The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-02 00:00:00

...Imam a
purse
with I NM nro, of the ill.fared rummer Hibernia,
was nre•ented on Saturday evening th containing £l5O, subscribed by 1,600 citizens of
Glasgow, as an or
self
Preteion of their admiration for
his pliant conduct wen the lives of so many de-
penile! on his
-possession
nte lerni Cirtynar.—A and mailorly qualities.
correspondent writes ,--
" A report is in circulation that the Government
scheme relating to time Irish Church is not to be seri-
tinily opposed till the bill reaches the Committe It
is understood that acne of the Liberal melcontente
will coslesce with the Conearrativee, and under the Inedenthin of Mr. Disraeli 'till introkluce • series
of resolutions with the object of gaining time, and
ieferring legislation toe futeresession."—Marsces-
Ice Genfies.
Tug THRONE OF RELofint.—The King and Queen
of the Belgians have now no other issue than two
Princesses, one about eleven years of age, and the
other a child of four. The King is thirty-three years
old, and has beeo married seventeen years to his
ihßonisystvooalw.Cordagensa:te,:aitlAhteubesßeitrgaliaginanioAL.Ch;:hil:ruelmee• nearly of
Ii the King's only ;Leib% ell=llll.lttmed,
brother,—the Count of Flanders,
now in his thirty-second year, who has only been
married one and twenty meths, and who pet hm
no off/vele.— Times.
The Earl and Countess of Derby's serond party at
Knoweley separated on Saturday. Unfortunately
the Earl of Derby was unable to join the social
cWeldi in consequence of •12 attack of goat. His
Lordship is still confined to his bed-room—Pest.
COLLISION AT SLa.—A telegram from Plymouth
states that the Portuguese screw corvette porthole-
w Diaz, bound front Green tithe to Lisbon, came
into collision aid a.m. on Saturday, thirty miles
off the Eddystone lighthouse, with the brig Magnet,
of Oldenburg, from Savianalom, bound o from Bremen
Ply.
with • cargo of coffee. no mmt ran in
mouth to repair damages. The brig was picked up
derelict, and towed into Plymouth by the Cunard
steamer Saber, bound from Havre for Liverpool.
. Mr. lienr/LlLiisslie has issued • prospectus of iris
eoncerts, to 'n in London 00 the 4th of February.
Two of thee will be orchestral, and the programme
of the first is to include the "Midsummer Night's
Dream" music, Samuel Wesley's motet "In elite
Israel," Mendelssohn's piano concerto in 1) minor, I
sod Schubert's "Song of Miriam." Madame Sohn- 1
inann and Miss Edith Wynne are announced for the I
onening concert, and Mr. Sims Reeves and
mrHerr.
II
Joachim are to appear later. A new work by . o
A. Macfarren, "Songs in a Cornfield," is to be pro- ,
dared at the second concert.
The Committee appointed in November last at •
public meeting in relation to the proposed formation
of a council of foreign bondholders have published a
report allowing the objects contemplated, and the
roles and regulations to be recommended it • meet-
ing railed for the 2nd of February, at which Mr. R.
W. Crawford, M.P. will presiche. The movement has
than far been regarded with general approval, and
may be made to confer seal Noefit OD the holders
of bonds and on the nation, that are their debtors.
To ho, et states it will be of especial advantage,
since they most be gainers by every plan that tends
to keep the dishonest out of the market.—Temeer.

A Down Mu° WRECTIOLD.-11a• vessel Frouw
Clara, of Wildewank, in Holland, has just been lost
under peculiar circumstances. She sailed from
Sunderland with a coal cargo on Friday week, for
Portugal. Owing to a light unfavourable wind, she
made very little headway, and, on Sunday evening,
when nearly due east of Harlepool, she fell in about
six p.m. with a large quantity of wreck, some part
of which struck her forward and canoed her to make
water rapidly. An hour afterwards all took to the
boat, and two minutes later the ship went down.
At this moment they were about 15 miles east of
liartlepool, and after four or five hours' rowing, the
captain and crew made the shore of Black Hall's
Coastguard Station, some five miles north of Hartle.
pool.

It has recently been decided in the Superior Court
of New York city, that &spectator of a play, not pub-
lished and not copyrighted, nay take down the text
of the play and efteeward print and publish it. The
Question arose upon • motion to dissolve an injune-
tion obtained by the assignee of an English drama-
tic author, to prevent an American publisher from
printing and welling a comedy entitled "Play," of
which the author had told the manuscript to the
complainant. The defence war that the comedy had
been publicly represented in London, and that the
defendant had obtained his cony front persons who
had there witnessed it.—The Court held that, there
having been no restriction to the contrary imposed
upon the London audience, any one of them could
lawfully re-produce the play in print in America.
The marriage of Prince Eugenie de Leuehtemberg
with Willie. Dario Apatchinne took place on Wed-
nesday evening, at Florence, in the villa San Donato,
the property of Prince Anatol. fie Demidoff, placed
for the occasion at the orders of the Grand Duchess
Maria of Russia, the bridegroom's mother. tier Im-
neria/ Ilichnee* was preent, accompanied by Count
Strogonoff, Ler linsband, her daughter, the young
Countess 111911:101, Prime Sergins de Lenchtemberg,
her eon, and Prince William of Baden, her eon-in.
law, who had come specially from Naples to attend
the wedding. Amongst the other distinguished per-
sons were remarked Count ile Kiessleff, Russian
Minister ; Baron de llfalaret, the hench representa-
tive ; Baron fiehweitzer, and otr members of the
diplomatic body. The functionYof the sponsors for
Prince Eugenie were fulfilled his mother and
Count Strononoff, who were specially delegated by
the Emperor Alevander for that purpose.

