The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

THE NAVY ESTINATEB.—An abstract of the Navy
Estimates and further Supplementary Estimate for the
year 1859-60 appeared in print Tuesday. The original
estimates for the current year amounted to 1:10,804.777,
and the supplementary estimate to 1.1,877,278, makii.g
a gross total of 1:112,682,055 ; 26,311,723 of this has
already been voted "on account," and £6,370,332
remains to be provided for out of the public purse.
Full particulars of the items have already been given.

LOCONOTIVIIB.—A Bill of Mr. tlarnett,.Mr. Wilson
Patten, and Mr. Ridley enacts the followm.; . ' of
tolls to be levied by corporations,
trustees, and other persons—viz., for every loc tree
attached to any loaded wagon or carriage. 1 for
evcry wagon. wain, or carriage, drawn by such locomo-
tive and having the facies t (the whecl4 not less than
six nor more than eight inays in breadth, the mini of
3d. for each pair of wheels; for every wagon, wain, or
carriage drawn by such locomotive, ind having the
fellomi of the wheels not less than eight inches in
breadth, the sun of -14. fur each pair of wheels. Every
Imannotive nnnit COMUUIe its Own smoke. The reasoo
for the Bill is recited in the preamble, to wit, that the
use of locomotives is likely to become coninion on
turnpike-roads for drawing wagons and carriages; and
the existing Turnpike Acts do not provide for the con.

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tingency.
Coax MrMit'REB.—A Bill of Mr. .1. Locke, Mr.
Hutt, and Mr. Buxton requires that corn, grain, and
pulse shall not be sold by any local or customary weight
or measure, or otherwise than by the imperial measure
of capacity, or by the sack of four bushels, or by the
quarlbr of eight bushels. All contracts made other-
wise than the Act directs will be null and void. 1:10 is
the penalty annexed to the gram offence of making falos
beams and scales. Inspectors of weights and measures
may inspect beams, a.c., in the public streets.
ATTORNEYS NDSoLiciroßs.—A Bill, presented by the
new Lord Chancellor Campbell, proposes to enact that
any person who has taken the degree of 8.A., or
, LL.B., in the University of London, 1. ambridge,
Durham. or Oxford, may be adiuitkal as an attorney or
solicitor after three years' service under articles of clerk.
ship to a practicing attorney or solicitor; in that a
, graduate will save four years, arid so escape the
septennial term of servitude enforced upon those who
nosy be called, for the sake of ditinrction, "non-literate
persons." Service for any part of the said term not ex-.
ceeding one year with the London agent of an attorney
or solicitor will be deemed good service under the
articles for such part of the said term. The judges are
also empowered to make regulations for the adiniasion of
persons who have passed examinations for students not
members of a university, after four years' servitude.
Clause 6 of tho Act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 7:1, ia ex-
tended to persons articled for a quadrennial period
only, and one year limy be bierVed With a barrister.
The judges may require an exainination in certain
branches of "general knowledge," as. the Bill vaguely
words it, either before articles or before A.11111,•1011, •
dispensing power" being coliferre.l at the s..rue time.
I Article clerks may hold no other office or employment.
The Act is limited to Englaud auel Wales.