The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The Unita haiialsa, the ILusinian organ of Milan,
anaivances that General Garibaldi has been one of the
first to 'ice the protest, originating with Massini,
agaima the menpahoa of Rome by the French.
The well-known Irishman, Thomas Francis Meagher,
is reported as among the killed in the fight at Bull's
Rao. He was on the side of the North, being a captain
of the 69th Roney's.
&mum IN FlLANCB.—Aeoording to the Annuaire ,
Eseyelopedique, the average number of suicides each ,
year in France is 8899, of whom only 812 are female*.
It is in April, May, Jane, and July, that they are most
frequent, and the age of the greatest number of persons
committing them is from 40 to 60. Of the total, 2833
are accomplished by strangulation or drowning, 281 by
suffocetion with the fumes of charcoal, 395 by firearms,
153 by sharp instrument", 110 by leaping from high
places, 93 by poison, and the rest by different means:
PIenICUTION OF PROTMITANTII re 87•17.—The
Granada journals state that three poor persons- one a
batter, another a charcoal dealer, and the third a
public letter-writer—had been lodged in prison on the
charge of having distributed Protestant works and
defended Protestant doctrines at Alhama, Trigo, Lupo,
and Matamores. It is added that the English at Granada
were liberally providing for their wants.
Tun 6111111• La OP THZ AMIIIIC•11 ARNIM —The
ages of the principal oilcan of the North are—Scott,
75 • Wool, 73; Herney, 65; Mensfield, 60; Totton
(bead of Engineers), 60; Thayer (Engineers) SO' Cant
(head of Ordnance Department), 76; Ripley (Ordnance)
70; 63; Lammed (Paymaster-General), 70;
Gibson .iumissary General), Churchill (Inspector-
General), a.. 1 Thomas (Adjutant General), entered the
army t
the -tinning of tbe present century—Gibson
in 1 and nrchill in 1812. The Southern army is
oM chiefly I,y men in the prime of life—Besuregard
being 43, and Leo 50.
Therit has been a terrible fire in Corsica, causing the
destruction of the fine forest of Tarraggine near
Pigiriola. In two hours it had completely destroyed
two leagues of timber, and two other foredo were in
greet danger ; but the inhabitants turned out and
laboured herd the whole day and succeeded, with the
greatest exertions, in arresting the progress of the
GUMMI.
ENZIONTIC GOVIIIIIIMMT.A.7dareaw, • few days
back, a student named Hal only 20 years of age,
was coaderuned to four year,' labour for having,
on the 25th of February, stuck up the placard which
occasioned the troubles in that city. He was at onos
despatched to the island of Cronstadt to undergo his
punishment, without any communisation having been
made to his parent'.
AN EVINTIML STOZT 07 • Ntolo.—The Schooner
J. S. Waring, put into port at New York on the 4th
July. She bad fallen into the hands of the notorious
malt Jeff Davis, and part of her hands were trans-
ferred to that ship. A peas crew of five" was placed
cis board, and the vessel started on a voyage to the
southward. A negro, one of the hands employed on
this vessel, overheard the captors say that they intended
to sell him when they reached Charleston, and made
up his snind to disarrange their plans, so ono night he
took a hatchet and killed three of the prise mew,
tossed them overboard, ironed the two others by the
sinof a companion, and then took the ship in charge.
One of the prisoners was subsequently released on a
promise to assist in working the vessel, and by his aid
the craft was lately brought into port. That negro is •
lion just now.
A bank robbery to a hese amount has just been com-
mitted at Dusseldorf. A oonfidantal porter of a
branch of the Rank of Prussia in that town, having been
sent for a parcel of bank-notes to the post-o Mos, failed
to return, and ultimately it proved that lie bad
absconded. It is believed that he is at present in
London, and efforts are making by the police to effect
his capture. The name of the delinquent is John
William Iliamow, and the value of the notes is repre-
sented to be £16,000.