The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PRORPECT OF ANOTHER DIFFICULTT.—Lord
Malmcs-
bury said on Thursday night, in replying to Earl St.
Germans, that it is almost certain that • Congress will
have to assemble to settle the affairs—not of Italy—but
of the Danubion Principalities. At all events, be said,
the Powers who signed the Convention will have to
consult about the double election of Colonel COU2II, by
which the two Hospodarates have been united in one
person. This Moldo-Wallachian business contains the
genus of a serious international quarrel, in which Franco
Russia, and Austria would be principals, with England
fur an eatangled party. tinder these circumstances it
would have beeen satisfactory to Englishmen to know
whether the policy which our government is going to
adopt is one likely to blight or mature those genus. A.
verr simple course is open to us. We have done our
to give the Moldo-Wallacbians free institutions, w
they are using in a peanable and orderly manner
ing to their knowledge of their wants. Why Wm
interfere with them, altho they base Aida • •
union? And if we relsle e tele. palate.
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mail has brought important reports (nun the various
Australian mining enterprises. They furnish much in-
teresting information for all who are, or who desire to
be, associated with these or similar undertakings, while
the statistics of production and cod furnish incontro-
vertible evidence of the beneficial results which have
ensued to the shareholders in the respective companies
which have had time to develop the resources of their pro-
perty, such as the Burrs Burrs and the Kapunda. Great
as has already been the .uins of money appropriated in
dividends and the collossal fortunes which have been
realized 1:y individuals from this source, yet it is clear
that miningy.waiiondregn.lAdnoouti.wdsifit,ralia is only in its infancy, and that
e mining qually
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a metal
devoted to the development of deposits of the baser
metals, even if such exist in these two colonies. South
Australia on the other hand, has given its best efforts
to demonstrate her extraordinary riches in copper, and
assisted, as she is now beginning to be, with English
capital and skilled labour, it is impossible to estimate
the extent to which the production and export of copper
ore may be carried by South Australia.

SUPERAKNUATION ALLUWANCES.—A Bill of the Chan•
cellor of the Exchequer and Sir S. Northoute provides,
as • general rule, that the superannuation allowances to
be granted hereafter to civil servants (not otherwise
cared for), shall be as follows :—vis., to any person who
shall have served between 10 and 11 years, an annual
pension of 10-60ths of the salary and emolunients of his
office; for 11 and under 12 years, an allowance of 11-
60ths, and so on, provision being made for a further
addition of 1-00th in respect of each additional year of
serviee, until the completion of a perksd of service of 40
years, when 40-60t1ia may be granted ; slid no further
addition will afterwards be made. Civil rervante
disqualified by bodily injuries may receive 10-60ths of
their annual salary, this being the ,nu.rumsuu. allowed.
No superannuation allowance can be granted to any
persons not sexagenarians—that is, under 60 years of
age, unless evidence of infirmity be adduced ; persons
superannuated under 60 may be required to serve again,
an at the age of 65 year. (as • general rule) the Civil
servant inu.t descend from his well worn stool, as
retirement will then become compulsory.

MORE DELAY. —THE NAVY ESTIVATER NOT READY.
—More evasion- more reluctance—more delay. The
Naval Estimates, Sir John Pakington now informs us,
are not to be brought on until the 2.'ith inst. This is
bow Ministers keep their pledges. On Monday last Mr.
Disraeli told the House that the Government business
was urgent. Then why is it not pressed on? He said
its discussion would occupy a considerable time. Then
the wore need to bring it forward, if the Reform Bill is
to wait for it. These posti.neinents are making a bad
impression out of doors—and no wonder.

REPEAL or TILE PAPER DUTY. —DEPETATION TO
LORD DERRT.—On Friday afternoon last deputations
Irons Scotland, Ireland, the out Association for the
Repeal of Taxes upon Knowledge, the Newspaper
Press Association, the Association of Paper Makers of
Birmingham, and a large numbet of the members of the
House of Commons, waited upon the Earl of Derby, at
his official residence in Downing-street, to urge upon
his lordship the necessity I repealing the paper duties.
Mr. T. 31. Gibson introduced the deputation, and called
upon the Secretary of the Association for prtnuoting the
repeal of the taxes on knowledge.—Mr. U. Collet then
read the address, which was a lengthy document. Mr.
Vizetelly, Mr. Cassell, Mr. Frar.cis, of the Athentrum,
Dr. Gray, on the part of the Irish deputation, Mr. W.
chambers, and other gentlemen, having stated their
views on the subject, the Earl of Derby said he had
listened very attentively to the statements made by the
deputation. He had never concealed his objections to
the tax, but looking to the state of the public revenue,
he could give the deputation no distinct answer on the
subject. He could not express any opinion on the sub-
ject, or anticipate the statement that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer would be called upon to make during the
next two months. All he could say was that the state of
public finances was the only thing that stood in the way
of the repeal of the duty. The deputation then with-
drew.

