The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

filiscellantous.

The Hon. Mrs. Norton, says an evening contemporary,
is so dangerously ill that very little hope is entertained
of her recovery.
A general exhibition of the works of living artists will
pen at Brussels on the lit of August next, and close on
:he 30th of September.
Upwards of £1,600 have been subscribed towards the
proposed memorial to the late Mr. Brunel.
The number of enrolled volunteers is now estimated to
amount to ninety-five thousand.
The Home Secretary has appointed Mr. S. Raffia to
the office of stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool.
The Japanese Embassy to the United States will ern.
bark from Japan on the 22nd of February, proceeding
by way of the Sandwich Islands and Panama, It will
consist of two chief Ambassadors, eighteen officials of
various ranks, and fifty servants, and will be escorted
without delay to Washington.
A new pamphlet from the pen of the author of "Li
Pape et is Congress" is =pounced by Rumour.
M. About fought a duel on Monday morning with
11. Vaudon, and received • wound in the sword arm of
no dangerous character. The cause of the duel MN
some observations from M. About's satirical pen, in the
Opinion Nationa/e, on the subject of harmony.
Rear-Admiral van Duckum, the Danish Ambaseedor
in England, has been summoned to Copenhagen, the
Government having the intention to appoint him
Governor of the Colonies.
Baron Poerio, who has been residing in Turin since
he quitted England, is dangerously ill of typhu fever
and congestion of Um lungs. Little hops is entertained
of his recovery.
11. Julien is about to set up his orchestra in Paris
He proposes to give selections from "The Messiah,'
"The Creation," " Etijah," and "St. Pied."
A terrible fire occurred on Monday on the premises
of Mr. Burgess, a tar-refiner, of Deptford. While the
flames were at their highest the building fell in with •
crash, burying Mr. Burgess and one of his workmen in
the ruins.
We are glad to hear that Her Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to bestow • pension of £lOO • year on
Dr. 11Pby, the learned author of the "History of
linarrough," in acknowledgment of his literary
services.
The Tines hears that the Government has it in con-
templation to reduce the wine duty from 6s. 9d. to Is.
Thomas Darby and Frederick Watts, who were in-
jured by the late explosion at • firework factory in
Lambeth, have since expired. An inquest was held, re-
suiting in a verdict of "Accidental Death."
I Carlo de Radio and nine other convicts have escaped
from Cayenne in an open boat, and sought refuge in
Demerara. Rudio was one of the Orsini conspirators.
Lord Palmerston has been elected one of the Elder
Brethren of the Trinity House, in the room of the Earl
of Mints, deceased.
The sentence of death peened by court-martial on John
Dillon. the marine, for striking an officer, has been com-
muted to penal servitude for life.
A full-length portrait of Napoleon 111. has been Pent
to all the Imperial Courts, the prefectures, and most of
the public establishments of France.
The course of musketry instruction at Hythe for
volunteers will commence on Monday, February 13, and
the term will last about three weeks.
Mr. Cobden, who is still in Paris, has declined to attend
a meeting of the non-electors of Rochdale, stating that
if engagements of an unavoidable kind did not keep him
there, the state of his throat would prevent bins from
addressing them.
It has been remarked that Colonel Cadopn, British
Military Commissioner in the camp of Victor Emanuel
last summer, has been officially inspecting the condition
of the fifty thousand men forming the Army of Central
Italy. He was at Modena on the 10th, and went on to
Parma.

- The Court of Common Council has determined to pre-
sent the freedom of the city to Captain 111.'Clintock.
A piece of good fortune which rarely arrives to en
actress has befallen Maine. Emilie Dubois, of the
Theatre Francais. An old gentleman jest deceased has
bequeathed her 200,000 f., declaring in his will that the
bequest is made in pure admiration of her talents as an
actress, and of her exemplary conduct in private life.
Giiethe's "Facie has just found • new translator in
Herr Stephen Nagy, who has published a Magyar ver-
sion of it in Peat.
A new academical degree has been founded by the
University of London—that of Bachelor o/ Science; the
first examination for which will take place on the third
Monday of July next.
M. Girard, the leader of the orchestra of the Paris
Opera, fell from his seat • few day.s ago during the
representation of the " Huguenota, and died 10th
course of the night.
At • sale of a portion of the site of the Old Rainbow
Tavern, adjoining the Union Bank, in Mee-street, the
price realized was at the enormous rate of 8900,000 per
1411/.
Mr. Kossuth, in &communication to the Ballot Soeietli
states the result of his experience on that questioa
as far at Hungary is concerned, and proceeds to my that,
were he en English cabmen, be wouM be one of the most
decided supporters of an extended suffrage and the secret
vole. .

The annual parliamentary banquets were given
Monday by Viscount Palmerston and Earl Granville le
the supporters of tin Government. and by Lord Dab/
and his friends a/ the Option. Yr. Dienell vo!
prevented from giving • aiaa.r by Me domes di
sister.

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