The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

flaiscttlancous.

Lighting by gas has just been introduced at Neufchatel,
in Switzerland.
The death of the celebrated composer Louis Spohr is
announced.
The champagne vintage of 1859 is said to have failed
both in quality and quantity.
The volunteers now enrolled throughout the kingdom
amount already to 20,000.
The announcement of Sir James Clarke's retirement
from attendance on her Majesty is incorrect.
Madame Riatori is performing to crowded houses in
the Theatre of San Carlos, Lisbon.
Heavy falls of snow have occurred in the north. The
Welsh hills, too, have been covered.
Major-General Sir Jamas Hope Grant has been ap-
pointed to the local rank of Lieut.-General ill China.
The trial of a woman charged with the murder of 14
child by hanging it head downwards from a bedstead is
adjourned till next sessions.
The health of his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, is im-
proving, but is still such as to render the most complete
rest imperatively necessary.
The St. Petersburg papers state that a line of railway
is about to be laid between Europe and India, traversing
the Russian possessions. With what motive?
The Tyrol, which is now become a frontier province
of Austria, is about to be strongly fortified and to re-
ceive numerous garrisons.
A destructive Sr. occurred on Thursday week on the
dyeworks of Messrs. E. Ripley and Sons, at Bradford.
The lass is estimated at about L 7,000.
11 Members of Rifle Corps will be delighted to know that
I by the 44th George 111., cap. 54, sec. 11, they are
entitled to wear hair-powder free of duty.
A banquet took place last week at Nairn in honour
of the 78th Highlanders, and to welcome their return
from India.
Sir John Dean Paul and Mr. Strahan were released
on Friday week from Woking prison, after having
undergone four years' penal servitude.
A reconciliation is said to have taken place between
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Norton over the deathbed of
their sou, reeent.ly deceased at Paris.
M. Guteohkoff, an extensive manufacturer at Morrow,
and formerly Mayor of that city, has failed ; his liabili-
ties amounting to about £240,000. He is said to have
committed suicide.. _ . . _ . .

Recruiting of Swim for Rome. Naples, and Batavia is
actively going on in Seitserland, near the frontiers of
France and Baden. Recruiting-offices are established at
Zienien, St. Louise, Arernli, and Lerrach.
The Tarifa batteries continue to lire at any passing
vessel which appears to afford a good mark. The
Pelikaan, a Dutch veered, was lately bred upon, when
two men were killed, and one was seriously wounded.
A communication from Prague states that • religious
movement appears to be arising in Bohemia. The
inhabitants of whole villages, it states, are embracing
Protestantism, probably to escape the application of the
concordat.
Orders have been received at Chatham directing a
large line-of-battle screw steamer to be commenced at
that establishment on the S.W. slip as that on which
the Irresistible, 80, was built, immediately after that
vessel has been launched.
A temperance demonstration by females was held in
Aldersgate-street Welsh Chapel on Friday week. There
was a large audience, and the platform was occupied
exclusively by "ladies." who made speeches after the
old temperance model.
The Secretary of State for war has given directions
that all the soldiers who lost their kits and clothing at
the explosion of the Eastern Monarch shall receive as
• remuneration for their loans 26 17s. for sergeants,
and kb 2.4. 6d. for privates.
A license has been obtained for the erection of a new
powder-magisine in the townshiu of Standish. The site
is within a few yards of the highway on the Morley
road, and therefore a most ineligible situation for such

