The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

SATURDAY'S MAW=

TB. C 011.21 Ti•DI.

The bed qnalitied of erbdat realisrd an advance of Is
pST quarter at -wee of the wineipal sark.44, sod •
th.de nberd higher priced, wen not ,dotaine.l there era
grpat ilrosneed. B•riry improved In pride abnet it in
q iarter. Chits, eons, sod peu, •er gvderally fully •
dna as on the provide. Se.urday.

IMI CATTLI TIUDIL

At most of th• Matarday's said* muukels • fel
amount of hetibar was traa•••ted, tad pries rosookiss.
abaci the seam as.. Shes dap La tie previous peek.

runic APPOnMIENTS.
Tuesday, if. —A tietioi of Dairy Deenstis, Pig., cart
Mn.., and Misr neer at Herriook.s.
Dairy Ranee, INK Doesbester, by
Frederisk Foot.
Pool* °tasty Clourt.
Wedzseeday, 16.--Cbrialeburekeoeoty Court.
Thursday, 17.—A 'tonal 044.4 Oar' se, by Froteriek
Foot, of Pare. Firewood, Faggots
Hurdles. he
Saturday, 19. —Mr. Raeor's Repository Sale at Dor-

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cheater.
Monday, 2L—Atotrou of D 47 Utensils. Broodlot and
&ors NM Cart Hum, Carta. Household
Furniture, and Rff.ets, at Woodeford
Natl. D.lry Howe, by Frederick Foot.
Shaftesbury County CO' ihrt.
tuseday. 22 —Winasatoo County Court.

CA LEN UAB.

Jan. 15.—Tnewday.
16 —Wednesday.
17 —Thursday.
16. —Friday. —Old Twelfth Day.
111. —Saturday.
20.—suaday. --Second go oday. attar the Epiphany.
Fell Mono, 7.96 a.m.
21. Monday.

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
LORCLIERTILB, TIIICSDAY, JANTJARY 15. 1867.

TIE LAW Or MAMA AID 81111V•IT.—Wb" /
mpl of while their persists in it through good report and bad
woritinea mods coain is that part of
the 'marmot is eisformod upon them by 011111 sal praised- report, saying fearkssly, "I shall not be
inge. no one as any equal regard for the morals a their
master for b afraid for anything that man can do unto
muter. No superior ems punish the reseh
of toutniat ; all that the worlionau sun do is to proceed me." And like the daring borderers of his
=him eivilly. This is the linit inequality, and
roast of the • boi. 'Mem litany instances country sod his clan, he acts at the same
it ths is "" issued by this sseqs" s's 7 time upon • physical reliance which in the
be found • Mont blue book bearing the erne title as
this artist.. Is the Sod piece the moven% .he Worn words of Hogg's famous ballad may as likely
to work is takes, mostly in huideutf-, before'the magis-
trate,. By the Faglish arum at erituinal isicerplure, he as not result in this caution to his assail-
manor be heard Is bbt ti•n defence. The magistrate ants
who tries him le pnerally • master. And as if these
things were not enciegh, tin set under wbkh the men
is apprehended gives the magistrate so option. If the
master rows tor a ciourictioh he is entitled to have it,
and we read of Jo *ism lb Scotland were e master refused
to take • Mil beak, bet insisted on his being im
The anny feeling against the master class Wrikirts
gimre deo so eo many strikes, and has given Do mush
over to agitators. hi fed by the grievant)* which the
law enoottratts. Whim the men know that there are
, some 10,000 prosecutions annually under the Master and
&nest Ast, when they think that the teettfir•ive
before whom these muses are Lied are mostly employers,
when they osia the jetties of the peace and the em.•loyer
co ufarring in an ale-boom before trial, and returning to
the ale house torther niter trial, they rosy be encased
for combining against their masters and ...angst this law
which supports their masterk To my that their ems-
bination against • grievance Is • rearm flir not tedreas-
kg that grievance ie to take TM/OOP from IL,ng &mate,
hot to follow the gelding prioeiple .4
We are glad to see that the select committee has Amen
the mon incellest way. The report agreed upon by
its quorem, consisting of two Cooservatitee end two
Liberals, with an &dynamite in the ehair, states that
the present law of waster and tervaot is obiectloutillit,
and reeommends that all aunt &Wald be publicly tried
before too or more megietrates, or • stipendiary magis-
trate. that the procedure shred/ be by rummoce instead
of warrant, and the punishment by Sae instead of im.
prieottinent. We do not know if them anew will
mortent all NOTTSSITA as surely as they will dispieses some
ma-tern But as could ariareely have repeated the
committee to go fuither.-1e iseweesist.

