The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

laiscellantous.

The 'Viscountess de Marigny, sister of Chateaubriand,
ha+ just entered on her hundredth year.
The National Guard of Turin have opened a subscrip-
tion for a medal to be offered to Count Cavour.
. . . .

The prospects of Grouse-sieetL—g On the Yodrshire
and Derbyshire moors are said to be very favourable.
Earl Cathcart, brother of the General Cathcart killed
at Inkerniann, died on Sunday week, at St. Leonards,
near Ilestings.
The Duke of Northumberland has just given a thou-
sand bottle.; of the finest sherry for the use of the patients
at Westminster Hospital.
Miss Florence Nightingale (says the Record) is so ex-
tremely ill that the worst results are apprehended. Her
strength is diminished sadly.
It is said that Yr. Lange ham at length obtained from
the Government • distinct reply respecting its intentions
on the subject of the Sues canal.
The Abbe Banjet, tutor to the children of the King of ,
Sardinia, was drowned a few days since while bathing
in the park of St. Salve.
During the late exceedingly hot weather the Civil
Tribunal of Nantes has held it, sittings at half-past six
in the morning.
Me. George Yobbo, • gentleman residing in the
Billing-road, Northampton, has been committed for
trial on the charge of bribing a voter at the late
election._ .

A Te Deum was sung on Sunday morning week in
most of the Roman Catholic places of worebip in the
metropolis, at the conclusion of high maaa, in thanks-
giving for the restoration of peace.
The Irish potatoe crop is said to be free from blight
this rar. The potatoes, which are in very abundant
supply at the Irish markets, are reported excellent in
quaky.
Lord Stanley has made a donation of an Indian
debenture for .£5OO to the library named after bun in
King's Lynn—the borough which his Lordship repre-
sents in Parliament.
A poor woman, named Marian Daley, was drua
dead by the lightning on Blackbiare-bridge on Monday
evening. She had been spending the day at the Crystal
Palace.

•
A large number of forged Bank of England cokes are
now sent to England from the Continent. A Brad-
ford firm recently found itself victimised to a large
extent. . . .

A great increase in mortality from diarrhaia has
shown itself lately, &idly imam* childish. The
strictest care should be taken in every home at such •
season as this: . .

The-
irm/le—lippopotamus at the Jardin des Plantes is
about to have young, and a large basin for her and her
offspring has been constructed in the enclosure formerly
occupied by the elephant which died lately.
Some Englishmen, it is said, hive taken up the ad-
ministration of the estates of the sou of the late Viceroy
of Egypt. The estates are of immense value, about
150,000 fetish', or peasants, being employed.
A podding from this year's *heat was served and
eaten at the Didoot market dinner the week before lost

The London Court of Common Council have decided
to bear the expense of supplying the water to any
drinking-fountain erected in the limits of the City.
In the estimate of expenditure for the current year
submitted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is a sum
of £115,000, being the cost of the core or gutta-percha
covering for the proposed submarine cable from Fal-
mouth to Gibraltar.
A young lady, aged 17, the yotingest daughter of Mr.
Hindmarsh, a hop-merchant, residing in the Borough,
committed suicide on Thursday weekby takinglacidanum
in consequence of a young gentleman to whom she was
attached having alighted her.
The Victoria Regia, or Royal Water-lily, and the
Lotus, or sacred bean of India, are now in sower at the
Kew Gardens; and the Yucca or Adam's Needle, is
now producing its very extraordinary blossoms in the
Pineturn, near the Palmbouse._ .

At the Crystal PALM on Tuesday last, one of the
meet popula: fetes of the season took place, when 6,000
children of the metropolitan charity schools were
gathered together, and gave • moat interesting concert,
singing with a precision that was really remarkable.
John Bardoe, the African savage, whose exploits
have lately rendered him so terribly notorious, saved
further trouble to his friends by strangling himself with
a sheet, • few nights since, in the Clerkenwell House of
Detention.

A bottle-nosed whale, measuring from the tip of its
nose to the tip of it. tail 11 feet 71 inches, and 61t. 71 in.
in circumference, has been found dead on the shore off
the Hathside, at Harwich. It bad • large wound in Use
side of its head; it is therefore supposed that it received
a blow which caused its death.

A deputation had an interview with Lord Palmerston
on Monday for the purpose of remonstrating against
the concessions proposed to be made to Roman Catholics.
The interview had especial reference to the throwing
open of the Irish Chancellorship and the appointment
of Roman Catholic chaplains to workhouses and pols.
The site of the proposed people's *am, Muserell-hUI,
was formally inaugurated on Saturday week. The
speech of the oecaaion was delivered by Lord Brougham.
The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
mode of entering into Government contracts for the
Telegraphic and Mail Packet service held its first meet-
ing on 'Tuesday.
Mr. Charles Kean was entertained at a grand banquet
on Wednesday by about 600 of his friends and admirers.
The dinner took plain in St. James's Hall. The chair-
man was the Duke of Newcastle, who had on his right
the guest of the evening, and on his left the Right lion.
W. E. Gladstone, and before him • huge and brilliant
company.
Thomas Welch, of Hart-street, Covent-Garden, has
stabbed his wife very savagely. It appears, however,
du* he woman is of very dissolute habits, and that on
the busband's return home from work on Saturday they
quarrelled. Both parties went out and returned soon
after midnight, when another cpuurel took place, and
then Welch stabbed her. It is said that he is an in-
dustrious and hard working man.