The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

Mistrllancous.

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The teatattta of Mr. batitis O'Brien entertainca hint at
a :I.tat.,tuotot banquet on :iaturlty week.
The heries of ectuing tervic..6 in the nave of West.
ntis.,ter Abbey cause to a cTo-, on Sunday evening.
11..tts Miel:t.lttett, the .1: toot tho to.t cekltratel
isett,Vor its .1:01-seny. ssi,:t at 4 lirist:asia oil June 241.
TV.A. A:tat:Scans ends chano thy credit of 1a:..„ the
t.: n machine of the lesfloon kintl by whid. it is
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of igure 41 te I,.tvf btu
College, London, tvls) on t:At.:r4
et the haunt of fetrtl Palmer.na
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1.2 t 11 Itrait on :-N;ill.l4y nimty.
of the 1.41 t iLy. Jr. .1. I:tmets, Dighop of
I. :.e, is ann.:inc.'. Ile wit%tb lllji preLte
:ince its ehtablii.lauteut ilk 15.2.

aral•cisair forumrly hrlutritr• to 1)r -Jam v
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r,4.1 by Ue..,rs: ruttiel: awl iiitt7p,on LaAt weel: -for
C.a. The chair is a larzc, uncouth picce of furni-
ture.

The Ilsbor of Calcutta has circulated a proposal to
establi,li three schools—une iu th. Punjaub, une in the
:;orcb•Wimt provino.s, and one in Renal—for the .du.
cati.n of boys of I.:anus:an descent.
The l'resident and Fcilows of Corpus Christi C,lleze,
1/sfonl, have elected the ROI. henry Ilaynian.
late F..110w of i;t. sto th.ford, and now head
uiatnro St. o:nre's Grammar S.,utliwark, to
behead nuotter of the Clieltkahatat Grammar school.

It is alleged that a young woman recently living at
Lower Gomel, near Dudley, has been abused and mur-
dered. tier body Wall found Boating in A4ey-liridg.i
Pool on Sunday morning week. Suspicion has fallen on
• HMI named Hyson, who kept company with the girl.
The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached a sennun on
Sunday week in aid oi the family of the poor man who
was killed by lightnino. on Clapham Common lately.
To give better effect to Ins appeal, Mr. Spurgeon
preached from the spot where the poor man fell.
Dr. Winterbottom, the father of the medical profes-
sion (his name is first in the new "Medical Register,")
died at Westoe, near South Shields, on Friday week, in
the ninety-fifth year d his age. Dr. Winterbottoin
was also probably the oldest anti-davery advocate
alive.

The healthy season in London is now over. The
Registrar-General remarks the fact, and his tables show
an increase of deaths from 970 to 1,024. Nevertheless,
the health of the metropolis is at present better than
There arc still upwards of LW fewer deaths than
in former years.
A leading dentist of Chicago stated, in a recent address
to his brethren, that the value of the gal plate and leaf
used in thu United States for the replacing and repair of
defective teeth was 2,250,000 dollars. This fact testifies
to the existence in that country of a high civilisation
and a good deal of toothache.
Wednesday, July ti, was the hottest day ever known
in Marseilles. The centigrade thermometer attained
the extraordinary heightuf thirty-seven degrees. There
has been no heat approaching to this since July, 1832,
and then the highest degree marked was but thirty-
(oar
The University of Oxford, during the repairs of its
public galleries, has eonsented to the removal of its
original drawings by Koff:idle and others to the South
Kensington Museum, where they will be exhibited for
the next two months. Permission has also been given
to the Science and Art department to take photographs
of these drawings.
The crops in the West promise well. The recent fine
weather has enabled the agriculturalists of the western
counties to save their hay in prime condition. The cut-
ting of oats has already commenced in Devonshire, and
the wheat harvest, should the present fine weather con-
tinue, will begin in the above county in about a week.
The yield helmeted to be abundant.
A public meeting was held at the London Tavern on
Wednesday night, to hear statements respecting the
traffic in Chinese. and coolies carried in British ships to
British and foreign colonies, and to adopt a memorial to
Government praying for a committee of inquiry into tho
subject. The attendance was very numerous. Lord
Brougham occupied the chair.