The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-28 00:00:00

Genrcal li.tino.

IT is said that Mr. Stronge, the Dublin magistrate,
is to be knighted.

AT Charßon, a little girl was recently poisoned by
eating yew berries, which she had picked up in a church-
yard.
THE report of the Railway Commirdoners is said to
be adverse to the transfer of railway management to
the Government.

A PROJEC r is said to be in contemplation to organize
some general scheme for the supply of gee to the whole

Of Le;don.

PARLIAMENT is farther prorogued until Thursday,
December 28. Nothing cru eeid shoat it. meeting then
"for the diquiteh of businese."

lARD GILtaaILLA who wee aeked by a deputation
from the Sunday Lesgne to open the south Kensington
Museum on Sundsys, declines to de so.

A ntrowrrot, boiler explosion took place at the
Abercarn Tat Works, Monusouthshire, on Wednesday
sight, by which five men were killed, and 10 qr 11.
injured.
WE bear of proposals for a new treaty in addition to
the Anglo,Austrian—oce, namely, between England
and Spain. but of course the Obilien question must
first be settled.

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Tel county of Somerset contains 13 lodges of tie '
Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, and 1,530 mead:iota,
with a capital in hand of £'9,347. Wiltshire contains
20 lodges, 2,442 members, and has a capital of £Ut473.
TIIII Times of Thursday gives unusual prominence to
a letter signed "G," attributing to ties teachings of
the Illaptiat missionaries and ministers the destitution
will& at present exists among the negroee of Jamaica.
CoaNwera. has yielded a unmet of virgin gold,
measuring throe by.two and a-half inches, and weighing
rather more than two ounces. This speoimen was
found in a tin stream; we wonder whether it has many
brothers and sisters?

Ma. Joins STUART has been elected rector
of the University of 9t. Andrew's' by 95 votes to 48
given for Lord Ninnairel. Almost immediately after
the e ection, however a letter was received from Mr.
Mill, declining to accept the dem,
IN July Mr. M. Davies, of *ton, near Wellington,
was bitten in the face by • rat, and for some time no
harm was anticipated. Lately, however, dengerom
symptoms manifested themselves, and a few days ago
Mr. Davies died.
ME. W. R. Forster is likely to join the Russell
A.dministration as Usher Colonial Secretary, the office
vacated by Mr. Chichester Portman!. 4r Robert Peel,
after resigning the Irish Secretaryship, WM offered the
Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, and declined.
A CSOWDIIIO and enthusiastic meeting was held at
Birmingham on Thursday tight, under the auspices of
the National Reform Lear", to express sonfidence in
the Russell-Gladstone Ca Met, and to advocate resi-
dential manhood suffrage and vote by ballot. ,
THIES is a rumour current in what is termed "well
informed circles," that Lord Blomfield, the Austrian
Ambassador, will soon relinquish his post at the derart
of Vienna, and that he will be succeeded by the present
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Lard Wodehouse.
Tam Western Times says there is an ,
down Sichnouth way, in his seventy,„
thirt and gray as • whits owl, boiled in 1,
who lolled in fourteen shots, last week, six
Zildheasants, two rabbits, and • Iv,
twn wild shots at partridges.
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