The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-25 00:00:00

Mr. Whitman has written a poem on Mr. Peabody
esUed tho " Galaxy."
The Pr two of Wales left Gunton Hal on Monday
morning tut Mar.boroturli

Signor Padilla, who lately married Mdla. Dosiree
Arttn, la engaged at the French Opera.
A man named Ilan, 93 years of age, was kill.! in
Prt•taou on Monday by falling down rain.
A New York te:ogram reports the Itltry Ellis, from
Demerara, in danrem and leaky, at Na

Mr. 11. A. Holmes, of the British Muicun, !anthem'
spi.uinte I her Majesty's libraiL•n at Windsor.
It app.. :rs that the Prince O&iitzin ree,mtly mur-
dered, wa not the mudchiu, hut his cousie.—Shi.t•
third.

Madfimo Viartlot has aocepte.l tut invitation from
the Urand Duke to give a aeries of perform/aces at
Weimar.

Earthquake shocks IMO experienced iii Virginia
City on the 29th and 30th ult., some of them of an
alarming nature.
The steamer Oneida, from Brazil, arrirel at Lisbon
on the 13th, and left for Southampt.m. Site brings
£29,000 in specie.

Lord and Lady Londesborough, who have been
vistting the Prince and Prinoets of Wales at GUllluLl
Hall, left on Saturday.
IL 11 expeoted that, by next oold meason, first-elass
farea between Bombay and the •0111111111A1 porta of
Europe will be ;edam" to £4O.

The young woman murdered by the Swiss porter
in London has been identified by two women who
lodged in the same house with her.
The whole number of pupils taught in the public
eohools of New York in the past year was 237,3.5,
and the ay..r.ige atttndauce was 102,U70.
Six men were buried in a ooalpit, at Costbridge,
on Saturday, by • fall of rubbish in the shaft. After
nine hours labour, the men were rescued.

The Choir hears that Mr. Benedict ha, finished
new oratorio, and that it will most probably be pro-
duced at one of the 1:1211Ki0 meetings of this year.
It is stated in the Indian papers that Lady Bound-
beer Sing (ere Miss Hodge.) is &boat to institute a
snit for divorce from the Rajah of Koppoortlinlia.

Herr Ferdinand Hiller has been requested by the
Oland Duchess Helena to organise lone concerts in
Bt. Petersburg, and has left Cologne for that purpues.
A telegram from Sues states that the direr. lisid
recovertei nineteen more boxes of bullion from the
Carnal° steamer, and that only three now remaiue I
in tie, wreck.

An opera by Signor Fabio Camper's, on the fami-
liar subret of "Esmeralda," has been brought out
at St. Petersburg, with a certain amount of SUCCOSS.
lieaiad to be full of pleasing melodies. The part of
the soprano was writto.. by Madame Patti, that of
the tenor for Signor Calaol .ri ; but neither of t ese
artists has been able to appear in the work, which
seems to be founded on the oniebrAmd Burette, pre-
pared by Victor Hugo for Mdile. Louise Bertin.

Tuz CIIAROE AOAINBT A BANK MANAGER.—Mr.
Memetriu Pap a, formerly manager uf Use Oriental
and Comniorcial Bank, again apueared at the Mansiou
house on M.,nday, on • obarg, of having embezzled
£b3B. The evidence bore upon the question whether
the iiefen mut had ',men autnorise I to purchase shares
for the bank, and two a the directors were called to
prme that thole was no resolution of the board giving
such Authority.. The inquiry WU again adjourned.
A Calcutta correspondent writes: We already begin
to feel the eff ct of the opening of the San Francisco
Railway off the side Of lA, Pacific, and of the Suez
Canal on that of the Mediterranean. A party of sev. n
Americans, from New York, have just pa sod through
Gamuts on a tour of the world. l'hey will be absent
fur a year, and carry perpctuai summer with thorn.
They are keen and intelligent othervers, and are
likely to a d conalerably to ho literature of travel.
Three ruffians were brought before the Wakefield
magistrates in Monday, for cruel ,y torturing a rat.
Among other acts of brutaiity, they put the animal
alive into a hot oven and broke throe of its legs. Oue
of the brutes, who was named Tuaokeray, was
troce.l to three month.' imprisonment, with seven
more in default of Mr paying costs, and his two ac-
complices, named Watson *ail lltingwoth, were fined
M 3 and costs cari , wits, the alternative of two
months' imprisonment.

DEA= a • CIiURCIL—On Sunday afternoon
last • painful feeling woo ereaLed iu the Baptist
church, Bat:m(ord, by the sadden death in the church
Of one of the members of tee congregation named
James Craig, • baker, rosidh.g to Gratiamston, rat.
kirk. Craig .abil been engaged devotionally prior to
the dispensation of the @aeronaut, and just as he had
fint.hed he fed forward and died in a short time. The
dee,ased was sixty years of age. Heart disease is ho.
tiered to have been the natl..) of death.

THE VACANT J üboEsitir.—Tho Government ap-
pear loth to till up the VaCaue) caused by the death
of Mr. Justice Hayes. A report has been current
that Mr. Lie-. considers the liebch, as it now
etrong nungh for the work it has to do, and hopes
to be abl to a iv° Z..,,000 • year. Lord Chief Justice
Cock:Aare doer not concur in that view, und (ruin
his place oa the bench, on Monday, he gave a some-
what deprtualug account of the traits to which the
judge. are L.eing re Ittee.l by the delay which has
ueel.r.4l in supplying the place of hi. lamented out-
louvre.

