The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

foreign Intrilionct.

IT is abated that the Prince Royal of Erna& inteo i..
to fig his risideoce in the city of Ffanoser ; the daoght. r
of England, his wife, will,ther•flnd herself in • handy
home.

A MUSICAL MINISTII.—The Rev. W. H. fkorher
crawled through • thirty-four feet pipe of hi. pi,
church-organ the other SAY, on • challenge of one of ha
sock. He came out puffing said covered with dust and
sweat. and exclaimed. so he touched the door: '1 want
no man to tell me anything about this organ. I know
all about it. I baria.boeu through it."—Ntir Yuri
Meaux"! Pioneer.

A lAllol number of that FOoill2l brotherhood were to
amemble at Buffalo on the 214 of August for • picnic,
and it was generally believed they had other than peace-
ful intentions. It seems, however, that the Canadian
authorities have made • plication for assistance to the
Imperial Government who, in rteponme. have given
orders for two regiments, the 61st and 53rd, to embark
for Quebec, and are ready, if required, to send a cavalry
regiment as well.

DVITSUCTION OF THI SULTAN OF TrRUT'S THIATIit.
—A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gaulle. writirg
from Conmantinople on the 21st, says :—The 11111g016-
nest trivets theatre of the Sultan at Dolma BakIMO
was completely burnt down early this earning. There
is every reason to believe that the Are vas an incendiary
one, as it haa been ascertained wita the ease with tl.r
Imperial Tea factory last week. The theatre was
erected • few years eines at an enormous cost, and fitted
up in a atyle of richness unequalled by any other
ectabliehment in the world. The property enflamed 4
estimated at over half • million. Notwithstanding the
contiguity of the water - the building was within a few
yards of the Bosphorus—and the premenui of • largo
member of troops from the adjacent banacka, the Names
were not got under till everything was destroyed."

&Taman or AMERICAN BOLDIRRIL—An American
gentleman, Dr. Gould, having examined the returns
relating to a million of Federal wildiers and sailors
engaged in the meet civil WA/. states that tie
time at which man born in America reach their
maximum height appears to be as late as '2B yrrit
of age, but that the age for /11/111i1NOW stature cows
earliest in States where the height is found to
be the greatest. The men of foreign birth will he
round considerably shorter than men of Amerirtn
nativity; but the stature seems to depend more on the
Place in which men are reared than on that, in which
they are born. The highest stature found in the hoots
was 6 ft. 10 in. Several hundred men were Rho,.
6fl. 41n. ; but these tell men did not wear so well is
the shorter by • great deal. The loss min gave the
I greatest avenge height—namely, 69 inches.
A DUEL which has taken place In Paris has excited
some such merriment as was occasioned • few years agn
in England. when • cock pheasant disturbed the belle.
gerenta. In the present owe • naval officer went from
I Brest to Strasbourg to pit himself against an artillery-
man. A couple Ineffective shots were exchanged.
when the seconds interfered and declared that honour
'was safe. The naval officer returned to Brest without
a scratch or scalp to show f^r his 500 leagues, and noir
it is asked if it would not have been more simple to
have employed the postofilee--to have written for in.
'tanner '1 mud • bullet to your address at Strasbourg,
and await your projectile by return," and the gunner
would probably have acknowledged the receipt with
thanks. It must be confessed that very few duels in
Francis come to • serious termination, a fact whi•th en•
commies theee hostile meetings. In the time of Louis
XIV. • colonel soon pat down duelling in his regiment
by Insisting that only ono of the combatants should
survive.

