The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-02 00:00:00

Admiral Sir W. %irks ill go:stied Adaiing of Ur
Fleet.

The Duchess of Chartres gave birth to a danghtee
on Tuesday morning.

The gross sant et expenses connected with Mr.
Grand Duns recent election was £1 85.
Court mourning is ordered for the late Duke of
Brabant, from 28th inst. to Feb. 11th.
Colonel the Hon. Frederick nudger, C.D., hes
been appointed adjutant-general of the forces in
India.

On Monday, Mr. Robert Buchanan made his first
appearance before • London andience as • public
reader.

A Southern paper wants 'a stop put to the foolish
habit of shooting one soother prevalent in the
booth."

The Giornale di Remo announces the nomination
of Cardinal Mrs as Librarian to the ltoly Boman
Church.

During 1368 the Hamburg steamers crossed the
Atlantic SG times, sad carried 30,798 perilous to
America.

A Cobh:et Cotmcil yew held on Tuesday at the
official residence of the Fria Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street.
Mayor Hall, of New York, has issued orders that
.he shall be addressed as "the Mayor," and not as
" Your Honour."

Lady Emma Tollenubch, second daughter of the
Earl of Galloway, died on Sunday, at the age of
years, from scarlet fever.

There were about 30 persona killed and about 611,
wounded during the recent troubled in Central Italy
by mace of the mill-tax.

The Bishop of OrNaas, Mgr. Deepest loupe, has
just completed a work upon the education of women
which will shortly appear.

The Epora, of ifadrid, says that M. Mon, Intel,
BpaNish Ambassador in Paris, has gone out of has
mind, sad is in confinement.

The total expenses of Ileerrs. Hathbone, 11.1'. and
Massey, the Liberal candidate§ for the representa-
tion of Liverpool, were £4,724.

A young wife in fit. Louis has asked the marts to
annul her marriage tin the ground that her husband
Was crazy when he married her.

The London correspondent or the IrisA Times says
It is definitely arranged that the Prince and Princess
•of Wales will visit Ireland this spring.

Lord and Lady Wharneliffer ha; returned to
Wortley Hall from visiting the Earl and CouLtees
of Derby, at Knowsley, near Liverpool.

A private letter from Pau mentions • very impro-
bable rumour to the effect that the Marquis of Bete
intends to take orders in the Church of Rome.

The legacy of Mr. Clark, jun., of Mile-end, to the
Clasoow Infirmary, will amount to no leas than
£20,000, and that to the University to f.,10,000.

A marriage haa been arranged betweon Lord
Northwiek and the Hon. Mrs. G. Warburton, relict
of Major G. D. Warburton, M.P. and sister to Lord
Bateman.

Mr. Spark, who unimeeessfally rontested Darling.
ton, has had given to him • tea-kettle, and some other
articles, to purchase which his friends had sub-
atribecl £2OO.

An nrrest has been made in connection with the
mnriler uf Mr. Raker, at liansha, county Tipperary.
Tim man taken into custody on suspicion is named
Petrick Payne.

" Almost • Pauper" writes to the Daily News that
ho he the owner of 24,000 in railway stock, and that
)14 dividends last year amounted to the sum of some-
where about £lO !

A New 'Yorker wants to know what is the real
languageof that city. Ile says he recently heard
nine different languages spoken at one time ou •
iluboken ferryboat.

A woman in New York state has given the autho-
rities notice that she prefers, and intends to wear,
male costume; but the police keep arresting her,
and she wants to know why.

BOAT RACE ON THE TTNI.—The pair-oared boat
race on the Tyne, on Monday, for a distance of about
four miles, was won by Itenforth and Taylor, who
beat Thompson and Scott by about 80 yards.

The queen accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
went out on Monday morning. The Princess Louise
walked out accompanied by Lady Churchill; and
Prince Leopold also walked out attended by Mr.
Duckwurtla.

A SENIOLII RAILWAY ACCIDILYT IN INDIA.—A
frightful railway accident ham occurred at Bhor Ghat.
The train dashed into the embankment, smashing
five earrifuree. Fifteen native' were killed and thirty.
mix wounded.

All the Democratic members of Congress hare
migned a petition to the President, asking for the
mirdon of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, confined at the Dry
Tortugas for complicity in the assassination of Pro-
silent Lincoln.

New York has • " bootblack co-operative society,"
by which, for 2 dols. a month, every one can have
his loots polisi ed every morning at his house, aad
as okra during the day as he may choose to call at
" head quarters."

Some Parisjoyrnals state that the Emperor is wri-
ting a history of his rule as President of the Repub-
lic and Emperor; and that he is assisted by M. Cle-
ment Durernois, a journalist. The statement "re-
-quires confirmation."

