The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

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Mr. Cobden has IA London for Per* with his
family.
Forty thousand visitors are said to be now residing Ia
Brighton.
ie Manic'Fal Council of Paris', has decided on the
building of ten new churches.
There are rumours of dimensions in the Cabinet re-
specting the Chinese question. .
Rums intends hereafter to build all her bulls and
engines at borne, it is said.
Sir K L. Bulwer Lytton, it is said, is writing • new
novel. We doubt it.
The amounts of the present season's herring fishery are
not by any means promising.
The personal estate of the late Mr. Brunel has been
sworn under £90,000.
The publication of the Levant Herald and the Press
d'Orieet has been prohibited.
Forty medical offloers from the army staff are under
orders to proceed to China.
The remains of Mr. Robert Stephenson were interred
in the nave of Westminster Abbey on Friday.
Mr. William Bean, of Scarborough, has sold a
collection of fossils to the British Museum for £BOO.
The Victoria Bridge at Montreal, it is anticipated,
will be ready for trarnc by. tbe end of November...

A food mutiny broke out in the Drogheda workhou S
lately. It arose from mice having been found in the
paupers food.
The Duke of Wellington is about to publish the cor-
respondence of his father while Chief Secretary for Ire-
land-1807-9.
Madame Dubois•Davenne has been intrusted with
the execution of Beranger's bust in marble for the sale
de séance of the French Academy.
The Town Council of Cambridge have petitioned in
favour of the abolition of flogging in the Army and
Navy.
Something like a revival movement seems to be
springing up in Bombay and Poona. At these pieces
daily prayer meetings are held.
The Sweed WI Dilettanti boast of having found a second
Millie. Lind in another national songstress Millie.
Roeske.
The Post-office authorities have resolved to issue two
coats a year to the letter-carriers—one of a light descrip-
tion, for summer, and the other of • heavier, warmer
cloth, for winter. Hitherto the letter-carriers have had
but onecoat to serve them throughout the year.
A man named Stapleton dropped dead last week, after
leaving a publichouse in Cappawhite, Clonmel. On a
post-mortem examination his stomach was found to con-
tain nearly a quart of whisky.
The Rev. Robert Wilson, D.D.,,some time Proton°,
of Biblical Critiebm3 in the General Assembly' College,
and (in 1858) Moderator of the Presbyterian Itiburel7l,l:l
last week, in the 53rd year of his age.
The investigation into the affair of the carrying off M.
lina's child in Paris has terminated. The examining
magistrate has sent the girl Chereau for trial, but has
decided that there is no ground for prosecuting her
mother.
N. Teilleux, says the Medical Times, has been inves-
tigating the effects of elecericty on mad women, and
avers that the remedy is often of service. He also occa-
sionally uses it as a coercion, instead of the strait-waist-
coat and douche, but does not say how it is applied in
this sense.

The first volume of • new edition of the works of Leib-
nits, dedicated to the King of Hanover, has appeared at
Paris. The edition contaum many hitherto unpublished
writings of the celebrated philosopher : they were dis-
covered in the State archives of Hanover.
A cavil engineer, a native of Venetia, has been eon-
demned to 15 years' imprisonment in • fortress for bay-
ing communicated • plan of the fortifications of Venice
to the enemy during the war.
An American paper says that Elisabeth Barrett
Browning has been slarmingly 111. "Bb. went to Italy
during the war, from her deep interest in the cause of
Italian independence, and her disappointment at the
peace greatly aggravated her previous illness. She is
now declared out of danger."
The Government of India has Mimed • circular to de-
partments directing them to store up all waste paper,
old envelopes, kc., and dispose of them when they have
got suflleient quantities; the proceeds are to be me-
dited to Government. _ _ _

The treaty between the Emperor of Japan and the
Queen was formally ratified on the 11th of July. It
was carried up by our Consul-General and an escort of
sailors into the palace of the Tyaooon, and there the
ratifications were exchanged. Jidda was dreamed with
flags and evergreens.
The steam frigate Orlando has again been tried at the
measured mile at Plymouth, and with worse results
than on the former occasions. The mean result of tho
trials gave 12.9 knots; on the fret trial the
rate was estimated at 13.2. The vibration was so great
that it was found unsafe for the sailors to be on the
yards.
Four boys, playing with miniature cannons, near Cra-
dock-street, Swansea, were severely burnt by the explo-
sion of their whole stook of powder, contained in a
flask. One boy nearly escaped being burnt to death on
the spot. The face of another was severely injured.
A parish priest, in the canton of Fribourg, lately retu-
ned to celebrate the marriage of a couple in his parish
because the man declined to give a promise to go regu-
larly to confession.
Among the Mantchou soldiers (says a Frenzli paper)
there is • company of Russians, whose ancestors were
taken prisoners at Albasin one hundred and fifty years
ago. They are Christians, speak a little Russian, have a
Russian physiognomy, and might have been sent from
Pain to work the Chinese barreries.

