The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-28 00:00:00

fforeign Intelligence.

THI exiunination of passports on the Austrian
frontiers is abolished,
IT is said that negotiations for a treaty of commerce
between Spain and Italy will be commenced immediately
at Madrid.

We. have reason to know," says the France, "that
,Lerd Oharendon, in taking possession of the Foreign-
office, gent to M. Drouyn de Lhuys a despatch contain-
ing sentiments of the wsrmest sympathy for Trance and
her governmitnt."
Tun Epoca of Madrid has the folloming :—" A
rumour is current in political circles that an EncyClicel
Letter is to appear next month, convoking at Rome in
18AS all the bishops of Christianity, and announcing a
universal jubilee on the occasion of the 18th centenary
anniversary of the death of St. Peter.
A Pave telegram states it is rumoured in that city
that the Government of Spain had intimated is. willing-
ntss to wept the mediations of the European Powers
in the Chilian dispute. According to the Pattie, Spain
had sent instmodons to Admiral Pareja not to attack
dm ports Of Chili:
Tue controversy about Jamaica and shout the mea,
mires of the anthorities to suppress the outbreak of the
blacks grows fast and furious. Letters, leaders, and
speeches are becoming thick as autumnal leaves is
alambrosa. A new champion of the Jamaica blacks
i,as stepped on the field in the person of the Rev. W.
Arthur, one of the secretaries of the Wesleyan Mid-
sionary Society, who has delivered an address." pitching
in" to the authorities. The Star keeps hammering
say on he one e,:treme aide, and the Standard on the
.other. But to whitettash the negro is about its difficult
as for the leopard to change his spots. A meeting is
to be held in Manchester to demand an explanation.
That is all very well. Bat to condemn before investigs-
tion is certainly unjust, and•that the Star, Daily News,
and others have done.

THE EXECUTION OF CAPT. WIRE.
HOBRIBIM Sorts& —Captain Wire, the keeper of the
Alliertonville Prison, has been hanged; The execution
was witnessed by .1,200 people. The walls of the prison,
the adjoining housetops and windows, and the trees in
the Capitol grounds were Black with men and women,
lONA of the latter coarse and repulsivedooking oreatares
wive jeined the men in making loud aid vulgar outcries.
Two women, denied passes to the enclosure, stood on
the rdof of a shed, shaking their fists at the dying man.
The executioner *as a,,pritiate Soldier, but wore • black
cost over his uniform, and black kid gloves. Captain
Wire appeared on the scaffold with his whole portion
envelopes! in a lows black•glased muslin bag. Be was
suffering exarnoiating agony from his arm, which was
suppnr ‘ting, another piece of the decayed bone having
.come our. His last words were, "I am innocent of the
charges bronght against me. lam going before God,
who will judge between me and my itemisers." He than
kissed the crucifix, whereupon the crowd shoitted and
hooted, and the soldiers mocked him, and cried loudly,
"You'll never starve any more Union prisonors. Re.
member Andersonville. " Others in the crowd *Wed,
"Hang the scoundrel quick." When the hood was pulled
over his head the crowd cheered, and some exclaimed,
" Dotirn with him j let hiuS drop!" When the drop Jell
a wild chorus of sheers and shouts arose from the crowd.
Such a disgraceful scene has never been Witneased in
this country at any exontion. An artist was it hand
with his apparatus, and toek a view of the dangling
corpse. When the body was cut down the ropei was out
in pieces, and the crowd fought and struggled for the
fragments. The post mortem examination disclosed
that the neck had been broken.
It is said that his wife, during a recant interview
with him in gaol, attempted to supply him with the
means of self-destruetion by passing into his mooth from
her own, while kissiog him, a bolas of strychnine; but
(Jon. Bakerftmrang upon him and choked him until be
fumed the pill from his month.
Another story in general circulation is that Captain
Wits Was informed on Wedneedny that if he would
confess that Jefferson Davis was ooneerned in the
conspiracy he might obtain • oommula-
titmice, but that he. rejected the offer,
he new nothing of Mr. Davis in.. such
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