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

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Volunteering to Regimente of the Line is now open
for all militia oorps, either embodied or disembodied,
upon the same terms and conditions as those Lid down
during the late war with Russia.
The French Minister of Marine has decided, after
several trials, that the seamen and marines serving on
board ships of war shall in future, be armed with
rifles. _ . .

At Gosport, In consequence of quarrels among the
Royal Marines and Lancashire Militia Regiment and a
few men of the 47th Regiment, no soldier is permitted
to carry a stick.
The French Government has decided on the establish-
ment of an Artillery College at Grenoble. It is re-
marked that since the 'Amnion of Napoleon LII., whole
so skilled in the sciences of artillery, the number of
artillery scLools has been increasing every day in
France.

The remnant of the Waterloo veterans is being
thinned by death. A long list of the departed has just
been published. The report states, however, that there
are 180 officers above the rank of captain dill alive.
The Ottoman army have recently adopted the plan
followed by France and several other states, of drawing
up the troops two deep instead of three, as had been
hitherto done. Other improvements are in contempla-
tion, which will tend to render the Ottoman army more
efficient than it has yet been.
The vaccination, or re-vaccination, of the entire
French army is proposed. This idea is not new; for in
1856 there were 44,222 men of the Prtunian army sub.
jested to the operation.
The reinforcements which have been for acute time
under orders to embark for India, left Chatham garrison
Tuesday morning and proceeded to Grevesend, where
they embarked on board the Sal/mance for BcenbaY and
Kurrechee. As there was an alteratlori in the littelbere
and detachments ordered for embaceatioe, we new give
• complete list of the officers and troopa who proceeded
from Chatham on Tuesday :--18th Royal Irish, Lieut.
E. L. Dillon and 116 non-commissioned officers and
men; 51st Light IrdautTASsuogn cb:iwe and 73
, men of all ranks; 72nd ' hlenders, 24 men; 83rd Re-
giment, 12 men; 86th Regiment, Qaptain J. Boyd and
23 non-commissioned officers and privates; 98th Reg('
meat, 5 rank and Ale. Staff Assistant-Surgeon A. R.
Kilroy, from Fort Pitt Hospital, embarked in medical
°beige of the reinforcements.
The screw steamer Jason hes been chartered for the
conveyance to India of 1,000 troops, making the
seventh vessel of the European and American Corn.
p.ny's fleet now engaged in this betvioe. She was to leave
Southampton yesterday for Gravesend, where the troops
are to embark. The Jason is • sister ship to the Golden
Fleece, which made such a splendid run out to Calcutta,
and landed her troops without a single can of aicknese
having occurred among them during the voyage; as
also did the Lady Jocelyn, another of the company's
steamers.

MARRIED WOMEN.—The Act passed in the late session
to enable married women to dispose of reversionary in-
terests in personal estates came into effect from Then
i -
day. It s declared that after the 31st of December
last, it shall be lawful for every married woman, by
deed, to dispose of every future or reversionsty interest,
whether vested or contingent, of such married woman,
or her husband in her right, in any personal estate what-
soever to which she shall be entitled under any instru-
ment made after the 31st of December, 1867; and also
to release or extinguish any power whirl may be veined
in or limited or reserved to her in regard to any such
personal estate, as fully and effectually as she could do if
she were a few tole, and also to release and satin/nigh
her right or equity to a settlement out of any personal
estate to which she, or her husband in her right, may be
entitled in possession wider any instrument, save and
except that no such disposition, release or estinguish-
went shall be valid unless the husband oonour in the
deed by which the same shall be effected, nor unless the
deed be acknowledged by her in the manner prescribed.
The provision is not to extend to any reversionary in-
terest to which she shall become entitled by vines of
any deed, will, or instrument by which she shall be
restrained from alienating or effecting the same. The
deeds permitted by this Act or to be acknowledged in
the same manner as deeds under the 3rd and 4th
William, cap. 74, for abolishing fines mid recoveries.
The powers of disposition given by this Act are *et to
interfere with other powers nor to extend to settlements
of married women upon their marriage. The new law
is not to extend to Sootland.

Cuss OF Sever. Yenta' Comm, IT Da. Loopore Putumno
WILFUL& —From the Rev. 0. Daemon Primitive Methodist
Minister, Midge Street, Peel, Isle of *in.—. Gentinnee,—My
wife baring been afflicted with s were cough for wen yews lest pan, during the last smi=dria brought. so low that her
life ...adorned of, when a reconnooded her to try
Dr. Lomat s Pulmoule Wafers. She did so, and the bet
she derived front Mem wee truly awing. She was after taking s few boxes, again able to return to her domestic
duties. I think it would be egrea blaming to the alined in
our island were they edoerthed her., asthey appear am to be
known. You are at liberty to make what me you mai
P _lWer of my testimony. I am, youts ,Itc. GA.Wcit
naive Methodist inatenst." Dr. Locoek'e
give instant retiefount a -rapid cure of sethrna, oragt4 ehildi disorder. of the breath sod hums. To oat plibtle muskets they me krahashia for draring aud elmsogtk the
yoke. They hove a meet yippenot Mete. Prim la gd., lia Id.,
and no per Ix:. !aid by all obsoilea.