The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-18 00:00:00

BRISTOL.

IT le intended to invlta the Bath ond West of England
Society to hold their 1874 meeting in Bristol.
IT H rid a limited liability company Is prc.jored
having for its object the runbiog of four-In-hand coaches
between this city and Bath during the mummer mouth&
FRENCH firMan.—Eighty thousand lore, of Friar
'agar came into Bristol loot wick: the drawback witch
the foreign ttficer gets enabling laim to undenoll tho
Englialt nytroiracturer in his own market. Wept. this
all: the Frenchman is not mot with the rale alsilealtlee
from the prioo of labour and rid. How largely the
latter item beare upon the rat of relining mug be
inferred from the far that cue engar.howee is this
MIT aro from tea linseed to teal,, handsel 6oas of
seal weekly.

MARRIAGES, • DUMB% AID Duran.
The Registrar's quarterly return, joat leaned, titans
that In the United Kingdom the births of n 8,676
°bade's, and the deaths of 158.564 persons of both
sous, were metatarsi' to the three moths ending
December. 1872. The natural bureau of population
was thus 111,112.
Too regiatored number of permits married in the
quarter ending Septanaber 30th, 1872, we. 121,212.
In England. the marriege-rate, which had fallen to a
low ebb throe years ago, rose after the winter of 1871,
and to the lest summer quarter ending to September
was considerably above the &Teresa; the young took •
cheerful view of their prospects sad many sew families
were founded by marriages. Births, whirl had fallen
off ia 1871, rose again, and exceeded the average nate
her in tho JOLT 187/, end notably is its Chrientes Tar-
ter. The mortality for the year was lower than in say
of the hat twelve year.. and in the Christmas qoarter
the deaths were only Line in tenet the average number.
The reduction of the mortality was greatest N the
cold quarters of the year, when the temperature was
higher than usual, In the town district. where suiterl
Improvements hays made some progress, Wad In the
sensitive clue of acute zymotle diseases Not only
dii the population suffer lees from sinall.pcx, but also
1... from measles and diphtheria. Whooping-001Mb
showed some inelination to activity, but fever decline',
end warlet-iever, the plague of the young. failed to
reap its accustomed harvest rf ebildren. The sickest's
from these Meows probably declined Denali as much
as the deaths. The higher night temperature and the
abundant rain-fall undoubtedly oontributed to the
dimicution of the death-toll of the kingdom.

The marrbees in Dorset exhibited a decrease.
Emigrstion was MOM Reties than is nivel n the lest
quarter of the year, 37.865 persons of British origin
haying sailed dcrisisr the three months from port. IA
which emieratiou eflows are elettoood aireinst 30 753
In the last quarter of 1871. Of times 37,856 emistroot%
25,032 were Saglieh, 3 141 Scotch, eud 8,673 Irbil.
The deatioation of 26.716 wag the rafted State., of
2,311 Mille) North America, of 5,712 lb, Australian
eolooiee, and the ntro•inieg 3 116 were distributed
amongst other places. Sine, 1803 English and Scotch
emirrrante base increased so as greatly to reeled the
Irish la Number.

Tb. high prier of the principal nrcessariem of life
were did maintained. Wheat averaged b7e. 3d. per
quarter, or In. • quieter more than in the correspond-
ing period of 1871. The average price ire ton if
potatoes (beet liagents) it the Waterside market, South
mark, was 170 a or needy double the average price in
the three months eliding 31st Desember. 1871. Beef
was slightly dearer and mutton slightly cheaper then in
the previous quarter. The average prise of bre( by the
(*raw* at the lieteetrolden meat market lad quarter
was 6UL and of mutton 741. per lb. In the quarter
ending 30th Septesakerr the average prices per lb. were
614. end 711., while In the Deoember quarter of 1861
Um were bgl. anti 54. regpsetively.
, In the must) of Dorset we God that the hi•ths cum•
' her 1,430, while the deaths have only been 600; If Ole
hi the ordinary rat' It I. ober that hot for robre-
Hon end migration. T)oreet would in ths canna of •
few year. broom° rough mare thickly pornisied thso it
la Dorchester lead. off with 52 births against 24
deaths, and only one of them frnm the nerrestible
elasse—disrrhast. Pta idletown 37 Firths. 16 deaths,
Including 1 from waist fever end 1 f.om whoopirdr•
cough; litsides Newton 36 births anti 29 deaths, with
1 from scarlet fever and 1 from diarrica; ()erne, 59
births and hut 26 deaths, with each • healthy sanitary
condition es it indleated by having only en* death is
the btu* ellas—in this instance the disease being
diarrhea. In Weymquth distriet. me Sod that the
town of Weymouth inoluding workhouse and boapitals
gires 111 births and 61 deaths 24 of the latter baler
',ergot.; of 60 and upwards. S. Pirtland there were 76
births and 33 deaths, 'relating 1 from whooplncoongh.
In Cipway 40 births, 14 deaths; in Abb,t,larr, 14
blrthe, 7 death.. In Wareham Matelot we find that
iiteeneir• bed 30 births against 17 deaths ; (kids. 17
against 6; Wareham, including workbonte, 41 against
26, sod of the deaths there was one and one only from
fever; in Bee Renee, 45 births, 18 deaths. To Poole
district, Danford shows 30 birth.. 8 death., Pooler
gaudier workhouse, at hirthe, 44 death., of the latter 3
being from fewer and 2 from diarrhea; Lyteh.it. 18
against 10. In Wimi.orne &bird the birth. numbered
112 and the deaths 43 To Bleindford district. Milton
Abbas had 45 birth. and 16 deaths. and Waniford, in-
cluding workboans, 62 birthe, 38 deaths, of the latter 4
were from rcarlet fever in Ellsodfordl. and 3 from the
"me .theeee at Plomerne, titearmlester district shows
09 birth. 'rind 64 diet'..; Shaftesbury dietrict, 93
against 49; Shoehorn* district. 87 against 42; &lamina-
te, district, 98 against 64. In Bridport district, Borten
Bradstock bed 36 births evilest 18 deaths : Bridport,
Inchtding the workhoeves. WI against 33; Wbitehurch
Canonicorinm, 36 ardent 13. Tbe general healthiesei
of the county is remarkable: may it boor so continue 1