The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-28 00:00:00

Bora' Count &Tea

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1673.

NOTRE OF THE WEEK.

The moons of Colonel Pease at Hull should
serve to restrain the jubilations of Ministerialists,
although Colonel Posse appears to have won the
seat bewail° he belongs to a rich and popular
family hi the borough, and became his supporters
bad made up their minds that anything which
money and good organisation ooull do should
be done on his behalf. Mr. Reed was defeated
because his forces wore not well disciplined, and
he himself was not • favourite with all claims of
Liberals. The shipbuilders and their workmen
stood by him, but many Radicals disapproved of
his newly reoovered loyalty to Mr. Gladstone,
and many Ministerialists could not but think
that that loyalty might wane as rapidly as it had
risen. Mr. Reed is without a rival in his own
craft, but that craft has not much to do with
politic*, and therefore many who might have
voted for another candidate stayed away, or,
according to the Daily News correspondent,
voted against their political preferences for 'the
kindest and most useful man in Hull—such •
' good man, such • friend of the poor, such an
excellent neighbour." A majority of 279 out
of a constituency of some 20,000, in which there
are nearly 7,000 abstentions, is not much ; but
by it the Conservatives have gained another
victory, and the Government will count two less
at divist.ns.

The old rumour that • peerage is about to be
conferred on Mr. Hoover's is revived in con-
junction with another, viz., that the office of
Poatmaster-General Is to be offered to Mr.
Bouverie • and as the acceptance of the place
will necessitate an election for Kilmarnock, the
elevation to the peerage, formerly spoken of, will
take place simultaneously with the appointment.
It is very doubtful whether the Comte de
Chambord has not allowed the goldenopportunity
of • monarchical restoration to 'lip through hie
hands. Either he or his advisers would appear
to have relied too confidently on the same
majority that overthrew M. Thiers, excepting
only the few lionapartista, but including the
Conservative Republicans of the Left centre
And it is very probable that the latter would
have thrown in their lot with the Monarchists,
If the Comte de Chambord had made his con-
stitutional conoemion • month or two earlier;
but they have now bound themselves to support
the Republic, and the attempt to bring them
over to the cause of Ooestitutlonal Monarchy has
failed. Hence the expected monarchical majority
I In the Assembly would be hasuftioient to carry
the necessary weight In the country, and the
policy of both the Government and the majority
of the Assembly has been modified sa
an ImmecUate meeting of the latter. They
evidently require time for further consideration
, and negotiations, and it is getting to be pretty
generally thought that an appeal to the country,
either by • plebiscite or • dissolution of the
Assembly may be the list recourse of the
monarchists. For the moment, at any rate, the
sensational element has been taken out of French
polities, and we shall have to welt for the
dirioenetassi of the drama a little longer than we
exotcd.
The enthusiasm which the Emperor's letter to
the Pope haa awakened has not been waned to
England and Germany. To it in • great mesears
is traced the very cordial reception given to the
Emperor at Vienna. Th. utmost enthusiasm
has been evinced. Something important to
Europe is Implied in the visit. Ther, have been
long consultations between the Emperms and the
Chancellors. Prince Bbtmarok has been most
actively employed; and it is conspicuous that if
Great Britain is MOM than ever left to her own
devices, the German Emperor has recognised
the Importance of • union of purpoee among the
Eastern potentates. Every opportunity is taken
to let Europe see that Germany, Russia,
and Italy, are committed to • uniform line of
policy. The friendliness can only be viewed with
satisfaction as it is found not I. be • menace to
other peoples. Should the court-martial which
Is attracting the attention of Europe establish
the conviction in France that, by the weakness
or treachery of one individual, the army of
France was sacrificed, there will be • speedy
revival of a desire to commit again the relations
of France and G ermany to the chances of war.
The Norfolk has made her appearance in the
'fawner without even a solitary leg of mutton
of all the cargo of fresh meat in ice with width
she left Melbourne in June. The experiment
boa turned out a failure. The tanks, it is said,
were not constructed as they ought to have been,
the waste of ice was in coueequeuce In excess of
Mr. Harrison's speculations, the most turned
putrid, and all the cargo had to be thrown over-
board before the Norfolk reached the tropics.
But the Australian shippers mean to try again.
Mr. Mort, of Sydney, in co-operation with Mr.
Nicolle, an Australian engineer, is hard at work
In the preparation of machinery for keeping up
the neceas try refrigerating
_power during a four
months' voyage. He has already spent several
thousand pounds In making experiments; the
machinery is almost complete, and in the course
of a few months, it is said, we may expert to
hear of a cargo of meat in carcase, on the Mort
and Nicole process, being 'hipped from Sydney
, to this market.

