The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

Pi iscellanto LW.

The Municipality of Zante have refused to grant to
England some ground required for fortifications.
The Swiss Envoy hu recommended the Swiss residents
of Paris not to hold their annual dinner, lest some un-
guarded remarks on the passport grievance might maps,
and provoke police .interferenoe.
The Press newspaper, which has hitherto been re-
garded as the weekly organ of the Conservative party,
has recently changed hands, and will henceforward be
devoted to the advocacy of the views of Mr. Newde-
gate, and those propounded by the Record.
A man found guilty of burglary at Carnarvon hurled
an inkstand at the head of Mr. Justice Crompton, but
it fortunately missed him.
The English Government has sent £lO to be distri-
buted among four Tyrolese who rescued a young
Englishman from • pinion' situation in September
last.
Mentini visited Milan, two years sgo, it is said, sea
courier in the family of a leading member of Parliament,
who has lately made himself conspicuous by the over-
throw of Lord Paimeriton's Government.
"We are not of thou," says the Paris Presse, "who
believe in the decline of England, but it strikes us that
her policy requires renovation. As England is the only
country into which the French ideas of 1789 have not
penetrated, there may be some reason to suppose that
she will, before long, be the scene of important events.',
Forty out of forty-six banks of New York have
already resolved not to continue the practice of allow-
ing interest on current deposits.
The reformers of Rochdale have resolved to establish
a Liberal Electors Society; and a committee has been
appointed to look out • Parliamentary candidate suited
to the liberal views of the proposed association.
The latest romance perpetrated by or about M. Alex-
andre Dumas, fils, is, that a Russian Princess is about
to be married to that elegant and moral writer.
The famous astronomical clock of the Cathedral of
Streeburg, says "Galignani," produced by means of
its machinery, with perfect accuracy, the various phaaes
of the recent eclipse of the sun. This cloak, as is
known, in addition to declaring the time, presents the
heavenly bodies aid their movements.
The colosmal equestrian statue in memory of Lord
Londonderry, to be erected in the centre of the market-
place at Durham, is to be executed by Signor Raffaele
Monti. The county subscription amount' to above
£2,00U,
The Time. having expressed its disbelief that the
Queen had given Lori Derby power to dissolve Parlia-
ment, the Press replies on authority, "That Lord
Derby is Premier with full powers; and that If the
House of Commons, after discarding one Government,
were immediately after to quarrel with another, the
country at large would immediately be called upon
to decide whether such proceeding met with its ap-
proval."
Miss Arabella and Miss Elisabeth Portman have
created no little sensation in the fashionable circle., of
which they are distinguished ornament', by their che-
mical experiments in their elegant laboratory. Miss
Portman has lately tried the effect of great heat on the
ruby. At a high temperature the red ruby became
green; ae the cooling advanced the green tint gradually
faded and became brown, and the redness of the brown
tint gradually increased till the mineral recovered its
primitive red colour. A green ruby suffered no change
of colour from heat, and a bluish green became much
paler at a high heat, but resumed its original colour by
000llng. This scientific pursuit is a novelty in the
amusement of the fair sex.