The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-10 00:00:00

Vorget Cauntti_Exprel3s.

TUIEDAY. AUGUST 3, MA

tMion,

THE FOREIGN WHEAT AND FLOUR TRADES.
Wheat has been rather firmer at Antwerp. with a good
demand. At Amsterdam disposable wheat has not been
very actively dealt In : wheat for future delivery has
remained without variation. Rain having fallen there has
been, once more, rather an upward movement in flour at '
Paris : no material advance has however been established
in quotations. As regards wheat, last week's prices have
been tolerably firmly maintained at Paris: eallem have,
however, ezhibitel rather more disposition to realise.
Diryinsable wheat has ruled quiet at Hamburg. but for
future delivery prices have exhibited an upward tendency.
Wheat has been rather firmer at Dantric at Konigsberg
alai wheat he. been well supported. The Pesth wheat
market has been rather feeble. The Odessa wheat market
had been very quiet.

M ESSRS. COLLIE.
Mr. Alexander Collie tailed to appear at the Guildhall
to-day in answer to the charge of fraud. Bail was
estreated and a warrant was Issued for his arrest
A further warrant has been issued against Alexander
Collie for E 150,000 from the Union Bank. Scotland.
The case against William Collie is adjourned for one
meth.
DEATH -OF THE HONOURABLE MRS. ASHLEY.
The death at the age of 24. is announced of Franw,
site of the hon. Lionel Ashley, third eon of the Earl of
sbsltesbury. The 100..11w wu the youngest daughter
of th. late Mr. Capel Banbury Leigh, of Ponpool.park,
Monmouthshire. and was married to the Hon. Lionel
Ashley, 12th Decesetwo.
oessiososowsesow
Monseigneur nuptials:nip. who has been invited to visit
?tome. Is expected to Melva a Cardinal's bat
Up to Wednesday the number of public acts peed in
the present maiden was SI, against lit last year.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey sailed for New York on
Wednesday in the mail ateamer Spain, from the Mersey.
It is estimated that • third of the grain crop in the Oluo
valley has been lost by the recent Boo&
Arrangemente are being
_made to establish an American
line of steamers between New York and Havre.
The Russian Government contemplate forming •
cirsonereird mad through the Yunnan provinces of the
Chnires Empire.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are expected to
leave Bowie for England towards the end of August or the
Weenie.< of September.
A constants/topic telegram states that the Sultan intends
to devote /10111,600 ally from his civil list to the con-
struction of railways in Turkey.
The nubile executioner at Barcelona having recently
resigned, MOPS than 510 candidates applied for the vacant
post.
A morel and rare wersony has taken place at Drogheda
—Abe Ideating of the trails S.6OJUIre in St. Peter's Catholic
sineoh. by one of the Roman Cathuhe citrates.
Treasure to the value of /24,000 is said to be obtained in
the two kegs which the divers have recovered trom the
wreck of the Schiller.
Her Majesty has invested the Earl of Daikeith with
the Order of the Thistle, in the room of the late Lord
Love.
The Gazette contains an announcement of the promotion
of the Duke of Connaught of the 7th Hussars from the
.rank if captain to that of major with seniority.
Mr. Gladstone went to the Olympic Theatre,
104 stayed throughouteerfermance "Th. _
Lasso Man." Ile repeatedly aPpLusded the performance.
A grant of a hundred guineas has been elated ley the
Corporation of London to the Prince. Louise Home and
National Society for the Protection of Young Girls.
Rem Carr - A gigantic turtle from the Island of
kw:elision, weighing over 3cart, has been sent by the
Queen to the Brighton Aquarium. It Is considered the
fined specimen ever seen alive in this country.
Mr. Markonorhie ressimoil the celebration of the Holy
Communion on Suuday at St. Allan's Holborn, wearing
• richly coloured chasuble, and maintaining the eastern
gwition during the celebration of prayer.
Bettniere is excited over the marriage in that city of a
swine of English nobility to a coloured woman. The
Baltimore vapers set the bridegroom Sown as a direct
descendant of the Plautagenet family of Enslayid.
The birthday .sf the Duke of Edinburgh. was oleervel
at Windsor on Fridey with the customary bonnie... Ilia
Royal Highness was born at Windsor Castle on the 6th
August, POI.
The British Medical Aaeocintion have passed • resolution
in favour of legislative restraint in the awe of persons
sel.lietwl to wa habitual and excerrive use of aWsholic

