The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

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It is currently reported that the Greet Eastern slieent•
ship is to be sold by auction.
Lord St. Vincent is en delighted with his Si.
victory, that his son, who wee born last week, istit
named St. Leger, in memoriam of the race.
A charter of incorporation ham been granted to the
borough of Riegate. The election ottbe municipal fano.
Stumm.' is to take place early in December.
The Italian elerieal journals havebeen indulging their
resders with the following extraordinary instance of
retributive juetioe :—"A rich man, residing in Northern
Italy, after uttering horrible menaces against the
Pope and Rome. actually manifested the dedre to oat
off the bead of his holiness himself. Five days after
by the special dispensation of Providence, his wife gave
birth to twins withova heads,' .

A disastrous flre broke out in a large wholesale
grocer's establishment on Sunday morning in Oxford.
The flames speedily spread to other premises including
them of a wine and spirit dealer. and property vol
at from LlO.OOO to £30,000 was ultimately destroyed.
Unfortunately, this great destruction of property was
attended with loss of life. two men having been killed
by the falling of a chimney.
The fourth editionof Kr. Kingleke's "Histot7 of lb.
Crimean War" is just out, with fresh notes combating
the recent attacks in the "Quarterly" and "Edinburgh"
as to the aceutacy of his statements. A woMmel
publisher of eminence has given it se his opinion Mal
if the third and fourth volumes, intended for speedy
publication, should be equal in interest to the two gat,
the value of the whole four volumes, with copyright,
will not be less than £25,000. This is treading in the
steps of Lord Macaulay end Sir Walter Scott. The
latter made £75,000 by his novels in the space of live
years, and the authoress of "Aurora Moyer' £7OOO in
one year. . . . . . .

The bones and ding belonging to Mr. Windhaat, of
Fel•rigg.hall, near Norwich, who has been Oaring •Ii
Brighton with his wife for some weeks past, were
.old by auction in that town on the 9th instant. The
stud consisted of ten animals, and included the pair of
fine mares which Mrs. Windham had been in the babel
of driving. The harness included the double set that
was so much admired in the International Exhibition
last year. The bidding was spirited, and some of the
lota realised high prices. Mr, and Mrs. Windham have
now gone on • visit to the Isle of Wight. —Norfolk
Rein.

The Toaformais says :—"Private accounts from Paris
announce that a certain number of iron clad-vmeals,
designat,d by the mune of 'Boll Dogs,' are about to be
put on the stocks. This kind of vessel te, it is
said, a complete event in naval architecture, and they
will be constructed on an improved plan, resultisittoz
the examination of a dozen projects of different
from which that considered as the best has been seledo7l.l
The Paris oorreepondent of the Globe mys that news
had reached Martinique of an encounter between the
Federal war ship Vanderbilt soda Confederate steamer,
the Georgia, the captain of which, Commodore Sesame,
or Simms, being summoned to haul down his flag, met
a broadside into the Vanderbilt, and sent her to the
bottom, lict seen the Isle of St. Thomas and Porto
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At the Surrey Sessions on Monday, in calling over the
roll of Mr. grand jury • gentleman, who was • 4i
of the Church of England, and is now • laymanr trit
Church of Rome, was excused on the ground that his
Anglican orders were indelible. Another juryman we.
excuse] on the ground that he is freeman of the worship.
ful company of Cook.?
At Dunkinaeld, near Stalybridge, • frightful boiler
exploaion has taken place, from the effects of arida
two men were immediately killed, one or them being
blown over a two story house. The ancidetat occurred
while the men were testing the boiler of tar still—atisaw,
one would think, when extra precautions would be sap

ployed.
During the past week there was more activity ex-
hibited in the general business of the Port of London,
At the Custom House 292 vessels were announced as
haring arrived from foreign ports; there were 2 from
Ireland. and 262 oolliers. The entrice outwards coo-
prioed 106 'assail, and those cleared 106., of which 17
were di.petehed in ballast. The departures forth.

A nitralian oolonies were 7 vessels, namely 2 to Sydney
of 1995 tons; Ito Port Phillip of 1042 tons ; 1 to
Adelaide of 216 tons; and 3 to New Zealand of 2826
tons. The total tonnage amounting to 6109.
A Paradise of • printing office is reported from
America The Boston Olive BraarA, on which female. are
employed as compositors, states :—" Our rooms are well
carpeted, and the girls do not COMO till nine or ten
o'clock in the morning, retiring in good moon, seldom
making even seven or eight hours a day. Smart oom-
plenums can in that time earn el 15e. a week. We
have olso one female clerk out of the three we employ.
Added to this, one desk has been (coupled by • female
editor, as our assistant, at a salary of 1150. She boa
spent seven hours a day in the oMoe for five days a-
week. We generally have in our *dice an organ or •
pianoforte, and have music at meal hours.
The Prince and Princess of Wales. accompanied by
their suite, attended Divine serrye in Crathui Church
last Sunday. The Prince and Printer Louis of Hesse,
and Ptince Alfred, were also present. The 1L... John
Swmctuarthinogf
aSt.m.landrejleallyUrcehiwi,
Mucelinntbudrgiscouthafirseciafrot
Col. iii. I Ith verge, and the last clause of it—'' Mist
is all and in all." He had a 'orrice in the dining-
room at Balmoral Castle previously, at which her
Majesty, the Royal family, and household were present.
11101 a STRICT& —A project has been broached I. New
York for paying the streets with iron, and conducting
the traffic by steam carriages Moving on these iron Bonne.
It is urged that the ',ring to clothing, furniture, and
goods from damage by dust and mud would be enormous.
that the resistance on clean iron Boors would be small,
the wear of carnages slight, and the noise but trifling in
comparison with what it is at present. Shoes, it I. re-
presented, would wear mach longer on iron side-welk•
-0 stone.

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Highness Prinoe Arthur visited the
Military Academy, Woolwich, on Saturday. nom=
by Major Elphinstone, and took lemons in the art al
.wirouth,g. from Sergeant Hamlin, at the pond attentiod
to the imititution. His royal highness then retained to
his reeidenee at Greenwich.

A number of in Iluentl gentlemen are taking into con-
siderstion the best means of forming • piacicultural estab-
lishment in England, for the Tarpons of hatching sad
distnbuting various kinds of ova and fry, of acclimatising
now kinds of fish, and of cruising and improving the
breeds and the supply of ash we at prommt Coo9or•
The aooounts of the position of manefectorlfig
dustry in the provinces are, with few exceptions, satis-
factory. A steady trade has been doing in most of the
leading towns, and in some branches there is com-
parative activity, partieularly in the esr and woollen
business of Ralf , the hosiery dimarnmout at
Lets. ter, and in thr. heavy iron productions°, Sheffield.
The account, from Neweastle-on-Tyne are
favourable, and the markets of Bradford, Lersda,"llV -
serh.pwn, ,nd Huddersfield, although not brisk, me
firm ; but those of Birmingham, Notti:nghain, and Mar
cheater bare been generally quiet during the past weak.
W. (fasereme .4dvertimr)auderMaM that the Primo
of Wales, through General Hoollya, baa jamb met the
of SGo a lira. Oarnerco, al this 11011111, 114,0110
husband was drowned in 1861 by • look Si MilhaibllM
reideatsay loft opus, Th• wear vas sag be
ilk* ars el Mr. Lame, WRab.