The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

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IN- 1161100.

Puebla was taken by assault on the 2nd ApriL For
four days the oosfiict had raged before tbe walls of the
city The Imperialists, 4.000 in number. had resisted.
with desperate gsllantry, the attasks of 12,000
Liberalists. A breach was mad.; hi garrison sum-
moned to surrender; non-combatants were emit out of
the town; the Liberalists demon/ was treated with
contempt; the struggles were renewed: the liberalises
peeped the walls end gained the streets, and house to
house the action was contested, until the Imperialists.
without &munition, with shattered raaks, bereft of all
hopes of sumer; finally surrendered. Two thousand of
the beeeigers were killed; the Imperialists lose wss
about Loon. In the principal plan one !lowish's
Oeneral, Febronio Quijano, with his command of 400
men, resisted to the last. This heroic soldier was, with
all his companions, slaughtered. A few of the garrison
waned ; about 2000, Imperialists were captured.
When the fighting ceased, the work of cold-blooded
murder began. The Imperialist °flows were marched
Into the publicesinare, and executed without trial.
I'be lowe4 estimate plows, the number of the victims
at 2P; the bigheet at 150. Among them were six
principal commanders, and 15 subordinate, or brigadier
irenerals. The wretch who ordered this imagination is
Porfinin Disc who has than plaoed his name side by
side with the monster &robed°. It ii stated that
Marques, one of Maximilisn's best °Soars, had marobed
from the capital to Puebla to raise the siege, but that
he arrived too late to aid the arllfTilloll.

TIM WWI PI4GS/1 Lasooninolia—iiiill
lasswarar of the *Sal saiskoplagas Ind foe Ws
sasss of /Lag, in assaly of Maga, Iwo
published in .sat of his assocasabe foe 1/16-7.
aopaszs thM Ow amount raised by It. Goads pima,
eases vas M,636, widlo £1,661 ow derived fresa masa
sold boas Aaapitorad made. ladion•Lsalibills
swan items the tool sus seasivod TM/ 06
*is =mat £3,046 orsa edwarbsd liinosadiaa, wfdio
Mos aro omitted to the =best si sum. and SSC
wire paid tor various =pewees of massaldmok
"mat dir•Wy paid In coropessalise for lan,
sustained by seisms tress the rinderpest vu £43,831
walk £5.031 is now in redid in sone* hinviall •
balms of 1:345.

&rime op Pixels nametrurow, 141100111SL—
Tb• dissatisfactioa as to the rase of
I bore Weed he= Befelarlsamehire
minty of Oxfordshire. la the latter manly the initia-
tive hes beim takes by the females, may of whom,:
oat lafish. lade te work. la the
rtandard prim has hems 6d. pm =tee naiades
" mese" hem the ground. The fad that ems farmer—
Chesterton. throe miles from Bleester—wee giving
women fid. par day, and the wriemne am Met the
farmers in that end the mighbouriag rillaps had raised
the rages al their meekly nee Is. per meek, Wesel
the "gentler" saz to demsad an stream of It pee day
for their DIMON. The demand it the feemies, as gore
stated, has bon granted by the femme Obeeterkm,
and the "ladles" of adjaseat Alain are Mending I.
Maths Illsevlee

The boars or we Parer Oars= Isere leveed as
Order, dated Wbh.ell. ifay 9,181 f, by whittle they
direct that from and after the 13th of Nay, IW,
exhibitions of animals, whether intended fee inmeediabe
slaughter or otherwise, may be held in acy sweaty is
England and Wm, with the Saws 01 UN Lords el
taw Oremell, provided than so Hisser shell be greeted
melees they shall be 'WNW with the regulation aster
which the show is bead, and that se ewe el est&
Plasm bee ooserred la the country where the exitild•
Sea is to he Mild within four redesider seethe prier to
she date of the Bosses, aor unless the exhibition is
situated at • distanee mesedisg 30 mike from the eel.
ward boundary of any declared to be infected
wording to the piovl.oe. of the Order el Mesh
24, 1868, Ito.

Flanverrum or Cows is Wirt Witlll3lL-710
Cassell of the Soviet, of kris bare essolvsel to oder the
gold medal of the Society sad • seise of SO far
the best eery or the harvesting of ears is wail arsollll6
The lest part of ,or airy* after soth4ag tbs variose
✓rettaas at present adapted in damp chaise for
roanteracting the effects of moisture epos eat sore is
the field. and for avoiding snob expoeare in wet meow
by p.c.linz harvesting prosiness, eloski tarsi& •
pr.c*oshl. sad analytic esporare of the avaikbis stesost
—L Whereby sat corn may be preheated fres rain is
the Geld. 2 Whereby standing sees may is wet
seasons be cat and carried for drying by 'Midis!
processes. 3. Whereby corn. so harvested. say be
dried by roams of ventilation, hot air, or other
sith euggestioss for the storage both Is the .=
after threshing. 4. Whereby corn, waded, or other-
wise injured by wet. may be best treated forgetsdiag or
feeding purposes. The whole to he sapieseeseed by,
✓tatesoent of practical melts, sad aMfthl soul of see
system described ; and anthrntiested estimates of ear
morel propeasd for sdoptios based epos szieliss sad
incomplete expetieoenta The assays oast *o..t is to
the Seeretary nf the Society of Arts or or before the lei
of January, 1868.

Comma or Amucovrcra&—Th• Vies-Chairman at
the Ceeteal Chamber of Agriculture writes :—The idea
of Chasten of Agrieultare originated in a a
beld at St. Jaime's Hell, at the be&ningir
Semioa, to sonsider cattle plagm regula, whisk urn
be well remembered. At this many members of both
Rousse of Parliament listened for some hours to the
views of Meant farmer@ on the legislatioe required in
their opinion by the cattle *plc Findieg bow aftea
the ophdoes expensed at this meeting wen quoted in
both houses at pediment, and bow much their views
did 'edemas legitiatioe on the eArjeet, the spied-
turista determined to utilise the omegas by farming
amociatioes for the expression of their views on any
other gabfests affeeting the epicentral Mimed.
brought before Parliament. So far, and no further. ere
them Chambers of Agrlsaltere polities! moo/dation&
There are 90 of those Chambers, with 4,500 memben,
already formed in the Imam writs:Literal tionaties, and
eight more are in 0n,,., a( formation. Them
Chambers tend deputies to a central Chamber, whisk
meets periodicilly hi London to dimes with members
of Parliament the various queations sten* the agri-
cultural Interest which came before the Home of
C.ousnons. At the last meeting it seas denied to admit
Peers and Members of Parliament as membees, on the
payment of their mbeaription, at any meeting,