The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-17 00:00:00

Poet Condi expreok

DOROHISTER, JULY 17th, UM&

HALF MEASURES.

The crotahetntomere of moan days seem lobs
thaeldul for small mercies. If they cannot get the
whole, thy are very wiWag to toke a part. It is
eighth', however, whether the policy is sound. la
ems lantmes dudes the premed session, via, the
Dammed Wiles Bieber Bill, moderstioa was the very
mass of failure tbe promoters of the morgues having
food a, purchase for the humerted wedge. Opposeats
made the most of the fact that the Bill was
lecomplets, or, m gamy declared, • one-sided." If
sielsesia-lew might b• married, why sot bombers.
la-law? If 'marrying MN permitted is Registry
Mom why not in churches sad chapels These
memento urged so persistestly beiges at lest to take
elect, old at the third reed's; the Peers were
emboldened to give the Bill its coup de grace The
fate of lbs Woceas'e Suffrage BiU was another
helmets of the unpopularity of bail 11104101t1114 It
was thought that U lb. preeset municipal voters
could be admitted to the fra•ohne, there would be •
chasm for aU sorts and condition of we....;
sod so doubtless there would have been if such
a loom ilemli caged hays bees secured. Ages, bow.
low, the hunts objection on the part of Parliament to
1•0011111400 legielatkia tusk itself felt. II widows,
why not wives? II SOON indepeadent splashy, why
sot all who have &Mahal • " amain " age? A pert
Is sot so great sub. whole in the getteral intimation
of thirty. Neverthelem some people seem to imagine
that • portion of • prim pie may be appliel with at
good effect as .schuss is its entirety. Is he ela-
pse! of such attemp's at legislation, um hale inclined
to exclalm—" Think Heaves, we hays. House of
Lords for eacionbtedly there, as well as la the Com-
mas, ea a rule, isaptamicable masearee Gad Utile
lamer. There is oaly a desire soinethees to try
expertmeals. Ikeda, Mau has bees partially
wiled—Wake, but sot gaglared,eorse parted leased,
but cot Dubist. Biz W. Lemma would erillingly try
exporimests with the suppression of the liquor trate
Saving foetid out bug ago this Parliament was na-
utili, W give Mat all be wasted, he is ready to take
bad or ems lees than half, of the reform he heats so
deerabla Ii our ophioa, however, this wilUngsses to
sompremiee Is mot a healthy indloatioa. Dos
ChaPs estimate the worth of a ones by the
tsadeacies of advocates arid the equessabillty of
Pertiesiest argot reboring have been treated as •
whole. Ire* Trade was not oinked out by halves, sae
was the abolition of the Nevi/ratios 'Awe The
Begemepatioa of CalhoLice was full and weeping sad
so resservatios was made to the ore of he removal of
Jewish disability. We admit that the tentative
principle was •ppUed to he Parliameshry Reform,
aid eves yet there is a greet deal to sigh for. But if
we bear Is miad the state of immaturity In which
mimes dames of he comminsity hays been and
still are gradual eafraechiseesect will not appear eo
very amendment* especially as growth sad
development have undoubtedly remitted from
the &same which have from time to time takes
place. We knees* that bit-terbit reforms are not
regarded with lacresslog favour ; oa the contrary,
the Beam of Otranto« is getting asepkdoess of them,
and is likely still soon in future than at pmessl to
regain as a situ gra son the adaptability ofmeaseres
to the mmy rather has to the few. It is obvious
Ibis If there be this teudeacy, the frootilentiou of
reform will be mush slower this it has been, and
probably this will be so disadvantage in the hug
run. Nothing is more to be deprecated than hasty
=uttion, or that kind which favours expedition
t do. regard to wooers' rmairement
/be Gootineest Ms my that wee are so mach addicted
to Wee Trade that we lone upon free trade In Weems.
Althomb Mr. Chaplin's motion was unexpectedly
serried In the Roue of C,outsions the other monis&
the political eco .oinirts are with the Goversineut in
opposing any neetriatione upon the Intoortatiou of
cattle beymd those now in force tie. like spirit the
Goveransest decline to adopt the measures which are
deemed requisite by mem foe the prevention of the
spread of cholera. Qsarrantine is said to be melees
as well as intolerably vexatious. Doctors differ as to
what precautions ought to be takes, and everybody
feels this we may have the scourge humps us before
say oottoiseion km beat came to.

