The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-24 00:00:00

eltnnal Nth*.

A 111111 at & Leeds flax mill, on Wednesday, dedroysi
property wortis £15,000

Tmcas is an actual surplus of two millions and a
quarter sterling for the year ending in Juno last.
IT is stated that Mr. Taatoe Crompton has torpid
his office on amount of ill health. lie am =ado a
Judge in 1862. Chief Justice Erie has bad a fall from
his hone, but he has recovered from the shake whiehis
sustained.

I Tar Industrial Exhibition at Wakefield during th
Pi weeks it was open was visited by 185,T23 pereeia„
and the money taken foe admieston amounts to £5,49.1
It is expected that a handsome surplus will reinsio
after all expellees have been paid.
•
Tan Leer CAME.—The barque Edwin reports that
on the 10th September, when in latitude SZ. longtitado
Ail% a red buoy! was seen, marked telegraph /fo. threw
lor five. The red Bag on the mast was needy gone.
The captain etatessis belief that Worse detached teem
the cable.
,1 Tar AGB or GlABlTS.—Another giant is about
' to be exhibited in London from the mountains
I between Mulhaosen and Mayenoe. The new Plat ill
reported to exceed eight feet in heigle, and bobs
capsble of looking down upon the bead of Chang. Ho
is also said to have the singularity of powering ono
rib more than all the rest of the human rant

}Toxin DONATION. —A gentleman, who will Oa drew
Man to transpire, hiis sent a donation of £lO5 loth*
Orphan Working School, Haverstock•hill, in token of
his approval of the prooeedings of the eommittee
receiving 40 orphans at the present election, instead et
35, and of their intention to receive BO annually in
Intone.

IT IS STATID that there are now forty-nine ships Ma
their way Om Uverpool with eotton from ladle radl
China. They bring • total quantity of 156,718 halea.
There are Om fourteen vomit on their way from the
ports of the southern American States with cotton, bit
the quantity on board is not estimated. They will all
be welcome.

INTIRWATTONAL: B.IIPITANY CONFIIHNUCIL The
English Government has given its adhesion to the pro-
posal of Franca that. as International ilantlary eon-
terenoe should assemble at Constantinople, with the
object of devising means for preventing the spread or
cholera from Asia into Europe, sod removing as far as
possible the causes "'hien lead to the outbreak of this
epidemic

MIMICAL STUDENTS.—From a return just made for
the information of the Inspector of Anatomy it appears
that the number of gentlemen now pursuing their
studies at the 11 metropolitan hospital' SMOUlti $0
1,019, being an increase of 15 over the number of last
session. The number of new entries amount to 321,
dispersed among the above schools, the largest of whick
has a class of 249, of whom 80 entered this sessiotr; tho
smallest has only 30, including 9 sew entries. ,

PERILOUS VOT AG F.—Seven of the men who aba
and quitted the &Ailment which the Adelaide Goa.,
vernment are attempting to form at Adam Bay, ;forge.
Amite&lia —a project which seems to have been nil*.
managed—left in an open cargo boat, which they pur-
ebsesd, and in that frail craft ventured upon the long
voyage round the continent to Swan River. The boat,.
'which was named the Forlorn Hope is 234 ft. in length,
and 6ft. across the brain, with two mart, spritsail., and.
jib. The party left Adam Bay on the 7th of /day, and
reached Geraldton, West Australia, on the fah ef July'
The distance =ailed was aitoghter about 21,500 miles
and thus was accomplished, sayythe Perth impairer..
- "as perilous a voyage as, with the exception of Bligh's in,
-.the tiounty's boat, we have ever heard or reed of ; for
they twioe grounded on coral reefs in an unknown see,.
And for three days were in • violent gale of wind, ex-
pecting every moment to be destroyed. Bach an
incident was hardly to be expected at this period of
the woild's age."

Lra ! n

Ownra to the sedentary habits of the age, food that
imparts sigour to the human frame. without over
taxing the digestive powers, is of the drat importance.
Peligot the eminent Freneh seven before the Amesety
of &lemma in Paris, proVed thar the sustaining power
of strong tea, when made from young leaves, is NI,
equal to soup; kenos he aeoounta for the instinctive
perferedce evinced for tea; and at this juncture, during
the prevailing epiclinnic in cattle, whgp it is desirable
to decrease the consumption of animal had, the darling
qualities of rich strong tea should be even more fully
recognised. Pure uncoloured tea comprised only of
young leaves- is best, for the Chinese as is well known,
constantly Imam the brown wintry leaves to enable
them when so disguised to he passed off as the spring
growths. ' Pare green tea is always of • natural dark
olive and not of a bluish hue; neither is pyre Black test
ever intensely dark. Horntman's Ascots— Chemists,
alrparts of the kingdom, supply "The per.
Tea -" it is eximedl?gly delicious poiremes great
strength. lgotnte, 'Hotelman is Co. ondon, original
importers of tie pure Tim" is on each packet.
Tim Pole Cyct—The "Poet Clime," the poet
laureate to bis sable hlayi,ty the King of Bonny, has.
been lecturing in Carlisle this week to the great amuse—
ment of a couple of hundred people of thet city. The
Carlisle Journal, siring • report of the entertainment,.
say, the pervading idea of the whole lecture •was„
"Soy the poet's books." The poet was very anxious.
.vindicate himself from the ehsrge of being an ins
,poster. "What," said he, "is the meaning of thy
word 'impostor?' Did ever Impostor sit down in
• Eden-hall with 81r George Musgrave? The Poet Close
bad the honour of dining with Sir George Musgrave.
who asked him what sort of wipe be would drink."'
Ile read extracts from some of his "poems,"
to the great amusement of his audience; and
recounted the history of the Civil LAM peon
granted to him in 1860, and of his appointment to the
laureateship of Bonny. The peineipal part of the
"Budget from the Lakes," as be styled part of his
entertainment, consisted of a series of anecdotes about
men of mark he had met with while Working his beaks
at railway stations or steamboat piers. The poet's sr
perienoe of bishops :which on the *hole he did not seem
titt - reti•factory, was the subject of one
..."be Introduced. The Archbishop of
....rjr„, he observed. was the greatest man in
....me, next to the /loyal blood. Her Grime sorrel-
tbe poet and got all his books—" sad
remiawith
pays for them like a inan," added the poet
with evident satisfaction. But he could never
'Of sley one who ever saw • bishop's pocket. Bishop
Perey, eft Carlisle however, had been an °step-
, to that sweeping. rile. The peel bad knows
Villimy and MeWp Waldeerave, bet be never
saw the colour of their money. Of Bishop Perry his
was different. Bishop Percy sent for him to
'Arms, at Kirby Stephen and he respected
—not bemuse he save him a sovereign; be
a !mitle-
nor
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