The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

Xiscrilancous.

A goldbeater, M. Degocusset, has found the means
of reducing aluminium into leaves as thin as those of
gold and silver.
A French vessel is at present surveying the northern
coast of Australia; so the Straits Times says.
:Several of the missionaries of Madras have established
a series of lectures to educate Hindocia ' • they attract
large audience*. The first MLR delivered by Dr. Pater-
eon, medical missionary, on "The Great Physician."
The French Government is said to have received per-
mission from Naples to lay a submarine cable from
Gaeta, near that city, to Corsica. This is regarded with
satisfaction at Malta, the belief being that it will greatly
facilitate the transmission of messages to England via
that island.

The welcome given by the playgoers of Dublin to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Kean, after their long absence from
Ireland is said to have been almost unprecedented in
theatrical annals. The Earl of Carlisle was present at
the representation of "Louis XII." Mr. and Mrs. Kean
dined with his Excellency on Sunday.
Previously to the departure of General Garibaldi from
Nice • great number of the English residents there
made a demonstration in his honour, going in procession
in carriages (twenty-one in number) to his house, and
presented an address numerously signed.
The time limited for the payment of the bounties of
£6 to able seamen, and £3 to ordinary seamen, is ex-
tended to the 31st of January.
The weavers of Blackburn are agitating for an in-
crease of wages equal to seven per cent. It is not
thought that • strike will be restored to.
Mad Jackals abound in Sinile, and deaths from hydro-
phobia are very frequent. The Government has there-
fore increased the rewards for the destruction of these
animals; the Mils now offered are, for a female one
rupee, a male or half-grown female half a rupee, and a
cub four annex.

The Ilong-Kong papers report that large quantities
of silkworm egp have been sent lately from Shanghai
to San Francisoo. _ .

Comtnander William WaHord, who served in the
Bellerophon, 74, at Trafalgar, died at Ipswich on the
24th ult., aged seventy.
The commiasion appointed to report upon the
measures which it may be expedient to hake for main-
taining and improving the Army in India commenced
their sittings on Friday week.
The benchers of Lincoln's-inn and of Gray's-inn have
granted the free use of their halls and gardens for the
rorpose of drilling the Inns of Court Volunteer Rifle
rpL
'Romeo and Juliet" was performed before her
Majesty and the Court at Windsor, on Wednesday, by
the SaMer's Wells company.
The shores of the Ermine are said to be covered with
wrecks and with hundreds of corpses of shipwrecked
men. _ _

The down express train which left the Lewes station
on Tuesday ran into a horse and van creasing Use line
at Bedinghain. Two men who were in the van were
killed, as also was the horse. The van was smashed
into fifty pieces, and OM of the men was thrown to •
distance of seventy yards.
Four merchante of Liverpool are said to have written
to Napoleon 111. in order to express their fears on the
unsatisfactory relations between France and England.
They have been honoured with a reply from his
Majesty.
A bono-fide experiment is at length to be made as to
the manner in which town sewage may best be disposed
of. Mr. M'llougall, chemist has obtained • lease of the
sewage of Carlisle for a term of fifteen years, and his
object is " to combine the sanitary with the economical
solution of the question."
1)r. George Wilson. Professor of Technology in the
University of Edinburgh, and Regius Keeper of the
Industrial Museum, died on Tuesday week. He was
seised with inflammation of the lungs on the preceding
Friday, and his constitution, undermined by hard work.
could not resist. He was greatly esteemed and mach
beloved.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prince and Primes; Frederick of Prussia, visited
Aldershot!, on Saturday.
The birthday of the Princess Mary of Cambridge was
celebrated on Sunday at Kew. In the evening there was
a brilliant display of firewmics on Kew green.
The King of the Belgians has presented a picture by
Ary Sciiefier to the lottery which is to be drawn at •
ball for the benefit of the pension fund of the Opera, on
the 10th of December. M. Strauss, director of the or
ehestra of the masked balls, has given to it a painting
of Holbein, estimated to be worth between 2,0001. ad
3,0151.
Parliament is to assemble on the 24th of Jana-
A weekly cattle market, to be called "The North of
England Cattle Market," is to be held at East Retford,
Nottinghamshire—a scheme that has been originated by
the Great Northern and the Manchester, Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway Companies.
A tragedy in the Hebrew language, celled " King
Joachim, by a M. Beecher, has just been published
at Vienna.

The health of the King of Pruisii' has 8.3 fiu improved
that his medical attendants have &daubed his Majesty to
remove to the Isle of Wight. It iv believed that this
advice will be followed. . .

There is a cinder-heap in Birmingham to which home-
less lads resort at night for warmth. (m Wednesday
morning two boys were found upon it—one dead, and
the other in such a state of stupor that his recovery is
doubtful. . . .

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The yeomanry and volunteer corps raised in Ireland
in IBM amounted to a total cf *2,941 men of all arms,
of which 10,277 were cavalry, and 64,756 irlantry.
A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against
Mr. R. Thomas, owner of an old coal pit near Walsall.
A boy was drowned in the pit on Thursday, and it was
shown that the accident could not have happened if
there had been a proper protection round it.
James John Bentley, of Wolverhunpton, boa been
committed for trial for forging the name of his father-in-
law, Mr. John Lewis, to a guarantee, upon the faith of
which he obtained goods from a tobacconist to the a:tent
of I:16. . .

