The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

Scottanb.

Earl Stanhope was on Monday elected Lord Rector of
the Aberdeen University.

EXCISE OFFICERS AND SURVEYORS OF TAXES
(SCOTLAND).—The Lords of the Treasury have been
pleased, within the last two months, to revise the Ex-
cise branch of the Inland Revenue Department, and the
salaries of the officers (in Sootland), and to approve oer-
tain iecoinmendations of the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue, recommending alterations in the districts of
the surveyors of taxes, and the revision of their salaries.
The details appear in a Parliamentary paper just pub.
lished.

Madeleine Smith, the young lady accused of poison-
ing L'Angelier, has arrived at Ballarat, says rumour ;
but a contradiction says she has not changed her resi-
dence since quitting Glasgow.
Some working men of Glasgow have sent £2O to the
British Consul at Naples, for division in equal portions
between Watt and Perk. Should they have no want of
it, they are begged to think of their companions in mis-
fortune.
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THE LATE HUGH MILLER'S MUBZUWIL-At the meet.
ing of the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday the
Lord Provost reported the steps that had been taken to
secure for the country the valuable geological museum
of the late Hugh Miller. He stated that very recently
after Mr. Miller's death he entered into communication
with Government with the view to induce them to pur-
chase that museum. The Government remitted it to
certain gentlemen in Edinburgh to examine it and re-
port on its value, and these gentlemen recommended
that an offer of £5OO should be made for the collection,
that sum being, in their opinion, its value. Since then,
however, a nobleman had offered £i,ooo for it, and an
offer of 1,000 guineas had come from America. He
had urged on Government to amend their offer, but had
not succeeded in inducing thetu to do so. It had, how-
ever, been resolved by gentlemen taking an interest in
the matter to organise a subscription to raise £6OO to
impplement the offer of Government—assuming that
any Ministry who might succeed the present would be
at least willing to give £5OO. Sir It. Murchison had
written to his Lordship, offering 10 guineas towards the
object, and another gentleman had that morning offered
£25. These large contributions, however, would not be
accepted, it having been resolved to limit the subscrip-
tions to £l, so as to allow to • larger number the oppor-
tunity of thus showing their regard for the memory of
the deceased. The Museum, when acquired, would be-
long to the nation, and form part of the present
Natural History Museum in the University of Edin-
burgh.
Doirna A GAMEKEEPER.-A remarkably cool, but
clever act, on the part of • determined poacher, in out-
witting a gamekeeper, has just come to our (Sterling
Joarnao knowledge. The fellow was hard up, and
conceived the idea of getting himself splendidly attired
in broad cloth, and sallying forth about mid day with •
gun and two dogs, to an estate on which the proprietor
was not resident. The poacher had • few hours' glorious
sport undisturbed, and succeeded in bagging a consider-
able number of hares, besides other game. Just as he
was preparing to return home the gamekeeper made his
appearance, when the poacher very politely told him
that he had been looking for him all day, and was glad
to see him, a• he had lost his road, and would feel
obliged if he (the gamekeeper) would show him the way,
and he would intimate his kindness to his master, Mr.
H—. The gamekeeper considered the poacher • gen-
tleman, and at once not only showed him the road, but
proffered to carry the bag, which he took from the
poacher's shoulders, and carried it five miles. The two
then parted, but the poacher, before going away, re-
marked that he had no change, or else he would have
rewarded the keeper for his trouble, but that he would
see him seon, and give him something handsome.