The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-10-12 00:00:00

GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA.

PRommuTtEs OF WAIL

RZLTER TELIPMAII.
Pb. Graaf, publi-bco an edict enjoining proper
treatenott of foreigners In China.
Mr. Wade'a demands have not been conceded, and the
prostaxt of a egi.fo,tory settletnent gill oeethe doubtful.

SIR Ili tlt N WI "I.I"..SItRY.
ior4 leneral Sir Ilaroet Woleoley I ooleroil to 'ratline
auty at the War Mice on return from Natal.

A misslND LINK.
tionie of Ike American loom, publbili the following para-
graph :—Profr.i.or Nlarsli. &trine his researrhes at the
West, discovered a Led, bird a ith well formed teeth, mot
after making a rriti,al MUST ii ii ation of the curimity, he
ennebides it Li hitertne.U3te between the bird anti the
reptile, and supplies one of the missing links in the Dar-
winian theory.

THE BITER BIT.
A strange ra.c of 'miscuing is reported from Ilmniley.
A labouring 111411 hwl prepared some tea for his wife, and
then Itft for Ilk work, telling her to drink it The woman
fell :Worry, and a nurAc tliadmg that the tea was getting
cohl, laitarel it into anther teapot she found in the
kitchen. The husband, upon returning, drank POMO Of
the tea, and tliml within twenty minute*.

t'iJl.tJNit. BAKER IN PIIISON.
volintel Baker is confined in what was once the debtors'
infirmary at llorseisionger Lane. There are windows, lint
the iiccupant of the cell cannot look throti b them on
ge.siunt of their height Its meals are brought to hini from
a neighbouring tavern. Ile may have what food he like*,
but lie is restrieteil to a pint wine per ilient TM, would
he •sinall quantity f.ir ino.it men, but Mr. Valentine Baker
is, and always has been, very alidernious. It may gratify
thoeditiir of the Gfobe to know that the prisoner is a regular
readerof that paper, which he receives with WA:Winer. The
other day a journal .if the gutter very kindly sod thought-
fully gave Ito re.lers a pictiire lif the interior of Baker's
coll. The prisoner and him boon companions were rePro•
*anted smoking eigars and drinking champagne. The
illustimdmi. like the Ainericaii reporteen ilesentithin of his
"interview" with the prikoner, which the Trfrgrark
gently repnsluced the other day, was "a pure invention
bat it has doututes* answered it. pnmrpo.me, Inasmuch as,
like the moors, it was "made to sell. • The prisoner !my*
gad doe*, receive hi* friends ilaily,hnt always in the pre;
wince of a warder. flit wife is • frequent visitor
but the inevitahle warder is there also. Some
worthy folk thought that the question, whether a first-elms
misilenicinant should he allowed to smoke, would sired..
the authoritiom a ginat deal of trouble; hut the prisoner is
not a smoker, so the question never arose. There is not
the remoteg chance of the prisoner's sentence being
shortened by • single hour. —The Wield.

The *tomtit Shiebis Council have resolved to appoint a
Crstehelpapersasuyfain 'report severe and destructive
mles, attended by very heavy Mill.
By the fall ssf an unoccupied house in Liverpool, a boy
haa been crushed to death.
The Pope Itto exco 1111111 l faceted the Old Catholic Bishop%
ana thou, who ordained them or assisted in the ceremony.
isbaiyolosomo.,nia lisui broken out in a virulent torus at
Buckingham. Several animals have been slaughtered.
Vsserster. the Prince-Bishop of Breslau, is sentenced
by the Ecclesiastical Court of Merlin to be removed front
bin see.
War has broken out at tape Palmas between the
aborigines its and 'tear CAIN: P 311113.4, SO ill.: Liberian
silovente.sa.
Th. Prinec and Princess sd Wales, accompanied hy Ilse
royal have arrived at Marlborough Mouse from
13andringhaus.
On the lirst of neat th, when the Supreme Court
of Judicature Acts will take effect, " °Mice referees " not
to be attached as others to the Supremo Court.
eVillellee, 11,11.. it is said, 110CII received that the
late President of Ecuador was. as...sated by members of
secret society which has brancheo all over S. oath America
arl,l even in 'Europe.
Mc Earl of Inifferin, Covernor-f :eller. of Canada, the
Countess of lhaterm and suite. embarked on Thursday at
Liverpool. per the Allan Royal Mail steasner Ititayian, for
sevaral publican. in Liverpool, who had recently
eateado,t their premises, were on Thursday mosernted. at
the instance of the Permissive Bill Aseoriation, as they had
not obtained fresh lioenses. A decision was reserved.
Sir 60,,rica Elliot, kt P., on Thursday lab I the folatin
stone of St- Church, South Shields, Ile ft...elan:a
thet the church England by its doctrine and teaching
was now doing a greater work than it had done since the
itrformation.