The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

erntral Nebo.

TOO Herald that en iciutatist tosimitise is
fOnniOlt for ".411oPtIng,an " Byrs tostinionial and
defence fur... 1...

TH
.itsr lbord.Blutenant of Ireland made his public
°°'4 Into Iftblitt on Thursday, and wee respeotfolly
Iriecei• s., d ....nu
has been adoptiu‘st a namerogittittigi!??.!:..l.°le7,
ebtry, clergy, and tenant fanners of the (aunty of
Tyrone.
Ta directors of the Bank of England have further
lowered the rate of ditcmont to seven per cent. fig,
it appears, wee not generally expected, notwithstanding
tkat, as much u £620,000 more gold had been sent in
during the week ended Wednesday. The weekly return
shows some important improvements.

THI electors of Maidstone, in public meeting assembled,
have declared their belief in the innocence of their
representative., Messrs. Lee and Wbatman, in respeet
of the charge of bribery made against them by the black-
smith Chambers Both members attended the meeting,
and solemnly denied the truth of the *barges made by
Chambers. The) were loudly cheered.
Tux ROAD 110111:1111: DIATFI Or AWL KINT.-Mr.
Samuel Saville Kent, whose double misfortune in being
the father of a murdered child and of that child's mur-
deress is well known, has jest sustianed another mis-
fortune in the death of his wife. Mrs. Kent (who was.
native of Tiverton) died last week at Llangollen. where,
since the Road murder, Mr. Kent has been living.
Boggs's COTTAOI is, says the Ayrshire Express, to
be sold by private contract. The necessities of the Ayr
Incorporation of Shoemakers oompel them to dispose of
the most valuable property in their possession—" the
auld clay biggin," dear to all Sootehmen, and to every
admirer of the greatest lyric rnius of this or soy
country - if they would maintain, or desire to enhanoe,
the yearly allowances of their aged members.
Mauna ExpLoarosr.—A dreulfnl boiler explosion
occurred at nlaagow on Tuesday morning, in the well-
known works of Messrs. Rigby and Beardmore. Three
men were killed on the spot, and six others have been
so seriously injured that the lives of some of them are
despaired of. So violent was the explosion that the
boiler ascended like a rocket straight op into the air for
upwards of 300 feet, and then fell directly on its bed
with a tremendous crash.

Till meeeting of the British Association is new being
held at Nottingham. The President is Nr. W. It. Grove.
Q.C., who, in his inagural address, passed I. review the
various discoveries that have been made in sciences of
late years. He dwelt also at some length on the origin
of species, concerning which be appeared to adopt the
doctrine of continuity in the natural order of things.
The association is now hard at work in the different
elections into whieh it is divided.

QUA? WUTIMN RAILWAT.—The directors of this
company will recommend to the proprietors the follow-
ing dividends for the six months ending the 31st of
July, 18436:—(ka Great Western Original Stock at the
rate of 2 per cent. per annum ; on Great Western (West
Midland) Oxford at thereto of 17, percent. per annum;
on Great Western (Wert Midland) Newport at the
rate of 17s. per cent.,per annum, and on Great Western
South Wales Ordinary at the rate of £3 fie. per aut.
per annum ; parrying forward a balance of about £7,500.
PUIIRTT*S IMPROVID CORIUM INACHIPIL This
machine is construeted for espolitlously and thoronfhly
corking bottles of almost every kind, and is especially
adapted for bottling WitIOI, ales, spirits. ke., Ito
It is so simple and well-arranged in its eeeetruction
that it may be altered to suit the height of the different
sises of bottles. The two levers, band and foot, working,
at the some time, moderate the pressure no evenly that
there is no risk of breaking the bot.lesas in the ordiaary
method. It is so easily worked that a person uses-
sustained to bottling may by its use bottle equal to the
most experienced bottler. Pries of machine 172 24.—
Sole inventor and proprietor. J. Parrett, Naimoli,
I Somerset. "Manufacturer of Purrett's Improved Cider
I Coloring."

