The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

Senna! Nth's.

TIN West ladle null steamer Seine has !wriest On
the pomp she hes bad fourteen sans of yellow fever
on board. bet only one death. The news she burlap is
not important. Lieutenant Brand Is one of tbe passen-
gers by the Being.

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'Nomura or P•orsaisx.— A return jest trued
shows that in tbe fourth INA of Noverober lest thine
were. (so for as Warned) 882,314 peepers relieved in
tingland and Weise The number is the corresponding
week of the prerionayear was 864,6251,[t15a increase being
17,702 or 2.1 per cont.
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Kr. Joni Brum MILL was toddled into dice as
Sector of the University of 81 Andrew's, on Friday,
after which be delivered his address on the subject of
a University seuration, which was lideeed to with sus.
tained ettention and cordially applauded.
THE speed% of Mr. Gladdens st the dinars of the
Society of Political Economy has hem pebilehed in Paris.
He gave to the Emperor Napoleou and Mr. Cobdea the
credit 04 oarryiog oat the From* esamercid
Upon Mr. Cobden be passed a high *elegiacs. and spoke
most eloquently of tie free trade tendencies of the rigs.
Ox Wedoseday night, at Rochdale, an eddress was
=tad to Mr. Bright, who in reply, reviewed at some
the principal scents of his public life. He sob.
muted that be wma guiltless of the diaries which were
brought spinet him of enti-ostioral feeling, old
forth. tree Islas*, or the real sad, valuable instaistrulllids
of Use country.

lam EAILWLYLL very Important statement was
made on Thursday by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
A deputation waited upon his EleaHuey to urge that
the Irish railways Auld, if possible, be purchased by
the State. His Excellency declared that the In.
Executive were all in father of the penile*, of the
railways by the Mate, and that be should give his best
support to such a project.
Tan MADAN/. CLALlEL—Rocording to • paragraph in
on. of the Paris journals, the ask of the Alabama is
arranged. Mr. Laird, a Tory, we are told, a friend of
the English Oovernmeni, will pay himself an indemnity
to the American Government, and all the difficulties
pending betwees the two Governments will thus be
removed. England would like to see the Alabama ques-
tion in inch a train for settleaust.
"A BARRISTES* gine an butanes of trade nnion
tyranny in a letter to the loading journal, which the
public ought to know. He say. that on the occasion of
the demonstration on the 3rd December circulars were
sent "to the men in ono particular trade," 'Worming
them that if Loy of them did ar work on that day he
would be bed be., and if, in opine of that, be did work,
"A Barrister" was informed, be would probably find
his plus too hot to hold him."
AN ILLUSTRIOUS StMANOIMA— One of the smallest
elephants ever imported into England arrived at Liver-
pool on Sunday last, in the ship Frigate Bird, from
Rangoon. This curiosity is only three feet high, very
docile, and on the way up from the ship to the 'bows of
the naturalist who bought it, went into a peddle-hum
and inserting the end of his trenk into • jug of,bee;
that was on the bar-counter, socked up the content.,
mush to the eared*, of thow present.
Coxthwaxon ON THE SUNDAY QUESTION. —On
Wednesday the conference assembled to consider the
grounds of diffsreear of thaw who advocate and thew
who oppose the opening of the willowsl nineenms and
educational inthitdtiens do Sundayl resumed ith fitting
in rit, Baran'. Hall, tinder the Presidency of Mr. H.J.
Black. speeches were made pro and oth uto the
opening of public institutiou on Sunday., and after
many suggestions, the ootsferense was brought to a aloft
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.
UNOOVERING TSB 1.101111 IN TRAPALOAR-SQUARE.
On Thunday afternoon the four holm in Trafalgar-
pure were "uncovered" in the proem* of • large
OUIONIT of spectriton, that without say Irmal row
lathy. Lord John lienurs, 11. P.. the Mrst Ooln-
mithoser of Works, arrived on the spot 4 halt pest one
o'clock, and was received by Barth llarothetti and
other gentlemen. Lord John lianwa and his friends
walked Wood the alumni inueltath wish lion, and
expressed thenisulthe eitieled With the work. The
ceremony was then at an end.
TEE EXPLOSION AT TEE OAILE COLLIERY: TERMINA-
TION Of TICE INQUIET :—The jury have returned the
following verdict :—" That Joseph Hest and others
were killed by an explosion of Gre-damp at Oaks
Colliery on Drawbar 12* 1846, but three Is no
evident* to prove where or how it originated. The
' jury think it onneeweary to make any epeeist mem.
mendittion as to the work of mines, seeing that the
Oovemment is tollsoting information, no dubt with •
view to the greater protestion of life, but Oily think a
more Wad inthethith desirable.*

