The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-22 00:00:00

THE TOWN COUNCIL AND THE TREES.
To glic &live.

Sir,—The last meeting of our Town Council respect-
ing the Fair and Market Ground was a private one, to
which no " chiel taking notes" was admitted, conse-
quently it is only from rumour that we can have any
knowledge of what was said and done at it; but if
report speaks truly, I understand that notwithstanding
the very influential and numerously signed requisition
to abandon their ill.advised project of cutting down the
trees and building on the northern side of the said
ground, they are still determined to carry it out. I
hope the members of our TOWII Council do not enter-
tain the idea that they were elected to their offices, to
exercise despotic rule over us, if they do, I feel certain,
a few momenta reflection will convince them that such
was not the case. We are very much obliged to them
for managing our affairs for us, but not when they act
contrary to our declared wishes. Fairs and markets
are the means of bringing people to the place at which
they are held, but in order to be a beneht to the town,
the place of holding them should be an near as possible
to it, in order that persons when they have done their
business at them, may without loss of time enter the
town and order and purchase what they want of the
different tradesmen. The town has lately scrinired an
admirable piece of ground for the purpose, an it is near
the station,' and the town ; why spoil it by building
between it and the two? If the gmund is Luger than
Is required for the purpose (of which I would advise the
Council not to make too sure), could not the exceed be
set apart on the higher and southeni side of the ground?
It will be quite as readily sought after and be quite aa
remunerative for building purposes on that side an on
the other, and thereby the trees which adorn the road
on the northern side will be preserved and the fairs
and markets brought Into cheer contiguity to the
town. Your contemporary has spoken out nobly on
behalf of the town and I trust you will contribute your
valuable aid towards convincing our local legislation
that they cannot err when carrying out the expressed
wishes of thaw whom they represent.
I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
A RATIPATEL
Dorchester, February 19th, 1876.
[" Ratepayer" does not seem to have studied his
Telegram as closely as he ought, or he would have seen
that with our contemp.rary, we have entered
our protest against an act which perhaps some day may
be called one of Vandalism. —Enj.

An Monica editor, recently married, states editorially
We are living at this moment under absolute depotism.“
A Connecticut editor asks his subscribers to pay him,
that he may play the same joke on hi, creditor'.
A citizen of Chicaw ii recorded as saying, "I can
alwtys tell water when I see it—it looks so much like
It occurred to a Yankee scholar, while writing • comPo-
mitten, to nuke the remarkable statement that an ox
does not taste as good as an oyster, but it can run (aster.
Mr. Lowe, who formerly was so partial to the bicycle,
has lately turned ibis attention more particularly to the
roller-akate. The Right Hon. Robert, ever, NO=
=to return to his old lure: he has just become
dent of the West Kent Bicycle Club.
A seedy and unhappy.looking man, entering a revival
meeting in Misalasipi took a seat near the Pulpit The
clergyman noticing his forlorn appearance, stepped up to
him and asked him if he wu a Christian. "No." said be
"I am the Mditor of the village Paw."
A New York lady, whose husband has an unpleasant
habit of railing at her, has hit upon the pia of 41 in
her sertmata when he to let out his temper, and
thee turning to him,. filisaying sweetly " Now, ray
dew owes go on with your remarks." He'dosen't go on
—seised not as he Wien.
hieh girl, who was very anxious that her scatter-
brained brother should not be refused be the demure
cent Inelishwoman with whom ha had fallen despereteir
isys wowed him: to try to propose with the uniotuiness
111=tha occasion. He vowed solemnly that he
11•111 as if' he were acting as chief mourner at his
tabor's funeral. The demure young lady. In imitation or
wow of her countrymen, graciously accepted her wild
Irlie lover. She however confided to her bosom friend
last lidamnd haa oropoeeJ in rather an odd way. He had
intim bar after church to see the family vault. and had
them In • egealchral voice, asked bar if she would like to
lay feer hoses beside his hones This he evidently thought
was e ear to fulfil the promise made to his sister
et tbs matter with becoming uriousisees.
Canzigioginin largAoasigAßT.—A Madras paper lately
ha& as following advorttgorinint—" King Tom the
IGustrious hairdresser, who has cut off the hair of ELM
via Dew, gghthorgLflrlrib4flovern_or-Cranerals of India.
aftbt Governors of his Erathinry Sir Bartle
/rim three Chief Juddes of ngal, two Lord AI ishx2!
Calcutta. and two Lord Bishops or Madras. and
intim was Um late Date of Wellington's hairdrase-er'Z
41tretigh the Mahretts War, respectfully bogs all his
elughlawre to bring_ Ms nalificatioas as a hairdresser to
ehe missies of K.P.H. tho of Wales future Kim of
the MU& Smoky.

