The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

Vrocetbingo of factfamtnt.

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Tee Berenl7.-Tili-e-Ch@s-toelio; of lie Kseb.quer MSAIO
his financial statement to the House of Commons on
Thursday night, and the reductions he proposes in the
taxation of the sentry tally justify the promises made
when the Ministry of which be is so distinguished a
member assumed the reins of Government. Mr. Lowe's
statement was clear and peed" and was muked by
all that ability with which it has become our habit to
associate these annual financial expositions. dr. Lowe
estimates the revenue of the amine yea: at 172,855000,
•ad the eppenditure, exclusive of the Abysainian expedii
tion, at 1aW3.223,000, so that if the Abyssitiian war
account were deposed of there would be a senile, of
E4,6V.000. The whole expense of the expedition is
estimated at rather less than 1.9,000,000 and there still
remains to be provided on this accoott 1E4.600,000.
Ad .ing to the supine of £4.632,000, a sum of £3.350,000
derived from OMANI liftmen, income tax, and house sad
land tax, there will he a totalof 57,9152,000, and
deducting £4,600,000, the amount doe cm the Abyssinian
sadism& there remains a surplus to deal with of
0,382,000. Then came the consideration how to employ
ibis "windfall," and, aft.r some little rhetorioal
dalliance, Mr. Lowe stated that the income-tax would
be reduced by one penny in the pound. He was here
oblised to pewee for some time, owing to the merman,
prok ably of satisfaction, which went through the Hoes..
Still louder and more decisive parliamentary noises arose
when he entailed that tbe one shilling duty on corn,
amounting to E 900,000, was to be removed, a duty
which was always considered as n, duty at all, and
which, in feet, operated not in the least to bring in or
ken out torn, bet was so fare protective duty that it
raised the price by the amount of the ta& Opportunity
was here tam to pronoonce • vigorous diseertation on
free trade, supplemented by a statistical amount of the
quantity and value of corn imported since the protective
duties proper were repealed. Perhaps even Mr. Lowe
hirnielf, judging from what he said, was conscious that
he rather laboured this part of his speech. Another
remisioa which Wee proposed was the duty on are
instance, and this without peddling for it is to be
abolished altogether from Midsummer Pent. This was
met by a shout of approval Next, Mr. Lowe fell upom
sone general little taxes, beginning with hair powder,
producing £925 • year, and this he got rid of altogether.
Then, as to armorial bearings, having ridiculed the
present rates, be said that, as he could not get rid of
the tax altogether, he might as well increaser at, which
would be • guinea in soine cues and two guineas in
others. Then, all two-wheeled serriages would be only
charged 15s. if under three hundredweight,four- wheeled
I! drawn by ponies, being charged the same. Hone
dealers' lissoms would be £l2 10e, instead of kW. lien
servants would be charged a uniform rate of 15e.
Dealing with the taxes on locomotion, it was stated that
all exceptional and differeatial duties should be
abolished, and a uniform rate levied. Thus stage
iri lege. would be paid on just as any others; while
01 hones would be charged 10s. 61 Expressing
sympathy with the cab interest, which was endorsed by
a good cheer, 11r. LlWe stated that every cab paid
eider £l9 or £l6 a year, and this duty would be entirely
repealed, and the proprietors would have to pay the
ordinary stage marriage duty, either £22.. or £3 3e., as
the case might be. The poet-hone duty of £5 would
he abolished ; and the licenses for selling tea would also
be abolished. The result woad be a remission of taus
amounting to £3,060,000, of which £2,910,000 would
come to pass in the present year; leaving a surplus of
£442,000. With a compact resume of the malts and
the advantages of the propodtions of his budget, and
slipping in a ststement that he we. not about at present
to pay off any Exchequer Bonds, or any part of the
Meting debt, he concluded • speech of two hours and •
half duration. There was a decided expression of
approval and satiefaction to the cheers which lea's's&
his cessation. Than followed the usual desultory
discussion.

