The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-10-12 00:00:00

TILE EIIPRESS'S VISIT TO VENICE.

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The Empress of the French, together with a nuir.erous
suite, arrived st Venice on Saturday morning
at half-pmt three o'clock. having performed
the journey from the frontier of Italy in the
train. She was received at the station by the Sindaco
- Prince Giovanelli—eud escorted to her boat without
pomp or ceremony of any kind, reaching her yacht,
which is anchored iu front of the Piassetts at • quarter
to four. A number of gondolas, some of them quaintly
illurnimated, followed her down the Grand Canal • hut
the sightseers, most of them tourists, were ecantily re-
warded for their early rising. The Imperial barge was
towed down the street by • small steamer belonging to
the yacht, sad quickly made the section of the city
Him Grand Canal .livides Venice into two equal parts),
leaving the gondolas • long way in the rear. There
can be no doubt that a demonstration at this time of
night would have been exceedingly inconvenient to the
Empress,. She was sleepy and somewhat indispoend,
and the night was by no means so serene as the lovers
of Venice might have wished. A sirrocoo had set in an
hour before, bringing with it a sea fog, which hid the
moon, and lay bite wool on he water. But the fog
dispersed at daybreak. and the sun rose with great
splendour over the honsmtupe. The F.:npresa's yacht is •
little larger than the steameis which p:y weekly be-
tweets V. !leveed Alesandria. it is fitted up in the most.
costly manner, with a gold eagle at the bow, and three
ridges of gold round the hail, which make a it look like a
' floating boudoir. Anyone can see at a glance that it
was made to please a lialfs aye.
A magnificent serenade took place on Sandny night,
on the Grand Cabal in honour of the Emeritis of
the French. The Hems and Pisszetta, and .01110 of
the Lagoons, were illunimated, and Beer.] lights mere
lit in diflerent parts of the Hive thigh Schiavoni. ma
(fleet was magical.
The Kong, on ;•mnday paid • visit to the Empress
in her yacht.
I. the piestitime. she Empress bad attended Mem at
the cathedral—Divine service being conducted by the
Archbishop of Venice. Her Majesty was mobbed ma
returning to her yacht by an eager, but not •
disorderly, crowd. Ills Eminence afterwards received
an invitation to lunch with her Majesty, which he
accepted, of course; and at a later hour in the day the
Imperod party visited the Doge's Palace, the prisons,
the Bridge of Sighs, An., as well as the Church of the
Greeks and the Campo Santo Stefano.
On Monday morning the Imperial party, visited 'the
Crypt and treasury of St. Mask, and afterwards the
Potts della Cads and the pedestals the Cathodes!.
Prince Humbert and the Principe Carignan° paid thele
addresses to the Empress at half.past one.
To Empress has made a 144i-image to Magenta.
The battlefield was lighted ty with Bengal lights, and
the huge grave where the Frenchmen were buried was
thrown let, strong relief. The Empress was moved to
tears, and ordered the train to be stopped. Walking to
the scene of 'former strife, amidet a tolerably large
gathering of villagers, who saluted her as she passed
, with every sign of sympathy and respect, sho
, approached one of the smaller graves, marked by a
' simple cross, and placed some flowers upon it— flowers
which she had plucked from a mound bard by. "1
have nothing but these flowers to offer you." said the
lady, "nothing but these flowers, my poor Frenchmen.
r Bat they are better than the thorns I and berm." And
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sic bruillied away some rubbish that lay on the grave.
Then, remembering that she had • bouquet in her
cirriage. she went back for it, and placed it at the foot
of the large monument of which she read the inserip.
tam, adding something in • low voice which no one
beard. Perhaps it was • prayer. When she went
away the people raised their hats. But there war less
shouting. Some one cried; others with their kind
'ltalian voices, called on Clod to bless her.
The Empress wore, almost sonstantly, • black silk
dr, ma, and • bonnet 4to Lohbia. Gloves and trim-
mings sober; mantle, or other wrapper, simple to
°loess ; drew; not too long, and boots invisible, or nearly
so. The Empress was every where received with the
greatest kindness and respect.
The Empress Eugenie left Venioe on Thursday morn-
ing. Ihr Majesty received a farewell visit from the
anthoritiee on board the Aisle, when she decorated the
Mayor with the aross of a Commander of the Legion of
Honour, and warmly expressed her thanks for the
cordial manner in which she had been received during
her stay.

A telegram from Bombay announces that there us
deficit M the ordinary budget of last year of £2,000,000,
and a farther deficit of £2,000,000, is ontioipated in the
preeent year.
Ma. C. Itrxrox, M.P.. spoke on the Irish land
question at the annual meeting of the North Waldman
Agricultural Amsociation. Mr. Button took the silo of
the Irish tenantry in their demand for security, although
not for fixity of tenure.
SUSPENSION OP A KAry COLLICOR.—The Western
Ma,/ annonnees that the collector of rates fur an
Important tqwn ship in South Walca has been
suspended from office on coconut of eery aetioas
defalcation., amounting to the enorinotia sum of £4.'ast.
having been discos( red in bit aecounta.

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TB; new national journal, the Peopic in Ireland, de-
voted three columns to • violent attack on Dean !Uwe,
of Tralee, who has been honourably distinguished for
lou Powerfa opposition to Fenianism in hi. Retries.
The rev. gentleman recently wrote to a local journal
prishing the language need in memorial of the Total
Abstinence Society, on behalf of the Fenian joisooers.
and expressing his satialaction that the Fenian factions
in Tralee "are now redtced to • few obscure (rader.
men, &c.—f or the most part • drunken lot, who are
,
notorious for their neglect of religious duties. and who
are the objects of the pity and contempt of the Qom-
muuity." For the use of this language the Dean ia
assailed In the most vehement manner. In another
article in the same journal entitled
.rh. Abnegation
of God" -a phrase need by Mr. Gladstone
with refer, nee to the treatment of Primm"s by
Kind Ferdinand of Naples -it is wad that "the horrors
of the state prisoner. of Nagle. pale before those of
thoso living hella—Portland, Poutotiville, and hurt'
moor," It la further said that "open the treatment of
"
O'Donovan (Roma), horrible and devilish as it is, pales
before the hell.inspired cruelty which is practised on the
I Fenian prisoners in Cuticle." A bomble narrative is
I then quoted fron. e Buffalo paper. the Veiled teiaAsnoss,
of the treatment pursued towards Thomas Goooey, which
Lad resulted in the Insanity of oho prisoner Lod the
article tosneludes ma follows "Think of that Kr.
William Ewell Gladstone. Ponder on that tale. John
while. Read It. Ye who holm that the leopard will aver
&angelus spots. Bead it, too, ye watchers for the dawn;
for the artery of Thome Orioney's madness may metes to
atrennthen your hearta and nerve your &rum We make
no further oomment upon this latest proof of England'a
' •sbn,satieti of God.' '"l'Le huhatau Writel ID &similar
straa, mu of its loaders to-day is beaded "
and hie victims." These journals have in immense dr.
rulation in the country. and I need hardly say that thoir
it-fit" Itiaturf articles ax, CSICIIIALPI (e do a great titml
mischief.