The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

LONDON MARLITS.

AT UMW & ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.

MARK•L&NIi JULY 20.

Thor* Were about 300 clitorises of new English wheat
S n male In very floe conditioa. The supply of old was
wary limited. 'For all kinds ths demand ruled heavy and
to have forcid sale. a decline of from la to 2a. per gr.
oompared with Monday last, roust have been submitted
top Foreign wheat, the show of which was
rather ie. tansive, was a slow bigotry. Priam
were nominally is. to 21. par quarter lower.
roetiog °ergo*, a wheat were quite neglected. Other
wader* afloat, however, was 'toady. F4r destaad for
barley, at quite last week's currency. Malt suopoeted
former term.. The oat trade ruled steady. tit vary full
prima. Beans quit* as dear. No change in peso The
Sew trade was heavy, on rather lower terma.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, JULY 20.
I,reign stook a heavy sale, at drooping prima. En.
boogies supply of home-fed beasts, which declined 2.1.
per 81b.; general too figure 41. 61. to 46. AL per Kb.
Sheep steady, at full prices. Lambe heavy, at sa. to
es. per 81b. Calves declining. Pigs doll, top figure
4s. 24. per 85..

MONEY MARKET, JOLT 20.
Val 7 little ia doing in oulacols, at 94 7.16 to 94 946
E or the account.

A &main TALI. —A very extraordinary @tory Is
told Ins letter to the Tines, by a person signing him-
self James Austin. It appears that he started in quest
of employment front Liverpool to London on foot, and
after wslking twenty mike one day he endeavoured to
find lodgings at several publio-houses in Dunstable.
They were all full, and be was advised to apply to
the " tramp ward" for shelter. Re did so, and
obtained admittance, but had not lans down
when a policeman entered and searched him.
This officer, upon seeing that the man had money,
remarked that he " woold be able to makes case of it,"
took Austin to the poliee-station and looked hie's'''.
afterwards carrying him handcuffed to Bedford, where
his case was tried by the magistrates. They eenkoced
him to fourteen days' imprisonment, with bard labour,
although no charge was road over to him. and outof
24. belonging to him, only El 2a. 2.1. was returned
when be left the prime. This story ought to be
thoroughly inquired into.

Kin° TOIODORI.S Sow—Th. Urgent, from Malta
on July sth, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday with
Priam lit) itch A lamayon (I have seen the world), lb.
son of King Theodore and 4ueen Terreiwork, in charge
Of C•Stain Speedy, and attended by an Abyssinian man
fervent, Shelaka Kans. The Prinos and Captain
Speedy landed and breakfasted with the Port Admiral
(Sir W. P. Martin). visited General Spencer, the
military 'cimminieriin-rhief, sad then went over the
dockyard. Teem* they proceeded op the Tamar in the
steam-tug Carron t •:ew the Royal Albert-brides,
returning to the dockyard. luneheoning with Admiral-
Superintendent Drummond, and dining with the Port
Admiral in the evening. The Prins, is an Interesting
little lad, tall for his age (seven years laid April), and
already much delighted with Borland, exclaiming "Oh '
this beautiful country ; I shell never go back." The
servant, who is • very intelligent man, on going over
the amensl observed, with regret, "Theodore •hould
have men." A litt'e Abytsinisa slave girl, a prodge of
Sir Ribert Napier, was also brought by the Urgent.

STR4IIOI FRIAI AT • SOLDIBIL—Betwoon three
and four o'clock on Tuesday morning, Mrs. M. A.
Stephenson, who resides at Garnett-sonare, Bradford,
was aroused from Err slumbers by • noise in her bed-
room, and turning r .und she saw John Jenkins, a
saltier of the 7th Foot, now lying at Brstlford Moor
Barracks, in the room undressed. She milked Lim what
be was doing there, and he replied, "Don't be alarmed,"
and dtd nothing but laugh and treat the affair ass joke.
Jenkins was given into custody. OnWedresday he wee
brought up at the Borough Court, when Mts. Stephen-
son stated that he bad effected an entranoe through
the hoes. window. T6e prisoner said, in defence, that
he had been drinkiny with several civilians, and they
bat indueed him inciter the house. A letter was read
from the authorities at the barracks stating that the
prisoner had committed divers offeneee. none of •
similar character, for which he had suffered various
terms of imptisonment. A sergeant attended from the
barrack-, and, in answer to the Mayor, he said that
the prisoner would be dealt with by the military
authorities, and be was accordingly handed over to
them.

A WlLsol IfOn/nets ON FIRL—A magnifioent
spectacle—a mountain on fire—has been visible from
Wrezham end neighbourhood every night for the past
week. The soene of the conflagration is Vroodeg,
where • spar of the Eatiwyseg mountain abuts on the
Ithoollanerehruing. Daring the darkness of
the might the dames, easing to the height of several
yarda, I.lunainate the holism', ant are visible for miles.
A number of men are engaged night and day in beating
back the flame., and endeavouring to prevent the
forth, r spree] of the lire—an eximmely difficult task
on account at the dryness o* the turf and the almost
t il &beerier, at pre.. nt, af water in the ceiglabaarhoncL
The fite commenced on the oth hut, and swept with
'omen, rapid iv, unhouaing growe, moorfowl, and ]
gr at .0 antitica of came, •rid cawing sheep to scatter in
hia..e. It now aet ands over • surface embraocal in a
circumference of about nine miles. No great amount
of lane property haa, as wit, been destroyed, although
h us, hut n•arcw escape. The spread of the fire .
at first was ,aa rapid that the inhabitants bad not lane
to make any praavioion siza•net its advance. era their
houses were eneOcled by flames. A turf house and
stable were burned to the gr and; but, fortunately. the
main buildings evened. It is said that the tarf is
burned and the fire mointained in the earth to thedorath
of II re or four feet. A reward of £2O has been offered
for the diwovery of the origin of the fire, and the police
are in pcsaesaion of • clue to the offenders.

