The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-06 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PA PEIW.

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Sir Alan M'liab is seriously ill, having been attacked:
with bilious fever and the gout simultaneously.
The British Museum closed on Saturday, and will
remain chant till the 7th inst.
The personality of the late Marquis of Waterford has
been sworn under £70,000.
Marshal Itosquet has had a relapse, and part of his
right site is paralped.
A Whitby bust took last week the enormous numbcr
of lads of herrings, each last containing 10,000.
The mortality at sea in 1e,57, as reported to the Regis-
trar-General, was 3,444. The mortality was at the rate
of 10'5 in 1000.

General Changarnier and M. Felix Pyat have added
their names to the list of those who refuse the Elope-
rues amnesty.
A church for deaf mutes has recently bet ii opened ia
New York. It is he only edifice in the world set apart
fur this unfortunate class.
A general massacre of christians is rumoured to have
taken place on the Dutch portion of the island of
liorneu.
The Hey. C. Ilardwick, Archdeacon of Ely, was killed
on the Nth ult., in descending a mountain near Bagneres
de Luclion.
A beacon lias been erected on the Monkstone Rock,
about mid channel between Cardiff and Weston-super-
Mare.
Lord Derby and several of his colleagues in the late
Hoverniticnt are to be entertained at a banquet at Liver-
pool in the course of the present month.
Messrs. Macmillan and l'o. are about to produce a
new monthly under the guidance of Mr. Hughes, the
author of "Tom Brown's School liays."
Several tons of atone scattered into the river at the
blowing up of old Rochester Bridge have recently been
rvesivemd by the use of Heinke's diving apparatus.
Signor Costa is understood to be engaged in compo-
sing a new oratorio; the text, as before, is by Mr.
Barthel ttttt ew.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews are about to make
a trip to the United States, where they are very
popular. They will go by the Great Eastern.
Sir John Lawrence. accompanied by Lady Lawrence
and four meusbere of his family, is at the Lakes of Ka-
bul:ay.
The annual musical festival at Baden commenced on
Tuesday, under the direction of M. Berlioz. Madame
Viardot was the principal vocalist engaged.
The Town Council of Berlin has just suseribed El ,1,00
to a foundation in honour of Humboldt, destined to
afford aid to learned men and travellers in the prosecu-
tion of the studies to which he devoted his long life:
Marshal Niel, to whom the public is indebted for an
account of the siege of Sebastopol, is said Co be preparing
a work on the late campaign in Italy.
The New York Tribune &MUMS its readers with the
story of a Mr. Timothy Bradley who recently bad eight
children at a birth. We are assured that "they are
all living and Ineltily, but quite small."
Six large spoi.:l are now visible on the sun, one of them
calculated to be 60,000 miles in diameter. The appear-
ance of these spots is generally followed by increased
beat; as that we may expect a warm autumn.
A Highland soldier writing to the !Jeremy= Courier,
says Lord (Bile " looks much failed, and is no longer
the gay, lively commander we knew eighteen months.
A grandson of Lesurques, who was unjustly exe-
cuced for the robbery of the Lyons courier, has carried
off seven first prin.s at the Institution Potelevin at St.
Germain.
The Cork papers will have it that the blight in its
oldest and worst form has attacked the potatoe crop in
that quarter. The fact of its actual appearance there
has been several times noticed in the local journals.
The acrobat Blondin has again crossed over Niagra
river on his tight-rope, carrying a man on his back. He
promises next to take over a cooking-stove with him,
and when in the centre of the rope to cook WM! ome-
lettes.
The wife of a saddler at Wolverhampton destroyed
herself a few days ago owing to the brutal ill treatment
she received from her husband. The children gave
evidence against their father.
It is shown that in the counties where the women are
the most ignorant they marry in the largest proportions
under twenty-one yeses of age, and lose the largest
I number of their children. . .

Mr. Dickens has commenced his promised tale in the
pages of the New York Ledger. It is to run only
through two or three numbers, and each weekly instal-
ment is lett three narrow eolunins.
Signor Mazzini is at present staying at Stella (says the
Newcastle Guardia.) for the purpose of recruiting his
strength. "He is unwell from severs labour, and
intends remaining at his present abode for some days."
The choke& spreads along the shore of the Baltic. Its
presence in Dautzigc is officially acknowledged, as well as
in Osnabruck and Elberfiell, and it is reported to hero
made considerable taeag.,4 at :Limburg.
The remnant of the gallant Lady of :nen whose nem,/
are imperidiably linked with the defence if the city of
laucknow, the :tad Reriment, has just arrived at Dover,
to take up its quarters in that garrison.
A woman residing in Alma-street, Horton, was en-
gaged in the area in the front of her house, when a mon-
ks y belonging to an Italian organ grinder jumped on her
back and so alarmed her that she was seized with convul-
sions, and died iii two days after.
The King of Oude, who has been released, apparently
without guarantees, resides in Garden-reach, below
Calcutta. He behaved very well during his confine-
ment, passing his time in stringing verses and paintiez
portraits.
After a number of prisoners had escaped from the San
Franc sco State prison, it was discovered that when the
convicts built the cells they laid the stones with special
regard to the best plan for breaking through the walls,
iu;;11 buried in the mortar numerous drills, chisels, kc.
Agriculture in the United States has been on the re-
trograde for some years east, and the proportion of the
mill° population engaged in such pursuits is diminishing.
The Ikan and Chapter of St. Paul's have made
a special appeal to the public for contributions for the
enlargement of the organ, an as to render it permanently
adapted for special or occasional services under the dome.
The tatimate for such work as is merely indispensable is
11.000, hut to render the instrument really effective
1.2.2110 will be required.
Bedsits. Poitevin, the widow of the well-known
aeronaut, ascended in a balloon at Rouen on Saturday
week. accompanied by an assistant in the costume of
Sancho Panza, while below was suspended a donkey,
mounted by a new Duleinea del Toboseo, whose white
toilet was visible when the balloon itself could hardly be
perceived. The descent was effected in safety.
The sentence primed on Mien Rutter, convicted at the
late Gloucester Assizes, of the murder of her husband,
will be commuted to penal servitude for life. This
result is owing to numerous applications on the prisoner's
behalf, hexed principally on the ground of tbe gross ill-
treatnient she suffered from the deceased. The jury
acconipanied their verdict with a recommendation to a
similar effect.