The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-12-01 00:00:00

DCELLINi: IN TTALY.

A correepondent writi g from Yanks on this sub-
ject says Hardly a week passes without wpm°
wmaldfle between literary men. Sometimes these
disputes end in ',street fight, eometimes in • war of
words (nutting Billingsgate to shame), Cud now and
then inn duel with swords. Five duel. have been
fought during the pest autumn; and as many, more
have been Prevented hy the interference of friends
end the decision or juries of honour. When t irm
lurie. are compose" of military men, the decisione
are pacific; but when the verdict lies with nom of
p•ve, nion who wield the non instead of the sw-r
the result iv invariably warlike. A meeting took place
nt the 1.i•lo, and the rider goes home to receive the
comfratulations of his friends and to become for a few
days the hero a the mitres and club rooms. Unto
the present time is lives have been lost in these el-
counters, lint • good deal of bleed has been shed, and
ninny minor quarrels—sometimes leading up in their
tern to inch—have grown out of the original ore.
S logo lar ly enough the law takes no cognisance of thtwe
doings. A prefect of police may be aske I for his °oh"-
ion on • "lice" point of honour, but he cannot take
neon himself to prevent the driel by sending& couple
of gendarmes to the place of rentleavuna. Neither
MI he rouse either of the duellists to be emoted
after the fight unless he kills his man ; and • magus'
trite may himself become • Party (us duel either as
principal or second. A few months ago the military
governor of Venice (General Mezaacano) twisted by
Admiral Lunge and other officers of the fortress end
arseual, sat on • jury of honour to decide a doubtful
case. One of the disputents was M. Rigundean, •
Frenchman, and editor of a journal (now defunct)
called La Revue Orientate, published in Venice in the
French language. The other was Sigma Fambri,
11. P. for Veniqe, and author of a work on and against
iluelling above alluded to. The gentlemen cool I not
make up their mils a what weepers they were to
fight with, one wanting atdstol at ten paces and the
other a broadsword. But the jury compromised the
matter by deciding that they were not to firlit at
all, and they carried their point. But the affair did
not rest here. The seconds than quarrelled about •
trumpery question of eamette, and the matter
Oil bring placed in the Lands of certain men of
letters, it was decided that a meeting should take
!dace. The gentlemen height one of them was
wounded, nud both then dv,lared that their honour
was satisfied. Another ilticl took place between of-
ficer a, rad, getting • scratch, and • third was fought
between a literary man (wounded) and one of the
setends of signor Fambri—both duels with swords. A
number of other Ansi, and disputes followed. rho
la.t quarrel, a very public one indeed, is one between
two junrsialues—the editor of the Little Chronicle, and
the c liter of the Crain:ma Turchina, or "Blue Chroni-
cle," who fought, not with swords, but with fists, on
Sunday last, outside the Cairo Flonan—rendezvonsof
the aristocracy—in the l'iazza San Marco. lie affair
is thin described by the editor of the Little Chronicle,
in his own journal—a journal which deserves the
name of " little," so far as size is concerned, and
which devotee a whole number, all but half ft colnme,
to an account of the affair : "When I started my Little
hr,,nicle (says the editor) I intended it as a sort of
breakwater to the inundatingimpertinanceof the Blue
(Visor. tele, which was the &silo inaugurate in Venice
the system of sustaining false principles by means of
scandal, calumny, and defamation. ... ... To do
battle with such people, who every day drag DOMe
honour. I reputation in the mire, to whom no names
are sacred—nyt even those of Victor Emmanuel and
Garilahli, not even that of Daniel Manin—it was ne-
cessary to adopt their weapons. I also, I admit, have
lust caste among those who judge matters superfi-
cially, but I believe I have rendered an important
Service to the public. What I seine Iby entering
into the contest openly awl with raised visor was
seen on Sunday afternoon, lint no matter. My line
of conduct is traced out, and I shall net deviate from
it, even if it costs on my life, furl believe that my
adversaries are capable of using the knife of the a.'
• ! Passing dorm the Piazza San Marco, on Sun-
day afternoon let, hetween two and three o'clock,
I sOOO saw in front of the Cafe quadri, Signor
A-I—, alto on his recognising me, began
to make signs of provocation. I continued on my
way, not wishieg to create a disturbance, ...
and, finally, went over to the Cafe Florian. When!
tent saw Signor be was standing beside me,
and in the act (worthy of him) of spitting in my face.
In the surprise and shame of such an indignity, I
forgot for a moment that the insolter was not worthy
of my auger, and throw a tumbler at Isis head. This
Who au followed by some eLfht on ten bully.
dogs, retorted fiercely, and • struggle ensued. . .
In conclusion, I hope that the lab—quite unknown
to me—who sat near me in the mare, the lady whose
sacredness ass woman was insult° I by this scandal,
will forgive me for having been the involuntary cause
of so distressing • scene," Ihe • liter of the Stec
t hreniete doom not deny the truth of his rival's state-
meet, but excuses his conduct and renews the warfare
with his pen. Ile says he is very sorry for what hap.
ouch on Sunday, both on account of the time and
1 lace of the combat, and because he broke his nice
svalkingstiek on such an ignoble backs' that of Signor
ll ." What can be said for journalists who con-
duct theMselves in this way?

