The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

AliscrilancoiLs.

The Queen, with the Prince Consort and the junior
members of the Royal family, left Windsor for the Isle
of Wight on Tuesday.
The Duchess of Malakoff expects to give an heir to
Marshal Peßimier in February.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte, having been highly pleased
with the performance of Madame Viardot in the opera
of " Orphie," sent her, the day after lie bail seen her
play, a handaotue bracelet ornamented with two antique
cameos. .

The Queen of Spain, anticipating the birth of a new
baby, has given 120,000 reals to charitable establish
molts, and has commenced visiting churches to offer up
prayers.
The King of Naples hu given permission to the
French Government to lay down a submarine telegraph
between Gaeta and Corsica. Naples will, therefore
very shortly be plactd in direct telegraphic couimunica-
tion with Paris, and consequently with London.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany intends to pass the winter
on his estates in Bohemia. .

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Mr. Watson, an actor, was wounded at Halifax during
the performance of " William Tell" last week. In the
',mond act, where Tell instructa his on in the art of
shooting, an arrow strayed froin ita aiin, and deprived
Mr. Watson of the sight of one eye.
A Servian, named Mos. Paitsch, has published a
little book in which he advocates the use for telegraphic
purposes of a new universal language entitled " Pasi-
graphy." The words are to be formed by the ordinary
Arabic ciphers, employed in ingenious combinations.
The Government has authorized Sir William cod-
rington to give temporary assistance to the refugees from
Morocco at Gibraltar, by affording them a bread ration
from the cominissarait. The French Government will
receive into Algeria those who wiab to go there.
Mr. Bright will visit his constituents early in the
month of January, and attend one or more public meet-
ings before the meeting of Parliament.
In the " Alinanare des Victories de Napoleon III.,"
lately published in Paris, there are some curious illustra-
tions representirg battles between &naves and men in
the uniform of our volunteers.

The Marquis do Laiatico, • distingoialied Sardinian
statesman, died on Thursday week at the Clarendon
Hotel, Bond-street, after a short illness. The noble
Marquis had been only • few weeks in this country. It
is stated that be died from an attack of smallpox.
The contemplated journey of the King of Prunus to
England has again become doubtful, in consequence of
his Majesty's health having suddenly grown worse.
The marriage at Munich of Ivan aolovin, the well-
known literary refugee, is said to have been telegraphed
to the Emperor of Roasia ; and that his Majeatytm-
mediately repled :—" My Imperial, paternal blearing.
All is forgiven, all is forgotten."

Newspapers sent to the Australian colonies by the
overland route will be charged 2d., instead of Id.' after
the lit of January. A strong agitation is being raised
in the colonies against this impost.
A new commentary of Junius' is announced from the
pen of Mr. Josiah Parkes. The work is said to contain
many new facts and document. in favour of the claim
of Sir Philip Francis to the authorship of " Letters."
James Turner, who waa lately condemned for poison-
ing biz wife with sugar of lead, is not to be hanged,
but to undergo ten years' servitude in a penal colony.
The courts-martial on the seamen of the Princess
Royal have resulted in a sentence of three months'
imprisonment in Winchester Gaol on one hundred and
eight of the men.
The Emperor of Morocco, to lessen the horrors! of war,
has forbidden the slaughter of troops taken in battle.
Victor Hugo has written a passionate letter on behalf
of "Old Brown," the Harper Ferry hero. He says
that the execution of Brown may establish slavery in
Virginia on a firm basis, but it will shake to its centre
the entire fabric of American Democracy.
Lord Palinerston and the Earl of Elgin have accepted
invitations to a grand banquet about to be given by the
Southampton Chamber of Commerce, to celebrate the
selection of the port of Southampton for the Great
Eastern steam ship.
Certain proceedings connected with the election at
Louvain, in Belgium, gave rise to a very angry debate
in the Belgian Legislature, in the 01311116 e of which one of
the ex-Ministers. Nothomb, openly challenged his
successor, Frere Orban, to a duel.
M. Meyerbeer has left Paris for Berlin to resume his
duties as chapelmaster to the King of Prussia.
The Geographical Society of Pans has just proposed a
prise of 6,0001. to the first traveller who shall perform
the journey from Algeria to Senegal, or vice verse,
passing by Timbucto.
The Northern Reform Union has issued writ...gain.,
six of the leading supporters of Mr. Marjoribarsks at the
late election at Berwick for the recovery of penalties for
bribing at that election,
Lord Brougham is about to issue his mathematical
works in one volume, dedicated to the University of
Edinburgh.
The Government intend, it is said, to enlarge the
camp at Shorncliffe by purchasing the land belonging to
Mr. Bayly and Mr. Pilcher adjoining, so as to accomo-
date altogether 10,000 wen. Experience has proved it
to be the healthiest camp in the kingdom.
Orders have been received at Chatham dockyard for
130 more shipwrights and mechanim to be taken into
the establishment.

