The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-01-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

AYOILAN WAIL—The committee of the Peace sot:lmi says :—" We accept the abdication of the puppet sovereign we had created, and send him as prisoner to India, while we treat the whole nation, who did not submit unresistingly to an armed invasion of their country by us, as rebels against his authority. On the ground of this assumption we deny them all civil and military rights, and commence a system of terrorism, which can only find a parallel in the worst times of barbarian conquest. May we ask you, countrymen. whether you are willing such proceedtngs as these should be carried on in your name? Do you approve of converting British soldiers into hang. men, and of employing them to spread indiscriminate havoc and devastation among the homes of a people whose main offence is that they dare to dislike our presence in their country, and to offer an asylum to their hunted neighbours for whose heads rewards were offered by the British authorities ? " England is not the only place for inverses tempting to suicide. John Fairchild, of Bristol, in Illinois, U.S. suffered lames, and being a jovial fellow, finished his morning's stable work, then hung himself up. When found his work was finished for this life The chamm in the French Government continue to stir up the Germans. The '' Cologne Gazette " considers kl_de Freycinet a disciple of Garnbetta, who will always striye. to recover Lorraine and Aimee.  --kfith7M—Sirdrrs- soug— ht the hospitality of Russia, after their flight from CabuL me Gorman Railway Administrative Union after examining closely the conditions under which the wheel tires of railway carriages break during severe frosts, have resolved to over • ,prise, equal to C5OO sterling, for preventing those accidents, or so to adjust the tires that It will be become absolutely impossible for thorn to become seriously damaged. A steam crane tore to pieces a youth who vu cleaning it at Sutton liarbeur, Plymouth. Re was inside the machinery, when it was started through his foot catching • valve. Wives have been put on the same footing as their husbands as to divorce cases, in New South Wales. Many million acres of pastoral land have been covered in Australia, by an expedition which crossed the north-west_  -17u;:C011iery where an explosion killed five men on Christmas Eve, candle, were used. At the inquest the mane inspector said safety lamps should have been used, or the men withdrawn. Last week the Irwell rose, flooded the lower parts of Manchester, and stopped the trafic between there and Sheffield.  Ho—rrocks's mill last week, a youth tried to put a trap on a pulley, contrary to rules. He was caught, carried round the pulley, and killed. Liberationists urge that the tliurch of England needs reforms to be made ; but the time of Parliament ought not Lobe tht, consumed.  n7lB-0-tiiiie—STEerat has been resumed, the ice having broken up. Mr. Pease, M. P.. has confidence in the revival of the Iron and shipping trades. Her Majesty has informed the Emperor of Russia of her acceptance of Prince Lohanoff as Ambassador. and has further expressed her great satisfaction at his appoint. meat_  —English girls are cautioned against going to Belguim on account of any promise*, as there are many cunrung traps to get them into houses of ill-fame, whence it is almost Impossible to escape. Working men in search of employment must not go to London, where large numbers are out of work. The Rector of Spitesllields says :—" None of the unemployed can better themselves in any way by coming to town." Lauer" dealing with "eating in a draught," and "catch. log cold, remarks that in the old coaching days facial wma wall-recognised result of sitting with the face to the wind at an open window. Ku) Kirres.—A youryylmarried woman dled at Leeds on Thursday from hydrophobia, caused by a kitten's bite.  -.ClOOO has been received in Dublin for the relief fund. The Great Western Railway board have contracted for the completion of the Severs. Tunnel, for about A million and half. _ _  Commerciel travellers at Manchester resolved to ask for reduction of the charges for "excess luggue. For hanging out a flag inviting customers, a Bristol firm have been fined. Pauperism has greatly increased in Bristol and the neighbourhood. Toe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh ham visited the Empress of Russia at Cannes. Turkish soldiers In Albania beg by day and rob by night, having received no pay for menthe Many Russian army officers have been imprisoned on charges of complicity in the plots of the Nihilista. A Belgian advocate cheated at cards, and has been Peace retween Abyssinia and dismissed by Royal decree. Egypt is more likely. from King John having recalled his warlike gellell from the frontier. All Tarawa (in South America) is in the hands of the Chaim.. and it is believed the Peruvians and Bolivians will now me for peace. DISTILS:II6 is Lgirgagnll.—The Mayor of Leicester called the attention of the Council on Thursday to the Devious distress existing in the borough. The union workhouse contained 1,950 inmates, and 1,650 more were in receipt of out-door relief —s, larger number than had been on the list for some time. Moreover there were no fewer than SOO middle-class houses empty. involving • Wee to the owners of £6OOO or 7.ooo:per annum. The Mayor added, the people were beginning to realise that there was no solid good nor substantial progress to be obtained from Jingoism. "Tea PRATER le VMS or Was.--(ro the Editor of the Deily News )—Bir.—Thav is a portion of our admirable Liturgy which seems to me not to be very inappropriate to the Invasion, of Afghanistan and Zululand. The clergy perhaps might use it with much edification to themselves and people—a course, under the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, without which, it would seen, they hays no authority to offer additional public prayer to (Jul The syers I rola to belonu to our excellent Commination taken from the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy, and we are directed to use them on the first day of Lent: Minister: Cursed is he that reasoveth his neighbours land-mark. Answer: Amen.—liinlater : Cursed is he that maketh the blind to go ant of his way. Answer: "' Amen.—Minister: Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. Answer: Ames.—Minister: Cursed is be that taketh reward to slay the innocent And Ist all the I am, sir, your obedient 'errant, I riiirr St. George's Vicarage, Wigan, December