In the year 1e67 there were 21,517 foreign seamen
employed in British obi a 'Osten:ll in the Uhited
Kingdom, In 1t.85 the number wu .10,2ta.

A cyclone occurred in the Bay of Bengal on the
13th not., principally along the Arracan rout.
Akvab suffered severely, and the rice crop is much
damaged.
Intelibrettos has been receive' that Mr. rooper,
who is at the head of the expedition for the y of
the Yellow River, made his way as far as Bathanue,
when the Chinese authorities refund to allow him to
cross over into Thibet. Under these circumstances
he .letermined to fall beck on the Blutma route, in the
direction of Calcutta.

Iwo seamen went ennocated on timinay in the tors'
cattle qf a Prussian schooner lying in Shiehle her•
bour. Death is 'opposed to have reignited from the
overheating of the forecantle.

A service of plate, worth £1,500. has just been
presented to Sir James Ferznuon, late M.P. for Ayr,
who is about to proceed to South Australia, of which
lie hu been appointed governor.
Mr. 3effereon Davie, ex-President of the Southern
Confoderacy, was present at the Warwick meetiug,
test week. By • curious coincidence he witnesul the
success of a horse named after • former enemy of
his—President Lincoln.

Mr. T. B. Day, rope manntaeturer, of Stepney, and
• man occnnying several Leal positions, died sud-
denly on Saturday, death lieing attributed to the ex-
titernent and anxiety under which lie laboured liar.
fag the Tower Hamlet elections.
Tug ORDNANCE Cokilo rigg.—The newly-organ.
Or.lnance Select Cum in it tee will consist of Gene-
ral Lefroy, Colonel Ilihrard, Major Hay, and Captain
Dver. The Superintendent of the Gun Factories and
other Loads of departments at the Royal Arsenal will
be ez-officio members.
Tug NEW PARLIAMENT. The writs are return.
able on Thursday, the 10th of December. The new
oath is much shorter thau the former one, and the
13:i4 members can be sworn in within the three days,
awl the Royal Speech delivered probably on the fol.
lowing Tuesday. December 16.
A DESCENDANT OF flCiTAvue Vaith.—The lost
male descendant of Gustavus Vase, 11. de Stjernel I,
,hel on the 14th inst. at Stockholm. He was born in
17111, and entered the diplomatic service in 1011. 1..
1,12 lie went to Germany with the Swedish Crown
Prince, was appointed rharje d'affaires at the Hague
in 1814, and came to London as Swedish Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 1818.
In 18.114 he obtained the portfolio of Minister if
Foreign Affair. at Stockholm. He had held this post
until 1842, and resumed it in 1848, when • new
ministry was appointed by Ming Oscar. Ho finally
withdrew from public affairs in 1856.
MultliEn oe THE CHIEF Olt Till APACHE MO.
RAVES IN ARIZONA.—TIie Commissioner of Indian
Affairs bu received information from La Paz, An.
tett, of the killing of Cochackame, head chief of the
Apache Mohasco, together with two of his captains
aud several of lain followers. It appears, from all the
tic idenee collected, that on the morainic of the 25th
of September, about day-light, • party of travellers,
numbering thirteen, in the employ of two freighters
—Clienewitli arid Flinter—assembled at La Paz, and
arming themselves, proceeded to the camp of some
Apache Idolises', probably thirty in number, an
commenced an attack on the Indians, with the result
as above stated. These Indians belonged to the Color-
ado River Reservation just above La Paz, awl had
been in town the entire I lay preceding the killing.
They have always protease,' friendship for the whites,
and willing at all times to assist in recapturing pro-
perty stolen by marauding bends of Indians residing
in the neighbouring mountains. On the person of
the chief were found certain papers showing the esti.
mall .... in which these Indians were held by the citi•
rens in the vicinity of La Paz. No one in Laz par-
ticipated in or knew anything about the killed. It
is urge I in extenuation of the act that these Indians
killed a Mr. Brown at Granite Gulch, had stolen
mules from Huffman and Chapman, near Wickets-
burg, and were responsinle for all the depredations
committed between La Pas and Prescott.
