The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

/*reign anti Colonial Intelligence.

FRANCK
It appears the newspilaers will not be allowed to
publish the proceedinga during the trial of Pierri and
hui accomplices. The reporters of the Paris papers have
been informed that they moot publish no account except
that which shall be officially furnished to them. The
reason is said to be the expressed determination of
Orsini to make some curious disclosures relative to the
Carbonari, and to certain political eventa which took
place years ago in Italy.
The result of the division on the Conspiracy to Murder
Bill has produced • great sensation among all classes of
people here. The Ministerial organs evidently did not
expect such • result, and are much taken back.
Their language has lost something of its vain
glorious style. In official quarters no trifling
bewilderment is apparent, and even people who
are not over-friendly towards England admit that mat-
ters have been carried too far with her. There is a
pretty general feeling that a series of unfortunate blan-
der, has been committed. It is difficult for ordinary
men to explain, unless on suppositious of the strangest
kind, mistakes which a novice in government could
hardly have committed—M. de Morny'a address, the
military addresses, and, what in as great • blunder as
either, M. Walewski's famous despatch. Some regret
the fall of Lord Palmerston, but nearly all concur in
condemning the causes which led to it. Few can recall
Without indignation the language of the colonels, or
Without shame the statement of • French Minister that
in England the doctrine of assassination is openly
preached.
Count Persigny received orders to return to his post
in London immediately on receipt of the news of Lord
Palinerston's fall.

THE ORSINI TRTAL.—Pnrin, February 25.—The trial
of Orsini and his companions came on to-day at the
Cour d'Astiees. The preceedings were almost exclu-
sively oonfined to reading the Act of Accusation.
The gossips of Paris say that Colonel Fleury has
registered a vow in heaven that he will some day cause •
brigade of French Guards to bivouac in Hyde Park.
The doctors h Ye recommended a hilly country in the
south for the King of Prussia the French Emperor has
placed the chateau royal of Pau at his disposal.
A graceful sarcophagus is now finislial in the church
of Ruel to enshrine the ashes of Queen Hortense, who
sleeps on one side of the altar, the Empress Josephine
having her resting place opposite.
A solemn Te beam was performed at the French
Catholic church of St. Louis, at Moscow, to retnm
thanks to heaven for ;querying the lives of the Em-
peror and Enthrals of the french. At the close, Count
Zakrewski, Governor Gellert,' of Moscow, turning
towards the French Consul, said :—" May his Majesty
the Emperor Napoleon 111. live many years, for the
sake of the repose and security of the world."
The trade of France oontinues inanimate. It is now
thought that this is not altorther owing to the feeling
produced by the attempt of the 14th of January and Its
consequences, but that the high price of all articles of
merchandise prevents speculation.
THE FRENCH A/MT.—The report of the committee
on the bill relative to the conscription of 1858, just pre-
sented to the legislative body, proposes that the levy shall
be 100,000, in order to be able to make with facility the
army 800.000 strong in the event of war. The report
sacs, that with the levy of 80,000, as was practised from
1833 to 1850, it was only possible to have, in cue
of war, an effective army of 500,000 men, which
was alwaye oonsidered by practical men as in.
so Si ent. As a proof that such an opinion is correct,
the report mentions that at the beginning of the East-
ern war • levy of 140,000 men bad to be made, and bad
to be continued during the whole war, but that excep-
tional levy unbolt • scarcity of labour in all branches of
industry, and in • great many cantons exhausted the
power of recruiting. Not only, says the report, will the
levy of 100,000 prevent such an inconvenience in future,
but it will cause the levy to be made in • more equitable
manner than it now is. It is stated, however, that a
levy of 100.000 will only give about 72,000, owing to the
deduction made for young men who support families,
who are unfit to serve, who obtain exemptions, or who
Rre made over to the 11,17. It is further stated that,
though the government will have the power of making
that levy, it does not follow that it will exercise it, and
that in 1858 and 1859 it may only call out 42,000 men,
as it did in 1857.
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The Court of Assists of the Gent, • few days ago, tried
a married couple named Detant, of Pavia, • village near
Auch, for solitary confinement of the inan'm daughter
by a former wife. The commissary of polioe of Auch,
in November last. heard that • young woman had for
come years been kept sequestered in an uninhabited
house belonging to this Detente, at Panic, and he at
once went there. He found Jeanne Delimit, who is
abaut 28 years of age, and an idiot, ins low, damp, and
dirk room, which wee partly filled with ebb,; she had
no covering except • piece of sackcloth ; she wee overrun
with vermin; the room WM extraordinarily filthy, and
contained no article of furniture except • wretched
chair; end a beep of filthy straw served her as a bed.
The room opened into • yard, which was encumbered
with filth. When the omniniusary spoke to the poor
young woman, she laughed Aloud, and went to crouch in
• hole In the well. He learned from the neighbours
that, she wu generally kept without sufficient food, and
that when any bits of broad or meal were thrown to
her over the wall, she devoured them greedily; she
used also, they said, to devour the peeling* of potatoes
and the stalks of cabbages. To his astonishment he
learned that for not fewer than 17 years the poor crea-
ture had been kept in that horrible room ; and yet
though most of the villagers knew of it not one of them
ever complained to the authorities, He had the girl at
once provided for, and arrested her father and mother.
in.lew. The two latter, who for peasanta are tolerably
wealthy, having several fields, two bowies, and 10,000 f.
in money, could make no other excuse than that the
girl wee idiotic and disgustingly filthy. The jury de.
clared them guilty, but with extenuating circuinetances,
and the Court sentenced each of them to five years' hard
labour.