The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, IfS

notice of the Board on Wednesday was one call-
ing for the serious consideration of the inhabi-
tants. Not the least important was the com-
munication from the solicitors of the trustees of
the Johnstone estate. We have often condemi.ed
the filthy and poisonous cesspool system upon
which thousands of the public money have been
wasted. If their cost had been expendetl in
laying down a few good central drains under an
, efficient surveyor, the inhabitants might have
been spared the enormous outlay of cal rying out
that costly system of drainage under the Central
Board with which they are row threatened. The
work might have been done piecemeal with the
money that has been worse than thrown away
by the blundering system that has been pursued,
and a few more years would have seen,a com-
plete network of sewers throughout the town
without adding to the rates. The Local Board
may now attempt to put off " the evil day," but
we think there can be no blinking the fact that
the trustees to the Johnstone estate do intend
to apply for a mandamus to compel them to
carry out the Pulalicilealth Act, should a satis-
factory answer not be returned. Should such be
the case the expense to the town will be enor-
mous. The Central Board will not be satisfied
with half measures. The work cannot be carried
out unless money be borrowed for the purpose,
and the Central Board will not give permission
to borrow money on the rates unless the system
of drainage be thoroughly efficient, and in every
way satisfactory to their surveyor, not on the
Johnstone estate only but throughout the town.
But we will not anticipate the future. Sufficient
for the day is the evil thereof; and it is no slight
evil for the parties concerned that the surveyor
should tamper with private sewers running
under the streets and render them useless. Nor
is it in the roads and sewers only that we see
the same disregard paid to the interests of the
town. A few weeks since we published several
letters, in which the writers ably pointed out
some of the circumstances by which a very large
portion of the coal trade had been driven from
the port. It would seem, however, that some
of the parties in power, not satisfied with the
mischief that has already been done, have in
contemplation a scheme which will still farther
injure the trade. Undoubtedly by the Bridge
Act it was contemplated that coals brought by
vessehrinto Weymouth harbour, and purchased
for consumption beyond the limits of a certain
district, should be exempt from the Bridge tolls.
But the letter is not in accordance with the
spitit of the Act, and it has been ascertained that
the drawback cannot be claimed unless the coal
be taken direct front the vessel ; and if we cor-
rectly understand the suggestion of Mr. Alder-
man Ayling, it is, that the letter and not the
spirit of the Act shall henceforth be put into
operation. Now we suppose that the coal trade,
especially for sea-borne coal, does give a consider-
able amount of employment in the town, and
that the more employment there is, the better
it must be for the town ginerally. The harbour
dues are paid, and the bridge is not injured by
coals be lig unshipped on the quay, and placed
in stores; but if the drawback is not in future to
be allowed upon coals taken from stores, who
does not see that nearly or quite the whole of
the trade hitherto carried on with parties resid-
ing beyond the district will inevitably be lost.
If coal could not be obtained elsewhere those
living beyond the turnpike gate would have no
alternative but to grumble and comply ; but
when there are so many sources whence they
can obtain coal, it would be idle to suppose for a
single moment that they would comply with the
impost. There is an old raying that "The Gods
first make mad those whom they wish to destroy."
The Weymouth Corporation is insane enough in
all conscience, and if the ratepayers possess the
courage, good sense, and independence which is
the characteristic of Englishmen, they will
speedily hurl front office those who rule the
destinies of the town for evil and not for good.

that have been made to the contrary, it is evident
that the new regime, with all its defects and with
all its burdens, is felt nearly unanimously to be
infinitely preferable to the old. Sir George
Bowyer says the people of Naples sigh for their
king, as he would have us believe that pe,ple of
Romagna, Umbrice, and the Marches pine for
the Papal rule. But what are the facts'? Under
the Government of Victor Emmanuel the taxes,
which are heavy, are cheerfully paid ; the con-
scription, usually so detested, is everywhere
carried into effect without resistance or remon-
strance ; and the National guard, composed of
the people of all classes, everywhere trusted and
everywhere loyal. This last point is, as Mr.
Gladstone said truly, absolutely conclusive. It
is true that Italy has yet much to do, much to
learn, and it is to be feared mt ch to encounter,
before its destiny is fully accomplished. So
long as the temporal power of the Pope is main-
tained at home by foreign troops, so long will the
present system-of brigandage be continued. llut
this state of things cannot last for over, and with
the exception of a few Ultramontanes, who cm
see good in nothing that is not highly tinctured
with popish bigotry, the time when Italy shall
be united and free from the Mediterranean to the
Adriatic, will be hailed with joyful acclainat ions
by the people of this country

