The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-10 00:00:00

Miartligneous.

It hi asill that when Iffierostawaki, one of fhe leaders
in the Poiish inure-minion left Paria he shaved Of his
beard, dyed his lutir, Odd assumed the character of a
commercial traveller in the Mine trade. 11. arrived on
the 14th ult. at Berlin, and stopped tlmre some hour..
On the 15th he was at Inovrroclawo, and spent the eve-
ning there with several Prussian officers, whom he
treitecl to champagne.
A short tiute e.g., • daughter of an affluent lady re•
siding in Yorkshire, clfferly mopped . servant girl's'
hair, on the plea that it would dmidnes to her loalth.
The hair wax cropped is spite of the girre protest, and
aim suffered so much in appearance Iron bet yowls
mist:ma's scissors that she recently brought an action
to recover darna,Tes. The rase was tried in the Holm
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firth OMOnty Court. and the gir: obtained judgment of
IS and
The Beaux Arts bag t!te (?I,lbwing—" Alexandre
Dunne, it is said, is now engaged in wilting for Xadame
Riiitori a Drama entitled Marie A 'anisette, tribe brought
out in London."

A French lieutenant of Allah ry has lately tried, at
Namur,. new projectile of his invention. 11. intended
to Light up at night any place it is wished to reoonnitre.
The light of the new bomb bas shown itecU to be very
powerful, and it illuminated • radios of several hun-
dred metres. Two or three similar projectiles would
be 'efficient to light up • plain of very great extent.
The estimateu for the Civil Service were published on
Wednesday. The vote to be asked for 1E16t61 amounts
to £1.430,887. being an inereasa of 1:17,752 on the
uposint of the vote of 1862-0.1.
Mr. Frederick Douglas. in • recant epeech at New
York, told his audience that since the reoelansition of
the lit el January to had hit whiter, and had
combed his hair more easily."
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All the French papera say that the al-my in Mexico
"intends" to capture and send to the lovatide, two cons
now in Puebla which were taken by the lipaniard. from
Francis I. at the battle of Pavia. These curlosta pieces
of artillery were the other day in the fort of Perote, but
the Mexicans stivoreded in carrying them off when they
evacuated that place.
Lord Byron'. tragedy of Sirdanapalsa will be pro.
decal with extraordinary splendour at tho Princess's
Theatre in May.
Mr. Chute, who held the Bath and Bristol theatres as
manager for many year*, has been appointed director of
the splendid new theatre in the former city by its
owners.

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Madame Celeste is performing at Brii4ol.
An enacted sketch by the lake eitbart Abbot a'Becket
galled Loudon in 1934, is to be played as the Prineem's
Theatre.
The estimates for the revenue department fof the
earrent year show • decrease of a2,c330.
The pamport system in Spain is aboliahml. .4 petition
I. behalf of Poland has been numerously rained by the
wornen_of France. . . .

The Paris correspondeat of the Woke says there is but
• feeble prospect of the Poles prolonging their struggle
beyond Easter.
The fitdepesdalsee aseerte that Russia is prepared to
grant an amnesty, to be followed by a proelamation.
setting forth the reforms reserved for Poland.
In Meanie of Sergeant Glover, v. M.M. de Perslany
sad ffillault, the judge at Chamber' refused the
application of the plaintiff to extend the period of
taking evidence by commission in Paris to the 30th of
April.
In the running match on 'ruesday Deerfoot beat
Lang easily by some yards, finishinx the ten soil., to
52 minutes 44 wooed,. Lang was much exhausted.
In the seven miles walking match on Tuesday be.
been Myrrs, of Neetuarkek and Spines, of London,
for 2100, Spans resigned before the fourth mils was
bushed.

A recent measure of the French Government to
Facilitate the purchase of Canadian built shipe has up to
this time remained a dead letter. .

