The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-14 00:00:00

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Mr. Rowland Hill, Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, is appointed • K.C.8., or Knight Commander
of the Bath (civil side).
Au engine-tenter at Wednesfield Pit, near Wolver-
hauirdon, has been committed for manslauglsCir, his
neglect having caused an accident whereby seven men
lost their lives. . . _

The ninth annual public meeting of the association for
promoting the repeal of the taxes on knowledge will be
held on Wednesday, the tlud instant, at Bt. Martin's
Hall. .

Mr. H. O'Neil and Mr. W. C. T. bobson are the
elected Associates of the Royal Academy.
As • young lady was walking in the neighbourhood of
Aigburth a few days ago a stray Minie ball struck her
dress and perforated • hole in it. The rifleman who
fired the shot was not discovered.
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The health of Mr. Baron Watson is in • very precari.
nu s state. The learned Judge has left Loudon fur the bene-
fit of the sea air.
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Mr. Phelps hag entered into an engagement with Mr.
Harris, of the Princess Theatre, and will appear at that
theatre in the month of March or early in April.
The French Academy has elected Lawrilaire as suc-
cessor to the late Alex de Tooqueeille.
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A reprint of the famous first edition of Shakapeare's
Plays, printed in 1623 by Isaac Jaggard and Edward
Mount, is in preparation by Mr. Booth, of Regent-
street. The works is to be—line for line and word for
word—strictly in accord with the old folio, with fee.
similes of the original typographical ornamentations, as
well u • fac-simile of the brueshout portrait on the title-

Patt. Ferdinand de Lesseps, who returned to France in
company with IL de Thouvenel, the new French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, in preparing for the press a
brochure, in which be is to explain the actual position
of the Isthmus of Sues Canal scheme.

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The walls of Paris are placarded with the programme
of the Great Exposition of industry which is to take
place at liesoncon, under the patronage of Prince Napa
Iron, from June 1 to Sept. 1.
Garibaldi was married to the daughter of the Marchese
Rainiowli on the 24th ult. The ceremony took place at
the country seat of the latter at Fino, near Como,
nobody being present except the family and the wit-
nesses- Count 'Ferro for the young lady, and Valerio,
the Governor of Como, fot Garibaldi.
In addition to the levees and draw ing.rooma already
announced, it is the Queen's intention to 101 l after
Easter two inure levees, two presentstion drawing.
rooms, WO a drawmg-rooin in celebration of her
Majesty's birthday.
Honour is being psid to the memory of John Brown,
the hero of Harper' Ferry, in the north of England. A
great meeting was held at Newcastle-on-Tyne last week,
at which Mr. George Thompson delivered an eloquent
address on the life and character of the anti-slavery
chief. .

The quantity of Cape Wine imported into this country
in 1011 it was 2.,0143 gralous ; in 1859 it had ineressed to
797.092 grAllous. It is the roost valuable export of this
colony next to wool.
• Millie Victoria 1111fe has appeared at St. Petersburg

La Traviata," with great success._
The Pacific Steam Company of Liverpool have had the
period of their charter extended for twenty-one years.
Their fleet in the Pacific consist at present of nine
steamers, and three more are being built to go out.
A notice has been issued by the Lisbon Board of
Health declaring all the ports of Brazil to be suspected '
of yellow fever except the port of Para, which continues
to be infected. The port of Bahia is also to be considered
as infected with yellow fiver.
The Bi.,hop of Rochester in alarmingly ill.
The estimate net miantity and value of gold exported
from Australia since May, 1851, to December 31, 1858,
is 19,602.640 minces, of the value of 1:74,460,094 18s.
Dr. William Aitken, who for some yearn ailed as
Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor Allen Thompson,
of Glasgow University, has been appointed to one of the ,
chein of the Army Medical School, which is at present
being organised under the superiutendauce of the War
Department of Government.
A memorial hiss been placed over the remains of Lady ,
Morgan in Brompton Cemetery. It consists of • fiat
slab, supported by six pillars ; below is a block of
polished white marble, on which is itincribed "Sydney,
Lady Morgan," and the date of her death in April last.
The time of her birth is not mentioned.
Sir John Bowring has arrived in Paris, it is supposed
for matters comiected with the proposed commercial
reform in the tariffs. Sir John acted in Id3l-2 as Com-
missioner in France for the English Government, and at
that lieriod made a very minute inquiry into the state of
many French manufactures snd products.
" The Belgian Govenenent," says • journal of
Charleroi, " ihtends to commence very shortly the
demolition of the fortifications in the lower part of this
town—s measure resolved on sonic time ago.
Mrs. Browning has sent ever from Florence a volume
of political poems for immediate publication.
Alcohol (says Liebig) is a bill drawn on the workmen's
health, which lie is incessantly compelled to renew, as
I he has not the funds to meet it. The bankruptcy of the
boil/ is, accordingly the inevitable result.
' olunteer Corps are being raised in Nova Scotia,
under the authority of Lord Ilulgrisre.
A man mewed Sutton, of Beckingliam, drank himself
to death last week. He drained an eighteen-gallon cask
of ale in five days, and on one of these days a pint of
brandy.
! Trade appears to be flourishing in Dundee. At a
; public meeting the other day a Mr. Neish remarked
that the mills could give employment to 2,000 more
hands.
The British Government has presented Captain Her-
mel, of the French vessel Lusitanos of Havre, with a
, teliscope, for having rescued the crew of the Birken-
head.
The Great Eastern is in charge of Mr. James Bowen,
and not Mr. Kelt. as Mut been stated erroneously.
Mr. Hutt, M.P. for Gateshead, has accepted the j
office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade, vacated '
by the Hon. Mr. Cowper in consequence of his appoint-
ment to the Presidency of the Board of Works.
The Times' correspondent at Rome lan Italian gentle-
man, but a naturalized British eubjectl lies been ex-
pelled from that city, although he hail just received his
coins di nee/Mem,
General Searlett has been appointed to succeed Sir
George Wetherell, who resigns the post of Adjutant
-
General on the let of April. It is reported that Sir
George Wetherell will take the command in Ireland on
Lord Seaton's retirement.
TLe !fairers is not to reappear in Brussels after all;
but is, for a tiine at least, extinguished.
The Australian papers say that f requent CMS of
leprosy occur amongst the Chinese—so much so that the
general management of the Chinese population must
soon be brought under the notice of the Legislature.
The Prince ut Orange visited Woolwich Arsenal on
Tuesday.
The !hal Aillorrliser lies the following advertisement :
—"Wanted to borrow 1:500 on a manuscript poem, the
estimated value of which is 1:10,000."
, The Museum attached to the Royal Engineer estab-
lishment at Chatham has just been enriched by • num-
ber of very interesting specimens of firearms of all
, descriptions captured in China.
The Navy Estimates for the ensuing year call for •
I sum of 1:12,800,000 to support a force 85,000 strong, men
and boys.
I A man named Romney perished in a snowdrift in
L. Teesdale last week.

