The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

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MAZE LANZ, Friday. • -Com—tTand with the previous tk_
rather more firmness has been apparent Itlibedftila.
for all good and file Inglish wheats,lwilen Mark-lane
and in the provincial market., -Mr, in some instances,
pries. have advanced la per quarter. Low and damp
qualities, however, have moved off slowly, at about
revisits ratite. Foreign wheat—the imports of which
bum been on a very moderate scale—has commanded
rather more attention, and the currencies have had an
upward tendency. Fine barley hu commanded quite as
much money as of late: Otherwise, the barley trade
has been in • most inactive state: Scarcely any change
has taken place in the value of oats, beans or pea*; but
the inquiry for them has been much restricted. Flour
has realised quite last week's valve,although the demand

Most of ihe 711111111 T markets hive continued heavy ter
*heat, at the late deerms in the quotations. Spring
corn and ' dour have moved off slowly on easier terms.
Is the North of Europe, the transactions for Spring
Shipment have not increased. Advice' from New
TOrk state that breadstuff' were rather drooping in
(trice, and that shipments were law active.
Our advises from nearly all parte of the United King-
dein state' that the wheat plant is looking remarkably
well, and that the breadth of land laiddown this year for
*heat is Unusually large.
The &etch markets have been scantily supplied with
moat kinds-,.0t produce; nevertheless, the demand
((enema" bee ruled very inactive, at barely stationary
Pitiata•
In Ireland fine wheal, barley, and mite have sold
4 full ; but all other articles have met a dull
14qu17.
BIDAY-iNIGHT.—Very limited 'applies of, English
Wheat were received fresh up to Mark-lane this morn-
ing, and the demand, though far from active,. ruled
do9and4iiho.i.riiiies without chaallfrarfrozroz reahvesp qoat
474 There wea
ex graaary". The amount of business
trensectesli in all dearriptione was very moderate, yet
to quotations were steadily maintained. The inquiry
for good and line *stay was lees active, and inferior
walla wee, neglected, at late rates. Oats, beans,
anj Mat 1119Yed oft heavily on former terms. The
earl trade was dull, but no ,alteration was observed in
tbolliaddinase, compared with Monday lest. This
wnyley Masada amount to 5.480 quarters of wheat,
1,111111,-baderr, 1,430 oats, 190 Reeks and 13,940 barrels of
Fireinseerna, Saturday, Marsh B.—Wheat, 40s to
644 (het week, 40s to N).—Barley, 28' to 41s Od
(lest week, 28e to 41.4 Od.)--Oate, 20s to 25e Id Clad
week,2o4 to Xs Od.)—Beses, 40e to 48s (hat week, 40s
to 605.)-611s. loaf, 14d.—There was a good supply
of wheat,. sad sales were steady at former rate..
Betsy eel& readily, and the beet samples were worth
rather more than last week. Oats and beans with-
out-variation.
Wanewssah, Friday.—Short supplies. Wheat meets
a sisal, eonsilmptive demand at fully last week's prices.
liiisza= rather dearer. Beans dull. Other articles
Javeasooa. Friday. Attendanee at market
moderate, and a fair business done in wheet and fin
at *MY %biseFriday's rates. Indian corn and be:if;
steady. Oateandeatmeal unaltered. Imports—lreland,
he. :-Wheat, 693 qrs ; barley, 15 qrs • oats, 2,466
sta.; okinatal, qrs ; flour, 737 ie.*" and 15
bann.**o: Whoa, 2k4111 barley, 400
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NOTES OF THE WEEK.
At the present mason of the year we may
take* proopeotive aud retrospeotive view of

