The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUEt3DAY, DECEMBER 6, 1869.

lIONESTE AUDA X.

Tug official invitations from France and Austria
were sent out on Tuesday to all the Powers who
are to take part in the approaching Congress.
It is understood in Paris that each Power will
be represented by two Plenipotentiaries, the
first to be a Minister specially appointed for that
purpose, and the second to be the Minister
accredited to the Court of the Tuileries. Lord
Palmerston has been mentioned as the fittest
statesman to represent England on this occasion
as first Plenipotentiary ; but it is not yet known
whether he would be willing to undertake the
duty. It is generally believed that the first
sitting of the Congress will take place at the
Hotel of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
on or about the sth of January next. The
Liverpool Mercury, referring to the reply of the
, Emperor Napoleon to four Liverpool merchants,
says, we are informed, that the Imperial Secre-
tary writes that peace with England is the ear-
nest wish and fixed policy of the Emperor, and
that so far as it depends upon his Majesty it is a
policy which should never be abandoned. The
Meniteur publishes the monthly return of the
price of wheat in the different markets of France
by which the import and export duties on corn
and Hour are regulated. The highest price was
22f. 7c. per hectolitre, in the market of St. L 6,
and the lowest 15f. 59c., in that of Saumur ; the
highest average was 18f. 70c., in the markets of
Bergner, Arras, Roye, 80111110121, Paris, and
Rouen, and the lowest 17f. 10c., in those of
Saumur, Nantes, and Morena; the average for
the whole of Frame was 17f. 99ic., being an
advance of fths of a centime.
Accounts from the Morocco coast inform us
that a sharp engagement took place on the 25th
ult. between the Spanish expeditionary force
and the Moors, in which the latter sustained a
heavy loss, and the Spaniards had 80 killed and
400 wounded. The Iberia says that in the
engagements between the Spaniards and the
Moors which have already taken place the latter
not only fought well, but were commanded by
officers who evidently understand European
strategy. An engagement has also taken place
between four French war steamers and the
Moorish forts at the mouth of the river Tetuan.
A great deal has been written about this affair,
and much misrepresentation has taken place.
We gather the following explanation from a
semi-official paper, and the facts there stated
would seem to be reliable. It appears, accord-
ing to this account, that the incidents occurred
at a certain distance from Tetuan, at the mouth
of the river which flows into the Mediterranean.
Some five or six miles from the town is the
middle of the bay which bears the same name.
There is a brick fort, faced with limestone, in
the form of a tower, on the left bank of the
river, with a few pieces of artillery laid so as to
sweep the shore. This is the only work which
defends the approach to the town of Tetuan on
the sea side, from which it is separated by a
sloping ground covered with brushwood. Admi-
ral Romain Deafoestr, in order to exercise the
seamen, sent a few of his ships to cruise along
the coast. The ship of the hue St. Louis was of
the number, and as she was in the act of return-
ing to her anchorage she was fired at by the fort
when passing before the river of Tetuan,
although the flag of the St. Louis was flying.
The captain without taking notice of the insult
returned to Algesiras. The Admiral, however,
considered that the act required immediate and
severe chastisement, and on the following day,
the 26th of November, he weighed anchor and
himself proceeded to the spot with the liners
Bretagne and St. Louis, the Fondre steam fri-
gate, and the steam cutter Tisiphone. He ap-
peared before the fort of Tetuan, and at once
opened fire, and in about three-quarters of an
hour the guns &she fort were silenced.
In consequence of the conclusion of peace at
Zurich, the diplomatic relations between Austria
and Piedmont, which have been interrupted for
I the last three years, will be immediately re-
established by the mutual nomination of official
I representatives, having the rank of minister
plenipotentiaries. Count Edmund von Hartig,
the present Austrian Minister at Munich, is
designated as the future representative of the
Court of Vienna at Turin. His father was
formerly governor of Lombardy.
. . . .

The Admiral has since made " severe repre-
mutations" on the subject to the Morocco Go-
vernment, and it is said that the Governor of
Tetuan has given satisfaction by ordering the
arrest of the Moorish officer who committed the
aggresaion.

