The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

IT REPRESS a ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.

MARK-LANE, MONDAY, Jalcoanv 6.
. Supply el Ynglisti wheat very limited and In Don
efteditioe. Prior ADV A NCED PROM TH RE B
r rotrß !SHILLINGS PER QUARTER, as
with lest Monday. Good supply of
taleeVrheat, which realised a similar advance. Fine
burley Is. per quarter dearer, other aorta firm. Malt
Walled full prises. Oats 6d. per quarter dearer. NY
Is, higher. BMWS arm. Flour had an upward
tendency.

METROPOLITAN CA'I'TLE MARKET, Jam. 6.

Arrivals of foreign stock limited, and demand
sluggish, at previous rates. Moderate supply of beasts
from our own grazing districts. Trade steady at hist
Mouday's prises. Best Scots and crosses ss. bats. M. per
'per Rib. Average supply of sheep ; demand heavy at 2d.
per 81b less stonily. Best Downs and half-brads 4a. dd. to
4s. 104. per 81b. Calves inactive at from 4a. 44. to
le. 44. per 81b. Print* small pigs in fair request at fall
guises ; large hop dull at previous rates.

MONEY MARKET, Jan. 6.
Oeneo we 92i to 92* for money, sod for the entoont,
92 3-16 to 92 5-16, being 3-16 better.

RESIGNATION OF TIM VICAR OF
SHERBORNS
We learn from the Standard that the viearage of
Million)e hes bosoms vacant by the rrsignatioo of the
Bee. E. Hanlon. M.A. It is worth £286 s•year, tad is
la Use gift of the Crowo.

A Fawn, reminding one of that which devastated
Orions last year, la at present ravaging Algeria.
TAB health of the Princess of Wales has so much
Improved !bather royal highness was enabled to attend
service oa Christmas-day at the church in the peak at
Sandringbam.—ifeclical Tunes and Gasetre.
Ds. Lrrunewrons fironna mpg. —According to
intelligence roadved at Tuesday, January 3rd, from
Zanzibar, to the lst October, an Arabian merchant
reported having EOM , Lje6gstone westward sf
Lake Terytwjiet
priaohers Striae, Casey. and Mulllay were
Drought up for farther examination at Bow-street, on
Saturday, when the evidence of the police-oonstable
who apprehended them was taken. An Important
witness from Birmingham not having arrived, the
prisoners were again remanded.
FILIGHT7OL RAILWAY AOCIDINT happened on the
18111 ult., near Buffalo, dr the Lake Shore line. The
rear ear of the New York express train went over an
embankment of 150 feet, was set on fire, and out of .513
passengers only two escaped; the rest were burnt to
death, and all that was left was • mass of blackened and
Charred remains.
PILLAGE 0? A GUNPOWDER MAGAZIN. AT CORE.—A.
rivals mszazine belonging to Mr. Murray, gunsmith,
Cork, was broken into on Friday night, and lOcret. of
blasthAr powder stolen. The magazine le situated not
fax from the police-station. No-clue has yet been found
of the perpetrators, but the outrsee Is attributed to
NINANiSsa.
BANIRUPTS.—EIiIIi Ann Weaver. Bournemouth.
James Coombs, Fishetton Anger, Wilts, shoemaker.
Robert Bird, Enmors, Bornersetshire, innkeeper.
William Verner. Bishop's Lydeard, Bomersetshire, car-
penter. Robert Grisham, Southampton, carver and
gilder. Thorns. Weeks, Winton, Hampshire, brick-
layer. John Day, Milford, Wiltshire, butcher.
RIVOLUTIO, IN JAPAN.—lntelligenos received at
Shanghai. December 7, announces that a political re.
volution has taken place in Japan. The Tycoon hu
resigned. It is supposed that the foreign relations of
Japan will not be prejudiced by the change. An ad-
jourernent of the opening of the new ports for • few
months is however oonsidered probable.
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Tuesday two bailiffs presented a warrant
at the shop of Mr. Carr. the biscuit manufacturer, at
Carlisle, authorisieg diem to seize two sacks of meal
for payment of certain tithes due to the Rev. ilr.
Petitt, but which Mr. Carr, being a Qoaker, refused
oa conedentious grounds to pay. The meal was alter.
wards sold by auction at the Market Cross.
THE ABTREIKI•N EIPKDITION.—The Intelligence
received from Aden respecting the Abyssinian expedition
is satiefactory. The latest news from Senile is up to
the 11th ult., and at that time the health and spirits of
the troops were exoelitnt. The mortality amonpt the
horses and male. still continued, the 3rd Cavalry reel.
meet alone having lost upwards of 150 horses. The
advanced brigade was to remain at Sentde until the
arrival of Sir Hobert Napier. A report was current that
Magda& had been surrounded by the Chief of Shoe.
The report that the captives' chain, had been taken off,
and that there wee every chines of their speedy release,
wee considered probable at Men.
FR %NCR AND NORTH GERMANT.—COORE Golta was on
Tuevilsy afternoon received by the Emperor of the
French for the perpoee of presenting his crydentials as
arnba.eador of the Confederation of North Germany.
In presenting his pap cc, he dated that the King of
Prussia eared), desired to maintain and develop more
awl more the relations of goo.bfeoling and confidence
between France and the Confederate States. The
Emperor, in his reply, saidlhe embraced the opportunity
with pleasure to confirm the good understanding exist.
ing between the two Government..

