The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-01 00:00:00

etnerat Ncbms.

PAILIAWITART.-81r William Frame eras elected
without opposition for the borough of Ludlow (Shrop-
shire) on Friday.
It is stated that several vessels are on the stocks in
some of the French porta on the Alabama model. These,
it is rumoured, are destined for the Confederate Govern.
rnent. A Southern frigate, the Atlanta, is underpin.
repairs in the Imperial dockyard at Brest. It mug
thus appear that the French Government are not so
scrupulous about giving °Bunco to the Yankees u the
English Government are.
The suspiciously largo number of Rusian vessels in
the Black Sea beloog it is said, to a commercial com-
pany, and consequently Russia has not been minty of
any violation of the articles of the 1856 treaty. A fee
I gunboats in elmse of the stipulated number &readmitted ;
but these it timid, are there with the object of meeting

-poem— 71;1; elsualties at ma.
Mr. Richard Potter, of Gloucester, who has devoted
much attention to railway questions, and who recently
took a prominent part in adjusting the affairs of the
Grand
_Trunk of Canada line, bas been elected chairman
. .

of the Greet Western.
The Lords of the Treasury have adopted a minute
authorising the Postmaster-Genaul to admit into the
public service of that deportment well•remencomided
youths of about fourteen years of age, to be trained to
the higher duties of the subordinate deportment& The
pay is to begin at the rate of 61 per week.
This year has been a very fruitful see for the Mormon
elders in foreign lauds. While our pen* have been
engaged by civil war these vagabonds have been
busy proselyti,ing among the ignorant of all the nations
'of &rope. The Mormons now boast of having • repre-
sentation from every civilised nation on earth. Not
We than ten thousands souls have crossed or will woes
the plains this year.—Leareitworte
The Pease Society has addressed a memorial whist
might be 'Wind a remonstrance to Earl Russell, on the
subject of our relations with Japan. Of course, the
memorialists ate in favour of letting the Japanese have

their own way.
Telegraplne wire has become rather an insportant
article of commerce. During the last ten years it hats
been exported to the following values :-1853. £72,584'
1834, £81,566; 1855, £163,737; 1856, £80,076; 1857,
£302,246; 1858, £784,708 1859, £742306; 1860,
£251,112; 1861, £314,481; ard 1862, 021,044. We
have thus in the ten years an aggregate export of the

value :4E2,474,410.
A St. Petersburg letter contains the following :
" Infernal machines have been pieced around the works
at Cronstadt. and the Finland journals contain notices
to Newnan of the limits which they must not pea. Thome
lines are marked near the Emperor Paul I. and Constan-
tine Forts by blue gage, fixed upon buoys. Not only have
heaps of earth been thrown into the see behind thaw
flags, but there still remain many of the explosive
machines which were laid down at the time of the
Crimean war. Two years ago a Danish brig struck one
of them, suffering considerable damage, and the accident
was followed by a long lawsuit between the Russian and.
Danish authorities."
On Friday morning the 'Mermen of Cadgwitb, near
the Lizard, secured and brought to Falmouth a largo
whale, commonly known so a "Butner," which they
captured near the firet-nrentioned place, tlotiff.
dead. It measured 74ft. in length and Mt. in
and was landed on the gridiron of the Falmouth IlOOki
on the day of the opening of the Cornwall railway, to
the groat amusement of the folks from the interior of
the ocatc try.
An American paper supplies an amount of the state
of the Confederate garrison of Vicksburg before the Ml-
render. The following is the bill of fare for three days
for a brigade of 2.914 men, vie :-4,371 lb. mole meet,
820 lb. rice. 2,732 lb. pees, 12 lb. candler, 49 lb. map,
393 lb. salt, 269 lb. tobacco. This is an &Somme* of
only half a pound of mule meat, one and a half ounce ot
rice, and less than a pound of peas for each per cloy.
Heroic and devoted indeed were the men who, on such
' fare, were willing to continue the MAMA as long as
they had strength to lift their firearnts.
We hear that a young man, who is about to start for
the New Zealand digging, ia making arrangements for
the transport to that place of about 100 rata. It would
appear, by the last accounts from that quarter, that cat*
are worth from El to .C 5 each.
The celebrated tight-rope dancer. Sochi, not haring
been able to obtain a license for performing In France,
owing to her great age, 92, has gone to Valencia, where
she looks for better luck.
Mr. Merry's celebrated hone, Backstone, has been
sold for £4,b00, to go to China.
A society is shout being formed In London to deal
with the lamentable increase in the crime of infanticide.
On Thursday Mr. J. Knott, of the Freemasons' Tavern.
Bath, whilst fly-fishing in the brook at Limpley Stoke.
captured a splendid trout, weighing h lbs., and
measuring 19) inches in length.
William Castle Wright, son of the Rev. Samuel
Wright, Baptist Minister, Lincoln, has been committed
for trial on • charge of having stolen .1.81 from his father's
boom. . .

it ritzhardinp's bour.ds have commenced onbhunt-
int. There is • plentiful supply of foxes throughout
his Lordship's country.
It is calculated that the metropolis alone consumes,
in the course of a year, no fewer than 270,000 oxen,
30,000 calvis, 1,500.000 sheep, 30,000 pip, to may
nothing of the docks of fowls and shoals of fish, which find
their way into the same channels of consumption. The
total value of the flesh imported into London, alive and
dead, cannot be much less than £14,000,000 annually.