From the United States we learn that the
excitement in Virginia, arising out of the affair
at Harper's Ferry, has been increased to an
alarming extent by the outbreak of numerous
incendiary fires in the neighbourhood of Charles-
town, and by the general report that the in
cendiaries were the advance guard of • body of
Abolitionists who were to come from the north
and rescue Brown and his confederates. Large
bodies of troops were under arms at Richmond
and Alexandria, and Charlestown itself was so
strictly guarded as to be really under martial
law. A despatch from Washington states that
the Ban Juan affair, in the present state of the
n•gociations with England, cannot form the
"Womb of comment in the President's forthcom-
hug and will simply be mentioned as •
question that is still pending.
The Bombay mail has arrived with news from
Bombe, to the 12th of November. Lord Can-

fling has addressed the Talookdars of Oude in I
open durbar with good effect. The campaign I
against the rebels in Bundelcund has been
opened, and another upon the Chumbul is ex-
pected. The agitation against the Bill for li-
censing trades and professions continues at Bom-
bay. The Waghurs have evacuated Dwarka
after several days' bombardmant, which reduced
the town to ashes.

DORCHISTIM PITCHID CORN MARICZT, Saturday.
—Our market was moderately supplied with wheat
to-day, but farmer, being unwilling to submit to any
reduction from last week's prices checked business,
consequently but few samples changed hands.
Barley and oats unaltered in value.

IN-BAN/CIiOPTCY.—.I. Barnes, late of Dorchester,
builder—a dividend of 9d. in the .0 has at last been
declared on this estate.
Doses? AND CONNINH DIALNCTIL —A recent num-
ber of the A gasman states that "Prince Lucien
B.inaliarte, our caper philologist, has printed for pri-
vate circulation two more specimens of English dia-
lects as spoken in the present year. One specimen is
in the Cornish dialect- -the other is in that of Dorset
The latter is the more droll and curious. For each
specimen the Song of Solomon has been chosen; so
that comparisons between the two are as easy as they
are odious.'

DORCIMITIS RITLI CORPS. —WO announced last
week that a successful move has been made in the way
of establishing a rifle corps for Dorchester and the
neighbourhood. The following are the regulations
agreed upon by the committee who have kindly un-
dertaken this duty, and who have forwarded the
movement with so much perseverance and spirit :
Fir.—That the corps shall consist of honorary mem-
bers and effective members.
&cond.—That each honorary member, on enrolment,
shall contribute to the stock purse of the corps, a sum of
5a., to include his subscription for the then cur-
rent year, and pay an annual subscription of £2 2.a., and
be entitled to provide and wear the uniform, and use the
practice ground of the corps, when not required for the
drill and training of the effective members, and shall at
all times be permitted to be present at such drill and
training.
TAird.—That each effective volunteer, on enrolment,
shall pay a sum of El 10e. to the stock purse, to include
his subscription for the current year, and pay an annual
subscription of 10a., and on being enrolled shall be fur-
ther entitled to be furnished with his uniform, arms,
and accoutrements at the expense of the corps.
Fourth.—ln ease any effective volunteer shall resign
at any time, his arms and accoutrements shall revert to
the cot pa, and be delivered to the commanding officer,
and if such resignation shalltake place at any time within
one year from the issue of the uniform, such volunteer
shall, as a condition for the acceptance of his resigna-
tion, pay the sum of El to the stock parse, as the value
of such clothing.
Fifth.—That all subscriptions, whether of honorary
or effective members, shall be payable and paid in ad-
vance on the lit of January yearly, to the treasurer of
the corps.
' Sixth.—Noterithdanding the rule entitling each effec-
tive member to be turned with uniform, arms, and
accoutrements at the expense of the corn, it is not in-
tended to prohibit any member from aiding the stock
purse by providing his own uniform, arms, and accoutre-
ments, so that such uniform, arms, and accoutrements,
he strictly in accordance with the patterns to be hereaf-
ter adopted, and sealed by the officer entrusted with
the command of the corps.
&reed. —That peat present arranged the government
do not supply arms for the use of volunteers beyond the
proportion of 75 per cent., the deficiency shall be pro-
vided at the expense of the corps, and that for such pur-
pose, u well as to meet the expenses attending the origi-
nal organisation of the force, subscriptions be at once en-
tered into and solicited.
EightA.—That officers on appointment shall pay the
following fees of honour, viz. :—Captain ha. Od. ; Lieu-
tenant, £4 4s. Od. ; Ensign, El 3e., as well also as annual
subscriptions of similar amounts, on the let January,
yearly.
Nix/A.—That on promotion, an officer shall pay for
fees of honour and annual subscriptions, the difference
between his former and new rank.

Tenth. —That persons may become members of the
oorps for life on payment of • donation of not less than
E5O.

EkrentA.—That as soon as 50 effective members shall
have consented to serve, • tender of their services shall
be made to the Lord Lieutenant of the County, and on
such services being accepted, the effective members shall
meet for the purpose of selecting and submitting to his
lordship the names of persons to be appointed oMcen of
the corps.
M. DE11E241311, Mayor.
Guildhall, 28th November, 1859.

