The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-05 00:00:00

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LATEST NEWS.

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. Vorgist Cottittg Exprtsiss.
The "Mark Lune Exprega" of to-night says—Field TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, i,71.
Work him again been resumed, the ground working all
Ike better for the late ;cost, which has as yet done no
Lena to vegetation. Some ioe has broken away in
the Baltic, and about sixty vessels In danger of being
I beamed in at Taganrog eventually got free. The
frost la upon the canals in America, and
Mee In that quarter may he considered closed. Batos
which in spite of our overloaded granaries were
ttetng, have become difficult to maintain, but many
leasers have suffered by keeping their samples, raking
lass money. Business, therefore, hal been on a mode-
tote scale. This stets of things has again appeared
US Paris, where wheat has deelined One Shilling
pat quarter, and Sour nearly as much. Nearly all
Europe sends similar reports, yet the principal markets
keep up wonderfully well. Dentate sUll holds out for
fifia. for finest simples. The only market which has
variously given way is Rotterdam for new
white Zealand wheat of lowest quality. Taganrog is
tether lower. Large ship:Genie are on the way from
the Bleak Sea, quite equal to winter necessities. Occa.
clonal arrivals from Australia and South America will
supply the market with fine quality. Some port, in
Spain may also help.

MARY-LANE, TaLs DAY.

Market quiet. owing to the approach of the end of
the year. Wheat, English, sells slowly without
change to vane • foreign firm but unaltered. Barley
Threepence oheiper on the week. Oats Sixpence lent
tn easy, Maim Threeponoe cheaper. Beans Arm.
Peas One Shilling lower. British—wheat, 6,776;
bario7. 2,597; oats, 919 ; Sour, 20,264. Foreign
latest* 44,121, barley, ,574;7 oats. 4054 ; mils',
1,209; SOW, 1,320 sacks and 3,733 barrels,

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, TIII3 DAY..

Beet trade brisk and stirring. 800toh fed 11
mast be written at twopenee advance, with a good I
demand. Our top quotation about the value for all
first-olsas quality ; widdlius dacriptions of slow sale,
but without apparent reduction in prico. This applies
both to English sod Foreign. A clearance will be
made. Mutton trade slow; choice British somewhat
easier to bay, otherwise prima assimilate to previous
earning. Demand extremely hatignid for Foreign, and
deeidedly lower for all description.. A clearance
doubtful. Increased call for very prime calves, which
soaree. and exceptioual rates are asked and given.
Fork firm, and moving upward. Beef, 31 101 to 6s ;
motion, 4. 441 to 6s 101; veal, 4. 4 1 to 61 6 1 ; pork,
3s 6d to 4. 81. Total supply—Bias* 4,180; sheep
sad limbs, 16,890; calves, 11)9; pigs. 60: of which
Foreign—B...ts, 1,380; sheep and lambs, 8,980;
ealme, 106.

PROVISIONS, THIS DAY.

Butter Moderate Mu:Mem in Irian, foreign dell.
Jamey and Normandy, 44 lower on tbo week. Fries:.
Land. 120 s to 130 e. Canadian in fear demand. Baton
quiet. 84144 Iriah unehmaged; other aortal rather
r. Foreign uneltered. mns : good eels for
:n7 Li
eMid. Lard : bleddered 2. lower. Cheese: dull;
Americao, 60s to 62, tor good nwilitles. Navy pro
visiose very doll.

DOW:MISTS% SATOIDAT.—Tho demand for wheat
slew, and sellers submitting to a reduction of Is per qr.
en the rates of yeaterlay se'nnight. Lars, supply of
malting barley, but limited demand at Is reduction.
Oat, short supply, and fully as doer as last Reek. Peas
and , slow dentand, late rates. List weelie
oclal returns give 52s 100 as the average prieJ per
qr. for wheat, and 34i 50 for barley.

DORCHESTER.. SATUIDAY.—At the fortnightly
asks to-day business was brisk, the following price.
Is6g obtnised :—ln-.alt sows and heifers, from Ell 5i
to AR 151 sash; yearling heifers, £65. to £72. 61 ;
beifen and salves, £l5 to £22 ; large fresh Lammers,
£l2 to £l7 10s ,• fresh steers, E3S4 104 per pair; fat
salves, S 4 2,6 to 25 194 oaoh ; fat bulls, £l6 101 to ;
gown owes, 511 to 504; horn ewes. 52s to 60e; down
wethen, 58e to 604 • stook horn ewes, four-tooth, 49s
to 53.1 ; sig.tooth, 48:s to 53.; hogs, 316 to 313si The
attsodaasa was large.

