The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-19 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE

KING OF "kik:

All the f wiggle ambauadors in London hare called
at the Italian Embassy exprsering their sorrow at the
attempted assassination of the King of Italy, and
congratulations on his escape.

THE AFGHAN AF7ATE.

I,lrd Lawr—ele-ea 117s-w7rif-int t.17-tie Pre—mier to-day
(Monday). asking him to receive a leputation from
the Afghan Committee on or before Wednesday. The
deputation will welt the Government to postpone
hostilities until the Amines reply Ism been pubished

THE IA/MBARD BANK DIRECTORS
Were acquitted thi. (Monday) morning, Justks
Hawkins irdlang that the evidence was insufficient
to support • criminal charge.

LATEST.

The Secretary for War anti the First Lord of the
Admiralty arrived in London this (goods)/ morning
from their t uir of inspecth us in the Mediterranean.
The Lord Chief Justice was able to take his Neat
the Court of teen's Bench this (Monday) morning.
Ills Lordship still chewed signs of illness.
William Stafford, the bank clerk, who absconded
from Liverpool with 1:15,001), has been sentenced to
seven year* penal servitude At the Old Bailey t s•day.
The fl sad. at Norwich have sobaided three feet.
Three thousand person. sought shelter in public
buildings Sunday night, their homes Laing inundated.
Earl Beaconsfield, who has br.en the gated of the
Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham since
Saturday, will return to Mr. Montague Corry's
residence in London to-day (Monday.)
In the I.mbvi Bankruptcy emrt on Saturday the
failure was announced of E heard (lenre. Chapman,
build., and r .ntrar•or, of Brixton, for 1:100,001,.
One of the jurymon on the PfilleOU Alice Mooed who
dissented from tho ronlict sends a letter to the Standard,
sypeegaing hii 011.11011 that such • queer finding was
altogether at variance with the weight of evidence.
The depression of sericulture In this country is b9ginning
to tell serious!). noon roots. The Load ANltil Rreord
Irs-ns that tho Nattlnzhanashire agent of the Duke of
Newcastle has rereiv.vi something like twenty notices to ,
quit from bunts In that county alone.
Lord It a fi.117 was On Saturday elected Lord Rocorder
of Aberdeen University. by • maiorlty of 314 to 12at over
Mr. Cr.., the Rome Socrotary. Lord Rogebery bad •
maiooitv in throe of the four "nation.' into which the
Univaraity is divided.
N, , . hav tem rconvel at Sydney of the massacre and
esa, img our native
.mbstonary teachers I o rannlhala on
Vie i nd oi 'an, -no or the An r .so oIN
In April 14,4. An yen -IA on was Malt ageiu.t ta
murderers, v.v. and many ruoi•
woo' II It W • gsa, rise to the report of
a .0, dam. in New Zealand.
Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury parsing through
Lynn this morning their return front visiting the
. d Princess of Wales at
_ . _

Prince an.. -. Sandringham. were
',menu.' by the Mayor with 'congratulatory addresses
horn the Inhabitants; of the borough. They were
enthu-imtically received.
The Duro m 11 erne e eye was before the Giurt of
A ?rhea on Saturday. at. u on arid icon= ass made on
behalf the Bishop of Beth and Wells to enforce pay.
meat by the Rev. J. fl. Marriner of £5lO, cost, incrred
the recent loigation through the refusal of the bishop to
Institute the rev. gentleman to the living of Marston
Magna. Mr. thinner, who said be had already paid leis
solieitior £1.510 for costs, mired to hare time elven him;
but Lyra Pens .nce made an order for payment forthwith.
The Court will be placed In mourning, swing to th•
death from diphtheria of the youngest daughter of the
Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, which sad event
I. silt place on Saturday. The Grand Duchess is
Princsm All.. of Great Britian. The Grand Duke
and three more of his children are likewise down in
tphtheria; but according to the latest accurate they
• Isle no immediate danger.
The London correspondent of a Manchester evening
antemporary writes as follows :--" Is Lord Lorne to
se made Viceroy ",uch Is the rumour in Conservative
clubs. We have a Viceroy of India and a Viceroy of
Irelend ; why should not 6ord Beaconsfield make the
(I-teen's son-in-lasr a Viceroy of Canada' It would
s ,und so nice to the Imperial ear at Balmoral."
It i, intended to ark the Mayor of Manchester to
4•Nil a town's meeting for the purpise of aaking that
Parliament shall be consulted before a war with
Afghanidan is entered upon. The memorial request-
ing the Premier to summon Parliament Immediately
has been signed by the Duke of Westminster, Earl
Grey, and a largo number of other influential person-

