The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1867

PUBLIC APPOINTMENT&

Wednesday, Rt.—Audios at Freehold and Leasehold
Dwelling Boars sod Premises, at the Ball
Hotel, Bridport, by blown. Oared& and
Son.
Ilmluster (Somorset) Fair.
Animal bleating of the Cease Abbas Turnpike
Trust at the New Inn Cern* Abbas

Thursday, 2& —Auction of Hone Sh-old Furniture, oboist
Library of Books. and other Effect'. at Salis-
bury Villa, Dorchester. by Frederick Foot.
Friday, Mara I.—Bristol Fair.

...Auction of Oak and Ash Plank, ke., by Kr. W.
G. Bryer, near the Barracks Dorchester.
Saturday 2.—Mr. Buboes Repository iale, Dorchester.
Monday, 4.—Fordingbridge County Court.
Tuesday, s.—Dorshester County Court.
Dorchester Assizes.

BIRTHS.

—....--
February 18, at the Police Station, Corn. Abbas, the
wife of Br. Supt. Brown, of. son.
February IL at Binoombe, the wife of Yr. Edward
Bridle, of a daughter.
February 22, at Danierham Vicarage, Salisbury, the
wife of the Rev. William 01.1111, of a daughter.

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
Dr/lICRBSTER, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1887.

chief feature will be a scheme for the
re-distribution of seats. Everybody will be
prepared to expect therefore from the an-
nouncement that no place will be absolutely
disfranchised—that the smeller parliamentary
boroughs of the South of England, in which we
are more particularly interested, will merely be
grouped together without much alteration in
their position or privileges, one member many of
them may lose who now return two. But for
one member at all events they will still have
much the same privilege of toting as ever.
Indeed if we do not miscalculate the spirit of
Mr. Disraeli's expected measure it is the
plurality of members that it will aim at reducing
in order to substitute the plurality of votes.
Having in our last expressed a doubt of this
hut ambiguous phrase nothwithstanding Mr.
Diaraeli's explanations, it is only due and in
accordance with that spirit of perfect fairness
with which there seems to be • general desire
that his propositions should be met to state what
we really do understand by plurality of votes.
The indication with which the Reform Resolu-
tiorue started that it WU derirsble to extend the
franchise and admit the working chases to its
enjoyment, but not to allow of the preponder-
ance of mere members or of any particular class
furnishes • clue to this. The decree of plurality of
votes is obviously calculated to meet, and, if pos-
sible, to obviate this dreaded preponderance. It is
supposed therefore that Mr. Disraeli proposes to
give the ten-pounder his single vote but to give
the twenty-pounder two votes, and soon up toe
reasonable limit, which it is believed would end
with giving the thirty-pounder three. But who
can fail to see that whilst this really might have
the desired effect, if honestly worked out, of
producing a " distribution of votes," in keeping
with tLe more equitable "distribution of seats,"
it must open the door to any wholesale amount
of fictitious manufacture that the hearts of men
and of corrupt voters, could desire I Even its
worst enemies however admit that the plan of
the present Government possesses points too
valuable to be lost, and it would we think be
altogether "giving up to party what was meant
for mankind," to oppose their proposals stupidly
and irrationally on account of the source whence
they emanate.
is exciting so much dines-
sion and attracting so much attention that it
would be poltroonery to shirk the serious ques-
tion it is raising betwixt the church and the
country. We adhere to the Boot of Common
Prayer, and declare ourselves alike unconscious
of the rights of interpretation met up over its
rubrics, whether by High Church or by Low.
We know of no book exempt the Bible in the
English language conceived at once in • style of
greater simplicity and sublimity. It is such that
he who rune may read. The communion fur-
niture of the Book of Common Prayer is a
"table," and the boast of the entire Liturgy
is that it may be "understanded of the common
people," as its very mane of Common Prayer
Implies, as tell at its publication in the" vulgar
tongee." It is no longer a mystery in Latin
reserved for the comprehension only of the
initiated. Stoles and chasuble', and copes
and vestments, spoons, candlesticks, and
crosses, are nowhere to be found within
the four corners of the book. If religion
were but • luxury and a refinement
to be enjoyed at • cost beyond the common
reach, these things might be; but, as it is, the
Church of England remains so far as her Litur-
gies and Rituals can possibly be stretched, the
poor man's church, the church of the very
humble, the very poor, and anything which
militates against that sentiment derogates from
her nationality, and destroys the equality of her
Christian worshippers in the sight of heaven.
There is one thing, however, in the Church
which characterises no other Communion
Whilst she is thus adapted for the humblest
clams of all, and Seems to aim at making the
common people her chief constituent element,
she admits of a liberality and a latitude of faith
and practice which virtually opens her door to
all. Thus, while we would rather see the plain
simplicity of her ritual administered with fidelity
and without additions, we, at the same time,
know of nothing to preclude the rich from in-
dulging in their own ideal of the grandeur and
magnificence of ritual wonihip. The very essence
of the license thus allowed however is that none
shall compel others to conform to their peculiar
views. So long as the liberty of private judg-
ment in matters of religion remains within the
Church of England she never can tend Rome-
wards Enforce • particular view and practice
of the ritual and she immediately loses that
distinctive character; and we may therefore that
it is the duty of her ministers to beware how
they offend the habits, not to say the prejudices,
in which her church-going people had been
reared prior to the Renaissance style of worship
which has lately dawned upon us, and which, as
the word we have just employed mildest*, bears
precisely the same relation to the severe and
lofty Gothid rated of old, that the florid orna-
mental flamboyant of later times, " • romance
in stone and lime," bears to the real medieval
structures. Movements and agitations against
this are on the other hand all very well, but they
too ought to respect the feelings of earnest
worshippers to whom the English Church
permits • higher ritual if they please
IV.—Lnerter Stoltz, near Bath, is about to
become the Beene of • great development, we
Suspect, of the sanatory and curative power of
Hydropathy. In another column will be found
the brief and simple announcement of an
extension of what we may call the Water
Franchise to the working classes. flitherto,*the
upper and middle classes atone weld well afford
the cost of this treatment *Mob now includes
the somewhat eipensive Turkish Bath. Mr.
Jupe'a liberality alone has procured for the
singularly healthful and beautiful locality of
Limpley Stoke the distinction of receiving
Christian ladies and gentlemen at the lowest
possible rates for middle-class treatment. This
gentleman, who is • man of affluence and him-
self an extensive employer 0( labour, baiting
established the Limpley Stoke Institution out of
gratitude for the benefits experienced by his son
from the water cure, has now added to the
obligations under which he has, at so much
expense to himself already, placed the public, by
offering the site for • building nee: the existing
establishment, to be specially devoted to the
reception pf the working classes. Mr. T.
Preston, who manages the present institution
so admirably, can well conduct both; and we
only trust, from personal experience of thole
valuable protease', that the public gratitude
will respond to the appeal for funds, so as to
enable the dndertaing to be commenced upon •
sufficient scale for accomplishing real good to
suffering humanity.

