The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-20 00:00:00

SHAIRBORNIF.

FA= RIPOBT. -Professor Bunions& writes to the
Mamba of Agricuieural .fouresi : A my Rae
spring mason enables much work to be done that had
got greatly bobbed with the long frost. Wheat is
very weak and patchy, and the few cold nights of
March have made even the beet pieces serums • sickly
yellow hue. On sononnt of the general peons= of
seeds of most kinds, we expect much disappointment
with both wheat and spring corn. Tillage operations
have been brought up tolerably well with the generally
fine open weather ofllaroh. Spring own was got in
tolerablywelll preparation for roots in • forward
*AL The gram is growing, but farmers am generally
afraid to feed their pastures. Seeds promising. Tat
stook sells oreV well, bat it is ray some. Store
stook, s.perLiliy amp very low Indeed; sheep almost
nominal. Wool promises fairly with some flocks but
so muck diem* will much lessen the quality and
quantity of others. Cattle are reported to be sow
suffering from th• fluke.

The EmprsN &wade arrived at Cal:AV:own at midnight
on Thu y, on her = Zululand. The bereaved lady
I. mid to be in good
The total reosipts of the railways of Prue( In 1879
were WO million menu. or £27,500,000. The working
ilditure was 310 million marks (513.000.0010 leasing
SW million marks, or £11,000,000 for distribution among
the shereholdera This is sonivalesi to an anrigs
dividend of 19 por rent on the capital invested.
A force marched on Friday to effect a junction with
General Stewart in Alghaalatan. It °onside of 0,000
men and tea guns. Mahomai Jan hae fled to
Ghnxnee.

1
fITIMISH GOVISNIMINT.—C,oIoneI Com one of 1
the English officers appointed nearly two years IWO to I
command the police force which was to keep safer In
Asia Minor, but who has never had a single geoderme i
placed at his &pos.', has been diarnissed on a
pretence of disobed. The English Ambassador
supports Colonel Cope; but the Porte shows its
indifference to England.
The n&rnr for the Glasgow and Aberdeen
vuiveratiee terminated on Saturday morning, Dr.
Campbell, Conservative, being elected by a majority
of 381.—At Edinbumh, on Saturday, 'Dr. Mayfair
was declared 'acted for the Edinburgh and St.
Andrew's Universities. In proposing a vote of thanks
to the Vice-Chanoelior, Dr. Mayfair remarked that a
large section of Liberals doubted the wisdom of
university representation.
On Friday afternoon a destructive fire occurred at
the stores belonging to the Civil Service Supply
Association in Bedford-street, Strand. The fire,
which originated in the spirit cellar, owing, it is
gran su to the accidental breakage of a bottle of
w near a naked light, almost oomplittely wrecked
the and the ground fiber of the building, and
the contents of the upper floors were also greatly
tdrrThe property war insured in several Atom,
edminster being, it is stated, the principal
sufferer.
Rem» or rits QusEir..—The tz.daand Primes
Beatrice returned to England on y from the
Continent. The Royal travellers embarked at Flush-
ing about nine o'clock in the morning on board the
yacht Victoria and Albert, and reached Sheerness at
three o'clock in the afternoon. Her Majesty landed
at Quesaborough Pier, and at once took train for
Windsor, where she arrived at half-past sir o'clock.
This it the first time her Majesty has travelled by the
ifhlohand Qumehcrongh route from the Continent.
On Sunday Lord Heaomellekl proceeded to the Casale,
and had an audience of the Queen.
At Friday's meeting of the Metropolitan Board of
Works a deputation from South London waited upon
the Board, and presented a memorial on the subject of
securing the site of Horesmonger.lane Gaol as an
open space for public recreation. Lord Shaftesbury
supported the prayer of the memorial, which was to
the effect that the Board would open negotiations with
the surrey magistrates, and, if necessary, with She
Home office, with a view to ensuring that the site in
question should not be built upon. The subject was
referred to the Works Committee.
Professor Arminlne Vambiry, whole now on a visit
' to this country, on Friday night delivered an address
' before the Society of Arta, on the "Influence of Russia
on the inhabitants of Central Asia during the last
tau years." Professor Vanbsiry, who several years ago
travelled through Central Asia disguised as a
1
dervish, expressed his desire that the unjustifiable
. ambition of Russia should be bar-red, and that the
, Arian elements of Asia should be made over to the
1 guidance and the guardianship of that nation which
I had become known in Europe by her high =Lott
s culture, by her by. of liberty and sense of j end
I, had proved herself hitherto to be an azoollest al ,
and a tens repressatitive et mode= =Wu*