The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

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In the course of the season 1858-59, 15 slops sesm
loaded with piano at the Kooria Moons Islands. Tbe
quantity was 14,250 tons„ and the royalty due upon it,
at 4s. per ton, £2,850. Hereafter the royalty payable
will be at the rate of only 2s. a ton.
The Astronomer Royal and the scientific expeditioe
who are to observe the total eclipse of the tun larded
from the Himalaya at Bilboa,at 0000,00 Monday, July 9.
The Government emigrant vessel Moiltworency, of
668 tons, Captain I). M. Bridges, belonging to Messn.
Jame. Bellies and Co. of Liverpool, sailed from Ply.
month on the 7th Val for Moreton Bay, Queensland,
with 300 emigrants, under charge of Surgeou-Super.
iutendent William Donaldson.
There were imported into Hull in the week ending
the 4th inst. 167 foreign oxen, 45 cows, 129 calve.,
1,899 sheep, t...V pigs, 9 hones, 1 bull, and 28 lambs.
The next quinquennial census of France will tabs
place in 1861, and will include the new annexationa
The Irish newspapers have begun once more to be.
moan the utter failure of the putatoe crop, we trust
with little reason.
The anniversary of Napoleon's death was celebrated
in the Catholic Church of deinestowa, St. Helena. M.
Gauthier de Rougemont, guardian of the Emperor's
tomb, was present.
It is reported that Sir Ruben Peel is about to giro
up nil Stll.l.
The Italian journals speak highly of the success of
Miss Anna Whitty in the opera at Leghorn.
Mancini arrived at Palermo on the Zed ult.
The Prussian Government, says the Hull Packet, bas
entered into a contract with an English firm for a large
quantity of shut and shell.
A party of Guide: of Chamounix planted the French
flag on the summit of Mint Slane on the sth inst.,
with cries of " Yive l'Empereur !"
General Garibaldi has just declined an offer of service
from Colonel Charms (one of the leaders pounced on st
Paris on the eve of the President's coup d'Etat, an exile
ever since), simply not to afford the ghost of a pretext
for French intermeddling.
The Rev. F. 1). Maurice, Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn,
has been appointed to the distict church of Yen.
street, Maryiebone.
According to Dr. ktermls, of Kentucky, ten per mat
of the deaf and dumb, five per cent of the blind, and
fifteen per cent of the idiots, admitted into the various
charitable institutions of the United States, are the
issue of marriages of first cousin..
A meeting has been held in Darlington—the metro-
polis of Quakerilom—for the purpose of organising s
rifle corps, and a committee appointed to carry out the
arrangements.
A horse and cattle show for Savoy is to take place it
Chanibery shortly, the Emperor desiring to 'have as
opportunity of appreciative the resources of Ins see
possessions.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York haste
pleas of conscience, refused to obey the law whet
requires that all clergymen celebrating marriages elan
report them to the civil authorities.
-Lord Stamford lass decided to give up the Quort
Hounds at the close of the next season, ill cousequene
of those who bunt in the county declining to subscnit
to keep the covers in order and to pay the ordeal)
damages incurred.
A work, under the title " One Hundred and Senate
; one Rebellions in the States of the Pope, from dro
• 1859," by Signor Rossi, has appeared in Florence.
The remains of a Rumen theatre, and a tempi
dedicated to Apollo, have just been discovered Dee
f Pierrefonda (Oise), under the detritus of the forte.
These ruin* belong to the best period of Roman sit
The bass reliefs are said to be admirably executed.
The Count de Chambord has arrived at Munich toil
his sister, the DucLese of Parma.
St James's Chapel, York-street, St. Janies'sseuem
has been sacrilegiously entered and plundered of tie
costly communion plate, sacred vestments, Ti
thieves also damaged and defiled the sacred edifice.
The crops have greatly improved lately, and s
average growth is confidently anticipated from all v°
farmed land. On wet, low, or iil-draieed sods
dainage is considerable. Almost all the hay has Ise
got in, in fair condition, and, altogether, prospecklo
hiiighiteniflg'.
An exciting meeting of the Union Bank,the first'
has been held since the Pullinger frauds, took pita
Wednesday. After a warm debate, the directors' repel
was adopted, and the usual officers of the bank wen r,

elected..
Captain Harrison, of the Brownhills and Noe
Hide Volunteer Company (Staffordshire), has ellirri.!
prize of LUX) to any member of his company wio I'4"
pin the first prise at any future meeting of the Nina'
Rifie Aasociation.
By the death of Sir E. Hayes a vacancy is creii'.
the representation of Donegal.
Lord De Roe, the High Constable of the To .
London, has been inaking great improveinente theft'?
cultivating the ditch and other available apots. ;
A model of the attack, siege, and captuie of etlectl
fortified town has juat been completed at the K`r.
Engineer Establishment, Chatham, under the ''Fc
intendence of Captain H. Schaw.
Madame Histori will spend the winter in Heal.
on her return to Paris next spring, it is said, .'!'`
adventure • part in French in • tragedy by If. lA4'
which ilf about to be produced at the Odeon TiatT..,
One of the grandest Military spectacles whicb
was ever witueseed in Ireland, took plate Ilia
the camp of the Curragh, when between 11,001
15,000 troops i,erformed • mimic battle, under tiAs!'„,
• wand of lieutenant-General Sir George Breirac
_

;ander of the Forces.
The outrage committed by certain passeur"
Egypt lately have created the liveliest 'emporia
'"'"
and the Oovernweut has taken steps for iliet•u,,,/
of the offenders. The names of the nilltu."-
known; some of them are officers of standing. s
Some workmen, while excavating at the lintkity.;
Andrew's, have come upon the ruins of I
chapel. ,
A Governmental Journal is about to appeur.,,
under the title of If Hi/orpiment°. It has pee''',;fre
programme, which may be summed aP
with Piedmont Piedmont and liberty.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknuelrar:4l,
receipt of the first half of • bank-note for
count of unpaid taxes, from "0. G.;"
sum of Ell I Is. 3d., on account of income-us.
" E. July 4.
The workmen employed in making the 7 asoa,'
Progress in the Cathedral of Nantes have leu ots,
in a small vault two leaden boxes, suPP°"4
the heart and entrails of Philip Augustus,
cording to a local tradition, was interred in tbe
the building. 015°
A memorial, the only one yet raised teAdul
.0.
has been erected in the Courts of Assn.
In consists of a portrait bust of Bloke.
Ltsily, iuid executed in the studio of Mt.
son-in-law, with • pedestal, and an ineerlPO°
pen of Mr. Hepworth Dixon. fare
Prino
An Ostend letter states that the oi A
Prussia will arrive there in the begmeisf...,..
and remain till the arrival of Queen Vie"`"-joci,,"
expected towards September, on her uliY.,t,,si"
be present at the baptism of her new grseuM-ind
birth will probably take place dariutt "-
month. 4.4
The Moorish Embassy lately eiu"''' 004
Arsenal, and through over interest in the,' 447,
gun his Excellency Mohammed libuwe. vim •
with the molten metal end his robe wit 0e,3004
tunately the oundagration was speech!) (boo
His Excellency lan placed £lOO ill II"
Lord Mayor far charitable purposes.
Muter Vansittart, who recently ePr"--000,:i
nently before the public, has recently be,!°,4S
the care of the Rev. F. O. S. Hodgiou;
heath from whose house he rsa f!
Canon Dalton has threatened one Ur illed•
the Norfult CAromicie, with an actao
'nation of character. Father Cobb. 5
priest at Harwich, has come otaili
Canon Dalton's conduct, and bus
abuse on his assailunia.