The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1876-01-11 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

FLOGGING OF CONVICTS.  At the last assizes held in Liverpool, two men, named Renard M'Conville, a labourer, 29 years of age, and William Whitehead, a young man of apparently 10 years of age, were tried on charges of robbery with violence. Mr. J. It. Aspinall, who sat as commimioner, sentenced Whitehead to fifteen months' hard labour, atd to eighteen lashes with the regulation whip. The sentence of the lash was carried out a few days ago at noon, on both men, at Eirkdale Primo, in the presence of the governor of the prison, the surgeon, and several representatives of the press, as well as those prisoners who are undergoing punishment for crimes of violence. On the two men Milne brought into the centre corridor, • vast difference in their physique was perceptible, the one being very short in stature—probably not more than five feet—though not to call small in breadth, whilst the other was small and wiry; both, however, being men who appeared unlikely to stand the infliction with anything like fortitude. Each having been well strapped to the frames, order was given by the governor to the floggers to begin. The men who had entrusted to them the "cats" were experienced hands at the work, and each stroke was laid on in a style which soon told severely upon the quivering convicts' backs. Speedily the shoulders of the unfortunate men became escoriatol, then livid, and eventually almost a bright red, the blood mesinwhile trickling down their thOulders. Veizlfew exclamations of pMn were uttered by either man, tit is evident that both suffered fear. fully, each lash o the "cat" apparently telling with the most excruciating effect. Whitehead, whose strokes were seven fewer than the number given to his companion in peniahment, although he was a better built man than hrConville, suffered most severely, and it was =doubt. ediy a satisfaction to him, when the eighteenth stroke fell on his shoulders, to know that be had received his full allotment of stripes, and could rush away to his cell to hide his sacrificed back from the gaze of his fellow prisoners, whilst M'Convillewas receiving the additional seven strokes which, according to the sentence of the Judge, were still due to him. If 'Conville, although light and slim, stood his punishment well; but when be was released from the frame, it was seen he had not borne it so well as he wished the onlookers to believe, as he tottered to his cell immrently half-dazed with the pain which he endued. The whips, as on the last occasion, were accord. ins to Government regulation, and were much heavier both in handle and the cord, then those which were used some yews ago.  • tattifinsetanti.—We learn that the ship o crow:L— . which left London on the liith Septentler arrived at her destination about the 20th December-IZ.. Bank notes and gold to the value of over 4:1 been stolen from the Three Teel Hotel, nea'rXiet bridge. The medical officer of health for Bolton report. ,ro break of small-pox. The Itsease also prevails cheater. Mr. Scudarnore has already made hi. preeouro r , t Turkey. He has introduced the Ench.h system of poi cards, but the car-I4 are nearly twice ..large a.Mr. Fyfe, Mr. Plimsoll s arient in Liverpool, hee telegram to the Queen tWeelni for the r‘leoee of the ere. of the Wild Wave. • It is reported that the Lordship of the Treasury by Earl Stanhope's elevation to the House of Lorgle-7', be filled by Viscount Crigliton, M. P., for Enniskillen A service of silver plate, with an illuminated addny. MIA on Thursday presented to Alderman It. Newsprou'' mayor of Flint, on the occasion of his election for Lir; eighth time. The failure is announced in the London Baukruptoe Court, of John Chown, warehouseman, carrying on boot nest at King-street, Cheapside, under the firm of itichord Foot and Go., with liabilities of £lO,OOO, John Duff barns that a county meeting for Devon is to he held at Exeter, on Friday, Jan. 28, under the dency of the Earl of Devon, to oppose the progress grf Burials Bill, The final heat in Cook's billiard handicap, at the Guildhall Tavern, London was played on Saturday. Kiikrozy wins the first prize of the handicap, fifty pounds, and Hunt *te second • cue case and cues. rbarbre krenglen, a dairyman at t% edwich, for selling milk from a diseased Coe, was lined the full penalty of C2O. The cream taken off the milk sold contained In per cent, of blood. There is some talk of a new step in the glirection 'fanny trewl:rmmo—ntha sewin.pthinegi;alvalir",l' fwoirtthheorputiiioit towheoualareif;•Lsetrhl volunteer force. The g und lately raised in the city of London, for the ' relief of the sufferera by the recent disastrous MendsBons and ft Kele throughout the country aineUetA to 117,1 Vin A singular death took place Friday at Lincoln. A grocer named Picker, who keepo fowls, was last week feed. tog them, when • bantam cock spurred him in the left , thumb. Mortification set in, and all efforts to gave the unfortunate inan's life was unavailing. tyvecutiexce in A I'm. —A correspondent of the A ninial World write,:—" A tenant erected a pump in his piggery to pump the whey out of the cheeserocen. One day I saw an old pig deliberately take the handle of the pump into its mouth and pump Reel( sonie whey." A hall porter at the Midland hotel St. Pancras named Victor Sebastian, committed suicide in • horrible manner. Having ripped up his stomach, he jumped from his boil. room window into the courtyard below. He was taken up gii.ise dead: .  Mr. Frederick P. Lemprieret a grandson of the authorof the "Classical Dictionary, is now living at Church-street, Wivelisconthe, Somereetshire, and endeavouring by bill-sticking or other light work to earn a living fee his ate children. The establishment of the Alexandra Pahce as a permanent place of entertainment for the public may now be looked upon as MI fad assompli, since the directors' contains such satisfactory items as is balance of LIAM 4d. Stephen Blundell, the Southampton undertaker on whose premises the bodies of fifteen infanta were found, has recently died, and the Home Office has resolved volts proceed with the prosecution against Mrs. Blundell and a Journeyman who was employed by the deceased. Mr. W. Wilson, a young gentleman belonging to Stir. ling, was found dead this week in a bed-room of an hotel at Killin, Perthshire. He had taken part in a f.dhall match on the previous day, and the medical men are of opinion that death was caused by the bursting of a