The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The wasting trade of Prsnoe is rapidly falling off
under the influence of Protection, and it would further
appear that an active warfare is now going on between
the canal and railway interests. The latter are par-
ticularly obnoxious to the Prohibitionists for having
purchased English rails, and tor being under the terrible
suspicion of leaning towards• liberal commercial system.
They have organised a general attack on railways.

AMERICA.
Lasaroot, Sunday.
The Royal mail steamship Persia arrived this morning.
with &deices from New York to the 29th ult. awl
$683,436 on freight.
The Persia passed the Arabia cad Prince Albert gate
Into New York.
The steamship City of Washington, hence, had arrived
aleameisip Hades had oleo ay!ived at Went
-..., steamship Priam Albert, which lon Ualway on
the 14th, Sashed her dock at Halifax on the 25th ult.
On the 17th she broke her screw, and had to depend on
her CaTVIMII the remainder of the pewits.
The following telegrams respecting the Atlantic tele.
graph cable had been published in the New York
papers—
New York, Friday Evening, Sept. 94.
Accompanying this I beg to hand you copies of recent
communications from the honorary directors of the
Atlantis Telegraph Company and myself to Mr. De
Santy, the chief electrician at the Trinity Bay ofßee.
Mr. De Banty's answers will be furnished for public&
Hon without unnecessary delay.
I think it proper to state, u the result of my in.
guiries concerning the despatch of Thursday front
Trinity Bay, announcing the resumption of perfect
signals through the cable from Valentia, that the an.
nounoement was made through a despatch from the in.
porintendent of the land lines in Newfoundland to the
agent of the Associated Press, and was unquestionably
fetorted in good faith ; but as the Information has not
iebeen confirmed by Mr, de Banty, who alone has full
nowledge of all the facts, I regard the etatement as
poatibly premature. It le conjectured that the shore
end of the cable at Valenti& must ho taken up for a dis-
tance of several miles, which, by reason of bad weather
sr other unavoidable donities, may occupy three or
four weeks. The depth of water within 200 miles of the
Irish coast ranges from about 50 to 400 fathoms, and it
is not doubted that even 250 miles of the able could be
raised LI deemed neoessary.
" Respectfully, ki„
"Carus W. Eau."

We learn from the Panama Star and Herald of the
9th ult., that Senor Jose de Ohsidle bad been elected
Governor of the State of Panama by • large majority.
The Costa Rica coffee crop was expected to be an average
one. A gang of some 40 thieves had been organimal in
Costa Rice and committed several robbenea ; they
finally attacked the madam* of the President, but were
caught and dogged by the Counuander•in•Clilef until
they oonfeesed their guilt. Two Papers, the Album
Semincti and La Union, which found fault with the way
In which the thieves were punished, have both been
suppressed by the Government. One of the gang was a
relation of the President, and the majority of them were
people of respectable families and well off. Part of the
gang had been banished to Quito Dula., and others to
Chile. The Honduras Railroad was looked upon as
entirely abandoned. A scheme wee on foot to raise
money sufficient to build a cart-road across the country.
There was Nome talk of hostilities with Salvador.
General Lamer, the United States' Minister, had left
Nicaragua and arrived in Costa Rica.

IRKLAND.—Ballincialoe Fair.—The official return of
the bleak cattle fair shows the following results :
Sold
'Unsold

Total
Lan year sold
Unsold
117,9110

Tug PENCIL OF WALES.—We understand that after
the 9th of November next, the Prince of Wales' 17th
birthday, Mr. F. W. Gibbs, C. 8., will retire from the
office of tutor to His Royal Highness, which he has
held since February, 1852, and that Colonel the Hon.
Robert Bruce will be appointed Governor to his Royal
Hignness. The Rev. C. Tarver will act as chaplain and
director of the Prince's studies. The future uerriee
to his Royal Highness will probably be appointed at the
same time. We understand that they are Major Lind-
say, Soots Fusileer Guards; Major Teesdale, C.B. Royal
Artillery; and Captain G. Grey, Rifle Rrigade ; and as
EAU". Equerry, Lord Valletort
THE Fos giori•orriog.—Mr. James Murray, of the
Foreign-offiee, has been appointed Assistant Under-Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs. There have been only two Under-
Secretaries since August, 1827, when on the resignation
of the Marquis of Clanricarde the third under-secretary-
ship was not filled up.
Tag WUTZRN BANK 07 SCOTLAND—The Messrs.
Baird, of Gartsherrie, paid the full amount of their call
on Tuesday. The family hold among them 1,886 shares,
and the sum paid, at £lOO per share, amounted to
£188,600.
Oa the Bth of Oct. last year, although the moment
was rapidly approaching for the break-up of the Western
Bank of Scotland, its shares were still in higher favour
on the Glasgow Stock-Exchange, and numerous trans-
actions took Waco at 70 to for the £.soshare,—a price
equal to 41 per cent. preininui.
MR. BRIGHT AT BIRHINGHAY.—A requisition is in
course of signature inviting the Mayor of Birmingham
to call 'public meeting at Birmingham on the 27th inst.,
for the purpose of giving Mr. Bright an opportunity of
addressing his constituent..
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ABUNDANCI Or FROlT.—Fruit in fdalton is this year
BO plentiful that some kinds are almost unsaleable. Last
week &gardener there, after sending a truck load of pears
to Thirskinarket, where no buyer could be found, and
then to Leeds with • like result, had to bring them back
to Idalton. In one instance the owner of an orchard
shook the fruit off the tree* and turned in his pip to
eat it.

