The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

larset 11UUIIII express
=MAT NO/MEM 19 1967 • •

Parliament will be opened to-day by Royal Com-
mission. but the business before the Home of
(.:ouerooes this week will be little more thin formal.
On Tuesday there will be. debate on the Address,
on Wednesday the report on the Queen's Speech
will he brought up, on Thursday the Queen's Speech
will be taken into oonsideratios, and Mr. Hunt will
move that "a supply be greeted to her Majesty,"
and, probably, on Tuesday, the 26th, the Committee
of Supply will be opined. in other words, the
real businessof the autumn session—the grant of the
funds for the Abyssinian expedition—will be ma-
ma:iced on that day, and although the usembling
of Parliament ham been looked forward to with
considerable interest, it seems most likely that
the general public will get tired of the debates hefore
they are over. There will be so little variety in
the banquet, that it will very much resemble Rine.
experimental Parisian horse flesh fiesta of which
we eicasionally hear—Abyminia in the present ease
*AMR the place of horse. The only relief, perhaps,
vie be a few questions and motions for papers upon
which desultory discussions will be got up. One
of the first questions, we may suppose, will rebte
to that bête noir of diplomatists, the Roman Quail:et,
and the Congress for which the Emperor Napoleon
is aid to have seat out invitations. We may expect,
also, to have the Manchester trials brought under
discussion to some extent; and, a matter which
may be said to have arisen oat of the Manchester
outrsge, vie., the arming of the polio. in vll6Ollll
1041111tieS, will be sure to be canvassed by some of
the Radical Members. Such topics as the Farnham
Werkheles exposure may also be brought forward;
bet all these will form only email acosinories to the
"Wee reessieueee and all the main dishes will be
Abyssinia in some shape or other, till Parliament
mud the pehlio will get tired of King Theodore's
bartemene dominion&

A calamity as awful as the imagination on
newel,'" has past overtaken, ai we learn by Atlantic
eolosicoph, on of the British islcuids in the West
Indtee Tortole bars sunk below the level of the
mos, aad its 8,600 inhabitants have perished. This
ia all we are told. No details are given, bat the
annonnassiest in its naked sleekness's is far more
striking and impressive than any mere accumulation
of details yield make it. We are left to imagine.
destraniee from which nothing has 'scalped, as
whoa • noble ship goes down in the opea
The probability is that the sinking, if it is neholmily
true, wee sadden, the continent with which the West
India lanai% arsgsulagisally camssated bolas [labia to
sLrnilar subsidenosh Tortola was the mast import.
nal of the British Virgin Islands, about siventeaa
midst long by two wide. It was a mountain rams,
broken tip in every direction, its highest summit
being 1,600 feet above the level of the an. The
island had been a British possession for jest two
hundred years. It wee very near to 81. Thomas's,
enters so much damage has jest been dome by the
barriasue, but from this no oommenity of origin
between the two diamten is to be inferred. The :
terrible new., however, labelieved to be at least se
exaggeration of what may have been a great climatic,
auJ up to the present time no incantatory imagina-
tion hse been received at the Government °Mow
An item of intelligens* has jam reached Liver-
pool, which eine may be disposed to regard as •
bad omen It is that the Bosphorus, one of the
ships which left Liverp hl with 'tons for the
Abyssinian expedition oa the 18th September, hai
loandind in Alps 1114010,tape of Goad Hope.
Nothiag appear* to be lo to OM fol• of
obe