The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

PRICE OF CONNOLII.

MoMPAY XVIINIMU, Amer U.
For Money and Account aoi to 001
For Now Threes end Reduced 001 to 901

CHINA.
The following la a translation of a dispatch which
appeara In the Waltonr respecting the 1912011141 en of a
Wady with Uhitia 1—
NI. PITIMINUNG. Aug. 90.

THI FllllllOll ANIMINADON TO THI MIHIUTIR OP
?WINOS APIPAINII.
A °Duller who left Tlen•sin on the 17th of June over.
land, he. brought the news to Print* Gortsolialioff that
▪ treaty hill been oonoludefl between Mina and Hustle
identical in 114 general bases with those concluded
between China and the other Powers. Ti.e pork are
open, the free exercise of the Christian religion allowed,
the entabliahnient of °ennuis admitted, as ilia the nod.
Ins (l'introi) of diplomatic agents to Pekin, If nunnery,
(en cue de beeofit').
Fromm and England have, moreover, obtained a eon.
elderable pecuniary indemnity.
DUKE of MONTEBELLO,
(French Ambassador at Et. Petersburg.

A utinuA.
We hive received the following telegvem from our
Yawn& correspondent :
VlrtenA, Aug. a
The Empress of Austrie WU safely delivered cd a Pfil3oo
lut night.
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The plagne—resembling In Its main feature, the great
scourge of the middle agen—has been committing Natal
ravages In Tripoli. It ;wears that of the 12,000 pervons
inhabiting Bongos!, 8,000 fled ; of the reiodue 1,500
were attacked by the epidemic, which proved fetid in
800 instanoes. By • telegram dated Malta, the 18th
hut., we learn that it was on the decline.
Visoount end Viscountens Palmerston left town on
Bnnday evening for Pert., in which capital the noble
Viscount and Visommtes propose to make • few weeks'
atay.
MURDER, AND CONFUSION OF EDI MURDERS/I.—
William Burgers+, • navvy employed at the SwAnwea
Docke, was on Thursday apprehended on &charge of
murdering his own daughter, aged six year'. The
m irder was committed nearly • month ago at the village
4 Simonebath, Somerset, but up to the apprehension of
the father the body hal not been disoovered. The
(other has several children grown up and out at service,
but the little girl, Sarah, had been put out to nurse on
the death of her mother, and about a month ago the
faller fetched the child from the foster mother, stating
that he was going to take her to Porlook to live. Binoe
that time the child has not been aeon alive, and the
suspicions of the police being exalted, search was made
In the neighbourhood of Slinonsbath, and at length
their inquirlea led to the discovery of some portions of
the child 'e dresa burnt almoot to ashes, and near to •
plane when the father bad been at work were found
tram, of blond. The father, on leaving with Ida child,
went ;terms; the Channel to Swansea, where he WM ap-
prehended on Thursday, and blame the °Meer had time
to tell him the charge Against him lie mitaittod the orinie
and asked if oily of hie children had seen the body of
their miAter, hi. hag been conveyed serail to Somerset.
shirt, where the inquiry will take place.

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of
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tllLitUaNtAT:ol.s.—lelsti
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Bloomfield wee charged with the wilful Murder of his
wife, at Lyme Handley, by killing her with a hatchet,
as site lay in bed. From the oonitnission of the murder
to the day of hie trio) the prisoner had been confined in
the Cheshire Lunette Aayluin, and on being brought
Into court the learned judge, Mr. Justice Crompton,
ordered a jury to he empanelled for the purpose of de.
ehling whether the prisoner was In e fit etate of mind
to plead. The jury found "Thot the prisoner lii of un•
sound mind, nil not in a fit stale to pivot or tilts his
trial," and iti was accordingly refunded to pnoon. A
repreeentatlon of the owe was made to the Home Beare.
tory, And on Huntley week an order °eine fur Were:novel
to Buthlehein in tit, London. The meth.
041 attendant at the Collie thought It would be Imola
to handcuff him, end In mummy with a turnkey nemed
Oliennshew, and a hay who was on his woy to a reform.
*tory school, he woo looked In the moond.olase eouipart.
mini of a rallwey °origami, the train leaving Cheater it
10.411 mm, Nothing pertioular ooeurred until the trimn
arrived it the Watford tunnel, which is a mile lung,
end 'boot 17 infirm from London when, just as the
train was emerging from the tunnel', Bloomfield gave the
turnkey s4Oll a terrible blow 'A to knock him mmaeless
off his seat, and thy nest moment the manlike die.
appeared through the window. He wee seen by severe!
pereono In the train to seramble op the embankment of
the rollwoy, but ill tram, of him from that moment
appeorol, The trim n was going it the rate of 40 miles
Alt hour, and It Is eupposeil thot he can horill hove
scooped unhurt, Then le on extensive wood ad
the spot where Its made his 'soon', and It woe though
it first that he lin seorited himself In it, though on
mortihing the wood with dogs no Irmo of him woe die.
covered, A reword of eti hot been °Mired for him op.
prehension. Thu turnkey who hod amompenied him
only returned lit. on Thiirsday evening, having bean in
sermull of him sines Monday.