The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

jortign anb Colonial intelligrnrt.

FR ANCE.—La Pommerais, the French poinoner
en.. ezecnted co Tturoday morning.—The Cosiati.
tationuel says :—" The replies of Austria and Pruoaia
have arrive I. These Powers are stated to consent to
the proliong.tion of the srmistiee for • fortnight."
Official de.patchre received here from Algeria announce
that the Marabout Si-el-Aserey had attacked General
Lapasset at Gael- Biloxi& hut was vigorouoly repulsed.
General Rose arriwd at Zsmort hon the 3rd without
having exprrieneed the ',twit nrsiotanot. The province
of Coestantiee has remained tranquil.
RIIS4IA.-01 dospstch has been received from the
Grand Duke Michaol,annonniung the tormination of the
Circassian war, and st•tinir that "no more tribes
remain to be conquered." The mode in which this con-
summation has been accomplished is thus dercribed by
the English wilbauador at St. Prtershurg :—The
system pursued has been, for twin yearo past, to move
the troop. and the Comae* forts and eettlements slowly
bat surely up the valleys which pour their waters north.
ward, to lb. basin of the floullan, dispossessing the
indi•enous inhabitants at every stop, until at last the
highest (witnesses have been reached, and the people
' inhabiting the watersheds have been pealed over into
the volleys sloping southward to the Black Sea, and
have carried the savage and oequestered people of
those regions in manes to the court" Thus the
Bussiaus have " made a solitude and call it peace."

PRUSiI A.—The official Berlin newspaper, in
announcing the prolongation of the armistice, says that
it is probable thst hostilith • will break out afresh on
the 26th. This may be looked upon as • bully's trick
to frighten Denmark into fresh concessions. The French
journals abound in detaila of Prussian insolence, and
In its continued dig; lay among the aubj.-cts of the
Danish Crown. Their soldi-ry, not content with
pillaging the villages, ransack the runic sepulchres in
search of antique memorials which thee sell to Jew
broker.. In the port of /toreros the King's dag had
been always hoisted as a signal that high water per-
m ti the /meets of coasting 'easel.; bus the Prussian
officer bas ordered the Lianebrog to be hauled down.
The An-i,iatlt are somewhat utilder in their bearing ;
bat at Verde, where the guild of hoot and shoe makers
had displeyed on recurrence of their feast day, the
corporate dad, repre-enting "• man with one foot
booted and the ether bootless," that emblematic
banner was forthwith ordered to be struck, the com-
mandant fancying it in ha • env.' at Austrie• pooltiofl
in Itsly, the boot of which it had been or would be
coinpelied to evacuate.

A MERICA.—A Soffiffitan VrEw or Lek's New
PosirioN.—The intelligence already published is conn•
firmed in the most complete manner. The chief army
of the enemy has a andoned its base on the Rapdsn
and Upper Rappahannock, and e.tabliahed • new goatee
• .upply on the 1 war waters of the lad named river,
at Port Royal and Rappahannock. His troops are
mused in the country between the Mattapony and the
lower Rappahannock. His front is at Milloni and the
Bowling Green. This change of position bas rendered
necesitary a corresponding change in the position of
General Lee. After ancertaining that no enemy was
left to fight in Bpottaylvanis, be has come down the
line he has hel I with snows front the first, and again
Planted himself Induce n Grant and Richmond, near
Hanover Junction. After stating that the Northern
papers will trumpet the change of base as a retreat the
Ilsowiner continues—when General Lee moves his army
alter • tut battle, for the purpose of gettine away from
hie antagonist, bettause be finds himself unable to main-
taina struggle of brute force with him, he will have
retreated. But if either party has done that, it is
certainly Grant Lea followed him from the
Wilderness; be is now the last to move, and is
purauer, not pursued from Spottsylvania. So far
from 10-ing ground Lee has gained manifest
a4vantages by each change of the lines. It is easier to
defend that portion of the line which is near to Bach'
mood than that which was Lir removed from it. Ho is
far hatter situated new than at Spottayhuinia Court
House, and that mu better than the Wilderneu. In
either plane his supplies, stores, and reinforcements had
to come up from Rehmond. The country has been
long since Neared and beaten into • desert by the drums
and trampling, of three inupions From the railroads
to his comp weary miles of red mud were alway• inter.
pined by every shower. His cavalry is notoriously
defective, and lima always proved inefficient to protect
hia communicationi at thou mom, lite when they were
most needed. While operating on the lover rivers all
of these troubles are over. A few hours give him hie
supplies. The roads can no longer be severed with
impunity. Tiie difficulties under which he haa laboured
are transferred to the score of the enemy. Perhaps a
oonvict,on that it would be no was the reason which
made Grant prefer to encounter Lte in the Wilderness,
instead of coming straight to MiUord. Con•idecing the
whole facts we think the time hucome when Confederates
may exchange congratulations. No reflecting man am
doubt that the gem :A 'ideation is very mach improved
since the day when Grant crusted the Rspidan, and
Butler landed at Bermuda Hundred, That WY indeed
a critical moment. The Confederate government had
been well warned of the concentration against Rich-
mond. It was half convinced of its reality. But it
was only half belief; an idea rather theoretical than
practical. It was just enough moved to render it
utive in recruiting the divisions which Lee had with
him on the Rapidan. It was not so utistied of the
truth as to collect all the division. of Lua's army in
their place, or even in the State. It made no unusual
collection of material in Virginia. But throughout
the winter the enemy marched up his mi n from every
quarter of the United States to the outer lines of
Virginia. Folly determined to make the blow decisive.
he spared no cost or means—acted without regard to
future campaigns. Uninterrupted by my disturbing
cause, he placed the armies in pceitions whence they
could be brought upon vital point' of attack in •Erw
hours of movement. When all was bite reedy, and
the rude entirely dry, the aigoal was given, and the
two muses of destructive material struck nil,
warned, bat ill prepared, at the satue instant That
was, indeed, • critical moment. But the ship had an
original atrength sufficient to stand the shuck. Lee's
thin army beat the cl.ief force of the enemy in the
WiPerness ; the second blow was deadtned by the
fortifications near Drury. Beery moment since clammed
has been gain to WI Time was all we wanted to bring
up Beaoregard, and we got time. When he forced the
enemy from his entrenchments and re-opened communi-
cations, and when Lee bad given • final answer to the
question whether he was able to stand op against the
full weight of Grant, the chief danger, the danger of
being crushed artier the rush of an avalanche ceased to
eziat. It la true that the °banes of battle may yet,
wine day, fall upon urn; but it is certainly far leas pro-
bible now than then ; and, therefore, we think there is
convincing, solid reason to believe that the military
sitnetion at this moment is muck more favourable to us
than when Grant crowd the Rapidan.—RicAinoad
Examirwr, May 24.

