The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-20 00:00:00

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M. Kossuth, who has been phasing some days in Paris,.
has arrived in England.
The St. Leger was run on Wednesday; Gamester
being the winning horse.
General Tom Thumb has set up his yacht, named alter
himself, the Charles 8. Stratton.
A three gun battery has been completed at Wey-
mouth, and a fifty•gun battery has been commenced.
A new Baptist Wins has been inaugurated at Raw
-
don, Yorkehire.
The Grand European Congress of Political Economy
met on the 15th inst., at Frankfort.
The Ppm and Harrison Opera Company open at Co
vent Garden on the 4th of October.
Lord James Stuart, member for the countyproiLittr,
died at Dumfries House on Tuesday weak tines y-
He was in his 65th year.
The grand Duchess Helen of Russia, the moniinic after
her arrival at Berlin, received • visit from the Princess
Frederick William.
The personality of the late Mr. CORII3O Orme, of the
firm of Longman and Co., has been sworn under
L/00,000.
A collier on strike has been sentenced to three months'
imprisonment at Wrexham for threatening some men
whowere working.
The Liverpool banquet in honour of Lord Derby is to
take place in the Philharmonic Hall on the 29th of
October.
In consequence of the great scarcity of brandy for
wine purs-osea in Portugal, a considerable quantity of
British brandy has been shipped to that country.
The Right Hon. William Cowper is the solitary mem-
ber of the Administration in town, and is now daily at
work in his office.
Mr. Jefferey, who it was stated had invented a gun
which would carry from Dover to Calais, has declared
this statement to be wholly untrue.
The bodies of three newly-born infants, wrapped in a
piece of course alpaca, have been found in a field near
Idelston church, Cornwall.
Mr. Dement, of the Times' editorial staff, has under-
taken to publish the " Orkneyinga " He is at pre-
sent in Orkney, collecting materials for illustrative
notes.
R T. Smith has renewed his lease of Drury
Lane for 8 years, and satisfied the demands of the
committee by agreeing to pay an advanced general rip nta
of £4,800 and LLOOD premium.
A woman was taken into custodeat Plymouth a short
time ago for dapping a boy's face. The effect of the
blow was so serious that the little fallow is scarcely ex-
pected to survive.
A hundred thousand sheep were penned at Wilton
great sheep fair on Monday. During the early part of
the day business was bruits, and a pretty general clear-
ance was effected before the close of the fair at an ad-
vance in price of 2s. per bead on late fain.
Mr. Augustus Harris has put forth a preliminary ad-
vertisement concerning the Princess's, in which it is
stated that the house has been entirely redecorated, and
much done to secure the comfort of the audience. The
theatre, as previously announced, will be open on the
24th in.t.

In tie numery gardens of the French Government in
Algeria a trial has been made with perfect suecess, of the
goillgoadon, or wax-tree of Cayenne, which furnishes
wax I....messing all the properties of that furnished by
bees. The tree grows freely, costa little, and yields
&bun. lastly.
Major-General Sir William Eyre, K.C.8., late in com-
mand of the British forces in Canada, died at Bolton
Hall. Warwickshire, on Thursday week. Sir Williaux
WU 53 years of age.
The Derbyshire Advertiser states that a young man, a
member of an evangelical church, advertises in
paper for board in a pious family, where his Christiaa
example would be considered a compensation.
Twelve gun-boats from the steam reserve at Ports-
mouth have been ordered to be immediately ready,
with their armament. It is intended to take them out-
side the harbour for exercising certain manoeuvres, firing