"If eeer you arike a tinker ..In
It him not be • Jebustese 01 aus.osts."
President Johnson 6to be impeached. The

through the country. What h nay have
been doing since we can only guess; but we
can guess perhaps aright from the fact of the
leading accusation against him being that of
filling up places in the executive for himself,
sen•at;-.—.....etive of the concurrence of the
ALklUlat exams, out of which
the Fenian, in America, have been most
judiciously proposed to be referred to arbi
tratlen by Lord Stanley. This happens to
be almost the identical proposition which the
noble lord's predecessor, Karl Russell, re-
jected when advanced by Mr. Adams, the
American minister; and, perhaps, to some
people the transaction may appear somewhat
akin to that of the "poor horphan" in one of
Dickens' stories (Oliver Twist), who, having
already eased a drunken gentleman, whom he
was very officiously aiding in his unsteadiness,
of his pocket-handkerchief, declined to assist
the unsteady one in attempting to extricate
the supposed handkerchief from his coat
pocket, when the gentleman searching for
himself and finding it go4e, began to reason
on the cause of the abstraction thus: —" It
could not—hic—be you that took it, you kno*
—hic—for you would not take it out when I
asked you." "No, sir," replied 'the poor
horphan,' "not *hen you kazoo! me!" Even
so, Lord Stanley's concession of the Alabama
claims is no concession at all on the part of
Great Britain, for Great Britain would not
concede the resort to arbitration—not even
when the United States asked her. It will,
however, be very well if the United St•tes in
their turn do not adopt a suspicion of this
and refuse to accept a "reference" of demand
on which they have accustomed themselves
to so much Bunconibe and so much bluster.
IVhen Lord Russell rejected the same pro-
position, it was in the pride of his political
reasoning, and in the consciousness of having
the mastery in casuistry over honest Mr.
Adams. Earl Rtissell, we have no doubt, has
been sorry enough since over his gladiatorial
prowess as a master offence. These so-called
"claims," are, in the estimation of every man of
common sense, really too paltry to be suffered to
magnify into a cases Niii betwixt the two
countries; they have already put us to a pretty
expense in fomenting the Fenian excitement;
and there is another and [DOM essential point for
consideration—whither in any future naval war
in which our country might he engaged, the
refusal to settle these "claims" or to consider
them at all, might not entail most disastrous
elects on our mercantile marine I Then would
be the American opportunity for reprisals by
Yankee privateers ; and wouldn't they just, as in
Cooper's novels, "clear out for Key West and
a port." Besides. American diplomatists have
out-witted themselves ere now in over-pressing
mall matters involving great principles. Their
obstinacy in regard to "lb. right of search,"
alone justified the stand taken by this country
in the case of the "Treat and weapons
which themselves had forged, ;sealed upon their
o•n heeds, and created at the outset of their
recent troubles an alienation of British feeling
which did more, perhaps, to protract their late
sanguinary civil war than anything lf,
therefore, the americans are wise, will be
moderate in urging theme "Alabama Claim. ;"
and we, if we are in our seven senses, will
certainly, by all means, encourage their speedy
adjustment.