LUCIEN BONAPARTE AND NAPol.Eog THE FIRST.
Crernieux haying stated in his speech for one of
tho parties charged with exciting to hatred and con.
levet t of the government during the liaudin demons-
tration in the cemetery of Montmartre that it was
Lucien Bonaparte who " humbly" presented to the
Chamber of Representatives the abdication of his
brother, the Emperor Napoleon, in Isl 4 ; and, more-
over, that the I 'oup Etat of the Diu. Brumaire was
the overthrow of the republic, Prince Pierre Ilona.
paste, the youngest son of Lucien, has written the
following letter in the eminent advocate —"My; dear
Cremieux,—With all the regard which Lowe to
the generous Deputy oft.hea,Lz,i
s ftwii.o.,rbeneatforeyuitet
Revolution of February, do
la
in mid ghoul.' Inc put to the et ila of my family ; with
the gratitude which I shall ever feel towards the
members of the provisional government (1840) who
id nut oppose inc election in Corsica, and who named
me 'I, ,le 1idf.17.,n, 1 am yet bound by respect for
troth, and for the memory of in father, to protest
against yonr warls in the Correctional Polio, Court.
"1 he 111th Brumaire was not the ovorthrow, but the
complete organisation, of the Repriblic. This form
of government never had at any time a better cow
siitution than that of the year eight. One of the
highest titles of glory for Lucien Bonaparte is having
contributed si mach to it. I contradict most positive-
ly the assertion that it was he who nu the bearer of
the Emperor's abdication to the Chamber of Remo.
sentatives. His part was limited--.-and what an ad.
mirth's attitude—to causing the right of Napoleon
11. to be • recognised awl proclaimed. The word
, humbly must hays escaped you; your delicate mind
would certainly have found it out of place when speak-
ing of each a man. A hundred times my father des-
cribed to me his opposition to the project of his
brother's abdication. When lie found his resistance
of no avail, he broke his pee, when the Emperor or-
dered him to write out that fatal resolution. Carnet
also refused, and it was Beaune who wrote it. Carnet
ended by shaming himself with that m06,03)101, Ines-
sage, and it wu he, arid out my father, who was the
beerer of it to the chamber. If yog have informatiou
different from this it must be erroneous, from what•
ever scores it comes. Who could doubt the sincerity
of an exiled father in confidential conversation with
a ass mho wee than a did IN-41MARX ScelarAniX."

FAVETTIE.

CENTRE oF CRAVITY.—A joloo io court
Whet class of women are wort apt to giro tone to
rocioty?—lhe

ADVICE TO Or HANIELORS PILO DYE T. I I
HAIR.—" Keep it dark."

A MAN ni If KAM! —A man mean in bnsiness and
mean in his private life.
WiIAT ALL 31U5? orim ETo (50311 DAY OR UT LER,
LIT ell 110PE).—Their senses.

A coootrY Pallor wants to know if • man with
wooden legs can be considered • foot passenger.

011.ERVE.—Flefore a man an enter the
ramie of matrimony it is um:emery he should ring
the belle.

In fashionable ladies' slang nowadays, when • man
if • little Um worse for liquor, they say he is "on •
Grecian bend."

THE Priv mOEFT KIND OF young lolly
tithing gentleman to see if one of her rings would
go on his little finger.

A young physician asking permission of • lass to
kips her, she replied, "No, air; I 1110TOf like a doctor's
bill stuck in my face."
"I'm told. Mr. Jones, that von are becoming • ter-
rible hard drinker."—" Not a-bit "cried Jones," not
a bit; no man over drank easier.'

S VITA journal in the Black Country invitee
men of talent to settle in that smoke-covered part of
England, and says it will just s.ct 'em."
"how do I look, doctor?" asked • painted young
lady of the family physician. " I can't tell, madam,
till you uncover your face," was the crushing reply.

" Nobody ever lost anything by love," said a
sane-looking man. "That', not true," sail a lady
wbo heard the remark, "for I once lost three ni4l.te
sleep."
A PLEASANT CLT Ain M . —When the Queen of Mada-
gascar recently died, all the subjects—men, women,
and ohildren—lind to shave their heads and go bare-
foot for ninety day..

