The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

SALISBURY.

RAbIRIDGE ESTATE, YOUR MILES FROM ANDOVra.
—This leasehold property a notice of the sale of
which has appeared in our advertising columns, was
on Wednesday last, disposed of in lots, under the
hammer, by Mr. F. Ellen, for the sum of £10,065.
The purchaser was M. H. Marsh, Esq., M.P. for
Salisbury, at present residing at Wilbury House,

CHURCH SINGING.—We are gratified to learn that
the attention which ie being given at the present
time in some parts of the county to church
.psalmody
promises such rich results. To the surprise of very
many, but to the delight of all, Mr. Waite has deless-
strated the possibility of enabling an entire congre.
gation to sing in harmony our ordinary church melo-
dies. This, it must be admitted, is a great point
gained, especially when viewed in connection with
the simplicity of the method, and the consequent
facility of acquisition. By far the majority of those
who compose the classes in course of training by Mr.
Waite were totally unacquainted previously with
lteehe scturei e ni
nc em
no fh mp usl
ei ce
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oar tmtohree close fist
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nfi rs:
in the usual four•part harmony. Of course the effect
of this far surpasses that of choir singing, as there is
a breadth and massiveness in a melody sang by one
or two hundred voices, which can be attained in no
other way, and which impresses and delights
by a charm peculiarly its own. May we not hope,
that as regards the use and appreciation of &-
votional music, a new era is dawning upon
us. There has been a long and culpable indifference
to it, as the mode of conducting this part
of Divine service in many of our churches but
too well attests. How pleasant and profitable it
might become this movement gives obvious indica-
tion. Our Sunday•schools and congregations con-
tain all the element. necessary for the purpose, let
them but receive the needful training—and happily,
we need no longer be frightened from the attempt
by the difficulty of the task. More than two hun-
dred thousand persons have acquired this art by one
course Cf Mr. IVaite's lectures and exercises. Let
the possession by the muses and the power, and the
possibility of its being easily appropriated to this use
be once believed, ancithe work is done. We rejoice
to know that the clergy are directing their thought,
to the subject. As many as twelve clergymen in the
island of 'Guernsey shared a short time since, the
benefit of these instructions, who are seeking to
carry them out in their respective churches. It
would be well if all the clergy would acquaint them-
selves with the simplicity and excellency of Mr.
Waite's method, as they might do so much thereby
towards the elevation and enrichment of our church
pealmody.—Saliebury Journal.
ORDINATION SERVICH AT ENDLZ/S-STRZET CEA.
rex.—On Good Friday next the Rev. H. J. West
will be publioly ordained as the minister of AS
church and oongregation assembling in this place ef
worship. The introductory thsoourse will be
preached by the Rev. E. R. Condor, M.A., of
Poole; the Rev. R. Ferguson, LL.D., of Hyde,
will propose the (portions the Be,. O. Behar, of
Wilton, will offer the ordination prayer; and the
Rev. Professor Godwin, of London, will give the
charge. The Rev. Dr. Ferguson will preach in the
evening.
At Her Majesty's Levee, on Wednesday last,
M. H. Marsh, Faq., of Wilbury House, M.P. for
this city, was presented to the Queen by Sir Benjamin
Brodie.

ROYAL
WILTSHITtIi MILITIA. —Ensign M. W.
Anderson, to be Lieutenant, vice Wyndham, re.
signed; G. E. A. Hilliard, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Anderson, promoted.
CALNlL—Singular Detection a/ two Burglars. —Oa
Wednesday evening two men were observed by
Inspector Wiltshire in the High-street, each of them
carrying a bundle. He suspected them, and took
them into the Police-station and searched their
bundles. He found in one 21 lbs. of meat, lb.
tobacco, 3 lbs. of butter, I egg, 1 shirt, 2 half-crowns,
2 shillings, a fourpence, sixpence, and twopence-
halfpenny ; in the poeision of the other prisoner,
4i lb.. of sugar, lb. tobacco, one box of matches, •
shilling's worth of coppers, 1 shirt, and half • loaf of
bread, a portemonnaie, and a pockethandkerchief.
Inspector Wiltshire asked their names; they laid
they were brothers, and gave their names John and
Michael Murphy. Suspecting they were deserters,
the inspector recluired them to strip, and found by
marks on their linen and braces that they were so.
The same evening, about 10 o'clock, information
was received at the Police-station that a burglary
had been committed in the house of William Spans.
wick, at Charliam-street, Hungerford ; and the
property found on the prisoners answered exactly
to the description given of the property stolen.
Their names are John Higgins and Michael Lacy.
When charged with the robbery, Higgins denied it,
but Lacy confeased his guilt, and described the
manner in which the burglary was committed. On
Saturday they were taken before the magistrates at
Marlborough, when they were committed for trial on
the above Charge; and also on a charge of stealing
two shirts the same night, from a garden. They are
since advertised as deserters. Great credit is due to
the able and vigilant Inspector for the detection of
these prisoners.

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