those who witnessed the accident. Mr. Besant came
out of his involuntary bath a cooler and a calmer
Marl, and Ni. Passenger [role sober and coherent
tban when he Ivent in. Mr. Besant has upon many
oecaiuns been instrumental in saving persons from
drowning, and in this instance had not other assist-
ance been at hand would no doubt have done his best
to rescue tho passenger, unworthy object as he
ti3Oit have been. .

POIULAND.—TEA MEETING. —A public tea
meeting, to m hich about 200 persons sat down, was
held at the Independent Chapel, Chiswell, on the
afternoon of Good Friday. After tea a public
meet mg Was held, W hen addresses were delivered by
the Rev. Mr. Cheney, the minister of the chapel,
the Rev. Mr. Lew ia, of We)mouth, H. H. Howard,
and Mr. Beal. During the evening the choir
sang several pieces in a very effective manner.

IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE WORKING
CLASSES AT BLAND FORD.

One of the most interesting meetings ever held in
this town was convened at the TOW II hall on Thursday
last. For a considerable time a large number of
navvies have been employed on the Dorset Central
Railway, and several gentlemen, among whom was
R. S. Cumin g, Esq., knowing the temptations and
privations this class have to encounter, and their
ii ant of education, formed thenisul vex into a com-
mittee with the laudable object of imparting instruc-
tion to them. Their efforts have been crowned with
Signal success, as is evidenced from the fact, which
we have much pleasure in recording, that not a
single -case of disorderly conduct has been brought
under the notice of the magistrates. As a fitting
close to their labours for the present session, the
committee determined to invite the men to a tea;
which accordingly took place on the above-named
evening, in the Corn Exchange, when upwards of
100 of the men and their wives partook of the cheer-
ing beverage and a bountiful supply of the necessary
et ceteras,• upplied by Mr. It. Steel, baker, tic., of
Whiteeliff, Mill-street. The tables were presided
over by a number of ladies, who to their bow or
have ably assisted in the good work of instructing
these hard-working sons of toil.
At eight o'clock the public meeting was held in the
Townhall, W. C. Finchain, Esq., Mayor of Btandford,
presiding. The hall was densely crowded, the
greater part being of the class on whose behalf the
society was established. The chair was supported
by the Right Hon. the Lord Portman, Rev. Lord
S. G. Osborne, T. 11. Bastard, Esq., Sir John D'Oyly,
E. D. Spooner, Esq., G. P. Mansel, Esq., S. Pond,
Esq., Mr. E. Pond, Mr. C. Pond, and Mr. R. S.
Coining, the Hon. Secretary. .

DORCHESTER.—PITCHED CoPN MARKET,
Saturday April 19.—Supplies of all kinds of grain
moderate, attendance very small, and prices of all
articles fully as dear as last week.
MESSRS. BAKER AND ENsuleS REPOSITORY SALE,
April 19. —There was a good supply of fat beef and
mutton, lint the attendance being smaller than
usual, and the imprerpion which farmers generally
have that meat will be dearer, caused a poi thin of
the stock to remain unsold. Calves in short supply
and much wanted. At the afternoon sale there
was a good attendance, and horses fetched much
more money than had been anticipated.
VEsrny MEETINGS.— ELECTION OF CHUPCII-
WARDENS. —St. Peter's :—Mr. James Foster and
Mr. Job Short°. All Saints :—Mr. John James
Berant and Mr. Alfred Spicer . were reelected. Holy
Trinity : J. P. Aldridge, Esq., and Mr. Henry
Barnes. Fordington : —E. Pearce, Esq., and Mr. It.
Damon were re-elected.
DoRSET MILITIA.—A new form of billet has been
furnidied from the War Office, pointii.g out in
distinct terms the duties of innkeepers and others,
and the remuneration to which they are entitled fir
soldiers billeted on them. With regard to the
forthcoming meeting of the Dorsetshire Militia, we
learn that billets have been drawn on the different
innkeepers in Dorchester for 250 rank and file and
two officers, for 14 nights from the 24th April inst..
COUNTY PETTY SEKSIONS, Shireball, Saturday.
Before H. Williams, Troyte Bullock, and 51.
Williams, E•qrs, and Major Steward.
The constables for the several parishes in the
district were sworn in.
LANOToN HERRING. William Morland, a
labourer, was charged with trespassing on lands in
the occupation of Mr. Hounsell, on the 14th Mardi,
in search of conies.— Mr. Symonds prosecuted, and
Mr. Weston appeared for the defence.— It appeared
that Eddell Penny raw the defendant lying under a
stone wall, on Mr. Hounsell's land, with a gun
in his possession, which a neighbouring farmer gave
his man to keep off birds with. lie accordingly took
the gun away and summoned him.—The Bmch
thought the prosecutor was not justified in taking
the gun away. Again, the Bench was not satisfied
lefendant was on the land for the purpose alleged,
and the summons was consequently dismissed.
William Mowlan was summoned by William Hardy
for trespassing on the land of Mr. Richard Kellaway
in search of conies.—The defendant pleaded guilty,
and was tined 103., and 9s. coats.

