The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1865-01-31 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BRIGHT. —The Paris paper Debate has an article on Mr. Bright's recent speech at Birmingham. It says—" The celebrated orator tried to oonvince his hearers that they were not free, because they did not possess the franchise. If we reflect that after having delivered such • speech to 3,000 or 4,00111 workmen, the orator could go home to • good supper, and digest it without fear of any kart Sr cachet, banishment, fine, or imprisonment, we shall understand how our neighbours refuse to be persuaded that they are not free, and that, instead of refuting such language, they only laugh at it." Lady Easthope, second wife of Sir John Basthope, Bart., and widow of Major Longley, of the Royal Artillery, died on Tue.:lay. Mr. Henry Moore, solicitor and clerk to the county and borough magistrates, has been elected Coroner for the Leominster Division of the county of Hereford. The Globe announces that the address in the House of Commons, in reply to the speech from the Throne, will be moved by Sir Hedworth Williamson M.P. for North Durham, and seconded by Mr. lianbury Tracy, M.P. for the Montgomery boroughs. The vacancy on the Irish Bench, caused by the death of Mr. Justice Ball, will be filled by the present Attorney• General, Mr. °Hagan, whose conapicuone professional attainments well qualify him for his new position. Mr. (Megan will be succeeded in the post of superior law officer by Mr. Lawson, the present Solicitor-General, who will in turn be replaced by Serjeant Sullivan, now Law Adviser to the Irish Government. . .  Moan NrW CoNP mtrES. A prospectus has been issued of "Day and Son (limited)," with a capital of £160,000 in shares of £lO to acquire the establishment and business of Day and Son, the lithographers. The prioe to be paid for the premmes, stock, goodwill, /sc., is £lOO,OOO, half in paid up shares and half in oath by instalments, the vendors (who undertake to act as managers for five years) guaranteeing 1.0 per oent, for the first three years. A prospectus has also been issued of the Pant.y.glien Slate and Slab Company, with a capital of £12,000, in shares of £2O, to work • quarry in Carmartilenshire. A company has been formed by Messrs. Chadwick, Adamson, Mllenna, and Co. to purchase and unite the several concerns in Manchester now carried on by Messrs. John Greenwood, trio Mackie (City Omnibus Company), and Robert Turner and Co., together with the large coaching and coach building establtshments of Mr. Greenwood, to be called the "Manchester Carriage Company (limited)." The total nominal capital is to be £150,000 in 7.500 shares of £2O; and the first issue will comprise 6,000 shares, which are all taken up.  Inroirreere To Falttrina.—The Conti of Queen's Bench have decided that lime is manure, and fa, therefore, free from payment of turnpike toll, when being conveyed for we as manure. We regret to announce the loss of the African mall steamer Armenian, which struck on the Arklow Bank, off the coast of Ireland, at midnight on Tuesday, the 24th of January. There were a great number of peetenger' on board, four of whom were lost, and four of the crew of the light-ship, which put off to the assistance of the ship, were drowned in endesvouriug to reach her. The crew and the remainder of the passengers reached Wexford on Wednesday night. A surgeon of Liverpool writes to the Times that he knew an old lady, who died bud month, at the age of one hundred and twelve years. He attended her in her last and only inner ; and the fact of her great age, though well known to her friends, was, he says, never mentioned by herself. A few days ago, it will be remembered, the body of a child about twelvemonths' old was 1/Ift as luggsp at the Victoria station, and a poet ',torten examination led to the belief that • murder had been committed. On Thursday a young women, said to be the mother of the child, was brought before the magistrates at Manchester, charged with the crime. The prisoner was remanded. THE CASE or