The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

Crain anb Grammar.

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TZA,—Owing to the holidate, Mt owl* los oon
tinned itelinairtive, but we have no 'hang& notice
aln the dons. Conon 114. to 2s. Ist IIP Yong
184 00 ng le. ad. to 2m.; ilonalunsielll Ild. le . 66. i
Flowert l'eltoe,,2l, ad. to la. WI j Old IL*.
to Is. • • Orange Uwe( lA. eat VI.
to Is. . J'Htgon Skin, on. 16 le. • 4 liyam, la. 2d.
to 64, . ; Young 11700 n. WA. to b. 24. I iMPorial.
la. to 2i. U. 1 Uttnpowder, la, lo Ss. 114.; Maim, lia.
104. to la. 6d. par lb.
jakti:
soali.—No public et bain '. ' ph.., but this
private rarebit la very rim, and are a shade
14bar, Iteiened goods move off erne ' it No Pt to
WA, pet ,ewt. ; wet lump; 54 16 psi wt. No
chimp In urneked. The iota Soak of sew I. now
66,6•4 tons, against 10,000 tons last year.
Brusrra.—ltem le very dull, and lower to pttrahau ;
proof I,.Evarde, 20, to.2s. ld. ; But India, li. 114. to
2a. per on.. Brandy oontlnues to gins way luta
with a. vy demand. In gran spirit, nothing doing.
' Paointeim OP TRADI.—The monetary eriele Whig to
' tall on the monthly returns of the Board pi Trade.
Th. declared 'value of the exporta for the month ending
November is £8,285,816, showing a deeraue of
£2,000,000, u compared with November last year, and
of £BOO,OOO Uaompared with November, 18118. Upon
cottons there la a decrease of £OOO,OOO ; upon linens,
£170,000 ; woollen yarn., 00,000 ; woollens, £20,000;
wool, R 60,000; silk, £88,000; oil seed, 1:80,000 ; en
plates, 00,000. Generally speaking, the decline rune
, through all the items. The imports have a more favour.
I able aspect.

THIBTATI Or EMPLOYMINT IN MLNCREISTER.—
The weekly return made on Wednesday shows an in.
crease of persona out of work, the number being 9,382
against 9,226; increase, 158 ; the number on short
time, from 21,872 to 20,975 ; decrease, 897. There be.
been an improvement in more workpenple having gone
on full time, the numbers last week being 15,288, while
this week it has increased to 15,253; improvement,
987.

STRIKE OF THE WEAR SHITWRIOHTS.—WIHIA the
failure of the Northumberland and Durham District
Bank took place the Wear shipbuilders intimated to
their men that a redaction of wages from Os. to 4s. per
day would imediately be made. The men struck work
the same week, and, after the shipbuilding business had
been all hut suspended for a month, the, masters an-
nounced in the beginning of the present week ,tat they
would compromise the dispute by paying 4s. 6d. a-day.
On Wednesday the men came to the resolution to refuse
the offer, and the strike, which has thrown nearly 1,400
out of work, still continues.

condition, and the outside plate was perfectly .pund—it
was a quarter of an inch thick. The boiler, firebox, and
tubes appeared to have been in excellent working con-
dition, and were little worse for wear. There was no
sign of leakage ; the iron was very good, and the boiler
altogether was very creditably made. The safety-valve
was small, but the witness did not think if it had been
larger that the accident would have been prevented.
The evidence of the previous witnesses clulte confirmed
the opinion he had formed on examining the boiler,
which was that the accident arose entirely from an ex-
cess of pressure. Before he heard the evil:lance he had
arrived at the conclusion that the safety valve must
have been sticking, or have been purposely fastened
down. Judging from the perfect state of the firebox
and the plate at the top of it, he did not consider that the
accident arose from over heating ; there was evidently
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THZ LABOUR-MAIM= IN AUSTIALIA.—Our latem
advice' from Victoria, we are happy to say, state that
the plethora of labour was fast disappearing at Mel-
bourne. A vote of £25,000 had been taken to give
temporary employment to such ea might apply. The
applicants numbered about 1,100. The employment
given was on cuttings and embankments connected with
the public works already decided on, so that the work
was not absolutely made for the workmen, and the
Government very wisely Seed the rate of wages lower
and the hours of working rather longer than under pri-
vate employers. In the meantime the great influx of
people by sea has rather fallen off, and at last the de-
parture exceeded the iu-rivals. The arrivals this year,
up to the 9th of October, amounted to 48,891 people ot
all ages, the departures during the ume period to 15,118,
making the net increase 33,575. A competent &litho-
rity estimates the average capacity of the country to
acerb population as equal to about 38,000 to 40,000
souls per annum—that is, provided they are fit for the
colony. Many, however, continued to come out for
whose labour there was no demand. AU of this oleo
cannot be too strongly cautioned to abandon sush a
course, which can only result in rain and destitution to
themselves and vast injury to the colony. The Govern-
ment system of remittances, by which a persons in this
colony could procure the immigration of their friends
and workpeople into the colony, on tiondition of the
payment of part of the paaaap mow, haa w,erked
very well, and must neoessarily bear &id religion to
the requirements of the colony. A nem of He work-
ing since the establishment of the remittanoes'
lions on the Ist of August, 1858, shows that im-
migration for the five months from August to December
that year hid the following results 1- From England,
1,0884 statute adult.; amount paid, 28,058 ls. ; from
Ireland, 1,818 s ; amount paid, 03,150 18a. • from
Scotland, persona ; amount paid, £2,042 4. In
six months, from January to June, 1857, the numbers
werei—from England, 1,888 persons; mood paid,
29,482 10s. from Ireland, 1,8854; amount paid,
; 28,797 18s. ; from Scotland, 5454; amount paid,
//3,074 10s. Bd.