The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-15 00:00:00

Vampsbirt.

SOUTH A mrro The Mails. —The Royal Mail
Company's steamship Tyne, Captain Jalisco., was
despatched hence on Wednesday afternoon with the
Brazil and River Plate mails, 114 passengers,
£50,000 iu specie for the Port of Rio, £17,000 in
bar silver, £19,300 in gold coin, of the value of
16.5.50, and a full cargo of valuable merchandise.
The North Atlantic Company's steamship Adriatic,
Captain J. J. Comstock, left Havre and Cowes the
same day, taking out French and English mails
for New York, a full complement of passengers, and
full cargo.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers
China and Behar left Southampton on Friday for
Bombay, to be placed on the mail stations in the
Eastern seas. These stamens will increase the Com-
pany's Evitern fleet to thirty-nine ships.
Tux GREAT E The great ship was
thrown open on Thunglay for the benefit of the
South Hants Infirmary, the whole rsoripts of the
day being generously devoted to that szeollsat in-
stitution by the directors of the company. Visitors
were conveyed to and fro from the docks by the
South-Western and Ruby steamers, which vessels
bai been kindly lent for the purpose by the South-
Western Company and the Isle of Wight
Steamboat Company, to which they niapeobleelf be-
long. They ran at regular intervals from ten in the
morning till eight in the evening, and several hun-
dreds of persons evaded themselves of the opportu-
nity to visit the big ship before her approaching de-
parture for America. -The charge was 2a. 6d. per
head, including transit to and ho, and a large num-
ber of children in public schools were taken at 6d
each. The Peninsular and Orients/ Company
liberally gave the services of the bands of three
of their vessels in port, one of which was placed on
Iboard each of the tenders, and the third played on
the dock quay during the day. The two steamers,
and also the Great Eastern, were gaily dressed out
in flags. The number of visitors would have been
considei ably larger had the weather been flue.
WINCH eartc—The Hampshire Regiment or
Militia Infantry is now assembled in is city for
twentpseven days' training. There are about four
hundred men.

TUKCWtONJKSIIIP.—A County Court. for the
election of a coroner in the room of Mr. Shishbeant
deoemod, hold on Wednesslay. at as Cast*
when Thomas Pain, Esq., solicitor, of Whitchtush,
was proposed by the Mayor of Winchester, and
seconded by J. &Doke, lbq., of Odiham, &s Conine
for the county, in place of the late J. C. Rebhan»,
Esq. No other person being proposed, be weedily
elected. . . _ -

The Volunteer Rite Corps.—The
Town Council. has granted the came psrmiesion to
store their arias in one of the rooms of the • upper
story of the Townhall, and the following arrange-
moots bare been made for drill :—Timeday wad
Saturday morninsa, at half-past lie; Monday, Wed-
D.,,,day, and Friday evenings, at ha/fleet is, ie
the Folly Bowling Green.
Roamer. Voir/steer litge Chrps. Captain
Hendenion has announced his appointments of non-
commissioned attars, which have been measly
influenced by the drill-serjeant's report ef the
members who had most siwideortaly *deeded be
drill. Marrs. H. Drew, J. hare,' 4. Medi°,
W. H. Salter, and Pratt (of TytbeilY), re
wirjeente ; and Messrs. A name, z. a
Cole, D. Newman, Olding (TAW/ell), aa4 F.'
Me are pawed as corporals: The miroy. ma*
wets bog* given general setuideobee.

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