The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-03 00:00:00

District lictos.
DORCHESTER.
D•iacctiairres AGRICSLTrRAL FOCTITT. —The animal
turnip being match in connection with the &sive
society is fixed for Friday. the 13th of Ju'y, at
Ifonaktsin. (See advt.)
Tins Royal Horse Artillery will this year have their
customary ball practice at Okehampton instead of at
Weymoeth as heretofore. The battery are expected
to leave here in a week or so.
AT a meeting of the Agricultural Benevolent Insiti-
tutiim on Wednesday last Miss Mary Ann Harding,
of this town, and sister of the late Mr. James Harding,
the well-known agriculturist. of Waters-in, was a
sticressfid candidate for the annual pension of £2l.
Conoicou x liAT.—The bells of the churzhea rang
out, awl flags were hoisted on Thorn lay. Pleasant
reminders that queen Alexiirina Victoria, daughter
of the late fluke of Kent, was crowned :fif years aqii,
and that there are nine offspring for whom the British
taxpayer has to put his hand in Ma pocket.
DFYlelescirs IN THE VOLUNTEER SERVISr- --
Major-(ieneral Stephenson has addressed to the Ailjn-
tantdleneral !if the Forcen a report on the last Easter
llonilsy N'obititeer Review. The manieuvree were
iipon the whole conducted to his itatisfaetion, and he
remarked a general improvement in the volunteers,
hot their OT.STens ei silly slow, and is not likely the
report adds) to reach real efficiency in the field so long
ascertain impediments stand in their way, which are
almost inherent in the volunteer system. I Inc is
absence of con•inuous drill, and another the diffi !ulty
of imparting aileimate iiestniciion to officers awl non-
e immissionel officers, without which they can exercise
little "r nui iral oitrol over their in-n; anil there is
no doubt that the gcel-ial improvement of the in in is
in a higher ratio b. that of the officers awl win c
ns-
efficerc In one or two instances battalions
were extrenielv well handl,' by the commanding
officer.. hal 1,, I no previon.. army training. Nit
these instanias are not of freiment occurrence. The
volunteers feel ery keenly being inefficiently cont.
mandril. Atli therefore altino•t seem to be an
in.lispen.ihle m0th......5ti1l Err the ....mill tn 1 .if
hattali in that app..inte.l to it shoutl have
previo.sly serve) ill the Snoy.
THR IRISH S,S'ISTT, which Peeks to ili-serninate
Protestant truth girt the Roman Catholics i 1
Ireland, hail its cause advocated at St. Peter's Church
on Sunday by the rector, the Rev. K W. Pears. The
cone tot anoint,-1 to Vt. A ;addlemeeting wait
hell in the Toandiall iii 31idelay evening. wider the
presidency of Mr. Pears, tie-re hieing also prts-nt the
Ike. E. Ludlow. the Rev. W. C. Duke, Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence, Mr. G and Miss Curse, Mrs. and Min*
Andrews, awl others. The 11.1 v. T. Heave (the
,kpotatiou) stated there were in Ireland above
000,000 persons who spoke the Irish lammage, awl
above 103,000 who did not speak one word of Engli-h.
He dwelt upon the advantage of teaching the Iriah in I
their native tongue Knit of the absolute nemssity of
the society. The people would wit receive the Bible
In English lout they would accept it in Irish, and learn
to love it in that language. The society was established
nit) years ago on non-controversial principles, confidence
being placed in the simple etficacy sf Giers Word,
which it was felt wont.' lie the means of removing error I
and drawing the people into the Isisom if the old
Irish Church. There were 32 Scripture readers, and .
the society hail been instrumental in the erection of '
19 churches --ene of them in America -and the em-
ployment of 50 clergymen. The speaker quoted the
testimony of the Dean of f 'whet AA to the work of the
society, one of whose agents had been instrumental in ,
the conversion of 200 persons from the darkness of !
Romanism. There were ii,ollo persins, old and !
learning to read the Holy Scriptnres, and 222 teach,. I
were at work. l'he speaker told, 011 the authority of j
of the Bishop of Derry. of the effect in lone !
instance of the reading in Irish of the l'nsligal Son. !
One good, he Pahl, had resulted frau the disestablish-
bent of the Irish Church. The Roman Catholics no
Linger In npon Protestantism As a mere political
institution, but as a real religions spiritual power ; it
was no longer linked with the State but was linked
with her Head awl Master. The speaker reminded
bin hearers at one time Ireland sent to Saxon England
two thirds of her niissionaries ; in fact, that she had
been the benefactress ef our country in a religious
point of view. We owed much if our Christianity to
Leland, while the Irish owed their Roman Caliche-
inni to England. An accumulated debt f gratitude to
Ireland was owing by the English. Fault was found
with the Irish on account of their chronic discontent,
and the surroundings of the Irish Church were con-
founded with that Church itself. But what ha.) the
Church ,lone! The speaker alludel to the revision of
the Liturgy, awl out there had not been a enlitaky
case of a clergyman rebelling against therc-leelaatical
law, I,,,kintT the windows of a church awl than gain-
ing admission into the eslifiee. It had been sahl the
Irish 1311WIAL:.• W 34 rlyiu.g r sit, NIL on gs sl authority
it would he asl ..v tth - fully lil years. The ("hair.
man whirl a few we, awl the )rotvedings closed in
the usual manner. The r intributions at the door
amounted to 1.2 75:
tonic POLIIIL Tote.iay.-11.4..re l'ationsi
Pittiletrentliide, was lomaght tip in
ettAtnoty rharged with stealing a pocket knife at Little
PitbUe, in the newish of ffiddlehinton, on Monday, the
property of John Gregory. -P.C. John Matchers said on
Mosetay. the rith inst • from informati tttt he received he
went to Ifiddletrenthide and AIM the prir.oner at work in
the Gelds, 4.1.1 him that a knife hail been stolen frost
Little Piddle —The prisoner sail he knew nothing about
it, he then told him be sit-meted hint for having the knife,
end .earrli I Upon telling hien this he not Ida
hand in his pocket sit took out one knife anti let another
fall down the le.: ..f which he took out foon
between his tronser• :tn.l to KA_ It pray.' too be the knife
in question. Ile then charge 1 loon v ith ,feahaa taa
knife, and t.s.k him in When in rust slc
prismer said •'I kn in I tok the kni'.. suit ant vise s .rry 1
should have horn -twit at° hrtaave
was remanded till Rattled ii-, bad bring alloond. himself in
£lO, and one surety in 1:11i: -flail tem not forthcoming, and
primmer was remanded to gash.