The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-08 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

REVIEW OF TIIE CORN TRADE.
•.mxn trade, although still quiet, has at length
a rather steadier aspect, At Mark-Lane to-dey
wheat, both English and foreign, has been in slower
request, but at lowering prices. It is a question, however,
whether these reactionary xymptomx will become more
clearly defined. In many quarters it is contended that
the result of the harvest both at home and abroad is so
favourable that currencies must experience another
reduction before they attain the true level warranted
by the circumstances. In affecting the markets we
shall doubtless have considerable offers of assistance
from the Continent, whilst from America liberal supplies
may be expected. The unsettled weather now ceases to
have any adverse influence ; on the contrary it will be
beneficial for the root crops, and by improving grnrifir
will, in a corresponding degree, tend to Telex
UTiacutea.of cereal produce
Barley has been quieter, and malting produce has fallen
one shining per qr. ; grinding parcels have been drooping.
Osta have been firm, but other kinds dull.
Mains inactive,
Beans and Peas quiet, but firm.
Flour dull. Country marks and American barrels
lower on the week.

MARK LANE, Tins DAY.
Wheat sold slowly hut A steadier price& Malting
barley, la lower grinding draming. Oats and liaise
litacdve but unaltered. Beaus and Peas quiet, but Arm.
Flour dull, country sang, American barrels 6d lower on
the week.

METROPOLITAN CATrLE. —Tam DAY.
About MOB beasts of which one half were foreign.
Trade quiet Prices irregular. Iraferior la to 55.
rite 4.- to Is. fa. About 24,00 U sheep Market dull, at
decline. Inferior, la. Ad. to Se. : prune. se. Id. to is. 44.
Calvet, ; te. to bd. Piga ss. to be 4d.

MONEY MARKET, THIS DAY.
Fair discount denuunl. and omits! in moderate supply.
Three months' bills chanted It. Consols unaltered.

HO6TILITIES-111147;EN TILE GISMANS AND

CARLISTS.
HostWties hare taken place between the two German
gunboats sent to watch the northern rout of Spain and
the Cutlets at Guetaria in Guipuscoa. The gunboats were
kreg upon on Saturday night, and they retaliated by
• • the town with twenty-four shots.

ARRIVAL OP THY CRANNY'', FLEET IN
SCOTLAND.
The Channel Fleet anchored hi St AMIIIIII.II Bay this
(Momins) morning.

BENT FOR TRILL FOR BITING A MAWS HLND.
A man named Hughes has been committed for trial at
Hanley on • charge of assaulting a County Court Bailiff
and biting his hand severely.

THE CORN AND CATTLE TRADE.
At the leading markets en Saturday the wheat trade was
fine sad in most places la advance was securred. At
Dorchester a short supply of wheat, millers buying at la.
per quarter advance on the prices of last week, when the
official average was 475. 41d. per imperial quarter, 210
quarters realising 1,A39 16.. halting barley scarce, prices
not yet being Axed. Old cats sold at late prices, new
Mug cheaper. The official returns for the previous week
give barley at Ws. per Imperial quarter average—At Mr.
User's fortnightly auction sale of stock there was a large
supply of both rattle and sheep, the latter still having •
downward tendency in prices in consequence of the pros-
pective scarcity of keep—both hay and turnips. The best
fat beef raids from 14s. to lbs. per score, hammers bring-
ing from £l2 to .Cl 6 per head, Mutton may be quoted at
from Td to Sid per lb Veal dear, to per lh A brisk
business was dons. At Norwich a fair trade was done in
wheat at about former 'Um At Bath the supply of new
wheat was small A brisk sale for good conditioned samples
at Is. to 6. per .qr. advance : other samples firm at last
week's prices. At Gloucester the supply of English wheat
was moderate, and in some instances Is. per quarter
dearer. At Reading the fall in prices has checked the
aunty of wheat, and there was little business doing.
=Men only purchasing for their immediate requirements.
Prices were about the same u last week. There was little
variation in other grain—At Warminster there WY •
bitter supply. Trade was quiet, but wheat met an advance
of la per qr.—At Taunton there wee a rather smaller
supply, and quotations were firmer. White wheat sold
for Is. lOW. to ; red ditto, ss. ; malting balmy,
Is. 4d.; grinding ditto, U. lid.; osta 3m. to 3a. beans,
6.; rasa, none in the market: Aar seed (abundant), Os.
upward.; maize (ex ship). 365. 6d. ; flour, 365.