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SoliamTl, when conveyed to Russia (says • writer in
Notes and Queries) constantly kept his eye one small
pocket compass, as he thought that by the direction a

the needle he would be informed whether he was going
to be brought into elite to Siberia or not. This wee
his inotesant fear during his voyage.
About fifty ploughmen, mostly young men, met la
the lan at 'militate, Perthshire, last week, for the par-
pose of forming a union to enable them to restrict their
time of working to tea Louis a day.
In Paris it is believed that the patriots feeling In
Englasid is so dram that means of transport bad been
owes gratuitously at the disposal of the Government ;
that one merchant pee the Government a cargo of
grain for provisioVloroe citadel; and that Soothed
the people were d' rifle pits.
The ffiiMop of ugh mat with an aosideat at
hi* reaidence on Friday week. Catching his foot in the
carpet be fell heavily, thereby breaking one of his ribs,
and sustaining other *arias.
The Government has decided upon Esalcieg the Cove
of Cork a pert of sell foe the outward mid homeward
bound Australian, Indian, and American mails.
Lord Ebrington (eldest son and heir of Berl Fortmeue)
is to be called to the House of Peers.
A French brig, laden with bombe for Algiers, recently
went down near Claps Beam. The crew were saved.
The special servioes at St. Paul's will commence on
the lit of January iseaL They will be opened with a
sermon by the Bishop of London.
The Wawa Timm says: "A young lady of the
neighbourhood of Exeter, noted for her talents as an
archer, has been honoured with the appointment of
Maid of Honour to Princess Alice."
Lady Mary Thompson, of Sheriff Mattes Park, has
sent her name as an honorary member of the 14 West
York Ride Volunteers. . . _ . . .

Prince Lumen Bonaparte bas printed for private cir-
culation two more specimens of Famlish dialects as
spoken in the Kama year. One specimen is in the
Cornish dialect, the other is in that of Donet. For
each specimen the Song of Solcrmon has been chosen.
Some surprise has beer expressed (says the Medical
Times) that Sir Benjamin Brodie's letter on the Smet-
hurst case has not been published. It is understood
that Sir Benjamin has no objection to its publication,
but tlie Home Secretary does not feel justified in OM'
aeitiuig to it.

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The grandson of Marshall Suthet, Duke d'Albuiera,
has volunteered u e private soldier for the Chinese ex-
pedition.
The Royal Academicians are called together for the
ritli of December to consider an increase in the number
of Associates. _ _

The Admiralty have called for a return of the ages,
pay, &c., of officers and clerks on civil salaries, with the
view, we hear, of obtaining an order in council making
it couipulsory on all salaried men to retire at sixty-five,
instead of at 70, as at present.
Mr. Howland Hill, in answer to a question from
clerks in various post offices, states that he has no objec-
tion whatever to the servants of the Post-Oftioe enroll-
themselves as volunteers.

A herring gull, which was bred in the Zoological
Society's gardens, in 1857, has just returned to the
place of its nativity after an absence of nine months.
Major Esinonde, late of the 18th itoTal Irish Eke.
mint, who greatly distinguished himself ia the Crimea,
hal been appointed to the ofsoe of Amide's{ Inspector.
General of Constabulary in Ireland.
Mr. Hick, the City Sword-bearer, died cm Sunday
morning week at the advanced age of 94. Ile will be
succeeded by Mr. Sewell, who has performed the active
duties of the office for many years.
A female patient in the Montrose Lunatic Asylum
lately killed another female patient by drain( her on
the head with her shoe.
The Persian Embassy is making Prepandfons for its
departure from England. The Embassy will proceed to
Enmesh prior to returning to Paris, and may probably
again visit in the spring.
M. Vries, of Pans, better know* is the Black Doctor,
has been arrested on • charge of Manslaughter, a patient
of his having died in consequence, as it is slleged, of
treatment prescribed y him cram inioraeria.
The King of Sardinia has presented Garibaldi with a
handsome lowling•plece which he himself said. An
Aenions mind might discover some agaiimmos ia this
. . . . . .

" The Mediterranean seems to have been visited by •
very severe storm on the 18th nit. Shipping suffered
severely. . . . . . .

--The—'reported addition of several battalions to the
regiments of the line up to the 35th is imetradieted.
A curious illustration of the general thread cif cheap
literature is exhibited in one of our Anglo-Indian
papers. The Urdoo Grids has an advertisement recom-
mending a "Pocket Companion for Pilgrims to Mem,*
at one rupee the copy.
&hinny' has requested permission from the 'Wallin
Government to make • pilgrimage to Maim. He is said
to have also expressed a wish to have, like Alai-el-Hader,
a fixed residenoe assigned him in some part of Turkey in
which to par the remainder of his days.
Baron J. de Rothschild, at his recent visit to Brussels,
is said to have offered the Belgian Government a loan to
pmy for the execution of the projethed fertilisations of
that city, and that his proposition was accepted.
The toms-rumoured fact that the Empress Zesenie
has determined to abolish crinoline ill announced in •
quasai-oflicial manner by the lady who signs the
"Owner de la Mode" of the Paris Patric, the Vis-
countess de Renneville.

A eounaon is sitting in France to inamias the
cause of the Leferior quality of Egyptian wheat, which,
on amount elite bad smell and the dillselty with which
its dour ferments in the making of breed, fetches one-
fourth and sometimes one-third lees than &yoga's
wheat in the Freseb markets.
Mr: David Roberts has collected the whole of his
sketches made in Spain I the years 1832 and 1533, with
• view to their being teen by the Loudest public in alms.
Them works, we hear, have become the property of •
gentleman in Lancashire.
The accounts from the Royal Charter on Friday lack
state one small bag of sovereigns, about 21b. weight, 245
sovereigru, and one rupee to have been recovered on the
24th inst., and 3:1 sovereigns on the 29th inst.

It appears from official returns by the members of the
Central Association of Master Builders that above
15,0U0 wen were at work under the Declaration on
Saturday, the Plith ult„ and up to the same date about
4,000 wen had entered under shop rule, embracing the
spirit of the Declaration.