The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

Miscellaneous.

Prince Menichikort has arrived in London Iron
Perk .

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The European Divers have saved 658 boxes of specie
since they commenced working at the wreck of the
Malabar.
Charles Lord French expired on the 2141. nit. it
Terror Hall, in the county of Mayo.
Mr. Edwin Jame', M.P., has arrived in London from

Naples.
Prince Napoleon, in his yacht, has visited DuLlin
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A private in the 2nd Life Guards has been dismissed
from the regiment f.r having beaten his wife.
A traveller recently arrived from Sweden states theta,
rain has fallen in that country for several months poet.
Le Nord has got news that an interview is &Truest
between King Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi, to came
off in the island of Elba.
Parisians discover that Cialdini defeated Lamoriciere
in virtue of having served his apprenticeship under the
Frenchman, while an officer in the foreign legion is
Algeria.
The importation of tobacco has largely increased. In
the last eight months the importations were 11.030,3341 b
against 8,778,8d61h. in the same period of the preeeeding.
year.
At the Dumfries Circuit Court last week David GOA,
• medical student, was sentenced to twelve month'.
imprimninent for having forged • diploma of compe-
tence from the Glasgow Faculty of Physicians.
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The solemn offices for the dead was recited on Sunday
by the students of the CAlege of Maynooth for the r,.
pose of the souls of the deceased members of the Irish
-Brigade.
Experiments made at the Camp of Chalons with fuss•
kets of small calibre have, it is said, proved very 'wren-
ful, and it is believed that the result of these experi•
ments will produce an important change in the manner
of arming the French infantry.
A lion and a tiger, whe had lived together in harmony
at Havre, quarrelled the other night, during a storm,
and neat morning the tiger was found strangled. The
lion was walking. round the body in triumph.
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'General Schmidt. of Perugia' notoriety. had to be
escorted over the Italian frontier by Sardinians, to swum
him from popular indignation. At one place an English-
man declined to travel in the same diligence with him,
sod wanted to fight bun. Several other travellers elm
I avoided him. . _ .

An excursion party of men which arrived in the town
of Ayr last week sent round the bellman to invite, by
public proclamation. the" unengaged lasses" who were
willing to accompany the party on a " walk to Burns'
Monument."
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Lord Brougham told the pupils of the Glasgow High
School that 1:e intended to have presented them each
with a new work of hie on the British Constitution, but
be found that hecould not afford to do no. . .

A workman. digging for clay laat week near Sheffield,
struck his pickaxe into a small porcelain vase, which,
on examination was found to contain about 120 denarii,
Roman silver coins, dating between Vespaaian, A.D.
69-79, and Commodus. A.D. 180-193.
The report of de contemplated resignation of the
Bishop of Natal is incorrect. Dr. Colenso lies no such
intention.

The "Borough Memorial Fond" will profit to the
amount of about £6OO from the aggregate "Forty
Thievery" in M.nehester and Liverpool.
The North-Western Railway (an Irish line) pauses
through some very boggy land, and, a few days ago, a
ballast-train and engine, which ran off the line, were
instantly swallowed up. Many of the laboun.ra were
serergy hurt, and it was feared that two men had gone
down with the engine.

Mr. John Trevillian Jenkin, an attorney of Swansea,
well provided with the sinews of war, is to contest the
borough of Honiton in the Consereatve interest. His
opponent is Mr. Moffat, Liberal, some time member for
. _ . . .

The Emperor Napoleon, says the Paris journals his
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just purchased suit. in the wood of to Jonchere for the
construction of • Palace for the Prince Imperial. The
wood is on the charming hills of Bougival and La Cello
St. Cloud. neat Ifolmaison. It commands a fine view of
the Seine. _ _

The Chamber of Commerce of Antwerp hal decided
on offering • grand banquet to King Leopold, in the
name of the commercial community of that city, on the
214 of October, the day fixed on for the visit of His
Majesty.
A heroine, fighting in the ranks of the army of Gen.
habil, is mentioned in letters from Naples. Her mum
is the Countess Maria della Tore ; she is always to bs
found in the foremost rank ; and is said to have killed
two Neapolitans with her own baud in the combats of
the 20th.

The Duke of Beaufort's health necessitating retire-
ment for • time, his Grace is about to resign office as
steward of the Jockey Club, and will be succeeded.**
believe, by the Earl of Coventry.
The choice of the London livery having fallen epos
Alderman Cubitt. Ml'., and Alderman Sir Haul
kluggeridge, the Court of Aldermen, with shots Me
final election rests, have declared Alderman Cuba*,
Lord Mayor for the ensuing year.
The North Sea herring fishery is being promegiwl
with pretty good success, several laree catches barrel
recently beet, made. Thirty to thirty-five lasta 01 fair
quality were brought into Great Yarmouth last wok,
prices ranging from L'22 to £3O per last.
The Royal Junta within tie walls of Gaeta his
ordered the 500 galley-slaves kept in the Island of Pon*
to be let loose on the country roads leading toward' it.
Roman territory. The towns of Itri, Agatha de Gottra.
as far as Terracina are given up to plunder and violen°
The Rev. Alexander Fletcher. one of the moot mu-
nent dissenting ministers of London. died • fr. daT.
I since at his residence in Essex, in his eighty-fourth year;
He has been for many years past been the minister er
Finsbury Chapel, bloorfields.
The Theatre Royal at Melbourne (Australia) snuf
regularly used on Sunday evenings for religious ser
vices. The clergy of the Episcopal, Independeut. Pr°.
bytcrian, and other denominations have preached 1'
turns ; and the services, as in London, have he°
crowded.
Letters received in the Fauhing St. Germais.
duly printed, all agree that the native Hal an soldier!!
under Lainoriciere not only Teta...lto fight but actrisos
fired on tie foreign auxiliaries aio one correspond°
hints that General Pimodan met his
The Austrian Government lias inteolicted the esoir..
of diligence" and public conveyances from
Mantua by way of Cremona, over the territory 'du'
still subjected to Austria.
The Duke of northutuberland has offered £3o.°W.,i:
endow churches in the parish of Tynemouth. oljis.:01
lie is Lay Rector. It is supposed that the Earle
Commissioners will build three new churches.
A centlem an named Cebbard was discovered aft:
days since dead, with his throat cut in hit be,!in'tg
It was evident lie had committed suicide. In
was found the following meuiotandum —"If: I
be found dead either front apoplexy or
ward to my brother, the Rev. It. Cobbold, W.
near Inas, Norfolk."
Mr. George Glantzier, a batter in Piccadilly,
distressed by • 'sheriff's officer taking poor".lun..;bni
oceanic' that at night he committed suicide in n.
rooui by the process of charcoal. wens
The Earl of Derby has been suffering fr°°_,a,„ bad
attack of gout. At one time lie was rood*"
died of it. Tim marriage of lila daughter. LAO nor
with Colonel Talbot was to have taken Ow " the
(LI ; but, on account of his Lordship's dine"
ceremony is postponed to the 11th of next umiak...Jo
The new postal service between Dublin asdigr.
came into operation on If ouday. The train' osidi
mails left London at 7.30 Liu., and the 'Lei•Orr. es
conveyed them from Holyhead, arrived in liiniswo,
at 5.18 p.m.. Irish time. The through Purr:wig
thus perfonrmd in somewhat less than Ifit
ho'three-quarters of an hour less than the stipulased
At Rochdale Police Covet last week it was at•srl,ii
several police-constables that the practioe co4ll4_„srie
children prevails to. considerable extent is that ••••-
b°Wrhond =tag • set of dissolute droakes woolg*