The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

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The bank of England has declared a dividend of 4a per
sent. for the half -year.
A train of wagons under a strong escort, and contain.
lug 4261 b. of gold and 7,2001 b. of silver from the mines
of ARAI, recently passed through Nijai Novgorod en
rode to St. PetersbUrgii.
Sma which, as has been stated, Ii committing
extensive ravages in Spain, has extended to the island of
Majorca. In Palma, the capital of the island, upwards
of 400 children have died from it from the beginning of
Jul), up to the Bth inst.
During the forthcoming visit of Rajah Brooke to
Liverpool it is, we understand, the intention of several
of the commercial interests aonneoted with the East to
entertain Mtn at a public banquet. On Monday evening
he dined with his worship the Mayor.
According to intelligehoe received from the Indian
seas by the last mail, a son of the King of Cambodia lisll
been converted to the Church of Rome. Cambodia,
Cooliin China, and Tonquin are the three great divisions
of the empire of Annear.
Her Majesty, we hear, will visit Oxford University
and city at the opening of the Museum, at the grand
oommemoration, in June next.
At Brighton, a druggist's assistant, who had been
married a week, coinnated suicide by taking prussic acid.
The Due de Malakhoff, on his marriage, will take a
wedding trip to Italy, it is said, and vacate the post of
Ambassador to the English Court.
Mrs. Core, the popular novelist, has recently heroine
afflicted with partial blindness, and is about to submit
to an operation for cataract.
The garrison chaplain of Woolwieh hen been tried by
• riourt-mertiai, for undsricel and ungentlemanly eon.
duct. The speollie uousation was, that he had been
aeon, on several 000 Siiolll, in an extreme state of
drunkennese.
A suooeuful attempt has at last been made, we hoar, to
obtain what has long been a desideratum In Ilthoghaphy,
namely, the mean. of trensforring a chalk drawing from
paper to stone, so IN 10 yield any required number of
impromsions.
At the repent meeting of the Oxfordshire Agricultural
Society, held at Benbury on the 141 h Instant, the usual
taut of the Chureh was purposely omitted, by the owi.
mitts. whoa buinese It was to draw up the liete of
touts,
The Arehducheee Marfaftil of Austria, daughter to
the King of Saxony, end married In VW to the Arch.
duke Charles Louis of Austria, died of types fever lately.
She was only eighteen years of affe.
Account* from all parts of YTSIIOII PpOlk of tint
vintage being In full progress, and thet the result will
he from a third to a fourth beyond the hopes of this
growers,
Lightning entered the little &unbar at either, whore
Corporal Cullen, South Tipperary Artillery, with his
wife and Infant were sleeping the electric fluid, leaving
the parents entirely unioallted, killed the infant as she
slumbered between them,
A elerleal paper has made a rare dissever,, It ap•
peas that wine of the elerp in the country have ono.
elonelly been pruent t archery fltee, and one of the our.
respondents therefore dealgnetem this as "Nothing huts
new and very dangerous form of of worldllneesa Mare
very cleverly balled, and proving very dieastroue In ita
effects upon the younger clergy of the agrleultural
tricte,"
The Benign Office Is now platted In connesilon with
the subinerine telegraph I so that messages will be re.
Weed direst by the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs from the various British embalms' throughout
Swope. Another arrangement will enable the Secretary
for India to 00thrnt1114111111 dirt* with the OSYSIIIOI.
General,
A memorial against the opium trade has been sent to
Lord Derby, signed by the secretarlee of the Church,
London, and Wesleyan-Miesionary Societies, and many
Inluentlel pereone,
Mr, William Weir, editor of the Dotty News, and
one of the mut boom pliehed and conscientious journalist
of the day, died last week, and was burled In Mensal
Green Cemetery,
The trial of the four students of Palm, atemeed of
having troubled public order in oelebratlng a mew for
the repose of the soul, and In honour of Fella Orsini, hes
resulted in the acquittal of three of the number ; the
fourth kw been condemned to five months' imprison.
mane.
The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills,
says Emerson, has been computed to be equal to
600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam
to do the work which required 260 men to wcoomplish
fifty year ago. The production has been commensurate.
A letter from Rome, in the Brussels Independence,
states that the opening of China to Christian mission-
arias lithe absorbing theme in Rome ; and the Pope. it
I. added, is about to organise a grand collection through-
out Catholic Europe, on behalf of special Romanist
missions.

