The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

filiscellancous.

The mining boat's crew of the unfortunste steamer
Ganges has arrived in safety st Lisbon: they were given
up for lost.
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Lonl Derby laid the foundation of an Industri a
R School and Church at Kirkdale, near Liverpool.
On arday.

The Rev. Evan Neiman, minister of Grosvenor
Chapel, has been appointed to the vacant canonry in
Westminster Abbey.
Lord Stanley of Alderley will snorted Lord Elgin as
Postmaster-General.

The royal commission appointed to inquire into the
gate of the dockyards has suspended its labours, and
will not resume it. sitting until the 16th of October.
The statement that Dr. Vaughan has been appointed
to the Chancellor of York Cathedral is contradicted.
The inhabitants of Brow's& were on the 4th thrown
into great alarm by two rather strung shocks of earth-
quake, but fortunately they were not renewed, and no
damage was omasioned.
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Active preparations are being made at Glasgow for
the fourth annual meeting of the National Association
for tl'e Promotion of Social Science, which commences
on the 24th proximo.
The number of foreigners or inhabitants of the pro-
vinces who came to Pant by the pleasure-trains
for the Emperor's fete last week amounted to more
than 350,000.
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The assertion that General Tiirr, during his recent
short sojourn in Paris, had an interview with the
Emperor, and that the Emperor had made Garibaldi a
present of some rifled cannon, is contradicted by the
Patric.

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The appointment of Sir C. Eastlake u director of
the National Gallery has been prolonged, according to
the 'rule before instituted, for another period of five
years.
Holland has made a territorial acquisition, by pur-
chase from Portugal, of an insular or continental
possession on the coast of Africa, the name of which is
given in the accounts from the Hague as Toanar.
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Mr. Dodd is determined to present his promised land
11021. Windsor to the theatrical profession, and proceed•
logs are in progress to carry out his intentions. Inde-
pendent of a free gift of the ground, he will endow the
buildings with • sum of f_..8,01.11?..
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A bronze statue of the late Sir John Franklin is about
to be erected at Spilaby, Lincolnshire. The statue will
be placed on a granite pedestal. The Arctic hero WAS
born at Spilsby.
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The seventy-fourth anniversary of the birthday of the
Duchess a Kent was celebrated at Windsor, on the
17th, with the customary honours paid to the members
of the Royal family.
The Ewer° of Turin says that the Duke de Chartres
has resigned the commission which he accepted iu the
Sardinian army at the time of the war against Austria,
on the ground that he cannot draw a sword against his
relation the King of Naples.
Prince Poniatowski, sap' the Franca Musicale, has
composed a military march of great beauty, to be called
the " Napolfionienne." The Emperor has ordered that
it shall become the national air, in the place of "Par.
tent pour la Syria" of Queen Hortense, which is not
considered sufficiently animated.
There is a rumour that the Queen of England will this
year meet the Emperor of Austria and the King of
Pruasia at Coburg. The New Prussian GUZlia says
that the King of the Belgians will also most Her
Majesty at Coburg.
A letter from frankfort apprises us that the Elector
of Hesse had been stopped on the public prsonenade at
Hamm by some persons, who abused him in the coarsest
terms, accused him of breach of faith, and demanded
from him the re-establishment of the Constitution of
1831. The Elector was compelled to take refuge in a
jeweller's shop.
The Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, with the Princess
Nicholas and Eugene Romanoffski, attended by • large
suite, have arrived in London from Torquay. Baron and
Baroness de Brunnow were present to weet them at the
Great Western terminus.
The wife of George Griffiths, plumber, sentenced at
the last Bristol Assizes to five years' penal servitude for
assaulting • little girl, has been conveyed to a lunatic
asylum in a hopeless state of insanity.
The Merchants of Frankfurt are at present signing a
declaration by which they denounce public gaming.
houses, and bind themselves to employ no clerk who
may play therein. The reason why they have adopted
this measure is, that a railway is about to be opened
which will place Homburg within twenty minutes of
Fran k fort.

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A spotted hyena, • wild cat, an Angola goat, a bird
called marabout, and two cranes, were landed at South-
ampton, on Tuesday, from the Peninsular 'teenier Sul(an.
They were from loando, in Africa, and are intended for
the Zoological Gardens in London.
Mr. Flemnore, the clown, died on Monday night of
atrophy, or wasting of the body. He was thirty-eight
years old. Mr. Flexmore first appeared, when eleven
years old, as a dancer at, little theatre in Chelsea.
The Customs' Authorities have recently decided that
an article called "half-stuff," imported by paper-makers
for the raw material of their manufacture, is subject to
a duty of 15e. per cwt. Up to this time this half-stuff
has been admitted free.
The Following arrangements will take place in the
Metropolitan Police Courts, consequent on the death of
Mr. Hamill :—Mr. Mansfield, of Worehip-street, will
succeed Mr. Hammill at the Marylebone Court; and
Mr. Alexander A. Knox has been appointed to the
vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. Mansfield.
The Giornale di Roma states the total of St. Peter's
pence which has reached the hands of the Pope from dif-
ferent parts of the world amount' to 1,120,000 Roman
crowns 5,992,000 francs). The same journal declares, at
the same time, that the subscription to the Roman loan
has proved most successful.
General Lamoriciere has dismissed all the clerks at the
Spoleto telegraph-office for babbling about the contents
of despatches, and has confided the service to • Jesuit
from the Loretto College, who he thinks will keep his
semis better.

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