The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

ffortign anti Colonial Intelligcnct.

FRANCE—The manner in which the Corps Livialatif
is dealing with the elections creates amazement and in-
dignation throughout France. 10 1844 M. Chas. Latfitte's
eleotiiii for Rouen was deClar.d soil four times running,
1,-cause lie had promised his conatituents • railway.
Now, tempera m.itaistorl the Government. on the eve
of an election, promises railways. pads, bridges, @chests,
remiasion of fines and taxes, and what not; and the
Government orators, with virtuous astonishment, inquire
whether there Li any law to prevent the Government
from conferring benefits upon the people at election times
111 well as others. Thus it is that no election has yet
been quashed or any of those general and moral conside-
rations which played so large • part in former parlia-
ments.
RUSSIA.— The rilßeS of Thursday gave conspicuous
position to • column beaded "Russian preparations for
war," in which details are given of the works for
strengthening Cronstadt, and closing the back passage to
St. Petersburg. Infernal machine, are being conetructed
for other channels, and • submarine boat to attach
cylinders of powder to vessels is being made. The
Russian Government expect to have sixteen ironclad
vessels ready for sea by the first of June next year, and
they are engaged in erecting an armour-plate milL It
in also stated that enormous exertions are being made to
obtain the requisite quantity of guns, with suitable
ammunition, for all the forts, earthworks and ships;
and it will perhaps be found that the leussians have
really got ahead of England in guns and shot. A dozen
factories are at work, and in a few week, another Ela wick
will commence to produce solid cant-steel guns, while
large supplies of saltpetre have been purelmeed. These
gun-works, the large supplies of teak, two years' supply
of coal for the fleet, and the extra sums quoted on
amount of the war expenditure during the last six
months, amount to about nine millions sterling above
the ordinary expenditnre, ands further sum is demanded
immediately of MI millions sterling. Our contemporary
makes these statements with great confidence; and, if
true, they certainly point to some extensive undertaking.
Can Russia be preparing for the threatened war with
France?
ITALY.—The King of Italy has issued • royal decree,
granting an amnesty, full and complete. for all crimes
excepting those of brigandage and ordinary offences.
The amnesty extends to all offences against the press
laws and to all persons who have evaded the conscrip-
tion, or rioted in contradiction to the laws relsting to '
the national guard. In short, it seems to be a 4.8118et0
pardon for all persons and for all political offences.
The reeeption his Majesty has met with everywhere in
his resent tour has prompted this generous act.
ROME—It I. stated that the Papal Government has
given is its adhesion to the proposed Congress. " Re,
serrations" are now the order of the day, and the Queen
of Spain, it is said, accompanies her consent by • saving
clean in favour of the Papacy. Most of the Powers
would seem disposed to
"Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to."
POLAND.—Moxsraous le TRUE. —An instance
which occurred in Warsaw on the 2nd instant is • fair
example of the treatment to which the ladies of Warsaw
are subjected by the Russian authorities. A house'
owner was going home in the evening with his wife. He
was provided with a lantern, according to the regula-
tion, but his wife was not, as women accompanied by
men are not required to carry lanterns. As they were
passing through a street where the pavement is so
narrow that two persons only can walk on it abreast,
they met a friend who walked on with them, and as he
had business with the husband, the wife walked on be-
fore. Seeing this a polieeman in the street arrested the
lady because she had no lantern. All explanation was
useless, and the lady and her htuasend were immediately
dragged to the nearest police-station, where the com-
missary. Hydzywaki, ordered eve lashes to be given her.
On hearing this sentence the lady remonstrated, repre-
senting that she was encicate, and that if the order was
executed it might produce serious consequences. The
only answer Rydzywski deigned to give was to increase
the number of tubes to ten. Fresh remonstrances
from the husband added five babes to the punishment
of the unfortunate lady, and the sentence was carried
out to the letter. _ _ .

