The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-24 00:00:00

CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILROAD

COMPANY.

The lame is &acme:lord of $2,500,000 maven per ant.
coasolidate4 gold bonds of the Chicago and Nora
Western It.ilroad Company, with interest paid half-
yearly in gad either to Loudon or New York at the
opti.n of the holder, and the principal repo, able in 28
yvirs at 1:201 per le.ind if not pr vtuusly redeent.d by
the siLkii,g Wad provided. Toll 001111411117 WOlki
Isrost of all the railway eysreass in t.e Colt d States,
ranniug ne.rly 2 000 rate, sad the last year's earn-
Irv. show a habitue» livallahle for dividend of nearly
bail • million bushes, while later monthly returns
show even better resul:s. The bided deots of the
different lines of the @retain have been oonsolidated by
a mortgage running 30 rearm to the Union Trust Com-
pany of New York. The development of reeently eon-
etrueted lines promises to still farther augment the
annual revenue, which is already far greater thaa is
required for the interest and sinking fund ; a permed
warily is the share capital of 37 mallows of dollars,
and a third the Company's lend grants oonsiating of
more than 2 million, of scree. At the prime of slab-
meription thew bonds will pay 7i per mat, per annum,
with the additional advantage of redemption am before
mentioned.

TOR MARRI&OR OONFR4.OI' OF TILE DUKE
AND DUCIIIB.3 OF EDINBURGH.

The text of the Treaty between her Majesty the
Queen and his htsjesity the Emperor of Russia for the
marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with the Grand
Duchess Mario Aleraudrowna has now been published.
By the terms of this document, it is stipulated that the
Grand Duchess shall P. loft free to follow the worship
of the Church in which she has brim brought up,
with liberty to have chapels for that worship in
the habitations w'.ere she may te.lde, and la her
apartments. Nevertheltss she shah, of bar own
free will, scoompaoy her 000 sort to Protestant
churches and chapels, to assist at ceremonies and
other public acts which may take plaice there.
Children of the marriage are to be brought up as
Protestants, and Sr. to be educated and main.
tains./ an princes and prineessee af the same rank
of the Royal fsmily of the Uoited Kingdom. The
Emperor of Rus•la glees his daughter a espital of •
million of roubles (E1li0,000) for • m.rrisge portion, as
tied by the laws of tho empire. This will remain for
ever in Russia, and bear interest -t .' rate of Eve per
oent., to be paid half-yearly de•i, j ant liv.•of the
Duke and Duchess. As • to it I 'Li. particular
off. etlon," thrl Emperor morevetr giros his daughter
during her life an annual revenue of seventy.five
thousand roubles and • special marriage portion of one
million of roubles. The Litter will remain in Remits,
and bear interest at 5 per cent., to be paid half-yearly.
Her Highness, in additioo, retains poariesaion of her
private fortune, amounting to six hundred thousand
roubles. The Duke and Duchess it. to be separately
answerable for the debt, they may sash incur.

Prime salmon is selling to London et from 101. to
Is. 21. a lb. lo Brutal, salmon le charged 2e. alb.
Bat than Bristol is near the Severn and the Wye.
There are 1,5(X) agricultural labourers out on strike
in the Newmarket district. Threatening letters have
been seat to pas farmers.

A deputation from the Associated Chamben of Com-
mun. waited on Friday on Mr. Disraeli, to urge the
appointment of Minister of Oommeroe, and the Pre.
Eller promised that the subject should be considered.
Tbe stook and implement entries for the Bath and
West of England Show, to be held la Bristol In the
week beginning the Bth Jabs, will aloes on April ltite,
sad those of poultry on May 14th.

r ioI3I LICT, with itnintdiste possession, the
ONSLOW aorkL, Bouthaseptou. liood billiard
roory.—Apply to Nem% ELDIUDGI. POPS. k Co „ The
Brewery. Dorobryer.

Mit. WM. SlisKEsPit kit ALLAH.DIC-14
INOINEER alsal ARCHITECT.
Owns SALIABII,IT HOUII4 FORDINGTON
al. BeUTII-4TILIXT, DOICHLUTLIL

XXAMINER:
A POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND UTIRAIIY Brum,
NSTABLIsHID 1808.

Since the Gamow a, mot of 1:471, freffoul of the iii.
teen pages to which the wet kly tease hod previously
hem iittd, twenty•four .malier pages are now gives,
with the occa.ional addition of hur or eight; the titilla-
tion ',due that, eto:u•ive of the rp.os occupied by
adverth meets, AO ..... KS et twetty page. of ortglod
fuettr eh.Dflbe (premised each week.

"The maii-i-eirj:cte--of Tuit Exntnnnew.papc,"
said LEIGH Hunt of the work which be and his brother
Joon litssi odour. need in ltod, "we,, to seriat in
producing r. form in Parliameat, liberality of opinion in
tumoral, tapeo:ally froedme from soperntitioo, and •
(onion of literary tastes into all subjoin whatever."
Ureat advaucee have b en made in political, sordal, and
literary res. during the four.sod•eisty yenta which
thelifetrnm? of TIM FIAMINFR already covers, and
many good reforms in wrath LEIGH HUNT, AIBIBT
Fonfinsnule, and their associates were pioneers. here
ban aobiered ,• but three reforms have only prepared
the way for others yet tube rff oted. Tun EXAMINER,
in accordance wi,h is original princip'oe and traditions,
attempt, to do as much useful terries to the cause of
progress now as i• has close In former )ears. It strives
honestly and heartily to aid it. readers in forming
sound oplulors coneurnitg lb, i.np.,rtaiit events of the
dsy, and in drawing ill. olrour .irch clarions as m•y
prrodote whio thought awl fearloa• iiirtion towards the
removal of error. and abuses frciu ahion the worldirtill
coffers, and towards the devoloomeni of news that ere
neoessary to the increased woll Is.fcg of all classed of
society. .

Ae many indopoodcnt thinkers give expression to
their opinions in the pages Lf Tile EXaMIKIK, and none
of them delta to be :ars lible, attempt Ii made to
obtain oomplete agrescuent to the views put forward ;
but in the fundamental principles which prompt them
there is no variation.
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