The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-11-08 00:00:00

BURTON BRADSTOCK.

IT was resol;edW;;est—rint-Te-tiCit—iteld het Thin
day, to twasidse the Eknoestary Bduostion Act, to
apply for a School Board. This is the first Dorset
pariah that has so decided.

SHAFTESBURY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,
The annual show and dinner took place on Wednes-
day. There was but s small exhibition of stock, and
the most noteworthy were one or two balls and the dairy
oows. The dinner took place at the Grosvenor Arms,
Sir R. G. Glyn presiding, supported by the Hoc. 77.
IL B. Portman, the Hors G. G. Glyn, M.P.,
Mr. T. F. Grove, M.P., dre. After tbe loyal tomb,
The Caufutex gave the "Army, Navy, Militia, and
Volunteers," saying, when there waa • continental war,
England generally becanie • itgle prude-stricken, but
he saw no reason for few. Atli, same time he thought
it right attention should be drown to our military
forties. He thought the militia might be made a very
unfit] auxiliary to the army ; and the volunteers would
fight extraordinarily well. Bat both wanted officers of
of military experience, unity by discipline, and artillery
supports.
Major BOrlurow replied for the army, and said be
thought they should be all soldiers. A military training
of three or four years would de no one any harm, bat,
oat the eontrary, good ; and if that were done, ho did
not think they need fear France, Prussia, or any other
nation. He heard that next Session the Government
were to propose some such oedema.
Mr.V.F. RIXITY-firisroao replied for the yeomanry,
and Kr. Taorra-Butcocre lee the militia and volun-
teer..

The CHAIIMAN proposed "the Bishop and Clergy of
all denominations in the diocese."
The Rev. T. K. N. Monitor', in responding, spoke
cordially of Nonconformist Ministsan who he said were
doing a noble and blessed work, but he maintsinod
that the Church of England stood at the hoed of all
the churches in the world, referred to the generosity
of the Marquis of Westminster, testified from experience
that the Dorsetahire labourer is al well fed and clad as
the Liverpool artisan, and referred bis hearers to the
farm!of Mr. Littledale, in the neighbourhood of Cheattr,
from which he had seen fire crops of grass taken in •
year. Mr. Littledale kept about ninety mach cows,
a proportionate number of horses, and • large number
of pigs. Some 20 or 30 miles of piping conveyed sewage
and the washings from the cow houses, stables, and
piggeries from • large tank in the farm yard to •
hydrant on the land, and then it was irrigated and
rendered so very productive. Why should they not do
the same, if not to so large an extent, on their farms
in Dorsetshire

The CHLIIIIIAN proposed "Th. Lord-Lieutenant and
"and Mr. HUIT returned thanks.
MattraCat.l4utuau SS
neat proposol "The health of the
members for the counties of Dorset and Wilts"—
(oheers)—Mr. Portman, Mr. Start, and Mr. Floyer for
Dorset, and Lord H. Thyone and Mr. T F. Grove for

Wilts.
The Hon. W. H. B. PORTIUN, in replying, said
Hhofteebary was peculiarly fortunate in possessing a
member of it own—one who we. in all the secrets of
the Government, and would be able to espial° to them
why inch and such things were done lest session, and
what the Government were going to do neat session
(laughter)—and therefore, be (the speaker) would say
nothing about politico In the second place, ho had a
wholesome respect for the "lash" of his " whipperio,"
and if in the °aurae of his remarks he we to sey some-
thing Hr. Glyn thought would have been better left
unsaid, he had no doubt that in the Gonne of a few days
he (the speaker) would bear all about it—( more laughter.)
He would, however, just allude to one very important
measure which was pawed last union—the Education
Bill. That measure was mainly serried through the
House by the muttons and by Mu tut and ability of
Hr. Forster; sad he was proud to tell them that Hr.
Forster was born and bred in the neighbourhood of
Bridport, and that therefore they oould claim one
Hareellehire man as being in the ministry of the country
—(applanee). With regard to the war between Franco
and Germany, a friend of hie said to Inin the other day,
when they were out hunting, "I always like, when
there is a fight at iihroton lair, to see the man who
begins it get the licking." He lied no doubt the French
brought on the Kenai was by their own bravado and
jealousy and the intolerable conceit that noanny in the
world could withstood theire—thear, boar). He thought
they owed their Government great thanks for preeervcng
throughout perfect neutrality. He strongly sympathised
vith the Pruisitosi and helmet they would bring Franc
to scabs condition that she would not henceforward b
to theses source of constant anxiety and alarm. Th
Fressian army had been victorious through preparednes
and discipline, and the war led tu to think of
land's military eimilitios. He did not
Mr. Cardwell had dose all that he might have das..
He believed that if that geatleenaa wished to maintain
once sad not jeoperdise the Government of which he
was • member, he laud set to work to pat the dolmas
of the *matey tab& • son talthiastory deb than they