The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-20 00:00:00

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FIRST DAY Or Tairts.—On Thursday the Lord
Chancellor, on the commencement of Easter Term, took
his seat for the first time in the Court of Chancery
since his elevation to the high office. His lordship held
his first levee that day at his residence.
THZ CHURCH.—" An Incumbent" writes to the Lon-
don Guardian: "Sir—The following passage occurs in
the printed report of Mr. Spurgeon's sermon, ' delivered
on :Sabbath morning, July sth, 1857, at the Music
Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens 'And I just announce
that the first chance I get to preach in a parish church
I will do it, and risk the consequence. They are our
structures; they belong to all England; we can give
them to whom we please; and if to-morrow the will of
the sovereign people should transfer those edifioes to
another denomination, there is nothing in the world that
can prevent it.' These words, at least, merit a snore
thoughtful consideration from his Episcopalian friends
than • good deal he utters.
ACTION AGAINST THE KENDAL AND WINDERMERE
RAILWAY COMPANY.—The action against this company
brought on the Dart of two young ladies, daughters of an
advocate at Edinburgh, has been compromised, causing
thereby no little disappointment to the lovers of gossip.
The injuries alleged to be sustained were loss of teeth
and damage to the jaw, tr.o., by a collision, owing to the
train from Windermere running into • siding, the
train from some unexplained cause having been wrong.
The cause was to have been heard at Liverpool during
the late anises, but was arranged without coming into
Court. The plaintiff required £l,OOO, and the defendants
offered £7OO, but eventually the ease was settled for
£750. _

Tale LATE CHEAP TRAINS PROM PETERBOROUGH TO
Lownow.—Upwards of 80 persons, some from• distance,
presented themselves at the booking °Moe of the
London and North-Western Railway Company at Peter-
borough on Monday morning week intending to proceed
to London for the advertised cheap fare; they were in-
formed, however, that the cheap trains had ceased to
run. Several declared that they had been induced to
proceed to Peterborough en route for London in oon-
sequence of the London and North-Western Company's
advertiseuient, and u no notioe of the discontinuation
of the running of the cheap trains had been advertised,
they said they should resort to the County Court to re-
cover the expense they had incurred to reach Peter-
borough. It in said that the clerks at the booking-office
were not aware that the cheap passenger train had been
discontinued until they arrived at the office on Monday
morning.
PHOTOGRAPHY ON BILL.—M. Person, Professor of
, Chymistry at the Conservatoire des Arta et Metiers of
Paris, has just published • most interesting discovery of
his, by which photography may be applied to the orna-
menting of silk stuffs. The bichromste of potash is •
substance commonly used in photography, being extreme-
ly sensitive to light. If a piece of silk stuff impregnated
with this salt be exposed to the rays of light penetrating
through the fissures of the window-blinds in • closed
room, the points were the stuff has received these rays
of light will assume, a peculiar reddish tint. Now, sup-
pose • piece of metal or of strong paper to be ant after •
given pattern, and to be laid upon • piece of silk pre-
ptred ea before ; if exposed to the sun, or, better still,
to simple daylight, the pattern will be reproduced in •
a few instant.. The pale red which the parts acted upon
by the light assume is so permanent that nothing can
destroy it; nay, it will fix other colours, such as madder,
eampeachy, &a., just like a mordant, and, in that ease,
it will modify the colour of those substances in absorbing
it. The experiment may be varied as follows :—Let •
fern leaf be laid on • piece of prepared 'ilk, and kes
fiat upon it by s pane of glass then that panel the
silk, which is protected by the teal will retain its original
colour, while all the rest will receive the impression of
light. as above described, forming the ground on which
the figure of the leaf will appear in white, grey, or what-
ever other other colour the silk may have had before
the operation. The richest patterns may thus be
obtained m plain silks, sad at • yelp small
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