VOLUNTRERS O 1804.—1 t appears that (luring
the time our country was last threatened with inva-
sion Dorset raised 515 cavalry, and 2.201 infantry;
Somerset, 1,544 cavalry, and 7,747 infantry; Devon
1,873 cavalry, 13,197 infantry, and 1,325 artillery;
Wilts, 850 cavalry, and 4,524 infantry; and Hants
1,252 cavalry, 7,164 infantry, and 836 artillery.
Devon had a greater number than any other
locality.
TRADE MARKR.—As this is a subject of great ins-
portanoe to every one, and is exciting much atten-
tion at the present time, we may direct the attention
of our readers to the report, which appears in ano-
ther part of our paper, of a law case, " Wother-
spoon v. Turner, and another," decided in the Court
of Chancery on 25th November, from which it will be
seen that plaintiff succeeded in obtaining an injunc-
tion restraining the defendants from unitatiug the
labels of the Glenfield Patent Starch. Although we
are quite alive to the necessity of the legislature
adopting means for the suppression of this class of
frauds, we still think that the public would suffer
much less by them were every one, having the op.
portunity, to follow the spirited example of Messrs.
Wotheoon I Co., who, we believe, have now for
the fourth time, at very great trouble and expense,
been successful in suppressing imitations of the
labels of their well-known "Glenfield Patent
Starch."

THE LATE OUTRAGE NEAR. HALIFAX.—Mr. A.
C. Foster, the solicitor for the prosecution in this
case, has received two subscriptions—one from a g.en-
tleman at Bristol of £lO, and the other from a noble-
mall of £3, in behalf of the two young women, the
subjects of the barbarous outrage recently committed
near Halifax. The nobleman writes as follows :--
Will you kindly take charge of the enclosed cheque
for £3. lam disposed to give X 2 to the poor girl
Sarah Ann Burrow, and .C 1 to her companion in mis-
fortune, Martha ... ... The conduct of Sarah Ann, in
going to the rescue of Martha, raised the distinction
in my mind. I feel satisfied that local good feeling
will secure every attempt to take and correct the
ruffians. There is nothing, to me, so deserving of
public aid as security to young women from such
outrages. If there is any public subscription entered
into, put my subscription in as from S. G. 0."
One of the perpetrators of this outrage is still at
large, but it is supposed he has left the country.
BOROUGH POLlCl.—Monday.—Before M. Devenish,
Eaq., (Mayor.)—Abrahaps Roberts and William Smirk,
were charged with being drunk and disorderly. The
former was fined Is., and costa bel. 6d., and allowed •
week for payment; the latter was reprimanded and dis-
charged.— Join &meson wee brought up in custody of
Mr. Superintendent Pouncy charged with being drunk
and creating • disturbance in Mill Street, and also with
resisting the constable in the execution of his duty.—
Sent to prison for seven days.—nosins Bower was
also sent to gaol for seven days for being drunk and dis-
orderly in the streets of Dorchester on Sunday last.

COMNITTIM TO TN! DORSET COUNTY -PILDKOI.—
Sessieru : Elias Long, stealling 9 rabbit traps at Wood-
lends.—Hard laboair : Job Long, vagrancy at Winter-
terbourne, 7 days; Joseph Studholme, deserting H.M.S.
Trafalgar, 6 months; John Johnson, vagrancy at Broad
winsor, 6 weeks; Mary Marks, vagrancy at Dorchester,
21 days; William Gillingham, leaving family chargeable
at Weymouth, 14 days; James Young, stealing clothes
on board H.M.S. Hero, 28 days; Thomas White, steal-
ing 2 dogs at Hawkehurch, 6 months; William Half-
head and Edward Mollyneux, deserting H.M.S. Royal
Albert, 150 days each; Thomas Berwick, deserting
H.M.S. Aboukir, 21 days; Elisabeth Sprecklin, robbing
orchard at Bothenhempton, 21 days; John Martin,
poaching at Hemprcston, 2 months; Stephen Andrews,
poaching at Crenborne, 1 month; Henry Jones, va-
grancy at Blandford, 14 days.—/laprisosincia : Anthony
Charles, breach of the peace at Dorchester, 7 days;
Mary Aim Wallis, assault at Weymouth : 7 days;
Thomas Piggy, sea., and Henry Beaker, *en., stealing
fowls at Kingston Magna, 3 months each ; James Marsh,
INbU., stealing lard at Gillingham, 2 months.