The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

and, under the protection of the high lone on the bill
side, opened fire upon the let Battalion of Rifles. The
main body of the enemy, who were on he low ground
eastward, advanced under cover of the Engineers' fire
and the lot battalion, covered by two con panics
skirmishing, and supported by artillery, met the attack.
According to the programme the lot Battalion were
diiven back, and thee were relieved by the Midlothian
Artillery, who were also forced to retire. The two
wings of the artillery retired alternately, disputing the
ground obatinately, and pouring in • henry
fire upon the enemy. At this moment the Scots
Grow were brought into action, along with
the Fife Mounted Rifles, and were thrown
against the enemy, who formed wilier.'
on the cavalry showing themeelves. The charge was
gallantly made and repelled. and proved one of the
most brilliant incident.' in the day's proceedings.
Following upon the cavalry charge, the let Battalion of
Rides again went forward 113 line and engaged the foe,
and were relieved a second time by the artillery, who
completed the rout on this bide of the attack. Mean-
while, the eneiny'a advance down the, Hunter's Bog had
been wade, and as the cavalry charged on the east the
further attack was developed. To meet this the 26th !
iCameronians) Regiment, followed by the City Artillery, '
and supported by artillery and cavalry, advanced up the
slope and entered the valley where the enemy was
posted. A very hot and fierce contest ensued ; thc
enemy poured in a desultory and constant fire from •
cloud of skirmishers, and did great execution upon the
I columns thrown against them by the fire of their field
guns. Here, buw,ver, the programme compelled them
to suffer defeat, and the battle WA3 broni,,ht. to • close.
After the troops were reformed the whole force ntarched
past in quiek time, advanced in low of contiguous
columns, and saluted. The proceedings then termi-
nated. At the close, Major-General Walker expressed
to the commionlers of the corps his great satisfaction
with the performances, and said that whatever doubt
he had ever entertained as to what Volunteers could
do hail been dispelled by the day's proceedings.
Sir J. Hope Grant rode down the lines of the various
Volunteer corps previous to their dismissal, and was
heard to express his gratification with the review, and
his belief Curt no foreign foe need be feared with elide
men to meet them.

entered the room in time to see him get their mother's
head betvecen his knees and shout her through the back.
He then released her, and she turned over, when he
shot her again in the breast. Immediately afterward,
he placed the muzzle of the pistol at his left ear and
slot himself through the head, lie dieil immediately,
but Ids unfortimato wife lingered about half an hour.
The cause of this dreadful affair is supposed to have
;Neu jealousy.
The mercantile community of Ilavre are endeavour-
lug to get established a daily mail coinumniention
between that port and Southampton by means of the
South IVeetern Company'a steamers for the purpase of
facilitating the French inailii to and from the West
Indite, the Brazils, awl the United Slates. The French
government have offered to exempt the company from
harbour and other dues, which would amount to up-
wards of £5,000 a year, provided such daily communica-
tion is established. At present the communication is
only tri-weekly.
By last mail from Bombay we learn that • further
extension of nearly twenty miles of the Bombay, Baroda,
and Central India Railway has been opened for traffic
by the managing agent, J. B. Lane, Esq. The line
being duly reported on by the resident government
engineer, the requisite authority for its opening was
issued. This extension is from Becher' to Nowearee,
and about t venty miles to the south of Surat towards
Bombay. The main line has been for some time pout
open as far as Doolia, ten miles beyond Barn la, or 904
from Surat, in the direction of Ahasuadabad, which,
with the 'present extension to Noe:sane, makes 120
miles of the trunk line, and will prove iineortant to
the future trade and emninerce ef the interior of !retie.
There yet reinnin about RV miles to be completed to
Bombay. and the managing agent is pushing on the
works with the greatest activity. The viaducts and
he. vy bridge work on the Taptee and Nerhudda rivers
are fast approaching completion. and it is expected the
whole of the line to Bombay will be ready in DI months,
opening up a splendid trash of country in the north-
western peovinoes, through Mthartly, Gozerat, and
Scinde, and facilitating the transit of Bawach and
Surat coffee for shipment at Bombay. About 30 miles
additional, as far as Baser, will beeipened by the lst
July.
