The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

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THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL STORM& The
Northern end central part of the kingdom was lately
visited bye most destructive hailstertn. In Yorkshire
tie haiLstones were something marvellous in size
Several were collected in St. Peter'somnare, Leeds, by
Mr. Satnuel Etches, painter. end although they had
been somewhat re;.aced daring their transit, when
brought to the Leeds Mercury ofth.e, they were neatly
two inchel in circumference, But even these were
small own, tired with those which fell at Braniley,
Morley, and elsewhere, one of which actually exceeded
See inches in cirottinference, and four ounces in weight.
At the former ulsim at least 3,000 panes of glass are
broken in the Town Street clone, and some houses have
fifty or sixty panes of glass broken. At Dewsbury
the hail stones were remarkable for their size, some of
them being connoted together and forming masses as
largess walnu's. At Whittlesea, Combs, the hail stones
acre of an incredible size; windows and greeii-hunees
were literally sac bed. A greuf deal of damage ass
also dune to the fruit trees: thi farmers, hoc ever, will
be the greatest sufferers. In Lincolnshire the storm
was even more widely spread—At Crowland, Boren,
&Wiped, Grantham, Market Deepie4, Kentord, and

many other places pieces of foe five inches in diameter
were picked up, and it is feared that the damage done
to the crops will be ruinous. Crowland at this present
moment presents a most shattered appeanusoe, scarcely
a house having escaped some damage. At the Rectory
about 50 panes of glass were broken; at Mr. Sartain's
post office, 36 panes : in Bourn the rain fell in torrents,
accompanied by hail varying in size from a bean to a
Pigeon's egg. :several hundred panes of glass were
broken in the Abbey garden hothouses, and the con-
servatory and sky lights in the Abbey were much
damned. At Southwell (Notts) pieces of ice 1 inch
in length and J& inch in breadth came down with great
velocity, breaking windows amd cutting the bunch.s of
buds end bloesome ciff fruit free, as though • knife had
been used. The dsoiage to the corn crops, and especially
to beans, is expected to be great. The name storm
extended to Newark, where rein fell in torrents between
four and five o'clock, mingled with hailstones and
pieces of ice of enormous size, which could haste been
gthhered by pecks: they were of various shape, and
iffinensione. Mr. Pinder picked up three pieces which
weighed a muter of • pound, and Mr. Earn gathered
four others which ha found to weigh half a pound. So
also at Oundle in Northamptonshire great damage was
done to the crops, and hail.tones of an extraordinary
size were picked up after the storm. Vegetables and
fruit trees were a good deal injured; in one garden
large cauliflowers were pierced threttgh and some of the
stalks split Had those storms occurred a few months
lat,r in the season what feerful destruction would have
been caused to the fanners' crop.. As it is, the damage
will he serious. We hope and truth that our numerous
Agricultural readers will at once avail themselves of the
benefits offered by Flail Insurance. The Royal Formers
Office, whose advertizement will be found in our solutuns.
offer protection upon payment of Sixpence per Acre, for
the usual crops of Wheat, Barley, Oat., Pea., Beano,
ko. Surely farmers will have only themselves to blame
if they suffer loss where the protection offered is so
cheap and secure.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—TIIO Groat Flower Show of the
seethe will be field on Saturday. 24th May. From the
