The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

THE DORSET _ COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1866.

NOTICZ TO 00113118PONDEN'T8L

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aim sad address at ths miter tberel, Dot aseas-
wily for publicatiee, but ea • (marmites of good
faith.

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DIRCHESTER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER lA, UM.

NOTES OF THE WINK.

I.—Tas QUEllit has now added MOO to
the relief fhnd for the sufferers by the ter-
rible conflagration which once more has
destroyed one-third of the colonial city of
Quebec—that third which is occupied by the
poor French Canadian lumberer., to whom
we are indebted for our noble supplies of
Canadian timber. In her usual graceful
manner on such occasions Her Majesty has
performed this seasonable act, and from the
amount already subscribed, the effect a the
Queen's example, and the fact that we can
have immediate intellience of a deficiency of
relief and send out immediate aid, there is no
doubt that the sufferers of Quebec will find
their misfortunes as much alleviated as
charity can avail to render them, and that a
new bond will thus have been knit between
the home country and her North Ametican
colonies. There is thus a silver lining to
every cloud; and the saying will be true
even of that dark cloud which came over
Quebec from the smouldering ruins of its
thousands of houses destroyed in the late
confiagration. This rad event will not be an
unmitigated misfortune if, at the expense of
a few thousands of pounds, we prove to our
Canadian brethren that we regard them really
as fellow-countrymen. Already, as the severe
winter of Canada was coming upon the house-
less sufferers, relief came to them from this
side of the Atlantic with literally lightning
speed, when orders were transmitted by the
Ocean Cable authorizing the Mayor of
Quebec to draw upon British bankers for
I sums subscribed here.

SEEM THAT THE Pore and the
'Emperor of Austria, not having domestic
troubles enough of their own, have been
arranging for a politico-religious interference
on behalf of the Russian Poles, the first step
in which is asserted to be the recent allocu-
tion delivered on the subject by the Supreme
Pontiff. If we look across the Atlantic, we
shall find the United States, themselves in
the throes of a domestic struggle which may
'not improbably eventuate in another civil
war, still adopting towards France and Great
Britain an irritating and a peremptory tone
regarding the Mexican and the Fenian ques-
tions respectively. Looking at the minor
States of Europe, we find Holland and Spain
apparently on the brink of revolution, Turkey
scarcely able to repress a petty revolt,
Greece in a state of ferment, Denmark
stunned and impotent under her heavy mis-
fortunes, Sweden, Belgium, and Switzerland,
each in their own way striving to raise from
a small population a force that may protect
them from the annexational spirit of the great
Powers. Truly, it looks as if all the Powers
of Europe were struggling under a kind of
intoxication, either because they have sud-
denly to stand upon a new footing, or find
their old one tottering beneath their feet.
Amidst all this, France remains strangely
quiescent, dividing her attention between a
grand re-organisation of her army and the pre-
parations for the peaceful Exhibition of 1867.
Before that Exhibition can open, will all the
signs and portents of the present political
position have passed sway, or will Europe
have been precipitated into a general war P
This is a question which the future alone can I
answer.

