The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

LONDON MARKS/S.

BY .ZIPBESS a ELECTRIC rsksoRAPH.

FROM OUR otrs REPORTER.

ITOND— AY, JULY 22.
Minimally wog MO/ ot Entlith whim'. beau.
*mu, te.t worm may be oonsidarad la. to 2o
per quu*r. bleier than lad Monday. plonis,
showed a similar selvante. Foreign box* ffd. per
aa
r;dasrer no wheat ow offer. Malt Inn.
woad oats wappertod former terns, Dom.
Id.p'r qt. cheaper. Boum Lod pews quiet. Roar
Are.

zurritOPOLITAN cArru MARKET. Jrl.2 21•
Trade in foreign Mock insothro. and prices drooping.
Inferior breeds of English beast' 24. per ftlb lower ; top
quot • don Is. 44. per Rib. Sheep inaetive. Inferior
=es 94. per 81b. lower. top dere Re. 21. per lb.
quiet. Pigs very dull and rather obisper top
Eon IL 44. per 81b.

WOOL IU=KT.

Cuizarr Pima oit Siouan Wocs,pot 11).7

s. d. s. d.
Floooso—South Dove hoggett... ... 14to 1 5
lialt-bred ditto .. ... 1 54 to 1 6
. Kent Floosso... 1 5 tot 54
South DOWIIIIIIIIII and malign 1 1 tot 4
lodoettet dllto ... 1 4 tot 5
notts—Clothlos
... 1 2 tot 61
Corobizi 1 2 to 1 81

MOW. IIatItIERT, Jou 22.
r C4amlilfor ISO DST aro 911 to GIL Rd for tbo amount
NI to 941 ex 4,...

Latta.

"Rinses" amoz, Moadsy Niibt.

DI? ARTURi OW OUR VISITOR& —The Viceroy of
Rapt is already on his way home, and the Satan will
probably leave to-morrow. The Belgians embarked at
noon to-day.

Runtime rs Tua Amalie Casta.—A. telegram
imbed Valenti, likitardeff, fix p.pt.,r.poña that the
mile of 1866 em broken eadelealy on Stuey after-
noon, at 60 =Aloof miles from Heart's Content.

Tin Wimbledon meeting was brought to a close on
flatenlay. The prises were presented to the sueoessful
competitors by the Princess Mary of Cambridge. The
Sultan witnessed the review, which was the grand
feature of the day. Over a thousand of the Belgian
riflemen took part in the proceedings.
Bneonura Monona mut FROVE.—A. very shocking
murder has been perpetrated at Wolverton, near
Prelate. On Saturday morning last, a man named
Mogen was paseing the manliness of Mr. Moser, when
he taw some smoke issuing from the premises, and
immediately raised an alarm Some neighbours were
soon in attendance, and emocipt them was a man
named Britten. After the' game. were extinguished,
the premier were explored. and • ghastly upectaele
preeented itself. On two plank, were discovered the
remains of a woman, ins frightfully mutilated condition,
and uoderneath wise quantity of faggots sod ooke which
had evidently been set OD fire with the view of consum-
ing the body. The remains were afterward, identified
es those of Ira. Brittan,tand it is supposed that she was
murdered in her own house by her husband and if her.
wards carried to the malthoese, where it was intended
to destroy all trace of the horrible deed. Britten haa
been taken into custody, and it Is reported that he ham
madam contusion of the murder.

ACISTCULTIMAL MACTILIIMIT AT Till ROYAL BOCIZIT'II
13now—The most noticeable features in Use meobankel
details went that nearly all the machines used modiffor
Mona of the "Gonchere or channelled drem-beater ;
nearly all had different forms of the perforatedcrood
swing riddle ; nearly all serrated the ern into quali-
ties by a cylindrical screen ; and nearly all dressed the
Chad u well r the grain, delivering the ohaff into
bags. Novelties were not numerous; one on the
Ipswich nischine consists of • sdsty fence or hopper round
the mouth of the drum, intended to prevent horrible
reidente which are not infrequent from Ws* steps
or slipping upon the smooth graincovered platform.
This marine, too, has the peculiarity of cleaning
its chaff before blowing the chaff from the wheat.
Tasker's maehine performs all the dressing in
the very simplest manner from a single fan. 's
peers the ''seconds" or tail corn through a small
grinding-mill, thus preparing at once for feeding
use. In ?oxford's machine we have the easiest box.
shaker, and a new and very perfect revolving screen ;
and Cleytne and truttleworth's has • peculiarly
effective box•ahaker, and • rotary screen constructed
to expand or contract like s helical eyeing. Hawker
and Spencer's patent oorn drill is a moot valuable
Implement, and out at sixty-four drills exhibited It was
the only one commended as having any essential im•
procurer. Drills in general deposit seed by the
means of cups or brushes ;in this machine chains are
substituted, which revolving on small rollers, convey
the seed in the hollows of their links ; this
mode is leas liable to the disturbers cared
by a sharp anent or descent In the gra nel
'turners, of Ipswich, exhibited, among other machines, I
se oil cake breaker, worked by steam, in which the cake
can be deposited sideways not endways, and which will
break from 4 to 5 tons an hour, useful for cake mann.
fruiterers who supply ground cake for manure, Ice. A
turbine vu shown, that is a wheel to take the place of
the ordinary water wheels. It is much used abroad,
highly praised by scientifie men, and, it is surprising
that it is not more needier this country, but we are slow
tetra up with redly new ideas. Mr. Tenser bad also
various engines working thrashing marinas, and his
collection of implements. The chaff cutter was
notionblo for its relieving and reversing motion, by
whir, if the feeder finds any injurious substance
In the bay, Ito., or is so unlucky as to be
entangled himself, fro eau by simply moving •
lever revere the action and release whatever is ers.
tangled. The pate mill erushes corn and splits
acid is • very awful article. The awards for fixed" all
portable engines are es follows :—Fixed steam engines,
first priseuf f2O, Messrs. Clayton, Shattlieworth, and
; Nerd prise of TIO, Messrs. 'Teeford end Sons,
Beaton. Highly commended: The Reading Ironworks
Company. Commended : Messrs. Deacon, Wood, and
Co. Single cylinder portable sae Das, first pries of BA
Mears. Clayton, Shuttleworllt. and 0o.; seined prise of
£l5, Messrs. Texford and Sons. Highly commanded:
Messrs. Brown and May, and the Reeding Irouworks
Company. Commended: Messrs. Ruston and Proctor,
Lincoln. Double cylinder portable engines. first Prise
of EU Herr& Chem, Shuttleworth, and Co.; sewed
prise of £IS, Marra Breams' and Sims. Highly
commended: Mora. Brown and May, and Marra
Trford and Ba,,s.