THE TICHBORNE AND DOUGHTY ESTATE&
An Act of Parliament, under which money is to be raised
for the defrayal of expenses connected with the defence of
the Tichborne estates against the claims of "Sir Roger."
has been printed, and the statue is to be received as
evidence in all courts. The trustees appointed to carry out
the provisions of the statute are Henry Lamplush Wick-
ham and the Hon. Edward Ignatius ArundelL Under the
order of February, Itf73, the meta, charge. and expenses
had been settled at the sum of 1:21,10 12s. 24.

THE BISHOP up - 3IANCHESTER ON CHURCH

CONSECRATION.
The Bishop of Manchester has just consecrated a new
church at Higham, near Burnley, and also an acre of land
as • burial.ground. His lordship maid they had «maw
crated the church, but he did not know that they had
Made it any more • house of God than it wits before ;
because its essential holiness consisted not in anything the
bishop said, or in lawyers deeds of evidence, or sentences
of consecration, hut its essential holiness consisted in Its
being a place were Christ made goosl his prumise—"Where
two are three are gathered together in my 1311 Me, there am
I in the midst." All that lie hasl done that day, and all
that any Bishop could to in the consecration of a church
or a burial.ground, was by legal (onus, which were
obligatory until they were cancelled or altered, to set one
apart as • place of worship and the other ass resting
place for the dead. But there was no intrinsic holiness, in
the place itself. The strength of the Church consisted in
the holiness of the men and women who were the spiritual
tnnipice of Ood in Christ

TM: PONTIGNY PILGRIMAGE.

Some 400 pilgrinis, about half of whom were priests and
mrsainariste, left this country ou Tuesday ea route for
Fontigny to visit the shrine of St. Edmund of Abingdon,
the last canonised Archbishop of Canterbury. On the
way the time was beguiled by prayers, led in the different
compartments by priests distributed for the purpose, for
the Pope and his persecuted Church, and for the con-
version of bad Catholics. Cromin,.; the Channel many of
the pilgrims suffered acutely. On Wa'nada, after mass at
Notre Dame the pilgrims left for St Florentan, and thence
walked or rode la carriages in procession to the shrine.
Arrived in sight of Poatigny, the Hymn of St. Edmund's
pilgrims was sung, the following verses being especial',
mnphatk :
Edmund, bright saint, the glory of our island,
Look on ow' pilgrims thronging round thy shrine
We left our shores for vine-clad fair l'oaUgtry,
Where etill the halo of thy light cloth shins.
Father Et Edmund,
Thy pilgrims cross life's ems;
Lead on home to Jesus,
And home, mime mint, with thee.
On thy bright shores, hdr land of France, we gather,
For sacred links bind Albion's suns to thee;
The land which lovol St Thomas sod fit. Edmund
Is dear to on, and leads us o'er the sm.
Father St, Edmund, Sc.
The precession arrived at five o'clock, to hear of the deaths
at that moduent, of Pere Barbier, the Father Superior of
the Abbey. At the end of the day many of the pilgrims
had great difficulty in finding lodgings. The ladies were,
according tokromiee, accommodated in the convent, but
many of the sterner sex had to find beds upon the benches
or the door of the church, when they made acquaintance
with some of tbe discomforts to which pilgrims in former
days were sudject. Archbishop Manning preached a
sermon in English on Thursday morning, after High
Mau, which was celebrated with impressive magnificence.
He dwelt on the theme that the Catholics in England
now enjoyed more liberty than ever they had hid ore, and
prophesied a brighter day for the True Church which
should again give a faith to all Christendom. The
Pilgrimage was a great sign, • grand manifestation of a
Hying and active faith. Monsignor Ramadan afterwards
addressed the pihrrims, and said they had set • &Wilfl.
cent example Pilgrituages were the bright lights in an
age of gloom, and the promise of a glorious dawn. There
was a procession through the mink= of the monastery.
A contingent of French pilgrims joined. Canticles and
hymns were sung as the long line wound its way around
the grounds. In the evening the return journey was
Made to Paris.