The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

Wscrllanrous.

The Archbishopric of Paris, made vacant by the
death of Mgr. Morlot, lies ust boon fillrd up. Mgr.
Darhoy, Bishop of Nancy, has received the promo-
tion.
In the Masonic Lodge. at Alexandria, V.V.. ia pre-
served the knife that the mother of Washington pre-
sented to him to induce barn to abandon his design of
entering the British navy.
An old fortune-teller was sent to prison for three
month., from the Manchester Police-court, on Satur-
day, for plying her vocation in Ancosts.
.Shis managed
to wheedle • sovereign out of her vaini, • woman
whose simplicity was one of the most we nderful things
of the day.
We hewn from a correspondent of the Dublin Eve*
leg Ma 1 that there are just eleven Protestant families
resident in the parish of St. Dolough, near Dublin,
and that of these nine attend places of worship out-
side the parish.
The melancholy news has arrived from Gibraltar
of the death of Miss eerily Somerset.. the youth-
ful and only daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Poulett
Somerset.

The death of Hiss Anne Grant, a clergyman's
daughter, and the oldest inhabitant of Inverness, took
place last week. Had eke lived till July next she
would have completed her 100th year. Until the last
12 months, the deceased regularly attended church,
and, though feeble and blind, was but little impaired in
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The &flair, of the Town Council of Belfast have, it
splicers, come to a dead-lock in cons•iitionce of the
resolute and reckless opposition of one of ita members,
Mr. John Rea, to the prooeedings of eae4i meeting.
Nothing is done at any meeting except making objec-
tions, propeaing amendment,. making *peaches, and
provoking wrangling fIiACUSSIODIL
A work on Taxation," by Sir S. Morton Pete,
Bart., M.P. for Finsbury, is announced amongst
Messrs. Chapman and Hall's forthcoming publications.
It proposes to deal both with the levy and expenditure
of the iletiurtol revenue, and is described as "An in-
quiry into our Financial Pliny."
There has been Dome objectirmahle practical joking
and other ungentlemanly conduct ismonirt the °theses
of the 18th Huo.arii, at llounalow, and the Duke of
Cambridge Inas taken autliciently strong measures to
punish the offender,. The Coein ander-in•Chief de-
serves the best thanks of the public fur his vigilance in
maintaining the standard of regimental propriety and
good conduct.
Letters from Brussels announce that King Leopold's
health again causes some imea,ineae. Ilia Majesty has
sent for an eminent surgeon from Berlin, Dr. Langen-
beck, who has commenced a new treatment. A
despatch hoe been bent to the Duke de Brabant, in
Egypt. It is expected that His Royal Highness will
leave that country about the middle of February, ou
his return to Brussels, and that the King will then
proceed to the South of Europe.
A new English church has been consecrated at Nice
by the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar, in the presence of the
principal French authorities, who had the courtesy to
accompany tha English consul in his official capacityi
The church has been built entirely by voluntary con-
tributions, at a total cost of 135,400, the architecture
being that of the fourteenth oeistury. It is mid to be
' the most complete English church on the Continent,
and in certainly the moot no of any in France. It has
accommodation for NV persons.
Advice. be the Etna state that in consequence of a
dense fog the pilot deemed it prudent not to take the
(treat leestetn steam ship out on the 3rd. She would
leave New York on the 4th if the weather cleared up.

In cionsequenoe of the distress that prevails in some
parts of Ireland popular demonstrations arc being
made, and disturbancea are anticipated. On Tuesday •
large number of people paraded the streets of Train.,
epirrying • black dag as • significant symbol of dr stitu.
Con. Fearing an outbreak the authorities had sum-
moned all the available constabulary force from the
country districts. We trust the civic fears will prove
groundless.
A letter from Nuremberg, in Bavaria, lasi" Oar
pencils have obtained the first prise at the Exhibition of
London. We posse/is about twenty large factories,
employing about 6,000 workmen, who produce 216
millions of pencils, representing a value of three millions
of dorms (6.40),011A.r . . . .

l)uritig the present year the Moravian' intend to
celebrate the thousandth anniversary of the introduc-
tion of Christianity into their country. Cheat prepara-
tions are to be made fur the occasion, and visitors
are expected to be present in large numbers from all
the neighbouring countries—Bohemia, Gallicia, Croatia,
Hungary, Posen, and ltussian Poland.
It :wenn that the celebrated leader of the Liberal
clergy, rather Pswaglia, is likely to be elected a
member of the Italian Parliament. If he is returned
the annoyance of the Vatican will probably know no
bounds._

The harp of the late unfortunate Queen M.Arie
Antoinette, of Frxnce, which she bequeathed in her
exile to her eliainherlain, Fleuri, as • memorial, is now
depirotoil, with the doelaineuta, with M. Landeur, Lail,
11, Frankfort-on-the Melee.
Acconots from Cognac state that the demand for
tweedy ix becoming less every day, and nevertheless the
price is firmly maintained. It app eara that souse of the
printipal bosses of Cognac propose to export their stock
on hand to Log/and, in hope of obtaining a good price
for home conxtimption.
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The Rev. T. A'rnifield. formerly foundation scholar
of Pembroke College, Canibridge, and now curate of
Armby, near Leerla. has been aponinted be the dean and
eitaptor to a minor canonry in Salisbury Cathedral.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called a general
meeting nf the bishop' of the English Church for the
4th of February, for the purpose of considering what
taciti might to be taken in reference to Bishop Colenrs's
recent work on the Pentateuch. The meeting will be
I held at Lambeth Palace.
At meeting of the members of Plymouth town
council, held no Wednesday, his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales was appcinted Lord High Steward of
the borough. The office is one of very ancient date,
and was Oiled by Prince Frederick, the nephew of King
. George 11. It was last held by the late lamented Prince
,Albert.
The decease was announced on Thursday morning of
Mr. Stephen ()Ming, the principal partner in the firm of
Ogling and Co., one of the longest itsnding private
banking houses in the City.
The action brought by ?dm Edwin James against
her husband, the well-known Engli,h lawyer, to recover
a divorce on the ground of alleged adultery, came on
for trial in New York on the 2nd of January. The
ease, which was not defended by Mr. Ju,iien, wan
referred, and has resulted in a judgment of divorce
a rimed°.
Captain Wynne, of the British army, had been ar-
rested at Baltimore; on hie arrival from Richmond, on
the charge of acting as an emissary of the Confederates;
his companion, another British officer, was not inter-
fered with, no proofs of guilt being found upon him.
A despatch from St. Paul, Minnesota, states that
about 38 Indiana, condemned for taking part in the
massacre, were hung at Mankato on the morning after
Christmas-day, and that " the gallows were no con-
structed that all fell at once." The despatch adds,
"All passed off quietly."