The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-30 00:00:00

faisrcllantous.

Mrs. Stowe is now in England, engaged upon her new
story, "The Minister's Wooing."
Another explosion occurred at the Fevershans Powder
Mills on Thursday week. No person was hurt.
A Horse Guard memorandum has been issued, ordering
that the officers and men of infantry Aliments shall be
instructed in groat gun exercise.
The new artily hospital corps, which is to be raised on
the disbanding of the inmlieal staff corps, will consist of
1000 nowcommissioned officers and men.
The Rev. James Atley, S.D., senior fellow of Bg.
John's College has been elected from thirty-eight condi.
dates for the vacancy in the vicarage of Leeds.
A colossal statue of the late Feargus O'Connor has
been erected in the Arboretum at Nottingham. The
inaegnration took place on Tuesday.
Anomg the tales from El Dorado which tempt the Old
World singers is that of the enormous sum paid to
Madame Gamier at the Havannah-500 guineas a week
and a free benefit.
The British Archmological Association will hold its
annual meeting this year at Newberry, from the lttk.
of September to the 17th inclUsive. The Earl of tar.
narvon is expected to preside.
The St. JAMCS'S theatre is again to open on the 14 of
October—" this one more time" on a secure been -the
performances to be devoted to "domestic drama, farce,
burlesque. and pantomime."
7.echariali Ilerdman and Joseph Booth, convicted of
" bottling" an elector at the late election at Bury, have
, been s‘ntenoeil, the one to twelve months' and the other
to nine months' imprisonment.
' A large solar spot, plainly visible to the naked eye,
I WAS observed on the evening of the Ist. It was "Boated
slightly above the Mlles centre.
Mr. Francis Rufford, formerly member of Parliament
for Worcester, and chairman of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway Company, is now an lie-
mate of a lunatic asylum at Sutton Coldfleld.
Mr. C. Gardener Guthrie. the distinguished surgeon,
died on the 13th inst., at Clifton, where he WAS staying
for the benefit of his health.
The picture of the "birth of Jupiter," in the late
Lord Northwick's side, has been purchased for the
National Gallery. It cost his Lordship, we believe, Del,
and was knocked down to the nation, in round numbers,
at ELM.
A proposal made by the Town Council of Beettliampton
to expend £lO,OOO of the Hardy bequest in greet* •
public reading-room and museum has met the -approval
of the Vice-Chancellor.
Long and interesting accounts have been rantesel
I roin Stockholm of the ceremonies at the funeral of the
late King. They are chiefly remarkable for their aim.

plioity. _
The Times correspondent at Paris is assured that very
warm congratulations have been addressed on the part
of Queen Victoria to the Emperor on the occasion of
the amnesty.
A reward of ZOO has been offered by Her Majesty's
Government for the appreheinsico of George Frederick
Royal, • shoemaker, who has absconded, &ailed with
the wilful murder of Zipporah Wright, at Poplar.
From Portugal the accounts of the olives are very
bad, and a very short crop is expected. The vine
disease is worse than ever' and the lais in money to
the Urania and to the country generally will be very
great.
Mr. John Edward Buller, of the firm of Smart and
Buller, solicitors, 56, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, has
absconded, with liabilities estimated at £lOO,OOO. It is
said he has misappropriated large sums intrusted to him
as solicitor and trustee.
During the Forth swimming matches, laid week, a Mr.
Wilson, who won • prize, swain a distance of 47i yards
under water in nearly as many seconds.
Some young men were wrestling at Newehurch, neat
Becup. when one of them, named Edmund Lord, was
thrown, received concussion of the brain, and died in a
few minutes.
The ruin of Erserotun has been completed hy soothes
earthquake, which occurred on the 14th ult. The loss ad
life is reported to have been immense.
The shores of the Bristol Channel, says the Hereford
Journal, have been visited with wonderful shoals of
mackerel, and numerous other kinds of fish. At Poeth-
arrry they were so numerous that the farmers were
obliged to use them for manure.
The agent of the Earl of Tipperary has offered • re-
ward of £2OO for the conviction of the parsons iag
in the assassination of James Crowe a tenantoin:
lordship's estate at Doone. The Lord-Lieutenant has
also offered • reward of £lOO.
It has been resolved to establish an annual hop fair in
Reading, commencing with the present season, and the
Corporation have kindly offered the committee the uss
of the Corn Exchange for the purpose.
The preparations for the starting of the Great
Eastern are proceeding with rapidity. Already a very
large number of berths have been engaged for the first
trip.
On Saturday an escape of gas occurred in • home at
Brompton. The servants obtained the assistance of •
laniplighter to stop it; in doing so • fearful expiation
occurred, and he was fatally injured; the servants also,

suffered severely. _
A child was lost in the mountains of Rothshire
April last, and could not be found. The other day seine
one dreamed that he saw the body lying me Jody place,
five indes_froun its parent's house; and there the remains

of the child were found.
The French army, says the Par" UI "ii a model
of piety. Yes, religion nowhere retains greater sway,
n.,where exercises its divine influence with more ammo-
lition or power. This is what makes the army one of
the chief safeguards of modern society."
The Town Council of Lincoln have passed s resolution
condemning, as an inroad on local government, the
appointment of • Recorder for that city without consult-
ing them.
The Morning Poe states that the Government,
during the recess, will apply its anxious consideration
to the following important topics of legal reform :
Transfer of land, the law of bankruptcy, and the
systematic onoolidation of the statues.
It has been discovered that all the books and
pamphlets published since 11.01 in the name of Dr.
Humphreys, the abasinding master of the Cheltenham
Grammar School, as well as the lectdres ho delivered,
were written for him by H. Owgan, Eaq., LL.D.,
Clifton.
A novel incubator has been mad* um of by Mr. 11.
Forman in the form of • bakehouse, under the oven of
which the experimenter placed a sitting of eggs, six of
which in due season were batched, and are now stout
hmlthy Hamlin,' chickens • month old.
Captain Hall, tbeunfortunate aeronaut, who fell out
of the balloon on Monday week, died on the Friday fol-
lowing. During his illness his continual terror in d, b-
rit= was lest he should be carried in kis balloon towards
the sea.
The Queen's tradesmen (who form a society) dined to-
gether on Friday at the Ship, Greenwich, to celebrate
Prince Albert's birth. The Prince himself furnished
venison for the keel, which went off .Ziellen-1470 lutett
the management of the secretary, Mr. Melton.
The mortality on board emigrant ships which pre-
ceded to North interim dating the last five years Ins
as follows : 1854, 14 per cent.; 1856, '33 per cent;
185t3, -72 per cent.; 1857, '36 per cent; 1858, *l9 per
cent.
The New Indian loan has been more sucessdul than
was generally anticipated. The minimum price for the
5 per cent. Stock was fired at 97, and ths applications
at and above the quotation exceeded £6,000,000 or
£1,000,000 above the required amount. The highest offer

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wri 100.
The French Government has adopted • very peaiee-
worthy measure. All the bones and mules of the artil-
lery, except those which are required for its effective
foroe, will be lent out gratuitously to the agricultural
population, on condition that they be well fed aud taken
care of.
Mrs. Alfred Mellon hurt her ands last week while
performing in " The Flowers of the Forest." Although
bays the Sunday Times) suffering extreme paio, she
not only went through with her part, but performed
afterwards in the burlesque of "The Babes in the
Wood," although she was obliged to support herself on
a stick. he has nut since hoer. able to appear on the
stage.