The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

ECCLESIABTICAL RIEVENVEtI OF DURHAII.—The total
reixipta on the Common Fund Account of the Diocese
of Durham (ecclesiastical revenues) for tie years
1856. 1857, and 18.58 amounted to 115.801 and the total
expenditure to £24.397. The retiring pension to Bishop
Maltby figures for £4,957 in the account for IFSB.

COPPEJI AND TIN.-78.641 tons of copper ore were
imported into the Toiled- Kingdom last year, while
24,787 tons of British copper (exclusive of ore) were ex-
ported thence. The 'inverts of tin lost year amounted
to 2.955 tons of tin and 6:03 tons of ore and mull's,
2.327 tuns of British tin were exported, 73.725 tons of
sine or spelter were imported, with 2.012 tons of cala-
mine stone, or carbonate of zinc, and 533 tons of the
oxide; 3,985 tons of British zinc were exported. The
imports of lead were 14,139 tons of pig and sheet lead
and 2,316 of ore; whereas the exports were 352 bins of
ore, 17,645 of rolled And pig lead, 1,910 of shot, 490 of
litharge. 2,292 of read lead, and 2,684 of white (or car-
bonate of) lead.

POPULATION AND Ixengg-Tax.—The amount of pro-
perty. income. and assessed taxes charged iu the United
Kingdom in the year ended the fith of April. 1557. was
C 17.130,067— viz., E14,434.16e1 in England. C 1,496,290
in Scotland, and 1:1,199,6291n Ireland. The proportion
;mi., by boroughs was 1:9,162,544, and by counties
(7,967.543. Mr. A. Stewart, M.P., liasobtained a return
of population and income-tax paid in counties and burghs
in Scotland; showing in what proportions the members
ought to be assigned to each. This, however, is a ques-
tion of detail, and the bases of the argument might pos-
sibly, by anne politicians, be disputed.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (I RELA NO. —The usual
return of the crops in Ireland for 1658 has just been
printed. The extent of land under crops last year
included—wheat, 546,964 acres; oats, 1,9+41.241 ; pota-
toes, 1,159,707 ; flax, 91,646; and hay, 1,424,495 acres.
The estimated total produce was—wheat, 1,746,464
quarters; oats, 8.144,541; barley, 8,020.829 (Marten.:
of potatoes, 4.8te2,22.5 tuna; turnips. 4,364,788 tons;
dal, 17,583 tons; and hay, 2,701,006 tons. 12,6r4'2
acres have fallen oat of culture for wheat sine., 1857,
and 13,060 acres have been added to the potato ground ;
66,093 persons (37,658 wales and 30,435 females) eini•
grated from the "Emerald Isle" last year; 64,337 of
these were Irish. This shows a net diminution of the
population of Ireland for the year (allowing for the con-
comitant increase) of 3,980 only.

It may be profitable to our fair readers to know that the
GLENVIEW PATENT STAIIIII, Whitt hEA been exelusively used in
HER MAJESTY'S LAT TORT for many years, may now be
obtained from all respectable Grocers almosd as cheap as the
most common kinds nada for although it necessarily costs
timm more, the large quantities soki yields, in the aggregate,
• larger profit than the inferior kinds, and moreover the PO-
mrs have the satiwbctlon of selling an article which the) know
will please their customers. and are at the same time the
medium of supplying the middle and working elwaai with the
'AIM article as is used in the getting up of the Laces and
Linens of HER MAJEtfEY and the Borax Fann.v, acd
which the queen's Laundrem, with her rent mitteenCe
and every WOWS at bee command for procuring very
bent of eierYthing, has pronounced TO Ili THE TUT Passer
STARCH Sns ern Ussa.—Ocenteat Advertiser.