The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-06 00:00:00

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.4 change of awn! interest to the military world is
understood to kg on the eve of announcement, in the
form ors new Ilene of the dress regulations.
Mr.'Rorey, °We horsetamer, has been appointed
Commimiemer If'Horses in the Federal States. His
first official act Vet to go to the Army of the Potomac
, under Bunieldes There he inquired folly into the beilth
of the home, and has adopted a new system to check
the mortality among them.
At the Leeds Towuhall, oe Monday, six working men
were fined in sums varied for 40e. to les. for being con.
lamed in snook fight which terik place on Sunday. In
default of payment, Read, who was the Prinatiml. was
sent to prison for fourteen, and the other five defendants
for seven days.
The King of Denmerk has quite recovered from his
recent illness, and has taken up his residence at the
Castle of Fredensburg.
Large importations of foreign cattle are constantly
taking plans In tan months 45.077 oxen and cows
were imported, =,780 calves, 196,931 sheep and lambs,
and 4603 pisk
The very day that Burnside made his attack the
Federal general in North Carolina made a aimilar
attack, and the nests is that he was terribly beaten.
On Tuesday evening a fire broke out in Mester which
issued in the destruction of the Townhall and the
Exchange of that city. The fire engines were quickly
on the spot, and the 49th Regiment, at present stationed
in the town. exerted themselves to the utmost to
Leakerve the baildinp, but unfortunately without sue
-
Among these who had the misfortune Jobe entangled
is the Proceeding and the bankruptcy of the Bank of
Deposit was the Marquis of Aboroorn, who had agreed
to act as trustee, and was in coniequenoe made answer-
able for the reiacilief it had occasioned. The marquis
has agreed to pay down £lO,OOO OD condition of being
freed from all further claim in the matter, and the
committee of creditors have agreed to &ONO his offer.
A recent statistical table of the comparative number
of murders in the different countries of Europe shows
that in England there are four in every million of
inhabitants ; in Belgium, 11; Sardinia. 20; France,
31 ; Austria, 36; Reverie. 68; Lombardy, 45; Rome,
100; Sicily, 90; and in Naples, 200. In the Vaudois
valleys murder is almost unknown.
" Manhatten" of the herald says: That in New ,
York, the great Hero of the hour ii Semmes., the ,
captain of the Alakema. His portrait is xverywhere. I
If he were to come to New York at the present
moment, he would get a greater reception than did ever
Cyrus Field. Another hero is Tom King, who has
lately won the prise fight in England. Ile could have
honours that have never been paid to any one if he
would come here just now. He would be an idol, and
•jeweller would clear 100,000 dots. (in paper) by selling 1
hie likenesses set in breast pins for females.
Ono night last week the station at Springwell and
Jarrow Junction on the Sunderland branch of the ,
North Eastern Railway, was burnt down. The cause
of the fire is unknown.

Late on Monday night. fire broke out in the candle
manufactory of Mr. W. Ellis, Rumford, and am or
seven houses and shops were busnt down. The loss of
one sufferer alone will amount to E2OO.

the two members for Salisbory, Ideutenant-General
Buckley and Mr. Metthew Henry Marsh, have sent £5O
each to Mr. John Style, the mayor of the city, to be
distributed in small sums among the deserving poor of
the town.

It is aetted in Paris that • conferenoe of the pro-
tecting powers of Greet* will shortly be held in
London to settle the question of the cession of the
lonian Islands.

The Lifeguard pamenger steamer from Newcastle
has been lost with all hands on board—between 50
and 00 in number. She was heavily laden with mer-
chandise, and it is stlpposed that during the late rough
weather, when off Fliumbrirtiogli Head, she was pooped
by • sea which put her Area out, and left her to the
mercy of one of the most terrible seas known off the
coast for some years. Most of the passengers who
were respectably connected, were on their way to
London to spend the Christmas with their friends.
As • proof of the genial clemency of the weather ez•
perienced At WOrthitig, the a,lez Kr-press states that
violets out of doors are in fell bloom in mOtitudiri ; and
in some of the prdens stiawberriee are blooming with.
out shelter of any kind.

According toe return published last week, the real
value of imports from France, in the three quarters
ended the 30th September, amounted to £14,925,458
against £12,861,445 in the same period last year.

General Bayard, who was killed in the battle of
Fredericksburg, was to have been married on the 18th
to a daughter of Colonel Bowman, of Went Point. The
match I.ad already been postponed twice on account of
the exigencies of the service.

On Monday • return was issued showing that in the
three quarters ot the yen, ended the klOth fleptetober,
the spirits charged with duty for house ootiatelption
reached 13,756,421 gallons.

A certain sensation has been caused in Pans by •
telegram stating that the French Ambassador at Nome
bad paid a vialt to the ez•King of Naples.
It appears from a parliamentary paper, pablislied on
Monday, that very large imports are made from Greece
to England. In the fret three quarters of the present
year the value was 1.189.000, against .P.M7,500 of the
previous year.