The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

Genial Nctus.

QULISTION TO • CLZHICiI. RITIM.Tllll.—Wlao's your
!—Picach.

A Goon 13Kannt.n.—Whe1 out gobbler has nothing
else to do, be moods his pun. —Punch.

T/J.LT flo.—ks oonariwass ism now all in fashion,
the cowkerpera propose bolding one at an early date in
the rump Room, Bath. It will bo known in orr social
history no the milk diet.

Tea directors of the Bank of Reiland on Thursday
reduowl the rate of dimoset from 4i per mut., at which
it was I ged on the nth September, tot. TIN movement
was almost generally expected,

THZ VoLIIIITZWI.—The Dube of Somerset, speaking
at the South Devon agricultural nociety's meeting, mid
It would be nem/nary before many years bad passed
that the volunteer force should be placed under the
command of • toners' officer of the army. He did not
think that, kept separately as it was now, under the
different lorth•lientensint, they weld expect that stale
of efficiency which a better cranium/Me would give it.
A WOMAI 81101. IT Pill.—As inquest was told
at Antrim on Monday, on the body of Mary Annfiloyd,
who wee socidentally shot by Lord Ifaiieeniene while
practising rifle shooting at• target from his ball door.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the
deemed came by her death from • gunshot wound
accidentally received in Haiseivene•park on Friday,
liovernber 2.

CONSIDIRaiLI alarm marts in Ireland on amount of
the spread of lung disease among cattle, espedally in
the province of Leinster. In some districts this disease
is found to be ae fatal aa the worst Mod of oatial
acd it has wine out that quantities of meat, the flesh of
animals attacked by it, hare been oriJnly 'old in Dublin
markets. There I. no doubt that several fatal mess of
doter& have been aimed in Dublin through eating
dimmed meat.

THE Teeearosso Fxsua IrvArnow O lastatm.—
The Times Dublin correspondent, on Tumday, writes:--
"It is announced that the Executive in Ireland is quietly
Pvererhog for any attempt that may possibly be made
In Irelan.' by the Feniaos during the present winter.
Some of the military barracks are being placed insatiate
c.; defenon, while the metmpolitan rallee are being
carefully allied in the on. of cutlass and revolver, as
the body most likely to be celled on in the event of •
Fenian disturbance to cope more immediately Huth it."

SHOCKING RIVILATIOPS OP THZ PRESTON Wow-
POWs& —Mr. Basil Cane, the new poor•law inspector,
who bas been making an esamination of some of the Pre&
ton union establishments, reported to the board */
guardians that he found the Pruden workhouse danger-
ously crowded with inmates. ...pm ally in the infirm and
sick wards. any of the infirm people were sleeping
two in abed, and all the rick had not negotiate beds. The
crowded suite of the itch ward, the sight of the men
lying head and heels together, with the utter want of
decency. rendered a visit to it one of the mast distressing
and repulsive be bad ever made to any workhouse.
There are no waterclosets tor any other oonveniences at
night except some buckets placed in the wards for the
use of the ordinary inmates. The wards, the matron
mid to him, were swarming with Imp.

BLowixo VP • CHURCH. —An act, which has created
some excitement le the district, wee committed at
Walaingliam, Norfolk, on Monday week. It appears that
In the evening the parish clerk, according to his custom,
went to the church and rang the eight o'clock bell. He
had left the church about ten minutes when the whole
town was awken by a violent explosion, and it was
discovered alter a abort interest that some miscreant
bad forced the door of the church leadin‘ to tbe chancel,
and had, by a deposit of gunpowder beneath the organ,
completely shattered, not only the instrument, but also
the beautiful windows of the chancel. The powder
had apparently b:en Bred by • fuse, aher lighting which
the fellow decamped. The liamage susteioed be the
organ alone ix estimated at L'2oo and the injury inflicted
of the windows cannot be repaired horn an antiquarian
point of new, The church was restored at • cost of
more than £1,700 in 1862.

CORRESPONDIST in Wednesday's Times—wham
letter is honoured by being put in prominent type—
writes to urge the utilisation of Sikh soldiers, in order
to rid's,e the p-easnre upon owls:nue army. He argues
that the Sikhs would be quite willing to volunteer from
India in the event of England being engaged in • Con-
tinenial war, and they would be quite able to stand •
European campaign. ,' If this system," says the corres-
pondent, "were ones established, it should be in the
pow,' of the Indian Government, within four week. of
notice being received in India, to assemble at ports of
embarkation • force of not less than 25,000 or 30.000
Sikhs. and 10,000 English troops, as these latter timid
be well spared if the aioet warlike people in India were
given occupation abroad. A few month's preparation
should enable the further despatch of another Sikh
contingent, accompanied, possibly, by mon 'Wish
regiments, and this force could be maintained at that
strength or increased to double the amount, as the
Home (imminent might desire."