The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-25 00:00:00

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The Secret Societies are said to be making alarming
progress in various districts in France.
The navvies employed on the works of the Exeter and
Yeovil Railway line refuse to work so long as the truck
system or " tommy shops" are continued.
In London, in the last four years, the number of
cases in the Court of Bankruptcy was 2,553; or, on
an average, 633 i a year.
The Leviathan woo opened to the public for exhibition
on Whit Monday, yesterday. The vessel is now in full
trim.
Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society, has
expressed his intention of resigning the Presidency at the
next anniversary of the society.
The Jenner Monument recently erected in Trafalgar
Square, was inaugurated on Friday by Prince Albert,
at a meeting held at the Royal College of Physicians.
Colonel Sir William Mansfield, K.C.8., is promoted
to the rank of Major-General in the Army, in recogni-
tion of his valuable services as Chief of the Staff in the
East Indies.
In the event of the resignation of Mr. Justice Cole.
ridge at the conclusion of the present term, his suc-
cessor, we hear, will be Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C., the
present Recorder of London.
A "Walking Society" has been established by a cer-
tain number of gentlemen, who pique themselves on their
pedestrian accomplishments. They walk 20 miles back-
ward and forward to dinner every 'Thursday.
The Russian Governmentcontemplates building hospi-
tals, churches, and convents in Jerusalem and other
places, and even of snaking a good road between
Jaffa and Jerusalem.
Mr. 'Peter H. K. Godfrey, late Lieutenant on board
the Formidable at Sheerness, has by an Admiralty order
been struck of the Navy List, for having deserted from
his ship while under arrest in his cabin, pending a court-
martial order upon him.
Scarlet fever has appeared in Chester Barracks, incon-
sequence of overcrowding, caused by the arrival of a
large number of volunteers for the Canadian rifles, with
their wives and families.
The city of Toledo having resolved to present 70,000
piastres to the first person who should take a locomotive
into that city, Mr. Salamanca took charge of the first
locomotive which arrived there, and received the sum.
The Captain-General of the Phillipine Islands, in obe-
dience to orders from home, recently despatched a batta-
lion of 500 men in a French vessel to Canton, to assist
the English and French in garrisoning that city.
Great apprehension was lately entertained at Bawtry,
Tiokkill, Worksop, Maltby, and other villages, in con-
sequence of the gorse on Hatfield Ling Moor having
taken fire. It is stated that six square miles of the moor
are destroyed.
Extensive alterations have been going on within the jail
of Newgate, with a view to the better classification of
the prisoners, and to prevent the evils that arise from
the indiscriminate association of all grades of offenders.
Sir Colin Campbell is promoted to the rank of a
General in the army.
Madame Ids Pfeiffer is on her way to England. She
sailed on the 11th of March, and may be expected in
London about the sewed week in June. She has fully
recovered from her Madagascar fever, and is preparing
an account of that wonderful island, together with a
description of the Mauritius.
At the Central Criminal Court, William Lakey, mas-
ter of the Clipper' 200 tons, was convicted of wilfully
casting away and destroying his vessel, with intent to
defraud the underwriters, and was sentenced to eight
years' penal servitude.
Experiments have recently been made with a view of
increasing the rapidity of working signals through the
length of the Atlantis cable. The result shows that
more than one submarine cable will be required to do
all the business likely to be transacted between this
country and the New World.
Public schools are found to be a capital quarry for the
supply of available teeth. A dentist from Caen having
gone to St. Etienne, and presented himself as a public
health officer commissioned to inspect the sanitary state
of the boys, extracted 250 capital new teeth among some
bad ones, and levanted with the valuable booty. The
whole town is in an uproar.
The annual meeting of the Peace Society was held on
Tuesday night. Neither the committee in their report,
nor the speakers at the meeting, appeared to takes very
hopeful view of the prospects of peace at this moment.
A servant maid was killed on 'Tuesday morning by an
explosion of gas in the drawing-room of a house in Marl.
cot-terrace, Regent's-park. The gas pipe that fed the
chandelier had not been properly stopped; and the poor
woman entered the room early next morning with a
lighted candle.