111.—Tits Lagoa/wax Ei.scrriox Comtism'
supplies a curious commentary on the owning
eulargerneot of the Franchise, and tells severely
against the classes in whose name political
demagogues are making the strongest outcry for
extension. Reverting for a moment to America,
with which we perceive we have this week
almost blocked up our leading space already, we
find • voice coming WIWI the big waters,
declaring that the popular masses in Great
Britain do not really desire, and what is worse
do not merit enfranchisement. This might
seem &Dwain, in • country, where, in their own
slang "Every Jack man has a vote ;" but they
explain it thus ; although every man may vote
the State directs its attention to the important
object of educating him an as he may be .it to
exercise his vote. That this is not so with our
"masses," we fast is but too true; and the first
great and preparative Reform that is needed in
this country is an educational Reform. But to
return to the case of Lancaster ; out of 1 339
electors who voted at last election, 932
upwards of two-thirds—did so "for a °maiden-
tion." Who were these scum of electoral
corruptibility 1 Forty one were merchants and
manufacturers (people of standing and import-
shoe in Lanaishias)—three were professional
men (two sodritors and a surgeon dentist).
There were only 88 " gentlisses" yak= and 1$

anticipited heads of impeachment are pre-
sented in slaturday's Times. They charge
him, Ist, with violating the principles of the
Constitution, by refusing to permit all
appointmenta of the Executive to be made by
and with consent of the Senate; 2nd, with
the sacrifice of citizens' lives in illegal pursuit
of
with
(charging him specifically P mrse —On the Bth inst.. the Right Rev.
With massacres of unarmed Unionists assent- the Loud Bishop of Salisbury instituted the Rev.
bled in New Orleans and Memphis); and
firdly, with gross and serious misdemeanour*,of
IMTH't void sit:: to
resignation
trio:
ni °or); t
Rev. E. It. Prothsr, clerk, the last incpmbent there
—denouncing Congrese-men as "satraps," on the pretientatson of her Majesty the
&c.—proclaiming that he could have become commerce To via DORSIT Couarr GAOL.—
" dictator" if he had wished—pardoning Assite : John Rocker, Willism Hollindrake, and
rebels indiscriminately "at the solicitations Ittioch Rawlindeos, housebreaking it Portland.
ot a Woman of loose cliaracter, who made it a aellarNleyLawan676: Union. 141nndaPiem: Woods,
business to obtain and sell pardons"—ger- vagrancy at Ftlandford, 3 month'; George Radler,
bling the report of the New Orli:ins disobeying the lawful commands of his captain at
massacre; and with habitual drunkenness : 4 weeks; John frodrem, Jai". Crow,
and making wild and inc:iberent harangues.
We had thought the most of these stor andi f n star, disobeying
ithe lawful
- es 8 weeks. —/sipmrisotisseeif : Thomas Short, sewitilt at
old and exploded; but the tenacity of scandal Bmadford, 7 days; Moses Manatorre, Henry Brewer,
is proverbtal—" throw dirt enough, and some and Prank Laos, poaching at Crinhormi. 7 date.
of it is sure to stick"— is a malignant injunc- wear is hisagr IT EtrrtiaLtirric Ossgsvaitcss?—
tion of which the best of men haveexperienced being
ng been lt,sotibratoorittte
the effects. Whether this trumpery and si,T:.,aei nod 7. both be the address of the Re:. 3. Heat
incoherent list of accusations will or will not et Wslinou'll• snd th• ProlZsirwi satiodisal senate
be persisted in is more than we can tell—but Ii anY b° well to suit, wit" rit°°l I. lntended
to teoih. It should be noted, however, that the
in he face of them it would seem to an int- Rituslista coneist of two bodies havind totally different
partial observer as if they were all alike ohj•uits in .riew— one woke simply to esaindl.te the
