The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

ODD FELLOWFIHrP.-THE A.)LC. AT
VORCESTIR.

The annual 'moveable committee met this year al
Worcester during the whole of Whitesoweek. Two
hundred and forty one delegates attended from differ'',
dietricts. The only district represented ia this
neighbourhood was the Poole Diatriet, the delegates
being Mr. W. N. Western, P.C.B. ; Mr. W. Cillea.
P.P.G.M. ; Mr. W. Spicer, P.P.G.M. l'he busbies'
relating to Dorset and Devon was, fret, • pc:titles'
from the Ottery St. Mary District to be allowed
to change its name to the Bridport Dletriet." The
petition was granted. Secondly, from the Peels
District, a petition 'that the Bud of Rope and Rail.
in-hand Lodges, Dorchester, be allowed to leave the
Poole District, and to form • distriet to be tailed the
Dorchester district." The petition VII net waits&
Thirdly, "that the Great Eastern, United Brother%
and Excelsior Lodges, Weymouth, be allowed te kw"
the Poole, and form • distriet to be gelled the
Dorchester District" Thie was also refused. Th•
banquet was held at the Callahan, Woreerlsr,
Tuesday. More than 900 persoas wen preheat.
John Pakington, Bari., M.P., G.C.8., was ehairates.
FLU' opening speech was an excellent one. In peeves*,
"Continued noose and prosperity" to the sosisty, be
acid: "1 And by one of your last reports, that IS the
Ist of January, 1864, the number of members emptied
In the Unity was upwards of 358,000. During the year
1864 you have added to that number upwards */ WOOL
(Applause.) But many deaths have ow:erred, some fee
of your lodges have seceded, and the general result le
that your members on the lit of January, 1865, steed
at 973,000. (Applause.) You never Wore ealisted se
many men in one year as you did kit year. Tea sem
before stood at so high a furore as that whisk I lays
just mentioned, and there can be no reason/Me doebt
that the time is fart approaching who* set lees tire
half • million of our fellow subject" sal brother
Christians will be enrolled in the ranks of this bee,*
volent and eitaritab4s institution. (Applause.) Geso
tlemen, your primary objects are beeevelent, are
charitable—they are eternal and can never ohmage ; and
so long aa you adhere to them, depend upon It year
prosperity will last. (Applause, and • voice " Brava")
I have made it my duty to look at your rules, and I am
not surprised that a society, governed by them, should
have found success. When a deputation of your body
asked me to preside here, I was influenced in the assent
which I gave by only one consideration, which wee that
I might have a public opportunity of testifying ma
I proclaiming before • great gathering nob OA Ilki•
my hearty and entire eonetirrenc• in the boatswains*
object by which you are actuated." After eelerglus
upon the fact that inequality of amid peeitlea
is one of the laws under which we live, aid Mei
if you were tomorrow to divide the Wealth et Saglied
equally between every citizen of the date, yes
would find the next day that the equality would seem—
the industrious man would prosper, the idle man woeld
find that his estate had slipped •way, he proceeded:
"I believe that there is no class in this happy "miner"
—exceptions individually there may be—but class [is,
there is not which does not heartily sympathise and
wi,sh well to those poorer neigh'Jours among whom we
live, and upon whose physical exertions we are
dependent for support. I say, therefore, that here, in
this flee and happy England, we are all animated by
sense of • common freedom and a common preeperlty,
but above all, by a sense of a mutual dependence and •
mutual respect. These, gentlemen, are the feelings
which I know. animate this great splendid benevelant
society—these are the feelings with which I meet yes
here to-day—these are the feelings with whisk I
earnestly drink the continued success, the continued
prosperity of the Manchester Unity,

ARCHBISHOP biANNTNO has 1101111 to PAHA. Hs Us
issued hui first pastoral, and it was read In the shapale
in his jurisdiction on Sunday.
Mn. JEFFERSON DAVIS haa been transferred to the
Capitol Prison at Washington, preparatory to his trial
for high treason.

THE PRINCESS 01 WALES and the Royal baby ems
progresFing so satisfactorily that no more bulletins win
las issued.
AN Italian deputy, having been captured by br:gxt
has been put to death after being barbaronsly t
on three occasions.

THE Prince of Wale opened the Langham Rotel en
Sattird+y. In the evening the Prince wee entertained
by the Fishmongers' Company.

THE destination of the steara-frisates and transports,
ordered to be ready at Cherbourg to proceed to see
without delay, is known to be Melia..

IRK APPLZ Csor.---It is feared that from the
presence of a blight on the leaves and blumom, there
will be a failure of the apple crop in Devonshire this
season.

IMPKRIAL CLlMucT.—While M Toulon the Emperor
corded a free pardon to 14 convicts, whom good
,ondoet had been of a marked character since their
condemnation.

ON Friday evening TrinAon Pik near Hartlepool, was
on 6re ; six men were Idled; many others are in the
corking', for whose safety the greatest fears are enter-
tained.

