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

Zrotlanb.

ESTATE or FoTERS.—Tnis beautiful Highland pro-
perty has I.•en 'purchased by an einglish gentleman for
the smu of £47.000. The i0c.,1 papers state that the
rental is only about £l.ooo • year, but the estate, with
its celehrated waterfall, is almost unequalled for its
pictures•lueness and beauty.
PeiNcir ti. lier.—lt is with extreme regret that we
annonnee the death, in his 80th year, of the Very Rev.
Principal Lee which took place within his house in the
Edinburgh college at an early hour on Monday morning
week. Principal Lee wan one of the few eurvivors of
the old race of Scottish divines and scholars, and many
will misa from our etreets and book•stalls his venerable
and well-known figure. In 1840 he was elected by the
town-council to the high office of Principal of the Uni-
versity. In 1844 he was elected to the chair of I)ivinity
in the University, which be held in conjunction with
the Principalship. Principal Lee was one of the deans
of the chapel Royal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
THE REPRESENTATIVE PKERAGEL—A supplement to
the Gicrite of Friday contained the usual Proclamation
for the election of 16 Representative Peers of Scotland
on Tuowlay (this day.) At this election there will be
three vacancies to fill up, even if the other 13 should
be all re-elected as a matter of course. Two vacancies
are occasioned by the grant of the English Barony of
Strathspey on the Earl of Seafield, and the intended
grant of a eiinilar honour to Lord Elphinstone. The
third vacancy will arim from the retirement of Lord
Sinclair, whip has nearly completed his 91st year and is
the oldest member of the Upper House, with the single
exception of Lord St. Vincent. It is understood that
the Earls of liaddington and Morton and Lord Saltoun
are candidates for these Vacancies. They are all sup-
porters of the present Government.
LORD CLYDE AND LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALISON.—
In presiding, On Tuesday. at the annual distribution of
prize at the Glasgow School of Arta, Sir Archibald
Alison remarked that a knowledge of drawing was of
great importance to those engaged in the art of war.
When the allies were before Sebastopol • captain asked
the general of his division—they being in the trenches
at the time—where lie would put his men, ache had
been told to place them somewhere. The General did
not even know where lie was himself, it being quite
dark. The young man thereupon showed the general.
front • sketch which he had made on the inside of a
letter, the place in which lie was situated. The
general was no much struck with this, that lie desired
the young man to come to his tent that night, and that
acquaintance had been the means of making the young
inan's fortune. That general was Lord Clyde, and that
officer was his (Sir Archibald's) own son.
Si Purritien IN A NAME..—Lieut.-Colonel Alexander
Maclean, who died at Millport on the 17th ult., has be-
queathed the bulk of his fortune, amounting to about
£30,000, to educate boys of the name of Maclean. No
boy who spells his name "Maclaine " will be eligible.
By his will the Colonel provides that the number of
boys shall not the first year exceed ten, and will be in.
maned by gradations each year till they reach 140.
After the number shall have reached 140, the first
£1,50() of surplus revenue of tbe trust estate which
may have accumulated shall be applied SO the letting a
site for, and building and maintaining a Gaelic Church,
at Glasgow, to be called Reilig Grain na Baann Brotherly
Church, the sittings in which shall be free and open to all,
and especially to the poor, and servants, soldiers, sailors,
Ice.. who understand the Gaelic language. The services
shall be morning and afternoon, and shall be conducted
by a miniater of the established and free churches, each
of whom shall be paid £1 sterling for each service con-
ducted by him.
Gas BT ELECTRICITT.—Two " sunlightsf
each containing 75 burners, have just been placed
iiiii tdiately under thi3 ceiling in the centre of the
iiiii sic-hall in the Eilinhurgh University, the ceiling being
40 feet in width, anti 50 feet f the floor. These
burners have been suceessfully lit by an application of
the electric current. The mode of operation may he
thus explained :—The galvanic battery is placed in
the cellar, and frogs' it poeitive and negative wires are
carried up the side of the hall and along the ceiling
to immediately over the burners. Then it is coiled
mend the poles of an electromagnet, to the keeper
of which are attached • couple of wires bearing •
platina wire. On the current of electricity being es-
tablished at the battery, the platina wire, placed with-
in an inch of the burner, beconies red hot, and the gas
being simultaneously tur.ied on, tile whole 75 light.,
which are closely contiguous, immediately finial into
Maine. The electric current !poring thus answered its
purpose, is at once intercepted at the battery below,
and the clectro magnet, ceasing to be a magnet, its
keeper, with the wires attached, falls three inches
below the dame, so drawing down the platina wire,
which were it to remain in position, would be
destroyed by constant exposure to the powerful flame
of the gas.