The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-22 00:00:00

gliscellancous.

The eruption of Vesuvius continue' with increased
violence.
Lord Carlingford has announced to the editor of the
Kilkenny Moderator that lie haa succeeded in perfect-
ing an aerial chariot.
Dr. Brown, keeper of the botanical collection of the
British Museum, and formerly President of the Linnsean
Society, died a few days since in the eighty-fifth year of
his age.
The second reading of the Church Retell Abolition
Bill, in the House of Lords, is put off to Friday, the 2nd
of July next.
The fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company
has been increased to the number of 64 vessels by the
launching of the Ceylon, • ship of 2,376 tons.
Negotiations have for some time peat been pending for
the transfer of Mr. Luinley's operatic troop to New
York, for the ensuing autumn and winter season.
The idea gains ground that Sir George Cornewall
Lewis is to be formally constituted the future leader of
the Liberal party.
No lease sum than 140 millions of francs (says a cor-
respondent of the Express) is officially known to have
been sacked and sent to Vienna from Lombard proprie-
tory from the month of August, 1848, to June, 1849, and
fifty millions more of the plunder is not yet accounted
for.
Mr. Thomas Alexander, C. 8., inspector-general of
hospitals, has been appointed director-gereral of the
Army Medical Department, vice Dr. Andrew Smith,
ret
Ll:Festal Magnin recently gave a grand banquet, at
Caen, to the civil and military authorities of the town;
and the " Queen of England and the alliance" was pro-
posed by the Marshal in very cordial language.
An interesting trial will shortly be made as to the
quickest way of sending • letter to New York from
London, whether by Southampton or Galway.
Miss Burdett Coutta has placed at the disposal of the
Bishop of Capetown a sum of £5OO, which the Bishop
will apply as the commeneement of a fund for the sup-
port of a college for the sons of native African chiefs.
Mr. Houtledge, one of the house-surgeons of the
London Hospital, has been dismissed, for flippant and
unbecoming conduct in the inquest-room.
Both houses of the legialatore of Wisconsin have
paased a bill for the re-establishment of capital punish-
ment for the crime of murder in the first degree.
The French ministerial papers declare in favour of
the American view on the question of the right of search,
and characterise the blockading squadron as an utter
failure. . .

At Bona, the native Algorines, angry at no rain fall-
ing seized half-a.dozen Marabouts, and plunged the holy
men into the sea, keeping them in the bath until a
shower came. It actually began to pour down at
Once.
At a meeting of the Leeds Town Council on Wednes-
day, a salary of 0,000 was voted to the Mayor, payable
on his retirement from office, in order to cover the ex-
penses incident on the forthcoming royal visit.
A Leeds photographer was lined 6e, and costs, last
week, for following his ordinary avocation on the pre-
vious Sunday.
M. raulsen, the champion cheu-player in America,
has completed, at Chicago, the feat of playing ten
simultaneous games of blind-fold chess. Of these he
won seven, and three were drawn games.
The Whittington Club-house has been rebuilt, and
will soon be opened once more under influential
auspices. The " A themetun" suggests that a copy of
the marble bust of Douglas Jerrold, the founder, should
be placed in the new hall.

POLITE ATTENTION TO FRANCE.

(From Punch.)
Our firm ally is arming fast
Against some foe unknown ;
"rwould be an inattention vast
To let him arm alone.
His foe, of course, Inuit needs be ours,
His battle we must share ;
But which of all the foreign Powers
To fight shall we prepare?
A steam fleet must invasion mean,
But whom will he invade?
No matter; put our own marine
In cue his force to aid ;
To aid, and just a little more;
With ample odds to meet.
In short, to guard Britannia's shore,
Get up • Channel fleet.
Gibraltar is the key of Spain ;
Look out, if you are wise.
Alarm, perhaps, is week and vain,
For we RTO close allies.
For arining, 'gainst a sudden stroke
Our cause may turn out none.
Then our Ally has had Ills joke,
And armed himself for fun.
But his example we should take
If but to be polite,
And ample preparation make
With any foe to fight;
The compliment at least to pay
Of walking in his track,
While 'tis ituppasible to au
Whose shores he may attack.

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