The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-03 00:00:00

grata attb Commerce.

SHE GREAT EASTERN AT NEW TORI.—LIVERPOOLO
Weclnesday.—The which arrived off Queenstown
at eight o'cldelkett night, has broeght intelli-
gence of the safe _ Jsisik #.- •
Great Eastern, after a very- rapiu - ..lastalinv
remembered that the big ship left Milford Haven late
at night on the 7th of May, and according to the
&drives of the Etna she reached New York early on the
morning of the 17th ; thus (computing the time of her
departure for and arrival at New York), she made the
voyage out in nine days and five hours, which is one of
the quickest voyages on record. The Great Eastern
will leave New York for this port on Saturday next,
the 31st instant, and if she makes an squall, favour.
able run home she may be expected in the Mersey on
the evening of Monday, the 9th June, or the following
morning. We understand that it is the intention ef
the directors to have her thrown open for visitors as
soon after her arrival as posaible--probably the next
day: so that the great numbers who visit this town
during Whitsun week may have an opportunity GI in-
specting the ship.
Dummies IN nu EXPORTS or 'Coat rgog
ENGLAND DURING THE PAST MONTH.—From the
statistical returns which have just been issued it appears
that there has been a decrease, amounting to 106,158
tons, from the various ports in England as regards
the export of coal, though from the Scotch
ports there was an increase 6,771 tons. The
figures steal thus Frani the northern
porta during April, 18041, the experts were 357.396,
spinet 446,865 for the corresponding period of 1861;
from the Yorkshire ports 16,4111, against 23,087; from
Liverpool 42.503, against 55,781; from the Severn parte
173,679. against 177,237; and from the Scotch ports
642,521, against 748,677. This shows that there was a
decrease of 89,475 tons front the northern ports, es
6,626 tons from the Yorkshire ports, of 13,648 ton;
from Liverpool, and 3,541 tons from the Severn porta
and also that there was an increase in the exports from
Scotch ports as above. The total export+, from the
various ports in the United Kingdom, from January to
April in the present year, amounted to 2,339,015, show-
ing an increase over the corresponding period of 1861 of
293,907.
AMERICAN COMIIIRCYL—The mercantile advice' from
New York this week indicate, amid all the speculative
wildness on the Stock-Exchange, consequent upon the
flood of paper currently, an increasing feeling of alarm
and discouragement among the leading merchants and
financiers. Each new victory is followed by the dis-
covery that the people in the vanquished district all
unanimously opposed to the Washington Government,
and that no obedient* can be obtained from them exoept
such as is enforced by strong military power. "Thus
far," it is said, "no Union feeling whatever has been
discovered in the South—and it is now no longer ex-
pected." The lose of life, on both sides, was bops's*
to be felt among the families of every part of the
country, and it is probable that for extent of
there has rarely in the history of the world been a
struggle presenting more cruel results. Speculators and
contractors, however, coctinee apparently In high
spirits. No Tax Bill has yet been passed, and the
politicians, it is said, seem to have arrived at the cow
elusion that any stteation to that point ie
unnecessary. "The people, in fact, think that in pipet
money they have found the philosopher's stone.
In the absence of the ordinary commercial demand
money is universally forced into Government stocks,
which experience new inflation on every telegram
announcing that the rebellion must at length pod-
tively be "crushed oat" in the amino of a few
further days. The deposits in the hands of the New
York banks have TieeD to £23,000,000, an increase of
£1,200,000 having occurred in the last week,while in the
same interval the specie had experienced • decrease of
nearly £700,000. The importations of foreign merchan-
dise from the let Of January had amounted to
£12,373,000 against £12,940,000 in the corresponding
period of last year, and. 917,140,000 in the corresponding
period of 1860.