The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

itliscellaittoo.

Through the negligence of a lir] an explosion ook
pines laxt week at LiHey's forsignal manufactory, Bit,
iiiiiigh•in. Several iieramix wt it injured.
Mack excitement Intv been oecaacined at the Cape by
the attempt of tins Bishop to establish *imp& in Cape
Town.

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The Culuncley of the 4th Light Dragoons, vacant by
the death of General Sir George Scovell, G.C.B. will
very probably be 61184 by Ilaj,g--Goneral G. 11. Lock-
wood, Cit., an ufti,iir of lung and distinguished Indian
berme,

The Eutieror has resolved to construct with all de•
spatcli ten iron•cased frigates of La Gloire clam.
says the Arnie and Nury "ii no
were tile ru ~,,, ur, but a stubborn fact."
rhr Robert Peel appears to have altered his mind en.
specting the Volunteers, as he has promised £25 per
11111111111 to the funds of the StalTordahire National kale
Association.

The aoldieri of the Italian army have begun to wear
red eiouilette, like the French.
A Kahle a ,uadron i$ acid to be in mum of forma.
bill by Fraime, and that Admiral La Itoncrere is said to
lIPVC the commaild of it.

We (Post, IKlleve we may confidently anticipate that
the Bankruptcy Bill of the Government will he intro.
duced into the House of Cotuwous on the first night of
the Session.

The officers and crew of ifer Majesty's Ship Saliva-
havegiven uue clay's pay each for the poor weavers of
Coiehtry.

The proceed., of the morning performance charitably
given at the Lyceum by Madame Colevte, iii aid of the
starving We•Veri of Coventry. aniounteil to .
. . . .

A leZtimiat jmiroal of BlS:south of Frame announce*
that Francis 11. has dug a grave in his casement at
fiat•te, in which lie II to by buried if the bombards
mint should go against him.
The office id Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, Tweet
by the death of Minims of Dalhousie, has Lien
atailialied.
Cum.:moiler'Milliip, commanding Her Majesty'a
steamer Bulldog, fitting out at Portsmouth, WAS Severely
injured on board his vessel on Saturday by • fa falba:
from aloft .nil striking him On the bra I.
Mr. Cobden will nut leave Algiers till the season is
much litre ad••ace.l.

The ',taros, I between Cowes and Newport, the antra
of the lAlit of Wight, will be opened in May next.
The loas of the Florence Grahame (a Liverpool ship),
with 12 lives. is annotniced. She was mat ashore at
Traits., on the night of the 24th ult.
A woman died at Gainshorough the other day from
the effect, of opium, which she was accustomed to take
in large quantities. Her pasaiou for it kept her in
abject poverty.
The Coinp of Chalons is to be eatablislied on • large
scale next spring. Orders have, it is aaserted, been
already given to prepare cantonments for 60,000 men by
the beginning of Mare
The harvert of lfitiO is pronounced by competent
autiloritY to w, on the whole, the most deficient
gathered in for the peat twerartive yeara. The grain is
wanting in bolk and weight ; and the total lose is not
leas than four million quarters.
. . .

M. Cautwiihrre, who. tilled, during the regime of the
late Frviietthe, the office of Priifect of Police,
and who nince then lintel for lowly years in the United
Stettin, and for noun: time in England, diet in Paris on
Sunday morning week. He had but very recently
returned to Frnnee.

The Lords M the Admiralty have decided on discon-
tinuing the system of job and task work at Chatham
Dockyard, which lisa been in operation at that estab-
lishment during the last few years.
The stranded steam-ship, Queen Victoria, was floated
off the rock, on Monday evening. She was grounded
at high water on the shingly beach at Cremyll, where
she can be repaired.
Nearly seventy boys have been received on board the
Government school-chip Eagle since she has been in
Southituipt.in Water. There are now 2:10 boys on board
of her. Messrs. Delta, G.N. Cookeey, and Stabbing,
three &pew,lent gentlemen of Southampton, pay all
the expenses of conveying boys whose friends are poor,
to and from that town and the ship to be examined.
Sir lkujsiiiin Brodie underwent the operation for
extraction of cataract from the right eye last week.
Our readers will he glad to learn that favourable reports
are given of hie progreiis after the operatien.
The Viceroy of Egypt is disposed to relinquish aft
intention of visiting Mewls. This pitcrimage, it is
supposed, would not coat less than 15,000,000 (rules.
The °fibers *nil crew of her Majesty'. ship Sansparsil
have contributed one day's pay each for the poor
weavers of Coventry.. .

Thu pr.ce of Kosv-uth antes in Hungary has risen from
40 to 60 per cent., and it is said that insignias of the
I oidnal value of 60.000,060 florins are still concealed in
different parta of Ifuogary.
A prawentation of prime in connection with the Post
-
Mike companiee of the Civil Service Regiment took
place in St. Hartin'ade-grand on Saturday. Lord
Stanley of Alderley, the Poetiniudar-Generil, presented
the prises, and, at the same time, delivered • volunteer
speech.
Some luggage-trucks, having got detached from an
engine on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, ran
into Leeds, and toppled over into the Great Northern
goods-yard in Wellingtou-strect—a depth of about forty
feet

The church-rate aholitionists intend putting forth
great effort during the coming sou-ion to defeat the re-
.etionary desigisc of Ilse Conscrcative party in respect to
the law of elsurch•ratem ; cud, alining other situps, bare
&greet to hold a conference in the metropolia, at chick
it ic hoped no place of importance will be uzirepre-
tentwl."

Thu oppeition made to his appointment by the Pro-
testant Alliance and other amiociations has induced 11r.
W. B. Tornboll to send in his resignation of the Celan-
Jerald!. of Foreign State Papers. His resignation has
beeu accepted.
The dent', of the Right Hon. and Rev. Francis Ear
of Guildford is announced. Our readers ina) remember
that the Earl wa% obliged some years ago, by popular in-
&goat on, to resign lii, numerous apixthitiiient• in the
uroh• The Earl 0114 Hoityr of St. Cr..., Retor of
St. Mares, Southampton, and Rector of Old Alreaford,
roar Aire-ford Iledstesd,
The I,initaliire Artillery Volunteers have taken a
spirted step, by the formation of a limited liability
company, to provide • par.de-groun I iii the vicinity of
La. rpool, the ground cipahle of aimommudating at one
tioie two regiment% of 500 men etch.
The vestry of St. Luke... Chelsea, have resolved to
present a petition to Parliament praying for the forma.
tiou iif that great diatiiet. nicht ing Kenaington, into a
borough, and asking that it may recieive the .eau which
the ilidranchisement of St Albau's placed at the dis-
posal of Parliament.
Chatham atoi Rochester are at prestos somewhat un-
pleaaaitly situated. Burglanous soldiers steal through
the streets at night and commit robberies. In ci.nse-
qoence, it is sail, of leave being too readily granted.
the worst characters flod opportunities for the Mout-
'mow of their criminal pmpeuaitisia. The attention of
General Eyre has leen called to the facia.
H. Laroche. • decorator at Coustentinople, baring
become euanioured is body of the Imperiai hareem,
whims be saw while nailing up curtains, Lisa become
Ilnimulumn in ordipitgoinarrialesai r. Le has taken We
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