For several weeks put the return of the Registrer
General has presented a utisfaatory state of the health
of the metropolis. The return for last week ie again
favourable, showing a mortality under the ordinary
average. Diarrhosa, generally so prevalent at this
period, exhibits a further decrease. The deaths from
scarlatina, however, are greatly increasing. The total
deaths for the last week wore 1,046, and births 1,641.
Dr. Letheby, also, reports very favourably of the health
of the city.

CORMORANT FISHIRT IN CHINA.—For awhile I had
an opportunity of watching a couple of fishermen, en-
gaged in fishing by oormorants. It has been reported by
some foreigners that these are not used in summer; but
here, on the 14th July, they were at work with them in
this river. The boat was small , with two men in it,
and some twenty of these aquatics. There is nothing re-
markable in their appearance or figure; they look like
• large duck, or rather • pelican, with a brown back, a
tinge of white beneath on the crop, yellow and hooked
bill, and webbed feet. The marvellous thing about them
is their docility,—in which they quite equal the hounds,
spaniels, and hawks of Europe—each being at the bid
and beok of the boatman. Several were perched on the
edge of the boat looking as if satisfied they had done •
day's work, yet watching the eye of their master to dash
into the river at his signal. The others were dispersed
across the breadth of the river, diving about in search
of prey and workingindefatigably, either till they suc-
ceeded or till they were called in by the well-know voice
of the keeper. Many had not to dive long before they
caught large or small fish, which they immediately
brought in their bills to the muter. One or two,
although as obedient to orders as the rest, were observed
to be not so trusty as their meuinates. The fishermen,
who kept • sharp look-out cubic charge, perceiving that
these had on the sly swallowed the fish they seised, by •
stroke of his raiding-rod on the water and • shout of his
voioe, brought them up to the side of the skiff. He at
once caught them by the neck, end made them disgorge
the fishy contents of their stomachs—whole and un-
digested fishes of no mean dimensions. He then dis-
missed them to de double work. I could find neither
ring nor oord about the imolai of any of them, to prevent
the swallowing of fish. Wherever the boat moved they
followed, as quick at interpreting the point of the fisher-
man's rod's., they did the variations of his voice. They
are well fed on eels, fish, refuse, bean-curd, ; but are
sent •-fishing before feedingtime, or only when very
hungry.—ft in China, by Bee% William C. Milne,
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" Adulteration" is thp adding to an article some other sub.
stance to increase quantity, end It le strange though true that
Tat, which of all consumable commoditise seems to offer the
greMeet temptation is rearly tbus tampered with : there ia
however, sophiatleatim menely Ira obaational, that reverted
to by Chinem tee producers, for lA. star o 1 larrearhyp As
MI know that there ars suomenve "pickings" or
croPe" q ylar,—tha early produce, healthy, full flavoured
leaves,—the late ones, coarse and brown, unsuited to foreign
entrae,-.cthi amilliMieke doped is WO of ertllleally Woe
polpur all wires, lbw the Meier brown leant,
being made to look Wu the beet, ars alma off and realise the
rut' pries. JiferoOmoin A Ch.'a Tiaaopelito enolusively of the
460:474% Ver. sod therefore Aitken fle lied to hate them
oolohr. ?has Pure. maw" ma *mg Norte are
.upood Islsolumid ”drele, m ablif by sulherbed Agenta In
=atUhl for lb* of spate to tkle lorisifte.. Ns the Myer.
410 thee eoltuffs.

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