The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

iforrign Intelligtnct.

Tam Piasmorfe IsrunworT.—Atterney-Gamsra
fitsnberry bsa resigned in order to defend President
Johnson at tbe impeachment biaL The Senate Court
has orders 1 President Jobusou to 61e an answer to &be
articles of impeachment on or before tits 23rd hat.
The Court has adjourned till that dote. Attorney-
General Beurberr7, Jodgee Nelson and Black, and
Generals Curtis and Ewer., Imes appssred at witnesses
for President Johnson.

Tai Horwitz or Femirs.—We bear from all sides
the most awful accounts of famine and distress. Pint,
the istulide Reese gives us this terribly plain state-
coati, from the pen of a priest :—Every day more than
filly peasant' present themaelvee at my house, soni•
pletely exhausted by hanger, imploring bread for them-
selves and their familia., who, for some time, have been
living on mou, hay, and the bark of the Gr. This
frightful famine is far from being local, em the whole of
this province is suffering under it. The last resources
are exhausted, and the population has no other alter-
native than to sat bay and straw, or die of starvation.
And then the Sao d'o,ais draws this fearfully
Dantesque picture : No historical famine hoe presented
to the saddened eyes of humanity so horrible a
as that which is at this moment to be observed
the Arabs. Two days ago, a native woman, in the
neighbourhood of Mesearghin, killed her daughter,
twelve years old, and gave the Gosh to her other children
and partook of it herself. The legal authorities, hear's'
of the eirounatence, at once proceeded to the mot : and,
on entering the hut occupied by these cannibals, learned
that the heart, the liver, and the interior portions of
the corpse were eaten, became, they would not keep.
The mother wee occupied in salting the fifth, cut up
Into pieces, exastly as is done with pork.

THE ADTIWIWWI EXPROTTIO3I.—The plan of the
eampsign sod the mesas of oarrying it out now serums
• definite shape. The bass at Zonis will be gsarded by •
brigade of native infantry, established in small posts
brawitso Aonsaloy Ray and Beanie. Ample measures
have bees adopted to secure fnU manes& of the dello
sad the heed of the pea, and to provide for the
uninterrupted traasport of stores from the bay to the
highland.. After &WO the next post will be A
which pommies cocsiderabra stratogio value, and asp.
watch on the Prince of Tigre. The third tamp will bs
termed at Domed°, situated in sOil. setarsting the
eastern from the western watershed • used tbe fourth at
Antal°, which will be the main dept of supply for the
Nerve &visits moving on Map:dela All them tamps
will be manstited together throve' Intermediate poets
ossupied by cavalry, upon whom will devolve tato duty
of araintsioing prompt omomuniestiost sloes the whole
line of operations from Sonaft to the frost, wherever it
may be. Sir Robert Napier has provided • safitaiset
form for the occupation of the line between Semile sad
Antslo. It will, in fact, cooed of a division under
amoral Malcolm, having hie boad.quarters at Antal°,
and besides Native Indian troops, it will laded' half
the British infantry on the plateau. A brigade hm
been detailed to form • link between Antal* and
liagdala, under fkieadierAtineml Wilby. The mare
hese intended to operate &grand the stronghold of
Theodore wss to be compmed of two brassies. iuskAble
• wing from sash of the European regiment.; so Wit
more than • half of the infantry would be British.
Bin Charles Stsvebry was to oranuerad the division., and
Gtosrals Oolliogs and Schneider the brigade&