The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A Mouthsllier jettemal amens that the year 1861 will
be me of the toast remarkable as regards the production
of bees. Is poem him there have already been two
Of three swarm.; sad it is hoped that the yield in
honey and was will be so Urge as to ompensate in the
departments of the Gironde sad the Landes foe the
inentacievy of other products.
A writer 'BM* Pain., in noticing Mr. Roebuck's
obaervatioes as libefilald as to the augmentation of the
French fleet, makes mire flippant obeervations, for the
ponce* .4 showing that the English gist is ininitaly
Ivor, humus* as it musk* of forty.thar ships of the
line afloat, whilst Frame has only fifteen. Bat the
bemest gentleman estirely omits to notice the very
grave fast that Imam has now ready for sea • levier
m nuber of iron-cased Ath Ips an England; and has aso
at Mug moment more such vessels in course of instrao-
Mon, and that it is iren-elad aim which now-a-days
emptiest* the prtacipsi, it might 'leo be said the sole,
importame of • Am&
Mosta oso • TIM/ILL—The Afssesger of Bayonne
aassomosa the arrival in that town of • Spanish flute
player named Martin, who has obtained the lint prise
at the Illealeid Academy of Music. Besides the flute, this
igtillhtahre On another instrument. the musical qualities
of w have not been previously discovered. This
instruadmt is neither more nor lees than • lady's
thimble, on which M. Martin, it is aMmeed, neeneges to
play the tooddillealt sine.
Dears! ne Asuman Aumts 'rousurr.—The Swiss
papers mooed another resident to Alpine tourists. The
viral.. ea this mimics is Mdse. Fanny Gamier, of
Paris, who was travelling with her husband in the
Bermes Oberlsad, sad fell into a torrent called the
Lateskine, at Grandewald, where she was drowned, in

spite of gll *torts to saves her.
" Wilke* Tr rate • WILL Tutu's • WAY."—
Among the persons to whom prises of virtue were
lately awarded hy the !me& Aeodemy, the Lyons
" lournals speak highly of se tr" Women to their city—
Ildllee. Irmo*, and Miens Ifeasobon, who obtained •
needed of 1,0001. It appears that in 1849 thou two
Persona who were the. aged respectively meventeen and
eflese. hailed met with a blind girl who bad been
abandoned by her permits', kindly Uoli charge of her,
though they had no other means of esistasos than what
they earned by giving lessons in music. In order to
teach her. they invested, entirely Fran observation, a
system of luér.sUcr whieh as they sehsequently
assoertakeed, wes siwitor to that edoptW in asylums for
the blind. They afterwards took awns of another
blind girl, and then of others; end fur the last few
years tsy have bed on their hands on an average rot
fewer than shires.* of such abated creatures, and,
esitailedinary to relate, they have lodged, boarded,
sloths& and instructed them entirely by KIWIS of
their *rings, assisted by oopuional small sums from,
their fa sr. Ishii is ally a joarneisaan isaneobuilder.
Tot EILTAII'II DISLIKE of °MTV, COMIONT.—
TIN Arras/ deColutrnstinopit says: "The Sultan a few
:Z
aire& dapped to vial the Cadine Effendi of the
liekin UI.
aih Tisise=ens npeards of ninety
roam ega, sad honours are "mid her.
Natmitlietandiagber gust so, .be distinctly remember'
all the iv/sported% everts wMth have oesereed in the
four reigns she has seen awnesereed and inlaid, and she
Asians that abs shall die happy under *he present
%Ilan because be will promols Use glory of the empire.
Ms Majesty hoe also whited two other princomes. wives
of his ilriesis father. These Wires. on learn*
that the Sulam wee *bout to all on them. had
essibeseeiss shawl" of great value spread on the 11001.
from tbs. door ti their -also to the saloon to which his
Majesty was to be , inch shawls being. dor
thud, after be bad walked ow.r them, to be given to
the female servants of the berm. But the Briton,
having barn told of the preparation made, *misted that
Use AIMS 111110111 d be removed ; mid the Cadines as-
ehoisedgt4thlogsagrei=sioffersinot their wish, merited