The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-18 00:00:00

• SATURDAY'S MARKETS.

READING CORN MARKET, fixtuarrxv.—
There was • short supply of grain at market to-day.
Trade was inactive, at about late prices.
M BATH CORN ARKET, SATURDAY. —The 'ripply
of English wheat was extremely small; a slow sale,
at last week's prima. Beans very scarce and firm;
trade at Is per qr advance. Barley firm.
GLOUCESTER CORN MARKET, Sarumxtv.
English wheat in small supply at to-day's market,
but under the influence of brilliant weather,
were Is pew lower ; foreign sold very slowly, though
freely offered at Is to 21, less money. Grinding barley
firm.. Maize fully 6d cheaper. Oats without change

..
lii ;slue. Baron. Pollock, but, as he had. been one time
WARMINSTER CORN MARKET—Owing to adviser to the defendants, he was also prevented
the sheepish at Salisbury, and other local events, ow. , from trying the ram The Lord Chief Justice,
market was purely nominal: what few lots shanged
remarking on the absurdity of the law, said the
hands realised about last week's rates. Wheat, 34s to
me; barley, 2i... 46.; oats. 26. to 36.; beans, 26, to case must be tried by a special commission, or
275; peas, 2416 to 30s; flour, 36e to 43s per sack ; bread, 'an Act of Parliament must be pulled to provide
is. per lithe. for it. To outsiders the position certainly seems
TAUNTON CORN MARKET.—The market a ridiculous one, but not more ridiculous than
to-day was inactive, and hardly any inquiry for wheat ' the inconveniences less exalted personages have
even at a decline of 2s per qr on both English and
foreign samples. Barley firm at late rates. Make to Put up with.
rather easier. Flour, 3.5 s per sack. Fresh butter,
which has been seUing in the market at 13d per lb for Mr. Albert Grant's speech has created quite a
the last month, has rim= this week to Ifid, in muse- sensation, and among a certain class in the City
quence of the scarcity of feed, he still appears to have retained a certain amount
DORCHESTER MARKETS. -At the corn of popularity. It is generally said that Mr.
isldchtrisairdes, t:daadarathealittewasrstio,a,exzedinit_..es nsghdoirtfficusulorlyt
Edwin James—the ex-Q.C.—was behind the
from 472. to 49srger qr. There was a better inquiry scenes and assisted "the Baron" in conducting
for barley for ding purposes, and in-ices must be ' his case.
recorded at Is higher. Oats met a fair sale at 26s to
qr. Feeding stuffs in but limited request.—
. .
-*Ale market there...-- '

294 per cp.
In the cattle ma.- . there was • good supply of stock
for which • brisk trade prevailed. Heifers and calves
sold at ill 10, to 291 1.; barrener• 29. to 34. per
pair • fat heifers, EU 5s to CZ ; fst 41.010 s
to dB 15.; fat calves, 299. to 64 12. 6d • fat ewes,
42s to 641 s 6d ; fat withers, his to 64.; fat iambs, 22s
to 425.
CORK BUTTER MARKET. —Ordinary firsts,
122.; seconds, 119 s; thirds, 105.; fourths, 955; fifths,
72.; sixths, —s. Mild cured, firsts, 133 a; seconds,
122.; thirds, 113 s. 2,357 firkins in market

" Huffier " writing in Vanity Fair under date
of Wednesday says :—Mrs. Portinan's ball of
last night, given for the purpose of bringing out
her eldest son, gave rise to variousexpectattons ;
but it proved a most admirable one, not only
because the right people mustered in consider-
able force, but also because the whole thing was
excellently well done. The ball confirmed the
opinion that in Lady Gladys Herbert the season
has produced one belle at least worthy of
all admiration; but it is also confirmed the
other opinion which is beginning to make itself
felt, that there are fewer real beauties of the
highest order to be mot with in London now
than there were any time five or six years ago.

ITEMS OF TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
mu, DAY.
RESIGNATION OF THE FIRST COMMIS-
SIONER OF WORKS.
Lord Henry Lenox, First Commissioner of Works,
has tendered him resignation, on account of the
Judge's observations respecting the Directors of the
Lisbon Tramways Compmay.