A YOUNG MAN shot himself dead on Monday after-
noon in a first-class carriage of • train proceeding from
Victoria Station to the Crystal Palace, while parsing
through • tunnel.

M. EDWIN JANZB, ex-M.P. for Idarylebone, is under
arrest at New York, on a charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud a young Irish lawyer, named James Thomas
Wilson of 1,400 dols.
AT the inquest on the Retinal accident the jury
returned a verdict of accidental death, coupled with
cen,nre on the railway officials, the engine driven, and
the platelayers, for their neglect.
Tar Scotch compositor, who was oast out of the Free
Church for setting up types on Sunday evening, has
appealed against the exoommunication, bet without
avaiL He now carries his case to a higher court.

TEM Federal war•atearner, Niagara, put in all South-
ampton on Monday, in order. as it is presumed, to refit.
On coming to anchor she fired a Wets, which com-
pliment was returned by her Majerty's frigate
Irresistible.

A FRIGHTFUL and fatal disease has made its appear-
ance in Canada. Several deaths had occurred. It
sum menses usually with • pain at the back of the head
or neck; the body beootnes spotted in • few been;
delirium ensues, then death.
Tait Lord Chanaellor is, we hear, engaged in drawing
up • Bill to deal with an offence whiell has lately
become alarmingly prevalent in the political world. It
is to be intituted "An Act for the better Prevention
of Einbethelment."—Pall Mall Gazette.
FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDILIT.—On Friday after-
noon a frightful railway accident occurred on the Soca.
Eastern line. A train from Folkestone was broken and
ran off into a rivulet, from a bridge near Staplehurst.
Several persons were killed, and many othen were
injured.

A fearful wife murder WWI oommitted by a man named
Killy at a village near Rochdale on Sunday storming,
In a 6t of de/irium tremens the murderer out his wife'.
throat with a earring knife while she was lying in bed.
When Kelly was apprehended a few hours afterwards
he remarked in his drunken, incoherent manner, "as
took a deal of killing,"

Tar London surgeon who, on the night of Whit.
Monday, shot Thomu Solomon, • shippeintat
i.upposing him to be a burglar, surrendered on bail on
Tuesday to answer a charge of manslaughter. He la
now formally committed on this charge, but admitted
to bail, himself in .C 4,000 and f oar sureties in £l,OOO
each.

ANOTHER aocident is reported from Antwerp to one
of those performers of sensational amusements, the
trapeze jumpers, the interest in whose exhibition
is in proportion to the danger they incur.
The bar which the gymnast in springing
attempted to catch broke in two with the shook, and
the poor performer fell heavily, sustsining severs
injury. He fractured an arm and one of his ribs. To
calm the excited audience he was obliged to show him.
s-11, but fainted immediately aftarwards.

ALLEGSD INSULT TO THE AMERICAN FLAG IT AS
ENGLISH CAPTAIN.—La Patric publishes the following t
--" We stated some time since that in the month of
April last the captain of an English vessel, at Honolulv,
bad torn down the dag of the American Consulate.
This insult crested • great Deviation in the town, and
the English officer in command et the statiou ordered
the flag to be re-I:witted, and made personal °scum to
the Consul of the Doited States. We now learn that
the Washington government was not satisfied with this.
but demanded further catisfsotion from the English
government, which latter lass just addressed a dispatch
to Preident Johnson, expressing its regret for the
occurrence at the Sandwich Islands."
DEATH or THE BISHOP OF CHESTKE.—The Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester, John Graham, D. ,D.
died on Thursday, in his 71st year. His loedship had
been suffering from Indisposition for some months past,
and on Sunday week he was 151 suddenly attosked by
illness, while officiating in church at Chester that he
could not proceed with the service. For the last seven
days his condition has been very precarious, and his
death was to some extent anticipated. His consecration
to the Bishopric took place in 1848. He has been Clerk
of the Closet to the Queen. lie is a man in no way re-
markable, and his administration of the diocese of
Chester was distinguished by no sensational event. By
his death, Dr. Jenne, bishop of Peterborough. obtains a
seat in the House of Lords. On the principle of alter-
nation, the next turn to furnish a bishop is with Cam-
bridge, and some think that possibly Professor Lightfoot
will be the man tosneseed the deceased predate.

IN reference to the railway accident at fitiptaboret,
experienced men say that no complete • smash has
never before occurred in this country. Nor is it any
wond.r, coneidering tbe way in which it happened. The
foreman platelayer, who is in custody, aoknowledgee
freely that he was under a mistake, to the extent of two
hours, as to the time when the tidal train was due, and
that consequently at the time the tralu came up •
length of road of some forty feet was altogether without
rails. The man say.i he referred to the book provided
for his guidance, but looked at the wrong day. It would
seem, therefore, that the jury, in determining whether
or not he has been guilty of culpable negligence, will
have to decide whether the book in question was as clear
as, for a presumably uneducated man, it should have
been, or whether he did not We ordinary 0001111011 sense
in consulting it. The medical report" evipsOng:lllll
injured am so firivourable that Mi asidttlidne to the
Wed Itre enUn*eted.