farming operations. We have passed through a
wintet more than usually favourable to farming
work, and especially calculated to correct the evils
occasioned by the rainy year of 1860, the con-
sequence of which extended to, and greatly
influenced the harvest of 1861. But the fine
summer and autumn of last year, followed by
the comparatively mild winter we have just
emerged from, have enabled farmers to till their
land in the best manner, and have rendered
all out-door farm work in a more forward state
than most of us remember in any previous year.
To the same causes are attributable the almost
universal vigour of the wheat crop. Sown for
the most part early, the chief ground for appre-
hension in many districts has been, that the
plant might become too forward, and the
numerous short periods of very severe frost
we have had during the winter have been
welcomed, as stopping the growth and checking
the undue luxuriance of the wheat plant. We
think, however, there need be very few appre-
hensions on this ground. We frequently hear
more fear about the evils of over-luxuriant
growth than we see, and this winter, especially, we
have noted that though the wheats are generally
strong, we have nowhere noticed an unhealthy
luxuriance. Certainly, several very sharp checks
of severe frost have been experienced during the
past winter, although the marked peculiarity
of the season has been its extreme mildness. On
several occasions the cold has been for a night
or two nearly as severe as anything
experienced in either of the two preceding years.
At. the present time the prospect of the wheat
crop is uncommonly promising, although in some
districts there is a talk of injury from wire-worm.
Dry weather, however, will enable the farmers
to stop this mischief by heavy and early rolling&
The general monthly report of the Mark Lane
Express for February, says "The general appear-
ance of the wheat plant is satisfactory," that
farmers have been induced by the fineness of
the season "to lay down a large additional
breadth of wheat," and that the breadth
of wheat is likely to prove the most
extensive on record." Then beans, peas and
oats, have been largely 'planted, and some fields
of barley as well; and. we all know that, as a
rule, the spring crops are most productive
when sown early. Roots have stood well through
the winter ; turnips—all kinds having been
unaffected by the frost—now yield good supplies
of food for sheep and cattle. March came in as
"a lion," so that it may be expected to go out
"like a lamb," and should a genial April succeed,
the stock, as well as the corn-farmer's prospects,
will be highly favourable.
The Longford election has been decided, not
by the electors, but by the mob, in favour of
Major O'Rielly. It was not a question of votes,
but of bludgeons, and the question really is, not
that so few recorded their votes for Col. White
the Ministerial candidate, but that, considering
the tactics adopted by his oppoi.ents, there were
any who mustered sufficient courage to attempt
to get to the polling booths. The priests, in
order to have the election decided in their
favour, encouraged their flocks to commit the
greatest atrocities. On the first day of polling,
the number of votes recorded for Col. White
was 791; Major O'Rielly having polled con-
siderably above a 1000. But the polling
was a farce. The moment the agents of Col.
White presented themselves in the town of
Granard they were torn from their cars, in the
presence of the priests, and would, probably,
have been torn in pieces had the military not
rescued them. The priests neither lifted a
finger nor uttered a word to check the brutal
passions they had been instrumental in exciting
from the altar on the previous Sunday. And
after the agents had reached their residence,
under the escort of the troops, the house itself
had to be surrounded by a strong force of
soldiers and constabulary, in order to protect it
from the violence of the people. At Carrackglaas,
several were maltreated, and two men were left
for dead. The Rev. Mr. Gregg, a Protestant
clergyman, was assaulted in a most brutal
manner, and narrowly escaped with his life.
His son was stoned, and wherever Col. White's
supporters appeared, they were driven back
with bludgeons, while several houses, in which
they resided, were gutted and burnt. In Long-
ford itself the dragoons had to charge through
the streets four times to quell the destructive
instincts of the mob. Intimidation was every-
where practiced, voters were kidnapped in all
quarters, and a large number of them dared
not attempt to venture to the poll. That Major
O'Rielly's triumph will be short-lived there can
be no doubt. A petition will be presented
against his return to the House of Commons
with every chance of success. But can nothing
be done to prevent these outrages in future 1 If
the Roman Catholic priests, whom Lord Derby
says are the natural allies of the Conservatives,
are to be permitted to stimulate their flocks to
perpetrate these outrages, there will be an end
to all freedom in Ireland, wherever Roman
Catholicism is predominent The Irish priests
are as great adepts in concealing their dirty work
as they are perfect in the art of performing it, and
it will probably be difficult to bring against them
any direct charge abetting the ruffianism in con-
nection with the Longford election. But the
"gentleman in black" is said to sometimes
outwit himself, and the cleverest adepts at
1 chance-play are not always safe to win. It may
I therefore be, that one or two of the Catholic
priests may be identified with the blackguardism
at Longford. Should such be the case, the
severest penalties provided for such offences
should be awarded. It would afford a whole-
some lesson to the priestly advisers at future
1 elections.

