The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

BY EXPRESS & ELECTRIC TELEORAPIL
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MLRK LA1,16, MONDAY, JUNI SS.
Supply of Engßah wheel small, and factors realised
Trice' of this day week. Little inelination shows to
purchase foreign wheat, and business dose was limited
to • few ready porches, rs at last week's rates. Barley
brought an advance of one shilling. Beans and peas
unaltered. Oat trade quiet at sixpence decline. Flour
unaltered.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Josig 28.
English beef lower. except best quality. Foreign
supply more limited than of Ist.. Active demand. and
prices advaneed. Rbeep dull and lower. Veal fallen.
Pork scarce and dew.
Beef 3e. 61. to 6..; mutton 3a. 41. to ss. 61.; vesl,
3s. 4.1. to be. ; pork 4s. to ss. 102.; lamb, 4e. to
a, 104.
Beasts. 3,120; sheep and lambs, 30,030; calves,7Bsi Or.
220. Foreign beasts, 1,531 sh.ep and lambs, 10,950;
calves, 367; pigs, 130. Scotch beasts, 27. Irish beasts,
50. English beasts 1,512.

San nosy'. e.m. N Annoyn. DortAfAlt/ What 3Flo. to 511,
average 4.56. Dd.— ftfoodford Farmers being mmendly
binoi
In the hayfield, there was but • sery small attendance 41 the
Corn Exchange, and the amount of humans transacted um
very limited. Wheat at • decline 1,0 last week's rot..
linniairporr : At the Southampton Corn Each:ine
yestentay the attendance Co. small. Transactions in all
articlen were few, at about last inarket's rims, wheat
making an average .4 4m per quarter. Household flour, • slow
Inquiry at late rates. rAt Alton there was an average alit:lslam:a.
of farmers and a fair onantity .4 wheat on the stands
Holders askim; higher prkes, sales were checked ; but the
transactions which os,k place were rather agaiwit purchaser..
At Bonney the attendance woo Mall, LW the corn trade ruled
dull at unaltered rate, At Itingsapod there was an inns..., ed
attendance, and sales in wheat were brisk. at somewhat a.l.
tweed rates, the mew: price been 455. ed. per qr.; bread 12d.
per iglia At Winchester higher prices were asked for 011 tat,
and buyers medal) tone 1.4 per qr. TOR money than at the
merlon. market. At Itasingstoke wheat mowed 471. Sd., and
oats 2.55. 11.1. per qr. At Andoser )estentaY the eon. trade 'am
dull, but prices held Ann, and in some MAMMA. as. &shams: of
Is. per qr. was obtained.

