The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-04 00:00:00

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LONDON SPIRIT lidnaKer.—There is ifair inquiry for
rum, at full quotations. Proof Leewards, Is. 11d. ,•
and proof East India, ls. 10d. per gallon. Brandy and
grain spirit move off slowly, but we have no decline to
notice in their value.

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Tita.—Advices from China state that the decrease in
the exports of Great Britain, compared with last year,
is 6,500,0001b5. • nevertheless, the demand for all kinds
of tea is very inactive.
Bonaa.—Good and fine raw sugars continue to move
steadily, at very full prices; but low and damp qualities
soli slowly, at about previous rates. Refined goods are
In fair request, but we have no improvements to notice
in their value. Brown lumps are selling at 53e. to Me.
per cwt. In crushed sugar very little is passing.
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THE New STAMPED CHEQUE SYSTEM.—Several of the
leading private bankers of the metropolis have issued
notice to their customers that they will provide them,
free of cost, with stamped cheque-books to meet the
new financial arrangements of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. One or two of these make a stipulation that
these stamped cheques, supplied gratis, should not be
used for drawing less amounts than £5. A general
meeting of the managers and directors of the principal
joint-stock banks will be held on an early day next week,
for the purpose of taking the subject into consideration.

The colonial wool sales commenced Thursday. The
attendance of buyers was not so large as is generally
witnessed on the first day, and the biddings lacked
spirit. The very low price that has lately been paid
for cloth, and the expectation that foreign competition
would not be very strong, led English manufacturers
to anticipate a large reduction in the price of wool as
compared with the quotations current at the February
sales; but the general opinion seems to be that lid. to
2d. per lb. represents the extreme fall from the closing
prices of the February sales.

IN BIC BABDGILIT AND PICARD.--On Thursday,
before Mr. Commissioner Gouldburn.—The bankrupts
were eornfactore, of Mark-lane. This wu the ad-
journed examination meeting. Mr. Pennell, the official
assignee, presented his report on the use, and the
banknipte passed.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNB.—The traffic returns of
railways in the United Kingdom published for the week
ending April 24 amounted- to £432,858, and for the
corresponding week of last year to £444,664, showing
a decrease of £11,998. The gross receipts of the eight
railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted
for the week ending as above to £178,024, and for the
corresponding week of last year to £183,883, showing a
decrease of £5,859. The decrease on the Great Western
Railway amounted to £372; on the London and North
Western to £6,774; on the London, Brighton, and
South Coast to £869; and on the South Eastern to
£966; total, £8,981. But from this must be deducted
£2,214, the increase on the Modern Counties, £755 on
the Great Northern, £29 cm the London and Blackwell,
and £304 on the London and South Western; together,
23,322, leaving the decrease, as above, £5,859. The re-
ceipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted
to £2154,834, and for the corresponding week of last year
to £289,271, showing a decrease of £8,337 in the receipts
of those lines, which, added to the decrease on the me-
tropolitan lines, makes the total decrease £11,998, as
compared with the corresponding week of 1857.

THUNDZIL STORIIII.—We nntioe that thus early in the year,
several of our oontemporarim report the preva/enoe, in their
district., of violent Storms al Thunder and Lightning, in soots
mem attceided with groat damage. We cannot aloes our eyes
to the fact, that the desitiuotlon of crops by Hall Storm.
always! roomy during them violent Thunder Storms. We
therefore, call the attention if our Agricultural friends to this
fact, and warn them to be prered by Insurance agelust this
most destructive calamity, ai Mere le no alter meane of pro-
Utmost. The rates cherged by the Royal Fanners' Insurance
Othoe, we peroeive by the Advertioement which will be found
in our columns, is ouly mimeos per Acre, end therefore the
party who neglect. this preceution should not complain if he
suffer..

ANTIIMA.—ANOT/lIR TNATIMONIAL IN TAVOUR OP DR. Lo-
coins Wsresa.—Prom Mr. Richard Roberts, Prin-
ter, But Ring, Hornagette, January 29, 1858. "John
Cooling, of Thimbleby, Fes Allotment, soy. he his been for
slung time greedy suffering from difficulty of breathing, pat-
ticularly during the night, and had a continual rising et
phial: took Dr. Looock's Wafers, Ind found instant relief ;
noir cured by the first box ; mays they are worth their weight
in gold." Dr. L,ooock's Widen give instant relief, and a rapid
cure of asthma, consumption, coughs, and all disorders of the
breath and lungs. Pilo le. led., 26.9 d., and lie per bog.
They have a pleasant taste. Bold by all Medicine Vendor*,
IMPORTANT CAUTION.—k has been discovered that many
Medicine Vendors, when saked for any of Dr. Lococa's Mice-
dole, attempt to pace oil instead some oounterfelt, bees
they have a greaser profit in doing so than by gelling te
genuMe medicine—the public is cautioned against such d
Inmost prectioes, which may be detected by observing that
every box of the cantos, medicine her the words "Di,
Looocgl Wsnas" in whits Uttar. on a red ground in the
Government stamp, and without which words ALL AM
' COUNTIRTNITS AID AN IMPORITION.