The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

fitioctllantous.

Gum, King of Dahomey, is dead.
Mr, Cobden has had an interview with the Emperor
of the French.
A Horse Guards' order has prohibited smoking in
mess-rooms.
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has returned to England, and
is in the enjoyment of restored health.
Swansea is suffering (ruin an immigration of mosquitos
brought by some vessels from Cuba.
Captain M'Clintock has declined the gift of the yacht
Fox which Lady Franklin wished him to accept.
M. PlIiIII&O, Clarencieux King-at-Anne, and for many
years Usher of the Black Rod, died on Saturday.
A boa constrictor, twenty-eight feet long and thirty-
two inches in girth, was killed in Penang lately.
The "Sequel toAdain Bede" which is now advertised,
is not by the author of" Adam Bede."
Great distress is said to prevail at Trieste, which city
has not been thriving during the last few years.
The German Volunteer Battalion, or Jager corps, has,
under the orders of Lord Clyde, been incorporated with
the army of Bombay.
During Prince Napoleon's stay in England he pur-
chased a small steam-yacht from Mr. Rigby, a well-known
shipbuilder of Holyhead.
Le Nord asserts that at Zurich it has been definitively
settled that the iron crown of the Lombards is to remain
in the possession of Austria.
The coast defences of Dover are to be strengthened
by the extension of the line of fortification and the re-
construction of several of the batteries.
Jesse Arbon, late rate-collector to the Hull Local Board
of Health, has been sentenced to 14 months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour, for embeulement.
A French paper states that it is seriously proposed to
tablish a direct steam 'orrice between Francs, Ind*
and China.
A destructive fire took place at the Royal Entrepot,
Antwerp, on Monday week. Several lives were lost,,and
much property was destroyed.
The Canard (Liverpool and New York) steamers are
in future to call at Cork to receive the Irish mails from
America.
A bill of complaint has just been filed by a share-
holder in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank against the
chairman and joint managers.
Ague is very prevalent in the fen country. The
country is well drained, but the air is impregnated with
miasma from empty dykes and drains.
The Ayrshire election has resulted thus :—Bir James
Ferguson (Tory), 1881; Mr. Campbell (Lama% 1841;
majority, 46.
The number of workmen employed at Chatham Dock-
yard is to be increased, and they are to work "over-
time." Several line-of-battle ships are being built in
this yard.
The Admiralty has received intelligence respecting
the state of the officers, seamen, and marines wounded
In China, from which it appears that many of them are
convalescent.
The Irresistible (screw), of 80 gam, was launched at
Chatham on Thursday week. The screw-stesiner
Immortaliths, 51 guns, was launched at Pembroke on
the same day.
A new operetta by Mr H. Leslie, to bud by Mr. J.
P. Simpson. has been accepted at Covent-gardee
Theatre. Preparation, too, is there going on for the
production of " Lurline," by Mr. Wallace.
The Tweed Commissioners have agreed to grant per-
mission to take from the Yarrow and Etricsk a quantity
of this year's salmon fry to send out to Australia for
artificial propagation.
Greenwich Hospital is to be the subject of another
inquiry by Royal Commission, and Mr. Hutt, M.P., has
accepted the invitation of the Duke of Somerset to act
as chairman.
The statement that a Miss Angelina Caroline Bolan-
quet, daughter of the late Admiral Boaanquet, had corn-
mitted suicide by taking laudanum appears to haos been
fictitious, no such persons having existed.
The Oxford Town Council have resolved to commemo-
rate the birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, on the 9th of Nov., by entertaining the children
of all the schools w ith a public dinner.
The protest adopted in this country against the
detention of the boy Mortara from his parents was pre-
sented to Lora John Russell at the Foreign Office on
Saturday.
His Excellency Human Ali Khan, Envoy Extraordi-
nary an Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St.
James's from the Shah of Persia, arrived at Claridge's
Hotel on Wednesday.
The Rev. William Boyle Coghlan and his wife, of the
Galley Parsonage, Gate House, N. 8., are claimants for
the Duninow Flitch, to be presented in September,
1860, on the second anniversary of their wedding-day.
At Kilmarnock, it is said, several revivalists, con-
science-stricken for having been so wicked as to (Midge
in the reading of Burns' Bolus and Shakspeare's Plays,
have committed their copies of these works to the
dames.
The annual course of rifle instruction to the officers,
non-commissioned officers, and troops of the Line at
Chatham has terminated. The officers and men who
have been under instruction during the past year are

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said to have made astonishing progress. _
In the list of names of those who have just passed in
the exiunination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts con-
ferred by the University of London is the name of a
student of the Working Men's College in Great Ormand-
ttreet.
The returns from the Board of Trade show a decrease
of £146,913 ill the value of British exports to the Austra-
lian colonies during the nine months ending September
:to, as compared with the game period for 185.4, when
the amount reached 15,(X3),177.
The Bombay Townhall seems to have been taken pos.
session of by white ants. The libraries of the Asiatic
and Geographical Societies, the papers in several Go-
vernment offices, and the organic contents of the Mu-
seum, ere exposed to destruction.
The Rev. Mr. King, the Rector of St. George's in-the.
East. leaves to the Bishop's decision only the two follow-
ing points :—The hour of the lecturer's afternoon ser-
vice; and the use of coloured stoles and the chasuble.
Lord Brougham, who is now in Paris, lately visited
the house in Edinghurgh in which he was born His
Lordship is said to have betrayed considerable emotion
as be passed through the rooms familiar to his childhood
70 years ago.
A Belgian. M. Telesphore Lois, bag accepted the invi.
tation of the Brazilian Government to navigate the
Amazon River from its source to its mouth. M. Lois
has engaged sixty-four men to try the adventure with
him.
At the Crystal Palace, on the 10th inst., there will be
a great gathering to celebrate the centenary festival of
tbe poet Schiller. There is to be a grand torchlight
procession; and some of the poet's songs are to be given
by • thousand voices. The Chrysanthemum show takes
place
on the 9th.
A great fire took place on Friday week at the Palace of
the Senate (Falai/ de Luxembourg.) The salle des seances
was completely destroyed.. Four persons were danger-
ously injured. The galleries, the museum, the library,
the throne room, the archives, and the historical apart-
ments, were au saved.
The meeting of the shareholders of the Suez Canal
Company at Paris, which was fixed for the 15th of this
month, has been adjourned she die on the request of
the French Government, who have promised to look
into the enterprise and instruct thir diplomatists at
Constantinople.
Lord Brougham has been elected Chancellor of the
University of Edinburgh. The result of the poll was as
fellows :—Lord Brougham, 684; the Duke of osleneh,
1419. The polling for the amseor : For the Solicits-
General, 272; Sir John WNeill, 184: majority, 88.