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOOLETY.
A letter bee been received front Jueiah
Goodwin, the secretary of this society, in answer
to a oouttnanioation forwarded by Mr. C. M. Lee,
town clerk of the city of Ela!Uhler,, in which
said :"I beg to state forth. inforrnatioa of agri-
culturists intending to exhibit at the Salisbury show
in June neat, that each lot of ewes must be of the
same dock, and the lambs in clauses 34 and 33 must
be the prodooe of the ewes with which they are ex-
hibited. This coudition duly appear in the
large prise sheets about to be circulated."

and John Petallll, merlins at Hampreston ;
William Dewland, placing stones on railway at
Melbary Bubb. George and Eliza Read, stealing •
silver watch at Stoarpsioe; John Rooker and
Williaci Hollsodrake, breaking into a store and
stealing thwein, at POI timid ; John Devenish
Martin, patting off a forged order for money at
Allington ; Joseph Applio, assault on oonstable at
Blandford Alfred Pitman, stealing money at Wyke
Regis; Richard Toby Pearce, ateal•ng money at
Portland; William Rowell, manslaughter at Sher.
borne; Georgia Harris, stealing two lambs at
Preston; William Baker, Sarah Baker, and Jana
Bennett, obtaining good by false pretences at Bland-
ford ; Henry Cox rrancia, forgery at Bridport.
Oa Bail: John Travers, arson at Netherbnry ;
Thomas Way, stealing a jar of spirits at Maiden
Newton.

