The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

a monument to Mr. Ernest 30310, IS to be 'reelect
at L'Ainburgn.

Ladies are to be admitted to Cornell lirdrerrity•
New York, next fall.

The railway bridge across the Mersey at Runcorn
Wee opened for goode traltlo on Monday.
Domestic rats have gone wild in San Joaquin coun-
ty, California, and are causing groat trouble.

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The Gazelle publish the usual notice for the elec-
tion of Dr. Wordsworth to the bishopric of Lincoln.

The population of Baltimore is 8541,11P3, of whom
48,375 are coloured. The city contains 48,00060 mm.
There are now 557 woollen mills in Ohio, Michi-
gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, and Minne-
sota.

Orders have been received at Chatham directing
that the standard for recruits shall be raised to
8 inches.

A grand-nieee of the naturalist patron, Madame,
Nadault Be Bawl, has just died at Youtbard, at the
age of 88.

The death is announced of Mr. Octavio' Phillpotts
the youngest lon of the Bishop of Faster. He woo
born in 1829.

A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
Downing.dreet.
TUX CABIIO7 OPERILTD, OUTWIT, AND CO.—The
Grand Jury hare returned true bills against the
whole of the defendants in this cam

The diridend on the Great Northern Original
Stock will be at the rate of 711 per cent., of the A
Stock 4, and of the B Stock 3 per cent.

A Board of Trade notice intimates that the navi-
gation of all rivers within the republic of Peru is
opened to merchant vessels of all nations.

TI. season for emigration from Liverpool for the
Antipodes has opened. On Saturday the new ship
Richard Thorpe sailed from Liverpool for Melbourne.

Yore than one-half the deaths in Ralme daring
1868 were of children under five years of age. Not
• single death from small-pox was registered daring
the year.

The Newport (Rhode Island) News says that there
is • family in that city in which the father is 17
years of age, the mother is 16, and the baby three
weeks old.

For an example to ita readers, a North Carolina
paper announces that the Speaker of the North
Carolina House of Representatives "ha. been lobar
all the session."

A pickpocket in New Orleans recently stole •
porte-monnaie containing • few dollars from • lady's
pocket, and by accident dropped in its place a valu-
able diamond ring.

The last new plaything of the French War Office
Is a kind of infernal machine, which in one minute's
time can propel 1,500 bullets to a distance of 1,800
metros (about 1,800 yards).

We are informed that there is no truth in there-
port that the medical department of the Navy is to
amalgamated with the victualling department, or
placed under an admiral.— Tillie.
REPREAMTATION OP NnInTICH.-11r. Milner Gib-
son has definitively declined to contest Norwich.
No Liberal candidate is yet selected. Mr. Elerjeant
Parry's name has been mentioned.

On Saturday a fire broke out on the premises of
Mr. William F. Barrett, tallow melte?, Bristol, and
resulted in the destruction of the greater portion of
the premises, with • large quantity of goods, the
loss being estimated at nearly ES,OOO.
The minister of the East United Presbyterian
Church, Dalkeith, the Rev. Forge. Ferguson, preach-
ed • mermen on the sinfulness of "Christians com-
memorating the anniversary of the birth of Burns."
The approaching marriage is announced to Miss
Shaw, the English governess of the Prince Imperial
with Captain Thiery, formerly of the Garde Ini-
periale, and at present treasurer to the Emperor's
charities.

A statement appeers in a London paper to the
wed. "that, on the re-assembling of Parliament,
Lord Westbury will take • prominent position in
the House of Lords, as the legal leader of the High
Church party."

MAILS FOR ACTEITRALLI.—The next mails for
Australia, ria Suez, will be despatched from Lon-
don, via Southampton, on the morning of Saturday,
the 20bh February; via Marseilles on the evening of
Friday, the 26th February.

Letters from Russia draw a gloomy picture of the
situation in Lithuania. The population is said lobe
perishing of cold and hunger, the mortality in the
government of KOWDO reaching from six to WOO
hundred daily. A murrain is also expected.
Monsignor Capel, who had been mentioned as the
authority for the statement that the Marquis of
Rate was about to be admitted to the Roman priest.
hood, writes from Paul that be has never heard of,
much loss originated, any report of the kind.
In a letter to the Times, Mr. Chichester Fortes-
cue states that Lord Russell has not communicated
to him beforehand tho content' of any one of the
three letters on the Irish question with which he
has done the right bon. spmtleman the honour of as-
sociating his name.

