The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

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Tate MIERICAN AcittlitiisioNS AT SAN JIIAN.—Ac'
counts have been received from Vancouver's Island
which state that the Americans are profiting by the
imputrity which has been to long allowed them, and are
steadily establishing themselves upon the island. They
have new placed the island under the American Revenue
Law. A small steamer. the Caledonian. Went it few
'ln's before the accounts left with a party of respectable
olde on a pleasure trip to San Juan. but on arriving
v. ere told they would not he allowed to laud without a
permit front the Custom Home; at Port Townsend. in
tier Oregon territory. They were about to return to
Victoria, when a shore boat went alongside into which
aweral of the passengers jumped and went ashore with-
omit leave. The authorities said they would overlook
the act for the present, but would carry the law into
, effect should it be attempted again. A abort time pre-
viously some fishermen fron Victoria were driven off
front the neighbourhood of the island, and told they had
no right there.
SCIEIDE or A MILITARY OFFlcrit.—On Wednesday
afternoon Mr. Itedforahreretter fur Westminster. le la; a
long inquiry at the veatry-Itall of St. Nl,rtin's-itt-tlie•
to the deeth of Captain Ikmy Duncan
II 'get :0, formerly of Iler Majesty's 20th Regi-
; , I :isle s tor-1 lesteral of "'once at Itarbatioes, anal
meteber of the Januar United Service Club, who emu-
, milted ma destruction by blowing his brains out with a
I cavalry t.istol, at his lolginga iii I'o'ton-street, Haymar-
ket. on Ns:wilt? morning week. It was proved that
iLe dee. aa .1 had been ha pecuniary difiltultiee, and a
ii.,,ueleitt in Ids handwriting was read, in which be
' emtplaineal bitterly of the treatment he had received
, from the Cloven :meta after many years' service. It ap•
• pa anal from this document that the deceased bad been
Isummarily deprived of his 'situation, and that be con-
• sidered he had been cruelly treated. The deceased in
this document spoke of having received sympathy, but
I sahl that was not sufficient for a starving man. The
! jury returned a verdict that " the deceamal destroyed
himself while in a state of temporary insanity."
THE PITMAN AND THE Qui:ex.—Some weeks ago a
pitman, residing at Hetton-le-hole, who was an earnest
student of astronomy, was in great want of a good
teleecope to facilitate his 'studies. Not being in a posi-
tion to procure the necessary instnonetit, and being at
the satne time a must persevering and devoted wlanirer
of Sir Isaac Newton, he came to the determination to
petition Her Majesty, in the hope that his case might be
taken into her gracious consideration, and accordingly
laid his humble prayer at her feet. It is understood
that he had previously heard of a similar application
Icing made and granted for a musical instrument.
Armed with this precedent, and the confiding faith of a
loyal 'subject. the poor pitman placed his petition before
his beloved Sovereign. After the laspe of • short time
the telescope found its way to the 'tenon-le-hole read-
ing room, where it is now being used by the miner in
questh in and tl:e rest of the members of the institution.
It is a beautifully finished braes instrument, and is
shortly to receive a fitting ovation by an inaugural
main attics' aoriee
MELtscnoLy Eves-r. A melancholy case of drown-
ing occurred near Barnsley on Tueealay last. On that
day a fine young man, aged lth named Edward Carr,
aon of Mr. Carr, if I loylana Nether, near Ilarlislce, was
iait shooting wild fowl with his brother. lie fired at a
wild duck, which lie shot, and it fell into ads ep piece
of water, known by the name of the Elsecar Dam.
11.-jag anxious to secure his prize the young man pulled
off his clothes. anal, though the weather was very cold,
Ise plunged into the water to fetch the duck, but he
had not iinwocalod far in the water before he was seized
apparently with cramp, and 'Junk to the bottom. His
brother, who WAS present, and saw the occurence,
jmuleal into the water with a view to reactie the mi-
t rtintate youth, hut he had only gone a short distance
isis n he found his own life in danger, and Ito bad to
return to the site of the dam to get out. He raised an
I alarm, but an hour and a-half climbed before the body
: was recovered, when of course life was quite extinct.
