The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-28 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND POLAND.

A portion of the troops has been at last withdrawn
from the public spares of Warsaw. We learn from
the Ufficiai Gazette of that city that the measures re-
lating to the reforms which the Russian Government
mean to introduce into the administration of Poland
Lave been drawn up, and that Platanoff and Karnicki
have left for St. Petersburg to obtain the Imperial
unction for them.
The Archbishop of Warsaw is represented to have
giver. a decided tetanal to the demand of the Lieutenant
Governor of Poland that the clergymen of Warsaw
should be prohibited from singing the national hymn.
A letter from M. Petersburg states that Field Marshal
Prince Bariatinski, late Coinwander-in-Chief of the
Russian army in the Caucasus, is about to leave for
Paris on an important diplomatic mission.
The death of Prince Orloff, President of the Council
of Ministers, 14 announerg. The veteran soldier and
statesman was mised to Me office which he last held
by the present Emperor. Orloff bore a distinguished
part in the Russian campaign against Napoleon 1., and
was wounded at the battle of Wiroiline. In 18.16 he
we. the lint Russian Plenipotentiary sent to the
Congress of Paris. Orloff was seventy-four years of

ho became worse mid worse, and on Frith., nltentoon,
Al•ril 'X, he fell into a kind of ideep, cid remained in
that state of uneouseiontne:, for about thirtylve
and tben, on the night of Saturday, breathed his last.
All the., I We pped up mid culasiguail ootlrO to the
teinh in ith my own hanib,, with the exceptii,ll of
my ow it chill, which died in the anus of its lordlier
whilst alio ant by my beside as I lay helpless from
fever. Never have I teen cnn much Chriatian courage,
patience, Rind zeal for Chriat'e emu° diindaye I as in Mr.
And Mrs. 11.1moreami Lit all they Ruffen,' both on the
iotirney and at the 3liilcololo. Whin we PAW tinAt
was becoming aeri.,usly ill, we endeavoured to
r.,et him to give UA lame instruction alto how we should
•tiansige with the tee dear childtuu and his goods.
But, alas, it was Imo lota ;lie liiad in a 7ri at ineaaute
lot lain power of weecls, and i was only by putting a
ilir,et question to him that we could understand auy•
thing, for lie could hut coy any inure than just yes Of
no. One thing he particoh,rly &deed me to do wee to
tam bil 0.114,1 i to (..,1,0 Town and scc them wifely On
board chip fur England.'

