The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON VARKZTEL

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BY IMPAIRS A ELIeCT RIO TRLDORAPH.

MAB.E.LLNA. Fn.

IlLarket is very doll. Whist noshing& 014011117
64 per qr. lower; other things the same es list week.
—Arrivahi ; Wheat, British, 466: I qrs.; barley. British.
2160 gra; oats, British, 433 qrs. ; British ,_20002
maks , oats, Lig, 1163 qrs.; win a, foreign, 433 Ws.;
barley. fore, 22140 qrs.; Nita, foreign, 14439 qrs.;
lour, foreign, 4150 bin's, and 1451 seeks.

METROPOLITAN cierni MARKET. Fza. &
stop Uwe for beat bed is Re. ea. per Mb.. it
tablets price i good number of beady changed bands,
Foreign trade dead,. Muttcet andatatas its value.
Moire veal dares and quick!" Odom. Pork supports
late rates. Prime—bed, ed to gs Id; mottos,
3. 8(1 to &I 24 vt ed beds Od ; pork, 3s 4d to
Its Od per Mb. T supt.4—beaska ; BUIE=
lambs, 17,970' calms, f ; pip, WO. Foreign
980 "1", Si.;Eng' Ash bout. IBM, Reda 310,


and mew vrig• '
of Biltish cost t" spertal messtre.l7l reiletved from the
°Moe" 01 szebe la the week Jan. 30 :—Wheat,
61.1306 gri, 514 ad ; barley, 43,072 qm., 48a 104;
4971 gm, 27e ett
HULL The Ara bas suffered the fate of many other
heasPlll,ol dm drama. On Friday night, sooa altar the
asene 0.. se performances, the budding was dimovered
Al be onire, and the flames spread th sash rapidity
that belore the empties meld be got into play the plass
was doomed. The surrounding baildinp were at tee
tint • In great peril owing to the seareity of water, but
fortunately they sustained very little damage. A large
amount of property, inolading mesery and dreams used
in the pantomime, wee destroyed. The theatre was
built in 1966, on the site of the old me, which was
•destroyed by fire in 1869.

IT Is mid that the Comenatiee leaders am sdrsed
upon the course that they will pursue in respe.st t", the
dtablicbment of the Irish church. They will oPPose
the measure on the nesond reading; but if it is cirta they will move in °osmium that the Proteel
Eriecopal Church in Ireland, shall„ if it so elects, be
permitted to voluntarily plate itself coder the temporal
hesdahlp of the Sovign, which means thal the Irish
Clivreh shall occupy • position similar to ths status of
the Churches in the colonies. To the proposals for
disendowment, the Conaerwatives will gles a steady and
uncompromising opposition. There NMI small chance
of the Irish Marsh question beteg untied in 1869.
Tux P•11.1•1110rIPART Elansice.—Within hitti. more
than a week from the menineneentent of the Seinioo of
Parliament, political matters are getting to be disowned
with more energy, and people ere speculating skit that
Importantin Malaise may be which both Mr. Gladstone
.ii Disraeli have warned their followers may be
apec.teclto come
.on immediately after the 16th. Is it
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the Irish Church or retrenchment? The Wanes of
opinion seems in favour of the former ; and with regard
to the diasstablishment question, I may inform you
that we shall generally be disappointed if the:. is not
homething like a surprise in store from us. Nobody
expects that the Premier will recede from disestablish.
meat, but it is expected that his views have been
modified on the subject of disendowment ; and that
finding it so diffienit, in the first place, to carry nut
any pith for stripping the Anglicuo Church to • par
with the Roman Osetholio and the Presbyterian, and,
In the second place, to derive any satidactery scheme
for disposing of the church pro_powty in amnesties with
local secular objects, there will be aftertain amount of
" levelling up," at lead in the matter of church fabric*
and parsonage houses. This is the final shape which
the rumour of a "oompromiae" du taken, and Berl
Ruaselts last letter on Teethed is now more then ever
regarded as • pilot balloon tolsonail public opinion. To
Mr, Gladstone personally it would doubtless be much
more pleasant to redistribute the teerelesiastiod funds on
religious object& Bet though the Irish Church question
is expected to come on first, and to occupy much of the
session thegreat party struggle will doubtless be on
the question of retrenchment, will he moused
of crippling the services, and recklessly throwing
Government wenikasea out of employment while brads
Is so dull all over the country ; end there is some doubt
expressed whether the great Liberal majority (which,
by the way, is likely to be still farther Increased by
the result of the election trials) ion be depended on its
support the energetic economy of the Government.
Poore@ of members of Puha:Dent are so closely
Interested in any general reductions of pebbles peoditure,
economy touches their families and their 'friends in so
many ways—that there is some anticipation of • revolt
segabst the unusual sparing pulley of the ministry. We
shallow ; but one thing is ohrioas that the two subjects I
have alluded to above will provide plenty of heavy work
for the session without taking down the Reform Ad
for alteration. But, talking of Ministerial economy, I
notioe a curious announcement in the Gazette, of the
appointment of a " Visitor and Governor" to Greenwich
hospital at salary of E 1,200. If this official is meant
to supersede two or more others, well and good, but if
be is • new addition to the already mergrown and need-
lessly expansive staff of the hospital, I cannot see how
his appointment agrees with a policy of Retrenchment.
London Correspondent.
Tar New Bacons. —The new ministerial brooms are
making a very dean sweep indeed—as far as little
obstructions which trip up nobody are cemented . The big
money and heaps of mud they seem at present disposed
to let alone. To turn moral helpless darks loose upon
the world, unfitted, in most OWN, by the joint °prelim
of nature end art for any work useful to themselves or
anybody else, and 'save the mantry " the infinitesimal
sum of their wretched little 'salaries, is poor work
enough. It may aninie the authorities, but harts the
unhappy "corpora villia," on whom the grand
experiments of oaths.' esonomy is begun, more than it
benefits anybody else. The only excuse for the
promodiug will be, if it should prove to be the foretaste
of some real financial reform. Meantime we bear of
regiments moved up and down' in different parts of the
country, from place to place en 1 back again, in the
old Horse Guardstashion, for no apparent remit, unless
it be to "vindicate authority" by making the officers
uncomfortable, and to met the oountry more in a month
than it milldam* in a year by abolishing small clerks.