The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-13 00:00:00

A remarkable circumstance took place on the
Esplanade, whilst the royal party walked there, on
the 2nd August, when they were met by three
Quakers, recently arrived, who accosted the King,
saying that a young friend of theirs, who had lately
come from Phila lelphis, had a strong desire to see the
King and his family. Ili+ Majesty cheerfully desired
that the young American should come forward. who
FM introduced, and held some conversation with the
King. still keeping his hat on ; but, suddenly pulling
it off, he retired to a short distance, and offered lip a
long prayer for His Majesty and his house, and thanks-
giving for his escape from the late attempt against his
life; concluding his devotions with great fervency in
a supplication that the Almighty would blees him, and
continue him long to be the father of the little island,
and the happiness of his people. The whole scene I
was moot impressive, and was strongly felt by the
, Queen and Princesses.
, With reference to the noble home of Bedford
: during the last three centuries, we read that its im-
portance may be traced to the admirable personal
qualities of a mere private gentleman —' a Mr. Ru.ssel'
—in connection with a happy fortuitous circumstance.
The gentleman here referred to was the eldest, or only
eon of James Russell, of Berwick, a manor-place in
the county of Hornet, about a mile from the sea-coast.
He was, however, born at Kingston Russell, in the
Paine county, where the elder branch of the family had
resided from the time of the conquest. At an early
am he was sent abroad to travel, awl to acquire a
knowledge of the continental languages. lie returned
in 1506 an accomplished gentleman, and a good
linguist, and took up his residence with his father at
Berwick. Shortly after his arrival a violent tempest
arose, and on the next rooming, 11th January, 1506,
three foreign vessels appeared on the Dorset coast
making their way for the port of Weymouth. Lace-
' mation being given to the governor, Sir Thomas
Trenchark,he repaired to the coast with a body of
men prepared to meet the vessels whether belonging
to friends or foes. On reaching the harbour they
were found to be part of a convoy under the command
of Philip. Archduke of Austria, and the only son of
Maxmilian 1., Emperor of Germany, and this young
prince had just married Johanna, daughter of
Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile
and Arramn, and was n the way to Spain when over-
taken by the storm which bad separated the vessel in
which he was sailing and two others from the rest of
the convoy, and had forced them to take shelter in
Weymouth Harbour. . . .

to show that this vice of intemperance is one which unless i
we go forth and grapple with it, threatens not only to i
destroy our happinesa at home, but the honour of En eland 1
fibres& Mane remedies have been suggeeted, and it is one s
of the most encouraging signs of our day that young an-I .
old, rich and poor, are net only lementing the evil, hitters I
suggesting remedies. 016 says " Give the working dosses
better homes, an.l you will sl ; merle to dry up the evil." I
But he who says that (meets that old temperance workers, '
like the honoured chairman have, for ei years., been trying 1
to convince the poor that it is their interest to spend their s
money on their families and houses, instead of in the .
public-houses, therefore they have answered that cuckoo
err. "Give the working classes of our country better
j homes. If we were to take the drunkarst into some .
lordly mansion, and pliwe him in the finely furnished J
room, he wool I still be a dninkard. Another reresely .
proposed is " Eslncetion." As a tempera., reformer he
held that they were in the largest sense the friends of
j education, awl believed we ought all to en i-y the :Ovens
I tages of a good English education, witheit which we
I should fine it impoesible fully to enjoy life. It it we have
educational appliances on every hand, yet this teeniest
vice intemperance in continuing to grew rine sprees], until
to-night it laughs at the climes of Christian men an I
women to cure the evil. And then, toe, we have a-long
list, a most imprethg array of educated men and women
, whose education has been no safeguard aeainet the
appetite whit ha gone on growing and growing until at
last it has landed them in the drunkards' grave. The '
[deputation centinued Den they- were there to bring for-
went, as a special agency. in this matter, the Church sif
England Temperance Seciety. The work is from
beginning to end an uphill and difficult work ; he
gloried in it because it is surrounsted with difficulties. and
I it has always been the spirit of our forefathers th it
they were not deterred by difficulties ! but had stood and
fallen with their faces towards the foe, aml we are
unworthy if, when engaged in a great caum like this, we
falter. The evil has grown to national proportiens, and
we must not he too anxesen to expect success early: it is
only by long years of lamer and toil: thet we can erpect
to bring about any change in the habits and customs con-
nected with drinking ; and these who expect to see the
public/louses closee to. ttttt new, and the world heroine
temperate in a year Lir better not take up this week.