111.—THE CATTLE PtAnt-z ENQUIRY de-
veloped in the .Agrieultural Gazette of
Saturday, presents two of the of that
journal so completely covered with figures as
to convey at a glance something like an idea
of the frightful extent of this great national
calamity,--" hoping that the cattle plague has
at length' for the present time, virtually
closed." The figures include the entire 15
months that have intervened since the first
outbreak. The first of theft elaborate re-
turns gives the total number of cases in Great
Britain (all "back" cases included) which
have been ascertained from the official in-
formation received at the statistical office
from inspectors. Twenty-one columns occupy
the width of the page, showing the divisions
of the country and counties proper, the area
of each in acres, the number of tattle numer-
ated in each to every 100 acres, the aggregate
stock of cattle in each enumerated on sth
March, 1866, and then the number of cattle
killed or died after being attacked by plague,
up to the week ending March 3rd, 1866.
(This column in fact shows the number of
cattle reported to have perished on account
of plague prior to the enumeration of stock
on sth Match, 1866.) Next come the total
number of outbreaks from the commence-
ment of the disease; but it must be re-
membered that if a farm lits been visited by
the disease after having been free for 21 days
it is regarded as a fresh outbreak, and the
place is again included. Then there is a
column for the aggregate number of healthy
cattle slaughtered to prevent the spread of'
the disease. The disease itself may be said
to be tabulated in the next five columns under
the general head of" Total number of diseased
cattle reported since the commence -lent of
the disease" (the columns being corrected for
"back" cases and for additional inforihation
since received.) The items comprised in
these five colneons are the numbers attacked,
killed, died, recovered, and unaccounted for;
a very important column or calculation
follows giving the percentage of attacks on
our estimated ordinary stock of cattle. There
are other eight columns, but they are very
sparse of entries, relating as they do to the
sheep stock of the country and its various
divisions, starting with the stock of sheep
enumerated sth March, 1866, but giving the ,
statistics of disease from the commencement,
including the total number of farms or sheds
or other places in which the disease has ap-
peared among sheep • the total number of '
sheep slaughtered healthy to prevent the
spread of the disease, and then those attacked
died, recovered, and unaccounted for as in
regard to cattle. But it is stated in a foot-
note that it must not be inferred because a
county has not any attacks amongat sheep
included in this statement that it is necessarily
free from disease, as delay occasionally takes
place in reporting eases. Such being the
tabular details of these very striking returns,
some of their revelations may be found in-
teresting to our readers. The area in acres
of Great Britain (but that we presume is the
arable area only), is stated at 56.964,260
acres, whereof 32,221,998 belong to Bngland,
exclusive of Wales with Monmouthshire.
England and Wales are given first in eleven
chviWww. Scotland in eight ; and the forty-one
minutiae in England are then taken in detail
(Monmouthshire, the forty-second, going along
with Wales). The Welsh counties, with those
of Scotland, follow in like manner. In England
the enumeration of cattle stock on March sth,
1886, ts the enormous aggregate of
3,270 247800tland only 037,401, and Wales
578 136, seeming as nothing in comparison. Even
the sheep stork of England largely outstrips the
others, pastoral oonn .ries se they mostly are ; thi s
on sth March, 1866, the sheep enumerated in
England were 14,993,383, Woks 1,799,821 and
ggotigad 8,255,077. Now amongst the English
cattle stook there hays been 22,587 outhrsoko of

disease in. its ernhdlebaement fifteen months
ago, and 58,439 health/ animals slaughtered to
avoid ;t: 198,474 cattle have been attacked,
whereof 77.570 have been killed, 90,421, have
died, 21,589 have motored. and 8,894 are
unaccounted for. The cattle stock of Ragland
is found to have been attacked to the extent
of 6600 per cent. The local results are
not a little singular. Iu our own group of
counties, Hampshire and Somersetshire each
represents upwards of a million sores, Devon-
shire upwards of a million and a half,
Dorset 632,035 acres, and Wilts 865,092. In
Hants there are 45 cattle only to the acre, in
Wilts 9, in IDoreet and Devon an equal per-oen,
tage, 11.3, and in Somerset as many as 10.5
(the highest in England etooptieg some of the
Midland counties sod Angleses in North Wales).
In fad the Hampshire enumeration of the sth of
March shelved only 48,688 cattle °ter all its Vast
cultivated Million of aeres„ whilst little Wilts
had 77,724, and leaser Dorset 70,002, whilst
Devonshire luxuriated in 184,077 kine, and
Somerset in 173,547. We give in dotal HA
relative effects of the rattle disease:-
1. Hampshire only 381 were attaaked, and 127 killed
to escape the disease; • haat 193 died, 32 recovered, and
only 3 were not amounted for.
In Wiltshire there •ere merely 125 attacked, 50
killed : 53 died, 12 recovered, 7 unamounted for.
Is Derestehire, so long exempted from visitation
altogether, there were not more than 84 attacked, sad 89
killed while 15 only rammed. There were Done
unaccounted tar—we can give amount of meet things in
Dorset. . . .

