The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A letter from Tuniumriee, capital of Madagsscar, of
the 25th June, says :—Tlie Queen is dying, and will
probsbly be dead before this letter reaches &Irmo.
The hereditary prince and Ids brother have shut them.
selves up in the pilau, and are protected by 400
persons who are devoted to them. The Queen's
nephew, however, is also a pretender to the throne, and
is supported by • party. It is proladila that there will
be war between the partiams of the two princes,
unless, as sertain native' coolly proviso, the nephew
should he poisoned. The hereditary prince has been
brought up by a Freuchinan in the Catholic religion ;
Lb. nephew is attached to the barbsrous customs of his
people, and looks upon European civilisation with
to.-..-or. The English have some vemels cruising on the
seed.
I.esters from Spain say thst the heat was increasing
everywhere; at Madrid it had attained 110 deg. (75 Pah.
mulish) in the shads !
The Jwirmal de Framkfort of the 11th says
may be reinewbered that a Duke of Wurtemberg
some thus sines married at Hamburg • Mdlle. Frawaini,
• singer at the Opera in that city. A few days since
the Prince de Lowenstein- Warticimiiii, following the
ass situ, visited Hamburg fur the purpose of celebrating
his maniace with an actress, • native of that city,
Mlle. Ainslie Weltray.,"
The r sue of Turin publishes intelligence from
Cirrus to the Ph giving some account of Garibaldi's
health sod opinions on affairs in gem r :—General
who had been attacked with his rheumatic
pains, remained iu bed foe several days, and until the
4th never left the house. klitico that day he has re-
sumed hie walks, and now nothing remains of his
complaint but • alight pain in his left band, which will
shortly disappear by the we of the vapour bath. Very
much grieved at what is going on in Naples, he makes
it thO subject et lung conversations with the companions
of his solitude, and with the frequent visitors. Italian
and foreign, who urge him, but in vain, to leave the
iodised. He has formally declared that be will not do so
unless ocompolled by events. He receives • pest
number of addresses and letters from all nations who
are labonrliii for the great CalllO of iodependence and
of liberty. Sequa/de for advice are sent to him from
all sides, and he gives it according to that political
iutalligonin which up to the present time has p Led
hint from committing an act which was not for the
dignity and welfare of his country.
Oeueral Garibaldi is about to melee • curious pre-
sent in the shale "of two pairs of felt boots, em
bruidered in the richest isoriblit fashion" (one is tempted
to wonder when they will be worn, and to recall the
quiet hard-working dress of the hero of Varese); but
the addend part of the affair is that these coverings for
the feet are • presentfrom the working hatters (angrier,
chapefiers) of Milan. Truly says the proverb, "ex•
trollies meet."
The Coacrrier nits Alpea mentions • lamentable acci-
dent which ocourred • few Jays sines to • young man of
Chambo7, named aidianns, who had been passing the
day with a party of friends in the mountains. When
they set oat on their return boom, M. Boileau* deter-
mined to take a short cut, that he might arrive first at
Ls Ouse to order supper for the party, and. Win°
the advise of his hien& took • dangerous pith. tailed
La Chounn4e. He fell down • precipice, and was killed
on the is ot.
The post morfrm examination of a Mall*. Leprovont.
who died suddenly at Caen last week, the very day
before she was to take ber trial for embezzlement, when
postniistroas at Colima's, has shown that she has
committed suiride by thrusting pins mud needles into
her chest. The heart Lad been pierced in many places
and tto needles were also found missing each other in
her throat. Stis had used the cover of • prayer book
to force thens into her body.
AIIIIASSINATION.—A dreadful crime has been com-
mitted in the village of Waren In the Hutto Horne. A
female. named Lac:enable, who keeps a grocer's shop,
was • few mornings hack found lying dead by her bed-
side. with • deep stab in her hurt. No robbery had
been committed, the assaults hoeing been hightened
away before he sould accomplish bis purpose. The polite
are looking after him.