The c6IAIRMAN cominen.ced the proceedings by
calling upon Mr. (kilning to lead tho meetiug in
singing the new version of the National Anthem, at
the conclusion of which

The CHAIRMAN rose and said :—" My friends, we
shall now proceed with the business of the evening.
You are asseiubled together to-night, and I should
like to make an observation which I have not had
an opportunity of doing in public before. His
Worship then referred to the time when the works
of the Dorset Central line were commenced, and
stated it was with considerable apprehension, and
anything but pleasant feelings, he heard of four
hundred persons coining into the town of the class to
which they belonged, as at a former period, when a
number of men came into the town for a similar
purpose, they set at naught all authority. These
men, however, did not attend a place of worship,
and they were not members of any temperance
society—those great helps to the working classes.
Ile then paid a just tribute of praise to those who
had been lately employed on the Dorset Central line,
and concluded by calling on the lion. Secretary to
read the report, which was as follows :
" The committee appointed to provide sonic means for
tke instruction of the men employed in the construction
of the Dor,et Central Railway have much pleasure in
presenting a very brief report of their proceedings,
believing that such a report will be interesting to the
friends of education, more especially to those whose
interest and zeid were early enlisted on behalf of a
class of men that needed instruction in things relating
to. their temporal as well as their eternal welfare.

WA RUWELL.—W ill lam Burt was charged with
stealing part of a fence belonging to Mr. Wm. Baby.
He pleaded guilty, and was lined bs., including
costs.

PORTISHAM. Richard Carter, a well-known
poacher, and not altogether unacquainted with the
interior of Dorchester Gaol, who also said he was in
the employ of Mr. Henry Hawkins, of Waddon, was
charged by P.C. Hill with stealing part of a post
belonging to Mr. Manfield. The constable said he
met the defendant about half-past five o'clock in the
morning. He asked him who gave him leave to
take the piece of timber, and defendant said no one.
Witness told him he believed it was the property of
Mr. Mantield, and defendant asked to be allowed
to carry it back. Witness then took the prisoner
and the wood down to Mr. .Manfield's Lailiff There
had been agateway; the posts, &c., had been taken
up, and the piece stolen was lying beside the road
with the rest.—Fined 2s. 6,1., including costs.
It is announced that Mr. Henry T. Cole, of the
Western Circuit, has been appointed Recorder of
Penzance, in the room of Mr. Montague Bere,
appointed Recorder of Southampton.
COMMITTED TO THE DOnCIIESTER GAOL. Hard
Labour :—William Churchill, vagrancy at Wey-
mouth, 14 clays; Oliver Carney, vagrancy at Wey-
mouth, 1 calendar month ; James Ryan, vagrancy
at Dorchester, 1 calendar month; Mary Ann Legg,
stealing fence at Bore Regis, 7 days; Matthew
Gear, drunk, &c. at Lyme Regis, 7 days; Frederick
Ball, vagrancy at Loders, 14 days; Thomas Silver,
vagrancy at Loden!, 1 calendar month ; William
Chambers, vagrancy at Lyme Regis, 3 calendar
months; Job Corben, assault at Langton Matravers,
14 days. Imprisonment :—John Williame, drunk,
&c. at Weymouth, 7 days; Thomas Lucas and
George Vincent, drunk, &c. at Weymouth, 7 days.
PASTORAL LETTER.—The following letter on the
subject id collections for Foreign Missions has been issued
by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to his clergy :
" Palace', Salisbury, Monday before Easter, 1862.
" Mn DEAR BRETIIREN,—Our Church is unable from
want of means to give a right answer to many of the
calls which arc made to her from all parts of the world
to make them partakers with her of the blessings of the
Gospel. I feel that it is my duty to remind you of this,
and to appeal to you to assist in removing, as far Rs we
can, this dculty, both by giving the people comniitted
to your charge al orportunity of making an offer of
alms for this object, and by stirring them up to avail
themselves of it.