number of entries nlready received it promises to be the
most complete exhibition of flowers which has yet been
held at the Crystal Palace. Taking plthe on the Queen's
birth-dey. a day which this year unhappily will be
unattended with the usual military displays, drawing-
room, or other rejoicings, a large number of distin-
guished and official personages will have leisure to
attend this, one of the moat attractive displays of the
season. Considerable additional interest is excited on
this occasion from the announcement that the great
roof over the Hanctel Orchestra, which has been so
many months In preparation for the Festival in June
next, will be completed before the day of the Flower
Show. The Orchestral Band of the Company will be
considerably strengthened, and, aided by Military Rands,
will afford an opportunity for estimating the effects
which will be prodaced by the 4,000 performers who
have been so long in training for the Festival, when
assembled beneath this gigantic covering. The vast
circles of seats in the Great Orchestra will be thrown
open to visitors, and as it is intended to erect in the
Great Transept I,rge circular trophies of flowers of
considerable height, thousands of visitors will be enabled
to contemi Ito the blaze of floral beauty dispersed
below, while listening to the musical performances.
The Show will be open from 12 o'lock till 7. The
Inca of admission on the day will he is. 6d., but tickets
may he Purchased befotehand at ss.
DEATHS IN ENGLAND.—In 1860 there were 422,721
deaths, of which 215,238 were those of In la, and
207.483 those of females. _ The rate of mortality was
2.12.4 per cent. ; while the average annual rate of 10
years, 1851-60, was 2.224. In that series of years, 1856,
in which the rate fell to 2 031, furnishes the iinly in-
stance in which the mortality ass so low as in 1860.
The death-rete in London was 2.249 in 1860; the
average was 2.377.
A Melbourne letter says :—" Mr. Edward Wilson,
one of the proprietors of the Argue, leaves by this
mail. Dr. Wilson has been the founder of our local
A eclimst nation Society, and in an unostentatious gra-
tuitous manner has done, and is doing, more for this
colony's future prosperity and advancement than many
whose noise and sound signify nothing. Mr. Wilson is,
it is understood, proceeding to Europe for the purpose
of making arrangement. for the sending out • pupply of
salmon Ova, all the attempts previously made having
proved failures."
DEATH OF THE ARCHDEACON OF SODBURT.—The
Archdeaconry of Sudbury has become v. cant by the
derail of the Ven. George Glover, M.A., who has held
it since 1823. It is worth £lOO a year, and is in the gift
of the Bishop of Ely. By Archdeacon Glover's death
the Rectory of South Repps, near North Waltham, has
become vacant. It is worth £7OO a year, and is in the
gift of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Also,
the Vicarege of Gayton, near King's Lynn, which is
worth £4OO a year, and is in the gift of the Bishop of
Norwich.
ILLEGIIMIATS CHILDREN.—The number of children
born out of wedlock in England, during the year IM).
was 43,693, being 6.4 per cent, of the whole number of
children born. la Cumberland, where the proportion
rose to its maximum, it was double that amount ; in
Norfolk it was 10.7 • in Westmoreland, 10.6; in
Shropshire, 9.6; in NAtinghamishire. 9.1. It wag also
high in Bedfordehire, Suffelk. Herefordshire, Lincoln-
shire, and the North Ric Eng of Yorkshire. The Regis-
trar-Genend say. that the proportion of illegitimate
children born in London is very probably understated,
there being much greater facility for the suppresition
of facts in large cities than in smaller towns and
• villages.

