The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

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The Scotsman states :—" Haring run an express from
Dunferinline last night to bring us Mr. Aytoun's speech
(at Stirling), we have gut. instead, a speech by Mr.
Caird, consisting chiefly of unpleasant remarks upon
ourselves."
The Lirerpool Albiom states that a lady who was
staying at an hotel in Liverpool • short time back,
went with her footman and her nurse to the workhouse,
and purchased a baby from its mother for .1:5.
The Shoemakers' strike at Nottingham is at an end,
after having lasted 15 weeks. 1,700 of the best work-
men, however, have left on tramp. It all began from
some houses introducing machinery for closing.
A portrait of John Hunter, by Reynolds. has migrated
from the College of Surgeons to the National Portrait
Gallery. There will also be added a study of Nelson's
head, taken by Fuger, of Vienna, in 11400.
Thomas Butler, stonemason, on tramp, lay in an out-
house of Mr. Smith's, Lion beershop, at Enfield, and,
falling ulcers, pipe in mouth, set fire to the place. He
Is dead. The building w not inwired.
In the Legislat vs Assembly at New York, a Mr.
Rutherford has been given into the custody of the Ser.
jeant-at.arms for calling his colleagues "thieving dogs,"
m aid urging the to "go to hell.'
Law proceedings have been commenced, to mate ME.
Attorney-General Whiteside responsible for the chal-
lenging of Mr. ll'Calder, the respectable Presbyterian
juror who was set aside at the Secret Society trial as
an atheist and a party map.
M. Niepee de St. Victor has communicated to the
Academy of Sciences (Paris) • process for obtaining
photographs of a red, green, violet, or blue colour.
Mary Jones, the unfortunate young woman who was
convicted at the Lite Kingston Assize, of the wilful mut..
der of her child, by cutting its throat, and sentenced to
death, has had her sentence commuted to penalservitude
for life. .

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Lord Stanley haa positively declined to come forward
as • candidate for the city of London.
In Virginia, a Mr. Barr and Miss Ripley have been
married in the bedroom of the lady's father, over his
corpse, he having inappropriately died on the day fixed
for the wedding, which took place at 9 o'clock three
hours after his death. The bridegroom priposed a post-
poneinent, but the bride insisted on being married " right
away."
The Smirk AfricanComrrrialAdrerriscrnsys"
idea id connecting Calcutta with London by an electric
wire is about to be realised, a portion of the cable. 9110
miles in length, have already reached Table Bay, and the
remainder being at no great distance."
The Re rue des Dnr.r 3londes contains an article on
the Naval Arsenal at Cherbourg, from which it appears
that the works have cost £7,611,0eu; and also that
amidst all her political troubles France has, excepting
during the Republic prior to the ( \insulate, steadily
applied her finances to the completion of this great
work.
Among the Paris announcements of new books is one
which deserves particularattention--the hitherto unpub•
babe.] Memoirs of the Duke le Luynes, giving curious
details about the Court of Louis XV. Messrs. Finniu and
Diot are to publish this work.
THE NEW ALLIANCE.-- We (the Times) believe we are
correct in stating that there are tiro Secret Treaties now
existing between Frsnce and Russian. By the first.
Russia binds herself, in the event of France entering
upon a war with Austria, to assist her by the co-ope-
ration of her fieeta in the Baltic and Mediterranean, and
besides to place an army of observation of not less than
50,000 men upon the Austrian frontier.—By the second
Treaty Russia is bound to declare war against Austria
within 15 days after she enters Piedmont. It willbe exceed-
ingly interesting to know the dates at which these
Treaties were concluded. Perhaps it may be found that
the first has been in existence for some time, and that
the second, which is only supplementary, is that which
it is asserted WU concluded on Friday week.