The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZE'TTE,

Court anti fashionable intelligence.

Ilan blaaaimr, after Der tour upon the Continent,
eapected to return to Windsor Castle shout the let of
September. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prusga
are likely to Moil England at the a.m. time.
Tan Priem... of Wales was " chorchod" on Monday,
the 27th ult, it the C.hapel Royal, St. James's. 'The
Bisbee of London officiated. The Prince and Princess
stfended almost &lone, sad the seisms waa one of
extreme simplicity.

TOE Prince •nd Prioress of Wales •ed family intend
to leave llarlbtroosh noose on the 9th proximo for
Abergeldie N. 8.. for the warms, the Pima, sod
Priasses purp.se some to Denmark to visit the King
sad Queen, and other relatives of lb* Princess.

frocetbings of falltanunt.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
MONDAY.— Tba Bribery Bill, after • brief disonadon,
was read • second tine. The Electric Telegraphs Bill
, passed through committee, without amendment.
TCSSIDAT.—Tbe Regulation of Railways Bill was fore
' warded • stage, mad the Corrupt Practices Bill pawed
through committee. In reply to some observations
from the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of Marlborough
admitted the evils of the baby-farming system, but held
that it was a matter more for the vigilance of the police
than for the interferences of the Government.
WIDNISDAT.—Tbs Commons' amendments to the
Public Schools Bill, the Poor Relief Bill, the Same.
Fioheries (Scotland) Bill were agreed to. Several bills'
including the Elution Petitions and Corrupt Prepares
at Elections BilL were re•d a third time Lad passed.
TIRILSDAV.—Tbe sitting lasted only a quarter of an
hour, and no business waa transacted.
FSlDAV.—Parliarnent wee prorogued by 0002131ilidoll
prior to the inevitable diasolotion which will follow in
the comes of a few weeke.—The House met at two
o'clock. when the Royal assent was given in the
accustomed manner to &large beach of measures, Salad-
int the bill for the transference of the territorial eights
of the Hodson's Bay Company, preliminary to the sale
of the North-Wall territory to the new Dominion of
Canada. Shortly after, the Speaker at the bead of the
Commons appeared at that:aria gamer to the summons
of the meth Rod, when the Qsasn's Speech Was read as
follows, by the Lord Cluneellor, in a slur and
impressive runner
"My Lords had Gentlemen, —i am happy to be enabled
to release you from your labours, and to offer you my
acknowledgements for the diligence with which you have
applied yourselves to your parliamentary duties- My
relations with Foreign Powers remain friendly and
satisfactory. I have no mess to apprehend that Europe
wit be exposed to the calamity of war, and my policy
will outings to be directed to wore the blessings of
peace. I announced to you at the beginning of this
&aims that I bad directed en expedition to be sent to
Abyssinia to liberate my Envoy, and others of ray
subjects, detained by the ruler of that country In an
enjoin captivity. I feel sure that you will abate In my
satisfaction at the complete success which has attended
amt expedition. After • marsh of 400 miles, through a
difficult and unexplored country, my troop. took the
strong place of Magdala, freed the captives, and
vindicated the honour of my Crown' and by their
immediate miens, without one set of oppression or
seedless violenee, proved that the expedition had been
andel taken only in obedience to the clams of humanity,
and in fulfilment of the highest duties of my sovereignty.
The cessation of the longooctinned efforts to promote
rebellion in Ireland has for some time rendered
n the exercise by the executive of exceptional
upownega"
power. rejoice to learn that no person is now
detained under the provisiocs of the act for the
suspension of the habeas corpus, and that no prisoner
awaits trial in Ireland for an offence connected with the
Fenian conspiracy.
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,—l have to
thank you for the liberal supplies which you have
voted for the public services.
" My Lords and Gentlemen,—l have had great satis-
faction in giving my assent to a series of measures com-
pleting the great work of the amendment of the reps-
aentation of the people in Parliament. which has
engaged your attention for two earions. I have men
with satisfaction that the time necessarily occupied by
this comprehensive subject ham not prevented you deal.
Mg with other questions of great public interest, and
I have gladly given toy sanction to bills for the better
government of public schools, the regulation of railways,
the amendment of the law relating to British sea
fisheries, and for the acquisition and maintenance of
electric telegraphs by the Postenuter General; and to
several important measures having for their object the
improvement of the las, and of the civil and criminal
procedures in Scotland. By the appointment of •
Comptroller in Chief in the War Office a considerable
reform in •rmy administration ham been commenced,
which, by combining at home end abroad the various
departments of military supply under one authority,
will conduce to greater economy and efficiency both in
peace and war. It ie my inS.ntion to dissolve the
present Parliusent at the earliest day that will enable
my people to reap the benefit of the extended system of
repreeenteition which the wisdom of Parliament has pro.
vided for them. I look with entire confideooe to their
premise themselves worthy of the high privilege with
which they bars thus been inverted. and I tro.t that,
endear the blessist of Divine Providence, the armedon
of their opinion on I
which have oacuptstunturtsgrotie:flachirennilZl
remain undecided, may tend to maintain unimpared
that civil and religious freedom which haa been secured
to all eny subjects by the inatitutions and settlement of
my ream"
Parliament was then formally prorogued to the Bth of
October next.

