The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

STATISTICS.

Naw COINAGE ACT.- In the New Coinage AA,
which will take effect on the lit of November, there is
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• clause making it • tnisdemeenor to deist* coin by
stamping words thereon. under which an ofPnder can
be kept to hard Latour tor one year. Further It hi
tlec:Aied that the tender of coin so defaced is not s
tender, al penalty of 400. can he recovered on con•
viction of any person uttering the same. The prmieeu•
tiou is to lift with the consent of the Attorney-General.

LAN A AND TAKM.--Tho receipts; in
respect of the land and assessed taxes in the year ending
31st JI kreh, isl, were as follows: Laud tax, 111.145.341 ;
istlinhitell 0422.'M ; acrvanta, £202,165 ;
£x1,212 . • .Ing,t; £197;520 ;
aler, k 1 1,110 ; hair plw.ler, £1,37 (being
th ni an thc previona ear) ; armorial bearings,
; n,PIIIO duty, P.1,1".13 ; eduitn.nal 10 per cent.
per Act 3 VieL., c. 17. The k.tal nut reeeipta were
i 13.141,441.

UEvENER DERIVED ygog Ltem•Es.—Th.e various
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licences iu existeuee yield the large Niun of nearly
£1,500,01* tn the revenue, lvtt Inure than half the
amount k &avail front publicans' 1101.11C04, which, in
the year sapling M.trels it, 141, yielded 1776,34 g. The
ether ptincilial limnces are —Beer retailers, £143,157 ;
beer :did spirit dealers, £10,481 ; lirentrs, £82,433;
coffee, let, and pepper dealer+, £91340; tobacco and
snuff' ilitnufacturere cud dealers, ilts,ool ; sine-dealers,
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auettoiwcra, £40,9110 ; postmasters, £143,157.
The duty on licences for refreshmont4iouses being as
to £3,360, the number of ref reshinentdion -es amounted
s In hoodoo, 31 ist 10i. 64. and 1 612 at £1 Is. ;
in the country, 1,860 at 10A. dd. and 2.275 at kl
The ntiol,,r of wino lictenum for coosumption on the
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pr. subos was 6d6, awl for consumption off lrn premiws
740, waking a total of 1,4*, and yielding £2,639 duty.
The oionber of game licences iioued you 45,512.
ESPORTA or BRITIsH AN . D LIND SPIRITS.—The
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number of mations of British and Irish spirits exported
from the Irnited Kingdom in the year ending 31st
March, 1861. wee 2,185,031, compared with 2,054,234
gallons its 1860. The exports In 1861 were thus die.
tributed: To France, 410,017 gallons; to Portugal,
569.124 gallons; to the West L'oeet of Africa (foreign).
129,159 gallons; to Australia, 25.1,807 gellons ; to the
United Starve 446,541 gallons; and to other countries,
352.483 gallons.
lutx lesuaas:eg.—The Counniasioutei of Inland
Revenue,- in their fifth report, which has just been
issued, celled attention to the steeily increase of the
fire insunsece teary. In 1850, the amount of property
insured Wag L'773,021.000; and the amount of farming
stuck insured, £61,805.352. In 1860, the amount of
eriperty insured wes £1.039,881,0W ; and the amount
of farming stock ussural, 1.73,309A8. Thus the
increase as leg iris proeerty during the ten years was
1:266,870,060. reel as regards farming stock, £11,504,456.
The conimiesioners remark :—" Thee* figures give
additional eutijmrt to the argument maintained by Mr.
Goode, its his report on the duty on fire insurance, that
the progreadve increase in the amount of inoperty
ilintlfe.l Is Vely 11111C11 greater in that description of
property whielt is eultject to the duty than in that
which is exempt. If terming stock bail been insured to
the itatue extent WI other lest favoured powessions, the
ineresee in ten years would have been about double
that which, haat actually taken place under that head."
Loste, LIPS IN £NS;LAND.--11 speaks well for the
healthiness of England thet in the year 1859, for which
the return,. have just bet n pebliehed, the lust of deaths
included 25 usen and 06 ve oaten whetted attained whet Dr.
Fan calls the 'tetanal Idetimeofahuntired years." The
oldest in the obituary of the year died at Sunderland,
aged 11)7 ; but a woman in Workingliam district, Berke,
Wad 14,3, and two women, one in Monntontlishire and
am. in South Wa'es, hed reached the patriarehnt ago of
110. Of these centenarians eight were found in London ;
the county that could boast the largest number is
Soinereetabire, tit which there were seven.
IMPlttiONlttar YOU LIEDT.—Its 1111 l etimearupposed
that imprie ..... tient for debt bee beets alinoet abolished,
lint the official returns show that in the year ending at
Mieltselinas lent there were c ..... mitted to the prisons of
England for debt arid on civil process no less than 11,068
men and 639 women, in all 11,707; and, large as the
number deellig. it has never been se emelt in any year
tines lick. In the five ye at, 1551.53, the annual
average Was 9,347; in the five years, 1856-60, it has
been 13,838.
Desreueritie Or 'MEAN,' 14114.—0 f the deaths in
Segland in 1850, no Ices then 184,264—tw0 in every
five of the deaths of the year—were of children under
five yeare of age; aud above half of these —105,629
bail scarcely mon the light, and never new one return of
their birthday. A very large number of these early