In Devonshire 224 were attacked, 87 kilned ; 82 died,
34 reeovered, and there were 21 unaccounted for.
Whilst in Somerset 314 were attacked, 210 killed, 94
died. 5 recovered. and 5 were unaccounted for.

Such is the penalty, local and general, we
have paid for the Cattle Plague. The general
statistics of the disease more especially prove,
as remarked in the Agriciattira/ Gazette, to whose
Indefatigable editor, Mr. John Chalmers Mortnn,
we are indebted for this minute and formidable
array of information on the subject, that from
the extreme inequality of the attack • national
insurance would have been of invaluable assis-
tance, mince Cheshire, for example, was well nigh
ruined, whilst the sister dairy county of Glouces-
tershire was barely touched. We ought to
notice that appended to the tables we have been
noticing there are others, which we might term
time tables, almost equally elaborate, giving the
oomparative dates of the progress of the disease
the fatalities and other results of every week
from the commencement on June 24, 1865, till
now.

DORCHESTER AS • PLACE OP EDUCATION.

Tag Cerentumm of OUT county town as a quiet
educational oeame ate about to be put to a novel
testa As fat Westward at least se Frome, in
Somerset it is or was the prevailing subject of
complaint that our district possesses no first ohms
ladies institution, taught by masters. Men Wallies
Fyfe, • young lady well and faaourably known as •
musical critic, has been for some time solicited to
put forward 11, prospectus which appears, for
the first time, in our columns to-day, in
the hope of receiving encouragement to
commence this experiment Dorchester, from the
beauty and eialubrity of ite site, the quiet and
orderly demeanour of its inhabitants, the uniform
respectability of its tradespeople, and the select
&Musty of it. neighbourhood, may be regarded
as especially adapted for the purpose in
question, whilst the immediate vicinity of
the fashionable watering plaee of Weymouth,
with many fiourishing seminaries in addition
to them of borchester itself, really modem
is worth the while of eminent professors to cultivate
their professional practice on the spot, since they
can so readily do so to great advantage by oscillating
betwixt theme places and some others in the vicinity.
Accordingly the Principal of the proposed Finishing
Establishment for Ladies, who was herself apsoMlly
trained with a view to such a endeavodr, bir Mrs
Dicksou, of the Mateon College for young ladies,
Richmond, Surrey, and has proved herself possessed
Dot only of educational, but of musical ability both
vocal and instrumental, ham secured the services of
nearly all our available professional talent in aid
of her project; and, as she can oommand the
highest references of respectability, it ta to be
hoped that the other educational interests of the dis.
triot will unite in promoting bar attempt. It is that
of a honofide effort to provide at home all that is so
anxiously, yet so doubtfully, obtained at present by
sending our daughters abroad, or to the Metropolis;
and in the case of delicate young ladies more
especially, the headed families would no doubt prefer
bestowing their confidence on an Institution whose
conductors they know, and which is carried on as it
wee swim their own eyes. 'Thi idea of rivalry is so
fai out of the question in this instance that it is
believed a finishing school of the figit, order is the
one thing wanted to prevent young ladies being sent
at a too early an age from home, and thus to render
the locality more and more a training ground for the
rising generation, for which no plain in the
worldcould be better than Dorchester.

