The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-31 00:00:00

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REVIEW OF TIA CORN TV-kr/E.
The grain trade ham assumed a rather steadie: ap_.,Peor-
awe. The supplies of wheat offering have been sr
wed owing to the liberal importations. As prices ,:cre
have receded oust., whilst those of America have risen,
lii. not expected that our receipts from abroad will con-
tinue as extensive.
The stores of last year's grain in some of the more remote
district. of Europe and America must be large, but in the
absence of statistics of the exports of wheat, whether we
may rely upon them to counteract the deficiency in this
year's yield is purely conjecture.
Dunng the moan now brought to a close, we have im-
ported somewhere about 9,000,000 qrs. of wheat, but we
shall require very much more than this to make good our
deficiency during the coming season—perhaps 19900,000
(Ire
That large Tiantities will come forward from America
and Russia there can be no divute, but whether they
will continue to be attracted by the present range of
values remains to be seen.
The spring corn trade has been quiet Oats have fallen
about tax-pence per quarter on the week; otherwise there
has been no cheese.

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MARK LANE.—THia_DAY.

Wheat el-Os—Ca quietly, but steadily. Barley dull. Oats
&I. lower on the week. Maize drooping. Beans and peas
quiet. Flour dull

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—MONDAY.
About o,oootwaste. including 300 foreign, amonpt which
were 37 Canaffian. Trade dull, and 24. lower, or 4s. to
Sd. About 25,000 sheep and lambs. Sheep, 24. to 44.
lower at ss. to 7s. Lambs sell at de. to Ele. Calves at se.
to 68. 44.

TUE CORN AND cArruz TRADE.
The grain trade on Saturday was dull, and prices
exhibited • slight downward movement. —At Dorchester
MOTO wheat on offer than at last week's market, the
maniples being principally new, and all qualities were from
ls. to Is. per imperial qr. cheaper than to-day sennight,
when the official average was 54a. M,d. The rainfall of the
past few days has considerably retarded harvest operations,
but • great bulk of the cereals in this neighbourhood has
been safely garnered.—At Mr. Symonds's fortnightly cattle
market there was • moderate supply of stock, the
annexed prices prevailing: —Regent and calves, £135.. to
£l5 Is. each; barreners, £l3 to tit 15.. per head; fat
beaate dear, via, £l4 15.. to CU per head, or about 15a. to
16s, per score; bulls, £l3 15s. to Cl 6 15.. each; wailer
sheep 525. to 565. 64 per head ; ewes, 3fla. to 67a ; lambs,
Us. to 435. 11.1. - At Taunton cattle there was • small supply
of stock. Fat and grazing ewes realised 435. 6.1 to 60s;
wailers, 45.. to a..; hogs, 40s. to 45.. ; grazing steers,
£l9 to LEI; breeding heifers, £ll to £l7; yearlings, .Cll
13..—At Reading • fair supply of wheat, with • drooping
tendency. Holders asked the same prices as last week.—
At Norwich late rates were about maintained—At
Warminster very few iota of new wheat were on offer, and
trade for all descriptions was dull at about last week', rates.
At Gloucester • fair show of new English wheat: quality
variable, and prices somewhat irregular. —At Taunton obi
Muirlish wheat mold freely at about Is. decline from last
week ; • great many samples of new wheat were on offer,
and sold readily at 6s. tot.. 3d per busheL Several parcels
of malting barley were offered. but the condition being
bad, only a few bids of • little over Is. per imperial bushel
were made' grinding sold at a decline of 3d to 6d per qr.
Maize steady, at last week's prices New beans fetched
ss. 641 per buskeL Flour, 37d. to ans. per sack.

JOSEPH WRIGHT AND CO., LIMITED.
The well.lmown Arm of Joseph Wright and Co., Chain
and Anchor manufacturers, engineers, ac., has been
turned into • limited liability company, rono shares of £lO
each. The firm makes • favourite brand of cable and
crane chains, works • valuable patent for self-canting
anchors; and has an extensive business. The desirability
of increased capital is the reason why this company is
projected. Mr. Wright takes the purchase money wholly
in shares, and charges nothing for goodwill. Ile will
continue the management at a nominal salary, and the
other directors are to have no pay till £7 per cent.
dividend is paid to shareholders. It is anticipated, how-
ever, that 10 or 15 per cent, will be made, and all the
circumstances indicate good promise of success. Full
particulars appear in our advertisement columns.