The death of Count Cavour was • calamity to
Italy, the extent of which is not even yet
known. We know much of what he did, but
we can only guess what he prevented. Riess°li,
his successor, was worthy of him in purity of
purpose, in nobility of character, and in firmness
of will. From the moment he assumed the helm
of State, Ricasoli's policy was wise, clear, and
defined. He saw that peace was necessary for
the maintenance of Italy's independence, the
completion of her territory, and the consolidation
of her strength. But the king did not love
him. He was too stiff and stern to be popular
with the masses, and unhappily, moreover, other
influences were at work against him. Whether
the rumour which has been again revived that
the Emperor Napoleon'a hatred to Ricasoli arose
from the Italian minister's stern refusal to give
Sardinia to France as the price for the with-
drawal of French troops from Rome, be or be not
true, certain it is French intriguers at the Court
of Turin have, for a long time past, been using
every influence to secure the overthrow of the
Mena Administration. Blew)li well knew the
mode which, and the people by whom, he was
being undermined; and, although he desired re-
tirement, he was too good a patriot—possessed
too much love of country to willingly succumb
to such unworthy cabals, and he repeatedly an-
nounced that he never would retire except in
consequence of an adverse vote, or a direct and
written dismissal from the king. But there was
no fear of an adverse vote in the Chambers. On
the contrary, he was trusted and admired there,
and w!is supported enthusiastically to the last.
His reported "resignation," we may safely con-
clude, was no resignation at all, but a virtual,
and probably a formal, dismissal. Of Ratazzi,
his successor, report by no means speaks favour-
ably. He is not a man who really enjoys the
confidence of any party. He cannot command
anything approaching a working majority in the
Chamber, and must depend upon the support of
those whom, by questionable compliances, he can
enlist under his standard. He will be acceptable
to the Emperor, and will be powerless to resist
any wild caprice of the king. He will probably
have to connive at, if not encourage, irregular
enterprises of the Garibaldians or Mazzinians
in Dalmatia, or elsewhere, which would warrant
Austria in attacking Italy, and thus bring on
another European war. Almost, without ex-
ception, the new Ministry is looked upon by the
Liberal press of this country as an evil augury
for Italy—a nation the most interesting to us,
after America; and although we have every con-
fidence- that the influence of the English Govern-
ment will be exerted in a right direction, they
will doubtless have no little difficulty to avert
mischief.

No Irishman at Donnybrook fair better loves
a "Shindy" than does the Bishop of Oxford,
although the shillelaghs which he is obliged to
use are, of course, rhetorical rather than
material. For two hours on Monday night his
Lordship fought, in the presence of the Peers,
against the revised Code of National Education;
but while his iusertiona were wide and sweeping,
his arguments were declamatory rather than
convincing. The Bishop is opposed to the pro-
position of testing the efficiency of the children
belonging to our National Schools by their ability
to read, write, and cipher. These in his lord-
ships's eyes are the poorest results of school
teaching—the worst criterion of the progress of
education. Looks, clean faces and hands, smooth
hair, readiness of eye, the bearing of the child,
the pupil teacher, the master or mistress—these
are the things with which the Inspector is to be
oatiorlek‘ Now hie lordship does net value a

moral education more highly than we do, but
we question if the nation would be satisfied with
paying two-millions-and-a-half sterling every
year—the amount to which the Bishop thinks
the educational grant might be extended—simply
to teach a boy to wash his hands, comb his hair,
and put on a certain expression of countenance
when the Inspector happens to come round.
Yet to ask for more tangible results before the
children have left school, he thinks, would be
like examining into the efficiency of the cure of a
broken leg before the splinters are taken off.
The Bishop's idea is that we should pay our
money in faith, and wait to see the results after
the child is grown up to manhood or woman-
hood, before we attempt to make an alteration
in "things as they are." Would his Lordship,
we might ask, be satisfied with this in regard to
the education of his own children