'”i:ni-ii;;;;Iid-LI is called to the Upper House under
the title of Baron Forteseue.
signor Mortara, the abduction of whose child has
created such a stir, inflow in London. Having had an
interview with the Emperor Napoleon, he has now
visited the metropolis of England to induce the British
Government to bring his case before the forthcoming
Congress on Italian affairs.
A child, belonging to Agnus Mackay, of Dunn (Wick),
was lying in its cradle, when • pig entered the room,
and tore the baby's hands and face so dreadfully that the
little sufferer died won alter, chiefly through low of
blood,

A family of coiners was captured lest week at Man-
chester while at work.
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The friends of Mr. Mitchel, who was reported to have
poisoned himself in France lately, appear to haves°
doubts as to the facts of the case, and have instituted
an inquiry.
The Bishop of London intends to hold a special con-
firmation at the parish church. Fulham, on Christinaa
Day, at 3 p.m., for the benefit of young persons pro-
ceeding abroad, and those who cannot conveniently
present themselves at the usual confirmations in the
spring.
The Hotel des Londres at Rochfort (Hilmar) has been
destroyed by fire. The travellers who were staying
there had a narrow escape—the fire breaking out in the
night.
The Admiralty will issue a circular to the navy in a
few days adapting the late regulations of the Horse
Guards respecting flogging in the Army to the Nava
service. 1

A screw steam "gondola" has been launched on
Coniston Lake. _ . . .

All the graveyards in the Crimea (says a letter-writer)
are in perfectly good order, with stone walls and ditches
round them, and, as there is scarcely a soul here, they
are likely to remain as they are. All the inscriptions
are quite clear, and they look as peaceful and quiet as
though in an English churchyard.
Mr. S•ininer, the American senator, hu returned to
New York from his European tour.
The marine department of the Board of Trade has
awarded Joseph Rodgere, the Maltese seaman, who
swam from the Royal Charter to the shore with a rope
the sum of £lO and a silver medal for his gallantry.
The Emperor of the French has given to M. Mad-
enize, formerly French Conant at Nice, an estate worth
300,000 f., "as a return for the services rendered by that
gentleman when lieutenant of infantry to Prince Louis
Napoleon, whose cause be zealously supported. The
Emperor had already given a handsome dower to one
of the daughters of M. Aladenzie.”
The Russian Naval Department is said to have taken
up an invention of Mr. Piaui Smith for making astron-
omical observations on board a rolling ship, and that the
l'ulkave astronomers and mechanicians arc now en-
gaged in manufacturing a large free-revolving apparatus
fur observing altitudes of stars at night without the aid
of the sea horizon.

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Works are in progress by which Chichester Cattle.
drat will be thrown open from end to end, and the
space, which hitherto was available only for about 2.50
adults, will be increased so u to accommodate 700 or
800. On special occasions it is hoped that even 2,000
or 3,000 worihippers may be received within this
ancient building. . . . .

A promising rifle corps is now being organised among
the students of the Working blen's College, in Great
Ormond-street, under the direction principally of Mr.
Thomas Hughes, the author of "Toni Brown's School-
days," who has been long identified with the institu-
tion as one of its most efficient promoters.
An event rare in theatrical annals occurred a few days
ago at Berlin. M. hichiesche, of the opera of that
city, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Lis debat.
Ile is a bass singer, and has still a fine voice. The
Prince Regent made him a valuable pecuniary present;
his fellow-perfornieni presented him with a testimonial,
and the bands of the two regiments' of the Guard played
before his house.

When the long annuities expire, u they will with the
payment of the January dividend, it is calculated that
the saving of interest on these and on the annuities
which expired the 10th of October will, together, be
equivalent to the interest on £40,000,000 of Consols.
Sir S. Baffle's 6ne collection of Javanese antiqui•
ties is to be added to the British 'Museum.

Dr. Vaughan, the late- head master of Harrow School,
was entertained on Tuesday by his pupils at a dinner in
the Freemasons' Tare; n, The chair was occupied by
Ur. Charles Cutter, and about 250 gentlemen joined in
the demonstration. Among those present were Lord
Spencer, Lord Radstock, Lord Sandon, Lord Hamilton,
Lord Eustace Cecil, Lord Mahon, and Mr. Abel Smith,
M.P.

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The Unirers says it is intended to erect • splendid
altar at Cologne to contain the precious relics of Duns
Scotus, the great champion of the doctrine of the im-
maculate conception, which are preserved in one of the
many churches of that city. On the original monument
of Duns Scotus was the well-known inscription—" Scotia
me genuit, Anglia me suscepit, Gallia me docuit,
Colonia me tenet."

The ladies of Vienna, say a journal devoted to Court
news and scandal, have just determined upon the
abandonment of the use of gloves, which are no longer
to be worn in private parties and at the opera, only on
the first entrance into the box. "Th. adoption of rings
of real value, attached by an old chain to the armlet,
has given the idea of this change fashion."