The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-01 00:00:00

LONDON StARKEIS

BY EXPRESS é ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

11kRIC•LANE, IfoinnT,.Deo. 3t.

_
Moderate wilily of Foglia& sheet; the market en-
listed • somewhat holiday a_ppearanoe. but the trade
mai decidedly finu, and fully previous rates were
obtained. Foreign wheat very firm.
Malting barley firm, other qualities quiet, at previous
rates
it Malt doll.
Oats in fair demand at previous rates.
Beans and peas unaltered.
Flour fine.
finds stationary, and takes firm.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Dgo. 31.
A fair supply of foraign stork; trade firm at from
fully last week's prices to Wight advance. Howe-fed
beads changed hand. freely at an advance of 3d. per
8110. 5.. 5L wsa th• top lore.
A limited show of sheep, at last week's currency wag
fairly supported. The best Downs aod balf-breda sold
trogi VI. to fig 44.; heavy white•faord sheep,
Ss. dd. to fis. Bd. per 81b.
Calve, Waggish.
A slow sale for pigs, at theist. decline in value.

MONEY MARKET, Dna. 3L
consols for money ors quoted 814 to 90 ex Mr., sad
tor the &Noon& 90 ex div.

tattst.

" Raruse Omos, Monday Night.
Tin colliery esplonion fund at the London Mansion
siaoanta to upwards of £13,000.

Nan. POTATOZS Were sold in Salton muket, on the
Saturday and Monday before Christmas.
Tim Queen took mnah interest in the Atlantis Yeast
Rau, and invited the owners and their frieads to Osborne
on Friday.

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GAMISIITIS. the boy murderer, ie respited during the
Queen's pleasure. He will probably be ordered to penal
servitude for life.

egotists Ina broken out in 11Iountjoy Prison, in the
wards spproeriated to Fenian prisoners, to five of whew
the discus bas proved fatal within the last few days.
Tuit tresrody at Edmonton was the sublime of a
coroner's inquiry on Saturday, mad the jury returned a
verdict that lira. Gudgeon murdered bar two children
sad herself while temporarily insane.

THE Priem and Princess of Wales and the Doke of
Cambridge will visit the Earl and Countess of Leicwiter
at flolkham-liall this week. The Primo of Wales has
quite regained his acenstonied health.

regret to hear that her Majesty caught sold on
the day of visiting the Mausoleum of the Prince Consort.
The cold rrsultasd in a most paintful attest of face-oohs,
from whish the Q.ireu is still suffering.

Ws understand that if the Archbishop of Cuttorhttrc
sad the Bishop of Oxford approve of the Rev. T Butler'.
coesptsrioe of the Bishopric' of Pietennaritsburg. be will
sotept the arduous poet offered him.—Johe 8011.

•
Tex Cabinet Council, will be resumed on Tuesday, the
Bth of January, b which day all the ministers will be
I. to en. This will give four weeks for deliberation
helot the session COMMOOOIIIII on Tuesday, Febuary sth.
AN imperial decree has been published abolishing
tonnage dues in French ports, except for vessels of those
nations which. like the United States, impose differen-
tial duties upon French vessels in their own ports.
Tea bums,: given to the American yechtemen now
at Cowes, took place on Saturday. Sir John Simeon
pnmided. Ti wee a very jovial gathering, at which
much friendlemes was expressed by both Britons and
Americana

A BLACKBIRD'S Nos? WM EBBS II DRCINIBIL
A blackbird's nest with four ems in it was taken on
Monday last week in • woodstsek ut Rieknianswoetb,
Herts. and they are now being shown at a 'tattooer's in
tbat town.

Cannon To PCIILMAJIII.—k man in Lowisborgb.
Ohio, having recently died of delirium tremens, bis
widow brought a snit against two men who ordinarily
sold him liquor. The county court awarded her MO
dollars from one and 900 dollars from the other.
Faor Ilene° we learn that the Emperor Maximilian
box had • fever. He hm issued a proclarnatioo from
Orisabs, announcing that the National Mexican Con-
gress was about to be convoked to decide whether the
otni.ire is to continue, and, if so, to frame laws. The
ifriiteur uys that thirty 'MOM have left French porta
to bring home troops from Nixie*. The Einperioe will,
therefore, be very shortly left entirely to his own
resouress.

WHAT 111 CILOILTT TO Alrlllel4ll-11te Society for
the Prevestion of Cruelty to Aoimals took proceeding.
mrainat • Mr. Cisinhity, who rode • horse called Voight,
lancer M Croydon, which bores broke it. bark while
trying to make whet had been called • "seasition water
jump." The aue came on at the Croydon petty sessions
an raturday. Alter the feels bad been proved, the
msgistrates dimmed the an., and, as the application
of Mr. llerewather, the defendant's sonesel, ordered
the society to pay all the coats of the case.

A Werrscatter, Cairrce bu been sent to prison
for a month for being drunk and begging. Thai
viable said "be makes up ii. Ito. He puts a small
vitae of soap in his mouth, and after sucking it for •
time, he throws himself down end begins to foam and
*Rath at the mouth. He has • sort of bagpipe with
pieces of tin attached to it. .Inst before be throws
himself down he ahakes this, and then plans the bag
under hit bead. The panserwby have companion upon
him and be gets • good deal of money."

SToartontastso.—Ealun Steeplechases took
tartThorsehiy, when two good bones lost their U,.
e
owing to the weight which the bonee had to sorry over
Tory heavy ground. Old Ovwestry. who won the great
event of the Croydon .teepleohase last year, broke his
Li at Ealing last Thursday, and had to be shot on the
ground, while bis owner, one of the beet and plucked
horsemen in England, was overcome with emotion, and
the very stable boys who attended him were so touched
that nose of them could be found to hold his poor
blinded head. Worst of all, the inn with which the
peer animal Was to be destroyed at Snit missed dre,
and the poor bent stood tottering on three leg,,
obviously cooseions of the doom which awaited him.
Tog OPINING OF PAIILIAIIIMT.—At the Council held
by the Queen at Osborne on Friday, Parliament wilt
ordered to be forth.' prorogued to the Bth of February.
then to meet for the dispatch of heelless. The Sunday
Gazette says there is good 'noon f.ir believing that the
Queen w ill °pet. Parliament in too, It I. sow
teetotally believed that Idr. Disraeli has persuaded his
colleague' Ursine that • Reform R.ll .11•11 he sonoonced
In the Qaeon's Speech. The lhoulay ,'asette also states
that Mr. Disraeli may calculate with prober ility on the
present rate of taxation prodotring fully two millions
more than required for the Inaseial year but the
greater part of this manilas will be 'beached by • larger
vote for military matrices.
RIOT AT WATUVOLD Fidtenotr.—The election for
the county of Waterier, bait resulted in the return of
the Liberal candidate, Mr. de la Peer. There appears
to have been eonsiderable excitement, and violins" was
In some cans restored to. On Friday night, a number
of Lord Stradbrooke's ten into, while proceeding to ,
Donganon for the portion of being in time to poll for '
Cant. Talbot, were waylaid. attacked with sticks and
stones, the traces of the nkieles cut, the true broken,
the horses disabled, and the voter" diverged by an
immenn mob. Stories were harled st an accompanying
detatohnieot of the 6th Parabinrers. The .4 lora and
police summoned to rectors the peen were attacked,
and many of them orevonsly wounded, some so seriously
as to load to apprehonsiqns of fatal regain. Daring the
poling at Danganon on Saturday the cavalry charged
the people, and one man was kiiled.