The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

In the Italian Parliament last week, IL Musoline
blamed the sacrifices by which the Government was
c'hasing the French alliance, and asserted that
land alone wee a disinterested friend of Italy.
Ihe iron-clad frigate dolferino was launched on
on Balmlay at Lorient with perfect snouts. France
hen ?ow seven of these formidable vessels afloat.
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There are 11,000,000 Poles subject to the Czar, but
reither they, nor strangers resident in Poland, are
allowed to subscribe directly to any newspaper. his
only through the intermediacy of Government that the
thing can be done. Papers, whoee general tendency
is considered hostile to his imperial Majesty are not
allowed to enter the country, and the Russian Govern.
ment makes choice of the pamphlet.* and periodicals
which are allowed to be circulated.

The Tempe states that nearly all the ()Arrests and
religious communities at Rome have mortgaged their
property through the agency of certain bankers at
Madrid, Lisbon, and London. On this tbe Gazette De
France remarks that these precautions show that all
hope is lost at Rome at seeing the French Government
continue its protection by the French army much
longer.
From a report recently published by Mr. Erskine, Her
Majesty's Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, it
appears that at the present day, the national ex-
penditure of !twists is £44,500,000,and the revenue
about £40,000,000. In 1858 the cost of the army
alone was shunt £15,000.000. The most productive
source of Russian revenue Is the duty on
spiiits, amounting to cis astonishing sum of
£19,000,000 perineum. The public debits £243,000,000,
to which must he added £8,080,000 loon contracted in
August liet with Mews. Baring and Hop.. Thi. &obi
has accumulated steadily, and in most cases very largely
during every year of the presentoentury with the excep-
tion of the interval between ltat and 1828. In the
year 1859, the increase was £30,475,759. In addition
to the funded debt, Government is liable for the note
circulation of over £100,000,000. The debt sod liabili-
ties of Russia therefore are upwards of 350 millions
sterling,
The iron-cooed frigate Magenta was launched last
week se Brest, with perfect success.
The Tuileriee--or rather the south wing of the palace
—is under repair. The cost is estimated at 40,000,000
francs, or £1,000,000 sterling.
The Ring of Itidy has appointed a commission com-
posed of ex-ministers, senators and deputies, to
support Italian interests at the rnlversal Exhibition of
London. The Marquis Gustave de Cavour, nephew of
the cx-sniinifiter, is appointed President.
The date of the Empress of Austria is considered at
Vienna as seriously disquieting. The physicians have
recognised the existence of an abscess in the lungs, and
the feet are swelling. Her Majesty, it is said, leaves
with • presentiment that she will never return.
Four petitions nave been presented to the French
Senate asking the influence of that body in preserving
birds which destroy insects hurtful to agriculture, and
a committee of the Senate have drawn up a report on
these petition*. litany of the facia mentioned are very
curions, and, of course, highly in favour of the
preservation of birds of all kinds, with the exceptions
which may easily be guessed. Sparrows, rooks, owls,
and birds of that clam are specially valuable according
to this report, awl it is proposed, for the preservation
of birds, to prohibit bird-nesting and the destrection
of eggs and young of birds, and also to prohibit the
destruction of all birds except by firearms, with such
exceptions as are named in the report.