joreign Intelligtnct.

THE Its ban Parliament hal just pined a bill mooed-
log psosioos to the ohflotee &na orphans of doctors who
hare died in sttendiog choleraic petienta

FOURTEEN persons condemned to deeth for oomplicity
In the swage. tion of Prince Michael were shot on
Tuesday morning outside the town of Belgrade, on the
bank of the Danube, in presence of a large multitude
and • oonsiderable military fore*.
FUNMAL TWIST or Leave.—Th• facers' of an old
Icily who wee buried in Jackson, Michigan, United
States, a week or two ago, wee attended by two of her
sone from the Howe of Correction in Detroit, and •
third front the state prison, all under guard.
TIM VISITED STATOR CORMEM- "Live. the eras,"
says Mr. Carlyle. "lives the man that ean fancy • naked
Duke of Windlestraw addreeting a naked House of
Lords?' Manifestly the good Tenfeledrbokh, in ell his
wanderings, had never visited Washingtoo. Had be
been able, like oeitain unfortunate persons hereabout,
to witness the labour* of • shirt-sleeved American Con.
grata, a convention perspiring here in the heats of mid-
July, it would not have stretched his imagination to
oover the speetable of on unclothed legislator heaping
oratory uron the beads of unclothed colleagues. The
hell of either boss. is like an oven, both in the matter
of temperature end the matter of ventilation ; if there
be • place where one may fully realise the forae of
Sidney Smith'. wish—" to sit in one's bones to cool"—it
exist' beneath the dome of our Capitol. On Wednesday
(Jule 15) the Congressmen suffered from a temperatsre
of 98 degrees; mince that time the index has not dropped
below 91 Without omits (and many of them without
waistcoats) iflie honourable gentlemen seek to utter
their customary number of speech..; every orator fans
himself as he talks, sod fans Sutter above all the desks
like poplar leaves in a gale. Neither repudiation of
garmente nor frequent visits to the "cloak-room" (so
*ailed, I suppose, because it bider; the private libations
of legislator.), where noble cobblers mysteriously appear
at merest wave of the band or agitation of the eyelid,
serve to placate the inclemency of the season.

JAPIOCIOUS MURDER IN FRANCS —At the Amin
Court of the AM a murder case of extraordinary atrocity
bas just been tried. la • pietoreeque chateau called
Conant', Dear &Bey, where Lanterns" went to school
. and wrote his first poem; there lived for many pets •
, highly respectable couple in, the rank of gentry, not
wealthy, but in easy circumstances—M. and Madame
Ferrand. H. Formed was by profession en advocate •
be wrote several legal worn. shish have • good repute.:
tion.end moreover be composed the libretto for Berlios's
opera, The Troyes& His wife woe in • small way the
Lady Bow:Maul of the neighbourhood. The marrisp
: waa an extremely happy one, except that it was not
fruitful. Madame Ferrand longed for • child, and
having none she, with her husband's consent, adopted.
thirty years ago, • boy named Jamey Blanc Gonnet,
who bed been taken to • foundling hospital by his
mother. • poor women who bed been deserted by her
husband. The ebild was brought up tenderly, and the
gmateet pains were taken with his education. But bad
Instincts developed themselves early in him. He was
expelled from several schools and fooled to take any
degree. At the time of the Crimean war he enlisted
in the 49th Regiment. His military character was
extremely bad. Three times in succession he was
convicted of robbery, and on the last occasion he WU
sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Owing to the
influence of bin adopted anenta a pardon was obtained
and he wee taken to live with them st the Chateau de
Connie.. He led elite of debauchery sod extravagance,
and frequently made threatening demands for money,
which Madame Panted bed not the means of matiefying.
He *educed • meld fervent in the house, and wanted to
marry her. Madame Femnd would have senetiooed
the marriage, but the parents of the child would not
consent to it. He then said he would remain at Conzien
no longer, bat would go to Geneva, to try to get •
situation. Madame Ferrandgot him some introductions
to Geneva, and gave him money for the journey. •
few day. latter be some to the house at the night time,
got in at • window, murdered his adopted mother in
bed, stole her casket of jewels, end even took • ring off
her dead finger. When srrested be confessed his crime. :
The jury turned • deaf ear to the plea of his advocate '
for extenuating aireuntstanees, and the monster is '
sentenced to be executed at Bourge.