Tug "Lt[. PRESENCE" QUESTION.
Ou Saturday the arguments La tho Beooott &pp< .1
MOO were brought to • Gloms batotc the Judisial Own•
mitts of the Privy Courtrai. Their lordthips rese.ved
judgment.

MIS PRINCE Or WALES.
JO balletins on Sunday from Sandringham were of 71
favourable ottarsoter. The latest wee as folloWa
Data. 3, live p.m. His It3yal Highness h passed
the day quietly. The symptoms °optione without
aimage."

DESTRUCTION OF LEITH FIER BY FIRE.
On Saturday the west piss at Leith was set on dre
by a pitch kettle boiling over, and the greater part of
SIN strustnre, being of wood, was destroyei. The
skippieg, some of which was In dangerous proximity,
easaped damage. The loss is estimtted at £15,000.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR NEAR DUBLIN.

ost Friday night Power, a blacksmith, residing
St Ball's Bridge, near Dahlia, was fired at by one of
titres sten while standing at his own door. The men
drove by to • dog•cart. One of the three fired re-
volver point blank at Power, doing him no injury
fortunately. The same party fired into the house of
/fix. Byrne, and afterwards Into tho mono,' establish•
mint a Dr. Ashford, doing no injury.

DESTRUCTION OF WARWICK CASTLE BY
FIRE.

....
Warwick (lade, one of the finest specimens of
smient feudal reaidenoes in the kinglom, was on Sun•
day almost totally daatroyed by fire. The Earl and
and Cenntees of Warwiek are now at Torquay, but
two of their children were asleep in the building at
the time when the Llama were discovered. They were,
bOW•Vef reamed. Tie ofigin of the fire is at present
unknown.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
The return of the Queen from Sandringham
to Windsor on Friday, was more astisfactory
proof than the tone of the latest bulletins that
the Prince of Wales was progressiog as favour-
allay as could be expected under 80 serious a
disease, and there is now a diminution of anxiety,
, ness's condition. The lamented death of Lord
though not of interest, as to Ilia Royal High-
' Chesterfield, who had been suffering from the
same disease as the l'rinco of Wales (supposed
and Peer haviug been guests of Lord Londea-
to have originated at the same place, both Prinoe
borough shortly before their seizure), seemed an
evil omen in the case of His Royal Highness ;
but the Prince has safely posed that stage of
the disease at which his lordship succumbed.
There is, therefore, every cause for hope, though
naturally there must be a serious air yet about
Sandringham, which made the boll-ringing and
cannon-tiring on the occasion of the birthday of
the Princess of Wales on Friday seem a formal
if not an inlongruous celebration; and we are
not surprised to be told that both at Lynn and
Windsor illuminations were dispensed with in
consequenee of the Prince's condition. His
Royal consort is not likely soon to forget the
melancholy circumstances of her twenty-seventh
birthday. But even to this matter there is an
agreeable aide, for the danger to the heir appa-
rent has evoked such genuine and intense loyalty.
to the throne as Republican agitators could never
have dreamt of in their philosophy, while it
may calm those fearsome souls, who, because
Sir Charles Mae followers are loud of voice,
thought the "evil days" were upon us.
Republicanism versus Monarchy, is, however,
one of the topics of the day, and, as we are
assured by some fanatics that through simply
replacing the latter system by tbo former we shall
at once attain to a practical milleuium, we may
as well examine the matter. Let us look first
at the difference between the United Kingdom
and the United States—countriea alike iu many
things, but differing particularly in one being a
monarchy and the other a republic. But, put-
ting aside the essential different.) between an
old country and • new one—and the didereuce
is as groat in the case of monarchical Canada or
Australia from our own country as in the case of
Amerisa—putting aside, we say, the difference
between boundless unoccupied territory, and
undeveloped resources to provide for all who
are willing to labour on the one hand, and
accumulated wealth side by side with accumu-
lated poverty on the other, which state of things
really has nothing to do with the form of political
government—making this necessary distinction,
we assert, without fear of contradiction, that the
United Kingdom will compare favourable with
the United States in the matters of political
administration, general acid local, of the admin-
istration of justice, of social and domestic life, of
intellectual activity, and of enterprise in trade
and commerce, to mention no other matters.
But, drhpping this invidious comparison, lot us
take other exemplars. What can our republican
friends say to the great contrast offered by the
thriving and orderly Empire of Brazil, as coin-
pared with the Republic of Mexico and those of
South America. Hero are countries under
similar conditions, as respects vast undeveloped .
territories, and with regard to the race of their
inhabitants; but the only one of all that
steadily and probably advances in civilisation,
in political, social, intellectual, and com-
mercial life, the only one in which true freedom
is combined with order—is the Brazilian
monarchy. But lot:
.us come nearer
home for other exemplars. We will
take Italy and France. During the last
twelve years the former country has gone
