The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

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iflistellanfous.

M. Prondhon is about to publish (in Belgian) a
pamphlet on the atate of affairs in Europe.
A coinage of bronze one-cent pieces for Canada, boa
just been completed at fler Majesty'd Mint.
The railway between 3larseilles and Toulon is now
open for traffic ; the journey occupies four Lunn.

A "Life of Mary. Queen of Sauts," by hainartine, in
announml for publication by Mesars. Mack, and Co.

The sudden death of Madame liosio at St. Peters.
burg is announced. She had just been appointed court
singer.
The number of Acts passed in the late session was 72,
of which 35 were public and 36 local, besides whisk there
was one private Act.
An Act was passed on the day of the prorogation te
raise £1:4.277,400 by Exchequer-bills for the public
service of the present year.
The famous Maimed, the originator of the Promenade
Concerts, died a few days ago at Autueil, near Paris, in
his shitreightli year.
The Indian Post•office authorities complain of the
convenience of letters being sealed with was, whisk
: melts and causes the adhesion of other letters.

Corbett, the man who murdered his wife, at West
Bromwich, and then cut his own thioat, has died in
great agony.
Mr. David Ritchie, Secretary to the Committee of
the Treasury at the Bank of Englund, was killed last
week, in King William-street, bye cask falling from •
wagon upon him.
The members of the New Society in Water Colours
have very temierately memorialised the Government
for a local habitation worthy of their name, and justly
claim additional facilities of ezhibition.

Lady Morgan, so well known in the world of letters,
died peacefully. after a few days' illness, on Wednesday
week, at her residence in Lowndes Street. She was
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born in Dublin about the year 1783.
Horace Vernet is going to be married at the age of
aistraeven. The illuatrions painter hat, gained the
heart of • widow, Madame Maria Amelia Fuller, whose
first husband was • M. de Bois Riaeuz.

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Our "Detective," have been doing good service to
the picture gallery at Amsterdam, by recovering for it,
in London, front the hands of thieves, a picture by
Vanderwerff, lately stolen thence, and valued at E 2,000.
Henry Marshall, Esq., of King's Road, Brighton, who
went down to Walsall a few days ago to address and
canvass the electors, has been sent to Stafford jail, on
the suit of a printer, whose bill be left unpaid when
before the electors in 18.52. _ _

I A newly-appointed constable, at Rochester, a few days
i ago undertook to turn a man out of court, who he
! thought was interrupting the proceedings. The gentle-
loan quietly withdrew, and the constable soon after was
informed that he had turned out the sheriff.

The King and Queen of Prussia left Naples, • tele-
graphic deapatch from that city to Berlin states, on
Monday, for Rome, and intend to remain there to the
end of the present month. Their Majesties propose to
visit Venice before returning to Potadam.
Divine Service at St. Peter's Church, Colchester, has
had to be suspended, owing to the building swarming
with inyriads of extremely minute insects, supposed to
have proceeded from the vaults underneath the church,
which were opened for recent alterations.
Tim King of Bavaria has offered a prise of 200 lonia-
d'or (about £96) for the best drama illustrative of Ger-
man history. The competition is open to authors of all
nations, and in order that it may be as extensive as pos-
sible, the time for sending in manuscripts is fixed as late
as the and of November, 1860.
There hi now a vacancy among the Military Knights
of Windsor. through the death of Lieutenant-Colonel
'loin Clarke, late of the 66th Regiment, an officer of
high merit, and whose services embraced a lengthened
period. iiieluding the war in the Peninsula to its close,
from March, DUI.

About thirty years ago, Mr. Thomas Fleming. shawl
manufacturer, of Edinburgh, failed, paying a dividend
of 9s. in the pound. On his death he left a statement
of his liabilities with his widow, who undertook to be
responsible for them. Recently the proceeds of the
estate have been laid to the creditors.
some soldiers belonging to the Hungarian regiment
"Baron Zubel," stationed at Venice, of their own
accord arrested four Italians and one Frenchman, who
liii tried to persuade them to be faithless to their flag.
When these men were searched, it was discovered that
they Lad about them a plentiful supply of watches,
rings, and money.
M. Flotow, the author of the favourite opera of
" Martha," has just completed another opera, "La
Meunier de Miran." which is about to be produced at
Hanover. An illustrious dilettante, Prince Emile do
I Wittgenstein, has composed a cantata on Uhland's
ballad, "The Blind King," which has been perforuied
with great iellat at Hanover.
The proposal to send a strong detachment of Royal
Artillery to India has been fn strated. Sir de Lacy
Evans had given notice of a resolution condemning this
proceeding. Lord Manley announced that the Govern-
ment had yielded to the general opposition, and did not,
intend to forward any artillery to India.
The Marlborough-street magistrate has fined Dr.
Isinsdale, master of in academy in Duke-street, Grosve-
nor-square, the sum of kfi fur besting a pupil, who had
committed the heinous offence of having a pea-shooter
and using that destructive weapon in school. The
magistrate said the punishment inflicted was not COITCC.
tion, but gross and cowardly brutality.
The owners and captains of ninety-two English
merchant vessels who frequent the port of Cronstadt
have presented an address to the Grand Duke Constan-
tine, expressing gratitude for the measures recently
taken by order of his Imperial Highness for improving
the navigation in the Gulf of Finland.

A letter from St. Petersburg- says-:.—" The Empress
Dowager has adjourned her visit to Berlin, as Her
Majesty desires to meet her brother the King of Prussia,
..ho will not return from Italy before the middle of
May. From Berlin, the Empress will go to Ems and
schlangenbad, as already arranged, to take the waters."
A letter from one at the principal vine-groseni near
A pernay lays —'l: am sorry to inform you that on OM
morning of the 18th all the vineyards in Cluunpares
were cot up by • ,liarp frost. There does not remain
for the present one-eighth of a crop, and the result will
he a great failure for the year. We are not yet out of
dancer for the remainder, and cannot be before the
middle of next month."