The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

Crain anti COMllltitt.

KINGSTON-ON-THAI:VA CATTLE FAIR.— Cagle.— A
vety large Utlllila r brought for sale at this fair on Monday,
Airily lenn stock, from Ilereford, Devoo, N .rth and
rt....thst..l and Ireland. with a fair spritik-
ling of Idiot t Lome-bred.. tol:•tskars
I mating the number as follows :-7,5‘10 storeawows ;
CiOafa, heifers. and calves ; and about 300 fat cattle ; the
feir field (otsrly twenty acres), no,dosts Oolong:, and
rtattl opproaching lat mg well cot ored. Tr.olo was sery
, animated. they, being Lnyers from all the counties
nround ; but coda., sellio; at an allVallee .1 10s, per
hual since the late Weyltill fair; Mira being also of
ready aal• at increased prime. as follows :—lsrge Devon.
Ileftford, and shorthorn steers made from I'l6 to LIT
per beast ; mealier ditto, elli to Eli ; Scots, ?non 1:12
to Eli; Welsh, from £9 to £l2: Irish. from Otto £lO ;
cows in full profit or don caking (large beasts), from
£l9 to £ll cads; Alderney cows, from CIS to £l6;
heifers, from Eli to £l6; runts, from £6 to ES; calves,
Irons 30s, to ras. ; fat cows (best), from lls. to 12.5. per
score ; second rate, from 10s. to 10, 64.; fat calves,
from li,. 61. to 12s. So good a demand geherally has
hot born witnessed at this fair fur some years past.
Hortes.—An automat number of ligltt and heavy
for sale, although many had been selectud from the
stables without showing in the fair. Priors for all wars
nutted horses were considered high, London commission
dealers taking • good number for the Jointing field,
harness (in pairs or single), common road work, Ac. ;
the cart kinds finding also • ready bale for the heavy
London dray work For railway drawing sad wield-
hand Lima the horses mostly ran noon were from four
up to ItVell years old, warranted. Prices—Best York-
shire saddle and harnew breeds sold at front t .10 up to
£7O each ; second rate ditto, from 1.30 to £10; cob..
(contract). from En to £3O ; neat ponies for gigs, from
4'20 to £2.1 ; large cart horses. from £4O to £5O ; gruel
farmer's ditto, from E2O to rm. WOll.ll colt ponies, EMI;
common ditto, £l2 to Eli. Sheep. —This fair is not no
noted for sheep as for cattle end horses. About
the Lagoa' quantity were penned of South Downs, half-
breds. and a few horns. Trade appeared brisk, all
selling quickly (fat and lean). Prices as follows :—Best
Down bogs realised from ills. to ilets. each ; ditto ewes,
30s. to 425. ; ditto half-breds, being from 2s. to is. each
dearer. Fat siosep :—Best wethers, 5... to Ss. 4d. per
atone ; ditto ewes, 4s. 44. to is. &I. ditto. Pigs,
chiefly Hampshire breeds, for which there appeared a
quick demand, either fat or for fattening. Prices es
follows :—Best store pigs, from 30s. to 50a. each ; fat
porkers, 41. 41. to 41. ed. per stone; large bacon ditto,
41. 2d. to 40. id. ditto.

INCREASE OE TRADE WITM FRANCE.—The Angle-
French treaty of commerce appears to opera a very
favourably in Bradford and that district, and, so • proof
ef it, it is stated that the hotels in Bradford are thronged
ith gentlemen from the other side of the Channel.
who act in the capacity of agents and buyers for French
houses. A great stimulus has been given to the fancy
worsted manufacture in consequence of the opening of
the French trade, and some of the mills will be kept
goicg till March next with the orders they have on hand.
In connection with this eubject may he mentioned the
npening of an English house in Marseilles for the sale of
English produce. A correspondent from that quarter
given a list of the articles kept by the new house, and
amongst them arc to be found hosiery, stationery,
papier macho, perfumery, cheese, beer, biscuits. sauces,
pickles, Birmingham metal and ware, and St.effordshire
stoneware. Druggets sell enormously carpets sell
; cotton and woollen mixtures, especially cotton
velvet, also sell well. This eateblialiment employs forty
hands, twelve of whom are English.
IMPORTATIONS or WHEAT INT,, FRANCE. A Faris
letter aays :—All apprehension has ceeseel the subject
of supplying the deficiency of the late wheat env. The
last week was remarkable for the immense quantity of
foreign corn imported into France, both by the seaports
and by the eastern frontier. Wheat is abundant in the
foreign markets, and French purchasers in the ports of
the Black See and in the Danubian provinces have
demanded and obtained a reduction of priers. It appe ers
from official returns that nearly two-thirds of the defi-
ciency is Already supplied—that is. the produce of the
late harvest would have only supplied the country until
May next, bnt the stock of wheat now in store will be
sufficient for the wants' of the population mail July.
Many specitlature are now offering for sale both their
flour and wheat, being convinced that they may at a
future period renew their stock on better terms. The
most obstinate protectionists are satisfied Mat this for.
tunate result could not have been obtained hail nut the
corn train been relieved of all the trammels with which
it bad been encumbered.

Sumo-arra FOR THE BONE TAX.—Mr. J. Hill,
well known in mercantile circles (if the firm of Nese..
W. and J. Hall, Custom-house Quay, Tower-street),
hm lately addressed a letter to Lord Palmenton, sug-
ge,ting that in lieu of the income tax under Schedule
Ii iTrsde and Professions) all combustible property in
the United Kingdom should be compul.orarily covered
by insurance from firs. Ile observes :—" I have a firm
conviction that the imposition of • moderate com-
pulsory fire-insurance rate, by (:overnmeut, On all
insurable property would yield an annual revenue of
not less than twelve million., after satisfying all claim,
that might arise for In.. This would afford an oppor-
tunity for the immedisto and final abolition of the
income tax under Schedule I). No one will deny that
this impost is most unpalatable, or rather abliorreut to
the taxpayers. It ho' been incessantly denounced by
the Press, condemned even by a committee of the Hone°
of Commons ; and it would require all the talent and
eloquence of our Chancellor of the Exchequer to enlist
one individual in its favour. However correct in
theory, from inherent practical difficulties, it tie per has
been, never will, net-cress be justly and fairly levied
anti fully collected, but it only renders taxation more
onerous and disgusting to conscientions individuals. On
the other hand, a fire•ineuranoe rate, properly adjusted,
might be rendered simple, equitable, and popular ; the
benefit being palpable, and the security indubitable."