The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-28 00:00:00

PRICE 01 GAS AT WAREHAM.

To the Editors.
Our gas company has lately been much honoured
by notice (through the Press of this county, as
well as by newspapers enjoying an extensive and highly
respectable circulation thronbout the four western
eounties), as to the rice they charge for gas. I beg
to inform those really interested In the matter, that
the company do leo( at present mean to charge 13e. 4d.,
instead of 6s. Bd. per 1,00) cubic feet, unless they are
expected to light the public lamps of the town as well
as private houses, gratatiously as regards inch pnblle
lamps.
Yours obediently,
FARMLAND FILLITER, Secretary.

LOCAL BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Whiston., Gosport, tailor.
William Fowler, Bayford. Somersetahlre,4ork &Alen;
Noah Day, Taunton, builder.
Edmund Good, Portend, beeneller.

Pearmiaisiur irlanovtin„
Stephens and Reynold', Bridpori, drapes%
DECLARATION 07 DIVIDIED.
R. Lateham, Wedmore, Somereetehire, losher—cSv.
3.9 d.

AMERICA.

ENGLAND AND egs—Y-11M-111--AL--STATEN.—A Washing.
to despatch of the Bth inert. says :—Mutual explanitions
have taken place between the Governments of Great
Britain and the United States, whist have reunited in
• rescinding of the paszport order of the 17th of last
' December, so far as relates to the province of Cansda,
and in an understanding that under present rheum.
stances, and notwithstanding the notice lately given in
that respect, the naval force of the United States npon
the Upper Lakes shall be the same which was stipulated
by the treaty of April, 1817.
COMPEDIRATI RAN AT Feitnorr.—A letter in the
New York Commercial Advertiser, from an officer of
the United States frigate Niagara, dated Ferrol, Spain,
Febrnry 18, says I—The rebel ram Olinda, or Stonewall,
was lying close by. The Spaniards allowed her to mos
in to port to make limitekrepairs, and the commander
had asked permission to leave her in port while he went
to Paris, to annul the oontrert of male, and throw hert
upon the hands of the former owners. The Niagara
was eager to engage her, notwithstanding the odds oil
Iron against wood.
Bentauss'n CAMPAlGN—Sherman's position was still
involved in doubt, so far as the Federal' were eon-
turned. The Richmond Whig of the Bth sayer—
Sherman is played out. If our readers do not hear ei
any good news from South Carolina, it is a non-sequiter
that there is not any to communicate. In a few days
they will hear where Sherman is and what has befallen
him. Sherman's opportunity to establish a military
reputation has fled, and we will soon hear of his dir
oomfiture and dis,,.aoe.
New York journals of the 10th Nays :—Refureee who
had arrived in Newborn all stated that Fayetteville.
North Carolina, was in our possession last week, and
Sherman was within 40 indes of Raleigh, and that the
rebel soldiers were deserting by eompannw, and in some
instances by regiments; that more of them were retiring
to their homes; that the people pay but little heed to
the proclamation of Governor Vance calling them to
arms; that in meet places in Not th Carolina the people
go forth to meet Sherman with words of welootne, and
are not particular about placing their Mock and suppll 3
Out of Ins reach. Many of the inhabitants of Western
North Carolina were on their way to meet their
relations and friends in Sherman's army, with their
s well stored with provisions, native wines, and
svrorouther comforts as Sherman's Union visitors will
The Itekigh Progress says :--Shei man will soon be in
possession of Raleigh, and will go wherever he desires.
Quito • panic has prevailed among the negroes in
South Carolina since the announcement that they MID
to be °unscripted to fight in the rebel army. The
rebels are now gathering them up for this purpose. A
Meow combination (midi among the Conservative
alaveholders to resist this measure some of whom are
arming their slaves in order that they may be able to
delay the rebel authorities, and thus detain their
, servants, who exhibit a readiness for their mutters and
' their homes rather than for the rebels. The Progre •
aye great numbers of negroes are flocking to Sherman's
army, with the assistanoe of their masters, with the
promise that they will return and work for wages as
it will be safe for them to do so. This gives the negro
question an internitlig aspect It will not delay
Sherman's movements, however.
The Bank directors on Thursday separated without
making any alteration in the rate of discount. Although'
no reduction was intimated, it soon transpired that
return was favourable.
The old copper coinage is AM a legal tender to the
amount of two shillings, and previous to its with-
drawsl a royal proclamation will be inured, and proper
time allowed for its collection.
Petitions in favour of the repeal of the Malt Tau
have been presented by Mr. Beach, from Ferringdre
Hampshire ; by Lord H. Thynne, from Wszminster,
Ilegtosbary, and Damerbam.
Parliament rims for the Suter recese, me it bui done in
late years, on the Friday before Good Friday.
A commission with Lord Chelmsford at its bead, has
been appointed to inquire into the state sad working
of the marriage laws of the three United Kingdom' &BA
the Colonies. _ _ _

New peers announced by the Pall Malt Gazette
before the diteolution of Parliament, include Sir
Francis Baring, M.P., Mr. Somerset Beaumont, ti P,
Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., and Mr. Henry Herbert, M.P.
CHEMISTS AND DEOGGISTS.—Sir F. Kelly bail laid
before the House of Commons a Bill for the protection
of the publics against unqualified chemists and druggist()
oompounding prescriptions. The Bill reqntres that all
persons oommeneing business sifter thia year shall either
be pharmaoeuticel ohemistrn or be examined and passed
by the examiners under the soy AM, and registered
as °herniate and droggiets under this Bill. But alsemiets
and druggists in business before the end of ibis year.
and their essistante, if of age, are to be entitled to 'hi
registered, without examination. The register is to be
printed for sale annually. The fee for examination and
registration are to be aced by • bye-law, to be made in
accordance with the Pharmaey Act.
Thu PONTSLADI MORDNIL—The cripple, mantel
Coombs, who, in a drunken quarrel at Portalade, near
Brighton, shot Joseph Sharp, was tried at the Lewin
&seises on Friday. The Lord Chief Baron said it was
impossible to make out this watts murder, and prisoner,
under the adrioe of his counsel, pleaded guilty of man-
slaughter. He was eentenoed to 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.
THI FIECKNET TEEOZDT. —The wretched woman
Carmichael, the wife of a guiltier, who murdered her
little nephew, and then cut her own throat a few weeks
ago, died in the German Hopital, at Dalston, on
Thursday, where she has been treated ever since she
' committed the crime. It was generally understood
that she was labouring under insanity, bet no official
examination oonld take place in consequenee of the
frightful nature of her wounds, which have ended in
death.
FALL OF A RATIMAT BIUDGL—On Sunday morning a
number of men were employed, near Croydon, in weaken-
ing the supporta of bridge, about to be pulled down, on
the Brighton railway, when the fabric fell and six men
was) buried in the masa of briekwork. Two were taken
out deed, another barn since died, and the others were
seriously injured.
ALASSIINO ACCIDENT. —On Sunday afternoon.
the roof of -
London, '
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