The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-19 00:00:00

MB MACKONOCRMI bits written a latter in which he
vehemently advocates the separAtion a Church and
State.

ASCE:MISHAP Mslingo him siready got a donation of
C5OOO from the Marquis°, But i.,wards the new ROMIIII
Catholic Cathedral at Westminster.

EARL spEnrga made his pubdo entry into Dublin on
Seturday. His Excellency, el was surrounded by a
brilliant military staff, was received with loud cheering.
FORTHCOMING MARRIAGZ3 IN HIGH 1471—Mr.
Ltrad, the First Commissioner of Works, Is shortly to
be man ied to Miss Guest, daughter of Lady Charlotte
Gu ist.—A marriage is arranged to take place in February
between Capt. Gordon Macpherson, of Cheney, Cold-
stream Guards, and if 1w Bertha Marsh, second daughter
of Matthew Henry Marsh, FAq. , late MP. for Salisbury

EARL GRA/WILLI prodded at the annual dinner o
the Shropshire Chamber of Agrisialture, which was held
at Shrewsbury on Saturday evening. In Proanalog
110000,111 to the chamber of which he is the president, the
noble earl indicated the more important Tuitions to
which such institutions might well devote their attentioa
Amongst these were elementary education, the relations
between landlord and tenant, the drainage of hand, the
utilisation of sewage, and the adjustmeet of the game
laws.

Tax High Cheroh party met on Tuesday to discuss in
emeteee the lea verdiet of the Privy Council upon
Martin v. Mactonochie. Raving upon a former
occasion pertinently upheld the dictum of the game
oracle on the question of" Relays and Reviews." they
could not in this we consistently disobey it: to bow
submissively and sotttiesoently would, of emu, offend
many of the ultra-Ritualists; to bid it actual deffanee
would be little short of sheer whim: so they
promised the the matter by offering the will for the deed,
and resolving to the effect that "we would disobey
" you—but we doesn't."
THII order in council in the Meekonoehie e has
been issued. It embodies a report from the Judisial
Committee, in which the particulars of the cask
together with the judgment recently read by Lord
Cairns, are *et forth. It is then added that "her
Majesty having taken the said report into oossideretten.
wee pleased by and with the advice of her Privy Commit
to approve thereof and of what I. therein recommended,
and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the mei be
duly and punctually observed, complied with, sad
ferried into execution. Whereof all persons whom it
may concern are to take notice sod savers themselves
amordingly." It is much doubted whether the extreme
Ritualists will obey this imperial initiation. OD
Sunday many of them used • "litany of reparation for
the dishonour offered to the sacrament.

GIOIA? CAWS( OF IIACCIRIL. An extraordinary
quanit y of mackerel was landed at Portsmouth last
Thursday from fishing boats that had ran in before •
fresh southerly brooms from their fishing grounds. AU
the maokerel bitten by the dog fish were disposed of by
the salesmen to the local fish hawkers for pale in
Hampshire, all the best fish landed at every import
bring, of gown, secured for Billingsgate. Some hun-
dred' of the smaller kind of dog fish, averaging from
between 18 to 24 inches in length, were also landed from
the mackerel boats, and sold at • low pries to the lasi
hawkers. These fish, properly skinned and cleaned,
are considered by many, when cooked, to be evon
preferable to maskoral. One "dog" was upwards of six
feet in length.
EXTRAORDINARY CASS OF SOKNAZEULDIN.— A
reliable correspondent sends Bristol Dail y Post the
following :—At one of the gatherings of notability' for
Christmas and electioneering rejoicrinp in Gloucester-
shim a most curious case of " sleepwalking," or, as
• gentleman humorously expressed it, " of walling in
their shirts," took plan during the small hours of the
feast-night aforesaid. A gentleman, when all was
bushed, was seized with a fit of somnambulism, and on
entering the chamber occupied bye fair demoiselle was
encountered by his own son, who also had made a trip
in Ai" " sleep" or " shirt," and war in his geoinenbuliant
quitting the said room. It is mg strange to say that
both father and son were suddenly restored to their
waking and artonished senses; and the poor young
lady was so frightened that she unogresoulously made
her exit from the haunted mansion at four o'islolik of
the same too-eiejt.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDINT.—A very remarkable
accident, resulting In the death of a son of Yr. Wyatt,
of Troy.house, tfeamouth, agent to the Dubs of Beau.
fort's Honniontlishire estates, has jest ceourred, mu
deceased, William Cecil Wyatt, was playing two
brothers, at Trophouse on Saturday, and is 'he course of
play he hid himself behind • door. Hts brother Geoffrey
took op a long stick, and guldenly throat it between the
door and the door-post, just as the demised wee about
an peep out. The 'widowing of the anion erased the
stiek to penetrate the eye between the eyelids and
eyelaah, and the stick broke leaving a portinstwo and
• half inches long in the. This it was foand
to extract, and the :nor boy died lroin the
the wound, to the great distress, it need astroaly b.
mid, al his brotherAlle inmost own di his 4514.