Bishops, Ilk* judges, are long lived, sod bishops
almost invariably die "in harness," while judges sot
natrecemently ream in their old age from the
Bishops is. delegate many of their fusoticee, and
deafness sod diatoms (4 visim and faille( memory,
mad the other Infirmities of age, are not therefore so
great • drawback to them. Bishop Wordsworth,
of Lincoln, however, with characteristic me-
mientiouriassa has determined to retire, having
reached the age of severity five. There are mom
than me other bishop on the Bench who have
greater Tess. for mining to tits same resolution. The
Bsp of Lambe will be remembered, not only as •
great scholar, bat also se one of the lest specimens of
the High-Ohumb prelate of the school of PhUpotte.
With meta more amiable manners than Harry of
LaMar he has =soh the seats ecolmiasticel stand-
point. He is no favourer of Ritualism, mid has
vehemently desounoed some of the favourite Penke
Meet& Bat he hoe all the High Church prejothos
Dissent. He is respected,
however, even by
against
Dissenters, who laugh at his crotchets and sing
his exudate hymns.
Mar wood. the Jack Batch of the day, is as • visit
to Inedon. By way of killing time—having nothing
eke to kill—be appeared the other smaing in the
Hoses of Oomesons, sod sat in the Speaker's Gallery.
Ills singular that he should have been accorded •
distinction which many respectable people have •
difficulty in obtaining. But lb. Hommel' sho•maker
esteems himself, like the hangman in " Bernaby
liodge," as • public official of much omsequeoos, and
his revenue has not been inomaiderahl• of late, since
bilk business has hem brisk. It seems rather absurd
to pay him ss " by the J .b." His functions would appose
or two less horrible if he were allowed.
:Mary. An individual evecutioa would not then be.
as It Is sow to him • matter of &nem powdery gale.

DOZONNOTKII.

Alinkai. Linn= illagrust.—At the Borough
PoUos-oourt to-day Monday wives there were
presoak the Mayor (14. Isq.. Alderman
Davis sad Chosen, the Lased Menne
wadi And for August 27th.
AOGIDIM—Last Wedoesday evenings wise.itrAtit_,
of Fordlagtos, named William Harris, wao
a steam saw mill .Bth. sew Brewery, when his 1.18
was moldestally caught In the msoblas, mad three of
his lagers were so howated that it was fount
aamesan to aimpidate thou. The operettas was
skilfully performed at the Hospital by Mr. F. B.
!War, amisted by Mr. Maoartirey (the boom
issci...arThe sufferer. who Is • member of Court
oo • A.O.P. was afterwards atteoded M his
home . Hendeklosedloal allow of the Court.
OsaltaittatOitit.— Bishop has Issued the follow.
fag mamas for oompistiag his Weasel tom of thio
Demeleldre ponies of his dhows t—Ofilltainam,
Ocileber 15,.8 ILIS ; Sneer Provost, Oataber_ls, st
3.15 Bradford Abbas, October 16, at 11 ; Leigh,
Octobar 16, at 3 ,
at • liverehot, October pl. Ull, ow..
Comber 17, 3; 815111101.4 T. October 18, at
r.l7bastbartmry. °Motor 18, at 3; Broad grimace,
°Moho 1), at 10.45; Thorne:alibi. October 19.8
3.10 Obardetaek. October 10, et U; Lyme
Ostshor Ft, at 3.10; Citeratoun, °caber U. alit;
Whildtrareh Ommeloonm, October 23, at 3 ; Spaced..
=se, Weber ft, at 11 ; Heldport, Ootober 34, at 3 I
