The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-28 00:00:00

TUESDAY. AUGUST 16. 1877.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

' It is strange to on how, in this critical time, "the
METROPOLITAN CATTLE.— ..PAlf. Edinburghs " have dropped out of notioe. In the
About 2,510 besets, including about 7,1150 foreign.
Trade quiet at 44. fid. to On. 24. About 8,000 sheep Russian war of 22 yearn ago the family alliances of the
Royal family were constantly being alluded to, and
and lambs. Trade steady at ss. Gd. to 7e. ; lambs,
7s. to Bs. ; calves made ss. to Get. 2,1. ; and pigs 3s. B.i. sZteit greed s a reason w_ky the war was not pushed on
ater enemy- isi 0 one now suggests, not even
e
to ss. 24, per eight pounds, sinking offal.—At Dept- the Daily r"rPhk that the reason why we don't go
ford about 2,000 lieasts and 8,000 sheep. to the help o Tar ey is that the children of Queen
Victoria and Czar Alexander are husband and wife.
SATURDAYS' MARKETS. No one appears to think of them. No one seeras even
to remember the 'Niches. of Edinburgh; and as for
CORN. her husband, all that we know is that he is somewhere
CAMBRIDGE. —A small show of old wheat, fur which with his chip in the Mediterranean or Besika Bay.
quotations ruled the same: new red made 584 to ffis : and This, of course, is as it should be. International
white up to Os per 50.1 b affairs, great questions of peace and war, should not
CANTERBURY.—There was a fair supply of new depend for their solution upon dynastic predilections.
wheat. lirdders had to submit to a reduction of is per This country has made up its mind as to the war,
quarter.
LISLE.—Th was a large supply of wheat at Is to andin doing so has left the Queen's son and daughter-
CARere
Is &I reduction. in-law out of consideration.
CRESTERFIELD.—Tbe amount of business done was
small, and price. for fine parcels were without alteration; ' Among the Bibles shown at the Caxton Exhibition
new wheat could he bought at Is par qr. less money. there is one says Mayfair, which is attracting con-
DORCHESTER. —At the Corn Exchange there waa a
small supply of wheat, which woo readily saleable at late elderable attention. It is that known as the
,
prices. New wheat of various qualities on offer, good dry_ .‘ Wicked Bible," from the accidental omission
samples finding ready purchasers. Quotations
~, :— -'a ."' ,of the word "not" from the Seventh Corn-
ga' "a' inmattal quarter; I'4 we'''.
'U.'''.
average was
fffin ;ft. No barley on offer. Small a ' mandment. Some virdtors clts' play an eager amount
attendance.
GLOUCESTER. —English white wheat, Bs. to Bs. lid. per of interest in the curious page containing the min-
bushel, and red. 7.. sd. to 84. 24. : American RS. tot Ba. fel; print, but they are assured by the courteous secretary,
SIM Girks, 7s. to 70. Gl. Barley, 255. to 275. 6d. per qr. who responds to most of the inquiries, that, although
Indian corn. 4s. to 40. 41. ; iind 'beans, its. 61. per bushel the passage exists in the Bible, it is not considered
for old, and 54. 9.1. for new. Peas 6e. to Fie 6d bi
, per bushel. di
n present
'rig at the pnt day.
English oats 334 to 37,., per qr. and Irish 26.. to c.. lid. ,
Last official average of wheat at Gloucester. ,C 1 is per I
i The telephone has put in an appearance at Christi-
Imperial minter.
NORWICR.—The supply of wheat at this market to- Ana, where a conversation has been carried on with
day was good, consisting principally of the new crop; Drammen. twenty-five miles distant, to the very great
prices for the hest iburription ruled shout the same as last
week, but soft conilitirmed qualibei
New
rather easiler. antoniahment of the native population. Dining the
Not lunch
doing in other articles. white wheat, 58iii performance, eye id the auditors suddenly effected a
to nO.; red, ditto, sls to ,7s per qr. Flour, 414 to 46s per precipitate retreat, being firmly convinced that his
sacks. I wife was inquiring after him. He could tell her voice
NOTTINGFIAM.—The inquiry for 'ld was restricted at . in a thousand, he paid, and where her tongue was her
lower prices. New was varied in quality and made
irregular rates: white, old. made Mt to lis. ; red, new, i ft" was chat' by.
Ma to Ole. per 36 stone. Grinding barley as before.
OXFORD.—The attendance in the Corn Exchange tee I
day was again very small and trade was dull, no business l
at all worth reconling taking place. I
READINO.—The new parcels were, generaly speaking, I
in damp condition, and sold at a decline of Is. to Is, per
qr., the highest price obtained being 665. per qr. Old and
prime samples were in request at high prices. Dla. to Ms.
per qr. being quoted. Barley sold steadily, end made
former currencies-3U. to 38-i. per qr.
CATTLE.

