The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-20 00:00:00

CARTHAUKNA AFTER THE SIEGE.

The Standard Special Correspondent at the Siege of
Cerehsgene states lb t the city 101 l by tresoliery. The
suspected person is the commandant of Fort sudsy*,
who It believed to have sold biassed for 10,000 dollars.
After losing the fort the Junta were compelled by
their own soldiers to hoist the white o.g. The terms
they proposed embraced • free exit with the honours of
war, universal amnesty, sad pensions for the in
(liters who might be disposed to retire. General
Dominguez demurred to the pensions and sampled the
Junta from the amnesty. Toey agreed, and (mines
distely rater rdgned the treaty proceeded to brook it by
escaping on board the Nonlegal*, Only • sham attempt
was made to prevent them getting away, but Admiral
Chiearro tollowsd them at • respectful distsnee to the
Algal= Nee.
his entry of the troops did not take plies till half.
past one o'clock on Wednesday, when 400 cavalry rode
in and out again. Ltier in the dsy • column of in.
fultry, 2,000 strong, consisting of half • company of
every regiment outside numbed in with bugles playing.
No demonstrations of any kind ooeurred. The town
was silent as • graveyard, and • plattue of desolation.
The streets were in ruin, sad ehoked with the wreak of
shattered houses; dismounted guns, live shells, and
putrid caresses of rots and dogs were lying about the
thoroughfares. . .

Awful havos appeared kt the Artillery ?ark, which is
one mass of shivered mummy. Three hundred persons,
mostly women and children, are supposed to be buried
under the ruins. Hardly one house has (soaped injury,
and the boopital is crammed with wounded.
Comparatively htlie robbery oocurred during the
siege. The people are still sullen and defiant. They
are ferocious at the bombardment whieh they were
subjected to for forty-Ave days, and say they have not
beim cocquered. but betrayed. They promise them-
se:ves an early revenge.
Arreate are taking place during the tut days. mostly
of convict,.
Much dissatisfaction is felt with the Junta. They
were suspected of playing false by the oonviota, and
the Tetuan was ,et on fire with the intention to blow
them up, they being on board at the time.
An laspeotion of the ferillications betrays great
ignorance on the part of the insurgent.. No over
for the men or the c.necon existed, and powder was
lying loosely about. grerything was rade and to.
IMMO.

The losses in ths town its ineelculable, and the misery
deplereble, yet still no actual hunger seems to here been
experienced.
The deserters of Mendliorrla end Iberia looked dirty
and diareputehlo. Their °Blom walked about alined,
talked Impudently, sod ware on the beat of t,rma with
the fbeers of the besieging army.
Both regiments ware sent to ULedrid on Friday night
In settle truoks, the rallerey hiring been reopeced.

A great robbery of notes ha• bees perpetrated at the
National Bank at Copenhagen.
Lady Burdett Cmitta was on Thursday presented with
the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.
The Beak rate was redueed on Thaesday to 3i per omit.
It was reduced to 4 per tient. the previous Thursday.
KLIPtIANTer TUTlll.—List year the deolared value of
elephants' teeth imported ineremed to 16502, 689, from
447, 419 ii the previous year.
Tile Rev. Thom.. Binney is worse. There tenet the
faintest hope of his rmovery.
Th. Colonial Office knows nothing of the rumour that
the King of Dahomey bed entered Into an &Ilium with
the King of Ashantea
The Bishops, who sat in private oconslave at Lambeth
on Tusedey, mute to *serum determination not to
divulge the malt of their deliberations.
All the Fttropean Sovereigns, with the ezooption of
the German Emperor. addremed letters of condolence
to the Empress Eughoie on the anniversary of her
husband's death.
Mr. Ceorge Howell, of London, hu declined the in-
vitation to stand as • wort ing-men's candidate for West
Gloucestershire.
The 'hip fdlanebahs, bound from Callao to Dublin,
hail been wrecked orthe Scilly Islands. The captain,
pilot, and eight men were drowned.
Mr. Arch announces that he has been admitted to the
honour of • private interview with the Premier, and has
good reason to be satisfied that the Govrrnment will
bring in • Bill of household franchise for the eottnties is
the course of next ..on.

-11;;:d -Shrewsbury has addressed the tenantry around
Alton Towers, praising them for not having established
school board& The noble lord "does not want any
rascally little atheists in his parish."
The Worcestershire Chamber of Agriculture on Sa-
turday passed • resolution urgently demanding reform
in local taxation. Lori Lyttelton said be believed the
Government intended early in the approaching essidon
to deal with the question.
There was • stormy meeting on ihnday, in Limeriek.
Speeches were attempted to be made in favour of Roily,
but the people would not listen ; and Dr. O'Shea and
Kelly were pelted with mud, sad had to be protested
by the patios.
The cause of Chief Justice Cockburn's retirement
from the Reform Club Is not political. He withdraws
because the Managing Committee have granted a room
In which Mr. Whalley sad Kr. Oealow intend to give •
dinner to the counsel sad chief witnesses for the
Clattaset oaths eleee of the Wel.