The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-09-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE );GYPTIAN PUNISHMENT FOR MUTINT.—Those who were afl )at in Alexandria harbour at noon on Tuesday witnessed the unusual sight of keel-hauling three Arab sailors on b )ard the Ezyptian frigate Soada. They were tried by court-martial, found guilty of mutiny, sod underwent this terrible punishment. The men were first flogged, and then tied to a rope hauled up to the p )rtsido yard-arm. They were then dropped into the sea, drag.god under the keel, and hauled up to the starboard side y.4rdarm. It is needless to say that death soon terminated their sufferings.  ADVICES frol/1 ingston, Jamacia, dated the 21st ult., state that Westgate, the Irishman who lately confessed to having had a share in the Phcenix Park murders, is imprisoned at Spanish Town. He adheres to his former confessions. Westgate is generally nervous and excited, threatening frequently to commit suicide. When asleop he raves wildly, and the doctor who is attending hitu says he is suffering acutely from intense exatement.  Tim sweets of office-holding in France are many. The Cabinet Minister lives in a palace where everything is provided for him down to plate and table linen, lie is addressed as "Excellency," and he has sentries at his door who present arms to him. If he wants to send his family to the theatre, managers are required to supply idin with stage boxes frce•of cost ; if he goes to the races, the stewards of the course receive him hat in hand and conduct him to a box in a reserved et md. That amusing writer, Alphonse Karr, relates in an early number of his Ourpes how he once called upon a new-fledged Minister who was an old schoolfellow of his and whom he had helped into office by his writings. But the great man frowned and ffilgetted ; Karr in coming to a mid-audience had omitted to put on dress clothes, and this was a breach of etiquette which to the new Excellency seemed very rievoue. A few weeks later the Exellency was out of ,ffice aid quite friendly again ; "but," says Karr, "he 3euld not reconcile himself to his fill. During a brief season he had lived in an earthly paradise, dispensing posts under Goverrteent, decorations, tobacco offices, and now he could n..• ..•or to liter the cabman address him simply as ' Me. He pined to be in office again, and he grew lemoo- and leaner ; and day after doy he climbed up ray bumble staircase to beg that I would write articles reminding the public of his • merits.'" These lines were written thirty years ago, but they sketch a state of things which bears some sliett resemblance, at least, to what exist now, judging by all accounts.—Timcs.  A BUM of £634 51. Wag realised laqt year by the Mint o 1 and and silver "sweep"—i.e., the duet swept fro n ikors.  Tim mond boast of the London and North-Westqrn way is that during three years and a half but one passenger was killed, and that an old lady. Tbe company carries fifty to sixty million passengers a year. No fewer than 16 cases of typhoid fever in the Eveaham rural sanitazy district have been traced to drinking gingerbeer, made with water from a contaminated well, and sold on the regatta day at Evesham.  THE Bishop of St. David's on Thursday re-opened the parish church of Llandawke, a Norman building of great antiquity, which fi r years has been in a moat ruinous and &timorous condition. The parish is only 620 acres in extent, and All the land except the glebe is owned by a single Nonconformist,while the population all told is only 21.  AN arrangement has just been concluded by Mr. Pearson, of the London firm of John Taylor and Co., on behalf of a syndicate of English capitalists, for the construction on the Edison system of an electric railway from St. Julien, in Savoy, to Ferney, and thence to Geneva, some 16 miles long, and the first of the kind made in Europe. TNE War Department has sanctioned the removal of Sandown Castle, on condition that the site remains the property of the Government. Sandown Castle is one of those grim-looking piles, erected by the command of the King, which still leni an antiquaran charm to our southeastern coast. Built in 1539, its stone walls, 20ft. thick owarrls the sea face, are a still standing monument of the laborious patriotism of our ancestors.