The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

ALEXANDRIA, April 20.
The Calcutta stild China mails, per Hindostan, leave
this afternoon, With intelligence from Calcutta to the
23rd of March. Madras to the 2911, °slim to the 2nd
of April, and Hongkong to the 111th of March.
The Boutin*, with extra mall and weenier, from
Calcutta, arrived at Sues on the 14th.
There is intelilgenoe from Lucknow to the 22nd of
March. On the Ilith Brigadier Campbell's force returned
from the pursuit of the enemy.
Hutchinson, of the Lancers was dangerously wounded,
and Cooper, of the Mee, died.
On the 2lst the Norobries (Nana's) retreat wee
etormed. He ups*, and a reward of 80,000 mpees le
offered for his head.
Outrain's force had discovered and destroyed rebels in
Luoknow, and tile Prime Minister is swag those re•
ported as killed. Cape, of the 13th Math* Infantry,
and Thaakwell t: murdered by the enemy. Fanatics
still Sr. on our pe.
The 3ovemos,General's proclamation palling on the
Zamiudare to eulnnit had produced no effect.
Oude is pacified, the enemy flying towards Sundeera.
Jung Bahadoor goeeto Allahabad. No civil officer had
yet been sent Luoimow by the Government. Some
inh tante were returning to the city.
The heat was *rinsing daily.
A telegram from Allahabad of the 24th 'fates that
Sir Hope Grant was sent on the 23rd to disperse a body
of insurgents under Rajah Jajlal Singh at Kane, and re.
turned perfectly ?manful. He took 12
The Disarming Act was being enforced to the North.
west Provinces.
The ;sentence on the King of Delhi had not yet been
made public
In the Calcutta import-market British piece goods
and mule twist had improved, but business in general
was limited. The produce-market was dull. Govern.
ment securities had improved. Fours are quoted 18 dip
count. Exchange on London 24. lid. to 24 lid. for
credits; 21. lid. to 2s. 11d. for documental.
The Madras importmarket was pretty active.
Money rather less abundant.
Exchange, documents 2s. lid.
CHINA.

Canton continues tin,, An Lnperial edict was
rewired on the 6th of !derail.
Yeh's conduct is oondemned. Hems &purled, and a
etwoessor appointed. The latter is to settle disputes
with the barbarians, who, excited to wrath by Yeh, had
entered the city.
Lord Elgin and his oolleagues had left for the North,
the former on the 3rd of March.
The Inflexible, with commissioner Yeh, had arrived
at Calcutta.

At Hongkong business in imports was inactive.
Eschange.--4. 81c1 to N.

SHANGHAI, March 9.
Shirtings in active demand. Raw silk dull.
Exchange—l.. 110. to es. for credits.
The decrease in the exports of tea to Great Britain
this year is 5,549,0001 b. Prices continue well supported.
Stocks not heavy.

We ( The Tithes/are authorised to state that it ia Her
Majesty's intention that State Balls shall. take pleas at
Buckingham Palace on Monday, May 10 (instead of
May 3, no previously announced), and Wednesday,
June 9, and that concerts shall take place on Monday,
May 3 (instead of May 10), and Friday, June 18 next.
Her Majesty's Birthday Drawing-room will be held on
Saturday, May 15.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were, the Earl
of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Hardwicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord
Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Earl of
Ellenborough, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord
John Manners.

HER MAJEST'S VISIT TO ALDERBROT.—Her Majesty's
first visit to the camp this season terminated on Satur-
day evening, after one of the most unfavourable days
for witnessing the evolution of the troops that could
have befallen even at Aldershot. It was, we believe,
intended to have marked this occasion with a sham
battle on a scale of unusual magnitude, and to be con-
tested with the most persistent obstinancy, but from
one cause or another the idea was abandoned, and the
day passed off with very little to distinguish it from
other days, save those barometrical vicissitudes which
checker the monotonous existence of all in camp. It
was whispered by those supposed to be well informed in
such matters that the reason for the non-performance
of the sham fight was that her Maiesty's charger would
not stand fire, and this may certainly have been one of
the causes which led to this portion of the programme
being departed from. We are inclined, however, to
suspect that the main obstacle to the review was the
weather, and when that is really unpropitious at Alder-
shot it requires no ghost to account for any alteration
of arrangements which keeps the men within their huts.
On Saturday the weather was such as to put a sham
fight out of all question.

