The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

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TR& BALLIRABLOI FAIR.

The cattle fair came off mi the 9th, and proved in every
way more successful thou that f Saturday, or indeed
any of the previous days. The correspondent of
,Suunde?* Newsletter..a.y, . . .

BALLINAte.OE, Mon'day Evening—The fair this
morning was one of the earliest on record. From an
early hour herds of black cattle were being driven into
the green, sad when morning broke r. much larger
supplyr was exhibited than had been anticipated. It was
geuerally supposed that the falling off in cattle would
cove:wood with that in sheep, but, so far as the eye
could estimate. the supply will be but little under that
o: last year. The at.endance of buyers was large, and
anitrods in good condition, rapecially those ' near the
kit fe,' in loisk deinaud. So early as 4 o'clock this
moruiog seve--al heavy lots had changed owners, and
trtnsactions took place with great rapiditi up to 10
I o'clock. The is, tie we -e evidently in much better eon•
I dition than at the came period last year. and the prices
demanded were in proportion. The stockuiasters on
this side the Shannon were in a position almost to dic-
tate their own terms, for they found little difficulty in
disposing of their best aniniala at an advance on last
yes.'s price,. In consequence of the condition being
better it is difficult to estimate the advanoe. Several
gen.lemen, on comparing the figures of last year with
those obtained to-day, state that they have received £2 •
heed more for second-class heifers than in October.
1859. The advance, however, may be safely set down at
trout El to El 10s, a head. The prices obtained to-day
Isave never been exceeded in ibis town, and no one has
win seen more but ineas transacted here up to 12 o'clock
than has been witneaaed to-day on our fair-green.
Buyers and sellers were both disappointed id the result
of the fair; and as the var Mus lota changed hands, and
were rapidly consigned from one set of herdsmen to
:mother, a considerable atnouat of excitement was occa-
sioued. Our Connaught graziers had every ..easOli to
feel satisfied, and it is but justice to say that the Leinster-
men submitted to an advance in price with the best
possible humour. It was observed that the demand was
not so brisk for inferior store cattle as for the better
class of cattle. The Galway farmers have had the
[scabs), of disposing of stock at our January fair, no
that the holders of store cattle in many cases prefer to
feed them three months longer.
Tea HARVEST IN limbs/cp.—The accounts received

frti;i7—all quarters tend to confirm the hope that, not-
withstanding the unusually severe season, the harvest
will be more than an average one. A correspondent of
the Keening Post, writing from the county of Wexford,
gives • most favourable account of the grain crop in
that district, particularly of the barley. With regard to
the potatoes the account is less gratifying. He nays,
" All through the districts in which I have lately
passed the farmers are pretty well satisfied—in many
cases they say the produce is good, although they have
suffered severely by the loes of potatoes. In the
greater part of this barony of Furth the potato crop
has failed to • considerable extent—in some places it is
almost a total failure. and the residue saved is not good
in quality. Here and there smile good potato fields may
be seen ; but in general the people do not calculate
upon the potato as forming any very important
portion of their food for winter. Indeed, all
round the coast, so far as I have seen, the potato
is more or less affected, and the crop inland
is decidedly better. The Barony of Forth is •
famous barley eountry ; and that crop was very
extenaively planed this )ear, the soil being peculiarly
favourable. I am glad to say that the farmers, with
scarcely an exception, speak of barley as very fair in
quality and average in produce. Is guitig through the
country, from this village of Churchtown to Kitituck,
thence to Ballycogley, and towards Wexford, the
farmers are to be seeu in all quarters carting their
barley to the haggards, which already exhibit a very
gratifying appearance—much better stocked than tonal
at this period, in consequence of the lateness of the
gathering time."
01 tit E OUTHAGEM. —The death of Thomas Murphy,
one lit the victims of the Orange fight near Lurgati, in
July, has caused another coroner's jury to be summoned
and lieu led to another verdict. The evidence showed
what is notorious—that Orange and other party displays
lead to much crime and Iraq ion bloodshed. The jury,
after recording the fact that Murphy died of wounds in-
flicted at Derryinacash, on the 12th of July, by sonic
person or pentons unknown, declare that "the peace of
the cum itry would be much promoted by the diticoutinu-
ance iif 3arty displays of every kind."
SeLTA ItIAN SQL: BBLEn. Iti the Consolidated Cham-
ber, uu I ,rlilay week, before Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, an
aiiplicatii In for • writ of habeas corpus was made on
behalf of the Rev. Mr. Kearuey, pariah priest of Avoca,
county of Wicklow. The rev. gentleman desires to ob-
tain Sue c ustody of live children, two of who.' are at
presen.iii a prffselytibing institutiou called the " Bird's
Nest," at Kingstown, and the reinatning three in charge
of their in other. The affidavit relied on the support of the
appliatii in set forth that the father of the hiliiren,
who ilied in dune last, by his will appointed the Rev.
Mr. Kea racy the testamentary guardian of his childreo,
add dire cted that they should be brought up in the
Roman .I!atlitilic religion. A letter wan road flout a
member of the coilimittee of she institution re:e..--reil to,
stat,ii i list if the applicalit are astisfactory proofs
that he was the appointed guardian of the children they
should e given up to him ; idol the mother ilenied that
lie • loot and had made tl:e will alluded to. It.appeured
in answi ir to a question of the leaved judge, that there
had beei u no effort to prove the win legally,and his Lord-
ship obs creed that the applicant seemed to want to turn
a court if law into an ecclesiastic court, relying, as he
did, ins m iii unproved and disputed will. A conditional
order w as grouted, laud the case will come on for anvi-
l., at bi ifore the full Couch. o Coininon Plea., from which
court,ci Mitn,ry to the usual practice, the writ was bought,
on the first day of the approaching term.