The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

graft anb Commerce.

Luciusna, January lB.—There is good business
doing in most descriptions of hosiery, and the trade
generally is in a satisfactory state. In the country dis-
tricts the hosiery trade continues active, and ia all eons.
menial circles they. is the utmost confidence. Yarns
are commanding good price'', spinners beim; actively
engaged.. l'he wool market is buoyant, and high prices
are yet given for superior sorts. •
NOTTING11•11, 18th.—There is it slight revival in MOO
branches of the lace trade, and more has been doing
this week than for some time past. Business is expedia
now to gradually improve. There have been a few good
orders given out this week. The fancy trade, although
dull, is rather more animated than of late. A failure
Mu taken place during the last few days of • hones in
the liabilities hitherto thought secure. The liabilities
are said to be nearly 00,000. In hosiery there is a fair
amount of business doing; many branches are busy, and
future prospects are of an encouraging charaeter. There
are orders on hand, and buyers are purchasing liberally.
Yarns remain firm, and prices remain without change.

ADOPTION OF Fats MAD! IN FRANCL—We rola
with extreme pleasure to a most important demunent
which appears in the Monifter. It is nothing less than
a letter from the Emperor Napoleon to M. Achill.
Fould, Minister of State, mammon( those
changes in the commercial policies of France to
we have lately referred on one or two omissions, and
which we were enabled more specifically to indicate in
some remarks we made on Saturday week. It has been
within our knowledge for some time past that newoeie•
lions were going forward at Paris for the wpm of
arranging certain modifications in the tariffs of the two
countries, with a view to the extension of the commeres
between them, though, till preliminary obstacles were
overcome and the object was in • fair way for being
realized, it was obviously undesirable, by • premature
discussion, to excite hopes which might, after all, be
disappointed. The necessity for such reserve is now re-
moved, and we may therefore state that the Emperor's
letter represents the completion of an understanding be-
tween the English and French Governments on this
most important subject, and that we are indebted for
this result to the energetic and unweaned exertions of
the lion. inenther for Rochdale. It is unnecessary to ask
whether Mr. Cobden went to Paris in a technically
official capacity; it is sufficient to say, that to the best
of our belief, he has been intrusted throughout with the
entire confidence of the Government, and that Parlia-
ment will soon be asked to unction those alterations in
our own tariff, which may be considered the counter-
part of the Emperor's letter. After the period of ex-
citement and anxiety which we have pained through in
reference to our relations with France—after having
been led most unwillingly to look upon war as a contin-
gency far from improbable,—it is in every way gratify-
ing to find so marked a change in the policy of our
powerful ally; a change which not only effaces the
shadow of a probability that any rupture will occur be-
tween the two nations, bat is certain to bind them in
closer bonds than ever. In resolving to break down •
prohibitive tariff, and to give his subjects the benefit of
• cheap production, the Emperor has taken • step whisk
will add to the glory of his reign, and tend to establish
his power on a firmer basis. He is perfectly aware that
French workmen receive far lower wages than the same
classes in F.ngland • that they not only receive less
money for their labour, but have to pay • higher price
for many of the necessary articles of subsisteses ; that
they consume less animal food, lem coffee and eismar,
are more mustily clothed, and are lees comfortably
housed than the English artisan. He also knows that
the bulk of the population are subjected to these prime.
tious for no other reason than that • competitively
small section of the community may grow fat upon dis-
honest profits. What interest has the Emperor in Derv-
ing the monopolists! His strength lies with the mums.
He reigns by virtue of their choke, omitting one or two
unpalatable ingredients, and he can certainly make no
wiser use of the power they have placed in his hands
than by setting at defiathoe the ignorant and selfish
outcries of a band of monopolists who fatten uposi the
beggary of France, and in inaugurating an enlightened
policy which, at the price of a few temporary draw-
backs, will tend to promote the permanent prosperity of
the whole empire.—dfoackster Eraminer.