The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-27 00:00:00

A LIyING.I4.K4ETUN:

Justians Roxao,--thi;..-Caliir.7n;ra—ce—n.tenarian, died at
Santa Crux in that State recently at the age of one
hundred and twentytwo years. In his latter days he
became almost hideous to look upon, being very like •
living skeleton. His eyes were sunk into their sockets,
and his hands had shrivelled and shrunken away till
they resembled the claws of a hawk.

ELECTION FOR KIKh:CALDY.
The polling for the Kirkcaldy district of burghs took
place on Tuesday:
Sir George Campbell (I) ........ ......... . 1,811
Mr. Harker (Ind ) 1,110

Majority
There was considerable excitement. Sir George Gampell
thanked the electors. Mr. Harker was glad to find there
were 1,170 honest men in the burgh.!

_
"ALTARS" AND TIM " EASTWARD POSITION."
In an aide letter to the editor ot the Salisbury Jouraal,
the Rev. 3. thuittug, Of Mai tilt vicarage, deals with this
subject. After nhowing that vestment., &hang, and the
eivid.wmil position are avowedly advocated by ntualista ae
symboliAng a propitiatory sacrifice in the Lord's Supper,
he observes:
1. All altars were abolished in the year 1550, and wooden
moveable tables placed in our churches instead, to bo ordi-
narily kept where the altars used to stand, but on com-
munion days to lie put in the body of the church or chancel
ID "so good mrt as the minister may be more conveniently
heard of the commultieauts."—Elizabeth's Injunctions and
Canon tit
_ . . . . .

Laud tried to re-introduce altar, and in ledS placed one
in Gloucester Cathedral, against the Bishop's protest, who
never entered the Cathedral afterwards. Laud was the
arch-ritualist of his day. and inure than any one else brought
on the revolution both in Church and State.
. . . . .

Altars are unknown in the Church of England, and are
illegaL Not only were they destroyed, but in 1552 the
very name was everywhere expunged from the Prayer
Book, and " talus' substituted in its place.
I. And this was done because the doctrine of the Mass
or of propitiatory sacrifice, by human priests. WAS rejected.
The word sacrifice nowhere occurs in our Communion
Service with reference to the elements, but (1) concerning
our alms and oblation; (2) respecting our Lord's atoning
death upon the cross; (31 as regards the offering of our-
selves ; and CO of our praise and thanksgiving in the tirst
prayer alter we have nweived the bread and wine. In
the Prayer Book of i5lll there was a prayer of invocation
on the elements, and an oblat of them after consecra-
tion, in the Prayer for the Church Militant; hut in the
second Prayer Book of 154 there, with the sign of the
cross, and the mixture of water with the wine, the use of
waters, piles, ac., were discarded. and with them all idea
of racrilice precluded and excluded entirely, in the sense
of any offering whatever of the Issly and blood of Christ,
in:. with. by: or nuder th!e. bread and wine.
. . .

ruleic in the Prayer II:Ia. 0.11552 enjoins the
minister to stand on the " north sit.," instead of, as in
15111, "afore the midst of the altar ;" and this for the
same °Newt, V jj. to exclude all idea or sanction of the
doctrine of sacrifice or of the niu.s. Ile is also coin-
mended. in the rubric before the prayer for the
consecration of the elements, to " hrevk the bread before
the people," having previously, "Isl., the table," orde nut
the brewi and wine. As the table stood ea.st and west
then, nut north and south, in each Cll4e he stood at the
116,1 A lath!, and in neither between the people and the

