The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-08-17 00:00:00

Jr =PRAM A ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

MARK LANE, MONDAY. Auousr 10.
asp* ol English whist short. A isosidesbis
altruism is prime woe asked, but the make made were at
Priday's terms Ass 1111113.1118 of new wheat ware shelve,
the quality of which was generally poor
_Tonga who"
met a moderate inquiry at the above edemas.
Barley, 6,1. to ; mid beam, peas, and maim, swab
I. dearer. Oats in lair demand at 6d. advanee
Country hoar 28. per seek, and American, la to 2a
per barrel higher.

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11.11TROPOLITAN CATTLI AItKET, Aroma 16.
Trade for beasts brisk, at full quotations. Yore
activity in the sheep trade. Short supply of lamb, and
little or no inquiry. Calj trwit gIOW. l'ork maintains
It. pride.
Beef, 3s. 44. to ria ; mutton, 36. 44. to 6s. fid. ;
wed. 38. to sa. 2d. ; pork, 4s. to sa.; lamb, 4s.
to sa. 84.
Beasts, 4,351 ; cheep and lambs, 21,470; calves, 278;
Plea, 100. Foreign—beasts, 2,330; cheep and lambs,
0,750 ; calves, 274. IrMh beasts, 230 ; English beeeta,

SAMMOreII COEN M 1.,. ikrrdif•ldr: Wheat, 44.. to rAs.
average Ms. ; u.s, a. erase 29..;.1. per
gamier. Sowterser:Atifuth the supply of corn wax utioll. A
few iambs y 4 new wheat were , and they appwarml in fair
emulitton. Tbe quotation wan front 52, to 56.. pee qr.. Old
t.. noes. than last and.. Oato had an moron'
tendency. Floor. 34, WWI 35, per 60,11 for emootals.—At
Taunton prier. .4 all dencripthom E..rrs are ewt•
issmently men-bents 4.nly purchased to adv4y immediate wiints.
4,,,,,iations: -Wheat, 61. 64. f.. 4.. el. per bushel ; maltlng
barley, ba la; grinding, 4, 21., at, 3,3 d to 2.. 61.:
rs.; pea, to.; dan. fn.; tares, 7, M.—rats: At Warmionter
the soppily..4 every yleacription .4 grain were mall. The trade
an. re, qui. t. For wheat higher rates area ado.l, and here
fale. Mare fleeted 2%. per qr. mon• money hut t.. to gisen.
The quotation was front bo. to ha.. Onto had an upivard
tendency. The flour trade wan very firm, making 3:0. the sack.
—flanti: At the Southampton Corn Eadoinge there was
a better attendance of fanners., and an improued demand fur
wheat, best 'ample. .4 which met. tot. rably free male at
advance of loll) per quarter .ver lad week's raten. Pains,
pas, harley, and oot.a moderate inquiry at late jun.: house-
hold flour man f. noted In. to 2.. per sack dearer. The quota-
tions went: Wheat, 1.13, 14.. to £l4 not pet load; tams, 45a.
to 540. ; pews, 44.. 1.• ; malt, GB.. to 74, •' barley for
indting, 42.. to 4'h.; ditto for grinding, try. to 32..;; oaty., 21.
per quart,: household flour, 34.. to. floe. per ack. At
Alt-n there an. a good slum .4 wheat, which met a ready sale
at MI advance Is. to 2, per quarter over last week'n quota-
tion.: War wild. ..changed. Ti,.. mimes realism' were:
Wheat, £l4 to £1414.. per toad; been.., 44a. to 201.; pew 44..
to 44..; harky, Va. to :dn. ; ante, 4.n. to Stas. per ouster;q
hounehold flour, 41. per 'wok; bread. 134. per Idlet. At
Farehom wheat made 61. to tAs. Cd. ger quarter no return of
other grain ; and at Rangoon.' wheat averaged 52.. Id ;
oar.. Irk per quarter ; breed, 134. per alb, At Witichoder
there no an ...rage attelitlanee, no-la moderate sale for wheat
at prim. try istrall) 1,, 'atone .4 holder. ; tither grain stationery
at late rat, ; hinlairhold flour, 37, to Ka, per leek. At
lladngstoke the 11.1m:tor's return : Wheat, le4 quarter. 5
bushels, average price 11. M. ; oat., 60 quarters, aterage
27.. SI per ii.rt•r.

