The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

BY ISPRASS 4t ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(PROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)
Raiz-Lurk Monday, November 9.
Only moderate supplies of English 'the" ha" be"
received op to our inarkeL Durint lb. P•nn week,
all kinds bare commanded a steed, oda. at WI Priem
Pot the, meet part lb. samples bare wine to band in
rod saleable condition. The imports of foreigo wheat
have been in an average male. Good and fine qualitisa
have sold to stoat extent. ott former ten", bnt lon and
damp wools have ruled almost nominal. Malting
barl les moved off freely, at full currencies. In
griel and di:tilling sorts the transactions have Goo -
tinned f 'wilted, sod in some instances the rates have bad
O dreeping tendency. New malt has moved off steadily,
old
ax:Mee slowly, about stationary prioes. No
change barn taken place In the value of cote, but
demand may be considered steady. Rama have eon,
...dad very little attention, at the late decline in
value. The sale for peas has been much restricted, on
former terms. The flour trade may be considered
eioady, at late rates, with the exception of th• top
quotation for town-made having declined to Me. per
Mqbe. The supply of American BOP/ bas rather
Increased.

On the Clontinent the sale of wheat has continued
much restricted; nevertheless. very little change has
taken place in the quotations. Spring corn has o'ht
slowly at shout previous ntea
The latest advice* from New York bring rather firmer
prices for wheat, although the ezport demand was by
no means active.

CLORE or TB! MARKET.
COIL— The suppliee of grain on offer at this day's
market were moderate. Business Ina, however, slow.
and the quotations of last Monday remain unchanged.
Barley and oat. were in somewhat better request, but
prices were the same as 44 week.

CATTLZ—Tb. number of beasts at to-day's ruarkst was
6,430; that of sheep, 22,490. There was a rather better
trade, and prime sorts brought extreme prices. Choice
mutton was lbr. 10d., and best :loots fetched 5.. the
stone. Pork and veal were abundant, but just aa dear.
There was • good deal of iniddl;ng and inferior stock in
the market, which sold slowly, but at improved pries.

