The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

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BIRMINGHAM WOOL RAT, Wednesday, August 23
—The quantity and quality of the fleeces offered at
these sales were rather above the average. The attendance
of buyers was, however, very limited, and the biddings
were of a very languid character. Deep grown lustre
description appeared to be only in request, and the greet
bulk of the wool was therefore withdrawn. The follow.
,ing quotations of prices are from Messrs. Nossiter's
circular :—Fleeees.—Tegs, 24.1. to 261 d. ; wethers, 211 d.
to 241. ; mixed, 211 d. to 251 d. per lb. Skin wools.—
Combings, 20 to 220. ; °aiding% 151 d. to 19d. ; supers,
19d. to 22d. ; heads, 14d. to 181 per lb.

Tate BATLIT MURDaR.—EIi Sykes, the volunteer who
stabbed his sweeth, art • and lier mother at Batley, near
DewsbrOt. has been committed to take his trial for the
double indtcler.,, The prisoner, when before the magis-
trates, did..aot deity his guilt, and it appeared that he
had told neieral of the witne tem, not only that be cons-
She tenrdert, hut entered freely into a narrative
of all the eirrutr.staaces Mei details of his crime.
000ReN or VIZ CHOLZRA.—The Times has made a
distioveiy with regard to the present v.eutiation of 'holies
to the Smith of &trope, which gives us good hope of
entire immunittv.freen it. ravages. Tien time it Is not
the case, noon former ocemions, that the disease has
advanced from India • n Western Europe in a line from
the southeast to the north-west. On this occasion the
tract of the pestilence is altogether different: and on
aumminemp the evideuoe, it appears that the outbreak
of cholera has been absolutely oonfined to the basin of
the Mediterranean.
SURNTING or A CANAL BANK.—GREAT letrwrisems.
—Oa Thursday morning there was the greatest excite-
ment in the village of Smeeton and neighbourhood on an
alarm being given that the canal had burst. Srneeton is
a village situate about six mike from Market Her-
borough, and ten from LeiceAter. The canal runs about
•a quarter of A mile distance from the village, and for
some short distance is on an embankment. At this point,
too, there runs into it the water from the " feeder, '
when the canal is supplied with water from the Bedding-
ton roservoir, and also the surplus water from the res,r-
vein-Some 30 yards from the mouth of the feeder, on the
opposite side, the canal is on a high embaninnent ; and it
, was here the water first began to overflow, the canal wash-
tag away part of the b tee, until the heavy pressure against
the towing path made it gave way. At first only a small
uhasm was made, but the very great amount of water soon
made the other earth give way. and in a snort time the
chasm wee extended to over 60 fet wide at the top,
about 80 deep, and at least 61 at the base. The earth
was washed away from the bottom of the canal souse It
f, et The canal is empty for over ten wiles. The
fields leg the breach ime inundated, the oorn
--d fore great distant:vane
'the pea' reeds
. naa taken are impassable
for miles away from the accident, and when this large
body of water unites with the river Welland the damage
by flood will be great, as for twenty hours there bad
been incessant rain, and for a greater part of that time
the water descended in sheets. Hundreds of people
vi-Alted he scene a the goldene during thb dizr.