The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

BE &MINSTER.

MR. J. MonaLts, superintendent of county police,
was one of seven persona selected from 49 can-
didates for the appointment of borough police
superintendent at Plymouth, worth about CVO a year.
Ultimately the choice fell on Colonel Vivian, who is
connected with the Vivian family of Bodrnin and St.
Columb, served under Majesty's commission in India,
and he received public thanks for his services in sup-
pressing an emeute among the natives when acting se
police magistrate.

SALISBURY.
SECOND CROP OP POTATOES. —Some new potatoes
were dug up last week by Mr. Connor, landlord of the
Fox and Goose Inn, Coombe.

CLERICAL APPOINTMENT.—His Grace, the Arct-
bishop of York, has instituted the Rev. John Ramsay
McDowell, M. A., late of this city, to the perpetus)
curaey of WhitwOod Mere, vacant by the cession of
the Rev. J. M. Cole.

Tag Rev. If. P. Liddon, M. A., student of Christ
Church, Prebendary of Salisbury, and chaplain to the
Bishop of Salisbury, has been appointed Bampten
Lecturer for 1.868, in the room of the Rev. A. W.
Haddair, M.A., of Trinity College, who has been
compelled to resign through illness,

PENNY READINGS.—The first for the presenfseason
of the popular entertainments known as "Penny ,
Readings," in connection with the Salisbury Literary and
Scientific Institute, took place on Thursday evening,
when the numerous attendance and the hearty applause
with which every effort was greeted, gave great promise ,
of another most successful season for these innocent and ,
Instructive entertainments. Dr. Lash presided.
AsOattits.—On Wednesday, at the Magistrstes' I
Clerk's Office, before Mr. J. Cother, and Mr. F. R.
Fisher, John Crockett, residing in Green Croft-street,
was convicted of assaulting P.C. Rose, on the evening 1
of the 6th instant, and was fined 30s, and costs.— '
Edward Bruton was also charged with assaulting the ,
same officer. —He was acquitted.—Edwin Bradahaw,
of Portsmouth, was fined 6d. and costs' for assaulting
Mr. Higgins, of the Albion Brewery, St. Ann's-street,
Salisbury.
TOWN COUNCIL. —A meeting of the Town Council
was held on Thursday last for the purpose of elec ing
a Mayor, and for the transaction of other business.
Mr. Alderman Kelsey proposed the election of Mr.
Robert Stokes as the successor to the Mayor for the
ensuing year. Mr. Style seconded the nomination,
and Mr. Stokes was duly elected. Aldermen Kelsey
and Cotber were re-elected, and the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Alderman Finch was supplied
by the election of Mr. Woodland.
DEATH OF A GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTER OF BISHOP
BVENIT.—The obituary of the Times contains an
announoement of the death, at Exeter, of Mrs. Mar-
garetta Susanna 1/ay, whose mother was the grand-
daughter of the celebrated Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of
Salisbury. This eminent prelate, who was born in
1643, was elevated to the see in 1689, and died in 1715.
He was the author of the "History of the Reforma-
tion," and his " History of his own Time," is still a
popular work. A thi•e-column review of a most able
new edition of Burnet's great but crude works appeared
In last Thursday's Times.
SAPH'S BANKRUPTOT —A. meeting was held at the
London Court of Bankruptcy, on Wednesday, under
th• bankruptcy of Robert Powell Sapb, hatter, of
Minsfer-street; Whose order for discharge was suspended
on the 16th March for six months, in consequence of
his having vexatiously defended an action brought against
him by a creditor. The accounts showed the debts te
/ be £427, and the asses £77, but the result of the
L bankruptcy is that there is only a sum of £22 left,
, Whatever may be left of this, after the payment of the
necessary costs, the creditors have resolved to divide.

MISS SPINNEY AT BANBURY. —Mr. E. Spinney,
organist of the parish church at Banbury, gave a
grand concert in that town on. Friday evening, at
whlth hi sinter, Miss Mattie Spinney, of Salisbury,
was present. The whole of the first part of the
programme was devoted to the Cantata composed by
Mr. Spinney for. his degree of Batchelor of Music..
'ln the second part," says a local paper, "we had a
specimen of the versatility of Mr. Spinney's genius
in the Serenade, 'Evening Shadows,' which was
much admired, encored, and repeated. The words
are new, and their peculiar appropriateness to the
melody justifies us, we think, in hazarding the con-
jecture that they are due to the facile pen of some of
the talented members of Mr. Spinney's family. But
the grand treat of all was furnished by Miss Mattie
' Spinney in her piano-forte solos. Beethoven's
beatitibil 'Moonlight Stars,' and the grand transcrip-
tion, I Paritanis of Fnmagalli were listened to by
the audience in the most evident admiration. We
have heard the celebrated Melberg, Willie Pape,
and a host of other piano-forte soloists, but we most
unhesitatingly affirm that we have never heard
another whom we admired nearly o much as Miss
Mattie Spinney. Her brilliant execution, her com-
plete appreciation of her subject, and the incr•
pressibly charming je ne saig quoi of assuming grace,
which characterises her appearance on the platform,
are such as meet wore for her the most unqualified
admiration of all who may have the pleasure of being
amongst her audience."
NATIONAL TBMPERANCIE LEAGUE.—A public meeting
was held in the Council Chamber, on Wednesday even-
ing, in support of this society. There was a large
attendance, end the Rev. A. B. Handley, who presided,
said he thought the temperance movement was becom-
ing stronger and stronger every day, and was now
exercising a great amount of good, notwithstanding the
opposition and prejudice with which it had to contend.
They Were still a little band, but he had every confi-
dence that the movement would grow, and continue to
produce good fruit ; for as the society had been sown in
faith, they intuit not lose heart, but go on, encouraged
at every small success. It was now becoming apparent
to all sensible minds that if crime was to be reduced in
England it must be done through the effects of
teetotalism. He believed that a great portion of the
crime which occurred in this country was owing to
drink, and if the drinking habits of the people were
abolished he had no doubt that crime would be greatly
decreased. He recommended the cause to his hearers,
because it was their duty to set a good example to
those around them. The only way to reform drunkards
wag to induce them to become total abstainers, and by
this means he hoped they would be erotic ed to develope
amongst the degraded classes of this county a love for
religion and piety. As good members of a Christian
Church it was their duty to become total abstainers in
order to set an example to others; as it was only in
keeping with the spirit and precepts of the Gospel that
they should practice a little self-denial for the advantage
of their fellow-men, and thus assist those persons who
could not help themselves. He begged them to give
their earnest support to this society, which he felt
certain would continue to prosper in its good work of
reclaiming many who were now bound down in the
chains of intemperance. (Applause.) The meeting was
afterwards addressed by Mr. John Taylor, Vice-Chair-
man of the League, Ur. Lawrence Gana, and Mr.
Samuel Bowly--gentlemen well known as able and
earnest advocates of the temperance cause.