The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

PAWNBROKERS' ACT.—A bill brought into the House
of Commons by Mr. Massey, Mr. Sheridan, and Mr.
Whitley, to amend the Act of 39 and 40 Geo. lII.' for
better regulating the business of pawnbrokers, has been
printed.
COURT OF PROBATIL—A bill enabling the Commis-
sioner of Her Majesty's Works to acquire a site for the
purposes of the Court of Probate and other courts and
caws, was published on Thursday.

PUBLIC IMPIOVENENTS.—A bill has been printed
which propones to give power to s majority of two-
thirds of the ratepayers of any parish or district duly
assembled to rate their district in aid of public improve-
ments for general benefit within their district.
METROPOLITAN GAS SOPPLY.—A bill for regulating
the proceedings of gas companies and others supplying
the metropolis with earn, brought into the House ol
Commons by Sir J. Sheley, Mr. Syng, Igr..J. Locke,
and Mr. Ayrton, has been published.
Scone Pftoriurroaa—The total number of Kerrie-
tors having property to the value of £5 and under £lO
on the valuation roll of the Scotch counties, so far ae
returns have been made, is 7,024. and the total number
of occupants of loss than and more than RIO,
£26,350. The total proprietary of the burghs is 6,356,
and the total occupancy of the same 56,350, thus mak.
ing a grand total of 13,380 proprietors, and 62,700 occu-
pants. The counties of Ayr, Caithness, Dumbarton.
Edinburgh, Lanark, Linlithgow, and Perth refused to
furnish returns, and have thus been guilty of • contempt
of an order of the House of Commons. The promoter
of the return thus ordered WWI Mr. Kinnaird, M.P.

facilitate internal communication in Ireland by means of
gusontnse,
cowslvoisnelteGlrcerwevine,nand. —A
siltir.llFolmachliir.
proposes
A. Feropowwr
tramroads. According to its provisions persons may
become promoters of a tramway company, and may
contribute the necessary capitol, and when hail of the
cost shall have been contributed may
.apply for leave
to construct works according to deposited pleas, kc.
Tramways are to be laid on the level of any roods and
streets that may be used, and no as to obstruct as little
as possible the ordinary traffic. Tim promoters nay
enter lands, kc., for preliminary surreys, making com-
pensation for any injoty. Deer parks, bosses, and
°Mom are protected. Where one-half of estimated coat
nidedulawy memerks, °Ltnrialiul g
lands req"d luirearari":-ied
specifying the
theintuott
and the estimated expense of works.
SALI or GRAIN, he., BlLL.—Another Bill to rollull,„t
the sale of grain, from the pen of Mr. Caird awl or•
Weann, enacts that from and after the lit of JanaK•
1860, all grain, meal, flour, butter. sea Potlitmar Ina"
be sold by the pound avoirdupois, by the ewe of 20113.,1
by the cental of 1001 b., and by the too of 2,0001 h. ; '
spa,
that, in like manner, all hay, straw, turnips, soil
niangalwurnel shall b• sold by such weights. All other
articles of food, except " fruit, Leh, and
"garden" vegetables, are to be sold by weight. The
avoirdupois wand is to be the unit, with its multiple-;
100th. will be called the cental, end 2,01018 b. the ton.
Permission to use the decimal weights is to be established
by law.
CoaL ftraTlsTica.—The number of vessels engaged
in the collier trade, and quintile's of coal and coke
shipped to London and other home ports, from various
ports in the United Kingdom during the month of June,
vu as follows :—vessels, 4,592; tone of ooel, 701,978,
and tons of coke 8,787. Of this quantity Newcastle
furnished 988 coke,
146,939 tons of ooal, and 2,865
tons of coke. Hartlepool and West Hartlepool shipped
102,193 tons of coal, but no coke, sailabadaefasd,
108,196 tons of coal, and 30 tons of coke. Lila from
these three ports that nearly all the north country ocel
is shipped, and, compared with what they esenthil
export, the quantity of Walsh mei shipped is very
hiding. From Cardiff, the centre of the Welsh rioa
trade, 506 vessels sailed in Juno for London and other
ports in the United Kingdom, carrying 61,251 toes of
coal, and 1,103 bonsai colic; from No -wpori them were
shipped 46,921 tons of coal, and 980 of eoks ; and from
Maryport, 36,512 tons ol coal. The principal Wier
ports engaged in the coal trade are &sham, WWI"
haven, Clonally, BienitiOlt, Middlesborough, and Tries.

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