Durritucitve iries.—Ac violent OM blGke out OD
Tuesday evening in the Stage of Chaise*, about two
mites from Chartres. No fewer than seventy-live fare)
buildings were burning at the sense time. me firemen
and a part of the prrisoo of Chartres were speedily on
the spot, but notwithstanding all their exertions the
ire mould toot be got under until property to the value
al "WAY 1/5.000f. bed been destroyed. The conflagration
wee aaesed by some children playing with ebestisal
seelehes weer a sleek WI ran.

EXTRAORDINARY lifOrlYß FOR MORDERINO • Hets•
naND.—Tou Cmn t of Asaiwa At MAillift.l.oro WU. •
few dips back, occupied with Om trial of • woman
nait.e I °needier, 63 yours of age, of th” village of Pre-
tleidin, on the charge of inurderiug her Int.band. A
neighbour having, in the evening of the 26th of April,
callad to see the mun, and not finding him, entered bin
bedchamber. To his horror he found the dead body of
Ouesdier lying on the door, with his skull aina-died in.
The woman, who a moment aftvr pie+ented herself, did
not npiwar auri.iieed at acting her husband I lead, and
'bongo aim uttered exclamation+ of sorrow, it WWI ob-
served that alai did not stied a tear. This c..11+.1 her to
suapected, and it Was ascertained, on inquiry, that no
one bct the woman had been in the house at the time
the murder must have been committed ; also, that the
dog which was in the plum had not barked, as he would
have done if any stranger had entered. Moreover, her
chillies were stained with blood, and she could not
'satisfactorily explain how they became no. As to her
reason for the crime, they were stated to be two-fold.
In .he first place, mho hated her husband, and had re-
peatedly expressed • wish to a+e him dead ; in the next
her SOO, a young OM) to whom she WAS devotedly
attached, had been drawn for the conscription, and as
she could not buy him a substitute, the only means she
had of preventing him from being taken was to make
him the son of a widow, and so she killed her husband.
The jiiry declared her guilty. and the court, on account
of her age, condemned her to hard labour for life.

AN ODD Stun.—Ai a tratlemiiiii of Lau (Austria)
WIC one day last steels about to get into • earrisge to
proceed to Vienna on business, he new a man passirg
with • fine live hero in lii hand, and i tttt neiliately pro-
mied to puieliase it as • iire,ent for • friend in town.
The price was agreed upou, and the hare handed over to
our tradesman, who took out his puckyt hook to pay
the money. Meanwhile thy hare, in struggling to escape
somehow or other got entangled in the elastic band of
the pocket-book, and by • sudden movement slipped
out of her porch...ices lianils, and MIMIC the best of her
way into a wood rt a emit distance, taking with her
the locket-book and 100 florins in bank notes.

Actium) Sugatterirtu:s. —The &tele has the follows
ing :—" We often allude to encroachments of the clergy,
and the Mime Altditak points out • fresh instance in
its last number—the transformation of parish priests
into phi siciaus, by means of two little pamphlets, con-
tenting infallible remedies for all aorta of melodies
hernias, palpitations of the heart, aneurism, erysipelas,
complaiuts in the chest, hydrophobis, ennuis, lac., and
even the maladies peculiar to the other sex. Here is a
remedy for the jaundice, discovered by the Abbe P—,
who also, it is said, has found the means of curing
warts, bleeding of the nose, &a. The abbe writes
sin communicate to you • remedy with all the greater
confidence from the fact that I have applied it to one of
my sisters, liar skin was as yellow as an orange. I
eared her thus : placed round her neck • live eel.
anil I stitched its head and tail together, in order that
the neck might he completely surrounded. lii twenty.
four hours the eel had sucked out all humours, and had
become quite yellow ; the core was complete !' We
might, proceeds the Sleek, quote two bunked receipts
of the same value, all prescribed by ecclesiastics who
certify that they have employed them with sow. ma. The
publishers of this precious collection will consent to
part with it to all the cures awl parish priests in Francs.,
but ' to these gentlemen only, and on the express con.
dition of not communicating it to any other ecclesiastics.'
We seek in vain fur the re mon of the interdiction ; but
perhaps the publishers meant to say that the communi-
cation should be made to no other persons than ecclesi-
astics." . _ .