premises.
As the conference of Zurich opened on the Bth of Aug.
and closed on the 17th ult. it lasted ten weeks. The ex-
penditure of the Plenipotentiaries and their suites at the
Hotel Bract is said to amount to above 100,0001.—a
pretty windfall for a Swiss Hotel.
The Ceylon °forever states that a lady who lately
married a Protetant gentleman has been publicly din'
graced by • Roman Catholic priest. The lady went to
church with a view of appeasing the "holy father,"
when he denounced her before the congregation, and
dragged her out of the place.
Major-General Robert Law, KU., Lieutenant-
' Governor of Newfoundland, has been presented with a
service of plate by the inhabitants of that colony, "as a
mark of esteem for the ability and seal with which he
, discharged the duties of administrator of time Govern-
ment, President of the Council, and Commandant of the
garrison."
Denmark, following the example of Prussia, has just
decided on sending a political. commercial, and scientific
expedition to the China seas. It will be compoeed of
the Fordenskjold frigate and the Omen brig-of-war.
these vessels are now being fitted out at Copenhagen,
and will set sail before the ice sets in.
Of the Portsmouth steam reserve (exclusive of gun-
boats) only the following vessels are ready for immediate
commission, should their services be suddenly required:
Duke of Wellington, 131 ; Royal Sovereign, 131;
Colossus, It); Shannon, 51 ; Volcano (Boating factory),
6; and Fox, screw troop-frigate.
Misery and beggary are making fearful progress at
Venice. All the shops are shut for want of customers,
and policemen are going about to force the wretched
dealers to keep open and burn gas for nothing. The
smaller towns on the mainland are going fast to decay ;
and no one will serve the office of rimiest& (or mayor) at
Rovigo, Treviso, or Vioenza.
Captain James, of the Naomi, from (argent! for
Scilly, reports than on October 10, at 1110 p.m., in lat.
41 deg. 48 in. N., long. 10 deg. 30ni. W., he beard con-
siderable firirg, as of two ships in smart action, for
about one hoer and three quarters. Owing to the
darkness of the night the vessels could not be (Wain-
gniabed, bat the flashes of Ike guns were seen very dis-
tinctly.
Mr. Gladstone's secretary. rerlying to • letter from
the "Foreign Affairs Committee" at Sheffield, is in-
structed to state that "Mr. Gladstone shares your
anxiety that the proceedings we are to take in in,
should be strictly agreeable to justice and humanity."
The Liverpool Chamber of Comments baring directed
the attention of the New York and Boston Chambers
to the subject of the abuses of woollen on board ship,
and the discussions in the British Admiralty Court
respecting collisions at sea, it has been discussed by them
at recent meetings, to good effect, we hope.
The bears are committing such ravages in the wild
wt. of Wisconsin that the settlers are flying from their
homes. The newspapers declare that the animals no
longer confine their visits to fanner,' peg-lens, but
boldly approach their dwellings and apply for
admittance at kitchen doors and bedi nom windows.
The soldier who was flogged with the boils on his
back has sixteen of them still remaining. He has been
visited by the authorities. The eighty-four days' im-
prieonnient and the branding have been reiniUsC lie
snot to carry his knapsack till he is well; and the
medical allow has been censured few allowing the
dogging.
Major Stanley Gough has received the Victoria Creel
for bravery in the war in India; also Captain Hayden
Shelbary, Captain Mockworth Clogstown, Lieutenant
Hammon Lyster, Lieutenant Dalrymple Preedervist,
and Private WhirlpooL This man won the honour by
a bravery almost prodigious. In carrying away wounded
men under fire be received seventeen wounds, one of
which "nearly severed his head from his body.°
The National Gallery and the National Portrait Gal-
lery were reopened to the public on Monday week,
when the pictures purchased at the Northwiek age,
with some few other recent purchases, were exhibited
for the drat time. The British pictures have been
arranged in the new rooms at South Messiness in
chronological order.
A"Welshman," writing to the newspapers, complains
that Her Majesty was the honoured guest of a Scotch-
... in Wales, a Seotchman had the honour to preach
to the Queen at Penrhyn Castle (the Bishop of Bangor).
and • Sootehtuan had the honour to conduit Prince
Albert over the Great Eastern at Holyhead (Kr. Cigar,
bell). In fact, Sawney wonopolis the posts a
honour, and left poor Taffy simply a spectator
The amateur performers of the Royal Albert not"'
on board H.M.S. Peutbrolui, off Harwich, Ira=
mance' on Tuesday and Wednesday, to the
of all who witnessed them. During the performaies:
Tuesday evening a severe gale of wind from the SL;
sprang up, rendering it utterly impossible for anr 7,;
to leave the ship, consequently all Prrea"llow-
shore who attended were kept in duranes
ing morning, when • change of weather nesoand his
from their confinement Captain ç tIiW vlitofl ea
officers did all in their power to zoaz_,,' Darks
comfortable as possible under time hands,
the gale the second cutter atlas WE. bus such
atetupted to reach the shore (row O.
anti •
boat was sun
was the (nry of the wind that
fortunately the wee fell in with • batTb°/, whieh they
boarded, and remained there for the