RAILWAY COLLISION.
A collision occurred this (Monday) mernirut at Cork,
between two paasenarr trains. Several carriages were
damaged and peraona injured.

THE ASSAULT BY A DUBLIN MIRCHANT.
Mr. Mooney, the Dublin wine merchant, charged with
commiting an indecent amiaiilt on a married woman in •
railway carriage We., to-day (Monday) committed for trial.

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TUESDAY. AUGUST 31. 1875. prolrao.., """e been jractically trained in the
which the provinces of ththe elaborate official
NOTES OF THE WEEK. work of administration. ..""..ee Empire
rfr. Samuel Tinsley has published a "Letter are held ttoi,,eetsahemr,eatnimdet
geootrogatucestion
to the Queen by one of Her Majesty's most loyal would at
be splintered into a score of petty principalities, and,
China would
subjects.' The subject of it is the Queen's with-
drawal from public life, and the harm thereby , losing the long and potent tradition of its divinely
-
done. There is nothing in the letter which has ordained Government, could only be redeemed from
not been said before, but the writer, who is be to be a Worcestershire clergy social dissolution by the vigorous grasp of some
civilised conqueror. But what nation would dare to
n, has put accept the challenge? With all our faith in the
together in a readable way all the arguments governing
which have been used by others to induce the recoil capacity
Queen to emerge from her retirement. Her of England, we own that we should
rwhicih
wfreommtlheealad,lto4l of two more Indies to that
Majesty is reminded that the disloyal have an A difficulty has arisen also with Spain. A Cuban
excuse for attacking royalty, which they say is volunteer, who was travelling in a British vessel, the
shewn to be no longer needed; that even the
Royal Mail Company's inter-colonial steamship Eider,
loyal get lukewarm in their affection for a
from San Domingo, to Kingston, Jamaica, was, at
sovereign whom they rarely or never see; that San Juan, Porto Rico, forcibly taken from the
the purity of the court and of the stage suffers
ad steamer, in defiance of Captain Cromptonfe e's protesta.
because we no longer have what we h 20 years
ctions, and on landing w
pro-
ago, a woman, who, occupying the most exalted ess is a reproductionnhseO without
f the Trent nt arki:irr, withposition in the realm, us all her efforts to keep several aggravating incidents, for the man is dead and
P the matter cannot be settled by his surrender and an
them pure; and that as a result England is less apology. Great Britain will of course demand the
loyal and less moral than it was in the first half degradation and punishment of the Captain-General
of the present reign. of Porto Rico, and then will arise the question
The French Budget for 1876, while it shows whether, even if Spain show herself amenable to the
with great distinctness the paternal character of lust complaints of England, her Cuban subjects will
the Government of that country does not give allow her to carry out her wishes in the direction
indicated.
evidence of the vaunted cheapness of Republic-
It is clear that Earl Russell holds no Turkish bonds,
State
anism. In the first place the appears for in a letter to Saturday's Then he offers to subscribe
have a hand in everything—from the rel Won to £5O "on behalf of the insurgents against Turkish mis-
the amusements of the people. The Roman rule." It is rather late in life for the veteran states
Church in France absorbs upwards of £2,000,000,
man to turn revolutionist.
while about £67,000 is disPaaaad among the
Protestants and Jews. The railways are largely
subsidised, the guaranteed interest for the year
being put a £2,700,000. The theatres and the
Conservatoire de Masique receive close upon
' £70,000 in which sum is not included the vote
of £40,000 for completing the now Opera House
in Paris. There are other items of considerable
interest in the account, and we notice that
France is much muro liberal than America in
the provision she makes for the Head of the
State. President Grant has £lO,OOO • year;
but Marshal MacMahon has more than twice
that amount. His salary is £24007; but in
addition he is allowed £12,000 for his household,
and there is a further vote of £3,600 to meet the
cost of his "apartments at Versailles." The
Assembly, too, takes a considerable slice out of
the public revenue. As is well-known, the
deputies are paid, and there are probably a good
many Frenchmen who will be of opinion that
042,000 a year is quite as much as the Chamber
is worth.
The election enquiries at Norwich and Boston