A dimie TrIINED To ACCGUNT. —A few days ago an
old gentleman, rather plainly dressed, took his seat in •
railway earring.. Shortly afteraanls, in came two
officers, who muole themselves completely at home, and
began smoking without either zpology or inquirjr as to
whether the fumes of mco would not inconvenience
their fellowdravellers. The old gentleman hegged of
them to leave off, as the smoke made bins ill. They took
no notice of him, but continued to ke. and on being
remonstrated with indolged in some uncomplimentary
reflection.' about "pekimis." who ought to keep at home,
fie. The elderly party did not take any further notice
of them, but, on reaching his journey's end, Awl alight.
ing. took out his card, and, handing it to the officers said
" Gentlemen, you will jolease to request your colonel to
put you under arrest for a ti, to teach you better
manners." The card bore these words—" i.e Alarechal
Minialre deli Owen." The beat of the joke remains
to be told. The officers, terribly alarms I, moved Imeaveit
awl earth to have an apology laid before the in .rslial,
mil, having puwemful friends, succeeded in obt..itming an
audience for the purtarie. To their amazement they
found be did not in the least resemble their fellow
traveller. The bliemiiter, however, heard their story,
laushed exceedimigly,and confirmed the puniahument they
h. d .4) richly earned.
The municipality of Mots has resolved to have, in
addition to the elltibition of manufactured and &salmi-
tural productions which is now taking place, • grand
ride•Rhooting match, which is to commence on Sunday,
the 25th. It is to last five days, and foreigners will be
allowed to compete for the primes.
M. °rattier tie Camagnac. in an article on time cause
, of the high rents now paid in Paris. declares that there
are at present ten thousands apartments vacant in
Pens, • greater number than was ever bef.ire known,
and he thence draws the conclusion that the present
high rent* are not caused by competitions among
tenants.

The Bing of Prussia srrived at Ostend on Sunday
afternoon, and the Crown Prince was to join him the
next day.
A Vienna letter Mates that, for softie years past,
there has not been so large an attendance at the churched
on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday as on the
18th instant, when his Majesty completed his 31st
year.
At Milan lot week, • sad accident occiirred. As a
French company was representing at the Theatre of St.
Itailegonla the farce to Mariee dii 41ardt-gras, the
long veil /torn by one of the actresses. WdUe. Barach,
who personated the bride, caught tire at the footlights,
and she WU in a few seconds completely enveloped in
' lames. The spectators mimed a cry of horror, and her
fellow performers rushing to her aid tried to extinguish
the Ire by rolling ler on the stage. II fore, however,
they could acenuipliali their purpose she jumped up and
ran away. That caused the lames to break forth with
renewed vinlaine ; but she •1'46 again seised and m3ed
on the ground until the Ire waa put out. Unfortu-
nately no medical man was in the house, and she was
conveyed to the hospital in • ,'eplorable plight.
The Lombardo, of the 18th, makes the following
announcement :—" General Turr is about to marry the
Princess Weiss-Bonaparte, a young lady of 17, of great
beauty, and uniting to noble sentimenta • brilliant
education. General Turr haa to-day made known his
marriage to the Prince de Carignan, who has a par-
ticular predilection (roan the Magyar."
Famsca PROTESTANT/I.—Tile Male stated some
time since the grievance under which the protestants of
the department of Haute-Vienne laboured in not being
permitted to have their children educated in their own
communion. Our contemporary now inches the follow-
ing annuunoe.neut :—" We have alresAy alluded to the
complaint* of the protestants of the Haute-Vienne
against the administrative nieasure which bad ordered
the cloning of the achoula specially devoted to
evangelical worship. We learn with pleasure that this
question. which has for some time past becn agitated
by the liberal press, has just been settled in conformity
with the principles of religious liberty. In its sitting
of the 14th, the departmental council of the Haute-
Vienne, on the auggestion of the Miniater of Public In-
s ruction and of the Prefect of the Department, hes re-
moved the opiodtion against one of these schools, the
Institutim Ju.nel,“ &WI lias authorised the master to
open at &Umlaut a special eatablishilient for pupiln be-
longing to the evangelical treed, on condition that lie
only readying the children of his co-religionists. The
other te when, of the same creed may also open their

school. on the mine conditions"
In the find f r night of the present month 2.649
travellers arrived . t Dieppe, and 1,066 sailed from that
port for England—total, 4.315.