riCOLIAILITIIS or —S-elicti IN TEX AL —A corns%
pondeet of the New York Tines, of Marsh V, writing
from Paris, Texas, says :—" They have some funny
expression. in this region. They never ' carry' anything
Ice. than oxen or me., Or the like, they 'peck' them.
East of the Mississippi they are • toted.' A springy
par is • 'seep ;' if the surfer water filters inio the
well, it 'seeps' in. If anything gets fir in the mud it
is 'bogged,' and 'done' is the commonest of adjective..
' We ire done hired." The kitren is done swept.'
'The baby is done woke up.' An excellent young man,
who holds hims,ll aloof trim the almost universal vices
of drinking and gaming, cut • slip of verm, entitled
• Have courage to say No r from a newspaper, and
carried it in his vest pocket. At a bachelor dinner
lately, they urged him to think with them, but he
refused. After a good deal of ineffectual urging, 'They
talked of making use do it, and then I drew th.t on
them, and then quit,' he said, showing the slip. Such
an expression woela hardly be intelligible out of the
land of bowie knives: Their nicknames are something
startling. One young lady, who was christened Mary,
is always called • Mia Pig." Min Pig, will you dancer
Miss FII. allow me, dm, I heard addressed to her half.
si-dosen times by as many gallants in oue evening. A
very sedate and solemn young man, who had the
misfortune to be the youngest of his family, on. carried
the name of Babe' from his cradle up—six feet."
TRIAL roll FORCING A WILL.—An extraordinary
ore of this kind has jut been tried before the Court of
Anises of the Seine. The accused were a woman nomad
Imbed, aged 40; Fair, • notary's
_clerk ; and two hors
painters, named Pierrot and Ldebvre ; • third is also
implicated in the affair, but has not been arrested. The
facts of the case were thew :—M. de Mental, • gentle-
man possessing eonsiderable propetty, occupied a small
apartment on the fifth floor of the house No. 8, in the
Roe d'Alger. He seems to have been of • miserly
disposition, and rarely received any rialto, except feces
the Abbe Ayrollea, chaplain at La Chartits hospital.
While on • visit to the latter in May of last year he
was taken suddenly so ill as not to be able to go home;
remained in his frieni's apartment, and died there on Us
3rd of July. _Among his papers a will wee found,
leaving all 0: ) property, amounting to more than
300,000 L, to Mdine Imbert, with whom he had formerly
been acquainted. Mame Imbert, it appears, having
Isierned of M. de Mound's death on the 4th of July,
had determined in concert with Pisrrot, who occasionally
borrowed small sums of money from the deceased, to
fabricate a will making her his universal legatee.
Lefebvre was employed to draw up the deed, and en
=t being at that moment to let on therms loos
enar in the Ras d'Alger, Pierrott hired it in
order to obtain an opportunity of placing the false
document among K. all Mental's papers. The will
prepared by Lefebvre not being satisfactory, the
&MIAOW,' of Fillir as • notary's clerk, was obtalnal,
soda, Pierer did not wish to be AVM in the hoar,
another confederate had to be employed; this was
(hoorah, who, under the pretere of decorating the
apartment in the Rue d'Alger, obtained admission to
de. Moral's rooms by pinking the look of the door,
and having detached one of the seals from that gentle.
WAD'S seeretary, with a thin painter's knife, he placed
the forged will among other papers, and then with •
little glue restored thinp to their former state no
carefully that no traces of the criminal act were saes.
quently observed. Doing betrayed the whole plot to
the relatives, The parties implicated were all arrested
itil the exception of Gliccalli, who atotPed into Ilt1).
Mime. Imbert penntod In denying all knowledge of the
forgery, but the others confessed, and drafts for 10,003 t,
each Owenby her to Lefebvre and Pierrot, and found In
their emersion, were a sufficient proof of her culpabilty.
The woman was now sondeanned to five years' imprison.
mint PierTek Lieber% and Fillies to four years of the
same punishment, end each of the accused to 1001. fine.