The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

faiscrllattrous.

Mr. John Grey, Q.C., is appointed Solicitor-General
in Ireland. . . . . . .

Mr. Cobden is about to pay a visit to the United
States.
The return of the Paris theatres for drautatic writing
is .e 41,000 for last year.
Tim goods station at Keith, on the Great North of
Scotland Railway, has been destroyed by fire.
Two thousand two 1111111.1 red itieliihent were added
last year to the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scut.
1501.

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The anc;ent tavern, so well known all over England
as the "Swan with Two Neils,- Lad-lane, is being
razed to the ground.
The Bohemian journals announce that a silver mine
has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Kutten-
burg.
It is said that Mr. Jonnyeake, the wealthiest of the
I)elaware tribe of Indians, is going to send his two
daughters to the Pittsfield young ladies institute.
The fund collected for the benefit of the family of the
late Mr. John O'Connell is about tube closed. It now
amounts to 1:15,0.16.
By a return just printed it appears that in the year
ended the 31st of March last the tax on dogs realised
1:197,604.
Birdlingbury Hall, the residence of Sir J. W. Biddulph
was the Beene of an extensive tire last week. It was not
subdued until it bad raged for nearly eight hours.
A number of immovable houses are now being made in
l'aris for exportation to Cochin-China, where Admiral
Hipult do Genouilly is founding a city.
There are from 5,000 to tidelo interdicted Priests in
Paris alone ;nianyof these clerical outcasts have become
either waiters ur cabmen. . . .

The Jubilee, s of 700 tons, from Shanghai,
laden with tei Anil silk, went &chore near Boulenge on
Friday week. The crew, twenty-five in number, were
save& _ . .

a return lately lamed it appears that in the year
etel.l the 31st of March £31,7.49 was spent as ,
"secret service" money, 1:10,11130 mu home," and 1...:11,739
lii "foreign" service.
The project of exploring the interior of Australia by I
the aid of balloons appears likely to be realised, as Mr.
henry Cowell, the aeronaut, has constructed balloons
for the purpose, which have been sent to Melbourne.
A work is about to be published in Paris, entitled
"The Duchess of Orleans ; her Life, and Confidential
Correspondence," written by a lady of the Faubourg St.
Germaine, tbe daughter of an ambassador under Louis
l'hillippe.
Major-General Wynward will succeed SirJatnes Jack-
eon as. C ander of the forces at the Cape. Major
-
General Wynyard has just returned from New Zealand.
where he has served for several years with the isbeli
regiment.
Dr. Manning is preaching in English every Sunday at
the church of San in the Corso, at Route, to •
very numerous congregation, who crowd to hear the cc'
archdeacon expound the motives which induced him to
change the Anglican for the Boman faith.
, Dr. Mc Kensie the literary editor of the Ph iladelphia
I Press, who is uncommonly well versed in everything
that relates to Great Britain, and very accurate in his
assertions, aays the original of " Wilkins Micawber,"
in David Coperfleld, was. Dickens' own father.
A report has got abroad in Paris that, • police measure
is contemplated by which all foreign newspapers pub-
lishing a French correspondence, will be stopped at the
frontiers, unless such articles be signed with the name
and bear the address also of the writer.

The diligence, C 4 tttttt ig from Bologna, was stopped and
plundered a few days ago, when at a dirtance of about
four English miles from Florence. The banditts carried
off 2,00 scudi, and an Englishman was robbed of about
If/0 napoleons.
The debates in the Hones of Lords and in (be House
of Commons on the Arid night of the session were reprodueed at great length in many continental journals.
Nearly two of the four pages of the Nord were omnipied
in this way one morning.

the inhabitants, and with great success. The dieesee has
now abated considerably in virulence, though it bas
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tarhaeriji.dol.iansk
Shlmiaerrp.epam6as.diuruadcwhempasayeionwfor
extraor-
dinary run with them; and now all Psi-is is flocking to
see • melodrama, of which Cartounbe, the great
French highwayman, is the hero.
At the great annual fair of Leipsic there ban been an
unusualy good demand for all descriptions of woollen
clothes and woollen mixtures, almost all that were
brought forward haring been readily disposed of, and
contracts even entered into fur large quioitit.aes inail&
tion, to be delivered at the cod of March.
Madame liosio was hissed the other night at the
Italian Theatre, St. rerersburg, for havinz a few nights
before, caused the performance to be changed on pretax
that she was ill, though she could go to a grand party in
the house of a princess, and sing there as charmingly as

A" Public Reading Society" has been established in
London to provide public readings for the working
dames. Its plans are to seenre the use of public halls,
schoolrooms, and other convenient places, and to supply
evening reading' (rein English literature adapted to a
general audience, only a penny being charged for
admission.