The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-22 00:00:00

BY EXPRESS e ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

MAIM LANE, IIoADA2, Jun 2L

F.neii•li wheat sold at an ADVANCE et THREE to
Font SHILLINGS on prices of this day week. Fair
business in foreign at an improvement of 2s per
quarter. Barley 64 to is dearer. Baum and peas
advanced ls, and oats made Gd more money. No
alteration in nominal top price of flour, but second
qualities, country, and American barrel flour advanoed
is. per sack and barrel.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Alia 21.
Supply of English beasts continuing short, full rates
were demanded and given for best qualities. Foreign
beasts firm. Both English and foreign sheep are rather
simper ; foreign have receded 24 told per 81b. Calves
are stationery. Pig market firm, and tending upwards.
Beef, 3a fid to Gi ; mutton, 1.44 to 51 8r1; veal,
3• 63 to 5. sl ; pork, 3s 81 to 5s ; laanb,4olol3.
Beast., 1,010; sheep and lambs, 21.o20; Scotch
beasts, 40; Irish :'O4) ; English, 1,367, foreign, 2,5'33;
sheep and lards, 1,130 ; calves, 371 ;:pigs, 6.

BATRD&T CORN MARICRIII. —Doran/ter : Wheat,
NA to 486, average 426 fiicl. --Somerset : At Bath
anhanet,l Irice. were asked, but in the little busineas
done scarcely any advance was realised. At Taunton
the prices of last Week ruled.—Wifts. At Warmdister
trade was due cautiouely at an &drone, of lifer wheat
on lest week's rites. Floor 316 to 33s per sack.—
Hector/tin At Southampton yesterday, pricee for
wheat advanced is to 26 per. yr. The average price made
was 484. Beano, pas, and oats unchanged, barley fid
per quarter in favour of purchases. Household flour
In improved repeat, at an advance of 1. to 2. per sack.
Market quotations were : Wheat £l2 to £l3 per load ;
household flour. 341 to 364 per sack. At Alter the trade
in about woo steady at fully late rates. At Farnham
wheat mode IT. to 704. At Ringwood the average prior
of wheat watt 47s -Id per qr. At Petenfirld red wheat
realised tt I to I:12 lfis ; white ditto Ell lids to £l3 per
load. At Wincheot r ,wheat trade ruled firm, and
prices Itel an upward tendency household flour made
33m to 34r per sack. At Basingstoke wheat averaged 49a.

TIIIIRE was a alight frost in London early on Thursday

morning.
Ton death is announced of the Very Rev. William
°Dille, M.A., Dean of Guernsey, and rector of St. Peter-
le-Port in that island.
lemon her Majesty will arrive at Balmoral nearly a
IT is reported from Braemar that in the autumn
vionth earlier than usual. The Court, it is said will
return to the Highlands in the first week of August.
Ttli Viceroy of Egypt, who is being feted in Paris in
regal itylo, has received no lees than WOO begging
Otters niece his arrival in the French capital. The
total sum demanded from the KI idly. is calculated by
STI inventive French juurnaliat at 1:10,000.
LORD STARLIT, of Alderley, whose health bad been
falling for some time past, died on WeSeewlay night.
He was born in 1692, and we. twin brother of the on.
W. 0. Stanley, M.P. li• Wan amen of ready wit, and
eninyed great popularity in society.
HAD WSITERS—thet is to My 99 pinions out of every
100—wear out an immense number of pens with
ordinary points, for they woe become scratchy end
vexatious; but with the ritr,oissi pointed Waverley"
pen, just tented by Moos. Macnieen and Cameron, the
wont writer may get on rapidly and pleasantly fur a
eery long time without taking a new nib.
Jim Gaimemew.- -The case of James Grimahaw, the
well-known jeckey, was before the London Bankruptcy
Court on Tuesday. The debts were stated to be £1721,
and it was added that the bankrupt bad been in receipt
of £6OO a year under an agreement with the late Margin.
of Hastings. The case was adjourned in order that
Giinehaw might file a cash account.
A BM Dituo—Among the curiosities of the Boston
Peale Festival, which is now taking plow, is a huge
brass drum eight feet in diameter, and proportionately
long. It, "head..' are the skins of two prise oxen, and
an American journal emphatically amens that the dram
"whip. creation" in the alnehoe of elephant hides.
The maker of this monster engine of uproar seems to be
• wag in his way, for on each head" he has inscribed
the motto, " Let us have peace."
PLAGCS OS Itslimilu.—• letter was recently read in
the Legislative Amenably of Victoria, written by Mr.
Robertson, of Colac, stating that between April, 1868,
and the end of that year, he had a lintartred men engaged
on his run killing rabbits, and about 2,000,000 were
killed, at a coat of £5,000. This year be has 60 men
Gamed on this work. It is thought likely that the
impooibility of extirpating the pest on large runs will
hasten the dlviaion of the land into small farms, and
thus the acclimatised rabbit may exert an influence an
an agrarian reformer.
DASTARDLY OUTIAOS IN JISSIT.--A Jamey corres•
pondent writes that on Wednesday morning a bottle
containing paraffin oil was thrown through the bed-
room window of Mr. F. Hanby, who reside' at St.
Ethers. The object of the would be amain was
apparently to hit the gm bracket, which we. burning
near the window, but fortunately the bottle struck
lower than the light, and the liquid was nattered harte.
holy on the floor. Mr. Manby, his wife, ani two
ebiklren slept in the room, and had the diabolical
attempt been successful the eonsequences would have
been most deplorable.
TFIR PARIS Riors.—More than a thousand political
yorisoners have been confined in the fortress of Sian,
for participation in the Paris riots. Aniongat them were
several Envlislimen, and ail, who were identified by sa
attache of the &hub Embeasy, were set at liberty. A
tabulation has been made that the dote diminished
Paria trade to the amount of £60,000 • day. Many
foreign families who went to Paris for amusement have
taken their departure, and it is to be expected that
Other, who had contemplated going will not put in an
appearance until quietude shall he completely eatab-
THYRATIERG MORPST.—At the Birmingham Police,
court, on Thursday, Thomas Marriott, • young Idah-
oan, a bricklayer by trade, who wore • pier* of green
ribbon inside his coat, woe charged with threatening
Marphy, the notorious lecturer. Murphy blmsalf gave
',dawn. He said that on Tuesday swelling and on
Wednesday morning the prisoner rushed at him in the
streets, and threatened to "do for him" and "settle
hire. This statement was confirmed by the policeman
who arrested the prisoner, and it was also shown that
the latter had been frequently Infers the mmildratee—
*Dee for assaulting him mother, once for stabbing, and at
other times for common assaults. The bench sentsneed
him to six weeks' imprisonment.
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