The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1864-01-19 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ATHOLZ, KT.—After an illness of the most painful character, extending over several months, his Grace the Duke of Atbole, Knight of the Thistle, and Grand Master Mason of Scotland, ?rte.' at Blair Athol on Saturday, the 16th instant, in It is is satiearsetOrr to be able to state that from further inquiries it is now almost certain that Mr. Foreman, who we. found dead in the reed near Hitehin, was not murdered. The unfortunate man, it appears, had been drinking freely, and drove his horse very fast, and was upset in a narrow part of the road and killed. It is certain, however, that while lying insensible he was basely robbed, and two persons are in custody for the unfeeling &Ma The news brought by the Asia, although of no military, (so( considerable general and political interest. More frauds against the Federal muse had been discovered in New York, and more arrests made. New Hampshire has nominated President Lincoln for reelection as President. The policy of that personage had been denounced by the Governor of New York. A return to the bounty system ham been forced upon the Federal Government, in order to keep up the recruitment.  The tr., men charged with the murder of the captain and officers of the ship klowery Land wiare again brought up before the magistrate at Bow•street on Saturday, when several witnesses were examined, and the ease for the prosecution was completed. At the °occlusion of the cue the counsel for the prosecution said that he did not think there was evidence to prove that the prisoner. Paul arid Williams were consenting parties to the murders, and he, therefore proposed that they should be at once discharged. The magistrate assenting to this course, the two men were discharged from the dock, and the other eight were committed to take their trial for the murder..  At the Mansion House on Saturday, the Lord Moyer mentioned the circumstance that be bad received a letter from John Bigelow, United Stales Consul at Marseilles, stating that Mateo Lopes, • naturalised citizen of the Unitei States, who died at Marseilles on the 11th ult., had left by will a sum of £3,867 to the Lord Mayor of London, to be distributed by him among such English families as had suffered in their fortunes by the bankruptcy of the Spanish Government. The first "great sensation of 1864 has COMO and gone, its scene having been Liverpool. On Friday there was an explosion of upwards of 174 tons of powder on board a vessel in the Mersey, mod the effects were appalling, and, so far as property is concerned, disastrous. Such an explosion has not occurred at Liverpool in the memory of any living being, and fortunately such events have been exceedingly rare in England. The first effects produced by the event on the inhabitants of the towns in its immediate vicinity was otter bewilderment. Not only was there the awfully stunning report, but the houses shook and vibrated as if they were about to tumble down ; and when their inhabitants fled to the streets, to me what was the matter, the streets were in total darkness. The shock of the explosion seems to have extinguished miles of lamps., and =my, in the utter bewilderment of the moment, supposed that the day of doom had come There his rertainly not been such an explosion in England since October, 1834, when a fire and a aeries of copier. sions occurred in flatesheol. which set fire to a portion of Newcastle, on the opposite side of the river Tyne, and which resulted in • destruction, not only of pro. perty. but of human life unparalleled from each a catastrophe. A very large portion of the lower and most densely-peopled portion of Newcastle wee destroyed, between forty .ml fifty people were killed, and the loss of property amounted to £OO.OOO or £