The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-30 00:00:00

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art anti titerarp 3ottings.
MIL HALLIDAY'S drama, "The Great City," has been
produesd at the surrey.
In all departments of business much quietness has
A DRAMA entitled 'The Twelve Angels" Is the prevailed during
latest novelty at the East London Theatre, the present week. Scarcely • branch
, can be noticed in which any activity prevail., but, on
pla"yea sou TnEilenfetiakgeo."aat dtbreall'l,yobeyum, Mr.
will, repo Ek'uricaur ys,
itisa a"rat
the whole Floes have been rather firm. It is very
be plica cen ly produced at the Plioe. will doobtless be found that chit trade of the year has
To tell tales of Hindu devilry is the task taken up probable that business will continue very restricted. It
by Capt. Murton. They will be appropriately illus- not been of . satisfactory character, but we shall have
gained thu. advantsge—an improved position of tho
tented by Onset.
A Bout illustrative of the character and peraonal ocofitt.i.:e. trarawale,matatenseriyent upon more abundant supplies
history of tho Wesley*, by the Rev. J. B. Wakeley, is At Manchester there has been leas activity in the
nearly ready.
Is engaged on • new glory.
gent r.l tone of btriness, but prizes have remained
MIL CHASI.6II HICII/011 It"' ad,.
The work will come out in the old aerial form—the first' The public sales of Colonial wool continua to be well
part to appear in March.
1 attendsal by home and foriaign buyers. Th. biddings for
WS bear front tiebetnia of the publication, by the I nearly all descaiptiona of produce are rather active, anal
venerable historiographer,
P°l"°T• of a volume. Is prices still show • liar of from ed. to id. per lb. In
Latin, of documents which il natrate the fife, character, ' some instances an advance of I id. per lb. has been esta-
doctaines. and pa retentions of John HOW, whose some. : bibbed. The foreign demand is good, notwithstanding
what ellnYe-fel deg is said to be there made simple. that French buyers are operating to • very moderate
clear, anal intelligible. extent.
SIB Juall LUSH res's celebrated work, "Prehistoric With regard to the iron trade, it is stated that • steady
Time,, as illustrated by Ancient Remains and the bushiest; is passing in rails. and it is expected that the
Mann- ra and customs of Modern Savages" (Williams
and Norgate), ham attained the well-sloserved honour of trade of the new year will open with increased vitality.
The trsde for wheat hac ooratanuad dull, and a further
a second edition. It exceeds the first edition in bulk
decline of "a. per qua
by about a hundred pages. It also contains many new quarter has taken place in the quotas
lions, Business has, in fact, been in a most depressed
facts, and many aaf the old charters have been almoat
reswritten. The hook ranks among the noblen works I *tate, and prices have now fallen to a point which was
little anticipated at the commencement of the season.
of the interesting and important class to which it w
1 e polo out some wee s
belongs. ' ted t k si. am that the firmness
which oharmtericad the trade at the period at which
A P 1.110,2,87 bit of literary) correepondenoa has
harvest o
recently occurred between such of the operations were commenced' would prow* of
I"n'inne" material henefit to the consumer, inosinuch as it would
(actors and actresses) at the Dramatic College at tend to hurry the produce fotward from that leading
Woking 'who are able to walk to church." and the forogn grain districts to the seaboard bafore the *evens
curate, the Rev. Carter Moor. In • well-penned wnntnnr tot in. That such hee been the eeee is quite
addrtss, the players acknowledge the benefits of his evident, for our importations this season have already
ministration ; and, In a gram ful rerly, tbn reverend
gentleman expresses the deep gratillcition be el j .ya at been very large, and much of the abundance in the
United States las already come to hand. The depression
such a arsontaileous te-tionny from the ladies and which exist, now is by no moans clue to any abundance
gentlemen of the none"' "'new who P"was any annals in the honie supply of wheat, the plentiful importations
of the stags will please to make a note of this on some ' of foreign produce being the only cause which can be
fiy-leaf. The incident thould not he forgotten. &reigned for the (motioned downward movement in
THS Amsterdam Asaociation of National Songs er, prices. We have now attained to a position which, to
Holland b.a announced that it will give two prizes of the customer. is very favourable; but it is not Inc-
:
100 florins and two huhdred florins for the two best probable that present quotations will have the effect of
compositions for male shim% They are to be net to
!total, words ; one is to have an orehestral arc mpani. , retsrding shipments, and, consequently, we may in the
future witness an important diminution in our
merit, and the other to be without acoompaninid.nt (.lla importations. The 'stocks of foreign wheat here
expel's). Would not • similar wociation in England are very large ; and as about 1,500,000
afford some encouragement to out native eomposers quarter. of wheat are estimated to be afloat.
writing for their labow.eoantry men! Even Wales as its our market. are certain to he well supplied
Piiit.'hifsd i but is Esiiiiiisd • man can hardly g•t • until the return of spring. The frost& and sama..of
hearing unless he bears a woll.knowu name, or has winter have now much lees influent* on our markets
inflUtiutial frierads.—MUftireil St • i iida ,I.
than in past times. The increasing railway sworn..
dation in the chief countries of the world obviates the
difficulties of frozen canals anal rivers, and if the opera-
tions should pay, pro- uce is coon transported overl.nd
to the consuming country. It may be &day said that
there is no prospect of wheat becoming dearer this
season. From the low point which now has bees
reached, there may perhaps be some slight recovery,
but not enough, we think, to affect the prism of bread.
The following statement show the average prices of English
wheat, li die) and ..itt.. in England and Wel., Int' it ~,, kd
compared with the four pre, lOUS ) ten
:-
1969. Is6B. 1867. 1866. 1866.
a. .1. a. 11. a. it. a. el a ri.
Wheat.. 46 8 .. 61 6 .. 6611 .. 67 6 .. 46 10
Harley .. 38 If .. 47 3 .. 41 6 .. 46 6 .. 34 0
oat.. .... T 1 5 .. 24 4 .. 25 8 .. 23 9 .. 2'2 9
The followinz figure. 010 M the Imports and exports of cereal
produce into and from the United Kingdom, from SepteMber
1 to the dome of lest w eck :-
16t19-70. 1868-9.
Impart.. Exports. Imports. Exports
not. cwt, cwt. cwt.
.11002.972 .. 74.391 .. 6.92 .161 o 121.177
.. 1.4iii.5.82 .. 2.545 .. 2,277.133 .. 21,4119
6,374 .. 1,755.240 .. 18,118
.. itis.lere .. 3„073 .. :N..71.6 .. 3,307
446 .. 621060 .. 611
.. 5,737,629 .. 1.051 .. 3,13.1.045 .. 1/6
...... 1.614,115 .. 4,043 .. 8111,09 .. 10,762

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