We learn by • telegram from Breslau that • Polish
detachment has done a very clever and amusing thing.
The Russians commenced some time ago to cut down
the forests., in order to prevent the hunted peasants
from taking "to cover." In the town of Logics the
timber has been sold by public auction, but &corps of in-
surgent cavalry has invaded the place. seised 10,000
florins—the proceeds of the sale—and left • receipt in
their stead. The Poles seem to be very 'scrupulous in the
matter of receipts, as they left one at the Bank of
Warsaw when they seized some million of florins there
• few months ago. We are not sure whether it was not
stamped an well as signed. The Central Committee of
the Polish cause has addressed an eloquent petition to
the French Senate, asking for the recognition of the
Poles as belligerents ; and Nal &ark. in publishing ths
document, says it hopes that the Senate " will take
into consideration this noble request, conceived in terms
at once ardent and moderate."

DENMARK.—The islities of Copenhagen on
Thursday presented an address to the new King, in I
which they express a hope that his Majesty would fol-
low the course pursued by his predecessor, and beg him I
to complete the act impeded by the death of the late
King, and to sign the constitution voted by the Council
of the Empire. His Majesty made a gracious reply,
and asked for time to consider and advise with his
Ministers. A telegram from Gotha announces that the
Ducal Government had recognised the hereditary t'rince
of Aueuatenburg as Duke of Schleswig and Holstein.
AMERICA.—New Your, Nov nnnnn 6, EVENING.
—Considerable uneasiness is excited concerning
the situation at Chattanooga. The shelling of
Hooker's position from Look-out Mountain leads tithe
belief that the Confederates still occupy that point, and
that the danger to Thomas's army is not passed. The
Confederates have been repulsed at Colliereville, on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The Confederate
General Geary and his staff were captured. Lee's force
is said to be diminished to 30,000 men. The Federal
gnvernment is reported to be urging Reside to move
forward. The Confederates have been repulsed in an
attack upon Pine's Bluff, Arkansas. General Price has
retreated beyond the Red River. The conspiracy in
Ohio was much exaggerated. Three out of five of the
administrative candidates were elected in Baltimore.
The majority of the inhabitants refrained from voting.
The governor of Maryland hes protested against military
inference with the elections, and has ordered the judges
to report to the state attorney the presence of the
military at the polls. The state would support the
judges in doing their duty. The Democrats have carried
the New Jersey elections. The Republican majority in
New York States was estimated at 30,000. The currency
qneetion is attracting much attention in the South. The
Richmond papers complain of the scarcity of food. The
prisoners arriving from Richmond were starving. Mr.
Seward has made a speech, asserting that there could be
igpeace until Mr. Lincoln was President of the whole
nited States. He anticipated the early subiniamon of
the insurgents, "when there would be peace, and the
angels in Heaven might tune their harps to the
symphony of such • peace." There was no state that
bad not been made stronger, and no citizen that had
not been made richer by the war.
New YORE, NOVENRCR 7. —The New York World
inserts that General Meade has abandoned the
Warrenton route to Richmond, and is moving to occupy
• new base in order to go into winter quarters, whi re he
will be less annoyed by guerillas. Advicce from Chatta-
nooga to the 6th inst, state that General Lonptreet
was still firing from Look-out Mountain on General
Hooker's position, without, however, inflicting much
dionage. Daily communications had been opened with
Bridgeport, and snpplies were rapidly reaching the
Federal*. General Bragg's army is reported to have
been weskened for some purpose not yet developed.
Prisoners report that 14 Confederate brigades under
Cheetham and Forrest were at various points beyond
the Tennessee River. The Philadelphia Engineer con-
tains a doubtful rumour that the Confederates are
evacuating Richmond. and that President Davis had left
permanently for the South. Serious rioting has taken
place in a Pennsylvania colliery.
RZPORTID CAPTURI OF FORT SUNTIR.—The 'teenier
Salvor has arrived at Philadelphia from Charleston
on the 4th inst. She reports the capture of Fort
Sumter by the Fedora's, and its occupation by the
146th Pennsylvania Regiment. As no much false news
has on many occasions been received from Pernsylvania,
the public hesitate to credit this report, and await con-
firmation of the news.

