The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

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Cardinal Wiseman has returned to London. Hishealtli
has considerably in proved.
Mr. Alfred Wigan has become the lessee of the St,
James's Theatre, and will commence management aces
Michaelmas.
The Irish authorities have issued a proclamation aping
the continuance of Donnybrook fair.
The Sultan has sent the grand Cross of Medjidii to
Abd -el Kader.
A Mr. O'Brien, it is said, bas been appe,iitai
diploinatie agent to try and stop the peat massacre at
The Manchester exhibition of modern paintinp °pew
last week.
Mr. Thomas Brereton, R. 11., died last week at Balk,
In the county of Roscommon.
A petition has, it hi said, been lodged against Ow
recent return of Mr. Francis klacdonugh, Q.C_, to,
Sligo.
Mr. Jeasey Hartley, the engineer of the Livere•al
Dock, died last week at his house, Derby-mak
Bootle.
Sir William Armstrong has contradicted a report dot
he had resigned the superintendence of the Royal gtmc
factories.
A large number of volunteers for Garibaldi bare de-
parteJ from London, Edingburgh, and other cities,
during the past week.
The Cumbridge Independent suggests that, ae
grain crops are so backward, partridge-shooting had
better be postponed a week or two.
Lord Clyde has left town for Vichey, the mineral
waters there having been reccominended to his Lordship
as a restorative after the relaxing effects of his Indian
campaign.
The confirmation of the election of the Very Rev.
Dr. Henry Montague Villiers (late Bishop of Carlisle)to
the bishopric of Durham took place in York Minister on
the 24th ult. . . .

The ugly and cumbersome shako no worn in tho
army is to be superseded by a headdress of • much
lighter and somewhat more ornamental character, not
unlike the laige-peaked forage-cme worn by several of
the volunteer rifle corps.
The Earl of Lauderdale died last week, aged seventy-
six. The deceased Earl was Hereditary Standard-bearer
of Scotland, and Marshal of the Royal Household
there. . . . . . .

Prince Ernest of Wurtemburg hits just been married
to • celebrated German singer named Natalie Frassini,
the daughter of the director of the music at the Cusel
Theatre. . .

The Government has rented a portion of the Victoria
Hotel. Westininister, for the use of the India Board.
The offices will be transferred in the course of September.
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Captain Daniel O'Connell, the youngest son of the
great agitator, has been nominated to • commissioner
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ship of police, we hear. In this event there will be a
vacancy in the representation of the borough of Tralee.
The Rev. Robert Alexander Hamilton, Incumbentof
Sallinadare, fell dead in his pulpit on Sunday morning
week. He was but thirty-one years of age.
The Hotel d'Angleterre at Frankfort has been
engaged for the accommodation of Her Majesty the
Queen and her retinue on their progress to and from
Gotha. .

Preparations are being made in the slip of Devonport
dockyard from which the Gibraltar was recently
launched to lay down the keel of the screw-steam-ship
Ckean (100).
A festival has been held in New York in honour of
Heenan. It was attended by fifty thousand people, and
Heenan was presented with a purse containing a cheque
for ten thousand dollars. _

As Decamps, the celebrated French painter, was
riding through the forest at Fontainebleau last week
his horse took fright aid brought its rider's head into
such violent collision with the branch of a tree that the
unfortunate gentleman died two hours after.
The number of petitions presented during the late
Session reached the enormous amount of 24,264. The
principal subject which has excited public interest has
been church rates-5,574 petitions, with 197,684 sig-
natures attached, having been presented against
abolition ; and 5,638 petions, with 610,877 signatures
in favour of it.

Multitudes of swallows have been observed hovering
over the river, about the Lower Hope, during the last
few days. The birds evidently contemplate migration
much earlier than usual this year.
The Bishop of Norwich was applied to a few days
since to become a patron of the approaching musical
festival in that city. His lordship, however, adopted
the course which he pursued when a similar appeal was
made to him in 1857—that is to say, le sent a courteous
refusal, alleging conscientious scruples.
W rkers in metal are finding good uses for a new
kind of bronze, made by welting together ten parts of
alumanium with ninety of copper. It is described u
being tenacious as steel, and well adapted for the bear
tugs of machinery. It is good, also, for pistol barrels,
and is to be tried for rifles and cannon.

At St. Albans a little girl has been fined sixpence for
striking another little girl ; but the expenoss were ten
shillings which the magistrates directed to be paid
within fourteen days, or the girl to be imprisoned for
ten days in default.
The Bishop of Oxford has issued a letter in which be
says, that, as the continuance of wet weather must DOW
be regarded as one of the judgments of Almighty God,
the prayer for fine weather should be read in all lb.
churches. The Archbishop of Canterbury and other
prelates have followed the example.
Mr. Percy Wyndham, a nephew of the late member,
has been returned for West Cumberland without oppo-
sition. During the lion. gentleman's speech the floor of
the hustings broke down, but, fortunately, without
inflicting serious injury on any one.
A beautiful piece of sculpture has just been erected on
the wall of the north aisle of the cathedral, Glasgow,
omosite the south entrance, to the memory of the
officers and men of the 93rd Highlanders who fell in
the Crimea. The memorial has been erected by the
regiment.
Letters from Wiesbaden report the meeting in tbst
city of the Kings of Belgium and Holland. From thee
letters it would appear that the ill-feeling which has been
supposed to possess these rival Sovereigns has altogether
subsided. .

The Countess de Saint.Marsault, wife of the Prefect
of the Seine and Oise, and one of the PrincessClotbildie
Lailieis of Honour, has just expired at Paris, after ulna
suffering. from the effect of burns which alie received
last winter while endeavouring to save a lady •hase
dregs had caught fire at a ball given by the Prefect.
One of the chief lokeni id Dublin has been prosecuted
for baking on Sunday. The magistrates convictel ID
the statuable penalty, but mitigated it to • nominal sus
as it was the first prosecution in Dublin under the Art.
They intimated, however, that they would enforce lb,
full penalty on future occasions.
The strike of the Coventry weavers is virtually at ab
eud. After six weeks of standing out by operatives.
numbering 18,000, the men are giving in in detail. Tlo
strike f the Nottingham lacemakers still holds out.
The season of the Royal Academy which lately dosed
has been the most succereful on record. The receipts al
the doors reached the very large sum of £1,160. This
a considerable excesa over the famous "Derby DO.
year.

Th. number of professional singers of both sues net
in Italy, says the Troratore (an Italian journal), 1111091341
to 1731). This aggregate is composed of 410 prima
donnas, 330 tenors, 2410 baritones, 1410 basses, 50 buffet
kc. In addition to these, Italy has 1,670 dancers, ma"
and female.
The Government having decided on street Ileum(' Ms
fortifications at the Island of St. Helena, sad adding
the strength of the troops and native regimente_if,l.
soning the island, arrangements have been comPiew.„2:
dispatching a body of Royal Engineers eel
Artillery, together with nearly 200 other troops 01 the
line, to that island.
Prince Napoleen, who has just returned from & 6yn4
visit to Switzerland, is shortly coming to Eogisnd ir
yacht the Canard. It is said that the object of .
journey is to study agriculture, and that he win
several large farms incognito.
So many friars and curates have sought ashnisee'll
into the Garibaldian ranks that the proclicteW
Depretis has been compelled to form a special hi-us-eel
these sacred warriors, and accordingly he hsa
Don Paulo Sardo a Benedictine, Colonel of the
who wears a aabli; uniform and gives a solemn saucti"
to the cause.

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