The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-29 00:00:00

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The destruction of the remaining smiles of old
Rochester Bridge has been successfully accomplished.
A valuable coal•neld in said to have been discovered
in the Durham county, Toronto.
Thu Bradford Choral Festival Society received Her
Majesty's command to appear at Buckingham Palace
yesterday.
A French gentleman placed a packet of gunpowder in
his mouth, nnd then bred it. l'he result WM not so
satisfactory as he expected, for the poor gentleman was
not killed on the spot, but expired some time after in
much agony.

The C4erLan Journals have an "on dit " that Prince
Alfred will shortly repair to Berlin to enter the first
regiment of the Guards, in order to become acquainted
with tho Prussian military service.
Professor Sterndale Bennett has seceded from his pole•
tion in the Royal Academy of Music, and has requested
that his name may be withdrawn from the list or Mono.
rary Associates.
Three young noblemen from Senegal, of the brightest
ebony tint, have arrived from that French colony, and
have entered the military academy of St. Cyr.
M. Alexander Dumu, senior, has left Paris on a visit
to Count Gregory Besborodko, gentleman of the chain.
her to the Emperor of Russia. The Count is reported
to be enormously rich.
Professor Airy's son has been fined 20s. for bathing
In the reservoir of Greenwich Park. It was stated that
it would cost £4O to empty and refill the reservoir.
In boring an Artesian well, in Stockton, California,
the borer struck a red wood stump, 250 feet below the
surface of the ground, and more than 250 feet below the
level of the Pacific Ocean,
. . . .

Queen Christina, with her husband and children, are
again occupying Consul Bonaparte's old country seat at
Malinaison.
A young woman, at Gibraltar, recently destroyed her-
self by swallowing Inciter matches.
A chaplain in the United States' navy, writing from
St. Helena says that in the room were Napoleon died
there is now • threshing machine in operation, and in his
bed chamber stalls for horses.

M. de Pane has been at last removed to Paris. He
bore the fatigue of the journey with little inconvenienoe.
Damage to the extent of 100,000 francs was caused
by fire at Monp'ajar, near Lyons, last week.
Professor Owen liu been elected Fullerton Professor
of Physiology at the Royal Institution. The salary is
about £lOO per annum ; the duties, the delivery of
twelve lectures annually. The chair is usually held for
three years.
A "great Indian Submarine Telegraph Company" is
proposed—capital £1,000,000. The proposal is to
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thence by the Red Sea to Aden and Bombay.
Mr. Charles Dickens starts on a provincial tour of
readings about the first week in August.
In North Carolina, recently, a Mr. Bartlett, oonviated
of bigamy, was sentenced to be branded on the left cheek
with the letter B, to receive thirty-nine lashes on his
bare back, to he imprisoned thirty days, and then to re-
ceive thirty-nine lashes niore before his release.
A conflagration in Buk, province of Poeen, Prussia, •
few nights ago, destroyed the townhall, and about one
hundred houses, and reduced one hundred and twenty
families to misery.
The etiolate of London does not suit Marshal Pelts-
ser, it is sold' and his return to Paris, therefore le con-
'Wend probable. But perhaps the gallant marshal's,
meeting with the Duo D'Ammale may have something to
do with it.
Colonel Vardar, who was stabbed in • street at
Madrid some weeks ago, and whose life was for some
Sine in danpr, has almost entirely reoovered.
Mr. Philip James Bailey, the anthor of "Foetus,"
announces a new poem, entitled, "The Age Polities,
Poetry, and Criticism ; a Colloquial Satire,"
On Friday night last (says the Hertford Journal) the
Messrs. Wigton of Fownhope, eauht the immense
number of 11-1 fins salmon, all larp dill. Several large
"takes" have matured .previosaly, during the mount
season, but the one we now record is the largest that has
yet been brought under our notice.