The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

Tex A aburnal.

Upon the authority of two French journals we learn
that Prussia has accepted the Imperial offer of media.
ton. but will only accept the arcristice upon *stain
emditions, which it has communicated to its ambessator
at Paris. The principal conditions are said to be that
the Prussian armies ars to retain poisession of their
praent positions, the troops to be supported at the
expeuse of the country occupied. Austria is not to
increase her forme in Bohemia, or in the other countries
lof the Germanic Confederation and Italy is to occupy
I roe of the fortresses of the Quadrilateral.

The news of the oration of Venetia bee been eelebrated
In Paris by illuminations and other declarations of
rejoicmg, and the popularity of the Emperor menu to
have been much enhanced thereby.
1 The Vienna papers announce that the oaken in
oommend in Bohemia are to be brought before a noun.

It appears that the King of Prosvia haa recvived the
congratulation* of the Emperor. of France and RUBSiA
noon hia late victory.

6nutal Nsins.

l'as Reform Demonstration passel off quietly in
Trafalgar Square on Monday evening.

Tag death of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hobart
Towa is sonoaneecL

Tint Duke of Bedford has given a donation of £l,OOO
towards the enlargement el the Devon County School,
West Buckland.
I WHAT BAD MIAT Caw A CaritIFLIBH. —Thirtien
',tenons have been poisoned at Newtownards, Ireland,
by eating unwholesome veal, and two have died. Five
I familiee have been affected in ell.

cithr rilihnaneit. "aid
othPweorpertnoyre.THlp.PEproaSet—sedThiltureeeil,333Pta.in
year ending with March, 1886, an inmates a more Clan
L 31,000 over the product in the previous year.
Tar FIGHT WITH TB! FIWIANS. —The Government
has ordered an inquiry into the charges spinet Colonel
Booker, that gentleman particularly desiring that an
inquiry should %Peed' in justios to, himself. —Toronto
, Globe.

CONICIMICI Monnr.—ln the financial year ending
with Ilaroh, 1866, same amounting together to £7,434
were remitted to the Chanoellor of the &Rammer by
auodry persons for consiesoe sake. In the previous
year the amount wee £7,184.

WHAT HIGHT • FOUST)! HATT DONS !—Three sisters,
daughters of Mr. Martindale, of Kentotore•hall. Weet-
morelsnd, have increased the number of her Majesty's
subjests to the 'strut of sixty ind.viduals, as fames The oldest, 17; the soak 19; the youngest, 114.
/Tiverston ActsTrtiser.

THI Mftfterar.—Tbe Tams accepts Lord Derby's
Ministry as an interregnum, affordiog the best °poop
Utility of re-coortroating • Liberal Oabinet, liod is
thackfril that while ft wryer this purpose, and cannot
easily aseeed it, it also prorate aa appearance in itself
an thoroughly respectable.

I rim a speech made by General Peel at • county
dinner a day or two ago, we learn that the new
Government will instantly apply itself to the business
of arming the British moldier with the breech-loading
rifts, which will equal in rapidity of fire and warpage in
effect the Prussian needle gift,
_ _

Dr. LOSEITROTON hal- given Judgment in the
celebrated Bands and Nimes booty nue. Be ewards •
there to the representatives of Lord Clyde, who com-
manded in chief, and gives all the net to the foree under
the command of Gestural Whitlock. The claims of
"constructive captor." are wholly set aside.
Tea Rivanos Rrruzse.—The Revenue Returns for
tibueuer and quarter ending June Y.) show • much
deoresse thou was estimated, notwithstanding
the reductions of tem and income-tax. The lose on the
I quarter is only 385,000, and on the year the total
decrease ii £1,862,000. Every iUnt shows an increase
exempting customs and property-tax.
A Mae Boman ALIT& —Oll Wed.eed.y aa accident
, oeoured at Cbesterieki of • peculiarly horrible ushers.
Robert Barisal wes engaged at the Searedsle Brewery,
Chesterfield, and bed the oars of boiling beer in the
vete. He wee sub Jest to De, and it is suppoted be was
I seised with one whild sitting on the edge of the vat,
and fell into the scalding Maid. No one mw him fan
in. but be was found, almost directly after be had been
mimed, in the vet. He was quite deed, the flesh being
boiled of his bones, and his body presenting • shrieking
spaded'.
Tee lignite° of the British Association for the
Advsneesient of Same, for this year will be bald in
Nottingham under the presideney of Mr. W. R. Grove.
Recursions of edentate interest will be token to the
Midland Bathes). Weeks at Derby, Westwood
Cinder Hill, Annealey (the birthplest of Lord Byron'.
"Mar,"), Newstead Abbey, the Lterwent and the Wye
Valleys, and Charn wood Toilet. The Dukes ofiDevonettim
and Rutland, Mr. W. T. Webb, Yr. Ambrose de Laic,
lir. North,Buford Hell, and other gentlemen have
voluniesrod to entertain the members of the Assooiation
st these places.