"The leading Journal" has uttered a cruel
sarcasm—although, no doubt, unintentionally
—upon the machinery by which Englishmen
fondly imagine crime is detected and prevented.
In its report of an inquest in its Saturday's
impression it thus speaks of Scotland-yard,
"Inspector Shore, of the defective police,
&c. We understand a spelling bee for Lon-
don printers is Vibe got up, and the "comps"
of the Times will be requested to spell "detec-
tive."

No practical harm can be seen by the Examiner
why the Queen should not glorify herself with
the title of Empress of India if she wishes. Why,
asks our contemporary,
If we are the Great Mogul India, should we not
boldly announce the fact, and put to shame all "those
mere economists, and those foreign +liplomatists who
announce that India is to us only a burden or a
sager?" Why should we not, shopkeeper+ of yester-
day as we are, brag that we rule over "many
Sovereign princes, some of whom .ccupy thrones which
were filled by their ancestors when England was a
Roman province?" The boast may not be historically
correct, seeing that most of those sovereign princes are
the creation of last century only, but only "mere
economists" care for history. Besides, we may ask
who created those Sovereign Prince,! Why, it was
i we who created them, we who set them up, which is
still more to our honour and glory than if they had
come down from the mistiest antiquity. Further,
when we have a theatrical Prime Minister, why
should we not enjoy a phenomenon so rare in English
history? If it tickles his fancy to create an Empress,
after the creation of Baronets and Dukes has palled
upon him, why should we not fall in with his humour?
If it should ever be proposed to let Mr. Disraeli him-
self wear a gilt crown and • purple toga, or even an
alband a chasuble, and have a lighted candle in a
golden candlestick burning before him on the table of
the House of Commons' who would be so foolish and
hard-hearted as to object? I{2lll he not been made a
I Fellow of the Royal Society?

We have referred once or twice to Mother
Stewart, the leader of the American-imported
whisky crusade, and our readers will probably
feel a curiosity as to how this remarkable lady
who has condemned the men for ever to the
"back seats" intends to set about her work of
converting publicans and sinners. It seems she
will first unfurl her banner at Woolwich. Pre-
liminary meetings have already been held there
by females, and the inkeepers have been com-
plimentarily referred to as proprietors of hell-
traps and slaughter-houses, and as being
generally "disgraces to our land." This is
promising, and indicates the style of crusade to
be adopted. The method of proceedure is this,
Mother Stewart and her devotees will assemble
outside the house of some licensed sinner, and
falling down on their knees will pray and sing
hymns until the place is shut up. In America
the popular remedy was a powerful garden
engine. In this country the police will probably
inform the fanatical ladies that they are public
nuisances and as such remove them. No one
can object to any endeavour to pro to
Temperance, least of all would the inkeepors
themselves ; but this mode of " suasion "
certainly seems to be in the highest degree the
reductie ad abatirdant.

