The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

rarietias.

DIJILLING 11 ALADAILL—Among the oaths adminis-
tered to Governor Moore at his inauguration was the
following :—" Do you solemnly swear that you have
not, directly or indirectly, given, accepted, or knowingly
carried a challenge, in writing or otherwise, to any per-
son being • citizen of this State, to fight with deadly
weaponii, either in or out of this State • or aided or
abetted in the same since you have been a citizen
thereof ; and that you will not, directly or indirectly,
give, accept, or knowingly carry a challenge to any per-
son, being a citizen of this State, to fight with deadly
weapons either in or out of this State, or in any
manner lid or abet the same during your continuance in
office r

--F—LOEZNON NIGHTINGALI (Rig PoRTBAIT4—She Is
rather high in stature, fair in oomplexion, and slim in
person; her hair is brown and is worn quite plain • her
physiognomy is most pleasing ; her eyes of • bluish
tint, speak volumes, and are always sparkling with in.
tellig•enoe • her mouth is email and well formed, while
her lips 114 i in unison, and make known the impression
of her heart—one seems the reflex of the other. Her
visage, as regards expression, is very remarkable, and
one OM almost anticipate by her ciountenence what she
is about to say; alternately, with matters of the most
grime import, a gentle smile penes radiantly over her
oountenance, thus proving her evenness of temper; at
other times, when wit or pleasantry prevails, the hero-
ine is lost in the happy, good.natured smile which per-
vades her face, and you recognise only the charming
woman. Her dress is generally of a greyish or black
tint; she wears a simple white cap, and often a rough
apron.
Miss NIGHTINGSLZ THIC DYLNG SOLDIZS.—As
we turned the angle of the long corridor to the right,
we perceived, at a great distance, • faint light flying
from bed to bed, like a will-o'-the-whisp flickering in a
meadow on • summer's eve, which at last rested upon
one spot; or as a bee sporting from flower to flower,
till it at length lights upon a delicious floral banquet,
which the insect determines not to leave till it has ex-
tracted the last drop of honey from the devoted pistil.
But, alas I as we approached, we perceived our mistake.
A iponp in the shape of a tilhotiette unfolded its outline
in light shade. As we came nearer and nearer, the
picture burst upon us. A dying soldier half reclined
upon his bed. Life, you could observe, was fast bidding
bun scum; death, that implacable deity, was anxiously
waiting for his soul to convey it to its eternal dentine-
tlan. But stop I near him was • guardian angel,
.isui_t_t
at the foot of hie bed, and most devotedly engaged
pencilling down . his last wishes to be despatcheciniZe
hoinely friends or relations. A watch and • few more
trinkets were consigned to the osie of the writer • a
lighted lamp was held by another person., and threw a
painful yelloWish coloris over that mournful picture,
whiets RemistindSalone weld have tested, bet whisk
7:0/017 as 10ge920 world Lee, would have Elder
, t, and admired.. It was then near two o'clock
In the morning.

7ARY PAPERS.

P00841A111:8 AND PAOPEILDIN.— A return moved for
by Mr. E. Bouverie, M.P. gives some interesting par-
ticulars of pauperism. In England and Wales there
are 643 unions and 14,320 parishes, the area in scree is
36,569,030, and the population in 1851 was 17,649,122.
The industrial statistics show that there were (.Bth.
date of the return) 9,816,597 persons aged 21 years and
upwards, and of these 311 per cent. were engaged in
mechanical arts, trade, and domestic se,rvice, 161 in
agriculture, 84 in manufactures, and 6•3 per cent, in
mining works. In the metropolis there were 1.394,963
persons of 21 years and upwards, and of these 471 per
cent, were engaged as artisans and servants, 11 per
tent. as agricultgrists, 61 as manufacturer*, and 35 per
cent, as miners. The total number of paupers relieved
(in receipt gf relief) wo the jut day of the first week el
October, 1857, was 804,578 (salad 807,996 in the cor-
responding week of 18661, and -albeit 111,494 were in-
door paupers, and 693,064 out-door. In the second
week of October, 1857, there were 809,175 paupers re.
oeiving relief; in the third week of October, 1857,
817,221, and on the lard, day of the fourth week of
October, 822,885. In the metropolis, on the last week
of October there were 92,858 persona receiving relief—
namely, 27,927 in-doors and 64,931 out of doors.
PUBLIO PARIS, ke.—£23,442 of the public mousy
VIII expended on Primrose-hill (28,329 granted by the
Government) ; £5,919 on Kennington-park (E 5,385
granted by Government) ; £129,718 of public money on
Victoria-park (813,947 granted by Government) ;
£30,842 of the publio money on Batteries-park
(51D4,903 granted by GovenuneM) ; and £1,079
mated by Government) on Linlithgow Palace-grounds,
Sootland. £lO,OOO was voted in 1840-1 for the forma-
time of public, walks in or near large towns in England,
Scotland and Ireland. . _

Tai AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVIOS.—A PATUS•
mentary paper of 18 pages in length, jut printed, con-
tains a copy of the contract for carrying the Australian
mail to Melbourne cid Alexandria and Sues, and sun.
dry particulars relative to the vessels employed in the
servme. The time occupied by the voyage out during
the put year, 1357, varied from 52 days It hours to 99
days end 4 hours, there having moored in several eases
an excess over the thin allowed, for which penalties
were enforced. Between Sues and Sydney there are
four vessels now employed—the European, of 530 horse
power and 2,359 tone; the Columbia, of 830 horse
power and 2,351 tons ; the Simla, of 640 hone power
and 2,441 tons, and the Emu, of 300 horse power and
1.838 time the last two are chartered. BOIWIIIIII
Southampton and. Alexandria two clustered Vele* the
Tamar and the Teviot, are employed, and between
Malta and Mariam, the Vanguard, • ellartered vessel
01300 horse power and 835 tons. There has been no
correspondenoe between the Treasury and the director,
of the European and Australian Royal Mail Company
and of the Royal Mail Staunpucket Company, with the
view of amalgamating the said companies up to the
date of the Wrens of the House of Commons for this
return, which address was dated the 20th of August,
The return was moved by Mr, Muartney, M.P.