The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

MARK LAWN, Monday, gbraary 29.—Tbe supplies
of grain on offer this morning wee moderate, and trade
continues inactive. For foreign there is • readier
Inquiry, and in some instances improved prices were
obtained. Barley sold steadily at late rates, and oats
were fully as dear a• this day week. Other things were
about the same.

METiopoLITAN CAMS limucer, Monday. Feb. 29.
—The market to-day was short, but prices were easier
for second qualifies. Inferior sorts were difficult of
sae. Best ,Bwte were 4s. 10d. and Is.; Soutbdowns,
Be. 104. to GB. Pip sold slowly at late quotations,
from 3e. Bd. to 4t Bd. There was loins lamb in the
. . . _ _ _

raarket, which fetche7l.7c -per—ston--e.
DUMAS= CATTLII AID MICAT.—Two bills have been
introduced into the House of COIOIIIOOI by the govern.
ment for amending the law relating to thwe subjects.
The oft' bill withorises the lira* of Orders in Council
making regulations for preventing the importance of
dimmed cattle or meat, the destruction of them if
assereary, nod the purification of the ship, the quay,
fodder, ke. The other bill gives power to issue regula-
ting', for preventing the exposure of dimmed Gettig on
highways, to., without wing precautions to keep them
separate from other people's cattle and for preventing
the exposure of them for sale, Tge regulations are to
extend to the prohibition, if neesecary. of the removal
of cattle, meat, fodder, to , the pun cation of 'tablet,
tracks, kt, the destruction of diseased cattle, and
" the doing gay other thing Her Majesty may deem
advisable for preventing the spread of dhows among

Nettie."
CHINISE SIIIIP.-11r. Eugene Shiloh has returned to
Paris from China, after having accomplished a mission
entrusted to him by the Emperor. He has brought
with hie. a lock of Chinese sheep, called ongti, coo
Meting of two rains and 22 ewes, remarkable for their
fecundity. This flock is • present made by the French
residenta of Shanghai to the Zoological Society in the Bois
de Boulogne. Fifty per cent, of these ewes produce
lambs twice a-year, and three at • birth ; twenty per
cent produce two at a time twice • year. These sheep
are of the middle sise, and resemble the Southdown.
Their wool though long, is very inferior to that of the
I Merinos. tis proposed to send French sheep to Suez,
to be exchanged with masters of ships coining from
China for Chinese sheep.
Tllt CARNAL AND ROO? Clol4l Of UN? YtAIL—
The Mark-laws Exprus publishes • series of retort)/
showing the results of the last year'. crepe of beans,
peas, turnips, end mengolds. It summaries. the result
In the following terms Whilst the beano and peas have
proved a good crop, the turnips and usangolds show a
large deficiency, and In many rases the mangolds under
the figures of "two-thirds under average" were almost
di total failure. Indeed, in some parts of the country
the farmers have abandoned the cultivation of this root,
having repeatedly lost the crop, or had it so inferior as
net to pay. The turnipd are sot quite so deficient; but,
at the same time, between the two, the loss of cattle
food is very great, The numbers under average are an
undefined mule, and there is no doubt that many of
there would exhibit • large deficiency if the proportions
could be ascertained. The graders, therefore, will have
to resort, to a much greater extent than usual, to the
use of artificial food or corn. Already many have been
giving their cattle both wheaten and barley meal, as
well as eihake in an ineremed proportion. The excel-
lent crop of inferior grain, will, in this respect, prove •
greet relief, and in a measure make up for the deficiency
In the root crope, which must be chiefly reserved by the
flockmaaters for their ewes and lambs in the spring.
Tee ALNIANDRA PARK.—We have been favoured
with • beautifully-emicruted chromolithograph of the
building now in worse of erection In the Alexandra
Park. This park is five miles from London, and con-
tains 480 acres of well-timbered and beautifully undo
. . . . . . .