One hundred and seventeen millions of pounds sterling
are invested in the liquor traffic. He wog not g.sing to say
a wool against one connected with the traffic ; he seeke
of it as being a power, because we know that when there
is an investment of capital like that, it does really I-conic
• power. So powerful is it that we have it put lets sre us
by the official organs. that this particular interent seen
almost carry any political election. The amount of the
capital invested may be shown by comparison with two
other trades, the cotton and iron trwles. In one are
invested ele5.11110,00); in the other £24000.00% slmwine
that the capitals invented in two of the principal
industries of the kingdom are, tegether, less than that
invested in the liquer traffic, which is .Cll7,oigeiset. This
shows the size of the organisetion aeainst which they
were in Rome degree contending; there Mow; publichwase
to every 31 houses, ene to every 170 of our people, so that
whatever blame may be plwea at the el 'ors of renpeetie e
Governments, it demise be rail we have net eittieient
facilities for the purchase of intexiniting drink. C sine
paring with the butchers, bakerii, and grocer:, we shall
find that the publichouses, gin palace ma places fur the
sale of necessaries in the proyertiesu of. two to ono And
what have we for our money s worth? Two years Fl2,h the
number of convicted drunkards hebee the megintrates
exceeded Itel,ooo, an-1 last year the member was 553,0.5),
showing that chareee and convictions for intemperanee
are steadily on the increase, while the testimony of the
police is that for every one convicted, we have ten known
habitual drunkards. There we have an army of these
who are constently destroyine all the lieppiness of life,
end inflicting great !Misery on the wives and mothers a
Englatel. The Drink Bill ncremes year by year, and lest
year it haul Henn to £litieno,ooo. and out of that no less
than C 97,000,000 millions came from the lie-hots of the
working classes of Englansl. An .l when be spoke of the
working chimes let him be understood. The Rev. Canon
Ferrer hat shown that the virtims did not only come from
the working clause'; lie spoke of one gallant officer, brave
as a lime liberal no the light of day, whose carecr wax
suddenly cut sheet, and who died a ruined men, throuth
the evil: -of a university man, who suddenly Reek to the
lowest degradation, seniling befeang letters to hie friends,
written in Latin choice awl elegant, but abject in tone,
and who stied of deli ritroa t,,litc at ;—of a clereymen very
eloquent an,' widely known, list miserably ruined, with a
mysterious blight upon his name, from the same cause.
In his own Parieh. asid Cowin Ferrer, there to a feminism
Iselging house, where people will address yon in Frew+,
German, Latin, awl even Greek, who have thiough this
curse Runk down deerasted and guilty sufferers. Whet
does this El1e,001). Oell represent! Take down the family
Bible, open it fit the first verse of Genesis awl ess to the
last verse of Bevelatione ansl that inoieT will suite, to
put elle lon, uponlevery letter or the family Bible. If wa
were to build a coltimn of gold, and allow 15 eivereigns to
the inch, you could build is columwof gold II miles high
with the money thus spent in a year. We are content to
spend 2.1. per heal per annum for the extension of the
aßcdriniceinTfeor;BoKeinggrdeotimficsialinyoeft trisneedsl:tt apnerd beast h'°'
.
appetite for strong drink. But here it another diet:laity,
when you ask pesiple to join a branch of the Church of
Esigland Temperate, S whey. they MA et you very sus-
picion-slyy and say "It is all very well for Jack Jenes ; it is
the very thing for him ; but respectable easy g. sing people.
whyeliould they Hen a temperance society I" It %route be
an open confession to the werht thae sometime or other,
they had lwen guilty in this matter of cronsing the line.
But he returned to pleal with them mien the very
ground for which this society was cellist by vs meal a
name, he diet not Ipeak of it as a church :today 111,ln, it
was Wended by sect or party ; it is male up of Chrietian
men, who are ready for the cerise of Oar Contemn M inter,
to grapple with vita and misery, wherever that siiiihilli
misery exia. We are agreed that one of the principsil
duties which mete upon the national church, if we hs.ve
in the midst of us a national sin,—it is the loun.lsin duty
of that which professes to tel a natioual chases, to gems
to the front, Co that those who Isettle against it Head
have the support Of the Church. The society also ewess
forward es a Church of England society. beesium it ein
avail itself of a granil orgenheitien. The semidry is
divided into the p vinces of York and Canterbury, sub-
divided into dioc perintemiesl by bishop,. suetl the
4t
a im
dioceses again in pan nhes, SO that we get In every town
and every parish ' an wins-sited few whom duty it is te
watch over everething tlmt affects the welfare of this
people. The society wishes to put this oreanination in
motion, by attaching, so pert of its pwrichial duties as
essential as its Sanslay schs me awl its district visitine, a
parricidal temperance society. The society's übjecta were
the reformation a the intemperate, and the proni item of
habite of temperance, awl the renewal of the Causes
which lead to intemperance. Something would Ise done
to save those who may become strunkards, if there wore
attached to every- dey school awl Sunday sehool its
juvenile temperance lend, so that the laps and girls of
Eugland in the next generatien may be preservel from
ever becoming degralesl and wretched etrunkarls. Then,
and not till then, shall we have an oreenimtien eilii.ll
placed against organieatien, cite effectually steal with this
terrible vice. The Slielety in a Chureh of Esiglend one.
There are always a great many honest people, who say—
If you are a Church of England society, you necessarily
exclude a large number of honest Christian Meli who are
not of her cominsinien." When the society distant, he s
would ceasse to advocate her claims ; though distinctive
in Wiese it is not exclusiee in policy, (sr it is always glad
to include the names of :ill good earne-t men and true,
who will go forwerd awl attack this evil. The es entwine°
had enlarged its herders by admitting nonsaletai acre, and
they had been in every mum benefitted ; among the
members they had H.M. Gracious Majwity the queen of
England, awl the liennem Burdett Coate, Stir other .
lashes who are gradually extending temperance efforts in
their own lei-elides. It beesesies more than ever neceseire
to snake this a personal week ; we must visit the homee of
the drunkards, and bring them into the Temperance
Society, no that they may Ise taken geoil iii-,, of after'
wards. In mitil a man ti give up hie drink, they were
asking him to sli the very hardest thing lie lea done in
his life, and if le alone the chences ale that his referees-
Lion will not last a single week ; but he comas into the
society, he fines that there are aromol I the twegolet
anus of suppert awl supplication, and he fe,ele twee
power—that he can go out into the world and leave its
soars and morns, an.l IT the help he gets he
may be able to steel. Let thou not say " I
will join, not at this meanie, but next week."
if they did not join now, the inesbability is that
they would etantl abed. altogether. The deputation then
went on to speak of the loin of the society, which is—
" Co-operation between abstainer awl non-:detainer, -and
of the de.laratiene—they slid not roll them pl.-Igen, they
are ei mete agreements between nian and man, from which
nian has the povver to set the .sthen free, for the moment
the card of meneserthip islesiven up. that moment they
were free from the stecleration made. But if any toek the
non-abstainees declaration. they ghouls' feel bound to set
to the world sonic protest egainnt the drinking customs of
our day. If they had been in the habit of Liking a hint
of beer • day, they should show they were in earnest by
rwlucing the quantity to half-a-pint, and co on, and that
was called progremive reduction. Another rule would he
they would only drink intoxicating liquors when other
people require to drink them, he should say at mealtimes.