REFORLATORT SCHOOI.B.—On Wednesday, at a meet- I
ing of the Leeds Town Council, a long discussion ensued
as to whether the Council should confirm an order made
by the borough justices for the payment of towards
the maintenance of six girls in a reformatory school at
Liverpool. It was explained that this suni was cum-
jawed of an allowance of 2a. Gd. per head per week in
addition to the Government allowance of is. per head. ,
Several members of the council objected to the payment
because they considered the Government allowance was
amply sufficient for the maintenance of juvenile crimi-
nals. They argued that, granting an additional half-a-
crown per week was tantamount to providing a board-
ing school for the girls, and that it was an injustice to
tax the ratepayers to such an extent to provide for
those who had trausgre,sed the laws of their country,
while many of them (the ratepayers) were compelled to
maintain their own families at a much less cost per head.
On the other side, it was stated, that there was no re-
, funnatory school to which Protestant girls could be
sent without an addition of 2s. Gd, per head to the Go-
vernment allowance ; and it was strongly urged that,
even at this exist, it was economy to the co tttttt unity at
large to send juvenile criminals to reformatories. Mr.
Alderman George quoted the testimony of the late chap-
lain to the Leeds borough gaol (the Rev. C. B. De
Renzi) and others to the effect that the c%timated
average cost of every adult criminal at present in gaol
bad been £lOO. Ile aLo mentioned that the number of
prisoners in the Leeds gaol at the present time was AN.),
being Lfii less than the average in 1858, and he attributed
this decrease principally to the existence of reformatory
schools. Eventually • resolution, confirming the pay-
ment of VI, was corned by a majority of eight, there
being 32 for and 24 against it.

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A FIN! ARTS GALLERY FOR MANCIIFSTFR.—The
bold and coinprehensive scheme proposed by Mr. Thomas
Fairbrain, for the foundation here of a permanent
and free art gallery and museum on a grand scale, is
much talked about. The words "art gallery," although
perhaps the best that could have been selected, convey
but a faint idea of the magnificent undertaking sug-
gested. In the lung letter which he addressed to the local
papers, Mr. Fairbrain proposes to erect, in a conve-
nient and central situation, a palace to he devoted to
the arts, at a cost of not less than ElOO.OOO ! Under
one roof he would collect, not only what the city already
possein its various museums and art institutions,
hut :NoTild construct "rooms or saloons, with a floor
area of 3,000 ...mare yards, which would give ample
space for the proper arrangement of the largest collec-
tions of pictures and drawings of the ancient and
modern schools, and would permit, also, if desired, a
chronological arrangement of the works of the several
masters. In addition there should be corridors for
works in sculpture, both original marbles and copies of
famous statues and groups which adorn the various capi-
tals and cities of Europe. It might further be found
' exceedingly advantageous and interesting to devote one
extensive hall to the ponraitnre of Lancashire worthies
and local benefactors,—a hall of fame, where aspiring
youth might muse upon the features of the mighty
dead, where one could clsina a kind of acquaintance 1
with the men whose genius and inventions have not
only created industries, but built up empires ; and '
with the illustrious men and women, who, as authors
or artists, philosopher.' or philantropists, had abed a
; lustre upon the places of their birth. These monis
would occupy the upper floor of the proposed building.
Below there might be formed lofty and well lighted
rooms for the exhibition of works of ornamental art;
and others where models of inventions might be classi-
fied, and periodical exhibitions be held of the most ap-
proved and excellent specimens of the production of the
district." The subscription fund which is to accom-
plish all this is spoken of in Mr. Fairbrain's letter
with the confidences of a man who never counts on
failure. The ElOO,OOO is to be a free-will offering to the
northern metropolis. The ways and means by which
it is to be raised appear to command general approval,
and it is evident that the whole scheme has been not
only well considered, but is backed by the hearty concur-
rence of the leading men in the city, It is a proverb
that in Manchester thinp are seldom dose by halves, so
that we may confidently anticipt that a Northern
Gallery will before long be another greet tact."