The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

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A smart shock of an earthquake vu experienced in
Patinae' on the 24rd ultimo. . . . .

'dr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent engineer, is
seriously ill.
A French Savant predicts that the earth is soon to be
visited by a deluge.
A traction-engine has been employed with great
succcss at Woolwich in the conveyance of guns and
stores. • . . . .

A sin,qular marriage took place the other Say at IFud•
Icy, the bride being 82. and the bridegroom, her lith
husband, 22 years younger.
Lieut.-General Morse, of Ff.M. Indian forces, has died
from injuries received by being thrown from • phaeton,
at Swallowflehl. Ilerkshire.
Two cases of plague have occurred at &prima, and
have caused strict sanitary measures of precaution
to he
taken. .

The Home Secretary is preparing a measure of great
efliciony for the prevention of accidents, enforcement of
sanitary precautions, and the better regulation of juve-
nile labour in collieries. _ .

M. Mario, wu hear, has entered into an engagement
with the theatre at Madrid, and Madame (Aria is going
to St. Petersburg.
M. Him, the French Judge, has recovered his child,
the lasi of which has been so much talked of in Paris.

The ii-niof Wartemberg attained his seventyminth
year on Tutsday.
St. Fewrsburg VIA 4 lately visited by • violent storm,
which produced many disasters along the shores of the
Gulf of Finland. Fur the 14 30 years such agile has not
been known. _

The Dean and Chapter of Lincoln have resolved to de.
vote E 2,011) to the repairs of their cathedral during the
ensuing year. Last year .1:1,300 wax expended on the
cathedral.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldsmidt performed at a miscel-
laneous concert in Dublin on Monday evening. The Fret-
man's Journal says that her appearance created quite a
fury of enthusiasm.
Mr. A lii,renan Chill'rs and Mr. Alderman Gabriel
have Lein sworn in as Sheriffs of London for theensuing
year. . . . . .

caledonion, scottish Central, and Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway Cunipanics contemplate amalgaina-
tion. _ _ _

tier 3lajesty's ship St. Lawrence. formerly called
the Shannon, which captured the frigate thempeake
in inl3, is about to be broken up at rhathom.
Au,tialiau mail sta,uner Northam. which :Arm*
on a reef in the 14d :ice, has been got off azt taken to
Aden.

.1. paragraph in the M. York Tribarte, lately, an-
nounced the entire restoration of Sir E. it. Lytton's
health. We regret to leariethat this statement is incor-
rect, and that Sir Edward still continues to suffer
severely from illness.
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Sir tj'harles Eastlake, we bear, is about to proceed to
Madrid, to impact the Redraw collection of pictures,
the proprietor of which is dead. It is also reported
that Herr Miindler, the travelling agent lately dis-
missed by a vote of the }lmmo of Commons, is to accom-
pany the director of the National Gallery.
The health of the King of Prussia has beoome worse
during the last few days. He is obliged to keep his
bed.

The will of the late Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Bart.,
late of Bombay, Parsee men:lnuit, was proved in the
Supreme Court by his sons. The whole of the property,
j.ersonal and real, was sworn under 84 lam of rupees—
L. 13.50,000.

The Governor of Western Siberia sends a yearly hit
to St. Petersburgh of all the convicts that have arrived.
The last published return comes down to January 1,
1855, according to which the persons who reached
Siberia in 184 were 7,554, of whom 5,749 were men,
1,1:14 women, and 747 children.
It is announced that Lord Brougham will attend the
annual soirée of the Bradford Mechanics' Institute on
Wednesday, October 12, and present the prizes and
certificates awarded by the institute and the Society of
Arts.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, while proceed-
to visit Lord Malinesbury at Achnagarry House (In-
verness), dismissed their guide, sent on their ponies, and
let off afoot. Then, unfortunately, they lost their
way, and did not arrive at Achnagarry till eight in
the evening, after a walk of twenty-five miles of
rocky, boggy road—a tolerable pedestrian feat for a
Duchess.

The master of St. Pancras Workhouse was displeased
by the manner in which Kate Sullivan (an inmate and
assistant teacher in the infant school) had dressed her
hair. He ordered her to moderate the style. She
refused. He snapped at her, struggled nit,' her, and
wrenched her wrists. The board of guardians have re-
buked him.
A movement is on foot to establish • "School of
Art" in Boston. The uses of such an institution are
numerous and valuable, and we hope the public will
take that interest in the scheme which it deserves.

The Town Council of Edinburgh has elected Sir David
Brewster, Principal of the University of Edinburgh. No
other candidate was proposed. This appointment
creates a vacancy in the Principalship of St. Andrew's.
Professor Craik, the author of many learned and popu-
lar works, is a candidate for the vacant seat.
Few inventions have given rise in so short a time to
so many patients as the crinoline. It came into voeue
only about four years ago, and already BM patents have
been taken out in France.
A memorandum liso been issued from the Porte to the
foreign legations intimating that in future all steamers
will be required to g., at lialf-spetsl within the limits of
the harbour and Golden Horn, and to stop whenever
they unet his Majesty's clique.
The Irish Exodus is again a theme fors few of the
Irish provincial journals to dilate upon. This time the
flight is from the south, and one of the Channel VII;N•Ili
gives a pathetic narrative of the departure from that
quarter of a band of well-dressed peasant,' of the better
class, all bound for the United States.

o;f:4.m:replay, it has been suggested, should be em-
ployed to copy inscriptions on the rock tablets of the
valley of Sinai, which exist in almost countless numbers,
and are supposed to be the work of the Israelites during
their wanderings in the desert.
" A statiAic4l account," says the Patric, " furn;shes
the curious and significative fact that during the time
that the Fn uch troops occupied the Italian pcnin,ula,
less than three months, there were more marriages eon-
tracted between Frenchmen and Italian women than
had talt.a place between the latter and, Austrians during
the space of twenty years."
The Duke of Anhalt, a small l'rotestant State of the
GCIIIIIIIIiC Confederation, has just restored to his people
representative inititntions, of which the duchy bas been
deprived since 1849. The new Constitution, however,
contains a clause which excludes Jews from the repre-
sentation.

