The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

Jordan inttlligenct.

THS Jinnin.nr atinonnces that the Emperor Masi'
mili•n stilt In Mexico, and as not yet deo ded upon
his future moveo.nts.

THE Paris correspondent of the Daily Telepraph says
that he has heard on good authority that diplomatic
Arrangements have been ooneluded between Rome and
Italy, and that they are favourable to the latter Power.
AMERICAN Lamm—A new postal arrangement with
England is reported, by whioh the postage on letters is
to be reduced one-half, and pre-payment made com-
pulsory, each Government to retain the amount of
postage collected,— New Teak Letter.
TEs Pops AND ITALT.--Tbo Italie announces that
the Pope has given up all intention of leaving Rome,
and that all remains peefeetly tranquil there. The
Patric says that the visit of the Empress to Rome ham
been determined upon.
Tee New Zealand papers state that there has been
• slight renewal ot native disturbances, and that
rumours are rife that more serious ones are Impending.
The rising in question was on the West Coast, and
was attended with some sharp fighting, the natives
having entrenched themselves to • vij., which was
set on fire and burnt, but not before three colonial
soldiers had been killed and as many more wounded.
The withdrawal of the troops Is causing no little anxiety,
as it may encourage native insubordinatiou.
AN AKEZIOAN Scrooges DISTIOTED iIT FIRE, AND
THE CREW BOAUTID.—" News from Cores" says the 1
Hemp Kbag Mail of November lst, "has arrived to the
effect that the French have initiated proceedings to !
teach the Coreans that murdering foreigners is an un-
lawful pastime. The French admiral has sailed with
his squadron to the Cores, but active operations will be
deferred until after the winter. A sad Mk of Crean
barbarity aceoinpanies this intelligence. The master
and crew of an A werican schooner, named the General
Sherman, with two English gentlemen, a Mr. Thomas
and Mr. Boger th, have been roasted to death by order of
the King or his father—some accounts say the latter—
the unhappy victims having been tied down in their
berths and the ship then set on fire. We may suppose
that some notice will be taken of this by the British
Government."
MT/MEMO@ DISAPPEARANCE 01P Till COUNTENB OP
Sonorsoso.—ltallan tourists communicate the meat
melancholy conjectures respecting the, as yet, Mex.
pliable disappearance of the Counter of Schomleug.
Two months beck she left Enghien. where she hat
passed the summer, and went to snake various exam-
' eons in Upper Italy before rewiring Naples. She set
out one morning with some friends for a walk in the
mountains, sod when about half way she was beset by
such sorrowful presentiments that she took out her
diamond earrings, which she always wore, and gave
them to one of her companions to take care of, saying
she was afraid of encountering robbers A few steps
farther on she separated a little from the party, and
from that moment it was found impossible to discover
the smallest trace of what bad become of her. The
belief is that she must have fallen over • precipice; but
hitherto the most minute march has been made without
result.

RTOPPAOII OP A RAILWAY TRAIN IT GRAINNIOPPIRIL
—By letters from /WM., U.S..we are informed of •
widely-extended and destructive plague of grasshoppers,
actually darkening immense tracts of country as would
a total eclipse of the sun, destroying every vestige of
vegetation along their route—awn-fields, gram, weeds,
an leaves of trees. Some Idea of their numbers may be
had from their taking three weeks to past Latienworth,
a stream about twelve miles wide and 900 miles long,
devouring every vegetable thing in their pomp ; and
from another fact that, having got on the railroad track
of the Union Pacific road in such numbers sate sense
the wheels to slip on the rails, and the freight train
at Wyandotte was detained several hours beyond its
time by the impossibility of penetrating the massive
crowd of the insect* the slipping of the engine wheels,
and the amid total darkness tonged by their numbers.
From specimens sent In they are not apparently the
same insect as our grasshoppers, nor are they like the
common locust of America, but something bearing to
some extent the character of both. They travel from
wi st to east.

" 01:17.IDE on lo."—The Salsa Prbiie of Lyons give
an amount of • curious trial. A widow named Jaeob
and her man of busineas. named IRonniehon, living in
the parish of Ouches (Loire), had been for a long time
past on very bad terms with the mire, and seised upon
every opportunity of giving him annoyance. On the
29th of July last, they brought a band of six musicians
provided with a big dram and brass instruments, and
placed them close to the church ,100 T so that the noise
made might elfeetuallv disturb the celebration of mum
and the preaching of the ecclesiastic. In consequent* •
prosecutton was commenced against them Wore the
Correctional Tribunal of Roanne, which condemned
them to six days' imprisonment and 50f. fine. Against
that Judgment they lodged an appeal, on the ground
that the Act against disturbing Divine worship aptlte of
of brawlicg and noise in churches, end could not there-
fore apply to them, as what they had done was outside.
That ingenious piece of argument, however. bad no
weight with the court, which inereased the imprison-
ment to a month, leaving the line as before.

