The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

Gmeral Ncins.

A REWARD of cLOOO is offered on the recapture of
Stephen., the Fenian, should he return to Great
Britain.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.- The Poses Paris corres-
pondent gars that, according to French despatches, the
time is rapidly approaching wh.n the relations of Great
Britain with the United States will be more than
difficult.
THE NUMBER Or THE BEAM —A correspondent of
the Pall Gazett• points out that the numerical
value of the letters of Ur. Cumming's name spelt in
Greg, together with that ef the article prefixed, make,
when added together, the exact number of the beast,
viz., 666.

".NT PONT TN A filrogig."—During the lilts fond at
Preston about 20 rata, drivsn by the rising water from
their usual hiding place., took refuge in a hive full of
bees, in a garden adjoining South Meadow-4mi. There
bad been no "conflict" in the hive, and for several
hours the " happy family" principal bad been observed
by its occupants.

A stsgurr given by the Lord Mayor of Dublin on
Thursday night was rendered amnewhat notable by •
speech of the Lord.Lientensint, in which be frankly
admitted that the population of Ireland was not in
excess of the capacity of the soil to maintain it, and
urged that every vffort should be made to inclose the
people to remain.
THZ London subscription for Quebec amounts to
£lB,lOOO. £16,000 of which has been rendered available
by telegraph. It is satidastory to learn that the Govern.,
merit of Canada, while appreciating the assistance
rendered in this emergency, have done their utmost to
no et the case themselves, by granting £250,000 for the
relief of the sufferers.

A CORILUPONDINT of the Gitarflials says that •
Lincolnshire friend has informed him that, in • parish
in that country the clerk has recently taken the altar.
cloth, with the consent of the incumbent in order to
turn it into a great coat for winter use. No doubt be
has found it warm and comfortable this week; but the
act is none the tem sacrilegious on that account

THII Manchester ileform bangxet was held on Tuesday
night. Upwsrds of 900 aat down to dinner, and this
number included between twenty and thirty members of
Parliament. An address wsa moved to the Liberal
members of Parliament who had been invited to the
banquet, and it was replied to by Mr. Bright, Mr.
Forster, Mr. Haines. Sir John Gray, Mr. McLamo, Mr.
Ayrton. and Sir F. Crosaley.
nix Lan FLOODs.—Altorether not lees than thirty
lives have been lost, while the damage to property
MR, be safely estimated at halt a million. The loos In
the Vale of Calder is put down at L'200,000, in Wake-
field and its neighbourhood at £lOO,OOO, and in Dews.
bury at £50,000. In Salford, where a public meeting has
been held to take measures for the relief of the sufferers,
2.68.5 houses were inundated, and 3,124 persona have
been thrown out of employment.
Tan Alabama claims bane given rise to others which
were little expected. Mr. Wyse, of Lloyd's, his
addressed a letter to Lord Stanley directing attention to
the claims of British shipownern in regard to the eapture
of several hundred vessels by Federal men of-war during
the late civil conflict in America. Mr. Hammond, by
desire of Lord Stanley, replies to the ffect that no
arrangement b. hitherto been made by the Britiat
Government sad that of the Veined &atm. fe... the es.
atnination and settlement of the claim. of their reap.," •c
subjects and cilium arising out of the events of the
late civil war.

Tangs are now unmistakeable indications of • Fenian
outbreak in Ireland, and the authorities, we are glad to
see, are alive to the emergency. A s'esmer whith
arrived at Cork from Liverpool on Thursday, was
searched, and two cases, consigned to Messrs. John
Daley and Co., of that city, were opened and found to
contain • number of Enfield rides, perfectly new, with
bayonets attached, and several bullet moulds. The
whole was wined, and at • later period of the day • man
named Tracey, in the employ of Messrs. Daly and Co.,
w. arrested. The naval authority at Queenstown also
seized on Thursday the schooner Titania, from Cardiff,
laden with coals, on suspicion of having ernin on board.
She was subjected to &stria search, but it is reported
that no arms were found. Several suspicions persons
arrived at Cork by the city of Paris from New I'm k on
Monday night, and it was particularly noticed that they
left in small parties by early trains the following day
for different parts of the country,

