The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1882-09-08 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MCTINT.—Those who were afloat in Alexandria harbour at noon on Tuesday witnessed the unusual sight of keel-hauling three Arab sailors on h iard the E.iyptian frigate Soa la. They were tried br found guilty of mutiny, and underwent this terrible punishment. The men were first flogged, and then tied to • rope hauled up to the p yard-arm. They were then dropped into the sea, ilriiggvd under the keel, and hauled up to the starboard eide yardarm. It is needless to say that death soon terminated their sufferings.  ADVICHin from Kingston, JAIDACIA, dated ths 214 ult., state that Westgate, the 'Selman who lately conferments having had a share in the Pluenix l'ark murders, is imprisoned at Spanish Town. Ile adheres t his former efinfessions. Westgate in generally nervous and excited, threatening frequently to commit suicide. When asleep he raves wildly, and the doctor who Is atr-nding hint says hell suffering acutely front intense exateinent.  THIC sweeta of office-holding in France are Inlay. The Cabinet Minister lives in a palace where everything is provided for him down to " plate and table linen. He is addressed as " Excellency, ami he has retold', at his door who preaent arm. to him. If lie wants to send his family to the theatre, malingers are required to supply him with stage boxes free of roil; if lie goes to the races, the atewards of the course receive him hot in hand and conduct him to a box in a reserved ,tantl. That amusing writer, Alphonne Karr, relates in an early number of his Omrprs how he once called upon a new-fledged Minister who was an old schoolfellow of hie and whom lie had helped into Ohre by his writings. But the great man frowned and &hotted ; Kerr in coming to a niid•audience had omitted to put on dress clothes, and Cide Wilela breach .4 etiquette which to the new Excellency Premed very :rievosis. A few weeks later the Exellency was out of Alice and quite friendly again; " hut," says Karr, "he Nuld not reconcile himself to his Hi. During a brief mown he had lived in an earthly paradise, eispenning posts timler Government, decorations, tobacco Mikes, and bow be mad Ivol.e to hear the cabman /Mikes, him Me. • He pined to be in oilier, again, :led he grew Winer and leaner ; and day after day he elimbed up my humble stairca,o to beg that I would write articles reminding the public of hie • merits.'" Theme lines were written thirty years ago hut they sketch a state of things which bears tome phil t resent. Mance, at least, to what exist now, judging by ail accounts.— Times.  A gum of Mk 54. was realised last year by the Met gold sod silver "sweep"— i.e., the dui swept from Lore.  THE proud boast of the 'London And North:Western Rair way is that dining three yearn ands halt but one passenger wee killed, and that an old lady. The company carries fifty to sixty million passengers a year. No tower than %canes of typhoid fever in the Brenham rural sanitary district have been traced to drinking ginger. beer, made with water from a contaminated well, and sold on the regatte day at Evenham. THZ Bishop of St. llatitre on Thursday re-opened the parish church of Llandawke, • Norman building of great antiquity, which kr yearn has been In a moat ruinous and dangerous condition. The parish is only 620 ,acres in extent, and all the land except the glebe is owned by • 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 an the Edison system of an electric railway from St. Julien, in Savoy, to Forney, atol thence to Geneva, some 16 miles long, and the lint of the MINI made in Europe. TIM War Department has sanctioned the removal of Sandown Castle, on condition that the site remains the property of the Government. Rundown Castle is one 01 thees grim-looking piles, erected by the command of the King, which still lend an antiquarian charm to our south. modern coast. Built in 1539, its atone walls, 20f I. thick towards the sea face, are a still standing raoaasseat alb* laborious pateiotlesu of oar soosstore.