The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-19 00:00:00

fti iscellantous.

Brigham Young has increased his harem of seventy-five
white wives, by adding to it fifteen young and lovely
Indian squaws.
Francis Davies, an Irish poet, has received a Govern-
ment pension of £5O per annum; he has contributed
lamely to the Dublin University Magazine.
The Duke of Cambridge has declined to make any
alteration in the billeting system of the army, though he
has received several petitions from Scotland.
The number of officers of the Navy, employed and
unemployed, is now 6,056.
Orders have been issued to discontinue enlistment for
the East India Company's Cavalry until further aotice.
Mr. Kingsley's new volume of poetry, announced last
year, is now in the press, and will shortly be published.
Its title is to be "Andromeda, and other Poems."
The Globe denies that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe in-
tends to resign his post at Constantinople.
Baring brothers, of London, have taken the contract
for • Norwegian loan. It amounts to 5,500,000 f., and is
to be repaid in the course of next year.
Mr. Daniel Russell, • nautical engineer who has been
very successful in saving stranded ships, offered to launch
the Leviathan—" provided all the machinery and gear
now in use be cleared away"—for £5,000 or £6,000.
Since Rachel's death, her children are mach talked off.
The talker of one of them is reputed to be Count
Walewsla ; the Prince Napoleon is credited with another ;
and it is said that both gentlemen have openly accepted
the situation.

The mania for religious seclusion has augmented in
France to so great • degree during the last two years,
that not less than sixty-four young ladies are now ful-
filling the lad period of their probation as novitiate of
the ladies of the Sure Deur, at Conflans. These
novices belong mostly to rich and wealthy, as well as
aristocratic, families of France and Great Britain.
The strike of the Wear Shipwrights' has terminated.
At • meeting of the Wear Shipbuilders' Association,
held in Sunderland on Friday, it was unanimously re-
solved to comply with the demand of the man, and pa)
the old wipe oft,, per day.

President Buchanan and the Secretary of the Navy
have acceded to the application of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, for the steam frigate Niagara to assist in lay-
ing the submarine cable between Ireland and Newfound-
land in June next.
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Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler, it is said, is reading
Sliakspeare this winter for the benefit of her long di.
voroed husband, Pierce Butler, of Philadelphia, who
lost the bulk of his immense fortune in the late revul-
alone.

The Royal National Life-boat Institution is now build-
ing life-boats for Hastings, Holyhead, Groomsport,
Andmore, and several other places, and its liabilities for
these, and boat-houses and transporting-carriages, are
nearly £3,000. Under these circumstances, the institu-
tion makes an urgent appeal for public support.
The death (at Malta) of Miss Catherine Lyons, sister
of Admiral Lord Lyons, is announced. Miss Lyons,
was sixty-one years of age.
A case of extraordinary fecundity has just been re-
ported. A few days since a now, the property of Mr
Francis Phillips, yeoman of Lying, near Durston, pro-
duced three line heifer calves at • birth. The cow and
offsprings are doing well and appear quite healthy.

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MODEL WIFE FOR A CONSTABLE—At Lancaster two
bad characters aassiulted • constable, named Deane,
because he interfered with them in breaking the peace;
he was kicked and struck till he fell insensible, the men
declaring they would '• finish" him. The noise of the
disturbance drew many of the neighbours to their cham-
ber windows, and amongst others, the wife of Deane,
who lived but a few yards from the spot. She got out
of the window, and rushed to his assistance, although
she was but half dressed, and had heen confined only a
fortnight before. With an energy almost superhuman,
she palled off one, and, laying hold of the other's hair
as he MRS beating her insensible husband, she pushed
the ruffian over and kicked him on the face. The cries
of the women at the windows, and the arrival of several
men half-dressed, now induced the prsaoners to ran
away. Both the ruffians were captured and sentenced
to imprisonment.