The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

Miscelantouz.

The Opixione Nationalf sap tbe National Guard of
France ts to be augmentad to the number of 1,b00,000
'Dec.

Mr. Charles Livingstone, brother of the African
missionary, has sent home six samples of totems growa
by the natives of the highlands in the neighbourhood of
the Shire. These samples are declared by • Manctieder
authority to be "all exceedingly useful qualitioe ;" end
Mr. Livingstone says there would be no difficulty ia
obtaining large quantities of such oottos, It. pm*
being industrious, peaceable, and anxious to trade.
H. Jullien has attempted suicide by stabbing. He ill
now placed under restraint.
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Lod John Russell aunnonnoes that Oa French
Government will recommend to the LePsWare the
repeal of the prohibition ol the export of rap for paper-
waking.

ThiaY iron gun-boats us ordered to be bail{ by the
French Government for local servioe in the 00101111114 ot
Senegal and the Antilles. They Cr, to be made oe the
Sallie model as those now being got ready for China.
Prierio who has lately been very ill, but is now quite
recovered, will probably be a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Milan in the National Parliament.
During the late gale upwards of four hundred Anis
old elm-trees were blown down in the Great Park at
Windsor, and also several in the Long Walk and
playing-grounds at Eton College,
The convict Edwin Thoreau Salt, who was to have
been executed on Tuesday, at Edinburgh, for the murder
of his wife, has been respited. It is ezp.cted that the
sentence will be commuted into penal servitude for
life.

ballet-dancer at the opera at Berlin lost herlite
three days since owing to her clothes catching gra at the
footlights. Though there wee plenty of assistance at
hand, she was so dreadfulty burnt that she died the
next day.

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There are no less than five submarine telemphle
cables now out of order—viz,, the Channel Wanda,
Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the Bed Sea cable., and
the one between Singapore and Batavia.
Another massacre of an English ship's crew by
Polynesian savages is recorded in the Australian papers.
The ship (the Pearl, of Sydney) was burnt, and the
nine persons on board, including the captain, ware
killed and oaten.

A numerous meeting of journeymen bakers was held
in Exeter Hall on t‘ edneaday evening, for the purpose
of yronsoting the short time movement, whir-6 has been
got up by that overworked class of the population.
Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Ebury, and kir. Coningham,
ILY., took part in the proceedings.
Sir Henry Somerset is about to resign the corninaud
of the Bombay Army it is said; he will be succeeded
by Sir Hugh Hose.

'The n;tropolis was on Wednesday visited with
another severe gale, which among the feats it performed,
nearly destroyed the new station of the douth-Western
Railway in the Waterloo-road.
A great fire took plate on Wednesday morning at an
extensive printing establishment, extending some dis-
tance down St. Dunstan's•bill, Eastcheap. Property
to the value of many thousands of pounds was
destroyed.
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The-Council of the Society of Arts has resolved to
open, in the first week in June next' an exhibition of
Modern Furniture in the Italian style. The exhibition
will include all kind* of decorated cabinet-work ; works
of art in metal, pottery. and glees; textile fabrics, such
as curtains, table-covers, and seepete ; manpeation
ornamenta, such as picture-frames, and brackets; and
paperhanging*.
The Duke of Newcastle is to be favoured with a
visit by the Queen at his seat at Climber, near
Retford, during the ensuing summer. It is said that
during Her Majesty's stay she will inspect the whole of
the rifle corps now formed in the county of Nottingham.
A decree has been issued by the Austrian authorities
at Venice ordering all functionaries of the State to shave
off their boards, and especially to discontinue the wear-
ing of hats i is Cavour, which are considered as the
emblem of the party opposed to the Imperial Govern-
ment.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has informed the
Wekefield walt.ters that he doe not see how it can be
arranged to bond British met, but, in de meantime. A
duty will be proposed of 255. per quarter on malt
imported from abroad.
Ile stonemasons and labourers of Haden&ld have
turned not in °mitigate* of the refuel of the masters
to give ten hours' pay for nine hours' work.
?Notwithstanding the reduction of the clueen's bounty
from E 5 to £4 to recruits engaging with the Royal
Marines, the augmentation of the corps is proseeding
briskly.
A circular has been issued from the War Gine, order.
lug that no officers of volunteer corps shall wear • sash
over their uniform, as it forms no part of the dries of
either artillery or rine oorps in the regular army.
The life-host of the ill-fated Outline was picked up at
sea and towed into Havre by • pilot-boat on Thursday
week. It contained two dead bodice, male and female
the former apparently a sailor, and the latter • soldiers;
wife.

