The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

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Lord and Lady Napier have arrived in England.
Lloyd's are charging war-risks on Insurances, and
adding appropriate clauses to the policies.
Sir Edward [hillier Lytton, who is now at Malvern, is
much improved in health.
Ten thousand dollars have been offered for the newly.
discovered Venus, and refused.
A letter (rein Rome states that the Pope, adminis.
tered absolution to King Bombe by the electric wire.
There was a rumour during the week that Mr. Bun-
combe was dead. It was without foundation.
A most important discovery of inscriptions has been
made in the Holy Land, near Mount Sinai.
Baron James Rothschild has, in consequence of war.
resigned the Austrian Consulship which he has held for
many years.
At enckfield, Sussex, on Sunday week, the splendid
residence of Warden Scream, Esq., was nearly destoyed
by fire.
The 2nd battalion of the 25th Infantry, at Sheffield
Barracks, were on Tuesday morning, presented will
their first colours by Lady Wharncliffe.
The Press states that Sir John Lawrence will be
raised to the Peerage. We trust the Press is rightly
informed.
The Italian opera at Paris closed on Saturday evening,
after an extremely brilliant season. For some weeks
past at has been necessary to secure boxes and places in
advance for every representation.
Mr. Thomas Sinethunit, a surgeon, of Richmond, is
I charged with the death of a young woman who lived
with him. It is supposed that he poisoned her with
arsenic.
The good folks of Birkenhead are endeavouring to get
up • rifle club. They think if they raise three hundred
men the Queen will give the " Wirral Rifle Club" her
patronage.
The furniture at Rydal Mount, near Auibleside, the
residence of Wordsworth, was announced for sale by
auction on the sth and 6th of May. Mrs. Wordliwotth.
is dead, and the home that was the poet's is broken up.

In a discussion which took place at the Liverpool
Town Council on Wednesday, the Town Clerk stated
that the total cost of St. George's Hail up to the
present time amounted to £.330,659.
The new metal, aluminium, has been auccesdully
employed by M. Claistofie in those parts of tuazhinery
which are subject to much friction, and in the manufec-
tare of gun-barrels.
Mrs. Rosalie Ocket Vanderetein, aged forty-six, died
the other day on board tier by should's ship, in the London
Locks, from joy at meeting him after an absence of
seven years.
Mr. Harry has concluded arrangements with the
Horse Guards to teach the Bntish cavalry, and he
returns for that purpose to London OD the lit of June.
The English funds suffered a severe decline last week..
to the ruin of some twenty stockbrokers, and the distress
m.f hundreds of other people. Quotations are still ruin-
ously low.
The Courrier de Marseille mentions, as a further
proof of Austria being greatly in want of flux's, that
the Emperor has caused the crown jewels to be deposited
with the heirs of the well-known banker Baron Sins, ass
guarantee for a lumen of thirty-two millions of florins.
An English colonel recently ascended alone to the top
oft Per smnid.,ame I whilst there was robbed by the Arabs.
Presently two more Englishmen arrived, and, with their
assi.tance, lie singled out the leader. punished him with
his fists, and then took I to the nearest police station,
where the liammtinado was administered.
As • man named Malley was being examined at the
Liverpool Policy Court on Friday morning on a charge
of roldmery he suddenly fell down in the dock, striking
his head with great violence against the pannellieg.
Life was extinct. Some associates of the prisoner who,
were in thedock with him were remanded.
The new season of the Crystal Palace commenced on
Monday with emus military music on a larger scale than
has before been attempted in England. The picture
gallery reopens with a fresh collection of paintinp,
chiefly from the French and Belgian schools.
Sir Muses Mortetiore has gone to Rome to intercede
for the liberation of young Mortara. He was told that
the case was finished. tim Muses begged of Monsignors
Paten to introduce him to the Pope, in order that he
might personally represent the case to his Holiness. He
received a favourable promise, but no interview has yet
been granted.
M. 3lontanelli, formerly a constitutional minister of
Tuscany, has left Paris to join the Tqacau volunteers at
Aclui. By a singular coincidence, the very day he took
his departure the first representation of his translation
of " Puliuto" from the French took place, with Madame
Ristori in the chief part.
The election at Wakefield went through a singular
and, to the Liberal party, a welcome reverse. Mr.
Charleswortli, the Conservative member, was elated to
have been returned by a niejority of one, and congratu-
lated himself and friends on the triumph attained.
When the official return proclaimed the majority of Mr.
, Leathern to be three, time feelings of the Conservatives
' way be better insegined than described.
Another crinoline accident has been nearly fatal to
the Princess Volkonska, who, in jumping from her
sarriage in the Bole de Boulogne, was thrown upon the
• gravel road, while the herpes tore furiously amongst
the underwood, draogring the Princess wine little dis-
tance, and at length leaving her senseless, bleeding, aid
to all appearance dead • but her Highness is fist
recovering from the effects of the accident.
, All warlike orders at present attract attention, and it
is therefore noticed that as many as 27 gun-boats of very
light draught, together with none vessels of larger sise,
are at present building on the Thames for the Spanish
Government. In the present relations of Spain sur-
mises naturally arise that she might possibly in such
matters he acting merely as an agent for others.
f'onsiderable sensation was caused at Shields.' at tide-
time on Tuesday afternion, when the outward-bound
fleet was under weigh, by the Sardinian bark St. Paolo,
I when proceeding to sea, firing a salute to the French
brig of war Agile, which was of course returned, and
both vessels dipped their ensigns, complimentary to
I their respective national flags, while the craws appa-
rently fraternized-during the astute.