The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

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13011RRART AND LORSIIT RAILWAY.
To the Edi Son.
I observed in your lam week's impression that the
secretary of this company &wield the statement
made by a ocutemporary, that the line was in the
bands of tb• Sheriff, bat I see is to day's Express,
what ma Mill won., via that the hoe is again in
chancery, and that the court has appointed receivers,
and they are the seeretary and aoconotant of the
company !! Li there no large sharelicLier who will
raise his voice airiest this disgraosful state o pro-
media.? At the last baltyearly meeting a dividend
was declared on the Anit profanes, shares, and now
it tarns oat that, instead of being ahle to declare •
dividend, the company could not even pay the interest
en their rocrtgagee Ills as dear as day that the
earnings of the company are swallowed op in salaries
and law and parliamentary expanses, and that wakes
some steps be at owe tektite by the original share.
holden, not one peaty Efi they ever see IA return
las tlia large mamma of aaPilal alivanc"•,_
I aar WrzEounit.

Pwrscs TiCK hid sa intstrviaw with thi lispasve et
Austria, arid tendered his services. The *for ens
racinuely received, bat declined under the dream-
stances I the resent marrisgs, sad the Prism sad
Printing have returned to tows.
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A OZZAT SAMS I impooding in Abyssinia, King
Theodore, whose name has became so notonons In eon-
systion moth the flaglhdi areas, basins to light for
hi. throes with a Aral Oa.nedred and fifty thousand
troops are expend to be engaged. We sincerely hops
his Ifejesty will get won thrashed; for thosgb Abyssinia
may pt a new tyrant by his defeat, she cannot got a
1/0"01. OWL

Tita smitsace upon Colour-thermal McCarthy ma
Private Rally for Fenian compiracy was aarried out oa
Saturday in its dominated form, namely, papal nerviteds
f..r If.. sentacos of death baring beau pronounced by
the wart mutiaL McCarthy wore a Crimean medal on
his uniform, of obi.* be irm dirested In tbe prowess
.4 tn. soldiers ranged In front of tits Royal barracks,
Data* to witless the degradation.

Ruoam.—With rescoat to the eubject of Reform,
sot the lead of the three princ(ple' " peace. ortreselt-
anent end reform," lat knit may possibly be allowed
to exams myself from mitering further on the miter
upon this particular ociessinn—(laughter and sheen)—
for whatever my sins and offences mg lutes been, itad
doubtless they have been many, both he omission and
commiedoe, no man has said that any ends. remr-ve or
nediaint in the quantity or the quality ut my "WTI"a
of my opinion on the question of &dorm has bees
among those errors—chear hear.) That cpiestion
pateibly may sleep for a while, hut it will have a certeis
sad an imuoy reeerrestion.- (load sad repeated cheer.
isig.)—Mr. Gladoccose at the artans dab dinner.
RIATT CLAIM MR COMPENSATION MIAMI? TES
MIDLAND RAILWAT.—ON Mrinday at the Sheriff's Clourt
In BA Um-square, a beevy anneensttion skint,
hrought by "Forbes and others," egainst the 'flail:tied
Railway Company. was se4er eonsidsration the greater
part of the day. The cleim was for some WO SEM of
land wallah • for building perpoess, situated neel
Kilburn anl requi-ed by the oompany, sod i• addition
to the direct value of the land, compensatlon was
(deleted for the damage which would he done to the
property in the vieleity. The mins of £lllOO per sere
warn demanded for the land. sod tb, total cotnpensatioe
was set down at 110,000. The owneany were willing to
pay about half that amount. Ultimately the Jury gave
the plaintiff £13,400 compensation.
Ti. Pacoima NIZOLX Gor.-112e PVdaiar aim the
following otory :—lt is not genes... 4 kerma that the
gnomes of the needle-gun, is declared by it, ',mentors to
lie in the manufacture of its cartridge, the composition
of which hts never yet been discovered. The gun leatlf
can, if it he addled, be imitated exactly, but the rem.
ponent parts of the cartridge, and the way in which
thee are commingled. is yet • secret. Is IS Skil that
the two men who a sas twenty lean ago bit aerie this
discovery, and who were common lookomithsisdriesserl,
bane been ever since, and are to the proorit day, vir-
tually prieouers of the Prussian Government. They
live as Spandto ; they hays plenty of money, and ix=
no wish without its being immediately gmtiled.
go shoot and oima-ionally travel in Germany, but they
op.-..r move day or night without tense amompanied by
two staff °Seers. Bach is the caroms% story. The
Germans bees • swipe, expreades of oontemit of any
,
one's mental capacity, that 'he did not invent gun.
pped.r.^ Thom pear loeksmithe must often have
devoutly wished that they had never the wit to invent
the eartridge for the needle-gnu.