The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-03 00:00:00

THE THREATENED PROSECUTION AGAINST
DANE DIREA:PORS.

A Leask.* (=temporary says that no steps will be
taken agiunst the directors and officials of the old West
el England Bank until after the examination of the
books and account(' of Messrs Booker and of the bank
In completed. It is douldful cow whether the yeoman
lu the neighbourhood of Bristol will e pcsocutor;
but there are other prosecutors in resens, so that the
ease Will not fail for want of them. It has keen calcu-
lated that, if the director. bed declared only live per
cent. dividends, and pia aside the balance of profits
towards meeting the losses uo Bou.er's and FothergiW.
debts, there need not have bees any call on the 'here.
holder., The dividends, however. Lave ranged from eight
per rent. to fourteen, having been—eight for PITO, ten for
Is7l, twelve for lat. fourteen for 1873 and 181-1, ten for
1575, and eight for Itqf end PCT.
Tuesday night's Pall Nall Garret* contains llte follow.
lag:— " The Exeter shareholders committee have
unanimously resolved that, although they did not con-
template the criminal prosecution of the directors and
officers, yet, foiling that course has been resolved so by
she Home Secretary, the committee will be (mite ready,
without incurring pecuniary responsibility, to take such
part as may le in their power in obtaining the necessary
evidence, and in otherwise aiding the reosecution."

THE TREATY WITH AFGIfAIgigAN.

•
The followiag is a sontomy of the artielim of the
Treaty of Peace concluded between Major Cairegpart end
the Ammer of Afghanistan :
Mt I declares that pause and friendship shall hence- •
forth soloist between the contracting parties.
Art. 2 proclaims an amnesty guaranteeing the Ameer's
sehaects from all punishment or molestation on account
of their intercourse with the British forces
Art. 3 stipulates that the foreign arfairs of the Ameer
shall e conducted wider British advice, and that the
Milder shalt be supported by the British Government
against foreign ageression.
Art 4. A British resident is to be appointed at Cabul,
provided with a pn.per escort, and haring power to depute
British agents to the Afghan frontier on special
occasioas The .illisser alio permitted to depute again an
ludas.
Ar .5. Ito. Anwer guarantees the safety awl honour-
side treatrosst l3 agents in his dominions
Commereid frcilM3lss LAMA the subject of • separate
• sareenoon, concluded for a term of twelve months
XIII °PORT. Telegraphic communication is to be established with
~Zfl ea WußSTa's BISIM DiT —SI Mirday teat. the Wit .4 4..1.11 vos the KUrr in Valley. The territory at present
-. belts the anuiversary of the Q. 1.1111.• bir,bdsy, in British occupation is to be retort to the dmiser. with
secovelleg to enetern. harmers were twisted soon the the eaeaptioa of the Kuno... Pishio, and &id Valleys,
mere( she parteh church and the parapet of the Tows the lamer remaining tk districts assigned to the British
MAIL tUovernment. the Amcor receiving the surplus revenue
Potdca Simemeetog.—The majority of tbe meo of the eft.' "Yte"ht of the ad""i‘trative exP`""" The
has. list haaa int0...T...4
at the
station. British setholUes sip to have complete control of the
ih. f
psi
ft for lb. district lihyher and Mielon Fames, as well as of the relations and
Matt& a Wilke/ Captain Astyatt. and Sept Maeffoe independence of the frooMer tribes in the district in
II" PiNeat The *ma of UN ea"' which the Passes are el The dineer is to receive
were ws 0." tt annual pubeitly of x I
weism. MIL with the peaselem wee '4h.
agemparmii is idol:, sihis strict execution of the treaty. Mixed Commission
• will ckteratioe Anglo-Mame bounden....

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PROM THE WHITEHALL ItITIBW.

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The relations between publishers and authors ant in
these data, becoming somewhat strained. Tor instance,
I member ol • publisoing firm had considerable Winne
transactions with an eminent authoress, and they Wm'•
naiad with • telegram from him to her in these words,
" Thank God I have done with you r
A friend of mine, coming from New Yea lately, was •
fallow parent. with • Yankee who never by any chance.
except when be wee eating or sleeping, dad I tiger oot of
his mouth. "I have sem • good many &lookers; said my
friend to this individual, " but I sever saw such "1"40.
able chimney aa you arii." "Yes," was the reply
anz food of my Hevannab. I caul Het without nef
lievannal, sod! have lett instroctioos that on. Ii ti be
Put litho my coital when I die." "And," Interiecieei
another Ythkee of the party, " I guess you won't have ti
go for a bed, anyhow 1"
reis asseioto being repeated in the presence of two
'women' of the rising female generation, one evidently
enjoyed it, but the other looked very solemn Indeed.
When they got together out of On room, shoo( the mime
turn of mind said to her companion, "That was • very
naughty tale that your uncle told. I know that these an
all ants of nice things in Heaven, but I am sure there are
no eigar-lighte there." A right-mlnded chili, that.

It can scarcely be said that the gusset's birthday parade
at Aldershot wee much ad usual, seeing that the various
battelions aro rapidly being converted into skeletons, and
that, at regard. drafts, the cry is "Still they En.' The
cavalry are now ',sinning to feel the strain, 150 horse,
being under orders for the Ceps to supplement the
regiments out there. This falls more weverely on the
Limon.. than on any other cavalry corps, there being only
two regim -eta, the 501 and 16th, at boon to feed the three
abroad. dome modification of the a:Lodi:mimes of twill mod esouredly have to be made, for it is pareti=
ridiculous that a wee such ea that now going on in Zulri•
lend should redeye the boa's army, from first to last, to a
date of almost Impotence,

At • short distanca (root AI lershot lives • Mr. Topper,
who., reputation is " proverbial' to camp, and who
unddsdads tits " philosophy" of do-breeding. with the
kindred wagon of rat and pigeon slaughter. Th• other
day th.s wall.known pri.ol.i. napped out of • railway
carriage on to tin p atfurin at Watarloo Sutton, gat up in
• nit of most Irreproachable bLack. hat•hand and all.
Q loth • sympathetic son of liars to him, " I am sorry to
are you C. 111111( up to town on so melancholy an errand."
" Wad errand r sad the unmoor. " Wall, from your
style of dregs, I imaginad ttiat you weregoing to • funaraL"
" Tongral hg IMowod," haswered Kr. Tupper; " fss cents
my to buy rad"

lleing in the neighbourhood of St Philip's Church,
Salk Court Road, • Sandy or two ago, I entered the
portal of the sacred edificw.—not, I must confess, for the
purpose of saying my prayers, but simply to escape • pass-
ing shower. A. then ammell no likelihood of the rain
ever caul oh I took • meat within the church Just In timii
to be the op 'cantor of an larident perhaps unparalleled In
the ecclemastical =mai of lisusington. Toms had been
• collection, but so small wail the gum realised that the
rector, alter scrutinising the miserable array of three-
penny and fourpenny pieces, startled us all by announcing
that, as tne offertory we. very small, he should lnaist upon
the plated being sent round again I So a hymn was sung,
and a fresh collection made, with. I fur, but little better
rrsult
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