PRIDADTtOiII AOLDIFIt Ina Al We Rooms op
PAILIAZIOIT.—Binee Me lest sitting of %aliment son.
Namable alteration heehaws models the mesa Lords,
In order to limes, se ter as preetienble, the rink of soo-
ners too. Them we. • very large assumulatlos of
nulls combustible material per the genirs. which bad
1i... employed In making annopments for eartabi
methods of ventilation, long ago aoademued as failures
end abandoned eiseeedingly. The sombustible matter
miaowed consists of dry pine, lathe, and quartering., and
he total weight is not far abort of 10 tone
Ti. Ransom SDODDING BOA Adams: Or/ NORTH-
rLart. —A Moses 30010 than a tomtit has elapsed sines
the engineers, sad ether men—in all ma.--last their
lives whilst going of in • mall boat from Northffeet
Mon to their venal, the Cipr Ship, sone of Um bodies
have bees picked Dp. All parts of the river In /forth.
fisetand Gravesend remelts have heal &mod. sad DO
triesn of their remains ham been found. The distressed
relatives of the unfortunate ass me frequently at
Gravesend irstitating the WOOD analogs inquiries. It is
oonjectoret that the bodies may ham dropped into
I some bole ; but Miles weather bowsaw milder they will
I all, probably. Boom float to the surfer.

lIILUID AND PRANCE. —AI s time whet Very Were
distress wan prevalent in Ireland, in 1863, our readers
msy remember that some of thii most generous eon-
tributloas for its other cisme frost F s land eon-
needed with us by many pleasant a.soolellosa. These
spontaneous offerhip end the expreesinas of sympathy
by which they wars aseompanied, placed us ander a
deep obligation to the donors; and we are glad to know
that recently a portion of the debt of gystitade has been
discharged. An appeal was made not long sines for the
sufferers by the &oda in the south of France, and in
response to it a handsome sum has been eollected io
wmoti7 MW forwarded W ON mint qwwww-004
XXONA*IS7,

A roaittet.g calamity has taken plaos at RolL 0.
Tuesday morning Sprat&ler Grange, the resideees of
lir. H. RAinsoo, a farmer, 'aught Ore. sad as the
Urns the alarm was glum, Mr. and We. Robinson and
their two &tighten were in their bedroom. 01 the
latter one moaned, while tbs yosugert, who also got of
Ike Lou., returned to MVO, if possibis, her parent.. She remised her bedroom, bet bare, it appears, Um
smoke so oserpowered bar thst lb, was unable even to
save herself. The three bodies were afterwards found,
frightfully burst, wrapped in Montreal, which hail
donbilers been used as some protection against the
darner".

I IIITR•OIDIIIMIT SMOOT OF 111. BIT. OF • BAT.—
Some yeen ego a Teem girl, named Amelia Les, whilst
Aught' in the parish dor& of Spalding, was
Errtentra bat which alighted on her fans. Since that
time she has heen frequently &Masked with is of lowg
sleep, and will remain in tbM hem for seem weeks
Them antseks have beemtne Isom frequent. On Sunday,
during Divine wrist, dm fell into one of this. Ste, and
wee eoeveyealoet of ehnren. The roue is a very remark-
able one. We underhand it is a paralysis of the brain,
and presents a ems of interesting stedy foe the modish
perfusion.

A Luarromirr of the lets Cardona army who had
eared ender °operas Kirby Smith and Pries In the fith
Louisiana Corps, hes been amoeba In Belfast. heave
had on lading there • sword and nivelair pistol, sad
Wing ad tr ensplekrus interior. It wal fraud so Wonky,
however, that the story of Robert Boyle Ovapbd, the
person se &panhandle, wet in all morals trra, ad la
W 55 dieelsarged. lie lad rase to Ireland to me his
friends in the county at Tyros*, twinging his eyed,
I wad had narks at mad urge a prod id his service
in wd-fetight adds.