"On the 'lot October, 1861, an evening school WAS
opened for the purpose of instructing the youths and
men in reading, writing, and arithmetic; and as many
as nearly 200 from that time to the present have been
found willing, after a hard day's toil, to avail them-
selves of the advantages thiss afforded of improving
themselves in useful knowledge, From the fact that
the men are often removed from this locality, the
attendance at the school must vary, but there being now
65 on the books shows there is no want of interest on
the part of the tnen ; and the committee report with
much pleasure that, from the attention given, many who
entered the school with scarcely any knowledge of the
things set before them, have made considerable progress
in the acquirement of knowledge.
"In addition to the iustructionsof the school, further
help Ilse been given to the improvement of the mind by
snore than 150 copies of the British Workman, the Band
of Hope, and the Leisure Hour being circulated amongst,
them, whilst about 50 Bibles, obtained from the Society
for Promoting Religious Knowledge, have been sold at
reduced prices.
"Addresses at intervals have been given to the men
by ministers of the town, Mr. Mann (the Scripture
reader,) W. Tice, Esq., and three readings by the Hon.
Secretary from Smiles" Self Help.'
"The conimittee desire to offer their grateful acknow-
meats to those kind friends who have so liberally aided
them in meeting the expenses of their operations, and
to assure thesis they have endeavoured faithfully to
discharge the trust they reposed in them.

"The committee hive 'now closed the school for a
short time, to be re-opened at the end of the summer,
should there be then a number of these sons of toil
employed in thii locality, when the committee Lope to
be able to put forth more vigorous efforts for the general
good of even a larger number than those they have
already laboured end cared for, that the second part of
this enterprise, if the committee and teachers should he
permitted to enter on it, may be still snore encouraging
and euccessful."

The CHAIRMAN, after alluding in feeling and
suitable terms to the late Prince Consort, as a friend
to the working classes, introduced the Right Hon.
Lord Portman' as one of those noblemen who are
treading in the paths of usefulness which charac-
terized the life of the late Prince.