About forty of the oldest citizens of Dunfermline
dintd together on Friday week. The youngest was
seventy,. the eldest ninety-three, the average age being
about 45, and the aggregate being more than three
thousand years. There were no fewer than twenty-one
present who had served in the army.
The whole of the French army is to have one uniform
costume at the next distribution of clothing. The
only distinction among the several regiments will be
their number. The costume will consist of • tunic with
plaits round the waist, very loose trousers, leather
leggings, kc.
The British Consul at Honolulu is raising subscrip-
tions for the erection of • monument to Captain Cook,
at Kealakeskua Bay, on the spot where he fell. After
a local subscription has provided for a granite obelisk,
he suggests an appeal for subscriptions "throughout the
world to erect on Diamond Head or elsewhere a
memorial in some degree more commensurate with
Cook's fame.

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Photographs of the original drawings by Raphael in
the Royal Library at Windsor have been taken at the
expense of the Prince Consort, and the negatives pre-
sented to the Science and Art Department of the Com-
mittee of Counsel on Education, from which impres-
sions will be supplied to Schools of Art and the public
generally at the cost of paper and printing.
A new description of rifled ordnance, invented by
Mr. Jeffreys, is to be submitted to experimental trials
before the Select Committee of Military Officers at
Shoeburyness. It is said that the range of the gun will
exceed that invented by Sir W. Armstrong.
Dr. Vaughan, who has been Head Master of Harrow
School for Afteen years, has resolved to resign that posi-
tion. _ . .

Twenty thousand tons of iron require to be replaced
every year on railways, owing to "wear and tear," and
twenty six million wooden sleepers require to be replaced
annually from the saute cause. Three hundred thou.
sand trees are annually felled to make good the decay of
the sleepers, and this number of trees require for their
growth 5,000 acres of forest land.
An important engineering operation is now approach.
log completion in the Pyreni:es ; it consists in cutting a
conduit beneath the Lac Bleu for the purpose of carry.
log its waters to the .dour and the plains of Tarbes,
Plaisance, Wades, and Geri. The lake is at a height of
upwards of 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is
in the midst of eternal snow ; it* surface is about 140
acres, and its depth nearly 500 feet,

SHOOTING • TIGER.--As Mr. W. G. B. Shepstone
was proceeding towarde Queenstown, on Saturday last,
July 23, he encountered a large tiger in the Queen's.
road, which he fortunately shot. We have been
favoured with the following particulars extracted from
a letter addressed to a friend in Grahamstown :—"Yoat
Brown, July 23, 18,59.—As we were coming up this
side of the Ems, at the first turn of the road, about
half-past two what should we nee at a distance of
about 50 yanls. walking in the middle of the road, but
a splendid tiger. %lien he saw Ile lie stood still and
quietly surveyed us, but move out of the road he would
not. I then said to slengo, 'lt ix time for action, u
' that gentleutan means mischief :' but, to my horror, my
, gun tackle was packed away in the saddle-bags. I told
Menge to get it. Just as 1 gut the powder, which occu.
pied some time, the tiger moved slowly off into the
bush, and we rode up the old road to aioid contact in
the hush. We were then riding disgusted at our want
of forethought in not having the gun loaded, and hence
losing so splendid • skin, when Menge, on looking
round, said quietly, ' Oh ! here he is coming alter oil My
gun was still unloaded, and be only about 40 yards
behind us. I therefore had to be particular as to the
quantity of powder I put into my rifle, so as to make a
true and mortal shot; every time I dropped my eye he
came nearer. Metigo was some time finding the caps
which I had to put on, keeping my eyes fixed on the
tiger, but before I could get t second cap on he slunk
away into the bush, where I was not Ping to follow
him. It appeared to me he was protectire• something
be had just killed. I then rode OD. and when nearly at
the top of the bill turned and sac a single horseman
crioliug from town, and feared the tiger might attack
him. /dome immediately concurred with um that we
hail better go back; and we did u, when we saw or
fee sitting on his haunches HI the old wagon-road. He
looked at ine as coolly as poesible, and then looked
towards the person cowing from town who proved to be
Hr. Grey. 1 sat down on the edge of the souped road
and prepared to take aim, the tiger being about 150
yards off. He rose just ii'.! pulled the trigger, and fell
on his back lifeless. The bullets entered the left
aboulder-blade and shattered it, one having guile along
his throat into his head. Ile was about the hAndsomest
I ever saw—a fine male. When be lay on the ground
he looked like a golden model. It was as much as
Mango and I could do to carry him a short distance;
and as we had no spare horse we were obliged to skin
him but I have kept the skin and the head. It was ono
just in his prime, and good 9 Nana langth."—OraMa'
Tows Josinsal, July 26.