sct.• cave orating out ri the assault which took place be
the hunting field near Taunton some ten months ago. WU
before the 0 eat of Appeal on Saturday. It will be
roluesubere4 that the assault acme out of • refusal of
• farmer named Summerhave to allow the gentlemen
following the Taunton Vale foxhound. to crone a field of
his. The assail•nts, two gentlemen named Paul and Elite,
on being summonol before the magistrates, were fined:
and it was se-abet that decision that the appeal wag
lodged_ Lord Coleridge, however, ruled that the meek'.
tonal convection most be sustained.., however valuate
and interesting was the sport of fox-bunting, it could not
override Vat ordinary and weliestablished laws of property.
The appeal was thee:fon reinitiate
Another attempt to amassinatc a monarch is reported—
int. ...led victim thin time wing King Huinlotrt of
eta). While hie in dotty was • r tering Naples in state en
veil.', • mat. Approach...l the It Tel carriage, and tried
to et .1. Lim with • pedant in the struggle, Signor
Guyon, tt -• dation Premier, soh. sta-a in the same c rouge
ii the King, receive I • w mai in the thick; but hie
gro,ary, who drew hi. sword on the woul aart..in
*taped a ith only a sera h Intim.. Indignation at the
g -manna. attempt prevails through tut Italy. The asm.ein
declares that he linionzs to no roefety, and roas asausasesi
riga!). by pen mal hatred (caned. the King.
The Hisuolista tooted • victortr:repih• Arebbiahnos on
Friday. at a meeting i coo of the Gospel
Society. The examining bond of fonstx. which is
appointed the Archbishops and the lt.bop. of London,
recently ref ti.od to accept the service. of • tuiotionaron
the ground of his refusal to my whether he would give up
hie connection with tho notorious Brotherhood of the
eddy erns. By the rot pawed on Friday, the Society to
rottrired to accept any no.sionary who offers himself with
the certificate of oily Bishop. The reeolution was pro.
e.l by a Kr. hier.hati, who indulged in such etroug
language againet the Bishop of London that Bishop
Claugliton left the room.
The distr., in the North of England is affording the
South Augr,ban emigration agent' an opportunity for
successfully o-ri ins themoelves. A considerable number
of agricultural labourers in Northumberland ars said to
have been eecured, and the state of the labour market
aeterally is indicated by the fact that, during last week,
nearly 5,000 person. applied to the agents for insistence to
emigrate. Only navvies and farm labourers, however,
were mlected.
A courageous widow, named Ann It tiny, who avowed
herself "afraid of no man." was among the prosecutors in
the Liverpool Police-court en Tuesday. when &rough-look-
big fellow, named John Smith, woe committed for trial for
burglery at her house. Though alone she seised the
prieoner •s he was .t.,iking • match. He got away from
her, but her cries brought • piliceman, who might the
prisoner nit an entry, where he bad taken refuge,
Wild.' the Erialish people sae nothing before them but
• seri ins increase of taxation, their more prosperous
neighb tun in France are promised • reduction of the
public burthena At a meeting of the Budget Committee.
at Versailles on trbunday it was determtned to reduce
the taxes on bill etampa, oils, and chicory, to the extent
of nineteen millions of franca. The ex planation, of course,
la that cAawrisisse —the French term for Jingoism—is
held in abhorrence by both Government and people.
A Olotwootoroldro correspondent of the Agricultura
Gazette expresses he opinionthis week that "rents must
be lowered. tinny farms he adds, are being let at •
reduction—in some crams of MOO • year. It some.
to observe that while the above correepon.
whatet="; sibuut planting.. "almost ffnisbed" in the
dentt tmt.,* that wheat
sooorthignty.".•
not
comosmodton grthea s
that markt Two set, at
paramea agasm2 plough' are mad to be in theneighbour'
hood 01 Taunton. and to lavo boom busily