The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

Miscellaneous.

The subscriptions to the proposed nen garden al Ken-
sington Gory already amount to surnething more than
1:41,000.

The trial of Dr. Smethurst for the murder of Isabella
Bankers, at Richmond, was fp be rammed al the Central
Criminal Court on Monday.
Madame Goldschuddt u about to usume soncert-
singing, and to take a tour in Ireland, accompanied
by lien Joachim.
On Wednesday next the fonndation stone of Kr.
Spurgeon's iMUICIIIO tabernacle, opposite the Elephant
and Castle is to be laid.
It ix sated that Meaux. Gibbs and Co.'s income on
the sale of 30,000 tons of guano is L'242,250, being
equal to the revenue of -a-dosen Osman princi-
palities.
The heavy rains on Sunday week flooded many Farts
of Yorkshire and Lancashire. At Todmorden the
" fall " was remarkably heavy, and consideralde damage
was done.

is to come off at floodgate, Peorith, tie
a few weeks. The children are to belong to Narita'.
First, second, and third prises will be given. Things.
must be under two years.
The sums to be expended ma harbours if refuge, this
year, are as follow : Dover, £34.000; Alderney,
£75,000 ; Portland Breakwater, MX). All thus
works are going on salidoetorily.
The Imperial yacht, the Aigie, was to leave Cherbourg
oe the 1611, for Biarritz, to be in atteadanee on the
Emperor and Empress for their aseuraires daring the
90111011.

Dr. Normandy's apparatus for distilling fresh from
sea water has been tried, and found lob. aeraalisfaelory
that it will be used henceforth ow board i pmeneyer-
ships, by positive order of the Privy (Mem&
The King of Sardinia (mays the Court Journal, a wee-
dertal storyteller) is said to have base so hassentreek
when be beard of the peace emiciladed beams= the two
Emperors that he attempted to commit suicide
Prince Louis of Bavaria, brother el the ibm Frees of
Austria, is about to marry ( Mae.
Mendel, a Jewess, the daughter of • eweller. lady
will assume the title of Baroness de ahem..
A vacancy has taken tame among the Navel Knights
at Windsor by the demise of Lieutenant Geew Hunt,
N. N., who died on Saturday last at hi desse at
Bouthsem The gallant ofiloar was appointed in 1138.
The strike among the gasmen, whisk at ems moment
threatened the metropolis with consequences alb* most
Parlous character, has terminated, so far as the Chartered
Gas Light and Coke Company is concerned, in the com-
plete surrender of the men.
The remains ot the burnt ship Eastern Monarch,
lying in shoal near the mouth of Portsmouth harbour,
were sold by public auction for E9OO. The purchaser,
immediately after the auction, resold his bargain to •
third party for 1,000 guineas.
David Hughes, attorney of Gresbametreet, who ab-
sconded some time ago, leaving liabilities to the aaaourit
of £IAO,OOO, has been arrested in Australia. His "mis-
appropriations" amount to forty thousand pounds, we
bear.

Six guns, weighing thirty tons, with guri-earriages.,
platforms, ke., cams of powder, shot and shell, were
landed at North Shields, on Tuesday, for the daimon
of Tynemouth, which are rapidlyapproaehing completion.

Dr. G. H. von Shubert, of Munich, the former friend
and tutor of the late Duchess of Orleans, hag just pub-
lished his memoirs of the deceased Princess. The work
is chiefly made up of original letters, some of which are
moat charniing in their truthfulueu and simplicity.
The commission oouiposed of Professors Faraday, Hol-
man, and Tyndell, R. Redgrave, R.A., end captain
Fowke, R.E. of the Department of Science and Art,
pronounce that no ill erects arise from the lighting of
picture galleries with gas.
The committee of management of the Norfolk and
Norwich musical festival have selected M. Benedict to
fill the post of conductor, and have requested him to
produce wine novelty of his own composition for the
next festival. M. Benedict has intimated his intuition
of writing a cantata.
Mr. F. Maynard, on behalf of the liquidators of tbe
Western Bank of London, announces that • return of
kW per share will be Made on the =ad instant. He
states—" I have no doubt whatever that I shall have
the pleasure of the full accomplishment of the usisrance
that upwards of £4O will be returned, of whisk this is
the first instalment."

Th-ThCre -.;;Tii-ii;land 45 Protestant and 4 Popish re-
formatories, and in Scotland 26 reformatories. 3,294
boyz and girls can be accommodated in the English
and MO in the Scottish reformatories. The number
actually accommodated was in England 2,343, and in
Scotland 873 boys and girls.
The Parisians win not be deprived of M. Rogers's ser-
vices on the stage, alter all. The amputation was
effected below the elbow, and • surgical instrument
-
maker has promised to melte him an artificial hand and
wrist capable of nearly all the natural movements.
A wedding party, on arriving at the parish chards
of Mirtield, found that the bans certificate was missing,
and the groom and his man bad to run off to Richmond-
wike to obtain it. They sooomplialnd the distance,
six miles, in fifty minutes, returning just in time for
the performance of the ceremony.
The time is now at hand (August and September) about
which railway accidents have generally occurred is great
numbers. "Railway compiling will not, therefore, be
displeased if we (Hen:plait) remind them of it, and re-
commend them to impress on their officials and men, if
possible, an increased care."
Three hundred sparrows were recently -shipped from
England for New lealand. At particular seam= the
country is invaded by armies of orterpillars, which clear
off the grain crops in completely as if mewed with the
scythe. The birds are sent over with • view al counter-
acting this plague. The pheasant has algid; been
acclimated in the north.
The Right Ron. James Wilson, M.P., hos esseesited
to go to India as • member of Comma and aim as
Chancellor of the Indian Exchequer. Mr. Wilda's
position towards the Governor-General and the Candi
in the latter capacity will be similar to that which the
Chancellor of the Exchequer bears at home to the
Government and the Cabinet.