Bishop Williams says with reference to this, to the
Vicar of Grantham, in "if you mean by altarwise,
that the table should stand along close by the wall, so
that you be forced to oftiriam at one riot, I do not believe
that ever the Communion tables were otherwise than by
casualty so placed in country churches.- Ilely Table,
P. 11
In standing with his back to the congregatitm. the
minister fruatratea both the object of the rubric as to the
people seciiej him, and that of the Mid canon, as to their
hearsay him.
Archbishop Laud endeavoured to prove that north side
and north end meant the seine, in order to justify leis
irregular proceedings in placing the table altarwise, and
at the last revision In Iffil, Bishops eosins suggested that
north side or cad should be substituted for north side, but
neither succeeded. The truths is, Communion tables stood
east and west, long after the final revision, as is remarkably
confirmed by an engraving in a work on the Church
Catechism, published in 1674, which has just been repro.
dueed by the t !hurch Association, and may be seen in their
penny " Intelligencer " for March this year. In this plate
there are no Communion rails, the table is represented in
the body of the chancel, and two miuisters are standing on
the north and aouth ontra,
, Canon tivvainsim has shown, in his recent work on the
rubrics, that it is the change in the position of the table.
and not the rubric, which has caused so much obscurity
and difficulty in this question and all we need is a
"faculty " to enable us to return to Reformation usages.
But this is not now ihmirable. Let our present arrange-
ments stand. They are reverent and becoming ; only let
there be no superstition or idolatry.
We are Protestants, according to the solemn oath taken
by our Queen at her coronation, and as the Reformed
Church of England have, I hope, for ever cast off the
corrupt accretions and unscaiptural additions of the
Church of Rome.
Elizabeth's injunctions and advertisements, and the
canons of IffM-1, have prmcribed and settled the vestments
which we are to wear, and they alike reject the sacrificial
vestments of Rome and of the Kam

The Sultan has recognised King Alfonso.
It is proposed to builds new church for the fathers of
the Brompton Oratory.
There is to be a series of experiments connected with
submarine milling at Spithead.
Cartridges for the Martini-Henri rifle are being made
at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, at the rate of a million and
• half per week.
The report of the roramittee,on the Channel tunnel plan
is said to be favourable.

The whole of the German field artillery will be armed
with the new field pieces by the lit of October.
The English Government are not inclined to remove the
re.tretions on the importation of German cattle.
In cutting a trench for the new railway from Aix to
Marseilles, near La ltotonde the workmen came on a bed
of fossil oysters.
The Emperor of Germany has signed the disestablish-
ment law.

It is stated that Prince Bismark is not going 10
Sandown as reported, but will proceed to Vanin and
thence to Kissengen.
The steamer Arctic has brought 10,000 seals, mostly
younq ones.
A school of Journalism is suggested by Dr. Shaw, of
Trinity College, Dublin.
Mr. Beecher solemnly affirms that the grave charge
brought against him is untrue.
The captain of a Prussian brig has been fined .ClllO at
South Shields for smuggling Wu. of tobacco.
The 2-ton Sebastopol bell, on which the time has been
struck at Aldershot camp, is cracked.
The Prussian Governiuent has reduced the wages of
miners and increased the hours of labour in Crown mines.
1,000 natives have presented an address of thanks to
Serieant Etallantine for his effort to secure justice to the
Guicowar.

