The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-06-21 00:00:00

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It will thus be seen that the total number of
payments for admiasion during the week yes
88.138, and the gross receipts 05,506 ga. Od.
Although the machinery was so extensive, there
were, we are told, only two novelties at the
exhibition, and these do not appear on the
catalogue, neither were they to be found on the
elands, and yet, says a contemporary, they were
the general topic of conversation. One of these
novelties is a horse shoe, patented by Mr.
Fowler, the inventor of the steam plough. In
this invention the object has been obtained
which has long been sought, of introducing a
spring under the horse's foot in a practieal
manner, so as to lawn the blow that is so fatal
to the soundness of horses which have to travel
over hard stones, instead of their natural path-
way—the turf. If any elastic material is intro-
duced between an ordinary shoe and the hoof,
the rebound of the spring tears the shoe from
the foot. To obviate this difficulty Mr. Fowler
uses a double shoe, and places the elastic between
them. The second shoe is connected with the
foot by means of rivets, which holds it firmly
but allow the necessary movement for the spring
to act. By this means, horses which have been
doomed to the knacker's yard have been made
sound and serviceable. It is hoped that the
spring shoe will prove as useful to the public,
and as profitable to the inventor, as the steam
plough. The second novelty is the introduction
of gas for a motive power. In a machine very
similar to an ordinary steam engine, gas is ex-
ploded to prodtios the motive power ; and seventy
feet of gas will give a hone-pouer per hour.
This is a French invention, and the machine is
used in Paris for many purposes for which steam
power has been employed, sad it is rapidly
superseding the boy-power in grocer's shops and
other estaNishmwts. If it answers the shares
of gas companies ought to advance.
TWILIATIMID MININWRIAL CUM —I/ was
asserted a few days since that a Ministerial crisis
was imminent. Her Majesty, it is said, an-
nounced her determination to visit Germany
this summer ; but Lord Palmerston opposed the
Royal wish as being politically inexpedient. The
=however, declined to give way, and the
threatened to resign.
IS CAM 8131101/ A Plain 1--Capt. Semmes,
of the Confederate cruiser Alabama, has ap-
peared in print in vindication of his actions to
regard to burning Federal prises. The defence
I. smartly written, yet argumentative, and the
gallant captain, one would imagine, has been
aided during the composition of the document
by a legal friend. He states that he would have
lent all his prizes for adjudication into con-
venient ports, 'instead of burning them, had
been allowed; but his intentions were unfor-
tunately frustrated by the British orders in
Council. Copt Semmes makes, in short, an
able defence of hie own practice at sea, and shows
that the term piracy applied to his proceedings is
inaccurate. Peebaps it would have been as well
If the gallant sailor had let his own defence
stand on its own merits, without turning round
and attacking Ingland for its neutral attitude
in regard to the war.

AI;OTHEIL REDUCTION IN THE RATH OF DIA-
Courr. —The directors of the Bank of England,
on Thursday, reduced their minimum rate of
discount from seven to six per cent. The reduc-
tion was somewhat unexpected, but the announce-
ment had no perceptible influence on the stock-
markek
1111POISANT TO TZA TRUE'S ON Tuanriss
Roine.—lt is not genr:ally known, yet such
appears to be the fact, that persona passing
through a turnpike gate, aith the intention of
returning the same day, and neglecting to take
a ticket, are liable to double tolL At the Oldham
County Bench on Thursday, a party sued a toll-
bar keeper for enforcing the double amount of
toll to which he was entitled. He llLlLarsci
through the gate in the morning, but tad
to demand a ticket, and when he returned in the
afternoon claimed exemption. The toll-collector,
however, insisted on a second payment, which
was made, but was summoned before the Bench
for demanding excessive rates. The OW seems
to have bean ably argued, but the magistrates
gave it as their firm conviction, that according to
the wording of the Act, the plaintiff had
no redress in law, and that however hard his
case the imennons must necessarily be dismissed.
RIVARD Or CONTUMACY IN FILANCH—M.
Rman, the author of the heretical Life of Anis,
which has become so notorious, has not profited
by his obstinate contention with the French
Government. It will be remembered that the
Minister of Public Instraction not long sines,
by appointing him to sub-librarian, virtually
removed him from the chair of Spiao and He-
brew literature, which he filled. M. Reuses
denied the authority of the minister to impose
this change whereupon the Emperor,
by • deposed him from the pro-
and mys nothing about the office of
sub-librarian.

DORCHESTER:4mm= Cisourra OF ygi Jaimaa.
—The fellserisig are the mama arenas of Übil judges:
—Oxford Cirealt.—Mr. Justice Mills, sad Mr. Julies
fame. Ilearaoath, Walamaip, August 3 ; Gleisesetar
sad Mq, Saturday, August S.—Weaken Cimult.-11r.
Jails* WMaas and Kr. Jodie, Dries. Wiashriar,
Iletuaday July 9; ffeliabery. Friday. July 15; for.
simier , July 19; Exeter sad , Friday,
July ; Fri‘Y. JII/7 Wall4usits.6lY,
Aiwa ; anmer, Tuesday, Awned 1 Walls.
—Kr. Jamie* Orempties. MAN, Tuesday, July 19.
Doucaxerza PITCOXDCoax Mewl, Saturday,
Jam 1& —Supply of wheat mall, wish* sold freely at
the extrema prison of lasi west. Bather more luquiry
for friadiai barley at late ream Oats in bitter
at previews quotations.
Tux Wiayszs—The reading of the thermometer at
Dor:imam for the past week is as follows :