The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

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THE TRIM CONETABULART.—The general force Of
the constabulary employed to keep the peace and to re.
press crime in the sister kingdom of Ireland includes
12,306 men and 346 horses; the reserve force is 432.
This army of police cost the country last year £568,641,
plus other expenses not applicable to counties, but paid
within the year, which raise the total amount of expen-
diture to £683,286; £639,391 is borne by the public,
and £33,865 by counties, cities, and towns.
THE VICEBOTALTT.—The Earl Of Winton took fare-
well of the Dublin folks on Monday. At his reception
he made some remarks on the talk about abolishing the
Viceroyalty :—" More mature consideration and a
larger experience of this country have only confirmed
me in the opinions I have on all previous occasions ex-
pressed of the great importance of the office I have held
among you; and I trust that no party in the State will
ever adopt the shortsighted policy which would be
I involved in its abolition." The Earl of Carlisle was to
I arrive in Dublin on the 11th (yesterday.)
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A suicide occurred at Cork on Friday evening under
more than usually horrifying circumstances. A young
married woman in • fit of mental aberration, caused by
grief for the loss of a much-loved child, threw herself out
of • window 40 feet from the ground. Her mother, who
had followed, succeeded in seizing her by the hair, when
as she was thus suspended, amen from the window below :
caught her by the feet. At the same moment the mo-
ther had to leave her hold; the body swung over, and
also fell from the grasp of the person below, descending
to a railing underneath where the wretched woman was
impaled, meeting instantaneous death.
CORN CaowlNG.—An addendum to last year's report
of Irish Agricultural Statistics has lately been published
by Mr. Donnelly, in which the estimated produce per
acre of the several cropeduring 1858 is applied to the
ascertained acreage, as given last autumn, so as to
bring out the gross produce of the country. The tables
accompanying the report indicate that in 1858, com-
pared with 1837, wheat shows an increase 81,507
quarters although • less extent was sown—the average
produce per acre having been greater. Oats, with the
same average yield per acre as in 1857, produced 58,191
quarters more in 1858, owing to a larger acreage;
barley and bere, with a higher average yield per acre,
gave • lower total produce, owing to the decrease in
their extent. Potatoes exhibit an increase both in acre-
no and average yield per acre, and afforded an addition
of 1,382,881 tons to the food of the country. Turnips,
mange' wench and cabbage, also show an increased pro-
duce in 1848. Flax, although with a diminished extent
of 6,075 acres, shows, owing to • greater produce per
acre, a general increase in yield of 3,106 tons in 1858.
The bay crop also appears to have produced 134,362
tons more in 1858 than in 1857. According to the
returns, the average yield per acre of the principal
crops during the last ten years (1849 to 1858), was as
follows :—Wheat, 5.3 barrels of 20 stones ; oats, 7.8
barrels of 14 stones; barley, 8.5 barrels of 16 stones; I
here, 8.0 barrels of 16 atones; rye, 7.1 barrels of 20
stones; beans and peas, 27.1 bushels of 8 gallons; pota-
toes, 39.4 barrels of 20 stones; turnips, 15.1 tons;
mange! wursel, 16.6 tons; cabbage, 13.1 tons; flax,
85.8 stones of 14 lbs. ; hay, 2.0 tons. From the tables,
it would appear that the yield of the wheat crop in
1858 was about the tenth of • barrel per acre above the
average of the previous 10 years; whilst oats, barley,
here, rye, potatoes, turnips, cabbage, flax, and hay
were below the mean amebic produce for the salmi
period.
Tlii: lamsim Corar.—The Corporation of Dublin were
thrown into a state of nervous excitement on Tuesday
by the receipt of a letter addressed to the Lord Mayor
by the Earl of Carlisle, in which his Excellency inti-
mates his desire that the usual congratulatory address
on bii resumption of the Viceregal MEW should be
dispensed with. This communication has spread •
panic among the citizens, and the old cry of Whig
treachery" is raised, as the abolition of the Viceroyalty
is said to bo darkly shadowed for in the letter id Lord
Carlisle.