DANCING YOB TRI MARTYRSL—The following isolver-
tisernent anpvars in a New York paper of the 21st :
—"The Ard annual ball of the O'Donovan Roma Circle
F. It., will hr. held at the !Shake/pews !heel, corner of
William tad New Chamber-agree* on Thursday evening,
DM.. 2ti. the proceeds to be for the purpose of equipping
the military portion of the Circle. Those who wish for
a epeeity release of our Brothers who are now sufferieg
in Itritish dungeon., and the regeneration of Old Ireland,
are invited to attend. Tickets, one dollar. Denis
(YDonovon, Centre. Wm. Egan, Secretary, pro tem.',
HOLDING THR CANDLE TO A Mtiamssa. - The Coati
of tssises of the Aisne, France, has just tried a Man
and woman, cousin., named Rahault, for the murder at
Minis of the husband of the latter. The man had been
on I. rims of intimacy with the female prisoner, and the
two having agreed to kill the husband, the °origin best
out Ids brains while he was asleep, the woman at the
time holding a candle to light her accomplice. The
mole prisoner excited a feeling .4 horror in the court by
th.• revolting cynicism with which he related the nr•
clinvitemeic of the crime, Ile WM sentencesd to death,
and the woman to hard labour for life.

USTRAORDINAIT RoBBIIIT.—An extraordinary ..c.se
of robbery was on Wednesday brought under the notice
of the magistrate at the Thames Polite court, London.
A tailor named William Stainaby and Lis wife left home
on Chrlattoss-day for the ptirpose of spending the
holiduys with friend, leaving a lodger named Christian
Mdler in chaise of their house. During Stainby's
absence the lodger took it into his head t sell off his
landlord's furniture, and almoat succeeded In doing so'
A dealer was mush! In the act of r.moving the tam'.
tur., whisk he bad purchased for En from Miller. The
prisoner's excuse for what ho had done was that he was
drunk when he sold what had cost his landlord £3OO
for M. Miller and his assistants in the robbery, the
broker and his man, went committed for trial.
Aboane or LOTAL7Y TO THU QUERN IT hammier.
—At the request of Me W. Dishy Seymour, Q.C., the
following addresi to the Queen by her Irish subjects is now
in course of signature:—" Te Her Moat Creel .us Majesty
the Queen.—We, the undersigned Irish subjects of your
Majesty residing in London ard its vicinity, desire
respectfully to convey to your Majesty the expression
of nor iudignation and sorrow at the recent outrage at
Clerkenwell, perpetrated by certain evil-disposed and
misguided persons; and we beg at the same time to
Swanto your Majesty of our unaltered devotion to your
pinion and throne, and our determination to support
year Msjesty's Government Against all treasonable
attempts to disturb the peace of the realm."