DRAM or A FAIIICIS SPORTSMAN.—ViSCOUnt Artn•
Tote, one of the most famous, and one of the mut
ede•med men on the French turf, died at Lynn. on
fitincloy of • cancer in the stomach, from which he bad
be'. self ring for some yetn. lie was attacked by •
violent crisis while in the train from Paris to Aix for
the benefit of his health. His wise, who wee with
him, finding him exeeedingly ill, met for his imme-
diate friend, M. Chevreau, the Prefect of the Rhone,
who, with a doctor, was almost immediately in
attendance, but the viscount died two hours after his
arrival at Lyon., The news, at once telegraphed to
Paris, mule the Jockey Club melanchrly for the even-
ing. Viscount Arius Talon was tie younger brother of
the Marquis OLOOT Talon, the repro...dative of a family
founded by an extremely eminent judge of the last
century. The young viscount, who took to eteeple•
chasing at a my early age, enliskol as • priest* of
cavalry when the Crimean war broke net. H. soon
obtained • sub lieutenant's commission in the Bth
Hussars. At Balaclava, riding as be generally did his
own horse, he won • cup which was disputed by several
&ghat officers. At Baden-Baden, in 1864, on hie
horse Regalia, he won the International Steeplechase.
He we. wont to say that on the turf he had beaten
the Engli-h and Germans Those were his
Lassiest triumph., for although in France he
a large stud at Maisons Latta and
rode a. many as 300 steeplechasee he seldom won any
race of importance. Six feet high, with long thin legs,
he was singularly unfit for • j sekey. He had the worst
seat on horseback of any mtn, and no man ever got so
many falls. To see him crahing forward with his bead
between hit horae's ears, and floo.i, of day-light between
him and the saddle, it seemed miraculous that he could
stick on at all. Yet he never came off (inept when his
hone fell, only he wog so badly balanced in the saddle
that his horae, were addicted to f•lling. Five years ago
be got an awful purl at the Irish wall at Vinaennew. He
was curried off e road inaenaible by f•sor sergesgs
de van, and most of the spoliator* thought he wee
seriously injured ; but, though much shaken, he rode
an Alger race half-an-hour afterwards His pluck was
Indomitable. While maintaining Me rank as a lieutenant
In the army, he scarcely ever joined his regiment after
the Crimean war, the Emperor having doodled him
for the vendee of the Imperial stud. He constantly
acted as judge at steeplechase., both in Paris and the
prude.... Speaking Englibh almost like a native, and
liking English snooty, the vie:aunt had a large sequaints
ante among English spgrtomen. He was only 38 years
of age.

DIRCOVIIIT.—On Wednesday evening
last, ae eoine by. ...Fe paying on tho pavement opposite
the house 42. gocen.e.ereacent,
London, which his been for several months uninhabited,
a ball they were using fell into the area, and one of the
boys climbed over the railing in order to recover it. The
door of the mol-eell.r being open, and an offensive
odour imooing front the interior, the boy's curiosity
prompted him to enter, when, stietehing out his arm in
the partial darkneaa, he touched what appeared to be
a human hand. Irstuared at this shocking discovery,
be called to his sompsoioas, who related the eircuut•
st.nce ion man who won passing and begged him to
descend into the area. The result seal that on entering
the Della, he sae the body of a woman in a sitting
position, watt her beet, allMnst the wall and her head
bent forward, and oreaenting every in Bastion of having
been dead several dant The hod, was respectably
clothed, and there were marks of blood upon her head
which ',tiara'', led to the suspicion that the woman
Ltd been murdered. Polies elotmtables Perkins, 275 8,
&PI Smith, 39 8, were amoneoliately on the spot, and the
holy was conveyed one stoetcher to the police-station,
lifter having been examined by Mr. Tecker, aurceon, who
expressed it as his opinion that iha eowse heTocto, to
the class of "unfootunates," and th.'t Om had not died
from violence or starvation bet down.. The nature'
supposition was that the poor woman, being benighted,
bet m mowed to scramble overthe RM. railing in the
boo* of securing • shelter in the empty house, and,
being ethansted by the effort, she watt unahl• to get
beyond the wad ostler, where she died before the morn.
int. Tent ill • hat been dead many
.days when the
strange diaeovery took place wu,uflineetiy proved by
the feet that her lower extremities had fallen a prey to
She esrnivors whoae gloomy territory she lied invaded.
The holy was ultimately eutivsyed to St. Purees woo k-
house. to await the p if marten examination and the
coroner's inoineition. The appearance of the deoeated is
thus described on the pollee book.:—" Thirty-Are years
of nth live feet two inches in height; dressed on black
stuff petticoat, lavender striped gown, blue plead
crinoline, mod brown shawl, white corded stays, °slice
chemise, white cotton sleeking.. and side-spring boot"
On Thursdey erasing an inineet was held on the body
by Dr. Llnkester, when, is addition to the above
fact., it taanspired from the evidence of one of the
b.,ya alludes' to that ten days ago be chanced I.
b. in the same area fir the purpose of gathering boom
and rags, when on endeavouring to enter the cellar he
was prevented from doing so bye hand Weide. Accord-
ing to the medics' testimony the woman must h•ve
lived thne or four days alter that incident ; and the
Coroner remarked that it would appear that the
unfortunate creature went to the house to die. The
jury retarnwl a verdict that the deoemsed died froca
dissam, and that her death wee asenelerated by want end
exposure. The body has not yet been