The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-01 00:00:00

Erabc anb Continua.

The hoanl of Trade returns for the month
of December laid, and fur last year, are issued. They
show a cow wick: recovery of trade from the calamity
of 1557. Our exports ol British produce and manufacture,
• latch in larei amounted to 1115,•26,9401, were an lel*
nearly a Million an etc... of that cum ; hut the average
of the whole year doec nut conic up quite to that of the
catty part of 1a.17. The exports in bewail/et hot ainouat-
tot to to the corresponding month of lebT
they were unly 1;7,144,141. The value of the principal
articles imported an litei we', El 15,204041 J, being nearly
twilit). mailhla,,aic wider that of 1•57, and mean tailbone
and • half leee than in

A circular issued by Iles.rs. W. and A. thlbey talk
attention to the fact indicated by the Hoard of Trade
ndurns, that whilst the consumption of wines of cam
other country shows • falling off, the use of wines frogs
the tape oft mod hope has largely increased, and they
now stand third lathe hat iti quantity.
STATE nr TitAlit.-I,citrxtili, February 24—There
continuea to be a tolerable auu,,uuuut of business doing in
I •ry for the period of the year ; the demand, how•
ever extend, principally to goals of a useful and gene-
ral character, the galley trade lising dull. Upon the
whole, liusitic.4 is healthy, and the operatives pretty
generally employed. Trade in the country districts
remains without material chidige. Yarns continuo in lair
request, spinners being well employed. All superior
descriptions of work are dear.

Nomstiiixs, February 25.—The lace trade improves
very ..lowly, and there la by no Weans the same quantity
of business as is usual at this period of the year. The
goods in request are still principally of a plain descrip-
tion. The fancy cotton trade continues dat. In silk
goods the market a very quiet. The hosiery trade is in
• very healthy condition. All branches producing goods
of a uaeful character are busy, and, indeed have been so
It some time past, with et cry prospect of • asntinitasoe
111 the demand. Nonni excellent orders are on hand,
and atbisis departmenta have not been so actively
employed for several years past. At Suttondn-Ashfigds
3laristield, and tither country I L
•ry districts business
Contililted active, and the operatives are well employed.
Yarns have an upward tendency; in silk nu material
change.

The colonial wool sales commenced on Thursday.
The day's catalogue coniprised the undermentioned 6/1111n.
titiCol, viz. :-1.114 bales lispe of Good Hope, M 2 bales
Port Phillip, 2..19 bales Sydney, and 49 bales German.
There was • good attendance of buyers. The prices of
Sydney and l'urt Phillip wmds were about the INDIO NI at
the November wars, hut thone a rope of Good Hop*
.‘..01s were a little in favour of buyers.

At • meeting of the proprietors of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company on 'Thursday, the Right Hon. .1. Stuart
\Vonley, M.P.. the chairman, stated that within the
last hour In had received intelligence of the success of
the negotiations with the tiovernuient, and that a
gitaranwe will be given "IS per cent. on I:4tfikilUti for 25
years. The guarantee will mit be unconditional, as froiu
the numerous applications tlw Government havedecided
on giving noise of that character. The precise stipnla-
time. have but been definitively fixed. Thu cable
remain,' in exactly the lunne *We au at the previous
meetin2, th: directors having no iolequate fun& for lift
in and repairing it. Anew Act will be obt.doed, in
oroer to raise the necessary capital.
The •rcial gazette of Berlin states that it has
gmol authority for believing that the Ittve.ialt t:ovcrit•
omit are negotiating a loan of 1:5,0uu,t100 with Xesi,fix,

'The dividend pmposed by the directors 1.1 the Otto-
man flank for the half-year ending bet:ember 31, will
be at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, together with a
bonus of Ns. per share. They also purpow to write elf
the lislanee of preli iii inary expenses tr:Notat), and to
make an aillition of K 15.000 to the reserve fund.

The death was, an ~,,, on Thursday of Mr. Abel
Smith, the head of the large London banking finu of
Smith, Payne, ainl Sundt., Mr. Smith was in Parlia-
ment for period of between 30 And 40 years; and dur-
ing II considerable porti 111 l of the time it for Hertford-
shire, where his loss will be greatly felt. His age wee
71, And he oul lately retired from public life.

The unelaime.l ihviden.lv in the !Link of England
Oil the isivtent amounted to ii:1,069,374 12e., of
which was ativ.inecil to the Govern-
ment.