Headstock, Geone 25.8 11; Beadpols,
Oelober 25, at 3 Law Brody, October 36, it 16.30;
Porldseen, 95, at 3 ; ,f0161116W. October $7,
at 11; West Stafford, October V, et 3. Fordlogtom,
October ; Geutiourto ()debar 19.8 11 ; Broadway.
October 19. at 3.30; Bradiaed Peverell, October IV,
at 11 ; Hakim Newton, Oman, 30, at 3 ; Poweretook,
October 31, .tlO ; Shaftesbury, November 8, at 11 10.
Ooorosaciamomat. 8011 DAT Smoot Tama?.—Last
Timmoday's mimed weather it copktely sp tilt the
enjoys's( of the school °Widow of the Convocational
Chapel, who to the aumbrr of 150, were to Mao had
tit* satin that day. Reim fell bairn, nearly the
whole of the day, but, dome" this unfoetaaata air-
osaistaDos, it wan proposed to proceed with the
wcgra.s. A committee was empanelled, to which
(Rev. T m . Noe), Mr. 0. J. Pouter,
Mr. Teta.% and others took part, sad It was
determised lot to post:pose the "beat." The children
met at Messes. Crocker sad Co's &dd, oppodte the
Gnat Wanes &Mks, about half-peat Mum • large
shed abelterlog them, where • few of their teener" mot
them They started at eleven o'clock for Fraceptou
Park. The mesons only au shored Mae, IdadlxiVemg!
by the followlog Mae& :—Mesers. Hill,
sad Pope, Parson', Croaker and Co., Wright and
Sos, iko.,Zn, bad it ben Sue, 13 or 14 would
hays bem for do condos. As • tale the
• place of le la the moboolreem, but, owls( to
Use alteretkes beteg made to the chapel, it was
deemed arnamory to meet at Mmes. Crookseand Oo'e.
Gold. Fremptos was numbed at twelve o'olock, the
halted, and the children, lashed of hien-
kg ves to VISOINIONSiI 10 lb. field, remalosed
LB them, which was very usplemetot. The mum
as mod, was • rather liagthy me, but, it Ibis U_i, rats
Mill ciestinesd to fall, and Use outlook was sot very
~.,W.,. Soros, tired of sitting Is the
Is opfo of the weedier took • walk
armed the village. It is always • irrtir° X•lor•I
wbos the weather le favourable. to Malt this
_park, aad
I. walk Anon the wagonload pedals bob ko do
loss this amoteloa wes impossible, for rain fell too
heavily to permit of the party done so. After • May
of about three boors (the majority of the &Urea
befog easined to the waives the whoh of this Uste)
it was deemed advisable to ?stuns home, for there
weS so proven' of the weather Hearing up. But
whoa Dorchester was roadmd, about four o'clock , the
mi. woe to mem, sod is the evesbm It was beauti-
fully Am The warms baited at the bottom of the
towu, sad the party diepereed. Through the madam,'
of 'b. 0.3. rimitile (I imams timber of the school),
cm al the large ehow-roome, at Um Foundry Workk
was throws open for the tea The " tray.°
wereratiazabwead "the cap that them
a .
but " was partaker' of at kau.
past In. The plam oaks aad bread and butter
were an that meld be desired. Amoeba the lanes sad
who wedded over the trays were the follow-
Cli--14:17. Foster, Mr. Joeary, Mr. Laduott isaperia.
M 5..,,. Bill, Hannah, and Enos
114111.1 t. um, kw Groom, Miss Bow., sad
Wits, Hibbs, Webster, (narboreadoa, aad Palmy.
The " calm* " ran Mod groat credit as everyone
who was softened with this part of Um
Ample bodes having bees down the gea=art

