The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

Ritirerthe Or THU MEN Os TRW Bata[Waren
WORIts About 70 of the matron, and Ithoirarti.
ciii .lored on the work• at the Breakwater, were poid
off and ,iiech•tgad on Thursday lett, in cone opt. nee of
the atone, formerly worked here end rent to Poi ternoutb
te the const,nction of the forts at Spithearl, under the
c ottrtet of J. I'. Leather, Eel., being now ordered to
tran.ferred n its rough elate to that port. and wrought
by the stoneinasuns there.
Duicisioti or eat STOW! TRADV.—We are sorry
that the staple tr tde of the viand is at unrest lit • very
depressed state, and thst very In my of the quarrymen
all over the island have been pot on halftime, the
masters being compelled so to do, not to mach by the
slatkors of the demand, for the reputation of the
Cortland " whittled" eveocit throughout the UnAed
Kingdom, and to mony ot er perm of the world ; but
becouse et much activity has reall. b on shown in pre.
oaring wrought blocks. that now the quarries obonnal in
beautiful mune, Feely for the builder's arr; a rl the
supply &Madly exceeds the demand. Still, with so
onany !alp weeks in espeet•tion, a et!, practical
suggrstion has been made, that thesquarrymen should
work the ogee/ fell hoer. on ios die., bee eoeoet throe
days' pay for the present, until the stone 0.611 be s dd.
Surely this would be barter than I.acing Co matey floe
stolwart men walking about with nothing tt di and
•••ea.inti clip, it is to be end, getting into the mischief
th always comes two unemployed heeds.

POITLanD Petit—The Fifth of November Fair, I
&loots • famous event iit Portlend, was held with more
epthi,r...:niosent:hialaeubb,ttnot:it'iopirdaltihnegspttirahrii,e.lonalihngwTheaeury...4vosouletola"had.
atnafoorTl:fainyi
Indteati .es of something to:it of the 00Mte0a being so ,ut
to transpire, and when the lemons snitieersaty of Guy
I Itawkee's failure came round, there wee assembled at
Cl oil such • collection of booth.. stalls, ant lofty vane,
as mole it appear amid the old village, which hes within
I the last few rears brought forth • molern town. heel
given another exempts of her power., and produced an
ass-mblare of dwellings that Ault puule the dee-
' rpiher. Villege it could not be, for where were its
garlena, its bumpkins, it, cattle? nor town, for where
were its Mayor and Corporation, or even its Local
Burl? Nor city, for plows of worship were etrangely
absent, and nothing snail he magnified into • cathedral
or even • church. Yet its onh•bi-ants presented •
strange and bizarre minter* of all three typier the royal
in their toriranoe. end the town'solaas in their stew-
Won to trot., while some of them might Me with our
City Arabs in them- otntempt for the rellnements of life.
And until the folding doors are open and their paint
.ad riding dieplayed. and before the Worths. are
favored with their manifold articles for sale, let es
estope from tb• motley populaii.o that is setting Ica
d mileage it, order, and go up the hill to the (mews for
all this bustle and din. The agricultural fair was bold
in the usual field at Foveae's Well, and to one that
hut been pent for any time in the inland, the natural
beauty of the situation and picturesqueness of the view
therefr ern would be a suffintent sures of delight.
Towering 1314 above were toe heights of the Verne,
girt with piles of earth and masonry, wn-dyked with
raeine-ditchee, and armed with mmecv. cannon that
mate Portland • Gibraltar at home, a place dorm's
which, if properly provisioned and garr mooed, might
defy in a siege the navies of the world. Jape below the
stook uagson.horves are drawing immense loads of wh,t,e
frosetonsi that make the farmers wonder at the si.na-
mils and enduranee of the animala. On a—for Portland
—gentle slope, which may mean an angle of about 45
derees, are grazing—we were gape to any, but rather
Dibbliag, a doek of those beautiful little sheep, the
ezquieite fl ivair of whou Beale make. Pot t'aed motion
renowned at the Lathes of gourmands From between
the tufts of short sweet rug peep out everywhere
specimens of what Is really the meet aboa that crop
—stones of all aims and forma. We have a
right to admire the grandeur of the noble bill,
having earned it by • walk gigue almost
as the approaches of an etimay's parallels to the
b steno of some wellthrined sty, sod yet op • height
Mount en steep as a pair of stain. On the aides thereof
are get out rows of hon.'s. solettso•tial in appearance
yet not heavy with tie red.briok /scales that ruir the
effect of some of our street treble...a ore; but light in
appearance, with the material that Wren sho-e for St.