preposterous; for surely if there were any "!..
erriarech4es, wino dtult obta the ilniserinSeltailigritces eouotulrierrith.
foundation for the more formidable of them, et, other to teach Itomi•li doctrine, viz., that in
there could have been no necessity for raking the sacrament of the Lord's. Raptor, the broad
up the expiring embers of the more trumpery a
bee nd through
the
71 71: et ni
powera
rI
rPi
of these pieces of animosity. Our London signified, that to receive the one is to moose the other;
Correspondent tells us that if the committee that sincere dieven and hypocrites ~isalga geseque she
decide on this impeachment—as he has little thin.nstignoing,dtiL:n.iltotrhatut,!7orthtiintgo siLnriLleda is no golly
percedoubt they will—it is expected that the sine, that adoration is doe to it then. The distinction
President will meet with force the is most important, and should not be 0wed...24W.
first attempt made to use force have
AGIIICULTUIt•L STATIIITICIIu Or DOMIT. We
against him. It is supposed he will not acve grfilv.eddiiaulpry „rnrpsret,,,,r7 en forth, 17, the
take any action against Congress until it has United Kingdom, in 1866, presented to both Homes
thoroughly committed itself, and has, perhaps. lof Parliament, from which we glean tlse following
to this county. In table No. 4,
ordered his arrest, but that he will then use I :t•ielliar° relating
restthe power at his command for his own de- ti no Irtin,rieteih-eatottelfollow area Lug particular.
statute eats., 632 025;
fence. Thus far our correspondent. "What total of acreage under all kinds of crops. bare, fallow
this power may turn out to be, nobody," he and erste, .599;308 node, own OOP (inetarling
adds, "can say in this country." But we wheat, barley, saia, rfc basal. and Peas). 113,480;
(including potatoes, MeV!), sag
believe that the entire struggle, so far as it green -„,(7e
has been going on, has really been for ..ritcheei, looet{ne;and everymothbr mop' excerape. clove;
session of the key to this power, which for the or grass), 61,184; under slower, and artilto al and
present remains in the hands of the President. othm gramma under rotation, 18,881 ; permanent
It is the army, it is the navy, it is the arsenals, pasture, insadow Of gram. not broken up In rotation
(elusive otof hill of
and warlike resources of the United corncrops total acre") airier all kt:rds oftsg°
States, which the President and the bare, fallow, and grams72l.s. Of settle. the°rto° tal
Executive nominated by him have under number of 'rimmed ordinary stock is 70.014, being
their control that constitute this power. • proportion of 171 to every 100 acres under crop.,
hare fallow, and gram. On the MI March, 1866,
It may be remembered by our readers that there were 492 823 sheep in Dorset, being
some time ago we referred to the fact that 1211-13 to every 100 sores an der mope, bare fallow.
the Presidentwas on all sides strengthening and gram—the highest proportion of any county ia
his hands in this direction—that he was nomi- &eland. Table 6 gives the number of statute agree
nating generals, on whom he could rely, to *lfallow .4' .a.,_"1"7,:i" of crop. under and . `,l
the chief commands; that be was equipping 7;,;;;".,,„ 0„,„ ii each onnuty. Irg7i,-;;;;";
for action, and putting war vessels in corn- or hers, 38,267 acres; oste. 22781; rye, 613; beaus,
mission at all the naval dock yards; and that 3,337; Peas. SAM ; total, 113490. Green more
he was accumulating munitions of war, so as —P4st°e4l 2.504; turnips and 44'.°". 41,803;
to be prepared for the worst- This was even c"..."Pid. carrc4n., 183, ; e•blage.,kohl rabbi:
rine rape. Joao ; TOtaliel lOOrfne, sac sn• other
prior to his unfortunate and. unpopular !our crop (egoept clover or gems), 8,730; iota, 61,154.