The crater of revolution, over which the throne
of France stands, has once more commenced to
give forth sounds ominous of an approaching
eruption. The report of the corps Legialatiff,
the visit of Parisian workmen to the column of
July, and the arrests of students, are premonitory
cinders and sparks which have been thrown up,
and the overwhelming streams of lava may be
closer at hand than anybody anticipates. We
are informed by the Parisian press that the
authorities have been for sometime past 0-, the
track of guilty intrigues, and have ordez he
arrest of the ringleaders. These guilty intrigues
show that beneath the seemingly fair surface of
the second empire, there ha been a large
amount of discontent shut up. The correspon-
dents of the Globe and the Express, write of the
aspect of affairs in the French capital as very
serious.

The intelligence brought by the Edinburgh
from New York speaks of the almost unbounded
hopes and expectations raised by the capture of
Fort Donnelson and other victories on a small
scale, but not by any means unimportant in their
probable results in the neighbourhood of the
Tenesse river. General Hallack has taken
Clarkesville in that locality, and its surrender
and occupation open a way for the Union troops
and gunboats to advance upon Nashville itself,
the stronghold of seesio,n in Tenesse As
Wight be expected, the New York papers
represent the Confederate States as full of dread,
at the sametime intimating that there is a great
revulsion of sentiment taking place in the South
in favour of Union principles. At Richmond
it is asserted that 3000 men are already organised
for a demonstration in favour of the Federal
Government whenever a fitting opportunity may
offer itself. It. is also said that General Johnson,
on hearing of the capture of Fort Donnelson,
telegraphed I to General Grant, offering to
surrender Nashville on condition that private
property should be spared. This however lacks
the great essential of credibility, and is incon-
sistent with all that has gone before. The state-
ments are in all probability the sentiments
entertained by the news-mongers of New York,
and are well calculated to keep up the steam of
unbounded confidence in the resources of the
Union. If the entire rebellion were confined
to Tenessee it would be reasonable enough
to believe that it might be quashed,
but we cannot suppose that the Confederates
have lost all courage, and that they are placed
in a very perilous position by the loss of forts
Henry and Donnelson, and Clarkesville, so
near head quarters. But hitherto the Con-
federate Generals have had the best of the
campaign, and is they have a vast territory
and 110 inconsiderable amount of population to
back them, it is hardly reasonable to suppose
that the Confederates should offer to surrender
their position without striking a blow. Besides,
bad General Johnson made the proposition
imputed to him, it is more than probable he
would have been tried by court-martial, and shot.
The real truth seems to be, that the Confederates
have resolved to make a determined stand at
Nashville, on the retention of which the
secession cause in Tenessee entirley depends.
Beauregard was in that city from the early part
of February till the middle of the month,
urging on the construction of the defences
with extraordinary energy and rapidity, the
whole of the population assisting at the works
which were carried on day and night. The
military force amounted to 60,000, which were
uo doubt further augmented by the 5000 who
escaped from Port Donnelson, and the artillery
is described as of very formidable description.
Beauregard himself is confident of the capa-
bilities of the place, which is well stored with
ammunition and provisions, and of his own ability
to defend it against any hostile force. There
may be some exaggeration in this, but it is at any
rate more probable than to suppose that the
entire body of Secessionists, statesman and
people, soldiers and generals, are utterly
paralysed with terror at the first reverse of their
fortune.

DORCHESTER. PITCHISD CORN MATOCiT,
Saturday, Marsh B.—We had a very large attend-
ance, and the tone of the trade was firm. The
amount of business transacted was not to large as
last week, but prices generally were well supported
in all articles.

