The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-30 00:00:00

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NOTES OF THII WEEK.
it le understood the Government will not abandon the
Blehoprice Bill
Admiral air Hattinp Yelverton, late senior Lord of the
Admiralty is dead.
-
n. rmar Teisprept intimates that ea it prima
winged. Parliament will be prorogued 011 Of about the
20th of August.
71se death is announmd of Mr. Benutel Toentint who
for loam yews was Grand Tremurre of the Engliah Pm*
OWL.

Tuesday was Use ffith asusiveseary of the birth of the
ltaroula of Hesthurtou. Us. leader of Her ffialeetis
Oppositaon in the Howe of Commute.
Mr. Joy, of Leeds, lob. the working matie candidate
at sheffield at the peat election He le a Home Rules and
a believer is the " Clamant"

The latest information from eyeless Mabee that hones
Neu. previsions, sad other neerearies hare risen
eeormonaly in antkepation of the wants of the British
Army.

The Midland Railway Compsay have followed the
example set by the Loadoe, Brightest, and South Omit
Compeay. Glaser of foe water may be obtained at the
arrival of the Wake at by sad other principal
statkos at a penny per glass.

A polo match has been played at Fulham between
nine and eleven in the evening, the ineadotzut
Illuminated by electric lanipa, the light thus obtained
enabling the spectators to follow the course of the ball
eaally, and the players to lee it me more dandy than
by daylight.

The Home Secretary, atter consultation with the
Lord Chancellor, has eat an unfavourable answer to
the deputation of mambas of Parliament and others
who recently waited upon him to urge an incase'
In the remuneration of County Court judges in °m-
agnolias of additional work thrown upon them.
A claimant to the kingdom of Cyprus is reported
to have turned op at Bt. Petersburg. A. correspondent
witting from that city says that this hereditary King
of Cyprus is a needy old man who miOt not be found
unwilling to sell his birthright to the English Govern-
ment, supposing that the I
Egli:: Government consider
It p°°°"`" t°
to may the lead, is
Improbable. He hi the lad of theA=lain
, &andante of the kingsret dd and
has had some sort of ion from the Road=
, Imperial family, on whose bounty he has lived since
I his fortune was swept away in the futile Insurrection
of 1827.

A correspondent, speaking of the London season
which is now ckwing, remarks :—'' High play at some
clubs has been more than usually rampant, and within
the past few days the names of more than one well-
known spotting man have been added to the long list
of the "Broken.* The latest is that of a well-known
baronet of turf tendencies. Late boure—if poisible
later than ever—bare during the past month been the
most noteworthy peculiarity of the arietocacy. The
The fashionable driving hour in the pork is now from
seven to eight, consequently dinner is seldom earlier
than nine, and after that a. receptions can scarcely
begin before midnight. In time, espeMally should the
weather favour us, we may expect to find the stremeta
deserted by day, and DO blinds pulled up before live in
the afternoon. Two o'clock breakfast parties already
have obtained a footing, and it Is not in our habits to
go backwards."