The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

General Nttass.

Mutuu, the German paintor, is dead.
THR SHENANDOAH. —lt is understood that this vessel
will leave the Nleraey this week for New York.

Cointsslcrtco on the death of Lnrcl Palmerton, the
New York Herald prophecies that England will coon
beoome a Republic.
A LATTER has been received from Mr. Carlyle, inti-
mating hia acceptance of the office of Lord Rea9r of
Edinburgh University.

THINS is • tumour that the Ministers will appoint •
commission to i,lnir into the question of refoim, and
to rep rt to the House of Commons.

A enneartr is (wetting in tho south of England for
b.• 'ding oysters. Oysters .re now nearly seven Hanes
dearer than they were two or three yesnt ago.
MAST ASHFORD Iu been comortted for tried by the
Woodbury nuipstratos for poisoning her husband.
The innuett will not b. cloned until the result of Pro-
fessor Herapath's analy.is of tl.s stomach has been com-
pleted.

A YOUNG 14dr from London, about twente•three or
twenty-four years of ace, Ima just taken a perpetual
ticket at the Bri.tol Medical School. Ti.im is the Ant
instance of the kind that has occurred in Bristoi.

A 0011110FICATION ban teen ree4i,-o1 10-d.y from the
Duke of Montroto rtgarding the !tech:nisi El, ction.
We understand that th- Duke intim du his decision in
fiettor of the Lord Justift-Olerk in prderenee to Mr.
Gladstone.

A 0011116bPONDENT or a London contemporary save :
" Curiously varnish, and that the letters of the
honoured and laincnted name, 'Henry John Temple,
Vincount Palmerston,' when transposed form the words,
Only the Tiverton 111. P. eau help in our
Tins PRINOR OF WALES MID THII CAITI'LIi PLAGUE,—
His Royal Highners the Prince of Wales has presented
£lOO to the funds of the vorfolk Cattle Plague Assuranoe
Amoolation. Sir H. Stracey has anbevibed a aimilar
sum. The Automation has now received subscriptions
to tLe amount of about £6,000.

Tar &we or Mo. S. P. NEWBillarlf DIMON&
The dairy cows ranged how 15 to 34 guineas. In-call
helers, 22 to 40 guineas; heifer yearlings, 24 guineas;
boiler calves, Bt, 14i guineas. A choice bull cal was
knocked down to Mr. Smith, if Bradford Peverell,, at
SO guineas; yearling bulls, 36 guinesa.

Viscountess PALMERSTON left town on Tuesday for
Brighton. The Countess of Shaftesbury and the ladies
Ashley, Viscount se. Jocelyn, and the Hon, Miss Jocelyn,
Visconntess Sodley, and the Right Hon. W. F. awl Mrs.
C•wper, and other members of the family, will be
guests of her ladyship during the winter months.

LATH' lotelligene• has been reoeived in referenoe to
C4ptain Hall's Arctic expedition. He writes to New
York that his winter quarter i were on the west coast
of Sir Thmia- Rowe's Welcome, latitude 64 deg. 47
min. north, and longitude 83 deg. 18 min. west, among
a community of Fequimans. Thence he had came to
Repulse Bay, and was preparing for his !march for the
remsins of Sir John Franklin's crew, but he made no
allusion to his plans.

THII SCHOOLS COMMHISION.—Meetings of the School
Inquiry Commission were held at 2, Victoria-street, on
the 15th inst. and on the 16th, when there were present
artiongst others Lord Taunton (the chairman), Lord
Lyttelton, Sir Stafford H. Northoote, M.P., and Mr.
Aoland, H.P.The witnewes examined on the 15th
were the Rev. H. Twells, M.A., Heater of Godolphin
School, Hammersmith, and the Rev. Prebendary
Brereton, Rector of West Booklaud, Devon; and on
the 16th the Rev. W. Tuckwell, Head-Master of the
College School. Taunton, and the Rev. J. Wallace,
Head-Master of the Grammar and Commercial School,
Loughborough.

A Mlsisviturar, Reroute Brtt.—The Morning Mar
announces, in a manner which in a French newspaper
would be called " semi-inspired," that there is to be a
Reform Bill during the coming stamina of Parliament.
The Star does not give its authority; bat it says this—
We believe they ova be little doubt that Earl Russell
is fully determined to submit • Reform Bill once more
to the decision of the House of Commons." Of course
no details are yet known, even to the Star; but that
organ ventures to "anticipate that, whatever its object,
that object wlll be approached by a direct and simple
mechanism, and that Earl Russell not likely at such
• time es the present to encumber himself with the
barren complicatione of a system of fancy franchise,"
and it ooncludee—"EArl Russell and Mr. Gladstone are,
undoubtedly, to adopt Mr. Berkley's phrase, at the head
of a Reform Ministry."