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The Queen has (says the Was,laor Sfarulard), in the
moot liberal manner, kept up all the salaries of the
noblemen and gentlemen who held appointment+ under
his Royal Highnestathe Prince Conaort.
The Marquis of facedown.. the late Lord• Lieutenant
of the county of Wilts, hoe, by a codicil to his will be-
queathed the handsome Bum of Z3OOO, free of legacy
duty, to the Salisbury Infirmary.
The import of sperm by the West India mail 'Wiener,
amounting to nearly a million, in the largest on record,
and is owing to fear' of the Alabama entertained by
American ship,ar".
Several midcal students are leaving Paris. order to
attend upon the wounded patriots in Poland. The brother
of Larigiewies has jag left the French capital ea reek
from Poland to England.
We are glad to hear that the extensive works of
restoration of Hereford Cathedral which have been in
progress during the last twenty years, are now so
nearly completed that the Dean and Chapter are able
to announce the opening of the Cathedral at Mid.
summer next, though they are still in want of funds to
fini.la the works of restoration. . _

The mortality in the metropolis has been rising for
wine weeks. It is now above the average. The
number of deaths last week was 1440, which is
above the corrected average. The increased deaths from
amall-pos alone are •Imost enough to amount for the
difference. The births were 2,64o,against t • aei r qie of
2,001
The Dictator, • steam boot now building at New
York to ply between that city and Albany next Rummer,
will contain 350 slate rooms. Ram will be the largest
river steamboat Amt.

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It has been deter.nined that the Oxford sad C4lll-
- boat race shall be rowed on Wedniaday, April
1. The crews have been invited to dine afterwards with
the Thames Subscription flub.
The seniors of Milk. Titpeas and Mr. dims Reeves
have been secured for the nest magical testiest at Nor-
wich. The local choral society will shortly proceed
vigorously witt .har r.ibeamals,and the oomme.tee will
bold • meeting in tie mem. of the mouth to further
mature arrangement..
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A meeting, at which upwards of 100 of the manu-
facturers of Prague were present, was lately held ia
that city, to found a museum on the model of that at
Kensington.
"In • short time," writes • correspondent from
Naples, "it is probable excavations will be recom-
menced in Hercusuan, where, as you are aware, the
moat precious works of art were discovered."

The, Eagle (lectern) executed by Mr. Beyer. of Shirley,
Southampton. that was shown at the International
Exhibition, has been placed irl Salisbury Cathedral.
Mr. G. G. Scott has designed • bees for the same.
On Wedneeday • parliamentary paper was issued,
showing that for the current year ending this lurch,
£32,000 will be required for secret service.
A parliamentary return issued on Wednesday shthes,
that 191,5231 b. of hops were exported from the United
Kingdom to foreign countries from the Isl April to the
15th September, 1882. Tbe quantity exported in 1838
was 2581 b. ; in DM, it was 1711,7621 b. ; 6.0561 b. in
1854; in 1866 it was 1,8911,2511 b. 1,950.2411 b. in 1856;
83,138 th. in 1859; and 578.4411 b. in 1980. The quantity
of forego hops remaining in warehouse under hood in
the United Kingdom on the 15th September, 1862, was
44,591 cwt.
A Masquerade Ball is announced attic, Alhambra.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paull purpose • new enter-
tainment in the metropolis, to be called "The Spring
Meeting."
The Dublin Freemen's Join-sal states that the
Marchioness of Londonderry (wife of the present
Marquis) has been received into the Roman Catholic
Church.

His Gram the Archbishop of Canterbury has heti.
talk the Rev. Edward Johnstone, ILA, to the rectory
of Warchoree near Ashford, Kent.
IL Hereonand his colleagues in the management of
the Nokia write to a London contemporary i—" The
numerous bet mall and feeble secret societies which
were mattered throughout Russia have now united into
one sseociation, which has organised itself under the
direction cif • central oommitte, and het adopted the
nuns of • Lend and Liberty,' expressing the desidera-
tum of the Itimetan people—the right of everyone to
land, and an elective and federal government"
Madame Itistori is electrifying Neapolitan audiences
in her version of the tragedy oi Macbeth.
)(Odle. Laces, wham fervour at Berlin is great, has
been engaged by Mr. Gye f^r the earning aces-on.
H. 1). Shrine. Esq., of Warleigh Manor, near Bath,
ban been electei • Fellow of the Geographical Society.
The Teatro Aliberto at Rome, lately rebuilt by
Prinoe Torlonia, was, on the last cloy of the Carnival,
destroyed by Are
" Les Revardes," a two-act operetta, with music by
I( Offenbach, has just been successfully produced at
Les 13ouffee-Pariaiens in Paris.