Wthus.—Tbe will of Sir Creswell Creswell, Judge
of the Probate and Divorce Court, has been sworn
under £13,000. Mr. Stewart Marjoribanks, of Bathe,
Grove, Harts, £100,000; Alderman Humphrey,
£280,000; Mr. Thomas Powell, of the Geer, £200,000.
AN AWKWARD JOEL —A German ournal gives the
following account of the disagreeable consequences
attending • practical joke : ' A young student of the
University a Prague, Baron Charles de Klaversberg,
when on him way to Vienna, towards the end of last
month, stopped for the night at the Black Eagle Hotel,
in the small town of A retatadt, near Banditti, in
Bohemia. Haring been requested by the landlord to
his name in the traveller'. reAister, the young !
Elitatian had the Imprudence to wnte in the column I
, 'Object of the Journey,' the words, 'To blow
out his brains.' The landlord, without reading what
the baron had written, /rent the book to the burgomaster
in the evening, in conformity with the police regula-
tions. About ten o'clock, after the traveller had gone
to bed, a moldier entered bin room, drew his sabre and ,
sat down in a chair by the bedside. On the baron I
asking the reason of this intrusion, the soldier replied,
• I am sent to keep watch over you, and shall be re.
placed in two hours by one of my comrades, who will
be succeeded by others till ten o'clock in the morning,
when you cull be taken to %sine.' As the soldier
had said, the young baron was neat morniug put into •
carriage and taken to Bangleu, where, by order of the
director of polioe, he was examined by two physicians,
who declared that he was not Insane. He was, Neverthe-
less, constantly watched by sentinels, on. of whom, in
answer to this inquiry why be was thus treated as •
criminal, said, "Because you declared your intention
to kill yourself, and his magnificence (sense niorsificeitz)
the burgoinster has forbidden suicide under any pre-
text whatever.' In spite of all the baron could say in
explaintion of his joke, he was detained in close
custody, and in due time brought to trial on the charge
of writing what was inimoral in a public register. The
tribunal declared the offence fully established, and con-
damned the accused to a month's imprisonment, • fine
of 200 florins, with all the expeuses attending his arrest,
custody, and trial.—Ociirsaiti
SHOCKING CIL'ILTT TO A CHILD. —On Wednesday
evening • good deal of excitement was caused in this
seaport by a case that had been Leant before the South
Shields borough magistrates. Isabella Inkester, the
wife of • master of • vessel, • person living in • respec-
table circle, was charged with cruel ill-usage to Elisabeth
Inkomter, an intelligent little girl ten years of age, her
step-daughter, in the absence of the father at sea. The
neighbours, who appeared as witnesses, gave evidence
of • shocking aeries of brutalities exhibited by the cruel
end brutal woman towards the poor child. The little
girl herself was exarninml. and she state.) on oath that
duriag the three days ending the 7th of September, her
stepmother hail kept her naked in • dark closet with-
out anything to cat; that she escaped from her on the
third day, but that, upon returning in the evening, this
woman act upon her again soil heat her with • rope.
Before the woman bad put the child into the close, she
had kept her fastened to • chest of drawers all day with
• rope, and naked. The Bench was occupied three
hours in hearing the case. At its conclusion they
'dusty' to indict • line upon the defendant, but sent
her to Durham gaol for three months with hanl labour.
The decision of the Court was received with much
applause. and it was quite clear if the women could
have laid hold of the prisoner they would have sum-
manly lynched her.
FM/ICM WAIL 8 KA 11111 AT QcEENsrowr.—The
Cori Herold says: —"The Federal sloop of war Keereage,
eight gen% J. Winalkw, commander, arrived at Queens-
town, about nine o'clock 00 Monday front Brest,
having marls the run from port to port in 84 hours.
She is believed to have come this way in the hope of
falling in with the Confederate war steamer Georgia,
which she supposed was the Channel (last reported at
('herbourg), and, running short of coals, she put into
Queerstown, and anchored a short dhtance to the ,
*outliner' of the Spit Light. She is • well-built, barque-
rigged, iron-plated screw steamer of perhaps 800 tons.
and has all the appearance of • swift craft and • good
*ea boat. Her OffiLlfro ale fine men in appearance, but her
crew fall very far short of our conception of 1440.01 war's
men. Several of the latter were on shore on Tuesday.
The Kearsage coaled at hie anchorage on Toesday alter.
0000. and was expected to have left port immediately.
The Cork Examiner states that Admiral JOOO4 has sent
a notice to the commander of the Federal frigate
/lessee— teported to be in search of the Confederate
crosser Georitta—to 41114 Cork il•rbour within 24 hours.
It is n-ported that the Federal officer refuses to leave
the harbour."

