The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

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The fortification of the Tay is contemplated by the
Government.
Cuba contains about 45.000 square miles, and has
32 inhabitants to the square toile.
Lord Lyons has left England for America, to succeed
Lord Napier as British Minister at Washington.
The papers announce the death, on Wednesday last,
at Darlington, of the Venerable Archdeacon Fronde.
The deceased archdeacon was in his stltl year.
A motion for introducing the guillotine in capital exe-
matting has been passed in the Hanoverian Chambers.
The prupo.al was otrongly resisted by the clergy.
Meddle. Vier...ire Italie made her appeanume at the
Theatre-Ilegio, Turin, as Amine in the " hosnnautibula,"
with great success. At the end of each act she was
called three times before the footlights.
A servant girl, at Lytham. faintest as she was carrying
wasieliend basin, which in felling she broke • one of
the pieces entered the jugular vein, mid caim;ed her
almost instant death.
The Hon. K. Tette, who, it will be remembered,
fractured a rib while leading the field over a formidable
flight of posts and exile, in the meadows near E--teourt.
is so far recovered that lie will shortly be enabled to re•
appear in the saddle.
The wine-growers and dealers of Jerez. Spain, are
urgitig their Government Is reduce the duty mon
Britieh manufactures, so as to induce the English
Government to reduce the prohibitive duties upon
their wines.
on the accidental death* in London, during 11458, 755
were by fractures, contusions, and wounds, indicted in
various ways; 309 were by burns and maid.; 235 sere
by drowning; and ZIO by suffecation iii bed and other-
wise.
Another new book of 11. A. de Lamartine his just
been ushered into this world. It is entitled " Homer*
de Cesar," and destined to form the fifth volume of the
" Vic des Grande lieunnee," which the author is pub-
lishing at present.
The New York Cathedral, now in course of erection,
is A/ feet wider and 30 feet higher than York Minster:
the have is three feet wider and nearly 40 feet higher
than St. l'aul's, It will be the handeneed,
ecclesiastical edifice in the States.
A gratuity of C7Ati is to be voted to Commander Wil'
hlaiii lbelger, on account of his latent small ;WI anchor,
now generally lowa in the navy ; and Ow 10 Mr. Cid.'
ford, as • reward for his invention for lowering IMP"
boats.
What has long been considered en inkeeper's grievlw"
will shortly he remedied by the Derby Governieept.
It is propoectl to alter the billeting allowance m tho
neat Slunity Hill, and lii future the remuneration to
the innkeeper is to be fourpence per man instead tbror
half pence.
We welenstand that two new baroneteles are about te
be *inferred -.me on Mr. Cunard, the great ship,' riot
to whose energy and enterprise we owe the establish.
talent of the lino of *team packets well known by
hill
name ; and the other on Mir Charles Nicholson, whom,
welbtleserved reputation in the Australian colonies fully .
justifir. the new honour.
Orders have bitten issued to the officials having chard!
of the English portion of the National Gello7 sh°
Vernon collection of paintings at Marlborough House, to
prt.pare for their removal to the building erected for
their reception at Kensington (tore, where they are lo
be exhibited to the public at Koder.
The quantity of rain which fell near London in Of
past year was less than in any other year of the present
century. According to the Ourdeerri Chrom,..4(
e'l
" Prrt'llr of rain" up to the letof January last •—ss II •
inches. It remains to be seen whether this deficience
will be made up in one year or spread over several year',

As ImmixAs's Lincs.—The following is the true
copy of • letter received in Boston from acmes the
water ; "Tipperary, Ireland, March 27, 1516 hid'sr
Nepliew,-1 have not beard anything of ye was the Dot
time I wrote ye. I have moved from the place where
now live, or I should have written to you before. I a"'
not know where • letter might And you first; but I now
take tuy pen in hand to drop you a few lines, to int'nu
you of the death of your own living uncle, Kilpstnrii•
He died very suddenly, after a long dlnew of six months.
Poor man, he suffered • great deal. He lay
a long taus
in convulsions, an
perfectly quiet d speechless, and all
the time talking incoherently end inquiring fur water.
m P very much at • loft to tell ye what his death alis
oceseioned at; but the doctor thinks it was oommoned
by his last sickness. for he was not well 10 days durinif
his oonfineutent. His age ye know just as well as I e°°,‘
tall ye Wee 25 years old last March, lacbinf
months; and if he had lived till this time lie would liars
been six months dead, jist. N.B. Take not* I ittelme
to ye • tin pound note, which your farther sends to p
Unbeknown to ine. Your mother often speaks of ye;
would like to mend ye the brindle cue, and I would in'
close her till ye but for the horns. I would beg of Ye
not to brake the sale of this letter until tiro or three
days after ye read it, for which time P'l be
suet for the sorrowful news.—Patriek
•i N
Glancy, No. Brodeur"... VinielOW
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