The Judicial Council have just settled, not that
the gentleman in black is a myth, but that a
man is none the worse Christian for holding, as
Betsy Prigg did with regard to Mrs. Harris,
that there never was no such a person. The
Rev. Flavin Cook, the vicar of one of the
"highest" churches in Bristol, has been told,after
three law suits, that he has no right to withold
the sacrament from a parishioner named Jenkins
because the said Mr. Jenkins dosen't believe in
the personality of the devil. That such an
opinion militates against a large portion of Holy
Writ, as do many creeds that now-a-day find
adhererenta, is iudefutable ; but it is somewhat
singular and perhaps suggestive that the Rev.
Flavin Cook did not discover what a terrible
sinner he had been accustomed to number among
his conununicanta until Mr. Jenkins had rather
sharply criticised one of his sermons. Be that
as it may, Mr. Cook has been ordered to ad-
minister the sacrament to Mr. Jenkins, and that
order he is bound to obey. The ritualists, as a
rule, are rather inclined to ignore the law of the
land, and while they would catechise the coining
generation into obeying " all those set in
authority over us" show a decided disinclination
to accept the same teaching themselves when it
at all interferes with their private wishes. Mr.
Cook, however, sensibly arrives at the conclusion
that vrilly filly he must do as he is told, or go,
and as he declines to do as he is bid, accepts the
alternative and resigns his living. The living
itself is worth £685 a-year, and the number of
souls under the conscientious vicar is 4,059; in
addition to which the reader need not be re-
minded that Clifton is a most charming spot,
and further, Mr. Cook's seems to have a devoted
congregation, so that he relinquishes no slight
amount of those advantages which may be
reasonably supposed to tend towards making
clerical life in this world happy. Perhaps there
is not such an amount of self-sacrifice in this as
I may at first sight appear. Clifton is notoriously
II the residence of the wealthy. It literally
swamies with maiden ladies who dote upon
a curate in a cassock, and like Mr. Read,once of
the Privy Council, Mr. Cook may find that his
loss may become a very substantial gain. This
ending of the matter however, points a moral
which ought not to be lost sight of. Mr. Cook
by his course of conduct has plainly shown
his brother ritualists and those who may feel
disposed to kick against all legal authority what
is their proper action. Mince the matter as
they please they cannot get over the fact they
are the paid servants of the State, and the State
they are bound to obey. If they feel conscien-
tiously and truly they cannot do so, proper
self-respect should show them their duty is to
follow Mr. Cook. They ought not to allow it
to be said they receive money under false
pretences—that they are paid to preach Protes-
tantism, and all the while preach doctrines
diametrically opposed to it. If but this result
is attained Mr. Cook will not have become a
martyr—as he fondly imagines himself—in
vain.

America is notorious for orignal ideas—free
love, spelling bees, cow-hiding opponents and
other little matters that tend to relieve the
tedium of every-day life in the land of the
"eternal dollar' had their birthplace there.
And now we find the ladies of Utah contemplate
a fresh institution that they should be allowed
to have as many husbands as they like, reversing
the doctrine of that old reprobate Brigham
Young who would have every man a modern
Solomon. Perhaps, for the poor men, a division
of evil would not be so bad a speculation for
certainly a strong-minded lady who would have
half-a-dozen husbands cannot be called a
blessing; but let us hope the experiment will be
confined to Utah, and not like spelling bees
become an importation into this country.
The unfortunate publican certainly has enough to
do one way and another. lie is badgered by the
police, bullied by the teetotallers, generally scouted
by the happy proprietors of private cellars, and now
it seems at last even his own customers have entered
into a conspiracy against him. Only two days ago
one of the order was charged at the police-court in
Liverpool, with having served two tipsy men with
liquor, and the defence was that the individuals
ff re:eect to showed no sign of their unfortunate state.
It was still asserted, however, that they were drunk,
and the explanation of their not being found out was
that they had "screwed themselves up " so as to
manage to walk front the door to the counter without
stasuering. This explanation seemed satisfactory to
the Bench, and one of the magistrates remarked that
his strong opinion was that a publican who had no
knowledge of the inebriated condition of the persons
served cannot fairly be considered to have " per-
mitted " drunkenness. Keeping a "pub" is evidently
not all nese water and sunshine.
Our contemporary who hails from Printing-house
square has evidently engaged a comic man upon its
staff. Here Is h from its Monday's issue :
A. etealcsa. trricui,vr.—A "Perplexed Parson'
finds that deferent dates are given in the Almana' for
the Derby Bay tbis year, and asks um which is the
correct date. It is fixed for the 31st of May.
Obviously, either someone has been having a game
with the Throe.: or the leading journal is trying to
enliven its somewhat heavy columns by attempts at
funniness.

