The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

IR tocellantous.

On Wednesday, • notice wag exhibited at the Judges !
chambers that W. Jostles Oresswell would attend to
beset beim. on Friday. In a short time hi.
Lordship will re*e from the Court of Common Pleas to
take Ida seat in the new Probate Court,
Apartment. have been provided by the Emperor of
Ms French in the Chateaux de &vane, for the mem.
modation of 78 widows and daughters of dell and mill.
tar/ feet
The Print' sariglignae wee married a short time sine
to Viotorine the great dresemaker, and the Court
J 01011.21 WI; us that, "a modiste of the Reim Riehellen
h.e krt bought the hand of an indent'sl member of
the nate/ and eminent of one of the noblest home.
of Frame
Napoleon 111. has dismissed the Spanish nurse who
was in Attendee on the Prime Imperial, and he. ob.
Mined the service. of an English attendant, the daughter
of a Norfolk farmer.
A estelogne of all existing unerials for the History of
of England, from the earliest the to the final 01044 of
the Wars of the Roses on the memaion of Henry VIII,
the point at winch inodurn history begins, is about to be
published by Mr. Hardy of the Record °Mae.
A working 011111's eellege is about to be opened in ,
Manthester. The Arai term *mamma,. on Monday,She
11th of January,
The Medical Gomm, of Lisbon, assets that all the
of tea city who reside in houses lighted by gee
persons
the yellow fever.
Mr. Richard Furness, a provincial poet of some rem-
tation--sehro of the Rag Bag and Medina Magus,
and himself a friend of Menem Elliott and James
Montgomery—died recently.
Vine-dressers have been engaged in the wine-growing
departments in France to go out to Australia. The
wages offered are advantageous to the vine-dressers, who
are engaged for extensive proprietom at Victoria. Vine
cuttings have already been sent from Burgundy and the
Bordelais to Australia.
Lola Monies reoently arrived at Southampton, from
America, en route to Paris. It is reported that she is
about to marry a Prince Solkowski.
The prevent crop of sugar in Demerara will be the
largest since Emancipation; while that of Barbadoes
will be one of the largest ever reaped.
The National Hotel at Washington has been re-opened.
It is not announced what measures have been taken to
render it salubrious; but it is now remarked that " it is
to be hoped the proprietors will poison their rata here-
after with more discretion, and not kill 8 per cent, of
their guests in the operation."
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have expelled
a member, Mr. C. H. Taylor, because they believe
that he has used intelligence improperly obtained from
a clerk in the Submarine Telegraph Company. The
clerk has been dismissed. The system has been carried
on, it is mid, for a long time, cowling suspicion to fall
on innocent persona.
An order has lately been given to M. Schetm, to make
a calculating machine for the Registrar-General's
office. _

The Rev. Thomas Binney has sailed from Liverpool
for Australis, in the Sultana, in company with • large
number of missionaries and blends. Mrs. Binney ac-
ooropanies.her husband.
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Some of the foreign singers who went in" the fall"
to America, with the hopes of gleaning a golden harvest
there, have already returned—publio music hav-
ing been virtually silenced by the " crashes," on every
aide, of bank, and warehouse, and speculator's offioe.
An Englishman of fortune and position was recently
invited to a fancy ball at a foreign oourt. Like • bold
Briton he went in the attire or a parish beadle.
Thiers is suffering a kind of "cerebral rheumatism,"
which afflicts all overworked brains in the long run. His
last volume on the close of the dying struggle for the
Enipire in 1814 tasked his powers overmuch.
A dissipated woman, living at Oldham, who had seve-
ral times attempted to commit innoide, drunk some
vitriol a day or two ago, and died in great agony.
A new fortnightly European Illustrated Art Review
is announced for the beginning of the year in Paria.
The title will be Gazette des Beaux Arts, Courtier
Buroplen de CArt et de la Curiosite."
The &coolants of the late musical festival at Norwich
will exhibit a surplus of £430, but it is recommended
that • portion of this sum should be applied to the par
ment of debts on account of the meeting of 1864, when
there wee a deficiency of £lO3.
The gossips of Paris insist that the secret of Lord
Stratford de Radcliffe's departure from Oonstantinople
is to be found in his luxurious and prodigal habits.
At San Francisco some convicts were unloading • wood
barge, when it drifted away. The guard, thinking they
were endeavouring to escape, fired • charge of grape at
them, killing three.
Suicides have been very freenent in the French army
for, some time put. The Minister of War has sent
letters of thanks to several colonels of regiments for
having published orders of the day stigmatising such
sell of cowardice.
From the order in Council, taking effect under the
new Divorce Act on the 11th instant, no action is to be
"maintainable in England" for criminal conversation.
Henceforth an decree is to be made for & divorce 4
weal se Otero but for • judicial separation, which may
be obtained under the new act (20 and 21 Vice., c. 85),
either by • husband or wife, on the ground of adultery
or cruelty, or desertion without cause, for two years and
upwards.
A fine epealmen of the osprey or sea eagle was brought
down during the spring floods, and has been preserved
by Mr. John Brown, of Misson. It wu shot by John
Capil from his punt boat and gan, but not before ha had
made many attempts by stalking. At length, however,
he managed to get within range, under the cover of a
fence. It was perched on agate-post, feeding on the
river fish. On being secured, it fired ite talons on
Capin shooting•dress, and wee not removed without
difficulty. From tip to tip of the wings it measured
about five feet, and is considered a fine specimen.