The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-12 00:00:00

Burt Gantt! Expo.

TUESDAY, DEcEntiint 12, 1811.

REVIEW OF TILE coax TRADE.

The " l,rlc-Lsnelsp. so' of to-night says :—Tho
past wc..l. has alternat, ti between snow, fog and frost,
indicating the &Armlet° close of navigation in all
northern ports, awl It seems reasonable to
expect that the owning season will leave its
mark ; iii snob ce,o • thick covering of snow
would be indlspensabio fur the security of plants, and
already they have had • heavy fall in Sweden. 13
more southern countries tho work of sowing has been
completed, as in Spain ; this early cloalng of navigation
throws us upon our own resources, and this idea has
already began to harden Paris, Marseilles, and
Bourbany, but the wheat trade here has not
made • slight advance, nor does it seem likely
to do so until Christmas. With money easier, how-
ever, holders will be under no pressure to sell. Fir-
mere are told they are fully remunerated, rates being
four shillings higher than last year, but if the 11U11111.
tion be true, that they are four bushels short per
they low twenty shiangs per acre fully, with short
crops generally. In Europe, with short sowing in
autumn, and rough or variable wlntor, the trade. thee.
momoter may yet got up In the, spring, welting
approaching fever beat.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
The extremely critical state of tho Prince of
wales has filled all hearts with the most painful
anxiety,and the depressing character of the latest
telegrams, co grieve to say, irresistibly points
to a fatal terininaiion ef Isis illness, within a very
short time.
. The defective sanitary arrangements of
Loteksborough Lodge have directed national
' atteution to sewer-gas as the origion of typhoid
fever, and the importance of the subject cannot
: be Over-rated. Let Weymouth, about to enter
i upon the work of sanitary improvement
• thoroughly, take hoed to avoid subjecting its
inhabitants and viaitors to the insidious poison
which sewers ordinarily convey ; let Bridport
i
i bear in mile' the same warning when it shall
I please floverinuout to enter upon the duty a
! took away from the local authorities nearly two
1 years ago, because tho Bridport authorities were
I too slow in the matter ; and let Dorchester note
1 the dangers arising from sewer-gas, and, as far as
practicable, avoid them. Last year, about this
time, the county town was visited by an
1 epidemic of fever, and it prevailed most in the
MIRK LANE, Tlll4 DAT. I higher parts—in those dwellings situated at the
I upper end of the sowers, and connected with
ltuket quiet toll little doing. English wheat dull i them by closets in the houses. During the
creept for fine aemples ; Foreign quiet without alters. 1 prevalence of north and north-east winds,
lion In values. Flour, town, unaltered; country and accompanied by frost which shortened or
American marks dull. Barley steady. Oats Sixpence altogether stopped the flow of water, the traps of
dearer on the week. Italsi quiet, bat firm. Beans such closets either failed for lack of water or
quiet. Pots steady. British—wheat, 6,011 ; barley, i were forced by tho strong currents of air, and
1.518 ; oats, 64; flour, 13,673. Foreign—TS -at, T thus became ventilators for the sewers, diffused
2.203; barley, 2,266; eats, 43,701 ; mud,, 2,99/ ; rut gases through the dwellings to which they
flour, 2,300 sacks and 121 barrels. ' were attached, and poisoned the air breathed by
. the inmates. For, the ventilators to our
j sewers are few. All the highest points and the
METROPOLITAN CATTLE, T 111.4 DAY junctions of tho streets should have effective
ventilating shafts; and, to bo further secured
The annual sale of fat stock, connnouly
called the great day at the Cattle Mork, b ' &gaited poison, every cabinet opening iuto
all a house should have its own ventilator.
commenced this morning, and although rootrie- , 'fho lint it is the duty of the Local
