The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

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Sorttgn ant Colonial inttllignue.

FRANCE.

The Emperor huoo-m-m—tt-I-Ul-u; sentence of death on
M. de Marty, • lieutenant, who murdered his subaltern
some months since, to imprisonment for life. An
enmity of long !standing existed between INs Mercy and
his victim, Sub-Lieutenant Rosier.
Letters from Algien announce that, In eonierinence of
the adoption of the project appointing Prince Napoleon
Governor-General of the colony, the entire body of the
high military administrators propose to return to
Franc* with Marshal Randon.
General Dentine, Senator, and director of the Minis-
try of War of the division of Algeria, which is to be
suppressed in consequent* of Prince Napoleon's appoint-
ment, is named aide-de-camp to the Emperor.
The prefect of the department in which Alenpon Ii
situated ham, it is said, announced that the Government
will not deeiguate any oandidate, but will leave the oleo-
ton free to vote according to their personal sympathies.

The Minister of War wishing to stop the oonsequences
of the duel between M. de Pine and Lieutenant Hyenne,
has addreued • cannier to the oolonels commanding
reginienta to forbid the writing of letters by officers to
the directors of newspapers, adding that the "honour"
of the army stands too high in the estimation of the
French people and of the whole world to be affected by
the ill-timed pleasantry of an obscure Journal. There
was nothing against the " honour" of the army in the
.Figaro ; the paragraph had merely reference to their
demeanour in society. M. de Pens is said to be still in
• dangerous state.
The Commission dee Hospieu is preparing • very
strong protest against the measure for the sale, either
voluntary or forced, of the property belonging to chari-
table foundations ; and as the members are not the sala-
ried officers of the Government and do not depend on
it, but perform their duties gratuitously, it is expected
they will resign, and that their example will be followed
by many others in the provineea.
The arrival of the RUBSiall fleet from the Baltic on
the °out of Prance, as announced in some foreign jour-
nals, is incorrect. The ItlllsilLD fleet will not quit the
Baltic this summer.
It is announced that Prince Mirko, the brother of
Prince Daniel, of Montenegro, is expected in Paris on •
mission.
The Moniteur du Puy de Dome states that some oft-
oars of high rank who had occupied confidential posi-
tions in the houaehold of the late King, Louis Philippe
asked permission to go to England to attend the funeral
of th• Duchess of Orleans; the Kixperor gave orders
that their request should be granted.

Toll PA/1141'0R? SrsrlM, The following amusing
letter signed "J. B." appeared in Thursday's Times .--
Let me give your readers a practical illustration of the
now system of passports. I came to London on the 18th
Inst., reaching my hotel at 11.30 p.m., to meet an old
and valued friend who was on his way to Paris. He
prevailed on roe to aooompany him, and as the train left
London•bridge on the 19th, at 11.50 a.m., no time was
to be lost in procuring my passport. I applied to the
Commerolal Bank, and procured the neoessary room-
mendations to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, Passport-office, Downinpstreet, but
found that the passport could not be issued until the fol.
lowing day. It wee now past 11 o'olook, and not wish.
lag to part company with my friend no soon, I bit on
this expedient :—I went to kgentleman who frequently
visits Paris on business ; I borrowed his passport,
assumed hie name, got the necessary vice in Bing.
Williamditreet, for which I paid 4s. 3d., and reached the
station just one minute before the closing of the doors.
I went to Paris, enjoyed myself, and returned under a
borrowed passport. Now, Sir, lam 50 years of age, six
feet high, stout, and dark complexioned, with a fair
amount of black whiskers. The gentleman whose peas.
port I used is 35 years of age, five feat two inches high,
thin, light oomplexioned, no whiskers, and only what
may be :called an incipient moustache. Can anything
exemplify ths absurdity of the passport system more
fully than the above? I think not.
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ARICRIOAN PORTRAIT 07 PLLIIIITIL—The New
York Tribune says :—" Of diploinaey proper Palmier
Is aa ignorant av the sword he wears, and, therefore will
be a eimple instrument in the hands of others. Of
English he does not know i word ; and his manner" are
precieely what might he ',mooted from • man utterly
unused to any society hut that of the oamp, with ainind
unadorned by any degree of cultivation, and with a
temper susceptible but of one argument—that of brute
fore', I do not mean to say that he is exoeseively
brutal and coarse in hi. behaviour; on the contrary, he
would be complaisant if lie only knew how ; but of this
knowledge lie he none. He smirks, grinmoes, and
dances Illco a bear at a eabaret, and is grossly offensive,
while innocently believing himself polite. He is a
little, thick-set man, with no pretensions to high in•
tailed in his brow ; but Ida dark, deep-act eye, looking
doubly dark when oontraeted with his short, oloeely
out white hair, is full of doterminetion. It 16, besides,
• capital eye for country. He will, in a month after
his arrival, bo perfect master of the power of England
for dofenoe ; there will not be a weak point on her
frontier on in her midst, that the poor errand boy of
&men will not have read, marked, learned, and
thoroughly digested. Pelissier, without any education,
I. naturally an arithmetician ; with no aoquaintanoe
with the galena of engineering, he hen a practical
manner of discovering loopholes that on many oeueeions
took our best engineers at Sebastopol by surprise. In
the handling of large inasseic lie is perfectly unrivalled,
and he Is known to have the very humblest opinion of
England's military art. "They are perfect children in
the art of war,' he Raid recently to Count de Horny,
when speaking of the Indian rebellion. 'lndividually
brave—braver than the French for ought I know—they
are bible' in regard to combination. Give me one
regiment of French, end any day I will turn their flank
and out-manoeuvre a dozen British, commanded by their
ablest captains.'"
The total quantity of coal annually consumed in
France is 9,000,000 of tons, of whinh 8,000,000 are ob-
tained from the north of France, and 4,000,000 from
Newcastle.