The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-01 00:00:00

WOOL MARKET.

Since our last report prices of all kinds of home-
grown wool have been well supported ; but the demand
has been wholly confined to !milted quantities. For
export, very little bee been doing. nevertheless, as the
stocks in the manufacturing districts continue light,
holders have declined to press sales.
Down Tess
li.pwa Ewes
itid 19d.

Halkbeed H 022
1161 f-bred Wethere
Kest Fleeces ...... ... .... ....
Leleeeter Fleeces, mis.ed
(•seibing Sklns . lid. led.
Flannel Wool
Blanket Wool od. 164.

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DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

LORCI MISTER, TUESDAY. JANUARY 1. lasi.
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HONSSTE AUD.4I.

Br the Overland Mail we have received impor-
tant news from Pekin to the Slat of October.
The Treaty of Tien-tsin was ratified, and a new
Con,rention signed in that capital on the 24th of
October by Lord Elgin and Prince Kling. The
same formalities were gone through with Baron
Gros on the following day. The new Con-
veution provides that the Emperor of China
shall make an apology to the Allies for the
atAir of the Taku Forts last year; that British
al al French Ministers shall rend° permanently
at Pekin ; that the indemnity fixed by the Treaty
of Tien-tsin shall immediately be opened to
trade ; that the interdict on the emigration of
C hinese to British and French colonies shall be i
rt•nerved ; that the peninsula of Kowloon opposite I
to Hong Kong shall be ceded to the British
Crown ; that the Treaty of Tien-tsin and the
Convention of Pekin shall come into immediate
operation and be published throughout the
Chinese Empire ; and that Chosen shall be
evacuated by the British force. Lord Elgin and
Baron Gros had taken up their residence in
Pekin, and would remain there till November%
The bodies of Lieutenant Anderson, Mr. De
Norman, and Mr. llowlby, with those of one
European and eight Sikh soldiers, were given
up on the 14th and 16th October, with marks
of the most cruel treatment upon them.
They had been tied up in the brutal manner in
which the Tartars are accustomed to treat their
prisoners, and being scantily supplirA with food,
had died from the severity of their sufferings.
They were buried on the 17th with great solem-
nity in the Russian cemetery, the funeral being
attended by the two Ambassadors, the Com-
mander-in-Chief, and numbers of officers of
both armies. Captain Brabasou and the Abbd
do Luc were beheaded on or about the 21st
September, after the battle of Pah-li-chow, and
their bodies thrown into the canal. Sir Hope
Grant, the British Commander-in-Chief, issued
a proclamation on the lfith October, announc-
ing that as the Chinese authorities were alone
responsible for the murder of the prisouers, and
as the barbarous usage to which they had been

subjected WU first inflicted in the tanpernes
Summer Palace, he has decided nta the eumplete
destruction uf that palace, anal on the cane ion
of a sum of money "to be pail in emnpensa-
than to the marvivors of the parties Beixei, or to
the families of those who have lost tic,ir lives in
captivity." In accordance with this proclama-
tion the Summer Mot of the Fniperor was
burnt to tht ground by the British army on the
lath October, and the sum of £lOO,OOO was
exacted for tho families of the British who had
been murdered. The French Commander-in-
ehief anbscapiently exacted the sum of nearly
1:70,000 for the families of the French who
had beau murdered, namely, the Abbe
do Luc, Colonel Grandehamps, Lieuten-
ant Dubust, and M. Aden. The
French army retired from Pekin on the bat No-
vember, but the English force Were to remain
till the departure of the Ambassadors. A large
force, however, was to remain at Tien-tsin till
all the conditions had been fulfilled.

The Vienna Oinette of Sunday published a
circular addressed by Baron von Schulerling to
the governors of the provinces, explaining the
leading principles of the policy. Them principles
embody the resolutions and intentions of the
Emperor, RS expressed in the Imperial manifesto
of the 20th October, 111111 include freedom of
religions worship, the free developement of the
nationalities, the indepei 'dunce of the communes,
the liberty of the press, the ',poling of the law
courts, and the extension of electoral rights and
publicity of debates. Subsequent accounts from
Vienna state that the Emperor has already sai c-
Honed the resolutions of the Conference of ;ran,
and hasresolved upon convoking the Hungarian
Diet for February next. It is also stated that
the Council of Ministers has decided on demand-
ing from the Pope the complete abolition of the
, Concordat.