The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

Yarittits.

Bun:emu Otrumre. (Me,_ and perhaps rot the
•urpr:sisq. of the feat,* performed by the Turk
mweis by Evelyn in 1637 (query, at Bartholomew Pair?)
awm, even at that time, not unpreeemlenhed. Whets
nbr,,ed VI, passed through 1...0wl the day hefoge his
coronation Fehru:mry l'J 1414-71 a Spanianl descended
rn a rope AlivieLe.i :( the KlttlellielltA 44 St.
al.,' in.t.-/ieti to momrn.l,,,r ne:mr the ~••ate of time
tiaale ry, lying 011 t!.e Walt i+ 1ie441
•Italillglot urine Mel I”ge alevad, rulioil.g oti hi. hres•t
.nt the rove 'role the With ments to the ground, ex if it
heel lava all arrow out of a hoe." The tame exploit
can 11:144...01 WI the entry of Philip and Mary into
Leiden alter their Marriage ( tigummt 10, vim) at the
ammo, plate, or ateoroing to Ole authority, " from the
elrmpter bower." The perfornier on the last occasion
afterwards tort o iii, time too

melt person*. and paid 'with hie life for his foolish
temerity. The l'urk bad • !knacker an well as these
hi* picilece.,:ocs, a man having. alm.sk nut performed
.. similar feat is. oiffer nt in the country. among
them Hertford, where hi* "rope we. ',trekked from the
top. .4 the tower of All Saint: Church. and lortmickt
1,1e1.4181. ly to lite 'Found about luurocore yardo from
the hottong of the tower.- -A* offs null kletrrief.

Or 1/18TRE14.4.—Wha dues become ef
those runic which are annually contributed to
charitable institutions ? It is not too much to say that •
eery uneasy fi cling is growing up on this subject,
with the exception. perlasi of the case of our great
hospitals. Where the wisd of Parliament and the
charity of individuals Imre made such ample provision
for tile poor and destitute of this metropolis it is too
mel that our fecllngs should he so constautly harrowed
op with tales of thatie.s. and still more by the con-
-cioioowss that all we hear represents hut a portion of
eau nescry actually ,\iallt, during SSYSOII/ such as the
~resent. Ile
...would do the country good service who
email look carefully
c eieliture of these charities is directed, controlled,
111.1 checked. Me •nwhile, PA above all things, it is
Mesiroble to avoid vain declamation 1.11. i the iillr cant of
Plohlitlirm.y. the best reocumeisdation we CAP give to
our nailer. is to he Oral iIIC watch for the misery which
may fairly come tamer their notice, and to ramie it as
hest they may. Ile wonld not have spent los Christ-
tiles ill who bad eualilril two or cave poor families to
uk i. giver the starving time uot.l employment is again
ortlic ..... Mg. It is ch to be feared that the sufferings
.1 the LAI /on poor 1131/C formed a gloomy background
tO our Cliratauss userriment.—thice u We 4.

A 311,141 C lank hT.— In a Kentiall
nu nib,: jug hard;y more than 1111 U inhalatante. thanks to
Mr. Iltillsh's soars, the children, the you .g mot and
..... PH, even sever,' of the old men who work on farms,
lIII*C saviour shigers. At Christiwm ant Easter fur
I.one years past, thry have perfortool an ”rstuno of
lisueel or soma other great master ; they cherish tlvir
church music. an.l they live together with their minds
'wakened t. 4 such some 411 led-loony Mist for ye,rs past
ant our of thou lIMA hetsu I•Unkillri for. or ar014••••1 of,
dreamy s;:siost the I iw. The v.car awl his :mrish are
01 • family toprther. At one of their mid-winter
oratories a )oiin4 550550 did twit come in till after the
ousts: 11444 begun. Iler I se hat been snowed up,
but her father, a flintier, haul bern ;MD' his
!showers together. and thry had all cleared a way for
Mast she might go and cake her ',art in the
üblime strain. At th4;bottous of all this, what Jo we
thel hut Mr. Mullah's music hooks? Smile of them
found their way hy chance to Pitcsirn's Island, where
turn him* leaint from them to make the desert
Idossuin with their songs.—Ali the Year Round.

11.04:1: AND rom-anee.reading young
man was one day passing • inuirland farm, which was
covered a Ali farce and heath, and • fine background of
bar:en reeks Rod dark pines. He said to the fanner
who wile grinding his way through the rugged earth :
" A magnificent locality, sir, —one of nature's triumphs
- -an embodiment .4 poetry !" "0, yes, Paid the
Fanner, ii ping the large drops of pergaretion from his
brow, "lie poetry of the place is very well ; but if ye
Mel to plough up the prose of the ground, yed wish the
poetry f..r
TUC VALUE OF THE MACE ('cant.—A correapon•
Jolt calls attention to the following extract front "
Janlin Fruitier gin Mnseum," recently published in
France unaer the auspices of the Government :—" The
planting of the black currant hush was coinuteneed in
1311 at Dij ~,,, and a small portion of the liqueur was then
made. It was so liked, that sauce then near two
nail:ions of currant bushes have been planted, covering
is cpace grouna occupying tacitly utiles
in length, by from one to four miles in breadth,
wol this exelusi/e of 'emend other districts of vast ea-
tent ; the
pal laudation. have been, ana ar., making, in the dis-
trict pushicing th, fine Hergillifly wines; in some in-
'dunces the vine giving way to the currant. lit the .le-
partinent of the Coto .I'Or alone there are thirty Diann-
!vein... for the 'ahricat of the liqueur de cubic The
trade is rapidly increasing, and the supply not equal to
the demand. Each bnah yields front 2to 5 1b.., the
manufacturer paying fn.us 255. to Ma. per cwt. The
ano yields. profit to tie agriculturist of from 1.122 to
till. The wholes de price of the liqueur is about 2s. 9.1.
ief. In the town of bijon, upwards of a quarter el
a million .4 gi11..... aro produced, yielding a large
revenue. The bitches are planted in trenches, 4 feet 3
inches asort, and 15 inches deep ; the plants being
placed ~,,, • ilist•lice asunder. Tile soil moat suitable is
..halk and clay." The elimat a of these countries is
letter nanpee.l to the growth of currants than France.
We ran produce them cheater and larger, and, no doubt
e.t.a! vulture will itnprova flavour. In an agricultural
point of view, the information is important ; in a cum-
...en-jai, even