The Right Hon. Lord PORThf IN, who was
received with loud and hearty cheering, then rose
and said—The Mayor, when he first addressed you,
called you his friends. Now he used the expression,
which we are all of us most fond of doing when
we are addressing any number of our fellow
creatures; but if! should say to any one of you if I
met you on the road, " My friend, I have some-
thing to say," you would not he astonished, but
when I address a large number of men, I should
mean something more than I should by that casual
observation to a passer-by. And I de mean it so,
because all men meeting together for a common
purpose must be friends in name, if not really so.
(Cheers.) Now you have all come here for the
purpose of assisting and carrying out A groat work,
and a good work, and useful for the whole community.
Useful, toe, to yourselveain giving youemployment ;
useful to yourselves when finished, if you want to
pass from one part of the country to another;
useful to all of us, for it will likewise triable us to
move as we require from one part to another ; and
useful to the whole community, for it enables the
produce of one part to he sent to another part where
it may be more required. Therefore, I say I may
truly call you my friends, when I address you,
for you have come to do a friendly work, and I
know you have done it in a friendly spirit. (Loud
cheers.) If your excellent Mayor had addressed
you by some other title, and had said, "My neigh-
bours, ' I should equally have said he had made use
of a right expression ; for here you are among us, a
body of persons, of all sorts and sizes, young and
old, large and small, for I see some very young ones
present—(cheers)—all met together, meaning to do
all the good you can. When we found you working
hard, and men among you anxious to learn, many
that know how to teach—and a great many of the
ladies have been assisting in this good work
(cheers) ; we who know how to teach have been
anxious to show to you that we look upon you as
our neighbours, and are willing to do you all the
good we can. (Loud cheers.) If our worthy
Mayor had called you " fellow subjects," no man
could have doubted that it had been a right
appellation ; for every one in this room,
according to his power, has joined in
singing that National hymn which shows that we
are loyal and good subjects of the sovereign under
whom we live. (Cheers.) That title, I conceive,
would have been as appropriate a mode of addressing
you as any other. But supposing he had genes
step further, and called you 'My fellow Christiana,"
I believe he would have done right, for as far as I
know' and as far as I have been informed, the
great bulk of you have been striving to do your duty
in that state of life to which it hath pleased God to
call you, and endeavouring to avoid all those sinful,
wild and bad habits, in which magus of men are
apt to indulge. (Cheers.) By any of those names
you might safely be called in this room, but what
are you called out of this room? You are called
Navvies. (Laughter.) Now I dare say a great
many call you Navvies without knowing what
it means. They have got hold of a word without
knowing where it comes from. I am old enough to
remember some of the Navvies 40 or 60 years ago.
There were not called Navvies then, but Navigators.
They were supposed to mean the few great men who
had sailed round the world, and carried on their
occupation on the sea. But as names pass from one
thing to another, so from the great voyagers it
meant once, the term came to be applied to the rnen
making canals. They were called Navigators, and
the word was more properly applied to them than
to you, for they were making ways for the waters
to pass over. The same class of men did all that
hard work of excavating, for the purpose of carrying
water and forming canals, and that was attended
with circumstances which you know little about.
These men were termed Navigators, but you have
dropped the "gator," and are termed " Navvies."
That then is a strait beginning. The Mayor has
told us that he looked with some considerable dread
at the influx of a large body of persons in the town
because he recollected a similar circumstance years
ago, Why the fact is we are all changed.
Were I to tell some of the tales I could tell,
were I to look back a few year* I should
asteuish you. (Laughter.) But the great men of
those days were is the habit of indulging in one thing
I would warn you against. They made habitual use of
language not good to come out of Christian men's

" I would then earnestly and affectionately request
you to preach a sermon and make a collection between
this time and the First Sunday after Trinity in behalf
of Foreign Missions, and to send a return to me of the
amount so offered on tie enclosed paper.
" You will be satisfying my appeal to you, if you
give these offerinus to either of the gnat Church
Societies, or to any particular Mission, and I would
remind you that the Bishops of Cslcutta and Brisbane,
and the Rev. George and Arthur Moule, missionaries to
China, have very special claints on our prayers and our
alums.—l remain, your afteLt inote brother and fellow-
servant in the Lord, _

"\v. K. Smtuu "