It is by reason of the nips and sips, and drops, when there
is no solid food in the stomach, that the system gets
irupairest and less able to resist the ravages of disease.
Thus we light the candle at both ends, anti must pay the
penalty, premature collapse. Let the member,' only take
these drinks when they take solid fowl, at mealtimes,
Next let them discard and discountenaere the -----101
custonis of the day. all more or len cennected with sheik.
How (eolith that, it me charity dinners we should drink
health, ! Ile would alter the csisten to" eating health,"
Let it he compulsory i.terel of a glass of wine, tips; a
ham ethelivich ints every man's band, and when the toast
is proposed there Sh, mid be an additional bite. (Laughter.)
The deputation went on with regard to the WWI abet 'nonce
declaration, to encourage people not to be of rail of Wtal
abstinence, for he sail when Cwt. Webb tried first to
swim over the Channel, he took in a boat with hint hitter
beer and brandy and water. But that time he failed, and
next time took, instead, coffee, heef tea awl eees. These
latter rot Capt. Welsh seises the English Channel when
bitter beer and brandy awl water failedeand therefore they
ought not to Ise afraid ef total abstinenee. E. I'. Westen,
who had walkea PM miles in II stare in reide to a wiestion
Will yen kindly tell Ilse Wit:lt is the best shrink foe
persons who attempt such feats as yours 1. replies! '' I
take no into:heating drink during the accomplish-
ment of any of my feats of walking. Were
I to do no, I should expose tnyeelf to an attack
of fever from which I should only with difficulty
recover." Mr. Sargent also mentioned that there are
eellti totally abstaiuing Clergymen in the Church of
England, and concluded with an earnest appeal to all
Christians to aid in the glorious work of temperance re-
form. (kppleuee.)
The Meiou rose to move the first resolutien. Nothing
could Ise added which weal incream the moral and
reliebous influence of what had been brought before
them •, but he stood there, not simply s as a private
individual ; he had been mked to waresa them on the
advantages and disesteem siee cennected with this seciety
in regar.l to the asimini-tration of justiee in this town.
During the thole time he had from week to week, and
occasionally two or three times a week, hail his seat on
Use Bench, it had been his Sall duty to have brought
before him some victim of thin destroying vice which had
been brought before them in language not more truthful
than it strictly deserved. Not only ECI, he had been told
by those who preeseded him that the greatest amouut!of
crime arose from intemperance. The advantages which
the town had derived from the humble efforts of total
abstainers and teetotal institutions in a variety of ways,
were incalculable, in fact more than he could express.
This society was a kindred institution, he had beard it
sailed a milk and water society. and that if they admitted
people less strong in jheir opinions than teetotalers or
Good Template, it would not succeed. But that objectien
bad been fully answered if those who began in the
lowest stage eventually became total abetainers, or are
now among the most useful members of the Churl. of
England Society. He believed this society, with its various
ramifications, would be men to he far more useful than its
most sanguine friends could expect. Ilieworship moi ed the
following resolution :--" That this meeting receenieee
the wide-spread sin of intemperance to the fruitful
source of poverty, crime, and irreligion; ansl believes
that such an Association as the 'Church of England
Temperance Society,' will be a likely means, in fled's
hands, of helping to reclaim the drunkard, of discouraging
drunkenness, and of gaarding the yonng from his it
insidious and fatal habit. This meeting therefore aereee
to form, herewith, a Branch Society in thin parish."
Admiral Throe did not think any of them present ex-
pected to see him in this position as an advocate of
temperance, and he could not say that he Lad all
his life carried it out in the light that woe wished to be
set before them IT the gentleman Who had retie; down to
teach them • lesson. But, as he grew elder he got
wiser, he certainly saw the follies of his youth, and hail
not the slightest shame in having changed. The question
before them was the most momentous ever before the
country, it had to do with the welfare of the
nation. Look at what had taken place within
the teat few months- All had been talking and
speaking about and been horrified at what were
called "the atrocities," committed in • neighbour-
ing nation, and the Mohammedans had been called every
name of opprobrium that the dictionary could produce.
But !what are atrocities! Let them look at the news-

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The Archduke was conducted by Sir Thomas
Trenchard to his castle. Meanwhile messengers were
Rent to King Henry VII. advising that monarch of
the presence of the royal personage, and Mr. Russell,
the younger, and cousin of Sir Thomas Trenchard,
was invited by the latter to interpret and converse
with the Archduke on topics connected with his
own country, which Mr. Russell had recently passed.
Say. Fidler, in reference to this incident, "It is
an ill wind that blows nobody profit."
The Archduke proceeded to NVindsor without delay,
aind reqnested Mr. Russell to accompany him. On
arriving there the Archduke recommended him to the
,Ring's notice. Henry was struck with Mr. Russell's
conversation and appearance. Lloyd says of the
latter "He had a moving beauty that waited on his
whole body, a comportment unaffected, and such a
comeliness in his mien, as exacted a liking, if not
love, from all that saw him; the whole set off with a
person of middle stature, neither tall to formidable-
! ness, nor short to a contempt, straight and pro-
portioned, vigorons and active, with pine blood and
spirits flowing in his youthfol veins."
