The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-18 00:00:00

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Sir Henry Bulwer has been appointed to succeed Lord
Stratford De RedoMe se Ambassador at Constantinople.
The new Ainhaasador to Turkey has been for 30 years
engaged in diplomacy.
Mr. Pemberton Leigh, the distinguished lawyer, is to
be raised to the Peerage.
Sir Colin Campbell's title will be Lord Campbell of
Clyde, in allusion to his being born on that river near
Glasgow.
Marshal %squat is very ill, and has been visited by the
Archbishop of Paris,
The Empress Eugenie, on Tuesday week, completed
her thirty-second year.
Mr. Henry Berkeley, M.P., will bring on the annual
motion for the Bollott, on Tuesday, the Bth of June
nest. _ _

N. blontaubry, tenor tram Brumele, has just been
engaged it the Opera Condom, lt Ii said, for Ave years,
ate eatery of e 1,600 per annum,
The treaty, relative to the oonatruotion of a Axed
bridge over the Rhine, bee been envied by the Commie.
'loners of all the Government& !intimated in the gum.
Goo, _

—Lord Derby, to whom the Dort OW Imo boon cub.
mitted, has reaulved to mhose the three daughters of
the late Henry Dort by it gm!' of £2OO !tomtits Royal
Bounty Fund.
The late Lord Advocite w entertained at &dinner,
given at the Trafalgor, Green oh, on Saturdoy evening,
by members of both oldie of the House of Commono,
The wage. of the labourors employed in the tiorern•
moot dookiards, hove been raised from thirteen to
fourtoon ohillinp a wook.
Conotantinoplo letter, of the 24th ult. NOM that on
the day provioul a rather shirep .hook of earthquake
wee felt, sooompaniod by ano Outlier to that of a die.
oharge of sovorol pieced of tillory. No damage was
caused,
The Raphael oartoono ore all to ' be lowered to tho level
of the eye. The will bee gnu boon, mince notoriouoly
in opirtmento built at the ow d of this portion of the
Polio, all the upper two.tult of the Mille are in per.
petits! gloom,
The ShoMeld manufaoturom oomplain bitterly that
the German worker' in dal pirate their tradolnarko,
with a view to palm off on forgign markoto very inferior
goodie.
It is mentioned MI an example of the (Iselin, of the
Englimh bar that no low than 1.00 beta of oltamboro are
now to be let In the Temple alone, to may nothing of
Lincoln', Inn and Gray', Inn,
The Lord Chanoollor hoe reported to the House of
Lords thst the right of Thorns, Earl of Ranfutly to vote
ot the election of repreoentolive piers for Ireland has
been wttablislied to his satislattion.
Sit John Pakington had offorod to pia°e vessels at the
dloposal of 'Mono' for observation of the great !ohms of
floptembor next—the points! Cr saving which, to sotto.
nomioal advantap, lie in !South America, and portion.
Lary about Lima.
The right of mile of the oil front the lamp which burns
night and day before the alter in the new chapel at La
haletto hao been conceded to the Augustin' ladles at
the Batignolleo, who behold the faithful flock in root
numbers for Be purchase Ma remedy for opthaluda.

Letters from Karlskrona, in Sweden, mentions a kind
of mutiny having broken out there in a regiment of ar-
tillery, from Mormon soldiers refusing to attend the
usual religious instruction.

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The band of the French National Guard, one of the
finest of its kind in Europe, has arrived in this country,
to add by its performances to the musical attractions of
the season. The band has already been heard at the
Crystal Palace, and at St. James's Hall.
A radical paper of Berlin is now under prosecution
for having published a libel on the Emperor Napoleon
in furnishing its readers with extracts from Mr. Edwin
James's speech, and commenting upon them. The police
seized the paper immediately after the publication.
The recent presentation of the model gun and its
equipment to the Emperor of the French is about to be
' succeeded by the presentation to the French nation of a
most interesting relic, which has been deposited in the
Royal Repository at Woolwich, since 1819—namely, the
identical hearse which served to convey the body of the
Imperial exile of St. Helena to the tomb.
The new bell for the clock tower at Westminster has
been taken out of the mould in a perfectly sound state,
as far as can be ascertained on the closest inspection, al-
though it will be impossible to know this with complete
certainty until is has been swung. It makers con-
fidently expect that the tone will be powerful, rich, and
clear, and that the desired note will be attained.
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On the 2nd instant, three converts solemnly renounced
the doctrines of the Church of Rome in the lecture-room
of the Priests' Protection Society, Dublin, where it is
intended that converts shall in future be received by the
society on the first Sabbath of every month in the year.
Those of our readers who may have French shares may
feel interested in knowing that the dividend of the Nor-
thern Railway for 1857 amounts (with interest) to 60f.
per share; Strasburgh to 40f. 65c. ; Lyons and Medi-
terranean, 53f. ; the Credit Fonder, 20f.; and the
Vieille Montague, 25f. for each tenth of share.
It was reported (says the Times of Thursday), after the
Cabinet had separated yesterday, that Lord Stanley
would succeed Lord Ellenborough as President of the
Board of Control, and that Sir Bulwer Lytton would be
appoinked Secretary for the Colonies, the difficulty of
securing his return for Hertfordshire being averted by
his advent:lament to the Peerage. We believe, however,
that these statements are at least premature, and that it
is not yet decided how the vacancy caused by Lord
Ellenborough's retirement will be filled up.
A special soiree of the Bath Literary and Philo-
sophical Association was held on Wednesday evening at
the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution to hear a
paper on " Cowper and his Times" from Mr. Tite, M. P.
His Worship the Mayor, Dr. Falconer, presided, and
there was an unusual large attendance of associates and
friends. Mr. Tite, who was very cordially received, read
an elaborate and able paper, illustrative of "the amiable
poet." A vote of thanks was given to Mr. 'Cite by
acclamation for his paper, and, a similar compliment
having been paid to the mayor for presiding, the meeting
separated.
The speaker gave his thirteenth Parliamentary full dresa
dinner on Wednesday evening, at his mansion Carlton-
house-terrace. The following members of the Lower
House were present :—Viscount Goderich, Sir William
Dunbar, Sir Thomas E. Winnington, Sir James Ander-
son, Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. Dundas (Orkney), Mr.
Calvie, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Thomas Mille (Totness),
Mr. Duncombe Shaft°, Mr. Barnard (Bedford), Mr. S.
Gurney, Mr. De Vere, Mr. Orme Forster, Mr. Mellor,
Q.C., Mr. F. North, Mr. Morris, Mr. Steel, Mr. F. W.
Russel (Limerick), Mr. R. J. Bagshaw, Mr. Loftus
Bland, Q.C., Mr. Woods (Wigan), Mr. Campbell, Mr.
Caloutt, Mr. Salisbury, Mr. IMMO Butt, Q.C., Mr.
White, Mr. Wood (Pontefract), Mr. Ewing. The Hon.
George Waldegrave, and the Rev. Henry Drury bad tho
honour of joining the party.