The Morning Nog, referring to retrenchment in
the navy, says that notwithstanding the large re-
ductions contemplated in the estimates, the number
of blue jackets will remain the Name, and it is the
Intention of the Admiralty to build three new turret,
ships during the current year.
The two men who, in a drunken frolic, assaulted
the driver of • mail cart, near Bothwell, and also
broke open one of the letter bags, were on Tuesday
brought before the magistrates at Wskelleld, and
fined,—or in default committed to prison, one for a
mouth and the other for 14 days.
The Tablet states that the "English gentleman,
named Blair," who has just been converted to the
Boman Catholic faith, is Colonel Blair, of the Scots
Fusilier Guards. A year ago, he says, he thought
Catholics were idolaters, and now he wonders how
he ever could have been a Protestant.

A boy, named George Madge, died at Crediton on
Sunday from the effects of a wound on the head
caused by a stone having been thrown at him by
another boy a fortnight ago, after a game at mar-
bles. Madge, who was an errand boy, suffered se-
verely from convulsive fits before his death.
The ['Nita Gallollea asserts that the principal ob-
ject of the Archbishop of Westminster's visit to
Rome this winter is to execute a mission entrusted
to him by Mr. Gladstone, viz. to prepare the way
for a re-establishment of diktat diplomatic relations
between the British and Pontifical governments.
Prince Fredrich Wilhelm, the eldest son of their
Royal Highnesses; the Crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia, completed his tenth year on the 27th ult.
According to an old family custom he on that day
received a commission as lieutenant in the let Best.
of Guards, and was invested with the insigne of the
order of the Black Eagle.
On the night of the llth January the steamer
Gulf City, plying between Galveston and New York,
was wrecked at Cape Look-out, on the coast of North
Carolina, and in a few days was dashed to pieces.
There were 25 persons on board, three of whom were
picked up two days afterwards, and it is feared that
the others have perished.
The Wardens of the Goldsmiths' Company, hay-
ing re-considered the subject of assaying and mark-
ing gold chains' have decided to allow all chains
bro assayed and marked at the Assay Office, Gold-
smiths' Hall, which shell be of such fashion and
make as to allow of their being satisfactorily essayed
sad marked on every link.
Oranges were frozen solid on the tress at Augus-
tine, Florida, on Christmas-day. The weather was
the coldest known in that locality Niece 1866 The
thermometer at daylight stood at twenty degrees
above zero. It afterwards touched seventeen de-
grees. In a climate where oven white frosts are
unusual this was very severe.
• marine curiosity just presented te the Connec-
ticut Historical Society is the work of a shellfish
from the Philippine Islands. It is a shelter for the
little creature, 15 inches long and from three quer-
tars to one and a half inch in diameter, shaped like
• cornucopia, and resembling a delicate fabric of
hoe work wrought from span glass.
A Munich letter, in the 4sgsaiwg. Gazette, Mates
that the King has approved of the programme of a
Universal International Exhibition of objects of art
such as had been elaborated by the committee ap-
pointed to organise the matter. The display will
be held under the auspices of His Majesty during
the months of July, August, and September.
Lord Francis Russell, seventh son of John, sixth
Duke of Bedford, and brother ts the premmt Earl
Russell, died on Thursday week, at after
a illness. Re was born Yard October,
18r andd married lath April, 1844, Elisabeth, only
daughter of the Rm. Algernon Ptou, rector of
neddington, Cambridgeshire. Lordhanois Ruud
was formerly in the Royal Nary.

TSB OVKKIND, GUSNNY 11.481.—0 u Saturday the
sir defendants in the case of Overend and Gurney
attended before the Lord Mayor at the London Man-
sion House with their sureties and entered into re-
cognizance, to appear for trial at the Court of
Queen's Bench, Westminster, and to be responsible
for mete on conviction. The boil was £lO,OOO for
each of the defendants, and 0,000 for each of the
sureties, twelve in number, or in all £lllO,OOO.
DIAN STANLEY ON cam= ENDOWMENTS.—
Dew Stanley, in • lecture on the Irish Churches at
Sion College, strongly advocated the further endow-
ment of the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian
Churches, and the maintenance of the &tabballed
Church. Sir Charles Tricelyan coincided with the
Dean. Several clergyman protected minuet the en-
dowment of the Roman Catholic or the disendow-
meat of the Protestant Church. The lecture will
shortly be published in tke form of • pamphlet.
Informations were taken at Moyne on Friday
against Mr. Downing, on the charge of haring at
£2OO to Lord Termoy, the lord lieutenant of the
country, as a bribe to procure his nomination to the
magistracy. Lord Foamy egad that he had re-
commended Mr. Downing, but the Lord Chins:slio.
declined to appoint him. Ur. Downing subiterently
sent money, with • request that his name might be
again submitted. Hail was accepted for the Wen-
dant's innocence.