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(Pin Tin ETNA.) Nrw Your, NOVIRIBIII 7.—Pre-
sident Jefferson Davis has made • speech at Mobile, re-
minding the troops that they were not common soldiers,
but the best population of the country poured into the
army; and he appealed to them from other incentives
then military discipline. Self must be entirely forgotten
in present times, and those who were hoarding up
wealth were hoarding up infamy, the mark of whieh
they and their posterity who shall have grown rich by
war must hear.
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New YORK, NOVEMBER 9.—The reported capture of
Fort Sumter is untrue. The bombardment oontinued
furiously on the fith. On Saturday last Sedgwick's and
French's divisions of General Meade's armdadvanoed to
the Rappahsenock railroad bridge and Kelly's Ford,
capturing 1.800 prisoner, and veven guns. The Federal
kw+ was 400. On Sunday Meade and his whole army
creased the Rappahannock, meeting little opposition,
and moved forward. His advance reached Brady's
station. Burnside+ cavalry lths crossed the river above
the Rappahannock ford. It is reported that Kelpstrick
adapted Fredericksburg heights on Satorday.—The
Confederates have captured two of General Burnside'.
advanced positions and half of two regiments stationed
there. Heavy firing was beard this morning Deer
Culpepper. President Jefferson Davis has visited the
Charleston defends, and lias expressed his opinion that
Charleston never could be taken. The steamer Mar-
garet and Jessie* hen been captured. Marshal Foray
has arrived at New York from Mexico
It is stated in the intelligence from New York that
Mr. Seward, as Secretary of Stet., ha. again repeated
hie prediction of the early termination of the war, and
has taken the opportunity to deur/ the population of
the Union that every part of the country ban been made
more strong, and every citizen more rich, by the three
years of havoc and bloodshed that have been witnessed,
shows more fully than ever the hopelssnees of expecting
any early solution of the struggle. A nation among
whom such ideas can be propagated can receive no teach-
ing except that of the hardest differing. Happily for
the mune of peace elsewhere. America lathe only country
where ignorance is sufficiently dense to enable the
delusion to be created that the withdrawal of one or two
millions of men from beneficent labour to the work of
destroying the lives and property of each other condi-
tutee the road by which every citizen is to be made
richer.

A FIGHT IN • CHURCH.—Lietltell•Gt Allen. of
Logan's command, haying been informed that the crew
of the gunboat at Rodney were in the habit of attending
church, determined to try an experiment. Dressing
himself in Cilia Gel garb. he leisurely sauntered into
town on Sunday, and had the pleasure of finding some
twenty-two of the Yankee ofileen and men, dressed in
their best togsery, snugly o atod In the quiet and
unsuspecting congregation. With this Information be
left town, and soon returned in command of • squad of
moo; he entered the church and apologised to the
preacher for haying to disturb him for • few minutes,
stating that he had called to demand the surrender of
the United States soldiers in the congregatlon. Instantly
the engineer of the gunboat jumped behind the door and
fired on Lieutenant Allen, the ball paring through his
cap. Allen returned the Ire, and mot the engineer. to
his long home. A general nattering and firing ensuing
resulting in killing two Yankees and wounding anothor. I
and in the assure of Captain Ventrace, of Sbs gun"

