The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

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On Tuesday, (this day). Lord Stratford de &dells
will call the attention of the House of Lords to ths
affairs of Syria.
The King of the Belgians and the Duke and Duchess
de Brabant returned to Brussels on Monday evening
trom their visit to Namur.
Several of the fon ign astronomers who went to Spain
to observe the eclipse, intended, before leaving, to hem
a conference at Madrid. to which city they have been
invited by the government.
Vice-Chancellor Kindersley hie refined the motion
made against the directors of the Union Bank.
Colonel La Mans. Garibaldi's agent, has left Turin fee
England. The Marquis La Grecs, Envoy Extraordinary
of the King of the two Sicilies, has left Pans fee
London.
A banquet to Lord Clyde will on Tuesday be given at
the United Service Club. The Duke of Cambridge will
preeide.
The harvest in France, whether of wine or corn, is
likely to prove very abundant. It is even said to surpass
that of ISM.
At the last examination of candidates for direct corn-
missions at Chelsea, out of 403 candidates, only about
sixty were found to fufil the requirements of the ex-
aminers.
The Belgian Art Exhibition—which 5 much encou-
raged by the (love' ument, and open to foieigners as well
as Belgians—commences, at Brussels, on the Ifith
of
August next.
The eutlirncinent of the most Rev. Dr. Longley,
Lord Archbishop of the'prevince of York, took place in
York Cathedral on the 206.
An Opera company, headed by Mdine. Itudersdorff„
bas set forth to sing and play in the Channel Islands.
The Commune of Nicosia, in Sicily, has voted the•
erection of a statue to King Victor Emmanuel, and of
another to General Garibaldi.
A conference of Mormons was held on Sunday in
St. George's Hall. Southwark. The speeches, as might.
be expected, were of a very singular character.
M. Kossuth and his family have arrived in Paris.
A further sum of a hundred guineas has been granted
by the Corporation of London towards the funds of the
Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria Park.
Lord Elphinstone, once Governor of Madras, and
afterwards of Bombay, died on the 19th inst. aged fifty-
three.
Alberto Mario has just been appointed by Gsribildl
head of the National College of Palermo.
Lola Montes recently had a paralytic stroke, which
deprived her of speech and motion.
The Spanish soldiers at Tangier are deserting to the
Moors.
The question of a glass covering for the Royal Es.
change, to protect the merchants from the weather is
still receiving attention.
The Count de Paris and the Duke de Chantres, who
were travelling in Syria at the moment of the recent
outbreak, are said only to have sewed their lives by
travelling rapidly through the mountains of Hemet.
Accounts from Iceland give an account of an eruption
(after 39 years' repose) of the volcano called the Motives,
of the Myrdalejokel mountains.
Spurgeon's sermons, sonic of which contain severe
remarks on the slave inetitutione of the United
States, were lately burnt in the Virginia Courthouse.
The Mormons contemplate emigrating from Utah to
one of the East India Islands.
Mr. Hawkins has tendered his resignation as keeper
of the department of antiquities in the British
Museum.
liateaubrianiVe sister, the Countess de liarigny, whose
hundreth birthday was noticed some few weeks ago u
Morin" made a senuitian at Dinaim, died at that place on
the 1r th inst.
The churchwardens of Woolwich have issued • notice
to the effect that, in consequence of church-rates
having been refused during the past two years, they are
compelled to appeal to the inhabitants for voluntary
contributions to pay for the necessary repairs of the
parieli church.
The herring and mackerel fisheries have virtually
closed off the east coast. On the whole, the season has
been a gloomy and unprofitable one to those concerned.
The a ~,,, unt subscribed on behalf of the widows end
onhans of the poor fellows lint in the May gale has
reached the handsome muita of £7,500.
Dr. James R. Ballantyne. of the College, of Benarea,
the e ~, i l ient sanscrit scholar, and candidate .or the Bodes
Profeeeirship at Oxford, has received the appointment
of librarian at the East India house, vacant through the
death of Professor H. 11. Wilson.