The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-19 00:00:00

faitsetilantokus.

The breaking-up of the ice in Holland has increased
the inundations to a great extent.
A labouriug man, named Arch, was cleaning a fowl.
house at Harestield, near Glouchester, when • cock
fowl suddenly flew at him, drove his spurred feet into
his lace, and struck out one of Ida eyes.
Lord Hanalei!' is arranging for a volunteer sham-figist
at Brighton, to ascertain in what tronhere an I tons a
body of volunteers can be cuneeutmted on a 'pima point
in the event of an emergency.
A time rabbit got in the cradle of an infant child
of a hotograplier at Hull, and ate away two Posers
of one end a finger and thumb iif the other.
PLilo Luke of Wellington has given • piece ot ground
a new Wesley m chapel in Norfolk. Ilia Grew has
also presented 150 to the buililng fund.
The Emperor Napoleon him just purchased for 25,000 f.
one of the paintings executed by M. Ingres. It repre-
sents the acetic of Louis XIV. receiving lloliere at his
table in the ',reactive of all the gentlemen of the
Court.

The King of Holland, in a touching address to the
•all. on thew to to..lce thrmi:liout the kingdom,
on the 111th, a colluction for the sufferer, from the
inuthl.diuus, which have so is:piously distressed that
country.
one of the principals in • prize-fight in which
s man itioned Tsliralinm was killed. and Baldcock.
I ii.-y, Cubit, and Neighbour, the 'tuconds, hate been
committed on • charge of nianslinvliter.
The hush:mei of levee Meriton Whit., Alberto Mario,
was 1,4 on the poll at the hustings of Ferrara. the taint
a nupposed connection with Marsini being no passport
to ant Italian con 4 tuency.
A Turin letter says that, es ..00n as Victor Emmanuel
shall be proclaimed King 44 Italy by the Nat I Par-
ii..nient. he will frilly ink tie Pope ti accept the
protection of the Piediniintese troops, and to consent to
live withdraw.' of the French gon . .
The death of the fauna philologist. Dr. Donaldson,
is announced. He died of hard work in his fiftieth
year..... . . .

liig Ben hos found a deputy. The great clock et the
House, of Parliament strikes the hour upon the largest
of the four chime-belle (or "John"), the quarters being
indicatnl as tnual.
A clerk of the Union Hank of London, who had been
summarily disuirimed from his emplopoent 00 account
of an error amounting to 6r. fkl., hniught ha action in
the Sheriffs Court to recover a usouth's wage' in lieu
of notice. He was succersful.

A public meeting was held at the Egyptian Hall, on
Mongay, on behalf of the St. Paul's Cathedral Fund.
MAU a Jai already been obtained for the work of com-
pleting Sr i'hristopher Wren's ilecign.
Admiral 11 the Red Sir George Bundy, K.C.8.. died
at his noblesse" in Eaton-agnate on Saturday week.
The des:sued veteran enteral the Royal Naval Academy
in 1780. and embarked in 1789 as undsibisman on board
the Blanche frigate.
In Paris it is believed that the negotiations for • new
treaty of Commerce between France and Prussia are
proceeding so uoerwifully that the termination will his
miiie known towards the middle of March.

The Imperial Court of Paris had decided that •
banker, when lending money to • verso° who is not •
trader, our borrowing fur coniniereial purposes, cannot
take more than the legal interest of live per cent. with-
out being liable toe pneiceution for usury..
General )(lank& is at Naples, engaged in organising
the Staff of the future Hungarian legion.
Mr. Cobden has proposed that Switzerland should act
as tunitator in the differences between the States of
America. The Federal Council has declined the pro-
posal, declaring it to he impracticable.
The contractor.' gangs are working day and night at
. the new dock in Portsmouth yard, preparing for the re-
cepti ~,, of the Warrior. The men are relieved every
eight hours, and work during the night by the light of
furnaces. There is still an immense amount of work
to be eompleted.
Th. Vieeroy of Egypt, about whose projected
pihtrinpsge to the holy cities there has been touch con-
triter-y, left Suez for Bettina on January 27 on board
the steamer !ladies. Ile eats accompauied by Hamill
Pasta, and Kurtthid Pattlia, the Governor of Alexan-
dria.
The challenge of Chambers, the celebrated champion
of the Thstue., is, row Joshua Ward, of Newbury,
United State., a right-away sculkre race of five miles
on Hie River Hudson, for 2000 dollars a aisle, hall been
accepted by the American cbstupion.
A petition to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
in favour of making French gold coin a legal it itiler in
Belgium hits been most numerously signed at Brussels
during the last few days.
One of the ufferers by the late explosion at Chatham,
man who
he es
finsedu.d tuh.e.
, George Smith, a sapper, died from Isis it juries last
aweeeeidk Tue 'l,-ceased was the
ent in which
fuse lie was at work upon.
Madame Catherine Hayes baa started on a musical
tour through Ireland.
fut7wwaerst-thir'ellenkrut'ael Slcaosens ita:ialevien,arcriolv:id at
t:,ini the
gala
e,ssivre
,o'ds,
of the Celestial capital ; hen% specimens' of aft ill a •Silt
variety of departments illustrative of Chinese civilcation
or bartsrissii.
In anticipation of the reduction at Chatham Dock-
yard, several of the hired shipwrights and mechanics at
that establishment already requested pertioisaiult
to take their diewharge, wh cli bass been granted theca.
An attempt is being made in Dublin to establish a
"Book Union," on the saute jams as the Art• Union.
It is proposed to have the subscription Is., and to
make the first prize 11110. consisting of a book CAM' well
filled with the works of the hest authors in the English
language.
A large number of noblemen and gentlemen, soldiers,
ministers, and men of letters are cu.nub • • g to raise a
testimonial to Sir Jetties Outraui—a statue, to be placed
beside that of Havelock, aud perhaps a service of
plate.
Immense quantities of soles and grey mullet have
been taken in the Solent lately. A bank has just been
diwovered where large 'imagers of the lind-useutioned
fish are caught.
The launch of the Chanticleer. 17, screw-corvette,
took plane at Portsmouth Dockiard on Saturday in •
very iiatiafactory manner. The Speedwell screw gun
vessel of 5 guns, and the screw steam-frigate Bristol,
have been launched at Woolwich.