Mr. J. Stone, Caine. To prevent for the future
the multiplication of medal', which la orders-
lated to decrease their value, and at the sale
time to pay doe honour to our laborious iro-operators
In the stork of edosation, it bu been recommended
that whenever a silver valid has been aw•rded, and
the holder is again able, tinder the society's con-
ditions, to claim a medal, that it shall be recorded
on the medal, soil a prise in books or money pieced
at the disposal of the medallist. The following corn.
posed the committee for preparing the papers of
questions and examining the answers, upon the
results of which the awards were 'lisle
The Very Rev. the Bean of ifeieford ; Rev. A.
Clarke, firadwardine, Itereford, late Princiial of
Battersea; Rev. A. Wilson, Secretary of the National
Soeiety Rev. W. Warldlrton, Ft. hi. Inspector
Rev. W. Hatt, H. M. Inspector; Rev. H. Sendford.
Hid. Inspector' Rev. W. F. Tregartheri, UM.
Inspector; 1. Fitch; fi.m. Inspects, • Mr.
Christie. /Trinity School, Marelebortei Br..Henr,
Abbott's Ann School' Mr. With, Blue Cut School.
Hereford; Mr. Eyre., Wilton. And the secretaries
the Hon. and Rev. S. !Best, Abbott's Inn, Andover;
the Iteir.,,C. Maokeinme, /12, lleadenhall-etreet,
" Cho efficiency of night unhook" wee the sehject of
a paper read by the Rev. J. H. Carnegie, and the
Rev. D. Oliver read a paper Matching the same sub-
ject. A discussion followed, after which the Rev. J.
Woollnough read • paper on "The Management of
Institutes and evening alums as distinct from night
schools." The Hon. and Rev. S. Best read the follow-
ing memorial, as embodying some of the principal fug-
gestions whieb bad been made, and it Wlli ttriani.
mousiy adopted by the meeting :—" To the Lord
President of the Council—We, the undersigned
members of the Southern Counties Adult Education
Society, respectfully request your attention to the
following oonsiderations 2 —Mit it would be • greet
boon to tdocation generally, and to evening
mhools in rural places In particular, if payment'
were made for results only in such evening
schools, however obtained or that schools
arrant in groups tinder in organising master, who
shall Sertitioated, should be accepted ma taNght
by such master; even thottgh he be present only one
evening in the week; and that boys under 12 years
of age, if bored 4,1,e industrially employed, should be
recognised as eltgible for grants. Mr. J. Hobbs, of
Basingstoke, next read a paper advocating the more
general adoption of the 00-operatine principle, as
fraught with great moral and material advantages to
the working dames. An acknowledgment ef the
invaluable services of the Hon. and Rev. S. Beat
closed the prooesdings.

advance themselves, by coming to the Concert to•
night. It ii good In We these young men and boys
I haying the will to keep their choir together.
During the long winter evenings these preotiailltv
will afford them one of the most harmledie, yet
slalightful sources of amusement and improvement,
whilst their conoerta will give Dorchester a more
lively tone during an unusually dull ',Mon. We
earnestly hope they will be well supported, and
every encouragement &limn to them.—L.W.