A Sasso AAAAA Hist.-- Mr. Roo rder Warren
makes the Melvin prettied ingsestlens for the O 00500:
—" Victoria Rot I, !lull, Jan. 6 --Do you wish to have
the full benefit, th.t is, without waste, of ee-ry mince
of eel Ton pay for • to NM* no.rly one third of your
ordinary consuniption ; to have • firs lit in the moral"g ,
whelk, with • little ire, will last nearly *be whole of
the day, with possibly • mingle replenishing mid no save
trouble as *ell MI coal, and hate warmth equally
dlatributed thyo .10 tout apartment, itte4. or ratan T
—then attend to the failetting perielmel auggestion,
anceem, tor; lOri hare w4air4oe4elytiert, ..entrodatit
like result recomm nded it to very enemy friends. The
semetion is not toy owe; I met with it seven years
ago to the 113•11der, • valuable London journal. Otdi•
nary fire-gruff have open b.ro at the bottom ; the remit
of which, of °mire, is to Aim tMeasl between tett
drought., one from below and the ether trot. above up
the °hien'', and emote two things, rapid consumption
and di i.inisbed heat in the apartment. When I arrive
at my hotel last Wedoonay afternoon—a b. tiny sold
day —I found • largo fire, which was twice p plenished
before I went to bed. The coal was egeellebt, but I
meld mares!, get warm. I prevailed on my worthy
landlord to try my etperirnent on my flreerme bere.
Ile has done so, and what was the result? tsk him.
But I will tell yon that to-day my Ars was made op
at ten a.m. It Is bow floe p in. I have enjoyed, and
ma enjoying, • most comfortable warmth, without
having to sit Within • yard of the ere. Not an ounce
id additional eq.l has been plated on It, nothing ha.
been 'squired but no* and then, at bog in•erval., a
poke from liseitoji Old a ptemiqg doge from above
Now, how is this brotightahout : I well tell you. Bend
for an ironmonger or blacksmith, and order him to take
the measure of the bottom of pop, Otte and make you
• sheet-iron plate of about osealstli of cumuli in thick-
ruse or even lean which, if your grate he large will cost
von N. Simply lay this oa the bottom of the grate,
then let 0W .0 yam lay and light your Ire as usual.
It will soon born up, hot you mast keep pretty open
the lowed bar, no as to wore a alight draught. Whan
ilia fire has began to born, poke it gently from beneath,
and the flame will gradually get through th entire maas
of cod.; the iron plate hitomth gets rod ha', and no
keeps up constant oombuation, at the same time dis-
persing the heat through the room, bitted of Its being
ont up the chimney, thus entirely weaussing lite sisal,
inst. ad of 61114 the li«irth with Wow In my own
house I tried the eaperiment for • week in the bre .li.
fast-r0t,.,,, then in the dining-room, and thee I. the
kitchen with uniform and complete MOM • and this
I had the abeeteiree plate pet into every areiy:lees, with
ecppil suociesa. Bo I -ci with the Ample* I. ENT ,Asoi.i
mutinies. When the are In arse made up, my shout
ten a. m. for the day, an masalotid peke and possibly a
single repleniskimot, mace. fee dm day. in my own
and also at my hotel etre. Mien three maul.s
wen, required, ore now eaffioss."—Sawera Noneiieo
New.
V. THE BAIL 01 911/1110007111 : JUDO.
eget—Court of Chancery, Friday.—Before the Lord
Chaooellor.—His Lordship delivered joigmeet this
morning in this cone, which related to dealings
between the Earl of Shaftesbury and the plaintiff,
his land steward and spat, the mats gelation being
whether the plaintiff Was the agent of the dideridant
for esecating the works referred to in the slit, or
whether he was in Not the contractor for ezeonting
them, and therefore entitled to the mem of £3827,
being the difference between the aohoM met of the
works and the not. paid. Toe short fame were as
I. Boers :—The plaintiff wee from 1861 to Jaly, 1863,
the steward and agent of the defendant, at • salary
of £430 • year. On the 11th el May, 1867, and co
the 301 h of Jane, 1862, retraineel anntreete were
entered into between the General Land Drainage
and Improvement Company and the defendant f
the elevation of drainage works on the defeadent's
settled estates for the sum 4616.600 ;and on the
same days other contracts were mitered into between
the company, the defended,, and the plaintiff, seder
which the hitter, by the desire of the defendant.
bemuse the otortreeter, or mint of the company, nod
agreed to Ganger the dniinage Works for specified
some, to be paid by the onmplay tie the completion
of the works. One mietreet was completed, and the
other in part, when the plaintirs employment
wirowd. The plaintiff claimed to he paid • balance
of £3837 12e. on both contracts, as the contractor of
the company, beteg the difference between the gems
paid by the company to 'the draiaage eaooont."
and the some paid by the defeedant to the plaintiff
dueling the proem, of the works,. The defendant
insisted that Waters acted as his agent at a celery,
and, that being in a fiduciary position towards him
as such, he was only entitled to charge tile olio&
wele Prow of the works. Tit. plaintiff Mated that
be prepared • epeoilkatioe and animate of the pro-
bable owe of the works in iporauce that be arse to
be the contractor. He submitted that it wen im-
probable that receiving only • limited salary ae
steward be would undertake works Involving an
animal amount of skill and labour, sad dense which
were quite forgive to the ordinary character of a
land agent, without some reaiuoeration. It was
tiontended, on the other hand, that Waters was
merely • nominal contractor—a middle man inter-
posed between the land owner and the company
through the accident of his happening to be the
defendant's land agent, and that the notion of em-
plot tog the landowner's steward, and allowing him
to make • profit oat of Clie trensaatioo at the expense
of the inheritance, would be a fraud on those
emitted in remainder. Vice Chsnellor Stuart,
Isewever, held that the plaintifi wag entitled, after
dedeating such same as had been paid by the defen-
dant for materials supplied in carrying out the work.
to the balance of the 001111110 t 100007. The "fm-
slant how appealed. The Attorney Gametal, Mr.
Roupell, and Mr. Join Chester (instructed by Mr.
liemaley), appeared for the plaintiff; Sir B. Palmer,
Mr. Hamm, and Mr. Snaps (instructed by Marra
Bolter, &SO, said Norton), for the defoodsalt His
Lordship, having reviewed the facts at great length,
was of °plants that the plaintiff wee merely the agent
of the defendant, and had no right to be considered
in the light of smatramor, sod be se for reversed Sim
dome aisle emit Weer, With owls