Paul's. Here and there, one or a small group is perched
in • a teatime that makes you wonder how it was
possible Where Palk it, or again almost to hold your
breat4 leet yoa yhoold see it topple into the garden of
that just below it, or seed even a few tons of stole on
its root, with • sprinkling down it. chimney-pots. Set
in verdant gardens, these detached houses were little
piaturea of themselves, albeit, the sternly romantic
I predominates over the softly beautiful. Farther to the
southward are the enormous hosts where the capstone
ant rubbish have been tent toppling down for handrails
of feet to the rooky shore below or sheer into the boil.
ing deep. And sn Oar ire are led to the rand West
Bay, largest on England a southern coast. How lovely
it 1 mks when r, Beating on smooth mirror the feral/se
deep of • cloudless •rith above! How awlfel when
Wilted by south-ssaterly gale, the" white horns" wood
1,, tens of feet high, and threaten to "claw" the Cberil
Beech back sgslu
elmght from the
that keep. hack from o:that, caught In a storm i.i7reast'sfteothaf.....irelasearn.6odekerPta:»l6::::rriarn7ll:::dduuckeyPebbleidaevesHill
gloriousbiggervainly endeavouze to
to pie.es on an
ach
ho estersi r ibisa
sunshine myith aiong
oadrsi etetn:tgitiewl.B.ettlieuildg:kdwiy....awle a lie o hen Mt
ihn:rdiumutbitmlie
beet
Seeks from the sew Reeeeoll 4 SOO elelltele. There
were about 900 or 400 slime weaned, but very few
besets; the latter probably were mane no &moan' of
the grads.' almorption by the Go rernmeet of the waste
sad quarry lauds, De that the inhabitants have ait been
ese rather slow Pnr lead
e.
t the first price, wails a lot
0,.* In the islei4. The sale of
.b.""bomwiesal:uwiedilptairabi.s.7::l'lll4":26rwe.pliWisfwant.roitardimma:::(u' Is
some
g "Dstt4nbg order 2 fitsx
lininton, Weym 'nth. Downs and crouterel wetheri
ii
roes
. were eon item-ed 4 se, sa4
mole lion 344. to 38e. and we beard that Kr. Hatton
at 42,. Some hell., we
et liom flO to ClO 12e 64. and coin and (Qum •
ClO to Cl 2. Triers was only one bull .6 lair, sad he
feteb-d according to else, from 184. to 35a., while the
be quoted per score. There were a few cart bones,
which fetzhed from t ex, A nuotber of the
sheep, utile, and bore., were sold by 11r. J. Pe‘b•teul,
by direction of Mu owner, Mr. Wird, while a great
many sheep were penned by Mr. Hod lee. Mr. Potha.
earl also *old • lot of apiculture' impleminsta, hareem,
and timber from a wr-ck. Retunting from the fair.
644 F irtiana's Well was seen to be crowded with
business m.o. and got a few plesseretheek.r, fee the
deist/teams of the latter of whom. • numb" of 1"114 fee
sweets, eoalssaiesery, sad edit fatdage amyl thelr

tentptlwg bail& Bet the prine4ml imagregation was, as
we hsive before histed, at Chesil, where Vie ermine.
of
"hi.'"
ulUllindinn:irnghitngbe • ilnotened by an
snfOl'tli into.
modelo. in.
leaded to .bow flow the gold diggers of California and
etia.riztyli.of forms,
pg.:harming to the aberds
tack;
el:a.kinining•tion of
miners, offered an eaterlaionient decidedly more elevat-
ing, bat we fear rather less attractive to the rotator
while
1 hiai
ewr
paddlingeeeghu trhts: preciousshthl4s pours,
fromu Dg
f •ir.go .r, than the nasal run of scab thiegs ; hot then.