MESSRS. BAKER AND ENSOR'S REPOSITORY SALE,
Saturday, March B.—The attendance was very large,
and a g•ood business was done. Prime beef was as
plentiful as buyers, and maintained late prices.
There was a large number of good sheep, which sold
at an advance of 2d. per stone; the larger kinds
being almost the only iota unsaleable. Calves were
plentiful, and much wanted, consequently • good
clearance was effected.
LENTEN SERVICE/5.—A series of services suitable
for the season of Lent, were commenced on Wednes-
day (Ash-Wednesday), at All Saints' Church. The
preacher was the Rev. W. Perceval Ward, rector of
Compton Valence, and the subject chosen: "The
Christian Life • crucifixion of self, after the example
of our blessed Lord."—Oo the following Friday
evening the Von. Archdeacon Huxtable delivered a
very earnest and striking discourse on " Self-exalta-
tion the snare of the Devil, in the temptation and
fall of Adam."—These addresses will be followed by
the subjoined :—March 14—" Self-love the snare of
the world, as in the case of the rich young man who
forsook Christ :" Rev. V. Donnythorne Vyvyan,
rector of Monckton.—March 21—" Self-indulgence
the snare of the flesh, as with Esau who sold his
birthright :" Rev. B. Lucas Watson, chiplain of the
County Gaol. —March 28—" Self-humiliation neces-
sary to embracing the articles of the christian faith.
Witness St. Paul giving up all learning for the ex-
cellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus :" Rev.
Lionel D. Damer, rector of Cheddington, Bucks.—
April 4—" Self-sacrifice the true test of devotion to
Christ. The pouring of the wetly ointment on His
head on this account commended :" Rev. George L.
Nash, vicar of Tolpuddle and rural dean.—April 11
—" Self-denial the true measure of almsgiving. The
widow's mite accepted for this reason:' Rev. W.
Francis Tregarthen, curate of Osmington.—The
Rev. J. P. F. Davidson, curate, will conduct the
services during holy week; his subject being the
last seven sentences of our Saviour on the cross, and
on Easter Day the words of Christ risen and glori-
fied.

Powcx, Monday.—Before the Mayor and J. F.
Hodges, Esq.—Peter Tucker, of Chiselborne, was
summoned for allowing three horses, drawing two
timber tugs, to remain in the street two hours and
a half on Sunday morning.—The defendant said that
as he was coming along the Weymouth road with the
two teams on Saturday night, hia hat blew off, and
that he was sometime finding it in the dark. He
then could not tell which road his bones took, and
went the wrong way after them.—Fined Is., and
I2s. 6d. expenses. —George Read, of the Royal Oak
Inn, was summoned for carelessly allowing the water
supplied by the Board of Health to run away. It
appeared that Mr. Read had had the water laid on
but a day or two, and that the workmen did not
properly fix the plug, and hence the waste com-
plained of. —Case dismissed.

NIGHT POACHING. —At the Magistrates' Clerk's
office, on Friday, Alfred Dicker, from the neigh-
bourhood of Dorchester, was brought before
Viscount Folkenstone, and A. I). Hussey, Esq.,
under a warrant issued against him with poaching on
the night of the 25th of that month, on the estate of
the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton. It appeared that
the prisoner, who was a noted character, and the
terror of the country surrounding Dorchester, was
captured last year, after • severe struggle' by George
Way, one of his Lordship's keepers, at the Hare
Warren, Wilton, and sent to Dorchester gaol, in
consequence of a suspicion that he was the same man
who had escaped from thence whilst awaiting his
trial for shootings policeman. The suspicion proving
correct, he took his trial on the latter charge, and
was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. On the
expiration of his sentence on Thursday last, he was
again taken by Superintendent Matthews, on the
charge of night poaching, and was sentenced to
three months' imprisonment, and required to find
the usual sureties.

