The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Mishkin ars, it is mid, determined that the 111104
approaching amnion shall be confined to its veMal
work. Lord Banal has, however, summosed the
Liberal peers la take couneel together, sod it is mid
that there is to he a meeting of Liberal M. Ps ode,
or two before the 114111110 S opens. But the party is
mot likely at presseit to be rsamited. Mr. Gladdose,
who bee 'maintained ilesee daring tie moms is
reticent, if not desposding. If however, the
°overnight are resolved to impose mor• Milked
Ismatios the Liberals may join Uses Mr. Disraeli,
however, ma count twos the support of most of
the Scotch members, who are swirly awaiting
their Reform Bilk sad the increase of represen-
tation I. the HOMO which has bias promised them.

Parlismict has now been formally summoned to
meet for the dispatch of "divers urgent and im-
bnidains" on the 19th inst.—that businwn
hung,
Thy and
hi:44dn, of
tri2
Mincing-lam, it is mid (though one oaa hardly
edit the rwanyar) that the Chancellor of thi
Itschequer will propose additional ounnos' duties to
meet thin great expenditure, which the Timer
special correspondent (Mr. Hake) estivate. at dm
or six millions. Unfortunately we have, it seems,
to dial with aam who mast be on the verso of
in , but with all the cunning of a madman.
T:rites, as be is willed, shows no signs of
any disposition to well our rossonable demands, ,
but his recent miseicre of loom 2,800 people on '
a mire pretext, or outbreak of temper, indicat..
MN kind of ferocken barbarian we have to deal
with. It is anything but COMfillting to think that
at a time when distress at home is so great and
incressing, when broad riots are liking plias in the
west, and bade is stagnant in every town, that
millions of money are going to be expended in
Minting this moostsr in the terra incognita of
Abyssinia with small Mame of coming up with him.
There is in be an army of 12,000 man employed on
this eapidition, 8,000 comp Mowers and mono,
ponies, elephants and other animals to the number
of 38,0001 The Advanced Brigade has naohod
Aden, and at the aliventb boar it Is dinevarod that
they will want water—nose being procurable within
sixties miles of Annesley, the pima of debarcation
and a little south of Mamowah. 8o 00100111 More-
wither ha. been obliged to detain me of th.:4lisir
purposely to distil water, for the me of the
lion. This is a foretaste of what is likely to happen,
&nigh thin me glowing aooounts from Bombay that
nothing Ina hem naglititscl.

Sad as are the details that have already reached is
of the frightful hurricane in the West ladies, which
is said to have destroyed the town of Bt. Thomas,
and to have committed frightful havoc among the
ettip*ng, it is to be feared that we have not by any
Mans beard the worn alit. The news already
received reads like the first telegraphic M 1618.8008
of a great battle, where only the broad outlines are
given, all the deep shadows hang left for saboequent
Biling•in. Unhappily the list of lives lost is likely
to be a long one when it reaches is, as it probably
will now within • few dap. Many a British home,
where now the most painful suspense and anxiety is
felt, will this indeed become • house of mourning ;
and even tie fact that this tremendous visitation of
nature has swept away the poisonous virus of the
fever that was decimating some parts of the West
Wise, will be small consolation to bereaved relations,
whatever oompeneation it may appear to the
philosopher.
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During the put wog much of the interest has
been taken out of Italian affairs for us, an well as
for all other nations ezospt the two principals in
the pending difficulty—ltaly sad Franoe. The
decisive defeat of Garibaldi robbed the Roman
question of the romance it had acquired; and one
knot of a singular complicalice being thus out,
while the Italian Government left the other to be
united by withdrawing its troops from the Papal
States, the question, as between the two Govern-
meats, has become one of dry diplomacy. Of course,
oonaiderablii inters* remains in the question, bow
Napoleon will get out of his present diffloolty,
although it may not be the same vivid sort of
interest that was excited by Garibaldi's exploits.
After the part which Preach troope took to Lb*
defeat of the Garibaldian bands, only a prompt and
total shandcruFent of the temporal power Jorer
.!:!y the

Emperor would preserve to him the Italian alliiam ;
but how hi min adopt snob a policy in the face of thii
Frame priesthood nod pemantry, it is not easy to
Imagine. In short, it seems evident that Garibaldi,
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if he has failed In the purpose he set before himself, I
has succeeded is placing Napoleon in a most I
awkward dilemma; whether or not the Emperor I
will meat the proverbial fate of this who all between I
two Moots remains to be seen.
The Manchester trials have oollapeed very ones-
peetedly to most people though a few sharp-sighted
' persons were not unpret;ared for such a result. The
' polios seem, in fact, to have been too active. They
heaped up prisoners and evidence without sufficient
discrimination ; and a few doubtful mess and more
than doubtful witnesses have been sufficient, as they
pas way, to bring down nearly the whole edifice of
the prosecution. The p, meat interest is centred in
the five prisooers 000demned to death, and, now
that the panic is allayed, a feeling is arising that
only Allem, the entail asmasin of Brett, ought to be
emanated- As for Maguire, the conviction grows
stronger every day that his is a miss of mis-
taken identity.