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

Miscellaneous.

Swallows are now seen daily flying over the Severn.
Queen Christina is expected to pass the summer in the
neighbourhood of Paris.
A British agent is in Baltimore, oommismioned to
purchase 3,000,000 feet of ship timber.
The rwntly.aoquired pictures from the Lombardi
colleotiorare now exhibited to the public in the National
Gallery.
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The agricultural accounts from Ireland represent the
condition of the land and the young spring crops as ex-
cellent.

In the church of the Virgin, in Elbing, Prussia, the
bodies of three women and a child have been found
buried in • secret chamber over the saeristy. They must
have been embalmed or preserved by some preparation
of arsenic, as they were quite fresh when exposed to
VOW.

Statistical returns, the Paris Union asserts, have just
revealed the fact that there are now in France 1,800,000
young females of • marriageable age who are on the
look-out for husbands !
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A monument to the late Dr. T. G. Lockhart has been
plaoed in Drybugh Abbey, where he is interred close to
the remains of his alustrious father-in-law, Sir Walter
Soott.

Lord Wodehouse, who has retired from the British
Embassy at St. Petersburg, will arrive in England in
the course of the ensuing month. It is stated that the
advent to power of the Derby party induced him to ex-
pedite his retirement from the embassy.
Private John Dodd, of the 44 Regiment was sentenced
to fifty lashes and imprisonment for eighty-four days for
sticking Serjeant James Banton in the face. The first
part of the sentence was executed on Monday in the
presence of the garrison.
Aooounta from Port-au-Prince, Hayti, represent that
city, and indeed the entire island, as suffering terribly
from the combined efforts of a financial crisis and •
small-pox epidemic.
There is • rumour current, that the Duke of Idalak-
hors stay in London is destined to be only a temporary
one, and that for even • very limited period ; after which
Count Persigny is to return to his post.
A rainbow of • brillisrt red hue, in the west, opposite
to the sun at rising (which was about five o'clock in the
morning), was observed at Wigton last week, says the
Carlisle Patriot.
If newspaper enterprise be a true test of prosperity in
a new land, Victoria, in Australia, is • most prosperous
place. There are now published in Victoria—Daily
papers, 8; bi-weekly, 8 ; tot-weekly papers, 21 ;—total,
40. More we think, than in Parn--eertainly snore
than in Vienna.
Lord Norreys, eldest son of the Earl of Abingdon, and
by his mother, grandson to the late Archbishop of York
(Vernon Harcourt), has been received into the Roman
Catholic Church by Cardinal Wiseman.
The Colony of Victoria has made, by its omen the
Legislative Assembly, the noble donation of £2g,000 to
the India Relief Fund. In addition to this grant, it is
understood that subscription lists for the fund have been
opened in the colony, and that several thousand pounds
have been subscribed.
filadlle. Orsini, who (mind mush difficulty in getting
her passport at Venice, made her first appearance in the
ballet at Her Majesty's Theatre on Thursday night, and
displayed • nimbleness of foot that one would have
thought capable of overcoming any impediment to pro-
gress, whether official or otherwise. In the bill she is
simply styled Halle Annetta.
The Council of the Order of the Legion of Honour
have decided that the order of St. Faustin, instituted by
Sonlouque, the Black Emperor of Hayti, shall be ad-
mitted among the decorations which French subjects are
allowed to wear. Soulouque it may be remembered,
made • successful coup d'etat: