The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-30 00:00:00

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The State of Ilassachuseta has abolished capital punish•
meet.

The admirers of Lord Macaulay will be gratified to
learn that the original autograph of the whole of the
fifth and last volume of his "History of England" liaa
been deposited in the Manuscripts Department of the
British Museum, and a portion of it placed in a glass
ease for public inspection.
General Sir Charles W. Pesky, K.C.8., Colonel
Commandant of the Royal Engineers, died on Friday
last at an advanced age, after sizty•four years' service
in the army.
The engagement of Mame. Bistori at the Odeon is
• very advantageous one ; she receives 1501. a night,
and one-half the receipts above 8001. The nightly
receipts thus far have not been less than 40001.
The Hon. George Leslie Waldegrave has resigned his
appointment of Secretary to the Speaker of the House of
Commons. We understand Mr. Alfred Denison, brother
of the Speaker, has been selected to fill the vacancy.
U. Muntalembert lute issued a pamphlet in defence of
the imperial power of the people, and denunciatory of
U. Cavour. The tone of the pamphlet is fiery, and
sometimes intemperate.
Nearly one hundred American ships are engaged in
the whale wishery in the Indian Ocean besides Dutch
and French ahips. English whalers have completely
abandoned the Indian Ocean. . . _

Madrid surpwwies all the other capitals of Europe in
the number of its centenarians, moat of whom belong
to the fair six. The recent census shows that ii 4 that
capital there are seven women aLove 106 years of age.
One is 117. the next 111. the third 108, two are 102,
the sixth 101, and the seventh 100.
A company has been formed in Liverpool for esta-
blishing direct communication between that port and
Charleston. The first steamer of the line will be
despatched frem Liverpool about the middle of July.
A Malaga journal announces that the police has
discovered in that town an assoziation of Protestants
formed for the promulgation of their faith, and that
nine persons connected with it had been srrested.
The French Emperor has just completed his fifty-
third year, having been born on April 20, 1808.
The French Government is said to have appointed a
large and influential commission, presided over by
Prince Napoleon, to conduct the arrangements in
connection with the ensuing International Exhibition.
The Lord Chief &rim has refused the rule for an
habeas corpus to bring up the body of Mr Fernandes,
who it well be remembered, was committed to
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prison et the late York Assists for refusing to give
evidence in one of the Wakefield bribery case..
The Bishop of Winchester conseetrated the Church
of Si. Stephen, near Clapliam-road, on Tuesday
morning.
Glass casks are extensively used in the south of France
instead of wooden ones. .

The authorities at South Kensington have purchased
from the Soltykoff oollection, for £BOO, • very aduiinble
and valuable specimen of medieval metal work, almost
unequalled of its kind, being the famous altar candle-
stick known to have once btlonged to Gloucester
Cathedral, but the period of the removal of which is
unknown. . . . .

The weavers on strike at Bolton have resolved by a
small majority to resume work on their employers'
terms a reduction of five per cent in the rate of

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Mr. Watt, of the Northern Circuit, has been
oppninted Attorney-General for the Duchy of Lan-
caster.

The Union publishes the following paragraph :—" It
I. conlldentislly stated QM the Duchess of Kent died a
Boman Catholic, She vas attended the day before her
death by a Roman Catholic priest from Claremont, and
the Doe b'Aumale called upon the Queen and announced
the fact at the mos time.

