The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-09 00:00:00

Atistellantou.s.

Mr. Laboueliere is to be translated to the House of
Peers.

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The theatre at Cologne has been burnt down. The
wife of the keeper lost her life.
Her Majesty has caused • tablet to be erected at Chel-
sea Hospital in memory of the officers and crew who
perished on board the Birkenhead troop-ship.
General Urban, the Austrian, who has been accused
of certain atrocities during the Austrian occupation of
Piedmont, has been placed on the retired list.
un Monday Mr. Albert Smith was married to Miss
Mary Keeley, by which event the stage will lose one of
its freshest and prettiest singers.
The total amount of property asseisied under the five
schedules of the income tax is 274,724,847 in England
and Wales, and V 9,558,899 in Scotland.
At a recent sale at Cheltenham, port of the vintage of
1820 sold at 1355., and the vintage of 1834 at from 140 s.
to 18Ch. _ . _

A ground rent of Ell a day was recently refused for a
plot of ground near the Bank, said plot having& frontage
of only twenty-two feet by a depth of thirty-six feet.
Robert Sherard, sixth }Awl of Harborough, and Baron
Sherard, of Leitrim, Ireland, died at Stapleford Park,
near Melton Mowbray, on Thursday week, lie had no
children, and with him the title becomes extinct.
N. Roger, the famous tenor of the Paris Grand Opera,
was getting through a hedge, with a gun on his arm,
when the charge exploded and lodged in his ann.
Amputation was found to be necessary.
Mr. Cobden, writing to the Times, says be cannot
refrain, as an old member of the House of Commons
from bearing his testimony to the marvellous accurac;
with which the speeches in Parliament are reported.
A pamphlet, for which Viscount de Is Guerronniere
will be nominally responsible, is announced as forthcom-
ing, under the title of "Napoleon 111. et l'Angleterre."
An Austrian travelling carriage, pierced by cannon
i shot n two places, has been taken to the Artillery
Museum at Lyons. This carriage belonged to General
Gyulai, and was taken at Magenta.
A portion of the crew of Her Majesty's sloop Heron,
lost on the 9th of May last, on her way to Sierra Leone,
has been rescued, consisting of forty men, mostly Euro'
peans--amongst them Mr. Blair, the mate of the sloop.
A deputation from the Anti-Opium Association had
an interivew with Sir Charles Wood on Wednesday.
Sir Charles said that the present unsatisfactory state of
the finances of India .i.endered it impossible to touch the
revenue derived from the trade.
A "Narrative of Lord Elgin's Minion to China and
Japan," by Mr. Lawrence Gliphiint, is announced as
forthcoming. From the author's position as private
secretary to Lord Elgin, coupled with his old-established
reputation as a writer of travels, something more than
usually interesting is expected in the new work.
Mr. 11. T. Pope has tresented his picture of the
"Salutation of the Virgin, by Mansooli di San Filen°,
to tho Fitswilliani Gallery, Cambridge. . The picture,
an altar-piece of very large dimensions, Is at present
exhibiting at the British Institution, limit will be re-
moved to Cambridge as soon as the exhibition elows.
The prospects of the coming vintage in Portugal are
prices of wine must rise, especially of ports, for the
" there is no doubt that the
said to be vtry bail: and
accounts from the Duoro predict almost total loss."
Another new geld field has been discovered in the
M'lvor district, Australia. The deposits are said to
extend over a:i arsa of fourteen milts, and most of the
claims which have twin worked have proved productive.
The Trident has =tiered great lose from yellow fever.
She reached Ascension with great ditecwity on this 27th
of June, having lost during the passage three engineer
s officers, the gunner, and twenty men. Had she been
another day at sea the probabilit is there would have
been no one able to work the engines.
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A hint has been given to e editors or certain Paris
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mons, we hear, to open their small artillery againat
the Belgian Clovernut nt, on account of the fortifications
of Antwerp. The paper campaign against Austria wu
begun in la Pram months before war actually broke
out.