117-r-on—Fro-to. er'sThitrivielia" has been at last pro-
duced at the Italian Opera of Paris, the Gazette
Musicale assures the vend, with the utmost success.

A lady named Bra. Jaime Black, the wife of •
military captain and the daughter of • physician, is in
eustody at Preston, charged with purloining jewellery
from the Officers' quarter. at Fulwood &wreaks. She
was apprehendwf at Leicester. and two rinp abstracted
from the room of Captain Bluett were found in her
pomersion. The defewse. so far an yet disclased, is an
alleged purchase of the riup from • hawker.
It is said that \rioter Emmanuel will ocenmenoe his
tour through Italy next month. Fla intends to visit
Bologna and Florence, in compeer with the Prince
Royal, and afterwards stop a month at Naples.

Canons or 1861.—Pagrogoanamm or Pawates.—
Them are in England and Wales only four Metric*
containing mom than 1,000 inhabitants, in which the
females form two-thirds of the population. These are
the St. Paul's distriet, Clifton, whioh WO. 1,064
female* in • population of 1,444; tho Chrieteburoh
district, Clifton, whir& contains 2.893 females 10 a
population of 4,176; the diairMt of St. Saviour, South
Hampstead, which contain. 2,021 females in a popula-
tion of 2,943; and the district of St Barnalms, Ken-
sington, white contains 1,760 females in • population of
2,580.
A MADMAN'S lIIVIDITIOIC—A eorrorondent, who very
properly signs himself" A Madman, has forwardsl us
a " novel Idea." of which the following is an outline
"An iron ring is to smirch) the earth without b
lied to it, so that the latter may revolve upon Al=
within the former, at the student's globe does within
the bream meridian. Now, as the earth completes cue
revolution on it. axis in four-and-sweaty boars, bow
soon, by this invention, a man may get into another
country, for he only need jump upon the iron nng, and
there wait till earth by He revolution has hem& the
place hansatli his feet, when down he jumps upon the
foredo' land'"
Greta streneet comblool with ad= Amass is considend
indlsperlbie in Tee; therefore, to Insure " a good cup." poung
leans =
only must be intoned. It Ix well known that
sz. Obiness, win view to gube sad get rid cd brown
one, have long " land" the hal with missessl
tolOur. esenspently it is evident that time who desire nibble
lee inlie purchase it purr sod undivided ; son is isportod
by Heransion de. Co.,London ; their is sionisi M
uin ei ter,
—not bl—it is with their the Wino*
sad bed. ilannean's Pure Tea is void in all towns by
le., enured la podium rse OUT column for list 4 Waal
Vtoware OfITIMWT ae PlLL..—Diemens of the al.
—By the Joint action of then inestinable epodes. all en
eruptions an quickly banished from the eyeless the worst
description of wounds or ulcers are sadly treaded. the Mc'
bilk matter which nature Into *jargon, to her, Is *rams
out. .`"d • thoroughly healthy state of the blood and gni& is
the mull, restoring a sound mind and body to sullienn alter
all other treatment has ben found isselleenel. Is Jenny eases
sawing surgical operation and nen Ida noir W their minus-
lon power. The —44--Uare osespoeed of vegetable
estracta of rare virtue, without Me 'Ambles, eft ran el
' Wortery cc nay ollim mime wislemoo.

Sgrimlturt.

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rASM OPEILLTIONS FORI MARCH.