-1-iitiii-e-beys at Leeds playfully set a large iron roller going
down a bill, one of the party came in its way, and it went
over the head of a lad aged nine, crushing it to pulp.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is going to confer the
degree of 8.1). on the Rev. C. Bullock, the editor of Home
Words and other magazines.
lk. Kens&le, M. l'., again appeared at Guildhall on
Tuesday to answer a charge of libel upon Mr. Thomas
Wright, sub-editor of the Morning ddorrtiser. The
defendant stated that everything which had been printed
in the Enelishouiti with reference to the prosecutor had
been apologised for in the fullest manner. Alderman
Sir F. Wyatt Truscott dismissed the summon;
On Tuesday Captain llortt.n pail a visit to Christ's
Hospital, and gave an exhibition of the properties of his
dreu,firing off blue lights,
.coloured tires, Roman candle,
ec. The boys were admitted in two divisions, as the
bath is not of sufficient dimensions to accommodate them
all at once, and the Captain hail to repeat his per-
fornumee. As might he expected, he was enthusiastically
received by the boys. After a srech by the headonaster
(the Rev. G. C. Bell). the head( trecian, on behalf of the
boys, presented the capusin with a small silk tanner, in
commemoration of his visit to the hospital.
Arrant-tut POIMMING BY • Nuseirs—Jemima Ilankey
anti Emma Wilkinson, the one and fourteen and the
other seventeen, were charged at the Great Butiworth
Police-court on Monday with attempting to murder by
poisoning two children of their master. William Stubbs,
fanner, at Antrobus, named Eva and Hannah, and aged
respectively seven weeks and two years. A little boy saw
Mulkey give the child Hannah what he called blue soap
toffee, and tad his mother, who charged the girl with
giving poison to the children. Henkey adniitted haring
given sulphate of comer to them, and said, "I thought if
I could poison baby. I should not have so much to do in
the house." When wilful her motive in giving poison to
Hannah, she said. "I thought if I mull poison Hannah I
• .houl•I have nothing to do, for Fred and Emma,, the other
• two childnoi will be at school." Wilkinson said to the
police, " Joininm tlbl tell me about it, but made Inc
promise not to tell master and mistress." She was also over-
heard saying to Henkel', "You should have known better
than give it her before the little boy. You might know he
would go anti tell." Both priso.ners were committed for
trial. The children are recovering.
Scieece GLOKIOCsLY APPLIF:D.—SUFFZRING CHANGED
To Jot. -The great Majendio admits in one of his
lectures that the faculty have has yet done little cheek
disease. Ile says, that with all their knowledge, they are
groping in the dark. Why is this I Simply because they
have not discovered a key to the canoes of the maladies
they seek to cure. Herein, it would seem, Professor
Holloway has surpa.ed them all. Instead of trusting to
• hap-hazanl exhibition of tdereotyped preparations, he
sought in the disordered human organisation the secret
source of its condition. He found in that ruddy fluid
which is the element of every organ, and he knew that if
the poision in that element were discharged or neutral-
ised, the body which it fed, renewed and sustain, would
be restored to health. He succeeded in discovering and
combining vegetable antidotes which were equal to the
task. This was the origin, thirty years ago, of his
famous Piils and ointment. Now the world rings with
their fame. Disease is met and vanquished, whether
developed internally or on the surface. His medicines
break up the magazine of poison in the system, and, like
the heads of the Hydra when cut from the pestiferous
body, the disorders die for want sustenance. The Pills put
to the rout indigestion, liver complaint, and disorders of
the bowels, with equal certainty. Our "national disease"
dyspepsia is in peril of annihilation, and as have wen
enough to feel assured that whenever Holloway* Pills are
universally adminstereti for this distressing complaint, it
will inevitably be 'expellsil from society." Every day
confirms the opinion we have heretofore expressed, that
Holloway's medicines ans the only preparations in
ezistence that operate directly upon the source., of
disease, anti we should be willing, in case of sickness, to
throw away the Phantlfinfiseia, forbid the doctor our
presence, and trust to them and them alone. This we
understand ti to the philosophy of the operation of
Holloway's l'ills and IJintment. What are honours,
emoiumanta, applause, to the ioan who has wrung from
animated nature the secret a the origin of disease, and
from the vegetable kingdom the means of arresting all
di/orders at their fountain headd-Roies Corrasesolfiefif.

