The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

filiscellantous.

Marshal Narvaes arrived at Turin on the 4th, hum
Milan.

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A Mrs. Won, of Leeds, was killed last week by
swallowing, whilst asleep, a set of four false teeth.

M. de Lawartine has received a legacy of 200,000
francs from • lady who had read his "Fallen Angel."
The Court of Common Council hu resolved to take a
direct interest in the Metropolitan Railway to the ex-
tent of 11,000 shares, amounting to 17200,000.

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Mr. Thaekeray has accepted £4,500 to writa lot
two years for Messrs. Smith and Elder, the eminent

publishers.
The Government of India have just sanctioned this
introduction of an improved wicker helmet for tho
European soldicr7 in India.
The Duke of Cambridge has authorised Lord Clyde to
abolish "stocks" in the Indian army, and to adopt
whatever dress for the soldiers he may think best.

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A mechanic, of Glasgow, returning home from hie
work, found his wife drunk, and his little son, nearly
three years old, driwned in a tub behind the door.
During the review at Chatham last week, the Duke of
Cambridge openly censured a colonel for the ineffici-
ency of his regiment and ignorance of his duty.
A fine bell, taken by the British troops from thegreat
temple at Canton, has been placed in the centre transept
of the Crystal Palace.
The first public dinner in aid of the Solicitor's Benevo-
lent Association, took plane at the Albion Tavern, last
Monday, the Lord Mayor in the chair.
An exhibition of the Industrial Work of Reform.
tories, Refuges, and Industrial Schools in Great Britian
and Ireland, will be held at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday
and Wednesday next.
A subscription in on foot for raising a testimonial to
the late Mr. William Weir. long and honourrbly con-
nected with newspaper literature and the Lail,
Nom

It is stated that the Emperor of Austria has made
Lord Cowley a Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold—a
distinction which has been conferred on no other foreign
ambassador but AI. de Bourqueney.

The operation of pruning the vines is now being pro-
ece.le.l with throughout the greatest part of France.
Everywhere the tate of the plants is described to be
most satit.factory.

A desk belonging to the secretary of the Bank of
England having been broken open, tbe matter so
weighed upon the mind of Bancutt, • trusty porter in
the establishment that be committed suicide.
The Colonel of a Hungarian Regiment has, it is said,
been tried by court-wartial, and sentenced to be shot at
Verona, for having attempted to persuade his regiment
not to fight against the Italians.
An action to maintain possession of a public footpath
on the banks of the Orwell has been succesidully pro-
secuted at the Bully tit. Edmunds Assizes against Capt.
Sir George Broke, who desired to close the path.
The committee of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies
appointed to examine the charges of peculation brought
against M. Esteban Collantes, the ea-minister, has
reported that be ought to be impeached.
Prince Cholain Mabomed, son of the Sultan Tippoo
Sahib, has arrived in London from Calcutta? with a
view of renewing his protestations of loyality after
the proclamation of her Majesty to the native princes
if India.
llolkar is said to have consulted his astrologer as to
whether he should join the Indian rebels, and received
the following reply :—" If all the Europeans save one
are slain, that one will remain to fight and re-conquer."
The Rev. William Watson, pastor of a Methodist
church of lowa, was lately arrested while preaching •
funeral sermon. The reverend gentleman's peccadillo
was forging hank-hills, in concert with • gang of coun-
terfeits. He said he bad joined them to get money to
do good with!
The State of New Hampshire had a law offering •
bounty for the destruttion of crows, but it has had to
be repealed in consequence of the practice of procuring
crows eggs and hatching thew under hens, and bringing
forward the brood for the bounty.