Hobart Pasha has written a letter to the '
Times in which he contradicts the statements
made a little while ago by Mr. Brassey in dis-
paragement of the Turkish navy, and declares
his belief in its etliciency—at least so far as his
own squadron is concerned. The Paaha is a
son of the octogenarian Earl of Buckingham-
shire. He was • post captain in the English
navy, but accepted command under the Turkish
Government about eight years ago. He has
risen to high honour, and is now Admiral. He
is permitted by licence of Her Majesty to wear
the insignia of the Order of Medjidie, and he
has recently been restored nominally to his rank
in the English navy (Another job !) His career
has certainly been a singular one, and it is
curious that both his elder brothers made a
reputation in the east. The eldest, Lord Hobert,
was • Governor of Madras.

THE MID-CHESHIRE ELECTION.
Captain Piers Egerton Warburton was nominated
for Mid-Cheabire to-day, and there being no other
candidate, he warn duly elected.

ANOTHER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION.
Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, member for East Kent,
twinned his wit in Parliament to-day, and a new
writ has been issued.

In the debate on Turkey which is expected to
come off this week, it is understood that Mr.
Disraeli will defend a policy of non-intervention.
How far this non-intervention will go, or
whether he is prepared to define its limits, is not
known. It is believed that the Government
have been in active communication with the
Porte regarding the best means of improving the
status gnu in the Turkish provinces. Mr. Glad-
stone, it is stated, favours the idea of granting
a provincial autonomy to Bosnia and the Herze-
govina, and would insist upon the Porte
conceding this.

Mr. Chamberlain's introduction to the House
of Commons on Thursday was precluded by an
odd little occurrence. Mr. Chamberlain sat with
Mr. Cowen in the front row of the seats under
the gallery, and in full view of the House, wait-
ing for his turn to be introduced and to take the
oaths. Presently Mr. Chamberlain was seen to
put on his hat —the privilege only of members
of the House. Steady old members were
appalled. Others more acutely opined that Mr.
Chamberlain must have made up his mind that
he became a member of Parliament from the
hour of his election, independently of any
formality of introduction. Others, again,
thought it a mere inadvertence, and were
amused. Presently an official messenger
approached Mr. Chamberlain and said some-
thing, and Mr. Chamberlain at once removed
his hat, and, according to the French phrase,
the incident was ridt. The disappointment was
keen amongst those who expected a great con-
stitutional struggle as to the right of an elected
member to remain covered in the House before
taking the oaths, and who thought perhaps that
the hat of Mr. Chamberlain might become as
famous a symbol as that of Gassier, or that of
Boekum-Dolffs.

Miss Elizabeth Thompson, who has joined
the Roman Catholic Church, has, it is said,
foresworn the painting of battle-pieces, and will
henceforward devote herself to Sacred Art.
Mies Thompson has already " made a nice
rting of it."

When yoa, in stocks and shares, select a good
broker -a broker, az.: is, who is not likely to become
bankrupt before he has ...ompleted the transaction.
This is the moral of a Cale that has just been heard
in the London Bankruptcy Court, and from which it
appeals that another danger has been added to the
rotten companies and defaulting States that environ a
man who meddles with stocks and shame, and deals
with "bulls" and "basis." A stockbroker failed
some time ago. One if his latest clients was a country
rector who went to London as executor of his deceased
father, and asked the broker to sell out £4,000, which
was invested in Commis, sad devote the amount to
the purchase of London and North-Western Railway
stock. The Consols were sold, and the proceeds paid
In to the broker's account at his banker's. Unfortu-
nately, before he could buy the North-Westerns with
the money, the broker became bankrupt, and the
trustee took possession of all the money paid in to the
iirokor's account, including the £4,000 realised by the
eoneols. When the bankruptcy proceedings came on,
the country rector claimed to rank IPA prefential
creditor on the hatkrupt'a estate under the peculiar
circumatancos earra(“l, and claimed to have the
amount returned, on the on that his broker knew
he was acting for the family, and tit was trust
property, the character of which the &.hii had no
right to destroy by throwing it into the comwmak„ud
of his own meet.. On the other side, it WAY pleaded
that the transaction was an ordinary stockinolduf
Ate, and that all the money found at the banker s
464;10 to the debtor's estate. The Registrar took
she lattar 4cw,, and the country rector, instead of his
£4,0(111, will at only fractional dividends out of the
estate. It is hard attasi i.he country rector, who does
not appear is this cam to Arapc tato!) by the fusion of
jaw and equity.