The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

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Prises Esterhasy arrived at Dover on Moaday
night.
A Mrs. Dibba, of Richmond counts, Game., huse4
her own husband while be was drunk lately.
The total value of the farming stock juum
England in ItQatl was £66,490,4W, and in Deism onir
51,070,532.
Dr. Cohen has published a manifesto aping thio
policy which has led the French and Sardinans into
Lombardy.
The bodies of a brother and sister, tied together by a
picket handkerchief, were recently picked up in the
Seine. They had committed suicide.
The Volunteer Me Corps committees of most of the
large towns in Yorkshire have agreed to adopt a dark
grey uniform, with black facings. The weapon tote
the short Enfield rifle, with sword bayonet.
Sir John Pakington was entertained at the Thatched
House Tavern, on Thursday, by the Navy Club. Aalli•
ral Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., presided, and &boat
forty members of the club were prevent.
When Ministers make their appearance in the Com-
mons Mr. E. James will ask the First Lord of the Trea-
sury whether be intends to introduce a Bill this Stession
for the Reform of the Representation.
The commissioners appointed to consider the saran-
tage of a decimal coinage have published their reyert.
rbey do not recommend any change in the existini
, coinage.
The dcath of the Bishop of Antigua, Dr. S. J. Rigatid,
is announced. The bishop was formerly master of the
endowed grammar-school at Ipswich. His death was
caused by yellow fever, from which his widow and
children have also suffered. . _ .

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A Madame Rossini was performing on the tightrope
at Leeds when she fell from a height of thirty feet to
the ground, and then rolled into • lake. Her thigh
was dislocated, and she was much shaken.
The illustrious Humboldt left • sealed paper earnestly
deprecating the publication of private letters received
from him, and also expressing his decided dislike to any
compilation, republication, or reproduction of his youth-
ful writings.
The second column of the Tunes contained this week
the following advertisement:—" The Hon. Henry Ernest
NO WCUIDOII King, second son of Viscount and Viscoun-
tess Lorton is not dead, as published in Bowie's Peerage,
edition l&s9.—Anne Lorton. . .

The Se&le, almost AS impertinent an certain journals at
home, accuses the Queen of England of having acted
unconstitutionally in announcing her intention of cam-
(erring the Order of the Garter on Lord Derby, whets
no vacancy exists in the regular course of events.
Another clerk in Rothschild's Howie has been con-
demned to five years' imprisonment for embezzlement.
He possessed the confidence of his employers, the
esteem of his comrades, and was earning 9,000 franca •
year, an enornious sum for • Paris employ*.
In a common hall Friday, held under the presidency
of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Phillips and Mr.
Alderman Gabriel were elected Sheriffs of London and
Middlesex for the ensuing year. Mr. B. Scott was re-
elected chamberlain, and the other annual officials were
also re-appointed.
Sir E. B. Lytton, while Secretary of State for the
Culoaies requested the Council of the Royal Society to
favour him with any suggestions with reference to the
preparatiou of works descriptive of the zoology, botany,
and geology of the British colonial empire. In &mord-
emu with this request. the Council has forwarded a
report to the Colonial Ware.
air. John Wilkineon, or the St. Helen's Felting Mills,
Leeds, who in 1843 compounded with his creditors end
received • releme, has within the last few days paid the
difference between the composition accepted at that
time and Xis in the pound, with sixteen years' interest
at 4 per cent.
The Countess Persigny gave a ball on Monday night
at the French Embassy. It was remarked that the
leading members of the newly-formed Government
mustered in force at the ball. Among them were the
Right Hou. Sydney Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E
Gladstone, the Duke of Newcastle, and Lewd John
Russell.
The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Canon at
Windsor, and Deputy Clerk of the Closet to the Queen,
a half-brother of Lord John Russell, M.P., and of the
Duke of Bedford, ',melted an open air sermon in
Covent Garden on Sunday. The services are to be con-
tinued every Sunday.
The 70th anniversary of the Royal Literary Fund was
celebrated on Wednesday night by a dinner at the Free-
masons' Hall. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone pre-
sided, and was supported by Prince Frederick Holstein,
the Earl of Ripon, Lord Headley, Vice-Chancellor Sir
J. Stuart, Mr. Thackeray, and other eminent per-
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The Warehouse Committee of the Mersey Harbour
and Dock Board reported to the meeting Thursday that
the surplus revenue arising from the various dock ware-
houses amounted to 1:33,500 for the last half-year,
which was transferred to the general fund. This Run
is • considerable increase on the previous six months.
The French Consul to the Dominican republic has,
says the Bodon Post, purchased for a small sum the
whole resource of the Republic, in the shape of mines,
woods, and guano, with the small privilege of working,
cutting, and digging, on all the lands and islands belong-
ing thereto.
The body of Prince Metternich was interred in the
family fault at Plass, in Bohemia. An immense num-
ber of persons were present at the funeral ceremony.
and not a single member of the diplomatic corps was
miming. The Prince wrote his onn memoirs, but they
will hardly see the light of day until a couple of genera-
tiona bevel passed away.
The Senate at Hayti have passed a Bill decreeing the
banishment of the Emperor Soulouque and his principal
Ministers, Generals Delve, Vil Lubin, and Dessalines.
Proceedings are also to be taken before the regular Mi.
bunals to force Soulouque and Delve to restore large
sum of which they have defrauded the State; and in
the mean time the seq.testration of then property will he
maintained as security.
A Cincinnati paper tells a story of two men, neigh-
bours, who each fell in love with the other's wife, and
who happened to elope on the same night. They
encountered at a railway station, where a fight took
place between the women. The dispute was eventually
arranged by the husbands agreeing to continue the
exchange of wives.
A pastoral letter from Cardiaal Wiseman was read
on Sunday week in the Roman Catholic churches and
chapels in the district of Westminster, in aid of the
fund for the increase and support of churches, schools,
he., within the archiepiscopal diocese. The Cardinal
says —"in: all we have had thirty-one new churches
or chapels established north of the Thames within the
last ten years, of which twenty-five form new
missions."
The subject of working the telegraphic line which has
been laid down along the dock estate came before the
meeting of the Mersey Harbour and Dock Board Thins-
' day. The Marine Committee, who have the manage-
ment of the matter, recommended the Board to authorize
the reception of tenders for the working of the telegraph.
Considerable discussion ensued as to the advi.ability or
otherwise of placing the communication in the hands
of a public company, a priority of all messages being
reserved for the service of the Board. Eventually the
mil,ject WAS referred bank to the committee for farther
consideration.