The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-23 00:00:00

Xiscellarteows.

The railroad from Lamson to Sivas, in the Turkish
dominions, is to be carried out by an English corn-

Last year the convictions for offenoes against the
game laws amounted to more than 400.

- Certificates were refused in the Hull Bankruptcy
Court, on Wednesday, in the case of Harrison, Watson,
and Co., bankers.
The winding-up of the estate of Mr. Oliver, the
Liverpool ship owner, has been completed. The credi-
tors receive se. in the pound.
Messrs. Owens and Gutoh, the bankers of Woroester,
who recently failed, have obtained a first-dass oertifi.
cate in the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court.
The new Principal of St. Begh's College, Cumberland,
will be the Rev. G. H. Ainger, hitherto the tutor of the
establishment. The appointment is in the gift of the
Earl of Lonsdale.

We understand that Mr. Samuel Beale, M.P., has
yielded to the urgent request of his brother directors,
and consented to occupy the chair of the Midland board,
vacated by Mr. Ellis.
The Emperor of Russia was present at • party given
by Lord Wodehouse at St. Petersburg, to celebrate the
marriage of the Princess Royal : an act of condescension
which Is thought to imply • good deal.
Le Nord appears to give credence to s report that
M. Brouyn de Lhuys is to succeed Count Walewski so
Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, and that M. de
Persigny is to be Minister of the Interior.
Mr. James Wilson, the editor of the Economist, who
retires with a pension, is succeeded by Mr. George Alex-
ander Hamilton, the member for Dublin University, and
political editor,of the Meriting
.Herald.

A New York paper state; that jai; Blanche Pane
died recently at Brooklyn. She was the original Ger-
trude in" The Little Treasure," when produced at the
Haymarket.
Among recent American inventions is one to replaoe
curl-papers by small metal tubes provided with an
elastic Wad or 'trap to fasten them, as that they can be
drawn out of the hair without in any way injuring the
twist, as taking out the paper does.

Under the head of "horrible disclosure," it is stated
that one of the 'nest fashionable dressmakers in New
York turns out to be a man.

The recent ravages of yellow fever in Lisbon have
roused the Legislature sufficiently to pass a law for the
sanitary improvement of the capital; a loan of £225,000
is authorised to be raised for sanitary works, and the
Bank of Portugal has undertaken to provide the

MiThombttry has in progress a life of Turner—Mr.
Ruskin having assisted him with the BIBS. and note-
books of that great and eccentric painter.
Sir B. Bulwer Lytton contemplates publishing an
account of the early literary journals of Great Britain.
A line of steam communication is to be established
between Virginia and gurope. The scheme originates
with French and American speculators, and will be
directed by a French and American board.
. . . . . .

Two American vessels have landOci-li3B Coolies in
Cuba; no fewer than 313 of the poor creatures had
died on the voyage. Two cargoes of slaves have also
been landed.

The visitors to Hampton Court last year numbered
173,710-27,793 on Sundays • to Kew Gardens, 381,798
—185,599 on Sundays. August was the favourite
month at Kew, and May at Hampton Court—the
horse du:smite at Bushy Park bloom in May.
Reports are current that Lord Canning is to resign
the Governor-Generalship of India, not choosing to
serve under the Earl of Ellenborough. Lord Stanley
has been spoken of as his probable successor.
A Berlin letter says that the object of the approach-
ing visit of Prince George of Saxony to Lisbon is to
solicit in marriage the hand of the Princess Mary of
Portugal, sister of the king. As the Prince Royal of
Saxony, has no children, Prince George will probably
succeed to the throne. He was born in 1832, and the
Princess in 1843.

The receipts on the railways of France during 1867
were £12,441,925 against £11,262,413 in 1856; last
year there was an increase of 789 miles in the lines
opened, and consequently the amounts show a reduction
in the receipts per mile of £239 in 1857.
The works of the first railway in Turkey, from
Smyrna to Aidin, are making satisfactory progress.
A new attempt will be made, probably in May, to
submerge the electric cable between Ireland and
America. The length of cable required to supply the
place of what was lost last year has been manufactured,
and is to be landed at Plymouth on Monday, and joined
on to the old cable, snaking it 2,650 miles long. To
guard against accidents Slip; will be further lengthened
by 300 miles. New machinery for "paying out " the
line has also been manufactured.

The appointment of seven new French Consuls in the
Cantons still excites the indignation of the Swiss, and
the Government is urged to refuse to grant them
exequaturs.
The authorities of Oxford have consented to hold
their Associate of Arta Examination in London this
year. This has been done at the request of a committee
of schoolmasters in London, and they are assured of up-
wards of two hundred candidates.
Several Brazilian agents are at this moment in Berlin,
endeavouring to promote the emigration of Germans to
the Brazils, where employment is promised them by
planters. The Brazilian Government voted recently
five millions of thalers to be distributed in premiums to
emigration companies. The German emigrants will be
considered only as workmen in sugar or coffee plants.
tions and not as free colonists.
. . .

Sheriff Allen has been elected Alderman of the ward
of Cheap, in the room of Mr. Kennedy. The Wardmote
passed a vote of thanks to Mr. Kennedy for the seal and
ability with which he had discharged his office, and
they expressed their wishes for his future health and
happiness.
Professor Owen delivered the first of his annual series
of twelve lectures upon Pals3ontology, in the theatre of
the Museum in Jermyn-street, on Thursday, to a very
large and distinguished audience, including a great
number of the fairer sex. We were by no means sur-
prised at this, as the learned professor showed last year
that he possessed the happy faculty of rendering his
subject pleasant and profitable to the comparatively un-
learned as well as to the professed savant ; the younger
ladies on Thursday seemed quite as much occupied in
note-taking as the reporters. The subjects for the pre-
sent year are "Fossil Birds and Reptiles," and the lec-
tures will be delivered on Thursdays and Fridays, at
three p.m., the fee for the course being fixed at the low
sum of five shillings.