His first promotion was his appointment by the
King as a gentleman of the Privy Chamber.
, Henry VII. employed Mr. Russell in various
diplomatic matters, haul rewarded him with several
titnlar distinctions : hut it was not until the reign of
Edward VI. that Lord Russell was created Earl of
Bedford. This distinction was offered as a reward for
services rendered in promoting the Reformation.
In the reign of Mary it is a curious fact that he
still retained the royal favour. Indeed, he Was one of
the noblemen commiasioned to escort Philip from
Spain to become the Queen's husband, and to
give away Her Maje,ty at the celebration of her
marriage.
After being engaged in diplomatic transactions by
several English Boyer:Arms, the earl died "full of years
as of honours," on the 11th March, 1.15.1, and was
buried at Chenies, in Bucks, the manor of which he
hail acquired by marriage.
It is related that The Earl of Bedford, when
! simply Sir John Russell, was frequently sent abroad
both on friendly sal hostile expeditions, and had
llrmo' narrow escapes of life. On one occasion,
after riding by night and (lay through rough and
circuitous roads to avoid detachments of the enemy,
he came to a small town, atul rested at an obscure inn,
; where he thought he might with safety refresh himself
and his horse. But before be could begin the repast
whi had been prepared for him, he Was informed
! that a lssly of the enemy, who were in pursuit of him,
; were approaching the town, lie spramf is his horse.
! and without tasting food lash: off at full speed, maul
! only just succeeded in leaving the town at one end
while his 'rimers entered it at the other —On
another OCCUSIMI the lintel in which he was staying
was suddenly surrounded by a lssly of men who were
commissioned to take him alive, and send him a
captive to France. From this danger he was rescued
by Thomas Cromwell, who passed himself off to the
authorities an a Neapolitan acquaintance .of Russell's,
and promised that if they would give him arca.% to
him (Russell) he would induce him to yield himself up
to them without resistance. Cromwell then, under
the guise of a Neapolitan, entered with his servant,
dismissing, the Lo.t. Then he revealed himself to
Russell as the son of his farrier at Putney; he
suggested that Russell should change garments with
his man-servant, Hoslge. This accomplished the two
men passed through the soldiers, and eventually
reached England; where Cromwell, being recom-
mended by Russell to Wolsey, subsequently became
great.

CHrRCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY
A fully attended meeting was held on Thursday evening,
at the National Schoolromi, in furtherance of the objects
of the above society. and to form a Weymouth branch.
The Rector, Rev. T. Greavee, was accompanied on the
platform by the Mayor (Mr. Lim lie), Revs. 3. Stephenson,
J. li. Addison, Vawdrey, Dr. Lush, Mr. Churchwarden
Rowe, and there were many influental inhabitants among
the anilience.
The RECTOR was called to the chair, on the proposition
of the Rev. John Stephenson, who afterwards offered
prayer.
The CRAIRMAN believed the Church of England Temper-
ance Society was originally a society of total abstainers,
and he did not remember the exact number of years ago,
hut it did not seem very long since, that he had the
pleasure ot taking part in its formation. But things move
quickly in these days, and he WWI thankful to see that the
tide of public opinion with regard to the great temperance
question, has risen with great rapidity during the past
few years, so that it ha: been thought advisable that the
society's platform iffiall le enlarged by the reception of
those who, without being total alisteinerre, are the enemies
of this great national sin, and will labour against its The
advocates would require a great deal of candour, and
forbearance if they are to be successful; but he ventured
to say, on behalf of total abstainers, that they would
cordially welcome all who are prepared, not only to sneak,
but to act against this great national calamity. There is,
he thought, a feeling on the part of total abstainere that
they have been left to bear almost too long, the burden
and heat of this great national struggle, and if it were
only asi an evidence that their work had not been in vain
in the Lord, he should very heartily welcome the accession
of non-abstainers to the Temperance ranks, because it is •
testimony that they had succeeded so far, because they
had been able to convince the intellect, to rouse the con-
science, to touch the heart, and he trusted to move the
, will of the community at large. The success does not rest
' so much upon any particular line of action RS upon the
fact that there is now springing up in this country so
strong a popular feeling upon the suliject, and he believed
the time is not far distant, when by the voice of the
people some check shall be applied to this eviL The
society has two distinct bases; the first of these declara-
tions of membership, as they are termed, is in effect that
total abstinence pledge, like that which he took some
years ago in that room —"I: hereby agree to abstain from
the use of Alcoholic Liquors as Beverages so long as I
retain this card of memberehip." He should not say any-
thing about that declaration at present. The other is—
" I recognise my duty as a Christian to exert tuyself for
the suppression of Intemperance, and having hereby
beconle a member of this society, will do my utmost, both
by example ant effort, to promote its objects." Its
supposed the old total abstinence pledge will continue to be
taken by the much smaller number of persons, and the
other declaration made by the touch larger number, and
he much desired that there should be no difficulty in
obtaining signatures to it; his fear was not that it would
be found alifiieult to obtain signatures, but lest it should
be of too loose a character; lest, as it seemed to
be a pledge to nothing new, no it should lead to nothing
new. But be ventured to say that the evils of
intemperance in this land are far too much, the accumula-
tion of long years of neglect, and are far too deeply rooted,
for them to be got rid of by loose, indefinite, vague efforts,
and he trusted that if the result of this meeting should be
the formation of a Weymouth branch of the Church of
England Temperance Association, they would keep their
eyes fixed upon a few tangible points, and would not
surcease from their labours till they had carried their
, object on these points. Why should they red unite, for
instance, and obtain for the blessed Day of the I,rd,
I entire freedom from the liquor traffic Why should they
I not keep an eye upon the publichouses if this town, and
convert them, as occasion served, into refreshment rooms,
peoples' cafe's? They could not do better than take for
their guidance the words of the apostle Paul,—" I there-
fore run, not as uncertainly: no tight I, not as one that
beateth the air." Having certain distinct objects in view,
they should lay hold, and not let them go, till they had
attained the object in view. The objects of the Associa-
tion are tbtee "The Reformation of the Intetuperate ;
11. The Promotion of habits of Temperance; 111. The
Removal of the cauaos which lead to Intemperance." As
to the first two of these °Neale, he had a notion that the
existing total abstinence societies, and notably the Good
Tempters, will do better than this society ; hut as
to the third, he thought the Siciety wontl succeed better.
