The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

Itliscrllaitrous.

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The Duke of Cambridge outuplet...4 his 40th year on
Saturday week.

Fifty millions of acres of land bare been granted in
Cape Colony!

The receipts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society for
1858 fall little short of 1330,000.

The Nancheeter Munn Petition wu 21.19 yards in
length, and MU signed by 53,650 names.

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A swindler, calling himself Sir Edward Cooper, has
been victimising the people of Leamington.
The boy Randall, who at the age of sixteen had
achieved two wives, has been sentenced to two months'
imprisonment therefore, with hard labour.
The Board of Trade inquiry into the accident to the
Melt packet Prince Frederick-William at Calait iii eon.
eluded. Captain Pittock has had his certificate returned
to him.

The plague, on the Barbary coast, which was supposed
tohave completely subsided, has mappeared in Benghazi,
and is committing serious ravages among several wander-
ing tribes.
A German " Savant" has taken the trouble to count
the number of baini existing in four human heads. He
found in a blonde 140.409 distinct hairs • in a brown,
109,440; in a black. 102,960; and in a red, 88,740.
Sir William Armstrong has had the -additional
honour conferred on him of the Order of the Bath,
Civil Division. Colonel J. Jebb, Surveyor of Prisons,
has also received the MUM distinction.

At a public ineetiog held last week at the Albion
Tavern, Mr. Henry Hayman, a gentleman who has
largely pnnuoted railway enterprise in ludia, was pre-
sented with a handsome testimonial.

An eminent divine recently preached in the riling
from the text, " Ye are the children of the devil." In the
afternoon the theme was improved upon by a homily on
the passage, "Children obey your parents."
Sir Maurice Berkeley writes to his electioneering
friends at Gloucester, that, as he claims an existing peer-
age, his legal advisers inform him he ought not to allow
himself to be elected a member of the House of Com-
mons.

The directors of the National Portrait 3alleg have
bought two more portraits --One of the queen of Rohe.
mia, the mother of Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice,
for fifty guineas ; the other, a portrait of Sir Robert
Walpole, for two hundred guineas.

In the Supreme Court of the United States, an action
was brought against a lady by a wale friend, for obtain-
ing her a husband, for which she had promised • fee of
I,OW dollars. The judge, disapproving of such a trans-
action, gave a verdict for the defendant.

The Monster wrought-iron gun made by the Messrs.
'lonian, of the Mersey Ironworks, and presented by
them to thwenunent, is to be permanently placed in
position at Portsmouth. It will command the entrance
to the channel of the harbour.

A magazine especially designed for the literary, social,
and professional improvement of coachmakers, strikes
us as a curious instance of speciality It is intitled the
Coach maker': Monthly Maga:int, and is published in
New York.

At the review in Paris on Sunday week, Prince Jerome
rode on the identical saddle, with holsters and bridle, a
little the worse fur wear, which did service on the 18th
of June, 1815, in front of Huguniont, under the same
rider.

The Piedinuntese officers, failing a sufficient supply
of horses front England, are to be mounted on ponies
from the Island of Santini& These little wild animals
are u hard to manage as the native horses of India,
and have the same powers of endurance and speed.
One of he steamships belonging to the Danish Stennt
Navigation Company was expected to arrive in Hull on
Sunday with 400 Mormon passengers, ea ratite for the
Salt Lake, and it is said that about 500 inure are shortly
to follow.

The testimonial mania can no further go. It is
actually intended to present a testimonial to the man
Hodgson, of Shipley, from whose shop was purchased
the arsenic used in the lozenges which poisoned so many
people in Bradford some the ago !
" Just before the termination of the Nenagh Assizes,"
says the Tipperary Free Press, "a young Tipperary
peasant, Patrick Maher, was discharged fmut custody,
having been imprisoned eighteen mouths on • charge of
conspiracy, without over having been brought to trial.'
Mr. Frail, of " W. B." celebrity, was indicted at the
Shrewsbury Assizes on a charge of giving to, to one
Bentley, as an inducement to Bentley to vote for him in
• municipal election. The plaintiff was Mr. Walton, of
the Shreraindry Journal. The jury held that the charge
was not proved.
Sir R. W. Carden appeared at the kfansion-howie on
Monday. to report that the money contributed on
behalf of Frances Johnston had been expended in pro-
viding a buainess for that person and her sister. He
expressed a hope that those who hail taken an interest
in her case would become her customers.
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Count Sigismund Krasinski, a Polish noble and poet,
died in Paris on the 2tird ult. He was related to the
Royal houses of Saxony and Piedmont, %nil his god-
f+ther was the Emperor Napoleon, who appointed him
on the day of his birth aid-de-camp to the King of
Rome.

