The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-11 00:00:00

Miscellanea tus.

Lady Franklin, widow of the Arctic navigator, is a
present in Algiers.
Unfavourable accounts of the Russian crops have been
received. . .

The harvest in Franco is likely to prove very
abundant.
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The statue of Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of vaccina-
tion, is now erected in Trafalgar Square.
A detachment of wounded soldiers from Cawnpore
were received into Fort Pitt Hospital, at Chatham, last
week.
The property of the Church of England is calculated
to be worth £35,000,000.
Mr. Lavard has arrived in London from an extended
tour through the disturbed districts of India.
The French Government is seriously thinking of im-
porting 100,000 negroes into Algeria to give an impetus
to production there.
The seal fishery engages this season 254 sail, of as
aggregate tonnage of 29,272, and manned by 11,894
men. We have still, it seems, good nurseries for sea-
seen.

The Council of the British Association have changed
the day previously recommended for the Leeds meeting.
It is now fixed for the 22nd of September.
The Rev. A. Carver, late Second Master of St. Pees
School, is appointed to the Mastership of Dulwish
College.
Morgan is preparing for the press "an odd
volume," being the long-contemplated " Memoirs of her
Own Times," and dealing with the literary and social.
aspects of France during the years of Bourbon rule.
The whole outlay upon the new bridge at Chelsea
amounts to £81,319 Is. 10d. The estimated yearly in-
come from toll is £6,)0; and the estimated yearly cost
of collection, 050.
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Two colliers were "skylarking' at Barnsley lut week
when one of them playfully threw a bosom, which struck
his companion on the head, and killed him. A verdict
of " Manslaughter" was returned.
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives has con-
firmed the recommendation of the Senate to suppress
the transit duty on foreign coals arriving by sea in • Bel-
gian port to be sent to the northern frontier of
Franey.
We believe that Mr. Penney has been virtually ap-
pointed to the seat on the bench vacant by the death of
Lord Handyside ; and that Lord Neaves becomes the new
justiciary judge.
Mr. Roebuck was taken seriously ill on leaving the
House of Commons late on Tuesday night. The hon.
gentleman is somewhat better, and is now able to
resume his Parliamentary labours.
The last representative of • distinguished French
family of the ancient Regime, that of &Wilms, has just
died. The family ended very ingloriously in lib per-
son.

Bernard's trial, the whole °harp of *lsiah wan ham
by the British Exchequer, will cast over 832,000 ; while
the trial of Onini, Meryl, Buell°, and Gomez did sot
°canton en expenditure of more than 5,000 frame is
Yens,

--Vbecription headed by the Governor, has been set
on foot in Ceylon, for the purpose of presenting the
Prlncoes Prederielt.William of Prussia with pearl one"
mann to the value of £l,OOO.
The Bomar opened at the British Embassy in Paris,
for the relief of the English Tour in the Frontal metro.
polio, will realise from 400000 to 98,000, frank'.
The town of Frankenstein, in Silesia, has been almoet
entirely destroyed by Sr., Out of about 800 lumen,
400 are In ruin., including the Catholic Church ; shy
nen people perished In the Aimee, and about 8,000 are
left without Shelter.
A French boatwoman, whom husband and little
daughter were drowning in the river Call*, at Hewn,
bravely plunged In after them, and saved both their Ism,
She is a good swimmer, and Asa been instrumental in
saving sterol persons frm drowning.
An sires of the theatre at MarmAlles, named Jaws,
is about to enter a convent, The Marseilles journals
say that it MIA the intension produeed on her when
performing the part of lb sister of charity which 041/10t
her to take this cieWrinbiatlon.
Mr. Layard, who has just returned from India, has
coneented to deliver an address on India, in the Town
Hall on Wednesday. We understand that he hu
collided a mace of interesting information which ha
pro_poss to make known to the public in this way.
The Aoseistion for the Improvement and &tendon
of Scottish Univereities have presented a inetnorisi to
Lord Derby siting forth the messes they think milled
for, They ask for man and better•paid profesors, agile
tent professors, and retiring allowances for aged and
indrm profess',, In the University of Edinburgh there
should be 'complete shoo' of national and international
juripprudens. In all Scottish univenities there should
be an independent examining department. The Bradt'
ates should have some shareln the government of each
university. One or two electoral bodies should be
formed out of the whole body of the tioattish parks..
WItOKTI AXD MIANUXIII.—A Bill Of MT, Looks, Sir
J. Shelly, Mr. lirydgee Williams, and Mr. Schneider
anode that wheat, barley, MI, rye, beans and peas, he.,
must be sold by the imperial mum* of capacity, or by
the sack of four imperial bushels, or by the quarter of
eight imperial bushels; but the Act will not preclude
the selling of any ouch articles by the imperial measure
or by the each or the quarter, with a desuription of the
weight of the same 'puttied at the time of sale. No
quantity of fruit or vegetables above one imperial quart
must be sold by any local or customary measure not
being one of the imperial measures, unless the vessel or
instrument of measure be oonspiouotaly marked with a
label setting forth the net quantity of the imperial
weight or measure therein contained; otherwise, all
such sales will be void.

" Sic transit ploria munch." Tlas motto wee published
affixed to • diagram, representing a setting Run, it the time
the ionaerabie East India Company ose,sed as a trading cor-
poration it September 1884, and In some respect. the Illustra-
tion wee an apt one. When they brought low brown WV
Bohea Tea, they brought It as Bohm ''—ance that Una some
who desire to sell seemingly cheap tea have Induced the
Chinas to twist the Bolwa leaves into the ships of Gunpowder,
&a, and by the aid of powdered colours to brighten the tut-
ture of then counterfeit .or Ilk, genuine ercensigib:&
st the
Coppola main.° • blankeninFens. coalman high
price. In consequence; the pin IsbSo; the
consumer suffers immensely. cno=
,sttliqdk. purl)
Teak ivithout artlaciel fact* 4e the
Manse thaneelvet use t—Hoeultmas & Co., London, import
and supply them through Arms he every Sewn, laws/s
secured in Picket.; for Local Lin no Advertlauesnt in this
dsy. Met.