The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

lilarliamentarg IP ap et's.

NEW ACT ON Tat DUCHY OP CORNWALL.—Last week
an Act was crinted (23 and 24 Viet. cap. 53) for the
limitation of actious and suits by the Duke of Corn- I
wall in relation to real property and for authorising
certain lovies of proffiPnAjoriN of the duchy. Daring the
minority if the l'rinoe of Wales the Council may grant
leases of property declared to be vested in the Duke of
Cornwall by the 21st and 22nd Viet., cap. 199.
'rite DIKCHANGES IN INDIA.—An official return
states that 10,116 of the European local troops in India
took their discharge In consequence of being refused
Imunte on the trithafer of the army from the Company to
the queen. Only 119 re-enlisted in India for the
expedition to Chits., and only 2.nd9 have re-enlisted
into the Briti..h al my since their arrival in Ex' igl..nd.
IbiNnixi;.--Ity an act if Parliament ilia
printed the Treasury may appoint the pariah of Man-
chester. the boroughs of Birmingham. Leeds, and
Sfieffield, or any of them and others, "warehousing
places." The warehouses are to be kept for the public
accommodation of merchants, traders, or others
having occasion to deposit goods therein for the aecurity
of (.1114011121. . .

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ARTILLERT.—A parliamentary return issued
on Friday morning gives the average annual cost of
every effective thousand rank and file of the embodied
militia artillery, including in the calculations the pay
of officers and non-comniimioned officers, clothing, com-
missariat charges and allowances, but excluding the
cost of providing arms and quarters, at £46,488. The
average annual cost of 1,000 rank and file of regular
garrison artillery is tl-1,007. •

SCICIDr OF A YoUNG LADY ox CLAPHAM-COMMON.
—On Thursday morning Mr. William John Payne, the
coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, received infor-
mation of the death of Miss Velem ilatswell Weight,
aged 21, who resided at Stroud. A young woman was
on Wednesday wheeling a perambulator with sonie
children in it on Clapham-co ttttt iou, when her attention
now attracted by teeing a ladylike WOMIII lying on the
gra,. apparently 11e..1. An alarm was raised, and Mr.
Jtmes Jenkins, of the Windmill Tavern, proceeded to
the spirt. awl found the unfortunate youog lady quite
eletd. Dr. Parrott was not for, and the deceased was
conveyed to the Windmill Tavern. The medical gentle-
man was pnmiptly in attendance, and used every weans
to n store Atkin, but unfortunately without avail.
By Ler nisle on tlie grass was a pLial that had contained
prussic acid, letter from her sister, Miss Catherine
Weight, a handsomely bound Bible, a preterit from her
sister, and in her hand come augur-candy, on which else
hied dropped the poison. No cause it assigned for the
suicidal act.
New Fouts AT Liveneoot..—The Mersey Dock
Board, at their meeting on Thursday last, discussed the
question of the fortification of the port, and it was
stated that, at the request of the Government, it had
been resolved to give sites for new forts on the sea wall
at the north end of the town, and also at the Saßehm
Dock Quay. The engineer of the boanl was also re-
quetted to prepare plans for platforms on the dock
quays, which might he used as temporary batteries.

I e Ilitstenr.—tlo,ooo Inonagre.—The proprietor. of the
Gloified Starch ittrri. motion the treat: atwinet Loy
ititit.ition of their Stara.. wherese. by • of the
Sinter of the Roil., W.thereproo. r. Turner (reported in the
TINOS and other London papers of 2.3 th Nov.. leL9), they
render theinwires equelly liable, with the makers of tbe
opurious article, in the above peusity.—Olenneld Patent
March is tlb• only Starch usual us Her Maynoty's
Wozawastoos 00., Glasgow and Lawdos.