The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

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King Leopold wilrenter his seventy-third year on the
16th inst.
Lord Rivera left town on Wednesday for his seat,
Rushmore Lodge, Dorset.
The marriage of Frances Countess Waldegrave with
Mr. Chichester Fortescue is fixed to take place early in
January.
Dreadful weather, according to a late telegraph, pre-
vails at Marseilles. The Genoese brig Entichetta has
been lost at St. Tropez ; and the French three-master
Francis Joseph, from the Antilles, near Marseides.
Only part of the crew saved.
Mr. Redgmve has reported to the Commissioners of
the Exhibition that, owing to the precautions which
were taken, the pictures, with hardly an exception, are
uninjured.
Although the bathing season in Hyde Park is now
over, there are still from twenty to fifty persons who
bathe in the Serpentine every morning, no matter how
inclement the weather.

MANUFACTURERS IN WANT OF HANDS. - The
advertising columns of the Manchester papers contain
an announcement that a firm of flax spinners at Leeds
are in want of fifty hands.
On Wednesday the cashier of a firm of miller" at
Attereliffe, near Sheffield, was charged with embezzling
the serious aunt of £l,OOO. His duty was to visit his
employers' customers; and the usual trust was placed in
him, till his accounts were examined and his defi-
ciencies made apparent.
On Wednesday, at the Leeds Townhall, a young
fellow named Edward .'ohnson Wilde, • paper stainer,
was sent for trial for attempting to minder his wife
Annie Wilde by shooting at her with a pistol. The
woman had refused to live with him, and this was his
revenge.
An influential committee is now actively engaged in I
raising a fond by subscription, for the purpose of pre-
senting • testimonial to Mr. Gruneiseu, Secretary of the
Conservative Land Society.
The population of the Russian empire in 1722 was
14,000,000; in 1803, 36,000,000; and at present it
amounts to 65,000,0().
The Queen has granted to the Ven. Henry lAvic
M.A., the Deanery of her Majesty's Cathedral Church
of Gloucester, void by the death of Edward Rice,
D.D.

The total production of pig iron in the United King-
dom last year was estimated at 3,712,390 tons and the
market value of the production was calculated to be
£11,508,400.
On Saturday a convict at Dartmoor Prison made a
desperate attempt to kill a warder named Mason. The
fellow endeavoured to kill him with a spade, but for-
tunately Mason raved himself—not, however, without
some injury. The convict was secured.
BEACONSFIELD, RANTS.—ThS REV. James Duthie, of
Petersfield, has accepted a very cordial invitation
from the Independent church at Beaconsfield to become
their pastor.
Letters from Augsburg speak in gloomy terme of
the health of the Queen of Naples. She is said to
be in a state of complete physical and moral prostration,
and fears are even entertained for her life. She is more
than ever opposed to the idea of reconciliation with the
King.
A Stockholm journal, the et ftonbladet, asserts that
within the last few days the candidateship to the
Greek thomehas been offered on the past of Greece,
and by the intermediary of the English Cabinet, to
Prince Oscar of Sweden, who refused it.
By a telegram !non Part we learn that some very
heavy inundations of the Rhone have taken plat*,
and have causpd lamentable devastation at Avig-
non and along the country towards Marseilles.
A poor woman named Sims, belonging to Wooler, ,
was found dead on one of the Cheviot Hills on Friday
afternoon. It appears that the unforturate woman ,
had been in the habit of gathering wool on the hills to
procure a livelihood, and had been missed from her
home for nine days. She was discovered on Friday by a
shepherd lying dead amongst the snow. Her face had
been much mutilated by birds of prey.
Mr. Julian Hervey has left the Jersey Inelepensekisl,
the editorship of which he has held since 1856.
In 1820 the consumption of cows in the United
Kingdom was 276,321 /ha, and in 1861 it was
6,482,023 lbs.