The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1865-04-04 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE REVINOR.—The revenue returns for the quarter suddenly on Saturday. On Monday Dr. Pritchard and for the financial year were made public on Friday conveyed his wife's remains to Edinburgh, although we night. The result must be regarded as satisfactoty. believe it was not intended that the interment should The Customs and the property tax, which were both take place till Thursday. Meanwhile the case had been reduced last year, show a deficit on the whole year— brought under the notice of the authorities, and Dr. the former of £660,000, the latter of £1,126,000.—8ut Pritchard was apprehended. Dr. Pritchard is a roan in the Customs are rapidly recovering their former position; his prime, well known in Glasgow, both as a medical indeed there is a small surplus on the quarter just practitioner and as a casual lecturer on literary and ended; and all the other items, except the misscientific subjects. Ile is an Englishman by birth, and oellaneous, show an Increase. The Excise has increased in early life served for some time in the navy, by which to the enormous extent of £1,351,000 over the amount means he had the opportunity of visiting distant Lode. oft last year. The result of the whole is that there is He married and settled in Glasgow several years ego, an increase on the lee, quarter of i 1.813,082, and on the and he has five children by the lady just deceased, the whole year of £101,473. eldest being about thirteen years of age. A servant Tax IRON TRADE Diaruyx.—The Star, in a sumgirl also, who it is said has bad illicit intercourse with mary view, says the meeting of the workmen and Dr. Pritchard, has been arrested on suspicion of crow masters on Wednesday has ended abortively. The plioity in the affair. A rumour to which publiety has masters insisted as a ewe qua non that the men should been given is, that a heavy insurance had been effected go to work at the reduced rate of wages, and that then on the life of Mrs. Pritchard, that she was farther to the differences between them should be referred to inherit a sum of money on the decease of her mother, arbitration. To this the men declined to agree. They and that Dr. Pritchard would have the ministration of could not go to work at the wages the South Staffordthat money daring the lifetime of his wife. The first shire men had accepted, and the quarrel seems now as part of this statement is untrue, and the hitter part far from being healed ss ever. The masters will now inamorata. Mrs. Pritchard's life was not insured.. On probably introduce men from other districts to North the decease of Mrs. Taylor, the life-rentof a sum of £2,500 Staffordshire. and thus get their works opened again. fell to her daughter, Mrs. Pritchard, and in the event of Meantime, the London trades' delegates met onThursday, the death of Mrs. Pritchard, her husband, and as and passed resolutions approving of the conduct of the curator for the children, obtains that life-met till they North Staffordshire men, and promising them support. reach their majority. The post-mortem examination of The ironmasters met at Stafford at noon on Friday, and the remains of Mrs. Taylor, did not lead to the dis- the men at three o'cleek at Stoke, to divine the eovery of any appreciable and natural cause of death, suggestion of Lord Lichfield that., pending arbitrafion The vital parts are to be subjected to chemical analpia. upon the disputed points, the masters of North StaffordIt is whispered that the line of defenee likely to he shire shall open their works—wages to he drawn on adopted by Dr. Pritchard will be that his wife died by account, and to be settled subsequently. The Iron Trade her own hand - in other won* committed suicide. Circular states that at a preliminary meeting of the