A disastmus Are took place in the Amax (Greek)
quarter of Stamboul on Wednesday week, destroying in
• few hours nearly a thousand houses. The victims are
nearly all of the poorer clam, and great consequent
suffering has ensued.
The stone employed in the building of the exterior of
the Bank of England is decaying like that used in the
construction of the new Houses of Parliament. A coat-
ing of • newly-invented composition is now, by way of
experiment, in course of being applied to that portion
of the building in Threadneedle-street fronting the Royal
Exchange.
A benevolent gentleman hae intimated his intention
to bequeath to the National Life-boat Institution £3OOO
on condition that the society will, on the receipt of his
legacy, plate • Arst.class life-boat on some exposed part
of the English coast. and another on the Scotch tout,
and will undertake thereafter to keep theta permanently
i• • state of efficiency.
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Dumas • meeting of hairdressers at Bristol, the other
day, to discuss the question of Sabbath-lihaving, • Mr.
Davidge etc:Wined. "If it is wicked to shave or be
shaved on a Sunday, many churchmen are guilty at
wickedness. I have shaved the Bishop of Bath and
Wells 011 a Sunday morning, and du you think I will be
dictated to by you.?"
Mr. Hodgson, the Conservative candidate for
Tynemouth, has been returned. A not followed the
declaration of the pull. Mr. Hodgson was escorted
to the railway station by sixty policemen. Here be
was injured in the head by • stone, and some of his
committee and the police were also slightly hurt.
Lord Elgin arrived among his neighbours at Dun-
fermline last week. He was cheered, addressed, put
under escort of the rifle corps, and otherwise distin-
guished. liii Lordship gave his admirers • lengthy
account of his travels.
The rules for the amalgamation of the /Royal and
Indian armies have been settled ; but • MUM of details
remains to be carried out in India, and it has been felt
necessary that Colonel Norman (Assistant Military
Secretary to the Duke of Cambridge) should go to India
for that purpose.
The young Duke of Norfolk assists every Sunday, in
cassock and surplice, at the High Mass at the London
Oratory, where his Grate takes the humble and very
subordinate duty of thurifer.
A choral festival in behalf of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts is to be
celebrated in Westminster Abbey on Thursday, the 16th
of May ; on which occasion the sermon will be preached
by the Rev. William Thompson, DI)., Provost of
Queen's College, Oxford, awl Preacher at Lincoln's
lon.
A new and valuable gold-field has been discovered
in Gippaland, Victoria.
A Vienna paper says that contracts have been made
at Trieste for the supply of • British fleet, which is ex-
pected there.
A gunpowder explosion, resulting lathe death' of two
girls and • boy, took plain last week at a fusee-manu-
factory at Pool, Cornwall.
A volunteer review will probably take place at
Chester in June; the Yeomanry Cavakry will take
part in it.
Her Majesty's Ship Lapwing was recently caught
in a gale in the Greek Archipelago, and bad to throw
overboard her guns and a quantity of shot.
The steam flour-mill of Maus. Rose and Co., at
Woolwich, suffered considerable damap by fire a few
days since. The adjoining property (dwelling-booms)
was also much damaged.
H. Blanqui and his two companions, who were
arrested by the French police some eix week since,
have been transported to Lambessa, under the law of
public safety, without any form of trial.
M. Faure's engagement for three years at the Grand
rer is subject to the condition that hat is to enalz
months' leave of absence each yaw, he b
engaged to sing at Covent Garden.

HEALTH, AND LONG LIFE
Are within the reach of all. Every one may be his owe
Physician, by the use of
DR. BUCHAN'S VEGETABLE
DOMESTIC MEDICINES, prepared from the
Prescriptions of the late Dr. Buchan, Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians, le.c. They are entirely
vegetable, perfectly innocent, and cures are daily made
which surpass belief. Their efficacy has been proved ia
thou.ands of cases, attested lefore, and signed by the pre
siding Alderman at Guildhall, within the jurisdiction ol
The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR of LONDON,
and also befere the hlagistrates sitting in, and fur the
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practice; also by Clergymen and others, whokave vuluu
tarily given their names, to certify to the Pnblis as U
die reliability of these remedies
DR. BUCHAN'S

patent Sugar Coateb PHIS
The process of coating the pills with sugar has com-
pelled the Proprietors to take oat Letters Patent of
tireatilritain, in order to protect them from imitation,
their aacchaiine covering, which it eolikstr de rose
distinguishing them from all others. They are pleaaant
to the taste, and may be taken by the most delicate
female or child, without fear of nausea or eV:comfort,
gliding down imperceptibly like a sugar plum.
IIEALTH DEPENDS UPQN PURE BLOOD.
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which is both prevalent and dangerous; but these Pill,
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prevents the collection of those fispurities which cause
so mach danger to the fine organs of the stomach and
bowels. They soon care liver complaints, dyspepsia,
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and bowels, diarrhoea, loos of appetite, headache, heart
burn, pain in the cheat, sudden faintness and costive-
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ulcers, fie.; also acting most visibly on the complexion
preserving, improving, softening, and beautifying the
skin, thereby giving that blooming and charm*
appeuanee so desirable, yet so vainly sought
for by all. In brief, these Pills work Unit
way to the very roots of each disease, (slimming
in their passage removing every unhealthy enema
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PURGE OUT THE HUMOURS

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which breed and generate distemper, stimulate sluggish
or disordered organs into their natural actions, and
impart health, strength, and cheerfulness to the sick,
week, and nervous; not only do they cure the daily
complaints of ceerybody, but also those formidable and
dangerous diseases that bare baffled the most skilful of
the medical profession.
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