derthe are from debility and causes which prove that
the children never had much chance of life, but many
ate euffocate.l. or otherwise killed, accidentally,
carelessly, or worm. Its the lied five years, within the
tindery ilitan district alone, at least 278 infants were
murdered ; above 60 were found dead in the Thames, or
the canals or ponds about Lenslon, and many inure
than 100, at ell evade, were found dead under railway
inches, on iluerateps, in dusthries. cellars, and the like.
We may here correct an eypreesion in the summary of
the ItegistrarGenoral's report given on Saturday. in
which it was stated that to 100 women of certain ages
then, were " 14.9 births', in the year ; that Weill{
inconsistent with what follows, but the inconsistency
vatii-hes on teatling " 141 children burn alive."
TUE litrontANCE or A GOOD ARVZST.--The
cost of the intieirte of grain of all kinds, a. well as flour
for the lest seven years, were in the yoar 1854
r 21,760,263 ; 1855. £17,508,700; 1856. k 23,039.422;
1857, £19,380,567; 1858, £20,152,611; 11E50, £18,042,063,
making a total b six year,' of £119,833,676, and an
aneual average of 1:19,980,613 paid for foreign grain
and dour, while in the year 1860 the cost amounted to
the enormous nuns .1 £:31,671,918, mainly owing to Vie
bed harvest in Enzland ; hat them figures do not re-
present by any means the full extent to which we are
subjected by the Ii tof 1659. They only show
what • large sum of money we have paid ; but the pay-
meting in that year were not near so heavy as they have
been siuce. Tim official information brought down to
the end of April make, the value of the grain and flour
imported in the find four months of IMO, £4,381,045 ;
1860, £3,913,001, and Idol, £12,435.435, by which it
will be seen thet we have been paying for the first four
months of the current year at the rate of £37,306,305
per annum, or 68,52?.,431 snore for breadstuff" than in
the same period of 1860.
Seven hundred men, of whom 24are sliver& now daily
at work at Ahlerney About MO feet of the west
breakwater will he brought above highweter this
milliliter. The outer end of this breakwater will be
nearly • mile frotet the chore. It h-is beau decided to
erect another breakwater, 1,000 feet in length, to
shelter the anchorage from easterly winds.
CAreiEd m,r DEATH.—To the Itegistrar-General's
report is appended, at usu ,I, an instructive paper by Dr.
NV. Farr on the cause's of death in England. The year
reported on —11459—il the first in whirl, diptheria has
obtained a distinct line in the tables ; it had previously
been esinfoundeil with cynanelie, and when the two are
put together the repel progress of this great epidemic
becomes evident ; the deaths in 1855 were 3.45 ; in 1856,
603 ; in 1857, 1,53; in 1858, 6.606 ; in 1659, 10,184.
Epidemics of diptheria are clearly described in the 17th
century by Italian and Spanish writers, and its frequent
association with acerlatina justifies the inference that
the ilipleherine, its wisteria,' inurbi,is some modification
of iscarlatiimiuie. Of the whole death., of the year on
fourth were referred to xylnotic disease. Small pox
destroyed 3.848 persons, staidly children who had not
be vaccinated, an instance, sit Dr. Farr remarks, of the
rigour with which the infringement of sanitary laws is
visited ; for the children periath and the parents lose
their offspring by the negleet of a precaution of the
simplest kind. A fatal outbreak .4 erysipelas at the
Winchester Infirmary war traced to a cesspool. We
have but an inipetfect conception of the number of
deaths from macerate, drinking; but 345 were
directly Nitrated to intemperance and 545 to
delirium trenieue, 100 in all from the two forme of
alcoholism. Pealing next to constitutional diseases,
another regiment of the enemies that dog our steps,
we find gout desetilted as nearly etationary ; it is con
sidered that, thanks to the more intelligent system of
dining which the wealtlii deuce, wearied of this
reeking disease, will probably introduce, we may hope
to see gout rapidly decline. The deaths from tuber-
culous. disea c have decreased since 1853; (how from
bronchitis hive iucrearaed very greatly of hate years.
Fright was the cause of 'even deaths (not all children).
grief of eight (seven wouten), rage of five (four
infanta), anxiety of our, • man ; mental shock of one,
a woman ; melancholy, of the deaths of 21 men and 26
women. Aimee 25,000, chiefly infants, died of convul-
sinns—a striking and distressing eyinittom, but pro-
bably only part of the aitenae. which is the result of
organic ICaintla and local irritations& that arc never dis•
covered. 27,104 deaths are referred to the decay of
old age without any disease—" the weary wheel of life
at length stood still." 14,649 permits were killed, a sad
confession, Kays Dr. Farr, for • netion humane, civi-
lised, and Allied in all the arts, to have to make.
Annually 75 persone in 100,000 thins die a violent
death. 13,056 of these deaths in 1859 are ascribed to
aceident or negligence; among them were 279 by poison,
1,248 deaths were declare I by coroner's juries to be
suicides; 338 isturdsr or manslaughter. 18 persons
were killed by lightning. nearly all perame ef out-door
occupations ; the house is safer than the field.