The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-18 00:00:00

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7VEBDAY. JIINZ 11

NOTES OF THE WERE.

The Duchess of Edinburgh is now in St. Pstanburg.

The Yonitenr mentions • rumour that it is con-
templated to of the Throne cf Bulgaria to the Duke
of Edinburgh.
One Danish town alone ships to this country nearly
two million of eggs every year, and the price his
incretwed from 2d. Locos, 30 years since to Is. • score.

In Perlin. with a population of over a million, only
35,000 pavane regularly attend public worship, and
there Sr. 20.000 burial. every year without any
religious servioa
There were some good wine over the Derby. Mr.
George Payne in wild to have cleared £7.000, Captain
Arthur Paget £4,000, and Mr. Crawford and the
Durham £ll,OOO.

A telegrams frcen Berlin intimates thai Lord
Beacoss.6eld, in addressing the C,ongrese Thursday,
spoke in English. and Prince Bismarck, ae the pee-
'idiot. answered in the same language.

The Preis Association telegraphs : We am immured
an good authority that then ia no truth whatever in
the rumour which ham been current for come days that
the Government ham decided upon an early dissolution
of Parliament

Mr. flanbary's silly motion of censure upon Mr.
Gladstooe was not taken in the Rouse of Commons
Thu» lay night. but comes on this (Monday night,) the
member for Tamworth alrolutely refusing to give way
to the request of his leaders that he shall drop the
subject.

The other night at Cheltenham the Duke of
Beaufort thanked God that Mr. Gladstone was
engaged in hewing trees and coquetting with con-
spirators and enemies of his country, instead of being,
se be once was, Prime Minister. [Mr. Gladstone
Mill lives I]

Lord Rowebery gave £lO,OOO for Bonnie Scotland
before the race on the Derby-day, which proved
rather a dew purchase, as he ran nowhere. To the
mamba**, however. was attached the condition. that
In caws the horse did not win his lordship should receive
£4,000 back.

Said a friend to the Prime Minister last week, "You
Will return from the COllOOll to be created a duke,
and to marry the Queen!" Lord Beroonsfield smiled,
and replied, "As to the dukedom, perhaps; as to the
Wife, no. There are several reasons arsinst it, mons
them the prejudice of two J B's.' " Who are they r
asked the friend. "John Bull is one." "And the
other?" This time the Premier smiled without reply.
hag. —The World.

The Lnedoe correspondent of the Lads Marley
aim :—" From private accounts I hear that the
Princess of Wales during her stay in Paris gathered
golden opinions from all shades of politicians, male
and female; from the lovers of art as well as from
the lovers of beauty; from the devotees of taste as
well as from the admirers of drew Naturally
endowed with • sense of the fitness of things, she was
able to seise at once the style and tone which would
most attract Parisians ; and he Madame tie Sagan's
ball, which was considered the crowning effort of
Paris society, our Princess was pronounoed not only
the beet looking, but the best dressed person in the
rooms."

The Post remarks that the still critical condition of
the Emperor of Germany is a powerful reminder of the
terrible skeleton latent beneath the surface of German
society, and likely for some years to come to prove
he'll a constant source of alarm and trouble There
fs no concealing the fact any longer that Socialism of
• very bad type is becoming • power in the empire,
especially in nimbi. It has been growing for many
years, but till lately has not crept down to the lower
masses of the people. Unbelief is becoming universal,
and with it the sanction of political and social life is
upset, and the national conscience is depraved. In
the presence of thee facts there are we think. some
serious 1011.11. ,or the promoters of exclusively secular
schools in this c =try.

A Parliamentary return just issued shows that the
number of plaints entered in County Court. in
England and Wales from January Ist to December
314, 1877, were as follows :—Not exceeding £2O,
1,007.563 ; between CM and £5O, 16.879; and above
£5O. by agreement, 384. 603,116 action, were deter-
mined without and 1,101 with a jury; 10,261 were
decided in favour of the defendant, 6,996 ended in a
nommit. an-I in the rem Linder judgment was Riven for
the plaintiff The total amount for which plaints
w0e...L....A wan c 3 :00.416 • bb. amount of debts for
which judgments were obtained by the plaintiff, on
the original heareg was £1.571 976. The meta,
exclusive of fee., were £116,531. 'nil the total amount
of fews on all proceeding. WM £429.555 The City of
London Court, which is not It-eluded in the wircuits to
which the above figure. relate. had 19 147 plaints
entered for amounts nailer £2O, 837 between CIO and
£5O, and 98 above £5O by agreement. 7,876 actions
were determined without and 30 with • jury. The
total amount of claims we £9i.064 ; and plaintiff.
obtained judgment for E 38,040 'rhe costs were £3,611,
sod the fees on all proceedings £11,318. 1