The Paris Conferences, sooorrding to the Prank, will
open about the 12th of May. The first question to be
examined by the Conference, will, it is said, be the deli
mitation of the Tureo-Russian frontiers in Asia. •
NITRATE, or Sons.—The following is the substance
of • letter from Mr. Morgan, coned at Bahia, dated
February 18, in reply to • letter addressed to him at the
instigation of Mr. Caird, M.P., on lbs alleged dis-
cove7 of nitrate of sods near Bahia :—" liver ainoe the
mention made in my commercial report for the year
1856 of the discovery of this important manure in this
province, I have received undoubted information of its
existence in several other localities and in oonsequenes
loot no time in renewing my exertions, with the mist-
aims of a few friends having connexions in the interior, to
obtain every information possible thereon. The informa-
tion received from several districts is such sit* satisfy my
moat sanguine expectations, especially in the northeast
of this province, in the neighbourhood of the river San
Francisco, at • place called Salitre—saltpetre the
genericis
In
t here). given to
Titter aro s soda, of
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distinguishedofwi
and talented native of the town of Josseiro, on the Sin
Francisco, now one of the deputies of this province, to
the General Assembly of the empire, the district of
&litre is only seven leagues distant from the town of
' Joaseiro, and through • valley of 16 to 20 leagues long
one mass of nitrate of sods is found—in some places on
the surface, at others a few feet under, and contains
sufficient manure for exportation for yens to come.
On the opposite side of the above-named river, near the
town of Paso Arcade, other deposits exist in squid
quantities. Now, the projected Bahia railroad to the
town of Jo•seiro must pass through the first-named dis-
triot, but those magnificent denude will only become
available when that railroad reaches the San Francisco.
In the interest of the company and of common's, it is
ardently to be desired that its works should be cow
menoed and prosecuted with vigour, as the distance is
only 240 miles from this city. When I shall have re-
ceived the replies to the queries I have forwarded to the
several localities, I shall make up a report thereon for
your Lordship, and transmit at the same time the sam-
ples of nitrate I am equally promised."
COMMUNICATION WITH THE CONTININT.—The
journey between Paris and London will be brought
within 10t hours, we understand on Saturday next.
The Soutli-Eutern Railway Company have com-
pleted arrangements with the Northern Railway of
France by which the tidal service rid Folkestone and
Boulogne will be accelerated so as to be performed in
leu than 11 hour*, an unprecedented speed for any
regular service between the two cities. The extra-
ordinary mails from India during the critical period
of the mutiny were frequently conveyed from Paris to
London in nine hours (for which the Postmaster
General acknowledges the servioes of the South-Eastern
Railway in his report just published), and this by show-
ins what could be done has paved the way for the
acceleration of the daily tidal servioe. To rapidity this
service adds other advantages', the trains are *mom-
panted by an interpreting oonduotor throughout, and
the voyage is always performed at tide time, thus ob-
viating the use of small boats. The humbler classes of
continental travellers will henceforth also have the
benefit of the short sea route, and a fare by third-class
trains, vid Boulogne, has been established at the low
rate of 255. Return tickets will be issued daring the
ensuing season. Through tickets can now be had to
Berlin, Bremen, Brunswick, Dresden, Hanover. Rae-
burg, Leipsio, Magdeburg, as well as to the different
principal places nearer home. These tickets will shortly
be provided also to Milan, Turin, Geneva &o. Rapid
progress is being made towards the completion of an
uninterrupted railway communication between Paris
and Italy. The journey between Paris and Turin will
soon be performed in 28 hours, Milan in 32 hours,
Venice in 40 hours, and Trieste in 48 hours—a rapidity
which cannot be exceeded by perhaps any other route
in Europe. The communication with the North of
Europe has been also improved. The South Eastern
Railway DOM time since, in eo.opevatlon with the Bel-
gian railway authorities, reduced the journey to Bnueels
by the day earners to In hours, a comprehensive system
for the conveyance of small paresis and conidpments
of specie between England and all the prince* cities of
Europe will also come into operation on the Irk of May.