The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

Aiwa'lmmo as.

We are informed that the Revs. Messrs. Fothergill
and Worms', two curates of the parish of Knights-
bridge. have seceded from the Church of England, one
from St. Paul's and the other from St. Barnabas, last
week, aml that they have since been received into the
Church .4 Rome.

The King of the Belgium' has just founded a charitable
institution in Coburg, under the name of the " Leopold
Foundation for the Treatment of the Sick," and en-
dowed it with 100,1100 florins.

"King Maximilian of klavaria intends," says the Post
Ampt (losette, 'lO make a journey to Spain in Feb-
ruary. His Majesty's absence will extend over several
months."

Queen Louisa of Sweden. Princess of Holland, hes
published, under the peemionym of Jane Wincome, a
volume in Swedish, translated from the English, en-
titled "The Labourers in the Lord's Vineyard." The
book is sold for the benefit of an hospital founded by
the Queen soon after her arrival at Stockholm.
The Duke de Malakoff has returned to Paris fr)m
England. „
The Pot! Laureste has written a poem for the Corn-
ed! Magazine. The poem is %bort, and bears the title
of " Ti th on ."

The aristocratic officials of the Viennese Cabinet, it is
said, hare engaged to avre gratuitously in order to
lighten the public burden.. The Archdukes, who hay*
private property, have wade the name over for • period
of five years.
. . . . . . .

Lord Clyde will, in all probability, arrive in Dover
Doan India by the overland route, vi& Marseilles, on or
about the 15th inst.

Th. ilar.luis of Breads 'bane has given a subscription
of .1:500 towards the fund for equipping the Breadal-
bane Volunteers.

A Swiss, named Jules Henri Hobert, was found dead
inc railway carriage at Holyhead on Saturday week.
. .

l'olosiel 'Colt riots Invented a revolving shot-gun,
which upon a late trial, put 175 pellets in • circle of
12 inches diameter, penetrating seventy-five sheets of
ordinary brown paper. The distance was thirty yards.
A married woman, named &boles, has died at Black-
burn from injuries received from her husband on
Christmas Eve. The man has been committed for trial
on a charge of manslaughter.
Mr George Agar Ellis. find paid Attaché at Constan-
tinople, is appointed first paid Attaché to her Majesty's
Embassy at Paris, in the room of Mr. Evan Montagu
Bailiie, appointed Secretary of Legation at Rio Janeiro,
. .

Al the Court of Divorce there' is now an arrear of
six hundred divorce cases, and • hundred and fifty pro-
bate and adunnstration caeca.

The Rouge of Thomas Hood have just been produced
in a German dress at Hanover.

France has acquired a footing at ZottUa, in Abyssinia,
and lias *cut out a military Governor. The increase of
the French in Egypt strikes travellers with *apprise.
The old cerrinony of bringing to the high table a
boar's head, bedecked witl: bays and ruaeinary, was
observed, as usual, at Queen's College, Oxford, on
Christmas Day.
A pitman and his daughter have been committed
for trial, the former for receiving, and the latter
stealing, a letter from tie Hartlepool Post Office,
containing bank note., cheques, &e. to the amount of
CAL

On the removal of further portions of the wreck of
the Royal Charter about £19,01.10 worth wore gold was
recovered, cusupriaing 1,486 sovereigns, 15 ounces of
dust, 106 rupees, 26 inguta,and 19 pieces of ingots, in all
about Mb. The ingots are all identified as belonging to
the Bank of Australasia, the Bank of New South Wales,
and the Onental Bank.

Mr. Willem Pssiner, of Edenderry, and Anne,
daughter of Mr. Janie' M'Alinden, of Slash, were tritely
married. The groom's age is eighty-five, the bride's as
twenty-eight.
A lecture on the importance Of Friendly Societies for
the working classes was delivered in the Lecture Hall,
Derby, last week, by Mr. Tidd Pratt, the registrar of
friendly societies.
The total force at present at Aldersbott, including
men on furlough, amounts to 16,000 of all arms, ol
which number about 13,000 are actually in camp,
divided into three brigades of infantry and one of
cavalry.
Mr. O'Grady, High Sheriff elect, of Castle Garde,
near Pallas, in the county of Limerick, has disappeared.
His absence has extended over a month.

Mr. Finnigan, wanager of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway, liu arranged • plan by which • train
Can be filled with troops and started within threw
minutes of their arrival at the station.

The Lords of Her Majesty's Co-M-1-cil have appointed
medical inspector*, under the Public Health Act, to in-
quire into the preNent state of vaccination in the
various districts of the metropolis.
A young Jeweaa, named Sole di Segni, was baptized
at Rome on the 214 nit. Countess Antonelli was god-
mother, and Cardinal Patrizi officiated at the care-
The ship Accrington arrived at Pernambuco from
Liverpool, with soldiers' wives and families, among
whom 65 deaths occured, owing to deficient ventilation,
the ship not having one porthole. The captain, chief
officer, and surgeon were poisoned by tartaric acid.
The surgeon only recovered. The matter is being in-
vestigated by the British Consul.
. . .

A serious collision, involving injury to a large number
of passengers and the loos of considerable property, took
place on Sunday evening week, near the Tilbury junc-
tion of the Colchester section of the Eastern Counties
Railway. It is • marvel that nobody wee killed.
Lord John Douglas Montague Scott, second son of
the fourth Duke if But:clench, died at Canestor Lodge,
near Rugby, on Tuesday last. He was born in 1809,
and niarried, in 1536, Alicia, eldest daughter of Mr. John
Spottiswoode. His Lordship does not leave any family.
Mr. J. W. Gilhart has retired from the potion of
General Manager of the London and Westminster
Bank, which be bias held since it. formation in Dal,
and is succeeded by Mr. Ewing; the manager of the
Bloomsbury branch. Mr. Gilbert will be recommended
to a seat in the direction at the next meeting.
The Universities of Oxford and Cauibridge have the
honour of dividing the four arclibiabopnce equally
between them; but the 36 bishoprics of the United
Kingdom are shared in the following proportions—
Cambridge, 17; Oxford, 13; Dublin, 6.
Tlioinas Giurett, of Wilmington, Delaware, • Quaker,
stated at the John Brown meeting in Philadelphia,
that he had been instrumental in aiding 2,245 slaves
to escape by the "underground railroad," besides about
200 more whom be had esaisted Wore he began to
keep an account.
Charles Annois, a Brazilian seaman, ooroiormted for
the murder of a captain of • vessel in which he (Aorboas)
was cook, has received • further respite to the 26th of
April. Inquiries are being made into his sanity, wc
believe.

A German egireeemer, H. Schwab., endeavoun to
show that certain furrow-like streaks observable npon
the surface of the moon are ascnbable to the existence
of vegetation. These streaks appear and disappear, he
says, according to the season.
The Chamberlain Reeling, pnvate secretary to the
King of Denmark, haa been dismissed. He was to leave
that country for Algiers.
The Danish barque Dariemark, which left Liverpool
POMO time ago on a voyage to see frrand..... put into
stauley (Falkland Islands), with her wheel damaged and
injuries to her rigging, caused by the rough weather
which she experienced off Cape Horn, the rounding of
which ocoapied six weeks.
A letter from Yowl says: Young Stalk PR of the
chief of the Opposition party in Transylvania, has Just
been placed under the surveillance of the police for six
nionths for having on the occasion of the opening
of the Trausylvanian Hamlin given a tout to "Our
brethren in exile."