NIWYIAIC I)AT RECYPTIoN AT Tlll TTILERIVI.
New Yeses Day is the greatest national and family
liestiml of the French, and is kept in Paris so sacredly
se Christmas Day. At court the Emperor and Empress
bad grand receptions of official people, including the
Corps Diplomatipie. Upon receiving the cuogratula-
Tinos of the l'apal Nuncio, as the i.pokesumn of the
diplomatic body, the Emperor replied "I am happy
to toxin the new year as usual, surroended by the re-
pmeentatives of all the Powers I am able to affirm
once more my constant desire to maintain the best rel..
t ons with them. I thank yen for the wishes you have
been good enough to express in their name for France,
P.) family, and myself." In answer to the Archbishop
of Paris the Emperor said —r h. prayer. you addrrs
to heaven for the Empress, the Prince Imperial, and
niyaeH, •ffeet me de,-ply. They :spring from a noble
lo wt.. I know that you do not separate religious
Mt, rests front throe of the couttry and of civilization."

TH. CAKE or REVOLTING CRUELTY TO A CHILD A?
,KG ire. Ihe Der, r quarirr c-a7ons. Adelaide
Lomss plemet,l not guilty tot chArgc of gross cruelty
it I,er Ilattghter Agnes, aged seven ye.rs. The prisoner,
with her husband, occupied • respectable position in
Staigate. It srsa spoken to by several persons, their
aer•tuita ut,d others that gross cruelty had been
systematically practised on the child. Her hands had
been for hours, end indeed whole tight., tied behind
lOU. nod the bud b..% held by prii,,ner under the pump
and water poured on her. She had been seen to strike
her with her fist so thst the child's body was much
taeh.d. She had also struck her with a hairbrush,
emit her violenee was so great that this brush broke in
Iwo. Ono witness swore that she had been told by
the prisoner to rob chloride of lime over the bruises and
had done so. The jury, after hearing the e•idenee.
thought that the ease had been proved; and the learned
recorder sentenced the prisoner to twelve usontbs• herd
I.hour.

Pgorte do not as • rule take notice of the Important
iniprovements and changes that take place in the small
details of daily life—the attendee from stage wad," to
railway., the telegraph, the penny poet, and lowly
other great and startling novelties Are all noticed and
commented upon, and they each And all, more or lees
iniprese ; lout if we extend our observations, and
recall the domestic applianoes of a few years ago, and
compare them with the pmant, we will end plenty of
aul.j..cts at any rate worthy of passing reflection. Take
by way of ill tion a common and every day
requirement--candlis —and refer to our advsrtisement
skidpan+, we shall be able to mark—within the
experienee of those not named the prime of life—
great and startling changes Thirty or forty years ago,
wax and spermaceti candles lighted the upper ten
thousand, and the Truism accepted snuffer.re.ioiring
tallow candles as tho only moan. of lighting open t.
them ; now we a.lvertise an al.noet bewildering variety
of light... Price's Patent Candle Company (which,
uuder the name of Elsarl Priee Ai Company, is the
lather a the candle trade), some thirty or forty years ,
back, began by introducing cocoa-nut readies as a I
substitute for strong smelling tallow ; then they
invented oomposite candles, and today they advertise
in oureo/uinns beluiontine, Price's tannins, Batterses
paraffins., gold medal palmitin., eherwool plamitine.
belmont wax and behnont sperm candies, beet own-
poaitea, Ito., It,. A good housekeeper is now bound to
discriminate the advantaies and prices among such an
(.607sa d, rieh,••••, and our middle classes can now,
at a meonable pries, be lighted an well, or better. than
princes were forty years ago.

