The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-04-12 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

FRANCE.  Count Cavour, who left Paris for Turin on Wednesday of last week, is said to have gone back radiant with expectation, and extremely well satisfied with his visit to the Emperor. The military display of Sunday, in Paris, was conducted on a grand scale, as not fewer than 50,000 soldiers passed in review before crowds who displayed great enthusiasm. . . .  Six divisions of the army are about to be placed on a war footing. Recent letters from Lyons mention that the usual gratifications previous to oominencing • campuipi have been distributed to the army of Lyons. It is said, also, that infantry officers have been furnished with horses—a step not usual except in contemplation of war. An army of. 80,000 men will soon be assembled at Lyons. In practical reply to the movement of Austrian troops along the shore of Dalmatia and Illyria, the Emperor and &nine's of France consent to become godfather and godmother to the promised son and heir of Prince anielo, Vladika of ilontenegro. The defeat of the English ministry does not •seem to have produced any particular sensation in Paris.  A DIFFICULT CABll.—lt may be remembered that in klepteniber last, as an auctioneer, named Thillet, was ; descending the Boulevard Beaumarchais in a cab, on his return from &shooting excursion, the report. of &firearm was beard, and when some persons rushed to the vehicle they found that he was dead, his gun which he had i placed between his legs having gone off, and the charge ring struck him in the forehead just above the left eye. in the month of May preceding he had insured his life for 101:1,000f. in the Paternell Company, and 50,001. in the Phenix; but those companies refuaed to pay, on the pretext that he had committed suicide. His father, in consequence, brought an action against the two companies, and the Civil Tribunal has just been occupied four days in bearing pleadings on it. The father contended that his son could have no reason foi en tting suicide, inasmuch as he was young (only 31), in the enjoyment of good health and happiness, and had just sold his business of auctioneer, by which be had gained a large income, in order to go to Algeria to establish a mortgage Wis. He further contended that the position in the body was found in the cab, end the nature of the wound, clearly in heated that the gun must have gone off by the movement of the vehicle. He produced lettere written by the deceased to his family and friends shortly before his death, which seemed to prove that he had not the slightest idea of suicide. The companies argued that if Thillet had not contemplated committing suicide he would not, at his age, especially as he was unmarried, have insured his life for such large sums, and have subjected him/al( to the paymet of nearly 4,000 f. • year. They asserted that he was in embarrased circumstances, and to such an extent that • sum of 40,0001., which he had received in part payment of his business, had, in • week, disappeared, and no one could say what had become of it; also that he had not been able to pay his first year's premiums, and had to give bills to raise the amount; also, though his earnings as auctioneer were represented to be oonsiderable-120,0001. in four years—none of them remained, and besides he owed 30,0001. on the sum of which he had agreed originally to give for his business. They further asserted that he had not even retired voluntarily from the place of auctioneer, but had done so because he had been twice condemned for pave irregularities. In addition to all this, they represented that he had appropriated to his own use money to which he was not entitled. and was about to be prosecuted for so doing; he had also, they said, made unfortunate speculations on the Bourse ; and they insisted that all these were good reasons for oo 1111 l iitting suicide. Lastly, they contended that he could not Faye been killed in the cab by mere accident. The tribunal, however, took a different view of the question, and onni• lug to the conclusion that Thillet had not committed suicide, it condemned the companies to pay his family the 150,0001.  The French mercantile navy consisted, on the Ist of January last, of 14.000 sailing veuelo, of which 11.090 were engaged in dist/int voyages, and the remainder were in the Mediterranean. It comprised, moreover. 330 steam•vesaels' of which In were engaged in distant voyages, and 148 In the Mediterranean.