- Outdo. !
BRITISH CORN TRADE.
Continued drou,:ht in Europe and continued winter
in the United mates have combined to give steadiness
to selleN, at home and abroad ; but they are both
influences that Joie strength a; the season advances,
and speculation cannot find room, business of the most
regular order alone existing. Farmers' supplies arc
checkmating every move of the import merchants, and
the native-grown wheat has been weathered into such
condition, that foreign sorts are less wanted for mixing
than is often the case in spring. In fact, English wheat
is now the cheapest sample offered to millers; far 425
per qr. they can buy it, in bulk, put upon rail, and
local millers may get it in their mills for 425 to 46s of a
quality that leaves little to desire The same state of ,
things exists in France, and, therefore, foreign corn
must fall in time, before it can attract buyers off English
produce. At present the prices asking for amved '
cargoes are 445 fal for Mariano* wheat, 435 Odessa
Ghirka, 425 Polish Odessa, 465 for Californian, 415
Egyptian. For Azof barley 275 is asked; for beans,
43s 6(1. There are twelve wheat cargoes on sale, four
of barley, and five of beans. Of steamer cargoes shortly
to arrive, there are four of wheat, bringing 26,000 qr. ;
six of maize, with 30,000 qr. ; and four of barley, with
27,000 qr. All these shipments are from ports east
of Gibraltar, where shipments appear getting very
active.
The sales of English since harvest, compared with
the sales of the previous year (1,979.64 qr. and
1,49,391 90, are but 200,000 to 300,000 qr. more
in nearly eight months ; and as the difference of yield
in the two pars was considerable, English farmers are
supposed still to hold full stocks.
-The advices from foreign markets scarcely influence
trade in London, as they do but mirror the general
situation. Sales, whether made for immediate or
future delivery, arc mostly done at the same figures,
thus inferring that balancing prospects against the
present low prices no great modifications are probable.
The New York wheat stocks available, some
11,030,000 bush., are just about the Same as existed
last year at the corresponding time. American sellers
allege injury has been done to the crop of winter wheat
by the extreme cold of the last four months, and so an
attempt to advance rates is made. However, buyers
on this side do not follow this movement, and reliance
is placed on the Russian, Baltic, Australian, and
Californian shipments, and on the arrival of the 1%
, million qr. of wheat 110 W on passage, to oppose any
I advance of price in the Atlantic ports.

Qr.
Jan. 2 ' 7,92
- 9 267:
16 .. '
_
30..
Feb. 6 .• 31,374
13 .. ..932
20 .. 4,094
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-- •
Mar. 6 . 1,167
13 4:1,719
• 20 .. 17,163
27 7,47
April 3 ..
17 ,244
biz weeks'
IVITTage

Wheat Barley. OM&
-- -
usl QT,. a: . Qrs. r. d Qr. '
1,921 44 44,635 44 4,247
2,87 45 42,962 44 2,257
7, 44 48,821 45 2,297
:,785 43 66,227 45 4,066
1,524 43 63,262 45 3,613
1,374 42 46,731 45 3,916
982 411 49,632 44 4,688
"4 41 40,575 43 3,834
40 1 41,249 42 1 5,172
- --- - -,
33,311 42 4,877 I
35,431 41 3,351
24.780 42 2,892
96,9131 41 5. 4,177
14.514 41 3 2.272
13,6301, 40 8 2,050
10,455 40 6 2,167
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I 41

a. d.
29
30
29
29
28
291
22
29
sir

40 1
41 4
41 9
41 10
41 6
431
43 4
41 3
On Thursday at Bristol there was a fair sit
English wheat, which sold slowly at a decline(
2s per qr. ; foreign in limited request, and fully is per
qr. cheaper. The malting barley season is nearly
over, and pricis arc almost nominal ;grinding sort, in
liberal supply, and Is per qr. lower Indian corn,
being scarce, commanding full prices. Oats sell
pretty freely, at a decline of 3d to 6d per qr. Beans
unaltered. Arrivals :—Wheat, 1,020 qrs. coastways,
6,265 foreign ,• oats, Irish, 2,325 qrs.• barley 93 (in'.
Irtah, 17,920 foreign ; beans, peas, &c., foreign 4,077
qrs. ; maize, foreign, 200 qrs. ; flour, coastways, 50
sacks.

298
298
303
30$
303
306
30 0

300

;ly of
is to

I. d. a 41.
Chi Han Oregon, white .. 4 0 to 411 0 W 49014
American. tine nl.rng . 45 0t044 0 „
Ditto, secondary • 44 0t045 0 „
Odessa, soft . 45 ohi44 0 „
Ghirka °Lha ff, sa, and Itosto soft 45 0t044 0 „
Berdiaiiski and 51arissiople. suit 00 to 0 0 „
Engitsh, red and white, now . 40 0 to 50 0

Ent: good to tine malting .. 36 0t046 0 pertnittqr
French, good to fine malting 34 0 to 36 0 per 42tlibe
Irish, good to hoe welting .. 34 0t036 0 tier 47111,e
Danube and INICIM, grioiding 27 0 to 37 6 per 4001b1
Irigh and French, grinding 30 0 to 32 0

