The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-17 00:00:00

MERCANTILE MARINE STATISTICS.

The Merrantile Nary List awl Maritime Director's
for 1874, just publishe I. shows that during the past
year 393 soiling and 285 steam vessels were com-
pleted, of which 263 were of iron, 411 wood,
and four composite. At the end of last year
319 sailing and 149 steam vessels were in course of
censtruction in various parts of the United King-
dom. The Register sliews that during the year 421
new ending and 382 new steern ships (British built)
were added, as well as 198 sailing and 17 steam vessels
purchased from foreigners or the Colonies. On the
other hand, there were deducted from the Register 803
s iiling and 114 steam vessels, either wrecked, broken
up, or otherwise destroyed, and 210 sail iug and 91; steam
vessels sold to foreigners or the Colonies. The present
Register sheen a total of 21,021 sailing vessels, repels-
svuting 4,024.581 tons, and 3,852 steam vessels, repro-
soiling 1,711,787 tons; or a grand total of 24,873 veil
eels, with a carrying capacity of 5,7:16,369 tolls. The
official Apprentices' List chews the numbers enrolled
since /864 to be as follow :—ln 1814, 5,520 ; 1865,
5,638; 1868. 5.486; 1867, 5,444 ; 1868, 4,975; 1869,
4.613; 1870, 4,241; 1871, 4,111 ; 1872, 4,460; and in
1873, 4,o4s—shewing an almost regularly progressive
decline, the number remaining on the Register at
the end of December being 21,585, and at the end of
1973, 15,815. A list of number and tonnage of regis-
tered and sailing vessels since 1851 chews that,
whereas in that year there were 18,484 vessels of
all classes, representing 3,360,935 tons, and manned
by 141,937114nd', there were in 1872, 72,554 craft, re-
presenting 5,761,609 tons, and worked by • total of
2)3,720 men, all told.

The Spanish artillery now comprises 180 of Krupp's
guns and 73 mounted cannon.
It is stated that tho block of house property
In which Her Majesty's Theatre is included will be
sold early in May.

The total number of paupers In tho metropolis last
week was 108,Z14, of whom 37,129 were in work-
houses and 71,105 received out-door relief.
The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the
Cimino in Bengal now amounts to between 1:42,000 and
E 43,000.

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Mr. John Bright, M.P., has arrived at Invergarry,
Fort lA%iliam, for the porpoise of Bahnon fishing.
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The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will, it Is on
derstood, reside at Buckingham Palace for esters
months.

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Alexander Craig Seller, formerly secretary to
the Lord Advocate of Scotland, has been appointed
Secretary to the Liberal Registration Association.
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Plymouth expecte to Ears its magnificent new
Guildhall completed in May. As the Prince of Wales
Ii Lord High Steward of the borough, the Town Council
has resolved to invite him to open the building.

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Viscount Nevin attained his majority on the 4th
Inst., but the festivities to the tenantry in Kent,
and on the other family estates, will be deferred
until late in the ensuing summer.
Mr. J. D. Lewis, the Liberal candidate for Oxford,
has replied to the attack recently made upon him for
his support of the Contagious Diseases Acta, and has
quota' Mrs. Garret Anderson, M.D., in support of his
argument that the effect of these Acts have been bene-
ficial.

A Brighton publican has been greviously attacked
by a large cat. Hearing a noise, which he thought
to be produced by burglars during the night, he
went down stairs, when the cat sprang upon hm i
with great force, lacerating his arms and hands. He
now lies in a precarious condition.
A STAMPEDE or Carrtr..—At the cattle fait
at klarvijols (Lozere) a few days back, a sudden panic
seized the animals collected, and they rushed off
In a body, tearing in mad fury through the town.
11 toy in their rage, fighting amongst themeelves,
burst into shop windows. Others passed through
the place and could not be stopped until they had
gone five or six miles. Unfortunately, the alba,
was so sudden that many of the people In the
streets were unable to get out of the way, and were
knocked down and trampled on. About a dozen at
least were taken to the hospital, and many more
carried to their own houses in an injured state. The
CIAUMI of this sad flight is not known, but the opinion
',ems to be that a pig had got in amongst the cattle
and caused the terrible stampede.
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Mr. Newdezat• eill this ....ion renew his motion
for an inquiry into monastic and conventual Institutions.
A little girl who wits pieklne up °cal on the Great
Western line at Windsor, on Thareday, WWI knOCklid
down by s 'name train and killed instanter.
filr John Kerslake, 'cookie' at Huntingdon ea
Thursday, said he disliked the inoome-raz as much as
anybody; but they catild not do without it, eltbough
he thought It should be taken off where the pressure le
heavy and arbitrary.
A monition has been boned by the Dean of Arches
against the Bishop of Llnooln f,r refusing to institute
the Hew. Williem Walsh. rector of Great Key, Imez,
to the rectory of Great Costes, to grata the rev, gea-
t/emso had presented himself.
Tam THROAT AID WIIIMPIPI ere espeeletly liable to
inilitmotation, corudng forswear and drynese, tickling and
irritation, including cough and effecting lite voles. For
these symptoms use glyoerine in the form of jujubes..
Glytterine in these agreeable sonfections, being in
prozhnity to the glands at the moment they are exalted
by the act., snaking, become actively heeling. 04. end
Is. packets (by poet 80, or lb stamps), labelled "JAMBS
XVI% k Co., Floniceepaibie Chemists, 118, Threadneedle
Street, and 170, Pleeedill • Lapdog. —Bold la Doe-
shooter by H. Darden, 13 Omani. A.
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