The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

Jorrign intelligtm.

A DZIMIC on the part of the American Government
to possess an Island in the diessan Sea has drawn forth
pointed remonstrances from France and England.
Aanzass' WAoen.—A highly interesting diseession
I took place a few daya ago, at the Working Menhi Con-
gre.s now being held at Geneva, on the oomparative
merit of the means to be adopted in England, Frame,
and Germany for maintaining the rate of wages. Trade
disputes being most common where most liberty was
accorded, the position of our artisans was freely criticised
from a continental point of view. It was suggested that
the anocintion ehneld supply the working men of each
country with the state of the labour market in ether
countries, with a view of disabling masters from imposing
their oan terms on the men by the importation of foreign
workmen. One and all however, seemed to have a whole-
some dread of strikes; and a resolution was mussed
affirming that what workmen should aim at was not the
raising of wages, but the abrogation of wages altogether
by weans of the principle of association, which would
unite labour and capital in the same hands.

Tug New York Tribuno pabalishes a letter bearing
the signature of Daniel Byrne, the late warder of
Richmond Bridewell, Dublin, whish contains an acoonnt
of the escape of James Stephens, from that Pawn, and
a refutation of the charge made against Stephens in
America of being • ' British spy." Byrne states that he
and • Colonel Kelly were the persona who orzanimi the
mane and got the fates keys manufactured. and says
that they would have liberated Charles J. Kickhatu(now
undergoing penal servitude) on the mune occasion bad
not his near•sightedness and great deaf nem made it rather
a dangerous enterprise. Byrne is made in thee dom.
anent to appeal to his brethren of the Papal brigade for
his own tmthfulnees, and to add that the Fenian. in
Ireland are ready to take up arms wh James
Stephen. calls upon them "to do or die." Byrne, it
will be recollected. wee tried for complicity in the escape
of Stephens, but the jury not agreeing he was liberated.
His brother declare+ the New York letter • fabrication,
and states that Byrne, on his release, went'immediately
to Australia and not to America.

ACCOMPLISIIID FACTS AND THITIL Leneou.—A Paris
correspondent of the liedepewelasee Be* says :
" According to • prevalent rumour, the French Cabinet
will state in it. circular that it admits accomplished
faets ; but will, at the same time, make foreign Courts
understand that the way in which these fast@ have been
1. realised creates • precedent which the other great Powers
of Europe might be well tenapt.l to remember on •
fitting occasion. To sum up the general fceling about
the affairs of Germany, I cannot do better than cite the
following opinion of an cfficial pereonage:—'We are
come to the end of the A witro•Prus..eltalian question,
the revival of the Eastern question is now at hand, and
Heaven only knows whether this latter will not be
more serione in its consequences than the former. We
are not in perb et accord with London on this subject of
the Levant, nor are we in absolute community of views
with St. Peteraburgh on the same question. Never.
theless, I believe that at this moment the disagreement
is mach ler serious between amend Russia than between
us and England."
RANGING M %DS FAST.—Samnel Covent Wee executei
at noon on the 231 of A u2uAt at lob:anon, the capital of
Warren Cour.ty. Cincinnati. .tfter breakfast Judge
Smith. who pre•iiied at hi. trial and pas•eil upon him
the sentence of death, called in and shook hand, with
the prisoner. Covert asked him to be seated, saying,
"I RM glad to ice you, sir." "How do you feel, Mr.
"Covert?" asked the Judge. "Well, I feel pretty well,
couaidering circumstances." After a lit.le eon. testi an
about his relatives, Cnvert was requested to write hie
autograph, and immediately eompliad. The personating
atteravy, Allen. having come in, he shook -hands with
him quite cerdially, and Judge Smith, rising to depart,
rid to Cnvert as he took him by the hand and shook it
watt*, "Good by, Hr. covert, I shall see you spin."
Covert rose from his seat, looked the judge fairly in the
eye, with • firm though not unkindly glance, and mold,
"Good bye, Mr. Smith, and rememh r my last word, to
you, that you have passed Pentanes of death upon en
Innocent man." The jndge„ viaibly affected, asked,
'That is so, is it, s,..nr "Yes, sir; as true as there
Is a God in Heaven." "If that be true, you have
! nothing against me, have yen, Sam?" "No, sir; you
I did your duty under the evidenc,." "Well, Sam, if
that b., true that you ere an innownt man, it is a great
calamity." "1 ani innocent," he odd vary firmly. The
judge then departed, and Covert was marched to the
seaffohL—New York Herold.

10 ortru.

A sTilti-zur SONG.

Hark ! the din of bloody was!
Hark ! the shrill-toned trumpets sound!
Victory in her battle-car
Fiercely andtcrs death around.
Saddle quick the noble steed.
Hold the spotless banner up,
Goblets all with strongest mead,
. .

Pledge us In a stirrin cup.
Brace your shining armour on.
Set the helmet on each head,
Bring the weapon every one.
That shall strike the traitor dead.
Rise and conquer in the fight,
Hold the spotless banner up.
Strengthened In the emu of right
By the brimming stirrup sup.
Mount your steeds, .M.,1 awsl
Swiftly to the battle-field.
Glory crowns you all tn-day.
Hake the hostile armies yield.
nett as warriors staunch and brave,
Hold the spotless banner up,
By the solemn pledge ye pvt
In the parting stirrup sup.
WALTER FARQUHAR TIMM