The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

artianuntan Vaptro.

NBN ACT Or PCBLIC ImrßovEmarrs.—The new Act
which hail just received the Royal assent and is now in
force provides for local improvements beneficial to the
health and comfort of the people. The ratepayers of
any parish maintaining its own poor, to the population
of which, according to the last account, exceeds 500
pertains, may purchase or lease lands and accept gifts
and grants of land for the purpose of forming any public
walk, exercise or play ground, and levy rates for main-
taining the same, and for the removal of any nuinances
or obstructions to the free use and enjoyment thereof,
and for improving any open walk or footpath, or placing
convenient stela or sheltars froin rain, and for other
purpose of a similar nature. The Act inay be adopted
in boroughs. After the adopt of the Act a meeting
of the ratepayers is to take place, to make a separate
rate, and such rate is to be agreed to by • majority of
at least two-thirds in value of the ratepayers assembled.
Previous to any such rate being imposed a sum in
amount not less than at least one-half of the estimated
e.ut of such proposed improvement shall have been
raised, given, or collected by private subscription or
donation. The rate is not to exceed 6d. in the pound.
II %NI( RUPTCIEIL—The number of bankruptcies gasetted
in the Isindon district in the six 1111 l uths ending June
30th was 245. The number of bankruptcies in the seven
provincial districts in the seine period 9,1 as fidlows :
—Liverpool, 25; Msnchester, 28; Birmingham, 81;
Leeds, ; Bristol, 46; Exeter, 24; Newcastle. 19—
total, 241. The aggregate bankruptcies in town and
country in the siz months amounted to 526, or at the
rate of 1,052 per annum. The average bankruptcy rate
of the preceding 10 year* has been 1090, and this yeses
figures are consequently slightly below the ordinary
total.
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URN roll Frieintir.—A Bill has been brought into
Parliament by the Board of Trade entitled, "Tie
Clearance Inwards and Lien for Freight Bill," the ob-
ject of which is to make general provision for continu-
ing the shipowner's lien for freight after the goods have
been removed from the chip. If goods are suffering
through remaining on board, and their owner fails to
land them with all convenient speed, or if the owner of
goods fails to land them within the time expressed in
the bill of lading, or, where no time is expressed,
within forty-eight hours after the report uf the ship to
the Customs, then the ahipoivner or master may make
entry of and land them, and place them at a wharf or
warehouse where such goods are usually placed, giving
moth* in writing of his lien for freight, ke., and the
goods shall, in the bands of the wharf or warehouse
owner, continue liable to such lien, and, if lie part with
them before it is discharied, lie shall make good the
lose to the shipowner. But the owner of the goods
may, if he please, remove them on depositing the
claiuied for lien, with notice to the wharf or warehouse
owner to retain it for thirty days, within which the
ehipowner must take proceeding* to recover the
amount of his claim, or else the deposit is to be restored.
If the lien is not diacharged, and no such deposit made,
the wharf or warehouse owner may sell the goods by
auction after ninety days, or earlier if they arc perish-
able, and out of the produce pay duties, warehoure rent
and freight, and hand the surplus to the owner of the
goods. The wharf or warehouse owner may do all
reasonable acts necessary for the proper cuatody and
preservation of the goods, and shall have a lieu thereon
fur the expenses.

Lire BOAT SZIVICIIB.—It appears that during the ;
terrific gales of the few months that have pease,' of the I
present year, the life-boats in connection with the Royal
National Life-Boat Institution have been instrumental
in rescuing one hunilied and fifteen of our fellow-craa•
tures from a watery grave. The beam have also, on ,
several occasioim, assisted vessels with valuable cargoes
safely into harbour; met their crews have assembled in
rough weather many times, so as to be ready for any
emergency that might arise. Nearly all the services
of the lile-boats took place, as usual, during stormy
weather and heavy sews—and frequently in the dark
hour of the night ; yet not a single accident happened
either to the crews or the boats. For these valuable
life-boat services the Institution had paid their gallant
crews 1:482. It is gratifying to observe at the present
day, on so many dangerous points of our coast, that no
sooner is the minute-gun heard, or the signal of distresa
seen, than the life-bust apse Is her way to the stmndml
ship. Who that has mot a life-boat put forth in the
very fury of a storm, but lias watched the fight with
the elements with intense excitement! Who that has
seen the same boat return, laden with rescued human
life, but has felt a sublime emotion such as we expe-
rience only by witnessing heroic and self-denying acts!
—The Life-Boat Journal.
" Leare well alone." "We don't get tea so good as
this in Englaud,' said a British resident in China, whilst
qualfiing the pure infusion in a Mandarin'a verandah.
" No," replied the Grandee, " Chinamen send sort*
mode better to look, than British Merchant much
'domed." Now this, though a fact, is out all ; the
practice of colouring the outface id tea fur English sup-
ply is resorted to, mainly to coolie the Chinese tea-men
and others to increase their profile, (or the colouring
L powders occasion the brown flavourless leaves to look
like the good, and mix oil- at a full price without deter
tom Murniman and Co., London, knowing that the
I British consumers would prefer tea perfectly pure, have
lung imported it wit/lout powdered colour ota the leaf,
t and continue, encouraged by the lame demand, to imps
• ply it secured in packets. For list of Horn man's agents
r who sell their pure tea in this locality, ace advercaseunut
in this day'a paper.