THZ DORSZT RIIILE VOLUNTEER/J.—The follow.
Mg battalion orders have been istriod to the let
Administrative Battalion Dorset Rifle Volunteere:—
Wimboroo, February 16, 1867.
. . _ .

1. The annual dinner of the °limn of the battalion
will take place at the Kings Arms Hotel, Dorehester, on
Tuesday, the 12th March, at Ave o'clock. The arrange-
aiente for the drill, Lc., of the battalion during li.
coming seeme, will be discussed on the occasion, and
Lieutenant-Cologisl Mengel trusts that every officer will,
if possible, attend. Oflems who intend being present
are requested to give notice to the Adjutant on or
before the sth March. . . .

2. The following amngements have been made with
regard to th.e Adjutant's visite to corps daring the
00q2i111 season. Each commanding officer Li requested
to OA the most convenient hour for parade, from time
to time, a. tht season advances :-
Bridport.-lat Tuesday: March 5, April 2, May?,
June 4, July 2, August 6, Srpten.ber 3, October 1.
Wimborne.-lst Than lay : March 7, April 4, May 2,
June 4, July 4, August 1, September 5, October 3.
Stalbridge.-14 Friday: March 1, April 5, May 3,
June 7. July 5, August 2, September 6, Octoher 4.
Sherborne.-2nd Monday : Msrch 11, April 8, May 13,
June 10, July 8, August 12,September 9, October 14.
Poole.-2nd Tuesday: March 12, April 9, May le,
June 11, July 9, August 13, September 10. October 8.
Warehans.-2nd Wednesday: Marsh 13, April 10,
May 8, Jane 12, July 10, August 14, September 11,
Goteborg.
Oillinghans.-3rd Monday March 18, April 15, May
20, Jane 17, Judy 15, August 19, September 16, October
7L
Blandford.-3r4 Tuesday: Mere& 19. AprU 16, May
21, Jane 18, July 16, August 20,September 17, October
15.
Dorabeeter.-3rd Thursday: March 21, April 18, May
18, Jane 20, JulyllB, August 15, fieptember,l9, October
17.

—Storminater Neiston.-3rd Friday: Dlarelt 15, Apri
19, May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16, September
20, October 18.
Weymouth. —4th Monday; March 25, April 22, May
77, Jane 24, Jely 22, August 26, September 23,
October %. . _ _

Bb.hasbary.-4th Tuesday : March 26, April 23,
May 28, Joao 25, July 23, August 27, September 24,
October V.
By Order, C. C. BAftarrr, Capt. and Adjt.

the cemetery be found ffidenhans lying on the cat-
side rail of the up.line. By the position of his
body be thought he was o.rly stunned, but On
examining him he found no signs of life, and
ran and finohed his companions. Packers were
allowed to walk on the line, lint were euppoeed to
keep on the opposition rails or free of them altogether.
In order to reach that part of the line where the
body was found, ileitesseel most have crossed the line
after leaving his basket some 100 yards further hack
towards Monckton. The deceased was not at all deaf.
He was always a steady sober man. He was married
and had two children. When his companion err Veil.
they carried him back to Dorchester.— Henry Hicks
, driver of the Great Western train, wu then oMled,
and said owing to the darkness of the morning at
this time of the year, they were unable to distinguish
a person walking on the line. He first sighted the
auxiliary signal when they came to Monoktrin cut•
Wig. Previous to seeing the signal, he sounded the
whistle in order to warn the signalman to get it in
readiness and in its proper position. lie blew the
whistle as weal this morning, and when
he came up tho was "all right," as
were also thou at the junction and cozier
wetly he ran the train into Dorchester. The
body of • man or 0•60 of • horse would have no per-
ceptible effect on the motion of the engine. He tint
beard piths accident at Trowbridge on his return.
The whistle at the auxiliary station was the only one
, blown. The morning wee moonlight, but the
weather was hazy. The train was going at the rate
of 20 miles an hour when passing between the ,
auxiliary and the junction. When the train had
got to Evershot, and whilst they were still running, I
the fireman observed something on the 'prior
'above the footplate of the engine,
and on going to see what it was found a rt mg, such
as is used in gardening, broken off, but still project-
jog from the iron work of the engine. He did not
identify the prong, neither did the fireman.
The tool eas supposed to have been used by the
deceased in gardening. The train stopped at Maiden
Newton but no oneobeerved theprong. —P.C. Tucker
said be waaa policeman at Binoombe tunnel. He knew
the deceased, and heard him pus his box on the
morning in question. Deeneed asked him if his
comrades were gone on, and he answered that they
about three quarters of an hour since.A
ritrli:d while afterwards Synsee passed the box, and
asked witness the same question. He then
oorroborated th • evident,. of the first witness sale the
whersaboete of the deceased's basket.—Mr. F
surgeon, said : I was called at 10 minutes torhais
morning to see the deceased. 1 proceeded to the
spot where the accident happened, and found him
lying there. He was quite dead. He had a blJw
over the left jaw, just in front of the ear. There
appeared to have been a fracture of the skull as there
was a blow at Oat point. Death must have been
instantaneous. The left arm was broken. I

