The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-10-05 00:00:00

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STOCK SALE AT NORTH Livgitrittim FAILM. -The stock
of Kr. Thema. Neste, was sold Mat week. The four-teeth
OSIOS reached 61.4., and lin, averaging as.
The six-teeth brought as high as 71.. and film. Fbe
full-
mouthed ewes averaged abeetbrns., the highest priced going
to Mr. W. Pothecary at 61s. a head. For the ewe Liana,
high as Ws., 535., at, down to 40s. was realise./ The
horses, 17 out a 19, averaged over 60 guineas, two reaching
the high price of 110 and 78 &einem respectively, the pur-
chaser being the Marquis of Anglesey. The horned cattle
and swine brought good prime
REVENUE RETURNI,7
The gross produce of the revenue of the United Kingdom
for the year ended Sept. 3Oth. is £75,916,637, a compared
with £7.5966,219 for the twelve months ended 3Uth Sept., '
187/ The net decrease on the year is thus LANA which
I. arrived ale., follows : —There are increases of LOMAX'
In Racist, £=1:11/0 in stamps. L 51,0110 in laud-tax and
house-duty. 1:372,000 in Postiglice. £l5OOO in Crown lands
and LEANS in miscellaneous ; against decreases £lO,ll/0
In Customs, £1.5M,000 in property and income tax, and
£llO,OOO in telegraph service. The balance of these
lemmas and decreases shows the revenue for the peat
twelve mouths, as stated above. The revenue for the six
months ended Sept 1004 1 4.618.87 a se wind
.03.&61.115, in the corresponding half of the previous
financial year. There is, therefore, • net increase of
I £3191,791 on the half-year. The only decrease is in pro-
perty and income-tax —L315,00U ; all the other depart-
ment. showing increases—Customs, .01.1500 U ; Excise,
Lme • damps, £146,000; land-tax and house-duty,
rzs.ouu; 1.04-afic., gram ; Telegraph Service, £2O 000;
Crown lands, £104110:_ and minwlbeneotts,
Lastly, with regani to the quarter ended Sept as
compared with the quarter elided Sept, 187/ there l.a net
Increase of LIOO_,OLI. the figures being Ci'l3lE.3l7A against
.C 15981,311. The increases are —LIBI,OOU in uustouss,
pultulle in Excise, SLUM in stamps. £4,000 in Poet-office,
5.20,00) in Telegraph Services. ad £lO,OOO in Crown lands ;
act the decreases. £14,000 in land-tax and house-duty,
£41.000 in property and income-tax, and £198,r7 in
miscellaneous.

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THE —AMERICAN WHEAT CROP.
WASIIINI.TON, Rem. V.
The Agricultural Department has issued its report for
September, which states that the wheat crop we generally
poorer in uality than for several Years Past- it WA&
fueerally by storms, •icept iu the Gulf and
nscille State. and is New England. There was an extra-
ordinary yield iu Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and
Oregon. Oats gave no unusual yield of superior quality.
Tobacco, which wee nil per cent. shove the average in July
fell 10 per cent, below in Auimst in ounsequence of the
rains. lion cultivation shows a largely-increased acreage.

PRESIDENT GRANT ON F.DI'CATION.
New You, Thursday.
Preablent Grouit astonished a meeting of the army of
the TOMIONIOII, at Derailhes, hot night, by delivering a
Irma written speech.. He said they must support the free
school., and resolve that not one dollar appropriated to
them shall be applied to the support of any sectarian
school; that neither State nor custi!es shell support insti-
tutions same those where every child may get • common
school education unmixed with sectarian teachings, and
keep Church and State for ever separate.

BLACKBURN ZLECTION.
The Pollbw at Blackburn took place on Thursday, and
at the close Mr. Thwaiten. the Conservative candidate, wee
declared elected by • majority of Willi, having polled 5.792
valet against .1".(11 yernilf::37 Mr. ltibbert. At the last
election Mr. W. K the present Liberal member.
detested Mr. Tbwattes Use latter polling 5.315 votes
only. Iheiden. Ceseervative, was then at the bead of the
you with S,MIS votes.