The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

FOItEIG N MISCELLANY.

The Northern Bee of St. Petersburg publishes an
article nit the Scandinavian cocati .... , in which it de-
clare. that the great Powers of Europe will neve• give
their consent to the realiaation of the 'scheme of Neon-
dinavhn union, and that then will imaiiimoudy oppout
the formation of an important maritime power, maces-
inn the Hound and two Delta.
Loan or a FRENCH WAR RIIIP.—The French war
chip L'lnfernal watt totally den.troerd by fire in the harbour of Valparaiso on Oct. 1, wiiere alio hail arrived
only two deys before. The flamer horst forth from Im.
twren deck, in the middle of the they, and got inch a
bold that the fire engines could do no good. Upwards
of a hundred caution shot were fired at the vessel in the
hopo of sinking licr, but, after six hours of melees
efforts of all Ports to extinguish the conflagration, it
was decided to act tiro to the powder magazine, and
then the Infernal wag blown to atoma lii a moment.
The explomon aliatterol • great niany windows in the
town. The loss ix eatimated at upwards of two millions
and a half of franca (1:11•1,000).
We Lear that tho Elni.cror Naiwilerin ham eight
ateamers of 3,200 tons each I %Wiling or to be built on
this aide of the Clionnel for • (Heat Didion aervice.
the individual cost of which is to he £124,000, with
I:12.000 additional for fornirhing, The steamer,' for
the Ea,4 are raid to be of 4,000 tons each. and to cost
£IPO,OOO. 'Eller° in also to be • line of larger shipa
than those for the Weat led in to go to North America.
We womiler whether the I:40,000,000 deficit of lii, lie-
herd l Mojesty will act as any liar to his steam navigation
enterprife.
M. Mingtio—.ltidgement lies been pawed on the
French speculate ra Mires and Count Pontalba, by the
Tribunal of Commerce. l'ontalha has been ordered to
pay 1,700,000 fianes, which lie received from M. Mime,
and to pay costa. It is as:relied by the roastitutionnef,
in an article by Dr. Veror, that if the writer is not
misinformed Count Prniigny has submitted a project
of disarmament to the Emperor, which will at the
name time maintain completeness in regimental lists.
The name paper nays that during the forthcoming In'
terriational Exhibition Napoleon will visit the Queen
of England.

Fen ALI " N•vvrea."—The officio:Journal of Naples
gives the list of the persons employ on the construc-
tion of the Roman railways. There are 17,316 occu-
pied on the line from etyma to Ceprano, of whom
6,781 are women. In that country the women work
very hard; they serve the masons, mtd earn 85 cen•
tines a day. At the Naplm station, and on the line
from Captia to San Severino, there are 2,023 WO, kmeu
employed.
At Rouen, a few days ago, twin sisters, the wives of
two workmen, at a few hours from each other, gave
birth each to twin boys.
A BarrAc FATHER.—The crime of child murder was
committed a few days ago in the commune of Nouvelles-
leailons, in Belgium, by • coal miner named Cat-arm.
The man returned to his dinner .in the afternoon, and
prepared to take his meal without waiting for his wife,
who had gone on. t, execute a rommitsion, when lie
found that the meat had been taken off the plate. He
questioned his little boy, fonr years of age, about it,
when the child confessed that he had eaten it. The
father, in a fit of rage, took the boy by the legs and
literally knocked his brains out against the wall, after
which be quietly returned to his work. On his wife's
return she was horror-struck at seeing the lifeless body
of the child, and, feeling assured that it must have
been the wotk of her husband, gave t otice to the burgo-
master, who had the MAO arrested. Ifs at once con-
fessed his crime, and was sent to prison.