The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-09 00:00:00

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The total amount of the subsoription to the Franklin
monument fund is £1,939 14s. There are 132 con-
tributors.
The Most Worshipful the Earl of Zetland, Grand
Master of England, has conferred the honour of Pro-
vincial Grand Master of Derbyshire upon Brother C.
R. Colville, Esq., M.P. in place of his Grace the Duke
of Devonshire, deceased.
The Princess de Belgiojoso publishes in the Paris
journals a letter which she has addressed to the Aug,.
berg Gazette, denying in energetic terms an imputation
cast upon her by that journal, that she was in so,ne way
implicated in the resent attempt to assassinate the
Emperor. The Princess declares that she knows nothing
whatever of any person concerned in the crime ; and
she adds that the great majority of Italian people have
as much horror of assassination as the people of any
other country.
Lord Ashburton has arrived at Bath House from the
Grange, Hants.
Last evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to
nominate the select committee on the Bank Acts, the
committee was to consist of twenty-five members._

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The steam-ship Petropolis left Southampton on Thurs.
day for Hamburg, with the greater portion of the cargo,
&c. which she brought from the Brazils.
The Tamar which is expected home on Saturday, with
the overland Australian mail, will also bring a Bombay
mail.

We are given to understand that a meeting of the
Royal Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund will take
place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday (this day) at the Palace at
Westminster.

We understand that John Ellis, Esq., has acceded to
the urgent request of his brother directors to again oc-
cupy for a short period the chair of the board, and to
preside at the half-yearly general meeting of the com-
pany, to be held on the 18th of February. After the
general meeting the consideration of the appointment
of a permanent chairman will no doubt engage the early
attention of the board.

Ferukh Khan, the Persian ambassador, has ordered
from a Paris manufacturer the apparatus necessary for
the establishment of an electric telegraph in Persia.
Among other traits of our late Princess Royal's had
and amiable feelings, it is mentioned that Her Royal
Highness, immediately before her departure, presented
Mrs. Anderson, her musical instructress from her child
hood, a beautiful bracelet containing & lock of the
Princess's hair.

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The Earl of Westmoreland has been entertaining the
following visitors at Apthorpe Hall during the past
week :—The Prince of Holstein (Denmark), the Prince
of Moscow (the son of Marshal Ney), Comte de Jancourt,
and Major Orlich, of the Prussian army, 8:c.
The Governor of Jamaica has proposed & subscription
on behalf of the sufferers in India.
Early on Thursday morning, when the rain was
falling in torrents, & miserable clad young WOllllll,
applied at a cabyard near Addington-square, Camber-
well, and was allowed to enter one of the empty cabs,
the cabman finding the cab shaking to an unusual
extent, went and opened the door to ascertain the
cause, when the woman said she was very had, and
requested him to fetch her threepennyworth of brandy,
which was also done, and shortly after it was found
that the woman had been delivered of twins. The
mother was a single woman named Mary Ann Ayley.
The children were dead when born, and not fully
grown.