The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

Erabt anti Commerce.

The American war is being *evenly felt by ship-
owners engaged in the passenger trade. Many of the
vessels by which the great emigration drain from Ireland
was conducted to America are no longer required fur
that purpose. The owners of some of the 'Liverpool
steaniere hitherto plying between this country and the
United States have withdrawn their advertisements
from the p.epers in consequence of the trade having so
much declined. The fact is that emigretion from
Ireland to America is suspended, at least for the present,
and many who had purposed joining their friends
across the Atlantic have, for obvious reasons, changed
their intentions. At present there is but little induee•
molt for the Irish labourer or artisan to stake hie
whole capital in an attempt to better his condition in •
()pantry where so much distress and dissatisfaction are
said to prevail.
According to the Manchester papers there has during
the peat week been large multiplication of notices to the
hands employed in spinning and weaving establishments
that, in a given number of days, their working time will
be reduced to four days a-week, or three day. a-week,
and in k few instances that an entire suspension must
take place for such a time as may be found necessary.
There are other mill-owners who stop altogether for •
week or two; while not • few keep • portion of their
machinery regularly unemployed. In these various
wsys the consumption of cotton is considered to be
already reduced 25 per cent, below its full amount.
Supplies of cotton continue to be sent from Liverpool
to America: The screet.steamer City of W•shington,
which sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday, took out
930 bales. This is an instalment of a large quantity
of cotton which has been bought ill Liverpool for use in
America.

A new undertaking of some novelty is announced
under the title of the Patent Screwed Boot and Shoo
Company, the object of which is to purchase and work
the valuable patents of Mr. John Corner, whereby a
vast improvement and great saving in expense are
effected. Boots and shoes of every kind and quality
can be manufactured at • far less coot than when made
by hand, while the strength and durability of the sulee
will exceed anything that can be produced by the
ordinary processes, at • coat averaging fully 30 per
cent. less than London-made geode. The machinery by
which these important commercial results are achieved.
being free from complication, is not liable to get out of
order; and a single set of machines, costing, at the
outside, mly £lOO, is capable of producing every variety
of size, substance, and quality of article, and can be
efliciently worked without the help of skilled labour.
Tide inachinery will also be found peculiarly applicable
to the execution of Government and other large con-
tracts. There is good ground for believing that •
contract of considerable magnitude will be obtained by
the company within two months of this slate. A small
Government contract has already been entered into by
the patentee on behalf of the company. It is believed
that, on the most moderate computation, the company
will be able to pay • dividend of from 10 to 15 per
cent.

The returns of trade and navigation for the month
and eight months ended 31st of August last were
issued on Friday morning. A comparison of the eight
months with the eorresponding periods of 1860 and
1839 show, that our exports hare fallen off consider-
ably, the figures being—first ei,rlit months of 185.9;
8.716,405,885; of 1860, £88,077,892; of 1861,82,575,126.
The exports daring the month of August, however.
exceed those of August. 1830, while falling short of
upwards of a million of those of August lest year,
The figures for the month aro-1859, £12,117,275;
1860, £13,133,205; 1861, £12,337,441.

At a special meeting of the proprietors of the United
Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company (limited), held
on Thursdsy, Mr. A. A. Cron in the chair, the progress
of tho works was described as very satisfactory; the
line to the north would, it was expected, be delivered
over from the contractors to the company in a few
days, when the communication would be opened between
London and Liverpool, and all theintervenning stations.
The chairman read a calculation of results, showing
that by the working of five wires a day a result of 71
rer cent, dividend would be secured, without taking
into account the intermodiato stations or the prose,
which it war estimated would produce altogether, 1111011
a capital of trit),Olkl, a dividend of at least 20 per cent,
The return from the Bank of England for the week
ending the 25th Heptember gives the following results
whom compared with the previous week :
Public Dopoella £5,910,424 Increase .. £748 490
Other Depoehe ll 967,800 Decrease 016,642
Beet 3,790,010 Increase .. 6146

On the other side of the amount :
Government liccurilles £10,450.1,00 No alteration.
Other Secnritle.
Notes unenoployed . 8,107,915 Increase .. 120, &SO

The amount of notes in cireulation is £19,978480.
Laing an increase of £137,400, end the stock of bullion
in both departments is £14,242,241, showing an increase
of £/42,449 when compared with the former return.

REDUCING THE Nrunia OP INSECTS BY DESTROY-
ING THEIR PARENTS.—II is well known that many of
our most destructive grubs and caterpillars, when
arrived at their perfect state, assume the character of
moths and butterflies. Most of the former are on the
wing during the evening, through the night, mod before
sunrise in tin. morning, If the female is destroyed she
deposits her ens, so many hundreds of destructive
grubs are prevented from coining into existence.
Butterflies are on the wing during the day, and arc
best captured by boys with gauze nets, such as pre
used by entoinolor,ists. Moths are attracted by light,
and we often see them flickering round a burning
candle. A more wholesale way of destroying them is
by placing what may be called glow-worm lights along
the tope of the garden walls, or on the walks, which,
if set in sufficient numbers, will clear the garden of all
night-flying insects, and, of course, clear the ground of
their grubs. This,, lights are cheaply and easily oon-
atructed. A saucer or glared flat, such as is used for
placing under flower-pots, havinx about an inch in
depth of coarse tallow, or whale-oil, placed in them,
with *cotton wick stuck in the centre of the tallow, or
made to float on the surface on the oil by being
through a piece of card and ignited, will burn Mat
or eight hours without any attention. To these the
insects are attracted, and when examined in the morn-
ing the slaughter will be found to be immense.
Tux TRIUMPHS or Sciermr.—"Eurekal Eureka!"
'hooted Archimedes as he ran naked through the
thronging thoroughfares of ancient Syracuse on his dis-
covery of • great philosophical principle. At the
dawn of the present century the world was similarly
startled by the announcement that the stomach and
blood were the two greet euipires of disease, and science
has since endorsed it with her signature. Coupled
with the above fact, Professor Holloway stated that he
had ales discovered two preparations. Pills and Oint-
ment, which exerted a powerful influence over all
diseases emanating from them sources. In all bilious
disorders and complaints of the liver, we are enabled to
trace the primary symptoms to the unhealthy condi-
tion of the stomach, or the depraved stato of the blood,
so that the mischievous consequences resulting from
the free use of mercury mist be olivine,' to every man
of common Aimee. Professor Holloway emphatically
asserts that calomel is not only unnecessary, bit highly
pernicious in liver complaint, and disorders of the liver
generally. and facts hear him out in his assertion, lie
confidently points to the thousands of certificates in his
possession attesting the curie effected by hl,, pills .0.1
Ointment, which contain not a particle of mercury.
Dropsy generally arises fruni improper action of the
liver, and it is to that organ we must direct our atten-
tion in the treatment of this disease. The combined
use of Pills and Ointment is marvellously efficacious :
by their mons the inflammation of the liver is re-
duocd, the biliary secretions corrected, the stomach
cleansed, and the hosela regulated. The action of the
Pills on the blood, bile, and bier is weedy, searching,
and active, effectually credieating every vestige of
ohs.*** from the system whatever form It way assume.
The fact is so well established that these inalMinse are
admitted into countries where no proprietary medi-
cines are allowed to be sold. We understand that
royal orders have been issued by Sardinia, Spain, Por-
tugal, and even the Government of Naples issued a
royal edict directing that these medicines should be
sold through their respective dominions, indeed there
I. no country in which they are not to be found ; •
convincing proof that the whole world, as with one
voice, willingly and most justJ corroborates the small
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