The Germans of London held high revel at the Crystal
Palate on Wednesday. First, it was the occasion at
their annual gymnastic festival ; and, secondly, it was
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of
Korner. Unfortunately the rain fell in torrents during
the day and evening. This rendered impossible the
torchlight procession which was to have taken place,
but it did not prevent the gymnastic sports being gone
through ; nor did it interfere with a banquet in the
evening, at which several national and patriotic toasts
were given with great seaL
A repoit is current in Constantinople that the Turkish
Government intends, for the future, to have the
metallic currency of the Ottoman Empire wined at the
Paris Mint.

'Rome," says the correspondent of the Sikle,"ls
just now occupied with a piece of scandal of which
Monsignor Borroroeo, majordomo of the Pope, is the
Monsignor Borromeo has been suddenly d.
priced of his office and expelled the Vatican, in conse-
quence of some circumstances, tke publiattion of which,
It is said—no doubt caluonnioualy—would make St.

protector 01 the
family, blush.'

The following letter as to the mode of getting intoxi-
cated without paying a single farthing to goveinment,
and signed "Sweet Nitre," appeared in Tuesday's
Tines :—" Your article on Inland Revenue does not
arrive at the grit and the cause of the decreased con-
sumption of spirit, which is to be accounted for to an
appreciable extent from the fact of methylated spirit
taking the place of duty-paid on pure spirit. In the
one article of spirit of nitre I have no hesitation in
saying the treasury is mulcted of perhaps • million
pounds annually, as very little of that article is sold
which is not distilled from "methylated finish. I may
mention that there is a very cheap process of becoming
Intoxicated without paying a penny to the excise for
the stimulant. It cannot be doubted for a moment that
the enormous quantity of sweet spirit of nitre sold is not
taken medicinally. When taken with hot water and •
lump of sugar it is tolerably palatable, and at Is per lb,
as mold by many tradesmen, any poor old woman, opium
eater or other, whose habits of intemperance are very
great, can for about 3d. to 6d. acquire their miserable
object. As a chemist of several years standing, I can
vouch for the numerous stomach aches which have to
be cured by that wolf in sheep's clothing."
The Victoria (Vancouver) Chroniek records a curious
tale of the Flying Dutchman class :—Two gentlemen
strolling upon Beacon hill on the 20th of June witnessed
a rare sight Three large ships, with all sails bent,
appeared to rise as it were from the water between
Rocky Point and Race Rocks, and with their white
Mayan glistening in the sun, and the spray dashing
from their prows, beaded directly for Victoria harbour.
The spectators, knowing the dangerous locality in
which the Teasels were, and alarmed lest they should
be dashed to pieces on the rocks, sprung to their feet,
when suddenly the ships disappeared, teeming to melt
from view, and nothing was seen but the rocks and the
breakers dashing over them. A moment or twonfter-
wards, instead of the watery space between the light-
hone and Rooky Point, appeared • wall of RAU rock,
as clearly defined as the Olympian range of mountains
on the American Mora. The rocks shortly diaappeared,
and the three ships were again seen, this time nearer
the American side, and apparently bound up the
Sound. They remained stationary for a few moments,
then faded slowly away, and returned no more. The
illusion was caused by mirage, which ariaee from a
peculiar ratified state of the atmosphere. It is no un-
common occurrence to me apparitions of dense forests
and mountains in the vicinity of Race Rocks, and large
lakes open suddenly in the bosom of some mountains
on the opposite shore but objects such as ships under
full sail have been rarely seen as mirage.
If we are to believe • writer in the Argus, and a lead-
ing article in the same journal, • religious institittion
haa sprung op in Melbourne which, for ebscanituoorad
mth adoese, quite throws e celebrated "Abode of
of Mr. Prinoe, in England, into the Made. It may be
remembered that at this establishment the ladies and
gentlemen lived in exemon, having established a roend
robin kind of marriage ceremony, very comfortable, no
doubk to persons of versatile tastes, but not at all in
sccordance with the received opinions of virtuous Mal
sad women. It appeals, however, that the society in
Melboiuse, who call themselves 'follower' of the man
Christ," and by other significant names, are not satisfied
with trammeling the laws of marriage, but disregard
even the laws of nature. The details cannot, of course,
be published; but, if we are to believe the hints thrown
out, lire from Maven could alone mire the earth of
such abominable villains. The most limitable sup-
position is that they are all mad, bat some vigorous
r hideous as
to be taken to prevent the spread of so
aa epidemic —..instralian Paper.
The "Central Association for the recognition of the
Confederate States," at Manchester, has issued • circular
advocating mediation and the tion of the South.
After commenting on the frightful of life caused
by the war, and on the impossibility of reconstructing
the Union, the document KOOS on tosay :—" Separation
I. already accomplished. The South barn kid ample time
to show a capacity for mill-existence and sell-govern-
ment, and the podorol power cannot by any means
restore the old Union. May, thou, thould we
hesitate to recommend (iNorthern ) on. ntohounfribsznadlysosupti.t to to.
statesmenvine ago that Mr. Davis ..badding.d.
o,
.deolarviede
desire
to act up to tho spirit of his saying by urging • friendly
joint mediation of the European Powers, preceded by
/air and equal recognition of the South as • contracting
Fewer. This course we think preferable to the • cold
...trail' which looks unmoved on an attempt to
annihilate • gallant people, and on the pranging mur-
murs of Federal anarchy, rapine, and assamination.
Therefore, in the interest of distracted America, North
and South alike—in the interest of our own guiltless,
suffering people—in the interest of the anhappr liege,
and of common humanity—we ask poste join as in this
earnest attempt to cheek the social, mend, and political
"'in which protracted civil war mud brbeg upon both
L6'14406%1 thsby riZeparitolibeperlurTfßePub6l6entlemen" willlThlummadreutarin
Manchester and other tow" in the
North, including several clergymen.