boat, one lieutenant, and fifteen men. When naked
by a citizen what command they belonged to, Captain
Ventres' touched his rap and replied, "To LOVOI'S com-
mand." The Yankees bore tbeir capture with a good deal
.4 nonchalance, seeming to regard it as a good joke.
Thome on the gunboat. seeing the affsir, commenced a
furious shelling over, but not upon the town. Lieutenant
Allen addrrsesd the com.mander a note, stating tliaz
his force belonged to the army of the Confederate States
.hat the people of Rodney were in DO wise responsible
for what hie men had done, and if • solitary shell was,
ibrown into the town he would hang biz prisoners.
Captain Ventres, also wrote a note requesting that no
damage should be done to the town, as the who affair
wets le.:Ululate military transaction. One old lady ia lan
midst of the nuke jumped op and shouted, "Glory zo.
God," but the way the balance of the congregation
rolled round, and mixed up promimuously in the inwas
of the fight, in said to have been rich
.Iseyond description,
and certainly very excumble.—Afissusippirm

A VIZNZL Causnen ST kn.—DREADFUL Scrim"-
'NUS OF THE CREW.—By the arrival of the Damascus
at Liverpool we learn that the schooner Carilla,from St.
John's, Newfoundland, arrived et Boston on the sth
November, with Mr. Houk* and six seamen, pars of
the crew of the brig Pavilion, of Fairhaven, wrecked
near the island of Goldsmarif. The brig was crushed
by ice, and at once filled with water. The crew got out
the boats, three in number, and landed provisions On
the rocks,and remained there eleven days. On the 27th
August they started in the boats, and landed at Resole.
Lion Iclaud, where they remained ten days, when they
again started, and attempted to cross Hudson Streik,
but a heavy gale separated the boats, and the third
mote's boat, with six seamen, is supposed to have
foundered. On the Bth September, Mr. Holies' boat
landed on the *oast of Labrador. but finding no inhabit.
tante there they sailed next day, and followed the rout
until the 2fitb, when they fortunately fell in with the
British barque Ocean Nymph, bound from London for
Hadson's Bay, who took them on board on the 2nd of
October. 'rho 0001111 Nymph also fell in with the
captain's boat, and landed both boats' crews at St.
John's, Newfoundland, on the 27th October. During
their long passage in the boats their only food was ship 'e
bread soaked an malt water, and their sufferings were
very mat both from hunger and intense cold.
A BARONET WANTED AND FOUND.—A paragraph
in an Australian newspaper lately appeared, heeded
"Wanted a Baronet," the paragraph bmng an advertise.
meet for • Mr. Hughes, who by the death of • relative
had come into the title. The lost heir has been found
near Ballarat. In the Banana Sear we read :—" A
gentleman at Cardigan, on reading the pair.arlb, at
once remembered where the baronet was He
proceeded to Bunker's-hill, and there discovered the
person so long sought after in • very poor and miserable
position, li, narrated to him the object of his visit,
and showed him the paragraph wherein it was stated
that he had become the lucky heir to • baronetcy, and
considerable landed property. Sir Frederick was by no
' moans astonished, as he WY fully aware that, sooner or
later, should he not die before the late bolder of the
I property, be would fall in for it and the title. The
change, however, is • welcome one, as it appears that
Sir Frederick when plain Mr. Hughes followed the
humble avocation of a woodcutter at Bunker's-hill, sod
while felling a tree one day it toppled over sooner than
he expected, and, falling upon him, broke one of hle
legs. This accident has rendered him • cripple for life.
While confined to his bed the family fell into very
distressed circumstances, and until last week his wife,
now Lady Hughes, was in the habit of receiving out-
door relief from the Benevolent Asylum. Being a
person of superior education she opened a sabool at
Bunker's-hill, and by this weans wag partly enabled to
support the family."
COURT OF DIVORCE, November 18.—(Before Sir J. P.
Wylde.)--Ewens v. Tytherkigh, falsely celled Berens.
Spinks was for the petitioner.—This was a suit
by Charles Henry Evens, • butler merchant at
der. Devonshire, for. declaration of nullity of marriage,
to which there was no opposition.—The parties were
married in September, 1851, and lived together until
July last—Dr. (keels, obstetric physician, of St.
Thomas's Hospital, and Dr. Heyman, of Axminster,
were examined in support'of the petitioner's caas.—The
petitioner was also examined.—Sir J. P. Wylde pro-
nounced the decree of nullity of marriage.

