The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-27 00:00:00

.Borort conntl eilirtos*
REVIEW OF Tfli 0011 N TRIMS.
The steadiness whisk wee the chareeteristic of the
gran trade to the Previous week has In some meanie. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1874.
heided under lb. infiseeee of mild weather, and at irrmr-
jgask•Laas lc-day • decline of One Shilling per quarter
ham boon frequently submitted to.
Judging from the preset position of Ogre, however,
a spell of frost would doubtiets psalm 1 return of
firmness, end Itl.i question whether • further advance
would not be todeblehed.
The quantity of wheat now on passage is *Wanted
lit 1,512,830 quarters, against 1,470,800 quarters last
JON'.
Barley has been hardly so firm, but there has berm no
Mame in the value of malting produce.
The Oat trade has brooms quiet, and there has hem
• fall of Sixoenoe to One Shilling per quarter.
Milne haa experienoed a similar reduotlon, but Beans
and Poas, though not ardively dealt in, have esteem*
en:rendes.
Flour has been quiet.

LATEST NEWS.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Her Majesty is expected to return from
Osborne on the 14th of February, to prepare
for receiving; the Duke of Edinburgh and his
bride. A splendid suite of apartments is being
fitted up for them, overlooking the Home Park,
and affording exquisite views of Frogmen) and
the Royal Gardens. The Royal marriage took
place on Friday with all the pomp of the
Russian ceremonial, followed by the plainer
Anglican service. The Grand Huila's is a
devout member of the Russian Church, and will
not abandon her faith on entering the English
Royal family. She realises all the conceptions ,
that we generally form of a Princess, livery fond
of music), especially of the plum, and speaks
English like an Englishwoman, only it is said,
under the rose, with rather more purity and
elegance than most English girls.
The greatest surprise Mr. Gladstone has ever
planned is the appeal to the country which is to
take place during the ensuing month. Nobody
expected it, though everyb,dy was grumbling
at the prospect of • dull listless session, and
Cmservativea were oheerfully antiolp 'Mug a
conflict in the autumn. The Premier's brow:11)61
Irritation and fever of the past week may have
precipitated the dissolution, for illness added to
the ewes of office, which of late have weighed
heavily on Mr. Gladitone, must make the
responsibility of the Premiership a sore weed-
netts to the flesh. However, Her Majesty is
expected to-day (Tuesday) to direct the eleotion
of now representatives, and before the week is
out we shall have an election conflict all over the
country. The Premier frankly states Val does
not feel the Cabinet have the support a Ministry
require to carry great legislative measures, and
an appeal to the eouatry is the oonstitutional
remedy. By dissolving now the year will be
sawed for legislation, directed by whichever party
the constituencies place in power. In indicating
prospective legislation, Mr. Gladstone mentions
the comoistion of the reform of judiciial establish-
ments, the extension of the benefits conferred by
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, im-
provement of the laws respecting the transfer,
the dement, and the occupation of Mad ; the laws
respecting game, the laws respecting the sale of
spiritous liquors, the laws affecting the relations
between employer and employed, the laws of
rating and of local government; and the exten-
sion of the County Franchise, but it Is espeoialy
upon financial policy that Mr. Gladstone claims
confidence. In the peat five years notwithstand-
ing the payment of nine millions for the tele-
graphs, the N ationel Debt has been reduced
more than twenty millions, sad taxes have been
lightened to the extent of 12* millions. This
, year the Alabama indemnity has been
,paid and
the cost of the Ashantee war will be paid out of
revenue, yet Mr. Gladstone estimates • surplus
of five millions. With this he proposes to offer
"relief coupled with reform of local taxation,"
, and the total repeal of the Income Tax, and to
, give some marked relief of taxation in the class
; of articles of popular consumption. All this
, would require "judicious adjustments of exist-
Hug taxes." But the question for the moment
, is one of oonfidenee. Shall the present Ministry
begin the session in March with renewed vigour
or shall another take their plain' 1 That is the
question, and Mr. Gladstone appeals to the
legislation of the past 43 years in proof that the
Liberal party deserve the support of the *omit-

MARK-LANE, Tan DAT.

Market closed heavily. Fine wheat drooping ;
Inferior one shilling lower. Barley dull. Otte elipease
lows,. Beau arid peas arm. Flour unaltered.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, Tins DAY.

About throe thousand busts of which scrim hundred
were foreign. Trade dull, prices drooping. Inferior,
four and fourponoo to dye and slipenor• • prima six to
six end twopence. About fourteen th.ousand 'beep.
Market quiet without change. Inferior firs to sir ;
prime, al: and oightpcnoo to won shillings. Cairo.
sold at fire and airpeoce torte and eightpottoo. Pig.
throe and sightpones to four and teopenos.

DEATH OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.
Ts Daily Telegraph specie! edition sill Dr. Lling-
atone died of dyeentry, while travelling from Lake
Bembe to Nyanembe. The body was emba!med and
preserved In salt by natives, and vi•l be eonveyed to
'England.

WAREHAM rutarioN.
It is espeetiad Mr. J. R. W. S. R. Dean, the titling
member, will again °Mr himself for re-s cation ; and
Uwe la a rumour that Mr. Montagne (kiosk will b$ a
eandlelate la the Liberal Interest

THE REPRESENTATION 01 POOL&
The cop uawcituaw at, p.••• 111 before the Steams ts
Obarles Warmg the former Liberal Member for the
borough who seems to have takes the plea* by itorm.
Kr. Waring earns down on Saturday, and at ono* a
meeting of Liberals was sailed at the Auction Mart, in
Afarket-etrest. Alderman F. T. Rogers presiding.
Around him were collected all the leading Liberals,
bending that staunch veteran Mr. Kamp.Weloh the
Mayor, Mr. Fludson, the ex-Mayor, Mr. Either, Mr.
Styria,. Mr. Baotou, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Will. Mr. Waring
*Mended and addressed the eleotors and wee at once
received and adopted as a and {dote. Great enthusiaam
prevails, and 111. qeestioned by IMMO whether Mr. A.
Hued will offer himself again.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH Di A GIPSY F—VCAIIPIIENT.
The gipaies from all parts of F.stglarril are flocking to the
encampment of the Lovell tribe, who are solouring flee miles
trum Wolecrluunpton. It tuts transpired that the woman who
roused as George Lorcll'a wife has died from pniconing. A
post-mortem easminatlon has been made, and the stomach MA
been sent for analysis to Dr 11111, of Birmingham. On ?rids,
night deceased's ahrieks alarmed the encampment. She WU
found leaping and beating the air. Soon afterwards she fell
deal In hcr aleeping place. Lovell was at the time at •
neighbouring inn.