01711. LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
" lobabod r The glory of the London semen has do.
parted. With the close of the session the last lingering
sips of fashionable life disappeared. Within twenty-
four hours of the prorogation, noble lords and faithful
Oommota—the few who had been faithful to the end—
were scattered abroad in every quarter hot the vicinity
of London. The great aristocratic) seighbourhoode—
mach as Belgravia, Tyburnia, and Weettearnia---contain-
tog streets, soaves, places, terrac es, and crescents
enough to embellish • hundred good-sized towns. are
inhabited only by servants on board wages ; while Pall
Mall, the Ring, and the Row, and all plasm where
fashionable people most do congregate are deserted but
by the few thousand plebeians whom business or plea-
sure may bring into quarters that are no more to them
than Holbcro or the Strand. In brief, the West-end
now preeents an analogous appearance to that whieh
may be observed in the city on Sundays ; it ham many
people still in it. thoroughfares, but all that gave it a
epecial eharacter and made up its peculiar -life and
activity is gone, while the drawn blinds, and the closed
shutters at long rows of mansions correspond to the
deserted offices and shut-up shops of the city on the day
of rest. As if to aggravate the melancholy and lone-
nemesess which the changed appearance of fashionable
London produces, the weather has latterly been wet,
chilly, and clouded, and our streets have been muddy
and uninviting as in winter. This has prevented our
dullness from being relieved by that large influx of
country visitors which le timid shout this time of the
year ; so that, to be cheerful in town just now, a man
neod be above ail outward influencea
After an unusual eilenee during the session, Lord
Stanley has been the first in the field with one of those
extra-Parliamentary speeches which have now become
quite an Institution with our legislators, and of which we
"hall doubtless soon have • goodly crop. The noble lord
spoke, MR in recess time' he usually does, and does so
well, upon • social topic; and his depreattion, before a
Lancashire agricultural meeting, of the destruction of
hedgerows,which while they sfford protection from
incle-
inentwstatber toanimals and crops, are the haunt of ging-
ingbirdsand wldflower,,will be ioitted in hrevorT lover
of rustic scenes and their accompaniments. But,
though apparently still on sod.' ground when he spoke
of threefold division of landlord, tenant, and labourer,
°enjoined with large farms and scientifie culture, as
economically the beet condition for agriculture, it is
pretty clear that his lordship intended an indirect
reference to the Irish land question, which will so soon
be the bone of contention between parties. At all events.
It is pretty generally supposed that one feature of the
Government laud measure next minion will be to provide
facilities for the establishment of peanut proprietors on
the estates of absentee landlords in Ireland ; while it is
now clear that Lord Stanley, for one, would be opposed
to much a policy.
It has been complained that the Government have
fixed an extravrgant mice for the telegraph lines of the
United Kingdom in giving twenty years purchase
calculated on profits ; aod if we may take as a test the
present position of the Electric and International Cora- !
'any eetta,nly it would have been better to have paid •
considerable premium on the company's stook than to
have offered so many years purchase. The company's
stook has run up to 265-165 premium—anise the agree-
meat of Government to purchase ; but even that fignre
is not commensurate with the profits if we are to take !
the theist, nd declared last Friday as a criterion, for, he
adtUtion to dividing 21) per cent., the e! ropeny made a
present of E2,2eler to its secretary, and ordered £5,000 to
be distributed among its staff by way of bonus. It would
be cutious to enquire whether this divitend and these
bonuses represent legitimate net profits, or whether
they result from neglecting provisions for repairs and
maintenance which would have been made if the oom-
{any were going to retain its lines, instead of handing
them over to Government One thing, however, Is clear
without inquiry, that telegraph proprietors are mak-
ing a good thing out of their birth:tem just now, and
will not make • bad thing in selling their lines to
Government.
At our police-courts last week several summonses were
disposed of for neglecting to have children vaccinated.
In one case it was a gentleman and man of intelligence
'rho refused to comply with the Act, and he attempted
to argue with the mngi-trate, saying that his own
medical man agreed with hitt, until he was out short
by the magistrate. saying that he bad merely to
adminiskr the law, and could no more enter into •
contmversy whether punishment was just in this case
than in one of iittault or theft, and he roust therefore
inflict the mitigated penalty of lOs. In another ease,
a second summons was issued against a poor woman
for the Dame offence, she having neglected to comply
with the order made on the Best summons. The
ntagistente (Mr. Paget) argued the twitter patiently eitli
her, but, failing ti convince her, inflicted a fine of El
or seven days' iroprisonment,the woman going to prison
In default. Now, these eases of obstinate opposition to
the legal provision for compulsory emanation are quite
symptomatic of a feeling which Is gaining ground bark
among all dames of society —a dienclinauon to bays
children vaccinated. The twee that come before tin
courts ere but a percentage of the instances of nailed
and those, again, are only a fraction of the instance' in !
which parents unwilling comply with the law. All thisis
traceablenotton want./ faith in thepelneipleof vaccina-
tion—although the faith may have become leas strong
in • generation which knows No little of the horrors
of unmitigated small-pox—but to the conviction that
as at present conducted, vaccination produces MON
disease than it prevents. So strong is this feeling, and
so mush is it countenanced by many medical men, that
we shall doubtlese soon have an agitation for • reform
in the syatem of supplying lymph ;and I have no doubt that !
Parliamentary inquiry would show such reform to ba
uot only desirable, but feasible. In addition to what
one sO6ll in the public papers, everybody has some story
to tell of • healthy child poisoned by corrupt lymph. !
If see do not have • splendid and well-contested race
between the Harvard and the Oxford men, it will not !
be for want of training and peactice, as the rue to not
to come off until Friday the 27th. Of course the general
public favour the F.nolish crew; but not a few Doe-
noisseurs expiate. oonaiderable 00013410 nm in the ,
Americans. lhey are an athletic set of men, and have
evidentiy the strength and stay in them which the!
rare will require, and the time of their tarok's does
lot adroit 01 much improvement Their only defect is
the same or that of Cambridge oarsmen—a want of
"catch" in the commencement of the stroke, which
causes • waste of muscular power. It they could only
fall into the oxford style of throwing the whole weight
of the body into the stroke, their chance of victory
would be much Realer than it is now. Bet it is
doubtful whether they can overcome • defect which
probably originates wttlt them in rowing without a cox-
swain, as in the Cambridge men it does from the im-
perfections of their river. Anyhow, however, the
victory of the, American crew will scarcely be an in-
ternational trinmph, since the Harvard men will row in
an English built boat, in English fashion (so far as they
posaibly Dan), alter being well coached by an English
adept in the :oolitic:art. SPECTATOR.

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