The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-17 00:00:00

MISS ERIN HIBERNIA TO MR. C. S. I'ARNELL,

)LP.
You ne'er my valentine shall be.
Too petty are your ways for me.
You cut too mean • figure:
Small very small to me you seem,
Nor should I you more worthy deem
If you by chance were biggar

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Grand Jury at the Bristol Assizes have returned a
true bill for misdemeanour against the directors and
managers of the late West of England Bank. The trial
will take place in the Queen's Bench, to which it has been
removed by certiorari.

A Nottinghamshire farmer was on Wednesday con.
victed, at the Guildhall Police-court, of having sent to the
London market four quarters of diseased beef, and was
fined LIU, and two guineas coats, with the alternative of •
month's imprisonment.
It is said that a treaty has been signed between England
and Persia, consbting of three clauses. By the first Persia
is permitted to take Herat by the second she is to aid
England in Afghanistan : and by the third England is to
construct a railway from Teheran to a port on the Persian
Gulf.

-St. Petersburg puce have now discovered the secret
printing press of the journal of the more anarchical
section of the Revolutionary party. The house was in a
distant and unfrequented part of the city. Three men
and a woman were arrested.
A hurricane occurred at Lisbon on the night of the 11th
inst., and considerable damage was done to shipping.
The Pope has sent the sum of .C 5419 Se towards the relief
of the distress in Ireland, to the four Roman archbishops.
Some English Malian Catholics have been preening on
the Pope the nr,essity of official diplomatic relations
being established etween the British Government and
the Vatican. The Pope, however, has replied that the
Catholic Church c•tioys such perfect liberty in England
that no such relati. us are necessary.
The Roumania,. Senate tuts passed a Bill declaring
Galatz, silina, Tultacha, and Kustendje free
ports.
John Boyces for throwing a paraffin lamp at his wife at
Holloway, whereby she received such injuries that she
died, has been sentenced to twelve ye:win:sena, servitude
The Journal Is Se. Fearsbourg says it is the obvious
interest of Persia that its friendly relations with Russia
should not be interfered with.
According to reports in Teheran. the Persian Govern-
ment proposes the appointment of an European
Commission for the definition of the North Eastern and
Attrek frontiers, and intends this spring to occupy
Afghan fieistan, and Herat.
Mahomed Jan is reported to have sustained a reverse at
Ghuznee.

Skobeleff has submitted a plan of campaign
against the Turcomans which does not include an advance
on Mery as proposed by General Kaufmann.
The German Royal Speech announces that • Bill will
be introthucil providing for biennial Budgets, that the
Military Law will be reorganised, and that the Socialist
Law will be prolonged. The relations with Foreigri
Powers are said to he peaceful and friendly.
The ill-feeling between Russia and Germany threatens
to develope into a war of tariffs. The Russian Government
contemplates a revision of the Customs tariff, which is
Likely seriously to prejudice the interests of the German
Iron industry.
The refusal of the Chinese Government to ratify the
convention which their ambassador made at St Peters-
burg has been answered by Rusaia prohibiting commercial
caravans from crossing the Siberian frontier into Chinese
Mongolia. The plenipotentiary. Chung Row, has been
disgraced.
The polling for Barnstaple took place on Friday. There
was considerable excitement in the borough. The official
announcement of the figures was made in the evening as
follows : Lord Lyniington (Liberal) 817, Sir Robert
Carden (Conservative) 721—Liberal majority,. N. The
Conservatives have all along professed themselves
confident of victory, and the result has therefore some-
what damped the hopes of a "Conservative reaction"
indulged in since the contest at Liverpool a week age.
Mr. A. M. Sullivan, M P., reiterates his allegation that
the Conservative pai.. prior to the last general election
,
coquetted with the Home Rulers, and that he himself ,
joined the Home Rule movement, on the invitation of
Conservatives.
The Queen has made a grant of all her Indian trophies
which are at Windsor and other Palaces, to the Indian
Museum.
Accior.sr ro alPaixes. -The Crown Prince of Sweden
has been bitten by a dog. (in leaving the Stockholm
Theatre he saw two dogs quarrelling in the streets, and
on his endeavouring to part them one bit him several
times in the leg. The wounds were immediately attended
to by a surgeon.
THE Cosr OF A WAIL—The following official table of
the expenditure and logs of resource occasioned by the
Franeo-German war has been drawn up :—War expenses,
1,315,000,000 f. • indemnity to Germany. 5,315.000.00 x ,
sustenance of .G 0192111 troops. 340.000001. ; indemnities;
to departments invaded, 1,487,000,000 f. : loss of revenue
during the war and a revenue of Ahem Le
2,021. 00 0,0 00f. ,• reconstitution of war mil=
2,144,000,000 f. • military pensions. he. 1,314,000,000 e
total, 13,939 060,0001. (E 5147•500.000 The annual chams
on the Budget have been increased by 622,003,000 e
(.C25 000,000).
The Revenue is still falling off. Down to Saturday lest
the loss, compared with last year, was—in Customs
£1410,000, and in Excise £1,260,000, making together a
decline of £2,700,000. The decrease in Excise more
particularly is assuming formidable proportions, and with
each succeeding week it eau from bed to worse. Stamps
keep up well, and Income-tax also shows an augmenta-
tion, but no longer compensates for the falling-off in
Excise,. The result of these four great sources of revenue
is a net decrease of £2.012.000, the aggregate decline on all
items being £2.000,775. It is true the eenditure shows
a deem") of £1,325,011. Unless Sir Stafford Northcote,
therefore, receives some unexpected windfalls between
now and the end of next month, an inert,ase of taxation
seems inevitable.

..110."1:1.79;17;701:4111107 ADD PII.IB.—RheUIDMISM Of
Neuralgic Affections—No diseases are more frequent
painful, or difficult to cure than thee.. From thoir murk
not issue of the human body is exempt: no ice, sex, or
calling is secured. It Is a blessing, however, Winnow that
all these sufferings may be completely and expeditiously
subdued by Holloway s remedies. The pills must assist
in banishing the tendency to rheomatism and similar
painful disonlers; whilst the ointment cures the local ail-
ments the pills remove the constitutional disturbance,
and regulate the impaired function of every organ through-
out the human body. The cure is neither temporary DOT
superficial, but permament and complete, and e disease
rarely recurs, so perfect has been the purification per-
formed by these searching Vituperations
PIM I A AND linitaT.—The Press Association says it
was freely mentioned among the Conservative
members of the House of Commons on Thursday
afternoon that the Convention with Persia for the
occupation of Herat by the latter has been resolved on
by the Cabinet. The terms agreed upon are believed
to include a joint occupation of Herat, and also an
arrangement by which our troone are to be entitled to
protect the way to Alghantstan through Pardon
terrttort, to the extent et Pardiag the frontier.

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