to be so cruelly " done for."