A young gentleman, speaking ofa yoneg Windtu
fashionable yellow hair, tailed it pure gold.
ought to be," guoth en old bachelor, "it looks like
twonty•four carrots."

FUNNT.—A short mode of expressing "submarine
telegram" has been suggested: "Funigram,"
founded on Juni., Lat., a rope or cable. 'fillip
.flin-iS
not from our friend Foe.

A Frenchman cannot pronounce " ship." The worrl
sounds "cheep in his month. Seeing an ironclad, a
Frenchman asked, "Is dish a warebeep ?"—" No,"
answered • boy, "it'. • ram."
A JUVENILE WIT.—" Father," raid • roguish boy,
I hope you won't bill any more gunpowder tea for
'mother."—" Wilt not r"—" Because every timo she
drinks it .ho blows us up."—"Go to bad immediately."
A " STdRITED" REPLY.—A poor fellow, on being
renned from drowning, was 4140'1 to take some
hints and water. "No, 1 thank you," replied he,
" I have had water enough already; tako the
spirits alone."

A KEEPER.—A poacher haring been caught tind
arrested, and taken before n magistrate, by whom he
was asked the usual questions as to name, age, resi-
dence and occupation, replied to the latter that he
Was a game keeper.

A young lady who prided herself on her geograpby.
seeing a candle aslant, remarked that it reminded her
of the "Leaning Tower of Pipe."—" rel." responded
• watr, "with this difference; that lie tower in Italy,
while this i.e tower in grease."
A BEGGAR'S A TTETITE.—A bemmr, who swore he
had tasted no food for forty-eight hours, waa taken
to a rertanraut the other day by a bnievolent gentle-
man, and toll to eat as much as he wished. He
ordered a glass of wine and some ol yes.
CHEAP LANl,.—Ferros in Arkarvas 101 l at from
three to five centa an acre, An A riansai parer says
that dirt is such a drug in that State that, if a per-
chaser does not look out, they'll smuggle forty or fifty
extra acres on him in making out the deed.

A phrenologist, strolling through a churchyard, per.
ceived a grave-digger tossing on the earth, among
which were two or three skulls. rhe craniologist took
one op, and, after considering it a little time, said,
" Al., this was the skull of • nhileseelier."—" Vory
like, sir," said the grave-digger, "for I d 0.,. it is
somewhat cracked."

"How strange it is," said a lady, "that fashion-
able parties should be called routol. Formerly, rout
signified the defeat of an army ; and when the soh.
rliers were put to flight or to the sword, it was maid
they were routed."—" This term has some propriety
now," said a gentleman, "for by these meetings
whole families are frequently motel out of house and
home."

CRUEL-A man was dying. Ile had a frienil—an
author. The friend came to him. To comfort him?
No! to read a manuscript. lie produced • packet.,
and drew his chair to the bedside of the dying man.
—"Only a few chapters," he said, insinuatingly.—
'' Hut, my dear friend," urged the faint soh* of the
41eparting one. "I've only an hour to live."—What
was the reply ? "Ye., yes, I know all that; but this
will ouly take you twenty minutes."

A IifISUNDERSTANDING.—A young member of the
bar thought he would adopt a motto for himself, and
otter mush relleytion, wrote in large lettere and
meted up against the wall the following: "Soon
which may be tramilated, "Let every man
have his own." A country client coming, expresso I
Limos If much gratified with the maxim, but a bled,
" You don't spell it right." "Indeed. thou how
ought it to be spelt The visitor replied, "Sue
'em quick."
During the war of 1E414 between Great Britain and
the United States, a reside..t of Philadelphia, who
took great interest in its program, was it, the habit
~1 visiting the twach-office etery day in search of
news. One day he was at hand when the mail from
New York arrived, and tolled oat to the driver,
" Whereabouts is General Wilkinson now?'—' Ile
ie in :tate quo," answered one of the passengers,
tutting his head out of the vi below. " How far is
that from Quebec ?" was the next question.
A Scotch couple were brought before the kirk
session, and the wife Janet was charged willa violent
co.,doct and wounding her husband by throwing a
thres•legged stool at his head. The minister r.dynt,..l
her ...limbici by explaining that the husban I was the
I,' ll I of the house, and therefore in assaulting him,
one had, in fact, injured her own body. "Wool,'
she replied, "it's come to a line pass gin a will° can na
lame her am n heed."—" Ay, bat Janet, • three.legged
stool is • thief•like bane lame to lame roar ale lee I
wi'!" said the minister.