BR RI rrY Ft RI AT ALD [ROHM. SEVENTY-RIGHT
flonsza Be lINT. Oli Friday morning a shockitig and
disastrous fire occurred in the camp at Aldershot, in
the stables of the Military Train. el .1 id to the barrack
stores, moulting in the destruction of 78 valuable horses.
The building in which the fire ork noted funned nearly
two sides of a wirer*, the angles being respectively
about 100 yards and 75 yards in length. It was built
entirely of timber and strew, and formed one of &number
of temporary stables allotted to the horses of the Royal
Artillery and Military Train stati ~,, Mon the South Camp.
'lle dames •pread with lightning-like rapidity, and in
the short apace of ten minutes the entire building was
ono masa of dame. The screams of the horses, which
were tethered to their stalls with chains, were terrible,
and incredible as it may appear, of the $9 within the
building only It were saved. The Camp Fire Brigade,
umkr superintendent Burke, was promptly in attend-
ance with three engines and a large number of fire-
screens, but owing to • scarcity of water, only one
engine could be brought into play. The horses in the
adjoining stables were turnesl loose, and driven away
from the scene of the fire, some of them reaming into
the country fir many miles rouniL A strung south-west
wind was blowing, which had the effect of carrying the
fianies directly away from the adjoining stables, which
ing of the same material as the blazing building must
otherwise have *bared the same fate. In Ives than an
hour the stable was burnt to the ground, and at eight
o'clock the scene was of • truly horrifyinj nature.
Amidst the burning ruins the carcasses of ,13 horses,
reduces' almost to cinders, stood out in every conceivable
position of ghastliness. emitting • sickening stench
which was almost overpowering; large bodies of troops
were turning over the &Owes, searching for the bodies of
three men who, it was supposed, bad perished in the
il4lll. in their endeavouring to save the horses. Fifty-
two of the burnt horses belonged to the sth battalion of
Military Train. and Ml to the 2nil battalion. Their
value is roughly estimated at P 2,500. This however,
does not represent the tutal lose as the harness and
accoutrements within the building were worth at least
E5OO.
Tug *URDU' or A CYSTON•BOUgg OMCIS Dr
Lit-carom. —On Thursday afternoce an incomet was
held on the body of Mr. Henry Treeby, an oMoer in the
Customs, who was found lying dead in Bhiebroad, near
Waverer.' Park, before Mr. P. F. Curry, coroner.—
Richard Oliver, a gauger in her Majesty's Customs,
depored that deceased "signed off" at the Custom
House at lour o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Ho ,
then had 275. in his pocket, and was wearing a silver
watch with • gold Overt chain. Deceased was • tow
perate nien.—Policeeffleer William Callister, 213,
deposed that on Wednesday afternoon, from information
he received, he went to the public-house of John
Chester, 8, Wsvertree-road, where he found the
deceased dead. On searching the body be found • knife,
two keys, two renal eases, a breastpin, a pocket-book, •
ineerseh•um pipe, and • number of written papers.
There was no watch or money found tipon him. The ,
face of the deceased was covered with blood.—Mr.
Francis Ayrton. surgeon, deposed that he made a post-
mortem examination of the body, and found • contused
wound over the left eyebrow, • large contusion on the
left cheek, and the now also contused. There was •
contusion on the left shoulder, and also on the elbow,
arid the thumb of the right head wretched. The right
knee of his trousers and drawers were saturated with
blood, as aim the breast of hi. coat. On opening the
chest the left side was found fall of blood, which cants
froui an artery between the ribs, and the fifth rib
was fractured. It was the ragged pert of the
rib which eat the artery and caused the death.
The injury to the ribs was the result of external
violence. All the organs of the body were healthy.
In answer to the coroner, the surgeon said the de-
ceased did not appear to have been strangled, but there
was • mark under the deceased's whiskers as of • man's
dirty hand. The coroner adjourned the csae, and in'
struetod • detective officer to inquire into it. The
police-constable stated that several men saw the man
serried into the house. He believed that they were
very we as Ms people that kept th use re e ho, the
mon br7rostd there.
BRADBURY AND COOK'S flsim 011 Exiruag WOOL.
The second periodical sale of English wool by public
auction, be rd on the 4th instant at the Wool Bele
Rooms, London, commended • very Loge attendancebuyers from our own manufacturuig. districts, and there
was also • very spirited competition on the part of
burrs from the Continent. The advance realised on
bright-haired wools since the Isst sale in Jultwas 24•1
to .4d. per lb Kent wool sold at 2. to 2a Pal pm lb
There was • fair assortment of wool from other wen.
ties; and whilst the advance on all long•etapleil flocks
was fully_ lid per lb. Down, and other shorter descrip-
tions sold at only • slight advance on the pram' lately
current.

MARTINSTOWN FAIL

NOTICIC IS HEREBY GlVEN.—that "
the nod of NOVEMBER falls on SUNDAY,
this FAIR will be HELD on MONDAY MIIUES-
DAY, taw 23r4 and 24th ROVERBRIL
By Order.