Depend upon it, the removal of the causes it intemper-
ance is a very vast unalertakii.g. and will tax to the utter-
most all their resources,- it will call for all the decision,
all the energy, all the watchfulness, and all the money
power they can command; they would have to put their
hands in their pocket and find the funds by which to
provide for the labouring classes anal others that which
they really need. There is a want connected with public-
houses; they would not exist unless they supplied some
want of the people; the branch must lay hold from time
to time of public-houses, and convert them into peoples'
cafes, and it may be not only the most practicable hut
also the most potent of their etforts. It may lie Letter to
build a strong high wall round this foul, horrible, noisome
pit of intemperance, and so to prevent any more persons
falling into it, it may be more useful than with a brother's
arin of sympathy, and love, and example, to pluck out a
few of the miserable victim. who are wallowing in the
mire of intemperance. The Chairman next called on Mr.
Alfred Sargent, the deputation.
Mr. SARGANT said they did not bring the society there
In any spirit of hostility or antagonism to the work of any
other body of men—be they Rood Tempters or Permissive
Bill men, or others,—who have been labouring in the cause
of temperance, long before the Church tools it up. On the
contrary, they were there to wish these bodies of workers
God 'peed, and to ask them to give their sympathy in the
work. The society was brought in the broad spirit of
charity and love, it had no hard and unkind words to
utter ; they respected the prejudices and consciences of
all, and had great reason not to offend them. Ile had no
hsrd and unkind words to say, and was sure that the
advocacy of this movement must be carried on in that
spirit of love which will lead to success. We have in our
, midst • terrible evil, which has inflicted disease and
'poverty, and death upon thousands and thousands of our
hilkwmen in this country. This evil which has risen up
IliMoogst us is sending fal,ooo of our fellow Christians into
• druukard's grave every year, and we cannot take up the
daily papers without seeing references to it. In the Echo
of to-&y he saw ins little 'leading article—" Drink is the
great curse of the British army f ' in the Daily Telegrapli
he found only this very day a small leading article
describing one of the most horrible and brutal murders
committed under the Influence of drink. We had oval to
aPP•aI MAU' ordinary reading by their quiet

papers,and say if this Christian nation had not committed will only cost es. eel, a week.
atrocities every hour of our lives! The welfare of Mr. G. ANDREWS : I proteme that we proceed to husinees
much of the nation, and much of the sinew according to the notice tssper.
ef the country has been almoet entirely destroyed The CHAIRMAN read the tenders, which were for doing
through drink. We are toll that nine-tenths Of the with flint or hard eat) aml pelol•les and widenine where
eriete originates through drinkand if it were net for that. possible, that part of the reed from the War Department
we might :detest shut up our gaols. Why ! instead of leeindary stone to the weith side of the wall—a metulter
beim calle.•l a "nation of ahepkeeps," we have been a tehl us—about LIDO parole.
" netion of drunkards." We are at present suffering Mr. Roleet Hodder tendered at .0110 for three years;
from a wave of intemperance that in perfectly appallinee Mr. ham Ward at CIN per annum ; and Mr. Robert Rxitl,
and how to stop it is the eneeteen, They had heard how for elle for three years,
much wasspentindrinkevery ye ieit was afar every man, Mr. Cutiw roue:n.l.l that the roads woad not be totter .
woman, and child in the reentry, and as the babies could by contraet than now, anil what would it e ;at to de all
not drink it, the adults t spend a great deal mire ;he the. In the Wand at the et:un rat,
reckoned £l5 or ID) a year. An excursion train comes It wee +stated that the r .;eis hail cost e 1,782 fee three
down to Weymouth, and when they go back, they are years, or MI averete of Col a year for three p oars.
often three Darts drunk, and that wan what they called Mr. I:. WRITES ;lid not believe, with the I•ov tenders
having a jolly day ! Why t they had better go and play led- re them, that the roads ceuld I. kept in repair for the
pitch anti toes on the heath ! The Miniml spoke alwi of twemy.
the frightful language he often heart from drunken men, ; A gentleman estimated tied at the same rate it weeld
compared the homes of abstainers with those of loon who coot £1.401 a veer to repair the roads all over the island.
drink, and ceneheled by seconding the resolution I Mr. It. SCRIVENS wart only surprised that the tenders
The CHAIRMAN asked for a show ;if hands, and hoped were so low, Ile did not reeken it at less than CM, and
that all who held up their hands wool.? consider that by air mild not take it for 1:250. The oontractor wat, bounil
e • doing they pledged themselves to become membere, the specification to have a certain clam of material, half
The "show, was pretty large; but the Chairman said he flint and half and to raise it six inell es In the
should like to have seen more. Middle and make a cosi barrel road which would run away
The It ;:v. J. D. Ammer( felt that at that late hoer it with half the money. If they contrieted in NaVelalier they
woeld be most agreeable that his remarks should be fete; wouhl certainly have to pay more, fer the contractor could
bne having been entrusted with a reseltitien, lie would have the litch hauled up in summer titne.