reveal a singular state of things. At Norwich
the evidence generally has gone to show that an
excessive number of messengers, many being
voters, were employed during the election on
both sides. Sham committee-rooms were also
engaged. One witness said he believed there
were 5,000 corrupt voters in the brrough.
Another said that when a messenger who could
not read was sent out with circulars, another
had to be sent with him who could, and a third
one had to take care of both to see that they
did their duty. Mr. Joseph Stanley, solicitor,
divisional manager in the first ward for the Con-
servatives, estimated that 4,000 out of 11,000
electors in Norwich were open to influence. He
employed all the men that came to his net, and
after the contest destroyed his book containing
the list of names, because he knew that most of
the men were colourably employed. The allega-
tion that Mr. Baron liuddleston expended at
the 1874 election £5,000 over and above his
returned expenses, was investigated at some
length, but the story could not be traced to any
truthworthy source. Mr. E. C. Bailey, solicitor,
believed 6s. a head would turn three thousand
voters in Norwich. The inquiry stands adjourned
till Thursday, and the constituency appears so
corrupt that it is not unlikely disfranchisement
will be its portion.
At Boston, it seems, coals were distributed.
One witness said that about £250 had been paid
for coals by Mr. Parry. About 2,500 received
coals only 877 being electors. They did not
select any of the waverers. Mr. Bartell Storr,
banker's clerk, who acted as a general agent for
the Conservative candidates, said he started a
subscription in 1872 for coals to give to the poor.
£l6l was raised; one object was certainly to
popularise the Conservative party. Before the
election he told Mr. Malcolm he had no chance,
as the town was bought by giving coals, and a
Mr. Faulkner treated poor people to drink. He
tried to buy the White Hart Hotel for the
party, but it was bought over his head by Mr.
Ingram. Mr. Storr, was called to account for a
sum of £7OO which was disbursed beyond the sum
returned as the Conservative expenditure at the
1874 election. Mr. Malcolm paid £720 over the
amount returned as expenses, and Mr. Collins
£lOO. Witness said he was £6O out of pocket
and he must admit that his reason for keeping
back these extra amounts was that there was
such a number of clerks and messengers as would
be considered too largo to be returned in the
returning officer's list of expenses. Evidence
of other witnesses was generally in refutation
of the alleged corrupt practices. Mr. Malcolm
said he knew nothing as to the excess of his
election expenses in 1868 over the amount
officially returned, as he was in Jamaica at the
time. Mr. Thoinds Parry admitted giving away
150 tons of coal in 1873, but disclaimed all
political motives.
We are to have another pan-Anglican Synod
next year. It is just eight years since seventy-
five bishops, British, Colonial, and American,
inet at Lambeth Palace, then tenanted by
Archbishop Longley. "Great was the company
of the preachers.' The two English
bishops have been making arrangements for
the 1876 meeting. Possibly this second Synod
will have a more definite result than the last.
It would be difficult to say what result that had.
Capt. Webb has accomplished with his own
strong arm and pluck all that Captain Boron
did with his dress, his paddle and thereat of his
apparatus, and accompliahed it in less time—
that is to say, Capt. Webb took 22 hours and
30 minutes to swiss across the Channel from
Dover to Calais, whore Capt. Boyten took 23
hours and 32 minutes to paddle across from
Boulogne to Dover. Capt. Boyton, by his
exploit, proved the use of his apparatus, and
proved it well; Capt. Webb has proved his skill
as a swimmer and his powers of endurance in a
way which makes every feat in swimming—
Leander's, Byron's, and Ekenhead's—look con-
temptible. Capt. Webb probably swam 30 miles
in crossing the Channel, and was in the water
22 hours and a half. Vet, after three hours'
sleep and a light breakfast of coffee and fish,
Webb was as fresh and well as if he had only
just come out of his tub. He had everything
in his favour—tide, wind, sun, and temperature,
• genial day, and • clear moonlight night ; but
unless the porpoise oil which Capt. Webb
anointed himself with before taking the water
acted with almost magical effect in checking the
loss of heat, there must, as one of our medical
contemporaries points out, exist in Capt. Webb's
case strong contractile power in the vessels of
the skin, by which his bodily heat was conserved
