The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

THE BOROUGH FRANCHISE BILL.

The following members connected with the South--
western district voted on Monday in the minority of '
214 for Mr. Baines' Borough Franchise Bill :—T. D.
Acland, Lord Andover, C. C. Clifford, Sir R. P. Collier,
W. Ewart, Hon. F. Fortnum°, G. G. Glyn, A. W..
Kinglake, W. H. G. Langton, T. A. Mitchell, W..
Morrison, Col. Pinney, Hon. A. Ponsonby, Hon. W.
Portman, A. Russell, W. D. Seymour, R. B. Sheridan,
W. Tile, CoL K. Tynte. The following voted with the
majority against the Bill :—J. H. Astell, Col. H.
Bathurst, W. W. B. Beach, R. Bremridge, Sir B. W.
Bridges, R. Brooks, A. D. Cochrane, S. D. Darner, Hon.
R. H. Dutton, W. Ferrand, T. W. Fleming, J. Floyer,
G. W. Franklyn, R. S. Gard, Lord Grey de Wilton, J.
Hardy, G. Hardy, Sir A. A. Hood, Sir W. G. Jolliffe, H.
H. Jolliffe S. T. Kekewitch, W. F. Knatchball, W. G.
I Langton, t. P. Long, Sir M. Lopez, R. Lowe, X IL
Marsh, Sir W. Miles, A. Mills, Sir S. Northcate, Sir L.
Palk, G. Sclater-Booth, H. G. Shirt, Lieut-Colossel N.
Sturt, AdmL Walcott, Sir d. Walsh. All the members
of the Government voted for the Bill, with the ex-
oeption of Lord Palmerston (absent through Maws),
Sir R. Peel, Sir R. Palmer, Mr. Hutt, (in Vienna,
Knatchbull Hugeesen, and Mr. L. White.

SNOW fell for 20 minutes near Vienna on May-dap
morning.
MR. tizzgar Itosszu, is likely to receive the honour.
of Knighthood.
TIIN health of the King of the Belgians is yet.
unsatisfactory.
A STATIC concert is appointed to be held et Buck-
ingham Palace on the 22nd inst.
THE cotton plants introduced into the south of the.
Crimea have succeeded well.
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hfil. EL/HO Bumarrr hu taken up his residence as.
American Consul in Birmingham.
THE trumpet has been introduced in the grand
service at Westminster Abbey.
THE prince of philologists, the Prince Lucien Bona-
parte, is going to reside at Torquay.
Tun Crown Prince of Denmark is now on a visit to
the English Court.
Tam King of Portugal has been invested with the
Order of the Garter by Earl Sefton.

6,147 aFfEILP are sup Posed to have been killed by dog.
in Ireland in 1864.

AN insurreotion is apprehended among the slaves in
Cuba.

Tux condemned culprit, George Stephen, is mid to be
insane.

THIS Queen, it is expected, will proceed to Samna/
on the 19th inst., and return about the Bth or 10th of
June.

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THE Empress Eugenie has addressed a private letter
to Mrs Lincoln, sympathising with her in her bereave-
ment.

Or Monday, at Marshbrook, near Nantwieh, the wife
of a labourer, named Plevin, was delivered of four-
children, one of whom died.
A post mortem examination of the late Csarewiteh
showed old disease of the spine, which must have led to
a fatal issue.

AN oil company with ten cent. shares has been started
at Philadelphia, and the shoe-blacks and news-boys are
taking up the stook.
Lrrtsz, the celebrated pianist, has entered an ecelesi-
astical establishment at Rome, and received the tonsure
from Archbishop Hohenloe.
MIIRSRS. BARRY, wharfingers, and three men in their
employ, charged with fraud upon insurance ofiloes,
were committed for trial on Friday.
Or two hundred gentlemen who pat down their
names for the recent "little-go" examination at Oxford,
fifty-three were plucked, and twenty-five took off their
names.

A Timms embankment excavator was given KW. for
'topping • pair of runaway homes. He got drunk with
the money, fell into one of the caissons, and knocked
his brains out.

Her Majesty has appointed the Prince of Wales, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Sutherland, and others, as com-
missioning to the Paris Universal Exhibition, for the
purpose of furthering its objects.
A (MILT religions movement is taking place amongst
the Chinese. Hundreds of villagers are becoming con-
verted to Catholicism. The number of missionaries is
quite insufficient.
THE spiritual head of the Jews in France, M. Ulmann,
Grand Rabbi of the Central Consistory, died in Paris on
Saturday morning, after long suffering from disease of
the chest.

AN officer of cuirassiers at Lille has just given a
dinner to a party of friends, at which the principal dish
was the roasted shoulder of a lion. The meat bad the
flavour of highly pickled wild boar, and MY eaten with,
much relish by the guests.
ONE ironmonger alone in Brighton has had to replace
over • hundred knockers which perhaps, owing to the
strong way the Volunteers knocked at the doors at
Faster time, came off, and were put into their pockets
by the innocent and astonished volunteers.
A CHILD LOST OS THE MOORS. —On Tuesday 111 boy
five years old strayed away from Cropton, was traced
to Marton Village, and thence to Thornton, where the
inhabitants formed bands of searchers for his discovery.
One of these, between two and three in the morning,
found the ohild asleep among the heather, folly 20 miles
distant from his home. How he traversed the distance
without rest or food seems perfectly astonishing. He
, is now quite well.
THE anniversary of the deliverance of Orleans by
Joan oh Arc has just been celebrated in that city. A
grand procession, in which the .mkrgy and local
authorities, dressed in their robes of office joined took
place; • penegyrie on the Maid of Orleans was delivered
in the cathedral by the Abbe Bougsud; the usual bene-
diction of the banners was pronounced, and the city
! MY illuminated in the evening.
1 CRUELTY. —A correspondent says :—" Some time since
a man was caught in Hampshire torturing • fox to
enable some young dogs to taste blood. At pigeon
matches men in taking the birds from the box pertly
crash in their ribs to prevent them from flying away
swiftly, and sometimes cut off their feet to prevent
them from flying steadily." In the name of all that is
manly in British sports, we hope that the last accusation
is • libel upon pigeon shooters.
Woonser Morrrans.—At the storming of Mobile
General M'Arthur had • half-dozen mortars made of
the wood of the gum tree, and they were used during
the whole attack. One shell from • wooden gnu is
known to have killed and wounded eleven Confederate
soldiers, and the rebels assert that they were the most
destructive guns used. One hundred shells were fired
from one of them.

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Virmatn Birminu., of Dorchester, Printer, st ths
Dios of rise Dorset 0014111tir lexpress, Charsh-Areet,
Donimisr, Tuesday, /IvJ4 18615.

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