The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

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Harvest prospects in Canada arc reported to be
most excellent. A much larger extent of hind has been
sown this year than in any previous one.
We understand that the uivertity of Oxford will
confer the honorary degree of D.C.L. on Sir J. Law-
rence at the approaching commemoration.
A merchant was robbed of £1,300 on the Mtn-
cheater Exchange last week. The money was in notes,
the numbers of which are known.
Colonels Lefroy and Owen left Malta on the 13th for
Corfu, to MO that the fortifications of that island are
placed in an efficient state of defence.
Mr. Ayrton, the member for the Tower Hamlets,
will, at • very early period of the Session, bring for-
ward a resolution on the subject of the paper-duty.
The heads of the Conservative party propose to invite
Lord Derby to a grand banquet at the St. James's
Hall, to testify their sense of the vigour and ability
with which he conducted his Administration.
The slain of Mr. Hudson, the secretary for the Royal
Agricultural Society, are in confusion. A deficiency I
amounting to £1,930 (arising since the Chehudord meet-
ing) has been discovered.
About 600 of the working classes living in the parish
of Christ Church, Blackfriars, accompanied the Rector,
the Rev. Joseph Brown to Brighton on Monday: he
entertained them to tea.:
A letter from Jeddah states that a vessel going from
Jaffa with 250 Mussulman pilgrims for Mecca foun-
dered at about 100 miles from Jeddah. All on board
were drowned, with the exception of • few, who saved
themselves by holding to some loose spars.
In Corsica • 'otitis man and woman, having become
attached to each other, whaled to be married, but an
aunt of the young man energetically objected to it, as
the woman was much the older. This so excited the
woman that she went and shot the aunt dead.
A labourer of Temple Ewing, near Dover, found a
letter-bag dropped from • mail-cart. The man restored
the bag, which contained a banker's parcel worth about
six thousand pounds, to the Poet authorities, and was
rewarded with ten shillings and sixpence.
General Gunkel, of the Dutch army, appealed some
days ago to the Supreme Court of Holland, sitting at the
Hague, against the condemnation to death passed on
him by the Criminal Court for poisoning; but the Court
rejected the appeal.
A good-looking Irish girl, named Canna, enlisted last
week at Liverpool in the 16th Rifles. It was some
time ere her sex was discovered, and then her services
were dispensed with. Her object in joining the regi-
ment was to enjoy the society of her brother, who is
one of the privates.
The Dad, News is of opinion that " the Emperor of
the French. whose carpet strategy was the jest of the
weans of Vienna • month ago, is displaying a genius
for war which should stir up Europe to remove the
causes which keep open • field for their exercise." We
had better give up Malta at once, then.
To discourage the sending of coin by post, instruc-
tions have been issued to the officials at the chief dis-
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fis., 4s- 10.; 2s. 64., 24. 54.; Is., . • eid., 544.
The Seetieelle de Jere, which published several in-
teresting letters from the seat of war, thus announces
the death of its correspondent :—" We must here drop
a tear to the memory of Lieutenant Bouvier, of the
grenadiers of the Guard. He promised as an account
of the battle of Magenta, but an Austriau ball out
his carver."

An unmarried woman, named Sarah Hughes, • native
of Sedgley, near Dudley, died on Saturday at the great
age of 113 years. She had long been an inmate of
fled&ley workhouse, and was there looked upon as •
" good- praying and consoling creature." Her health
warn good to the very last. NMile in the workhouse she
knitted, without any aid, though entirely blind. all the
stockings for the paupers, numbering nearly 200.