When the Marquis D'Axeglio waited on the Prince of
Wales to present him with the collar of the order of the
Annunciado lately, he found His Royal Highness decked
with the insignia of the Golden Fleece, which the Em-
peror of Austria had sent to hien on the previous day!
Thirtssm corn stacks, a hay stack, and a stack of
straw, with barn, stables, and other out-offices, were
destroyed by fire on a Linn near Alnwick a short time
since. The disaster was occasioned by a labourer drop.
jug lighted tobacco from his pipe among sonic straw.
A clerk in Rothschild's House at Paris was arrested
the other day, on • charge of havingembezzled a Milli
of 100,1100 francs. While being examined in the office
of the Commissary of Police, lie contrived to stab him-
self with • knife in two places, and he now lies in a
hopeless state.
The 84th Regiment, now in India, hu £15,000 in the
savings' bank. A party of the 118th, stationed in the
/Seguin Kotee at Lucknow, found, a short time ago,
£15,0110 in rupees in the enclosure, their attention being
attracted to the spot by a midnight attempt of some
natives to remove the money.
Trial by jury has just been idtroduced in Oldenburgh,
with imtisfactory results. On its introduction, there was
quite • sensation ; for the Grand Duke was present,
that he might by his countenance give effect to the
ceremony. The Duke appeared to be much interested
in what took place, and remained during the whole pro-
ceedings.
Dr. ltussell, of the Taws, writes a significant account
of a party given by Maun Singh at Lucknow to the
British officers. Lord Clyde was too ill to go. Some
" officer and gentleman" at the feast requested Maim
Singh to take off Ins head-gear, and having got it put it
on his own laced! Some of the officers got drunk and
behaved abominably.
The "Sensation Newspapers" in America have grati-
fied their readers, since the Sickles tragedy, with por-
traits of the persons most concered. Old cuts of
Piccolomini and Jenny Lind have done service for Mrs.
Sickles. Mr. Sickles and Mr. Butterworth have been
represented by the pictures f two celebrated murderers.
The portrait of Mr. Alfred Bunn has been offered as that
of Mr. Key.
The remains of a Roman house, in a very complete
state of preservation has been discovered at Basle. The
walls and ceiling of the rooms *till bear traces of the
fresco paintings with which they were once covered,
and a handsome chimney, near to which stood divers
utensils in iron and bronze, and a vase filled with car-
bonized grains of corn, was found in one of the side
apartments.
It is now slated that the Congress will be held at
Badenllailen, instead of at Aix la Chapelle, Fran*,
having objected to Aix as being within the territory of
Prussia, one of the powers to be represented at the
Congress. It is said that Count Walewski, assisted by
M. Drouyn de L'huys, will represent France, and that
England will be representssl by Lord Malinesbury,
assisted as Second U ~,,, missioner by Lord Cowley.
In a case tried at Liverpool, one brother sued another
for £2lO, with interest, mien a promissory note. Mr.
Justice Ryles threw consternation into the plaintiff's
party by holding up the document to the light, when it
appeared, from the water-inark un the paper, that it was
manufactured in PG—, whereas the date of the note was
MAL This timely discovery not only put an end to an
animated discussion which was going on between the
" learned gentlemen" on either side, but also settled the
plaintiff's claim.

" He tem lime near the Amanita Can keep it pnrr for Aiol-
- (Chinese Maxim.) Mr. Fortune relates; that when
Chimes !len:haat. are asked why the Too. ahkh the natives
woe are not coloured like those prepared for export., reply
"Chinaman will boy only for droah—Ehylish Merchant like
muds good looks, he yet. more mien leaf mode pod to eye.-
Chinese Tea-men also know, that the costly spring and the
worthier brown leave. when coloured look alike, and that
they can then subatitute the bad for the good. It English Tea
Merchants would discourage the practice of facing the Iced,
and buy only Pure Tes--dteappointment would be lea fre-
quent and satiafaction more certain. It is this &mance a
powdered colour from the isvd, and consequent usikfores
quality, wkdch hes rendered the Teas introduced by Mama.
ik so popular. Bold secured in Pickier, and ea advertised,
by dices only.