I. rusk° up for that,yoa had an orportanity of eontmit-
int the penalties of the law in tiro netiona, fur her.
might be shuddered at, examples of lynots law in
C.lifw.nia, ond the gnillreine in F,anee. Chesp-1..0c.,
both on ferrafirma.and the esa'tation of !heir wegitons,,
were eh.indont. and the blue jackets newision.lly were
5/I.il imbed .1 the grestnees of lb. berg .ins whereby you
got r o r, and straps, map, towel, and lookiougless
altogether fore trifling saes. R fie galleries resounded
with the cracks of the pieces% end the rattles of the
erratic belle% ag.ind the long tube that kept it from
o.f.ting th• flieh of some unlasky outsider; while the
fret end "Steelsior &loins" were g irbiehed with
Cluing pietism. of hoadlone chug-a and enseuatere
with Vet wioas beset& Hera • sat looking "onloared
genelman" invited you into the woodious ball,
and them • pngilidie ham* invited you to pouch
bin In 'he atomise, to try the form ol ref blow.
Did y m wish to see meehaniod Soiree in w.Rweek ?
tlsw here fun are, (roil "Noah's seerdo-i^ to "Daniel.
in the line des," not forge tin' Isely &Avis as she
appear d et Coventry, said who here seemed istiier shy
of lif.p ii on boing so near her, while he peiformal hii
nesesevy feat of crossing the Ales. Piggy little
b mars attracted Vis tour., and helped to relieve the
pones and lea the pocketi of their owe. the .rt., for
who 'poll' refuse to shell out the money toe • darling
pier. of chino for bin latylove, or to Ink. 'be vastest
a re-fit elterwaid, ? But oh f a little sem... °ono,
from the fair d.uniel.iss she ands melt emit onted with
the picture of a himn but with ter, bodies and tic I, so,
the real milkmaid *hi .h we are lel,l I. all slows .'thin.
The chit ree rush to the circles of 13436 y-hot..-n which,
by the aid of four fellows at • winch, revive .ith
in.=-sang rsoidity, until hits Sy off, and tlao "mi,th
and fan grow fast and furious" Near I. one worked
by • very met., little 'teem engine, end beret you may
is., the n leave, riding 4de-saddle, .Modio g on
the frame, or tiog with their fates to the I erses'a
Villa, while being whiiled round at a rate that 'Lust
make th-so feel aa if they w re on the tsp-4.llant Emit
In Malf-s-ple of wits& 'Th. "wheel of fortano"
shooting for nut, we tenni diversions after all ; bat
hrre is a real ph Aotraphis studio, and very nicely-
fitted to, and szbibiting ou'd is specimen, of the me--
seinen that would be ereditsble to • stationary studio,
. though perhaps not se permanent as Penury's terbon
process. But bow about the light? One would think
the shad s of eves's, were too fro advanced fiv ph. to,
graphs, anima they burn niscrominm. We ei,mot tiny
to :Dv is, for th. peat Dgutne, the rarideisaa, a.
pp in aims any, is Shoeing signs of bee', and w• nit 7
th...• who return by a late train. already we me
Sorer nesedent Underwood, Sergeant Freeman, and
their men beginning to look sail business was before
them end though we hear of eard.sharpers that require
to be welshed. we know that evening may praises
winederb"nitriazi.°4teractksna dpriisonigarhnaerifiasromilanthtehestbwwietrey;tsked'oflnfelnal.odistisrtemrnior,nyneentd
by the beating of the Chinese gong, that re.edeles
shoes all the anise, and we escape from the din I, dm
Railway Station, and my farewell to Portland fair.