The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

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SIEGLII v. MARRIED LIFE.—The growing disposition
to celibacy among our young men, though in some mea-
sure attritnitable to a selfish and luxurious cynicism, is
chiefly due to the irrational expenditure consequent on
marriage, and the unattractiveness of prospective asso-
ciation with women no unlikely, from their artificial
habits, to yield domestic happiness. If this celibacy fre-
.luently defeats the economical considerations deciding to
it (as it should) and ends in much immorality and un-
happiness among men, how immeasurably evil must be
its influence on the other sex ; and what• violation of
natural law must that social organisation be which so
harshly represses the affections and bereaves so large a
class of the support and sympathy they Cr. entitled to
from man! Is the Rajpoot pride that slays a female
infant, lest in after life it should dishonour its parentage
by a plebeian marriage, inure cruel than the selfish
social system that devotes it to a solitary and weary if.
of penury and regret ?—fiete a Week.
CURIOCE LONDON STATINTICS. —The TOMES, in notic-
ing the London Post-Office Directories, gives loins
curious and•interesting results "To count accurately
the precise number of the different trades and pro-
fessions (in London) would be a toil only second to that
of editing the book. The thirsty souls, then, need have
no fear of becoming thirstier as long as there are up-
wards of 4,000 public-houses and 1,000 wine merchant;
to minister to their deathless thirst. The bread to this
enormous quantity of sack is represented by 2,500
bakers, 1,700 butchers, not including pork butchers,
2.600 tea-dealers and grocers, 1,260 coffee-room keepers,
nearly 1,500 dairymen, and 1,350 tobecconists. To look
after the digestion of this enormous amount of food
upwards of '2,400 duly licensed practitioners, surgeons,
and physicians are daily running to and fro through this
mighty u.etropoiis, whose patients, in due course of
time and physic, are handed over to the tender
mercies of 500 undertaken'. Nearly 3,000 boot and
shoe makers add their aid to that of the doctor to keep
our feet dry and warm, while 2,950 tailors do as much
for the rest of our bodies. The wants of the fairer
portion of the population are supplied by 1,060 linen-
drapers and 1,560 milliners and dressmakers, not, of
course including those poor creatures who, like Sarah
Dyer, 'stitch, stitch, ditch' over 'seam and pled and
band' without hope and often without recompense. Of
them this book speaks not; it speaks only of those who
have • fixed and known abode. 1,540 private schools
take charge of our children, and for the tulcomation of
possible 51.1'.'s for Greenwich let us add that 290 pawn.
broker's shops find employment and profit othut of e
reverses, follies, aud vices of the community. About
300,000 houses gives shelter to upwards of two millions
and a half of people, whose little differences Cr.
aggravated or settled by upwards of :1,000 attorneys and
3,900 barristers." In giving another extract, referring
to the places of worship, it seems importiatt to direct
attention to the small comparative number of Roman
Catholic chapels (29). How conies it, then, that this
insignificant body is so much the bugbear of our very
conciliatory politicans '—"The spiritual want* of this
mighty aggregate of human souls are cared for by 930
clergymen and Dissenting ministers, who respectively
preside over 429 churches and 423 chapels, of which
latter buildings the Independents have 121, the Baptists
100, the Wesleyans 77, the Roman Catholics 29, the
Calvinists and English Presbyterians 10 each, the
Quakers 7, and the Jews 10, the numerous other sects
being content with numbers varying (foul one to five
each."

HOLLOWAY./ PLUS.-1n bilious and nervous affections, indl•
'restful., hcadaches, and low spirits, these pills have an effect
C,llla'l3 surprising and delightful. They impart tone to the
sttsnach, purifying the blood, correct the IleCTOtiolla and reno-
vate the a hole stein with such rapidity, and an effectually.
that nothing in the form of medicine has ever before worked
IV/ touch like 111agle, and as potent as benign 114 ade, kektt:
comp...LA ..1 rare halsams, old, tut a particle of meretlry. They
are, therefore, as safe as they are edieschous. lltra.tiose. for
the gUldatlCO of patienta I. the tuts of this Invaluable medicine
are edited to each box. . -

D.D. soon"' tennis lannt.—The best of everything may be
had In London, but it nevertheless requires come experienent
and knnwkdge to obtain it : and those al,o are not willing to
explore the sources of supply are frequently content with al
moderately good article when a better might be had for the
seeklms. These remarks are addnreacel In particular to tha
purehasers of Whisky, and their mitheation is requested b-
those ho are mUslied altb 10,11 Whisky at preetit, and have
not trlol Scotch Whisky. The peculiarities which re-
commend this Spirit are it. creamy and pleasant flavour, great
strength, undeniable sholemenenem, and chea=, in roar
parnon with other Whiskies hitherto known in on. D.Ds
Whisky has not been long introduced into England, though ity
fame I, .01 estahlothed li, motland ; )et it is already largein
sold in the lietrnpolls. and has superveded Irlah %Welty is
numerous private famiLlea A ample la supplied to pram the
goillulllem of them remarks, for twelve postage stamps. A
Lam, emitaining twelve bottles, Or • 2-gallon jar of the D.D.
It hisky. forwanled for 40.. The mune arm supplies the Royal
Balmoral, a very fine mild and utellow mint, at 15a. gallon ,
and the Prince's Uaquehaugh, • muctreduairad and per_
dente...us
spirit, at Its. per gallon. Two gallons and upwards
of the above sent to any part. Orders from the country
must ondein a Post-office order, made payable to Donald
thence; 5, huricigh-nreet, Strand, London, N.C.