Aiei CILIMUNAL letter appears in
Beterdey's rimes Btr,—The fisflowfne statement
appears in one ot
.lo4ty's mien Al the Warwick-
shire Quarter iiisesioes yesear&y I. &Airmen (Ur. W.
Dickies) posed • sentenes of mesa years' penal imor.
wiled* on i meg wen wood Beek, erbo bed been
imaTkied of Mali% two loam Witt* Tamil'. ma

Li-krr, on hearing the sontence, bad to be amwo
:114e dock, while his wife was removed in a '
Cam may one say whether this is a correct atatemeni
the case? If it be so, surely no strom.ms a aent,
will never be allowed to pass unchallengd by puLli ;
opinion.—Z.H.R. Jai"' 5."

CURIOUS CERSXONT.— very old awl curious Let
now almost obsolete ceremony, wao gees through u p
Sunda, by the young friends of a girl who wm
by as blow of a stoma, received while endeavouring to
restore peace in a row on Morrison's-road some thbe
oreoloony was that of walking in laype4p,
to the grave of deceased raising a monument
thn cue wag a high orals) to her bleruory. abd strewing
the gr.ve with dowers. The promisdoe consisted a
tea ..r toeles maidens, all dreured in white, with
hi .wing volle and wreaths compoeed of lilies of the eel..
on their heads. The custom is a very oil bot-i;
thi. ease Drat appropriate. The d.cessed wee drt
irreproachable character and aurisb:e dispoottloo._
Waterford Mar/.

CHANGING HIDE/L-0n PridaY night, for the firo
time since 1559, the Liberal party took its pleat an tit.
Oppoaition side of the Bosse of Commons, and 001.
dering how strong the force of habit is, more espego,
of a habit which has the strength of many yeen, it
not surprising that on the Horne meeting on Frith
several honourable gentlemen of Liberal preekediZ
strayed to the wrong aide, and only discovered thee
mistake by !Wing themselves among their liberal epee,
Dents. From the new writs moved for on Friday nog
the personnel of the new Government. so far, at hug,
RI it is composed of members of the Lower Hom,.
now no longer a scent, and it will be seen that, meet
in a fewianimportant instance", it differs little from the
later lists whieb had been previously made public 80n,•
of the names—those of the comic met of the Min atm
we suppose—were received with laughter by the Home.
DEATH Uspin PECULIAR CIIICUNSTASCIL—Tta
Brighton Norm:ter 'opened' onl Wednawlayl evening st
leggier Into the death of • Mrs. Warder, the .of rd
Dr. Warder, • physician, who has been staying as
Brighton for some time. Mrs. Warder, whose brother
is • surgeon practising at Brighton, was taken ill some
four or five years ego, and her brother celled in Dr.
Tads to attend her. Dr. Tule administered eer,e,.
remedies without moons, and finding that he could not
account for the disease by any natural came, he Dom.
niunioated this feet to Mr. Branwell. It was 11,.,
agreed that if on Sunday morning they could not come
to'a more decided conclusion as to the diagnosis of the
ease, another medicallimanjahould be called in. On lb.
Sunday morning, however, Mrs. Warder died DT.
Warder, on time suggestion being made to him. ensented
to • posTmortem examination. This .11.4 made by Dr.
Taste and two other medical men. They all agree that
death is not to be incanted for on natural canna. Th.
viscera have been sent to Professor Taylor for analyse,
and the inquest is adiourned for ten days.