A large building at Tonneius, France, intended
for a cafe, concert room, /oz., in course of construc-
tion, fell to the ground, burying fourteen workmen
in the ruin.; six have since been taken out dead,
and the others seriously injured.
Prince Lucien Bonaparte, whose researches into
the various dialects of tits Basque provinces are
well known, has arrived at Saint-Jean-tie-Luz Mao-
ees-Pyreoeesh where he intends to remain a mouth,
for the purpose of continuing his investigation...

The Porta° Nationale of Bologna, of the 21st.,
states that a letter from Parma confirms the news
of the arrest of the Garibaldian Major Tanaro, one
of The Thoussuid, and a Knight of the Order of Ba-
'Vey. The motives of the proceedings are as yet un-
known.

The Postmaster. General of the United States has
made • report to Congress in favour of the Govern-
ment taking poaseuioe of the telegraph wires, as in
Crest Britain. The protiect is wailed, however, in
the newspapers, Led there is much earnest discussion
about it.

The Emancipative of Toulouse has been acquitted
by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of that town
on a charge of publishing illegal reports. The new
Precursor Imperial, M. Ballet, appointed to succeed
11. Seamier, did his utmost to procure • conviction,
but Ural°.

At the preeent moment when blue, red, yellow,
and other coloured books are being published, the
Funeral Company of Vienna brings out its black one,
in which are enumerated all the personages of dis-
tinction conveyed by it tato their last homes daring
the past year.

Ringers are right royally treated in Russia. An
imperial carriage was placed at the sole disposal of
I,ll,fattume Patti to convey her to St. Petersburg, and
her first appearance she was recalled some forty
times. It is but just that royalty should suffer as
level! as enjoy.
Tie Tan...sand Daily News each notice in • lead-
ing article the extraordinary position of Mr. Edwards
who gave evidence on Saturday in Overend, Gurney,
and ('o.'s case. The Tomei says that this prosecu-
tion would have been amply justified if it had only
produced these disclosures.

Our Nurwirh correspondent says that Father Ig-
natius reappeared on Monday, at his moneatery in
Norwich. lie is engaged in a dispute with a Miss
Robinson, a Diseenter, to whom his new chapel has
been let without his consent. The rev. gentleman
intends to eject the lady if he can.

Captain Wilmshurt, R.N. w after his honour-
able acquittal, to have proceededas, again to the Island
0 Asceneion, but the authorities at Lloyd'm have com-
municated with the Admiralty, and intimated that
proceedings in the civil courts are to be instituted,
which will oblige him to remain in this country for
some time.

COOT 01, ME BIMMINHALD KLICIIOX.—Mr. B.
Derbyshire the returning Aker for the borough of
Birkenhead, has published accounts of all 411118111135.
incurred during the recent election, from which it
.ppears that the cost on the part of Mr. John Laird,
M.P.' was £935 ; and the cost on behalf of Captain
Mherard Osborne, £1,977.

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The urgent need for • more extensive system of
night schools in the black country has been strikingly
illunrated by a statement made • few days since by
the Br. A. S. Prior, vicar of St. George's, Wolver-
hampton, to the efe# that, of 100 girl' married in
his church, only twelve were ebb) to sign the re.
&Mir. iNrhOni POW.
lir° tare" merchants, named Moores and Nee.
sin', were charged at the London G 'WWI, on Fri-
day, with asserting 11,.. Bo". bia in Barbican.
true two defenders, after instates
tbs strait, Wowed her iwoman
nto Mr : Roth'.Rag
sitoP, and
when he slaked them what they &Med Mr. lioness struck him cm the bead with hi: fist ssd his stick I
esveral times. iilr Roblin Gerdes rid that each
person' as the defendants must be taught that they
must not insult respectable women in the streets,
and al • fine would be no punishment to them be
sentenced limas to 14 and Ye/Mr to seven cla
imprisonment with herd labour. The reporter
that they were " airtausded " at the sentence.
aIIOOVERT OF 1111130NAFTeit Two Yee= Darn-
VATRY.--Some two years ago an orphan girl, who
lived in the neighbourhood of York, completely lost
her epoch dariag • severe Warne. She was, how.
ever, • sharp intelligent girl, and the delaivsta"
did not prevent her following her employment am •
domestic wnvent. A few weeks ago she entered the
serric• of Yr. Leathern, • besreeller. High4rdet
Dmwgr°°°.On Tholedas morning at six o'clock
called out b_her
or mistress, from an adjoining Walg°°l°'
name, as she wished her to got up, and the 1241°64
dumb girl, to her own riee. and delighk
that of the family, answered " Yes." Bine* am
she hes been able to speak freely, aod ta°lll4, of
which oho kao boon so long dopriood Is nivionfotiod•
—l:4nreistry ReYO,4?