THE Trupa. or Miami RIAU FOR Time WONDERS.
—The Court of Arises of the Deux•Perres (Niort) has
Juni concluded the trial of the farmer named Martin
Reau on • ripple charge of murder by poision. The
Persons whose death he reused were his lint wife, Marie
Janne, his second, Julie, and • son of the latter. Abel
Riau. He also suspected of having murdered his brother
Pierre by similar means, but, as the latter died in 1853,
and as by the law of Prance no one can he tried for
murder after the leap of ten years from the time the
crime was committed, this last case was not gale into.
The chemical analysis of the remains disclosed, in each
case, the presence in large quantities of • deadly pekoe,
the perehloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate, which
bad even saturated the earth surrounding the entllos.
In each of the four deaths Riau had • pecuniary intereat
as be Inherited from his brother; his first wife hal
made • will in his favour, and his wood bad done se
likewise to the extent of half her property, the remainder
gcing to her sou Abel, but in the ease of his death
reverting to the prroner. By all these inheritances
Ern bad amassed • property of some reooo. The
evidence left no doubt of the prisoner's guilt, and the
jury having returned a verdict with extenuating cit.
cumstanoes, he was sentenced to hard labour for life.—
Galignani.

A New SATITT BOOT. —Captain Pignonblano,
residing at Havre, has invented a new aafety-bney,
which for simplicity and ingenuity ourpasses all that
has yet been discovered. The hvoy consists simply In
a common auk, in which a hole has been made POI.
adeptly large to admit a man. Round this Is nailed a
canvas hose, which can be closed by common packthread
of about half a yard in length. The object of this hose
In merely to prevent water penetrating the cask when the
breakers are very high, but it has never as yet been found
necessary to have recourse to it. To prevent the cask
from rolling %bout, • pieta of iron or a weight of any
kind is suspended by two ends of rope. The middle of
these two ends of rope is tied on to the weight, and
each end I. fastened to the cask, precisely as though
they were four shroud'. The lower part of the cask
can be filled with provisions, and a man can lie in it as
though he were in a hammock. This invention has been
tried with siginal success on the coast near Havre, and
in the roughest weather. It has met with the un-
qualified approbation of the chamber of Commerce,
which body strongly recommended its doptien no
board merchant ships. he extreme simplicity Is its
chief merit, and the fact that it could be "knocked up"
in half-an-hour. even at • moment of danger—for imeka,
pieces of iron, and ropes are not rare articles on board
any easel.
Tug Pors'a FARWELL Bruen To me Fairwcic
OSMIUM —The Roman correspondent of the Journal
des Debate writing en the the 6th, gives the following as
the farewell speech of the Pope to the French officers:
—"On the eve of your departure I am here, my dear
children, to receive your farewell. Your Rag came from
France with the mission to uphold the rights of the
Holy See, and it is now about to return. I desire that
It may be received with the same feelings as when it
left. lam informed that all Catholic hearts are alarmed;
they tremble in thinking of the difficulties in which the
Vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ, the head of the Catholic
Church, will ho placed. We must not indulge in illusions.
The revolution will come here; it has been proclaimed
over and over again. An Italian personage in a high
position has said that Italy was made but not completed.
Italy would be unmade if there was still here • corner
of the earth where order, quietness and tranquillity
reigned. They want to come here to hoist the flag on
the capitol You know as well as I do that the Tarpeian
reek is not far distant. Six years ago I was speaking
with the representative of France. I charged him to
tell the Emperor that 84. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo,
which is now included in the French Empire, frightened
at the disasters which he foresaw while the barbarians
were beselging the city, asked of the Lord that he should
die rather than be a witness of them. The represent.
alive replied that the barbarians should not enter here.
, But he is not • prophet. Another person said to me
that Rome could not be the capital of a kingdom, and
that it could only be the capital of all Catholics. Rut
I dread the revolution. What can be done! What
can be cad? I sin entirely without resources. Yet I
am tranquil, for the greatest power of all, God, gives me
force and firmness. " And, saying these words, the
writer adds, the Pope's voice trembled with emotion.
which was shared by all present. He pound for some
momenta, raised hisjeyes to Heaven, and put his hand
to his heart. After • few minutia' silence, he omitinued
'Go, and carry with you my blessing and my paternal
adieu. If yon see the Emperor of the French, year
Emperor, tell him that I pray for hint. They say that
his health is not good; [pray for his health. They may
that his eon' is not tranquil; I pray for his soul The
French nation Is • Christian nation; it. head moat also
be Christian. With prayer, accompanied with confidence
and perseverance, this nation, so great and 40 powerful,
will be enaSled to obtain what it dears,. As for me,
I live in the mercy of God; and my blaring will mem.
pally you on your journey home." Ti.. French Govern•
went is greatly imtated against the Journal des Deb.'s
for giving this list mileage, where the Holy Father
alludes to the E.nperor's health. The Paris paper have
been ordered not to reproduce it; end one journal in
particular that had the paragraph already to I.iot was
obliged to put it add.