The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-22 00:00:00

!Hampshire.

SOUTH AM PTON, ThUriklay.— The .Vail Sri-'.--
The steamship Parana left this day with the West
India and Pacific mails and 109 passengers, among
whom were the Bishop of Martinique, , t Berton,
Major Annet, the Itev. W. Pemberton, Dr. Hamil-
ton, the Rev. Mr. East, Surgeon Yessington. Assist-
ant-Surgeon Kearney, Lieutenant Pinder, and Ensigns
Gillespie and Russell ; also a full 'Argo, specie value
.C3so, and jewelry value .C. 5.600. The Sultan left
this day with the usual Peninsular mail and 14 pas-
sengerx. The I ward Peninsular mail will be
brought by the Tagus, and may be looked fur on
Sunday next.
The gold shipped at San Francisco during the year
ISAX was £9,6i00,000 worth. The number of pas-
sengers which landed there was 40,729 during the
Name period. Last year 3,66N663 bushels of wheat,
5,352,61 N bushels of barley, 1,322,231 bushels i 4
oats, 620,323 bushels of Indian corn, 41.23 bushels
of rye, and 22,360 bushels of buckwheat were raised
in California.
Roan% —Orter.—Mr. H. D Drew has mbeen exhibit-
ing a female otter taken in the water preservis of
William Shone Stanley, Esq., of Eling.

Tow,/ I Not: NCI i..—The Town Council held a
quarterly meeting 0:1 Tuesday. The police report
spoke favourably of the lition of the borough in
reference to its good order, and the fewuess of
offelictm.

Socirry.--A most interesting and in.
structive lecture on the " Physical Geography of
England " WAA given to the Reading Society on
Tuesday week, by the Hon. and Rev. C. A. Harris,
of Rownhams.
Assn, SuttooL Room AND Lecrunz HALL.—
Services in connection with the ope gof the above
building, took place on Sunday week. Sermons
were preached in the Abbey Chapel, by the lb:v.
James H. Wilson, of Aberdeen, and there was a
dedicatory service in the new hall, conducted by the
Rev. William Crustily, LL.D. The services were
very numerously attended, and the collections
amounted to about

CHKDITCIII: RCM —The Lnle Gram—Several pieces
of wreck have been washed ashore during the past
week, amongst them was a piece with the word
" Hope" painted on it.
SHOCKING OCC RRINC L. —A melancholy event has
occurred mu this town. A young man named F. W.
J. C. A. Gray, yeoman, who had lately become
addicted to habits of dissipation, attempted to cut
his throat on Sunday, the 6th inst., at the Cross
Keys Inn, but was prevented from infficting a serious
wound. On the following day he again attempted
to destroy himself by inflicting a more serious wound
in his thrust with a knife. -Medical assistance was
procured, and he was taken to his home. He then
became dullness, it tieing necessary to confine him
forcibly to his bed. He remained in this state until
Friday week, when exhausted nature gave way, and
the unfortunate young man expired. A coroner's
inquest was held on Monday week, before W.
Davey, Esq., coroner for the district, and the jury
came to the following verdict —"Temporary In-
sanity, brought on by excessive intemperate habita."
ImsistrroN.— The Railway Cumpusy.—The half.
yearly meeting of this company was held at the
Literary Institution, on Thursday week, Albert Mew,
Esq., in the chair. The report, which was satis-
factory, was unanimously adopted, and a dividend of
2s. per share was declared. Charles Fluder, Esq.,
M.D., and Mr. H. Daniell were re-elected to the
offices of director and auditor of the company ; and
it was an ~,,, mced to be intended to apply to Paths.
ment for powers to raise a sum of money sufficient to
erect an adequate station-house, and to complete the
improvements now in progress.