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SEASONABLE NOTES. Variable as the weather' has received full illustration during the past week-sunshine and shower, sultry heat and great cold for the time of year have alternated with charming variety. Still, on the whole, it has not been altogether unkindly for the crops; a good deal of hay has been got in, some of it perhaps in questionable condition. Hay stacks have arisen everywhere, and more might have been effected in this direction but for the evil of procrastina- tion which some farmers exhibit. Yet hay- making has made good progress all over the kingdom, while the crop is reported as a record one, at all events for a number of years. Under the influence of two or three successive days of sunshine the corn crops have consider- ably improved, and, with more fine weather, the attack of rust intimated in some quarters will probably be reduced to a minimum. Everything else in the farming line looks well, although there are complaints of the backward- ness of the season and the starved and pinched appearance of the wheat ears through the general lack of sunshine and the prevalence of cold winds. As a rule wheat is in the ear when the Royal show is held, but there was little or nothing of this, it was said at the time, between London and Birmingham.. It is usual to allow about six weeks between this (the so-called blooming stage) and the time of harvest; so that the commencement of wheat cutting may be looked forward to aboqt the second week in August. Everything, however, depends on the weather. There is an abundance of keep in the pastures, even whence the hay crops have just been taken, and stock of all kinds con- tinues to improve. Reports from the different cheese centres are somewhat contradictory this week. Thus, from Liverpool we have it that the Market has ruled strong and advancing all the week. Owing to free buying both by dealers and consumers, and strong markets in America, all prices shew an advance of about 2s. to 2s. 6d. on the week. There has also been more inquiry for old cheese, and holders ask full prices. Market closes strong." Bristol reports that the advance mentioned in the previous week had not been maintained, and cables from Canada quoted c.f.i. prices at 2S. to 3s. per cwt. reduction on the week, but at the easier rates only a languid interest was apparent, importers anticipating further concessions. Official, reports are similar in tone. THE CROPS. The Mark-lane Express says: The promise of the growing wheat in the United Kingdom seems to uli to be generally over-estimated. We see, it is true, lush and apparently strong growth, and the plant is very thick on the ground, but it is a corn crop not a grass crop that is being cultivated, and while the increasing rust is likely, with continued wet, to be followed by mildew and fungoid growths, the bleak May and early June may be expected to shew their evil work in but half-filled ears. The high winds are not welcome at this time of the year, and the temperature, though on the whole improving, does not rise as fast as it should do for this time of the year. On the 14th inst. it was only 53 degrees, against an average of 59 degrees. On the 25th it had risen to 59 degrees, but then the season had moved on eleven very critical days, and the average temperature of the 25th June for sixty- six years has been 61-6 degrees. The barley fields shew a certain change for the better since this date in May, but they, too, need heat and settled weather. Even the oats would be better for more sunshine. The hay crop is a very good one, but the potatoes, swedes, and mangolds are not coming on well, and it is doubtful if beans and peas will be as good a crop as at first expected. The American reports indicate a wheat yield of over 80,000,000 qrs. as practically assured. THE RECENT ROYAL SHOW. Now that the final figures are to hand, it appears that the show of the Royal Agricul- tural Society at Four Oaks, Birmingham, was a success in every way but one-in the matter of the attendances; so that the finances must be more or less disappointing. Several causes are put forward to account for this, two of the most prominent being the great distance of the show yard from Birmingham (nine miles), and the weather, which was very wet on one or two days, and catchy' during almost the whole period of the exhibition. Including the implement day, there was a total of 98,278 visitors, which is the smallest recorded since the Warwick meeting in 1892, and is no less than 65,136 short of the number of visitors at the former Birmingham meeting in 1876, when the show was held in Aston Park. As against this year's total, moreover, may be placed 217,980 visitors in Manchester last year, and 146,277 at Leicester in 1896; 100,310 at Darlington; 111,658 at Cambridge; and 115,908 at Chester. 