The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-08-01 00:00:00

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REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.
The "Mark-Lane Faprem" of to-night says :--
The week has been unfavourable for oompleting
the hay harvest. mach having been left in the
fields, though the Vies everywhere promises a
good autumnal fee& The w eat crop too has
not gone on so well, and we expect neither an
average yield nor one of first quality ; while if
rain continues, large importations will be needed.
Foreign advice., too, have achequered aspect as
roger& ryo in France and wheat in Hungary.
The flour trade has had a sudden start in Paris
of half a crown a sack, Marseilles has risen one
and sixpence a quarter, while our own rates
have lately been hardening. Notwithstanding
very liberal imports eur present exhausted stocks
show them to be wanted. The plenty now at
Dantzio and Odessa consists almost entirely of
Inferior qualities little suited to the English
market. Complaints have greatly increased as
to the potato° dime's, and the crop is being
forced off at late rates, which helps to check
any heavy advance in wheat. In America they
do not expect an over average yield, and to this
country we must look for our own beat red, and
to California and Auatralia for white. New
fork will probably raise her rates.

MARK-LANE, This DAY.
Market firm. English and foreign wheat
•)NE SHILLING dearer. Town flour un-
hanged. Country and Americ.an 6d more
aoney. Barley firm, Oata dull. Maize 6d.
earer. Beans and peas unchanged. Beitish—
Vheat 1,938, barley 125, oats 590, flour 1,377.
:Poreign—Wheat 87,405, barley 10,274, oats
'4-9,188, maize 19,204, flour 2,480 sacks and 17,563
I arrela.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE., This Day.
Our English supply of beasts is extremely
• Sort in number, and a moderate portion only
can be placed as first-class. A reduction on
, revious rates, however, is submitted to, and
we is • general tendency downwarth through-
At the market. Foreign attivals large, and
3tvithstandiug a fair demand there will not be
clearance effected. Lees activity in the sheep
arket Good demand for choice Downs and
' df-breeds, other descriptions • dull sale, and
ices show a general decline of twopence per
s'.one. In foreign a similsr reduction. Lambe
net • ready sale, at full quotations. Veal lower
:th • dull sale. Pork also lower. Beef, 4s 6d
t Gs 2d; mutton, 4s 8d to Cia 8d; veal, 3e 8d
Si 8d; pork, 3a 44 to 411 8d: Lamb, 64 10d
t. Bs. Total supply—Beasts, 3,905: sheep and
lambs, 22,890 ; calves, 607 ; pigs, 215. Foreign
&MAI, 2,700 ; sheep and lambs, 12,350 ; calves,
CIO; pigs, 40.

PROVISIONS, Mi., Der.
Butter: Irish quiet, but without material
sitcastion in prioes. Fair enquiry for good
foreign, at two to six shillings advance on the
week. Bacon: Active demand and short sup-
plies; Irish and foreign four to five shillings
nearer. Hams: Good enquiti for fine qualities.
Cheese: Good business In American. Navy
-wincing neglected. Lard dull.

3LANDIIOIW, July 29. —Wheat 150 qrs.; prim, 545.
fakemmielfli. eaturMsy.—The principal samples of wheat on
Pear were balm end alien could not obtain ea advance, the
• an meta, from 65s to 69s per quarter imperial meaaure.
i ley, beam, and peas at late quotation& Busloom exceed-
• y dull. At Mr Fdisor's repository, there was • moderato
ply of cattle and wham. A brisk businem was done. Prices
*Q.. ruled high. The best fat beef sold at fromtktOlfeper
...me. Fat calves realised from 59. to 100 s oach, and one nine
*mks old, belonging to Mr klanfiekl, from • cow that the
..-alSoclety for the l'rerentlon of Cruelty to Animals recently
milk red had ben starred, fetched .03 15s ! There was an un-
us..elly good collection of rams, which realised from 62s to
11200à sack; wetben, 66s coos.; ewes, tls to GO.; lambs, Me
to :12s ; stock ewes, Es; withers, 211 s to 40s.

