The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

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The English in the Sandwich Islands purpose erecting
• monument to Captain Cook.
Mr. Gye ham engaged Madame lliolan-Carralho, a
singer of great repute, to appear this season in 11. Mey-
erbeer's new opera.
An exhibition of fine arts, open to artists of all
countries, is announced to take place at Geneva in
A ugust.
Negociations are now pending between the Court of
the Tuileries and the Holy See (say the French journals)
with • view to the canonisation of Joan of Arc, who
it seems, has never yet been smote a saint.
It is stated that Sir John Raliewlen'a recent contested
election for the West Riding cost more than Elb,ooo—a
mere bagatelle for " the richest commoner in Log-
Miss Louisa Viuniiig. formerly well known am the
infant Sappho, was on Monday married to Mr. Sharp
Heywood, a gentleman residing in Kensington-park,
London.
The ship-builders of the Wear have received notice
from their workmen that it is their intention to strike
for an advance of wages. The men have at present.
24a. per week and demand 301.
Advice% (ruin Laliusn report that that neglected colony
Will• all on tire. The unfortnii inhahitants remaining
were dying (ruin thirst, haring bail no rain for three
months. The grass had all dried up.
The Academy of Sciences lies received a communi-
cation from M. Faye on the singular phenomenon pre-
rented by Blida'. comet which ha* actually split into
two parts, each of which is now a separate comet.
The drilling of the Metropolitan police is proceeding
with much activity. Bodies of the constabulary are re-
gularly exercised in the open space in front of the Found-
bug Hospital, and also in Regent's Park.
The Sa rannah RepeUiram had • call a few days since
from a subscriber, living in South-western Georgia, who
dropped in to pay in advance his fifty-sixth year. sub-
scription.
the unsettled state of Europe has resolved the jury Of
English artists (Messrs. David Roberts, W. P. Frith,
Thomas (reawick, A. Elmore and J. C. Homely, acting
with M. E. Gambart as director) to send no pictures to
Paris this year.
M. Pert:, • librarian at Berlin, has just discovered, the
Preset states, the manuscript journal of two Geno-
ese navigators, Teodosio Dorm and rgolino Vivaldi, who
doubled the Cape of Good Hope in 1290, 207 years be-
fore Vasco di Game.
The north pier at Tynemouth will be thrown open
during Hie ensuing summer as • promenade. The south
pier now stretches a fine ann into the sea, aid forms •
beautiful promenade for the inhabitants of Soo&
Shields.
The boarding which has for oolong concealed Trailer's-
gate at the Tower of London from the sight of visitors Ire
been removed, and few strangers sow pass without
looking curionaly at it, associated as it is with so menu
historical incidents.
A deputatiou waited on Lord Colchester bri week to
remonstrate against the proposed duplication of the
postage on newspapers to Australia, • scheme which
lis to extend to India. Lord Colchester promised to
reconsider the question.
Mr. Gavan Duffy has resigned his office of Com-
inisaioner of Lands and Survey ir Australia, sad is
consequently, no longer a member of the Government.
It is said that incompatibility of temper led to this

step.
By the breaking of the shaft machinery at the Britislr
Iron Company's works, Booboo. the miners had to.
remain down in the pit from Monday morning to Tues-
day evening last week. Food was thrown down to.
them.
Mr. Eyles, who is said by the Gardeners' Chroxiek to
be one of the best and most experienced gardeners in
the country, has been appointed to the supenntendenos
of every department of horticulture, both indoors and
outdoors, at the Crystal Palace.
Captain Burton, the traveller, who has made some
remarkable discoveries in ',he interior of Africa, and
who is the only European who ever visited Mecca and
escaped with his life and his Christianity, arrived at
Southampton • few days ago by the India and Matra-
lion packet Pere.
A meeting was held in Greenwich on Tuesday night
to consider the depressed condition of that town.
Various suggestions were made for attracting visitors to
the town by regattas, musical bands, to. and • general
(riling was expressed that something ought to be done.
Three electors who had votes in Berwick and rd.-
shires had • special train waiting to whisk them into
Edinburgh, and • special steamer to take them across
the Furth, to record their rote in the 'kingdom of.
Fife." Votes are worth something sometimes.
Count Fuesehi, a Venetian silk-grower, has been in-
stituting inquiries into the condition of the silkworm of
IkmgaL He finds every evidence of rapid degeneracy,
exactly as in the worm commonly reared in Lombardy.
Miss Burdett Coutts laid the Brat stone of the new
Cancer Hospital at Brompton on Monday (yesterday.,
The ceremony took place at 5 o'clock on the grounds o
the propmed new budding at Brompton, situate in the
Full.am-road, nearly opposite to the Consumption Hos-
pital, and the Lord Bishop of London kindly presided.
Her Majesty's Steamer Sir Henry Lawrence. on* of
the recently-built Indus flotilla steamers, has been lost.
She haul a number of troops on board, and was proceed-
ing up the mouth of the Indus, when she struck on a
snagged sunken rock and settled down. No lives were

lost 7
A Spanish Royal decree declares that on the let of
April, 1862, will be opened in Madrid a public exhibi•
Con of agricultural and manufactured proilucts, work-
manship, end objects of art, as well for the Peninsular
and for the adjacent islands as for the foreign provinces
and African pooessions. To compete at this exhibition
are invited rill the .linerican republics of Spanish origin,
also the kingdom of Portugal.
The roological collection in the Regent's Park has re-
cently received several accessions. Her Majesty has
presented the society with an :tondo& an animal of the
antelope tribe from Morocco. An Eland, from &nth
Africa, hen been presented by Sir George Grey; and
Captain Brown of the Punjaub Cavalry, has presented
A curious specimen of the goat class, called the Malikhor,

from Cashmere.
The Americans are proverbial for being fond of &great
many t'liristian names ; but perhape that of the United
States' ex-Minister of Spain will rank as the greatest yet
given to any man—not a military personage. Here it
is :—Mr. General Augustus Cour Hannibal Dodge !
This gentleman left Liverpool on Saturday, on his return
to the United States.
After a great deal of competition for the recently dis-
covered Venus, the Russian Minister has succeeded in
obtaining the treasure for the sum of 50,000 f. It is not
known, however, whether the Roman Government will
allow such a chief-dteuvre to be taken out of the
country. Signor Guidi. the discoverer, is engaged in
having a careful cut taken from the original.