The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, NOVIIIIBIX 11. ltiff._

NOTES OP THE WEEK.

Ministers are, it is said, determined that the short
approaching session shall be confined to its special
work. Lord Brawn bra, however. summoned the
Liberal peers to take wawa together, and it is said
that there is to be • sorating of Liberal M.N. • dap
or two Woes the semi= ova& But the party is
not likely at pessat to be re-united. Mr. Gladstone,
who has asaatained silence during the noses, is
retlerest, if not despondisc. If however. the
011.1115111.101 are resolved to impose more indirect
texiima the Liberals may join iron Mr. Disraeli,
bowers; can contra up= the support of most of
the &wish members, who are eagerly awaiting
their Reform Bill, and the racemes of reprisal.
Utica in the Home which has been promised them.
Parliament has now been formally summoned to
meet for the dispatch of "dives, urgent and in-
ctgbasiness" on the 19th inst.—that bantams
. to
_provide the ways and means of punning
•Abrannis through his dominions. AS
Miming-lane, it is said (though on• Can hardly
coedit the rumour) that the Chenellker of ths
Exchequer will propose additional customs' detain to
most this great expenditure, which the Tines
special aorrespoadent (Mr. Honer) estimates at flre
or six millioae. Unfortunately we have, it 601110111,
to deal with a mais who must be on the verge of
Insanity, but with all the cunning of a madman.
The Nero, as he is called, thew' no signs of
any dispodlics to meet oar reasonable demands,
but his remit mramore of some 2,500 people on
• mere pretext, or outbreak of tamper, indicates
the kind of ferocious barbarian we have to deal
with. It is anything but comforting to think that
at a time when diagram at home is ea great and
Wassail's when breed riots an taking place in the
week and trade is stagnant in every town, that
millions of mosey are going to be expended in
hunting this motislor in the ferro ineognifa of
A byteinia with =all chime of coming up with him.
There is to be an army of 12,000 inen employed on
this expedition, 8,000 amp followers and sake,
ponies, alspliaote and other animals to the number
of 85,0001 The Advaaced Brigade has teethed
Aden, and at the eleveath boar it is disoovered that
they will want water—sone being procurable within
sixteas miles of Anneoley, the place of dethroation
and a little south of Ithemorrah. So Colonel Mere-
wither has been obliged to detain one of the ships
purposely to distil water, for the use of the expe-
tion. This is a foretaste of what is likely to happen,
those' then are glowing accounts from Bombay that
nothing has been neglected.
Sad as are the details that have already reached us
of the frightful hurriothe in the West Indies, which
is said to have destroyed the town of St. Thomas,
and to have committed frightful havoc among the
shipping, it is to be fisted that we have not by any
means beard the worst of it. The news already
received reads like the first telegraphic intelligence
of • great battle, where only the broad outlines are
gips', all the deep shadows being left for subsequent
Alling-in. Unhappily the list of lives lost is likely
to he • bog one when it reaches us, as it probably
will now within a few dap. Many a Bride home,
where now the most painful sespose and anxiety is
felt, will than indeed become a home of mourning;
and even the fact that this tremendous visitation of
nature has swept away the poisonous virus of the
fever that was denraraing some psrbe of the West
Indies, will be snail 000solallou to bereaved relations,
whatever onapeosstion it may appear to the
philosopher.

biswevat

_
During the past week much of the intim* has
been taken out of Indian affairs for us, as well as
for all other nations ezespt the two principals in
the pending difficulty—ltaly and Frame. The
deigns defeat of Garibaldi robbed the Roman
question of the romance it had acquired; and one
knot of • singular complication being thus out,
while the Italian Government len the other to be
united by withdrawing its troops from the Papal
States, the question, m between the tro Govern.
insets, has beeonis one of dry diplomacy. Of course,
considerable interest remains in the question, how
Napoleon will get out of his premed difficulty,
although it may not be the same vivid sort of
interest that was exited by Daribaldi's exploits.
After the part which French troops took in the
defeat of the Garibeldian bands, only • prompt and
total abandonment of the temporal power by the
Emperor would preserve to him the Italian aims ;
bat how be can adopt such • policy in the face of the
French priesthood and pmentry, it is not easy to
Imagine. In short, it seems evident that Garibaldi,
if he has failed in the purpose he set before himself/
has succeeded in placing Napoleon in A most
awkward dileauna ; whether or not the kcoperor
will meet the proverbial fate of this who it between
two stools remains to be men.
The Blanchester trials have collapsed very one,-
potedly to most people, though a few sharp-eighted
persons were not unprepared for such a result. The
polio. seem, in foot, to have been too waive. They
beeped up prisoners and evident:is without sufficient
discrimination; and • few doubtful asses and more
than doubtful witnesses have been suffitient, as they
pre way, to bring down nearly the wilt edifice of
the prossoetion. The plaint interest is matted in
the five prisoners condemned to death, and, now
that the panic is allayed, • feeling is arising that
only Allen, the sated emessin of Brett, ought to be
assented. As for Maguire, the conviction grows
stronger every day that his is • ease of mi.
taken identity.