IN Glasgow, a special meeting of the Pre byfery was
held to take into consideration the pastoral address on
the question of Sabbath observance, which was laid on
the table at the previous meeting. The approval of the
address was moved by Dr. Jamieson, and seconded by
Dr. Maednff. Dr. Norman Macleod, in an address
which occupied three hours in delivery, obj-rted to the
duties of Christians in regard to the Sabbath being based
on the Fourth Commandment, which, he held, was
abrogated under the New Testament dispensation. Fie
urged that the best comae to be adopted for securing a
proper observance of the day was the embuing of the
masses with the true spirit of Christianity; and moved
that the address be sent back to the committee, and
that they be requested "to confine it to the duties to be
performed and the privileges enjoyed by our people en
the Lord's Day."

THE potent aids of mienoe and of art, are constantly
employed to add to our daily employments; but ad-
ditions are not always improuements, especially when
they promote extra profit to the trader, rather than
general good. Long after the introduction of "the
Leaf," which yields the favourite beverage called 'res.
Chinese cunning devised the plan of colouring it, to
augment the saleable quantity, —but at the expense of
quality,—for the brown withered leaves are by simply '
costing them with powdered colour, rendered in appear-
ance equal to thh best, and capable of being mixed off
at high rates. HOENIMAN & CO's Teas are wholly free
from all mineral facing powder', and are more recom-
mendable, as they consist of the strong choice spring
leaves, that base no need to be disguised. Chemists,
are everywhere appointed as agents, who sell the
tea in packet.

BRITTOB ABBOCUTION YOB Tlia ADVARCILMISNT Or
80161.1C8.—0n Wednesday afternoon an influential
meeting of the inhabitant's of the town and county of
Nottingham was held in the Ethirehall to take into
consideration the necessary means for receiving the
British AssoCiation in 1866, to appoint an execotive
committee, and also the local seoretaries of sections.
The RIO Sheriff (Mr. Webb, of Newsteadmlsbey, was
in the chair. Lord Belper proposed that the executive
committee should be formed to receive additional sub-
scriptions. 'This being carried an executive committee
was at once appointed. The local secretaries of sections
having being appointed a motion wag carried to the
effect that the connti. s of Lincoln, Leicester, and Derby
be invited to form lois! committees, 'solicit subscriptions,
and work generally with the executive committee. One
gentleman, Mr. North, not only undertook to show his
collieries to the members of the amoniation but to
provide luncheon for 300, and knowing , what Mr.
North's luncheons are, we may promos/me this SU
attraction of the meeting.

Tun &reform,* or NIWIIPAPER lIIPOI.IIIIIOIL—A I
man who, coning his ears and mind to reason, attaches
himtelt to a toot or a chque2 or rides • hobby from one
year'send to anotFer, a review or newspaper which is
established to promote oertain political views and to be
the organ of a certain party, is content to atick to a
leader, to defend him through thick and thin, and to
defy any one to show that in the coarse of a whole
generation it has ever said • word that could be con-
strued into disapprobation. But the world sets little
value on this servile consistency. The politican who
never .wms known on any occasion, small or great, to
vote tepeactst his party • the newspaper which in .y be
relied on to puff regularly every man on its own aide;
and to find nothing but knavery and folly in the
utteranoew of the other, may have their merits, and
they occasionally have their reward. But their opinions
cannot influence any reasonable being, for the essenoe
of political influence is the formation of independent
judgments. A newspaper, above all, earsnever be a
real guide or index of pub& opinion, If it is possible to
predict whet it will gay by knowing whom it Is speaking
of. Tinges.

Tom Bayne was barred on Wedniesly at Mager: ;
Cemetery. The ooneourse of spectators moths
and the most varied in character of any that Londoners
have looked upon since the funeral of the Great Deka."
Tom has left his children P4,(:00, 'The girl appears to
be about 15 or 16, and has • face for winch the foe of
the Puritan maiden in Millais's picture of the `Con-
cealed. Royalist,' might very well pass as a portrait.
Her brother is younger by a yeas or two, and seems a
frank, intelligent lad." The Telegraph says of Sayers:
—"lie dmid of drink; a fact that eot one of hir friends
—sad he had good WWI —las attempted to deny.
When aober, he wee a good-tempinod, harmless, light-
brained, merry little man, with ajoke and • rough kind
word of fellowship for all. When he was in his cape be
had • manner that wai offecaive and insulting, even
beyond the ordinary mark of uninformed men who drink
habitually to encase. But at the worst he was not
Ravage, vindictive, or'hasty to make a show of violence.
Persons whom he had exasperated might strike him, but
he would not strike again. He had that without which
the biceps of a blaskemith will not make a fighter
—he had pluck. He had, too, a nature which,
though coarse, was In the main compounded of such
etuff as the English race to and should 1:oe ,
wade of.'
Tbe Pall Mall Gazette says the chief mourner war not
Mr. Sawrwer wife, nor 'his Esther, nor his children
(though and daughter were said to be somewbeie
Ii *e promotion), but a great brown dog," which imme-
diately followed the hearse. "The bereaved animal
occeOed a mail planton atone—a man leading the horse
—sad Was attired in as deep mourning as the breadth of
hie 'collar, whir* wee bound with black crape, would
pertnit."', •' •
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