say that, as a clergyman of this town, he hailed with joy Mr. S. A:el-mews had seen ruts six .inches deep there
the establishment here of a lirenela aesnciatien of such a last Wednesday,
selety as they had just now decided dumbl be formed. Mr. C. Mieetteti. said that to make a railway from the
th,, rector slid in his opcning eeeeeh that the discourages Priory to Weston would le: the cheapest thing for the
Went of this vice, both in ourselves and others, wee • . Island if it retail he done.
thing we were pledged to in our baptismal vows ;we had I Mr. E. Peattet was for letting the contract stand
h :en pledged to be temperate ourselves and ene-otruns I over for the present, or let then have no omit oit at all.
temperance in other,. The only difference after joining I The road would almost make itself for six tenths to
the asseeiatitin would he that. Instead of doing this ins I conic. attol would only cost half-a-crown a week. They
insteeil of only endeavouring to influence theee rould try at for a twelvetnenth and see what it wriuld cost,
nearest to nis, we should belong to an influential body and Ile himself did Pot believe it weuld rod half the money,
carry our inflience much farther. A larger responsibility I for there is a foundation in Wide street. They must lie
has conic upon us than previously existed; we have now j careful, for they were put in the intensst of the rates
to extend suer influence further than ever. We uniet ; payers. The ceetraet, he believed would cost as flinch
exempt that reepousibility, and cern: out the work in our I again per year so the read had yearly for the bee nine
several parishes, bearing in mind that we are Si on. yeers, and he propeol that no tender be arm-pie-I.
aiesin teeny brethren in a great army on the side of the I Mr, R. Stoat s; ',ended.
Lord. We oh ill do teal good in this matter if we keep Mr MAIII:li replied that they reel.] not tell what this •
our responsibility before our minds. As Admiral Tryon road or any me, in the islotel would emit in a twelve.
hal said, he did net heliere Weylnoeth is woese than month, awl they would wit knew if they lived lets*
other places, but it is hal enough, and we uluot endoireur, I year!, for no are/lent was kept of where the here, worked.
with the help of the Lewd, to go forward and coneliat this The pop eheet wae brought eh.ming summit time wsirked.
great evil. Ile prop 'sett "That the rector he president of but not where the work eras; done.
the aeciety, that Dr. faush be secretary, that all the Mr. It. STONE: The Surveyor was never Matted." to
clergymen and medical men of the town be invited to be . keep smelt Seeeellt.
on the committee. with also the following—the Mayor, Mr. Ctn.: If you want the Surveyor to do that, you
Admit al Tryon, Mr. tt. Eliot, Mr. J. G. Rewe, Mr. Grove,, meet cure him more money.
Mr. B. Hopkins, Mr. It, Andrews, bin., Mr. Tigwell, Mr. Mile It. Scarves thought there is enneideretde mieippres.
J. Robertson, SenteantsMijor MeKio 175th), Sergeant ! hension tut the pal iif the membero no to the state of the
Llvinestone liethe K.rge.nt Arn.,kt (It El, Sergeant Island. Snell RA he was tied there Was not a better in
Woodcock IRA.), Mr. Stathan, Mr. 11. Butt, Mr. Hank Tiverton nr anywhere eke, was from Crown farm &em-
end Mr. Page." wards. The serfare there WWI goell; hut the whole bad
Roc. J. Sreeticesote had very great pleasure in second- I gone down imperceptibly, till the middle is below the
10.
;III: the reset:at nu, anti felt thenkful for the coo-suit of the ' gutter w m stos, il they proved that the road eix ratlitally
for now their friends knew what they had to 1 wearing novae. The Mails hail not really been kept tutu;
lie was rather afraid before that it ntight bring a little they hot leen rounded off, and by and by they wimitl get
I
work and then die" nut, but now he saw so many friends to the Itettem, :mil every other piece le to had. It was no
interodol, that if they only worked together, the ewiety use arguing how nmeli cheaper the, work heel been done,
would live and do a great work and a good one in Ways when the road, had not been kept up.
mouth. That a great and good work lied been begun he No amendment was moved and the propontion was
gave crolit to thole who laboured before, and the thercf"re
seciety Ili.' not step into the field in any way to disparage Some more couversatien ensuing, Mr. R. PEARCE ex-
what hod heen done ; but they took it that it is the duty claimed : Mr. Chairman, eo on with the meeting. We
of the ceeat national Church to deal with the great den% want to step here all night.
nationat sin, and he hoped they were &frig it religiously_ . Tilt SURVEYOR.
but "-- ...in on high "" the

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for nothing but help from on high would suffice, w.. 4 work
is Lir too great, the evil far too strong. They who had
worked at it before knew how hard it was; they had been
often sick with failure: but he was quite retain there is
nothing too h tnt for Him, in Ills name the association
were giing for cant altogether in this town that we love
so merit that we may by some means save some and do
something,to snipe out this great var...
The CIIAJAIIOI oil that Dr. bosh would be hardy to
take the names of any who would jein the society, and
there would In a convass of the town in order to apicertain.
who would come forward and put their ihoolilsrs to the
wheel and lain in the work. it bail alio been decided
that each mcinber would have to roldribilte a small sum
pier annum towards the society, for if an important work
tot, foil 41C in the town funds will be required.
let them remember they would licit help forward the work
by bearing it on their hearts bcfore ithout whom
nothin4 is strong, nothing is hole, nothing is successfuL
lie thm pronounced the Benediction.

