The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-06 00:00:00

MARK•LiNE. Aram 5.

Supply of wheat small. and, to effect sales, it was
neowury to submit to • DECLINE OF ONE TO TWO
SHILLINGS PER QUARTER. Banner done in
foreign was in ratail, at • redaction of ass shilling on
last Monday's prices. Barley met • slow sale. Beans
and pea. atealy in vales. Oats boll freely, at fully late
rates. Flour difficult of sale.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Ann 5
Beef trade arm ; the demand for best Sootiwas brisk,
and animated, and prime animals quickly moted off.
Ths foreign supply of beasts was larger and better than
of lato, and tLe trsosictions which took place were on
'rola. terms. Button and lamb unaltered in piles;
tr... Sim. Veal in demand. Pork stationary.
. .

ARRIVALS : Beuta. 3,930; 'beep and lamb.; 2%480 ;
cslAoo, 1.1$; pigs, 110. Foreign beast., 2.024; sheep
and Limo., 9 5.50 ; calves, 1:91; pig.. led; Scotch beast.,
L* t; Irieh, 25 ; English, 1,743. Beef, 3+ 10d Co 5e 10d;
mutton, 34 lthl to Be 6d; posit, 3.64 to 5o; lamb,
bs Sd to is.

the Thursday slisrsoaa Lord Stanley was inaugurated
Lora Rector us Clesgo• Coiversitr.
Ira said that the petition against the return of MI.
Henry Jams for Taantoo is iavalid.
Tug directors of the Beak of Ragland have raised the
sate of thscount from thiee In four per cent.
Tux Du anate &announces that the queen has
created Prin. Arthur • Knight of St. Patrick.
IT is stated that Mr. Gladstone intends to raise Lord
Chancellor Oliesea to the peerage.

Axons& ,3n.ucce.stal aptiontion to admit Madams
Itachal.to bail was made on adoesdar morning.

Os Wednesday night a farmer, named Tophsai, was
shot dead at a plane called Baena, neer elonenel.
Ma. JISnhJAB KILLT, land bailiff over a Kerry
estate, was hred at on Friday, when nding home horn
the town of C.dernbeels. _

VI es. A PP I kat SIR SIDNEY COURTS DACUS, Senior
Res Lrl, ha been confined to his rum daring the hit
few days with • severe attack of illneen.
Tog John Bell is authorised to contradict a statement
that the Bishpi have resolved not to vote on the Irish
Church yuestion in the House of Lorda.
Tot revenue returns for the quarter eliding on
Wednesday, show • , increasefo' £731,314, as compared
with toe corresponding period of last year.
Miss Senate he. filed a bill in Chancery with the
view of compelling • distribatioa of the property
belonging to the convent at Hall, of which the was
some time ego an inmate.
TIM following weasels of the Channel Squadron were
at Lisbon on the 23rd inst. :—lliootear, 14orthumber.
land, Warrior, Hercules, Penelope, Bellerophon,
Debtor*, and Hales, besides the Liffey, which had
arrived with stores, be. She was appointed to leave
win for Devonport in • few days.
As the Badaworth hounds were recently in full cry
after a fox, • farmer weed Newsome Nuisance)
17.110 n hia lend and suck at the first horseman,
.1):;1 tr
, with • pole-axe. Fortunately he missed him,
bat the blow ceaght the horse, making it rear and bleed
prolabely. Be bee been fined L*3 and costs.
A book-ker, per, who was in the service of a large City
company, bee thesonded, after hewing defrauded his
employers to the extent of £50,000. His salary we.
£lBO • year, yet be lived in great style, and had bailt
for himself • handsome mansion at Biellunond. A
sward of £201) is offered for his apprehension.

111•11111•G1 OF • PLIBOIIII Ut Till LDW GAOL.
Friday James Raid, nailmaker, tlia art prime
awaiting trial on a °barge of assault and robbery, was
married to Jane Anderson, in one of the elawroome a/
the prison. After the ceremony the prisoner wee
removed to his cell, and his newly made wife went
away.

Mi Honowsow, schoolmaster, had for thme days
base bedepd in his house, in Northumberland, by
bailiff& At length they attempted to compel him to
quit by stopping up the chimney& The prisoner made
his app armee at an upstairs window, with • gun, and
Arad into the crowd, when a lad was badly wounded in
the leg, and his retiovery is mainland doubtful
Hodklneon was taken into custody.

EXTRAODINART Cann or ILLNESS AND MAIM—
Eighteen weeks ago, • girl skives or twelve yet:sof am,
reeding at Miilom, boom. ill. In • short time she fell
into • lethargic stet., and remitted so for many weeks.
At length she noise up, and calling upon her mother,
related ho • she had bees in beaveh and seen neroerona
angels. She expressed • desire not to recover, but to go
to the happier land of which she had had glimpse&
the is deseribed by her attendants.' haying • niesvenly
expression of oountenense," and though Asa had been
for many weeks 'Moat • partial* of solid food, her
face was plump, the lips akin being devoid of the maker
manual to her age when in health. This power of
speech rem•ined oaly for • short time, and tne girl
reksped into Far former state, and she now lies in a
lethargic conditioe. Wt., • question is put, she shows
she understands by • alight movement of the bead. The
only sustenanoe. if ouch it out be called, the girl has
received for fifteen weeks, hes been the onesdonal
moistening of her lips with • little brandy and water, or
Ns. Within the last few days her limbs seem to have
beams woos rigid.

BOLT WIWI AT BITILL3.—Th• holy week commeneed
on Sunday with • precision of priest., tarrying palm
branobes round the cathedral, to cornmemorate Christ's
triumphal entry into Jerusalem, after with Grand Mass
was performed. On Monday sod Toads,/ there were
no
proonssions, but on Wednesday afterstoos two pesos,
or large platforms, severed with velvet embroidered
with goW, sad supporting wooden ledges of life-sise,
repremnang our Lord preying in the geodes, with his
ernaifixion, and canted en the shoulders of twenty or
tli:,,t/ men who are hid from view by trappings, were
paraded shout tie town, headed by priests horning
incense and bends of mimic playing sacred marshes
purposely out of tune, in order to the doisfulneei of the
ceremony. In the evening the final performance of the
passion, concluding with an net called the "Resorreen
Man,' writtcn expressly for the omission by the we-
peay's second oomis actor, who takes the part of Si.
Peter, was given in the theatre. In this representatioe
the mtriain draws op and you see four Roman molding
with • oentut in keeping guard over Christ's esonlehre,
and grtunblin.i at their duty of baring to wilted over •
All of • sudden the remblingeomed d thunder,
=.•B 'tad by a large sheet of tin shaken at the bask of
ea" is heard; the soldiers beams frightesed, sad
throwing themselves on their knees invoke Jupiter;
but the din increases the tomb opens, sncl • humiework
of 0111ThIl sprat.. ooneested by wires to the milks( of
Ups stags. This omens is painted and emoted like •
eland, sad on it stands the odor who takes the role of
our Saviour, holding a entellis whieh be brandishes
outhusiastiedly as be is drawn up luring his •1111108i136,
whisk was the anal exhibition of the
wed, to please the audience, igeoptwere
Prom mesa the side with of de
prineipal *store and astresses f to their
wings. Of evens this prodneled • free ward&
among the deities to the pascals or gods in the pussy;
and whilst the poor pigeons were being torn to pier' in
the realms above, an moors was Misted upon by the
@podgier' in the faidois, or stalls below. The eartain
rem spin, more birds were let go, aad the artist a
semed time armada from the septdoltre WaTilag his
Ina; amidst the yells of the tutted beiteiden.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1869.