practice, &c. _
The museum of the late Hugh Miller ha/ been pre-
served to the capital of Scotland. The price is upwards
of tl,OOO, of which Government contributes 6500, the
remainder being made up by subscriptions.
The Queen and the Prince Consort have ordered pre.
parations to be made for 200 of the most distinguished
of the members of the British Association taking holiday
on the Deeside, at the close of the prooeeduip, and
lunching at the Castle of Balmoral, on Thursday, the
22nd inst.
The violoncellist Seligmann gave a concert at Wies-
baden, • few days ago, and obtained so much success
that the King of Holland, who wet present, presented
to him, at its conclusion, the d.coiatlon of the Oaken
Crown.
The Rey. C. F. Tarver, M.A., who has sines 1855
superintended the Aladin of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, now retires from the marries of the
Prznce, and resumes his parochial duties as Rector of
Ilketshall, St. John's, Suffolk.
The certificate of Captain Halpin, of the New York
and Galway steamer Argo, wrecked near Bt. John's on
the 26th of June, has been suspended for nine months,

on account of carelessness.
The wish of the Times that Mr. Cobden should devote
his energies to the came of financial reform is likely
soon to be gratified, &wording to Chili/Owe:haler / Lrassi-
err. It is proposed to establish branch financial reform
associations throughout the country, and to set up all
the agitation machinery of the Anti-Corn-law League.
The wreck of the hull of the Eastern Monarch, which
was destroyed by fire at Spithead in June last, has been
raised from its position, slung between lighters. and
towed round to Southampton, where she will be sur-
veyed, with the intention of rebuilding her, if possible.
An oyster-bed has been discovered off Kessingland.
near Lowestoft. The quantity of oysters taken has at
present been small, but their quality and Bias are ve:y
goad.
The first stroke on the great bell at Westminster, and
not the quarter chimes, indicates the hour by Green-
wich mean time. The chimes at the first, second. and
third quarters begin to strike at those times respectively.
Those who hear the clock at long distances must ?tumor
her that the sound takes four seconds and a half to tra-
vel a mile.
The mother of the late Henry Heine died on the 3rd
inst., at Hamburgh, in the arms of her sou, M. Gustave
Heine, proprietor of the Freestyle/oda of Vienna.
Madame Heine was carried off by cholera in the 88th
year of her age.
The troops at Chatham arc to be provided with &drill
ground in which they can be exereised in wet and incle-
ment weather. A large space of ground adjoining the
hut barracks at Brompton has been appropriated for
this purpose, and is now being inclaied and covered
Religions services are now conducted on Woolwich
Common during Sunday afternoons by ministers con-
nected with the London Diocesan SoMety. of which the
Lord Bishop of London is president. Similar services
are announced to take place on Plumstead Common.
A specimen of the migratory locust was found • few
days ago on the wall of the parish churchyard, Bradford.
The insect was about three inches in length. and very
active. A similar sisitant was tithes in • corn-liekd Dear
Harrogate a few dap previously.
Austria being no longer at open WILT with" his king'
dcon of Prance Henry V. is gone back to his residence
at Froliadoef, where be is in a position to receive his de-
throned sister, the ex•Parmese Regente, just as Leopold
at Claremont affords refuge to his uncrowned relativm
of the Orleans branch.
I The tobacco-pipe out of which Johann Sobiesky
smoked during the siege of Vienna, and which was car-
ried I .11 by the French about :4.1 year* &MN his
back to Vienua, and reinstituted to its former plam and
Ine ~,,,
The German smokers are, it appears, in delight is or'
sequels* of a report that professor Liebig haa '!;a-
covorol • mode of imparting to ordinary totem.* ta•
' perfume and BAYOUS of the finest Havanna)). It 11 said
that the moat experienced connoisseurs have kmen Ot.it
to the feet, and have smoked the prepesod tobacco ID
the belief that it was the filled Cuban.
Mr. Fortune, in a letter to the WasAingtos
tem says big mows in cultivating the tea-plant 15
America far exceeds his most sanguine expectation..
He says, too, that the tea plantations in Upper India
are succeding admirably.
Barnum (says an American journal) offered Mr.
Paaahan. an English Wesleyan preacher, 12,00 D a Year
to lector* in Anierim, under the showman's direction.
Mr. Parisian's reply is said to have been the followinf
passage from Scripture :—" 0 full of all enlitlstl apd au
mischief, thou child the devil, thou eesmy
ousneee, wilt thou not cow to pervert the right we7s
of the Lord r