The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

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The Duke of Cambridge went ilown to Woolwich on
M.,fiday week for the purpose f delivering the prizes.'
norit to the gentlemen cadets recommended by the
t;overtior of the Royal Military Academy as deserving
rewards and prizes for good conduct and acquirements.
The hake of Malakoff arrived at Dover on Thursday,
en ruiee for LOll.lOll. The Duke travelled in C(11.
Divine service was performed at the Britannia
Theatre, Roston, on Sunday week, by the Rev. W.
Brock. The house was completely filled, and the atidi-
Core decorous and attentive.
A journeyman baker, named William Mee, was suf-
focated in • bakethrough at Wellingborough a few days
ago. It is supposed that he was seized with an
pletic fit whilst at work, and fell head foremost into
the moisture of yea.st, flour, and water.
Thowands of skaters have taken recreation in the
parks thii week, though in the early days the ice was
rather treacherous. Several people have been drowned,
and on Tuesday nearly fifty persons fell through into
the Serpentine at one moment. It is thought that all
escaped.
A telegram received front Copenhagen states that the
Royal Palace of Fredericksburg was completely destroyed
by fire on the night of the 17th.
Some noblimon and gentlemen of Milan are just now
subjected to tench persecution on the part of the mob
beciim,c at the time an atteollit woe made upon the life
of the Emperor of Austria by A 11Alf Lnprian
tailor they signed an adilre,s.cumplimenting the Ellire.
rur on his I'ACA [W.
Fort George is about to be armed with a battery of
mice guns of large calibre, to he w.irked on a new prin-
ciple, by which they Illay be imickly turned round to
City point. These guns will commawl the Moray Firth,
as well as a large district of country round it.
A tin minister, with a paper inclosed, ou which was
written "The screw steamer Great Britain foundered
off the Western Islands," was found floating near the
entrance to the port of Liveroool on Saturday morning
week. This is the work of some evihininded person,
for the Great ltritain only left Liverpool on Sunday,
the ii hit inst.

The National Portrait Gallery exhibits three addi-
tional picture.. (hie is a portrait of Chantrey. by
Phillip., a present from Lady Cliantrey. The 'second,
Dr. Erasainua Durwin, painted by Wright, of Derby.
The third accesition kla deliemely-pencilled mihiature of
the celebrated caricaturiA Gilkey, by himself. The
Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Bagot was the donor of this
little treasure.

1 Plans and measurements for the Royal Oak and the
,1 Belvedere, two new 91-gun screw steamers ordered to
be built at Chatham Dockyard, have been prepared.
These vessels will be sister-ships to the Atlas 91, and
the Bulwark, 91, now being constructed at Ahem.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has contradicted the assertions
of the Americans that he missed the large game in his
fir,t, prairie essays, and states that he not only killed the
first buffalo he ever fired at, but singled out an enur-
lIIUUS bull from the herd, and, mounted on his good
stved Taymouth, fairly rode him down.

The fourth volume of Baron Brunson's " Egypt's
Place in Universal Ifistory," translated by H. C. Cot-
trell, Esq., is announced as forthcoming by Messrs.
Chapman and Hall.
Several new postmasters were appointed in Chicago
lately. One unlucky appointee was compelled to decline
for the reason net forth below:—" Hear Sir, although I
acknowledge the honour of my appointment, I regret to
say that I have yit an unexpired term of five years to
serve in the Penitentiary, which compels lime to decline
your flattering Mf.r."
The "Catholic Publishing and Bookselling Company
(Limited)- is bringing out in fortnightly numbers, at •
very low price, old Vulli,ii.o Colil•tt's " History of the
Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland," to
iIOW how that eveltt lass impoverished the 111•11.1 body
of the 1,..0p1e in these countries."
Mr. Morris Moore's picture of " Apollo and Mamas,"
be Raphael, is being exhibited in the 'loyal Academy at
Munich, where it excites great attention. King Ludwig
visited it within All hour after the opining of the exhi-
bition, and declared it to be one of the most beautiful
and rarest specimens of the master.
A factory operative residing in Kettering, named John
Plummer, was a few days since presented with £3O from
the queen's Bounty fund to literary men for several pro-
ductions from his pen, one of his subjects on "Sanitary
Reform" gaining 1:5 for Lim as a second class-prize
Mr. Edward Baines, M.P., presided over • meeting at
the Leeds Chamber of Commerce twit week, at which •
memorial to the I.Mverlitisent was adopted deprecating
the mar with China, and condemning the conduct of Mr.
Bruce in relation to the Peilio affair.

