The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

FOREIGN ITEMS.

THE WIISSItIt. —A Queensland paper gives the follow-
ing description of an Australian animal, the Atria
Strimphonea, the All* Balla of the:natives, or the Wusser
of the colonists :—" On the lofty plateaux formed by the
basaltic ranges of the north-eastern portion of this
colony—amid groups of rocks distorted by the convul-
sions of primeval nature—in clefts where daylight hag
never penetrated since the hour when superincumbent
strats of nein, syenite, and sandstone closed their
orifices—lurks in congenial darkness the Wusser, a
creation for which the imperfect reason of mankind is
utterly incompetent to designate a cause. Repulsive
in aspect, and denied the great faculties of enjoyment—
the senses—there are strong grounds for suspecting that
the great changes to which this part of the globe is
slowly being subjected are attributable in no small de-
gree to the despised agency of the unsuspected Wusser.
The rapid attntion of the rocks noticeable on the caps
of isolated peaks as in confused and broken ridges,
originates in the action of the Wusser, which, by the
powerful adaptation of animal caloric, coupled with the
perpetual secretion of moisture, softens the asperities
of the hardest granite, and renders it amenable to the
influences of the atmosphere."
An article in the Paris Revue Contemporiane, known
to proceed from a formidable coterie at the Tuileries,
has caused a great sensation in Paris. The writer
raisin a cry of alarm at the progress made by the
Liberal party, and fears, unless some stringent measures
are taken to stay the movement, that that dreadful
thing, "parliamentary government," which it was the
special mission of Louie Napoleon to crush, will again
be "held in honour." He therefore calls upon the
nation to chose between the "empire" and the " pubes
ment." If this means anything, it points to the abro-
gation of the legislative body altogether, but an act of
such manifest insanity is surely impossible.
The Mexican correspondent of the Independance Beige
gives a flattering account of the liberal policy of the
new Emperor, but adds a piece of news which, if true,
affords a new illustration of Louis Napoleon's "wars
for an idea." It is distinctly asserted that on the 29th
November a convention was signed with France for the
transfer of the province of Sonora into the hands of a
company organised with the cognisance of N. Fould ;
that an old settler at St. Francisco, N. Gnash), has
pleiged himself to bring 80,000 emigrants from Cali-
fornia for the working of the mines, and the port of
Acapulco is to be placed at the disposal of France, to
be held under the nominal suzerainty of Maximilian.
The Austrian and Prussian Cabinets are again at
loggerhrads respecting Schleswig-Flolstein. Von Bin.
mark hints that the Duchies should be forthwith
handed over to his tender mercies, but Austria does not
see what she is to gain by a transaction which would
give Prussia such an increase of power in the North.
I The situation is complicated by the fact that there are
negotiations more or less formal going on between the
Emperor and the King, who are supposed to have a
personal understanding, and between the two Cabinets
who do the diplomatic fighting ; and that beyond these
there are the popular forces, north and south, by no
means concordant with their rules or with each other.
The issue is therefore beyond prudent speculation.
The telegram sent from Moscow the other day, an-
nouncing the strange fact that "an address to the Czar,
praying for representative government, had been
carried by a large majority ins local assembly of nobles,"
turns out to be worse than a mistake. The meeting, it
appears, was made up of the most anti-progressive
elements of the old Muscovite Oligarchy, alarmed at
Archduke Constantine's appointment to the Presidency
of the Council, and the memorial they agreed on simply
proposed that the right of choosing delegates to com-
municate with Government should be strictly confined
to the circle of the established nobles, that right, since
emancipation of the serfs, being shared by all untitled
landowners in the empire. There is no likelihood f
the petition meeting with the sanction of the Emperor.

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The following is an extract from the Second Edition
(page 188) of the Translation of the Pharmscoposia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. G.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the
Pharmacopeia) that we have no purgative mass but
what contains aloes; yet we know that hcemorrhoidal
persona cannot bear aloes, except it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes.
scacomony, and colocynth, which I think are formed
Into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaling process, and by •
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) a an aromatic tonic
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for he
being • patent medicine. I leek at it as an article of
eoinnierco and domestic eonvenience, and do not hesi-
tate to may it is the best made pill in the kingdom; a
muscular purge, a mnoona purge, and • hydrogogue
purge combined, and their effects properly oontrolled by
• dirigent and oorrigent. That it does not commonly
produce haemorrhoids, like most aloetio pills, I attribute
In its being thoroughly soluble, to that no undissolved
particles adhere to the mucous membrane.

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