The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

Paiscellaneows.

The retirement of the Bishop of Rochester, the oldest
bishop in the Chervil, Is announced.
The last slave in Pennsylvania, of all those whose who
were manumitted under the eat abolishing slavery in
that State, died recently at the age of 103.
The Duke D'Arunele (son of the late Louis
Philippe, ex-King of France) hu recently purchased an
estate near Evesham, where he has taken up his resi-
dence.
A Russian Captain Brochoffski is giving some lemons
In horse-taming, • I. Rarey, at Hawkins's Riding School,
South Street, Park Lane. He is, it is said, quite mu-
oessful.
A rumour prevailed early in the week to the effect that
Mr. Gladstone would become Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in the room of Mr. Disraeli, moved to the India
Board, preparatory to succeeding to the Governor-
Generalship, in the event of Lord Canning's resigna-
tion.
Lady Margaret Lavuton Gower, wife of the Hon.
Frederick Laveston Gower, brother of Earl Granville,
died on Saturday evening, from measles, supervening
upon her confinement. -Ledy Margaret was twenty-
eight years old.
Upwards of fifty special trains ran between London
and Epsom on the Derby Day, and the Railway Com-
pany took upwards of £l,OOO more than on any former
=vision.
A coffee-router of Newcastle has been fined £3OO on
several charges of having sold coffee and pepper with-
out • license, and also with having sold adulterated
mustard and pepper. The name of the unfortunate
router is Sorivener.
Captain Bonaparte, of the Chuseurs d'Afrique, who
by marriage with Miss Paterson, is grandson of Prince
Jerome, is to be appointed orderly-officer to the Em-
peror.
A young Paris shown= having been rejected by a eir
to whom he had paid some attention, followed her to her
workshop one morning, and plunged • large packing
needle into her breast. the wound- is dangerous.
A match has been made for 800 sovereigns, with Ton-
opholite, Set,, against Fite-Roland, Set. 71b5., to be run
over the T. M. M. course, at Newmarket, in the First
Spring Meeting next year.
At an influential meeting held at Cork, last week, •
subscription fund was organized, in aid of the widow and
eleven children of the late distinguished sculptor, John
Hogan. £lOO was subscribed in the room.
The Dowager Countes of Effingham is united in mar-
riut• to a scripture-reader connected with one of the
Brighton cherehea. The bride is upwards et eighty, end
the bridegroom half &century younger.
Lord Brougham read at the French Academy, last
week, a paper entitled "Analytical and Experimental
Inquiries no the Cella of Bees," the object of which was
to point out the errors into which both mathematicians
and naturalists have fallen on the subject.
The Tribunal of Chambery has condemned the Princes,
de &Ira' to 700 francs fine for having, through impru-
dence, wounded a servant with • drawing-room pistol.
A parliamentary return shows that the natives of
India hold a leas proportion of the Territorial Debt
Stook than was suppoud. In 1847, the Government
Debt was £36,538,693; of this, £23,448,877 was held
by Europeans, and £13,089,288 by natives. It is
believed that of the loans raised since 1847, the propor-
tion taken by natives has been about the same.
Lord Chief Jostle° Cockburn, who was prevented by
an affection of the throat, in the nature of bronchitis,
from attending to his judicial duties during the whole of
last term, with the exception of one day, on Saturday
morning took his seat in the Court of Common Pleas,
and proceeded with business in the usual way. He ap-
pears to have entirely recovered from his late attack.
An inquest was held on the body of Mr. Rutter, who
was found dead in his bedroom while on a visit to his
brother at Oriel College, Oxford, on Tuesday evening,
when, from the evidence adduced, the jury returned a
”rdiots to the effect that death resulted from a fit of apo-

plexy.
A bronse 'tains to Jenner, the diacoverer of vaeolne•
nation, plead alongside of the monument to Sir °barley
Napier, in Trafalgar Square, London, was inaugurated by
Prince Albert on Monday. Hie Royal Highneu made •
short and appropriate sddrus, and, in replying to the
vote of thanks to himself, expressed a hope that vecoina•
Mon would be still further spread ; for it was deplorable
to think that, through neglecting it, there were still in
this Goan ry about 5,000 individuals annually numbered
among the vlotims.