Ale adult was baptised by immersion on Sunday last,
In the river Lliedi, by the Rev. 11. Williams, vicar of
The novelty of the event attracted •
thousand persons. The envier was read by the vicar,
in • surplice, on the bask of the :Neer.
ACCIDRYT.—On Thursday evening, as • man named
Henry White was at work for Mr. Clay, of Fovant, on.
loading some bay, the bores attached to the cart moved
on and reused tam to fall to the ground, in consequence
of which he reoeived severe injorie. in the back. Friday
morning be was taken to the Ksbailor) Infirmary.
Ass blunter was held by Mr. Whitman!) on Monday
last, at Komerford Magna, respecting the death of the
male shad of Martha. Kmith, • dom.•stic servant. It
appeased in evidence, that she came to the house of
John Scott on the previous Tuesday in a trap from
Denies, and on Thursday morning she was confined
under the care of a midwife. The child was prematurely
born, and died in t went) four hours aft. r birth. Verdict,
" Died suddenly without medical usi.tance."
fiwileleino 1.1 THR ROT•L NATT.—The Lords Corn•
missioners of the Admiralty, having had under their
notice the oon.tantly recuriog drowning of seamen of
the Royal Navy, by best accident. and from other
cause, have taken step. to sac rtasn the number of
officers, roes, and boys in the ser•ice who are unable to
swim, and to arrive at souse conclusion se to the steps
taken by the several ofiieere in coaimand of Her
Majesty's navy for imparting so emential • qualification
for the sesman's life.
FACTORY ACCIDLIIT.—On Saturday last NI accident
of • singular nature occurred at Messrs. Webb's factory,
In Trowbridge. A girl named Green, whilst working at
a fulling machine, threw her hair loose and was re-
errangine it, when it became entangled in • revolving
shalt above her bead, and she was dra•n up to the
ceiling. Her cries brought assistance, the machinery
was stopped, and the poor eirl was released, when it was
found that she bad received a severe scalp wound
Under the care of Mr. J. W. Stapleton, she is progress.
Leg_ favourably.
HIPOULAI FRAUDS. A Liverpool mercantile firm
euently parted with their cashier, who, having married, :
took an hotel in • Welsh town. The person who sac •
seeded him found some error, in the previous accounts,
and the former cashier on being communicated with
vanished. The books were further examined, when it
was found they had teen defrauded of between £3,000
and £4,000. Inquiries Gino, in.tituted show that he
was • returned convict. His plausible manners and
isecomplishmenta as • linguist won the confidence of his
principals, and the result bu been this great lose.
A Slog FIX.—Two haymakers, named Bridge and
Kenyon, were charged at Salford with being found
sleeping in ahaylofi at Levenshulme,on Wedneaday even.
lug. P.C. Calvert upon entering the loft stumbled acrom
the head and shonlders of the prisoner Kenyon, who had
slipped through two open ionss and visa thus suspended,
resting his alma upon the timber, quite unable to move.
When asked by the brush how he came to be found in
such • fix, Kenyon, scratching his hued, and looking
recently at his interrogator, replied: "'Dun 'now, but
'en was uncommon glad when 'en pulled 'on out.' The
ptimoness were dismtseed.
A ItUIFILIL—AIbtrt Dwinuels, • brutal fellow of 19,
has been committed for the murder tx of a :Istive,
Charles W. Whltter, of Haverhill, Musachusaitts by
severing his jugular Vein, because be believed the
deesesed told Dwinnel's father that he stole shoes.
Before committiing the deed he showed the landlady
bow easy it was to put a man to death by pricking his
jugular vein, and ball chocked himself with • handker-
shief to nee bow it felt to be hung. While in prison be
caught a rat and banged it in imitation of the pious.
need in the excutioe of criminals.
FORGERY IT rap Hoc. (I) RICHARD Berazu..—
The Hon. Richard Bethell is not now, we believe, •
resident in this country. He has seen sufficient reason
why be should retire to Continental obaeurity. Pecu-
niary embarrassments, added to certain ugly disclosures,
mode the climate of this country rather too warm for
his health ; and an action in the Court of Common
Pleas, on Thursday, disclosed the fact that forgery
of his brother's name was rather a favourite mos, meat
of the Lord Westbury of the future. His biother got
tired of seeing his name, not written by himself,
attached to accommodation bills, and flatly refused to
find the money when they were presented by • bill dis-
erounter, an action was brought, and the forgery came
to light Here is the owe

Morris- v. /344A•11.- The Hon. Blingsby Bothell, the second
son of Lord Weertbury med by Mr. Morris, the bill ills-
counter, who tea petitioned for an adjudication of bankruptcy
against the Duke of Newcamk, on bill of exchange for SAM
drawn by the lion. Richard Bothell, the defendant's elder brother
and purporting to be accepted by Mr. Ellingsby Bethel'. The
defence was that acceptance srasa forgery. The defendant stetad I.
his evidence that be had niter, up four bills of. preciaely
character to save his brother, but had done no with a dbstin
arumoce that with thme bills there vrould be and end 4th.
matter. He had never been party ton bill In his We. Plaintiff's
conned admitted that the acceptance wee not in the defendant's
handwriting, but argued that four bills in precieely the rune
form having been taken up by him, and no notice having been
given, there was no evidence of authority by Wow,. long
Uchnkal smut:tont on this point took place_ The t;ed ewer
Justice, In summing up, said QM Mr. Bingsby Bothell was well
entitled to the high chstrectew winch bad been given to him on
both eidea His conduct was noble and gererous, and, and he
had endeavoured to save his brother from destruction. His
Lordship put. series of questions to the Jury, all of which they
answered In favour of the defendant without beep au., The
Chid Justke the,, directed the verdict to be entered for the
defendant, with leave to move to enter the verdict for him in
owe the Court Mould be of opinion that Ms Lordship, on the
=nt. of law raised, ought to have directed the Jtuy to find for