The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

Altsralaitrous.

A. said to IL, "Who.. portrait is that"—B. re-
plied, "Sisters and brothers have I none, but that
man's father was my father's son. What relation was
theportrait to B.?'

"'Your pen wants mending," as the shepherd said to
the stray sheep. "My heart is thine," as the c
said to the cookmaid. "You don't miss here,"a:a2b=
counter said to the had shilling.
A drunkard had a son equally fond of potations; an
which a neighbour remarked that he took after his
father. Whereupon the would-be Trinmilo retorted,
"Father never leaves none to take."

Mr. thaffer,,, manager of the Royal Bank, Liverpool.
hanged Iliumlf on Tuesday morning.
The daughter of a farmer near Newton Stewart lately
died through • bite from an adder concealed in • bird's
neat.

-- The Japanese, before leaving the l'nited States, gave
3E1,000 dollars for distribution among the police of the
different places they had visited.
Accounts front St. Petersburg say that a fearful
seourge—" the plague of Siberia' -has broken out iuthat
city.

Mr. Hammill, magistrate at the Marylebone Polies
Court, died on Monday. He attended the court as
usual in the morning, hut at noon complained of illness
and went home, where he died the same evening.
Lord John Rumen has appointed Lord IMfferin to
the reapenaible pieta British Comiuisaioner to Syria.
The Plane de la Lain aays that a convention has
been 'doled between France and England for the emi-
gration of ii,notl coolies to the lab of Reunion. The
management of the recruiting will be intrusted to •
French house at Calcutta.

The Great Eastern is announced to leave for England
on the ltith inst., touching at HaWas on the way. h
is anticiputed that she wiil conic back a full ship. Th•
directors are said to be quite satisfied with the receptiest
the vessel has met with in America.

o The Colonelcy of the 14th Light ragoons Ins become
vacant by the death of General the Hon. Sir Henry
Murray. }C.C.S., which gallant officer died on Sunday
week at his residence at Wimbledon. He wits 0110 of
the few surviving Waterloo UffieCrl, and bad been 60
years in the army.

A fall of anew occurred at Scarborough at the end of
last week. The railway banks were deeply covered.
and in the fields it lay to the depth of some inches.
A laent at It. Patrick's (Bwift'i) Hospital, Dublin,
died on the 17th alt, in the 106 year of his age. He
was admitted May 21, 1802, in his 48th year, and was
for upwards of fifty•eigbt years an intimate of the
institution.

Locusts are committing such ravages in Jassy that it
1111-4 been found necessary to take extraordinary
measures. and raise the peasants en masa( to destroy
them. To abate this scourge the Chamber has given
the Government discretionary powers and an unlimited
credit.

The whole of the steameeviele of War now lying in
harbour at the Royal dockyard.% are to be fitted for the
steam reserve ordinary, the Government having decided
on every ship belonging to that cLass bring mado ready
for service, in ease a sudden emergency should arise for
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their immediate use.
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of the daughter of the Prince and Princess Frederick
William had 3"rof thirti-di gu"timilYpcirieiclareaaimed to the inhabitants of
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Cambridge is to be honoured by the presence of the
young Prince at the commencement of the ensuing Lent
term, which begins on the 13th of January neat. His
Royal Highness will reside at bladingley Hall, the scat
the Cotton family.

;:irietween the Emperor of the French
King Victor Emmanuel is 3poken of u likely to
happen during the Emperor's visit to Nice, during the
present month. -
A crowded and enthusiastic public meeting was held
in Spallelds Chapel on Wednesday night, for the purpose
of celebrating the twenty-sixth auniverwiry of negro
vtatukcivation in the West Indian colonies.
Numermw snicides having lately occurred among the
French soldiers. Marshal Magnum has issued an order of
the day, repeating an opinion of Napoleon 1., who eom.
wed the soldier who took his own biota • mu dam*
ing his post on the day of battle.

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