The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-01 00:00:00

THE WAR.

The war is not yet a week old, and already we are
beginning to feel its disagree-able consequences in an !
unprecedented rise in the price of wheat. The upward
movement in London since the beginning f April is
nearly thirty per cent, and in the United States it is
still higher, being over at per cent. To put the
matter in a still clearer light, we may say that, if the
enhancement is sustained, it would add, even at the
present rate, between two and three pence to the
price of the quartern loaf; and if there are solid.
grounds for the rise that has taken place, the ultimate
addition to the price of bread will be still greater.

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
At present nothing much has taken place in the
region of the Danube, hut as a convention has been
signed between Russia and Rottmania, and as orders
have been given for all trading ships to leave the river,
evenb of importance may be expecte,' there when the
Russians have conaolidatol their positions, a work that Readers o! refined vinotuetaste may be interested
is much retarded by the weather, which has interrupted I to know that at the sale the other day in Bristol, of
the railway service. the cellared-Itiznries of a well-known m onissetir,
'47 port fetched 1325. per ihires or lb. per bottle. '3l
THE visor BATTLE. MEC realised 1711 s. per dozen, something over I Is. a
The surtnitse that the earliest fighting in connection tle. Brandy 100 years old fetched 134 k per
with the war would take place on the Asiatic frontier dozen and ,il,l datuaiea runs, bottle,' in Isso, and
is being fully justified by events. From Yarling places dere:Tibet' as the finest in England, 755. per dozen.
along the line skinnishing of a more or less serious:
character is reisirted. As already announced, an During the year 14476, 709,009 persona ti#ited the
engagement which attains the dignity ,if a battle was British Museum. The number of readers was 109.442,
fought on Wednerslay near Batonm. The usual dia giving an average of 3741 daily; and each reader
crepancies in the story of the fight and its results have
*Mears t,/ have consulted, on an average, 13 volumes
wade themselves a; parent. The Turlut at first claimed r.r diem. 'The average time occupied in supplying is
the victory, and declared that the lob of the enemy iook to a reader was 15 minute.. 35.561 volumes and
amounted to $OO men. This story has now been pamphlets have been added to the library in the
improved upon, and the number if the bet on the course of the year.
Russian side is nnw estimated at 2,000. (in the other
hand, a despatch from Paris declares that the
Emperor of Russia has forwardetl the following
account of the battle to his son : -" We have had our
first fight. It was lint, but our arms were v ictirions
We took a 'Turkish camp." It need scarcely be
pointed out that the style of this statentent is
suspiciously French, awl there is no great probability
of its accuracy. It was to be expo bit that the Turks
would wit lie slow to make use of their undoubted
navel MiprellMey. A portion uf the fleet is sail to have
bombarded and burnt Poti, a Russian port in
Transcaneasia. This is very likely to be the first of a
series of bombardments, as there ilia.s not appear notch
probability of the appearance of a sufficiently strong
Ittessian fleet to cope with the force tinder the command
of Hobart Pacha.

Mr. Edwarl Fry, Q. C. , has been appointe.l the new
Vice-Chancellor. Ile is a son of Mr. Fry,
chocolated-notoriety.

The war correspondents are taking flight eastwards.
I believe (says a London correspomlentl Gr. Russell
is not going out for the Timm, his Indian journey
having sufficed him for a time, and Mr. A. 11. Kelly,
who represented the ?i.e., during the Servian war
has returned home, :ind prefers now to follow his pro ,
feasion at the bar. This leading journal. however,
will be competently represented on both the linssian
and Turkish sides. Mr. I:. A. Sala prefers to remain in
Fleet-street, having recently returned from St.
Petersburg, by way of Constantinople, awl the Doily
?delimit!, will be represented by Mr. Gray, who has
been in Turkey smile time, and by Major Leaver, who
is an experienced soldier. Mr. A. Forbes, of the
!Mil!, Nom, started last week for the Russian head-
quarters, where he will be specially welianne for the
service he has already I lone for the Russian eanse, and
Mr. NEGahan, whose Russian proLlivites are also
gtrong, will be his e ,Ileagne. The Ste,,,ford will lie I
represented by Mr. Frederick lloyle .m the Turkish I
side; and Mr. (3. A. Ilenty and Mr. John A. G'Sisea
are also ready to start at a moment's notive. The I
Russians, howeser, have refused to revive represen-
tatives of any other English journals than the Time*
and the Le,tly News. Mr. Henry Pymond is going to
Turkey for the Memimi Air ruse. The Plimirotml
Loildotl Noes will be represented by several artists,
including Messrs. Melton Prior, Irving Montague. E.
M. Hale, and Johann Schimberg. A g the artists
commissioned for the Graph,- is Mr. Villiers, who
went through his first campaign with the Servians last
year, and acquitted himself well. It is possible that
the heaviest fighting may take place in Asia Minor,
and some correspondents and artists have started on
that assumption.

Sir Coutts Lindsay, himself " a gli4ing-I'l4ml
amateur," is building a pieture.gallery to be called the
Grosvenor, situate in Bond-strect, and open to the
public on the usual terms, viz. a shilling a head.
Portland stone, 'highly enriched," is the chief
materiel etnployed, and the total cost ia put at
1:120,00b. The takings at.theoloor, however, it is
hoped, will render the affair remunerative. Disagree-
able people may posibly call this a " spec," forgetful
of bantneteged-devires for the advancement of the arts
and sciences.

I low IA that to find real, genuine, and earnest
liberality in the Church one hag to look to "the
extremes ?" The Ritualists ran command any amount
in. upon an emergency, and the -In illet bodies
of Dissenters gather in a harvest, when required, that
ought to make the Establishment, with its ill.assorted
wealth, to blush. The Baptist Missionary Society
are about to present their late Secretary, Dr.
Underhill, with a magnificent cikket of fine gold.
Dr. Underhill deserves it, but, does not the action
throw a strong, and very strong, rebuke into the teeth
of those who are content to see mi,erably•pittianeed
iliiicipkw of the Church wear away their lives in their
disinterested labours with, their part, no more
acknowledgement than they would aecoril to one of
the poorest paid of Dorset labourers, who properly
diseharged his daily duty to bin master.