It is not often that the Court of Common Council
lays open its accounts, no as to let Londoners see what
is spent in entertainments ; but an official document,
including extraordinary expenses, has been published
by the Common Council, and we are anxious to inspect
W
some of the items. e find that it coat £14,295 to
entertain the Shah of Persia, and £12,827 to do honour
to the Czar of Russia, while the expenses in connection
with the ball and supper to the Pnnce of Wales on his
return from India last year cost the City no less than
£26,761. This is pretty well for • night's feasting.
After this such trams as £15,595 towards the erection
of the new Library at Guildhall seem like the penny-
worth of bread in Falstaff's bill to an intolerable
quantity of sack. If anything would help on the
cause of City reform, it is the publication of such
returns as these. What could the obstructivse have
been thinking of to allow such damaging statementa to
see the light !

CARLISLE.—Trade throughout was doll.
DONCASTER.—Prices remained unchanged.
NORWICFL—Trade ruled quiet
NOTTINGIIAIL—SaIes were made slowly at about late
rates.

WHITECHAPEL HAY AND STRAW.
The market was fairly supplied. There wm i dui
trade, and prices remained unaltered. Prime old clover
100 e. to ; inferior 'Kw. to Ste.; good new, 100 e, to
120,.; prime old meadow hay, 904. to 1211 a.: inferior. 70e.
to &Se. ; good new ditto, 80s. to 100 s. ; and straw, tic to
568. per load.

For a barrister to die and bequeath £200,000 for the
endowment of a bishopric of Northumberland, is one
of those signg of the times which no candid mind can
overlook. We suppose that in the old days of Philpotte
and Eldon such a phenomenon as this would have been
thought as absurd as that the Pope should turn
Plymouth Brother. But now the revival of Church
feeling has become a reality, to which it is useless to
shot our eyes. It is the same elsewhere. The widow
of Stewart, the New York millionaire monster-shop.
Eropariemtoorr;legnoing
tal cathedral.
otemzmoxitio tihnegteaNluergfiwc:
Jigs Walker has left a legacy which is thus being
translated into stone. What these" sermons in stone "
will ultimately preach it is impossible to say, but no
unprejudiced mind can shut its eyes to the fact that
Church principles, in one form or another, are in the
, ascendant.

In the year ended the 25th of March last armorial
bearings yielded £82,478 Its.
Is that which we draw upon our bankers a "check,'
a "cheque," or a " checque r Lord Beaconsfield,
who ought to know, adopts the last way of spelling it;
the rtnltA the first; while every one else, including the
bankers, spells it " cheque."
Last week the total number of paupers in the
metropolis was 76,862, of whom 36,212 were in work-
houses, and 40,650 received out-door relief. C ,mpared
with the corresponding week of 1876, these figures
show an increase of five.

Mr. Horsley, the chaplain of the Middlesex House
of Detention has "knuckled-under." He was a
member of the Holy Cross society, and the magistrates
at the last meeting decided that he must resi!..m his
connection with the society, or accept a three months
notice. After a great deal of blustering palaver he
has, "with regret,- adopted the former course.—
Loaves and fishes" triumphant over "conscientious
convictions." But does this enforced severing of Holy-
Cross-connections render the doctrines the rev. Fentle-
man may fairly be looked to as likely to impart
anything the less mischievous?