Lonnie Duinfo Tire Levi WAIL—The loss of the
Second Prussian army, under the Crown Prince, amount.
altogether to 67 otiose, and 1,139 men killed, 261 officers
and 5,542 men wounded, two officers and 1,885 urea
ruissir.g. Out of these lames the Guard Corr alone
contritsites 90 oilcan and 299 men killed, 51 officers
and 1,499 men wounded, one officer and 634 men miasing.
According to ofiloitl itatementa, there remain it present
in all the military hospital. under Pruseisn roansgemest•
still between 33.000 and 34,000 desk and wounded. The
number of the former is stated at about 12.000. The
proportion of wounded Austria's In the Prussian
hospitals to wounded Promises is Mated to be shunt
two to one—or about 13,000 Austrians to about 7,000
Prussians, The Valaseigisap sap, that at the lowest
calculation, the victims of the late short and bloody war
are reckoned at no loss them from 90.000 le RAO
killed on the spot or since died from their wound*, to
which msy probably be added an equal number of both
parties who have died from inner, chieffy the cholera.
FROICH 'ftIITIMONT TO FAOLIIIi GOOD CONDUCT.—
Two young Engliehmen—whom the French journal
describes is" Alfred. aged 18, citizen of London, an.
Arthur, aged 19, eitisen of Hampstead"—were charged
before the Correctional Tribunal of Police, at those
(near St. Male), with creating a disturhanee in the streets
of that town at midnight, disturbing the inhabitants. by
knocking at the doors, and uttering discordant cries.
Unluckily they got to the station of the gendarme, sod
commenced knocking at the door there, when they were
at once arrested. They were each sentenced to s line
of fifteen francs and one day's imprisonment. On an
appeal this was commuted to • doe of eleven franc'
without imprisonment. In reply to the advocate for
the defendants, the Procureur Imperial, who PI"."W
rendered a graceful tribute to the well-moduated and
honourable habits of the English residents in the town
of Innen, sayin :—"Personally we greatly math= the
&With po resident in Dim:, whom it wield be
impossible to stool in peacefulness of usanners.und pro-
priety of modal:it. The English, it is bat jests', to sq.
rank the first amongst us in setting an ezemplo of Ilta
and orderly height"

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CONVICT YeTolllll.—The blessings al • Paw Dal
Government, eves to those who have been emit oat (1
their oountry for their tionntg's good are striking)l
meet is adopting with the movie= in Cayenne.
eTiorlonlifileedtterknofthethemul.24th ofwrehugliste6.in tisei'mp:sn°usgeversc
Midi, say,:—" • oellnier =Map arrived here IT:
morning, oontaining 12 young well-grows girls. from .7
to 25, selected from among the convicts at the contr..
prison at Clermont (Oieei. Silty more 'emend she sawn
clam are a:rooted, and tbe whole bevy will be
eu
barked on the Owes transport for Owens, this Goren'
moot having determioed to hike meassres in wisest for
the population of that colony. These Oa. awn&
whom are remarkebly handsome, are deatinsd to become
the wives of ormelete in Careens, who beve dniu*
[sighed themselves by industry and good conao4'
aEasteihalineoLitloa'rei to be
awilmegy
for ms Mairli.Csratmealt d lan 'A
hymen:idea journal lionises whether tb•
comsat of these prospeetive bridge bee base estek
and objects that =ernes*, and abwee ell merriMill with
connote, is not within the purview of their sentests

COMMERCIAL AWIICLIC.

Th. Soglish imam win sioady throughout 11.

advent* of aa eighth, sad the other mat hot,
•e o also • all *app., el. The qu,tatioos of
are tgof to t for deliver'', and 89.1 to I for the
notoiee amount. Bank Stock left off at 24.1 to 247;
It•Joer.l and New Thr.e per 'Pante., 881 to t ; India
moat, 2011 t 21!; India Five per Cents., 1041 to t ;
I:tilaa Paper, UM to 101. and 1(1.11.. 1011; Indk Hoods,
to 21.. ro. ; and kocl.. quer•bals —March, 5..
to par ; June, 2.. di.. to 34. ptelaillas.
The r turn front the Bank of Englant for the week
tho 290 i An..31,t dives the followje g result
when comp.,red with the previous week :

.1 , £3,815.693 _Decreer's... MO. 567
Vablic deposits 4,137.048._ I acreage Trr 409
t r alciK.hits 18,473,050...1)eerea5e 210,421
lln the other side of Lb* secouot
go re 1114 Tat .eeu ritics 10. 711 723...N0 ehange.