The next intsliti, w:iti to n.eeire the :ttrveyor's daily
account of pebbles drawn to the Nes It-ail and
Lane.
1 ioyeen came 3 ai,eosAan, which it to well to say I wform
haul we are prevent, I liy the law of libel (mum printing
in bill, no salient wen, ..we of the tiers nalitie,
The Cu Unfitting re it the daily ar,r4,llllt Ahowie4 3 total
of 1.11.1 yanls, delivered iii Easton Line, imil !MI yar.l.4 in
New Rosa.
Mr. MAnEY mllle,l aft.n.ion to the areount iif the first
day, the 1:1 Ii of 1,0...0:try. 12 yanta were .lown for that
day ; hut he hail se in the Surveyors' hooks soil lie had pot
down 121 yanta. 3.1 r. Pearen (surveyor) Midi Min -" Mr.
Want gied our Itien Anne drink, I thouizlit he should'n pay
for it, snit I put down it little re stone to help pay for
it.
Mr. Cmils: if I IV:IA Farmer Pearce, I would rather give
Op my berth, than he anal:tat as Mr. Nlithey accuses hit,,.
The CHAIRMAN. to Mr. Mabry: Iht you mean to say that
Mr. Want went by what Mr. Pearce gave him l
Mr. It. Pgauct:: Dot not you. Mr. Mats;, and Mr.
Andrews find tho pebbles over uteamre I
Mr. 11. Agintrun : I only saw it on one occasion, and it
was wailer measitre.
Mr. C. Willie askeil Mr. Malley, to give the Ilistril kit
extinct.. of the total a ~,,, lint ; but Mr. Malay refute-it
Mr. I 'um lir% : TIP. :iltrver.r split limn himself, and now
there hots c111111illt; trick ti get intt of it.
Mr. Mancr s en, on ti say that he and Mr. Peareo, and
Mr. Non. iii -iv it i piaotreil—
Mr. It Pt: tem: : Who is, Mr. Norman /
Mr. p Allll' : A :ii Pi that pays his rates as honestly as
you do.
Mr. It. Peini I. i r“ csll in an outside man liko that !
Mr. M iiit:Y : It 3 ,:i sant a piive 1,1 roguery carried on,
I will exm .iii it.
Some ft let.; • ~' 1•'•. a reniark ti Mr. Maher. Who
, exclaimed: '• Ilec•'. 7.1 r. Pearce out, way, and ,otoe one
1 else the till.. 7, 'I, 1 ire Ike a lot of tiger.; hut I dm%
care fortis., ,
After a bni-i, I, I • •of arms between Mr. C. VEARCZ
, and Mr. It. A Si., /...., the former !wing the lit sr.
, 51r, MAIO r•.•I: I s ill bring witnesses to tir.ive t •be
I (the sorvi .ii I 1,,, .1.r..... in Ilia book 11... re lII* was
hauled, anti 11, ' •: : ..., riat he ilhl It toe I !rink.
Mr. n sciu.,.. "••3• explaining that Mr. laliey, Mr.
;1.1
IL Andmw,,, ~,, 1 Mr. C.lllibell. it seemed were surgicioitt
, that—

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)Ir. 'el toes iii hare my name celled iu location
for being sn-I.i •
Mr. IL 5441,1, optioned : They seemed
that if Mr. Me .• lota not Is•en It know anted that
half yard, w eil lii been there° I. le miter 11 el ter'e
men were : the, g 0' mt so di pot dome for ink. If
the *erne, r let it. down in his book and intended to
chsrge Oat it was a seri...situ:Atha'.
Mr. Ss, 1. re iviti celled awl was nehere.l in by
Mr. R. Pet, ,• . " Come in, there is a Scriolla Charge
ag •
M trywoote: I Mr I ar S chairmen of the Betel f
The I ii idiot ,•• a the matter to the Serveyor, who
said " I ',aim s ''s to tell a lie about it "—Otear, hear)—
" the lirst 'lay thee were hauling ',chides tete teen said
It won't ei in al II It pin to wet it. Reuter Weed same
tlown anti gave 'ela •oine drink ; Ile gave eight men a pint
a pie.', anti I p e. down a quarter (if ii yard note to help
pay for I be drink.'
Mr. MorlEy :1),, the 15th of February eight yards are
put down, and there was not a horse at work that day
leseline betide
Tie, SOrveyor loo'..ed at his boot:, and said— I will swear
there eve..
Mr. M•itev : I Will swear there was not. I ray there
were three days wept, then, was no bore° at work.
In effewer to Mr. I 'nears, the Snrveyor said it., SAW the
beach (pebbles) anti kept the account bitte-elf.
The Surveyor cAltiotied Our yard is too l.tg; it is
half-an-iuch too big ene way, and three•quarters in the
other.
Mr. J. I'. SCAR P:0 heti been asked to measure the yard
measure, and he gate the mensurement to a si et, entit ; on
the whole it was a little slack.
Mr. U. MITCII4I.I. emitted out that the exact measure-
silent of the vent-box depended a tenet deal on the weather,
wet or dry.
Mr. B. Set:lvey explained that, ',wine to the arrange-
ment of the ',Linke, he till not believe any of the yard,'
were over meleure.
Mr. MARIS What :Ostia the " pot" measuring. It
would riot hold the tinaetity.
The Surveyor: You nlll4 remember, Mr. Mabry, that a
good Inane pelildes 410 tiro; "if on the road. It is a round
thing don't you know You have played warlike before
roost, haven't you?