WEYMOUTH. —Deierll OF COL.O.NTIC-§I-H—W.
FREESTUN. —lt is our painful duty this week to
announce the death of Col. Sir William Lockyer
Freestun, K.C.T., which occurred about one o'clock
on Wednesday afternoon, at his town residence,
Gloucester-square, Hyde Park. The deceased was
the second son of Edward Freestun' Fal of
Primrose Hill, in the county of Waterford, by Mary,
only daughter of William Lockyer, Esq.' of
Wembury House, Devon. He was born at May
Park, Waterford, 1804, and consequentlyat the time
of his death was 58 years of age. In 1846 he married
a Spanish lady, the relict of C. Pratt, Esq., of
Totton House, Hants, who survives him. In early
life he entered the army as ensign in the sth regi-
ment of Foot, and eventually became a member of
the Staff of the British Legion in Spain, under
General Sir De Lacy Evans, obtaining the rank of
Colonel, and serving in that capacity from the year
1835 to 1837 inclusive, during which time he was
thrice wounded. For the services thus rendered he
was appointed a knight of the Spanish order of
Charles In —K.C.T. ; a knight of the Royal
Military Order of San Ferna..do, and a knight
defender of Isabella the Catholic. He was after-
wards, from 184(1 to 1842, on the British Staff,
serving through the whole of the Syrian Campaign,
aud doing good service against the Egyptians. under
Ibrahim Pasha, for which services he received a
gold medal from his Highness the Sultan. In 1847
he was elected member for Weymouth on the Liberal
interest, and continued to represent it until April,
1859. He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy
Lieutenant of the County of Dorset. In 1860 he
received the order of knighthood from the hands
of our own beloved Sovereign, with permis-
sion to wear the insignia of his foreign
distinctions and Spanish order of K.C.T.
Never did any member do so much to serve the
interests of Weymouth, as well by his own purse aa
by his influence, as did the deceased knight, and
yet, notwithstanding this, such was the ingratitude
of many of the elenters, that for the sake of
present lucre, not from a change of political opinion,
if they ever possessed any, they at the last election
went over to the Conservative camp, and voted
against him. It is a praiseworthy trait in Sir
William's character, that although he was defeated
on that occasion, he still continued to take the
liveliest interest in the welfare of his old constituents,
unbiassed by party considerations. His charities to
private parties who applied were almost incredible,
and he subscribed most handsomely to all religious
and benevolent institutions in the town. By his
death the poor of Weymouth have lost an invalu-
able friend, and the town generally one of its best
supporters. On the announcement of his death, the
fag at the Golden Lion was hoisted half-mast, and
most of the deceased knight's political supporters
partially closed their establishments.
WET WITHIN AND WET WITHOOT.—On Thum-
day evening, on the arrival of the Channel Islands
steamer, a male passenger was found so completely
overcome by the effects of the voyage, or the alcohol
imbibed on the passage, that he pertinaciously re-
fused to leave. Mr. R. Besant, the shipping agent,
went to his assistance, and used a little physical
force to expedite the passenger's movements, but he
was not to be hurried, and would catch hold of a
rope and hold on "like grim death on to a back
stay," just as he was about to go on to the landing.
Stage. All at once the inebriate relaxed his grip,
and the effect of Mr. Reliant hugging and tugging at
the same time was to precipitate both into the har-
bour at a time when it was high water. "'Drowning
men catch at straws," and the passenger clang affec-
tionately to Mr. Beant, until both were saved by

