The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The King of Prusaia, on the occasion of the oorona-
tion, has ordered that all the Princes of the Prussian
Royal Family shall henceforth take the title of " Most
Serene."

Prince Frederick of Prussia, °eosin to the King, is
now serionsly ill at his resident). in Dresden. He has
had several attacks of apoplexy, followed by paralysis
of the legs.. The Prince is in his 67th year.
The Parts Papa says :—The civil and military house-
hold of the Prince Imperial will, it is said, be consti-
tuted in March west, when his Imperial Highness will
have eoetpleted his sixth year,
The Peewits de Lyons says:—" Alexandre Dumas,
dressed ie • red shht, has just passed through this city
on his way to Paris. He landed two days back at
Marseilles, from Naples."
SII4FLI•MINDID Pausomm.—Aooording to one of
the German journals, the prisoners for debt in Berlin
Ta-titioned the King of Prussia to be allowed to leave
the gaol on the day of His Majesty's entrance into that
city, in order to join their acclamations to those of his
other subject.; and they proposed to give their word
of Wooer to relearn to the prison in the evening.
What answer was returned to this singular requett
not stated, but we may suppose that it was a negative
one.

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JIWISI WRONGS IN AUSTRIA.-IG the Menicipal
Council of Vienna, a few days back, • discussion took
plea about a revelation made by the Medical Gazelle,
that le the Foundling Hospital the children uf Jewess«
were baptised and taken away from their mothers, the
latter not being allowed to know where they were I
kept Eventually • motion requesting the Govern-
ment to remedy this state of things was adopted almost
SSASiMOUSIy.
VISIT OF THE SULTAN TO PARIS AND LONDON.--A
Paris letter in the Nord says :—" I think I Cal 2 assure
you that the project ascribed some time back to the
Sultan of visiting the Emperor of the French is not
by any means Impossible, and may even be realised in 11
the spring. The Marquis de Moustier carries to Cott-
stantinople an autograph letter from Napoleon 111.,
which strongly 'impressed Abdul Anis not to delay his
journey. The Sultan, as may be supposed, would at
the same time go to London; the jealous friendship of
Great Britain making it an imperative duty on him so
to do. Ido not know if this will lampoon in any way
the destinies of the Ottoman empire. The difference
is very great between Wasters manners and those of
Turkey, and Abdul Azis, as • faithful Mussnlman, will
in Europe not seek ezanaples which should be imitated,
but vices that ought to IA avoided. However, that
may be, the presence at Paris of • Sultan, descended
from the Prophet, will not fail to excite public cariosity
In the highest degree, and the spectacle presented
will assuredly not be devoid either of originality or
grandeur.
The subscriptions for the German Lest go forward
with characteristic German motion. Sizty-ons thou-
sand eve hundred and sixty florins have been sub-
scribed, it is said. This sum wiU about sake for
building the hell of a sloop as war sloops are now
aad, should the subscriptions go on at the same
rate, Germany may have • demist Beet about th• year
1981.
M. Lampe still proceeds with his canal, and is sir'
tam of success. Within sight months be is to have •
boat upon the "blended waters of the Hod and Mediter-
moms kleas from end to end," and in six years, he
declares the water will be deep enough to loss the
GlltAi Eastern itself. . .

Although the rumoured negotiations with respect to
the cession of Venetia have been contradicted, it still
forms subject of gossip among the speculative ; and in
Owe deli times it is pleasant to hive something to
speculate about.
The Empress of Austria has arrived, after • long
absence, at Veniee, on her way, we suppose, to the
Austrian capital.
RUM AS NOBLES AID 1101181 AN Russia
(says the Deaden Arrecd), wane nobles pommel from
70,000 to upwsrds of 100,000 serfs. Count Scher-
melyeff, who is considered the wealthiest noble in the
country, is the owner of 120,000, and some of these
men are theineelves wealthy. The Count's revenue is
estimated at 1,500,000 silver roubles (the silver rouble
is about 3a. 2d.) per annum. Each serf pays his
master 10 or 18 roubles a year, so that the possessor of
100,000 wife cannot have a revenue of less than
£150,000, wlthbut counting what he derives from
!create, millymanufsetories, ke. The total number of
eerie new in Ramie exceeds 23,000,000, and calculating
mesh to be worth only 300 roubles, the loss which eman-
cipation will occasion to owners cannot be inferior to
£1,100,000,003. Assuming interest on capital in Russia
to be 5 per cent., the loss of annual revenue to the
nobles will be more than double the interest of the
English national debt.
A CtrActous Sw•ttow.—Our Ameriollll
seldom return from • sea voyage without some
marvellous tale of the wonders of the deep. The
Colombo Observer, of the 30th September, pebliahes
long letter from the captain of • marl, to the effect
that while they were at anchor opposite Ramimersen
Pagoda, • whale swallowed the anchor, sad immediately
draped the resod out to sea at railway speed, till at
last, after four hours' running, the whale, being ex-
hausted, served the anchor pretty much in the same way
as another whale served Jonah some four thousand
years hack. In remarking upon the subject the editor
of the Observer say.:—" The published letter from Mr.
J. T. Reidy shows that the animal swallowed the anchor,
and got hooked by its dukes. Mr. Belly computes the
total -distance at fifty miles, and the rate as reaching the
" railroad speed" of attain miles an hour. The cue is
one of the most extraordinary on record. A ship takes
angling, using her anchor fur • hook, catches • whale,
and finds that the ease very much resemble the cele-
brated one of "catching • 'Tartar." The whale runs
away with the ship and a couple of hundred of human
beinp ; plays all sorts of fantastic tricks 'jets finally
skit sad oasis up the umber. Hem is Mr. Reidy's
amount of this straws encounter between his ship
and the whale. We wilds we could get the whals's
scoositt of his prossediop sad his seasstions. It he