tions on the movement of all cattle necesearily ; Board to provide ; the latter can only
reduce the Bulk of cattle generally forwarded to !be done by landlords or tenants: but, both
this great annual market, the number on solo to- ; are essential to the good health of the com-
day under the circumstances, may be said to be . nusuity. The remedy for tho evil as regards each
a fair average weight of meat. However taking ' house would be to codinue tho pipe which passes
the market as a whole, it is decided less and tholy I from the sewer to the water closet upwards
quality by no meatus equal to former years through the roof, so that the ascending gas may
Although some splendid well made up animals I rise to a point where it would be innocuous.
are to be seen on many of the various stands, 1, Yet we believe that this simple precaution has
highly creditable to grazier as well as breeder, . been adopted in very few houses. Waste
the general run is lower as to weight rather than water from a sink ought to discharge itself out-
above. From the North fair supplies and well side the house by a pipe with open mouth, so
up to the average, and, as matter of course our that such pipe may not become a conduit for
Scotch friends in their supply may fairly ho said 1 sewage-gas; but as the pipe of a water-closet
to bear off the palm as to si sality. SOlllO I cannot have an open mouth, it must be proven-
magnifioent animals coming under this class ! tad from becoming dangerous to health by
being prominently conspicuous on the stand of , having an open top rising above the roof. Un-
Messrs. Gibbet and Son, and others. Senders less these matters receive attention, the cost and
of their fine Aberdeen bred Scots being Messrs. labour of perfecting a system of drainage are
MoCombio, M.P., Tilley four, Thomas Kilo sv,es , worse than thrown away. Filth is discharged
etc. Animals from Ireland iu excess as to and noxious gas received in exchange for it, and
quantity compared with other years ; west perhaps that which is most offensive is least
country beasts in fair supply, and on whole , injurious. Mr. Corfield, a recent writer upon
exceedingly well grazed, choice to touch and in 1 the treatment of sewage, says, "It does not
excess of quality of last year. These moat fair I necessarily follow that that which ceases to be
sale, at remunerative rates, Trade opened slow, • disagreeable may not continuo to be dangerous:'
some time (gasping before business became I The water supply and drainage of a house may
visible. Choice mots of neat weight could barely !be to ordinary observation perfect, and yet a
reach a turn ever Gs per stone, sellers trying he poisonous gas may be infusing itself into the
for an advance, put without 8110005/1. The water of a cistern which is drunk daily by an
general run of prime beef must be noted as I entire family. It would be easy to produce cases
above, with a slow dragging trade. Show lin which this pollution of drinking water has
of sheep, with the exception of some well
grased Downs, was but moderate. Prices ruled s never been suspected until an outbreak ofteady i
at previous rates. Foreign beef in short supply, but 1 typhoid fever has drawn medical attention to the
prices steady: Tendency of foreign sheep mark,t I sanitary im_perfections of the house in which it
downward. Supply of vial limit,d. Beef, js 101 to occurred. Ihe disposal of sewage has now been
ei ; mutton, 4s 41 to 61 101; veal, 4, 41 to e5.,,..,61 ; i taken up in largo towns as a deity that can no
pork, 3, Gd to 4i 81. Total supply—Beasts, 6; ow ; I longer be evaded. But impervious pipes con-
ahem and lambs, 17,214 ; calves, 41 • pigs, 70: of which
Foreign—Beasts, 970; sheep and labs, 6,530; *elves, dueing to sewage farms at a safe distance from
15 ; pigs, 10. habitations aro only a part of the machinery that
must be provided. If these pipes become a
laboratory of poisonous gas ready to diffuse
itself through unprotected houses, the last state
of our town population will be worse than the
first.