EPISCOPAL TillAbllT I/I Auitgets.—The &Lae calls
attention to • curious lawsuit now pending before the
Council of State between Madame Bizet, a school-
mistress, and Monsignor Pane, the Bishop of Algiers.
This prelate is as notorions for his intolerance as for his
robust faith. He lately swore by his episcopal cross
and by his "bishop's blood," that to his certain
knowledge "Our Lady of Africa" had already performed
no lesa than 17 miracles. Madame Bizet, towards
whom the bishop has long exhibited great hostility,
came into his diocess under distressing circumstances.
Her husiband, during the general razzia against the
Republicans in 1852, wasetraneported to Algiers by
mistake, and when, six months afterwards, this mistake
was found out, and the sentence abrogated, she had
already abandoned • school which she kept in Paris in
order to share his exile. Rather than return to France.
with very narrow means, the couple thought it better
to establish • ladies' school in Algiers. The establish-
ment succeeded, and in proportion to its success the
enmity of the bishop to the mistress increased con-
tinually. Madame Bizet such been heard to declare
that she was Gallican, and not Ultramontane ; that
she believed in the infallibility of the Church, but not
in the infallibility of the Pope, and such like heresies.
These tillage being reported to the bishop, he canoed
the parents of the children at Madame Bizet's school
to he told that she was a Protestant and a heretic,
and in consequence some few pupils were taken away,
But as the school still fienrished, the bishop felt it
necessary to make • grand coup. The "first coin- QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.- -The Queen's birthday was on
minion" is in the view of many Catholic families of the Wednesday celebrated with the customary respect
middle class the "be-all and end-all" of the education throughout the country, and the usual salutes were
of a little girl ; and so great is the influence of custom f fired at several naval and military stations and deptits.
that even parents higher up in the social scale, who can In the metropolis, church bells were rung during the
appreciate the curds certificate at its true value, and der, and in the evening an extensive illumination took
know the motives from which it is either granted or plaee. The Cabinet Ministers gave State banquets to
withheld, will euhinit to a great deal of annoyance and numerous cinles of friends, in honour of the day.
humiliation rather than allow their children to be Q"Zs'B VisiT Ti.) 'RM.., Nn• —The interest excited
subjected to the disgrace, as it is vulgarly esteemed. of by the approaching visit of the Queen to Ireland is
being "plucked for their Glut cornnionion." This indicated by the rumours afloat about the time of Her
generality of feeling throws an immense power into the Majesty's arrival, and the places where she is to sojourn
hands of the clergy with regard to schools, for it is during her stay in the country It is stated that she
obvious that if it be given out that the pupils of any will arrive in Dublin on the 15th of August, and will
given establishment will be systematically rejected a reeisin for a week at the Viceregal Lodge, during which
great prejudice least be thereby occaaione.l to the con• time the Vicerepl Court will occupy the Castle ; that
doctors of it. Now, the cast is, with regard to Madame the Queen will honour the Duke of Leineter with is
Bizet's wheal at Algiers, that at • general meeting of all visit of • week at Carton ; that she will vieit the Cauip
the schools of the city, preparatory toa find communion, frequently while in the neighbourhood ; that she will
the cure read a latter from the bishop stating that a arrive at Killarney on the Ztli, where clue will be two
"certain institution' was greviously suspected of teach- days the guest of the Right lion. 11. Herbert. 11. P., at
ing doctrines contrary to the right faith of the Church, Iluckross Abbey. and two other dass she will partake
and that he ((lie cure) was therefore ordered " inexo. of Lord Viscount Caetlerosse's hospitality at Keinuare-
nably" to reject from the first communion any child heem•
whom he might suspect of heresy. The cure then inter. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Crown
rotated the children present, saying, "My little dears. Prince of Prussia arrived at Southampton on k'ridar,
sneli of you as have been taught csntrary to the caw. ehortly after ten o'clock, end denarted immediately
chism will stand up." None of the children stood up, for London. Their Royal Higlinesees were attended by
and indeed small blame to them ; it could not have been the members of their reepective suites. A serious
expected that any of them would in the presence of accident well nigh occurred as the Fairy was steaming
their teachers. But the cure then took a show of hands into the docks. By some mans or other, not known,
among the mistresses upon toe question of the infalli- she cause iuto collkion with the Alhambra, steamer,
bility of the Pope and the immaculate conception. On and sprung her foremast. The damage was repaired
the day of the adminietretion if the find communion in the course of the day, and the Fairy took their
the bishop, in a sermon, declared that he had been too Royal Highnesses to Cowes Mitts* afternoon, on their
indulgent this year, but he repeated three times that return from Londen.