The Hun. W. F. Campbell writes to the Tinies to ad-
vocate the introductiou of some system of military in-
struction into the educiitioual scheme of public
schools.

Ilie .Strabtara Mrreuro, by way of demonstrating to •
certainty that Rome will regain possession if the Roma'.
ua, states that a loan has been lately raised by the Pups
upon the revenues of that country. La Fontaine men-
tions a case f a man who succeeded in selling a bear's
skin before he had killed the bear.
A recent survey of the mouth of the Vedio is said to
have disclosed that large vessels can move in very close
to the forts, so if threctiuns go out for the destruction of
the forts there will be no difficulty in doing so.
The government has granted an annual pension of £5O
to Mrs. Jamt Liylur, of the Minuries (author of an
"Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy,"
"Improved Lunar Tables," Guideto theuse of Maury's
Charts"), for her services in the cause of naviga-
tion.

sir John William Ramsden, M.P., was entertained on
Thursday week at a banquet given in his honour by the
principal inhabitants of liuddersheid, with which the
hon. Baronet is so closely connected.
Mr. Hobert P. Collier, qt.., has been appointed
Counsel to the Admiralty and dudge-Advocate of the
Fleet, in succession to Mr. Atherton, now Iler Majesty's
Solicitor-General. This appointment, not being an office
under the Crown, does not vacate Mr. Collier's seat in
the !louse of Commons as nember for Plymouth.
The defences of the Prussian coast are to be strength-
ened without delny.
A "Meath fox hunter," writing to • Dublin paper
• recommending a corps of fox-hunting volunteers, ob-
serves that 'the fox-hunter rides where no French
dragoon dare or could follow him"—a decided advantage,
certainly, in running away.
The challenge from the University of Cambridge
(which was unsuccessful in the race with Oxford last
Easter) has been accepted by the Oxford University
float Club, and the annual race will be rowed as usual
during the recess. The day has not yet been fixed upon,
but it is thought it will take place on the Friday or
Saturday preceding Good Friday.
A considerable number of the soldiers who were die-
charged in India, upon their refusal to be transferred
frum the East India Company's to the queen's service,
, have re-enlisted since their arrival in England.
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The Musical Society of London ha' put forth its
prospectus for the year 1860. The first conversazione
is to be held on Januray 18, at the St. James's Hall;
the tint orchestral concert on February 29th. Mr. A.
Mellon, as before, will conduct the concerts, and Mr.
H. Smart superintend the vocal rehearsals.
The ice on the ornamental waters at the Crystal
Palace has attracted large numbers of persons, especially
to the grand fountain basins, where the water is not
more than two feet in depth, and a fine open space is
afforded free from interference.
The Cardinal vicar of Rome has issued an edict for-
bidding ladies to go to church in crinoline. The con-
fessor is to forbid them to present themselves at the
altar to take the sacrament unless they are dressed in
a simple manner.
The Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy, First Commissioner
of Public Works, and M.P. for Lewes, died at Brighton
on Saturday last, at the age of 52, after a long and
painful illness.
Messrs. Bailey, Brothers, the well-known sporting
publishers, intend commencing in the spring a new
Sporting Magazine, to be entitled, " Monthly'
Magazine of Spirts and Pastimes, and Racing Register."
It will, we understand, be a tint-class publication at •
low rate.
Mr. Wuhingtim Willis, on Monday, delivered an
address at Carlisle on "Our Foreign Policy." Mr.
Willis succeeded in eliciting applause by railing at the
Govermuent, and by sneering at rifle corps, in that
high tone of humour for which Chartists are remarkable.
An advertisement having appeared in several news-
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papers st lating that • bazaar las been opened in Bath-
bone-place under the superintendence of Mrs. Sidney
Herbert, we are aurhorised to state that Mrs. Herbert
. knows nothing whatever of the bazaar in question, and
has given no authority for the use of her name.