A STRANG! STOILT.—On Sunday se'rinight, at about
twelve o'clock, a soldier of the 83rd Regiment, who was
on sentry in one et the yards of the Ifountjoy Prison,
where those persons held under the suapension of the
Habeas Corpus Act are detailed, was alermed by seeing
the fitare of • man coming over the well from the
exterior of the building. The sentry immediately
challenged, at the same time covering the intaider with
his rifle. The figure replied to the challenge by saying
that he was a friend. The soldier asked him what he
was doing on the wall, and the mysterious visitant
answered that he was • Fenian, and that his object was
to appeal to the soldiers not to fire a shot on any man
who might rive in assertion of the liberty of Ireland.
The soldier feeling his position was rather • compromis-
ing one if be °onto:meal the conversation, and hesitating
to lire, gave the alarm, and the wird was turned out,
bat on going round the walls outside, they found that
the man had disappeared without leaving a trace of
his mode of ascent, though the wall is twenty feet high.
The occurrence, as may he 'apposed, barn created rather
a aenretion among the officials°. the priaon.—Pruesitan's
Journal.

A BAIONZT SILLTIG WiTCHI2I.- The Dublin papers
report that on the 19th of October, • young lad, aged :
about If. was brought up before Mr. J. C. O'Donel,
charged with having stolen from Mr. Alfred Nelson,
photographer, • mahogany glasa 01144 containing a
number of photographs. The prisoner, who gave his
name as Emanuel Moore, had been employed by Mr.
Helena as porter, and while in his employment had
taken away the tartish.* and sold them. Al an ex-
planation of his cxmositting the offence, be stated that
his father, who is an Irish baronet of one of the oldest
creations, had been reduced to a condition of such ab-
ject poverty as to be now under the necessity of selling
matches in the streets of Dublin to obtain a wretched
sub4stence, and that be had sold the articles which he
had stolen to 'lnuitsh him with some of the ordinary
necessaries of If, The criminal was sentenced to two
months' imprisonment. The mother of the unfortunate
lad was sister to an Irishman who for many years sat in
Parliament for an English seat, and who at one time
was • great popular leader of the English working
clause. We understand that an effort is being made to
obtain • commutation of young Moore's sentence, and to
provide for his father and himself some employment
which will Mears them from actual pauperism. —Daily
News.

A MATRIMONIAL COMMISSION AORNT.—A matri-
monial commlnion street was on Wednesday before the
judge of the Rochdale County Court. rhe agent,
Thomas Clegg, seed Charles Derrick, a moulder, upon
the following bill of particulars :—" Charles Derrick,
debtor to nee. Clegg, for finding a husband, value at
Von ; commission, 5 per sent, per annum; amount,
£2 10s." Mr. Hartley, who appeared for the defendant,
remarked, before any evidence was gone into, that the
law would not allow the plaintiff to recover. The
claim was for eommiasion on £5O at 5 per cent., whieh
amounted to E 2 10.. The law on that point was that a
contract to procure marriage between two rarties for
reward was void. The plaintiff sued for commission.
The plaintiff said, "On the 29th of May this lady, then
Miss Porter, contracted with me, while she was rocking
In a chair, to get her a husbond. She maid she was
twenty-six years of age, and not married yet, and she
added, "And I think, somehow, thst I shall never be
morried I" She then agreed to pay me 5 per cent. on
1:50 per annum, if I would get her her present husband,
Charles Derrick, and I dot," The judge held that it
we. an illegal claim, and dismissed these..,

Trig bodily defects of Mr. Kavanagh, the newly-
elected representative of Wegfond. Cr. somethingirez
extraordinary, but notwithstanding them ph
failings, he appears to be more proficient in some lap
than those whom Nature has blessed with a perfect
organisation. Although Mr. Karanagh was born with-
out legs and arms, he is described as au emollient
caligraphist, a dashing huntsman, and artistic draughts-
man, and unerring shot, and tlimusostexpert of yachters.
Helm now about forty veers of age, and a large family
of children as handsome as could be found in this Lenoir,
has blessed his union with a lady remarkable for her
keenly and beloved for her amiable and emmiderat•
disposition. His literary taste be has gratified to the
fullest, and the "Cruise of the Eva," publised a short
time singe, testifies that he is an acute observer. The
book was illustrated from sketches made by himself
during his cruise. He holds the pen or pencil in his
mouth, and guides its course by the arm-stumps, whiah
Cr. sufficiently long to meet across the chest, sod by
this mode he produces m caligrsohg, esgh letter of whict
is distinctly formed. When basting be ails in • kind of
saddle-basket, and his reins am managed with a sur-
nrisiim expertness and me..; but perhaps the gr,..t.1 of
his achievements is driving a "four-inland. This he
does to perfection—end as his teem esempers ewe, at a
dashing pace, the sharp crack of his whip may be beard
afar oft. It is to be hoped that Mr. Kavanagh will
peeve am clever in politics as be seems to be in most
other things.