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETT.—The miniver-
wiry of the Dorchester Branch of the Pastoral Aid
Society, was held on Monday, when two public
meetings were held at the Townhall. The object of
this society is the salvation of souls by the mainte-
nance of curate, and lay agents in largely populated
districts, to faithfully proclaim the everlasting gospel
of Christ. At the present time grants are made for
403 clergymen and 160 lay agents, to 447 parishes or
districts, whose population numbers three millions
and a quarter,or about 7,700 souls to each incumbent,
with an average income of £2OO per annum, and of
whom 201 are without parsonage horses. The grants
of the society have also led to she opening, or keep-
ing open, of 212 churches, beside, which 197 rooms
have been Maenad for Divine service: In the year
ending 31.4 Man*, 180, the reoeipts amounted to '

£14,475 18s. 91. and the expenditure to £41,036
12s. sd. ; but when all the grants are occupied, an
income of £49,150 will be required, as the committee
have now before them 52 new urgent applications
for aid, and to none of which they are able to lend
assistance, At the morning meeting on Monday, J.
Floyer, Esq., presided. After prayer had been
offered up, the cheirman addressed the assembly.
He said that the annual meetings of this society were
looked forward to with no little interest by sme
' who were then in that room. He only wished that
the room that day indicated that the meeting was as
anxiously looked forward to by the inhabitants of
this district. It was true they had not many intel-
lectual attractions to draw persons to their anniver-
sary, although, in point of importance, the subject
to be brought before them yielded to none other.
The subject was nothing less than the effectiveness
of the Church of England to bring the tidings of the
ever-blessed gospel before the notice and consider-
ation of the great mass of the people of this country
—whether the church, as at present constituted, is
able to accomplish the great work of the salvation of
souls. This was the first general meeting that had
been held in this town since the statement had been
put forth of the retrospect of the first twenty-flve
years' existence; and it was gratifying to find, that
although all had not been done that it is as desired
to do, there was, nevertheless, much to be thankful
for. When this society was first established, there
were three millions of the population beyond the
reach of the sound of the gospel, and although there
were many [persons beyond the reach of the gospel,
they must remember that since that time there had
been an increase of the population of five millions of
human beings. It was, therefore, a matter of grati•
tude to God that this society had been the means of so
much good as had been done. Then, when they
looked to the financial position of the society, it was
not so encouraging as might be desired—
the ordinary income being, last year, less
than it was the year before; nevertheless,
this had been got up by extraordinary exertions and
special efforts being made for that and. And upon
closer inspection of the accounts it appeared that
these extraordinary efforts had raised the funds of
the Society to the greater part of a thousand pounds
in excess of the preceding year. Now these things
did show that the Pastoral Aid Society received •
hearty support from the friends of the Church of
England, and if they looked at the importance of
the Society, the number of ministers and lay agents
who were under *pig control all employed in
bringing home the great truths of the gospel to the
hearta and conscience of the people, they could but
thank God and take courage. He knew that it had
been said there was a falling off, and that many had
alienated themselves from the Church of England;
and if the assertion rested on good grounds it would
be a serious stigma upon them. But to controvert
this statement, it was only necessary for them to
look abroad and see the new Churches that had
lately been erected on all hands, and the immense
number of 'schools which had been raised up during
the last few years. Let them too refer to the
experience of the ministers who had been sent forth
under the direction of this society, and they
would see abundant evidence to refute the
statements to e hich he had alluded. And
he might say, that in proportion as the
great cardinal truths of christanity were
preached in all their simplicity and faithfulness, so
would the efforts of God's servants be crowned with
success; and in proportion those truths were
preached with power and earnestness, with a single
eye to God's glory, so would churches be filled, and
believers multiplied on every hand. The ministers
which this Society sent out, were such as preached
the truth as they found it in the Bible and as such
they expected, and they would assuredly find that
their ministrations were attended with abundant
success. The Rev. Reginald Smith, the local
sec etary,then gave a statement of the accounts, from
which it appeared that during the past year the
Dorchester district had transmitted to the Parent
Society the sum of £6OO Ifle Id. He concluded the
reading by inviting persons feeling an interest in
the society, to take boxes and collecting cards for the
porpoise of raising additional funds. The meeting
was then briefly addressed by the Rev. Mr. Minute
followed by the Rev. Mr. Cooper, who gave an
interesting statement of some of the society's
operations in London. At the present time
he said the members of the Church of
England formed 43 per cent, of the popu-
lation, Roman Catholics 34 per cent., Dissent
about 30 per cent., and that 25 per cent. were
irreligious, having no fear of God before their eyes,
and no hope of heaven nor fear of endless death. He
consequently urged upon those assembled to assist
the society in gathering in the Roman Catholic and
ungodly portion of our population into the fold of
Christ. —The Rev. Mr. Headland, of Broadwey, also
