The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Barcelona joum;1; Won-isin an 'donut of a her.
rible and almost Inonditble adadinstion of eve young
girls at Vioh, In Cate lords, It appears thot on the 210
ult,, MI its young girls, of the ties of 23, 21, 14, 13, 19,
an 4 10 years, were walking hems from Madge outran
mills, which are situated near the villas of Kodak to
Ingaroles, they were stopped by two miloremile who,
pldol In hand, obliged them to turn beak to 'solitary
plies in Sernsbou.wood. Here they were ordered to di
down, and while one wretoh kept guard over Ave, the
other led the eldest a few peed off and plunged his long
Catalan knife into her thrall, Her dying shriek was
heard by her oompsnions, who one by one were led away
and butehend. The youngest of all, a child of 10 years,
on readying a wound In Hie neck, fell, (Meiling throth,
upon which the domains, after taking the 111111 money
the gird had about (hum, went to the village of Radii,
where they lived, The dime MA perpetrated at night.
The wounded child remained motionless till daylinlit,
when she crawled tos neighbouring fannlionse, When
the authoritise arrived at (he NM of mime, they found
the three sided girls dud, and two desperately wounded,
The cause of this bloody ad I. said to hove been jealousy,
irking from some display of soquetry at a ball the pre.
ceding Munday, where the prettied of the girls, the one
of 21 yams', raided to dine' with one of the aduains,
or la return him a ring or sonic other love token. He
then looked for an doomplia, and found one In a neigh.
boor, The detimpliee, it appears from the depositlon
of the child, would have spared the younger ones, but
the other, alleging the danger of discovery, Insisted upon
their completing their butchers' work, Tlne authorities
are making the moat mitlve exertions to dleourer the
lurking idiom of the oulprlte, whose personal we well.
known to the workmen of the numerous mills.

PORTUOAL.
A letter, addressed to the Courrifr its NaomiAf, hu
the following partloulani on the subject—" The
Freneh Government has demended explanatione from
the Cabinet of Lisbon, and the latter, after having
replied to the Freneh Minister at that capital in a
manner which appeared to him setlefaetory, addreued
to the Portuguese Chargé d'Affairee in Perla a deepateh
of which the following is an extract analysis —The
Minister begins by summing up the original causes of
the disturbance, which he attributes to the tone in
whip!' the journals hare treated the question of admit-
ting Misters of Charity In Portugal, a tone maculated to
irritate popular feeling and to give rise to criminal
manifeetations. The Government expresses itself deeply
afflicted at these attempts. and declares that It lininedi.
ately took the necessary measures for their repression
but that, notwithstanding the greatest seal, It has as
yet been Impossible to disoover the parties who, on the
31st of July, threw stones at the nuns coining out of the
church of St. Louis de Franqais. Another nun having
subsequently been tbe object of similar violence, the
persons who °outwitted it had been immediately
arrested and delivered over to justice. In cionclusion,
the despatch reoeinutends the chargé d'affairee to do
everything in his power to assure the French Govern-
ment of the deep regret the Portuguese Government feels
at what has taken place, and of its formal intention to
punish the guilty and to take precautions calculated to
prevent the repetition of such toenail."