The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-10-12 00:00:00

The Prince of Wales started on Monday even-
ing from Charing-cross station on his six months
tour in the East. As far as Calais ho was accom-
panied by the Princess of Wales and the Duke
of Edinburgh. The Castalia was chartered to
take His Royal Highness from Dover to Calais.
Paris will be left on Wednesday evening, Turin
reached on the following evening, anti the Royal
party will embark at Brindisi on Saturday, the
16th instant. From Brindisi the Prince will
sail for Athens, arriving there on the 18th, and
remaining as the guest of the King and Queen
'1 of Greece until the 20th. His Royal Highness
will then cross to Port Said, and enter the Suez
Canal. Cairo will, it is expected, be made
about the 24th, Aden being the next stage, and
then Bombay. The Prince may be expected
back in this country about the end of March.
Turkey has repudiated her monetary oblige-
thms, and must now be classed with Spain and
the South American defaulters. For five years,
from Ist January next, the Porto will only pay
its interest on stock and drawings half in cash
and half in five per cent. bonds. This announce-
ment on the Stock Exchange, on Thursday,
created a panic in Turkish and Egyptian stocks,
and they declined nearly four all round. For
some days large sales had been premed on Con-
stantinople account, and it is said that the
Turkish Goveniment has aggravated its iniquit-
ous repudiation by "giving the office " to
certain operators, who have thus made a pretty
purse for themselves. This sudden halving of
the high interest and chance of a drawing which
Turkish bonds have hitherto given' is a serious
blow to many small capitalists; the actual pay-
ment will now be small, while the paper will
only be saleable at a great aatrifice. Of course,
investors knew the evil day must come, but as
the Government had hitherto averted it, al
heti:led it would do so for at least their time. The
abounding faith of the monied public is shown
in the fact that the Last loan for forty millions
sterling issued by Turkey was subscribed for
many times over. Thu inducement of high
interest has lured many to ruin, and those who
are now so suddenly " hit" by Turkey's
" re-arrangement," may reflect with profit on
the " sweet simplicity of the three per cents."
Turkey has squandered her £300,000,000—
for that II all that has passed into her hands—
in jewels for the harem, in palaces along the
shores of the Bosphorus, in ironclads to lie and
rot at the Golden Horsi, and in two or three
trumpery bits of railway which are of no use to
anyone. The Sultan may be in a position to
pay half the charge upon his Debt, for the total
amount of this charge is less than £14,000,000,
and the Imperial revenue is set down in the
Budget recently issued at £20,000,000. But
what is OW worth of the Five per Cent. Bonds
which are to be tuned in lieu of the balance ?
At the end of 1880 there Bonds will have in-
creased the debt by 07,500,060, or an addi-
tional yearly charge of £356,000. But it is
complained that Turkey repudiatts more than is
necessary according to the official defence put
forward. The deficit to be made good is
£3,000,000 (Turkish pounds), but. Turkey pro-
poses to SAVO 17,000,000, IrSS 050,000 for
interest, or £1,650,000 more than the acknow-
ledged deficit. Either, then, a deliberate design
to rob the foreign creditor is manifest, or the
recent budgets put forward are all false' and the
Turkish Govermnent has lately been obtaining
money on false pretences.
The Bank rate was adrznced on Thursday,
owing to the withdrawals of gold for Germany,
from 2 per cent., at which it was fixed tie Auzest
11th, to 2 per cent. At the corresponding (Lite
last year the 11l ill i l IMO was 3 per cent., but was
advanced to 4 the next week.

BRII9I9tItT twIt.RKR FAIR.
This fair was held yesterday (Howley). The morning
was Ilbw, eousequently there was agood Alkali/Mee ; there
were Inspient showers of rain, however, during the day.