A BENTIIIEN lAI. YotNo LADY o BoNNETS.-
01, the bonnets of my girllicad—the kind I wore to
school; 1 really thought them proity—l must have
been • fool. nil yet I used to think myself on hats
El jaunty miss; perhaps I was, as fashion went—but
what was that to this Oh tie lovely little pancake
—the charming little mat it maies my head so
level, and so very, very Hat. Oh, a sister's love is
charming, as everybody knows; awl • handsome
coin's love is nice (that is, I should suppose); awl
the love of a true lover is • love that cannot pall—
but the love of a new bonnets the dearest love of all.

PLEASURES OP MATEIRoNy.—By a Wife.—l was
married for my money—that MY ten years ago, and
they have been ten years of purgatory. I hare had
bail luck as a wife, for my husband and I have scarcely
ono taste in common. lie wishes to live in the coun-
try, which I hate. I like the thermometer at 75 de-
grees, which he hates. IN likes to have the children
brought up at Lome instead of at school, which I hate.
I like music, and wish to go to concerts, which ho
hates. IN likes roast pork, which I hate; and I like
niincel veal, which ho hater. There is but °nothing
we both like, and that is what we cannot both have,
though we are always trying for it,—the last word.
A good story is told of • newly-enfranchised elector,
who for the first time was being canvassed for his
vote. The individual in question is employed as
labourer in a large eztabliehment in town, and had
been seized hold of by an official in the same works,who
is understood to have been "retained" by the com-
mittee of ono of the candi late, for the (ilmarnock
Burghs. For some time he listened patiently to a
recital of the honourable candidate's merits. At
length the canvasser, thinking he Lad mole an im-
pression, paused for a reply. "Och sure," said the
voter, "au' I don't know uothin' about the man yer
spakin' of, but ye may put me down for 6.1." Tile pour
man thought it was • subscription that was being
raised for some fellow•workman or other who had
been injured.
A Paris correspondent tells the following story
Ai 6. Rue Mount Thabor, once upon a time, there was
an office for a certain Mariam loan, which, perhaps,
as an investment, was not so strictly remunerative as
might have been wished by the shareholders. In
fact, arrears were and are due; and the office having
been closed for some time, all hope of dividend *as
at an end. The other day, light was let into the
shop, and that event let hope into the miuds of the
shareholders. An English company, it was whit'.
pared, had taken the place, and guarunteed payment.
Ever) thing looked rosy. The office was opens I; enter
• moo, with a pocket-book au.l papers. " You are
tioglialti."—" Yes, sir."—" Then I rom i re four pound,
sir.”—" Very icried, sir, four pound. Will monsieur
have it mixed r"—" Oh, as to that, it is nothing if I
get it." Five minutes °Nue, an.l large parcel is
offered. "Al, lie it copper f"—" No, sir, perfectly
pure." Then cams the explanation. Th. English
Company which had succeeded to the Mount Thabor
Office wu a Tea Company, and they had guaranteed
the 'coolness of the cup which cheers but not iuebri•
atu—not the the payment of departed dividends for
a loam which does not cheer, but may possibly drive
to intoxication. The shareholder wont away twariug
his our, anti explaining the error to Lis brother sof-
War&

Mr. Uladstone has prepared RD •iphinst,joD of ia•
ODillions on Church and State, which, under tho title
of • "Chapter of Autobiography, " was published on
Monday, by Mr. Murray, of Albemarle street.

The Law Tunes says it is rumoured in lewd circle.
that in the event of a change of Ministry Lord Justice
Page Wood will be Lord Chancellor, and that Sir
Bounden Palmer will be made Lord Justine of Ap-
pear-

Mr. Burlingham., Envoy Extraordinary and Minis.
ter Plenipotentiary for the Emperor of China, mid
his suite, were introduced to Her Majeirty by Lord
Stanley on Friday, whon Mr. Burlingham. presented
his credentials.

Her Majesty Um queen and the Royal family will,
it is understood, reside at Windsor till after the 14th
December (the anniversary of the late Prim* Con-
sort's death), and than proceed to Osborne for the
Christmas holidays.

Mr. Biokmore, whose travels in the Fast Indian
Archipelago, and across China, were so eagerly re.
°sired by the Geographical Society list year, ham
been appointed professor of natural history in Madi-
son University, United States.
John Mal states that Her Majesty has oonferred
the honour of a baronetcy upon Mr. Smith Child, of
Staffordshire, and upon Mr. U. J. Harvey, late M.P.
for 'rhetfurd, and adds that several other gentlemen
will shortly be made baron*.