The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

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Lord Cowley arrived in London on Friday from Park,
and had a protracted interview with the Earl of Maim's-
bury.

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The Court of Common Council of London has voted
the sum of 100 guineas towards the fund now raising for
the Italian exiles.
Mr. Teunyeou's new poem, " Idylls of the King,"
is in the printer's hands, and will shortly be pub-
lished.
The celebrated Prima Donna, Millie. Wagner, has
been married, at Berlin, to H. Jachman. The church
of St. Lomita& was filled by some 1.600 person..
A fire occurred in North Melbourne on the 25th of
April. and fifteen lemma were consumed. Another de-
stnictive conflagration occurred at Ballarat.
The ouhcription in France on behalf of IL de Lanier
tine has been definitely closed ; it amounts to about
400,000 f., and has been raised from between 40,000 and
45.000 persons.
Madame Bosio was followed to her last home by thou•
sands of per.ons and a military escort. An execution of
Mozart's " Requiem." took place on the occasion, and
eulogies were spoken over her grave.
Mr. C. R. Leslie, 8.A., died on Thursday week at
Aliercorn-place aged 64. He has two pidurea in the
present exhibition, " llotsp•ir and Lady Percy," and
' Jeannie Deans and Queen Caroline."
Professor Owen has been elected one of the eight
foreign Amociates of the French Institute, Department
of the Academy of Sciences, in place of the great botanist
Robert Brown.
At Cambridge, Glasgow, Bristol, Reigate, and other
places, rifle corps are in course of formation; and it is
said that the Government will endeavour to effect a.
comprehensive embodiment of volunteers.
A man residing in Hull had a monkey tied to • chair
in his kitchen. During the temporary absence of the
mistress of the house the monkey got to a child in •
cradle, and severely mangled its face before &renitence
arrived.
The late Mr. Joseph Tuncliffe, of Mayfield Hall, near
Ashbourne, has left £".10,000, all derived from his own
earning., for the endowment of an hospital, provided
that • suitable building is erected, at a cost of not less
than E 5,000, within ten years.
We much regret to announce that Mrs. Jerrold,
widow of the late Douglas Jerrold, expired on Friday
night, the 6th instant, at her residence, Fairfield Villa,
near Broadstairs, Kent. The health of Mrs. Jerrold has
been gradually declining since her lamented husband's
death, which sad event she survived not quite two•
years.
A miller named Mabilais, at Chanteney, Sarthe
(France), has reached the age of one hundred years.
though he appears no more than sixty, wears no glasses,
walks and rides well, and remembers and tells of his
campaigns under Louis XVI., ke.
Goodall, the well-known and much respected hunts-
man of the Duke of Rutland, died at his residence at the
, Kennels, near Belvoir Castle, on Sunday morning week.
A naval officer was married in Scotland, some dam
ago, and had started on his honeymoon trip, when he
' received a telegram ordering him to join his vessel
immediately. In three hours from the time of his mar.
I rime he was separated from his wile and en route to his
ship.
Mr. )loffat, the former member for Ashburton (says
the IVesiens Times), was defeated at the present election
by a majority of one vote, for which £l4O was given:
the drunkeneas and lying were enormous.
Mr. E. V. Rippingille. an artist of considerable merit,
but better known • quarter of • century since than of
late years, died suddenly, on Good Friday, at • railway
station near Birmingham. His chief works were "The
Progress of Drunkenness" and "The Country Post
Office." One of his pictures is in the Vernon Gallery.
He died of disease of the heart.
The district of Queen's Town, Cape district, has been
visited by an extraordinary storm, in which hail stones
fell one pound in weight, with such force as to break
through corrugated iron roofs, and a nember of sheep
were killed, and trees, more, and gardens, destroyed.
It is understood (says the Court Oasette) that, if the
indisposition of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton should be of
much longer duration, the Cabinet have determined to
accept his resignation, and appoint a snoceamir to the
Colonial Office.
Mdlle. Victoria Bane, on Thursday afternoon week
was passing along Piccadilly in her brougham, when the
shaft of a cab struck forcibly one of her arms, severely
lacerating it, but there was not so much injury as fright:
and at Drury Lane, on Friday, appearing with her aria
in a sling, she sang the music of Lucia " Lucia di
Lain inermoor."
The Rev. R. B. Maurice Bonner, M.A., of Vrist
Church, Oxford, Canon of St. Amph and Vicar of
Ruabon. has been promoted to the vacant bishopric of
Bangor. The new Bishop graduated at Oxford in 1825,
and was second class in mathematics and third in
classic'.