About tons of Dorset elloate was pitched, and prices
varied from 21% to :12e. i.r cwt., according to quality, the
latter figure being realised about mid .day for a quantity
of prime. A fair numbor of slip phsoi were penned in the
istreets. from 9h. toil.. nach being irked, and by dinner
time most of them were wild. There were only one
or two cows and a bull in the town : and the
Inquiries for these did not seem to be numerous. The
following were the prices ..1 some commodities
13.1. to 191. per peck ; 'ticklers, is. to Is. 6.1. per perk;
cabbage plant% Id. to Sal. per lit); pickling cabbages. 4.1.
to &I. each : apples. 4.1. to i.i. per peck; pears, k. toil.
per bushel ; grapes. PI. per pound ; bot-liouse ditto, Is.
per pound; walnuts, el. to sit. per 11111; potables, 10.4. lee
tack, Is. per peek ; turnips, ed. to 10d. per bushel. There
was a large supply of cabbages for eating pin-Poses, and
these were sold very cheap. Beef. 91. to I,lati. per pound ;
mutton, 9d. to 191. per pound : veal. .to 141. per
pound ; pork, Ils. to ha. dd. per score ; taxon, N. to
91. per pound : Letter. Ilia. per pound: eggs, lid. per
dozen. )(weir% Symranis and Eaton had a sale at the
Itepositam 1.1111114.1111,1 at twelve Ilene
about 70 beasts were on offer, Alla a large number of sheep
:mil lambs were penned. There wAA a large attendance of
buyers, a goo,' brisk trade was done, and fair price,'
realised. Horn wethers, Ai. to 59, ; down ewes, 10a. to
•17t; four-t.sdh wethers, :Ns. to tie.; down lambs, 194. to
3M. Fat beast.% 115 to 111 : in-calf heifers, 111 to 1111;
bummers. 111 to 114; )earlings, 11 to ; bull., 111 to
111. A let of cart and hack horses were afterwards
efferent, but few were sold. A few slip pd.:4 fetched 24a
each. There wore only one or two horses in the usual plsee
in thei fair, and n.,troaness In that line seemed to be done.

The Board of Trade returns for the month of
September show a further falling elf in our
export trade, the total value of the exports
having been £19,853,750 &gaited £21,463,876 for
the corresponding ii th of last year, being a
decrease of £1,610,126, or 71 per cent. In the
import trade the total value represented
£30,858,909 against £31,142,994 last year,
showing a decrease of £284,085, or j per cent.
An official announcement issued by the
Admiralty states that the circular of the 31st
July respecting the reception of fugitive slaves
on board British ships has been suspended.
Speaking at Liverpool the Earl of Derby urged
th it the circular did not admit the interpretation
put uts.n it, nor did the Government contem-
plate any change of pulley in regard to slavery ;
and, unwilling to excite the pub lie mind upon a
question demanding careful handling, they had
decided to cancel the circular. This is so far
satisfactory. But we must have no retrogression
in the matter of slavery—handle it not in any
form, touch it not ; but maintain British soil and
British ships aa securing absolutely "freedom
to the slave. '
The Agricultural Returns of Great Britain in
counties have just been issued, and the statistics
for Dorset are interesting and suggestive. The
total acreage under all kinds of crops, bare
fallow, and grass is 474,034 acres, an increase of
2,966 on 1874, but the acreage under corn has
declined by 1,257 acres, implying that attention
has been more generally directed to stock
breeding. The acreage under wbeat has
declined 4,82 woes in comparison with
the returns of 1874, beans 1732 acres, and
peas 1,254 ; the crops showing an increase
are barley no less than 3,696 urns, eats
968 acres, and rye 223. In regard to green
crops there is an increased acreage of 1257
as compared with 1874, the crops showing an
advance being turnips and swedes 799 acres,
mangold 711, carrots 7, cabbage, Kohl rabi, and
rape 398; but there is a decrease of 185 acres in
potatoes, and 483 in vetchee amid the like. The
growth of flax is declining, there being uuly 442
acres this year, as against 610 in 1874. There
are nine acres under hops, the same as last year.