A Boy BURNT TO DEATH HT PHONPHOZOn. —An in-
quiry less held by Dr. Lenkseter on Wednesday
evening, at the Bank of Ragland Tavern, respecting the
death of John Rogerson, aged 15 years, who was burnt
to death by phosphorus under very singular eircum-
stanees.—Mr. J. N. door., surgeon to St. Mary's
Hospital, said that deceased was brought in on Wed-
nesday last with his abdomen and lett thigh dreadfully
burnt by phosphorus. The trousers were removed, and
• volume of smoke smelling of phosphorus arose. De-
ceased said that he had picked up a lump el something
in the street, and put it in his pocket. He rubbed it,
and it exploded and set him on fire. He died on
Sunday. It appeared that deceased picked up the phi.-
phonic outside the house of a doctor, who was remov-
ing from Rochester-square. The poor' boy was seen
shortly afterwards on fire, running along Westbourrie
Park, and crying out in agony. Some passer.-by threw
him on the ground and extinguished the flame, and sent
him to the hospital in a cab. The Coroner said that
phosphorus was frequently left about to poison rag. and
was also used by boys as detonating bells. Such
practices were dangerous, as when phosphorus was
oxidised by being dried thoroughly it readily exploded
upon slight friction. The jury returned a verdict
"That deceased died from the accidental combustion of
phosphorus in his pocket.

Daisfirm. EXPLOSION AT EAST GRXISWICH.—The
utmost excitement was occasioned on Wednesday
throughout the borough of Greenwich, arising from •
terrible explosion, by which a great amount of property
was reduced to ruin, ODO man killed, and several persona
seriously, and, it is feared, fatally injured. The scene
of this disaster was the extensive manufactory of Mr. J.
Bather, of 38, King William-street, City, but whine
works dare situated at East Greenwich. 'The premise*
formed nearly a parallelogram, and were toed as steam
saw mills, and creosote and slum works. That part of
the building comprised the steam-boiler house, 70 feet
by GO feet ; the engine house and alum-stores, 50 feet
by GO feet, tapering off at the end to only 21 feet.
From the inquines made of the officials at the works, it
appears that the workmen cominenoed their work at
the usual hour in the morning, and the steam being up
the work progressed in its usual way, and not the WA
danger was apprehended of any pert of the machinery
being out of working order, but all of a sodden, just as
the clock chimed half-past seven in the morning, a
fearful scene presented itself. In the first place, •
load explosion oocurred, resembling the discharge of •
piece of artillery, but upon looking out of their windows.
the inhabitants were convinced that a fearful occur-
rence had taken place in the vicinity of Greenwich, for-
the fragments of the boiler and engine-house, as well as
the alum Acmes, were falling to the ground, after
having been blown high in the air. At the same time,
immense volumes of dust were hovering over the bu ild inp,
and it was some minutes before the exact nature of the
catastrophe could be learned. A glare of light shining
through the clouds of dust showed that a fire and also an
explosion had taken place, and the neighbours and,
police at once rushed to the scene. They then beheld as
the dust cleared away a fearful sight—the boiler-house
and enginc-house, two substantial brick and timber
buildings, burled to pieces, the boiler blown into a
inisahapen form, and the alum store similarly
destroyed. The cries of several men told at once that
the workmen bad not received sufficient warning to
enable them to escape with their lives before the
explosion took place. The rubbish was removed as
quickly as possible, when one man who waa employed
on the premises. named W. Anson, 35 years ef ape,
was foand frightfully burned and maldecL The medium'
gentlemen of the district promptly attended, and open
examination of the poor fellow he was pronounced to be
quite dead. The body was removed for an inquest
to be held by the coroner. Four other workmen were
next extricated, who were also most frightfully injured,
so that they were obliged to be removed to the Dread-
nought and Guy's Hospital, but the nature of the burns
and scalds they have received leaves little hope of
their recovery. How the other persons working near
escaped appear. quite a miracle. The engines from
Penn's engineering works and other firms in the town,
as well as those of the parish, quickly attended, and an
express was sent off to London forte aid of the brigade.
Yr. Henderson, the chief officer of the D district, upon
, receiving the news, started with a couple of engines to
' the spot. A plentiful supply of water having been
obtained, the firemen and the inhabitants at one* went
to work, but the stock in the open yard having become
ignited, to get the fire out was a work of no little
difficulty. All bands, however, kept to their work, and
eventually they succeeded in getting the fire extin-
guished. The total damns is very oonsiderable, and is
thus officially reported by Mr. Henderson to the
limn companies forming the London Brigade. "Nov.
18, 1863—C.Iled at half-past seven am, to a fire at the
premises of Mr. J. Bather, steam saw mill proprietor,
and creosote and alum works, East Greenwich; engines
that attended two of D district, and thee, of the parish
and private firma Brick and timber buildings, used a,
alum none, boiler and engine houses, about 70 feet by
60, and 60 by 21, severely damaged by explosion, and
stock in open yard seriously damaged by fire. W.
Anson, one of the workmen, killed, and four others
severely injured and taken to the hospitals. Tb.
property was Maned in the Leeds and Yorkshire and
Northern Fire-offices." A very searching inquiry was
made during the day by the brigade authorities for the
purpose of ascertaining, if possible, how tbe explosion
occurred, but nothing satisfactory could be gleaned, boll
the prevailing opinion is that it was caused from the
anxiety of the men to (=twat* steam.