and his Mores of force thus rendered available
for muscular effort. Lord Stanhope proposes a
The hat is now going round for Captain Webb. who national subscription for presentation to Capt.
swainthe Channel.
The Adventists of America now claim that the world Webb, offering £lO towarols the fund.
will end September 10. The Coroner's jury impanelled to inquire into
One of the sporting events on the River Nils in the deaths of Captain Stokes and Miss Annie
Septemlier will he a contest with • team of crocodiles.
CIVIL List —ln the financial year ended the 31st of Peel, who perished in the collision between the
March lest the Civil List expenditure was £105,951 14s M. Queen's steam yacht Alberta and the Mistletoe,
Shooting or killing a mocking bird Los penal offence in
have been unable to agree upon a verdict, and
It is thought that Liaison° pineapples will be shipped the Coroner has sent the case fur completion to
from Florida this year.
The guests at the White Mountains received see, H. the next county assizes, binding the jurors over
W. Beecher with music and enthusiastic cheering. to appear then. The matter will therefore be
The Euxlieh now make about 10,000 tons a aussmu thoroughly investigated before a judge of the
steel per week, and the Americans about onerthirsl that Supreme Court. eantime we may note the
quantity.
It is said the exercises of the German soldiers at the salient facts of the ease. The Alberta was
autumn manmuvres are so trying that the lows through steaming at 15 knots—about 17 miles an hour,
sickness are equal to those in actual war. the breeze
.Irllll 110 light that the yacht only
The number of Texas cattle driven into Nebnuika this
year is estimated at more than 100,000, about 48,000 of movedat about one-sixth of that iipeed. The
Which have been *old. commander (or commanders) of the Alberta
Two steamers. the Phosnix and the Pelican, came into intended to pass under her stern and thought
oollison on Saturday evening in Queenstown Harbour,
she could run clear. Bnt through' some cause—
'Die former sank, but her crew were saved.
Philip Morrie, who wu sentenced to death at the probably from having got under the lee of the
Bristol Autism for the murder of his wife, has been steamer and so being partially becalmed—the
reprieved.
number of wen-known English firms have Mistletoe's sails shivered at the crucial moment,
seA t &legates to the Maritime and Flu ibition in her speed slackened, she did not make way
Paris. enough to carry her clear of the steamer, and
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of FalurioaruotlenAllanter,n were
oil Bleckwall. on Sunday after-
the lberta ran her down. There can be no
noon. question that it is highly dangerous to
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honmsthe Devon run.. across the Solent, crow. deel with yachts. and
from exhaustion, swung vessels, Ai LI Mlle* all hour, with an
The National Agricultural Labourers' Union Executive indifferent look-out, and hesitating to the very
Committee have approved of • r'oreal,n.reastablish an last to deviate a single yard from the direct
mttaSe:4o: tech
reportedl,lldianc4 urn tu;thsj";brieeitliat Sir course between Osborne and Gosport. Whether
It. Buzanar West; one of the indges of the Supreme in this case there was culpable negligence on the
Court of Ametl, part of those in charge of the Royal yacht a
A t'olche rector having disnlitead his curate on the
re question to be decided at tho next Hanta
melahit or • ner that his readins was melo-
dramatic and mi is being proceeded against for wises,
wrondul dismissal. 4100 demises am claimed. Our relations with China are very unsatisfactory,
On Niturday Captain Webb paid • visit to his father,
who is a surgeon at iron about 13 miles from The demands of Mr. Wade for reparation for the
Shrewebury, and met with la'nrkentutilastic reception from murder of Mr. Margery and the attack on the Browne
the townspeople expedition, have been unsuccessful, and he has corn-
A very curious manuscript swathe Journal 0/icial. has unmated to the Foreign Office both dissatisfaction
just been brought to Paris by an Italian monk, Father In
Mauna That document shows that Grittenburg. the and apprehension at the attitude of dogged and
Inventor of printing, was tried at Hayirnee In lilt for the arrogant resistance assumed by the Chinese Govern-
murder of ht. uncles, hut WM acquitted after a somewhat merit Coupled with this we hear that the foreign
prolossed detention. None of the biographies of that
rantarkable than tasnaien this strange circumstance.— uadrons are concentrating at Clettoo. The new