The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-04-03 00:00:00

fa isrdlantows.

Yr. Robert Barclay read an interesting paper before
the Society of Artr, on Wednesday, on the weans of
preventing the fahitication of bankers' cheques, his
scheme being the manufacture of ordinary writing
taper with chemical litypertics, rendering cowman
writing unalterable by time or fraud.
Screen Slanzatio, a Spaniard, who was arrested some
time since for the murder of Auastiisia Trowbridge, wife
of a cottager at Ashcombe, haa been tried and con.
deuined to death. _ .

All the French papers contain advertisements of the
"(Euvres Completes de Lainartine ; edition personae/il.
definitive, unique," iu forty volumes. It is understood
that the holder* of the copyright of Latuartine's works,
have given up their rights in favour ,d the author, who
is now publishing this new edition himself.
Lord Brougham has arrived at his villa at Cannes.
He intends to remain in the south of France until after
the Easter holidays.
The Piedinontese tiovernment is said to be buying up
a large number of horses in the departments of the hairs
and the Cher• . . . .

The Emperor Napoleon has given ordeng to prepare •
programme fur a visit to all the manufacturing towns a
Fnisace. "
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A letter (ruin Nice announces that General Garibaldi
is shortly expected ii, that town, of which he is • native.
This great soldier will, by the annexation of the meaty
of Nice to the Freach Empire, become a French citiaeta.
We hope lie like. it.
The Earl of Shrewsbury intends making his formal
entry upon the Alton Towers estates on the 13th of
April. The occasion will be one of great display.
'Die Society of Arts propose to oio humour to the
memory of the late Sir William RUAS, R.A.. by getting
together, in their rooms ill the Adenoid. a collection ,of
his works, 1. r exhibition to the public during the
months.( April and May. The Queen and the Prince
Comort will contribute to the exhibition.
Goverionent inspectors wero recently engaged survey-
ing Canneek ilia..., with is view to test its availability
pas a site fer the propored midland arsenal and depot for
10,0110 lumps.
The French Emperor's architect will shortly proceed
to Nice, we ho ar, for the purpose of selecting a ate for
the erection of a palace. It is thought not to be ha-
' probable that Nice will replace Hiarritt as • sea-bathing
, place for the Emperor awl Empress.
, The nest solute,: of a tfenuan tranelation of' Adam
' Ik-dc" has made its appearance at Berlin.
Sir Charles Wouil has directed the Madras Govern-
ment to prepare cites for the reception of some quinine-
yielding plante, which are shortly to be introduced from
South Aunt-ha.
A young lona, a member of • rifle corps, shot himself
through the heart last week, lie is raid to have boom
deranged by some love affair.
John Day, the celebrated jockey and horse trainer,
died on Wedneaday week. Day ease very steady, whet
man, and was much respected amongst the "patrons of
the turf."
The Ilavannah, 19. at laevonpott, is to be appropriated
to the use of a Ragged School at Liverpool or some other
outport.
The fifteenth anniversary festival of the Royal General
Theatrical Fund tmok place on Monday, at the Free-
inasou's Tavern, when the chair was taken by Tom
Taylor, Esq.
A. Mendee's Menagerie was leaving Stamford, on
Saterday week, • VAII, contaieing an elephant, capsizal
while making an awkward tarn, and falling upon a
horse belonging to tue proprietors of the estaldiehment,
crushed it to death. The animal was valued at L'6o.
The elephant Man nut hurt.
The race between the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge was rowed last Saturday, from Putney to
Mortlake, and not (non Mortlake to Putney, as was
originally intended. The start took place between eight
and nine a.m.

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A benevolent lady ha. offered to defray the emit
(amounting to £120) of four life-boata and their equip-
ments. to be ,•datomed at Newquay Ind St. lees, 10
Cornwall; North Dundrum Bay. in Ireland; and
Buckie, on the northeni coast of Scotland.
Account:. (non &micas state that the demand for
wine is active, hut that prices so& it here are so high
that it is difficult to execute the orders received.

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The !loyal Academicians met last week for the pur-
pose of considering the gnat reform. The meeting could
unve at no result. Sir Charles Eastlake proposed an
adjournment until Monday (yesterday). This proposal
was adopted.
A duel was recently fought in Algeria between Gene-
ral Vusuf awl an editor, in which the latter was severely
wound*A. .

Mr. Harrison Hartsdale, a tax collector, at West
Her:lei...l, has absconded.
A Bill ortlerin; free negroes to leave the State of
Missouri, under pain of becoming slaves, passed the Lit.
Louis Seuste on the 7th inst. The sinus Bill paned
both Hll.lbCl, lot Session, but failed to receive the signa-
ture ot the Goetnior. _

A volunteer in a rifle corps at Hereford having pub-
lished a letter reflecting on • officer, a court-martial
was hell. and he was expelled from the force.
The Mancliestcr Chamber of Cduituerce has expressed
strong disapproval of Mr. Wilson's financial scheme for
improving the Indian revenue, by which a duty of ten
per cent increase will be levied on imports.
A writer in the Josrmal de Moats gives the pre-
ference to the Armstreux over the Whitworth gen, but
claims that the French gun is superior to both.
The Rev. Joseph Gander, D.C.L., at present Dean of
'MY been appointed to the Deanery of Lincoln,
Vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr..). G. -Ward;
Mr. J. 11. 'Fillet, the Mayor of Norwich, has issued
an address to his fellow eitizena, calling upon them to
prevent a renewal of those scenes of electoral COITUr
tiou which have disgraced the city in the eyes of the
whole country.
The itCy. C. Stowell, of Manchester, says a local
paper, ha. twos I,r...etch by his congregation with the
magnin :cid sum of tahlitet The only condition an-
nexed to the gift W 14.4 that it should not be applied to
any public purpose, but Mr Stowell declined to accept
it subject to that stipule' .
During the Lester vacation his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wolea will pay a visit to his uncle the Duke
of Saxe Coburg, &lid also to his Royal Highness's
granduedher. the !towage* Duelleas of Saxe-Coburg.
The launch of the Frederick William, screw, 146, took
place successively at Portsmouth Dockyard on Saturday.
The cere yof nal aa ill g the vesael was performed by
the Countess of Bernstorff, wife of the Prussian Ambits.
sailor._

A ship of the Line, to be plated with steel. has been
laid down in the dockyard of Cherbourg. She is to
measure three hundred feet in length, with an iron spur
thirty fret lung, to be supplied with an engine of
lionwyower. and to be called the Napoleon I.
. .