Tel EXCLAIM'S' BRAT IX AIIIIICL.—Our American
cousins have been suffering, like ourselves, from unpre-
indented hot weather, and a Washington correspondent,
writing under date July 17, says, since Friday last (July
10) it haa been as fatal to our people as a pestilence. In
57 cities and towns in the United States three have been,
since Friday, more than 1700 fatal imam of sanstroke,
and more than 7000 cases not immediately fatal. In
the city of New York alone, during Monday, 'Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thurelty, 150 de•th from sunstroke
were reported by the registrar of vital statiatios Of
them, nearly 200 were reported by the polio. alone at
the eeveral stations. The lists of victims, as printed in
the New York papers, look like the lists of killed and
wounded of a great battle; thine hen:Hags are almost
the same—" The Dead," "The Suffering," be. During
any one of the four days named it has been almost im-
possible to walk a square in New York without
passing a knot of p.rsons collected about a dead
or dying victim of the weather ; and every apothe-
esry's shop has had its mations mob peering in
at the lifeless form on the counter. It has
been easy to trace out the lines of the street rail-
ways in New York by the dead bor.. alone. In
the Central Park, in the greet manufacturion establish-
ments on be highways and in the dock., work hoe been
totally suspended in New York. The papers print
dirpCW,oll for toe pr0v...4.a. of avoalruto, and for the
treatment of sufferers. Apparently the people talk
about nothing else than the wmtber. Here is • spniimen
taken from a long list published in one of the morning
journals It covers about one tenth of the record of •
single day's deaths:—

Unknown roan, at No. 430, Nut Thirteenth-street.
Unknown child, aged eight month., at 71, Witahl ngton
Amt.
Two unknown men, one at 228, Iledinonetrest, led the other
at 487, West Thirty-grat-street.
Wtlllaat Ilea laugh, .1 426, Newt Fortywerieth street.
Unkeown child, at 193, A,AIIIO A.
Jacob Ftwe, German, 113,51 PlithearveL

Class L Zl,nm. ii.7.:;;;t7T):llFraokto rt-at net
Unknown child, at 117, Arms. B.
Charles F. Halleck, of the barge Republic, body at 200
Llehtb-avenne.
Voknosni child, at len, Avenue C.
Four men, whose names were not roweled by the police, are
lying dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Herman Rhiel. Herman, bad been bat two weeks In the
country, at OD, Kinii-street.
Joseph Knohelt, aged 12, of 107, Wooderstriet, died while
being taken to Bellevue Homital"
During the week all the dabs at the Morgue in New
York have been soured with bodies of persons slain by
the sun, chiefly thou of labourers and vagrants; the
ante-rooms are daily heaped with the red-pine boxes
which onatain the remains roe such victim.. The soreness
are working eight and day. The scenes attending the
idenlifloation of bodies are said to he very distressing.
New York has suffered most from the beat, but the
mortality in other cities—Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Baltimore Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago,
I Louisville, ita—bas been seffloiendy alarming. In
Brooklyn es Wednesday Clue were 22 deaths from
sunstroke, yesterday 17, in Philadelphia on Wednesday
16, Thursday 14; in Toronto on Wed needay 8, Thursday
II; Bt. Louis, Wednesday 9, Thursday 14; Montreal,
Wednesday 12, Thursday 13; Mimeo. Wednesday 12,
Thersdayll6. It is utineoemary tesioatinne the
that coven the whole maim and the dominion.
following will chow the range of temperature :
Washington, 98 des. to 106 deg. ; New York, 95 deg. to
104 dig.; Philadelphia, 94 degree. to 98 dig.;
Pouglekelpsie,New York, 106 to 114 deg. ; Albany, New
York, 100 des. to 104 deg. ; Cape May, New Jarirs7,
68 deg. to 75 deg„. Toronto, 97 deg. to 100 dig.;
Moetruil, 98 deg. to 106 deg. ; Unsullied, 93 deg. to
100 deg.; Chicago, 94 deg. to 97 deg. Thousand. of
add* in the ffelda and in the drover,' yards east and
west have succumbed to the general congestion.

