The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

Miscellaneous.

A Burmese bell, valued at £2,000, which hug in the
park of Alderman Finnis, in Knees, has been Arden,
Baron Rotheehlld has pnrolluod ir Fitaroy Kelly's
1111111111011, adjoining hie own home, and both houites are
to be thrown into one mansion,

The Government have It in oontemplation to confer
on the Earl of Elgin the highest rank in the Order of
the Bath, on hie return home from China.

,
A eubsoription bee been cent on foot by Colonel
Green for the purpose of oommemorating the glorious
career and death of Brigadier-General Nicholson.
The bey of Tunic hu removed the prohibition on the
exportation of grain ; likewise on the importation of
cattle, on which • duty of 12a. a head has been im-
posed.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company have purchased
from • French eampany four large screw ateameni—the
Alma, the Comptoise, the Barcelona, and the Cade*.
The Council of India bee resolved that all appoint-
menta in the Indian Engineers and Artillery shall be
thrown open aboiolutely to public competition, and
that no nomination will be required.
The yield of the potato crop of BIM, @eye the
Norther* Whip has been one of the finest raised in
Ireland sins 140 that is, live years before the fetal
pestilence developed
The inhebitiodei of Coventry have prevented Mr.
Charles Dickens with a valuable gold watch, of their
own manufeeture, in return for a gratutious reading of
the " Clmrlstmumae Cool" in December last,
Tether Weald lectured at (lurk last week in spite at
threelened row. The troupe, the pollee, and a 4poolal
entails! from Dublin, were ill medium to protect 'din,
but no diaturbance rimmed
. . . .

.0.-n1;;n0—;7-41Wit;e—lip:s been pronounced between
Prince Frederick William of Haw, eldest son of the
Alecto, of Were, and the daughter of tho smoothen
Itirnbaum,
A Plllimiltsuo Are occurred on Itunday morning weak,
in e noisome, iii Olibetreel, At, Lokree, Tito keeper
of the WOO% Pllllllll, 101011 rd through 1110 trap in the
wiling, but lily wife and inighrer, whit were 14111ibte to
follow him, prelelted,
The &More of the Pryetal Palm report Piet the
alreire of tho Minoan, 114VPiirehtly improved and they
think that lienrefier they will be able to &Ogre a regular
4111,11111 i We ordinary ahem,
of l,mp appliemito in Dublin for free emigre.
tion bit Now eland, Mr, Dobhe, on 141411111 f of the iut.
habitant* of fist whiny, has Mooted upwartle of 4011
Walk of bolt NMI and mail others expael wan to
follow,
Letters Noticed from Naplee oneert " Ohl the King
lire Aired to the Woodmen Powers to ro.establieli diploi
1111010 Mello by resoling Antlminoultire mittually,"
14oglend lire replied that everything would be Pother&
tote to a eatierseMry regulation of sinuosity,
A reek end two beg* iif 111111114111/11EIP were &Mild 0110
IHOPIIIIIN lest gook on tho lino steer the Killable and
Munilorland Junction of the Nortivltaelorn
eking which tralite moo tomelently towing,
The ere Monroe et Altoorneem, whioli Melo& Are bow
thole, bit nolo.. Anil prtireet the dookysril, barraelie, and
storm, 1411 undergoing oarensive alteretione and Improve,
mmliii be
The Jerre litre signalled the prowl year lit more
wipe than iqiop Hero Itotheelillil it.. teken his NM in
the Hooey of pntltlmtotte, and tip. il, /Amulet, Almon°
lire Won Ito tire it four not of the Ave anWillvielotte
if the duel of 11,A. tilre Vniverelly of letiolon—
being the Are time math A'Wog hoe been done,
The late Afi, Millard 1 abberflohl hem bewniethed the
sum of Nfifill In the City of London Hospital for Miaemwa
of the Omit viethrie.park I and the Inatittition hoo
Not reeelvailln cultism under the will of the late Mr.
T. J. thoolit.
A memorl table, eighteen feet log, test feet wide,
and three fee high, lute been made by the joiner. of
Portsmouth oe yartl of the original thither, of tho
Vlotury. The table la to be presented to the Junior
United tiervlsleCluh,
A 'etronL ronin" of wrought Iron, and fire.proof,
levels feet hl I, Ono feet deep, and moven feet wide, hem
been rent by time 14reare, illiobb to Vancouver's Island
for the ore of the Hank of liritielt North America, The
interior le fixed with nineteen dlatinot look•uplIdOlo
Mr. Feareon'e *ohms for a subway railroad Into the
heart of the inotropullo, and the ustahlioluortil of within,
hstt dwellingo fur the poor, who are to be 'umbel Mirk'
ward and forward on the sell way at leo than * 1111111111 g
a week, wao illscumsed at is AIIIIIHIIIII.IIOIIO 111041111 g loot
week. Lord John nuomull and Baron lintlimehild spoke
In support if the limiest.
An admiralty order win received at Chollioin doek•
yarl on Platunlay week, 'limiting that the offluero
workmen employed at thet isetablishmont who have at.
tallied the ago of 'seventy year's, and me ii,, were to have
been discharged on c minolon on that day, were to be
retained on the eetabliisliinent until further orders,
A now mons Is opened to the pulillo in the liritioli
Museum, eontaining an extremely interesting oolluotion
of foreign pisitta and needo—oeutiono of the trunk,' of
trace, 'showing their atruature, and spool loons of womb',
British and foreign, polished and unpolialie.l. These
objects represent, principally, the vegetation of otnitheris
tilts aloe,
Ti,. Puot•offloo authorities have inereausell the pay of
the letter•earriero, Formerly, they began with lit.. a
week, rallied by an annual Inereswement of A shilling to
2315, Now, they are to commence at Bs. and rime to
Me. It' future, no on,, over 21 years of ego will be ap-
pointed • letter•earrier.
A novelty in photography 111 Issued by Mr. Attoullo in
Ito shape of inkroseople portraits of eminent persons.
These portraits are all but invisible to the naked eye,
hut appear with beautiful itiotinotnees under the micro
-
coops. A hal/Armen of thong might be eoutaineil in is
linger ring of the 'irdinary " aignet" size. Yurtraita of
Dickens and Albert Smith have already sppeared.