servires. tilts will be • leagon to him to be more choice
in his feeding for the (attire. Iron le certainly Useful
sea tonic, but our cetaccous friend mutt hare nikappre.
bolded his doctor's prescription when he took to
mellowing it in the ones.. Sydney Smith hoped hill
friend Selwyn would ilisegree will. the New Z.-slanders
if they swallowed him. We (oar the remeining duke
will disagree with our marine friend, if he wili allow us
to call him so._ .

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HoRKIBLL TRAGRDY. The commune of Pertuis
lVauclust was the ac-ne of • horrible tragedy, a few days
sine*. A farmer named Lionard murdered his wife and
two children, cut their belies to pieces, and then bet
Ilro to the premises. Tito murderer afterwards at-
tempted to shoot himself, but failed, and was illlDlC-
diately arrested. Nothing is known as to his motive.
YOUTHFUL SutoDIL • An extraordinary event
occurred a few days back at Algiers. One of the pupils
of the college, only fifteen yes', of age, blew out his
brains. lie did BO with extraordinary calmness, stating
before band to his fellow-pupils his Intention to commit
suicide, •nd usigned a,. romou his determination to
-escap., a punishinent with which he was threatened.
They, thinking be was jesting, took no notice of the
intimation,

We read in a Paris letter :—" A poor man named
Smart, a eabiget-maker, is now in the tnailhoitse of
Tactic, near raris, hit; insanity, leport Says, haring
been brought about by attending the revival ineetinp a
an English gentleman (Mr. It:dcliffe), who came over
and preached and lectured in certain circles of Engliah
society in Paria some three months since."
" ALL 3UIET" Is WAKNAW.—The Warsaw corres•
pendent the Berlin National Sear a# relates the
following anecdote :—" A few days before General
Lambert left Warsaw, Count Wielopolaki waited upon
him, and was asked by the general if there was any-
Ibing new. The count replied, ' All is quiet with me.
I am Vice-President of the Council of State, and the
lettings are suspended. I am Minister of Justioe, and
the Courts are taking a holiday. I am Minister of
Public Worship. and the churches are clo,ol. lam
Miniiter of Public Instruction, and the schools are
turned into barracks.

Lire Is VeNice.—We can guarantee. asps the Siiele,
the truth of the following anecdote related to us by a
most respectable French gentleman recently returned
from Venice. A French ecclesiastic of some note
happening to pass through Venice. had reason to com-
plain if the usual annoyances indicted on travellers by
the Austrian police with regard to passports, no matter
what pains may have been taken to have them perfectly
en rifie. Ou making his complaint, the clerk at the
passport office thought proper to consider himself in-
sulted by the ecclesiastic, who had spoken somewhat
boldly in his presence and accordingly had him arrested
and lodged in prison. Here he was kept two days
before he could communicate with the French Consul.
These two days afforded the prisoner an opportunity of
seeing with his own eyes many things which lie would
previously have declared impossible. lie found himself
In the midst of Hungarians, who were confined for no
other reason than their nationality. Titers was also •
Venetisn lady, with a sucking child, who bad been
arrested because she refused to discover the name of the
person through whom she had remitted money to her
exiled husband. Several ladies, her friends, had for
some film, vainly endeavoured to obtain permission to
visit her. At last they were admitted, but found them-
selves likewise detained as prisoners, and were informed
that they would be liberated on paying each 1,000 or
1,100 florins, we are not certain which. We need hardly
say that the French Consul immediately procured the
release of our countryman, who was satisfied with
merely insisting that the clerk who had fancied himself
insulted should sign a formal proces-verbel acknowledg-
ing his ignorance of the French language, and that lie
had not understood a single word the ecclesiastic had
said to him. All comment on this little incident of life
In Veuice would be soperthums.