The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

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It is stated that Mr. Henry Mayhew has proposed to
Lord Derby a plan for investigating the condition of
abandoned women, with • view to legislation, and that
the Premier thinks favourably of the Idea.
It will be recollected that at the time of the marriage
of the Princess Royal a report was circulated to the
effect that Sir Robert Carden would, immediately after
that auspicious event, be created a baronet. We hear
on good authority that this honour may now very shortly
be expected to be conferred upon him.
An excessively goseipping book, from the pen of Lady
Bulwer, has, it is said, been offered to certain West-end
publishers, but is refused on the ground of domestic
personalities.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor contemplates giving
a series of political dinners at the Mansion House,
to which every Member of the House of Commons will
be invited.
The "Andromeda" of the Rev. Charles Kingsley is
to be illustrated by the leading artiste of the day—the
success of the work being almost unprecedented—not-
withstanding the attacks upon it by Mr. Beasley.
Much amusement was created on Tuesday, at the
Liverpool annual vestry, by Mr. Chiushwarden Wood-
ruffee announcing in the most grave and solemn tone,
"that the ground at the Walton Cemetery was in such
• bad condition that no person who could help it would
go to be buried init."
Mr. Edmond Denison, Ml'., Chairman of the Great
Northern Railway Company, moved on Thursday,
through counsel, for a rule calling upon the printer of
the Tian to show cause why a criminal information
should not be filed against him for • libel contained in
the City Intelligence of the 16th instant. This rule was
refused by the Court of Queen's Bench.
The creditors of Dr. Townsend, M.P., have agreed to
terms which he offered for their acceptance—i.e., the
immediate payment of two shillings in the pound, and
the subsequent payment of £3OO a year until his liabili-
ties are entirely discharged.
About eighty pieces of cannon from the foundries at
Liege have recently arrived at Antwerp by the railway,
where they were to be shipped for Constantinople.
According to letters from Hamburg and Berlin, Chris-
Canis was the theatre of • terrible conflagration on the
night between the 13th and 14th inst. Three-quarters
of the city are reported to have fallen • prey to the
flames; among other buildings, the Bank, the Exchange,
and other public offices, are • heap of ruins. The money
ond papers of the bank were saved.
Lady Inglis has had the honour of personally relating
teller Majesty the details of the siege of Lucknow.
Her ladyship attended by command at Buckingham
Palace, and "the Queen listened with the most intense
interest to the story of the sufferings and heroism of that
gallant band who so nobly sustained their country's
honour and renown during • period of almost unex-
ampled danger and distress."
A. memorial, having for its object to obtain • mitiga-
tion of the severe sentence passed in the case of the
Rev. S. Smith, has received the signatures of several
magistrates of Bristol, and • great number of the clergy
and gentlemen of Gloucester, and has been forwarded to
the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Earl Dune, for
presentation.
The glorious old Victory is about to resume her post
as flagship at Portsmouth, having been under process of
refitting for some nine months. She was =clocked on
Tuesday.
The Neapolitan fleet is composed of 16 sailing and 29
steam vessels, mounting 746 guns in ill; while the Sar-
dinian fleet consists of 6 sailing and 12 steam vessels,
mounting 316 guns.
A clergyman performed the ceremony of marriage
between two slaves at New Orleans, and instead of the
words "until death do part ye," substituted the words
"unless you are unavoidably separated."
Mrs. Mary Story, aged eight-two, the last surviving
representative in England of that family who assisted
the oelebrated William Penn in all his undertakings in

the United States of America, is dead.
Mr. Gregory, who headed an expedition for exploring
the northern portion of Australia, appears to have come
to the conclusion that the interior of the country is un-
suitable for human habitation; but that the north-western
portion will eventualy be occupied with the same suc-
cess as the existing colonies in Australia.
A statue of Dr. Isaac Watts is about to be placed in
the public park just formed in the town of Southamp-
ton, where Dr. 'Watts was born. Watts was born in a
bye street in that town, and composed his first hymns
for a chapel there.
Einile Girardin lately bought of Madame de Dfontra-
lat—the perfumer's rich widow, who owns a great part
of the Avenue St. Cloud—a lot of ground in Paris for
building, for which he paid two hundred thousand
francs. He has just sold one half of the ground for
three hundred and fifty thousand—nearly double the
price he gave for the whole.
Gomez, one of the conspirators of the 14th of January,
wee lately embarked on board the Adour steam-trans-
port, for Cayenne.