The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-23 00:00:00

F t IRE' GN MISCELLANY.

The new Suit among other reforms, is turning his
attention to • i. v organisation of the Ottoman leek
and has decided n sending two superior officers to
England and France to 111/1.1111111111 all the improvements
in shipbuilding. 1k hu given an instance of his
liberaf visas by appointing two Christians to important
cakes at Constantinople.
A person dressed in male attire and having • lima
is the name of Jean Serjeant of Boulogne, was a few
days back admitted into the Hospital Beajon to be
treated for a grave malady, but death took place on
Sunday. Tim discovery was than made that the patient
was a woman, and it was afterwards ascertained that
her real name was Climatilet, and her age 43. She had
It appeared, for some years worn male attire and passed
as • man ; but her reason for so doing is not known.
She was industrious and well conducted, and was for
some time in the unite of a washerwoman at

Soakage.
In the disc:maim at the Budget of Marine in the
Preach Legislative Body, the declaration was, it wild
b• remembered, made, in the name of the Government,
that the iron-plated ships iii, building were not lobe
completed for some years to some; but it now stated
on good authority that ordeal; have just been Issued to
execute them with such rapidity as to have at least ten
of them terminated by the sod of the present year.
The Madre/ papers state that the Queen went in
gnat stale on the 29th ult, to the church of Atoolia,
for the first time sinoe her acconchement, to return
thanks to the Virgin. A grand religious ceremony took
place, and the whole Court Wended.
The Maks Times ot the 29th ult. announoes that his
Sxcellesey the Governor was about to proceed to Eng.
land for • short time.
According to the Correspedencie. the Spanish
Government has summarily closed the question at issue
with Morrocoo, by appropriating to itself in perpetuity
the city of Tetuan. Totems', it is mimed, was retained
as • pledge, and the swami for which it was pawned
not having been paid at the stipulated time, the pledge
is forfeited. Tetuan is henceforth to be an integral part
of Spain. Colonbation is to be encouraged, and its
material resources developed, so that it may no longer
be • charge upon the mother country.
Count Boa Martino persists in resigning the lieuten-
ancy of Naples, and General Cialdini has been appointed
in his place. Already several comfit* have taken place
between the royal troops and the brigands , in which
the latter bare, as might be expected' suffered great
losses. The Nexionaie published, it Is seated, a letter
threatening the life of Cialdini. Arording to our old
proverb, threateaed men live long.
The newspapers announce the failure of two firms at
Marseilles, one, in the oil trade, for from £48,000 to
00,000 sterling; the other, in the alcohol trade, for
about £40,000. At Aix a banker has taken to light,
and • great firm has failed. The latter disaster will, it
is feared, place several firms in the town under the
necessity of suspending payment.
Is GALLANT Acr.—A letter from the Pyrenees gives
an account of an act of courage and presence of mind
which is worthy of mention. Captain Tordeur, of the
Staff, and 11. de Sainte-Seine, a cavalry officer, had
effected the perilous ascent of the peak of Maucaper
near Botta. They were dethendinsohr: the valley of
tit. Sauveur by an exceeively steep , cut into deep
escarpments. M. de Saint-Seine was a t5O yards in
advance of his companion, when the lather suddenly
found the ground give way under him, and he with pre-
cipitated forward with frightful rapidity. He gave a ory
for assistance, and .11: de Saintariktine, seeing the great-
ness of the danger, and at the risk of being himself driven
to thebothom of the precipices, threw himself in the way
of his companion. Both were knocked down by the
violence of the shock, and were rolling together down
the steep, when hertunately M. de &Mb erice was able
to stick his iron-shod pole into the ground, and stop
their further dement just as they had reached the Mae
of • deep precipice over which they must have hem
dashed to pieces.
The A estriao Gasetie sap that the gold roes enriched
with diamonds, which the Pope annually offers to one
of the princesses of &trope, is this year destined for the
young Queen of Maple,.
At Arles, three days ago, a simpler event occurred.
A company of travelling equeithr performers, called
the Troupe Americeine, who had been givim perfor-
mances in which • gipntie elephant figured, placed the
animal at night is • stable next to a shed, in which a
large quantity of newly-cut clover had been collected.
Attraeled by the odour of the forage, the elephant broke
down the woodwork which separated the shed from the
stable, and devoured such a mass of clover, that in the
morning it became dreadfully swollen, and died in a few
hours,
Tice Praise of Vienna, of the 7th says "A quarrel
lately arms at Maroth, in Hungary, between a pntleinan
engineer and • Jewish butcher, who would not famish
him with meat on dredit, and the former threatened the
latter to box his ears. The hatcher replied that if he
ettseepted such • thing he would throw • live pound
weight at his bead. The engineer made a complaint to
the authorities, and the butcher was condemned to pay
a fine of 100 Mains, bemuse, bele/ • Jew, be had in-
setted a gentleman and refused to give him credit."
A FIGHTING 8151101..—115 • letter from Philadelphia,
of the 2nd, we read :—" A novel announcement,
recalling somehow the Middle Ages, has just been made
In the newspapers—no less than the appointment to a
brree.geneireilattisccif the Confederate army of the
Rig t Rev. Polk, Bishop of Louisiana.
Bishop Polk has long been known as boldinfzewtreme
Pro-slavery sentiments, and being the owner of,
I believe, 800 slaves, one is the less surprised r t his
opinions, He had • military edneatiem, which in parts
amounts for the stn.sl. step. His mmenand, it is said,
is to be on the Lower
A CIUNOLIBIII RIOT.-11say of the rabble of Cracow
and the neighbourhood have mondeenned the use of
crinoline, and interdicted females so attired from
a . Al Tarnow, however,, •
appearing at the eye
fee days ago, some s, leaning on the arms of
their male friends, boldly presented thennels at the
in the proscribed garment. But a number of
nal?: arming themselves with sticks and knives,
drove them away, and compelled them to week refuge in
the adjacent houses. Several persons, fearing the
women would be injured, placed themselves before the
louse. A fierce oonliot mewed, and blood was shed on
beth sides, but nobody was killed. The police did not
interfere.
The Mesiater of Thursday contains another announce-
inset Wto reomare the public) as to the state of
the Be heath. According to the official journal
his Majesty is deriving great benefit from his stay at
Vichy and soetinues to make mcianiimas in its neigh-
bourhood.
A decree for the improvement of th• Pert of Dulv
knk aed opening • eredit of lb million hums for that
purpose, was published cm Thereto. In WNW* all
Pawalookers are Gomennerea funetionerim, wbo are
under the eaperiatendesee pawnbroker gapers'.
This Wise billoth. who thiwell Nib ray and eent_isiiit•l4
is reported to be a large delanltar, and, it is 5h010...••,
umliseesha called oa, other hasetione." Something
=ils lePonog tr•
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AUSTRIAN FINANCR.—The Official nazefle of Vienna
publishes the financial account of the year 1860. It
show,' that the total receipt. were 301,589,455 florins
(I. 50c, each) or 40,701,239 florins more than in 1859,
deduction being made of the portion belonging to
Lombardy. The expems were 341.5.51,316 florins.
being 172,913,617 fionns less than in 1839. The deficit
consequently was 42,964,361 florins. But to it must be
added two items not included in the ordinary expenses
—namely, 15,304,1592 florins (or the linking fund of the
debt, the reimbursement of bonds, &e., and 6,593.057
florins for the construution of railways, telegraphic
lines. &c. The total deficit is consequently 64,862,810
florins.