The Poole Telegram. — 1882-09-08 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE EGYPTIAN PUNISHMENT FOR MUTINY—Those who were afloat in Alexandria harbour at noon on Tiles. day witnessed the unusual sight of keel-hauling three Arab sailors iel hoard the Egyptian frigate Soada. They were tried by eourt-martial, found guilty of muti.ty, a al underwent this terrible punishment. The men Wore fir :t flogged, and then tied to a rope hauled up to the p r. 5 yard-arm. They were then dropped into the sea, drag , under the keel, and hauled up to the starboard side v arm. It is needless to say that death soon termbia' ed their sufferings. ADVICES from Kingston, Jamacia, dated the 21st idt., date that Westgate, the Irishman who lately confes-ie.l ti having had a share in the Piaenix Park murders, is imprisoned at Spanish Town. He adheres to his f confessions. Westgate is generally nervous and ix. to I, threatening frequently to commit suicide. When it•kcp he raves wildly, and the doctor who is attending him says lie is suffering acutely from intense excitement. THE sweets of office-holding in France are runny. The Cabinet Minister lives in a palace where eVerythi^g is provided for him down to plate and table linen. Ho is addressed as "Excellency," and he has sentries at is door who present arms to him. If he wants to send h.a family to the theatre, malingers are required to supply him with stage boxes free of cost ; if he goes to the rt." the stewards of the course receive him hat in hand and conduct him to a box in a reserved stand. That anntiine writer, Alphonse Karr, relates in an early number of his aurpes how he once called upon a new-fledged Minister who ens an old schoolfellow of his and whom he lied bellied into office by his writings. But the peat inan frowned and tidgetted ; Karr in coming to a mid itidience had omitted to put on dress clothes, and this was a breach of etiquette which to the new Excellency seemed very llevous. A few weeks later the Exellency was out of ffice and quite friendly again ; "but," says Karr, "he 3ould not reconcile himself to his fall. During a brief se.ison he had lived in an earthly paradise, dispensing posts uroler Goveri.,,ent, decorations, tobacco offices, all now he could ne r to hear the cabman address him simply as • M.,. .' He piticd to be in office again, and he grew 1. seer and humor ; and day after day he climbed up my humble staircase to beg that I would write articles reminding the public of his • merits.'" These lines were written thirty years ago, It they sketch a state of things which bears some eligl t resemblance, at least, to what exist now, judging by all accounts.  A BUM of £6:31 54. was realised last year by the Miut gold and silver "sweep "—i.e., the dust riwept hoe moors.  THE proud boast of the London and North•Westerti liail way is that during three years ends half but one passenger was killed, and that an old lady. The company carries fifty to sixty million passengers a year. No fewer than lti cases of typhoid fever in the Evesham rural sanitary district have been traced to drinking gingerbeer, made with water from a contaminated well, and sal on the regatta day at Es esliatn.  THE Bishop of St. David's on Thursday re-opened the parish church of Llarclawke, n Norman building of grent antiquity, which fcr years has been in a most ruiumm ad 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 joist been concluded by Mr. Pear. son, of the London firm of John Taylor and Co., on behnll 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 fil,rievn, some 16 miles long, and the first of the kind mile in Europe.  THE War Department has sanctioned the retri,,val of Sandown Castle, on condition that the site remains tlis property of the Government. Sandown Castle is • tie oi those grim-looking piles, erected by the command of the King, which still lend an antiquarian charm to our s..nthseatern coast. Built in 1539, ita stone walla, 20ft. thick iowards the sea face, are a still standing monument of the laborious patriotism of our amatory.