examined the part of the line thereabouts, and
found the track of a right foot on the outside of the
upline. There were marks on the gravel
that extended some distance as though the
toes had been dra gad after the body had
been struck down. There was • little blood
where the blow was supposed to have been received.
I and &Login the poet eonneeted with the telegraphic
wires. The footprints extended from 19 to 15 cards.
They came apparently to a sudden interruption, and
then there were evidenoss of a struggle having taken
place. I think the injuries must have been inflicted
by the iron frame-work of the engine, which is high
enough to etrike the head &Di shoulders of the
deceased. The concession which the deceased
received would be sufficient, I imagine, to cause
instant death, as there could sceroely bee more vital
part than that upon which the blow fell. The
coroner then made • few remarks upon the apparent
carelessness with which the men employed as packers
upon the railway proceeded along the line, and
expressed his opinion that if the regulations were
strictly adhered to many somdente would de avoided.
—The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.

Mr. Wirerros said he considered those who had rights
in the parish church now should continue them in
the new edifice, and be thought also that by letting
. tbe sittings at • small rent sufficient might be raised
'to enable them to dispense with church rates; and
if en, he thought it rather desirable.
Mr. G•t.riN inquired whether there we. net is.
instance to be obtained on account of providing in-
creamed accommodation in the church.
Mr. Worms said be believed in some instances
grants were made towards building new churches,
but he qoessioneri whether in this instance much
cold be got, as they had a good church a" reams.
And so many seats had to be provided free for the
poor for a grant.
Mr. K. Peones suggested that there should he
no appropriation of seats except as regarded those
' baring rights at present in the church.
Rev.B. L. WA,NON considered the letting of
pews in • church very objeotionable, and remarked
that there was • growing tendency against such •
course. He thought they must not seek to make
people pay for the privilege of oomiog to church ;
collections, or subscriptions, or anything elm
would he better than letting the sittings.
Mr. WINTON thought by letting the pews • stated
income would be derived and church•mtee might be
abolished -rates which had to be paid by Die.
*enters and others who came to the church
at all.
Mr. I. Wou.ts : They buy the property in the
wish subject to churchoates.
, Mr. GALPIN was MINN'S it should not go forth
that they intended to let pews in the new church,
though, of course, those who bold rights at preterit
, would continue to do so.
The motion was then put to the vestry and carried
unanimously.
We E. Bositspr proposed that a committee of the
I following gentlemen be formed for the purpose of
carrying the foregoing revolutions into effect, viz.,
Rends. J. Fisher, T. A. Folksier. R. G. Watson,
Messrs. J. Flavor, R. Williams, H. Williams, 11. N.
Middleton, W. L. Henning, W. D. Tapp, T. Coorobs,
L Wallis, T. F. Hodges, R. Davis, G. Pontos., J.
galpin, J. R. Tense, R. Thornton, E. Pearce, M. C.
Weston, E. Burnett, J. Tudor, J. P. Aldridge, C.
B. Henning, H. Mayo, H. Barnes, and G. Hawkins,
with power to add to their number.
' Mr. WALLIS asociaded the motion, sad it WU
carried unanimously.
Mr. G. PAXTON Maya "That the cordial thanks
,of this meeting be given to the Rev. James Fisher,
' for the lucid explanation be has given of the object
of the veetry.h
Mr. T. Patch seconded the motion, and it was
carried unanimously.
The meeting then separated.