The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY IN EGYPT.

Nothins definite with respect to the return of the Army
from Egypt can yet be elititel at the Government officers,
except Lust orders have been Sent to some of the toansport
ships to proceed from Ismailia and Alexandria to Sues, in
reedit*s, to embark the lediaa troops for Bombay and
Madras. Media is of the embarkations are quite unoartaie,
but newly all the shipi for India ham been selected and
ad under instructions from the Admiralty Transpurt
Department in L,ndou, end it is still oentamplated that
tee Indian regiments shall be, the forhoolt to quit Egypt.
In view of • probable Occupation of the country by • con-
sider We force for Kneie time to come, directions have
been railed to keep up the hospital esteblishmente at
Ahrrandria, and, if neceoury, at Cairo, and aimultaneoualy
with an order to stop &I other utopias., direction, were
sent to Woolwich for the shipment of • hurdred tons of
moiled stores, inclusive of thirty casks of but Jed ale and
other luxuries, which wil' be gent out in the Reiss
Newton, with the fodder aa4 diainfecteate for the horse
Tn. Varna, which has Just Riled from the Royal
Arsenal or Malta, hae taken nothing bet shell. r,,,e tha
naval mu, and such like material of war. At Melts are
reinainins portion. of the let Battadou West Kent Regi-
ment and the lloresitalaire Regiment, which were inter-
cepted in the &nuns on Uwe way to the front, and will
he brought borne in other the detachments of the
Foot Goerds which went in this Meant are also to remain
at Malta until called for; but the draft of the Armj Roe.
pital Gores winch Gelled in the same ship will go on to pl
l.arete quantities of books, newspapers, and per.elicits
have been rimmed Corn anonymous donors by Commissary
General King, heed of the OicluenceDeperteuent et Wool.
ins, for the use of the Army in Egypt, toe larger propor.
lion of is. parcels beiug marled " fr,r the hospitals."
lleuy persons &end fusel, newspapers, and one contributor
presents the Army with a small book of hymns; but many
large tankages have been sent, and eight Loewy bales,
oreeemably of books, are all loon, consignment. Every-
thing received in ibis way will be sent f..rward to A•sxesk•
drie by the fret onveralicw, and will be disposed of as
is Chief of the kited. Sir John &lye, Iney direct. On
Friday also the tiro return of troops took plonk but they
were only • large dials of the Royal Artillery ordered out
for the Siege Train, and they had got no farther than
Hilso. when U y were ordered back to Woolwich. It to
believed that the removal of the Mad (Wiltshire) Regi-
ment from Woolwich t i Aldershot, which was in
ronteuiplation owing to the moaners of the great camp,
will not now be eecesegam and it has at least been
indefinitely postponed.

DORSET COUNTY TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION.

This Association Ins this year gone over the borders
and held its cmfseence in Salisbury. The proosedings
have been important and interesting.
There w.is a prstisratory mum m on Wednesday
evening in Pisherton Church, by the Rev. H. Pelham.
Stokes, Rector of Warehasn, whose Wit was St.
M stthew iv., 4—" Man shell not live by bread alone,
but by every word that procesdeth out of the mouth of
God."