GIMAT Ea.STEI:N.—A little anxiety is ex.
reriei.ced by some of the speculators in Submarine
Orble shares, at the length of time which has slapped
since the Ureat Eastern steamship has been heanl or,
now nearly two mouths am. Sun left St. Vincent on
the 26th of NoTemixi, and Immo attention haw been
directed to the 1404 that, biongli +tea fling nearly its
timelier.° of homeward-bound Tasseis, one has not
been spoken by any vessel that ha• ouch) come into
an English port. The Great Ship was expected to
coal at the Cape, and the Cajl) mai , due 28th, will
probably bring some tidings of bcr.—Dxas News.

In the biography of Ballaley, the comic actor of
the last half of the last century, there is no page
more pleasant than hi* will. By that instrument he
bequeathed considerable property to the performers
at Drury Late. One especial bequest yrs, of MOO, the
interest of whir. WWI to furuhil, a cake, wine, and
punch to the actors in the first greenroom on Twelfth
Night for ever. The seventy-sixth anniversary was
observed on i.e 6tu of January, Mr. Chattertou ad-
ding, as usual, to the fare. The veteran Wm. Bennet
proposed the memory of Baddeley, of whom nobody
to know so little as the " prefessionals."—
Aihesssas.

DAWN° ROBBERY ATLIIn.i.LAt the Hull Police
Court, on Tuesday, a young man, named Frederick
liacenus, was charged with steahng about £2O from
Joseph Rank, son of Mr. Josel h Rank, rorn miller,
Stepney, lull. It appeared that young Rank was in
the halnt of going to various shops on Mondays to
obtain orders an Ito receive money. He had been
on Monday to Newland, the last place he had called
at being the house of the prisoner's mother, where
some money was paid to him. The prisoner, it would
seem, followed him some dlstanoe, knocked him
down, took his bag and money, and made oft As
soon as mink recovered himself he pursued the pm.
goner, who was taken into custody. Baochua was
oommitte I for trial.

PROPOSED MIDDLE-CLASS SOILOOLS FOR TORE-
SHIRE..—On Tueeday, a conference was held at the
Town Hall, Leeds, on the subject of middle-elsas
schools or Yorkshire in connection with the Church
of England. Lor I Wharncliffe presided. In opening
the proceeding. the Chairman said that though Go-
veroment liad done a great deal fiir the education
of the lower classes by large graots of money de-
pending on the efficiency of the schoois, yet nothing
hat been done in that respect for the middle class.
As regard. the upper class, they had little need of ex-
traneous existence. The only need they had wa re-
form among themselves, awl in consequence of a bill
pa.eed three or four years ago, all the great public
schools had undergone inspection on the part of the
commissioners, and no doubt ameliorations had been
effected by IL But as regarded the middleclasa. the
whole of the education of that numerous and very
important portion of the English nation had been
solely dependent on private schools which had been
origivally started awl had been kept up by indivi-
duals. Re proposed: "That in the opinion of this
meeting it is desirable that additional public schools
for the various grades of the middm class should be
established in Yorkshire in connection with the
Church of England."—Sr A. Fairbairn seconded the
motion, and the Vicar of Leeds (Dr. Woodford) sup-
ported it.

glikurfoNe IN NATUBALIIISTOPIY.—I f • rod-basest
comes lute your garden, does become there a rubs's'
—Where is g ime to be found besides upon laud that
is part-ridg, d ?—la • domeetiostste do harem sit upon
chairs as well asforrisP—When a deer escapes the
huntsmen and gets beck to the herd, can he be called
jolly good/allow? When a herd or red deer are
pursued, and oasis wounded, doto he stagier, and
is be lett be-handl—Are some horses said to Mon-
bk. pigs' feet on account of their being troffers ?
Are hurecs wounded in battle ocoutidered Aura de cam.
bat 1-1, it imagi,,ed that the polar bear considers
las habitation ati ice pace?—ls it the lynx only ihot
can be found along the choirs of the Pyreuees?—ls it
true that u very little will "keep the wolf from the
door P"—Ilow many Arctic foxes .lid Noah take with
him ?—low does the nil( •-eroose itself ? la it on
account of its sits that the mole cuunot see P—ls the
crane addicted to thutystersp—Do our domestic pont-
try enjoy /eel weather.
WANTED • DlUNK.—There is extant • Teleran
toper who is frequently subjected to mild attacks of
meanie a poen. On these occasions his eldest dangle
ter is the only person who can manage him. Wukieg
up one afternoon after an attack, his throat parched
and dry, he milled loudly for the daughter to bring
him •drink. No one answering, he bounoed out a
toild in a men, etrode to the balusters, screamed for
Lands, sod int turn for each member of his numerous
Wally. No one came. Consigniug the entire house-
hold to • region of doubtful bliss, he rathad back to
the room, and seising the first pleas of furniture that
met his eyes—a small bureau—shoved it before him
to the head of the stairs, and sent it whirling, end
over end, to the hall below. The crash was loud
enough to bring the daughter from the kitohen, fol-
lowed by the affrighted family. The inebriated head
ther..of wee seate4 at the top of the stairs, elbows on
tee's, chin resting in hands.—"Oh, fathert what is
the matter ?" ...Awl the frightened daughter.—" Mat-
ter I." said the old roan. "Why, here I have been •
and milli& for yer nigh on half an hour, and
now I've trisfrawiled for yet—that' ill. Bring sae •
driskr