G11...ND ANNUAL CONClifit. —A cheep is coming
o'er the spirit of our dresui. D.oehest rr is Lb
month going to he rich in musical intertaininente.
bort winter a great want was f.lt, there beinA no
evening anusenients f..r the people. But the want
has leen, and is being rapidly aupplied. L Ol>l tarot
and Loudon stars are shout to be called in to furoish
us with • most redtercAd treat. Mr. Robinson Ins
organised his choir concerts as we have elsewhere
notie,d, and Mr. Hilton Smith is bringing down one
of the beat pianists of our day, and two singers whose
praises have been ..it forth, and whne p,ames daily
appear in the Times. The first of Mr. Doston
Smith's annual concerts is to be bald at the Town Hall
Dorchester on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 220 d,
end at Weymouth on Friday, the 23rd. inst. AS the
latter pine it IA interned to give both •
morning and an evening tiontiert. We are very
clad to see on tits programme the name of kft.
F. W. Smith, our good and mach resp-oted
townsman. He is one at the best violiniplayers of
his day. No mere amateur oan approach him, arid
eery few professionals have remind his high standard
of fingering and perfection in the art. We have had
the honour and pleasure of hearing him many times,
and hie wonderful touch, graceful, yet rapid and
marvellous execution has astonished many of his
delighted ',stoners. There Is • great deal of soul,
spirit, and expression in his playing, and we are con-
vinced that it will form one of the most interesting
features of the walnut. We eau easily see whence
the great musical talent of this egad family pro.
weds. Both Mr. Boykin and Mr. 87doey Smith
have inherited the gift from their parents. and •
noble loberitanee it is. Mr. Boykin Smith has given
• well-selected and nioely•arranged programme. fie
will himself play the beautiful favourite 'Nightingale
and Zephyr,' and his splendid arrangement of the
Blue Bells of Scotland," the former at Dorchester
and the latter at Weymouth. Miss Roes Horses will
sing his O'er the Meadows" at both Confetti also
Gans' new snag, "Oh ! gentle summer rain." Mr.
Sydney Smith is to shine forth in his" Danes
Nepolitaine." Altogether the programme is of the
most brilliant and atkaotive character. The Dorset
musical public have rarely had so much really
good music put before them. Through the whole
lists there is not one song, piece, or selection that
can possibly be found fault with. The music, is all
of the best and purest class, and the artiste are all
people of first rate abilities, poisoning reputations of
a high standard in their &armed circle. On Friday
and Saturday there was, we believe, an immense
demand and rush for titans, which speaks well for
the ultimate moons of the undertaking. We have
been told NW unless early and immediate applies.
tins be made f the tickets, there is every likeli-
hood of the tickets for the numberod stalls being
disposed of. We therefore advise our readers to apply
for tickets in good time. These concerti are also set
down for repetition at Yeovil, and of nouns the same
observations apply.—L. W.

SINGULAR FR•OD. —A asee of swindling, in which
Kr. William John Marsh, tailor, Ac, of South-greet, It
the person most interested, has bun "the talk of the
town" for the pest week. A respectalle.looking young
man of St. named Alfred Newton alias Henry 'Taylor,
whole said to be. native of Salisbury, and who has
lately vieited Sherborne, where he made the sequin.
tenets of certain young ladies of good tuition in
society, who have since be "got into trouble"
manifested tionsiderable interest in him, is in custody
on a charge of obtaining by falai, pretences from Mr.
Marsh, a sovereign and a suit of clothes, and
he ream brought op on the Sib end 10th, before J P.
Aldridge, Esq , and J. Bishop, Esq. It seems that on
Friday evening week, Newton went to Marsh'. shop,
and ordered • suit of clothed, which were to be charged
12s. 6d., and the troweers were to be sent by train
the next morning to "Alfred Newton, The Marine Villa
