The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

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Some of the influential men of Manchester have pro-
posed that Mr. Holman Hunt's picture should be put.
chmed for their new Free Art Gallery, and that ai,ouo
.hould he subscribed by eight individuals residing in
Manchester, with the view of offering that sum fur the
picture. Already three gextlemen have put down their
names for the •,,,,, unt
Steps have been taken to reopen the Polytechnic
Institution in Regent-street. The new company has
nearly completed the subscription list.
Count de Monteinolin and his brother Fernando are
in London. It is asserted that their other brother, Don
Juan. who has always Cabrera by his side, will protest
against the renunciation by hid eldest brother.
St. Jidin's Abbey farm, near Colchester, has been
purchased for the purposes 1.l a military drill-ground.
The extent of the farm imi about one hundred and sixty

acres.
The British oak is in danger. A correspondent
assures the railed Scrrice Gazete that, unless means
ore deci,eit for ',revolting the decay of the oak-tree by
the Maude that produce gall nuts, there will riot be •
single oak left in the coarse of a few years.
Theodore Parker. the eminent American author. died
at Florence on the 16th. He passed away without pain,
and conversed to the last, regretting only that he could
not live to finish much work he longed to do.
The whole of the Tartar population in the Crimea is
about to emigrate to Turkey. The Nord says that the
Rollsll.o Government, irritated end annoyed by the Tar-
tar hostility evinced during the Ciimean War, has
ordered the Tartars to remove into the interior of Rua-
sit or ensigiate t. Turkey, and naturally enough they
I chose the latter mount..
I A hotelier of French resident. in Switzerland, in refu-
' tatien of -tateirienta that they as a class had been es.
owed to insults in their adopted country, have made
pita° ileelarationis to the contrary.
A laciiiii, despateli wee lately received by the
i Ow e nor of Malta from the Lord High Commissioner
! of the lonian 14aiirlsrelue.tiog the lotn of a hangman.
I
ias his services were very much required. All the ex-
penses of his pieseige, as well as • proper remuneration
for himself, would be defrayed by the lonian Govern-
ment.
The Eton commemoration dinner took place on
i Saturday, and was held at Willis's rooms. Lord %%Ae-
! house took the chair.
The Yorkshire papers give an account of • heavy
storm of hail and raiii, aeisaupanied, in 110111 C instances,
1 by lightning and thunder, which passed over the
southern part of the county, and did considerable
Idamage.
Sir Hugh Rose is formally appointed Cotemander-in-
Chief in India ; and Sir William Mausfield Commander-
iu•Chiet at Bombay.
A Special Court of Common Council was held on
Saturday for the purlieu of presentine the freedom of
the city uf London to Captain ll'Clintoek, for his great
exert in the late Arctic espedition. The gallant
gentleman was must cordially received, and gracefully
i acknowledged the compliment paid him.
! Owing to • heavy fall of rain an immense 1114Fil of
I about 1,600 tons gave way from Dover Cliff, and fell
with a terrible crash.
The chair of modern history at Cambridge, vacant
ever since the death of Sir James Stephen, hu been
IMO II the elipointiuent of the Bev. Charles
Kingsley.
A brother of • nobleman well known on the turf is
said to have been expelled from • London club for steal-
ing candles.
A Scotclunan visiting • clinreliyard with a friend,
pointing to a shady, quiet nook, said, :'..This is the spot
he laid, if /',

where I intend to if rot ward."
North Shields has been the scene of dispaseful riots,
oriiiaated by naulber of the Northumberbind Artillery
Nffitia, stsWaed at Tyaemoatli Castle.