The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

Crab: ant Commerce.

LONDON' SPIRIT btaßKlT.—Rtint Is in Pair MUMS,
ill.. Rid. to Is. Old, for proof Leeward. ; and Is.
to Is, did. for Bast Incite, tdauritus. and Cuba.
Brandy mappens fermerterms, and plain spirits is freely
oared at Is, Vol. proof.
nearly all kinds of tea, the demand eon.
Mouse steady, at very full prim', omunlon sound coups
having milled 100, per lb.
1111111A1,-• rine raw sugars have sold to a !Mr exWnt,
at last week'ø eurroney ibut low and damp panels have
given way od. per cwt. Bellied goods sell slowly, it
Me. to 575. per °wt. Crushed sugar eupporta former
terms, The 'total ;Book of sugar in London 17 7,000
tons, vainet 04,000 tons In 1057.
The Diane, the first steemor over mint to the northern
whale fisheries, has arrived at !lull from Davies Minas.
Blie has fourteen whales, 125 tons of oil, and six and •
half tons of bone ; and reporta of the steamer Chase,
with sight tarry dab, 115 tons of oil, ;coven tons of bone;
and steamer Pay, of Dundee with mix whalos, 100 tone
of oil, and six tons of bone. 'The superiority of eteamers
tor engaging in this trade is fully demonstrated.
A project is on foot to establish a olearing.house in
London for the oountry blinkers. The propositloo Is
aupported by a very considerable number of the country
bankers, and in London most of their agents have sig.
Wiled their approval of the establiahment. All persons
eon versant with the mode. operandi of banking operationa
between the various country hanks and their London
agents are aware that the preeent system is cumbrous
mid expensive, and the establishment of a clearing
houee is absolutely necessary for the purpose of redue-
Mg the system to due order, and assimilating it to tho
requirments of the present day.
The Patent Dorris& Company (Limited) have issued •
prospeetua of the undertaking, as the directors are now
prepared to reoeive from the public subseriptions for
further shares of £5O each, to the extent of £20,000.
The enterprise has been formed with the view of work-
ing the "Patent Hoorn Derriok," an Amerioan inven-
tion for somomplirning every description of hoist.
whether on land or water, required in Government or-
iental and navy pads, or by dock companies, ship-
builders, oontraotors, Sm. The moat profitable employ-
ment to whisk the derrick will be applied is the raising
of sunken MINAS and general salvage purposes, and
from this source alone considerable dividends may be
; 'realised.
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It is proposed to give an enlarged and permanent
character to the steam transit lately established between
Galway and America, and a prospectus of the Atlantis
and Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, with a capi-
tal of 2500,000 in 210 shares, has been issued for the
purpose. The service is to be weekly, and the prinoipal
advantages set forth by the promoters are, that it will
save one or two days to all passengers, and owing to its
telegraphio facilities will enable messages to pans be-
tween London and Washington in about six days; that
the dangers of the Channel are avoided; that there will
be a saving of insurance es well as of wear and tear train
the reduced sea distance; that the Governments on both
sides of the Atlantic will be likely to grant snail con-
tracts ; and that the requisite lanais, owing to the
iierious depression in the value of steamships, can be
purchased for extremely small sums. More than a third.
of the capital is stated to have been already sub-
seribed.
IRONMASTERS QUARTILIILY MRITING. —BIUMING•
HAI( , OOT 14.—The third of the meetings of the iron-
masters of this diatriet, foram current quarter, was held
in the Townhall here to day. The attendance was largo
and the business trenseated far more ooneidenible than
might have been expiated from the quietude which pre-
vailed at Wolverhempten yesterday. There was more
inquiry to-dey for inanufeotured iron, and the prim in
favour of the seller. Pig iron maintained the advance
already quoted ; and upon the whole the iron trade
looked more healthy at this quarterly than at any pre.
vices one for twelve months,

The liquidetors of the Inetrlet Rank, Neweaetle•on•
Tyne, paid the drat dividend of to, In the pound to the
depoellove in the bank lest week. The total dividend
would then amount to about hell * million. The pap
went wee wade In the new Townhall,

RAILWAY THAYVIO WITUIIIIII6—Tho treffie 1011111Aon
reilweye in the United Kingdom published for tito week
ending ()Molter amounted to Belle,ooo, and for tits
otirreepondint weok of It 4 yoer to 2403,19 U, ithowing
mt Morelos or g LOW, 'Pio vim roottioto of Ilia 01'14
railway hering their torvttttt in the motropollo amounU4
for tha wook ending uulllllll4l t0R1108,0140, and for tho
rtorroepoittling period of Intl7 to kik13,900, showing an
inemtwo of g 11,777, The Morrow on the Keelorn
Nontioe amountod gifflit t on the Weal Northam
Nl,7sls on tho larva Wooten* to all,Mlo out tho
London, Brighton, Anil 00111111 Uuiot toYileVad on tho
London and South•Weetorn It,Wl,hild end on tho
Noollolhokirn to Y 4,00 t total, Siii,4o4, ilut front
tub tiutuot to (WNW )47,Mi4, the thiamin' tot Oho
London end Nortit•Weatern, and gdd on tho London
end Bleak well, Wowing tho Waimea re ehovo, kh,77?,
Tim troth° rooolpto tot tho °Moor hove tho Unitod
Kingdom Amounted to Vden,o94, mot for ilto
spooling porkol of loot year fo APJPIII,9II, pluming a
&uremia of 0,1117 In tho rooolpts if thtiao linee,
(Wonted from filto Itiorsame Ott Mid inkiroloolliAti
lo4vtol tho Ototnl Inorow, CI,OIIO to oomparod with
the ourreepunding period of DIM