Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-06-10 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

COURT-MARTIAL sat at Devonport on Tuesday for the trial of Lieutenant George Leward Hastings Deacon, H.M.S. Indus, who was charged with being drunk at mess on the 19th ult. The Court considered the charge proved, and as the prisoner had been previously tried for sleeping on his post and otherwise neglecting his duties, they ordered him to be dismissed from the service. DAVID JACICRON, miner, while in the house of one named Burns, near Whitehaven, took his pipe out of his mouth and placed it 'in his coat pocket, where he had several cartridges of dynamite,and dynamite caps. Imme.liatelv afterwards an aplosion occurred, blowing off Jackson's right hand above the wrist, and a part of his cheek. Burns's sister, with whom he was talking at the tims, was also injured about the face. The door and windows of the house were blown to pieces. Jackson's right arm had to be amputated.  A MAN named Taylor, along with two other men named Tatlow and Foster, were employed near the top of Mountstreet, Derby, in "flushing " the sewers for the corporation. He had to go into the Passage under the ground with a light, and no sooner had he entered than a tremendous explosion of foul air occurred. Re was blown with great force up through the mouth of the sewer, one side of his head being completely carried away. Death must have been instantaneous, His fellow workmen also  received injuries. TPre members of the City Police Force have just bad served out to them a helmet of an entirely new construction. It is made of blue cloth, which harmonises with the eoloar of the uniform, stretched over a cork body with a lengthened peak at the bask, which effectually protects the nape of the neck from the sun's rays, and in wet weather will carry off the rain on to the centre of the cape :instead of, as in the old helmet, allowing it to drip between the coat collar and the stock down the wearer's neck. The men are said to be loud tn their praises of the lightheo. and coolness of the helmet, but some doubts are express-' is to whether it will be as durable as the heavier felt hltoe Ft  Da. JAMES SHEPHERD of Swansea committed suicide no Satnrday morning under distressing circumstances. IL was met In Grove-place, with something glittering in his hand. The constable, taking from him a large dissecting knife, asked, "What hare you done?" The reply was. " God knows what I have done." Mr. Shepherd attempted to walk to the police-station, but fell into the arms of tidpoliceman. He had stabbed himself between the lowei ribs. The deceased, who was fifty years of age, and unmarried, was a native, of Yorkshire. He had retireo from practice. THE works in cormezion with the enlargement of th, Fencturch-street Railway Station, which is being extended, eastward as far as the ivlinories, are making rapid progress, and when completed the area of the station wiil be almost double its present size. A large number o! ho e ea. situated between the eastern bonndary of tinstatioe and the Minories ,havo been swept away to cleat the gronnd for the enlarged station, which will abiorb the whole of what was formerly known as Gold-square, ami a large portion of Cooper's-row, and John-street. ON Sunday, the 22nd ult., at the church of Ebernoe near Petworth, Sussex, notice was given by the offi-iating minister at both morning and afternoon service t hat I, petition against the rettlin of atheists was lying in thc vestry for signature, and 'requesting the attendance of parishioners for that purpose. IN Algeria, M. Bringard, insPector of telegraphs, ha. been assassinated, with his escort, between Frandah and Geryville. Twenty-six men were killed. UP to Saturday 14 public Acts and sixty local statutes had received the Royal Assent in just five months fruit: the commencement of the Session. A TERRIBLE storm broke over Gatchina, St. Petersburg, on Saturday morning, killing a policeman, overturning a. granite column of the monument of the Emperor Paul in the Imperial Park, and otherwise doing an enormous amount of damage. A NUMBER of boys were bathing on Thursday afternoon in a pond near Redhill Junction, when they were disturbed, and ran across a level crossing. Just then thBrighton express was corning along at a great speed, and ' knocked one of them, named Goffe, down, killing him on ' the spot. Sin MASSEY Lorza, M.P., met with a bad accident while riding down to the House on Thursday afternoon, His horse slipped on the wooden pavement and fell upon him, breaking his leg in two places. Sir James Paget was fortunately at hand, and the hon. baronet is progressing favourably. • SAMUEL EVANS, a leading stoker of Her Majesty's ship Indus, was practising diving in jhe Hamoaze, Devonport, on Thursday; he had been under water 20 minutes, when, he was signalled to ascend. His response was, "All right," and he wits hauled up. When within three feet of the surface of the Water he was seen to clutch at the ladder. He was quickly hauled into the boat, but was found to be quite dead. Is the Chancery Division on Friday, before thellfaster of the Rolls, Richard Banner Oakley, who was sentenced to penal servitude for obtaining money by false pretences, and who was released last July, applied for an order for committal against Sir Thomas Braseey and his brother, Mr. Henry Brassey. The Messrs. Brassey are trustees of a deed of separation between Oakley ond his wife, and the deed contains a covenant to give Oakley reasonable access to his two children, a son and a daughter. The Master of the Rolls said that the daughter refused to see her father, and the son was in Texas. There was no evidence that the trustees had refused access, aud the eppliostion met be ref undo