lilting land. adjoining the Wood Green Station, on the
Great Northern Railway, and within a few minutes
ride of the Victoria Station, Parritigdonatroet, King's-
exam Station, and Regent'. Park. The park will con.
pint of about 200 acres, and the remainder of the iodate
will be laid out for building narrows, and prises have
been offered of £lOO, I:50, and L'2s to architects and
landscape gardeners for the best designs. A cricket
ground is being constructed, and two pavilions (in the
Bwi.e style of architecture) are contracted for, which
will give every accommodation to players. Another
pavilion, capable of holding 10,000 ncluonN will *l.O be
constructed on the elope near the Wood Green Station,
IA also • spacious eyn.nasiom in another part of the
park. The Great National Archery Meeting of England
will be held on the cricket ground in July next, The
Aleinn Ira Park Company intend to give aoo in prizes.
An cowmair fancy fair of • novel kind will be held near
the pavilion in the month of June, 59 boutiques or
shop" of 20 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 12 feet high,
are in course of construct inn in Paris for that purpose.
They will be elm is the Swiss style of architecture. The
building Ralf will be erected from the materials
used at the Late exhibition, and will contist of •
nave 900 feet long and 55 feet wide, a centre transept
430 feet long, and the same width as the nave, and two
shorter transepte, each 320 feet long, the same width
also as the nave. There will therefore be three po ate
of intersection of the nave and transepts : the centre
will have erected over It one of the great domes, which
will be 170 1 et in diameter and 220 feet high in the
interim. Cra each side of the nave end transept will he
erected buildings about 50 feet wide and two storeys in
height. Tit- unmet character of the architecture of
the anterior will be made as much Italian as the nature
end dimensions of the old materials will permit, and
will consist principally of brickwork in two colours,
with karma dressier, and ornamentation. On all sides
of the building will be bandanna terrace.; that on the
north-we-t aide will be 1000 feet long and ISO wide,
sepported by Italian arcades, will cover a noble railway
station, from which amens will be had directly to the
building at the ends of three transepts, and to which
station all the railway, of London will ultimately be
lueoghL Every arrangement for the recreation.
comfort, and muneement of the public will be provided.
HARR OCINCIDENCS IN THE CHURCH SERVICE.-
8111/411/ last being the Third Sunday in Lent and also
the stStla liar of Fehrualy, the chapter appointed for
the second Lesson in the morning contained the flospel
for the day. such • coincidence it.. not recurred on
the Thinl,l4,nelay in Lent for more than thirty years,
though it will take place ag.in in 1889 and in 1875. It
can only revert when Easter falls on March 28, or in
leap year March 27.
It/ Y.AL ,Pr Tilt MALT TAIL—An influential public
meeting of the landowner, and agriculturists of Fast
Kent was held on Saturday afternoon an the Corn
Exchange, Canterbury, to adopt measures for promot-
ing • rei cal of the excise duty on malt Addresses
were delivered by the member., for the county and other
gentlemen. and resolutions adopted in accordance with
the objects of the tnee,ing.
FATAL OISTRAGE.—The Mawr/rester Guardia* reports
an inquest opened at Rotherham on Wedneedey, on the
body of a child named Feeder, aged fourteen months.
The child's parent, lived in Collegemoad,and nearby lived
a woman near Broomhead, with a young man named
Lyon. Broombead on Monday quarrelled with Mrs.
Foster, and told Lyon of it when be came home. •
short tiine afterwards Mrs. Footer went out, leaving
four of her children playing in the house with four
others. Whilst she was away, between eight and nine
o'clock. Lyon was men to Meal along the passage, with-
out his boot., towards Footer's house. He tuddenly
opened the door, and threw among the children •
quantity of burning cinders, mixed with some com-
pound. Instantly the room was filled with a.uffocating
vapour. The children screamed loud's', and some of
the neighbours ran in and succeeded, with groat
difficulty, in getting the children out of the house. All
of them were wrinusly affected, and the whole
of the residents of the row of houses were
more or less affected by the vapour. All the
children recovered but the infant on whom the
inquest was held, and it died in the course of Tuesday
