The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-26 00:00:00

Gcnttal Nctoo.

GOVERNOR ETRE passed Ms boyhood M Home*, of
which place his father was at that tine vimr.
DR. Batt, of Bowness, near Kendal, baii been fined
151. for rattling to have his child vaccinated.

DEMONSTRATIONS end counter-demonstrations ere
being organised in Natal in anticipation of the arrival
of Dr. Colenso.

Trio Paris newspaper, the Temps, says that Stephens,
the Fenian " Head Centre," WAS seen on the Boulevards
on Sunday.
TEIS Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has dismissed Mr.
Marquise, Governor of Richmond Bridewell, from which
Stephens escaped.

TA K twrnty-fifth anniversary of the arrival in Paris of
the First Napoleon's ashes his, as usual, been marked
by a commemorative mats.
ELIZA ADKINS, who was sentenced to death at the
Leicester assaires for the murder of her son at Thring-
aton, has been reprieved.

Beira Life says the number of races run duricg the
putt season was 74 in exceAs of those brought to itaue in
1884, and the increase of horses paying racehorse duty
was 91.

Two Fenian prisoners were sentenced to ten yeara'
pen.l servitude eacb at Cork on Tne.d.y. Their names
were Bryan Dillon and John Lynch, the former •
"Centre. "

THE Army and Navy Gazette expects that the gross
stim reqcired for the maintenance of the navy dtving
the year 1866-1867, will be leu than that, uked for in
1865 1866.

Tug yonng Prince Imperial nf France has bad his first
bathie, under tbe an pervi..b nof his august father. He
bits made a fair bag for • beginning—five rabbits and
Four pheas.nt..

AT the Stafford ass're,, George Tavernor, a young
man who shot at hie aiater while be was intoximed, in-
juring her severely, wa-s on Monday sentenced to nine
months' imprisonment.

TEX Cardinal Archbishop of Chambury has jn,t
issuid • pastoral letter against Freemasons ia general,
and those of France in partionlar. They will, he mays,
all be damned without eiception.

ENGLAND AD AMERICA. —lt /8 imported LIMA a pri•
vete anderdtandin4 exist 4 between the Gov.rnment of
Great Britain and Washington, by which the claims
made by America for loseea at sea will be pacifically
settled.

Br the arrival of the Cape msil, which brings news
up to the 14th of November, we learn that the Basuto
war eontinned, and was likely to do so. Another
&mot° raid on British territory was alleged to have
been made.

Nferrv-PiVI Conservative members M the new Par-
liament are deaorMed as favourable to Parli+mentary
Reform in variont qua-d shapen, while 194 of the
urns patty are represented as having made no declara-
tion on the question.

Tug result of the inquiry into the rating of Leeds
shows that if • LI franchim b the chief feature of the
coming Reform Bill. tle constituency, now numbering
7000, will be doubled. The rating in Leeds is only •
fraction below the rack rental.

CARDINAL BONALD, Archbishop of Lyons, appears
ta think the temporal kingdom of the Pope in dsnger,
for he has issued a circular to the fsithml, enjoining
them to ode' dp pryers to the holy Virgin, for her
intercession on ita behalf.

ADDRESSES were presented to the new King of the
Belgians by both branches of the Legi-latttre on Mon-
day. Both addresses spoke of thu devotion of the peo-
ple to the present dynasty. The King, in reply, de-
clared that he was animated solely by constitutional
principles.

IT in stated that Lord A. Hervey, the Hon. Kr.
Strutt, and Mr. Corre have been seised by brigands in
Greece. £l,OOO ransom was demanded. and the bri-
gands allowed Lord A. Hervey and Mr. Strutt to go at
liberty to look after the money, wlule Mr. Corre was
held as • hostage for its payment.
THRICE Men MVO kinad in Loudon on Tuesday. They
were engaged in the manufacture of the new chemical
toy; Iknown as Atephiste ("him Se are. By come mecca
or other the composition exploded, and two of the roes
were killed on the. spot; while the thin l was killed by
leaping headlong trim the tipper storey into the street.
The Morning Star announces that it "has reason to
believe" that the dispee between Spain and Chili is on
the eve of an amicable settloment. It says Slut the
mediation of England has been accepted by Spain, and
there is reason to believe th t the latter Power is pre.
pared to abide by the proposals of England for a friendly
Itrrengement.

MIL CLAY. M.P. far Hull, has intimated to the Fe•
cretary of one of the reform associations in that town
his intention, early in the ensuing session, to introduce
a reform bill, framed in the spirit of the speech he de-
livered on the subject just before the lut election. Mr.
Clay then proposed to give votes to persons who paean
examination of the kind required for tide-waiters.

ACOORDING to the Paris correspondent of the Morning
&di', great efforts were in,ide, during the last few days
of King Ledpold'e life, to convert him to Catholicism.
While he was asleep, the evening before his death, the
Duchess of Brabant put a Medal of the Virgin round his
neck, which, when he awoke, he did set remove, but
steadily refused to receive a priest.

THE Paris journals report that Stephen., the "Head
Centre," who escaped, or rather was released, from his
prison quarters at Dublin, is making himself quite at
home in the rrench oapital. He does the fashionable
lounges daily, and is to be seen at • theatre or some
other place of amusement almost every night. He has
two boon companions, and has been ettgared as an
'extra foreigncorrespoodent of the New York herald."
Tita,young King of Bavaria has to pay forfeit for
recognising Italy by the loss of a rich wi(e in the person
of Maria Therese; Meese of Duo de Modens, one of the
wealthiest heiresses in Europe. This lady, born in
1849, not only succeeds to the vast inheritance of the
d'E•te family, but to its reversionary righter on the
duoliy, which are vested in her. Her unele positively
refuses his sanction to a match which had been almost
soncluded early in the present year.

CAPAIN. reirelerirf, the Confederate soldier' whose
trial for tenisnitim commenced at Cork on Thursday,
was acqutt.d on Sattirdey, the legal point misfit that
he could not be guilty of tticaeowfslony, as he had not
set foot in this oountry before hii arra*, being fatal.
The trial of Charles Underwood 0' C,onnell Is now pro-
cowling. The clerk of a Rlfast solicitor has been appre-
hended on the charge of Fenianism. The Lord-Lieu-
tenant has declined to appoint a formal oommiesion to
inquire into the escape of Stephens, hut has appointed
two sergeants of the Dublin police to act as chief and
deputy-chief warders of Richmond Bridewell.
SIONDLING in Calcutta seems to have reached • high
point of perfection: it wee asserted that the last re-
maining channel of the Heoghly had silted up. A deep
distrust of the flooghiy °lists among all merchants,
pilots, and seamen, who therefore accented the siltine
up almost without inquiry. The departure of the mail
steamer was suspended, all eves turned eagerly to Port
Cumin, the alternative port of Calcutta, 'hetet raa
to £5O premium, and the in-ootninz steamer steamed
tip as usual. The thing was a hose by which SOM.` one
or other had netted • few thousands, and the whole
trade of Bengal bad been thrown momentarily out of
god.