The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

fEiscellaneotts.

London is to be enoiroled with telegraphic wires from
the housetops, in the style of Paris.
A young Englishwoman fell in love with and recently
married Juan Jernandes, a celebrated bull fighter at
Madrid.

Lord Derby has conferred a pension of EIOD a year on
the widow of John Hogan, the aculptor.
Four colossal oouchant lions are to be plaoed on the
radial pedestals of the Nelson Column in Trafalgar
Square, at a cost of £6,000.
Every regiment in the Prussian army is to be pro-
vided with riffs wildcats of a new awl iindroved des-
cription before the end of the year.
Sir Alan fit'Nab, so well known in connection with
Canadian politics, is to be the lint governor of New
Caledonia. . . .

....
Mrs. Chisholm, to whom the whole of the Australian
oolonies are under such oblipitions, is reported in the
Melbourae Aryas of May 13, to be dungeroudly ill.
A. lady was fined ss. and 54. costs, lent week, for hav-
ing atop* out of a train on the Crystal Palaoe line
while the carriages were yet in motion.
The Shakspeare autograph is enshrined in the British
Museum. It lies on velvet, in a sloping inahogany case,
with a plate glau before it, and curtains of blue silk to
protect it from too strong a light.
Madame Fressolini has returned to Europe from
America ; BO 11160 from South America, had Madame
Lorini, known in her maiden days in London as Made-
moiselle Vera.
Mr. W. Cave Thomas, well known by his fresco
deeigns, has been nominated to mooned Mr. George
Scharf, as professor of pictorial art at the Queen's
College, London.
. .

'Pim Hon. Mr. Roosevelt is mentioned in the
American journals as the 'rob tble suecossor of Mr.
Dallas, at St. James's. Mr. Roosevelt is brother-in-law
of Sir W. Gore Ouseley, the British Minister accredited
to the Central American Republics.
Mr. George Thompson, formerly representative in
Parliament of the Tower Hamlets, has just returned to
England from India, in indifferent health, after an
absence of two years and a half.
Alesan Ire Jacob, of harm miuin reputation, has been
cast in 21,000 damages by the real inventor, a working
mechanic, named Debain. He has been further con-
demned to insert this decision in certain French and
foreign newspapers.
The Mayor of Melbourne, Mr. John Thomas Smith,
has been deputed by the Melbourne Corporation to
proceed to England and present to the Queen a emigre-
tulatory address on the marriage of the Prinoess Royal.

Sir Stafford Nortliwite hal issued aa addle/is to the
electors of Stamford in anticipation of the resignation of
Hr. Inglis, the present Lord Advocate, who has become
the Lord Juatioe-Clerk of Scotland. Sir Stafford is •
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recent arrangementa for facilitating the delivery of
letters.

Mahogany ships are the latest novelties in naval
architecture. It is said that Honduras mahogany is for
most purposes quite equal to oak, which is wive and
dear; and the captain of a inahogany ship built at Bor•
deans gives her an excellent character.
The Rev. J. E. Good and Sophia Lavinia Good, his
wife, are accepted as claimants for one of the flitches to
be presented at Duninow, in July, 1859, as • reward for
conjugal felicity. Mr. Good married in June' 1857, and
is incumbent of one of the churches at New Shoreham,
Sussex.

Ahmed Paella, who no unfortunately met his death by
the accident onthe Nile Railway, has left a legacy of
1,000,000 francs, and diamonds to the value of 600,000
franca, to Baronne % igier, (late AtilLle. Cruvelli). He
had never spoken to her in his life, but made his will
after seeing her on the stage of the Opera.
A translation of the "Correspondence of Napoleon I"
of which the French Government has commenced the
publication at the national expense, is shortly to ap-
pear in London by arrangement with certain publishers.
This correspondence will occupy several large volumes.