." From this scene of pestilence and death the eatery
amenonary and his devoted wife related to depart, as
the only means of saving their own lives and the lives of
the little orphans entrusted to their care. By the last
African mail, letters to the directors arrived frem Mr.
Price, Mr. Mackenzie, mei our venerable friend Moffat,
dated Kurunien, February 2.1, where they had ell just
arrived after their long and trying journey. That of
Mr. Price, which is deeply affecting, confirms .the
several statements already given ef the sufferings atal
lossom at 14ny anti, and supplies the strongest proofs of
the team Marled all I cruel etni Met of the Chia. Till
Ile:lowing are Nome of its Learti. oiling del, Is :—' What
were any feelings on the morn:ng of the Vint of April I
as I fellowed the remains 14 my dear brother to the
'Went tonal) eon better be imagined than expressed. !
All then fell upon me, and 1 was so reduced that T was
hardly Able to niece, and my poor wife had entirely lost
the use of her feet aud legs, But I forthwith began to
make preearetions fur returning to the south, although
I was obliged bi le carried or led about from box to
box, and packing for a couple of hours in the morning
weld lay me up cempletely for the two following days.
however, I manag..l to get all ready by the end of May. '
Up to the time of Mr. H.'s death the Makulolo were I
pretty quiet ; whether we lived or died, they did not ,
trouble us lunch. But when lie died, and I began to
prepare fee going away, then began our real troubles. '
By days things were taken before our eyes, hy force, if
they were not given up willingly, and by night stealing
by wholeaule ; my cluthea, that I bad been wearing I
during the day, wire itulcn at night from the foot of '
any bed. When I wee ready to go away, Sekeletu
came, and, without any ceremony, took possession of
Mr. H.'s new wagon, and a host of needs of hits and
mine. They being taken, he demanded two front and
two hind oxen, wherewith to train others ; then lie
compelled me to remain and let my men train oxen for
him. All my guns and amuinnition, both tents, and A
host of other things, were taken whilst I was still at
the town. One (lay I was lying on the ground hardly
aide to move, when a measenger come from Sekeletu de-
mending some more goods Mere I could go away. I
said if they .1:al not let one go son, they would have
to bury me le dd.: the others. I was simply told
that I might WI well die there as anywhere else. At ,
length, on the 19th June, we 1. ft the town accom- :
panted be Sekeletu in his new wagon. In the even.
int we reached the river if Idnyanti, and on the
following day all the remaining goods were taken
over in canoe's. That being done, a naessage Caine to
in. from Sekeletu to this effect, that now the goods
were on one aide of the river and the weagona on the
other, and that they would remain ro until I went
over and delivered Up all Mr. Ifehuorr's good.. I re-
monstrated, but in vain; I was like a lamb in a lion's
mouth. A great many of any own things
also I bad to deliver up. Three cows also and
several oxen were taken at that river. Having
thus got • good draining there, I proceeded to the
(lobe. I took out all my goods ready for crossing, and
then • message came to mu that Stkeletat had hitherto
got only Mr. H.'s eoliths, and that now lie must have
mine: After • good deal of pleading I was allowed •
few things for the journey, such as a couple ef shirts, a
vest or two, two or three pein of trousers, an old coat
that I had worn in England about two yea-s, an old pair
of shoes which I bad on, Already they had taken
all my bed clothing, with the exception of what was
justaroLuffieient for one bed ; for the other we bad •
. But before my oxen could cross the Chute,
I must needs deliver up one blanket. Every grain of
corn which I had ter food for the men they had taken,
and fir all these things I did not get even a goat for
slaughter for the road. Thee() were toy prospects for
• Jew ney of upwar.la of • thousand ruiles to Isuruman,
Alas! when will this chapter cud ? On the plain of
the blababe, on the evening of the 4th of July,
Mr. ilehuere's two children, lily own dear wife,
and I, met together for our evening meal,
when We entered into conversation shout what
we had seen and suffered ; and feeling that we
were beginning to breathe again the free air of the
desert, we admonielied one auother to forget the poet
and think of our mercies ; for we felt that we had still
what inight, though the mercy of God, bring us within
the reach .4 11,1 p. My dear wife had been fore long
time utterly lielple,ss, hut we all thought she wag getting
better. She went to sleep that night, alas ! to wake
no more ! In the morning early, I found her breathing
very hard. I 'spoke to ber and tried to wake her but
it was too late. I watched her all the morning. She
became uorse and worse, and a little sites midday her
spirit took its flight to Gael who gave it. I buried her
the same evening, under • tree—the only tree on the
whole of the immense plain uf the Ilababe. This was
to time a heavy ettoke, but ' God was my refuge and
etrength, a very present help in trouble.' Such things
are hard to bear. butt God knoweth our (rare,
and •• our day is, so is cite a rent fra
this letter Mr. Price expresses a strong impression that
Mr. end Mrs. Helmer°, their children, and the
Ileelatiana Christians who died at Linyanti, were all the
victims of poison administered to them by the chief,
through the presents they receives' on their arrival at
his town. This painful Conclusion of our friend is
founded on the report of certain of the Makololo, who
also interim.' him that after his departure the body of
his beloved wife had been disinterred and mutilated,
and the face taken to Unreal for exhibition. But the
notorious habits of invention and lying of these people
would afford strong grounds for diatru.sting such state-
ments. Sir George Grey, and other friends at the Cape,
were also of opinion that the symptoms and character-
istics of the disease were indentical with the fever which
so often prevails on the south of the Zambesi, and
which Dr. Livingatone so frequently witnessed, and
even suffered on his former travels. With regard to
the latt,r report, had it been true, it van scarcely be
imagined that such a revolting fact could have been
altogether maknown to Dr. Livingstone when he sub-
sequently visited Linyanti.