The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1865.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

I.—HIB, MAJESTY is at Osborne and con-
stantly drives out in the Isle of Wight. The
Prince and Princess of Wales have just
joined the royal party on a visit. A royal
visitor still more strange has reached the
' neighbourhood on the invitation of Her
Majesty. This is an Englishwoman—Queen
Emma of Hawaii, widow of King
Kamehameha IV., of the Sandwich Islands.
This queen some time ago expressed a desire
to visit England and the European continent,
and H.M.S. Clio was dispatched expressly
from Valparaiso to Honolulu to convey her
to Panama whence she has come on in the
mail steamer to Southampton, accompanied
by two little girls—daughters of native chiefs,
brought to England to be educated. It may
interest our readers to peruse the description
given of this savage queen in the Panama
Star and Herald. "The Queen," mays that
far distant journal, "is yet young, being
about 25, is very interesting, not to say
handsome, in personal appearance, being
withal a lady. She is exceedingly popular
with all classes and nationalities, for she
delights in exercising a quiet unassuming
benevolence. She is comfortably situated
financially, owns a good deal of real estate,
and has a life annuity of 6,000 dole. per
annum from the Hawaiian Government."
She is destined to spoud the winter in the
South of Prance or Italy, and the • spring in
the principal cities of Europe before return-
ing to the Western World.

Faxonons, on the computation
of the Times, present up to Saturday a list of
3.5 Liberal gains against 27 Conservative;
but the papers on the other side by no means
admit that the alteration is quite so decided,
or if so, that the eight or nine of a difference
could not with any certainty be calculated
upon as affecting the position of parties.
Had the balance, indeed, been on the Con-
servative side then as gains, after all, conn
double ow a division, the difference would
have almost made up the 20 votes wanted for,
a working majority in the House. But if
the, foregoing reckoning be approximately
correct, it will take more nearly forty votes-
than twenty to give them a preponderance,
Still, of course, they have a good many of the
county returns to calculate upon, and on the 1
whole we do not expect to see the slightest I
alteration in the balance of political power. Of
gentlemen intimately allied with this vicinity,
but holding parliamentary seats for distant
constituencies, two eminent Conservatives
have gone to the wall, namely, Mr. Astell
for Ashburton, and Colonel Dawson Darner
for Portarlington, but on the other hand,
another has carried an important seat at
Cheltenham in the person of Mr. Schreiber,
who is a good speaker, a good man of
business, and an enthusiastic supporter of the
volunteer and other popular movements. In
Dorset, both the county and the county town
elections went off with the greatest good.
humour the latter for a contested election,
unprecedentedly so. Mr. Sheridan, as one of
the newly-wedded pair, whose banns were re-
imed in our columns, gave
'on to say, "Methinks the Lay
'muck;' forwhilst he included
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