The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

THE Hon. Colonel Percy Herbert has been elected for
South Shropshire, in the Conservative interest, without
oppodtion.
A WOODEN house near the railway at Drogheda was
set on fire a few days ago by a spark from a passing
train. The dwelling was burnt to the ground.
THE personalty of the late Duke of Northumberland
has been sworn under P.5)0,000.
. . . .

BY a Bill brought before the Rouse of Commons, the
Metropolitan police will be empowered to remove all
street.beggars, and persona either really, or professing
to be, destitute, to the wards provided for the recep-
tion of the casual poor attached to each workhouse.
EARLY one morning last week, • policeman, at Preston
turned his "bull's-eye" toll on a something standing in
the road, and was astonished to find it a large black
bear. The animal had escaped from a travelling
menagerie.
A DROVER, for cruelly beating a cow, at the North
London railway cattle station, has been sentenced to a
month's hard labour. _

A FEW days since a lunatic woman, in the House of
ledustry, Dougla, Isle of Man, crept in the night to
the bedside of an aged woman, who slept in the same
room, and severely bit one of her fingers, from the
effects of which silo died.
. . .

THE RUSSIAN PLAGUL—Tbe Government, with
creditable caution, has instructed the custom officers at
the various ports In the United Kingdom to exercise
" the utmost possible vigilance in the examination of
all vessels arriving from any of the ports of the
Baltic."
LANCASHIRE RELIEF—Mr. Farnhall states that the
number of persons relieved was diminished last week by
the number of 10,500. Mr. hi'Clure, the honorary
secretary, states that 7,327 operatives were employed
this month more than last mouth. The health of the
district was very satisfactory.
Trig, Globe thinks that in little more than three
months—the end of July—we may expect to see the
last day of the present Parliament.
On Friday, the Emperor of Austria received the
Right Hon. W. Hutt, ME, at a private interview, the
tenonr ot which is said to have been highly favourable to;
the success of the right hon. gentleman's mission to
Vienna—the conclusion of a free-trade treaty with
Austria--ealthough it is not to be concealed that the
difficult* are still formidable.
OEFOREI UNIVERSITY RIFRESENTATION.—AIthOtIab
Mr. (iathjorne Hardy, M.P., has intimated to his 000.
stituents at Leominster his intention to seek re-election
for their-borough, • canvass on his behalf among the
members of Convocation still continues, and, since thy
debate on the Irish Church, ham been prosecuted with
increased activity. The promoters of the movement
are stimulated in their efforts by the encouragement
already received, and it is understood to be their inteir
tien to nominate Mr. Hardy with Sir William Heathcote
at the ensuing election, with every confidence in a suc-
cessful, result. It is the etiquette of this celebrated
University that candidates for its representation should
neither issue an address nor cowman an elector.
Ti NEW ACT FOR THE DEFENCE OF CANADA AND
Ordlie, COLONIKS.—It is now enacted that colonies may
provide vessels and raise officers, &c. Volunteers
I relied in a colony are to form part of "The Royal
Naval Reserve." Her Majesty, by orders in Council,
yAiss the placing of vessels to secure its defence. Her
, Majesty may sccept the services of volunteers raised in
• colony; and when the offer is accepted the servioes of
the officers and men are to be placed under the Act of
1850, as relates to the Royal Naval Reserve raised in
the United Kingdom. The Act is not to impose any
charge on the Imperial revenues without the sanction of
Parliament.
BY the fourth annual report of the inspectors of
salmon fisheries in England and Wales issnsd on
Wednesday morning, we learn that the operation of
the Act of 1861 has been beneficial beyond expectation,
that the fish are larger and more numerous in ever
stream which the salmon frequent, and—hest index.r
all—that the price last yea: was lower than that of the
year before.
CURE OF 14 YEARS' ASTHMA, By DR. Looocx's
Putmonie WArses.—" Hindley,—l have much pleasure
in transmitting the following copy of a testimonial I
received this morning.—T. WALLS." "West Houghton,
—Dear Sir,-1 feel great pleasure in informing you of
the post benefit my wife has received from the use of
the Dr. Looock's Wafers I bought from you. She can
now sleep soundly the whols of the night, without
being disturbed by liar sough and shortness of breath,
although for 4 years before I got the wafers she lied not
been able to sleep more than a very short time at once.
She is better now than she has been for the last 14 )mars.
—Joule BCH/HOLEY." Dr. Locock's Pulaionic Wafers
, instant relief, and rapidly cure asthma, consump-
.on, coughs, and all disorders of the breath and lungs.
All throat affectioes are immediately relieved by allowing
• wafer eocasionslly to &wive in the mouth. To
gingers and public speakers they are invaluable for
clearing and strengthtunug the voice. They have a
plermant taste. Price is. lgd., 2a. 86., 4s. Cel., and Ha
per'bor. Sold by all medicine vendors.
The following is an extract from the Second Edition
(page 188) of this Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of
All Royal College of Physicians, at London, by Dr. G.
published by Longman and CO. :—" It is DO
11.44 dligODO ia .this compilation (speaking of the
glSbnemaseparisd tbat we have no purgative mass but
what sontabla aloft; yet we know that liceinorrhoidal
except it be in the form of
PILI" wildeti chiefly consists of aloes.
4raproteßy, and tielonynia, which I think are formed ,
(nte • sod of compound extract, the acridity of walk
tsalitipted, I tuspeid, by an alkaline prosier, end by,
1•111111 iniptedignit (unknown to me) of an aromatic teas
!pap% think ito better and no worse of it for lb
, being • patent medicine. I look at it as an article of
ifiricottuirrissi,dstbmillietteitmedemea, end do net heat-
**, to anyibis the be Me& pill in the kingdom; a
muscular purge, a masonsplmji, cad a hydrogogue
purge combined, and theirete properly sontrolled by
a diligent andoorripssat. That it does not commonly
prodsni, idoetie pub, I attribute
to tgbe tkosonskly soltbleoto that no undisraelved
articles adhere to the mucous Membrerne.

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