The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

Erabe anti Conuncrct.

LONDON SPIRIT MA RlC6T.—There i 4 only a moderate
inquiry for rum, at about last week's currency. Proof
Leewards has sold at Is. 7d.; and Proof Last India
at Is. &I. to Is. 7d. per gallon. No change in the value'
'of brandy. Foreign gram spirit, proof, is freely offered
at Is. fid. per gallon.
TEA.—Owing to increased shipments from China, the
demand is much less active, haul we have few sellers of
common Congou at Is. I:1d. per lb. Thu show of sam-
ples is only moderate.
Sun.ta.—On the whole fair average business ih doing
in most kinds of raw sugar, and prices are well sup-
ported. Refined goods are in moderate request, at
525. Gd. to Nis. for brown lumps. The total stock of
sugar is about 45,000 tons, against 42,0110 in 1858.

THE STATE OF THADE.—Frow the Board of Trade
returns, published on Friday week, we find that the
value of exports for the month of February was
1:9,611,143, against 11,288,416 in the same month last
year. During the first two months of the present year
the exports amounted to 1:19,207,566, being £4,697,000
more than in the same period in 18:04, and nearly
1:1,000,000 more than in 1857. The coasting trade is
greatly improved.

2if A:tenures, April I.—There is soine businem doing
in China shirtinp, but at reduced prices in long cloths,
T clothe, and printers; but the market is quieter even
than it was on Tuesday. India cloths are very flat,
manufacturers declining to take the low rates offering.
The same remark applies to jacoonets and madapollanis.
There is less business in yarns than on Tuesday. SOlllO
transactions for the home trade and for Germany are
reported at full price*, and doubled yarns are rather
more saleable. Indian yarns are in request, but at
lower rates.

THAD! WITH BRAZIL—The increase in postal com-
munication by regular steam agency is developed in $
very interesting manner by the experience of the Brazil
mail service, now established some seven or eight years,
the number of letters and newspapers having nearly
quadrupled in the last 10 years, and the Post-office
revenue having risen from £7,500 per annum to nearly
£32,000, the preseut income—greater, iii fact, than tho
amount of the Government subsidy to the Royal Mail
Steampacket Company. Equally important has been
the improvement in commerce by the convenience of rapid
&MI certain postal Coililnunication, In 1850, immediately
before the Royal Mail subsidy commenced, the value of
the exports of British produce from the United King-
dom to the Brazils wax £'2(j14,537; in 1857 the value
hail increased to £5,541,710. In 1850 the value of the
exports to Uruguay was 110,4*); in 18.51, £218,078;
and in 1857, £a15,902. But the increase of foreign
merchandise tranahipped in England for the Brazils is
even greater, having risen from £134,01i2 in the year
1851 to £498,936 in 1857, the neaniess and convenience
of the port of Southampton to the Continent, and the
facilities of transhipment bringing a large amount of
to that place in franadu to the Bra Th zils. ese
f:c7,'. are the inure interesting from the circumstance
that another attempt at Frtuch Transatlantic Steam
Communication is about to be tried in the course of
seven or eight months to the Brazils. While, if success-
ful, this will strengthen the steam-shipping reserve of
our neighbours, and foster their earnest desire for a
greater naval importance, it will, at the same time, very
probably diminish our postal revenue, and divert a
large amount of foreign merchandise from passing iii
tramaila through this country. This naturally suggests
the idea that, with fto rapid an increase of postal revenue
and commercial exports as has taken place by means of
a monthly steam communication, the Government of
this country could best protect its trade and importance,
and prevent any interference therewith by a foreign
line of steamers, by establishing a fortnightly mail
between this country and the Brazils, which would, like
the monthly service, soon become self-supporting.
There is no country of importance, or with which so
Isrge a trade is done, or which takes so largely of our
manufactures, that has not a fortnightly line of mail
packets to and from England, the Cape and Africa
pissihly excepted, and the Australian colonies, which are
now likely to have the must perfect postal service that
experienced steam companies can supply.

A French gentleman is said to have discovered mode
of making paper, by ladling alias of wOl4 with a certain
quantity of mineral aml vegetable alkali. At little cost,
be says, he can iiruduce a paper as white as snow, and
as fine as silk.

AILWA Riccetrre.—The traffic returns of railways
in the Baited Kingdom published for the week ending
March 26 amounted to £430,812, and for the corres-
ponding week of 1858 to £411,330, showing an increase
of £19,482. The gross receipts of the eight railways
having their termini in the metropolis amounted to
£179A0, and for the corresponding period of last year
to £174,049, showing an increase of 4:15,641. The in-
crease on the Great Western amounted to £1,179; on
the London and North-Western to £3,347; on the
London and Blackwell to £134 ; on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast to £842 ; on the London and
South-Western to £4lB ; and on the South-Eastern to
£1,486; total, £7,406. }fathom this must be deducted
£986, the decrease on the Eastern Counties, and £779
on the Great Northern, leaving the increase ILA above
£5,641. The receipts on the other lines in the United
Kingdom amounted to £251,122, and for the correspond-
ing week of last year to £237,251, showing an increase
of £13,841, which added to the increase on the metro-
politan lines, makes the total increase £19,482, as WM.
pared with the corresponding week of 18.58.

BANKRUPTS.
(From the Loudon Gazufe of Tuesday.)

James Tressam Burke, 10, Frederick Place-, Old Kent
Road, hat manufacturer.
William Care, Button's Terrace, Ferry Road, Millwall,
builder.
Thomas Andrews, Burton-nuder-Needwood, Stafford-
shire, builder.
Joseph :Benton, Thorpe Common, Kee.lesfield, York-
shire, corndealer.
Joseph Faulkner. Liverpool. baker and flour dealer.
John Pearson, Maryport, Cumberland, grocer and tea-
dealer.

(From the London Gaulte of Friday.)
Thomas Haywood. Ifoinerton, grocer.
John Sheppard, King's Lynn, brick manufacturer.
George Frederick Huh), rrutched-friars, merchant.
Tholll4ll Wood, Granville-place, Bagnigge-wells-road,
oowlceper.
Benjamin Linigridge Barnett, Graoechurcb-street,
owner.

Rober-Ford, Boundary-road, St. John's-wood, grocer.
Thomas Druce, Weymouth-street, Po -place,
butcher.
John Frampton, Poole, butcher.
William Audien, Hanley Castle, near Upton-upon-
Serem, Worcestershire, baker.
Herbert Redgate sod John Redgate, Nottingham, lace
manufacturers.
Richard Hawkins, Carmarthen, cattle dealer.
John Morgan, Cardiff, cattle dealer.
Marcoaduke Foster, Bradford, Yorkshire, bill broker.
James Camp, Chesterfield, bootthalier.
Jonathan Mart Haslam, Portwood, Stockport, Cheshire,
cotton doubler.
William Barnes, Uldale, Cumberland, miller.