of them took bribes. There were 93 book s DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL-
Itespetes. clerk" and that clasa. and 25 of them Tbs. twent -meth annual meeting of the goveracrre
had an itching palm. 'Mere were MS trades- of this hospital took pleas at the institution last
men and 70 or them corrupt—no the whole the Thursday. lice L presideri, and there
most independent Maas of voters. But we are were present: J. F. Hodges, Eq ,
sorry to say that ont of 400 artisans the Masa
hi whose favour all the parade of Mr. Bright and U. Warr,,' J. K. .L."'s.` El.' W. Mayo'
he Hew.. J. Fisher,
his followers is exclusively made, 371 were R.q. Archdeacon Sanctuary, t
guilty of taking the unclean thing. Still deeper K W. Pears, H. Motile, C. %V. Binghain,
is our regret to add that whilst or 329 cm ill shop- Smith, E. Lipllow, C. J. Bird, I). Ndsh, Talbot
keepqrs and labourers 251 were guilty, the so r, T. A. Baker, It. a. 1.1 NI. J. Green,
edlie " &emote/ (but they SeeM to have been ' Dr. (Joo-dell, Mr. Weller, and Mr. T. Cowl,. Thu
mostly ou a small scale) went over to perdition in
Rev. Ildeinahl Smith said he Win &sired by Mr. J.
la body, for 163, out of 166, accepted bribe 4 rower, M.. P., to eatersa to hi. 1 rrdellip too. chair,
I No doubt we shall have • running commentary to the 'Twain, hi. of, Floy:res) regret
on all this in the coming debate on the Reform that he was unable to he present, hut he was outline'!
Bill. We are afraid it c.sts • solemn doubt oil to his hued for a day or two by illness. Mr. Smith
th• question whether the great body of the added that Mr. Floyer was not a mate to be atoesit
people is ripe for the electoral trust. with.mt wee' carmen General regret was espresecti
that Mr. Fluter was indiaponyl.
The ClixIMM•l4 then called on the Hey. C. W.
Bingham, as chairman of the committee, to road toe
report, and that gentleman complied. Ihe annual
teport was as folios. ;
"The committee, in presenting it- 26th anneal
report, draire anew to ex pr. se iii. hr humble grntitooe to
God for the large am runt of pablil feyoor •till extendni
to the bojeral, they have been enabled to
early through the proceedings of another snmewh-t
oozing. year to a settalaatory, and even prosper," a
tertnioatio...
" At its beginning, there was • balenes due to the Ira'
ever of £1153 lie 8.1.; provisions hai.. been dem ; a cep.
siderahle expenditure lima beeii inquired for furniture,
repairs, and bedding, hr..; and the acetate coat per bead
for each ;retolit has be'. unpreeedentrdiv high ;I lit,
after having bid aside for itivr.torrut • sum .4 £lO4
tOOtiVed f.om legacies—vit.. £lOO from the late Mi-s
Chi., .4 11 ..oninster, and L 4 from I).•na Fos. • person
in humble circumstance. at Hermitage ; and aft r
eharxing ad the lialiithie3 of the year. thera remains in
the treasurer's band.. balance of VSI 19.. 81.
"This .aeoe-slul result his been mainly dee to the
lih Tali., of the donation% •movintleg to the mint
£291 16a Si.and including 000, by which the Earl
of Eldon out aitainiug his majority has gracefully mani-
fested bib iiiterbd in (MO among other inetit Wawa; •nd
lidera ie. to the estremelf teltDefoll* and kind ft eve.
which has been made to the appeals of the committee
for congregational collections. They hare r. nal wi the
largest sow ewer yet real welt except when stimulated
by • pratoral letter from the £4Bl 9,. 11.1.
the clergy who have raise I those sell, ivions, and
to the 130 congregations by which they have been con.
Vibrated, the onrnmittee warmly know how te off -r
their seknowiedgments in term. of adequate thankfid•
net-s. They see in tills direction the only probable
mean. by which the hospital can be rnalotsined on ille
present Dinh,; whilat it is • week of support ebi k,
without press.ng heavily on individual., at the omits
time engulf, ate the widest appreciation of it.. ben' Bt'.
"A very heavy and tinexpeeterl charge will be bedeei
forth impeded, and has already been to some natc nt
impo.ed, on the fund., in ecoorequence of a recent tilling
of the Judicial Committee of the Howie of Lord% front
whenee there is no appeal, and whieh appears to run
directly wen ter ,e4O-, whole tinier of previous decisioes.
!Advert° such instatui have keen held to be exempt
from parochial and other rate% on the grounds that the
poor were their occupiers ; and that, so far from toting •
source of profit to the governors, the sum total of their
funds was devoted to public and charitable uses—the
Court in one recorded ca. having gone as far as to
serve that • attain "Parish acted in a shame'sl m rimer
to rate house applisl lea puspore so benellosal to it.
The committee have already addreased pedtions to
Parliament praying for • legislative remedy ol what
seems to MIMI a great hardship, seeing that the funds of
the Hospital are appropriated to the sole benefit of par-
ents who, is a great majority of instanees, are creased
Iro,a the Plff meat of rates in their retpsetiee p.rishes I
seeing also, that whatever sem is thus withdrawn from
the reset:trees of the charity id, in point of fag% a de-
duction from Om ower of relieving thew very parsons
in whose behalf Peor•rate a at least are oellested ; whibt
It so happens, by the acchient of It. poeition, that the
Hospital necessarily centers a peculiar advantage upon
that very diatriet by which the e.t.a are levied.
••Tbil total trumber of in-patieots (tooted during the
year has exceeded that of last year -.is., 427 against
392; bit the daily average has hese nearly Ilse lea',
bein4 51 andeight-thirteenths against 56 and one-fifth ;
' the average cost per head per week bolus I4s. 81. ag.in‘t
13.._24d. The mitystient• bays been 456 %eine% 504
Is IMS.