The lady who nominatively rules over us is desirous
of adding another title to le dignity. "When the
direct Government of my Indian Empire Wl* trans-

ferred to the Crown," says the Queen's speech, "no
nroet Conntq Expreos formal addition to the style and titles of the Sovereign"
• was made, and this it is proposed to rectify. Although
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IR 187 d. opposed by no less an authority than Mr. Lowe, there
is very little doubt the Bill enabling Iler Majesty to
NOTES OF THE WEEK. make the addition will be passed. But the great
question at present is what shall it be, " Empress."
The Royal Commission on Vivisection has "Queen," or " Lady," The first is generally disliked
reported that even if the practice of subjecting from being rightly or wrongly associated with
living animals to experiments could be altogether despotism ; the second seems unnecessary, for
prohibited, such entire prohibition should not Victoria is not only Queen of Great Britain, but of
be attempted, and they recommend the enact- 31w dependencies as well ; and the third seems mill
ment of a law which would vest in the Secretary 'More superfluous, for is not a well recognised axiom
of State the power of granting licences to that the Sovereign is the "first lady in the land."ll
Mr. W. Shakespeare were still alive might he not
persons desirous of performing experiments on
livinganimals. These licences would be revoc- ask with greater force than ever "What's in a name ?"
able on proof of abuse, but the revocation
should be subject to appeal to a judge of the
Supreme Court, aided by three competent
assessors.

A LOAD THAT WOULD'NT BALANCE. —On Saturday
evening about nine o'clock, a somewhat serious
accident happened to a man named Will., of Moreton,
through being overloaded with a liquid that does not
balance well. He warn driving out of the town with a
horse and cart, and on paasing the residence of Mr. J.
Gilpin, J.P., at the top of the South Walks he drove
one wheel of the cart up into the embankment of the
field opposite, the result being that he and his cargo
and cart were turned over into the road. Fortunately
some one was passing within a few minutes of the
accident, and assisted the man up. Other assistance
was soon at hand, and the horse was freed from the
cart, the latter put right, and the man attended to.
He had sustakied a rather severe blow on the right
side of the face, and was otherwise " marked," having
also a plentiful covering of mud! He VFW bathed,
with cold water, and am it was not thought safe
for him to go home alone that e%enin,,.• with his horse
and cart, he was ultimately prevailed upon to allow
the latter to be taken back into the town, where he
had started from, and a "friend f temperance"
kindly saw the owner to the station to send him home
by train!

