The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

filitscellancous.

The marriage of the Hereditary Prince of Flobensol-
lern-Pugmaringen with the Princess Antoinette. Infante
of Portugal, is to take place at Lisbon in the first fort-
night of September.
After twelve years of exile Johannes Range. the
founder of the Neo•Catholio (Anti-Papal) movement,
has returned to Breslau, where thousands crowd

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together to listen to his sermons.
The demise of the Hon. Mrs. Jane Annesley, long
resident in Guernsey, took place on the 25th of April.
She had attained the great age of 102 years. Death
was the result of accident, the venerable lady hiving
fallen from her bed and dislocated her collarbone • few
day previously.
A determination has been some to respecting the new
fortifications, which will' have an important effect in a
double seine, by les-ening the cost and giving employ-
ment to the soldiers quartered in the vicinity. It is
proposed to employ these men upon the works.
A naval court-martial sitting at Malta, has repri-
manded Commander Montagu O'Reilly, of the Lapwing
gun-boat, for neglecting. to prepare his Ship for a gale, 1
and wasting her If ajesty s stores by unnecessarily throw I
ins overboard two 68-pounders and 290 shot during the
gale which he subsequently encountered in the Doro-
passage.
Mr. Harrison, captain of the Queen's scholars of West-
minster has been received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Mr. Harrison was first on the roll for election
to either Christ Church, Oxford, or Trinity College,
Cambridge, during the present week.
The collection of the Ciunpana Musem at Rome has
been purchased for the Emperor of the French.
Agents Its.e ars;sest from Aminoa to purstasso rintsl
cannon of the Armstrong, Clay, and Blakely patterns,
also nearly 200,000 rifles and revolvers for immediate
shipment.
Well-informed Americans are confident that on the
arrival of the Great Eastern at New York the Northen
States will offer to buy her. The arias of the com-
pany will probably feel themselves justified in making
• provisional sale, which could subaequently be referred
here for confirmation.

A subscription ims been set on foot by the students
of Paris for the purpose of giving a banquet at the
Hotel de Louvre to M. Jules Fevre, Picard, and the
other members of the Democratic Opposition. The
authorisation of the Government bin, been obtained, and
600 subscribers have given in their name..
Montreal and Quebec have suffered severely from
Inundations. . . . .. . .

1- 7;i:cr of cricketers who intend visiting Australia
at the close of the home season consists of Caesar, Caffyn,
Daft, Griffith, Jackson, Mortlock, Stephenson, Tinley,
Willsher, and either Carpenter or Hayward.
A Heavy Gale has visited the Danish coast in the
vicinity of Thisted, reaching op to the Skew • six vessels
—two or three from London—wens stranded and
wrecked. The whole of the crew were provideatially
saved. . .

King Bonny, who has been for several years in this
country completing some arrangement with our Govern-
ment for the suppression of the slave trade on the coast
of Guinea, is about to return to his own country. H.
takea m his suite several Englishmen, including •
missionary.
Mr. Greideli, Late M.P. for Windsor, expired on
Saturday week at Tsplow Court after a shot illness
The lamented gentleman wan a freetraeler and a Liberal
Reformer in politics.
The Russian Government is preparing a reform in it.
system of coins, weights, and measures; among other
thinp, we hear, it will establish the old paper rouble,
worth If.
The public accounts of Canada for the past year
exhibit • deficit of 2,289,916 dole. Among the "items
peculiar to the year" is the expense of receiving the
Prince of Wa'es, amounting to W 1,884 dols.
Mr. Dallas, 104 American Minister to Great Britain,
has left for the United States.