Swedish, Ec.,OhAca".:2 white .. 29 otosl 0 per 3201b1
litnerica and other, Sno.whitc ..29 0 to SO 0
Cork, Watcrfonl, black .. 27 9 to 27 3 per 301Ibe
PE. Island, black .. 27 0 to 27 6 „
Irish, %away 27 0 to 28 0

Burr.
English „. 48 to 34 0 per qr
French. Massimo, 0 to 47 0 per &Albs
nora.
United States and Canadian 21 0 to 22 0 per barrel
English, good seconds .. 20 0 to 31 0 per 1001b4
Instal Coal.
Odessa, Danube, ae 38 0 to 40 0 per 480Ib
Mixed American 30 0 to 37 0 „
At Birmingham English wheat demand inactive and
where sales were pressed a decline of is per qr. had to
be conceded.—At Devizes wheat was in fair supply,
and the business done was the turn in favour of the
buyer.
On Friday, at Mark-Lane, English wheat met a
quiet sale at unaltered values ; foreign and American
descriptions were in slow demand at late rates. The
flour trade ruled dull at previous values. Oats sold
at firm prices. Maize was steady. The market was
very dull for both grinding and malting barley, but
prices were without quotable change. Beans and peas
unchanged. At Liverpool only a limited trade was
done in wheat, and prices were lower than on Tues-
day' white descriptions showing a decline of id, and
red American of id to ad per cents!. Flour flat and
rather easier. Beans heavy and as per qr. cheaper.
Indian corn in good demand at 3d per qr. over Tues.
day's rates. At Wakefield English wheat only sold
slowly, at a reduction of 64 to is per. qr. on the prices
of last week. In Ii nothing don,

.aa foreign .._ .ang doing.

CATTLE.

BRISTOL, Ttitixsp4v.—A large supply of beef,
but a great portion of it was of an indifferent quality.
Best samples met with a ready sale at from Bos to 82s
per cwt. ; middling sorts sold slowly at from 7os to
755. We had a fair supply of mutton, but trade was
very quiet. Best wethers, in wool, fetched 93(d to tod
per lb.; heavy ewes, 834 d to gd. The supply of
lamb is increasing weekly, and so is the demand. The
average price still remains at Is per lb. Store cattle
were again in very small supply, but trade is still
extremely dull, and very few ale wanted. We had a
fair average show of milch cows, but trade was quiet,
and all were not sold. Prices remained unchanged.
There were about 1.800 pigs on offer, and they met
with a brisk sale. Bacon pigs fetched 125 per score,
and porkers from 125 to 125 3d.
METROPOLITAN, THURSDAY.—The supply of
beef is stronger, and the average quality about the
same; the trade is worse, from 2d to ad less per stone.
The mutton trade is also lower. The weather coming
in cold makes the lamb and veal trade ad a stone less.
The foreign
an 8
suirplo niach
yconsisctsoowfs39o beasts, 4,790 sheep,
420 calves,
(Per stone of 81b.) . .

Best Scots, Herefords, d.c.
Best Shorthorns • • • •
Second quality Beasts .•
Best Downs and Half-bred' ..
Do. Shore •• • • • •
_

d. id
810610
.. 6 4686 8
•. 3 8684 4
.. 0 OWO
..6 860610

Bost Long•woola • • •• • •
Do. Shorn
Sava and Second quaßlY • • • •

.. -0
-05-0-0-0
.. 5 2505 6
.. 0 0100
.. 4 450410
.. 7 0508

.. -4 ii;;i. 4

- -
Phre - • • • • • • • • • • 0 oto 0 0
Marta, 910 ; Sheep and Lambe. 11.000 Calm, 670 ; 10.

METROPOLITAN MEAT.--Ttmswor.
The supply of meat on offer was large and in ems,
of the demand, but sales underwent no material
change.

(l'er stone of 8 I. by the
0. d. s. d. td. La.
Beef .. .. 32t0 5 4 I Veal ..
.. 6 oto 6 4
watt., .. .. 8 oto 5 0 Pork.. .. 4 oto 6 0
Boa Fresh Butter .. • • •• 1S& per doses 0,
Seeond do. do •• • • •• Ps. .
J All. illlOill & Co. 143. New Meat Market, '