SALUBRITY OF SURRRY.—FrOM • comparison made
by the ItegistrarGeneral of the rates of mortality in
different counties, it appears that the highest degree of
health in 1860 was attained in the extra-metropolitan
portion of fitirrey, where less than 18 persons in a thou-
sand being died. Pro other county, each being taken
as a whole, presei ted co favourable a result. In the
healthier year of 18341 the same part of England was
equally but not more healthy. In that rear the
healthiest county in England was Weatutoreland,
where the death-rate fell below 16 to a thousand ; but
in 18130 Westmoreland Was not so fortunate 901 many
other counties, for in it the rate was nearly 20, though
the average does not much exceed 18. It was in the
ring quarter that the health of the northern county
was in an nnfayourahle state.

The Cl,OOO DI MOND RING.—On Wednesday this
splendid single stone damond ring, originally sold by
Messrs. L..mbert and Pawiings to Mr. E. C. savage,
and afterwards pledged at Mr. Attenboronab's, Picca-
dilly, and which was anbsequently dilected to be sold
by auction, by order of the Court of Chancery was sub-
mitted to publics competition by Metiers. fiebenhatu,
Skirl% and Sons, at their extensive inert in King-iitreet,
Covent-garden. The first offer WWI thoo, and the bid.
dings were continued up to £6lO, at which cam there
being no further advance, the auctioneer announced
that the reserve prics fixed by the court was £lOO. and
therefore withdrew the ring. A number of valuable
jewel. were also included in the catalogue, and there
wu a large attendance of connoisseurs and ethers inter-
ested in such property.
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ANGLO-03114/03ra fiAßßldalta IR AUSTRALIA. —Mar-
ringes of Chinese with females of European birth appear
to be coming more frequent. But hitherto the brides
have generally been of the lowest clam of Irishwomen,
and Jolm Chinaman has probably no reason to be con-
gratulated with bie bargain. One case, we recollect, of
a suceessiul ci lestial digger, who. smitten with the
chorine of a lady of this clam, was foolish enough to
marry her, but found that she laid forcible hands upon
his hardly earned wealth and quickly dissipated it. The
unfortunate Chinaman applied to the magintiates to
save the remnant. of his property, and could not be
made to understand the legal doctrine that, under these
eircumat incen, a wife could not steal from her hm,hand,
and still lees could be realise the pr.,hability that he
might be also liable for her debt, and I.abilitim. The
Sydney revere by the last mail ennoonce an Anglo-eelea-
tial marriage of higher pretensions, for we learn that
on the lOth day of February last, Mr. Yong Sing,
Chinese merchant at Sydney, was in.rried tc &ulna.
daughter of the late John Mann, of Parratninatta ; and
ea the marriage was solemnised in disc form by the Rev.
Gr. Fullerton, of the Scotch Presbyterian church, we
infer that the happy man had renounced the doctrines
of Confucius, and abandoned all hopes of returning to
the "Flowery Lend." Several of the Chinese mer-
chants in Sydney are well to do.and,ruch are the vi imi-
tates of colonial society, Mrs. Yung Sing may yet kvep
her carriage and be presented at Government fraisp.
TAXES PAID BY THE WORKING CLASSES.—We (The
Grocer)have la-en favonr,d by Dr. John Wahl', of Man-
chester, with the folio. ing account of the quantities of
arti, lea sold, in the year 1861, by the Maucheater and
Salford Equitable Co-operative Society to 1,800 pur-
chasers, with the amount of duties paid thereon :
Pmerlptlon of Gonda Rate of Duty. E s. d.
Tea 17944 lbs. Is. 5d rr lb. 1,271 0 8
Coffee 204 diet. 28a. Od. per cwt. 285 8 0
Cocoa 37 „ 9s. 4d. „ 16 5 4
Cuirants
Crushed Sugar 2,4724., 16a. Od. „ 1,957 12 0
LUSip Sugar ... 2t:14 „ 18s 4d. „ 214 0 2
Treacle
Tobacco 4,488 los 3s. Od. per lb. 673 4 0

Total £4.588 16 8

P 081,0107106 SAVINGS BANKB.—The first Post-office
Savii.gs Bank was opened on the 16th September last,
and by the end of March there were 2,552, and 91.965
depositors had lodged in them no less than £735,253,
whereof on:y C 49,650 had been withdrawn. The sum of
£139 171 was transferred diniet from the ordinary
savings banks to these new establishments. but other
sums may have been withdrawn from the savings banks
by the depositors themselves for the purpose ei making
these post-offiee &welts. The account of the invest-
went of the fund -by the Government Commbeioners
shows that the sum 0f£120,000 was handed over to the
National Defence Co 'asioners to be expended on for-
tifications, the principal and interest to be paid in the
shape of an annuity of £1,6.85 terminating in 1885.
HOLLOWAY'S ODIFTIIILTT MVO PlLLS—Dangerous these coal.
plaltate.—The enumeration of these Mama a Is armisly ne es
sary, as unfortut ately most Englishmen know them to their
cost. Whooping cough. croup, common colds, influenza, bron-
chi' la, asthma, pleurisy. inflatrun Won of the tines, and even
consumption in its earlier stages, are best treated by rubbing
Hoilotray's Ointment upon ihe chew,, and upon the back
between the sboside.a It penetrates internally, ducks the
aid aim inn*, relieves the overgorged lungs, gradually
removes the opproalon from the cheat, and restores the ob-
structed respiration hlth. rie so distressingly disagreeable and
highly dangerous. In treating this elms of diseases Holloway's
Pills should always be t• ken while using his Ointment, they
purify the blood, promote perspiration and allay dangerous
illation.