The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

6rntral Nibs.

THs A man, of 3,000 tone, one of the new line recent-
ly eetabliabed in connection with the overland route to
India from Liverpool, has been totally lost.

Ile. George Hearn Palmer, N.A., the editor of the
Low Rertew, was among the lost oa board the London.
He belonged to the Western circuit.
EARL Rugger.t bas consented to receive a deputation
on the Bth of Felataty, from the National Reform Union
It is eapeeted that the deputatiou will be a numerous
and influential one.

Tar funeral of Sir Charles Eastlake, the Preiddent of
the Royal Academy, took Mao, at Kensal Green
Cemetery on Thursday. The Royal Academicians
assembled at the National Gallery, sod joined the
melancholy procemboa
Is the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the
Rey. Mr. Roberts, a clergyman of the Church of England,
was seetemed to three swaths' imprisonment,and order-
ed to dud sureties to keep the pease for two years, for
a libellous sneak upon the Lutterwortk magistrates and
their clerk.

AT the Wandrworth Police Court on Friday, Lord
Banelegh was bead for smoking in a railway carriage oa
the London and fiouth-Western line. His defence was
that he had previously sacertained from his fellow-pas-
sengers that they did not object to his smoking. The
magistrates reduoed the penalty to ten shallop.

IN a speech at Manchester, Lord Stanley said, "There
is a story of an admirably-oonducted man in pot, who
by extra work managed to by by • resp.otsble aim,
which was duly paid him on his zelease, and which be
immediately proceeded to insult in a first-rate set of
boose-broaksra' tools."

Tea proclamation of the city and county of Dublin,
though not in itself a very pleasant thing to the royal
inhabitants, is reported to be generally approved of.
The discovery of factories for the manufacture of arms
had created a feeling of great alarm, which is relieved
by the energetic measure adopted by the Govern neut.
Some farther seizures or surrenders of arms to the
'mastoids§ have been miA., and a number have beim
brought to the detective-office to be registered.

TarcHusteala ia making considerable progrma even in
Ragland. Deaths have averred from it at Bthjhezn
and in the Eastern Counties. The sequel of the Berlin
sale!, also reported. A veterinary surgeon having said
at a meeting that the disease mu invented by Doctors
in want of practice, his audience badgered him into
*Wag a piece of diseased sausage. The result has been
that in five days he era. confined to his bed with his
arms and legs paralysed.
Ow Thursday the Board of Trade's abArect of the
returns of the wrecks and casneltiee on the coasts of the
United Kingdom in 1884 we. ironed. The number of
wrecks and casualties from all canoes on the ecests of
the United Kingdom and in the surrounding seas re-
ported in 1864 is 1,390. The number reported in
143 was 1,684. The annual average ember of
camellias during the live years ended 1858 was 1,118;
and daring the five years ended 1863, 1,488. The
oorreeted annual average of the ten years from 1855 to
1864 inanely* is 1,343. The number reported in 1884
Is therefore below the average of the preceding five
years, but above the corrected average of AA last ten
vows.