The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

fli istrltancows.

Orsini's eldest :laughter has just died in Piedmont of
consumption.
Sir John Lawrence has arrived in London from
Calcutta.
li-cent frosts at night appear to have done some
injmy to the viLeyarid in sense departments in France.
Mr. Bonamy Dobliee has been elected Governor ~f
the Bank of England. and Mr. Allred Latham, of the
firm of Arbuthnot, Latham, and Co., Deputy-Governor.
A large number of the Neapolitan miles have left
England for Piedmont. They avoid noisy demonstra-
tions, and p straight to the field.
Some apprehensions appear to have existed 1.1 Amnia
for the safety of Lord Lyons, the new British minister ;
the vessel in which he sailed was overdue some days.
A banquet took place in Marylebone on Monday night,
1 in honour of Mr. Edwin James's return to Parliament.
The reception accorded to Mr. James and to Sir Bea*
min Hall WU of a most enthusiastic ammeter.
Mr. Dickens has received two or three substantial
,tiers from American publishers —one securing to him
for bis new tale as large a aunt as be weld have ex-
mord under the working of an international copyrighk

We regret to announce the death of M. de Toomerille,
wliu.e greet work on A inerica. and other literary I,Loura,
replete with sound political philosophy, have wan for
th..ir author world-wide fame. . .

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Three Freud ships of war are under sailing onion
for the cod hank. off Neu foundland : about which, er
the conduct .4 the French fishermen there, we hare r
little dilt city with the Empernes Gorenssueut.
The Bishop of Ilingor Mll4 iuchlenly seized with para-
lysis not week. and WAc found by his niece, Mies Bethel,
the floor of the study in a perfectly helpless state;
his condition in still very alarming.
The newly-inst,tutod esaminership in English litera-
ture and history in the University of London has been
filled up by II aipoint,iient of the Rey. Dr. Angus, of
the College. liegent's Park.
Serena . of the 'Churches" in New York are engaged
in making amingements for a Christian Civilisation
Ijjoion to Japan. The matter bail been undertaken by
the foreign howl of the Reformed Dutch Church._

Th.? fli-hop of London held a oonfirmation on Friday
(the nth( at the di-ttict church, Christ Church, St.
Georg.--iii-the-E-ist. Amongst the candidates was ho
Maje,ty Pewit, the co-King of Bonny River territory.
The towvr of Ohl 11•4onl Church (Notts) fell in last
week. cas-ing damage to the extent of abmt k 2,000.
The church is • very old one. and WM in course of being
re-tored. The damage sustained is principally confined
to the new portion of the edifice-.
The li,Lilder says a inurement is about to be erected
in Seville to the meteor). of Murillo, the prince of
Andalusian painters, and a sub,ription has been opened
in Seville and in Madrid for the purpose. Senor
Medina is to be the sculptor.
I wring the celebration of the marriage of the daughter-
of Mr. Jones, general manager of the Chester station,
I it week. a mom mum d James Hayes, foreman of tbe
smith,' shops, had his head blown off by the bursting it
• cannon, which be had overcharged.
The late winter in Ru-us has been the mildest on
record. The gulfs of Finland and Bothnia have hardly been
frozen over, and in February a ship from Copenhagen
arrived at Helainzfors with a cargo. The customary
sledge-drives on the Neva have been almost entirely sus-
panted.
The success of Mr. Phelps, in his Shakspearisn cts.
racters, at Berlin, has been immense; the German
audiences wer . quite taken by surprise, and the Fried-
rich-Wilhelm Theatre has been nightly filled with the
Elite of Berlin society, whether by birth or attainment.

RAILWAY RaoEirro.—The traffic returns of raaways
in the United Kingdom pohlished for the week ending
April 9 amounted to £442.610. and for the corrro
pondittg week of 1558 to £496.460, shoising so increase
of 04,150. The groes receipts of the eight railways
having their termini in the nietroimlis amounted to
£182.130, and for the corresawouling period of last year
to £172,566. showing an inena•te of £9,573. The
crea.e on the Eastern Counties Iteilwey amounted to
£36; on the Greet :!,ortlienn to £1,666 ; on the Crest
Western to £1,693; on the 16,11.1..11 n.l WiOrib•WeftCri
to £3,649 ; on the London and lilleelot..ll to £27;
I the London and South-W, -tern to t 1.178: anion the
lioutli-Emtern to efirt ; £i0.317 hitt front this
must he deduet,,l £771. t!., oirClT..c WI the London.
Brighton, awl oith t'.....t. le..ting the as
eboee. L. 0.573. The reee4t•t. ett the other lines in the
United KintOfitts ttttt fit .Vlfitt.!7l. and for the o,r-
-; responding w, le.t so• tr t akoating an
increase of £21.577 ; wloeli, u.tied to the increase on
I the metropnlit io .L... the total increase f 34,159
I ae ounipared with the cot r, week of 1856.

BANK ll' PTS.

(From the L 9101.1 (Jwette of Tuesday)

Baumann and Carleton de Courcy Barrett, of
the Operative and Training Inatitution, Chia% irk,
Middlraes.
TIIOIIIIIII Powell, woNte.l yarn merchant, Monkcell

Street. London.
Willism Ilviiry Palmer, merchant, Southtown, Suffolk.
Anthony D.trilass, chitin general dealer, Gravesstid.
HarrisTdkunaii, clothier, Houtitlsditch, London.
Thomas Davis, Chapel Street, St. Oeurgethe Martn
Middlesex. late hotel keeper.
Edward Ms.thrs, wine merchant, Mark Lane, London.
Julie A'ystt, licensed victualler, Chipping Camden,
Olouceeter.
Edmund Tucker, linentiraper, Portland, Dorset.
Frederick khdriorti, oorn factor. Plymouth.
Thomas Middleton, e.,.litter. Sheffield.
Alfred Biggs, builder. She Meld.
, Mary Todd and W. Waddell Todd, merchant+, lAA d
Newry. Ireland.
John Andrews, fellinoiv.ter, Liverpool.
John Yates and James Cook, mandadarers, Lidb
Holton, Lancaster.
(From the LOildW4 ihnttie of Friday.)

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James Newton, roaveuur.parl. south, Camberwell, bop
merchant.
Francis Worrall Stevens, Royal Exchange, dealer in
Mimes.
James !Irma Prim, Leioerster. niereer.
Wi!limn and Jane Norris, Liverpool, ship smitha
James and John limner, Bolton-La./Loom gloar
dealen.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Adam Bannister Gess, Oralskirk. Lasteethire, kI