next year the cure would receive no pupil from the
school which he suspected of being tainted with heresy.
Upon this state of facts Madame Bizet has been ad-
vised that she has a ease for damages against the
Bishop, and she bell commenced her action in the
Council of State. According to the Sift/c, people tell
her in Algiers that the Council of State will not dis-
miss her suit, but will let it drag on so long that it
will corne to nothing. The Siecte hopes for a better
result.
Nisw YURI TIICNDSII. —The New Pork Herold of
June 27 Kays :—"What occurs to us is the folly of North
and Smith making war upon each other while the
common enemies of both sections are preparing to
join in the fray. Instead of shedding the blood of our
fellowmen, let us, North and South, emit, to resent
this threatened interference on the part of England,
amid to withdraw St. 'Mining° from the greedy grasp it
Spain. Let half of the northern and half of the
southern army join hands in a common cause, and
proceed directly to drive the Britith power out of
Canada. and after (list to drive the Spanish ower out
of St. Domingo. We have the strength to do it, and
why should we not have the will? What would sooner
promote the reconciliation of North and South,
and niake loyal the rebellions ranks! Let us, in view
of foreign war and prestige, mettle our differences amid
vindicate our national honour. We admit that, if We
invade Canada, we shall have to fight the British
fleet, but as that seems to be inevitable in any ease, we
might as well be on the aggressive as on the defensive
side. Why should we wasie our strength and imperil
our greatness by domestic strife, which exposes us to
all the dangers that now menace us? Let us combine
against the common enemy and dispute the supremacy
of the Mistress of the Seas. We have had enough
of British treachery, and we are, indeed, a suicidal
people if we remain so divided among ourselves as to
become the prey of • power (list would gladly hail
our utter dismemberment and ruin." In the Herubi
of the following day we read :—The speeches of Secre-
tary of State Seward, previous to the election to the
Presidency of Mr. Lincoln, showed clearly that the '
plan had long been entertained, not only of editing be:
the United States the British poeeessions iii America,
but also the north-western portion of the hemisphere
owned by Russia. With Mexico, Cuba, Janiaica,
Hayti, Central America, and the northern part of South
America in our poueasion on the south, either republic
would be stronger than any foreign power. The effect
upon Europe of such a change in the direction of Amer',
can arms would be tremendous. All the previous re-
volutions couioined of the laid five centuries would
scarcely compare with the one terrible convulsion,
which a war with England awl Spain would now pro-
duce. It would react everywhere. The suspension of
commerce alone would excite the English to revolt,
and, before the lapse of three years Great Britain
would be liberated ; Austria would be destroyed, and
Germany would rise unitedupon her mine; Italy would
be settled • and the example of freedom and enter-
prise displayed to the world, would demonstrate what
man can do under the inffuenes of • sound and sub-
lime inspiration.

It is calculated that at least 60,000 spectators were
assembled to witness the proceirlings, which, happily,
rhaloff without the slightest accident or inistske.
ePeday was observed as an entire bulyday in the city,
and large numbeis of visitors came by early trains
from the surrounding districts. In the evening the
usual display of fireworks took place, and the streets
were thronged to a late hour.