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

foreign Intelligence.

Tes Eames of the French has completed her 41s1
year, haulm been born on May sth, 1826.
RosA Brigagag, the celebrated animal painter, km,
It is said, biowne insane, her madness eciasisting in
fancying herself a goal! This she positively denies.
Tug repent Papal edict against brigandage bu begun
to bear trait. A letter of the Isl of May says :—" One
brigand bas cut off the head of another brigand, and ham
taken it to the authorities and claimed the reward of
2,500 f. penalised by the Government. It Is the heed
of • brigand of 8onoino."

PUIIBIIII MT Of PITTT OP rig Dm—Th. New
York Cinassereial Advertiser sag-resti thst the plan
reoently eseeted in Memphis, and formerly practised to
a e ouidetsblo trot in the armies, of labelling patty
offenders and marthing them through thesats, would
be of greet benefit if introdneed into New York. In
Gan "'Moire o, Panama, and elsewhere, when amen was
mericted of petty larceny, or of Wog drunk and dis-
orderly, he was sentenced to so many dans.. the "chain
gong." end it was customary to see this gang paraded
every rooming wider eompetrot keepers, and net to
work clouting the streets. Their broom, and shovels
were found to save many hundreds of dollars to the eity
treasury, and at the same time to reduce very
materially the number of petty offenders. No man
who served his Bre or ten dare in the " chein gang'
wanted tonne! the experiment.

Tag WILLUItaI AT LAIIT.—The Procne* of Itrons
publishes a letter from a chemist at Marseilles, who
sugento • mode of opposing the needle-guns by • Greek
fin he has invented. He says: —To give an idea of the
efficiency of my discovery, I declare. aed I am reedy to
prove, that lon. 4 distance of 1,000 metres, enyelooe
on urtny of 100,000 men in • see of dame, within INS
than dye minutes. If a town boa to he taken by
wash I bays no need of a rotopeoliln.,si I can set jinn
ire in very nearly the same period. Is a naval battle
I would run into the enemy, and la 15 wooed. cover all
the desk of the vowel eith • torrent of dame which
would bum the rigging, penetrate between the decks,
and instantaneously etide 41 the crew. In an attack
on a seaport, I could burn the town anti animals within
range with the ninthly of lightning, With inch means
no war is prweible, as neither %Moe nor vnLoqoishoel
...old 'Morn front the gold of babble, A. to the
Fortran of Luxembourg, the subject of dispel* at the
present moment, I unAertake to lid it of its prrioon
in a quarter of an hour." The Prognss adds that if
there is no Meneillaise exaggeration in the above
description, snob an invention would certainly put an
end to all war.

Tao Loungers° Coinsure& —rho preliminuy
meeting of the conferenee took plum on Tuesday,
under the presidency of Lord Stanley, in one of the
principal aportments at the First Lord of the Tremury's
illiond residence in Dowing-street—in feel, the same
room in wbieb the Conference in London on the affairs
of Denmark took place in the spring of 1864. The Hon.
Julith Franc. First Beotetary of the 11"itith Feoehoes7
•t Porta, was present in order to assist as Protheolist.
Mr. P. H. Wodehouse Currie also assisted at Om
Conference. The following are the prissipal embus
of the Conference His excellency the Count A ppony
the Austrian Ambassador, his Excellency the Rossi..
Ansbeasador, Baron Brunnow hi. Ezoallency the
Court Bernthorff. the Pruadan Ambeamdcr ; his
Excellency Prince de La Tour d' A overgne, thn nabob
Ambamador ; his Ethellesey M. Van de Weyer, the
Belgian Minister; and his Ethellency Heron Bannock,
the Nirtherbinds Minister. At the se)ond sitting •
eiddlsteent was arrived at on the priocioal points. The
Duchy is to he neutralised; that la, it is to tensible pert
of the dominion of the King of Holland. guaranteed by
the great Powers of Europe; the fort ase is to be
evacuated by the Prismians, and rased ; and no troors
f ars to be kept in the Daohy, except or the sake of
maintaining order. The subsequent sittiogii have beim
occupied with minor matters and the requisite for-
malities. The anal meeting took niece on Saturday.