The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

Jordan Intrlligtncr.

IT la reported that Yr. Wui. Rafllollllawson,c B.
Till be appointed Goramor c.l Jamaica.

THI Belgian Chamber of Representatives grotto.= to
erect • muonmeat to the memorr of their good Kng
Leopold.

ORB a the Chilien ironclad, whir& sailed frac here
•011110 tiCIA ago captured a lipaniali a. sal, sad .ought to
take it into Rio de Janeiro; but, the authorities
refusing she was takes outside the haiboar aud burnt.

Booms Attics has ben viiiited by an appalling
storm, which veiled thi city in dstkacss, Liew demi
beeves, and sacrithd nosy lives. The poputatioa woe
completely polio lactase.

The Intermittonal Cadens Conferenoe still con-
tinue. it. Malaga at Constantinople, bet up to the
preesat time no apparent prepe.. hu been made In
throwing light on the orgin and eturaeter el the disease.

THIN lOU TILLDL A speculator has realised • Isms
gam by suppli nig varies publics establishments is Paris
with Wes. The ice which IPOIDOS from Norway bwais
blocks of • cubic yard, on an swerve. Tbe oonsamptloa
In Paris is estimated at 60 tons • day,

A oorreeprindent of the Pon Mali Gametic lays that
one of Garibalfra sone was is Paris the betionineof
U.. preemie week making huge purchases of warlike
eriniouiret., and offoing Imiordiate enpgameate to
alters who nerved under his !ether.

FALL OF AVALAWHIII ii SWITMLAID. —Numerous
&cyclonic bay. oco,ccd from the fall a avalmiabos
conotquitot opoo thomelt.og of snow ni various parts
of Switserland. In a locality of the Orisons moo was
killed, and In asto•her tbe course of the Rhine was
,hecked for some boon Above Zerrets, in L Astir
Estsed•oe, tin road pas quite nlockNi op for a distance
of 500 feet by a slip of soon from the monottln.

Tan CM Or NNW Tom brings news from New York
to the 21st ApriL The Preeideet had taken theommaloo
of a deputation °leafier, and sailors waiting upon him
for recomreending the Government eppointmente to be
riven to persons who have nerved in the army or
navy, VI declare that he is the negrowl real friend.
General Meade and an • used force have arrived at
Eastport, and the General has stated t at his mon
1. to preyeet any infringement of the oeutrality laws.
Hs has bed an interview with General Boyle, and
nteps have been taken which will in all hkellhood
i&etually extingnish the &aliens. Another steenter
—the Virginia —hod arrived at New York with cholera
on board. Thirty-eight deaths had ocrettered on the
peasage. It is noted that the disease made its appear-
ance in the seine latitude as it did on board the
England.
EXTRAORDINARY BIPTCTS LICIIITNING.—The Von
of Luxembourg rives the following extraordinary account
of effects produced by lightning daring • storm which ,
broke over the village of Bare a few days beck. The
electric kid struck the cottage of • workman named
Austin, carried away the no f, entirely destroyed the
chimney, reduced the windows into fragments, and
broke into pieces the door end all the furniture. Three
children, who were sleeping In en upper room, were
projected out of the home, they do not know bow, but
escaped unhurt, whilst the bed on which they were lying
wee completely shattered. The mother end father were
Is bed with two other children, one an Infant the last-
named was east usingt a wall and somewhat injured,
end the mother, who had got up, was struck dead In
the room while lighting • candle. The husband and
the other child only felt a violent ahnek. The lightning
then escaped through • wall, and killed • oow loan ad-
joining building.

A DISTIVISING &Ella IS A Feu= COURT CS
Jul/reg.—The Paris • orrest.ndent of the Globe gives
the following narrative :—Befo-e the Cour d'assiese d
the Seine were judged, on Saturday, no les, than 28
prisoners, most of them boy. under 16 year. of ire,
amused of the crime of uttering has, into. This crowd
of oulprita wee guarded bye. groat a crowd of gendannes,
sod as they stood thee all hustled together, pressing
mania each other with involuntary familiarity, the
group presented as pretty • picture as can well be
beeriest' ; and we act oervelre.—" If such be th-
y:nen bud of vicie in the 19th °eatery, what mum be the
frul when arrived at the hiker al maturity?" The
whole wrens reminded one rather of • distributien of
prises at • village school than the serious trial of • set
of criminals moused of a crime dared among the greatest
in every imeliarr, and one which, until lately, ...a
punished with death, and eves now by the galleys for
life. The pikm di Merit:tom placed upou the bureau
before the judges were simple and few indeed. A
handle' of plaster of Paris, • long iron Ladle, • small
sem, sad a certain quantity of Itritanoia metal—these
were the only tools of which they knew the use, end
with the aid of ingenuity, self.r. 'ranee, youth, arel
•pparent innocence, they were found all.sullkient for
the purpose. The coinage, inesistihr of 6vefrang pieces,
utopia/1M the jury, so perfect was the execution
and the facility with which the coiner" were enabled to
get rid of it a. far as completed no longer become a
inystery. The details of the trial were rem' curious.
Every one of them young 'mandrel. had been taught
the value of the Article IAS of the penal rd., whist,
ordains that the individual amused of coining may he
absolved, even after conviction, if be shoul•I !monied is
obtaining the arrest of any other °kW. It warn •
pitiable sighs to behold this steeple-char between there
aceompliee. in crime, each one aspiring to the prise to
be obtained by betraying hie comnide. What is re mark •
ante in the met of this band of mirreante is the fact of
but one among the number owning to any meths of
coining a livelihood. This use was the chief himself,
who sold refreshment at the Belleville Theatre. This
place was medal to serve sear odes wous for tie rhea- gong ,
—a sort of small Boum. diffenng only from the eiher
inseinseb as the ra °my iteelf woe fske as well as avail.
thing eke. 'Orrs man, 1 'phoneo by name, was wont to go
round with his basket containing orange., barielvuilarr,
and croquettes, according to the custom of French
theatres—the memhers of the rang Galling him from
different parts of the home under pretence or pur-
chasing his refreshments, and thus the tranmetions
of the day was summed up and registered. Ti.
trial of the hand will remain among the mars
af.iihres or amount of the perfect °milldam, e
with which the whole drama was enacted, and
the eme with which depredations to the amount of
401000 f. had be n carried on he an scodation crediting
entirely of boys. One or two were artists is their way.
To the most skilful were allotted the pares of the reign
of Mertes IL, to another those of Louie Philippe, and
the common method of ordering a ooinare of One or the
other was to cell for a maw dfa Marfa Dis, or a
bouillon Lost, Philippe. Many were ociaidsred beaux
esprit; and although not knoeing how to read or write,
their reputation for crasher of wit was amply sus-
tained on the trial. One of them, priding himself on
his eloquenee, entertained the auditory with an amount
of their Meaner of life, and by his dramatic gesture and
deep-toned weak 'rested laughter and teen by tams.
A girt culled "Red-baked Josephine," not yet 15 years
of age, was employed to polish up the coin. She con•
feseed to participation is the offence so far as this, but
declared that ohs dad secreted the office to obtain •
living, and to "aeold doing worse." Upon the whole
the speetade wee • sorry on., One of the advocates
compared that Amaze Owlet with it, 28 youthful
criminals, all ready fora life of captivity, to end, sea
matter of course, in an old age at the galleys, to the
Chamber of Horrors, at Madante Tusasud's exhibition in
LosvAon, and the comparison was not Inappropriate.