The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

Erne mil) Continua.

The lialf•yearly meetinp of the several Joint•fitock
Bank* in Linden are now completed, exhibiting their
respective capitals and extent of transwitions, as well as
the periods at which they were opened. As compared
with the last Inilf•year there has been • diminution in
the aggregate amount of depoaits held by these institu.
tions of rather wore than 4 per cent., • nearly similar
falling of having also occurred in the preceding half
year, previously to which time the velem of allowing
high interest for deposits at call hos led to • eonstant
an.l extraordinary augmentation. The only exceptions
to the decrease on the present °COW OA are the Loudon
&nil County and the Commercial, these establialimenta
having previously suffered unduly from the false and
nsckless rumours circulated during the panic of last
outman regarding these and almost all kindred iustittP
Sion.

A notification has been leaned from the East India,
Company invitin subecriptions for the balance of the
loan of £8,000,000 which war not taken by tho public
on the let April lout, and which amounte to £3,579,000.
The terms upon which subscriptions ere Invited differ
from time upon which the fret portion otitis ion was
taken, inasmuch as tenders for £l,OOO will he received,
end each tender must be accompanied with 3 per mint.
of the amount applied for as • deposit, The instalments
are to be paid on the 23rd August, 20th September, 18th
October, and 15th November, the limit Instalment being
so much MI will leave 75 per cent, f the capitol to be
paid on the subsequent days In equi-I amounts of 23 per
Lent., Interest accruing at the rate of 4 per oent, from
the periods at whieli the successive instalments are to be
paid. The !den upon which subscriptions will lie re-
ceived is certainly better contrived than in the first in-
dunce, and the amount required will probably be raised
without difficulty in the precint slte of the money
market. It is probable, however, that no advance of
Importance on the average prim at which the first por-
tion of the loan was taken will be seemed by the coin.
many. It will be reoullected that the majority of the
tenders &implied ranged from 97 to 99 per cent., Al.
though a few were at a higher rate, whilst no theca-
enterable proportion of the applications were at lower
rates. It is probable, therefore, that the tenders for
the loan will range from 97 to 98 per cent. The deism-
terse already in the market have declined ab mtg per
cent. in consequence of the announcement of the In-
tended WWI of the remainder of the loan, hut the
general tone of the money market has not been affected
in the 'lightest degree by it. The next Instalment of 1/1
per cent. on the first portion of the loan will leonine
payable on the 10th init., which will make 85 per cent.
paid up.

IHPROVINUIT W THZ TIADI OP Lzvgnroo.—fl
appaan from • aratiatical statement of the Customs'
duties paid at Liverpool during the past month that
then was an incrsais of £42,715 as compared with the
receipts uf July 1857. The principal Manua was on
sugar, on which then was paid last month the large
amount of £lOO,BBB, being about £41,000 111011 than was
paid on the same article during that lieriod in 1847.
In spite of the low duties ea corn, meal, and flour
upwards of £O.OOO was paid on those articles. Ti. total
duties paid during the past month amounted to
028,930, against LW6, 214 In July 1847.

EXTINIDOM OP TUX LONDON Douite.--The extensive
operations whioh for nearly three year' !mat have born
carried on for giving enlarged aomouodation to yawls
adwittod to the London Docks, are now nearly own-
pined. The enlargement effected amounts to from
eight to ten *Ara of dook-.pace--an improvement
which will he of greet oonveulenoe to a large portion of
our oomineroal marine, loading awl unloading in these
cloaks. This very ounsiderable extention had been made
from &wive by the Meant Bendel!, oottralting engineera
to the Loudon Dock Company, and the portion of
work perhepe inmit worthy of admiration I. the erection
of eix pairs of lookitatee ospacdous enough fo admit ships
of 80 feet beam. The look-pit ii long enough to ethuumit
vratii of 260 feet in length. The gates are uoustruoted
on the improved prineipal, oombiuing a due quantity of
wood and iron. Each pair of pees v*104150 tone. It
may be mentioned, se 6 work of engineering skill and
*lmitate', that in Longing scs.e MUM pkil. MP Weaver
(the practical manager of the works) did not occupy, on
env 000mulou, more then $O missies in hanging a mu&
gate of 75 tone weight. (hie wee bung in little wore
than 99 'Mauna, and another in about 24 minutes.
These new dock-gates are generally oulaiditred to be the
!Meet, as well aa largest, in London.

" not all gold Mat gillan."—lt is miechernue to hold
out a premium tor extreme eightliniss,expeciany where
and wholmormitme are lndimensible. Traders with the Stitt
nare proved this, by offering higher prices for the " hand-
gerisier Tee ; for the Greenish tedbr how much its appaaranoe
enhanced the pries, now oast oar with powdered detour meet
ad the Tea papered for Itngland : the artilkilal brighinast or
Mittman thua given enabling them to Increase Moir pro*, by
'Ads"' up low irtosd brown flavourlos lam", and m miztng
'hunt cd with the goad. which they could not do, unless the
withered appearance were dierculeed with powdered minim,
Bernirrimme nee, ameletweedualrely edits.herig ring
ccoP, end therfeore thekAmemesared Whew Won with
colour, Them mire, Ina stro aorta supplied in
tiertfiled hilla, md so b Amore As awry ;
for itelete So lids ty, les the Adesseleunaset In
the SaUlllsl6

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