through a revolution unparalleled in the history
of the world. Monarch after monarch has been
dethroned, oven including the Pope-King him-
self, and several national wars have been fought,
while the cause, for popular excitement have
been too numerous to mention ; yet the occasions
of mob violence or of political severity on the
part of the Government have been insignificant
in number. During the whole twelve years
there has not been a tithe of the popular outrage
or the political punishment that we have wit- ,
nessed in France during the existence of the '
present republic. The monarchial principle of
government, carefully retaiued by Italy in all
the plumes of her revolution, up to the occupa-
tion of Rome as her capital—the "crowning of
the edifice" of !Latham indepoudouce and unity
—has preserved her from such calamities as the
Communist insurrection in Paris, with all its
attendant horrors, and (rein the supposed neces-
sity for such barbarous executions as that of
Rossel. We say "supposed," for under a moil-
arohy we can scarcely believe that such an
execution would have taken place an cold blood
months after the offence for which it was in-
flicted. luelorable justice might have con-
demned, but mercy, in the petunia the ui JO %rob,
would have iuterveued. In France, however,
the " fountain of mercy," like that of honour.
is dried up, an! Cut replace 1 by that miserable
substitute, the Commission of Pardons—a stag-
nant pool in comparison with a fountain.
Nations do not want all their public adminis-
tration carried on by inflexible logical rule.
There are occasions when they want a single
human heart to act for them—to congratulate,
to welcome, to honour, or to pardon—and a
heart that can afford to take the responsibility
of expressing the national feeling. Such a heart
can only be a monarch's. But the most im-
portant difference between monarchy and re-
publicanism is to be found in order as generally
existing in the United Kingdom, aud anarchy
as excited by Sir Charles Mike mid his followers
at Bolton the other day.
Another inroad upon our national unity I On
St. Andrew's Day, at the 207th anuiversary
festival of the Scottish Corporation i's the chief
city of the kingdom, and in the presence of a
brilliant company, Dr. Norman Macleod has
referred to a very remarkable phase of history
which, he understand', is pa sing over the
Highlands of Scotland". It is no other than •
dream of the formation of the Highland' into
Confederate States—Kintyre to be one State,
with its capital Cempbelton ; Lorne another,
with its capital Oben ; Toberinory another ;
Fort William another; Inverness another. The
Highlanders, if let alone, are quite ready, we
have the doctor's word for it, to restore that
portion of the National Liturgy—" God bless
the islands of Cumbray and the adjacent islands
of Great Britain and Ireland." There was no
need to add that the whole of the Confederate
States are agreed about the first President. 01
course the Marquis of Lorne would undertake
that high position. It was premature to drink
the health of the Marquis, who presided, as
President of the Confederate &atoll inthe High-
lands ; but will Sootchmeo be able to talk of
anything else for some days to come I
In the Tichborne trial, the cross-examination
of Mr. Baigent, second only in length and
interest to the claiuoant's, has set everybody
speculating again. !disconnection with all that
has recently transpired ia reference to the
trial is iiitimate and the attempt has been to
prove that, assuming the claimant not to be Sir
Roger, he might have become posaer-ed of In-
formation through this archaiologist and friend.
There have been several scenes in court, in one
of which Mr. Ballautine implied that the counsel
were not over sure of their money, but that
there were cases whore, having undertaken a
duty, they would not be hindered iu going on
with it, tuough, as the Lord Chief Justice
said—
Lawyers have more sober sense
Than argue at their own expense.

A rumour of another turret ship iu distress is
certainly veiy disheartening. It is said that the
liotspur left Plymouth ou ittouday for Portland,
that she shortly afterwards encountered a heavy
head sea and stiff gale. Thou4h her engines
were only going half speed she plunged heavily;
and wave after wave swept over her, drenching
all hands. The captain, Lord Job" II ay, who
remained on the bridge the twelve hours the
ship was out, on finding what tremendous seas
struck the ship off Rart Point, put on a irk
jacket, and, summoning the officers together,
decided that it would be rash to proceed further.
With two or three feet of water on deck, and a
good deal below, the liotapur returned to Ply-
mouth. Evidently there was a dangerous
approach to another Captain disaster. The
question arises whether turret-ships ought to be
allowed to go to sea at all, or whether they
should remain, like the new turret-ship Clatton
7--for harbour defence.
The exile of Chiselhurst and his partisans have
been very quiet of late. We have no rumours
afloat of imperial intrigues in England, and we
hear of no Bonapartist machinations in France.
On the contrary, there is a good deal said about
the definite constitution of the Republic, the
return of the Assembly to Paris, the election of
a second chamber by the Comieila-thinoiraux,
sad & proposition to elect M. Mien president for