The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

Crew ant) Conlincitc.

MAIICHUTER, Ilarch 4. is A steady demand
for the Uuntinent, although buyers arc to None extent
deterred from business by the high range of prices.
For Calcutta goods the market hi Ili about the saine
position se on Tuesday, the demand being only limited
by supply and by the extreme priers required. Adeiees
from Bombay report • quieter demand, and the India
trade is somewhat modified by the intelligence. MAlM-
lecturers, however continue well supplied with orders.
Tiiere is a good Maineea still doing us minters, especially
the lighter makes. For long sod T•clutlis there is al.,
• strung and healthy market. The some trade are doing
rather more fur both cloth and yart.. lo the latter,
cope up to 60's Cr. in far request at the advance of id.
to id. obtained on Tues.ley, and buyers fir India &nil
Germany have tu pay rather limn: for poll than they
bad last week. The IliedlUl4l Co%WU of wraps and
intim* for export have been the must active, and the
transactions have been of fair amount.

HUN AX London market alone contains
five tons a human hair. Blonde hair a the inest dc•
ma„,1,41, Moat of (hie mimes f lermany, where it
o gathered by • Dutch company. Fiflei.n years ago this
wks iii the greatest duivaii,l, and brought 2 dole. an
ounce. Black hair is now preferred. It comes front
France, principally frimi Brittany, and the southern
departments. The French hair harvest amount.' to
nearly lun tons a year, the price varying hung 21/ cents,
tie a dollar per bead, according to weight and quality.
'flee hair merchants attend fairs with a each of ribbons,
inns, and such small articles, whuihu they exchange for
hair.
At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday Irish
Alfred !Skeen Juni Archibald Freeman, who failed in
dune lea as timber brokers. were sentenced to 12
months' inquiet, •nt, with hard labour. .\ point of
law bad been raised on their behalf, that they lead
voluntarily made iliscloeure under bankruptcy, that
this could not be brought against them. It leas shown,
however, that they had not done co until the criminal
prosecution had been ountinentied. Tie tectilieiy, 4 a
number of witnesses to char:it:kr wall urged in mitigation
of punishment, but the thief Baron remarked on the
frequent worthleamiesa of such statements, one of the
parties in the present instance having, " to his eternal
.lii.grace, said that, notwithstanding the transactior be
abuuhih think as well of the prisoners as before."

The ehk4 An•IY•1 of the laroltar7 Cnosiol.lon." Dr.
AIM it 111 u. Haamm-L, In a recentli pulill.ed report of
" Tar General Tree ef eenomeree," -•• When at the
London Dock. I Inapected the premot minion'a linport• belong
lug to New.. Ilorningan and Co.. the mell know., "HOW
Introducer. of • Pure rood/wired Tea' ; I am 111111M.UN eheeel
I nun, dlflorent cergoew opened. and tock rumple. therefrom,
which I &firmer& +objected to lodh oilerowemed and chesni
ana/yals. I found 1.0.1. Mack. and (Iroe,. entirely free from
sU powdered ardour/au—the Drowna natural dull ohm ere.
with mole of the Imparted blued.), Awing found on the warts •
Clll 1111 l um. The* loremlgatbol. enable ine oonlideetly to
manioc, that 01,11.11111011 noir hating the choke of purr too Mb
not he doe In (teckilog between It and that ;ftd wp noretinae
higher prier, through the worthlem breve lessee Wing biddy,'
or gimbal on with the powdered errioure employed.