The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-02-24 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SHILEP.—A Trowbri4e correspondent states that the disease in sheep is spreading with dreadful rapidity in that district, and that hundreds of ewes and lambs are perishing daily in Wiltshire. The Russian's arrest at Paris has Izscome an embarrassing political event. It is alleged that he was the owner Of the house nets Moscow from which the mine was laid to blow up the Imperial train. Should there be reasonable proof of this, the French Government will not hesitate to give him up as a common murderer. The Prinidents of the three groups of the Left have meanwhile waited upon the Minister of Justice to express the hope that the hessian will not be surrendered on a mere political accusation. A telegram from our Correspondent at Lahore states that Gholam Hider Khan has given money and supplies to Abdul Rahman, and that men are being enlisted in the Wardak district for him. There are also recruiting emissaries in the same place from Slahomed Jan. It is reported that the alliance between Peru and Bolivia has been broken off, also that disturbances have occurred at Lima, and that another revolution has been attempted, the leaders of which were shot. The Peruvian Government has an army of 20,000 men, and is said to be preparing for continued resistance to the Milian' I An explosion has occurred in the military arsenal at Valparaiso by which twenty persons were killed, and half. the building was destroyed. The Army Estimates show a slight decreaee of expenditure as compared with those of the previous year. The total sum required is £11,541,300, being £304,000 less than last year. There is total of effectives of all ranks of 560,733. The total establish. merits of all ranks for 1880-81 is 621,649. The donations received by the Dublin Mansion House Conunittee in aid of the distress in Ireland now amount to over £66,600. The Duchess of Marlborough's Committee has received about 258,000. An action for breach of promise, brought by a gentleman against a lady, was heard at Warwick Maize on Thursday. The plaintiff, Mr. Fowke, brother of a baronet, 56 years of are, sued M. Hornby, a widow of large fortune, and claimed £5,000 tld=. No proof WWI forthcoming, however, that lusd ever made a promise, while it was shown that the plaintiff had obtained considerable gifts of money from her. The jury gave a verdict in the lady's favour without leaving the box. The obstinate turnpike toll collector who compelled bicycle riders to pay toll, has at lad come to grief. In the Queen's Bench division, on Thursday, the judaes decided that a bicycle is not a carriage within the Turnpike Act, and the conviction of the appellant by the justices was affirmed, with costa. General Grant in reference to Lord Beaconsfield's Eastern policy, says :—" As I was travelling through the East, I tried hard to find something In the policy of the English Government to approve, but I could not. I was fresh from England, and wanted to be in accord with men who had shown me as much kindinees as Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues, but it was Impossible, England's policy in the brat is hard, reactionacy and selfish. No one can visit those wonderful lands on the Mediterranean without seejt3 under what they might be a good government." again :—" As I understand the Eastern Question, the great obstacle to the good government of these countries in England." The Daily News oorresaLhderdeiaziing,fusedatanlydopposedttohattreatthutoe telegraphs that the Burmese kkobassy ha. flarto Pwlwn"aidiantrh.uicet. Government has  "-ills Great Western Railway dividend for the past half-year is announced at a rate of 41 per annu_ the mmof £28,000 being oarried forward. The dividend for the last half of 1878 was 4th. rate of 4 percent. with g 10,500 carried forward. As 5} per cent, had been confidently Impeded, there was a fall of from 4 to 41 per cont. in the ocespeafe stool Friday.