The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

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Lola Monte. has returned to New York.
The yield of hops this year is abundant and of-fs6
quality.
Hear-admiral Bowyer died at Southampton on Satur-
day in the seventieth year of his age.. ..

Acveral persons were dangeromly- injured in a railway
collision near Sheffield on Tuesday.
The Siaffeen of Turin announces that Austria has con-
sented to restore the iron crown of Lombardy.
. . . .

The Limerick corporation haa granted pen-iiission for
laying tramways in that city. The press of Cork and
Belfast is advocating them.
M. Kossuth's letter has been published without Lis
consent, it appears. The publication was the work of
" warm friends."
The Nord states that Schynial and his son have been
partaking of the Cues hospitality, and they have
attended balls in their honour.
The Marquis of Clanricarde. who is making an Italian
tour. has been at Bologna, and dined with Garibaldi, a
few days ago.
The smallpox is said to be very prevalent in London.
The Smallpox Hospital is so full that another patient
cannot be received.
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'Fhe cholera hu been raging at Bruges. The canals
which traverse the city are in a stagnant state, owing to
the heat and 'drought of the summer months.
Effort. are being made in Lincolnshire to prouite the
erection of a monument to Sir John Franklin at Bpilsby,
the place of his birth.
A Canadian paper states that the Duke of Rutland
recently proposed for the hand of the Princess Mary of
Cambndge, but her Majesty refused her consent.
The catholic clergy of Paris have arranged to give a
grand banquet in honour of Monseigneur de Tulle, who
preached in two churches on Sunday week, in favour of
upholding the rights of the Holy flee.
A Dr. Robert Graham, who, in 1564, shot Colonel
Charles Loring at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York,
was recently shot dead in a quarrel at New Orleans by
Mr. Ernest Tolldane.

The speed of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
new paddle-wheel steamer Delta, was tried on Saturday
at Stokes Bay. The mean of four runs gave the rare
result of 14,609 knots per hour.
A Paris swindler has carried confusion into the offices
of the Mont de Meth by pawning some dozens of ingots,
apparently of silver, but being, Lfl fact, compounded of
antimony, pewter, and lead.
In railway travelling in France the loes of liN by
accident is 1 in 1,955,5,55 passengers, and 1 wounded in
496,531. By diligence the proportion was 1 killed in
356,463, and 1 wounded in 29,871.
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Lord John Russell has demanded that the English
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London en route to Warsaw, to meet the Emperor.
During his Excellency's absence the affairs of the
Embassy are transacted by U. Is Comte Bloudoff,
Chargé d'Affairs.
Mr. Gowan, the contractor for raising the sunken
vessels at Sebastopol, has been invited by the Allied
Commissioners on the Danube to raise is Lirp number
of vessels sunk at the Sulina entrance of that river, and
to remove some serious impediments.
Sir James Hudson, so many years our Minister at
Turin, has had an audience of her Majesty at Balmoral,
on leave of absence from his pod. His Excelkitcy has
also had several long conferences with the Foreign Sec-
retary in the Highlands.
An aged woman, named Roberts, whale husband
committed suicide • short time ago, fell into a despond-
ing fraine of mind, and finally followed his example,
On Saturday she threw herself from the housetop.
A large number of workmen have been added to Sir
W. Armstrong's establishment st Woolwich to hasten
the manufacture of rifled ordnance. The laboratory
and carriage departments hairs also increased their num-
bers. - . --

Prince Napoleon Gregori Bonaparte, the first sal Of the
Prince de Canino, is about to marry 11dIle. Marie Chris-
tine, daughter of Prince Ruspoli, of Rome. Mgr. Lucien,
brother of the bridegroom, will celebrate the marriage
A diver at Ramsgate lost his life the week before lad
by the bursting of the airpipe while he was under water.
On its being discovered that the pipe bad bard he was
itumediately brought to the surface, MS he bad then
ceased to live.
A marriage took place recently between Major Cuth-
bertaon, an Indian trader and agent of the American
Fur Company, and Natowista, daughter of the chief of
the Illackfuot Indians. They were married by Indian
rites 17 years ago.
The Spaniards at Tarifa Fort continue to amuse them-
selves by firing at passing vessels. on the Bth of
September a Belgian and Dutch barque were fired at,
and the former received a shot through her mainsail.
Several shots were tired at other weasels which were
passing after dark.
Br. Smethurst, says the ille6r, will not suffer the
extreme penalty of the law ; "but, from inquiries made
by direction of the Government, startling circumstances
have come to light which we believe will compel the
Home Secretary to commute the sentence to nothing
short of penal servitude for life,"
The steward of a steamer was cleaning a bird cage re-
cently, when one of the glass fountains slipped. He
grasped at it quickly, and in doing so slightly wounded
his finger. But great events from little causes spnng.
Inflammation *et in. lockjaw supervened, and in 2 days
the steward was dead.