The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

Othscellantows.

Mr. D. W. Harvey has entered his earnest protest
against the new system of private thief-catching which
has sprung up of late, and whereby the Forresters,
Fields, and others have set up in the business of detec-
tion on their own amount without atmountability to any
authority, but with all the powers of a constabulary.
Mdlle Magnin, fourth daughter of the Marshal, is
to be married to • Id. Haentjens, who possesses a for-
tune of three or four million francs, and who is son of
the former chief of the eminent mercantile firm of
Haentjens Freres, of Nantes. The Emperor gives the
' bride a marriage portion of 900,000 f.
A number of men engaged in forging Turkish bank
notes were arrested in Turin on the 14th. The copper-
plates and other iinplementa relating to their occupation
wero found in their possession.
The idea of another universal exhibition—mane
London, time 1881—is favourably received in some in.
quarters.
Hatred to the Austrians haa shown itself in the theatre
at La Panics at Venice by a violent demand for an
encore of a "chorus of conspirators" in the opera of
" Candiano IV,:" the manager refused to permit it,
and the performances came to an untimely close in an
uproar.
A Yorkshire Paper mentions the elopement of a
foreign teacher of music with • certain married lady in
the NllllB Vka., jimmied of, it is said. £5OO • year in
her own r lit. The foreigner has left a wife and two
children behind him.
The amount paid by the theatres of Paris, during
1857, to their various authors, was close upon £40,000,
sterling.
The Guildhall of Rochester has been seined in execu-
tion for a debt of 12,1240 to the Town Clerk.
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The French academy of moral and political scf•noes.
has elected Mr. George Grote a oorresponding member
for the section of General and Philosot•hical History, im
the room of Lord Macaulay, elected foreign member.
The Canadian propose to call their new capital Via-
toria, retainining the Indian name Ottawa for the river
on whib it has its site.
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Mr. Bates of the firm of Paul, Strachan, and Co.,
has been let at liberty.
The Bill for suppressing false titles of Nobility in
Prance is to be persevered in. The ladies say the laugh
will now be against the rougher sex, whose imposture
will be unmasked, and the fingure of ridicule pointed at.
the " noblesse de crinoline." -

The receipts of the Governors of Queen Anne's
bounty during the year 1856 amounted to £'248,276, and
the concurrent disbursements to £248,002; £48,422 was
advanced on mortgage to build, &a., glebe houses, and
£49,141 for the purchase of stock; £72,416 was paid to,
the clergy; £39,372 for the erection of resident houses.
A grand national rose show is to be held in London.
on the let of July.
Lord Suffolk's pictures—or the stolen ten, which were
recently recovered—will be exhibited at the British In-
stitution this year.
The Bev. Mr. Gartskill, incumbent of Whitworth,,
being dangerously ill, his son who was studying at Cam-
bridge, was sent for. A few minutes after be reached
home fell down dead, from heart disease. The father
was kept in ignorance of the sudden and painful event.
The blanks of Jamaica have had a military fit, and SCP
many have entered the West India Regiments that
other labourers have demanded higher wages. As yet,
employers have succeeded in resisting this, but it is
thought they must eventually yield.
As the aristocracy of Milan will not attend the balls of
the Archduke Maximilian, he admits traders and other
plebeians to his entertainments. He gave great offence
lately to the few noble persons present at a ball by dime-
ing with the daughter of a cotton-merchant and paying
her great attention.
The Baptist denomination propose to establish, in the
name of General Havelock, and in connection with their
College in Regent's Park, two scholarships for Indian.
, solemn. A bust or portrait will adorn the College hall
or examination-room.

There has been a grand parade of all the the Govern-
ment Inspectors of &boob at the Privy Council Office
within the last few days. They were about fifty in
number.

--171;;;:eduetion of postage in Austria has had the in.
evitable effect of vastly inoreasing the numbers of letters
forwarded. Thus the number of lettere passing through
the Vienna Post Ottlos in 1857 wag more than double
the total of 1851, while the receipts Morseled from
861,301 florins to 1,029,919 florins.
Dr. Livingstone hem been honoured with • private
interview with the Queen, to whom he explained hie
plans.