•:lnediately milwequent to the vote of the last
annual meeting, II AIL the Pilot* of Wake, so closely
connected with this lora county by the Omni property,
graciously signified his pleasure to .ocent the office el
patron 1 and thip Right Roo. Lord Digby ratified the
friends of the hospital by ocusenting to become its
prein,lent.
"II will be advisahle to-day to fill tip the egos of
trustee, rendered vacant by the lamented death of ono
of the Mole t and most constant supporters ead
benrfactors, the bate Henry Charles Start. gip.
No iutetruption has oastirred during the year to the
usual orderly and quiet proordire of the Institudon.
Renewed thanks are due to the Honorary lledieal
Officer. for their valuable and efil dent labours. The
bowie ourgeon, wasted for the first time, and exception-
ally, by • saddest diernser, hut continued to afford
andiminished astir/ammo to the committee by his
diligent mid !attentive services; and the ni.tron. though
unaMnd by such aseistanee ea the committee still desire
to afford her, has b iii atresgtbened ho pe.4orm
.her
difficult &Aim with tb• mote petieet and levies s al
erbieh timbal' ever shown.
In moving the adoption of the report, the Rey. C.
W. HINGHAM observed that if Mr. flora had been
present be would have been maims to know if the
subscription hat wag advancing, and certalaly
that Was the test of the public apprecia-
tion of the institution. He thought be Might say
that the au'ascriptiroos reedited a higher sum tine year
hi • slight amount than they had ever done hefore
--(applause). In 1859 they amounted to £1,089. in
1860 to £1,060, in 1861 to £1,079, in 1862.. £1,093,
to 1863 to £1,094. in 1864 to £1,104, in 1866 to
£l,lOl. and in 1866 to £1,129 —(aser, bear). He
knew that *oak !leaden Mr. Flora's heart when
be read it. Mr. Bingham also made a statement as
to the ft legacy of Diana Pox. One of It eir
honorary secretaries had done a nice little bit of
*. fex".hunting. Diana Fox' of Hermitage, made a
will, and left the r heresidue of her little property to tbe
Dorset County Hospital. When inquiries wore made
as to the residue, the tradesman who was her execu-
tor denied there waii anything left. Bat Mr. Tom",
set to work in the matter, managed to nakenocl the
foa, and ran It 41 earth, and so the hospital got £4,
for which they ought to be thankful to Mr. Tom/
(brer, hear, and langhtet)
CHAIRAILX remarked that the old lady wee
dead.

