The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

ALFRED CODD.

Beamittater Vicarage, 4th September, 1865.

THE water fsmine continues in Belfast.
THE British Association is to be invited to meet at
Nottingham in 1866.

A PARIS letter states that the wife of Kossuth died
in Turin. a few days ago.

Tun miners of Oldham have struck for an advanee of
twopence in the shilling.

M. SAX, jun., announoes some concerti in which the
"brass band" is to be exclusively composed of ladies.
Tim Twickenham paper mills were nearly destroyed
by fire on Wednesday morning.
THXRX is a poultry pestilence raging in the suburban
hencoops round Paris. Fowls are found dead in scores
without any peroeptible eause.

BROTHER raNATrus he been removed from the
monastery at Norwich. He is completely prostrated,
and in a critical condition.

Tut abundance of nears has been so great that they
have been sold at "41b. for 2d.," being cheaper this
season than potatoes.

A SOCIETY has been formed in Exeter for "the study
and practioe of plain song and other ecclesiastical music
of the same style."

THE prospects of the bunting seas,n are described to
be very good. There are abundance of foxes every-
where.

THO "navvies" engaged in the construction of the
Bristol and North Somerset Railway have come across
a good vein of coal at Peneford.

A VICHY fine deposit of beautiful red clay, apparently
well adapted for the manufacture of terracotta, has
recently been opened upon by Mr. Allen, of Torquay.

OWZN FINNAGHTY, R man of 63, who WM employed
as stable-keeper at an estsblishment in Gray's•inmroad
London, bag died of glanders caught there from a horse:
A shark, me/oaring fully eight feet in length, and
between five and nix feet in its greatest girth, has been
caught in the herring nets of one of the crews fishing at
Wick.

THE Leeds Intelligencer is about to pass into the
hands of a joint-stock company, and to be published
dsily, the Conservatives having, it la stated, raised
£lOO,OOO for the purpose.

AN American mare has just been trotted in • light
cart eight miles in 28 minutes and 39 seconds, between
Sominoor and Two Waters, Herta, winning for her
owner, a Mr. Hudson, £25.

LORD PALMERSTON, the Bath Chronicle, says has 0001 r•
teetmly itenepted the invitation of the Mayor of Balt,
and has promised to visit Bath on Wednesday, the 20th
Met, on his way book from Bristol.

Trll NATIONAL EINTEDDFODD OF WALI:L-11e
annual Eisteddfodd cornmenoes tAberystvritb, on the
12th inst., under the presidency of Prince Louis Lucien
Buonaparte. Upwards of £4OO was offered in prises for
literary compositions, singing, and carvings.
Dr the London Bankruptcy Court, Henry Gurney,
farmer, of Harrow, whose debts are considerably more
than £l,OOO, ascribed his failure to 'expenses In the
Divorce Court, and losses through the disease attacking
his cattle." Another bankrupt said he had failed
"because he had no money."

No La's ARIL—It is all a rnistake to suppose that
there is anything modern in steam-awash', gunpowder,
or cannon, for Mr. John Clare, junior, has favoured the
world, through the columns of the LiverpOol Mercury
with a minute description of Noah's Ark, which if be is
to be believed, "bad paddles of 50, 45, and 40 feet
diameter, and 'crews worked by machinery ; anchors
and ctbles of iron, gune rnonnted on circular tramways,
that fired red-hot shot six miles.

A VILLAINOUS MUSD'S. —On Wednesday evening a
vessel oalled the Nymph, left Montrose, with a crew of
four men, for London. The master, Jobs Greig, a few
hours after, had lain down to sleep, when the mate, A.
Brown, stole upon him, and struck the sleeper three
fearful blows on the hood with an axe, causing instant
death. Nothing is known se to the motives of the
murderer. The two other men took the vesael into
Stonehaven, where the assassin was arrestvel.

A. Mr7RDllll,ll'l3 CONFIMAION.—The following Is a
eopy of the confession which King, who was executed
on Wednesday, made on the previous day :—" I °oedema
my mind full of deep and hearty sorrow that I am the
murderer of Lieutenant Ciutterbuck, baring shot him
on the evening of Satnrday, the Bth of July, 1865, on
the slyer Bream.. My crime is great before heaven and
earth, and God in his infinite mercy, I trust. haa par-
doned it; but I owe it to my memory to declare before
that God whose judgment I'm approaching, the thought
of murder enternd my mind that evening for the first
time in my life, and wan earned into fat by me in a
state of drunkennese, which rendered me incapable of
rell-oting on the awful crime I wan committing, in
punishment of which crime I shill die to morrow. I
cheerfully embrace my fate, and I hope God wnl accept
the offering of my life an an atonement of my sins.—
Laurence King (his mark). Present—B, Harding.

THZ MEETINGS OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH FLEETS.
—The official expre.siosi of gratification on the part of
the French Government for the hospitalities extended
to the French squsdron, has been published in the
columns of the Mowneur. Aft r stating the satidaction
felt at the courtesy with Which the Government, ...pie,
and mesa of England had greeted the fleet, the o..cially
"inspired" of the Tufleries says—" The eatente cordiak
which prevailed during the preceding reign has been
r.mdered fruitful through the policy of the Empire.
The friendly relations Afigting between Frame and
England are founded upon their mutual interests, and
upon the uniformity of their principles in matters of
public law." Russia, if we may take her organ, Le Nord
as revealing her real sentiments does not seem to regard
the mane eerliesle with much satiAsation. Le Nord
comments nervously upon what it calls the " anilines,"
but whet.% reality is only as La France calls it, a
"loyal intimacy" between the two countries.