ITHOISDAY.-Brutoi : Modena. show of wheel, mostly
of the new crop; the di mud wss far, at • reduction of
4s, ii 6e. per qr. on the instiller prices of lest week. A
e,oderete nusumptive trade in foreign, at a decline of
12. to 4s. pee qr. For old oats unruly any inquiry, vlt'l
alai:agave way fully Gd. per qr.; some new Iriah tawny,
per steamer, sold at 21s. 84. to 25.., and block at 24e.
Iper 304 lb. Indian corn in fair request, and 64.
per qr. cheaper. Grinding barlev reth..r cheaper.
Wheat: Amerman, rrd spring, 524. to 55‘; Polish
Odessa, Nieolaci, soft, 48a. to 52.; Kobuk., hard, 48a
10 50a; Obirka, Taganrog, Ben, kc., roft, 44a. to 465.;
Ohirka, Odessa, Nicolaet sat. 50a to 53&; Beralimaki
Mui....1,., .oft, 52a. to 554.; Eugli•h, red and white,
50e. to 58s. per 4961te. English flour, good second..
per 280 lb. 41s. to 430.-Glessemer: Wheat Ueda on.
nasally quiet, end the sales reported are at a dailies of
4s. per qr. on Boglirh, end 2a. per qr. on foreign.-
Device.: There wu a smell supply of wheat, for which
the trade was slow, and • decline of 2s. per qr. was
exeerieuesd, 613 a. per qr. being an exceptionally high
Pries for some old white wheat. Beet white, 565. to
604.; best red. 50a. to 565.; inferior Ports, 44a. to 50s.
Fine flour, 455. to 495.; other qualities, 41s. to 46..
Best bread, la 24. the Mb. Wel-Birmingham : Short
supply of wheat, chiefly of the new crop, and the sales
mu. wee at a reduction of 2a. to 3s. on new, and la.
on old. Foreign ls. to 2a. per qr. cheaper. Bailey
rather cheaper. Beans tan. Oats and peas doll. The
miller, reduced the retail pries of flour 3e. to 4s. per
sack.-Bantary : Wheat came sparingly to hand.
Business bowsaw was slow, and prices were 3d. to 64.
per bushel lower. New made 7a. to 7s. 6d.; old, in. 3d.
to 7e. 94. per bushel -Lospaberrnaph : Show of new
wheat moderate. Priam underwent • decline of 2. to
sa. per quarter. New red, Ha to 575.; new white, 57a.
to 60e. per 36 stone.- Afanchearer : Market slenderly
attended. Old English wheat detained 3s. pee quarter,
and foreign 64. per metal, with • limited business.
Beveral samples of new wheat were offering, for which
the prises asked were 555. to 585. for red, and Ws. to
65a. for white. Flour was neglected, and ls. to 2s. per
each lower. Oat. and oatmeal were study. Egyptian
beans were the torn higher, and Indian corn ruled arm.
-Burton-cm-Tula : Quantity of wheat exhibited
small. A reduction of 3a. to 4s. per quarter had, bow.
ever, to be submitted to. Old white, 83.. to Va.; old
red, 60a. to 63e. per 36 etas*.
FAIDAT.-Mark•Lons : Very poor @how of English
wheat, but the general audition of the samples we.
floe. As the attoadenes of millers was very limited,
both red and white quilities moved off heavily, at
llcieday's decline in the quotations. The new wheats
weighed from 61 lb. to 65 lb. per bushel. We were
heavily supplied with foreign wheat. Sales progressed
slowly, and pries, were almost nominal. Floating
cargoes of wheat were offered on lower terms. Barley,
and all other articles ace& were very Arm. Barley
met • slow Inquiry'; thole's, previous rates were
supported. The supply of English was very limited.
Malt eupported the late edemas, with • good con.
uniptive demand. The sale for oata ruled steady, at
full quotation.. The supply of foreign was rather ex.
tansies. Buns, peas, and flour wen unaltered ia
value. Seeds and takes ruled steady-Liverpool:
Market fairly attended, bet for wheat there was only •
moderate demand, at in some .1106 • reduction of 24.
per rental since Tuesday. Flour dull, at previous
rates. Indian corn dell, and rather easier. Oets steadier.
Beans and peas unohanged.-Derby: Wheat •
middling show. New samples declined at. to se, and
old were maaleable. New white, 595. to 635.; new red,
555. to Ms.; old whit*, 60a to 645.; old rde. 58s. to
62.. per 36 stone. Superfine Boer, 51s. to 63e.,• flee,
48e. to 50a. per week of 30 stone.licansfeal : Priam
may be written 3s. to 4s, per qr. down. White made
from 58s. to 62.; red, 575. to 595. per 38 stone.-
Lincoln : Wheat demand good, at • reduction of about
ss. per quarter. Old white, 60e. to 63a; old red. 513 e. to
Bk.; new white, 59c. to 63e.; new red. 555. to bee. per
36 stone. -Wakefield : Old wheat, 3s. to 4a. lower;
new up to 575. for red, and 1334. for white. Bark 1
unaltered. 1

