The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-12-13 00:00:00

THE EMPERON NAPOLEON ON THE WAR.

A pamphlet,under the name of the Marquis Cricourt,
just published at Brussels, enloidaes the Emperor
Napoleon's peaceful policy, and throws the blamo of
the war on the French nation.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The Turks are not very confident of i peaceful solu-
tion. The fleet is under immediate orders for service,
and a complete system of torpedoes has been organised.
Generals bheridan and Forsyth expressed themreives
well satisfied with the efficiency of the Ottoman army.
On the other side, extensive warlike preparations have
been made at Kertch.

The MINUI4 of fleadfort Eul Bectire,
member for Westrboroland, sucmeds him.

Another lesrful storm has sw..pt over the American
gout, causing greAt damage to shipplog aud serious hus
of life.

Avery sevrro snowbtorm prevailed on the Northern.
berland coast on Wednesday forenoon,
Largo quantities of herrings continue to he taken
off the eastern coast. At tlreat Yarmouth one day
reoently 500 lasts were lauded (a last comprists 13,200
fish.)
At Cambridge, on Weduerolry. an undergraduate,
Oliver Douglas Smith, was fined 40s. for assauliieg a
man who ha 4 collared him for knooking at his door awl
shutters.

So m•ny young inen have volutiterred as driver. in
the Kaye' Artillery, that orders have been receive...l at
Wcrilvriith to vuspentl recruiting for that branca of the
11.111ce.

The Hon; Seymour Egerton, woni son of the Berl
of Wilton, has been fined in the mitigated penalty
of kfi for nut having taken outs license to keep a man
servant.

At the Manchester assize, on Thursday, a clerk named
Aabton obtained 1-700 datum,. again 4 the Lahcashire
' and Yorkshire Itaii•ay Company for inkiriea by a
collision iu May last.
The Shrew/filmy election petition inqury terminated
OD Thursday, Baron Channell declared Mr. Straight
duly elected, and ordered petitioners to pay mete. Ile
should report that exteusive bribery did not prevail.
Tug Land and Labour League of London have passed
a resolution protesting against the dower and annuity
to the Prowess Liaise, on the ground that it is the
duty of all imen who marry to support •ives and
families by labour. An amendment in favour of •
itepublie was rejected as inopportune.
MIL P. lITLANDS, M.P., addressing his vinstiieegt.
at Warrington on Wednesday ovenina, wolerto It to
vote for the removal f the Commander-in-Chief, who
was quite incompetent for the position he hold. Hu
would also vote fur any motion that might be made
for the abolition of grants to mullion of the !loyal
Family.
THE Queen of Spain protests against the election of
the Duke d'Aosta as her sucorsaor, but she will not
resist with for.. the will of the p•oplu. Her Majoaty
claims the throce for hr son I).in Alfonan do 11.irohoo,
and looks with a patient though faint hope to the time
when the restoration of tier family rights may be ac-
complished by needle moans.
IT is new evident that the man Budge, who lodged
at the house of the widow Williams, at Chelsea, who
disappeared, committed suicide, in consequenee of the
neighbour., and espeeially the women. assailing him
with cries of "Who murdered the women?'" What
have you done with the body r ko.
A 2PORTIIIG man, named Thomas Duckley, aged 22(1
went to Norwood station drunk, rushed to a train as it
was leaving, fell between the platform and oarriagss,
and was terribly mutilated and instantly killed.
Tua tutor liowehin, charged with murdering Mr. C.
I Musk, keeper of a boarding-school, at Livrrpool. is
committed for trial for wilful murder. Bring annoyed
; that Mr. Fieuck had told a person to whom he applied
for a situation that be was "rather peculiar," he
(llowebin) beat the unf
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