mouths. It took a long time to wear out the habit, and
it will take a lung time to wear out the habit some of
you have when taiking among youraelves, of indulging
in language of which you hardly know the extent. As
umeistr ate, I am in the habit of leering, in this ramn,
the Most olictiaivo and dreadful I.rngeaze ; but these
persces, I tide's, scarcely know what they are saying ;
they do not use the words in the way in which we
should use them, nor du they undersr an I them hr the
foul and bad manner in it hiuli we should undo: stand
them. But though tl .is so, and little As the many
understand what they make use of, there express..ons
are the expressions of their anger, and the sooner
you can ferget them and teach your children
to leas a off tho use of expre•sions of that kind,
the more useful members of society you sell
be—the 'acre happy your wives and children—the more
safe your &flight Ts—and the sooner they find out Viet
the use of such language is passed away, the sooner
will you show that you have become more civilised
members of society, by showing you have learnt that,
whereas the tongue can speak evil as well as good, yet
when it speaks good it is comfortable to all that hear it.
(Loud cheers.) You have shown you have endeavonred
to avoid these excesses that might lead to worse evils,
and I trust the instruction you have received will be of
sonic use toyou, and that you will say hereafter that your
stay in the town of Blaudfurd has not been the worst part
of your lives, but that you have found there men willing
to do all they could to advise you for your good. Let
us say then for the future that the younger should
take connael fro a the elder, and that the elder ones
shonl I take core to recollect that they are the men to
warn the younger ones from sin and vice ; millet the elder
ones feel that as life goes on judgment must be coming,
and that they are the ones that are to advise and to warn
the younger ones of that coining judgment, for when it
does come it will be an muck no we shall all be able to
meet. I wish, therefore, to advise you the same as all
the ministers who have addressed you have advised you,
that when you have finished your one day's toil, to re-
member that your next day's toil depends on the will
of Almighty Go! ; and before you toy down to rest you
should thank Him for the strength He 1111.1 given you,
arid ask Him safely to carry you through the night.
(Cheers.) I recollect when it wee a custom in this
nrighbourhood for the elder inau of those who met
together fir the haymaking or harvest, before beginning
theft morning's work, to offer up prayer for the whole
body of men, who joined with hitt in a hearty amen. I
regret to say that in latir years I have known no such
good practice as that, but if it is your habit to join in
such a prayer, it must be for your good. (Cheers.) We
know that when the eumaner Collie• it is not so easy for
you, toiling in the heat of the day, and desirous to make
a long day's work, to apply your-elves to gaining educa-
tion, nor can those who now assist you do so, for we
knew that tire suminer evening's walk is the delight of
every one occupied in business to refresh hiiuselt in en-
joying the sight of the beauties of nature, of the boun-
teous crops, and of all the gifts of Almighty God, and
so your instructors cannot be so much at your service,
nor cans you give them so much of your tigne. But
if we are all slice when the autumn comes you will find
the same anxiety to assiat you in the same way as we
linve endeavoured to resist you already. (Loud cheers.)
You have heard what the Mayer says respecting you,
and his opinion of your conduct. I happened a short
while ago to fall in with a country labourer, who held a
position which, though certainly not a very high one,
was yet one of some responsibility, and I asked him,
"How do you get on with your new neighbours? "
file said, "I get on very wall, indeed, sir ; I thought
the navvies were dreadful fellows, but instead of
that I find them ready to talk civilly, and to tell
me anything they know. I like them very much, and
if I had anything I wanted to take great care of, I
would rather trust the navvies with it than sonic of any
Owil farm labourers." (Loud cheers.) Thus you have
the testimony of the Mayor on the one side, and I give
you the testimony of a labouring man on the other,
whose name I glo not tell you, end who could have had
no possible object hut that of speaking as lie found.
There is one other thing that I may just reinind you
of. There is no man in this country, let him be who he
limy, or where he will, that may not rise to position
and reach the top of the tree by skill and perseverance.
If there is& man among you now toiling to excavate the
ground, as lie gets on, he may sex his way to some
advancement, and by superior skill may rise to
be the Leader the gang, and even so much higher still
as to be able to take a share in some of those mighty
contracts with our great men : for you moat not forget
that it is not by their own enormous wealth that they
work out those contracts, but their money is made up
of a great quantity of small amounts, no that it is not
a question of any one man having a great deal of
money ; he must have assistance from many others,
and if you once become able to take a small share in
the work, there is nothing to prevent you in this
country from becoming a contractor yourselves, or from
obtriireng any position you may wish. A limn helps to
make the railway. There must, when it is laid, be
a staff to work it, and I don't see why a moan who has
worked on it a great many hours should not be a porter
on that rail if he can thereby get better pay, and inure
rest. Or he inay become • guard, and then a station-
master, And so on. And you, in making the rail, are
not only laying the foundation of your own possible
advancement, but you are thus providing advancement
for all classes of the community, that your sons may not
toil as you have done, but may take sonic higher piece
on the rail you assisted in making; your daughters may
many some of the men who take those places : so you
see you are doing that which may become hereafter a
great benefit to your neighbours if not to
yourselves. And again, in your daily work,
you see the wonderful structure of the earth ; what
can be more surprising than to see the
various colours, supposing you not to know
much about the qualtiea of the emit). You see white,
yellow, and red layers, chalk angl sand, and stiff clay.
It must occur to you that somebody made this earth,
and when you begin to think who made it, you fled