?centre-1f any turnips still remain undrewn oe
unetor. d they Rhoda no longer he suffered to oocupy
the ground they hem grows on, but be removed. stored,
Or consumed by sheep en .eon as possible, or the lead
will be masiderelly exharried, and the spring corn win
suffer in comequence.
Braiso WHChVON not already sows.. should be get
down without deity. the winter sewn lamas abeeld
be harrowed and well reeled this nemeh, meording es
they are more or less foread. Toward, the earl a the
month grim and clover seeds leery be sown when, In-
tended.
Brass should be qww as early all possible this mods
U it be not already done) they will grow well on heavy,
broadcast. at the rate of 20 stone to Om Irish sere, sad
c'tnio"rnd;goo"l"."nsilli'dneetteltafnllinteyrtourewthiebairuLLprodaarlarebtoni
tal.adnl soilsressipire vtniaadyii"kheUnnintrik:
harrowed in on flat, levied lands; or 01 ridges, trenehed
up with the spade and Asset ; they may also be we'll
in drills, from 24 to 3d inches apart, according to their
sericite., to allow of bring horse-hoed; sots/ wine
rivaro'ttninrieo.
tothely are an ce
4 Ao.wielxi.U:awit i
Pita of es, dork should be sownal
poseitele. to ensure • profitable, eerie, and wertelpieeed
crere""Snowin, dirdara°nbLailol'ealriesb'rly at
crop: the genie mode of sliWing directed for bean, kith'
broadcast and in drills. eke be adopted for pea
Lighter land, and laud almosef It, a state of eihaustker
from repented corn growing, will ermines peas.
provided it is deeply digired, or ploderieff. They are a'
most invaluable mop, yielding more Meet *eight for
weight, than any cereal mope
Psiensizek—A most valuable root, and the slgt sub-
stun. for the potato as human food, and infinite 'More
valuable for feeding sod tattooing all sorts of de.'—
should now be sown us early as pliable. To ensuers'
profitable crop, the land should be well prepared, bir
tepeated deep ploughinga or diggings, the manure well
deoomposed, and intimately mixed with the soil ; they
may he sown in beds 4 fret wide. They
_dhoeldbe
drilled either lengthways or across the beds, it 18
inches diatom : we prefer imam (POW the Rester
facility there is for performing elf the operations of
sowing, weeding, thinning, and hoeing frees the furrows
at each side; they may Aso be sown in rained chalk.
formed by the ploagh,pis is done for turnips, the drills
to be 28 inches apart, to allow of hone boetng, he. The•
plants in either case should be thinned oat, so as to.
stand nine inches from plant to pleat. Parsnip and
carrot seed may be germinated before sowing by meaner
them with moist and, and piecing them ins hotbed, or
wedo dark p 1... They b.houLi be lamed over once Is.
every tweety.four home at least, sad as Wee se they
show symptoms of vegetation, sow immediately. Tar
mode aloes of more time for the proper preparstien
the lend ; and the seed been sown a fortnight Inter, srWl
give abetter chance of soarer than the sounmen mode,.
..s
the advantage at knowing that She seed is
geed-
CARROTS may be ZOWlll9BBWeell the middle and end
of the month ; the same mode of culture, distencernert,.
he., direeted for the cultnre. of the parsnip will anerwerr
the carrot; the only differentia Is, that Garrote like a.
: lighter and more sandy soil than the parsnip, whisk
delights in a deep, well tilled and wall drained, heavy
Ft./ may be sown about the 10tb of the month..
in well pelverised soils. There is a great advantage in,
sowing early, as the land will be cleared in time tube
,own with sachem or rye, or laid dawn to pm, or
planted with robbsges er rape for feeding in the winter
and spring.
Pittston should be planted before they begin to.
vegetate, or as soon after as possible; in all lineup oak
they should be planted in lazy beck, in rows across the
beds, at Interval. of 14 feet to 21 feet, and from 10 M.
12 inched set has set; in dry soils they may be planted
In drills 28 incises spark Coming in actual endue
with the manors should be avoided as meets ne possible.
To effect this, • rut or drill may be drawn manes the•
beds with a hoe, into crhieb the potatoes sets alammid be
dropped, and covered lightly with some fresh math;
then the manure spread, and the manure covered up.
from the farrows ; and, in the drill cultivation, alter
dropping tb• sets a little earth should be drawn frees.
the rides of the drills on the potato seta, previous to tbe•
manure being deposited, when the drills should be clonal
in.
BZAXB should be planted alternately with tbe Pota-
toes, either in the lay beds or drills, so that if ISM pota-
toes should fail, there may be a crop nearly, if out alto-
mether, as good as the potatoes. Beans 14•81 also, tezem
repeated trials, to confer a certain degree of hatottaty
from disease no the potato.
OATS, On WA, are sometimes sown broadcast on brood
sets, and harrowed well in, first lengthways, and after-
wards across; at other times and in other toe:alikes
very generally the Its nide are sown in narrow beds,
harrowed before and after sowing; the furrows deg
with the spade. or cut with the furrow-plough, and
trenched up. We prefer the latter mode, which' al-
though • little more expensive, In general yields • better
bead, with shorter straw; the seed is more evenly
covered; it ripens more equally, and the trenehheg
smothers much of the annual and other weeds, by radii
the land is much cleaner, and the sods better rand for
the next crop; in either mode we recommend • nerd
use of the roller. In broken land the oats am aim sewn
bre:edema under the harrow, in trenched ridges,or ender
the plough; but for sowing down with clover and grins
seeds we prefer sowing all corn crops in drills, from 1$
to 24 inches mart, which gives • lips, airy seed bed fore
the ebTeT and grass nets, the value of which will be
found in their sursedor growth by the end of the season.
All oats, if poneble, should be in the ground before the
206 of this month.
I Btaidcdele dth
r, in lie month.ght,dry iurk
, esrlys;:eil us,
the bed
may sown
be
ar by
the
far to sow closer and gram mods with, from the somall
quantity of foliage it bears in comparison with other ems
cope
Seam Varcems.--A breadth of spring vetches deould
be sown, to succeed those sown laid month; a 16641 e
oats or rye should be sewn with them, which prevents •
their falling and rotting on the ground. Land is some-
times laid down with vetches, bat in this ems they
should be sawn very thin, and cut early for moiling, se
the seeds may be molded.
CABRAGIS should be transplanted from the nursery
Mds this month to where they are to stand for a troy.
The drumhead or fiat Dutch produces a vast quantity
of 'ood for cattle feeding, and also for sheep ; the early
varieties should be planted for human coornaeptioe.and
whet. planted extensively afford abundance of food for
bons...iodine ; tbe latter can be planted out intermedi-
ate with peat, beans, parsnips, carrots, potatoes, he.,
but shield be disposed of or consumed before they
encroach nu the ground intended for the stanemg
crop.
BOW flat Dutch. early York, and nonpareil cabbage.
seeds in nursery beds, to plant oat the letter end of:
May and in Jim.
Kong. RABI *oak be sown this month, for plaudit(
out in May and June, so as to produce the beet and
weightiest crop.
RTB may still be sown for either a psis or soiling
crop ; 18 stone will se.w the Irish aere,under the barrow
in dry mile, or trenched ridges in theme not so dry; in
Peers 0011, Pea, soils, many practise sowing it at this
Period for • grain crop in preference to sowing in
November.