Paper has been so scarce in Spain that several printing
offices have had to suspend operations, and the journals
press the Government to allow foreign paper to be
Imported free, or at least at a greatly reduced rate.
John M'Cane, of Bishopwaromouth, was jealous of his
wife; so, putting on her silk dress and her crinoline, he
harmed himself in his bedroom.
The Compagnie des Forges et Chantiers de la Idecliter-
ranee has received a commission from the French
Government to construct twenty new gunboats, and a
fresh order for five gunboats and two Boating batteries
has been given at Bordeaux.
Captain Johnston, now commanding the famous
Black Ball clipper ship Marto Polo, has been presented
with a gold chronometer by the Emigration Commission-
ers. as a recognition of his services while captain of the
emigration ship Eastern City, burnt at sea near the Cape
of Good !lope in August, IssB.
A " vegetation demonstration" was held in the Welsh
Chapel, Aldersgate-street, On Friday week, under the
auspices of the "City of Loudon Working Men's
Teetotal Alliance." There was a very numerous
audience.

--Ei7P-r-Os—y is reported to be exceedingly prevalent in the
town of Cape Coast, and, "quit, contrary to the gamed
practice, those that are diseased are permitted to mix
freely with those that ars whole. The loathsome
disease is spreading fast."
Mrs. and Mrs. C. Kean are continuing their provin-
cial tour with increased success. At Plymouth the
orchestra Ku been filled every night with persona
unable to obtain plasm in the boxes, and this notwith-
standing that the prime of admission bars bats
doubled. _

The contest for Whitby, arising through the death al
Mr. Stephenson, promises to be a sharp one. Mr.
Chapman, chairman of Lloyds', is in the field sea Tory,
and so is Mr. George Hudson. The liberal candidate
will be Mr. Thomism, the chairman of the North-East-
ern Railway.
The Admiralty have given directions for the pant el
sea-tins to Captain M'Clintock during the period he was
in command of the Foe; Lieutenant Hoboes's commie-
lion as Commander will shortly be signed, if it bassi*
already reached that gallant young °Misr. a,
Daniel Lock, • plaMerer, in the Seven-dials, London,
destroyed himself by taking laudanum, leaving a paw
containing the following words :—" What Cato did, and
Addison approved of, must be right. The strike—the
ruinous strike! God protect my unfortunate family !"
The subscription to to the new garden at Kensington
Gore has now arrived at a point which leaves no doubt
that the sum required (1.50.000). large as it is, will be
speedily forthoouung. About F 45,000 has been already
received. .

- Anthony Burns, a well-known fugitive-slave, having
been called to the pedorate of • coloured Baptist churl&
in Indianopolis, the Deinonats Uneaten if he comes to
enforce the "black law" upon him.
The barque Mars, of Liverpool, was destroyed by fire,
at Bonny on the lOth of August. At the time of the
catastrophe she had on board 1,200 barrek of gunpowder.
The explosionfis described as " tarrifia," u we may well
imagine.
The reformed presbytery of Glasgow has dissolved the
pastoral tie between the Rev. Andrew Cockle, of West
Campbell-street congregation, and his flock. The rev.
gentleman had been charged with a breach of promise.
At the annual synod of the Bishops of the Episcopa-
lian Church, held at Edinburgh recently, • presentment
or accusation was made against the Bishop of Eireann
for teaching unsound doctrine on the question of the
Eucharist.

The Admiralty have issued orders for the eonstection
of four iron-cased steam-frigates similar to that now
building at the Thames Ironwork*, which is rapidly pro.
poising. The new fleet of gunboats—fourteen in num-
ber—are to be completed in the arming in 1860.
A diving-bell and apparatus were recently shipped
from London for the Jras Government. It weighs
four tons, has a moveable grating at the bottom to keep
out sharks, a set of airpumps of the best construction.
and • double set of glees lenses with gun metal protect.
ing gratinp. The whole cost £392.
The builders' strike shows some symptoma of coming
to • termination. Several large firms have opened their
shops, abandoning the document, and their example ii
likely to be followed by many others.
The cricket match between the Eleven of England and
Twenty-two of the United States terminated by the
former beating their antagonists in one innings. The
score stood Ifin for the Eleven and 92 for the Americans.
The King of the Belgians has founded a triennial prise
fur the composition of a French drama, on a subject
either historical or drawn from actual life. The prise is
to consist of a gold medal worth 150 f., and, in addition,
a sum of not less than root., nor more than 1,5001., to
be fixed by the Minister of the Interior.
The Emperor of Russia has confirmed the statutes ot•
"Literary Fund" which has just been formed at St. Pe-
tersburg. It is to have • very extensive activity, and is
to be supported by contributious of members (of ten rou-
bles, or about El 12a. annually), as well as by theproduos
of certain concerts and dramatic representations and by
voluntary gifts.
Major-General Eden, a guardsman, without a decora-
tion, and of no war service, has retired from the com-
mand of the Plymouth district, to be succeeded by Meier
General Hutcheson, also a guardsman, and of sheet Ni.
sauce amount of service. And Major Pearson, likewise
a guardsman, lies been appointed Assistant Adjutant-
General 01 the Army, in 18004101011 to Colonel Mop

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