The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

LATEST.

Telegrams have been received at Rome announcing
the illness of Omensldl, wtwows son started on Saturday
for Caprera
A large open-air demonstration was held in Cremorne
Gardens, on Saturday afternoon, in favour of the
Government policy.
At Glasgow, Saturday, W. B. Scott, • stock-
broker's cashier, was remanded on the charge of haring
embezzled between £3,000 and 26,000 belonging to his
employer.

It Is stated that Mr. Bourke, Under-Secretary for
Foreirn Affairs, has been offered the Recordetehip of
London. He will necessarily, if he aceepta the oak.,
vacate. the one Ise at present bolds.

The Queen he. been msciouely plemed to confer the
Tumult Green Ramada of the Order of the Thistleupon
hie Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon,
Premier Peer of Scotland, and upon the Marquis of
Lothian.

The Prime Minister ham appointed Mr. Charles
Lock Eastlake, Secretary to the Royal Institute of
British Architects, and nephew of the late Sir Charles
Eastlake, to be Keeper and Secretary of the National
Gallery.

The name of Mr. Frederick Dimadale was struck
off the roll on Saturday by ceder of the judges of
the Common Pleas. H. was convicted of forgery
last month, and sentenced to penal servitude for
hi.

The latest news from the Cape, eve Madeira, is that
I general advance against the enemy was made on the
lab ult., and waa attended with complete surceva Its
object was to clear the Cbicaba bush of the Kaffir*,
and the colonial troops captured many thousands of
sheep and oxen.

The nafety of Dr. Stewart luid hie companions of the
Livingstnnia mission in C,entral Africa is savored. He
had been so long absent upon an exploration of Lake
Ngami that it wee feared he wadi lcet ; but by the
latest news from ispe Town we learn that he had
arrived at Port Elizabeth.

It is said that Mr 0..b01.1111 Morgan's resolution on
the Burials question haa excited the indignation of
certain donors if land for churchyards, and a
petition to Parliament embodying thin view is being
whined by the Duke of Rutland. Lords Clinton and
Dartmouth. Sir Henry Peek, MP., and a number of
other gentlemen.

The remains of Pope Pius IX. Cr. now lying in
State in the Chapel of the Sacrament at St Peter's,
whither there flocked on Sunday a crowd of irreverent
persons. In one of the waled packeta found in his
chamber the Pope entreats that the Conclave should
be held in Rome, and It MOM. most probable that the
Cardinals will onmply with his wish,
Mr. H. M. Stanley was entertained on Saturday at
a dinner given by the Royal Geographical Society, at
Willis's Romps, at which Sir R. Aloock and
of three hundred gentlemen were present. Vrtts
course of his speech, Mr. Stanley explained that the
British flag wari carried not by him, but by his
English servants, whose patriotic feeling he was
Willing to gratify.
An oflcial document was Maned Saturday showing
that on the 4th of January last there waa at the Bank
of England CMS OW 7a lid. in dividends doe and not
demanded, of which 051,729 Os. Cori was advanced to
the Government, leering £6,330 Is, 2d. in the hands
of the Bank.

Mr. John de Morg&n. hiving duly apologised for hie
contempt of court, applied on MMarday to the Mester
of the Rolls for his diecbarwe. Hie Lordship die.
missed him with a caution that if he went to Samos
again and did any dwarfs be would be imprieoned
nntii he had paid the whole amount of the damage
dem

The remains of the Into Mr. George Croft:shank
were on Saturday afternoon consigned to their resting
place in Kenaal•green Cemetery. Arrived at the
tronstery, where a large number of the literary and
arfetic world had amembled to be present at the
obsequies, the natal burial service was reed by the
Bev. Charles Stuart, the chaplain. The coin was
then borne to the num the peill bearers being Lord
Houghton, Mr Charles Lanr, FLA., Mr. CL A.
Sala. General ItMurde, Mr. Edwin S. Ellis, and Mr.
& C. Hell, the procession being beaded by a detach.
meat of the volunteer corps which Mr. Crnikshank
had in his later der oommanded. The grave is in
'b. iimedian vicinity of that of Midis Mims, and
erns strewn with nessortefint