The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

tEratit anti Commerce.

A merchant of great accuracy and experience re-
views in the Times of Tuesday the position and pros-
pects of the Indian cotton crop. The facts be bungs
forward warrant the conclusion that the crop in India
this season will, in all•probability, be large, and, from
the state of the usarkct in both countries, it may be ex-
pected that large orders will be sent out from house for
its sibilant:lit.
Commercial speculation appears to be active at pre.
lent. The /lady News of Saturday, contains no less
than thirty-two columns of advertisements of notices of
railway and other tinde.takiugs.
Tile GREAT Ex HIBITIOX.—Strong complaints were
made at a meeting of intentlivg exhibitors, held in
Manchester, on Monday, of the smallness of the space
allotted to Manchester products by the Commissioners
for 'he Exhibition of 1862. It was, however, finally
decided "That a circular be fornaided to each intend-
ing exhibitor, regue.liag him to state, within • week,
how far he can reduce the alumna of apace he has
already applied for, and if no reply he revolted, that
the application be cohsideied as withdrawn." The local
committee will, is the meantime, communicate with the
coniuthsioners on the subject. The first consignment
of Itoscian goods for tlte Exhibition is already in
1 London. . .

GRAIN Su PM [NTS FROM NEW YORK.— According to
the 'Sew Yoi k accounts this week, the shipments of
grain flow that port during the month of October had
been of unprecedented tuagnitude, those of wheat and
Hour alone hieing IVOT.;1 mure than a million and a half
sterling. The imports of manufactured goods during
the same period had been only £400,000, against
£1,100,000 in the cut respoudiog month of last year,
and even of this total about half consisted of woollen
goods bought for artily purposes. Nearly all the
markets were now drained of produce, and many
bankers and merchants were looking anxiously te the
effects to Le witnessed when the shipments of bread-
stuff., as will soon be the ease, are reduced to modtuAte
prow' lions.

A JOURNEY TO LONDoN.—STRANGI INCIDENTS CON
SEQUENT ON A LAD —Sows short time since
a gentleman well known in this neighbourhood pro-
ceeded to London, partly on business and partly on
pleasure, accompanied by his wife. On reaching London
they repaired to an hotel in one of the streets learlieg
from the Strand to the Thames, slid Ind far from
Charing Cross. Here they deposited their luggage, and
living dined sallied foi th in a cab to the theatre.
Before leaving the house the gentleman took the pre-
caution of depositing with the landloial a conaiderable
Isllll of money which be lied with him. All went well
up to the time for leaving the thetatre—yrheie. our
friends were highly delighted and entertamed—inso-
mach that when the driver of the C•I:1 hailed to take
them home inquired a here he was to drive, neither lady
nor gentleman could tell him, having totally forgotten
the sign, the street, and even the locality in which the
house was situated. Under these circumstances there
was 110 alternative but to give the manna.) a roving com-
mission, and off they started ou their hopeless search.
They actually drove about Loudon streets uneil two
o'clock in the morning, when the calouan refused to go
any further, alleging that his horse wu knocked up.
The pareies, in despair, directed him to drive to the
nearest notel, as they could not wander the streets all
night. The cabman then drove them to the Gulden
Cross, Charing Cross, hut the gentleman, pot liking the
coach-office ampeai mice of the house, refused to enter.
After sotne wi +nigh eg, the cabman told them lie knew
of a nice house only a very short distance away, and was
ordered to drive there. On their arrival, to tl•eic
moue:daunt, they foimd thews& ea at the Tv,' hotel
front Ile.e they ate Led. They 'aired to bed con-
aratulatirg themselves on their good fortune, and re-
freshed theniselves after the anLiety and fatigue of the
preceding evelihig by a good nighe's rest. But all is not
yet told. On the following day they made up their
I minds to return to Birmingham, and accoldingly
ordered and paid their hill; but on inquiring for the
',gooey deposited a ilia the landlord it waa not forth-
cooling, amid they were told by the lauillady that he had
locked it up and gone to the laces. This information.
as may be imagined, was for from satisfactory, but
there was no altei native but to gi in and abide by it, so
they returned home in melancholy mood by way of
Emden Station, where, as • Coale, they lost the whole
of their luggage. It is fair to state that after some
delay both money and luggage were recovered ; and so
et.ds the eveuiful history of abed memory and a journey
to Loudon. Eetraordinary as this may appear, the
whole of these incidents actually occurred; and can be
vouched for by an authority upon whieh war can rely.—
Birmingham Past.
THI LOCK CONTROVESSY AGAlN.—Steps are being
taken mu Wolverhampton which are likely to revive
the great lock controversy of ten years ago. There is
now in the course of manufacture in this town • 'sew
patent keyless lock, hoeing 214,140.6115 combinations, to
open all o which wouldtake a man, supposing lie could
live 1,0 lung, some 130 yems. This extraordinary look
is the invention of Count Kersolon, a Frenchman, but
110 IV (be prollerty in this country of • Mr. Lupien,
generally known as the miteutee of • modern coffee
percolator. It has five rollers, and each roller is marked
with twenty-five of the tweutpaix letters of the
alphabet. If the word at which it is set should not be
discovered, the exhausting of all the variations necessary
iii that case to the opening of the lock would require an
expenditure of the time we have mentioned, supposing
the operator to make ten changes a minute, and to
mauipulate teu horn son every working day. It is in-
tended to place one of these locks upon some iron rates
that are also being made in Wolverhampton, for exhibi-
tion at the forthcoming World's Fair. In one of the
safes it is proposed to place the sum of kW, which is
to fall to the lot of the version who way be (connate
enough to effect an opening of the safe. The ; roduc-
Bon of the lock for the market is in the bands of Mr.
Aubin, the inventor of "The Trophy Lock !mei vita,"
which was exhibited in the Hyde Park Falser, Sad
subsequently purchased by Mr. Hobbs. Mr. A 'shin,
then a working locksmith, is now the proprieter oh
works of comaderable suaguitude in Wolverhanit ton.
where he eniploys machine, y invented by himself, sad
of equal delicacy with that displayed in the n odel
which made his name celebrated. His itigeouity is
being further displayed in the designing and con-truct•
iug of machinery adapted to the oiseufacture of
the luck we bare just described. —.Mune/aster Exa-
miner.

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tecrcles bale, in qualio 4.r quentity hicap.l.l44 of dig., log the
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hich 11;;Du,a)'1. Pill, and Olottucht hair 1.0. gr bete f,,0.u,
fur esccy o,her ro.d. Irregulatity of
dionde and other 45:11..-.4 are c....54.4:41;y throe...lc the
lire,. 'rats but ths: WINO-taut 0r.... can, uni,er ell
einatuncenoe, -o‘.ll be reotl led a .1 '.o•lthily rt:Judtal, by
PIM Doti InDlostolt. tdreetly ui. it t!,o
viod • veretion. 0144tincot, nibt,,,, 01l the ;Aio, pcoorni,,
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an . OS.Cr+.l C.Ver 4 altogether the tau., aatutary influence,
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