Portland," which Its paid *as his admen and they were
sent, and the out and vest to be finished on the Saturdey
after. He told Marsh if he liked the snit he should
want another. On the following Monday evening
Newton celled to ask lithe coat and vest were done, and
was told they would be ready at the promised time. He
then put a cheque on the counter, and salted Marsh to
let him have • sovereign on it. Marsh perceiving it
was a sheque for £lO, asked why he gave so large •
cheque, and Newton replied he might has well pay
the prim of two suits. The tailor hesitated when
Newton sold, "Cob. quick for heaven's sake, for the
railway officials have been tormenting me for some
money I owe Nuns." [The fact we. he bad some up from
Weymouth by the S. W.R. without a ticket, and a
ticket collector was outside waiting for the money.]
Marsh conferred with his wife, and on returning to the
shop asked Newton if the cheque was • good one, and he
said it wig. Upon that he let the man have two hal
sorereigne, and he went away. Marsh then took toe
cheque to Messrs. Illrot and Pearce's bank, adi
saw Kr. Cross, jeer., who he asked if he
thottght it was alI right. The reply does not
seem to have been eery satisfactory, for later in the
evening Mareh itaw NeWton again, and reiterated his
question, "Is the cheque all right I" and the man
asserted it Wu. Upon Nut repreeentation he let him
have the suit of clothes. The cheque was drawn on the
London and County Beak (London office), and *as all
in writing. Marsh told him he wondered he had not
got • cheque book, when Newton replied. 'fl will do
rut a. well." Marsh rejoined. "It's got no number on
it," and he answered, " Oh, that'll of no owsuquence."
Is answer to questions. Newton told hint he had lived
at Portland three months, but he mold not give Marsh •
reference aa he knew no one. From his son fident mariner,
Marsh supposed it was all right, and measured him for •
second suit of clothes. Newton then wanted him to
pay him the difference between the aceount for the
clothes and the £lO for which be had a cheque, Yin,
El 15s. Marsh said if the cheque was correct, he
would forward the balance with the clothes on Weir.
day. Afterwards Kush spoke to Newton in the street,
and in nastier to a question, told hint he should not
present the cheque for • day or two, but he bed
posted it to the bank previonely. That night he saw
Newton get into • brat elan 'serfage of • train for
Weymouth. On Tuesday night they met again on
the Weymouth road. Newton said he was not well,
for be had been awfully tormeated ap and down the hue
go where he would, as it was rumoared be had given
hint (Marsh) • bad cheque. Marsh talked with hint till
he got him into his shop and then locked the door, told
him he knew the cheque wee no use, and that he should
give him into ustody. Newton replied, "1 little
thought I should be coot' like this," and "It's wrong
altogether" He then admittorl be had no money, but
said he could get sante, Ind told Marsh if he would not
proceed against him he would pay his uprose* to
Portland and back, give him all his wife's jewels, arid
pay him double. Marsh replied be didn't want •his
wife's jewels, for be had been told that he had been to
three silversmiths in the town with • guard to see lilt
was gold, and it was nothing but brass! At
this' moment, Mn. Marsh, constables Nests,
Vickery, and Knob entered the shop, when Newton
admitted that be had dons wrong, and that he knew the
cheque was no good. Be was gives into custody and
locked up. Prisoner was remanded till next Thursday
for the bank to be communicated with,and we understand
that this Morning a letter war received to the effect that
prisoner had no Money
.there, and never had. This
man was eons-kited of paring • forged cheque at the
Corset Lent Aurora, 1865, AIM war sentenced to nine
months' hard labour, and it is suspected from gdee.
cription in the Polio, Gazette that he is wanted
in Yorkshire for failing to surrender when the grind
jury at Northallerton had found • true bill against him
for obtaining motley under false pretences.