Wil:1 boar's, it would seem, are alaust so numerous in
sonic part,, of Pietardy as rabbits elsewhere. At a great,
hoar-hunt which took place at Ourseauip (Oise) a short
thee ago, anti bode.' several days, one hundred auil four
of these arinials were killed.

Two hundred and thirty nine of the magistrates of the
county of Lancaster have signed a requisition to Lord
Stanley asking I to allow himself to he put in nomina-
tion for the Chairmanship of the Court of Annual
Sri-ions, vivant by the death of the Hight Hon. M. T.
Haines His Lordship ha* accepted the nomination.
A commis*. rship of audit has been placed at the
disposal of Lord Palmerston be the death of Mr. Charles
boss hut. as it is thought pu.ilde to reduce the num-
ber of commissioner*, the present vacancy will not be
hillel up.
. . . . . .

There is a convent in Dundee, with its cells, nuns,
schools, and chapel, au offshoot of a larger one at Wet-
burn, Lochee.
A series of experiments with the Whitt/myth gnu aro
to be carried out by order of the War Department, at
the Oureninicut practice range, Slawburyness. The
trials are to he made under the superintendence of
Colonel .1. W. Mitchell, R.A., Commandant of the
School of Gunnery, and the Ordnance Select Com-
mittee.

A sad accident occurred at Berlin a few days ago. In
casting a grimp, in bronze, of animals, by M. Wolff,
intended for the museum, the mould broke, and the
onetol, Minding forth, scalded several persons.
The roof of the building wilo.oet on fir, and the °mea-
gre was not extinguished without ifeculty.
A meneirmsduni of •• Reasons in Favour of a Bill to
establish Artistic Copywright" hasi been prepared by the
Council of the Society of Arts. This memorandum will
he laid before her Majesty's Ministers by • numerous saii
influential deputation. .

In inusieJi'ci-r-,T;ii is rumoured that another attempt
at opera in English, in competition with that of Mims L
Pyiie and Mr. Harrison, may be wade, either at Drury-
or Her Majesty's. Theatre, in the course of that
autumn.

About 4:2,0110 have been already obtained towards the
Brunel Memorial.

A report that t:encral Laumriciere had accepted we-
eke under the Pope, and was about to betonie Minister
Wsr at Rein!, and Commander-in-fide( of the Ponti-
ficia' Farces, is contraditted by the Pa us. It seems,
however, that the Galena has gone to Rome.
thie of the newly-formed arches for the Exeter and
Yelled line of railway in the York-road, lAmbeth, fell
in with a tremendous crash on Saturday. The labourers
about 200 in number, were at dinner at the time, fortu-
nately.
The hutch of the Admiralty have presented to the
tru-tees of the British Museum an immense fulin volume,
splendidly bound, and decorated with all kinds of
appropriate naval devices, imataining all the original
despatches relating to the chief victories of the British

of about rit.50.000 in the amount required
for the Ai my Estiniates of this year is announced. It
is said to aroe in sonsequenoe of a mists ke made by the
clerk. whose du:r it was to totalize the stuns to be asked
for hy the War Minister in Committee.

LW Livingstone has communicated to the Royal
B,,,ewry a aerie. of valuable magnetical obeervatioas wade
mcciilly in Africa.

Tim ileartictlon of old Westminster-brit* haa been
1111 l neuced by the removal of the macadamised surfs°,
of thn carriage road on the etcetera portion at ths

Mi.. Herman Merivale. now permanent Under-Secre-
tary f.e the Coloniea. will he the new Under-Secretary
irne India, inFuere..i.•n to Sir George Clerk, appointed
Governor of Bombay.

The Earl iif Longford expired on Tuesday nigh after •
long illness.
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,sdtirsur.ontoillcamliatbn:ytessofawthilititiae::mkri.gweda.hll::.7edirTn7agetutnea.;
city the bird had then attained— probably fifty miles an
ass
hour—that it paned clean through the glass, falling dead
(ipila:3l:frani;;(litairi:llaiwal":":4:nndow in Edinburgh, and such was the velm
instantly.
The Pope is said to have twelve million midi, the
pious offering of good Catholics, pecked in boxes in the
ti'aticais ; so that, in case he should consider another
Heigirs necessary, the money for his travelling expenses
is abundantly provided.
Though a large number of the hired artificers and
labourers not funning the permanent establishment of
Woolwich Dockyard are ordered to be discharged. the
works are actively carried 011. aud • new 91 screw-line-
of-battle ship, two 21-gun screw corvettes, and a 6-gun
boat are ordered for construction as soon as the neces-
sary vacancies occur in the building shed..
Among the calamitous results of the late strike may
be recorded the desth of a bricklayer, aged 48 years, in
Bethnal-green, in sellout "ossification of the heart was
accelerated by drinking, fretting, and load living," in
consequence of the enforced interruption of esaploy
ment.