The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

foreign Intttligenct.
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An American paper cells attention to this haired-
Ins fact—" A Maryland man, who haa arrived at the
ripe old age of one hundred and two yeara, waalmarried
▪ few days nines to his serioad wile, and the *Duple are
Arm on a bridal tour."
THE rumours still elreelate that the Priam Imperial
end ilia Areliduebees Gisolls, *ldiot daughter of Frames
Joseph, are to be engaged. The Priam and ArchAaehem
are eaah twelve plat. of age. The beam of MaPrimrd•
Lorraine hsa supplied wives to French monarchs whom
Imo have been truly sad. The Prince ie to ester into
his new apertnianta in th• emirs, of neat mouth, with
£40,000 •year to ooinmanee house Immesheeping.

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THU PNUNIII•S POLICT ON TIM ITALIAN QUZIITION.
The Mote of Tuesday night states that "although the
Prtusien Government has engaged to remain neutral
on the Roman question. Count Bismarck has given a
formal aseorsece to the Florence Cabinet that be will
not allow France to make war upon Writing
this subject, the Morel., HeroU of Wednesday gives
• modified Tadao of this otatommt. It mys it ham
"good reason to believe that the language of the
Prnuien Minister was by nomeans an forcible and that
It was only swotted that Preemie would regard with
diasatitdaction any attempt to destroy the
Eli:tom of Italy, which had no lately been her ally in
• al Oontinental war. The Emperor of the French,
however, is in no respect more likely to strike a
Mow et the unity of Italy than Count Bismarck
himself."
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FRIGHTFUL RAILWAT ROCIDENT.—Tbere wags fearful
assident to the mai from England to Psria en Sunday
morning. About fourteen miles from Paris the train.
which was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, rau
into an engine and tender whisk were coming from the
direistion of Paris. The two engines met with a fearful
erase, and broke Into eaeh other In mob a manner sa to
look likes oonfneed meat of iron. The first carriages
were smashed to atoms, many of the passengers were
killed, iind others were fesrfully beuised and slisken. The
sorriest., furthest from the engine sustained bat little
damage. The accident took plane about half -past seven,
and it was nearly ten before sash of the injured persons
a. weld bear removal reached their hotels in Paris, and
got medical Lid. A (Mt deal of suffering was caused
by the imposaibility of getting anything to drink, though
there was • station only three hundred yerds off, beta
couroo of hours elspeed before even a drop of water
could be obtained to moisten the lips of the wounded.

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ORNAT 11•INIACIIN OF MITSMIDI•NIL —The Pall Mall
Oasetta of Monday evening emateins a letter, &had
September 7, from Lieutenant Pridoeux, one of this
Abyssinian captives. Fut ther details are given of Theo-
dore's cruelty and ferocity. The writer says :—" Whets
I last wrote be was on a plundering expedition agslnst
the smell bland of Metrabs, in the Like Trine. Seery
inhabitant of that place he consigned to the lease with
the exception of three Goodsr usernhante, who bad fired
thither for seearity, but who unluckily reckoned without
their bog, for they plundered of their property and
are now lying in chains in the *amp of tho tyrant, and are
frequently tortured for money. Shortly afterwards Lb.
Kin( wades trip to hag, °Deaf the most flourishinx little
towns in Foggrir OD the north. western portion of
Brgent wader. Th• place was surrounded, and
fifteen hundred of the peuen4 eapturtii Thet•
were burned dived in fie. large houses selected
for the purpose. It le maid there is riot now
• ringlet 111••• woman or child alive between
Debra Tibor end Ernfres. on the borders of Combea
In the camp his majesty hem been playing the same
game. It was reported to hint that two thousand of
hie soldiers wished to desert ; they were surrounded by
the others, and their throats cut like maths For two
days the camp resounded with the report, of firearms
the -nothere, wives, children, sad nearest relatives of
Pelle wretched men were being pistolled by the eadiery.
Ladies of good families, the wives of the chief., were
stripped naked, and tied to poste, when, they were
exposed to the noontide glare of the sun;
they were tortured with ropes, ha, until • pistol shot
pet an end to their sufferings Unntention•hits bar-
With. have bona perpetrated on the miserable women;
Yet chiefs of the districts have had their bawls and feet
gut off, and thee been left to di. of starvation. Seal des
king's position does not Improve; desertions enstinue
daily. The hist expedition he made was against BAUM
• Man tworinoe between Berintroeder sod Lest'. The
pennants, who are more warlike in their tompernement
than those of Demises, stood their mend besvely, sad
for the first time in hie life the monarch of Abreisis
was repulsed bye handful of ploughmen."