The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

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Sir John Bowring lately made a speech in support of
the ballot at the Exeter Discussion Society.
Preparations for the erection of the testimonial about
to be raised at Woolwich to the memory of the officers
and men uf the Royal Artillery who fell in the Crimean
War were commenced on Saturday.
A meeting of uierchants and manufacturers was held
at Leipisie on the 29th ult., when it was decided that a
commercial and industrial Exchange should be estab-
lished in that city.
The commencement of regular military means to over-
awe and coerce the Druses into submission is announced
from Beyrout. The line of country between Damascus
and Sidon, is to be occupied in force by the Turks.
The Great Northern Railway Company paid no less a
sum than £26,312 under the head of compensation
for accidents and Rases in the year ending with June
last.
The Rev H. Grattan Guinness was recently baptised
by immersion at Bath. Lord Congleton officiated on
the occasim.
During the presence of the British Beet at Quebec and
Montreal some thirty or forty sailors deserted and fled
to the United States.
Lord Stanley has promised to address the members of
the Warrington Mechanics' Institution at • dinuer to be
held on Saturday, the 27th inst.
A monument is to be erected at Gloucester to Bishop
Homier near the spot where lie was burnt. An iron
chain and the reniains of • imet were discovered by IMOO
workmen while digging in this snot sonic time since.
Sir William Denison, K.C.8., who has been for six
years Governor of New South Wales, will in all proba-
bility succeed the late Sir Henry Ward as Governor of
Madras.
Large quantities of grain are being purchased by En-
glish firms in Hungary. Ten days or a fortnight ago but
few orders were received from England to purchase
wheat, but the demand is now almost as great as it was
three weeks ore month since.
France and Prussia are allege to appoint • commission
of delegates to discuss the necessary arrangements for
cutting a canal between the Sarre and the canal from
the Marne to the Rhine.
The Government have granted a pension of £25 per
annum to the widow of the late Mr. J. Monger, the
Sergeant in the Dover Volunteer Artillery Corps who
who was killed by the frightful gun accident at Arch-
cliff Fort.
The news that Mr. Buchanan, the English Minister, is
to be removed from Madrid and be reelaced by Mr.
Otway, is noticed by some of the Madrid journals.
A school-room for the Prince Imperial has just been
prepared on the ground fluor of the Palace of the
Tuileries, on the side of the gerilen. It contains a well.
selected library, philosophised and mathematical instru-
ments, Sm. The Prince will be five years old in March
next.
A heraldic review gives the following as the aruis of
the principal cities of Italy :—Naples has a siren ;
Rome, a she-wolf; Florence. lilies; Modena and
Piacenza, a cross; Venice. a lion ; and Turin, a bull.
The arms of Sicily is a head with three legs.
The performance of the miracle play at Oberam-
mergau is at an end, after having retched its twentieth
representation, and put into the pockets of the pious
villagers as much as £6,01.10. The King of Bavaria was
present at one of the exhibitions.
The legitimist party in France propose to get up
subscriptions for presenting a sword of honour to
General Lamoriciere, but the Ani de In Religion
announces that the Minister of the Interior has
interdicted them.
During the gale of Weduesday morning two women
were in bed in • cottage at Roseneath, N. 8., when •
very large tree fell upon the roof and imbedded its
branches in the earthen floor. Before the women could
be extricated the branches had to be dug out of the
ground.
The decree lately issued at Naples according a pension
to Maze°, who attempted to murder the late King
Ferdinand, is most indignantly protested against by the
Paris Pays. That paper lays that there must be no
premium for murder.
The Right Rev. Dr. James Chapman has resigned the
bihoprjc of Colombo (to which he was appointed in
1845) on account of failing health. The see, which
comprises the Maud of Ceylon, is worth £2,000 a year,
which is paid out of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund.
The President of the United States has presented
Abd-el-Kader with a magnificent Mace of revolvers,
decked with silver, in a box of American oak, richly
carved and ornamented.
The death of Mr. Rice, the American comedian, is
announced. Mr. Rice is remeuiberod in this country as
the original "Jim Crow," and the precursor of our
nerrtlyill:o vessels
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of war are now being built in Her
Majesty's dockyards. Of these nine are to carry 91
guns; nine, 51 guns; two, 36 guns • two, guns;
two, 21 guns; four, 17 guns; two, 16 guns; five, 11
guns; one, 5 guns; and three, 4 guns; the rental der
will carry only one gun.
A translation of the New Testament, from a manu-
script of the fourteenth century in the library of the
Vatican, has just been publirlied at Geneva.
A new annotated edition of Shakspeare in Dutch, by
C. W. Oproomer, is in course of publication at Amster-
dam. The first volume, which has just appeared, con-
tains "Othello."
The body of a young girl of fourteen, who suddenly
disappeared a few years ago, has been discovered under
the Altar of the Virgin in the church of Boulogne, a
village between Paris and St. Cloud. The girl is des-
cribed as having been very beautiful. She had been to
her first confession shortly before her dieappearancs.
Four hundred persons are said to have died in
Southern Russia and Kiev f ram the puucture of a
description of poisonous thy which comes from Asia.
About sixty or seventy years ago a great number of
persons died from a similar cause.
A great many foreign vessels have lately passed
through the Dardanelles to obtain in the Black Sea, in
the Danube, and the Sea of Azoff, cargoes of grain for
England and France. On ose day as many as 80 reached
Constantinople, on another Affi, and on a third 160.
The group of St. George surmounting the Old West-
minster,' monumental column, now being erected in the
Broad Sanctuary, has been erroneously attributed to
Mr. Phillip. The designer is Mr. J. R. Clayton.
The sugar-house of Mears. Goodhart, of the Hone-
ferry-road, Limehouse, was totally destroyed by tire on
Wednesday night. The loss is calculated to exceed
A:3' 0,000.
A servant girl named Hooper, in service at Stokern•
teignhead, near Newton Abbot, is charged with having
cut off the head of her newborn child and burning it in
the fire-grate.
Owing to continued ill-health, Vice-Admiral Sir
Charles Howe Fremantle, I; .C. 8. will not rehoist his
flag as Cominander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet.
Accord! gt. the prescnt arrangements the two divisions
of the fieet will winter at Portsmouth and Devon port,
remaining under the command of the Port Admiral's at
r spective porta.
The Coroner's jury in the case of the ' Lady Elgin '
catastrophe in their verdict express their opinion that
the steamer was seaworthy, but was overcrowded with
passengers. The second mate of the schooner was cen-
sured for not seeing the lights. The captain of the
schooner is Mann d for not imuiedistely anchoring.
Experiments have been mei* by some of the lJsitsd
Meta Army °awe as to the beet protection mamas
rids-balls. It wee diseovered that compressed oakum
was ineffectual, hut that the ball would not penetrate
more than eix inches into sand, against which it became
quite flattened.
Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Coannianderin-Chief at Devon-
port, has had to resign his appointment in consequence
of ill health. Sir Houston Stewart. K.C.8., has been
spoken of as likely to seemed Sir Arthur.
Sonic of the Cardiff Rille Volunteers were practising
at • target on Monday week, wheal one of them, Feria,
who was marking the hits, was struck on the leg by a
ball. He was carried to the isfirreedy, When lee had
Ide lei aspateted.