The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

etriffal Nr1135.

Sreattne Retetng.--Mome men cannot execute so
melsucholy an act as that of suicide without eccentricity.
An instance of this was afforded on .Monday lest at
I.ecure, near Havre. A cap WAX men in the water with
a string of corks around it, and a label upon which was
written, "Pull the string. lam at the mei of it !" The
string was pulled, and sure enough there was the late
writer of the label, with a paper, detailing the cause of
his having matte away with himself, carefully corked up
in a bottle id° his pocket, with his 'muse and address,
" Francois Foliot, of l'andrimare.”
THE GREAT EASTERN. —The latest from New York
states that a very large accession had been 11114.1 C to the
number of visitors of the ship previous to the time of
her starting on the excuisiati to Cape May. The incl.
dente of that trip appear to have added another to the
many unfortunate examples of mismanagement which
have marked the career of this great undertaking. The
New York papers are filled with the complaints of in-
dignant excursionists, and one of them has a long series
of headings to its report of the trip, in which occur,
among other startling lines, " Suffering. of painengent,"
" The noble *hip and her ignoble nuouigerti," Great
promisee and small performatives," and the account& of
the trip go on to tell of the mast unseemly squablilie, of
ladies dragged out of their berths by American gentle-
men Oh of tights on beard, struggles for water, scram-
Lies for usattresaes, hopeless attempts to obtain refresh-
1111011lial, intoxicated stewards, bewildered nigger waiters,
fabulous prices of food and drink. disgusting series of
rough practical jokes; and the ace tof one of the
correspondents wind, up by saying, " All that men
could du to 'hake a noble ship ,shows, and a grand es-
perimeut contemptible, the dine:tore of the Great
Eastern have most successfully done ; while I cannot
now bethink ine of a single ILCATIX of annoying man,
woman, or chill, on a voyage .4 pleasure, which the
Milne ingenious gentlemen left untried between
the 30th of July and the Ist of August.
It is to be loped that these pictures have
been somewhat overdrawn, though the general resem-
blance of all the sketches affords but too much reason to
believe that thee are in the main correct. It is stated
that Captain flsll and Mr. Bold, the manager, both
strongly protested against making the trip until more
complete accommodation was provided for the 2,000
pitsmoigers who were expected. They were, however,
but the servants of the company, and as such powerless,
for two members of the Board ACLompally the ship in the
capacity of travelling directors. Captain Carnegie is an
excellent authority on the management of a frigate, and
Mr. Gooch possesses gnat knowledge and experience in
the locomotive department of the Great Western Rail-
way ; but it would appear that both these gentlemen
have thormighly mistaken their vocation in attempting
to .to the work of a Barnum. (hi the return of these
gentlemen we shall, no doubt, have sonic satisfactory
explanatior on the subject. ' The Great Eastern was to
leave New York on the 11th, and by next Surehiy she
will, du doubt, have arrived at Milfonl Mimeo. On the
trip to Cape May the performance of the nohle ship was
iii eery respect satisfactory. the speed obtained being
between 13 and 14 knots • the 'machinery was in excel-
lent order, and gave the most complete satisfaction to
those on board. It would have been gratifying if the
other departments had been equally as ssch conducted
as that of the engineer's. It was generally reported
yesterday that the langpending arbitration between Mr.
Scutt Russell and the CORIVAIIY bad been brought to a
close. the award being against the company, notwith-
standing that the directors had expended, it is alleged,
mune I:30,000 in order to complete the works left un-
finished.
A Wise I)Ecirsiox.—The merchants of Frankfort are
at present signing a declaration by whi,ll they denounce
public gambling-houses, and bind themselves to iiismiss
any of their clerks who limy play therein ; also not to
employ any one who inay have been discharged for that
offence. The reasen why they have adopted this measure
is that a railway is about to he opened which will pleas
hi burg within 20 minutestuf Frankfort.. . . .

L bt Pt' HEMS ri)11 IZEC N lON. A convention has just
beim concluded betweew Her Majesty soul tin: Emperor
of the French, mails in consequence of the Emperor
haying represented to Her Majesty his desire to obtain
immediately for the colony of Reunion the service of •
limited IMlliber of labourers (rum India. The colleens
t" univides that the French Government shall lie at,
liberty to recruit and engage such labourer: neeordingly
in our Indian territories, the number not to exceed
The unetstious are to be dirtet,A Ly a French
sg nt approved by the British (lover •tit, and to he
etketed conformably to the regulations for the recruit•
ment of 'Ammer* for the British colotiiri, N 0 emigeaut
1. 1, le• embarked unless a British Goer' -nt agent at
the port (or the British Consul if it be a Frei.eli port)
has satisfied himself either that the emigrant is not a
British subject (or native of a pn,tected State), Or that
his engagement is voluntary and made with a perfect
knowledge f the material circumstances. At least one.
fifth of every shipment is to consist of women. Various
stipulations are inflictor tile protection of the emigrants
on the voyage and in Reunion. The vessel must carry
an European surgeon and an interpreter. The engage-
ment is not to be for inure than five year*, awl the
work not for inure thus six days in seven, nor more
than tti hours • day. The contract of service is to bind
the eungiunt to serve a person named, or a person to
whom he shall on arrival be allotted by the proper
authority ; and no husband shall be separated froui his
wife, nor parent from a child under 15, and no labourer
shall be require/I to change his employer witl t his
own consent, unless he be ttansferreil to the Goveni-
anent or to the purchaser of the property oil which he is
employed. The emigrants are to have a right to a free
passage back at the expiraf of their engagement, or
on becoming permanently incapable of %%mit by sick-
MKS.