The Conference began at one o'clock on Thursday
morning, in a room adjacent to the Manndrel Hell,
under the presidency of the Ray. If. Pelham Stokes.
There Were also present the Her. Owen Mensal
(Hector of Church Knowle), Mr. It. G. Wilson, the
Nev. FL N. Thwaites, Her. F. Veuthan, tbe secre-
tary, Mr. Curtis. the treasurer, Mr. J. J. Norton, Mr.
Hobbs, and the Rev. James Roberta.
A hymn having been sung. the Rev. ONVIES MANSCL
read a p ortion of Holy Scripture, and then the Rev. .1.
ROBERTS offered prayer. The SECILLTaIti reed the
annual report, of which the following is an abstract :
Tbe Dorset County Temperance Association holds its
SOth Conference to-day in Salisbury. Although we are
holding our anniversary out of the county of Dorset, it
is scarcely neoemary to state that our present place of
meeting is situated within the boundaries of the area
seeigaed by its founder, for the work of the Association,
which e omprisea Weida the County of Dorset, p st one
the adjoining counties of Wilts. Hants. and Somerset.
No change has been made in the staff of salaried agents.
The missionaries' duties hays been &eche:gel with
efficiency and comer by Mtwara Bell and Geibble. who
have delivered 311 lectures, and eddremed UN Band of
Hope meetings. Although the number of days planned
for the %Wm of the missionaMes wee 18 teas than Imt year.
the number of ismotilogs actual/or held was considerably
grunter, and the number of pledgee taken was more than
double. But it is still a matter of regret that the Meeting,
held, fall short by 149 of those seamier:mid, viz. 400. This
statement. however, respectixe the missionaries engem.
men., but inadequately represent, the work of the
Association, and the &meat ye gratefully acknowledge
the labours of • large staff of 100 honorary Deputations
who at no small sacrifice of time and convenience have
cheerfuliy placed their services at the disposal of the
Amoziation for the furtherance or Temperance work in
their sevezA looalitim By moans of them two meanies,
prem.., has berm mode for meetings nearly esem evening In
the week during the lecturing semen—The Remedies
regret that they have 1,./ report the removal from
the plan bf several yleces. The number of Societire
now in union with our Ass icistion is 125 (11 less
than last emir), in some iustances the affiliation fee,
being paid in the form of a ',stemma subscript ices —About
19 months ago the Executive, after discussion, came to
the conclusion that the time had arrived for mating same
special eff um for the promotion of Temperance, and it
was am oi dro,:ly resolved to hold mission, extending over
several day.; in all the principal towns in the district.
During the mast year mimions hem been conducted in
Wimbormr. Shutt.. rne, D.ilpurt, Poole, Shaftesbury. Wel'
mouth, Boomemouth, and Portland. Special sermons
were promoed on the San lay commencing the weeks of
mission in nearly all the places of worship. The services
of many eminent temperance speakers were bemired, and
the meetings were largely attended. the Crested eothusit
ism marking the proceedings, which sypeared delay to
increase, and on,y reached it. climax with the calming
meetings. A large number of pledgee were taken,
especially after the Introduction of the Blue Ribbon. At
the last three missions, viz, Weymouth, Bournemouth,
and Rutland, the number of pledges amounted to 2,500.
The TrcaSolutit read to. financial statement, which
Mowed toe total receipts tiles £7.XI 11k. ld. against ,C 439
sit year. The °swindling(' was 4:7116 3a. leaving • balance
of £4 IS. Id. an hand.
The Pawing...yr, in moving the adoption of Um report,
et:premed the yammer- or the Association in meeting
In the beautiful Cato. Irel city of Salisbury. If.
referred to the kind co-operation be had received
from the various rthorm of the institution. In
reward to tee Miseiou movement there was great
came for thanktailness. He felt that if any real
g hi were to to done the movement most be aiEreeerw
When he wao recently in Canada he saw a great coal train
stopped by caterpillar, lying on the realise, by millions
he felt that was a lesson for t ,mparance promoters, for it
showed whet could he done by little things. The
Ynnident then referred to the accession t• the temperance
ranks of Lord Csiirns who stepped on the temperance
platform at Bcbtrnenzrutte and gave no unoertarn 11011 n
▪ akieg boldly and effectively on the question of Local
Option aud Sunday Clolllog. He then alluded to the
gmwale ant 'rest taken in the cause by the clergy. He
-sod the other day he took up a ropy of the numerous
Record, which alluded to the Dorset AISOCiStIOO as a
model body. What the association had now to do was to
go forwerd and t i seek to keep firm those who load taken
the cloaca. To "Go forward.' the motto of Napdeou,
was whet he (the President) recommended the emaciation.
Let them have brieht hopes of heaven, and then at last
they would rest in the presence of 0.4.
The Taaasynen added that the liabilities were ad.

