The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-15 00:00:00

faisscellaneatio.

There are now 50 petitions before the House of Corm
MOlll, signed by nearly 20,000 persons, for the adoption
of universal suffrage.
Lord Stanley and Sir E. B. Lytton have both been re-
elected without opposition.
Madame Ristori has signed articles with Mr. Gye for
&series of performances in London this season. The St.
James's Theatre has been taken for these perform.
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The proprietor of the Figaro is said to have sold his
paper for the sum of 250,000 f. M. de Pane is rather
better than otherwise, and his medical attendant' hope
that in a few days he may be pronounoed convales-
cent.
The Board of Inland Revenue has informed the Lon-
don bankers that, except in the mutual arrangements
between bankers, clerks presenting cheques will not be
recognised as representing their employers so as to
exempt such cheques, when drawn payable to " self"
and not to bearer, from the penny stamp.
The postage of all newspapers sent abroad on and after
theist of July, must, like the postage on inland news-
papers, be prepaid in stamps.
The Emperor Napoleon spends • couple of hours
every day at Fontainebleau rowing, His Majesty's phy-
sicians having recommended that form of exercise.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn is in future to be styled
" Baronet " instead of " Knight." His Lordship has
recently become • Baronet by inheritance.
Earl Talbot has assumed his title of Earl of Shrews-
bury, and is now prosecuting his claim to the estates,
the rents of which, we believe, have been largely re-
ceived by the Norfolk family, to one of whose members
it was bequeathed. The case turns on the validity of the
diisentailing document executed by the last Earl.
Miss Burdett Coutta has given £lOO towards the
fund for purchasing the late .Hugh Miller's geological
collection.
King Leopold will visit England this week.
The Duke of Mslakhoff dined with the officers of the
Coldstream Guards, at Windsor, last week, after inspect-
ing their barracks.
Sir Archdale Wilson has accepted the invitation of
his schoolfellows (educated under Valpy), convened
through Mr. Longo, of Spixworth Park, to the Valpeian
dinner, to be held this day (Tuesday), at which Sir James
Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, will preside.
Muffled peals were rung at Bury on the tidings reach-
ing that town of the death of Captain Sir William Peel,
The present Ministry have issued certain Treasury
minutes relative to the waste of the public money in
printing Parliamentary papers and blue-books. Fewer
copies are to be struck, all appendices are to be economi-
cally printed in mall type, and &general saving in paper
is to be effected.
Thomas Pearce, the " Shropshire Giant," who exhi-
bited himself at wakes and fairs, for upward/ of thirty
years, is dead.
The Saturday half-holiday is now enjoyed by the
workmen of Messrs Rennie, the famous engineers.
The first tube of the Albert-bridge, across the Tamar,
which is to conned the counties of Devon and Corn-
wall, has been lifted to its required height, 230 feet
above the bed of the river. It weighs between two and
three thousand tons.
Lord Mabnesbury has filled up the mission to Tus-
cany, left vacant by the strange flight of Mr. Howard, by
appointing as his successor Mr. Lyons, who has just con-
ducted with so much address, the unofficial negotiations
with Naples. Mr. Lyons is the eldest son of Lord Lyons,
and first entered the diplomatic service as Attaché at
Athens in February, 1839.
We (Time.) have reason to believe that a circular
has been issued by Lord Derby to his supporters, which
announces the intention of the Government to offer no
further opposition to the admission of the Jews to Par-
liament. While thus oorneding the political expediency
of this admission, Lord Derby seised the occasion to
reiterate his moral conviction that the Jews ought not to
sit in Parliament.
Sir Edward North Buxton, H.P. for East Norfolk,
died Friday morning at Colnehouse, Cromer. Sir
Edward's health had for some time been delicate,end he
obtained leave of absence about • fortnight sines. The
hon. baronet, who sank from a complete prostration of
the system. was In his 49th year, In polities he was •
moderate Liberal. The vacancy in the representation
will probably be contested. Sir Henry Btrathy recently
published an address declaring hie Intention to come
forward ass Conservative oanadata on th• first ()poor.
tunity.