2,462 persons paid 5s. each for admission, or S615 10s. in all; 33,066 paid 2s. 6d. each, or £ 4,132 5s.; and 62,750 paid Is., or 93,137 10s. This makes a total of E7,885 5s. paid for admission during the week, as against E15,459 13s. at Manchester last year, and X10,931 at Leicester in 1896. With a deficit in the admissions to this extent, those to the horse ring and the working dairy must also have been much smaller, so that there is but little doubt that the meeting will shew a defici (:•. AN unusually large number of foreign stock- breeders visited the show, the majority of whom, it is said, were present on business. From the United States and Canada, South America and France, there came many repre- sentatives, and it is believed that not a few effected purchases of cattle or sheep at sub- stantial prices. There was a decidedly spirited tone about the proceedings in the more prominent departments of the great show, buyers in search of stock eagerly examining the different exhibits adapted to their uses, and owners being diligent in their efforts to turn a good opportunity to full advantage. The show (the Field has good reason to believe) has been a very good one from a business point of view. Shorthorn bulls were bought up readily, espe- cially young sires of a good class, of which there was no scarcity, three-figure prices being plentiful. Sheep, also, were freely inquired about, and many bargains contracted which will benefit appreciably the pocket of the British flockmaster. THE AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. These returns are only just to hand, instead of being published in the month of May, as heretofore. The delay in publication has, no doubt, arisen through the large amount of extra information, classified under the heads of exports and imports, foreign comparative statistics, &c. The total area accounted for in detail in the returns for 1897 as under crops and grass in Great Britain was 32,520,000 acres. This shows a further small decline compared with 32,562,400 acres, similarly returned in 1896. The addition shewn in 1897 to the area of arable land, and the unwonted diminution of that returned as permanent pasture is perhaps, at first sight, the most striking feature of the year's returns. For something like a quarter of a century there have been only three excep- tional occasions in which an increase has appeared in the figures of the arable category. In 1875,1885, and 1894, the years referred to, these increases were relatively small, and repre- sented but an insignificant check to what has been accepted as the current and normal course of agricultural changes. But on the present occasion the addition to the arable area of Great Britain is a more material one, exceeding 171,000 acres, the surface returned as perma- nent pasture being at the same time smaller by nearly 214,000 acres. The increase of 195,000 acres in wheat in 1897 was, of course, by no means so great as that occurring in the previous year, when over 276,000 of the acres lost in 1895 were restored to this cereal. Taking the two last seasons together, the recovery in the wheat area has nearly but not quite compensated for the exceptional loss of more than half a million acres shewn in the returns for 1895. In Scotland, the area of wheat-growing, which is always small, has been more than restored to the level of 1894, and in Wales to very nearly that level, the recovery in both these instances being relatively much larger in 1897-6 than in 1896-5, while the English counties, as a whole, which shewed an increase of 269,000 acres, or 20 per cent., in 1896 over the 1895 level, extended their wheat area by 176,000 acres only, the increase in 1897 being 11 per cent. over the figure for 1896. In the county of Chester the acreage of land occupied by tenants is set down at 499,393, against 499,691 in 1896; the acreage of land occupied by owners 39,875 in 1897, as against 39,384 in the previous year. This includes the total under crops and grass. The given number of live stock in the county shews a slight decrease on the year, the totals of cows and heifers in milk or in calf with other cattle being 174,367 in 1897, compared with 174,586 in 1896. Of sheep and pigs there is a considerable decrease, the numbers of the former being 95,073, against 103,434 in the previous year; and of pigs 66,222, compared with 75,034. THE RIPENING OF CREAM. The report issued by the governors of the famous Munster Dairy School and Agricultural Institute on butter-making, says:—To obtain the best results, cream should be slightly acid for churning. As acidity develops very rapidly in summer, particular care should be taken to retard it at the proper stage. If allowed to get too sour, the flavour and keeping quality of the butter will be spoiled. Keeping the cream cool by placing the cream vessel in very cold water will prevent its getting too sour. To sour or ripen cream for churning in winter, heat it the previous evening to a temperature of 65 degs. Fah., then add a little sour buttermilk or skim milk (free from any bad flavour) wrap the cream vessel up in flannel or brown paper to keep in the heat; next morning it should be sufficiently ripe. The exact time when cream is ripe can only be determined by the taste, and a knowledge of the exact flavour indicating perfect ripeness by practice; consequently all butter-makers should attend the lectures given in their district to receive a fuller explanation of this important part of butter-making. To heat cream for ripening or churning, place the cream vessel into a larger vessel containing hot water not exceeding 120 deg. Fah.; keep the cream stirred until the required temperature is reached. Cream should be churned as soon as ever the proper degree of ripeness has been reached.