Ewes krebing, or to Lab, should now have • Bull-
tient quantity of turnips and hay given them Let the
shepherd cut off any wool that may be on the udder,
legs, or any part that may be iikely to come in contest
with the lamb's mouth in its eagereths to sae. Many
lambs are lost by the loose wool or taw being swallowed
along with the milk, where it forms • solid, compact
mass with the mid. which, being impossible of digestion,
destroys the animaLwithoet the reason being suspected.
Precaution is, therefore, better than cure. Great sere,
attention, sad shelter are also required on freely
nights for the ewe and her new-born lamb.
FAT AND FATTING WZTIMILII should have abundance
of termini and hay, to keep them in coeditioa ; math
attention is required by the flockineeter, is see that bin
stock is not only well fed, but that they an kept ekes
and neatly trimmed on all pars most impend to get
foul or dirty.
/Inca Lbws, sod those rawly solved, and springers
should have more than ordithry alkalies yak them—
the wild, COWS to get though of artilicial food to keep
them to their milk, which will require moth este sad
attention this harsh weather; those newly calved to be
kept in comfortable quarters, so that they may uel be
exposed to chilling blasts or colds, which at this period
prevail, and are likely to endanger the life or health of
the animal. Milk fever and paralysis are the freqesat
concomitants of the want of a little timely preeantioo.
fivalx-Parimea.—The cattle is the stalls thoeld have
plenty of food now, and their quarters made as comfort.
able as possible. Now that the days are getting
long, sad the air sharp, said, sod piercing, strict regu-
larity should be observed in their bears of feeding, and
the food given in rash quantities only se
.they will eat
up cleanly. Whets their appetites are seed, remove
what remains, shut up the house. and let them take
their rest till the regular hour for feeding arrives.
As they get in condition their skins themes irritable ;
they should, therefore, be conethatly carried and wiped
down. . .