Tat goody embellishments displayed by the Chinese
is a national characteri.tie, but when their" embellish•
ments" interfere with the whotesomeness and also
increases the price of a commodity we daily consumr.
thecastom then becomes decidedly objectionable. The
Chinese will drink none but Pure Tea, yet, to dentin,
the eye, they apply powdered mineral colosr to the
great bulk of that sent to England; they do this pri0p...17
to increase theil erode at the consumer's expense; for,
by making all growths appear alike, the low bro.:,
flavourless autumn leaves are passed aat a full price
with the best; hence the disapointment so often ts•
perienced by the consumers of the" faced" black and
bluish green kinds of tea. The remedy for this 1,
Hornionan's Pure Tea, without mineral eolour on its
surface, (the green, a dial olive, and the black not
intensely dark,) being the living growth, they are
exceedingly strong and delicious, as well as very
economical. Avoid 'milieus imitations, by purchasing
from the authorieed agents enumerated in our ad-
vertising oolums. Every Genuine Packet bean the
signature of" Hornimaa k C 0.," Original Importers of
the Pare Tea.

Rzroam.—Earl Russell has addressed the followirg
letter to the Plymouth Reform League, in reply to an
address from them —"li have to acknowledge • lemr
from yon enclosing an address to her Majesty siand
on behalf of a large meeting at Plymouth. I feel, in
comma) with Mr. Gladstone, very much gratified at
this mark of the accedence reposed in us. But while
Ministers of the Crown we did not think it expedient to
advise the Queen to dissolve Parliament, • measure
which might have adder to the number of the sup-
porters of the Ministry, but not in our opinion to such
an extent as to have enable us to carry the Reform Rill.
In such circumstances the recourse to a dissolution,
entailing expense and bitter contests, would not hale
been justified. Repeating my thanks for the marks of
approval you have sent to Mr. Gladatons sod me, I
remain, your faithful servant, RUSSELL." Mr. Gladstor
has written • reply to the invitation of Mr. Potter and
the working men of Lando* asking him to meet them
in public. Mr. Gladstone cannot accept the invitatior,
but he promises that the defeat of the momeet it. I
only lead more certainly to victory. "I look," le
says, "upon the recent resignatioc by Lord Itnmell I
Government of their aeries as one more onward !act,
towards the accomplishment of divlr object, and in the
hour of driest I have the presentiment of victory."

AN ENGLISH PIANAST'S COTTAGE AND ITN TINANT.
—lt WOWS to me that all the world over there is
nothing more rleasent to look upoo—on the outside at
least—than an English petulant • cottage. There us
home charm about it which the dwelling of lb+ labourer
in any other part of the world that I am acquainted
with has not. Mr. Birket Foster. the first painter of
English idyllic life we have had, ts never tired of repre-
senting it for ua. it may hoof reel briek,or of timbre, of
clay, or of stone, but it is always thatched, with • high-
peaked, thick, warm roof; and the windows look out
upon you throneb the moss -grown leave* like kindle
eyes from beneath • rugged human brow. And it
stands in its own little retch of garden ground, where
summer after mummer the old (+miller flowers bloom,
which have died out of our gardens now, but chich
Shaker's's' loved. It has its own little croft, ite cleat r
of fruit trees—" almost its own sky." Perhaps a large
elm overarches it, sprinkling the wind blown shadows
over roof and road, a oonnterchange of light and shade;
and just by, where the still lead, off from the highe•ye
through pasturea, the ground makes dip, and yon 10. lc
out upon • stretch of blue eountry—beyood the distal t
farm with its range of russet stacks, and the I:l2amive•
square church tower, where the reel of the vitiate
elusion, and the village labourers who ham finished
their days work on earth are resting till the master
shall cell them for their wages. This is the outside
view of things. But solo the inhabitant of this paradise?
Well, in the fir.t place, be is • machine. Now there
are other living machine*, spinning and weaving in out
factories and elsewhere. But in these ham= nature
some-times rebels against its bondage, and the men
breakes out at intervals into mine wild ezosies,after whit h
he returns to his mechanic toil as before. Bat in the
case of the farm labourer, human nature seems uncon-
scious of its degradation. The brain has been eonquert d
by the muscles, and be works on from year's end to
year's sad—shall we may sontentedly—fu the mine mill.
round of monotetions toil. His ally intelligens/ arouse -
meat, poor wretch. seems to eonsist in listening to
sermons, which he requires to be loud, and hot, and
strong; for he ie a little deaf from exposure, and rather
phlegmatic, and slow to be rowed. He may glee you
the appearance of dullness, but be is wonderfully sharp
and shrewd nevertheless in things which concern ble
imm I ediate ntereete, all the little brain he has being
concentrated thermic. He is thankful for small mercies
and little kindnesses, and rather easpleions as to the
motive* which induced them, as he finds it hard
believe in disinterested benevolence. Patient to
marvel, he bas learnt one great secret of ille—endarance.
After a sort, be is religious too, but not devotiotsl.
And death is almost lovely in his eyes, even though if
were annihilation : that which be enjoys above ..:1
tiinp being rest after long toil.—Macmd la s'i
Magasint for July.