B•TOIDAY.-Readlig : Luse show of DOW wheat.
Fine red gold no low as 50s. per qr., and the finest
parcels of while did not egoeed 60e. On the whole there
was • decline of from 6a to 7s. per qr. upon the rates of
teat week. Trade was slow, and attendance short. -
Oxford : Wheat 525. to 621. per qr.-Lois:mar : Wheat I
inquiry languid, and to get on with sake a roduotion of
4a. to 51. per quarter bad to be taken. Old whit• may
be quoted at 60e. to 64..; old red, 55.. t 059.. ; new
wheat, 535. to 59a. per 36 stone-Northampton: New
white, 52a. to 57..; old white, 5.1 e. to 57..; new red, 50e.
to 534. ;old red, 504 to 52... per 36 elem.-Noir...Own
Old white, 60s. to 634. ;old red. 565. to 60a. Dew, 52c
to 57e. per 36 stone.-Oonskridpg: White, 56e. to 60..;
red, 50e. to Me. per qr.-Worcester: English white
wheat. 75., and red, 6.. 84. to 6.104. per 621 b- York:
White wheat 68e. to 651. ; red, 54e. to 604 per 36 stone.
-Bark: Good supply of wheat (mock of it new) and
attendance larger than of late. Prise. of both new and
old further declined 2.. to 3a. p.r qr., the quotation
being 50.. to 554 Flour is being correspondingly
reduced, the vices of seconds being 42.. to 445. Our
reports from other Somerset market. state that prices
of wheat hate gener.lly dee iced 2s. to 3s. per qr.
Othrr earn doe, not show any mater.al alteration.-
Tonsion: Breed is now telling et from 61. to 64d- per
41b. loaf, and a further reduction is anticipated on
Moir's!. At our Corn.exchangs to day business wee
almost at a stand•till, and notwithstanding • rsidnetioe
in price of 61. per bushel for wheat, merchants acted
eaukonaly. Wheat gold at sa. 93. to 6.. per bushel;
harloy, 54 to 54 61.; beans, 6e. to 6.. lid.; pea., 75.;
°eta. 34 93. to 4P.-Waretwester Wheat sold et •
further deplane in Foie**, the top priors we beard of
being 66.. per qr. Old wheat bad •alow sale at • decline
of 2.., the quotation biting 50s. to 60a. Flour made
42.. to £se. raw ...elm.
C 7-413 MARKETS.

Mgvitorocrrati,—TClie—day—.L-i-b-On—t-a—n average simply
of beasts, but in middlieg condition. Prime breeds were
In fair ragout, at full prima. inferior stock was heavy,
at the late decline in the quotations. Downs and half.
brads *hanged hand a freely, at quite Monday's currency.
All other breeds of 'beep were very inactive, at previous
rates. Lambs changed hands slowly. The supply was
tolerably good. Calves were steady in price, with a fair
demand. Pigs and rail& stows were very dull, at barely
late rates.