The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

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A son of Mr. Macreoly made his debut at the Bal-
larat Theatre lately in the character of Claude Melnotte.
Ile does nut appear to have mole a great success.
There is a story afloat about the establiahment in
London by the Emperor of the French of a daily journal,
to advocate his Imperial principles.
The workmen employed at Woolwich Arsenal NV to
have a holiday from the 24th to the 27th inst., both
days inclusive.
A proposal made by the Earl of Carlisle to erect a
statute in Dublin to the memory of Oliver Goldsmith
has been heartily responded to. The commission has
been given to Mr. Foley.
Mr. James White of Wicham Market, has completed
and has now in constant operation a aelf-winding cluck,
which determines the thee with accuracy.
At Scandiano, • place of some importance in the mid-
dle ages, General Garibaldi is said to have organized •
batallion of boys, from 13 to 15 years of age. They are
commanded by Count John Arnvabene, • young man of
twenty-three.
Another fresco, by Cope, has just been placed in the
Peer's Lobby of the new Palace, at Westminster. The
subject of the fresco is Lord Williaiu Russell the night
before his execution.
The body of a well dressed man, afterwards identified
as that of the Rev. Dugalil Douglas, minister of the
Established Church at Oban, was found on Thursday
week, in Hagg'a Wood, nearGlasigow. Death had clearly
resulted from exposure to cold.
The new Swiss law against enlistments for foreign
service has just been applied for the first time in the
the Canton of Berne. A man named Bichsel has been
sonde 1111 l ed to one months iinprisoniuent, 100 f r. fine,
and privation of civic rights during a period of one year,
for having recruited men for Naples and Holland.
Three new batteries are to be provided at Ratusgate,
one of which will command the mouth of the harbour.
A scheme has been set on foot for the construction of
a monster hotel near the London-bridge terminus. The
proposed hotel will contain 2.50 sleeping-rooms, first and
second class coffee-rooms, and a due proportion of pri-
vate and ladies' apartments.
The Trustees of the British Museum have at length
taken into serious consideration the difficulties in which
they are placed by our vast aocuiuulation of literary and
scientific treasures. They have appointed • cub-com-
mittee to consider and report on the subject.
The office of Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms,
vacant by the promotion of Edward Stephen Deady,
to the office of Chester Herald, is to be filled by
George Edward Adams, Seq., Barrister-at-Law.
.rhe Surrey musical hall being DOW opened on Sunday
evenings for the performance of music, although chiefly
sacred, Mr. Spurgeon has declined to preach there again.
lie e.imimmienrol reaching on Sunday morning last at
Exeter Hall, and will continue to do so every Sunday
until further notice.
The regiment of artillery at Woolwich is to be in-
creased from its present strength of fourteen to sixteen
brigades. Also two extra batteries of 18-pounder guns
are to be mounted.
Duriug the Christmas holiday; Professor Faraday will
deliver, in the theatre of the Royal Inatitution, six lec-
tures on "Various Forces of Matter," suited to the
capacities of • juvenile audience.
M. de Laniartine's paternal estate of Monceau:, near
Macon, is advertised for sale by auction at the Chamber
of Notaries in Paris on Feb. 7. The upset price is
fixed at 1.000,000 f. (t 40.000.
The medical practitioners announce that a rather
strougly-developed smallpox is raging epidemically at
Paris. It dues not at:AA children alone, but older
people who have too long omitted to have themselves
re-vaccinated.
The is umber of births in Paris for the current year,
so far as they are made up, is 37,000, out of which
near one-third 111,000) are illegitimate, so declared on
the civil registry.
Hartlepool is to be defended by three batteries
mounted with large tili-pounders of narrow bore and
long range.
Caolinal Wiseman, whose health has been failing
lately. has gone to Rouse • and the Freeman' s Joarool
reports that lie is not likely to return to England as a
permanent place of residence.
The following transfers will take place in the Polio,
t'ourta upon the retirements of Mr. Long :—Mr.
ilainuaill will be transferred from Worship-street to
Ilarylebone Police Court; Mr. J. S. Mansfield, stipen-
diary magistrate at Liverymol, will succeed Mr. Hanimill.
The Government of Hesse Cassel, as • mark of hos-
tility to Pruoiis, has decided that its troops shall wear
uniforms of the Austrian model, instead of the Prussian
as heretofore.
The herring fishery on the east coast is drawing to a
close, and, on the whole, the results obtained have
been satisfactory to those concerned.
Le Nord says that tile Duke of Moiena is about
actually starting a newspaper in the Italian language, to
be printed at VICIWID, and to advocate his claims.

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soothing bower exerted by this Ointment strongly mock
mends its we to all persons having charge of children Acci-
dents sill occur in the nursery in spite of the greatest caution
and utmost vigilance. Scratches, burns, maids treated wily
uith this Ointment, smume no angry mind.. Uni never long
tortures the little sufferer, sham cry excite. each by.Moder's
onuipsmion, and pierces the parent's heart. Every ows.
should consider this Invaluable Ointment au emeaUal Los
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apoted nursery. It is apnlienble to Any eon, sod conducts
ioseslth as surely en the 'wipes points to the north.