The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-01-23 00:00:00

MONEY.

LAJNI/ON, PILIDAT.—The roomy market has shown increamd
actis Ely this week—a tact tartly due to the very heavy UIO
anent on the Stock Exchange. Tha aotirity of trade sunk
however, soon begin to tell on the markel. 11111. not already
doing so. 111 c rates of discount are Miser stiller, being If to
la for drat clue three months' paper. Oa the Stank ligehange
for advsncee on (Somas from day to day I to I per ands
bas been paid, but uo Thureday the 1114 MI to If to I per
cent. Toe Bank return is favourable. Th. Mock of &Mos
has Incresseed this week £ES,I34, sad the rasurve Is 41119,1114
larger.

There have he.. no fresh our of cholera at 001111illAil•
sepia sum January IL
Tha Tualiberne bankruptcy *an ii sdjournod until
the 12ib of April.
Mr. Soudamore hie been appointed Director General
of Postal TolrgrApha. .

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A Home government association Itu been established
in Iluierlck..

—..i.—e;;;;;:td—is.tosi gm bee been completed at the Royal
Gm Feotoryo, NyooMot!.

A piece of land in Lombardetreet, Latdon, bee been
sold lor 1.2.000, or Lill 4s 84 per superficial foot
The India mail Pow pares through the Mont Cents
Tunnel, seeing 24 hours oh the previous route.
The Banbury Board of Health has agreed to purshisse
an estate, at a coat of £23,000 for utilizing sewage.
It is understood that tile marriage of Lord Henry
Somerset and Lady Isabel Sowers-Cooks Is arranged to
take plwe in the first week of February.
The directors of We North Western Railway have
conceded shorter hours and inoreased wages to the
gtmels guards.
The brines of the Court of Appeal la Chanson beg
been I.notioally at a standstill siaoe Christmas., owing
to Lord Jingo, Kelileb eaferiag from gout,
On Wednesday morning an old mill, dating from the
reign of Jamas 1., standing on the bridge over the
Calder. at Wakefield. was completely destroyed by Are.
The damage is estimated at £15,000.
A verdict of mauslaughtor has been returned wrest
James Pettigrew, who pinned his wife under the wheel
of a brewer's dray on London-bridge, from the Injuries
of which she died, lie was liviag with another
women.
Ihe Bishop of Peterborough WU present at the
openkg of the new National &boots at Sothis',
Leicestershire, es Thursday. In his address he insisted
atroogly on the asperity of combinleg religioa with
seenlar instruction.
lirs. ?Mann, wife of an Oldbury publiosn, has died
from ihjuries eared by her set of false teeth slipping
down into ber throat while aaleep. She rarer removed
them before solog to bed, and eltbough she had wore
them for six yean her hiphand did not know of It.
The Bev. Hugh 8. Oill has been rereotly appointed
(in sucoession to his faller, who hold It for forty-three
years) to the viaoroga of !tale'. Ids of Man. In that
parsh he was born, bapti•ea, confirmed, ordained both
lbwon and Priest, and married, and now is Galled to
the cure of souls in it.
The question whether "a glass of ale" need be half •
pint, imperial standard, is to be tried. At Writes
petty onions, on Thursday, Mr. 0. Comfort, messier
ot the Agricultural ball, was Amid 40s and costs, for
willing glasses of ale dew* the earls show weir WOO
net properly measured. The ems Is to so to • imptivist
seart.