that you are only shaping something, which you most
feel that some one else has made; you must feel too,
that some one else has made you, and enabled you to
move in this world that NV11.4 made before you weie
made. So this leads you to see that there must be an
Almighty 'God above you preparing all things for his
own ends, and while you are moving tho earth for
the purpose of getting water or laying the rail, you see
at the same time the wonderful works of God. Now,
take this with you, and think of it as you move along
and see all sorts of things in nature—the little bits of
flowers, the inflects. These things, those of you who
have any observation, cannot fail to see, and then it
cannot fail to strike you that by the wisdom of God
who gives all sorts of works we are alone enabled to go
forwar I ; and this reminds me that it has been said that
while "God made the country 111• D made the town,"
and IWO are you helpers of God in making the country.
So, then, must it force itself on you that the proeperay
of the railway depends solely on the blessing of God. I
will just remind you, and coins of you must have
observed it—we travel on the railway as fast as we can,
for railways are made for us to travel fast, hut in makiug
them you 1111114 have noticed some very old roads made at a
time when this country was almost barbarous, for the
purpose of nicer:ng from one part of the country to
another. The inen that made Hod, with which by this
time you may have become familiar, wanted another
road to go to their next station. There is another one
near Wimborne, and they made a road to it, and you
may me embankments made hundreds of years ago on
the very same principle as you now make them. But
there was this difference in the construction, when
they came to a bill, they went over it, instead of
through is, so the roads went up and down pretty much
as those gaslights do. (Laughter.) This 'hews you
that an embankment is not • new discovery. So that
you may say of that as of other things, that there is
nothing quite new under the sun. (Laughter.) I must
any this, that we slionld have been exceedingly glad if
the town had afforded better accommodation for you
than it has been possible for you to find, and if
possible between this and the end of the sninmer, I
have no doubt that all that can be arranged will be
done to make you more comfortable. But darn one of
those that do not think it wise for those that have no
business with you to make or meddle with you in
working hours. It leach to anything but good to meddle
with a workman while at work; but when work is done,
give iiilß • helping hand and prevent bins from idling
about or smoking and driuking. Then it is help and
aid, and I hope that all my fellow townsmen will work
together to try to do all the good they can. But though
the behool is closed, believe me when I my our hearts
and the hearts of the teachers are not closed, and if
you come into any trouble, come to us, and you'll find
these that will assist you. If accidents befall you, you
will find those that are ready to help you; and oa any
emergency there will always be those who are reedy to
comfort, relieve, and encourage you. (Cheers.) But
this I will say, that it gives me great eatisfaction to be
able to bay that I look upon you BA • body of men that
I know will do in this neightiourbood what corns of
your fellows did in another neighbourhood ; and I do
not like to leave you without telling you a circumstance
that happened, and God forbid that the same thing
shenhl happen here, though I believe if it were, it
would be met in the same spirit. But it did happen,
in a moat tempestuous and inclement season, that a
great body of men that were working on the Great
Western line, or rather on the Bristol and Exeter
Railway, which is a part of the Great Western, were
absolutely stopped by that cause from all work whatever,
and being stopped, were literally unable to get their daily
bread. But an excellent man in that neighbourhood,
seeing the distress these men were in, and having the
means at his disposal, made use of those means, sod
provided them with every necessary, and indeed
comfort. that they could require, and so main-
tained them and their families till they were able to go
to work again. So much for the Christian man. But
what did the men do? They knew he was a good man,
and they made up their minds not to leave without
striving to do Win some good in return, and they tried
to find out what he moat wanted. His answer naturally
was " Nothing " He wanted nothing, he had done only
what was his duty, and MIS in the hands of Almighty
God. Butt they add," Yes we will do something." and
they found out that lie wanted water to supply his
house very badly. They determined to find • spring,
if it was to be found. They believed water was to be
found in that rocky dietrict ; and if it was to be found,
he should have it. They set to work, excavated the
rock, found the spring, and got the water for their
benefactor. (Loud cheers.) After that, don't tell me
the navvies hive not as good hearts as other people,
and I say to you, what lain glad to be able to say in
the presence of the Mayor and those other friends,
stand by corgi other arid stand by us, aunt we will
stand by you. (The conclusion of his lordship's speech
was greeted by loud and long-oontinned cheers.)
J. H. BASTARD, Esq., of Charlton Marshall, in pro-
posing a vote of thank', to Lord Portman for his excellent
address, took occasion to review the operations a the
society, and in the course of his remarks, alluding to
the exertions the ladies had made, said :—'• He learnt
that certain of the teachers were ladies- he was glad
Wilma it, for it proved that no one had such success
with the "coughs,' as they were called, as the ladies in
giving them instillation. He did not wonder at it, it
only showed how useful they could be when bold
enough to undertake their mission. ( Cheers and
laughter.) They are called " roughs" too often, because
people didhit know them under any other view, but
they had ahown that if they were "rough," they had
scene of the finer feelings, which would appear in good
results. The speaker then noticed the case of George
Stephenaon, who though only • poor boy working in •
mine, had, by his own industry and perseverance.
raised himself in the social scale and gained • honoured
and lastincnaine, and reminded those present that
they could not tell to what good result, the education
they had received in the evening school might lead.
The vote of thanks to Lord Portman proposed by Mr.