Mr. Bhagax laid this was soother fox—her
e mato.— (laughter).
As to the rating of the hospital, Lord Dias. said
he believed that if all institutions called hospital.
had been like this owe, they would never hare been
rated, but it arose from places which were not really
hospitals being walled by that name.
The aim. C. W. BiSOULIi read the treasurer's
report, from which it appeared that the receipts
amounted to £2.310. which with Diana Pues legacy
of £4 and Mies olive's legacy of £lOO, made • total
of £2,414 us. ad. The disbursements, including
LIM 11.. aii., balance doe to the treasurer at the
beginning of last year, sad £lO4 invested in the
New Three Per Ceuta, amounted to £2.369 la Pd.,
shoeing • bathos ia favour of the institution of
19s. Sd. _ _ .

The r”ort and finsasial statement were mune
mottly adopted.
The pest benne= was to allot • trustee he Huy
plo.. of the late H. C. Stark Esq. The Her. C. W.
BINGHAM said the *Mos was quite • nominal am,
bat ',boy most have three trustees, sad the pelmet
ones were Mr. J. Ploys, and Mr. R. Wallasey.
There was soircely any ditty to perform, beyond
gb:l3l the stook standing in their mama. He *sig-
n» Berl al &duo, who had evinced great
interest is the hapitel.
the Rev. H. Monts proposed that the lanai
Mon be requested to wept the Aloe of trustee,
and it was carried oaanimously.
TIN follow* were sleeted the amaraitese for the
issuing year en the mottos of the BAV. ILSOISALD
Burrs, smOoded by H. Wtu.wo, Seq.
Rem T. A. Fakeer, M. J. Orme. Z. Ludlow, G.
F. Nash, B. H. Wallies's, Mr. G. Mayo, Mr. T.
Patch, Mr. S. Byease, meleated ; sodas new moat-
brie, Mr. H. Duke, Mr. T. Seasome, Captain
Thresher, and the Rev. W. IJrquitert
• vote of thaaks to the Chairman timid the
preesediess.