PROVISIONS, TUN DAY.

Butter : Irish quiet, t about previous rates; prime
foreign rather firmer owing to short supplies ; inferior
sorts dull saki. Cans,iiim steady. Bacon two shillings
lower. American quiet. !Isms, small sized, continue
In demand. Cheese dull except fur finer qualities ;
American, 50a. to 625. Lord Inactive. Navy provisions
very dull, and prices irregular. Irish pork two to
four shillings lower.

disorganisation of the Liberal party is one
of tho topics of the week ; hints era given of a
section ready to give in allegiance to the Earl of
Derby, and of other possible combinations.
For, it is averred, the clubs and "fashionable
society" cordially hate Mr. Gladstone, and the
Whigs have lost all confidence in him, as he
always leans to the extreme minority. Mean-
while, the difficulty the ultra-Radical party has
in holding together becomes mora notorious.
Sir Charles Dilke meets with more distinct
opposition; and the reformers of the House of
Lords have mot in conference at Birmingham
and made an impression upon the country, Rug-
ge3ting noOling but the Three Tailors of Tooloy
-;ireet. The Lou lon Broach of the Educatiou
League has been broken up because the members
have split upon secular education, and the fall
out among the London Republicans is all of a
piece with the disorganised condition of the
extreme section Mr. Gladstone is charged with
favouring; though, on the other hand, its mom-
hots ace all estranged from him, and it is said
Mr. Fawcett intends to lead the attack on the
Government early next session.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken the
opportunity to reply to the charo that the
Queen does not pay income tax, and he advises
Sir Charles Dilk 0, "a man of promising abili-
ties," to turn his talents to better purpose. Mr.
Lowe coneidets Sir Charles deserves very severe
cuuseTe for his rash and unfounded statements
about Her Majesty's household. He announced
that the sum contributed by the Queen to the
income tax since the year 1842 amounted to
hundreds of thousands of pounds. Vet f
naturally there wt.; the greatest enthusiasm
among Mr. Lowe's audience at Halifax. They
interrupted him to cheer the Queen and sing the
National Anthem.
The publication of the correspondence on
which will certainly be based a vote of censure
on tho Government when Parliament meets, has
left the Cabinet without a leg to stand upon in
the matter of the Attorney-General's translation
to the Privy Council. Sir A. Cockburn pub-
lishes the correspondence in proof that he does
not under merit the personal qualifications of SI-
R. Collier. The plan adopted of creating the
Attorney-General a judge for the simple purpose
of passing him up to the Privy Counc;l (which
has now been done, and Sir R. Collier has taken
his seat in the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council) is, says Sir A. Cockburn, manufacturing
a qualification—such an evasion of the statute
as lie implies the Queen's Bench would have
knowa how to dc..l with, had it C3lllO before
them in the cue of an individual qualifying for a
municipal office.
The row (the word is the most appropriate we
can Mid) between Odger and Osborne, at the
.` ilolo-in-the-Wit" is both entertaining and
instructive. Mr. Osborne was chairman at a
benefit concert got up on behalf of the secretary
of ono of the London democratic associations,
and ho took upon hiu-,elf to complain of the
ion .1 Incas of the sum realised, and to reproach
democratic workiu , men for their stinginess in
the pecuniary support of their opinions and
leaders Mr Odger resenteethis, and took the
part of the working men, denouncing Mr.
Osborne as a false democrat who thought of
, nothing but the money to be made out of tho
I members of the cause; and he tb^eatened to
have Osborne excluded from all democratic
organisations. The latter retorted that he had
! •nt moo N to the CUM`, cud that Odger and
his set 11:ad nut the saciotv with which ho
(Osborne) wao connected into debt for de
Park and Trafalgar-square demonstrations, until
the pi:iiter aud the billposter came crying there
for their money. ()Igor declared that Osborne
had he :tome intolerably- overbearing towards his
fellow-democrats sinca he had come for a
thousand pounds, and twitted him with
hav'eg foi.nerly been paid for his services
to the cause. Osborne ackuowledged that
ho had received a pound a day for
going about lecturing at the time of the
Reform agitation; but declared he had worked
for it, whereas others had taken the money and
done nothing for it; and further Mr. Osborne
(perhaps as a consequence of coming in for a
little fortune) denounced Odger's Republican
nonsense, with which he very truly asserted
the great body of Brit,eh working men had
no sympathy whatever. Perhaps nothing could
give us s truer idea of the insignificance of these
'• patriots" who have pretended to treat and
discuss as equals with statesmen and experienced
politicians, except it be one little fact which
came out incidentally, that a counterpane (it has
been indignantly denied that it was a blanket)
had to be rattled to keep that important organ
The Peptiblic from filling to tho ground. Of a
truth we need not be (lightened of those
fareollofweewnerasrlfLew,Wanodridtnahe s
democrats. The leaders are many, but the
mutbscridobinagotniseeemwbehr;
they should pay taxes to King Odger as well rs
te Queen Victoria, and are brought to their
senses by tbe appeal to the hcessises pocket.