Mr. Mante • I beg leave to propose that Mr. Pearce,
who would clUtege into his hook what was tetver dire,
shall have los instant stibnite:4e ani then be will not be
served eo had as Mr. Jesty nerved his man. The Surveyor
put dee n more than was hauled to ply for drink, and if
tin, ratepeyere will stand that, I don't know.
Mr. It. reeitee : We will have the contractor's bill in
first, anti see if it is inure Mutt, he hats hauled.
Mr. It : I want to know what benefit it was to
the Surveyor to put down this half-yenl of Ms me tame.
Mr. )(mitre; If Mr. Jehn Pearce will put down a half.
gaol more when there are people watching him—
A Voles: here called out samething about "
ounce short," and Mr. 31eiseer made a reference to
" Dorcheeter fined.'
Mr. le ANDREWS protested against the et to the
"half-ounce."
The Surveyor, retiring, returned the compliment about
"Dorchester Gaol," awl "Why, if you (to Mr.
Mahey) was king here, nobody would le, able to live.
Mr. MAIIEr : I would be king enough to warn you out
of your place.
Mrs J. P. Seetwee prnpased the atijonnuuent of the
question till the contractor's bill ConiCS In.
Mr. W. Arewoote. seconded.
Mr. Comitee could not understand what more infamies
lion could be got about the Surveyor'e bill. Ile was
charged with putting down too much bench to pay for
allowanee ; this wtt, that firs' time anybody had watched
him, and lie admitted it. He (Mr. Cottilegto) had proPesed
on a former oveasimi that the lowest tender should not
have the contract, because there were certain rumours
about.
Mr. Crites asked what they had to say against the
contractor ; but Mr. Mlitee anti others deelaresi they
had nothing iteeinst that genthtmait.
Mr. 11'01.111EN Moved as an anietninielit —Thal the lhard
disapproves of ihe Course the Sane) or has taken in
charring More than was draWii' in order to it*, for ill ink,
that he be cautioned. end that if suds a thing is bete in
future, he It. discharged.
Mr. R. Peens% wax for having Mr. Ward's account; it
might be a yard or twit less than the surveyor'e.
Mr. J. I'. SCRIVEN contended that Mr. Conebetett Was
not an amendment, anti it was 1..• :weed. .Mr. Scriven'e
reeolution was then carried.
Mr. IL Assiteses see led Mr. emithen's, which was
taken as an original propteat' .
Mr. Is. Seitivee did not see hew any member could
objeet ; it was their thitir to warn the surveyor, and not
to disetise him. Mr. Ward did not with the surveyor to
do al he Inel done. He (Mr. Seriven) had been disgusted
at the way the purveyor acted in Mr. Ward's favour; the
surveyor hal got into hot water with Mr. Andreae, the
grocer, who was only taking an interest for the benefit of
the ratepayers' and the 'surveyor arts...l:et Mr. Ward would
not i.e mean hintself to do. Fleet, he had the tallbeeird
of the cart put down into the yard measure. no that the
poled, shreiltl ennui amen lightly, and explained that it
would make a wheeiharrowtol differenee to Me Ward.
" Haven't y. iii seen," lie saiil, " the farmers memoir, mat
enrn t They tlwovo leave the strike in the bu.liel." He
ahin Kahl tort, thin inee, " eft throw it down to,
beery: it will make a wheelbarrow-full difference to Mn,
Ward." Mr. Semen /aid to him "biasing told the
carters once, I would not tell theta any item," Then
scene of the pelililes fell down, and they nicked up all they
(timid with the shovel, when Mr. Pearce tole the men—
" New leave off, and we will allow two or three for that."
(Laughter.) Owing to the eurveyor being let tieeele
interested in the contractor, there was not 'lmre than
yard tm any °melon.
The CIIAISMAN :Do you think there vete a yard For
that would lei ju•itire.
Mr. B. SCRIVF.N I question whether there was.
, Mr. Motes :He must be intereeted in the contractor in
some way, because he said "Our waggon." I said "Ia
, it the parish waggon, awl he replied—" No, our big
' waggon."
Mr. Crocker read the proposition as put in form—." That
the surveyor be cautioned for his !tendert in petting into
his pocket-book a quarter or heir yard of pitied, tenre
than were measured, in order to give the men some
refreshment"
Mr. Menet' No, no, eall it "drink."
A VOICE : What sort of drink r Water
Mr. ManKY: Whether I drink water or not, I don't
come away Co drunk as you do. (Uric* of " trier,
order.")
Mr. IL F., A spurns: I hope, Mr. Reporter, you will lose
goer leek to-night.
Mr. Martyr: No, on, I hope it will all go in, and flier°
too.
, Mr. CRacKER continued the reading--" In order to pay
eer drink, and be cautioned, and if such conduct be
repeated. he he clismis.ed.'
Mr. W Arm wee, (rising): I want to nett.
Mr. Sonar; 11.. a are on your text lept. (leaughter,
Mr. Attwooll's term of "Hire being nearly en.)
Mr. Gime; I really think wane people in the Board
have someleely else. to pet in Mr. Pearce's place.
Mr. G. A sietews eats! Mr. Norman made an offer to
cam out the Board's order', properly, at • week.
Mr. Caoretet : I have his tender here, sir, and I think
you are out an to the amount.
Mr. STOMP:: Farmer Pearce earns all his money.
Mr. MAIIFY : I believe it would pay the parish for him
to stay at home. Ile bad heard it said that Pearce said
he had put down quarters for men when they had worked
hard.
Mr. R. J. Awnezws seconded the ltrolt,taitlon,
Mr. R. Lao proposed an sm net as tits