Lo4dr,•ol

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
We understand that, should no unforeseen
circumstances arise, the
_prorogation of Parlia-
ment will take place on Friday' August 13
The Marquis of Harlington' on Friday night'
effectively denuded of romantic gloss the
Premier's after-dinner review of the labours of
the past session, and showed that a numerically
strong Government has been pitiably weak in Its
measures or has legislated in a panic, and that
the essential business of the session has been
slovenly conducted. Mr. Diraeh's retort that
"if I have done little you have done less," will
not avail with the country. His strength, no
doubt, was to sit still; but the expansion of
his "policy of sewage" and the "civilizing influ-
ences of humanity " has carried him into
dangerous waters likely to wreck his reputation
for statemanship and the Government of which
he is chief. The Public Worship Act and the
Agricultural Holdings Bill are fraught with grave
issues. By the one ecclesiastical comprehension
—the only safe beans now-a-days of a State
church—has been narrowed; and by the other
principles are enunciated which will in the end
revolutionize the present system of land holding
and land occupying. Not without reason have
country members distrustfully avoided partici-
pation in the passing of the Agricultural Hold-
ings Act; and in regard to the Bill affecting
public worship in the Church, Archdeacon
Denison clearly indicates the result—when vest-
ments and symbols are abolished, doctrine will
be the more plainly preached' while, on the
other hand, it is destroying the Evangelical
party, as witness the "levelling up" of the once
staunchly Protestant Vicar of Bournemouth.
Again, e Government have partially restored
exchange in the army, and abolished the principle
of competition which for the past six years has
been applied in a limited form in the selection of
naval cadets. Financally there is a striking
failure. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has
had to introduce "supplementary estimates"
absorbing more than the estimated surplus; and
though, happily, there has been some elasticity
in the revenue, it seems not unlikely, should the
harvest be deficient, that the year will close with
a deficit. Another session of this feeble and
costly administration, and the country will sigh
for the return of Gladstone with his heroic lava-
his grand surpluses, and his marvellous
remissions of taxation.
The Duke of Connaught is fortunate in his
profession of a soldier, as we might expect of a
prince. He has been promoted from the rank
of Captain to that of Major in the 7th Hussars,
"with seniority from this day," the date of the
appearance of the announcement in the Gazette.
Plebeian promotions are not made under such
agreeable circumstances.
After all the indignation heaped upon Colonel
Baker by Mr. Justice Brett it seems that his
sentence of imprisonment is merely nominal, for
it is only detention, and does not involve any-
thing in the way of prison discipline. It is
stated that the colonel will by subjected to no
personal degradation, but will dine at the
governor's table, entertain his friends when he
chooses, and see whom he likes and when he
likes. Colonel Baker was a splendid cavalry
officer, and will have no difficulty in obtaining a
commission in a foreign service when he comes
out of gaol; but that fact, so far from diminish-
ing, rather increases the heinousness of his
offence.

A contemporary announces that the Plimsoll
incident has not been lost on Sir Wilfrid Lawson.
Ho looks with hope to the end of next session.
Thousands of men are dying of drink. If the
Government du not support his Permissive Bill,
he will rise in his place at the end of next session,
speak his mind to the Premier, defy the Speaker,
and call Mr. Bass a villain I Then, Sir Wilfrid
says, we shall sou --
The Government have made a sad bungle of
the telegraph business. Profits have been
gutting year by year smaller by degrees and
beautifully less, until they have disappeared,
and an estimated deficit of £268,000 this year
takes the place of the profit on telegraphs of
I 000,009 in the year 1871. Development means
' getting financially worse and worse. This ii a
liffovernment way of doing business. Any
ordinary business enterprise which could coin-
Imand more than a quarter of a million profit on
ten million messages at a shilling each would
think a loss of a quarter of a million a curious
, result of the despatch of twenty million messages
at the same charge per message. The Govern-
ment must look to it. Telegraphy is in its
' infancy. The Post will be more and more super-
seded by wires, and either a system must be
devised which will pay its way, or the whole
monopoly should be put up by auction. •
That land on the outskirts of the town of
Dorchester should realise over £l,OOO per acre
is a remarkable fact, yet this was the result of
the sale by auction of small plots, belonging to
the Duchy of Cornwall, near the new Fair Field.
The general desire manifested to secure these
sites indicates the importance of our fairs and
markets, and it is fortunate that the Town
Council have just acquired from the Duchy
between two and three acres of Beggar's Knap,
abutting upon the Great-Western road, beyond
what is required for a fair field, as it is evident
that if the land be laid out suitably, and let or
sold, it will produce a handsome profit for the
town and go some way, at any rate, to pro-
viding the necessary buildings for fair and
market purposes.
Weymouth Sanatorium, founded by Dr.
Smith, has just entered upon a new phase of
existence. Begun 27 years ago very humbly, it
is now conducted in a freehold establishment
under trustees, and has an endowment fund of
£5,409. Unwearying diligence and devotion on
the part of Dr. Smith have effected this happy
result. It was his heart's desire to establish on
a firm basis an institution for the special treat-
ment of the diseases of women and children,
and the object is now successfully accomplished.
Of the value of the Sanatorium, and the manner
in which it is appreciated, the medical report
affords abundant evidence. There have been
upwards of twenty-five thousand out-patients,
and more than one thousand have been treated
in the institution. During the past year 128
in-pationta have had the benefits of the Sane-
tonum, and 986 more have been wider treat-
ment as out-patienta. Of these the number
cured or relieved is very large. The Sana-
torium is a noble institution, and deserves well
of the public. It mitigates the sum of human
suffering, particularly amongst the class who,
just removed from poverty, find it difficult to
pay for the best of medical advice and atten-
dance ; and, being specially designed for the
benefit of women and children, has a stronger
claim on general support. Dr. Smith and
his coadjutors are to be congratulated on the
snows hitherto attained, and we cordially wish
, thu Sanatorium a long career of beneficent use.
!illness.
fraeil!'