The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-07-12 00:00:00

enural Nei.

BA BM OF thu CIJCLOO. —Everybody believes that
the cuckoo use. other birds' mete for incubating par-
poem, and less,* to the owners of the nest the func-
tions of hatching and fee ling its own proper young.
Dr. Fleming, an eminent Scotch naturalitt of the last
generation, Las it is true, a.serted that the cuckoo it
some eases eionstruets its own nest; but he has been
flatly contradicted by altamt every other writer on the
subject, and the unnatural conduct of the cuckoo
remained an acknowledged and confirmed fact. How-
ever, it teems probable that Dr. Fleming ir right, after
all, a, there was to be seen last week, at Whithorn, in
Wigtonsliiie, on the grounds celled the Wards, the
mildews. of a gentleman named BroaAloot, in •
sycamore tree, a female cuckoo building her nest,
attended by • smaller bird (unfortunately we are not
enabled to name the apreied, which wan constantly
bringing her materinla. Tho bodinan however had
nothing to do with the bulking process, Mrs. Cuckoo
doing the whole, and she is now sitting oa eggs; bow
many has not been Attempted to be ascertained for fear
of frightening away " the beauteous stranger of the
grove." The small bird remains in attendance, but,
singe the completion of the nest, it• occupation being
gone, its present business Is unknown, the cuckoo
herself doing the whole of the sitting on the eggs no
far as is known. Ti,elo fuss bare been eertified to the
secretary of the Ornithological Sicieiy by an eye
witness, Mr. Joseph Jibe, watchmaker, of Whithorn,
Wigtonshire.— Worcester tferald.
A MIGHTY BOWL OF Po non.—On the 25th October,
1694, a bowl of punch was in•de at the Right Hon.
Mined Russell's house, when he wall Captain General
COMfoandtr in Chief of his Majesty's forces in the Medi-
terianean Sea. It was made in • fountain in • garden
in the middle of four walks, all covered with orange and
lemon trees; and in every w.lk was • table, the whole
leneth of it. covered with cold collation., At In the
said fountain were the following ingredients, vi.. —4
hivheads brandy, 25.000 lemons, 20 pl'ons bine juice,
1,300 lb.. weight of white Lisbon sug.r, 5 lbs. grated
nutmegs, 300 toasted biscuits, one pipe of dry mountain
Malaga. Over the fountain wen a large canopy to keep
off the rain, and there was built on purpose • little boat
wherein was • ho y belonging to the fleet, who rowed
round the fountain and Ailed the cup. to the oomp•ny,
and in all probability more than 65900 men drank
thereof. —Rettig awl Furrisat

Tui CONCIIIICATIoIt OF .1113.-Iroux.—The Contr.-
ption consists of judger, 'mune/Mors, reporter., and •
'smeary. The judges' meet. are always occupied by
11rdinala, white the reporters are two ea:solar priests
sod • dean. We find from the "Annunzio Pontelleo"
of 1861, that the councillors numbered fifty-seven, of
whom seventeen are prelates; while the snaPater *acre
pulatii is the perman-nt sieentant of the presiding
Cardinal. The fine dines of the " lodes" was pub-
lished in Rome in 1519 ; an enlarged one in 1559, and
Pins the Fifle headed over the whole matter to the
Council of Trent. There was • difference of opinion
among the fathers of the Connell ; thus, Bartholomew
de Martynbuo, Archbishop of Bracers., stated that it
ens a matter for the sc•entific aesderoiee in christian
countries, but not for a counnl. Daaiel Ihrbarns,
ecadjutor of the paniarch of Aquileia, reminded his
hearers that the lodes of Paul the Fourth required the
most careful emendation, beano** it promoted the work
of youthful liberty equally with heretical wickedness.
Christopher Polarising had an i lea that the new Index
must be reviaed from the beginning to the end ; he
drew attention to the hot that there were some books
which contained • great deal of good by 1.. side of •
little that era. bad, and such ought not to be rejected,
hat revised ; for it was the lot of humanity that the
men who desired only what tem purely good mast de•
prire the human race of everything that was good.
Vinally, however, a committee of eighteen members
was appointed, who drew up the well-known Tridentine
RoNts, the first vire of which relate to books already
printed, while the tenth, the moot comprehensive of
lays down regulations about printing, printer., pub-
lishers, MRS., An In other respects, the comtnitlee re-
= comend g
Lec.al.l npotatnticendatitu for an
h:
Roman
esindameizna;tra o d s;
the operations of the committee, • resolution was passed
"learr7 theretnhtiroesere matter to
t°
The sis eic th.crltnn
'nuhStef
C les h i the great
development of the princip'e of joint-stock associaiiou
hat long threatened us with seems at last to bare begun.
Political difficult 5,, and the teoulded state of the Con•
tioent, have no doubt had sonic effect in bringing about
this stet, of thing.; but the inhereut roitenneri of
some of the 'themes loin many caws qua, earn lout to
account for their rollspes. Among the most important '
of these undertakings which has just (*lied, sitter
discreditable cireernst•nces, is the "Conference
Corporaiion of Lo-don (Limited)." This company wag
formed for the supply of pesos goods to the continent..
and started with an apparently respectable Beard of
Direct irs, while for • short time their share woes
quoted at • premien, But it gradually owed out that
• gAntleman of the name of Russell tmel been elects-ti
oh.irm•n, and the public Irren to late confidence. The
stook dropped, and, nothwitlestanding vigorous attempts
I • rig Lb market, et lam flit. mach a low pant that
traneactione were impossible to arrange on any terms.
Great dissensions aroma at the Board, and finally. on
ffatarday, the 264 h alt., the cascara was read. hankra et.
Th. boo)" Nies, been placed in the hands of Meters.
Derby, Disraeli, and Co.. the well-known aocountaats,

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- . namecnamsed a lair
_...... m. advantage. Wm( 0111"
Il
--. grequeatly attraoln • boat al iiniteeors. Ti
swim...ear to pees of inferior articles sow elms=
h,... ,;itc,,,d the trade-mark, labels, pastels/ Pm, 01 *lO.lO.
to tom oona.kooe, 11 e man. lb.lra-known -original Inilnellon a II" Po"
.'" T • therefore me charm sleciald Rot fail to malice Out
. ~,....., and, notlawitemitanding sivrous attempts o.* ' - • mrif •eo .ad 0o , London"-is ea
. • rig ile market, at lan f• 11 to bitch a 10. pcont that ".1, eir.i.kir• - "r.g.„.„„. nes it,. mum. goad
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_....emsonr bj tranaaction. Inn impossible to "mop on any terms. ra° is'"na• yr*, al a mow, bees la
?wilily, has for • q
on its journals. Great dimensions arms at Um Board, and Acidly, on
..-...ra by amend other boo, mem. datarday, the 211th alt., the cencern was Made hazilersne. „...,.,"""ir oce as g amber bens...
......beopistssn.n.d
i. tptbsvi kitorgoof
t. probstitga Stott 4111110111.
- .. a late hear It was again sdjoarned. The boob. base hams placed in tb• bands of mew.,
..-epp.....°'•- .-----... -u...... r.. gorni.war a., ii.,..- {....- birdan—
WaroatiltDAT.—nivi Macon (Trilm2d) BO vas the. Derby, Disraeli, and Co., Ilts mellkocara accountants, te.„, ebeipenel ; than an this locality tt• 'Endemism
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