The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

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The French seamen are to be armed with aix-barclled
revolvers,

strxduartus violin lately changed hands at Paris,
for the sum of 15.0U0f. or

Mr. Jo.epli 11y0'1.11as. received the appointment of
chief engraver of Ifer Maje•ity's seats.
The indisposition of lard Clyde is caused by an
attack of bronchitis. _ . .

Mr. George Bowyer has been abusing Poerio and eulo-
gising the King of Naples in the Ildirers.
The next competitive exainination of candidates, for
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will continence
on the 24th of June not.

Miss Burdett Coons has endowed the Bishopric of
British Columbia with the sum of 1:25,0110, for the sup-
port of the bishop and two chaplains.
Dr. Seansoni, of Wurtaburg. whoattended the Empress
of Bowie at the birth of her las.: child, has received for
his services 4:5,00U.
A young lady. named Martin, who resided at L'Aigle
(Orne), lately died, bomeathing to N. de Lamartine a
farm, and a house in the town.
The exhibitions by the Royal Botanic Society of
rdants, flowers, and
_fruit this season, will take place on
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Wednesdays, May 2.), June, 15, and July ti.
Madame I lioldschiniilt (Jenny Lind) and her husband,
will. it is said. visit Leeds in the autumn. and give their
services gratuituusly at a grand concert in aid f the
Leeds Mechanics' lieJitution.

Mr. Home, the spiritualist, lia.s just made • contract
with A French publisher to write a work on " second
siglit.'"Plie famous Illedllllll ill now living at St.
Petersburg.
A brother of Madame Ristori ill about to enroll him-
self under the flag of General Garibaldi. 'rule son of
the celebrated singer, Taiuburini, has also left Paris to
join the Sardinian army.

The squadron that has just sailed from Toulon, for
naval exercise, stak‘l by the Momitcur, is known to
have on heard all she roiiii.ites for the pudormance of
healthy gymnastics on • grand stale.
On the anniversary of the birthday of the Prince Im-
perial, say the French provincial journals, their majesty
gave a sum of 100 f. to each child born on the same day,
and who.° position 'nay render such • gift needful.
Last Wednesday iiiii ming, exactly twenty-seven years
had elapsed since the first reform bill passed the third
reading in the House of Commons, by a majority of 116,
the numbers being 355 in favour of the bill and 2..1.J
aganist it.

The national portrait gallery hag bad a fresh addition
made to it by the purchaae of a full•length ilietiare 01
Charles 1., by Myttena. A oompanion painting of queen
Henrietta Maria kaa been recently wild to a private
purekuer.

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An article on the "Sanitary Condition of the Army,'
which appeared in the last number of the 'Veil 'flimsier
Retitle, and excited much attention, has been published
in a separate form, with the name of the author, the
Right Hun. Sidney Herbert, M.P.
A Mr. William Scott, surgeon, of Thornley, near New-
castle, and his servant, were thrown from a phsiton, a
few days back, and in each ease concuasion of the brain
was the result. Mr. Scott has died from the injuries ;
the servant, though insensible still lives.
Lord Stanley having placed one of the new Indian
chaplaincies at the disposal of St. dollies Collage, 4 'am.
bridge, the appointment ham been offered by the Master
to the Rev. Augustus V. Hadley, 11. A., Fellow of St.
Julius College.
At a special general meeting of the Royal Institute
Of Architects, a petition to Parliament, praying that
members of the Institute should be entitled to vote, IA
such for members of l'arliansent, was agrees) upon, and
Mr. The undertook to present it.
The Wallop and Clergy of Rupert's Land (Red River)
have petitioned the llou,e of Lords tei abolish the rule
of the Hudson Bay Company, on expiry of the lease
and license, and make it • colony under tie Crown ; also
in favour of free-trade, against the renewal of exclusive
jirivileges to the Iludson's Bay Company.
A aorvatit girl has been sentenced to two months'
hard labour for stealing from her mistress, Mrs. Bates,
whose husband is engineer on board MM. sloop Esk, a
brilliant worth r.lOO, and a ruby and an emerald of con-
siderable value. Mrs. 11.ites husband was at the capture
of Coi 1111 l isaioner Yell, whose cap fell into hisposse ohm ;
these jewels adonied it.
A hard-working parish priest, the Rev. .1. T. Hoarsen,
who gave such remarkable evidence touching the habits
and condit: of the London poor before the Howe of
Lords' iiiii mittee last 'winner, is about to leave St.
Peter'a, Stepney, for an appointment of higher value in
the diocese of London, which his zeal has thoroughly
deserved.
A Russian merchant of Berdiansk announces the sale,
in his warehouse at °demo. Nicolaieff, and Sebastopol,
of 7,3 M tons of iron and cast-iron coining from prope.
tiles picked up in the Crimea after the war. This will
give an idea at the prodigious oonsuniption of shot and
shall in the siege of Sebastopol.