Traaniut GAs EXPLOSION IN LoNDON.— The
Rimiest possible excitement was, on Monday night,
created in Oxford-street in consequence of an ex-
toosion of gas, which was attended with the destruc-
tion of a great amount of property and almost fatal
consequence" to a vast number of persons. It ap-
pease that shortly before midnight, whilst many
neople were pasting along Oxford-street from the
theatre', at least five or six were prostrated to the
ground by a fearful explosion taking place in the
nremises of Mr. .1. T. Cole, milliner and florist.
He'ore the parties outside were fully aware of what
ad occurred, they were struck with pieces of glass;
bnt upon inquiry on Tuesday morning DO one ha
been taken to Middlesex Hospital, and neither had
any application for surgical aid been made to the
local surgical staff, therefore it is believed that no
person was oeriously- hurt. The engines quickly at-
tended, sod the fire was moon extinguished. It is
not a little singular that, although the ground and
third floors were so shattered, the second floor re-
ceived no injury whatever.

EARL EMELT, ON THE TRISH Cling:lL—Lord
Hassell's thiri letter on the Irish Church, addressed
to Mr. C. Forteecue, has been published. His lord-
ship rigged. that at a certain date, say March, 1870,
the Established Church of Ireland shall cease to sa-
id as an establishment; that, in the interval, a con.
vocation shall frame • scheme for ita organisation as
• free church; that this free church shall be assigned
such cathedrals and parish churches as may have
been chiefly built by voluntary contributions of Pro-
t.atanta, 1111Ild such Mods and glebes as the present
Established Church may produce equitable claims
to retain; that property equal in amount to that re-
tained by the Protestant Episcopal Church shall be
asa4med to the Presybtarian and Homan Catholic
people of Ireland for marpmes to be defined by par-
%lament ; and that the remaiadia of the funds to be
derived from the disendowmest of the present Estab-
lished Church shall be applied by parliament, from
time to time, solely to Irish purposes. One of Earl
Russell's suggestions is that the Prince of Wale•
shall reside in Ireland ice two or three months annu-
ally, with fa,ooo • year added to his income from
the public revenue. _ _

DEATH cv Mn. EwAisT, LATE N.P. von DUN•
FRISA.—We regret to announce the death of Mr.
William Ewart, late Ml'. for the Dumfries Burghs,
which painful event occurred at his residence on
Saturday last. The deceased wee descended from
an old Galloway family—the Ewarte of Hunt:irk—
nod was the son of Mr. W. Ewart, • Liverpool
merchant. He was born at Liverpool in 17e8, was
educated at Eton and Oxford, where he graduated
B.A. and was called to the bar in 1847. In 1828 he
was returned to parliament for Metchingly, and
continue.' as its member till 1830, when he was
elected and eat two years for Liverpool. From 1839
to 1880 he was out of the House, but in that year he
was chosen by the electors of Wigan, and retained
his seat till 1841, when he contested the Dumfries
burghs with a local gentlemarflir Alexander John-
stone, of Carnsalloch—and gained the day by •
majority of 60 votes. Since then till the laid
election, when, constrained by declining health and
advancing years, he took leave of the constituency,
he represented that district hi parliament, though
not without being subjected to two or three keen
contests. His labours in the House were valuable,
though unobtrusive. He took an active part in
educational measures, and was instrumental in
carrying the Free Libraries Bill. Indeed, his whole
career was one of laborious usefulness. His brother,
who eat many years for Liverpool died only a few
months ago.
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Then 01 ltivtreruENT.—An impression appear,
to prevail that, among the new schemes of the Go-
vernment, will he one to favour a shorter term of
enlistment, by keeping a certain number of infan-
try battalions always at home and also & certain
number in effect loalised—in short, never relieved
—in India. This would have a very beneficial effect
in easing the reliefs, and we do not think there will
be any serious practical difficulty in carrying oat
such a plan. We hay* now, or we very soon shall
have fifty-two battalions at home, as against fifty
i -
two n India and thirty-seven in the Colonies • or
eighty-nine &togs< her abroad. The colonial strength
will, no doubt, be speedily reduced by five or six
battalions, and if we put eighty-five as the number
of battalions to be provided for, we shall not err on
the wrong side. Now, if we took these twenty-five
double battalion regiments, kept one battalion of
each always at home in time of pews, in a high
state of ociency, in the event of war, leaving the
caber 'battalion always in India, we should have only
sixty battalions abroad to provide for in the way of
ordinary relief. For this purpose we should have
thirty batt&lions at home on the roster for service
to provide for the doe return home, altar tau
or tweedy-wren battalions in Wiz and thirty-three
Is th• e°k"Ues• Our infantry strength would thus
be made sF.--111 home, twenty-ilve at battalions
not liable le I'4o service most& in war time, and
thirty battalions tit blei to serve in India and the
eekeliee' or fifty-fl,, in all • abroad, twenty-five
second ine44ll°l" IS4 'Stilled to relief, and twenty.
OIS'S 43 be relievedhi kid* OT fitepswo saiovAse,
0.4 ShiSylkrtio rathiect Ntia
*rat 40 fri4ll