The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

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A Greek steam company has brought a metier of the
Austrian Lloyd's boats.
The subseriptions forth. contemplated statue to John
Hunter already exceed 21000.
A correspondent at Boulogne states that U. Kos-
suth landed there on Thursday, on his way to Italy.
The works of the new entimarine line of telegraph
between Boulogne and Folkestoue were to be commented
Friday.
Mr. Cobden was to sail from Quebec by the Indian
screw-steamer on the 18th, and will probably arrive in
England about the last day of the present month.
The Shrewsbury estates case, which terminated the
ether day in a decision adverse to the Catholic attend-
ants, is to be carried to the Exchequer Chamber.
An autumn session, it is currently reported, will he
held, and the trial of election petitions be deferred untd
November.
The York friends of Mr. Layard, who was defeated
at the recent election for that city, propose presenting
that gentleman with an appropriate testimonial.
Four fresh pictures have been added to the National
Portrait Gallery :—" Abraham Cowley," " John.
Belden," "Lord Howe," and the "Duke of Ormond."
Some baths and waelihowies which have been erected
at Stockton, by the Corporation of that town, were
formally inaugurated on Thursday week. The total cost
1 of the building will be somewhat under £3.000.
' Mr. J. P. Grant bas been appointed Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of Bengal, and it is said that Mr. Beadon will
succeed Mr. Grant in the Legislative Council.
Windermere Like is at the present time lower for
water than it has been for thirty years, being six feet
three inches lower than the highest flood during that
time.
A meeting is to be held of the members of the Hon.
Societies of the Inner and Middle Trio ple, on the 22nd
inst., in the ball of the Middle remple, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the propriety of forming a.
volunteer rifle corps.
Mr. Jacob Bell, President of the Pharmaceutical So-
ciety, died at his home in London on Sunday week, aged
forty-nine years. Mr. Bell was a munificent patron of
British art, and • liberal supporter of many literary,
scientific, and charitable institutions in London.
In excavating for anew building adjacent to the Coal
Exchange another Roman bath has been discovered im
good preservation, similar to that which was found ender
the Coal Exchange, Mark Lane.
The inhabitants of Ottawa (Canada) are determined
to have a picture of their city engraved and framed as a
present to Her Majesty. in testimony of their gratitude
for her selection of Ottawa as the mat of Government.
The testimonial to the Dean of Chidiester (which
consists of three thousand guineas to the Dean, and one
thousand guineas to Mrs. Hook) is to be presented to.
the Dean at the Townhall, Leeds, on the Feed el St.
Peter.
A public banquet, at which a suitable testimonial is
to be presented to Mr. Charles Kean, on the occasion of
his retirement from the management of the Princess'
Theatre, will take place at St. James's Hall en July 90.
The committee comprises a number of gentleman, all of
them Etonians, among whom are included some of the
most talented statesmen of the day.
At a Court of Common Council held on Friday week
in Guildhall, the freedom of the city, in a gold hex of
the value of 100 pumas, was voted to Lord Elgin, in
testimony of the high sense entertained of the
important services rendered by him in Canada, Chins,
and in Japan.
On the resignation of Lord Chelmdord there will be
dye ex-Chancellors namely, Lords Lyndbuzst, Broug-
ham, St. Lecoardi, Cranworth, and Chelinidord, each
drawing £15,000 par annum. Singularly enough, there
are the same number of Irish ex-Chancellors living,
namely, Lord St. Leonards, Lord Campbell, the Hight
Hon. Francis Blackburne, the Bight Hon, Marius
Brady, and the Right Hon. Joseph Napier.
Forty-six inquests have been held in the University
of Oxford during the last thirty years, out of which no
less than thirty were boat accidents. Perhaps this
statement from the Coroner, at an inntiest held last
weak on the body of a gentleman, aged 20, drowned by
the upsetting of his canoe co the Cherwell, will have the
effect of arousing the old ladies who represent enthority
In the University towards taking some steps for As pre-
vention of such accidents.

TILASSXISSIOS OF INFLLIDIABLI GOODS ST RAIL•
WAT.—Atpkezublic office at Birmingham, on Tuesday.
Messrs. 31' nd, commission merchants of that town,
were summoned under the following circumstances :
It appeared that the firm had, at the instance of a )b.
Spenser, an oil and vitriol manufacturer, forwarded
three packages containing cartsoys of oil of vitriol, by
the London and North-Western Railway to Liverpool,
in order that they might be shipped to Rio Janeiro.
The packages arrived safely at Liverpool, bal while they
were housed in the company's goods sha one of the
carboys burnt and set Are to the place. The fire mai
subdued without much mischief having been done, but
the railway company felt it to be their duty to =MUM
the oonsignors for this infraction of their bye-laws in
sending infientuable liquids without a notification of
the fact to the company's servants. Mr. Hugh M'Llel-
land, one of the defendants, stated that his firm had
acted in ignorance of the requirements of the law in
this respect. The whole of the packages had been sent
off as received from the manufacturer; but notice had
' been given to Messrs. Lyon, Brothers, the consignees in
Liverpool. upon whom devolved the dnty of shipping to
Rio. Mr. Berry (from the office of Mears. Swift and
Wagstaffe, solicitors to the London and North-Western
Company) said that the result of inquiries had been
such u to justify the conclusion that Mew's. ICClel-
land, in omitting to give the notice as to the inflam-
mable character of the liquid transmitted by the rail-
way had acted in ignorance of the law; their subse-
quent conduct had also been characterized by • fair and
honourable disposition with reference to the penalty in-
curred, the amount being £2O. The Bench, in deliver-
ing judgment, said the matter was of so much impor-
tance, and the penalty es necessary as a warning to
others, that if they het possessed a discretionary power to
mitigate they should not have liked to exercise it;
they therefore fined Messrs. M'Clielhind £2O and costs.
As regards the railway company it was understood that
the matter had been amicably arranged.