The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

&ant ants Commerce.

STATE OF TRADE.

LEICISTER, March 13.—There is no important
change to notice in the state of the hosiery trade, bind.
mom. remaioittg NS quiet as for some time past, without
any immediate proipect of amendment. Manufacturers
are consequently confining, their pn..lnetion to the de-
mand, and keeping ,tosks low. At Issr.ililiorough and
Hinckley the 1.....t0ry trade is dull. There is not much
doing in yarns, at about recent prices. sl outs ars out
in dC111311,1.

Norria"ea x. 13th. —Moat branches of the lace trade
are unpretwilentedly uniei for the time of the yew, an 4 '
indeed, there has hardly been no much doing this week
as last. Nothing is being made but what it really sale-
able, and by these means st,cks are kept down. There
is very little doing in plain net., for either the borne
market or for abroad. There are few orders for cotton
fancies completing, but the trail) generally is in a
decidedly dull condition. Some kinds of silk goods
continue in ropiest. There is still much valuable
machinery standing awl many hands unemployed.
In hosiery for the home market there is a fair amount
of business doing, and business generally is becoming
more healthy as respects the home demand.

A CoNegsr STORY.—A Belgian journal has the fol-
lowing :—" Some time ago, a young woman named
Hendry, belonging to • respectable family in town, be-
came a nun, under the name of Sister Theresa, in the
convent of Hautrade, near Mons. During.' the last two
years the members of her family, though they called
repeatedly at the convent, were not encore.' to see her.
Recently the rumour was spread that Sister Theresa
was sequestrated and ill-treated ; and, on hearing of it,
her brother awl sister, accompanied by • medical man,
and juve de raiz of the district, went to the convent,
and pereariptorilv demanded to be allowed to see her.
This demand evidently caused a certain consternation
among the inmates of the convent; but, after aome de-
lay, they were admitted to the cell of their sister.
To their painful surprise they found her wasted to •
skeleton, and having the appearance, though young, of
quite an aged person. She was crouching in • corner
of the cell, as if in • state of great suffering. She stated
that she had long been kept without sufficient food ;
she said also, that her bedding and her room had been
dreadfully dirty, but that oil the arrival of the visitors,
the former had been hastily changed and the latter
cleared out. The superior of the convent alleged that
the woman was mad ; but she answered, with IMUCII
intelligence, all the questions put to her. She was at
once removed, and sent to a maisowde-sa and the
law authorities of the district have commenced an in-
vestigation of the affair.
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66, QUEEN STREET, LonioN, 23rd August, 1860.
Messrs: R. Wotherapoon and Co., 46, Dunlop-street,
Glasgow.—Deat Sirs,-1 have, as requested, to-day
visited the Royal Laundry, with reference to the adver-
tisement of the Nottingham firm, who state that their
Starch low been used for many years in the Royal
Laundry, and have been assured by Mr. Thomson, the
Superintendent, that none but yourvelvee have any right
to state that they amply starch to her Majesty's
Laundry, as no other starch is there used, nor has been
used for some years, but the Genfield Patent Starch.-1
have been further ...tired that your starch continues to
give complete satisfution, and that though trial has
been made of samples of various starches, none of them
hue been found nearly enual in quality to the Glenfield.
—1 ani, dear sirs, your oteldient &nut, W. nhack.
T 146 GIiKAT ring AT P..ItTrIVOUT H.—Since the
morning of the great ceaflogration the utmost excite-
ment has prevailed throughout the borough. On
Friday evening a large meeting was held at Lion-gate-
road, presided over by Mr. Alderman Scale, and con-
vened for the purpose of devising Male scheme to
benefit those families who have been thrown out t,f
house and home by the tuelaneholv occurrence A
series of resolutions was passed, aml A committee 111/-
pointed to idatan subsenptions to afford inimediate
relief to the sufferers. A sum of nearly 1:330 has been
already obtained. The ruins have been visited hy at
least 30,000 persons since the fire, and the spectacle
presented is moet lamentable, Nearly half a street of
houses arc completely gutted, and a apace of about 100
feet square contains nothing but the debris of the once
elegant circus. Such n tire has not occurred in Ports-
mouth during the present century. There are 100
people thrown out of house and borne through the con-
flagration. The houses are the property of the Rev. E.
Silver, of (owes, Isle of Wight. A town council meet-
ing Vials held on Saturday, when it was agreed that •
committee of twelve should be appointed to act with
the other committee, in order to raise immediate
funds. The local rifle corps have announced their
intention to give a concert, awl the lessee of the
theatre has offered his house on one night, in order to
relieve the many sufferers from this dreadful calamity
As a caution to those who send inferior meat to lain-
don, under the false impressioti that it sill be sold for
cat's meat, we give the following :—.A t the last met-
ing of the City C•urt et Sewers, Dr. Lethebey, the
medical officer of health, I eported that the officers had
seized 4,8931b5., or nearly two tons and • quarter of
diseased meat, which consisted of 79 sheen. 3 pigs, I
calf, and 20 quarters of beef, besides smaller joints. I 6
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two CAWS the meat had been taken before the justices,
in order that further proceedinvs might be instituted.
Yearly the whole of this meat wu seized in Newgate
market by Mr. Fisher and Mr. Newman, and in every
casebut
otonethtehear7i
•l mlesa orth ie' meaadrLen notice to the in-
spectors

Moss may conceal drust."—fliw often have we to
"
winds° the ingenuity of the CIIIMOO who excel in the
Gruel art,— but we all object to the adaldstion of the
beautifying proceas to (IN art.ick of !lief . It is a well-
known fact that while the Chinese drink pare tea them.
selves, they apply pondered colour to the great hulk of
that sent to England. This is done to increase tAtir
prosit at the commoner's expeast, for by making all
growths appear of the same colour the brown flavourless
Autumn leaves are leased off at a full price with the
best, hence the disappointment NO often experienced by
the consurners of the bliick wiry mut ',Neigh attractive
kinds of tea. whole " The remedy for
this is Ilinminian's Pere Tea without pswd•red colour
on its surface, (the Green a doll olive, and the Black
not intensely dark). being the ffPrinil growth they are
" ahwiya good alike." Local &Pals aft comnersted
our advertising columns.