The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

( LOCAL NEWS CONTINUED 1110.11 PR(E 4.)

SOUTHAMPTON.

THE MAILS, &C. - Feb. 4.--The heavy portion of
the outwanl India and China mail was despatched
the Peninsular and 1/riciital 'omp.any's steamship
Indus, Captain .1. Weeks, which sailed hence to-day
for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. She takes out
1110 passengers, a full catrgo. and 7:17 'sixes of specie
and jewelry, value i 190,1169 I 6s. 5.1., fur the under-
▪ ined 'alcutta, silver, £62,190 ;
jewelry, t:s.is 10s. ; Madras. gold, 1.330 jenultY,
.t1,1%4 Is 3.1.; Ceylon, gold, £2041; jewelry,
£95 10s. ; Penang, silver, £4OO ; Hongkong. silver,
.£70,167 138. sd. ; jewelry, &272; Shanghai, silver,
£61.541 ; jewelry, £l3l Is. 6d. Total, silver,
1: I 44.29 s I:1s. twi. ; gol.l, £1,530; jewelry,
£3,241 2s. 91. Among the passengers by the Indus
are Colonel and Mrs Christie, Surgeon lio ii, Assis-
tant-Surgeons J. Duman, IL Henry, IL Gilchrist,
I. Park, and Tucker, and berths are secured by the
Marseilles steamer for Lady Mansfield. Sir .1.
Weinyss, Paymaster and Mrs. Unpahart, Captain
I:. Brown, Nlajor Dona, t:olonel Wardniper,
Lieutenant and Mrs. Soppitt, &Q. The Union
Company's screw steamer Norman, (aplain
Boxer, left this afternoon for the Cape of Good
Hope, with 31111 tons measurement of freight,
jewelry value £2,000, and 65 passengers, including
Capt. the Him. Edward Boyle, Capt. Hunt, and Dr.
Muntguniery; also, Lieutenant W. Bailey, ot the Royal
Engineers, in command of 11 men of that corps, who
are proceeding to the Cape to make a geographical
survey of that part of the country not yet einbishiut
in the Ordnance survey. 'flit, Norui.ui has to call at
Plymouth for the mails.

The screw steamship Union, Captain Amine, be-
longing to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
fleet. sailed hence on Tuesday, to be employed in the
mail service between lilaurititus and Ile . The
Nepaul screw stcamer, Captain Hicks, also left the
same day for the Mediterranean. Neither the Union
nor the Nepali' took piasiengers or cargo; the former
is full of company's stores.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena,
Captain Boynton, took her departure on Wednesday
with the mails for the Vest Indies, Central America,
Mexico, the Pacific, k.c., /AN in specie, jewelry
value 4:111,550, and a full cargo. She has tis passen-
gers, including Col. Morse Cooper, and his secre-
tary, the Lord Bishop of Guiana, Captain and Mrs.
Harvey, Mr. Peter Ley, and family. The screw
steamer Barceluna, Captain Don Jose Tapia., arrived
Saturday from the Spanish ports.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Ceylon, Captain R. W. Evans, and Sultan,
Captain Neil Cook, arrived at Southampton on
Thursday morning, the former bringing the East
India and China mails, and the latter those from
the Peninsular ports. The Ceylon left Alexandria on
the 21st ult., Malta, the 24th, and Gibraltar the
286. She had tine weathei in the Mediterranean,
and subsequently very strong N.W. winds, with a
heavy sea. She brought 4S passengers, 1:6,373 in
specie, a quantity of diamonds and precious stones,
1,314 hales of silk, 20 packages of elephants teeth,
43 boxes of oranges, and 203 packages of sundries.

liousxy.—d ate; Church Ihwas4;nd Few/.
—The organ committee will shortly have to invite
subscriptions for the sustenance of the choral services
of the church. Satisfaction is so generally expressed
at the manner in which these services are conducted,
that we have no doubt the committee's appeal will
he cheerfully met. Lord Palmerston has liberally pro-
mised an annual subscription of .E. 5.
The Burial Board, at a recent meeting, resolved,
that the relatives or friends of ileceaaed persons in-
terred at the cemetery should be permitted to plant
flowers or shrubs within their respective grave
spaces, without the payment of a foe, conditionally
on the plants being neatly kept, and the right of
planting exercised under the approval of a sub corn'
mittee, consisting of Mr. Tylee and Mr. F. Buckell.
Lvisisuros. —Electric Telegreoph. —The Mayor
(Mr. John Hayward) wishes it to be made known to
the public, that, owing to there not being suthcient
room in the present temporary station at Lymington,
Brockenhurst is now °pealed to the
.public, to
receive and forward messages
,; and that Mr. Hodder,
the Sonth-Western Company g agent at Lymington,
has kindly offered to receive and forward all messages,
by any train to and from Brockenharst, free of charge.