A moat disestrous fire has taken place in • village
rolled eloutanges, in the Department of the Ain. It
commenced in a hayloft, and, the wind being high,
epreail with alanniug rapidity ; 51 booms, containing
70 fouihes, together with the furtliture. grain, •nd
agn-
cultural impleinente, are completely destroyed.2so
persons are thus rendered houmlem, end the low is
estimated at more then £20,000. Out of the whole
numbs r of house* demolished only fourteen were insured.
One I le was unfortunetely loot, that of a poor old
woman who ',crashed in trying to save her goat.. The
rapid extension of the Baines was calmed by the fact of
the lo use Icing Id etched ; 32 roofed with tile* were
Hayed ; the fire lasted twenty-four hours.
The Moor* in the neighbourhood of Magagen are
moan beginning to display a restive spirit, whilst the
Kahyles are threatening Assmoi, and have perpetrated
many robberies in that ho-silty. Mr. Hay has been on
a mignon to the Sultan of Morocco, with a view to the
settlement of the indemnity due to Soain under the late
treaty of peace, and hid return to Tengiers was daily
ex;erde I, when the Delta left Gibreltar.
A letter from Borne, in the Naziont of Florence says:—
Whoever is in the habit of going across the Pleas.
Farness, sees every day a certain veiled lady, in • rose-
coloured bonnet, • black mantilla, and • gown of light-
coloured jacconet, who stand.. hefore the door of the
iodate" distributing money to the recruits of the
reactiooary perty. Her none is Nina; she is the
daughter of poliosman of the name of Galenti, and the
wife of • clerk."
The judicial investigation at Baden into the case of
Becker, the assassin of the King of Prussia, ii now
closed, and the documents relative to it have been sent
to the public prosecutor of the circle of the Rhine at
Brachial. It is out yet known whether that funs-
tionsry will prewint an indictment against him both for
high treason and attempt at murder, but it I. believed
that the lesser charge alone will be brought forward
against him, Becker himself, however, is alllio.ll to
be tried for treason, and lie declares that lie would
I rather die on a scaffold than in prison.
The Infanta Christiana has been happily delivered of
• node child. The Portuguese envoy was in attendance
at the Palest as repreeenrative of the Diplomatic
Bodr. General O'Donnell and M. Posadrllerrera,
Minister of the Interior, have left Madrid to join the
' Queen.
The riven' public bodies of Calcutta, we observe,
have prepared and forwarded an address to England for
presentment to the Holum:NW* Samuel Laing. Man-
' cial Member of the Connell of the Governor-General
of India, expressing their sympathy with him in his
severe Moose.
The Maio* of Anglers gives an account of a singular
accident which occurred in a village near that town on
the day of the Emperor.* fire. The sapeureleoupien
of the eommune were in attendance at the mayory in
full uniform, ready to isorompany the Mayor to church.
to hear the re Drum. When the order was given to
fall in, one of them, who wee smoking, slipped his pipe
into his pocket, without knocking out the ashes. A
moment after an explosion took place, and his coat tail
was in games, which his brother firemen, however,
mon extinguished. It appears that the man had
several blank cartridges in his pocket, to which the
pipe set Are.
FATAL AND AOCIDOITAL 8110 T.—A melancholy and
fatal accident happened a short time sines at Bt. Peters-
burgh. Two young FreFrenchprofermrs, named Guenol
i
and Poireau, went out n a boat to shoot wild duck,.
They were approaching a fiock•when Deface told his
oonipanion to lie down in the host, and sot to move
until he beard him Ire. Poireas did so, but hemming
impatient at the delay of his friend is firing he at
length raised hie heed. Al that moment the gas went
,ad be re vivid the
Thwbooldemaide
&Awed.% sat
fell d adi ea MI iffid'
tastily.