SHROPSHIRE AND WEST MIDLAND AGRICUL- TURAL SOCIETY.-It is a matter of congratula- tion that the entries for the forthcoming exhibition at Shrewsbury on Wednesday and Thursday, 20th and 21st instants, shew an increase over last year in all classes, with the exception of that for cheese and butter, which is the best evidence that the interest of agricul- turists in the county gathering is well maintained. Following are the comparative figures for this and last year:—1898: Horses, 222; cattle, 159; sheep, 198; pigs, 24 cheese and butter, 81; total, 684. 1897: Horses, 219; cattle, 154; sheep, 197; pigs, 14; cheese and butter, 100; total, 684. The Council are providing a special attraction for the afternoon of Thursday, 21st instant, when there will be held a grand military tournament, open to the whole of the mounted troops of the North- Western District, for which a most liberal list of prizes will be offered. The Cheshire, Lancashire, and other Yeomanry regiments have already entered representatives.

THE TRIAL OF DR. COLLINS. VERDICT AND SENTENCE. At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, the trial of Dr. Collins on a charge of murder was concluded. The prisoner had, it was alleged, caused the death of Mrs. Uzielli, the wife of a London merchant, by performing an unlawful operation. The Attorney General replied on the whole case on Saturday morning, and Mr. Justice Grantham then summed up. He told the jury that the act imputed to the prisoner was undoubtedly an act of felony, and that if Mrs. Uzielli had survived she, too, could have been indicted. He made some severe observations on doings of society ladies, who, for the sake of gay dresses and fashion- able season functions, apparently were ready to undertake such risks as seemed suggested by the evidence they had heard in court during that week. The jury retired at 2-30 p.m. precisely. At 3-25 they returned. The foreman, in answer to the Clerk of Arraigns, said that they had arrived at a unanimous verdict. They had found the prisoner not guilty of the charge of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. At the same time they strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. The foreman of the jury then handed up to the judge a communication, which his lordship announced was a rider to their verdict. It was to the effect that the jury deplored the growing tendency among the women of a certain section of the community to resort to the aid of nefarious practices to enable them to evade the responsibilities of motherhood. Mr. Justice Grantham commented upon this document by saying, "A very proper rider, gentlemen, indeed." Then the prisoner was asked what he had to say in his defence. In a husky voice that was almost inaudible he uttered a few sentences in self-defence. After he had denied the justice of the verdict, and had cast himself upon the mercy of the judge, he went on: My lord, I can but repeat that I never did anything wrong or illegal to that poor lady who is now dead. I treated her only with the greatest kindness, care, and skill. My lord, in any sentence that you pass upon me-" Here the accused man's voice sank into a nervous whisper, and became entirely inaudible. Mr. Justice Grantham, addressing the prisoner, said: William Maunsell Collins, you have been convicted by a jury who have found you guilty of the felony of manslaughter on evidence which must have convinced all who have heard it. It is one of the most serious crimes known to our law. It is true you were asked to perform the operation by the poor woman, who sought to meet a doctor of your reputation but in the same way that if there were no receivers there would be no thieves, so if there were no doctors ready to perform this unholy and illegal operation for purposes of gain (the prisoner by his gestures here dis- sented from this observation), these unhappy women would not be guilty of acts of im- morality, nor would it be necessary for them to endeavour to hide their shame, or, as in this particular case, be prepared to act the unwomanly part of this poor lady for the purpose of gratifying her vanity during the social season. You have indeed had a chequered career, and it is sad to think that one who in early life had given such promise of great ability, and who has held such a position as you once held, should be standing in that dock con- victed of such a charge as this. Unfortunately, this is not the first time you have offended against the laws of your country. You have previously been convicted of forgery, but for some reason, I do not inquire why, you were not sentenced to any punishment. I will only say that had you been punished then you would probably have been saved from the sad condi- tion in which you now stand. I have not, however, to punish you for that, but I think the only sentence which to my mind is commensu- rate with your crime is that you be sent to penal servitude for seven years. The prisoner nearly swooned on hearing the sentence, and was carried out of court. COLLINS' SUCCESSOR. EXTRAORDINARY STORY. The Times, commenting on the issue of the trial and referring to the 'smart' ladies who consulted the convict, says:—How much they now care for the victim, as in a sense he was, of their selfish wickedness may be gathered from a story which is current, and which, if not true, is at least ben trovato. Soon after his imprison- ment a lady of the class referred to was asked what she and her friends would do, now that Dr. Collins was no longer available. "Oh," was the reply, we have found another man," All we can hope is that the other man,' if such there be, may not only speedily share the fate wkich has overtaken Collins, but that some of his patronesses may survive to stand in the dock beside him. Weak medical men may be induced to tread in the footsteps of Collins until a time comes when their would-be patients are made to realise that the law in relation to the murder of unborn children is no respecter of persons or of sex.