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DEATH or COLONEL CAMERON.—We deeply regret
to hear of the death, at Bareilly, Rohilound, of Lieut.-
Colonel Cameron, C. B. This brave soldier, who by his
manly bearing and Christian conduct endeared himself
to the soldiers under his command, also attracted to him-
self the esteem of the whole town of Dover, during the
time his regiment, the 42nd Highlanders, was quartered
there. He died at the age of 43, after • short but severe
illness. His loos will long be felt, not only by the men
of the regiment he commanded, but by a very large
circle of friends to whom he was greatly endeared.

Mr. J. Vandenhoff intimates that the curtain will fall
upon him, on the boards of the Theatre Royal Liver-
pool, in the oharaotor of Cardinal Wolsey. He will
give six farewell performances, commencing with Julius
Cawar, on Monday, the 19th inst. Mr. Vandenhoff made
hie first appearthoe on the Maga at this theatre about
fifty years ago.
The jury have unanimously returned a verdict of
"Manslaughter" against Cooke, the guard of the Oxford
and Wolverhampton Railway, coupled with south strong
but just censures on the manner in which matter. are
managed on that line, and the want of a sufficient
number of servant'.
The Bank of Frankfort have again raised their rata
of discount. It was advanced to 4 per cent. on the 25th
ult., and is now placed at 5 per cent. The currency cir•
rangements at Vienna are doubtless the OSYSS of thew
theeptional movements.
By a decree published in Paris on Saturday morning
the exemption from the navigation dues for cargoes of
corn, dour, rico, and vegetables is prolonged to Sep.
timber, 1659.
Lath advises had been received at San Francisco from
Victoria, Vancouver's Island. The report" from Fraser
River are enoonraging. Thoth who had claims upon
the bars from which the water had receded milliciontly
to enable them to work them were doing well. Indian
difficulties were becoming very much talked about on
the river. A party of Frenchmen gut into a difficulty
with them, and two Frenchmen and two Indians were
killed. Subsequently a fight took plies at • rancheri•
on Framer River, in which ten Indian. were killed, and
two whites, one of the latter being a woman. A general
uprising of all the tribe was anticipated, and greet
excitement prevailed. 'When intelligence of the die.
turbsnee reached Victoria, Governor Douglas despatched
Richard Hicks, Commissioner of Crown Lands, to in
castigate the matter.
COLLISKIII OM THU EASTIHN COUNTISS RAILWAY.—
A serious collision took place at the Six-mlie Bottom
dation on the Cambridge and Newmarket Railway on
Saturday night. A special train of inuptyjhorse•boxe.
left Newmarket, and WAS followed about • quarter of an
hour 'herby &goods train. The liorse•hox train pulled up
at Btx.umile Bottom, waiting • telegraph from Cambridge
that the single line was clear, and the goods train rin
into it at the rats of thirty mill.' an hour. The tender
Wee first off the goods train, and the result was that •
composite first and theondolths carrier which WAS On
the honekok train, and the break•van of the thine were
literary smashed to pieces. Tilohinarsh, the eating
under•guard of the goods train, was literally smashed,
and Dioklucon, the guard of the ISMS, is severely in.
jured that he was not expected to 'circles the night of
Sunday. The tender of the runnintin train mounted so
high es to break the telegraph wire.. A man named
Ward was driving the runnicitin train it is said he
was drunk, and he certainly disregarded all signals. The
fireman of the running-in train jumped off and soaped
without injury; Ward also was uninjured I the latter is
under surveillance. Ward's fireman states that he dis•
linotly pointed out to Ward the red lights, but the latter
wilfully disregarded them. An inquest was held on
Monday morning. Poor Titchmank had only been
married a month. Dickman tea widower with eve
shedren. The two poor fellows were sitting oq the hack
of the oompoalte carriage, and one had literally to be
sewn out,