The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

Vampsbire.

Boum Alirrow. Peniiuular and Oriental Steam
Naeigatton Company.— The half-yearly report of
this Company recommended the usual dividend of
3;_per cent.
Tilt GALL OF MONDAY.- This destructive gale
was felt with modified severity in this town and
neighbourhood, and the shipping was comparatively
uni ujured.
BRYKR, the eminent artist, has a commission
from the Duke of Beaufort to model Tom Sayers.
The figure, it is said, will be eventually transferred
in silver.

TUE GREAT EASTERN.— In consequence of the
late tempestuous weather having much retarded the
completion of the upper-deck fittings and rigging of
this vessel, her departure for New York has been
postpone'. The start now is not likely to take
place before the 20th inst., though it will certainly
not be delayed beyond the E ird, as longer detention
would again loose the high tides over the bar at New
York. The delay is, perhaps, on the whole not so
unfortunate as it appears, inasmuch as we believe
that advantage will be taken of it prior to starting
to give a brief though most thorough trial of the
engines by a run down Channel and back to South-
ampton.
roßTEMOVTll.—PreteßlatiOn of Ness Colours to
the 111/4 Regime*: of the Lise.—The ceremony of
presenting new colours to this regiment took place
on the Governor's Green, at noon on Friday. The
men were put through a few evolutions, and then
funned three sides of a hollow square, soon after
which the lieutenant governor, Lord W. Paulet, at-
tended by his staff, arrived on the ground, when the
troops presented arms and the band played the
National Anthem. The new colours were brought
out to be exchanged for the old ones. The garrison
chaplain read prayers and blessed the colours. Lord
W. Pauliet after a feeling address to the officers
and men, dismounted, and then presented the new
colours to the ensigns, at the seine time expressing
the pleasure it gave him to do so. The colours were
then trooped in the usual manner, and the regiment
marched past by companies and quarter-distance
column, when the ceremony concluded. The day
was very fine and a vast concourse of spectators wit-
nessed the spectacle.
WINCHINTER. —The three drinking fountains in
this city were duly inaugurated on Friday week.
The spectators gave three cheers for the Queen, and
the proceedings terminated with a distribution of
buns to thejuveniles.
THIC LATE GALL—A fine lime tree, 260 years of
age, was blown down in the avenue leading from
Market-street to the Cathedral, on Monday, it fell
across the pavement and smashed several tomb-
stones, injured another tree in falling, and twisted
the iron fencing very much.
AtiDuveit.—The Late Oak.—The wind blew a
perfect gale on Sunday night week, and several of
the trees in the neighbourhood of Pitta Mill were
blown down.

L.USINURTOK IL —Mr. Thomas Pain, coroner for the
county of Hants, has appointed Mr. Rt.:herd Henry
King, of this town, solicitor, as his deputy, and the
appointment bas been duly confirmed by the Lord
Chancellor.
A farewell dinner was given on Tuesday by the
gentry and tradesmen resident in the netglibour-
hood of A Iderthott, to Lieutenant-General Knollys
lately commanding the camp, in reougnition of hie
uniform urbanity, and his continuous efforts to pro-
mote the welfare of Aldershot and its vicinity.