IItIMERSET AND DORSET RAILWAY.
Drew/Tarr 1111171/10 OF 811411110L0EVAL
For some time peat considerable dissatisfaction has
existed among a large portion of the shareholder' of the
Somerset and Dorset Railway residing in the Blandford
and Wimborne district, with respect to the manner in
whisk the drain of that line have been conducted, and
as hem time to time fresh causes for anxiety have
arisen and its prospects so far from becoming improved,
have amen,
worse and worse, it was determined as a diviner
revert to call a meeting of the shareholders, for the
purpose of considering the propriety of appointing a
committee of investigation into the affairs of the corn.
pany, mid en fieturdaT last, in pursuance of notice to
that effect, the meeting took place in the Town-ball,
Biandford. The shazelridere esomut were :T. H.
Netted, Esq., W. C. Flashes), ~ J. Huseey,
F. Trimwell Rogers, ER., F. T. ohne, ESQ., Messrs.
C. Pond, Mitchell H. F. Fisher, 8, P. Davies, L.
H. Bang, R. Rogers. 8.. Hicks, E. Rosdter, P. Hill,
It. Bowler, J. Risley, W. Game, C. Rite* W. Ride*
J. Ford, R. Lugs, G. 8. Tucker. S. E. Wareham, J.
Lindees, J. Hunt, Ray. H. B. Viaard, J. Miller, R.
Salisbury, C. Moore, W. T. Eiger. IL Mate, J. Keynes,
It. Brine, H. Fookes, 8. Abbott, G. Good, J. Will6ms,
W. T. Mersiterill, he., he.
On Abe proposition of Mr. Roger., T. H. Bastard,
Meg., ens unanimously dieted Chairman.
Mr. Bastard, after exoreanng his regret that some
person better qualified than himself had not been
selected to take the chair, said that they were met to
consider, aosording to the terms of an advertisement
which had appeared in the local paper., the propriety of
appointing a committee of investigation, to sea if it IMO
pnsible whether something Gould be done to improve
the condition of the property of the Somerset and
Dorsi Railway Company. A few gentlemen, whom
names be need not keep back had met together and the
result of their deliberations was to call that meeting.
They wen himself, Mr. Fincham, Mr. Roger,, Mr.
Fowler, Mr. Burt and Mr. Davies. In the remarks
which he should make he should endeavour to confine
himself to the past management of the line, and in
tasking those remarks be particularly desired at the
outset to basun them that above all things he did not
in the least make any personal attack on the directors
Hiner, burl They were met as • body of altar*.
holders k consider if say course could be devised
to improve the present state of their Ins, and
with this object in view, be would with their per-
:minion take a slight gams* of the past. The
original proposal was to make a line from Poole to
-Bristol, and We estimated ant wee at about 12,000 per
mile, and some said could be made as low as £2,000 to
£lO,OOO. After the amalgamation with the Somerset
company there was an estimate given for making the
line for £14,600 per mile, ineludig rolling stock, ho.
The original proposition fell to the ground, and there
was it* a proposition to make the line in sections, and
In 1r46 the Act for making the first section from
Whaborne to Blandford was obtained with a capital of
eC103,000, and borrowing powers for C 33,000, and if they
" staye4 there or even gone on so far as liturniniter
Newton or Gillingham, he believed they would not have
bon^ in the difficulty they were now in—(hnar, bear).
But in 1857 an extension of the Act was applied foe to
carry the line on to Bruton, with MI increamd capital
of £400.0011, by borrowing £93.000, sad by new shares
amounting to C 300.000. There was • little opposition
to that, and be Wm Chairman) was not one who joined
in that *position. 15 1562 the eel wee greeted to tarry
uto boo to Borah* instead of the populous town of
and time commencement of their difficult*
might, he considered, be dated from the September of
that year, when the Act ens obtained to amalgamate
the semeraet and Doren companies. Not to occupy
their time too much he would now pass on to what he
considered was the next caw.) of their diMeulties. The
nest thing they heard of was packet. to C•rdiff by the
Burnham Tidal Harbour Company. and at a meeting of
the directors at Biandford, in 186.3, they heard that an
annealing had been entered into with the Rand.
Ttdal Harbour Company' for two steamers to he pat ea by
thatencopany,by which it would appear that the Somerset
and Dorset Railway and the Burnham% Tidal Harbour
Company were two separate companies. This was
followed by a very mysterious meeting of the director'
of the two companies at &fishery, after shish they
learned that they had taken £12.000 in shares of the
Burnham company. At • sithseq•ent meeting of the
directors and he (the ehairree.)egked the
ate Lard Riven some queetiosse reartisliai this tremens
too. inA be hithrtiood frogs Ida to wey that they
road out hare say way to ro,T the Benham