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The Iniv. Jaen ROBERTS seconded the motion.
The Teeduace suggested the edOsability of founding
parochial emaciation'. to which be looked forward with
cowiderable iaterest H. wanted the income raised to
.CI,OOO a year. In oonclusim he said he had great pleasure
in ley prwtini the motion.
Tee Rev. Oerve Masan endorsed the remarks of the
P.eddent aa to the growing littered Wisn by the e'er(/'
in [emotion:ice, and said his own sympethies had been
eel avert by the movement In reference to the missions
he found a great deal of enthusiasm. but still they could
nil live hy enthusiasm, and the old, steedy-going work of
the summation should be carried on as before.
MOSS% of Winterslow, a teetotaller of 21 years'
elan ling, and who had bad an uphill gams to mot.
r.p .ke of the marvellous cheese which had taken place
ho own village, and testified to the raw of carrying
on his be In rock on the principle' of teetotalism.
The Rev. E. N. Timms said that so • Salisbury
me,,,man he was eery glut to welcome the A.eadatiou
h-lon Ito own bordors. if. mentionei that In Fish/atm
there coo. Band of Hope numbering childrea—whieh
he con/idered very satisfactory, considering thaw were
o'her Baud, of Hope in the city. (Applause.)
Tho r./port wa unanimously adopted.
it- It iv. H. Pelham Stakes wee, on the motion of Yr,
J. J. Nowrox. sec mded be the Rev. °WIN- MARSSL. and
eiipported by the Rev. J. Rosette,
_unanimously re-elected
l'recdeut of the AlsJeisti in, Mr.MANSIL !masking of the
Dem. of Mr. Stokes as a tower of SLlOnitth.
T 1.., PRESIDENT duly acknowledged the c. 0.5.,
wodowr d.
On he motion of the TRIASURZR, seconded by the
EC ALT ART, the Vic,Presidents were ft-elected—excepting
thit too Dime. of the Revs. E. Bolton and Talbot firearm
woo h.,1 led Weymouth, the Por. F. Pocock, who had ,
i.it 1.0,k, nod Kr. H met 2.11, of Gillingham, who had
died, were eliminated, while the Rev. J. Wmabck. of
Wareham. and Mr. J. Corvine, were added to the list.
Toe Rev. Owen 11.te1ef. moved sad Mr. NORTON
"wooded, the reelection of the treasurer (Yr. Curtis),
welch was unanimousil arteed to.
,e. F. v.ugaas woe unanimously re-appointed to the
office /.f secretary
Mr. Bell sad Mr. Gribhle were reelected as rolesionerim.
Mesern Tribbett and Williams we re-elected auditors.
Toe Rev. H. P. Stokee was thanl-ed for his sermon.
The Rev. J. Rosters suggested the desirability of the
annual Temperance sermon being preached ocoadonsPr In
a N inconformist chapel
The Warm ewe soon afterwards adjourned
On the re-asserobling of the delegate' the question was
raiwd ss to where the next quarterly meeting should be
hell. Both Kr. Borro' and Mr. CURTIS suggested Whit/
turtle. This er.adreed to. In regard to the place for the
next annual conference it appeared no invitation bad been
reo..iend Poole eas suggested end eventually adopted.
The MAT. J. Rosters moved that the name of the
,ci//ty should be altered to the forget sad Southern
Countes Temperance A...societal.
Toe Rev. Own' MARIEL 5110011 SSS the motion, which
was supported by the treasurer and carried unanimously.
Too Sunday Cireing movement then came under con-
sideration. r. 11. J. o,bo.ne, of Bristol, travelling
secretary. moving • resolution in (ATOM' of a measure.
thrt a canvas, us the subject be made amonpt honer
holders.
Mr. Noniron seconded the mother,
NT. CURTIS moved. and Kr. fir.dilnk„.of Eitterberien
seconded • nsottee, searee.24he delefebdity of establish-
iwg in, tow. or coup al se • branch of the leder
pendent Order of Recnsintes. ick Club.
Carried seem ma, after the Penmen luid supported
Iv, swing that he himself wee &member of the Itsoitee'
Order.
The Salisbury TeaiperstlO• Sooletr was thanked for the
reception it had given the association.
A public in...tins wee held in the La the
M•oodrel Hall, under the presidency of the v,
Pelham Stokes, the at Puidance being lame.

Mus.caL Honroas.-11•0511- John Bliss:used sad SOW
have boon appoiatad Pianofortr linaufacturars to the
Hi./ of Poraonal. and L. John Brimmed Ma base
it Honorary limber col Um Kook"' Aciadsos ad
Soils OEMs. at BApos.—Dear CArtiefolo.