The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY P

LOAN Bootirien.—An abstract of
societies in England to the 31st Deco
up by Mr. John Tidd Pratt, has bee
that year £144,160 was paid by d,
holders; £323,222 was in borrowers'
December; the number of applicar
year was 154,606; £8,301 was paid
cation; the gross profits amounted tc
CORN WICIONTS AND MEASURE
been published from the Inspectors
the various weighta and measures
in the various towns whence the
Wheat appears to be sold by load of
by load of 5 quarters of 8 imperial '
imperial bushels, by load of 1 Cot
bushels (the Cornish bushels being o
of ways), by bushel of 10 imperial g
8, by 80 per bushel, converted at
bushel of 751 b., converted at 601 b
quarts, in bags of 3 bushels of 1901 b,
per bushel), by " combo" of 4 imps
old Winchester measure (but very r
imperial bushels, by loades or windli
converted at 60th. per bushel, by It
pleby bushel of 4 to imperial quart,
6 imperial bushels, by " hobbet" of
by Welsh " lestrad," or bushel of
measure of 6 bushels 4 gallons to
returns were moved for by Mr. Has

NATIONAL DE8T.—£76,777,642 is
all sums received from savings-10
societies by the National Debt (
the 6th of August, 1817, to the
1857, and £39,576,928 is the gi
sums paid; £38,809,529 was invet
and £27,290,616 was the amount of
received by the commissioners.
£54,971 immediate and £1,135 def,
granted. Between the 19th of Se
the sth of January, 1858, the tol
bought by and transferred to the
count of the Military Saving-bank 1
EAST INDIA RDVDNONB.-1,577
stock were entitled to vote at the
this month, and 228 proprietors are
service of the Government of Inc
249 proprietors possess two votes,
36 four votes. The total number ol
is 2,046. In the five years, 1852-56
given by the Court to sons of civi
sons of military officers.

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"Sic transit gloria mundi." Thh
affined to • diagram, representing a
the Honourable East India Company
poratlon in September 1834, and in so
tion was an apt one. When they h
Bohea Tea, they brought it aa Bohm
who claire to sell seemingly cheap
Chinese to twist the Bohsa leaves into,
&c., and by the aid of powdered col(
(toe of these counterfeit sorts like ge
Congous undergo a blackening prom
prices in consequence; the Chinese
consumer suffers immensely. You ma
Teas, without artificial facing powde
Chinese themselves I.llle :-11011NINAlq
and supply them through Aossrrs
secured in Packets; for LOCAL LIBr
day's paper.

IMPOKTAMT TO ALL WHO 81/10.—F1
Vicar Choral of Lichfield Cathedral :-
having pointed out to me the quelli
MONIC WAYIBM I WU induced to ma
from this trial, I am happy to give
favour. I find by allowing a few of I
mune of the day) to gradually &noir
becomes bright and clear, and the ton
are decidedly the most efficacious of
Dr. Locock's Puimonto Wafers give h
cure of asthma, consumption, coughs
breath and lungs. Price Is. lid., h
They have a pievoint taste. Sold by
IMPOITANT tUTION.—It has beet
Medicine Vendors, when asked for a
I col!, attempt to pass off Instead el
I they have a greater profit in doing
genuine medicine—the public is on
honest practice., which may be clef
every box of the immure medleit
Lfgeocals warm" in masts hews
Government Mum, sod without
oeurnianrs wrs.-o.pgraieriour.