The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

VI iltsbirc.

A PRINCELY Pacer.—A correspondent at Sin-
mitten, near Trowbridge, writes, on the occasion of
the wedding festivities, —" As there was no public
effort in this place to treat the inhabitants, Mr. Eli
Linsey invited a number of persons to his house,
and distributed red kerrings amongst about 40 or
50, and pee them • pint of beer each. At flea
o'clock this self-constituted lord of the manor west
round with • bell, and announced that if the °Near
of his " bounty" would call upon him at live o'clock
be would give them another pint of beer to weak
the bones out of their threata! Joke or DO joke.
about 40 applicants went to his house, and had the
beer. He also called the children of the village to-
gether, and distributed' humbugs' amongst them,
implaining that they were meineotoes of those who
had *offered the day to peas unobserved in Ste-
venom."

SALISBURY.--rA_NriawAriox.-- The Lord Bishop
of Salisbury hes 'assessed his intentios of administar-
ing the sacred rite at amirmatiaa at the following
Oases daring the present year:
Warminster . . ... . ... March It M 3 30 p.m
The Oathadral. Salisbury ... Mamas 27, at 3.0 pm
St. Martin's, Salisbury ... ... March/0, .5 630. p.m
St. Katharims's Saversaks ... March 33,at 130. p.m
Sidebars" ... ... ... April 12, at 6.30 p.m
Devises ..- ... April 22, at 3.0 p.m
Downton ... ... May 3. at 3.0 p.. Marlborough School... ... May 19, at 3.0 p.m
Siaadford ... ... ... gum 4. IC 3-0
Pisherton ... ... ... Jain 14, ri 6.3 Dip.
Stunning:ter Neiress ... ... Jose /A ti 8.0 p.m
Market Lartngtoe ... ..... Jolt a. al 3-0 PA.
Loft:Beet . ... • „.. Sept. 6,54 t 0.30 a.in
Poole ... ... Sept. 7,-• at MO a.* '
Dorchester, All Saints ... ... sept. 8. el 11.0 tuis
Bridport ... ... Sept. 9. at 30 p •
Besoiasket ... ... Sept. 10, at IL4 am
Brea hill ~. ... O. 31. at 3.0 p.st
M•riboraatattelPet•es ... Oct. SI MLW -
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ALDffiltitHOTr.—flonirriturs Lies • BOltitlig.
—A gigantic bonfire wan lit on Tuesday the 10*
on the -brow of Ciwer's Iliap at Aldershott. The
tier4lB,earefelly constricted of forte wood and tar
and containing 42,000 cubic feet of materials.
was forty•five feet MO, and at the height of seventy
feet there waved a royal &binds:xi. When lit the
scene is said to have been grand in the eztresne. In
the cootie the flames, rearing their many forked
heads to a height of about seventy or eighty feet,
were, owing to • fresh southerly wind, carried clear
of the flag, which, brilliantly illuminated, appeared
to look down disdainfully upon Übe gigantic Abdo I
for its destruction which were heiog made holism.
On the plateau forming the top of Cowes Chop,
the eye rested on the bright scarlet uniforms of sone
thousands of the troops, who bad owes op to do
, honour to the occasion, but on the other hand the
steep, receding sides of the camp left a darkness
beyond, which appeared the MON intones from the
contrast to the norr white beat of the blazing mass.
For some time it was a matter of doubt whether the
flag would be consumed, but gradually, as the lighter
materials composing the bonfire were burnt, and the
pile sank, it became obvious that the burning of the
pole would be the only thing that would bring it
down. Now was seen the advantage of the outer
easing of fir-poles—they retained the maw in shape.
There were no mamas of fire tumbling off the top,
nor did the none get out of shape in any way,
but it burnt fairly and regularly throughout. Al
twelve o'clock the pile was still blazing nearly as
fiercely as ever, and the pole, though out of the per-
pendiceler, seemed likely to bold on to the last, but
about two o'clock even its great thickness was no
proof against the intense beat, and it fell, amid the
chews of the few spectators, who immediately com-
menced a general scramble for the bunting, each
anxious to poems a relic of so anspicious an °ow.