The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-21 00:00:00

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Rekorno, Saturday.—The market Opened doll, and
the business done was at the previous week's prices.
We did not hear that wheat made over 455. per qr.
Holders of barley eoold not dispose of their stooks with-
eat submitting to • alight reduction in prioes. Oats
crest off fairly at previous rates, and beans and peas
Were • quiet trade, their value being unchanged. The
following are the prioee at which flour is selling In this
%want—Households, ; and seconds, 81a. per sack.
Sorienssrron, Friday.—With moderate supplies of
` *heat at our market to-day prices ruled dull, and barely
late quotations were maintained. Other articles tonal.
%tired. Flour steady. Wheat, old, £lO to CIO 101. per
load; new, to £lO. Barley, grinding, 2ISa. to 275. per
•qr ; malting, 30s. to 31a. per qr. Oats, 20c. to 284. per
qr. Beane, Ms, to 40.. per qr. Pete, Ms. to 40s. per
qr.
Wisingstitt, Saturday.—There was at this market
,110-day • moattittely large supply of wheat, bat only •
' small attendance of buyers. The trade was very slow,
but on the whole prices were supported. Best qualities
made 40e. to 415.; others, 363. to 38s. Of barley there
Was also a fair supply, and all good qualities were In
attire demand at full prices; malting was gutted 2. ta
S4s. Seed Oita in request, bet in eAcr Corti 'reel little
business was done.

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IBATillikar, Xll,l Irittka2l.—At the Clerkenwell police
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Wirt int Saturday, Mr. William Pratt, a sheep melee-
team, 'powered tuna information before Mr. D'Eyneourt,
laid agrhist him by Mr. Love, on behalf of the secretary
sit the Royal Society for the Prevention of Crtialty
Animals, which charged him with " having cue
intimated certain sheep in the New Cattle Martict, e,
exposing the lame for sale when shorn of their fleece,
thereby oontravenhur the statitte 12th and 13th Viet.,
cap 91"—Mr. Ricketts, after giving an outline of the
faeta, observed that he would assume there could be no
ttiro opinions in regard to the cruelty of expelling
animals *oder such circumstances to the severity of the
'weather in mid-winter. particularly in such • place as
the Islington Cattle Markel.. Having called attention
to the words of the At of Parliament, Mr. Ricketts
said if he pro7'..d whttt he had stated he should ask that
1111bitsw!.sa1 penalty might be levied, in order that it
be made dear te the defendant and the trade
geterilly that it was an infringrcept of the law, which
ermild net be permitted*ithittinonity.—Mr. D'Eynoond
maid it appeared to him that the we must fail at 1115
outset, AS the wrong person was before him. The
grazier or farmer who sent the sheep up showid be pro-
ceeded against, not the salesman. Evidence was, how-
ever. gone into. At the dose, Mr. D'Eynoourt said the
case against Mr. Pratt must be dismissed, as it fell to
the ground. With regard to the main question, if the
irra ter was ever to be discussed, he might say that it
was proved before him that sheep idiom of their wool
and exposed in the market of a cold day did suffer. It
hail been proved before him that this practice did cause
•to a oertain exte'et. The evidence before him
so strong that if another case of the kind
him he '4 feel inclined to con.

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