The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

lortign Entelligtnct.

Tay negro tregedian, Ire Aldridge, died M Lode, In
Poland, on the 711 Instant.
PIiSIDUT JOEIII6O/I has appointed General Great as
&watery of War. in lien of Mr. Stanton suspended.
The .z-seirratary has declined to resign or consider the
Prealdent's requisition as imperative.

GUILT FUN AT FRANKFORT.— An extensive flee
broke out at two o'clock on Thursday morning in tbs
Cathedral at Frankfort, by which the sacristy and
some adjaeent buildings hare been burnt to the ground.
Three live, were lost.

EDITORS' WITNI W 121.2120 TH I BKOO2. —An
American editor says hi. attention wss first drawn to
matrimony by the dad manner in which • pretty
girl handled • broom. A brother editor says the
manner in which his wife handles the broom is not so
very pleasing.
A Tinitistu Gan .—EcAoes frost Ike Chao says the
Emperor Napoleon, well known to he • first-rate
artillerist, has invented • new field gun. Ita power is
so great that a mingle discharge is expected to destroy
• battalion. Workmen are busily engaged in manu-
facturing this weapon; they are locked up day and night
and never allowed to leave the premises, whereof his
Majesty himself keeps the key ; and the secret la not to
be divulged until European complications render
prompt action necessary.
TH2 FONTAINI3LIAU MORDII.—The trial of
Ma lame Al.xandrin• Frigard, see Lebonis, for the
murder of Madams Mertens in the forest of Fontaine-
bleau. took place last week. The seemed and the
murdered woman, it will he recollected, engaged •
carriep for • ride in the forest, and after they
reached •lonely spot the carriage was sent back. A few
hours afterwards the accused returned to the hotel at
which she and Madame Martens bad been staying, and
inquired if her friend bad come in, and on being
answered In the negative she said she had lost bar in
the forest. For several days following, persons walking
In the forest observed • woman lying on the grass, her
bead being concealed by • parasol, but they never took
the trouble to see whether she was alive or dead. At
last some one who had seen her in the same position
mote than once, suspecting something wrong, went off
the road to see closer, and found a corpse (which was
enbeequenUy identified 24 that of Madame Mertens) in •
state of decomposition. The mysterious conduct of
Madame Friprd led to her apprehension, and upon her
antecedents being inquired into she wu found to be a
very disreputable woman. She wan found guilty, with
extenuating cirenmstanoes. and sentenced to penal
servitude for life.

As Ilroonvesisirr Lovra.—Dr. H. J. Blanch, one
of the eaptivesin Abyeainia, writing from Magdala on
the 10th of April, tells a story of a little excitement
which bad enlivened the monotony of life in captivity.
On the 6th two prisoners, in that place, Abyssinians, one
who had killed his mother by accident and had not
been tried, and Lij Bart, the son of • great Mom of
Tigre., managed to open their chains, dressed them-
salve. in women's clothing (in that country only • long
skirt), and taking advantage of the market-day, when
all the servants go down to the market-place, they
succeeded in getting out. The young murderer having
contrived to get off both rings, walked faster than his
companion, and passed the gates without mspicion,
Li Bart was less fortunate. fri. could only open one
ring, and was therefore obliged to fix the skate on the
other leg by means of a piece of cloth. A young
warrior, seeing what appeared to be a good-looking girl,
approached to try on her his power. of fascination.
While looking to see if the ankles corresponded in
elegance to the brightness of the eye, be was somewhat
surprised to see a lee completely bandaged. A few
yards further, • puff of wind blowing tip the shirt
exposed to his horrorstruck gage the unmistakeable
rings Peeping here and there through the folds of the
bandage. He sailed some *oldie,' at • distance, and
with their help re-captured the prisoner. It is needless
to say how brutally he was treated, kicked and beaten
until his life was almost to be dispaired of. The
woman who gave him her skirt was literally cot to
04•615, haviog received more than 200 lashes on her
hue beck.

Ac EiltCo7loll AT Flowo•Sone.--Cheong•Posang,
the onlyone convicted of the live men engaged in the
murder of the cloth seller in Tank-lane, and three of
the four pirates convicted at the May sessions for
piracy and murder on the high seas, were on the 24th
of June eseonted at Hong. Kong, at the mold place In
front of the gaol. As the hell struck six the prisoners
were led forth to the scaffold, near which were •
number of Europeans, one or two companies of polies.
and 50 penal servitude convicts ranged on one side
of the compound. Cheong-fook had to be pushed op
the scaffold-Ladder by main force; and when all the
condett.ned men had resabed the platform, there
followed • scene which will not be soon forgotten by
three who witnessed it. Po-sang was as soot sea states,
with his painfully drawn-up feature.; but the other
three swayed about uneasily, looking behind over
the wall as if meditating escape, now noisily resisting
the executioner, and again moaning and groaning as
before. Cheong-fook stamped and danced upon the
platform, and cursed and swore the at crowd below,
until it was feared that some accident might happen
to the scaffold, and he had at at last to be bound round
the ankles with a rope. The voice of the Roman ostholie
padre was drowned in the torrent of abuse from the
scaffold ; and it need hardly be Laid that the exhorta-
tions of the ministers of religion Deemed to have not
the slightest effect upon any one of the doomed men,
except perhaps Po-sang, who now and then during the
morning had listened to what was said to him. At
five minutes past six, at a signal from the sheriff the
bolt was drama, the fatal jerk given, and the miserable
vietims were left dangling in the air.
LITZ 111 ABTlllllllA.—Letters have been received
from Messrs. Rosenthal and Stern, two of the Abyminan
prisoners, giving a heartrending account of the present
position of these lone-suffering people. The letters are
dated the 18th and 19th June respectively, and at that
time the prospects of the writers were very gloomy.
The peasantry in the only province that remained faith
fed to the Emperor were going over in large numbers to
the rebels, who had butchered nearly seven hundred of
the Royal retainers in cold blood. Mr. Stern repartee
that all the great men have either been killed or have
sought rasp in flight, and that one of the King's
sons is kept in chains. That being so, there appears too
much meson to fear for the safety of the European
artisans, Mr. had, his wife, and Mrs. Rosenthal, who
happened to be in the Royal clamp separated from the
other priscieen. As to the tyrant himself, be is said to
be furious, and to allay the storm that is raging in his
breast, he flogs Lod tortures and barns in wax-dipped
dresses, the woman and children of absconded soldier,
and chiefs. In referents, to himself and his companions,
Mr. Stern adds —"Our safety, humanly speaking, lies
In the possibility that the tyrant will not be able to
reaoh this Amba. Some weeks ago he Pent orders hers
to the effect that in case this place was attached all the
prisoners in irons were to be indiscriminately eneuhscL
A few week' later it was rumoured that another Boys
messenger was despatched from Debra Tabor to Magdala
with • mandate that the garrison were to kill the
prisoners, bury the treasures, fire the houses, and then
quit the Amba, and seek to join their ruler at Debra
Tebor. Tnls monstrous decree fell into the hands of the
rebels, who, we are told, burnt the paper, and beheaded
tho braver. We are at present watching with intense
anxiety the tyrant's movements- Should he come here,
and I believe his enemies dare not dispute hi, progress
through their territory, we shall have a hot and
dangerous position. If, on the contrary, he waits until
be is too weak to start from Debra Tabor to our prison,
our (needs in the auto will have to eoeounter ramy
serious and severe coed* even if they escape alive out
of the hedge in which they are enclomd.