The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

Miscellaneous.

Mr. Cobden M.P., hu been staying with President
Buchanan, and is expected in England about the 13th of

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June.
M. Theobald Teacher de la Pagerie, a cousin of the
Empress Josephine, has enlisted as a private in the Pied-
montese cavalry.
Upwards of fifty or slaty persons were drowned at
Schutten lioffen, near Prague, by the falling of a bridge
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during a religious ceremony.
The eighteen alpacas presented to the colony a
Victoria arrived on the 17th of February, and were in

good health.
In D. 714 on attempt liu been made to assassinate tbe
Pasha, and hie Highness has becu living on board his
yacht, Fail °cloud. in ororiegoenoe.
An oil man, named North, Las been killed at Stil•
linirtun, ten miles from York, in a fracas with some
roisterers at a publie•bewie.
Some of the native gentlemen of Calcutta propose to
a doh, on the European modal, to be called
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ei;TJnioti Cloth.
Syad A leloullah, • native of (hide, is, we understand,
a candidate for the *Modulen' Teachership in the Uni-
versity of Oxford.
In the Ineolvesit Debtor,' Court, last week, it cored
out Cid persons who were ceiployed by Moen and Sou
were only paid Is. 6d. fur making pilot-coati and 7d. for
mak DA tru g re.
Ae..n inetence of rapid shipbuilding, it may be
twined that that the 91-gun steamship Anson, commenced
'brew ine nths ago, at Woolwich, will be shortly
.4bed.
Tne Court, of General Sessions at New Fork. says the
Tribare, opens with a bloody calendar. Eleven pri.
minces are to be tried fur murder, and four for man-
slaughter.
The Paris Academic have been examining a discovery
of Dr. Reybold fur increasing productive power by
electricity. It is said that he can make grain sprout in
three days, at a trifling esteem !
The late George Stepheneon is to have a statue, by
Lough, a Newcastle sues, nearly opposite the central
station, if the Curporation grant the site, which is
pretty certain.
The Slenchester Chamber of Commerce is petitioning
against the resort to insreased iiuport duties on manu-
factured good* as a meatus of ringing peramisent revenue
for India.
The inarriege of Prince George of Saxony with the
sister of the King of Portugal took place on the 11th inst.
The young married couple left the Portuguese capital on
the 15th.
The Nottingham Town Council, after a preluded
and warm discussion, have agreed to a site being given
in the Arboretum for a statue of the late Featgus
O'Connor. This decision has created great dineti
tion in the town.
Mrs. Susan Cushman Muspratt is just dead at Liver-
pool. She leaves her husband, Dr. Sheridan Muspratt,
the chemist, with a young family. Mies Cushman, her
sister was in Rome, and only arrived in time to Ind her
sister dead.
The general Conference of the States of the German
Zollverein is appointed to take place on the Ist of June,
probably at Herzberg. The chief object of the meeting_
is to fix the tariffs for three years, from 1860 to 1862
inclusive.
Mr. G. V. Brooke has become the lesne of the Theatre
Royal, Melbourne. Mr. Hudson, the Irish comedian,
has appeared theme. Miss Emma Stanley seems to be
meeting with considerable success, and Yrs. Butler's
" readings" attract large audiences.
Mr. Fagan, M.P. for Cork, being dead, the Liberal
party are, it is said, prepared with • candidate in the
person of Dr. Lyons, who is certain to solicit their suff-
rages. An address from Mr. B. H. Carroll has appeared,
net Mr. Hood is also canvaming.
Mr. Henry Drummond Woolf, private secretary toter
Edward Lytton, is named as Government Secretary
ad
Corfu, in succession to Sir Thomas Bowen, who is ap-
pointed Governor of the new colony of Queensland
(Moreton Bay), in Australia.
The (Mkt and other papers were seized at the Paris
pod-office for copying some verses entitled " Billemen
form," which originally appeared in the Times with the
signature T., and are supposed to be the production of
either Tennyson or Tapper.
The sum of 0,000 has been voted by the corporation
of Melbourne for this year's quota towards the erection
of public baths and fountains. Arrangements have been
made for erecting twenty-four water-taps at the junctions
of the principal streets of Melbourne.
The Rev. W. Richards having contradicted a report
that the Duke of Leeds was received into the Catholic
Church shortly before his death, the Roman cathaie
Iti.l.up of Beverley affirms that the statement is correct.
He himself confessed the Duke, and administered to
him the sacrament of extreme unction.
A man called John Hunches lies been committed for
trial from the Slaryleione police court on the charge of
damaging the paintinp and monuments in the parish
church, and of destroying the statutes at the Colieetou.
The prisoner was lately an inmate of Mucci' Asylum,
and is no doubt still insane.
It is said that Princess Clotible has bought the cele-
brated fan which belonged to tie late Queen of Chide.
The fan is wade of white silk, richly embroidered with
emerelds amid line lurid. The handle, of ivory and
gold, is ornamented with rubies and seventeen large
diamonds of the purest water.
Hoimehold Words has been sold by auction by Mr.
Hodgeuu. of Fleet-street. The biddings commenced at
COO. Frein £l,lOO the biddines were between Mr.
Charles Diu kens and Messrs. Bradbury and Emu.
Utunately the copyright ass purelmeeu by Mr. Chutes
Diekene for the soul of £3,550.
'lb • Unload on the body of Miss Bankes, the unfortu-
nate lady who is bullies& to have been poisoned
at Richmond was reopened on Monday. The coroner
manifested • lendable desire to prevent the primmer
suffering from prejudice which *night exist against
him, and was careful to urge that, until the result of
Professor Taylor's analysis was known, it was net even
certain that poison haul been adminidered to the
deceased hely. The evidence wide% was adduced was,
for the most part, a recapitulation of that which had
already been given before the magistrates. The Tri-
mmer conducted his own case, and by his examination
of the sister of the deceased be evidently 'ought to show
that she was predispue.l to attacks of diem-hos. The
case was adjourned. The prisoner is described as • sin-
item ; but his mune is not to sue found bi any medial
list. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the
close of the inquiry on Friday.