urged the claims of the society. As one who had
been employed in connection with tho society in a
large metropolitan parish, he could speak of the
necessity of its existence, and of the valuable
service rendered by lay agency. At the time of the
Reformation, our earochial system was unquestion-
ably, in most places, sufficient, but since that period
large and thickly populated districts had risen up
which it was impossible to reach but by aid such as
that which this Society afforded. —The Rev. Mr.
Martin also addressed the meeting at considerable
length in a speech replete with interest. He loved
this Society because it was an evangelical society,
and its object being to gather immortal souls into
the fold of Christ. He gave a large number of
interesting details of the outward means employed
in his own parish for the bringing of the Gospel
before the attention of the people, and related
numerous interesting particulars of sound and happy
conversions to God amongst persona who had for
many years lived in sin and degradation.—Other
addresses were also delivered, and the proceedings
were closed by a vote of thanks to the Chairmen,
and the " Benediction." —The evening meeting
was held also at the Hall, when the Rev.
H. Moule presided. The attendance was not so
numerous as could be desired. We do not believe
that the inhabitants of Dorchester and the
surrounding neighbourhood are indifferent to the
claims of the society, and it may well be a question
for the Committee next year whether it would not
be well to give a more extended invitation to the
inhabitants to attend their annual meeting. Col-
lections were made at the close of the meetings,
towards the funds of the society.
FORDINGTON. IttbfAliKABLE INCREASE.
One day last week a sow belonging to Mr. Laver, of
Fordington, produced the extraordinary number of
twenty little pigs, all farrowed alive. Considering
that pigs will eat anything they can get (orange peel
excepted), we premiss that this branch of Wining
must be profit.
WEYMOUTH.—Tne COSTS me TILX WINDHAM
Casa. —ln the Court of Chancery, on Friday, the
costa of this lunacy case were the subject of argil-
meat. Sir Hugh Cairns said he appeared for Mr.
W. F. Windham, who sought by his petition to
discharge the order of 23rd November last, restrain-
ing any disposition of, or interference with, his
property, and to provide for the payment of the
coats of the original petition and of the inquisition by
the original petitioners—Major-General Windham,
Lord Alfred Hervey, and others. When the pro-
moters of an inquiry into the condition of mind
of an alleged lunatic faithfully and fairly stated all
they knew tending to elucidate the state of mind
of the person against whom an inquisition was
sought, and to enable their Lordships to form a
proper conclusion on the point, nothing could be said
as to the payment by the promoters of such inquiry of
the costs of a commission prosecuted with their
lordship's consent. But he (Sir H. Cairns) could
prove to their lordships that the facts of the case
had not been so faithfully and fairly stated by the
petitioners. He would take the evidence of Lord
Alfred Hervey first, and the results of that evidence
as embodied in his affidavit, was that, in his opinion,
Mr. Windham was, and always had been, of weak
mind, and incapable of managing his own affairs,
and that unless he was put under restraint his
affairs would go to ruin, and his life itself be in
danger. But when his lordship was examined en
the comnisseion the character of his evidence was
very different from that ethic affidavit. It must be
recollected that throughout the whole of the case
there had been no suggestion of anything like casual
insanity or incapacity evidencing itself at one time
and not another, bet the case averred against Mr.
Windham was that there was constant, chronic,
permanent, congenital imbecility; and yet Lord A.
Hervey, in his evidence on the commission, said
that he was in the habit of receiving letters from his
nephew, and that they were as perfectly rational as
any one could write. Not one of those letters were
produced before their Lordships, and he (Sir H.
Cairns) submitted to the Court whether, when the
point at issue was congenital incapacity, their Load.
ships ought not to have seen these letters to amid
them in forming their opinion. Lord A. Hervey,
also, in his evidence, stated that one might converse
with Mr. Windham for hours together and detect
nothing irrational in his conversation. Was thet,
or was it not, a fact that should have been stated to.
their Lordships in an application for a commission'
against a congenital imbecile? He would, how-
ever, reserve an examination of the evidence given
before the oommiesioner by Lord A. Hervey.
New Wesumven CULP/L-0n Thursday even-
iiig a public tea meeting was held at the Wesleyan
Sunday Schoolroom, in Lower Bond-street, when a
goodly number of the members and friends partook
of the social meal, which was got up in excellent
style. After the "good things" of this life had
been done ample justice to, the company adjourned
to the chapel, where a public meeting was held.
The Rev. R. Cooke, superintendent minister of the
Weymouth eircuit,presided. The proceedings having
been opened by singing and prayer, the Chairman
addressed the meeting at considerable length. He
stated; since the conference inlAngust, 1860, no lass
than 100 new chapatis had been erected in various
parts of the country, in connection with the
Wesleyan body, at a cost of £87,206; 28 sew
aohoolhonsea, at a cost of £17,584; 47 cases of
chapel alteration and enlargement, at a cost of
£14,912; 23 organs, at a cost of £2,632; and 13
modifications of previously accepted plans involving
an outlay of £6,207; giving a total of 412,8,541. it
however, they took a period of seven years, it would
be found that the amount expended was, in round
numbers, nearly £400,000, and as debts to an almost
equal extent had during tbe mane seven years been
extinguished, it showed a connexional effort in behalf