AN INTIRESTING Lecruag wis delivered in the
Town-hall on Monday eveninz. the 14th inst., by a
deputation from the Colonial and Continental Church
and School Society, and illustrated by some excellent
views shown on a screen, by is powerful magic lantern,
of places and districts over which the society's opera-
tions extend. The lecturer was admirably adapted for
his work, as he had laboured for the society for more
than 20 years, in British North America, to which
part of the world the lecture was chiefly confined.
The extreme variations of temperature and the dangers
and discomforts 1 travelling In those regions were
clearly set forth, and it is gratifying to find men so
imbued with love to God and man, al to be willing to
labour for so many year., exposed to such vicissitudes,
and that their labours should be crowned with so much
euccess, a fact which the lecturer made fully apparent.
At the conclusion of the lecture, the Wagga Wisigga
residence of a distinguished nobleman, now languish
log, &c., was shown, and we think it would have been
much to the advantage of the people of this country if
he had continued to occupy that abode. There was a
large attendance, and we feel assured the audience were
much gratified by the information afforded theta.
Prrrross.—Among the Petitons which have been pre-
sented to Parliament dining the week are the
following :—Against the Burials Bill by Mr. Benett-
Stanford, from Shaftesbury ; and by Mr. Floyer from
Buckland Newton, Hook, Teller Whelrue, Whitechurch,
Came, Whitcombe, Herringston and other places.
Against confining the advantages derived from the
Education Rate to Board Schools, to the unfair exclusion
of Voluntary Schools from participation by Mr. Floyer,
!mu Dockland Newton. Against alteration of
the Burial Laws by Mr. Mt:lett-Stanford. from
Chedington, Steeple, Compton Abbas, lwerue, Melbury
Abbas, Moreton, Enmore.green, Wool, Compton
Valiance, Stoke Abbot, last Stoke, Ileffieton, Botha's-
hampton, Buckland Riper., and Pimp3rne ;b M y r. Ashley
from Poole. Praying for relief from Education
rates from supporters of efficient voluntary schools by
Mr. Floyer, from Sturininstei Newton and by Mr. H.
Lloyd from St. Peter's, Portland. The Bishop of Salisbury
presented petitions from the Salisbury Diocesan Board of
Education, from the Clergy and Churchwardens of Stur-
minster Newton, Dorset. and inhabitants of Alveliston,
representing that rates for education, according to the
Elementary Education Act of 1870, press unfairly upon
subscribers to efficient voluntary ,schools, especially upon
those who conscientiously disapprove the religious teach-
ing or absence of teaching in the Board schools, and pray.
ing that this injustice may be removed.
YOUNO SIMI'S CHRISTIAN RASOCIATION.—The members
and friends of this association spent a pleasant and profit-
able evening on Thursday last. The esteemed President.
Mr. G. Curzne, has long taken delight in contributing
to the spiritual as well as temporal enjoyment of the
young men of the town, and on the above evening he
again evinced his interest in their welfare by inviting
them to a social tea at the room of the association in
Derogate-street. Here nearly 03 had assembled at six
o'clock, and all much enjoyed the good things provided.
After tea a meeting was held, and several short but
interesting addresses giver!, appropriate hymns being sung
at intervals. At eight o clocic the Rev. 11. P. Raikes
addressed those assembled. the meeting being opened by
singing Moody and Sankey's hymn, "Come to the
Saviour," and prayer by Mr. Raikes. The rev. gentleman
commenced by expressing the pleasure he felt in comply-
ing with the request to address them that evening. In
speaking to the members of such an association, he felt
that the Bible should be the foundation of his remarks,
and he should endeavour so to base them that evening.
He would suppose one of them to be walking down one of
the streets of Dorchester, and going into a watchmaker'.
shop he pulls out his watch, and handing it to the shop-
keeper mks what it is the matter with it The latter
examines it, finds it much out of order, and the wheels
and the mainspring broken, and he can do nothing to it,
it must be turned into • new one. That watch, said Mr.
Relic", represents the sinner, dead in trespasses
and ,in, and who needs the new birth—no amount of
pitching will do for bins. Remember that man is nothing
of himself, for In Pro,. xxviii., 20, we are told that "Re
that trusteth in his own heart is • fool; but whoso
walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." If there is any-
thing of nature in our hearts we cannot succeed. Man,
too, may be a fool in two ways, first in knowing too little,
and secondly in knowing too much. Knowing too little
he is ignorant of himself, and does not realise his lost
state, and knowing too much he may also be a fool, as he
may know the truth of the Bible, and be perfectly