The bare fallow, or uncropped arable land, has
decreased 1,305 acres, showing that increased
attention is being paid to
_producing as much
as possible from the soil. The acreage of clover
sanfoiu, and grasses under rotation for hay has
advanced no leas than '2,339 acres, while that
"not for hay" has declined 682. As to perma-
nent pasture, meadow or grass, not broken up in
rotation (exclusive of heath and mountain land)
the increase is most marked, being to the large
extent of 8,284 acres ; that not for hay has
declined 5,602 acres. The high price of hay, and
the increased stock keeping, no doubt led to the
inure general reservation of pasture for hay, but
we fear the untoward season has given fanners
but a very inadequate return. The live stuck
statistics are as returned upon the 25th of June.
There is an increase of 367 horses, 42 of them
being used solely for purposes of agriculture and
the others being unbroken horses and breeding
mares. lit cattle there is a decrease of 1024.
There are 296 more cows and heifers in milk or
in calf, and an increase of 1,139 of other cattle
rising two yearn of age, but of cattle under two
years there are fewer by the largo number of
2,459. In sheep there is a still greater decline
on the younger ages. In those of one year old
and over the returns show an advance of 1,166,
but in lambs—that is under one year old—a
decline of 7,147, so that there are less sheep and
lambs than there were in 1874 by 6,981. Pigs
have declined during the year to the number of
2,052. So that in the matter of stock this
county of Dorset is more than 10,000 head poorer
WEYMOUTH. than in 1874, having 1,024 fewer cattle, 6 Bid
110.0001 perTr less sheep, and nut so many pigs by 2,052. The
. tuolay.--
Tigard, Mr. Jay. Mill and Dr. N... ne.,nadore Dr. H. •
declension is astonishing, and the statistics
Jew Spranekli,l Man charged with bring drunk and generally of the county do nut exhibit our agri-
culture in a satisfactory condition. It was the
riotous in St. Nieholasetreet, the previous ni lit- ale, with
assaulting PA'. Hansford in the execution efliis- duty, and
damaging his trousers. popular belief that with wheat cheap and meat
Ilansfonl proved the iiifoire.-lliere had beet! Omen dear, the farmers were turning their energies
previous convictions .ince 1...0.-Fourteen days ban!
from corn growing to meat producing ; and it is
Lalv r without the option of a tine.
ee." ' M vir (Mr. 0 in. I.Velsforill. Dr. true that in every cereal except barley there is a
- . a, • . •
Drew, Mr. 11. Hopkins, awl Mr W. Talbot. decline. Wheat has decreased 4,582 acres, but
William Wm os and two reaPectsblY dressed barley has increased 3,6911 acres, and oats
Yonne men. were charged with stealing an umbrella, the
mu.
of
.hooio‘o thath.,treet, . eymeuth, counterbalance the other loss ; but in stock
0178anday evening. . 10,1810 head less '. What of that It repre-
Proseretris keep+ a refrv.htnent and prisoner.
Bents in money value over E 33,000, and indicates
went In the worse for drink, and when ordered out took
the utnbrella. li.S. Harvey found them with it at the —to twine extent at any rate—that fanners have
Turks Head, of late being living on capital and not on profit.
Mr. Hamilton...l4l6mi, nail ono of the young Ines had This is' an unwholesome condition of things ;
been with him five Pau. awl the ether three years. and
they were both re.pertalge awl honest y,llllllt Men, or tic and the paucity of stock bodes ill for the con-
should not base kept them for yenra and paid them good stainer, as prices must be expected further to
ti:need miry with „Cluti worth of prorrtr• advance. The green crepe are, in the main,
Moonfaced with a cAution on the charge of st tho
umbras ; but tined MU. each fur being drunk, prolific, but with less stock to consume them,
they will not give much return. We hope that
BLANDPORD. rtlinary conclusions which these Dorset
Rossi. Eugene BOIS' INSTITUTION. -At an election of ; the .". '
ten lira on Monday. the ant of the late Bro. Green. of statistica argue are fallacious, but must confess
Bland erd, architect, te, was second on the poll and will
therefore be admitted into the itoititiiti,a that we see no escape from them.