The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

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Sir J. Barpeson haelthen tined 2s. 6d. and coats t for
smoking on the Belfast quay after he was ordered to
desist by i constable.
At Bentagste, it "trench lady has been fined £3 14s. 6d.
for amuggUng four bottles of brandy and eight flaelm of
eta de Cologne, the same being cot:m.4W about her
person.
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington killed on Tues.
day, the 7th of September, at Whittington, near Envillo.
341 partridges, two hares, and one rabbit.
I Architects' have been seat to Algiers to build a palace
for Prime Napoleon, an Minister of Algeria and the
1 Wanton
I The subcwiption for a monument and • scholarship at
tba Charter-house in honour of General Havelock, and
of other old Carthusians who fell ill the Crimea and in
bee Pearly reached the sum of £llOO.
The flagehip Waterloo is to be out down to • two.
tisoker, sad aonverted into a screw line-of-battle ship;
1 The line-ofsbettle ceiling ship Trafalgar, 120, is also
being oenverted Woo acrew-aleamer, at Chatham.
The foundaSim saes, .of anew Masonic Hall, to be
steeled 04 the West Cliff, Whitby, was laid hat week by
the Earl of Betland, Grand Master Mason.
Mae. allooolomini will take leave of the English
publieed a farewell thwart it the Crystal Palate, on
Tuesday, the 28th inst. She sails from Southampton
!or 6 klidthoned tour in the United States on the follow-
= ti taz:a
, the lion-killer, in an article in the Jowled/de
Chasseurs, calculate!' that there are now about 60 lions
the. subdivision of Bona, in Algeria, and that from
1856 to 1857 the number of oxen and sheep destroyed by
then was about 10,000.
Mrs. Gurney, widow of the late distinguished philan.
thropiat, Mr. Joseph John Gurney, of Norwich, brother
of Mrs. Fiqe, took her final departure from England on
Saturday week to settle permanently in America, the
land of her. birth.. .

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M. Henri de Pone, of the Figaro, who was so dan-
gerously wounded by Lieutenant Hyenne in a so-called
duel, has taken up the pen again, and writes a letter to
the Brussels journal Lt Nord, from the baths of Nan-
helm, in Germany. He says that he is now restored
to perfect health.
Courageous as the Duke Idalakhoff, Marshal Canro.
bert is about to enter the holy bonds of matrimony with
the widow of the late Duca de Sotomayor, and becomes
in right of his wife a grandee of Spain, if any grandeur
attach to that decrepit dignity.
A yonng man, still in his teens, accompanied by.
good-looking young woman, a few years his senior, drove
up to the remster-offloe, Halifax, last week, for the pur-
pose of entering the matrimonial state. The ceremony
was about to commence, when the little bridegroom's
soother made her appearance, boxod his ears, and sent
him home.
Sir B. B. Lytton has sent a despatch to the Leeward
Islands respecting recent riots in Antigua. The purport
of it appears to be to impress upon the island the impor-
tance of raising and maintaining, from local resources,
such a force as will guarantee the safety, dignity, and
internal peace of the colony.
Peterborough Cathedral has now for six years been
open to all corners. It is calculated that not less then
50,000 persons, of all ranks and ages, have during that
period visited the cathedral, but any mischief or impro-
per conduct has been so small as to be unworthy of
record. _ . .

The monument to Sir Isaac Newton, at Grantham, is
to be inaugurated, with imposing ceremony, on the 21st
instant, when Lord Brougham has undertaken to deliver
the address. The wet of the statue is about £2,000,
towards which £1,400 has been collected.
The "Portrait of a young man," by Raphael, formerly
at Kensington Palace, and disoovezed by a noble connois-
seur, among some lumber at Hampton Court, has been
cleaned sad placed in • prominent position on the wall
of her Majesty's Gallery at Hampton Court, to the left
of the door which visitor' enter.
Archdeacon Cowper, the father of the New South
Wales Premier, and ODO of the earliest colonial chaplains,
died early in July, and was buried on the 9th of that
month. He belonged to a past generation. He lived to
, nearly eighty years of age, and had resided in the colony
for almost half a century,
The 25th of January next will be the centenary of the
birth of Robert Burns. The citizens of Glasgow contem-
plate getting up a grand demonstration in honour of the
occasion.
" The Ptiedmontese Gazette," say" a telegraphic des-
patch from Turin, "declares that the pretended sale said
to have been made to Russia of the port of Vlllafranca
consists in the gratuitous concession of an old abandoned
establishment for convicts, which is to be transformed
into • depot of coals and stores."
The ladies who conduct the Englishwaman'e Journof
, (one of the cleverest magazines in England) announce
' that they have secured the use of a large room in Prince's
Street, Cavendish Square, for the purpose of establishing
a reading-room for ladies, " during the morning hours."