BANQUET TO HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.
On Saturday night the Lord Mayor of London gave a
biz gust to Her Majesty's Ministen at the Mansion.
ho.ise.
The Lord Mayor proposed" Her Majesty's Ministers."
Mr. Gladstone, who responded, was received with
loud sheers. Referring to the approaching close of the
session, he maid, the Ministry we in manner put upon
trial for their lives. A notice has been given, which
I. 'till only • notice. that on Monday the severest
punishment win's& one brash of the Legislature can
Inflict, will, I don't say be Indicted, but will be pro-
posed to be MS oted upon us In the House of Lords, in
that august assembly which I trust may long continue
to discharge via wisdom its important and essential
functions In the constitution—(eheers). With the
opinion which I entertain of that august assembly I
am unals to believe that they will censure the Gover-
ment, which pleads guilty to no offence but this—that
we have made use of a legal power for the sup-
pression of an illegal prutioe—(bear, hoer). A
system of gross, nototiosse, and palpable Illegality,
we have, in the exercise of our undoubted power,
put an end to in the only meaner which re.
Ruined open to us after the circumstances- which have
oneurred—(cheers). That lain appeal on which we are
perfectly content to take to the enlightened judgment
of our country. We have had in some senses • stormy
and in others a wearisome session, and it is the fashion
to speak of isi. a barren one, but it has not yet reached
Its end, and we are safer at least Englishmen that when
we think we are in the right we don't like to be beaten
--(cheers). Our intentions are perfectly plain and un-
derstood. It depends upon others at what time
they will reach their Sul folfilment—(bear, hear).
he referred in graceful terms to our relations tolFrance,
and in respect to the Washington treaty, said he re-
garded it not only in the light of a gala to our interests,
but in the more gratifying light of being a treat inter-
national recognition of the principles of equity which
were now discovering modes for the settlement of
guerrels better than the brutal arbitrement of the
sword.
The Lord Mayor proposed "The Houses of Perlis.
mat."
The Lord Chancellor resposdod for the House of
Lords, and the Choncellor of the Exchequer for the
House of Commons. Mr. Lowe maid—We have no
doubt been unable during this session to redeem the
promises or the hopes with which we oommenced the
present passion of Parliament. But why is It?
Because through the efforts of a very small minority
Indeed ("oh,' and applause)—• minority belonging to
no political party, but which emancipated itself from
all party, the time of the ilolllo has been purposely and
systematically wasted. Although we have not been able
to do all that we could wish, mush, I hope and belive,
we shell yet do. I think the House of Commons
deserves the greatest credit and honour for the patience
with which it has seen Reef thwarted in this manner
by a small miaority,

DIOCESAN CONFERENCE AT SALISBURY.
The Bishop of the Dimas" hes, we understand, in.
vited all the allergy of the diocese, the churchwardens
and the magistrates, to a General Conference, to be held
op Wedney, the 9th of Angust,in the south transept
of the Cathedral Church, There will be • celobratiou
of the Holy Communion at eight in the morning, 1111 d
the business of the conference will begin at 11 a.m. We
are informed that the Lords-Lieutenant of Wilts and
Dorset, the Marquises' of Salisbury, Bath. and Leads.
dewne,the Earls of Nelson and Eldoo,Lord Heytesbury,
and many members of the House of Commons (if the
Session of Parliament should be over),and large numbers
of the clergy and magistracy and of ohurehwardens are
likely to attend.
Refreshments will be provided at the Training
School for lishoolmistresses in the Close, it being now
vaostion-time.
The resolutions to be submitted to the Confersoce will
be, more or less, as follows :-
1. That this Conference is of opinion that 111 la
desirable to institute • permanent Synod in the Diocese
of Salisbury.
2. That the Synod consist of the following official
members :—The Lords-Lieutenant and the High Sheriffs
of the two counties, being eommunicants, the Dean of
the CethedreAthe three ArehdemonAand the Chancellor
of the Diocese; and of an average of four clergymen and
fear lame* (oommunicents), the clergy to be elected
by the Amp, and the laymen by the laity, of
division of the Rual Deaneries of the diocese.
3. Ilant the daty of the Synod be two-fold first, to
Inks etiarp of the chief seelesthatitel operations now
condudted by voluntary asemiliations within the diocese,
soda as Homo! Church education.the supply of churches
and elergy,and Church missions; ad mooed'', to be of
eonfeerenes and counsel with the Bishop in any
emleshastionl affairs of Importance to the diocese.
Clonferenes will last only one day ; and arrange-
ments have been made with the Great Western and
South-Western Railway companies to facilitate the
coming of Church people from the distant puts of the
dicers in the morning, and their return home in the