HOLDING TIM STAEZIL—An individual at the races
was staggering about the track, with more liquor limn
he well carry. " Hallo, what's the matter now?'
said a chap whom the inebriated man had ran aseinet.
" Why —hie—,irhy, the fact is—hic —a lot of icy friend.
have been betting liquor on the race today, and they
hues got me to hold the stakee."—Yankee Paper.
11.. Lawn/Meg PNINDISIVI BILL.—A meeting of the
leading supportere of the United Kingdom Alliance
was li. Id at the London °aloes, Strand, on Wednesday
afternoon, the Bth inst., shortly after the division In
the House of Conimoue. A resolution we. peeled
expreseing the conviction that the number of votes in
favour of the principle of the Bill was a gratifying
evidence of progrees within Parliament sines the intro-
duction of the inesoure. It was also determined, in
reliance upon a wideepread popular eympathy with
tho Bill, to curry out electoral organisation, with a view
to the more hpeedy reference of the queetion of the sale
of drink to the various townships and pariehes of the
country.

TIES AUSTRIANS AND THE BATTLE or MAGIENTA.—
The extrsonlinary news, oeiginating in an Italian tele-
gram, Viet the anniverwery of the battle of Magenta bad
been celrbrsted in A ustri• u a national victory, is Dow
explained in a manner which relieves the Austrians
from the ridicule cast upon them. The simple fact ir
that they keep the day as one of mourning, the Catholic)
officers attearling a grand mese. for the souls of three
who fell in the battle. The officer' wear crape round
their arms, and salvoes of artillery are Bred.
This in an age of improvement, therefore all changes
should be in that direction. Time was when good tea
was readily obtainable—pure wholesome tea—Dr.
Samuel Johnson liked such; and people ptterally meek
such now. John Chinaman has not been slow in finding
out that be eau peas off his brown waste leaves by
colouring all qualities alike, thus greatly increasing bin
own and the merchant's profits, at the oonsumer'" ex-
penes. It is highly requisite that good tea be again
readily obtainable; Horniman and Co.' London, there-
fore import it pure, without any mineral powder on Its
'arise., being the strong, delicioux, and invigorating
zeritgai rntaot; the
egrinnetn..aseltitlld olive
ark . —t
hilso l b
.veryl neiaLit; ii•nd
ish
tea drinker admit. iA a great desi'deratum. Supplied
only in packet', through Nor:rimmed own sgents.—See
sdrerthement in this day's paper.

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The public do not realise the full benefit of the
reduced tax on tea owing to the many profit. with
which it is charged, for it is passed from the grower to
the Chinese membant, then to the Englith merchant,
next to the tea broker, afterwards to the London
wholesale dealer, who sell, it to the retailer :—by
Horniman k Co.'s improved mode of supply many of
them charges are avoided, and tea of surpessing excel-
lence and purity is secured, ae all their imports are
sent direct to eonsumers through their London and
country agents in sealed packets with the price plainly
printed thereon ; Dominion k Co. therefore guarantee
to purchasers in all parte of the kingdom tea of good
quality at their low Axed price. It is needful to see
that each racket is signed Domino= k Co., original
Importer, of the pure tea.
Tbe following is an extract from the Second Edition
(pope I&S) of the Translation of the Pharnmeopnia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. O.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the
Pbarcusoopoia) that we base no pargative mass but
what contains sines; yet we know that hoinierrhoidal
perions cannot bear aloes, except it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefil consists of stows
seasimony, and oolocynth, which I thiek are formed
into • solid compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline process, and by •
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of in aromatie tonic
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for Its
beings patent medicine. I look at it al an article of
conimeree and domestic ammoniate*, and do not bag-
tete to say it is the beet made pill in the kingdom; a
oinsesdar purge, • mueous purge, and • bydrogogne
parr combined, and their effects properly controlled by
a dtrigent and eminent. That it does not commonly
produce hastoorrhoids, like most aloetie pills, I attribute
to to being thoroughly soluble, so that no undissolved
perticles a there to the moon. membrane.