The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A monster concert was lately given at Havannah, by
Gottschalk the celebrated Amencan pianist. Amongst
other novelties, was a Triumphs March for eighty
trumpets and drums, and-111 conclusion to the whole
—a fantasia for forty pianos, by Gottachalk the
bewejteiaire.
The hatia of the 3rd says :—"The kingdom of Italy
has been recognised by the new Sultan, as announced
by • despatch from Constantinople: This WU one of
the very first acts of Abdul Medjid's successor. The
recognition of the Italian kingdom by the Porte is not
only an affair of considerable polities' importance, but
it is especially beneficial in a commercial point of
view. In fact Italy rivals England, France, and Husain
in the extent of her commercial relations with Turkey."
The French Ministry of Marine is displaying great
activity. The department is not confining itself to
building two new 17 gun steam corvettes, at Maisie:,
but is constructing gunboats at Konigsberg, and various
small ports, and is working bard tolturn Jande and
the Isle of Rogan into fortified arsenda.
Illness would seem to be at present minimally pre-
valent amongst crowded heads, for we hear that the
King of Wurteinburg has had an attack of apoplexy,
whioh, though slight, has caused uneasiness, on account
of his Majesty's advanced age.
Spain has, like England, just taken stock of
her population, which is found to number only 16
millions.
A Garibaldian officer in Parma, who believed theta
insult was offered to his chieftain by some regular
officers at a dinner, issued • challenge to the whole
company from whom the offence emanated. The
challenge was accepted. He fought successively four
antagonists, wounding three slightly, but to his fourth
adversary he gave • mortal wound. The Minister of
War has ordered the strictest proceedings to be
Instituted against all the parties amenable; but the
Garibaldian officer Ii behoved to have escaped into
Switzerland.
The Cracow journals announce the death in that city
of • man named Brikowsky, • fellmonpr by trade, who
won she great prise of 250,0(0 florins in the Austrian
lottery last year. To obtain immediate possession of
his fortune he paid • discount of 11,000 florins, but
train the moment he had it in his possession he seems
never to have enjoyed • moment's peace, so fearful was
he that some robber would strip him of his unexpected
wealth. He kept it in an irou &est, looked up in an
arched vault, and visited it morning and night to see
that all wag safe, till at last, from excitement and
anxiety, he fell ill, and typhus supervening, death moon
delivered him from all his troubles.
It is said that the little storm which sometime sines
took place between Emperor of the French and his
cousin, Prince Napoleon, has not yet blown over, and
that the latter i 4 shout to sail from Lisbon for the
United States. The Princess Clotilde will accompany

It is calculated that during the last week the light-
ning has fallen in different parts of France, and per-
limitary in the eastern departments, not less than
thirtythree times, and on every cessation either killed
some one or inflicted serious personal injury.
A little child, evidently of European parentage and
about five years old, was diseoeerod the other day in
the Delhi poorhouse. She is supposed to be one of the
!survivors of the massacres of 1857, but as yet she lis,a
not been traced. Inquiry is going on.
A despatch from Smyrna, of the 2nd inst., states that
Osmanli niche, governor of the town, had caused to be
seised in the port, at the request of the English Consul-
General, a weasel laden with gunpowder intended for the
lonian Islands-
The QllOlO of Spain has ordered 20 day's court
mourning for the Duchess of Kent.
A letter from St. Petersburg ale, according to last
amounts from . Pekin, the death of the Chinese
Emperor was so generally expected that the authorities
were preparing the carriages necessary for the funeral.
The local journals announce that the waroekeeper of
M. Desmottes, of Touffreville (Seine-Inferieure), has
killed thirteen full-grown foxes sines the close of the
shooting season.—What would &tartish spinismen say
of such destruction'
As ADVAIITAQII IS CIUSOLISS.—Ths Maniac of
Toulon states that, three evenings back, in the Rue des
Pevounieres, in that town, • girl about seventeen years
of age, after some angry words from her mother,
threw herself out of a third door window into the street.
She fell on the pavement close to some persons who
were sitting out to enjoy the fresh air. They hastened
to take up what they supposed must be • dead body,
but, owing to the young person's ample crinoline,
which had acted as a parachute, she had resolved
neither fracture or wound, though she was rather
severely bruised, and greatly shaken.
DIMADFUL TILAGIZDY.—We learn through • private
seem that • terrible tragedy occurred in Exeter,
Otiego county. United States, on Tuesday morning of
lest week. The parties were a man named Levi
Thomas and his wife. They were natives of Exeter, we
believe, and were married fifteen or sixteen years ago.
They had recently returned from Ohio, bringing with
them two of their three chidren--giris a twelve end
fourteen years of age. On the morning in question
these girls were awakened by their father, who came
into their room. He kissed them both, and spoke of
two men who, be said, owed him small sums of two
and three dollars sash ; after which he returned to the
chamber room where Mrs. Thomas was sleeping, and
stepped on the foot of the bed, whence be deliberately
arm( one shot at her head from a revolver. The ball
grued her cheek, and she sprung up and grappled
bin' as he was prep•ring to firs a sesiond time. m.
Orb, alarmed at the nofse, luta* out ci bed. and