acquainted with It. laws, yet careless about his soul.
salvation. A fool is content to live as it were from hand
to mouth, making no provision for the future, and so with
sinners, they are content to go on with the knowledge
they have of God, thinking nothing of eternity or their
future destination, delighting in the pleasures of the
world and in doing foolish and extraordinary things. He
(the speaker) illustrated this by telling an anecdote of a
inaltile who was the inmate of an asylum when the build-
ing caught lire. Every effort was made to save the poor
inmates, and when nearly all were got safely out, this
poor fellow was found sitting under a burning rafter
warming his hands by the fire! If that rafter had fallen
the poor fellow would have been destroyed In the fire;
and so with the sinner who has a knowledge of God's
laws and truths, but yet neglects them. The sinner is so
keit that nothing but G‘xl's power can restore him, amid just
as the watchmaker re-makes the watch, so He re-makes
the sinner, by giving hini the new birth. The
second watch which they would look at was one
which looked well outside but on opening it, was found
to be minus the mainspring. Now that watch roprosents
the formalist. He has a good outaide appearance, but has
no heart, and a professor of religion without Inc heart is
of all things to be despised. The formalist is all very
well as long as there are plenty of religious meetings, and
services, with its excitement, but take away the latter,
and there is no religion! And this kind of religion leadi
to disappointment. We read of one whose house was well
garnished, and swept, but it had not been washed, and
therefore it was only the outside that was clean, and so
it was with the formalist. The latter was compared to
a consumptive person, who was nursed and cared for and
well fed, but who was still consumptive, and who in spite
of all this care ultimately dies of the malady. The third
watch was one which is hanging up in the shop, and
which might pass as worth • good deal of money, but on
unhanging It, they and it has no works (it is only a case).
Now this represents the hypocrite, he looks all right but
he is empty, and in support he quoted from Job vii., 7 v,
" 0 remember that my life Li wind: mine eye shall no
more me good ;" remarking that the religion of the
hypocrite was as empty as the wind,—it brings no com-
fort—no profit—and is worth nothing. Now in the same
way the pleasures of the world are unsatisfying and
uncertain. Sometimes it may be blight and sunshiny,
but suddenly dark clouds arise, and all the bright praapects
are blighted. And these winds too are hurtful, as 110111111
of our winds are, and so the downward course of religion
is very hurtful and destructive. The hyprocrite, too, does
much harm with his profession of religion. He told of an
artist who painted a magnificent picture, represent ng a
friar in all his robes, and at • short distance it looked as
if that man was very devoutly kneeling in prayer, and
holding before him a book, but on approaching close to the
picture it was discovered that he was kneeling before a
punch-bowl and squeezing *OM lemon juice into his
punch t—(laughter), But that friar exactly represented
the hypocrite, who appeared to be devout in his worship,
but yet on close examination he would be found to be
without *heart. But there is One who can remedy all
this, by changing his heart and making him a new
creature in Christ Jesus. The fourth watch they would look
at was one which hail no outside beauty, no outward show,
but let us examine it—it is going; look at the works—
they are all right, and it keeps good time. That is just
the watch, said the speaker for us—it is demi and com-
plete, sad that represents the sinner saved through the
merits of Jesus Christ—he is complete in Christ, lie sees
himself lost and ruined, and asks what he must do tq be
avid, and Christ in His love says " Look unto me and be
ye saved." He looks to Him end is saved; But these is
something whizh our watches require every night, and
that is winding up. If we do not wind them we find they
will stop before the morning, and so it is with the Child of
GoiL He daily stands in need of the Holy Spirit, as with-
out it he cannot exist What the key is to the watch, the
Holy Spirit iota us, and the daily cry of the redeemed
sinner is "Lord I am Thine—save me!" You who are
Christ's remember what you were before you came to
Him, and you knew what you are now, and you know
what you will be, for He has promised that you shall reign
with Him in His kingdom in glory! And knowing all
this, will it not lead us on and enable us to live to Llis
glory I In illustration of his remarks the rev, gentleman
told of a little boy who went to • schoolmaster all in rap
some years_ ago, wend to make him a t of a couple
of =all Be/Caret he hnd caught, and when by wag of

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