THE ROYAL DAIRY AT FROGYORL —The interior of
the new royal dairy at Froginore is being decorated in
• very beautiful manner. The walls are lined with
white and coloured Ulm, designed in • rich and tasteful
style, and bearing representations of the lemons of the
year depicted in • eerie, of selections from agricultural
life. The windows are filled with coloured glees, an 4
when the decorations of this beautiful little building are
entirely completed it will afford one of the most striking
examples of what taste and refinement can do towarda
elevating even one of the commonest and simplest opera-
tions of rural life. In fact, it lea complete gem in its.
way, and an example of the architectural taste of whisk
the late Prince Consort was the parent.
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DRAM OF ADMIRAL Sin Joes GORDON 81111arra.
—We regret to announce the death of Admiral Si/
John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., of Stevenson and Markle,
which occurred at Stevenson Home on Friday test. The
deceased admiral was eldest son of the seventh baronet
by the second daughter of the fourth Duke of Gerd
and was born in Edinburgh in 1790. In 1812 be
the daughter of the Hon. Admiral Michael De Cowry.
by whom he leaves ism.. He sucereded his father in
111/5, and was • deputy-lisetenant of the counties of
Fieddington and Caithness At the actions of Horsiest
and Camis he greatly distinguished himself, and was for
some time Captain of the port of Gibraltar. The heir
to the barooetey is his son. Robert Charles Gordon
Sinclair, who was born in Paris in 1820, and became
captain in the 38th Foot in 1839.
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'LOW BROUGUAIL—LiOrd Brougham is at premat
Pars, and, notwithstanding his advanced age, is mare
active than many who boys not all his years. Amongst
other things, since his lordship's arrival in the Frame
capital, hit has had his photograph taken by Yr. Dion-
ham in that artist'. newly constructed studio in the Bee
de Laroceefosemald ; end we Sr. glad to learn that Mr.
Bingham's photographs of his lordship will DOM be
within the reach of all who vane tits extraordinary
services which" the old moo eloquent'. has rendered to
the amiss of science and tivilisation throughout the
world.--Oshowani.