! 'Phe event has caused great dietreas in a highly respect-
, aide circle of relatives and friends.
ItEADY-SIADE SENTIVENT.—An incident has come to
; light in the r a of the rharirori which I,laze4 in a
t rialiculoes light the trial of the girl who stole it
' child in the Tnileriee garden, anti whom the learned
judges an.l the jary have just acquitted, to the wonder
I of all France. The eloquent council for the &knot
read a letter penned by her to her vile seducer, so pathe-
tic attd so deeply eentimentah—that he trinmphantly
appealed to their calm judgement, could an uneducated
per, a., uniesn under hysteric excitement and over-
whelming paation, give expresnion to such ardent feel-
ings? She was clearly no longer conscious of right and
wt.i lig, and ought to be acquitted on the ;mantel of irre-
sigilde impaise. Chori,otto prints in parallel columns
the said letter and the exact origitud copied out .4 Lot
pa,,er of, (*marlins, Act iii., Scene 4, not it word being
ciietigod one, a " hackney conch" substituted for a
"Seine wherry " by the cunning plagiarist. Ephraim
.1:•10d,,,,a triumphed, awl there was no Dr. Primrose
to remark, " that lie had heard something like this
I tet,ti or Tilt: EMU. DE GREY, li.G.—The Right
Mon. is E.,e tie I (rey dicil on Tm-olay morning shortly
before 7 o'clock at his homose in St. ilaineshosipture. The
upaurdad occurrence was somewhat sudden, for up to
the ehea, of the past week the deceased nobleman wan to
all appearance in his customary health, only a few
day. ,:mtee ime attended the meeting .4 the Institute of
hlriti m Architects, Iml which institution be was the
presi,:ent, anal delivered a lengthened allalre,N, and it
Wan remarked what vigorous heath the noble Earl was
enjoying. The late Right Hon. Thomas Philip do Grey,
Earl de I:rev. of Wrest. Bedfordshire, Rant Lucas, of
Crtalwell, Wilts, anal 11. nm Grantham, if Grantham,
Litacolti dike, in the peerage of the United li:owlet'',
awl a baronet, was tlw eldest of the two aOll4 of ThOlaaa
aeconil Lord Grantham, mot Lady 31ery
demc,cia Yorke, se . I daughter of Philip, seam,' Earl
'if I hard w Wks.. anti deiii:ina Marchioness Grey, sister and
twin., of Amalie'. late Comittiss De Grey. He was
born at Whitehall on the Silt of December, 1751, ho
that ho was on the verge of completing his isith
year.
Fin—Nov. I h—During the whole of yesterday
is dense fig hung a'. er the metropolis anal suburbs
I causing an ahnost complete darkness, so that in the'
bankingd set atml city offices gas was obliged to he
' burnt during the time of business. Fri,,,, inquiries made
last evening it has been ascertained that, unfortunately,
, several accidents have occurred in consequence of the
' feg. hi the river a great deal of damage has been do n"
by vessels coining into contact ono with the other. The
Ostend boats, which were due in London yesterday
morning, bad not arrived up to 9 o'cltk last night, anal
the Yarmouth steanters, due on Sunday evening, did
I not reach St. Ketharine's Docks until ti o'clock last
evening, being detained by the fog. Several vessels
front Ibinnany and the coast of France were compelleal
to put back to their respective ports in consequence of
time,weather. Upwards of 20 vete-els front the Azores
ond other ports in the Mediterranean, had not reached
the docks last evening. The steamboat traffic on the
river was during the day entirely suspended. In the
South Eastern, Great Western, Great Northern, and
other railways the traffic wan considerably impeded, but
owing to the admirable arrangements mode by the
authorit lee everything up to 8 o elf ck had worked with-
out mischief. In time metropolis and sulitirlis the fog
teas very thiek, cabs, et:mammal% and other vehicles
with time greatest &acuity traversing the streets, while
pedestrians wore almost at a his to flint their way, and
the men holding links reaped a rich harvest by conduct-
ing persons acrosn the roadway. From inquiries made
at several of the London hospitals it has been ascertained
that a large number of ;acme's have received injuriea by
beteg run over and in other ways.