NORWEGIAN Semite IW CANADA.—The Moatreal
ffrrald goys :—" We learn that some twenty families of I
Norwegian emigrants have recently found their way
from Quebec into the Eastern town.liip, where they
have hired themselves es I.tbotirers among the brinere.
There his hcen an unuenielly large emigration frotu
Norway this summer. nearly 8,000 having arrived at
qiebec ; but this is the first instance we have heard of
any of them remaining in Canals, their invariable
destination being lowa Cul Wisconsin, where large
mitts:immix of their country people have been already
made. The Norwegians are an inilustrous, thrifty,
and orderly re.. all Protestents, and peculiarly fitted,
we should suppose, from their previous habits, to
in he good citizens es well an hanly menders."
Tim ELDEriT Sus OF THIC CIICRCH.—The journels of
the Church of Mime, in all pens of Europe. attack the
French Emperor with exceeding violence, notwitli•
standing lie continues to protect the Holy Sit. One of
them, the Repeiteracion, of Madrid, thus raves against
him : —"0 Colosimo full of vanity! Arbiter of the
world, occult supporter of the Revoletion, immix of all
bad machinations! 0 thrill who oppressest with • band
of iron the Pontiff who was thy benefactor! 0
haughty hictnarch. the Lord's anger will devour thee
like straw ! Fear and trembling will overtake thee,
and thy projects will be destroyed. Then protecteet
Victor Emmanuel, that turbid •nt and anti• Christian
Prince; thou eausest scandal to France and Europe—
hut tienible ! The day is near on which thou art
destii.ed to .perish, and soon thou wilt have passed away,
soon thou wilt be no more r
FATAL POISONING BY KERNELR.—.% few days ago
little oy, six yearn of ace, the iou of a wuniiin residing
in the Rue do,. Vignes, being present when hie mother
was making preserves of Fesclies end apricots, secreted
a number of stones for the purpose of cracking them
and eating the kernels. Wheat alone wine Miura after•
wards he esminienced what I.e soneidered his feast, and
devoured • great number of those kernels, which, as is
well known, contain a quentity of remit, acid. He was
woo after seized skit violent pants, and, in spite of
hie 'lca' asistence, died Ili a few hours.
Pains N.trot.tots .enD mile PRINCESI CLITTIEDA.—
Accounts from lit. eierre, Nee folindland, state that on
the 19th last mouth, Prince Nepolaon and the Princess
Clutitils, wlse had ar,i,eul n the Jerome Napoleone
yacht,disembarked at that tort without bring announced
and in the strictest ineognitio. They walked about the
streets, until Count de la Itouciere,the governor, having
been informed of their arrival, hastened to join thew.
In his company their Imperial Highnesses visited the
church, hospital, and the town, and afterwards pro-
. needed to the governor's. Subsequently the Princess,
attended by Mine. de Is Roneiere, returned on board,
and the Prince examined the site proposed for the con
struction of a quay, end took • long drive into the into
nor of the island. On his return the Prince received
the public functionariea of St. Pierre, and be then
joined the Prinorss on board, where be subsequently
' received a number of the principal inhabitants. As soon
las the arrival of the Prince and Princeu became known
the public edifices and all the houses in the town, elm
the ve-sels iii the port, were decked with flags. In the
evening the Jerome Napoleon sailed under a salute of
24 guns.
The Paps announces that the Sultan intends to
I visit RIM and London in the mouth of October
next. _ _ .

l'irrtit's Putreu.—The Ireldoonfrerie of St. Peter's
Pence at Rome liaa just celeht &tea the first anniversary
of its foundation. On this occasion Mgr. Nardi
delivered an address on the origin of St. Peter'. Pence.
He MO that in the a, ace of two )ear it had Oven to
the Pope more than 4.000,000 cr 'yea, ef which
8,000,000 f. cello. from Fr.,nook 1,775.000 f. trout poor
Ireland ; 2.000 0110 f. from the German provinces of
Anstris ; 1.000,000 florins from Hungary, and
1.500,000 f. from the Catholic dioceses in the United
States of America.