The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-21 00:00:00

ftliscellantous.

The widow of Jean Paul Richter, daughter of the late
Geheium-Ober-Tribunal Rath Meyer, of Berlin, died on
the 28th ult. at Munich. She was in her eighty-fourth
year. She married Jean Paul in 1800, and was left a
widow in 1825. The only son of this marriage (a
daughter, the wife of Dr. Ernest Foster, lives at
Munich) died miserably at Heidelberg, where he
studied.

The War Offiee has issued a notification respecting
the dress of the rifle corps. It specifies patterns of
clothing that may be adopted. Pattern suits are
deposited for general inspection in the waiting-room at
the War Office, and coloured drawings of them may be
obtained from Mr. Ackermann. Regent-street.
Mr. Thomas Fairbairn proposes that • permanent Art
Gallery and Museum should be established at Man-
ehester, and the scheme is much talked about.
A man living in Paris, who had frequently beaten his
wife, was surprised one evening by seeing her with a
gun. She fired at him, but he dodged out of the way,
and the charge killed their child.
A rifle volunteer ball is to take place on the evening
of the 7th of March, the day on which volunteer
officers are to be received at Court. The ball, which
will be under the immediate patronage of Her Majesty,
will be held in the new floral ball adjoining the Royal
Italian Opera, Covent-Garden. There is to be • grant
subscription dinner too.
, Two ladies, who conduct a boarding-school at one of
the Lancashire watering-places, recently sent L'7o to
Messrs. Godfrey, Drake, and Sons, of Huddersfield, to
meet • loss sustained by the bankruptcy of their
deceased father, now nearly twenty years ago.
The manufacture of rifled carinou continnes on a large
scale in Prussia. The works of a certain U. Freund
furnish six weekly, amid some cast-iron ordnance are
being made on a new model, from which good multa
are expected.
Mr. Justice Perrin has retired (ruin the Irish Bench.
The Attorney-General for Ireland is his successor.
The articles contributed by Lord Macaulay to the
Earpcloperdia Britanniea are about to be published in
11101/arAte form.
The court of Aldermen have adopted • report from
the Gaol Committee, recommending the construction of
forty-nine cells on the female side of Newgate, two
punishment cells, nine reception cells, and baths. The
estimated expense is £lO,OOO.
Mr. Sullivan, M.P., has suffered a severe loss by the
destruction of his extensive mills near the city of
Kilkenny. A quantity of oats left in the kiln to dry
became ignited, and set fire to the building, which, with
all the machinery it contained, was destroyed.
The waters of the various parks have been frozen
severely enough this week to afford sport to thousands of
skaters; but on several days the ice was very unsafe,
frequently giving way ; and a gentleman was drowned
in the Serpentine on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean have just concluded an
engagement at the Queen's Theatre, Edinburgh—the
most successful that has attended their provincial expe-
riences.
A fire broke out in the vestry of St. Mary's Church,
Paddington, during divine service on Sunday morning.
The Incumbent, stepping from the altar, exhorted the
congregation to leave the church quietly, and they did
so.
The sale of the second number of a periodical (not of
the fret) generally determines its position with the
public. The demand for No. 2 of the Conahill Mare
sine has reached 100.000 copies.
The Committee of the Junior United Service Club an
considering how far it may be preferable to substitute
oil and wax candles for the present gas lighting of the
establishment, against which • strung protest has been
signed by above • hundred members, who state their
belief that gas used inside • house is injurious to the
eyes4ht and health in general.
The National Defence COMMillaloll, we understand,
are not likely to make their report for some time.
A new novel by the author of "Adam Bede," is an-
nounced for publication. It is called the "Mill on the
Floss."
General Garibaldi has received a present from the
Auiericans of New York, consisting of • handsome
revolving rile, which will fire thirty shots without being
reloaded.
The name of the Emperor of China appears for the
find time in the A I maseiek de Gol ha for 1860. Sian Fein
is the seventh Emperor of the dynasty of the Tans, who
succeeded the dynasty of the Mini in 1644.
A meeting of Lord Derby's supporters took place on
Tuesday at Lord Salisbury's house. It was strictly
private.
, The Italians established in California have sent as a
present to King Victor Emmanuel a sword of great value
and of beatiful workmanship. The hilt is in massive
gold, and represents Italy, while the blade bears an ap-
propriate.inecription.
The Government has adopted Certain Biakely's
method of construction for all large cannon. The saving
of expense to the country will be enormous, the 70
-
pounders now in course of manufacture costing abso-
lutely less than the Armstrong 12-pounders. The
principle of Captain Blakely's system is simply the more
equal distribution of strain throughout the mass of the
gun.
" Bentley's Review" is about to change conductors.
Lord Robert Cecil and Lord Ebury, with the Young
England gentlemen, are already tired of literary com-
mand. A new series of the work is to commence under
a new title, and a practiAed hand is to steer the new
craft into less troubled waters.
The Bishop of Rochester is still dangerously ill ; little
hopes of his recovery is entertained.
The Winter Exhibition of Poultry and Pigeons at the
crystal Palue commenced on Monday. The show was
exeellent, and the attendance good.
The Paris papers appear to have got orders not to
enter into the dettils of the proposed tariff in the coot-
...rend treaty until it has received the sanction of th
British House of Commies.
The Adjutant-Generel has issued the following re •
turn of pensioners discharged since the commencement
of the Russian war from loses of limb (average age
twenty-six Jute)— Loss of both lege, 5; left arm, 122;
sight anus, 97; one leg, 151 ; 375. Characters :
—Good, 318; indiffeient, 46; bad, 11; total, 375.
Jeuico Preston, Viscount Gormanston, and premier
Viscount of Ireland, died on Friday week, aged eighty-
five. The title was created in 1478.
A "National outrage on the feelings of Scotland" te
in contemplation. It has been proposed to transfer from
Scotland to England the Accountant's branch of the
Post Office I A meeting, attended by Mr. Cowan, Sir
John M'Neili, Mr. Dubean M'Laren, and others, has
been held in Edinburgh to protest against the outrage-
THE GIICAT METROPOLITAN SEWER. The great
metropolitan sewer is about to be commenced in the
Stratford district, and during the last three months
from 40 to 59 navvies have been ascertaining the nature
of the soil between Stratford and Barking-creek. 'Pe-
den blue clay is found on an rverage 16 feet below the
surface, but in some pluses it lies from 'et) feet to 27 feet
deep. In the vicinity of Barking-creek there is • lit°
gravelly soil, and depoeits of +hells which have been dis-
covered lead to the conclusion that in a remote antiquiti
the district was covered by the Ma.

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