The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

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A vett public interest (says the Times) has been ex-
pressed respecting the continuation of Lord Macaulay's
.History of England," and as some misstatements have
gone forth, we feel it desirable to announce, on the best
authority, that some progress had been made by Lord
Macaulay towards the completion of another volume,
and that a portion of the MS. is fully prepared for pub-
lication. Circumstances, however, will probably delay
for some time the appearance of any further portion of
the History.
The postinastership of Leeds has been given to Mr. E.
J. Smith, who was postmaster in the Crimes during the
war, and has since been engaged in reorprusing the
Turkish Post °Sloe.
, At the last ball at the Tuileries it was remarked that
several ladies, and amongst thew the Princess de Met-
ternich, the Princess Murat, and Madame Armada, ap-
peared without crinoline, and with dresses rather short
in the waist, somewhat in the style of those of the Ant
Empire.
The Duke of Northumberland lately sent • hundred
bottles of sherry to Mr. Robert Story, a Northumbrian
poet, with the hope that he would find inspiration in
the wine.

The war undertaken by the Spanish Cabinet against
Morocco has already, from authentic returns, cost the
Madrid Exchequer sixty millions of francs, and this before
the aggressors have gone a mile from the coast into the
Interior.
The British ship Flying Foam struck on a sunken rock
near the coast of Porso di Monis, while on her way to
Shanghai, and went to pieces. The commander and the
whole of the crew, save six men, were lost.
A gentleman of Southwell, near Nottingham, has re-
vived the sport of falconry, and that with much meets&
Several gay parties of both sexes have been sent in the
neighbouring parks and preserves engaging in this ancient
pastime.
The Dean of Carlisle said, at • meeting of the Temper-
ance Society of that city last week, that probably 110,000
persons had during the last year met an untimely death
by intemperance.
A British subject named Eacalante, born at Gibraltar,
is confined in • Spanish prison on • charge of attempting
to subvert the established religion of the erienery by dis-
tributing Bibles in Andalusia.
The sugar-shaped steamer Winans is to be lengthened
120 feet, the points are to be taken off, and other
changes made. The trial-trips have demonstrated that
a greater length ensures a corresponding increase of
speed.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has adopted
a memorial to Lord Palmerston in favour of the na-
munity of private property on the high seas in the time
of war, and praying the Government to bring the
question under the notice of foreign nations,
A datement appeared in the Army and Nary Gazette
to the effect that the carriages manufactured at the
Royal Arsenal for the Armstrong guns, on being hoisted
on board the Himalaya steam-ship, were footed to be
rotten, Am. This assertion is (we are informed on good
authority) entirely incorrect.
Belgium intends sending an expeditionary force to
China, to act in concert with the Anglo-French troops,
with a view to establish a Belgian colony in China for
commercial purposes.
Dr. ,Letheby, in his quarterly report to the lity
Sewers Commission, draws • dreadful picture of the
gorged conditions of the vaults in City churches. He
says it is impossible to say how many people, while
worshipping in the sanctuary, have breathed the atmos-
phere of corruption and have sickened unto death.
The will of Lord Macaulay was proved last week at
Doctors' Commons. His personalty was sworn under
280,000.
A notice has appeared authorising the enrolment of a
military reserve force, not exceeding 20,000 men, from
those who have served either in the Queen's or RNA
India Company's forces.
The branch bank of New South Wales, at DenilLici3,
was lately entered by three men, armed and
who overpowered the manager and clerk, and carried
£1,200 in gold and notes.

It is mischievous to bold out premiums for deltrive appear.
Loom, especially in articles used for food, where qualaints,
wholoomeocas are nnot important. Traders with the
have pros ad its injurinumeas b airing higher prior for the
" handsomest" tea; for the lading how very much
more they obtained for tea when wade "good leeid4:twew sod
wet over with powdered colour, prepared for Whoa
ad qualities no." laced" with the mese powder, low prised
brown flavourless. leaves con be readily mixed of with the hod
early growths; tits Minas thus inerearo thesir prod% at the
consumer's expense, whkh could not be duos if they were not
slloaed to cover the Maros with powdered colour. HOMPIII•11%
Pure Tea is perfectly *hotelmen and .• always pod Wild,' kr
it oundete of the Spine crop, which bee no need to be air
"wired with powdered colour. Sold is eseled pedre_,a bY
authorised Avesta in every lows; for the. be this law lel
adverUsmosot In our columns.