The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

flitscellantous.

The number of ohurahee In Gnat Pirit* ti 14,000.
while the number of Diuenting chapels is 90,000.
Mr. Buohnell, to whom Catherine Reyes was ntarrbel
so recently, is dead,
A steam yacht, L'Etendard, oonetractsd for the llku
peror of Russia, has been launched at Bordeaux.
The Brighton Pet who killed a man in a pugilistic en-
counter, at Gravesend, a short thus ago, has been ape
prehended.
The farmer. of Bramwell, near Stockport, buffer numb.
loss from the proceedings of toms ingenious thieves un-
known, who milk their cows in the day time.
Admiral Lord Lyons has been eduitited a Knight
Grand Cross of the moat distinguished Order of St.
Michael and St. George.
Alfred Tennyson seta his butt of sherry regularly, andi
drinks it with his friends—not taking it out in Nub, its
oerieln. laureates fli .rt wont to do
. . . .

Lord Stanley F;e7o-re-iiidttiniiiie Colonial CAOO, an.
thorised a grant of £lO,OOO towards defraying the oort of
• complete account of Australian veretistion.
Viscountese Falkland died on Friday week, after a
short Mn...,i Her Ladyship was the younpet of five
daughters of the late Sing William IV. by Mre. Jordon,
and was born Nov. il lfift
Hr. Albert Smith gave his final entertainment of
Mont Blanc on Tuesday evening, and left on Thunday
for China, aid the overland route. He expecte to as.
turn early in November.
Ti.. recent indisposition of Fend Nuke, the Turkish
Anibusador at the French Court, Is said to have
arisen from grief, 'on hearing that his only daughter
had been compelled to enter the Sultan's harem."
A wealthy Venetian, a native of Udine, has left the
large sum of 000,0001. (e 24,000 in Omit to Count
Carour, to be by him applied to public Instruction in
Piedmont,

The theological department of King'. College, London,
has just ettstgined a severe loss by the secession of Dr.
Trenoh, the Den of Westminster, who tendered his re.
signation of the chair of divinity at the close of the late
Easter Term,
A movement ts on foot to retain In this eountry a
oopy of Foley'. equestrian statue of Lord Harding'', now
on view in the front of Burlington Houw, and wino)) is
intended for erection near the Government House at
Caloutta.

A testimonial from eleotort of the Irby of London In.
eluding many bankers and nieroliants, wee preeenteil to
their Fate member, Mr. John Maatennan, lut week.
Their repent is ootninemorated, not merely in the shape
of • piece of plate, but also by the foundation of a
scholanhip bearing his name in King's College.
Mr. Humphrey Brown, after a very abort confinement
In the Queen's Bench Prison, haa been released, In con-
sequence of Ids failing hialth. Mr. Glover, the unfortu:-
nate ex•ineniber for Beverley, has &leo been liberated.
Among the ouriositim of the Exobequer, It may be
mentioned that, loot year there were paid into It.
°aunts the proceeds of a lottery prime, drawn in the
reign of George IL, but which had remained unclaimed
for 102 years. The original amount of the prise was
£499, to which, in the course of • oentury, there had
been added £1,499 in, for interest.
A window of stained glass, by Hardman, of Birming-
ham, representing the good Centurion at the foot of the
Crosa, has been placed In the chapel of Rugby School to
the memory of the Rugbeians who fell in the Crimean
war.

A most extraordinary pig recently appeared on the
farm of a Mr. Randall, at the Brickfleld, Caxton.
"First, it has an elephant's trunk, secondly, a horse's
eye in the centre of the head, and, thirdly, • regular
rhinoceros' lip. It has camel's feet, and the body of a
Pig."