NEW 'ANTRIM:7ION or THE STATES or ECROrr..—
The following sitemlar statement is made by the P.tnit
corrtspondent sethe Ti... :—About a year anal a half
ago the curiosity of the Parisians was excited by the
publication of a map, purporting to give a new distribu-
tion of the States of Europe for lAA the dismember-
Went Of Horne, anal the compensation of others. The
1111311 W 1.4 1:X1.05t..1 for tabs at various print,ellene—
Enna:WA, no doubt, for the purpose interided,— When it
was all at mice withdrawn it was said by autlisirdy)
I circulation. It was at lit-at thiaight to be merely
the catch-peony contrivance of a mapseller ; it was then
whispered that it was the work of a superior hand, cun-
ning in these matters, anal that public atkultion having
been turned to the revisal of the map of Europe, and
men's minds being familiarized with the tuition of terri-
torial changes, the object was fully attained, anal the
thing disattpeared. An to the hand whore wick it Was
I can only, with the rest of the public, offer a conjec-
ture ; tim the effect produced I alluded at the time. The
events which have tanased in Italy, or may still paSS
there. MA the war in Moracco, have recalled that gea-
gr.phieal programme strongly to my memory, hit I finil
that a part of it either has been carried into or ie in
course of execution. According to this map the Em-
peror of Austria will be found in 18110 to have w quit ed
Egypt (probably her the moans of the Isthmus of Suez
Canal). Mervin, owl Bosnia ; that lac a: les Galicia to
road the I, unbar hi-Venetiau kimplom to thed-
wont ; and that Victor Emmanuel will have acqWred
the lamibardo-Venetian kingdom, the Duchies of Parma
and Modena, itital the Legations. Austria lies ceded
Lombardy to Piedmont. That Venetia aloes not belong
to the latter would show the difficult position of the
helligerente on the day the Peace of Villafranca was
signed ; but we know that Venetia was comprised in
the French imperial prograname. We also know what
arc the Empro er intentions with respect to Parma and
Modena, anti that they coincide with the map 14 Euroee
in 18:10. You may have noticed the ;teenage of the Eut-
;actor's letter to the King of Piedmont relative to Tus-'

eany,—"Tuscauiy, perliap; increased by some territory.'
If you add the Itumngna you mar not be for mis-
taken. The Pope acquires the two Abruzzi. but Cede,'
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the Legations to • "the•Kingiloin of Italy." Ipaaa over
the other arrangements, %nil come to the changes thia
new map of Europe contemplates for Queen Isabella of
Iler Majosty is described outer the title of
glwen of Simi:: awl liiroccae-31omee, twin: the acqui-
sition in view for the t'rawn of Castile,—anil this before
there was a talk fit war between the countrieB. The
roil:cite:ice is at least curious. The Sultan: Abdul-
Ijin-lihan is dismissed in this fashion :—"The Sultan
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of Asia c. des the whole of his possessions in Europe,
si .1 all thoso on the coat + of etc Mediterranean ; the

ert,cent returns to Amia Minor, after three centuries of
nsurration and of Annie to lit tionilyr It is known
that the opinion entertained by the Emperor of the
actual condit. of Turkey coincides with that cal.reed
in the foregoing. No doubt, several moditicationa must
take place in the execution of the plan, if indeed it be
h.-menhir to a high antliority ; but it will be curious to
. . . . .