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FAILURE OF A LITTLE BUDWORTH PUBLICAN. 0 At Crewe Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, before Mr. T. Bullock, official receiver, Thomas Parr, of the Shrewsbury Arms, Little Budworth, came up for his public examination in bankruptcy. Debtor's liabilities are put down at X700, and his assets at JE69, the esti- mated deficiency being 9628. In answer to the Official Receiver, the debtor stated that he had been carrying on business as a publican and farmer at the Shrewsbury Arms, Little Budworth, for the last six years, having before been in the employment of Mr. Corbett, of Adderley, Lord Berkeley Paget, and Sir Philip Egerton. He was perfectly solvent at the time, and paid JE60 to JE70 to the outgoing tenant, borrowing some of the money from his sister and father-in-law. That money was still owing. The house was a free one. He found he was going wrong when his wife died about four years ago, and since he had been there he had lost six horses, besides five heifers since Christmas. When his wife died his sister came to help him in business, leaving service in which she was earning JE50 a year for that purpose. Nothing was said about wages, and she had not received nor asked for any. He, of course, had meant to pay her. His sister was now joint tenant with him, he having received notice to leave, which expired in March last. Witness could not give an average of his daily takings, but sometimes he had taken as little as Is. 6d. in one day.—The Official Receiver There is £ 500 you owe for goods supplied what has become of that money ?—Debtor We got behind the first two or three years and have been paying them as well as we could.—Three years ago you could not have paid people if you had been pressed ? No, I have been trying to pay them off.—Thus you were getting further into debt F It seems like it.—The Official Receiver: Where has the money gone?- Debtor: I cannot tell you, sir; I have not wasted it.—Are you a steady man P Yes.— Do you bet ? No.—Why did you not file your petition earlier ? I wanted to keep the home together my aunt was living with me.— But have you not been doing it at the cost of your creditors ? I couldn't say.—It seems an unfortunate thing for them and you that they did notpress you years ago.—How doyou account for this large deficiency of C628 P I cannot account for it, unless by my losses.— In cross-examination by Mr. Jackson, of North- wich, who appeared for Parr's sister, debtor said his losses up to a year or so ago were X386, he having lost several horses and other stock.—The examination was closed.

STRANGE INCIDENT AT A TARPORLEY BURIAL. ♦ RELIEVING OFFICER CENSURED. At the fortnightly meeting of the Tarvin Board of Guardians, held in Chester on Satur- day, Mr. R. O. Orton presiding, Mr. Challoner (Handley) asked the relieving officer (Mr Willis) for an explanation of his action in con- nection with the burial of a child at Tarporley this week. He said that Dr. McCulloch had given a burial certificate in the case, and on the day of the funeral Mr. Willis went to the house of the child's parents and demanded that the burial should not take place. He told the mother he had heard that the child had died from blood poisoning, and he must accordingly inform the coroner before the burial took place. The mother said she had heard the rumour, but explained that that would have no effect, as the doctor had given a burial certificate. Mr. Willis then saw the doctor, who refused to say definitely that the child had blood poisoning. As he had granted a certificate, he (Mr. Challoner) thought their relieving officer had gravely exceeded his duty. The CLERK (to Mr. Willis): Where did you get your information from ? Were you told on authority, or did you act only on a rumour ? The Relieving Officer: I was not informed on authority; I really acted on a rumour. Proceeding, Mr. Willis said he had heard a rumour from a woman in Tarporley that this child had died from blood poisoning, caused by its eating poisonous berries. He then saw Dr. McCulloch, who had attended the child. He could not substantiate the statement, but said the child might have been suffering from the effects of poisonous berries. He (Mr. Willis) con- sidered it his duty, in face of the burial certificate, to stop the burial and inform the coroner, which he did. The CLERK: But there was no suspicion of the child's having been badly dealt with ? Mr. Willis: Oh, no. Then why did you interfere ?—I thought I was acting within my duty. I was anxious to save any unpleasantness, but I am afraid I have caused it. Mr. CHALLONER You have, indeed. Mr. Willis: I did not demand the burial to be stopped, but only asked it to be deferred. I regret that this should have happened. Mr. CHALLONER: He does not seem to regret anything he has done. He had no right to act in the way he did. The CLIERK The doctor's certificate is re- garded as final, and Mr. Willis should not have interfered in view of it. I suppose he acted, as he thought, within his duty, but he has exceeded it. Mr. CHALLONEB I think our officer should be censured. Mr. R. C. SMITH I should advise Mr. Willis to pay no attention in future to stories. By his action he has caused a very painful occurrence. The matter then dropped.