HOREIS should now be au fall sad gesterons keep
corn is well bestowed on them during the nest three
months. Work them well and steadily, but avoid over-
ezertiou, which must tell upon you when a plach imam
Pion —The pigs put up to fatten should be liberally
gtOPliod with Emil so they &aroma maturity, to
harass the flesh ; and mos with their !Meru should be
kept warm and dry, and get abundance it succulent,
nutritious food, so as to promote the young ones' growth
sad early maturity.
MARURVIL —Compost heaps of some standing, if in.
tended for the tap-rooted plants, should be well turned
over and broken, so as to have the materials of which
they are composed WI intimately mixed and decomposed
as possible. Fresh farm-yard manure, bog sal. rich
earth, ke., should be in continual process of bulkiest,
saturated with liquid manure, and covered salleiently
to prevent the escape of ammonia.
ODD, AID Rine—New fences end the plaits* of
quiets, should be finished off without delay, also three
that have been plashing and laying; gripes steered out;
roads made and repaired. Tart should he at this
month, oder beds Gleaned and earthed, and Dew asimiat
formed and planted.
TROILIT'II FOOD FOR C ATTU VIIIDDS USSR=
CARL—Mr. Thorley, in *area/slag the RAP! Agri-
cultural Society on amdieseatal meal, mays I am
now in a position to deliver SOD toes wieldy, aad so
satisfied ma I that this happy miztare is &abed to
take the plans of lieseedake oft every ism in Great
Britain, that I aro making arragemente for the mama-
facture in Loodoe aloes of 11000 lass per week- To
quote the words of Br. B. Richardson. al B
who is now feeding several bullosks upon It
chaff and pulped arida, sad • like camber of bulloeks
on the same cat Muff sad papa turnips with linseed-
! mikes : 'I would sonar ham you feeding meal at
areal price, £l4 per ton, than the bed linaisslahe
in the market at /10 pm ton.' I am asefident, after
yearsl3 p14.1110 ihk, sew mode of manufasaire,
that it is a great ph to the aipicalturieta of this and
all &vele eouidO ; and, as the inventor of this
delicious compound. I humbly ask you to give it •
fair tria-04.007 far money—against linseedake or
any other swam commodity in the market, and de-
alers seremeradly—had, geed, or beggrepass, the
decision yon some to. and settle the metier in s mammal
point of view. I will, tsl. the of the abbe. and
toward the article being without, the arm era
of anima grant limas@ to any ea for the aiene-
&dere of it ia every tows throughout the Irlogion•
" *at ill* Pilo mid I. ruled by Ilos Omega in Mail
tad esmorie."

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