- -
MI JOURNAL Of AGRICULTUIit (formerly guar.
terly noir monthly) just issued, publishes Mr.
Wallsoe iryfe's closing 'settee at the Rays' Agri.
cultural College, whence ere oopy dui subjoined
extracts,witioh may be oossidered of load interest:--

Fig,. Me. MOttis's Beata Bvertn.-114 neighbour
when at bome, the Rev. Henry Moule, of Fordington
vol.lit isiv. p. I of the "Royal Agricultural :Seamy a•
Journal." recommends a system of eartbrolowett, which
ha.. Atter hawing been snopmefully tried at many Aiwa,
been brought before the Brithila Ascoolatioo and Social
Science Ooncrest, as carried out at one of the Wiltwhirs
Poor• Law Unions. There is nothing new in Ur. Motile'n
triton), the power of KAI. to ahem+ manure baying been
long familiar ; bat he claims for himself the merit of
tiering first directed public attontion to the repeated
action and eve of the earth. He has patented an earth.
clotet for the purpose of currying this on, so that the
enpoly odinia tura, ;amoral, and dying a the earth,
may be satisfactorily Lod economically performed. But
it is only in towns, he observes, where. the delivery,
stowage. and removal of earth are attended with cost
and difficulty, that any artificial aid for drying the com-
post would 1m desirable. On ',reclines not cramped for
✓acs, the atmovliere, mpeeially with the aid of • glass
✓oof to the thed, would act sufficiently fast. The illus.
trations afforded of the *Mosey of nigbt.soil thus second
as a manure art newessartly minor ones. A cottager at
Bradford Abbas commenend the Cfstem in his largo
pottage.gardon in the Trims of 1886 He spolied the
manors to 'vetches of mangold and swede, and the land.
steward. who persuaded him to try it. never saw such
Ilea roots as were then grows. In 1860 a farm bailiff
repriced from Mr. Monts one cwt. of mixed earth from
his stook of three cart.loads, which had panned live
times through • closet used by fifteen peraonv, and had
rabsequently occupied a shed for seven months. It was
applied to a quarter acre of ground drilled in with
swedes, whilst to the remainder °lithe field of four acres
art equal droning of superphosphate was applied. The
crop, though Injured by the rapid growth of weeds of
that wet, trying mama, we. good. Bet the roots in the
quarter acre which received :the mixed mirth, whoa
pulled and weighed, exceeded by nee-third any that
could be found in the rest of the field. In 1861 this
sante field was sown to barley. Throughout the growth
of the crop the appearance of this same quarter of an
mire, with Ito additional manure, was manifestly 'superior
to that of the remainder of the field, and the bailiff
estimated the produce to be in the proportion of three
to four. Mr. Moule calculates that the manurial came
of. ton of dried earth used five time. might be
El I ; and used seven times LI 10s. ; and I have
no doubt, if we Gan reconcile ourselves to it, we
hare here another cheap source of guano. The Chinese
acknowledge the potency of no other manure, and public
, laws and private regulations are alike directed towards
ita preservation as one of the great necessities of life.
We, who go upon the large scale of production, cannot
descend to the minute manuring of the Chineem, however
much more productive, because we have not the same
superfluity of,surplus labour to bestow upon it. But it
is on all hands admitted that night mil, although the
most disliked of all manures, is undoubtedly, In its dry
stabs, weight for weight, the most effective of all known
hwkiliosn—it contains so much soleable saline matter ;
and being constituted from the food we ems, and will&
we dean Math to Crow' neowearlly codeine the
elensoate mental to the growth of plaits. Ia Pe*

Berlin, and other great cities, the dried night soil, with
some edit:balers of opium or lime, is manufeetund
for sale under thaw paste of pomirette., and transferred to
all parte of the musty/ around ia maim Is is also
dried and prepared for sate in Loudon; and what is the
substance known as almalined clumped but night soil,
dried with gypanm and mired with fleely-powdered wend
e:.ilooelt Bele generally allowed to ferment, in the
epee cir, without any admixture, a greater wooto of
gelatines probably takes plaes than of any other fertia
loser of °below value; and I am happy to see that on
this Collegb fain it is must carefally seed np, although
perlosps the yehele—med ashes and colon —could be
altered and improved.
CoNCLUDING Wooff.l. —IF led 0411 alien my hal for
examination the ...warts' erufwmira .4 blood.
mesa manure; but the sootier: word moist now h.
.p..lrem fir otlemmer. I thank you for all your oaldfl•ifeot
your kimlnesa, your erourtmj, wool alt. stip,
all the ambers:or I have ever addressed, hasp never
felt myself more thomoghly appreciated. I Come
to •nter lobo your College life, to teat tie dis-
cipline, and to add my winds to the endeaynert
to pi...mote Pe objects. A mon necessarily makes
as attempt of this kind under dofildesee and
difficulties ; hut you have by your admirable son-
duct completely removed all hesitation that I or Amy on.
need feel in coining forward to eddrissi • body of ietelli-
Put Young seotkursm excellently grounded in the
sciences that are taught here, seri which really am the
testa! of useful education. Gentlemen. I wish you in
rapid sueesesiou • mean of lecturers far abler than I tin
pietend to be, sunned that you deserve to have the
beet and higher' of our men of science and knowledge
tioatributing to yottlestrection and enlightenmeut But
this I know, that go where I may, I shall ever look back
with gratification and delight to the days and hours I
have smut within the walls of the Royal Agricultural
Collate; and I shall carry away with me 3 favourable
iinprooinn of the generous and manly spirit of fellow.
chip that predominates amongst you, and Om soli*
acquirements which, I am happy to tell you, your rev.
principal is satisfied you attain.