The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

Vampsbirr.

Sorritasirrox. nu' P,aia.miar ond O iestal
Company's :Otani rer!. • --A new screw steamer
built by the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Vompany at
I:Ls:kw:ill, arrived at Southampton on Wednesday
mor JJ IJJ g last, in charge of I %tptain flicks. I hiring
her isissage round from the l'hautes she avemgeil 104
knots against a strong lea.l-wind. The Nepaul pro-
vides accommodation for 01 first and 20 ,41.1:01111 eluat
possengers, ati.l"the saloon and cabin fittings Me of
the nomt eXedlCllt character. the decurations of the
main apartment being remarkably neat and chaste.
:The is id LIMO tons I 2011 I .lorse-power, 2211
feet in length between ilerpeislieulars, and 30 feet
beam. ller engines, which are direct-acting, arc by
litiniplirys mill Tennant, and ars considered to be
the most compact marine engines ever sent afloat.
The boilers are Luaili and Su JJJJJJ era's patent. Thu
Nepaid goes out for a trial trip on Saturday, and will
leave early nest week for the Nlalta an.l Marseilles
stati 111 l . The screw steamer Uni.m, Captain Hanle,
which has been entirely refitted since her purchase
by the company, is G. leave on Tuesday (this day) to
be employed in the mail service between the
Mauritius and the Isle of &indium

TIM OCEAN MAIL Seuvicx.--Jannary 27.—T1..
Pe ll ill altar and Orieutal Company's steamship
Ripon, Captain Munro, mile.' hence toolay for
Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the Bombay
mails, 291 boxes containing £76.195 in specie, and
£559 in jewelry, a full cargo, and 53 first and 35
seiaind-class passengers. Among the passengers
who embarked are Lieutenanta Bartholomew and
C. J. Plaughten ; and among those who proceed rid
Nlaresilles are Lori Renaleshain, Captain J. It.
Slaaen, Captain aad Mrs. Hawkins. and Captain and
Mrs. Miller. The aboveliamed company also des. :
patched their steamer Alhambra, Captain J. It I
Steward, today with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, I
and Lisl . She has • ! passengers, including
Baroness Van Aerneds Ana Lieutenant de KilUiZoll,
and 2,111N1 sovereigns for Lisboa. The Union Screw
Company's steamer Phaelm, Captain Clark, arrived
here early this morning. from that ('ape of Good
Hope, last from Plymouth. She brings 30 passen-
gers, and a cargo comprisins 46 casks and mass,
1.5 pipes and 541 Wits. at WM?, 92 bales of wool,
2.01441 teams, 1,995 bags and 25 WIN of copper ore, 5
canes of ivory tusks, 4 caeca of ostrich feathers, 15
cases of fibre, P. packages of sundries, and £s2o in
specie. On the '29th of December the Melte spoke
the Dutch ship Schoonerbona, bound from Batavia
for Amsteraam ; mine day the English ship
Masataka, from Manilla fur London, t‘9 days out.
At 4:10 p.m. on the 4th inst. the Phoebe hove to,
and a boat came alongside from Her Majesty's
steamer Industry for a supply of coal, which Captain
Lake was not able to spare; the Industry was bound
to Ascension. We tinil by the Cape papers that the
17 Company has submitted proposals to the Cape
Govennuent for the extension of mail emumunica-
tion with the Mauritius by the establishment of
branch steamers touching at Port Elizabeth and
Natal. Thu e.stimated garantee is said to be Z 22,000
—one•half to be defrayed by the home Gover 1111 l amt.
The merchants of tlralunds Town WM Port Elizabeth
presented Captain Clarke, of the Phrebe, with a
check for Z 75, in acknowledgement of the valuable
services he had renilered to the mercantile coin-
n 1111 l ity of the eastern pnivince in having performed
two voyages in time to enable people to reply to
their letters by the homeward vessel. The Athens,
aptain Strait, arrived in 'Fable Bay on the 14th of
December, with the English nails, four ilays, before
her time. The next mails from the West Indies,
kc., are due at Southampbm on the Ist of February
per Parana, Captain Bevis ; from Gibraltar, Cadiz,
Lisbon, 44k.rto. and %.igo, by the Sultan, Captain
Cooke, on the 3rl; from Inaia and China, by the
Ceylon, Captain Evans, due to the 4th, lint expected
to arrive about S lay next ; from the Brazils, awl
River Plate, by the Avon, Captain Revitt, on the
sth; from Australia and New Zealand, by the
Thames, Captain Lewis, on the 6th ; and from Bom-
bay, by the Orissa, Captain Joy, on the 12th. The
I Indus, Captain Evans, haves with the East India
and t*hina mails on the 4th of February ; the Tagus
Captain Hall, with the Pe ll ill Radar InallA, on the 7th ;
the Tyne, Captain Sawyer, with the Brazilian mails,
ii the 9th ; atiul the Fulton, Captain Wott.a, with
the French and English mails fir New York, on the
9:la.

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About 1:111 perwms dined together at the Victoria
Assembly Rooms, in co 11111 l c 1111 l mtion of the centenary
of the Ayrshire poet's birth. Mr. Stewart SPNagli-
ten, of Bitterne Miii.ir.h.mse, presidA, and the
vice•ehair was occupied by Mr. James Duncan, M.A.
Principal of the Southampton College. The company
consisted mainly of Scotehmen. After the usual
loyal toasts had been disposed of, the chairman pro.
posed the toast "(the evening in the following terms :
--•• The glorious and imperishable memory of Robert
Burns! slay the splendour of his genius, the inde-
pendence of his character, and the boundless love of
his native land which pervades all bus writings, ever
aniniate the hearts of his countrymen, and stimulate
them to the practice of those deeds of virtue and
patriotism which are is, beautifully illustrated in the
undying verse of their favourite bard, and which
have made the name and character of Scotland re•
spectod wherever the English language is spoken."
The Gast was drunk in silence. The festivities were
prolonged toe late hour. Several of Burns' 4heitasst
songs were admirably sung during the evening.