SALISBURY AND DORSKY JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The
bolt-pearl) meeting of the shareholders was held on
Thursday at the company's °Mom, No. 2, Westminster
Chambers, Victoria-street. Kr. K. H. Marsh was in
the chair. The directors stated in their report that it
mold be satisfactory to the shareholders to learn that
leader the termed araangement which had been affected
with the London and South Western Railway Company. a
traffic of only £2O per mile per week would produce, after
deducting working expenses, £10,768 per annum net,
which wooly maim to pay • dividend of 5 per oeut, on
the stare capital The authorised capital of the line
was £213,300; and the mat up to the 30th June bad
bee £193,535 10a. 3d. The report was unanimoual
adapted, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed
the proceeding,.
WRATHER TILL° APHY.—A scientific committee
appointed by the Government have reported tint
"weather telegraphy," as applied to nautical affairs, is
an expensive delusion. They therefore recommend
that the late Admiral Fitzroy's system of "storm waro•
lap" and "dolly forecasts " should be abolished, and
that meteorological observations at ma should be re-
sumed. They find that warnings are oftener wrong
than right as to direction of wind, and that the daily
forecasts are worm than useless, being eslculated on no
sound basis. The committee recommend that for the
future the variation of weather in these islands he mow
rudely recorded at various stations, under official super-
inteadanoe, and compared with reports from more dia
teat points of observation.
EXPLOSION ON BOARD • YATCH. —A terrible boiler
explosion took place on Wednesday at Runcorn, by
sada the steam yateb of Kr. Buxton, of Amesbury.
bail was shattered almost all to pimes. She was leaving
the quay, and the septain bad just given the order.
"ease her," when the boiler was suddenly lifted out of
, her and carried right over the tidal beam failing at
about 100 yards distance. The deck and fittings were
blown into thousands of fragments, and mattered over
the quays. The engineer, John Walker, was tossed
high in the air, and fell into the dock, where ir not
already dead, he was drowned, the body not being
recovered until an hour afterwards. His wife was
shockingly mutilated, her body being found on the north
' and her head on the south aide of the look and another
woman, • friend of theirs, was killed. Five other
persons were also seriously injured.
EXTIAORDINARY INOIDIDIT 11l THE LOSS OP TB! LADY
STZWART. —We have received the following extraordi•
nary statement from Mr. William Tully, the captain of
the unfortunate vessel Lady Stewart, which foundered
• few days since, when the crew had to take to their
boats. R. says, " When we were picked up by the
brig Norton, the captain of her, Mr. Petersen, spoke to
me, and said, very singularly, that for a considerable
time before they caught sight of us in the boat they
could not keep the vessel in a straight course, but she
kept running contrary to the line of her helm. We
both ascribed the incident to an interposition of I:pri4i
demo." Gomm Tully sum Mews tna4 naa tney drilled
two hours longer, they would undoubtedly have got out
of the course Tomah generally sail in that quarter, and
have perished. They bad all to lie in the bottom of
their boat, drifting at the moray of the waren—Nonfarm
Laity Express.
MONSTIR YOZISTIMI. FITS AT THZ CRYSTAL PALAOL
—One of the specialities of the Crystal Palace is the
ease and comfort with which it can accommodate hoots
mon hoe* armies upon armies of plasmas-seekers.
The was exemplified on Tuesday by the annual visit of
"The Forester'," who with their frieods and admirers
mustered 00,000 strong and furnished a wide-spread
mom of genial cheeresinens and enjoyment. The
weather wee be, arid the procession of Robin Hood,
Little John, Maid Marian, end Friar Tuck, all gaily
digit in Lincoln peen, with their attendant foresters,
shepherds, and shephordemat, was most effective. In
addition to an unusual variety of outdoor sports, there
was • most successful balloon ascent, end • display of
the whole series of great fountains and waterworks.
The gnat characteristic of the fate was, however, the
IMMO of enjoyment which wasl written in all the
thousands of foam which thronged the stately pro-
menades, the green alloys, the balls of Egypt, the
mysterious chambers of the Moorish Hinp of Spain,
and the thousand and one departments of amusement
and delight which are to be found at the "people's
palace."

LeDllll do not find Mate Papers always interstitial.
but OM barn been presented by command of Her Majesty
to Parliament, which is interesting to every lady in the
Kingdom. It is the Report of the Board of lalsind
Revenue on Adulteration of Tea: the Commissioners
state that so long as Tea arrives covered with mineral
odour it will be largely sdulterated, for "the Chinese ilsd
it profitable to use colour as • meek, as it enables the old
cheap witiosed leaves to be peak undetected lute son.
samples." The Times in a leading article reviewed
this document, shoeing the absurdity of allowing the
Chinese to its., for tb• sole purpose of incrusting their
molt, rainera colour on an article intended for our
rood, operating emit does to the oonsainers' lose and hp
jury. R.bAahsle good !reality, together with reel sheep-
owe, is the first oomaidmatioa, therefore Herniae• and
Loads., have for many years past &warded the
use of colour on all import.: their pare Greco ie a dell
olive, not bluish, and is with the Black uniformly
strong, delicious in flavour and eery obese. Horaimsa's
Pure Tea can be obtained frees K 280 authorised
Agents, --Chemists, Confeetimmes. or Booksellers.—As
Ninon. imitatioes abound, see that the Importer's
signature is on each packet.