The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

Dorchester, November 10th, 1862.

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RUMOURED OFFER OF MEDIATION IN
AMERICA.

The Patrie of Sunday evening lay.: "We learn
from a reliable source that Aimee has proposed to
England and Russia to request of America a 11u.
pension of hostilities for six mootbs. During this
armistice the Powers would it nder their good
offices to bring about a reconethi. ‘tion, and would
ask of the North an immediate cessation of the
blockade."

Trig Casa or MRS. M`Larim...tar.—The gaol
officials at Glasgow have received in, intimation
from the Home Office, commuting the sentence of
death passed on Mrs. M'Laohlan, for the altuder of
Jessie M'Phereon, to that of penal servitude for life.
The only remark made by the prisoner on ik being
communicated to her, was, "Then am I tow bt, kept
in jail a' my day.?'
THR LAW OF MARRIAGE i PRUSSIA.—We seal in
the Co/iipite Gazette : An interesting trial is penolk'd
before our tribunals. The validity of a moorings,
contracted in IMB between Count S-- and die
daughter of • non-commissioned officer of the goard„
who had been employed in the corps de hailed of the.
opera, was disputed on the ground of izregularity of.
rank. The superior tribunal of Berlin declared the
marriage valid, acting Upon a receipt of 1748, by which
non-commissioned officers and their children are ailainai-
listed to the upper burgeois class. But this judgment
I has been cancelled, and the came sent back to be tried.
again. The defendant, the son of the Countess 3—,
pleads that hie mother wee a very skilful dancer • that •
she danced solos ; that consequently she was dancer;
and belonged, therefore, to the upper burgeon' clam
Thus it is upon the question of whether this lady
danced more or less cleverly that the validity of the
marriage depends. The law upon marriage, presented
so many times, suppressed this absurd distinction of
ranke • consequently the Chamber of Peers has always
refused to vote it." _ . .

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AN UNPLY.aearf PoemoN.—During the late hur-
ricane on the coast of Britanny the keeper of the light-
house at Blainville, opposite Countaumes, was deprived
of all communication with the mainland for six days,
and was in the greatest want of provisions. When it
was at length possible to send him relief, he, his wife,
and maidservant were completely exhausted. Their
provisions bad been consumed, and they were existing
on rainwater collected in towels. The servant, a young
person of only 16 years of age, suffered more than the
other., ad well from hunger as from the apprehension
of being starved to death.
We (Times) regret to learn that there is only the
very slightest foundation for the report of Miss Night-
ingale's restoration to health. She is able to remove
from one place of residence to another—a very few
miles—once a year, but ehe is scarcely able to hiiVt.
her bed in the intervals, end quite unable to struggle
with the flood of correspondence and applications of all
kinds which the report of her partial recovery has
brought upon her.
THE FLUTIST IN THE Noarsr.—ln the billy district'
of Yorkshire the frosts and the winds of the past week
have enabled the farmers to secure a good portion of
their crops, but the harvest is as yet far from complete
in some of the most exposed positions, and in places
crops are evert yet uncut, As may be expected, the
grain is much deteriorated in quality, but owing to
the lowness of the temperature, not to greatly
"sprouted" as might have been supposed. The moor-
land farmers must, of course, be sufferers to some
extent.

A kfonins DANAIL—The Salta Public, of Lyons,
publishes the following not very probable story :—" A
woman, while lately watching • hook of sheep in the
neighbourhood of Lyons, was ought in a violent
storm and took refuge under a tree. A short time
after a branch VIER torn from the trunk by the wind,
and fell at her feet, accompanied by a number of
pieces of gold. Looking up in astonishment she saw •
hole in the trunk whence the branch bad been torn,
and putting her hand into it found a further lot of
gold pieces, amounting altogether to 20,0001. The
news of this discovery spread rapidly in the village, sod
everyone was lost in conjeettue as to where the money
coukl have come from. At length some of the an ients
'mired the enigma by stating that about thirty years eV
a rich landed proprietor residing in the neighbourhood
had been murdered by his servant, and robbed a
large sum of money which be was known to have in his
possession. The servant was tried and executed, but
he would never eonfess where he bad concealed the
treasure. Is this the gold stolen?
DRAINAGE og Toirien.—qi remarkable instance of
the influence of town drainage on the public health is
shown in • report which lusis just been issued by the
sanitary •ommittee of the Halifax corporation. Greet
sewerage works have been constreeted since 1851, sod
between that period and the present the death rate has
decreased from 2539 per 1,000 to 2148 per 1,000. TM*
is the town of Halifax itself ; in the union the mortality
has only decreased lg per cent—• fact which shows
more clearly the bonehoial operation of the sanitarY
improvements in Bahian.

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