But Mr. Howard is toggling in the Tin that
If we will only allow capital to flow into fanning
as it flows into everything else we may be inde-
pendent at once of Australia and Amerioa. All
that we have to do, according to Mr. Howard, is
to by deeper tillage and use the steam plough.
Deeper tillage will render the farmer more inde-
pendent of manure, is it increases the fertWty
of the soil and will increase, very materially, the
quantity of artificial food for cattle and sheep.
Again, steam power in tillage will not only give
us this deeper culture, but the necessity for dead
fallows will be avoided, thus yielding further
supplies of cattle and sheep food. Then,
again, we shall not much longer continue
to pour into our rivers and the sea the sewage
of our towns and cities, but the food consumed by
man will be returned to the soil which yielded
It, to restore and increase its fertility; more-
over, the bones, ollcake, and other substances
which have of late years been so largely im-
ported, will probably find their way here in still
larger quantities, and possibly—this possibly of
Mr. Howard's sounds hazy —large beds of
coprolitee and other manurial substonces will yet
be discovered in this and other countries. At
present the average produotion of meat is at
ruling prices about 325. an acre; but Mr. Medd
says he has been producing £5 an acre for 90
years, and on • farm in Norfolk of 1,200 acres
Mr. Meohl tells us £4,000 a year is paid for cake
mile from foreign-grown linseed, and from this
I. produced probably £3,000 worth of fat meat
and a proportionate quantity of manure to
enrich the fields, and thus vastly increase the
produce, not only of wheat, barley, and oats,
but also of pulse, root., clover, and other green
crops suitable for inset-making. This is how the
whole of the country needs farming and Mr.
Machl maintains, upon the authority of Mr.
Lewis, that the best and cheapest manure remits
from making fat meat. Till; brings the discus-
sion back to Mr. Howard's point, that the main
want Of agricultuas is the want of capital, and
the amount of capital now invested in the soil
is, it is said, on an average less than £6 an sore.
This is obviously too little, especially if in
Norfolk, Lincolnahlre, and some other well.
farmed districts, where much meat and corn are
produced by stock-feeding and artificial manures,
It averages from £l5 to £25 per sore. indepen-
dently of the amount Invested by landowners in
building., drainage, roads, and other necessary
Impiovements. It Is nut to pasture that we
must look for the future—this is Mr. Mechi's
eanclusion—(sithough that Is capable of Immense
Improvement by feeding the cattis on it with
furcign produco and by draining and other
magus), for, according to the Board of Trade
P.eturos, the average yield of hay per acre per
annum is at present under one ton.
The last Jay of the first sir months of the
second Tiohborne trial was • convenient day for
the evidence for the defence to flag. It fairly
broke down then. If it could have bgen sus-
taiDed much longer it might have gone on for
ever, but the witnesses on that particular day
were few and weak. So alight was the evidence
they wore prepared to give, that there was no
way of prolonging their stay in the witness-box,
and the prosecution declining to cross-examine
several of them, there was a decided difficulty.
Dr. Kenealy was taken 111, and Mr. M'Mahon,
M.P., was sorely tried to know what to do to
keep the case going. It was an immense relief
to every one to find that the evidence for the I
defence was not quite interminable. Dr. Kenelly
has called more than 250 witnesses. Chief
among those who have appeared in the past
week See Sir William Fergueson, who gave im-
portant evidence respecting the sears and other
peculiarities of the defendant, and Mr. Whalley,
1,1. P., who believed; the opposition to the
Claimant le "a Popish plot." The defendant's
witnesses have concluded at last, not beams
airy more witnesses might not "turn up," but

for want of a continuity of testimony. Dr.
Homely lass now to sum up his own evidence.
and Mr. Hawkins to reply on the whole case, and
then it is expiated we shall have a certain
amount of evidence to rebut portions of that
for the defence, which will tend to farther
though much shorter speeches, and then will
oome the summing-up and the deliberations of
the jury. Looking at what is to be done by the
light of what has passed, it begine to be doubt-
ful whether the trial can be concluded before
Christmas, if it ever does coins to • legitimate
end.