The friends and admirers of the late Mr. Hallam melt
on Monday, at Mr. Murray's, Albermarle-street, the
Marquis of Landsdowne in the chair, when it was re-
solved to raise a memorial to the historian.
The half of the new Westminster-bridge was opened
on Thursday week, when foot pu.engers only were
allowed to pass. It is now opened for carnage traffic.
Lord Pdinerston has been elected a member of Qs
Trinity House.
The master cottowspinners of Preston have arced to
advance the wages of the power-loom weavers eve per
cent. to commence ou the 22nd instant, when the pro-
priety of increasing the wages of other *lames of opera-
tives will be discussed.

An Avignon journal states that M. Viollet-le•Due,
Inspector-General of Diocesan Edifices, has just prepered
plans for the restoration of the Palace of the Popes in
that city and also of the ramparts.
A new work on the subject of Dante has just ap-
peared at Florence. It was discovered in the collections
of the Vatican, and consists of dialogues written by
Donato Giannotti, the friend and literary adviser of
Dante. In these dialogues the author and his friend
are represented discussing variona important political
discussions apropos of the " Divlna Coaiedia."
H. Alexandre Dumas has produced the first part of
what purports to be • translation of "An Autobiog-
raphy of Horace, discovered by H. Dumas in the
Library of the Vatican !" The opening portions are
descriptive of Horace's boyhood—his first visit to Rome,
and his being placed by his father under the mire of
Orbilitui the Flogger.
" The Popular Stories of the Icelanders of the Present
Time, collected from Oral Communication," edited by
Professor Maurer, have been published by Brockhaus
and Co., Leipzig.
Mrs. Keeley is about to return to the stags for • see
son. She will appear at the Lyceum for a limited num-
ber of nights in her original character of Margot in "The
Sergeant's Wife."

D.D. Elcovat amnia luau—The beet of erarythlng may be
had In London, but it nevertheless requires mine experience
and knowledge to tbmin It ; and thane who are not willing to
explore the MAIM. I supply are frequently content with a
moderately good article when • better might be had for the
seeking These retnarks are akin:wed in particular to the
purchasers of Whi.ky, and their_ NpOloadoo hrequested by
Mum who are ;sanded what Irish 14%Wry at t, and have
not tried D.D. Scotch Whisky. The which re.
oonsnend this Spirit are he creamy and pleasant flavour, great
stamol,umlenMWewhWommmiemouid dmirmme, M com.
tartan, with other Whi.kies hitherso known is London. D.D.
whisky has not been long bdroduted Into Ragland, though it.
fame I. well catablialiedln Semlead : yet it it airtsk largiy
.old In the Metropolis, and has superseded Mho!) whisky In
nutneruua private (amines. A sample is supplied to prone the
suundnats 01 them remarks, for tiveli•Hoocare siaAnn..
mute, containing twelve bottle., or• 2 on jar a thri D. 6.
Whisky, forwarded for Ma. The MUNI supplies the Royal
Helmond, a may SIN rni kl and mellow spirit, at lks. per vinous
and the Prime • DequebauFh, • Muchadreired and delicious
.pirit, at Dia Per StIllou• T.?, gallon+ sad upwards
of the whore seat to any lark ottlers from the country
mutd contain a Pcat-otlice order, mole payable to Dossald
ourinigh.street, Stnuml, London, p.c.
HOLLOWAY'. OINTIIIINT.—BIotchsa, plat eruptions.
ovi all irritations of Ain, moon par azi3......qsat ake
Oda extraordinary Ointment, which It. L with •
rapidity and certainty never experl the tass of ley
other medicine in the world. Many of the °Loamy agepuoft,
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mosaboynsunideeleprog4'br7deuthetanomPeril'ipore• amoLnin.vbrogetogand,:proumg:thePlillaill‘Meheogheote.Aalegowemdry
It disperses the infianomat by a twig,
the blemish.. sad rootage the ghle Ile he
requires no skill to iles it right. medal*et is
I Amid be well rubbed Into the pens e111ee1e4."4414

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