of Chapel building, measured by the large sum of
eight hundred thousand pounds. In reference to the
effort now being made for the erection
of a new Chapel at Wm moth, he said they had
already £lOOO subscribed or promised, including
£125 from Mr. Anderson, £lOO from Mr. Basset,
and £5O from Col. Sir W. Freestun. —The Rev. F.
A. West, ex-president of conference,and the present
chairman of the Bath district addressed the meeting
in an admirable speech. In the course of his
remarks he paid a noble tribute to the great wotk
which wee being performed by the evangelical
ministers of the Established Church; drew attention
to the movement which originated with the late
Bishop of London—Dr. Bloomfield —for erecting
100 now churches in 10 years in his diocese ; paid it
similar tribute to the zeal of the Noncon-
formists, who bad expended a large
stun for a like object ; and therefore
drew the inference that it was the duty of the Wes-
leyan body to snake • corresponding effort. After
citing the example of Mr. John Farnworth, a mei,
chant in Liverpool, who gave £5,000 towards a
Wesleyin Circuit movement, Mr. West proceeded
to say,that be thought, in a connexional point of
view, watering places had peculiar claims for their
attention. It was no use righting against the times,
for they would never be able to master them. The
spirit and manners of the age were beyond their
control. There was obviously a demand for more
architecture thou they used to have. If they asked
him coldly and abstractedly whether he liked it, he
would say, not very much, for in his opinion the
grand characteristic of Methodism was its fervour;
and there was just this danger that, in pushing the
architectural question too far, that fervour might
be chilled. It was for them, however, to meet the
temper of the times, not by yielding an atom in
matters of conscience and principle, but by conced•
Mg certain matters of taste which were, compara-
tively speaking, indifferent to them. In a watering
place, especially, many strangers might be induced
to enter a building of architectural pretensions,
who would not think of visiting a plain
and simple edifice; and as every new phase of truth
was an advantage to those who were seeking the
truth, there was no telling what good might be
effected by this mode. Other addresses were also
delivered, and the meeting closed with signing and
prayer. At the meeting was exhibited a very hand-
some model of the Wended new chapel. Numerous
parties have also lately had an opportunity of in.
'pectins it at the shop of Mr. Sherren, bookseller,
in St. Mary's-street. It is, we understand, a model
made according to a correct scale, and consequently
even before the new edifice is erected, we are enabled
to pronounce that the New Wesleyan Chapel will be
the chief architectural ornament of the town.

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