The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-01 00:00:00

TELEGRAPH CABBAGE.

The ease against the printer of the Daily Telegraph for
publishing the libel on the Hastings Justices, in comment.-
Inn on a cabbage stealing case, was to-day dismise4xl,
defendants apologising and paying coats.

The departure of the Princess of Wales from Denmark
for England has been definitely fixed for the 2n4 of
February.
The invitation to Oxford and Cambridge to row in Use
boat races at Na.. York and Philadelphia has been
received, but there seems little chance of its being accepted
by the club of either University.
it is proposed to erect in the Commercial-souare.
Gibraltar, a column and • bust of the Prince of Wales,
who, It!. said, will visit that place on his way home from
India, accompanied by Lord Napier of Mandela, who will
be sworn in as governor.
Mrs. Davis gave evidence as to familiarities alleged to
have taken place with Was Lee, and to the 111-treatment
of the petitioner towards his wife.
Mee. Fludder also gave evidence to show that the
respondent was living in Bristol, at the time of her separa-
tion from her husband, as a widow.
Mr. Downing, the co-respondent, said he met the
=dent in Bristol, and always thought she was •
Miss Lee was then called, and denied that there had
ever been the slightest familarity between her and the
petitioner.
Sir J. Hannan was satisfied with the evidence in sup-
Dm% of the petition, and made a decree eiri, postponing
the question of costs of the wife.
It is understood that Lord Lytton the new Indian
✓iceroy, will take his departure for Calcutta earlier than
was intended.
The great mills of Offeuukoff, the chief coats-actor for
Sour to the Russian army, were lately destroyed by an
unexplained and disastrous fire.
It is stated that if the Prince of Wales should visit
Lisbon on his return from India the younger members of
the Portuguese nobility will organise • bull fight on •
splendid scale.
The Northampton National Bank, Massachusetts has
been robbed of 1720,000 by seven men, who entering the
the cashier's house, seised and bound and gagged the
family, and compelled the cashier to give them the corn-
btnatiOns of the vault locka
The difficulty of procuring boys for the royal navy does
not diminish, hut on the contrary Increases To such •
pass bare matters come that the Admiralty are driven to
withdraw some usual regulations for admisson.
'They have temporarily suspended that portion of the order
rel•tive to fee.ry which makes reading and writing an
essential.
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CONVERSION Or kV OPRRA HOUSE INTO • POsr-orrics.
—The old Opera-house In the Haytuarket has just experi-
enced a new vicissitude, having been purchased by the
Government, who intend to utilise it ea a (second) central
wogs.ofiloe. By this means the pressure of work at St.
llfartin 4-6.(imnd—which has become excessive—will be
greatly relieved
Tin ARAILIIRS. —I• is stated that Hr. Knight,TOWll
Councillor of Hyde, has been admitted as a cobvect to the
Shaker community. Mr. Knight, after undergoing the
usual examination as to fitness ac., waa duly inaugurated
on Sunday evening. amid • strange scene, the whole of the
co.unih, manifesting their joy ia the usual dancing or
" Shskill&-6 while the convert endured such saluting m
must have beenkcilfting to his feelings, the whole or-tho
camALLieneers nir
step barn been taken before the Lord Mayor to
aZZltattlPr°TendeChigs ennnecteda
seems towhiathre thb:.F;oor cr,ttle
most Impudent ever molected, and that is saying a great
deal In days when bubble companies ant almost as plenti-
ful as blackberries In autumn. The Rev. Charles Hope
gams evidence to shew that he had lost two thousand
owing to the misrepresentation of Yr. Richard
Oakley, and it was proved that other gentlemen
had bees doped into depositing largo inun. which had
wholly dismeared. It transpired that the total amount
maid in by public was forty thousand pounds, and that
only 11,1. was now in the hands of the Receiver in
BffinicrePt76 The prisoner was remanded, bell befog
rood. ogoogure which has already taken place
Tweak a sad condition of things, and it Is feared there am
wares revelations to come. ills satisfactory to know that
gts* sod that be will not
"fw,sksidiis safely loded in Newti
tsredsibottoar at unl his innocence has been
he fell to exculpate _ himself
neenlPlNTed. t will doubtless be OE hitt=
Giferegts of the community,