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In the budget of the Belgian Ministry of Marine,
various sums are required for repairs to steamers ;
among them is one of 150,000 fr. for repairing the Dia-
meta, Bubis, and Topase, which are engaged in carrying
on postal communications with England.
The association for promoting the erection of drink.
ing fountains in Loadon, will hold a public meeting at
Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, the Earl of Carlisle in the
chair. The Earl of Shaftesbury, S. Gurney,
M l'., Charles Melley, Esq., and other gentleuien will
be present.
The Orinione of Turin mentions a rumour to the
effect that the Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio is to be ap-
pointed Sardinian ainbasuidor to the court of the
Tuileries, in the place of the Marquis Pea de Villa-
marina.
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Mr. Gladstone entertained Baron Poerio at dinner, on
Monday evening. The Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of
Argyle, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess
Stanhope, Sir James Graham and Miss Graham, were
among the guests invited to meet the Baron.
A lame basket, declared as containing bottles of can
de la &lett:, was lately addressed Aux Cannes Friars,
at Ypres. The Customs' Akers opened the package ill
order to verify its contents, and found that the pretended
can de la Salette was excellent brandy. The whole WU
seized as contraband.
At the annual meeting of the Literary Fund on Wed-
nesday. Mr. Charles Dickens communicated the noble
offer of a friend of literature to give £lO,OOO in money,
and 17,00fivoluines of books to the Corporation, on con-
dition that certain reforms calculated to increase the
utility of the fund were adnited.
A man was burnt to death in the cabin of the brig
David Owen at Shields, last week. He had fallen over-
board in the evening from drunkenness, and was reacted
and put to bed in the cabin. Hy some means he had set
the cabin on are, and being unable to escape was roasted
to death.
The Princess Frederick-William has been pleased to
express her acknowledgment of • poem on the birth of
the young Prince, and her "best thanks" to M. P.,
the authoress, • young lady of Liverpool. Her Majesty
graciously accepted a book of poems from the same
authoress a short time since, entitled " La rennet."
The rustling of crinoline the other evening in the
House of Commons was so noisy, perhaps owing to the
bad and stiff quality of the cranks, levers, pulleys,
double joints, Ice., used in this machinery, that the mem-
bers thought it was a storm of rain, and looked up in
inquiry and doubt, till they were re-assured as to the
fact by a bevy of beauties just depositing themselves in

smite.
Thy announcement of a special meeting of the London
and North Western Railway Company, "to consider
and approve" no less than twenty Rills now pending in
Parliament, has attracted considerable attention. A
number of proprietors are endeavouring to organize an
opposition to this proposed important extension of the
Couipany's system.
The number of letters written in France does not, it
is calculated exceed 9i per annum, on the average for
each inhabitant. In England it is 21; in Scotland 16 ;
and in Ireland, 7. As to journals, the proportion of
the number of copies to the population is in England
249 per cent., while in France it is 255.
A new sect, called tranioui‘mitionists, have of late
become very numerous in France and Germany. Their
character is reputed to be "highly moral, owl their
creed Christian; only they include all animals in their
idea of universal morality. They profess to believe that
being changed after death into some animal will be their
purgatory."
Four gold-diggers have lately navigated the Fitzroy
River (Australia) in a canoe, for a distance of 250 miles,
"prospecting " for a new gold field. They describe the
country as most delightful and fertile, and the proba-
bility is that a population will he attracted to the banks
of that river, and make it the seat of a new agricultural
diatnct.
There is an idea preval,mt that double fees are charge-
able for marriages celebrated in the church of England
during Lent. This is not the case. A clergynian, after
receiving due notice, is bound to marry persons who
have taken the preliminary steps, either after banns
or license, on any day throughout the year, between the
hours of 8 and 12, on payment of the ordinary fees.
, The continued absence of rain from the metropolis
becoming • subject of very serious uneasiness. Last
i year the autumn supply was eo short as to compel the
inhabitants of all the valley of the Thames to open their
, wells and deepen them, and it seeing as if matters were
. about to become worse. The arrear in the fall of rain
in the neighbourhood of London may be let dust° 5t
131 inches.
It The metropolitan police force is being rollwimll
drilled at the Wellington Barracks by experienced ter'
geants now serving in the police office. This,
the Mailed &Trice "is a very proper proceeding'
It gives additional security to London, and 0151
t ultimately enable the inhabitants to dispense with the
presence of guardsmen, who seem not to know bow to
conduct themselves."

BREAKING THE News IDENTLY.—Puring the manner
of Initi • Mr. Jellies Wilson, of West Jersey, died
et
cholera some 50 wiles trout home. John Rogers
his
wO
employed to convey the dead body in a waen to
friends and home. By irquiry he learned the Prec".
house of the deceased. On driving to the door be
Called to • respectsbly-appearing lady, who was, in fact,
the newly-node widow, and asked—" Does Mr. Wili°6
live hero r " Y es," was her reply, "but be is DO O
home to-day." "I know he's not at home now, bat lar
will be very woo, for rye got him here dead HI 041
I wagon!