CHARGE AGAINST MONSON. « ALLEGED INSURANCE FRAUDS. At Bow-street Police Court, on Friday, Alfred J. Monson, 36, Victor Honour, 45, property agent, Robert Metcalfe, 36, commission agent, and Percival Norgate, 28, were charged with conspiring to defraud the Norwich Union Life Assurance Society. The charge against Norgate was withdraw at the opening of the proceedings, and he was called as a witness for the prosecution. Mr. Avory, who prosecuted, alleged that Honour, who had carried on business as a money-lender, had been in the habit of inducing young men to forge bills in the names of their parents or friends in order that he might use these forged securities for the purpose of levying blackmail. Monson had acted as a tout to Honour. Norgate had got into Honour's hands in the way described, and bad forged several bills, but was in debt to Honour, who then proposed that he should insure his life as a security. Norgate was aware that in his state of health no doctor would pass him, and told Honour so but eventually he was induced to fill in a proposal for an insurance of E200, which however, was never used, but a proposal for an insurance of E2,000, subsequently altered to £1,000, was filled in by somebody else in his name, and some one-it was supposed a man named Hobson, who had business connections with Monson, but had now disappeared—passed a medical examination, personating Norgate, and signed the proposal in his name. Prisoners were remanded in custody.

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B Thousands of wonderful cures have THE BLOOD BEEN effected by it. Langley, Wiveliscombe, Somerset. FT^HE BLOOD 23rd July, 1896. JL "Dear Sirs,—! beg to testify to the THE BLOOD epcacy of Clarke's Blood Mixture. For some considerable time I was TTTTTI T>T AAn suffering very badly from Eczema, Hrj jjijUUJJ the pain and irritation at night beiaif something dreadful. My neck was see THE BLOOD bad I could not wear a collar. When firat it came on I attended a doctor j TTTTP T!T nAT> he gave me ointment, lotion, and medicine but all to no purpose, for I TTTTI TKT gradually got worse. I was reading HBI BLOOD about a cure effected by Clarke's Blood Mixture, and thought I would 11HE BLOOD J>7, a bottle, but with very little faith. After I had one bottle T~ TTI? t>T nriri sores began to dry up and disappear, xsLUO-U and when x had taken three bottles, T 2s. 9d. size, I was completely cured' HE BLOOD I shall always recommend it to any* one I know suffering from THE BLOOD disease. as it is really a marvellous thing, and deserves MNII1 I)T AATI tion. All I can say is, that I r I xSLOO-U truly grateful for my recovery.-—* JL remain, yours faithfully. THE BLOOD "ALBERT TARLING. THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS. I For cleansing and clearing RRMW -RT NAN blood frota a11 impurities, » F I lMlti ±51JU01) Blood Mixture cannot be too hlgblj J_ recommenced.. THE BLOOD As tliis mixture is pleasant to the tfistc, and wan-anted free from any- TTTX' T*T AATI thin injurious to the most BLOOD constitution of either .sex. ,fr°« T>T infai.ey to old :»?e, the proprietor" r ■ ^HE BAJOOD solicit sutferers to give it & trial JL test its value. n THE BLOOD Sold in bottles 2s. 9.1. each by a Chemists and Patent Medi>'1Be TTTli1 prnrm dors throughout the World, or se -BLOOD tQ any ml|res3 on receipt of W mm BLOOD LARKE'S woRLD- BLOOD /UAEKE'3 WOS-'BLOSD MIXTDBE. ^LARKE'S WOULD- BLOOD MIXTURE. "TTTHEN you ASK for CLARKE'S BLOOD VV don't be put off with something else. retailers stock substitutes for all articles "l these and pay their assistants commission on the sa fr0m imitations. This explains why different the one asked for are so frequently put before pure^e