'lle anneal Ministerial whitebait dinner to,.k place on
Wednesday evening at the Trafalgar hotel, Gres nwich.
Viscount Palmerston awl a l•rge party of hi% colleagues
came by water from West ter, a Citinni steamer
being engaged for the purpose. covers erre laid for
30, the company including the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Wode-
house Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hon. Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, the Right
Hun. Edward Cardwell, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Lord Clarence Paget, Rear-Adiniral the lion.
F. T. Pelhain the Right lion. W. Hutt, the Right
Hon. Itolwrt Lowe, Hon. H. B. W. Eran.l. Mr. Laing,
the Right 110111. W. F.. Gladstone, the Right Hon. W.
F. ('owper, Mr. C. Fortescue, the Attorney-General,
the Solicitor-General, Mr. Iluggessen, Mr. J. Bag-
well, h.c.
Teta' l'itonarrs.--Froui among the eccentricities of
the craft, we e Ise following tf.eCtilll Irma the
Sporting Calendar, and give it verbatim. It may be
..,, information to our readers to klasse duo, Hark.
away " is the principal turf contributor t. The Lund,
and also to the Morning : ** flartaway"
scarcely lets his left hand know what he is doing with
his right, and he can win a 'century ' without smiling,
and drop the like amount without moving a muscle. He
saw Thormanby win I close upon LOW SovA. for the
Derby,and he looked upon the contest as coolly as if the
horse was merely running for pins. ile is not only a
scholar and a gentleman, but Ise is one of the best riders
to houn,ls, olle of the best genie IdlotS, olio of the hest
fencers (Nil.), one Of tilt, best Nil fishers, and one of
the best houndsmen in England. In fa.•t, we Cr,, open
to back hini for :ilia vote, to shoot, rule, ogle, and femxi
against any one man in the world, and will stake tbe
money whenever our challenge shall be herepted." This
is tho "Ilarkaway" who OlNtlell a printeal turf cir-
cular, enabling parties to get on winners (or losers) when
at long odd,
Tile FOIOSTERA AT TII CItY MT A L PA L ACC. —A
special dinner was provided at 2 o'clock on Tuesday last
for officers and members of the order, and fully 2,000
persons sat down to this Aer repast, in the great
fitteul up for the Orpheonists. At half-past
3 o'clock a display ails.- entire merles of atetworks
took place, and was repeated at half-past it o'clock. In
the interval there was a considerable Lliange in the
composition of the vast concourse. Thotimils left by
special train, chiefly for the country, but were replaced
by thousensis more rele.oaul from their town occupations.
The sight of so great a multitude spread over the
beautiful grounds, and indulging in every description of
popular Attalla:Meta, VALe highly altercating ; but it was
still inore is, to thread one's way through the crowds on
the terraces and inside tl.e building. Judging from the
variety of feature and dialect. there were
of every county in Great Britaiu and Ireland, and there
was certainly a very tavourable repress Madame( national
character. Despite the out-door atti... •• • 4., eishanced
by a line day—or what may is for such to thin )e.t. of
St. Swithin—every department of the from the
troideal to the aretie. cite COlitilllotily throagesl with
intereeted and sulinintig gnaw. The eicture Gallery
from the
• ha.l its crowds of visitors all day lung; and the
sculpture casts excited from many a look .4 puzzled but
respectful attention. The total attendauce amounted to
the unparalleleel number of 67,0A4 • Icing 4,747 in
OILCCAuI .4 the umither 03,181) preacut laat ye:tr. It was
which every Fortster mewed to
dusk long before the enormous crowd showed any clear
lighting rendered this • little conseseuence. A string
sign of di ... in sit lin
ja;dir
tiblitet,t,trilel7soulugn:cii.lfra:l4,,e.mlirnardaigs;:gte iwiseitths t
tf
hour
of pleasure vans assisted the railways in effectiug the
bureiridgt.u.ilsojwfueutineve.dyb,urn.
to think it • point of good fellowship to possess and to
employ.

• UnITYIII3I7.—SCIIid bust sore breast*, ir,gairied
nipoles.—There Is no medical preparation in the n.rkl which
be wi thoroughly depended on in the treatsusnt of the
.hove ailments a* Holloway *hit alualde atid searorly
a de> Imo*, in a authentic to it. extra-
ordinary edicacy net not rut-Oval tree, ail p.n. of the globe.
Nothing iwai be *hinder of Inure ate than Li., niallina. in Viniall
applied, or its i‘ction on the laxly both 'wally and conelitu-
tionally. The 141113otid rubbed In the part agleamj enters the
pores Just as rat enters meet. seal not only 11,'" rid ti th•
local evil, but peuetriaes to the eoutte of it, and *trite, It trout the system.

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