The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

fiaisallaittous.

The Munich ;mama., stela ehat eighty rifled canon
sent from Prustes, and destined for the fortress of lllin,
have just jek...-1 through itataris ; and also that eon-
trsets for large supplies of corn and other it wes to that
fortress harsher!, entered into.

Newsteiel Abbey, aii.l the fine domain of Newstead.,
so well knoirne it• the residence Okla propriety of the
poet Lord Byron, halt been purchased by Mr. William
Frederick Webb, late of the 17th Lancers, fur £160,000.
The Archbishop' of Anuah and Bubl.n have wanted
tbeir clergy against the " Essays end Reviews."
The Kinross-aide. Fishing Club have resolved t
expel Major kelverton front its menibership.
Prince Csartoryski, whose family held such an influ-
ential posit' in the Polish mid-ration, dined at the
Tuileriva lately, and it is said tr.,st there has been a
meeting of the Hungarian notabilities at the Palai"
Iloyai.
The Reg*. d Phase that a petition has been
circulating in many Italian towns, and has recieved •
great many signatures, begging as Italian Parliament
to revoke Ow sentence of death under which llassini
still hes, and to permit him to return to Italy.
The number of seamen and boys who deserted from
the royal navy in 1858 lwas ; in 18:19, 1873 ; and
in nine months only of 1860, 2,322. Of the latter num-
ber 1110 only were boys.
Au g the subscribers to the laurel crown which hiss
been offered by the German Princess to the Bavarian
consort of ?rations 11. "in memory of her heroic con-
duct at (Meta," the English reader remarks " Augusta
Grand Ifachem of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, iiee Princess of
Great Britain."

A holeinn requism was sung lately at St. Andrew's
Catholic Church Newcastle, for the souls of the unfor
tuilate persons slain iii the streets of Warsaw by the
nutshell soldiery. The ceremony WWI of an imposing
and illiprefodiVO character.
Nineteen-twentiethe of the articles, pamphlets, books,
songs, awl caricatures now published in Naples are
directed against the pretensions, both temporal and
spirituel, of the Church of Rome.
Tliti italion Papere state that among the suppling
found at Gaeta there were 119 casks of sugar, WM
ditto of sslt, 35,7781 b. of cigars, 63 boxet of foreign
cigars, and two storerooms literally crammed with
chest, of tobacco fur the garrison, all from Rome, and
marked with the Papal arms.
A general census of the population of France is to be
taken during the present year.
The 19th met. is to be celebrated as a holiday through-
out Sicily, that being Garibaldi's saint's day, his Christ
tian 11111.11 C being Joseph.
A meeting to expresi sympathy with the movement
now taking place in Poland was held at the Whittington
Club a few nights since.
Sir JobeYoung has been appointed Captain-General
and Governor-in-Chief in awl over the colony of Vew
South Wales.

A little child, at a dame school in Soiners.town, was
placed alone in • hack room an a punishment. He
elinshed tu the ant MI or threw himself out.
Ile died in about an hour afterward+.

M. de Zedlitz, a Pruesian notability. hsa challenged
M. de Vincle to fight with pistols. The President of
Police wishes to fight within four weeks' time; so that,
if the duel is not prevented, it wall take place in the
k:a.teru iamtion

The annual inteting of the Repeal of the Taxes on
Knowledge Association seas held on Wednesday—Mr.
W. Ewart presidink There was a large attendance.
Mr. Sala, Mr. G. Thompson, Dr. Watts, and Me.
Ayrtou. M.P., were the principal speakem.
Thu Patna contnulietc a rumour that Prince Napoleon
was about to i. coOl to Italy in a diplomatic capacity.
A nese attempt by the Roman Catholic Bishops to
diacourage national education has broken nut in Dublin.
Mr. t.:6.140ut: j. to im invited to soli. r hituseit to be
put in uunmjiiatimou for the aouthern diViAOll of Loma
+hie when the election takes place under Sir George
Cornwall Lewis's Act.

A parliamentary return shows that the total number
of petitions for dissolution of marriage Mei since the
passing of the Divor.ai Act in January, 1655, up to Aug.
21, 1860, waa 601.
Tim arrest of Auguste Illanqui awl another in 'aria,
on a charge of belonging. to a secret political society, is
announced. Both parties are stated-to hare come f ruin
London. . . .

ltepurt up that M. Mocgoard, the Eiuperor's private
secretary, is about to retire, owing to his advanced age.
A awn-known writer, a member of the Council of State,
lal Said to have been Adel:led by his Majeaty to succeed
31. /Levi uard.
The Ministerial trials in Ifolland is over aad a hew
Administration formed, of which Baron Zuylen an
Ni velt in the elnef.
A large portion id the celebrated Campana collection
at tt,,,,,a, no well known to lovers of art awl virta, has
li,en sold to the Ituedans fur the sum of 11.1,000 crowns,
or about 1'27,000 sterling.

The ceremony uf confirming the election of the Rev.
Dr. Henry Phillpott, Master of St. Catherine College,
Cambridge, and Canon Hesidentiary of Norwich Oahe-
dral, to the bishopric of Wormeter, MIS performed on
Tumidity.
The Viennese banker, Baron Bina, is about to be-
stow his daughter, with a princely dowry, on the son
of Ypsilanti, the Greek I &Unit. who first raised the
atandord of revolt against Turkitili tyranny, and who
was a: singletnintled and reckless of pelf as Garibaldi

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The French Emperor, hearing of the serious illnem of
M. Miry, the well.known anther, has aceorlea to him
C pension of s,lXig. • year from the privy parse.

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The body cif a woman —nam, and age unknown—
was found in a ditch near Barnet a few days since. It
is believed that the body hu lain undiscovered for
several months. . . _ -

A dreadful gale is reported from the lake of Con-
stance. Two eteamers came into collision. The [tave-
rna steamer Louis sank, and thit teen persona were
drowned. .

London Newspaper Haim, u nearly as can he ewer.
rained. shod than :—Liberal papers, rs);
17; Independent, 20 ; Neater, 128. No distinction le
here made between Liberal and Whig, or Liberal sod
Radical; nor between Conservative sad Liberal Our
',native or Tory.

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