Many Nswet.t.. -The convict Mary Newell, who was
tried at the winter Berkshire assizes, and sentenced to
death for the wilful Murder of her child by drowning in
the river Thames, near Reading, ham become a lunatic.
Immediately after her conviction her grief was most
poignant, and she was perfectly resigned to the awful
fate which seemed to await her. As it appeared from
the evidence at her trial that she had been betrayed into
the commission of the crime by the conduct of her
seducer in heartlessly refusing to afford her or her off-
spring any assistance, though in a state of the most abject
poverty, a memorial from the town, signed by hundreds
of the inhabitants of Reading and neighbourhood, was
forwarded to the Hight Hon. S. Walpole, the Home
Secretary, praying for a remission of the sentence, and
it resulted in the capital punishment being remitted for
one of penal servitude for life. The unfortunate young
woman, even when this pleasing intelligence was PAW
municated to her, exhibited signs of great mental
anxiety, and, being unable for several days and nights to
obtain sleep, an aberration of intellect followed. The
greatest attention was paid to her by the medical officer
of Beading gaol to afford her relief, but without success.
Her case was reported to the Home-office, and, by
direction of the Secretary of State, the unfortunate
woman was • few days since removed to lisherton
Asylum, at Salisbury. On her admission into that
in,titution the strait waistcoat was removed, and active
medical means were resorted to. After passing four days
and nights without any prospect of surviving the shock
which her nervous systcin had received she has become
tranquil, sleep has been induced, and she is now in a
inure favourable state, although not yet out of danger.
It is, however, hoped that she may recover. Her case
altogether is t painful, and has excited the deepest
cominiseration in the town of Reading, near which town
the crime was committed. It is earnestly hoped that
the Royal clemency may be further extended to her.
)14INIST MARIO:T.—The notification by Lord Stanley
that the system of draining money front this country for
the service of India iii" be persisted in caused the Eng-
lish funds to open on Saturday at a decline of a quar•
ter per cent. While the Indian Council are about to draw
more money from London to India, the effect of their
recent measure for attracting Indian securities to our
market is becoming strioualy palpable. It is reported
that the last mail brought more than I:300,000 of the
Government 5 per oent paper for sale on this side, and
a considerable amount was disposed of on Friday at tl2.
This will explain the sudden increase in the shipments
of specie by the Bombay mail which sailed Saturday. Thu
amount wasexpected to be about I:130,000, and it has
reached r 242,000. The mercantile letters from V 10111 la
state that in consequence uf the official article in the
Government journal the apprehensions of war have
temporarily subsided, and the Bourse has consequently
been less weak. "There is no doubt," it is obeerved,
" that our Cabinet has been pushed very hard by the
English Goveninieut, and that the latter has succeeded
in prevailing upon Austria to consent to a preliminary
arrangement calculated to lead to a convention with
France for settling the desired reforms in the lionum
States by diplomatic means."

BANKRUPTS.

(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)

George Alibone Drage, Olney, Buckingham, boot and
shoe manufacturer.
Harry Richard Trigg, Kingston•upon•Thanies and Either,
:Surrey, builder.
John 'WWII, Crawford-street, Bryamiton•wmare, grocer
and cheese:wager.
Charles, Heads Coleinan, Foleohill, Warwick, farmer and

- brick manufacturer.
Margaret Wiliam, Halifax. York. milliner.
J113111:11 Hicks, Great Drinkld, York, shoemaker.
William MCKMatry. Liverpool, broker and commission
merchant.
Thomas Hill, Liverpool, broker.
William Mannion, Liverpool, currier.

(From the London Gazette of Friduy.)

- ----,•,
Willnun Trigg, Witley, Surrey, timber merchant.
William Papplill GoWns and Henry Edward Collins
Paternoster row, maprellers.
Edward Body, Ramsgate, furniture dealer.
Edward Yapp, Leominster, butcher.
Francis Ifolhngton, Worcester, draper.
John Leake, Newark upon Trent, wino merchant.
Michael Holloway Dean, Ashbourne, Derby, grocer.
Henry Wood, Long Eaton, Derby, baker.
William Jennings, Sneinton, Nottingham, lace dresser.
Henry John Groves, Newport, Monmouth, 111114i0 seller.
Philip Junes, Mynyddyallwyn Monmouth, haulier.
Robert Wells, Bristol, tea dealer.
Thomas Varcoe, St. Austell, Cornwall, carpenter.
John Peter George Smith, Liverpool, banker.
John Colliugwood Tarleton, ah I, irlict, ahipowner.
James Schofield, Vicars Moss, pens WM*
factarer.

PM ANNULLED.
A. He Dena& Mart" UPON Hull, innkeeper.

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