The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-21 00:00:00

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'IIIE MALT TAX.

A numerously attended meeting was held at the Swan
Hotel, Norwich, on Saturday, for the purpose of f rte.
ax
ing an Anti-Malt T Aesociation for at Noitolk.° Sir
H. J. Stmcey, M.P. for Greet Yarmouth, presided.
Mr. lb o wee, hi P., was also present, but took no pert in
the proceedings.
The Chairman said the subject was one in which, flw had ever taken a very deep interest, lie had ever
felt strongly the injuAice which land bad suffered by
the iinpoiition of this obnoxious tax upon it. (Hear,
hoar.) fie contended that the right time for touching
this tax was when there was a surplus revenue. Thai
was the right time, and always had been the right,
time, becaose the comforts and neecesities oV
the people were the first thing to be considered..
(Cheers.) If the principles of free trade were,
infallible, as they were always told—and he did not•
dispute the assertion—the first matter which ought to•
be attonded to was, the comfort of the people; he
referred more particularly to the comfort.of the agricul—
tural labourer, the operative, and the artixth. In t
Hertfordshire, Eases, and West Norfolk, the agricul—
turd interest was now rising, and declaring that It.
would bear no longer the injustice which it sufferef,.
and he (Sir H. Stracey) would ask those premnt whether
they intended to combine with the determination that
the land should be relieved in future of this most
unjust impost. If they entertained such a determine,
tion one of the most essential steps to be taken in con.
nection with the repeal of the Malt-tax was the joining
an association such as it *as now proposed to establish
In East Norfolk. A bill was introduced last session by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer called the Malt for
Cattle Bill, and that bill he (Sir H. Stracey) contended
acknowledged the injustice under which the farmers
laboured. (Hear, bear.) That bill had, however,
turned out perfectly inoperative, and et no earthly use .
to •nybody ; and when it was before parliament lie told
the minister that it was only intended as • sop to the
farmer, and to throw dust into his eyes. It wies a per.
fectly harmless measure, but it was no fettered and
hampered with conditions that it had much bettkr Uwe
been called the Linseed and Exeiseman's BL ratheelbse
the Malt for Cattle Bill. (Laughter.) He denied that'tfies
repeal of the tax would increase drunkenaess, anal
recommended that as large a number of petitions ass
possibleshottld be presented in support of Sir F. Melly's,
t approaching motion. (Cheers )
Various resolutions were then moved, seconded,ancki
earried, the speakers being principally tenant farmers. It •
was agreed th st the proposed asecesiatioes ehould be formed
for F,ast Norfolk. The hon. chairman was appoint
president, end the subscription was fixed at be. par
annum. A petition to parliament was also read. An
, amendment was attempted to be moved by a teetotal
missionary. but he was roundly hissed, and at last
refused a hearing on the ground that he would not give
the terms of the amendment. The petition was adopted
with two dimentiente, oats Wog the refractory
missionary, whet evidently wished to introduce his
peculiar views.
Thanks were voted to the chairman, and it was
announced *lab the hen: bertonet had presented the new
association with donatiow el £20., beside. aa annual
subectriptlon of Ell.•

SILTIRIC AseTruithers IMosorte ieNessErraz.--Os
Wednesday last the south-easter* extremity al des
Funnesa peninsula of North Lanclushiee wee visited by
an earthquake of considerable dinurliing power, whisk
excited much consternation in that locality. The shock
was experienced about a quarter•pakt eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, and four distinct vibrations were felt at
the Furness Abbey station, on the Furness Railway„
situated between Ulverstone and the port of Barrow..
Rampside seems to have been the spot where the shock
was mo3t, severely felt. Mr. Townson, of ITlverston,,
gives the following account of his observations. He.
sops—" I was in • cottage at Rampside, engaged itu
putting • clock into proper striking order, when I NO
the floor on which I stood upheave as thoughJ
there was a wave beneath it. I and the rest of the,
inmates of the house rushed out terrified, for we,
thought nothing less than that it was about to rant
and bury us in its ruins. The wave seemed to move-,
from east to west. The motion was over in leas than.
two seconds." In the same village the end of •.
thatched inhabited cottage was knocked down, and one,
of the sides has been so shaken that it cannot stand..
A young woman was in the house at the time of the-
shock, but she escaped uninjured. At bloaside the.,
house of Mr. John Storey was seriously shaken from
the roof to the basement, the ceiling in every room
broken, as well as • window jamb, in addition
to other disturbances. The shock was Of a most-
alarming character at this point. A singular-
phenomenon occurred in the same neighbourhood..
Some boys who were sliding on • pond found
themselves thrown down, and the sheet of ice was up—
heaved and broken in pieoes. At Hiedpool the shock.
was so voilent that it was conjectured by those in the
offices at the iron works that an accident had occurred,
on some part of the works, and a rush was made to those
windows which overlook them, when it was discovned,
that the workmen were looking somewhere else for an.
explanation. The inhabitants of Barrow felt the shock,
and they, too, imagined some accident had happened at
Hindpool. The bells were ringing in the hotels,and the
people were out onion sides seeking from their neighboare
for an explanation of the noises and movements. At
Jackson's Hotel, Roe Island, the shock was keenly felt,
and there wee ecar.ely a glsa or decanter in the house
but what was thrown over. It was also severely felt &b
Cookie, and two fishermen who were on the sands near
to that place were alarmed by the shook, and seeing •
large opening made in der Bend near to where they
stood, and sand and water thrown up to a height of 8 or
10 yards. In all directions in thia neighbourhood li.aps
of earth and stones have been thrown wp, and may
yet be seen as evidences of the severity of this an.
usual visitation. At Roos. Cote several shimmy stocks
were thrown down, and numeroda instances of injury
are mentioned at nearly every pleas in the neieh.
bourhood.

ilailtuau /Gime Flaticos,

FOR FEBRUARY.

LONDON

IF BIZ
Weymouth &
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Dorchester.

WaymouTH
Dom:mural .
Moreton .

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arrive •
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(A) Third dela passengers lesthog Dorehester (8.64 a.ni
and Weymouth 3.86 a.m.), tessh London at 2.30 p.m.
(B) The 4.60 train from Weymouth stope at Wool on litatury
days only.
(B) This train is third class from Weymouth SO Dorchester
only.
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(B)First, wend and third-claw passengers can leave LondetS
its 4.113., Co as to proceed onwards by the 10.26 train Irons,
Southampton.
(D) The train leaving London at 8 p.m. will stop at WooP
by signal only, and at Moreton by signal on Tuesdays only.
(}0 Passengers for Wool must change carriages at Ware
ham, and this train will stop at Moreton to set down passen-
ger. from London or Southampton. on Informing the rreard—

TRAINS _ .

SUNDAYS.
TBAINS. DOWN
to London. London to 1
•
1,2,8 1 &2 Mall Chug. 1,2,8 1,2,2 Mall.
4.1. CM. La.
Wlll'lloolll 615 130 930 London .. 916 820
Dorchester 640 2 0 1016 Southampton 7 0 141 121
Moreton 660 21610 28 PooleJunet. 986 884 2 5
Wool 7 0 230 . . Wareham 10 0 846 219
Wareham 7 11 250 1047 Wool .. 10 20 866 .
Poole June 723 610 II 0 Moreton .. 10 40 410 ..
Southampt 910 530 125? DORM RRRRR 11 0 423 8 6
London [1 15 9 0 4 SO, WaTllOOlll.. 1125 446

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WIRE DATA.
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9 111 1 6

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6 40
660

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610 6li
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11 16 645
11 38 71
11 720
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8 18
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2 60
3 50
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6 10