Tided, the lir. T. Weave, is • brief address., said mow
they could go up on Posedbery to lair oat the
remainder of the eyries, a mesa whir was received
with • ooridentble amour of isthasirm. They went
In good order to Prindbary, being kat by their
i. a, and the party dewier themselves to cadre
amasements, a feMur, of which was " kies4a-thiarise,"
whir was well wreaked ; treprg amid ractlattlinal
berg di:Stirred to the erases), sorra sad
ricer were also herr, larked lei that which
caused • geese am rat of mirth was • two'. • sad
"thee.'." mod " grab," a Large Dumber taking Part
The patty "Oa after siert °Wort began to maks •
move for home, ere being distributed to rah child r
' they pausal through the gate, and, jelging b 7 thole
couutsaaner. all seemed wen plowed with the even-
ing'.sl Notwithstaredieg the eafavourable auspices,
ev pissed o( nor snooesefully. R. B.
Br., who is always ready sod willies, to
oromoto the wajqinent of the ride" generation,
deserve; 'spiral Arks for grating the use of the
park.
Kr No at's Derr= PIIIOIIII4IIO LS have been
well petronieed. It require a oempany of neon than
ordinary ability to attract as audience to • play In the
month of July, b 4 Mr. Neer can always ornmaad
the paters(' of the Dorchester play-goers Oa
Morley 'ruing was gives to a crowded bore. Gold-
eenith'so onedy " Bhe Store to Cromer," with Mr.
Niels se Tony Lumpkin. Tabs character is seratially
Mr. Neehes ows • he is thoroughly at hoer la the
pert of the riskier rieg young spark
with wire Mr. Harmer, has been blessed,
and in no oleander which he essays in this
town is he ever so earessfal as in that of Tony.
Mr. Hassell Rome, no motor of unusual
Impersonated young Marlowe very cleverly, and bk.
Hollister ws• • very good 11 %slap. Kies Violet
Conway represented Miss Harakiri* in • *ring and
eraosful meow. This piece was well received. The
f sop, " Mr. and Mrs. White," with Mr. Noire as the
former,followeri. On Tn. eday wee performed the Irish
Drama, "R yo' Moors," in which Mr. Neer most
alodrably hopereosated re gallant young Hibernian.
This was followed by " TIM Bpital6elde Weaver," in
which Mr. Nesbe ceased roses of laughter r
Elonneonda Mr. Wiese was • good Brows. Oa
Wednesday retail wee given " Rip VIII Wiakie,"
and the farce "Tors blue Out." Her evening is
gives • characteristic ballet by re Sisters Scott, and
recitations have bees splendidly
.gi yea by Mr.
includlolLims' well-kerma rear " Billy's Rosell"?.Z
" The era's Story ;• Nero slop soak
ergs nightly, is his lardtable style. On Thursday
rasing was perfarmed the drama of "Rip) Van
Winkle.' and an Friday' eight " Tbe Rivals." The
latter sight was a • pekoe/go," the hour berg
crowded by • farkerk ondieser 13heridan's play
wee admirably performed, and ins well ranked. Os
the lat might, Baterday, the Ink drama :of " The
Dream " was gives before an appresiatir andiere.
The visit has bees a sores la every way. Madsen
band hes played a seleotion of ark each evening.
WIGLIFTLII SUNDAY 80•00 L The waive/say
services In remotion with the above school were held
ret, when two armor were cared by
lb. 811.r.ithe Btepheasos, of Bourses, the Imes.
beg, when there was a good atteidances, the rev,
gentleman took his ter from Matthew :AIL, 14,
" Eves so it is ace the will of your Father which is la
heaven that one of these little ors should perish."
The eirenamtasess and polities of Orin disciples at
thin period were ably shown. Jealessies had erred
thsk hearts, and, in ormereare, desires of
ouperiority and peeress were the outcome. There
was • nessesity for Christ to take them to task, rod,
!retie meshed into the moor of their disputatious,
Hs selected from aataspt the acentray • little and,
and from that pestered humility, or the Kingdom of
Heaves would sot be theirs. 8oes• have and do
believe the rite of baptism necanaly to seeable °Wires
to reach beaver but ear t.aoblags were • grader.
In virtue of the death of Christ, by the anagreowoo of
• Saviour, eternal happiers was sewed. But there
was • danger of childhood perlshing in
_a seer and in
touching terms the react Suudurlaad calamity was
referresdto, and the Queen's tribute of sympathy
lb* Inscription, "for of rlob is e Itiogrensti
, Heaven." Tree young people had pissed away from
the evil to war The roe. gentrause, in the rare
of his sermon, pointed oat the necessity for spiritual
teaching In the home. Without it there was a sad
danger of bad habita belieg early formed, such.. word
prove disasters if not .11tecksd in the early carer.
The declaration of the text, "Not the will of the
Father that any should perish." Why did He speak
thus! He took In the future man's capabilities. Mr
was • subject of Divine regard, and also of saviag
arra. As urgent appeal to workers to co-operate is
the Dieter will was earnestly enforced. Before the
oonclusir of the sonar, at the request of
the mirror the ark sweetly sang " Lead me to
Jesus," whir produced a very phasing elect.
The preacher, In roolusios, spoke of the
worker's joy in success here and reward bereatter.
During the series re children rag WOO 01 their
anniversary hymns, being led by • capital choir, Mier
Back presiding at the wean to her usual able sad
painstaking menace. A oolkotion was made at the
aloes in aid of the school head, which amounted to
£2 7s. 81. Is the evening Owe was • very
attendance. and the presort aces for his ter
sail., 22, "And Peter west out and wept bitterly."
The preacher dwelt on Peter's d'art of YU Lord, his
rresetros, the proofs which he gave of his love, and
the injunatioo• which were placed upon bier. In like
meaner were the workers for God shored. Christ
said " Feed my lambs," and that all-haportent
labour was to be earnestly carried oat. A peer
leg Invitation to accept Ohri.t coecloded the esrenor
Anniversary hymns were also sung during the evenbag.
The oollecUou alter re evening service amounted to
CS Is. 71., making • total for the day of £5 8o ld.
The children will have their annual outing to-day
(Monday) at Lodznoor.