night. Lyon,Mrs. Broomhead, and another lodger were
apprehended. When the bonne was cleared of the
noxious vapour, it was found that a canary bird had
been 'Lactated. A eniall quantity of the powder was
discovered in Broomhead's honsedind it will he analysed,
and chemical tests will be applied to the cinders that
Lyon threw into the house. The inquest was adjourned
for that purpose.
BAD END or • YELVERTON.—If, about two or three
o'clock on the morning of Saturday, any nee had chanced
to wander down Barrack-street, one of the vilest of the
many vile back slums in Douglas. lale of Man, he would
have found, lying in the gutter, the stinking half-frogen
Wm. water dewing over and around her, the body of
• woman, literally halfmaked, and actually frozen to
death, the night being piercingly cold, with • hard
frost. If the wanden-r had been an inhabitant of the
town he would, iminediately on looking on the face of
the dead female, have recognised the depraved, besotted,
bloated countenance of the drunken and dissolute
Honourable Jane Velscrton, atieu Jenny Keefe, by
which name she was better known, the widow of the
lion. Augustus Yelvertou, brother of Lord Avonmore,
and fellow-uncle with that nobleman to the notorious
Major Yelvittion, whose celebrated marriage and law-
suit have for the last eve years occupied the attention
of the public. At an inquest held on the body of the
woman on Saturday, it was Mated that the Hon.
Augustus Yelverton, the husband of Jenny Keefe, to
whom he was married about 25 years since. died in
Liverpool about two months •110 ; that he left her •
considerable sum of money for h. r maintenance. which
was to be paid to her in instalments by • lawyer in
Liverpool, from which town she had arrived in Douglas
on Tuesday, her fare to the island (socordieg to a state.
meat she wade to • woman in • low public-home on the
night before her frightful death) having been paid by
the lawyer in question. The inquest was held by
Jame. Gen, Fag.' high bailiff of Cottletown, and during
the proceedings he stated that the Hon. Augustus
Velverton and the deceased bad lived in Castletown for
many years, and so dissolute and depraved were they in
their habits that he had committed them to prison fully
• hundred Ulnae for beitig drunk and disorderly. At
this time they were allowed by Lord Avonmore, it vim
understood, an ample income to keep them comfortably,
but they were in the habit of spending it in drink as
quickly as they got it, and they wareely ever had on
them willeient rags, let alone clothing, to cover their
nakedness. Jenny Keefe, who was a low-born woman,
was the third site of the Hon. Augustus Yelverton, be
having previously been married to • Spanish lady and
an Diali one. He had no children by hie last wife, but
he had several by his former wives. In consequence,
however, of his depraved habits, they were taken froiu
him, end they now occupy respectable positions in
life. Although in rank and in education also
there was such • difference between Jesoy
Keefe and her husband, yet they were greatly attached
to each other ; they invariably accompanied each
other in their orgies, iind if one of them was sees to gaol
for some outrage against the peace committed during a
drunken fit, it was the practice of the other to smash
some shop window, or make a disturbance in the ',recta
for the sole purpose of getting committed to gaol also,
in order hat they might keep each other company.
They scarcely ever had a place to lay their heads in. and
they lived the gloater portion of their 'tine either in
the streets or in prison. Such were the Honourable
Augustus and Jane Yelverton ; and their dissolute lives
and frightful fate—one dying in a low lodging house in
Liv,rixiol. and the other frozen to death in the streets
of Douglas—convey a striking lesson of the evils of
isawperenes. AU the clothing that Jenny Keats Lid
on when she was found dead was an old gauze frock
which did not reach to her knees, and was no thicker
threZbilrissee of paper. an old pair of woks that just
above her ankles. and • pair of thin slippers.
A few hoar, before her death ehe was semi
standniç
in • house door aloe to where she was found dead, and
was beard trolling out, in • voice husky with drink, a
street ballad called "True blue for ever.' Their:
reituned • verdict of "Death from azposure."
pail Mercury.

All communications in relation to whatever de•
partment of the Paper are to be addressed to
the Editor of the Dorset County Express and
Agricultural (invite, at the Office. Church
Street. Dorchester.