PEILBMILTINGI THB DEVlL—Certain '• fast " young
gentlemen of Clifton are Jed now chuckling over the
means of one of the most during practiesi jokes ever
perpetrated. Not long stem, an sld.,ly bachelor, who
has the reputation of being very wealthy and very
miserly, was applied to for • entecniptiou towards some
charitable object; an.i for mown' best known to him-
off gave a point-blank refund to the application,
whereby he greatly offended the parties who, in their
rather liberal estimate of his generality, and eonsidend
him good at least for a ooupla of guineas. The affeir
got talked about, and mune to the ears of • party of
frolia.ome youths, full of mischief, who determined to
pry the old gentleman out for his selfishness ; end their
modal operandi was to favour him with a visit from
his Raton's! Majesty. A bold spirit was found wiling
to repreeent that well known char/tater, and at a I.te
hour one night this week the dangerous joke was carried
out. The pro tempers devil was well 'sneered viii
phosphorus, and carried in one hand • cesister of burning
sulphur, to give him the orthodox brigades@ odour.
In the other he bore • hock's-foot, well charged with
electricity. the said foot been attached to a noe-coisdeot•
ing Itsiodle, to prevent the Neaps of the electric fluid.
By moue memo this juvenile reprementive of " Auld
Hornig" managed to gain an entrance to the old rnUe-
rosn's sleeping appertment, and in the "very witching
hoer of night, when ehurehyards yaws, and hell ite f
breathes forth contagion to the world, made is appear
-
ono, at the bedside of Ms sloths. Suddenly awakened,
the poor man rubbed his eyes, stared, ruhbed his .7"
Iselin, and doubtless began to feel unoommoely uncom-
fortable. In a sepulchral voice his view reel,s°'
him to shake hands. Re tresubliegly obeyed,
_to'i
1 freort,iv:dhatm", ecinapled"rribkwithshothribfoofmnitee 444trieharsetargiid bulkof the
foot Attic left him very little doubt that the Lord of
Hades bad earns to balance up amounts. Pare' for
a few moments, he soon broke into • Mimes whine lon
mercy. The fumes of the burning sulphur, and the
fitful phosphorescent Bashes of lightest " Cloode's " ace
were evidently to mush for him ' • and his whine soon
broke into a
"Oh,
of terror. "Come with me," mid
thiWeeet " no, not —DO. yet," easwerei the hots• .
hat mem, mu you expect. when you give Dothing
to the poor?" asked the devil. "Oh, spare me. o'd
eve all I've got." sweetest the bedeviled. " Will
y?ti subscribe to—fund rquesied Mr. Mephistopheles.
' Anything yet " replied Mr. Dives. And so tl,"
faros went on, until at length the Pendeniotitc'l
'oedemata gained his point, and quitted the bedrari
with • haa4om• &maim in his misale pocket. Itia'n"i
the old gentleman in a eekl perspiration, from which
we should imagine, he has hardly yell reemered.
thing strikes us as being rather iseaseieteet, and thti "
that the real " roaring Bon" doese't as a rele, intt biiO
self out of the way foe the mere peeves of tra. mmenint
bad people into good omen He womilel
_sso doubt.bsr
been much better satisfied if all miserly Ilentl9l2"
remained miserly end under no protases whatever con'
tributed astrit'elsie *sate.