Seam 01 AX EARTINCALII Sorglterr.—About
five o'clock on Sattirday morning hundreds of Persona in
Taunter° and neighbourhood were startled from their
slumbers by the shook of an earthquake, end the event
was the merlon' topic of oonvereation throughout the
town on Saturday. A load report was first heard, and
this was followed by the shaking of bousee and venous
sitielei of furniture. Many persons arose from their
beds to ascertain the cause. The gentry on guard at
the barracks had • difficulty in keeping on his feet, and
the barracks violently trembled. The Rev. J. K.
Eagles, better known as " XXX," 'was writing at the
time at • relative's, Miss Werra, of Hestercombe, and
he dercribes the noise preceding the shock as similar
to an iron chest being thrown down. A farmer near
Curry Rivet church conceived that his house had been
entered by burglars, and, dressing himself, armed
himself with a revolver, and searched for the inspected
intruders. All in this town agree that it was a smart
shock of an earthquake. About ten minutes past five
o'clock on Saturday morning last • shock of an earth-
quake was observed in the valley of the Parrott.
between Langport and Stoke-sub-Hainbdou. At
llartock • low rumbling noise was heard, irhich lasted
for • few setionda, and berla and houses simultaneontly
shook". At Tintinholl and Stoke-sub-Hambdon the
shock wan folt, the noise being deacsibed as similar to
something dying rapidly past the windows. At East
Lambrook the houses were shaken, and people were
awoke by the rattling of the slags and of the furniture
In the bed.rooms. At Seavington the postman distinctly
heard the shock, which resembled a train pa-sing the
house at full speed. At Complco, South Petherton,
the shock was felt by several persons, and one woman
was so frightened that she 'eKititeprbfuelril rolled ou
bed. At Iluchelney a proi.p.nts.rof
Lengleort, people were awoke by the rattling of lamps
and windows. The morning was fine and frosty with
no wind. There had been • rumour circulated in the
vociunuiowity d
yueori,nigi the p
laseitt
ewbeeanek tlhaj
gunpowder .t
I.•thishde
hmilearwinaig ttabetionnOlseSeimaver;lneldrothants. trip Tgivantiponhw"iieruradni
exploded. This will give some idea of the ee ate
the shook.

WILTS AKD DORSET BANKING COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—That
the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the
Proprietors for receiving the DIRECTORS' REPORT
on the business of the Company during the pait year,
and for the ELECTION of THRFE DIRECTORS in
the room of JoHn WAltits, Esq., TitollAS Loci, Esq.,
sod Rangy Panto" Esq., who retire by rotation,
but who offer themselves for re-election, will take place
within the Head Ranking House, at SkLIABURY. on
MONDAY, the 3rd day of FEBRUARY 'mixt, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

—TI; &Celt will be t .71 u7l otually at Twelve o'clock.
By order of the Hoard,
WILLIAM CHITEIB,
General /tanager.
Salisbury. 31st Dumber, 1867.

THE BLANDFORD COUNTY BALL
will take place at the Coax Esottaaoa, on
FRIDAY, the 10th of JANUARY, 1868, wader the
distinguished patronage of
Lady Auguata Shirt
Barocess Hamby°
Hon. Mrs. Portman
HOD. MISS Portman
Mrs. Farquharson
Mrs. C. Hambro
Mrs. Entuble
Mrs. Bankes
Mr.. Okedon
Mrs. Parke
Mrs. Coventry
Mrs. Rite Lie
Mn. Henry Farquharson.

The Lard Riven
Sir W. S. Marriott, Bart.
Sir F.. Orsathed, K.C.B.
lion. W. B. B. Portman,
J. J. Farquharson, Esq.
O. Start, Fag., !LP.
W. P. Oksden, Esq.
C. Hambro, Esq.
H. Farquharson, Esq.
C. J. Parke. Esq.
St, John Coventry, Esq.