litter securities 21.937.484.. Decrease 080.674
Notes unemployed 5,633,605...1eerea5e...1,325,085
The amount of notes in circulation is £=1,898.510,
• decrease of 1:283,6411, and the stook of bullion
in both departments is £15,832,030 showing an in-
ertia° of £1,059,100 when compared with the pre.
o riling return. Ills more than two years since the
stock id bullion was equally largo, and the rate of die-
count was then 3 per cent.
The traffic receipts of railways in the United King.
dont amounted for the week ending the 25th of Augint,
00 12,414 miles, to £784,743, and for the corresponding
week of last year,ea 12,228 miles,te C7so.oB2,showing an
increase of 231 miles, end of £34,661. The you
receipts on the following 14 railways amounted, in the
aggregate, iet 9 075 miles, to £659,438, and for the
corn sesiohne week of 1865, on 8,915 miles, to £630,486,
slaiwiag •n increase of 161 rude*, and of £28,952.
Or crease on the Caledonien amounted to £617;
or the Greet Western to £8,338; on the Lines.
entre and Yorkshire to £5,247; on the London and
Weeib.Western to £3,674; qn the London and
Bright,. to £4,066; on the Manchester, Sheffield,
ind Ismeolnshim to £595; on the Midland to 11,336o
;
the North British to £1,112; and on the North- I
Eastern to £3,538 ; on the Great Northern to £1,698;
on the Great Eastern to 1.10; on the London and
tiouth-Westein to £1,009; —total, £30,220. Bat
frees this must be deducted £538, the decrease on
the Greet Meedliem and Western, and £730 on the
it atlli-baatart, leaving the increase, as above, £28,952.
The goods and mineral teethe on those lines amounted
to £315,94.2, end for the corresponding week of 1865 to
£299.73', showing an increase of £16,165. The
eeerisr.e for passengers, parcels. ka, amounted to
glatAggi, against £330,709, showing an increase of
£r.:,787. The trains receipts on 52 other lines
amounted on 3,3116 miles, to £125,305, and for the
eormimonding week of lad year, on 3,314 miles, to
£119,5941, showing an Inc-ease of 81 miles and of
£5,700 in the receipts. The total receipts of the past
week show an increase of £195 as compared with
thaw of the pr. oediug week, ending the 18th of August. '
The colonial predates markets this week have been
steady, although the improved demand for several
al' .eke referred to in last report is not continued,
and the further reduction in the rate of discount
his uot at present given any stimulus to specula-
tion. A large quantity of wife* has again been
brought forward, whii .1 chiefly soil at irregular
prices for the common to middling kinds of plantation
Ceylon and Rest India. Other sorts are firm. The
deliveries continuo to be intensive. 129,300 bags of
Java, Ac.. are anuounoed for sale by the Netherland
Trading Company on the 11th inst., to include the
paresis bought iii during May and June. The sugar-
market opened with diutiniakeel animation, and a quiet
tone prevailed up to the close to-day, prices being
generally maintained. A few onntracta have been made
In Bengal saltpetre at the recent advance, including
sane to arrive. In spice the only owl:Meade feature has
been a midden reduction established upon white pepper
of nearly 20. per lb. Good to floe qualities of Trinidad
coops still obtair very high prices. Run is in demand,
and a armament contract is declared. The tea-market
tendons without any material improvement, end there
are further large sales advertised to commence to-day.
These will probably eontaln about 40.000 packages,

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-without reserve." Au unusually heavy quantity of
daaatil and Indian growths buboes brought to auction
which WU sold off slowly, and in many instances rather
un ler the valuations. In the new reason's Kai..
congnu by tie En l King the tranarictions continue to be
upon a lisniteJ male, as the trade seem quite indisposed
to operate. Tbe priors hitherto obtained for the few
chops rale range from lc 9J. to 2s. 4.1. per lb. There
has been • good demand for green teas. Floating cargoes
.1 soft g:sin ries are rather dearer.