The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AND ITALY.

There is no denying that Italy is placed in an
anomalous position. Volunteers continue to
flock to Garibaldi, who has at last contrived to
cross into Calabria, with the old rallying cry of
"Victor Emmanuel and Italy," and by a strange
pressure of -circumstances, the chief mover
against the chivalrous leader who has done so
much for Italy, is the king himself. There have
been two conflicts with the royal troops, in
which the first blood of civil war has been shed ;
JDut we hear of none killed, there were less teen
a dozen wounded on both sides, and about forty
Garibaldian soldiers taken prisoners. There is
not ft more loyal subject in the Italian dominions
than Garibaldi, and the wrong-headed, but right-
hearted chief has unquestionably been driven to
rash action by the sinister policy of men, as
much less honest as they may be more astute than
himself. He evidently itvoids his countrymen
of the royal troops, and takes to the mountains,
by which, doubtless, he will make his way,
bloodless if possible, to the Abruzzi. Cialdini,,
who had gone to Sicily, returns by the
mainland, and General Della Marmoranow pro-
-
doling martial law theroughout the whole of
-edition -Mespolitin provineek—and -the upon;
dent islands. Arum must be given up, and

journals must appear only by authority. For
Rome, Garibaldi defies the obscure counsels of
the Tuileries and Ratazzi, the Italian Minister,
who is a nominee of the man who aTone denies
to Italy her capital. The perils of Italy lie in
the crooked counsels of Napoleon 111., who
went to Lombardy from no love to Italy, and
who keeps his soldiers at Rome for no love to
the Pope, but for the one great purpose, to
secure, if possible, the permanence of his
dynastry. His ambition is, as it has always
been, to lay the foundation of a house that shall
endure when the Great Creditor has called at St.
Cloud for one Emperor more. Night and day
he works for this. He never forgets it—never
loses a chance of driving home one more nail to
keep the imperial system together. ,If he could
be assured that the evacuation of Rome would
tend to consolidate the great work of his life,
the Pope might go to Jericho, or to a place that
shall be nameless,for him. "Family first, friends
after," is his motto. At present he believes he
can serve himself best by serving the Pope, and
thus conciliate the Catholics of France. There-
fore he has determined to keep Garibaldi out
of Rome. But the hero who rescued Sicily
from the Bourbons says he will go te
Rome. Cavour or Ricasoli could have
kept their great, honest, fighting child suffi-
ciently obedient to the unwelcome demands of a
safer policy, but Ratazzi cast him off and pro-
voked him into his own way of battling down
what he detested. It would be to the interest of
France, of Italy, of Europe, that the Roman
question should be speedily settled, for so long
as the French occupy Rome, they maintain a
hot-bed of revolution in the very heart of Italy.
Napoleon had no business at Rome, in the first
instance; he has no right, morally, to keep his
soldiers there now; and if there arise out of
Garibaldi's rash adventure peril to the new
kingdom, it is to be traced, through Garibaldi,
home to the maintainer of French bayonets at
Rome, and to Ratazzi who translates for his
countrymen French will into Italian duty at
Turin.

Since the above was in type we have learned,
and subsequent telegrams have confirmed the
report, that Louis Napoleon has gained another
victory over Italy, and that the shadow to
which the temporal power of the Pope has
diminished can now boast of a noble victim. On
Friday a corps of Bersaglieri, under the com-
mand of Col. Pallavicino, a companion in arms
of the patriot in Southern Italy, attacked the
latter in a strong position at Aspremonte. The
contest is said to have been a sharp one, but
considering the disparity of the forces engaged
there could be but one result. The troops of
the King of Sardinia were victorious. Garibaldi,
the noblest and purest of Italian spirits, was
wounded, and taken priser with all his fol-
lowers, numbering, it is Veld, two thousand.
One of the wounds received by the general is
said to be serious, and his son Menotti is also
wounded. It is said that Garibaldi asked to be
put on board an English ship, in order that he
might leave the country, but the request was not
granted. He was conveyed in an Italian war
ship to Reeggio, where, according to La France,
every attention has been rendered him. - There
will now be unbounded joy at the Vatican, and
the Ultratnontanea throughout the world will
believe that heaven has heard the prayers of the
holy father, and delivered him from his enemies.
There may be joy also at the Tuileries, hut will
not Enrope cry shame? What are the fhelings
of Victor Emmanuel at the thought that the man
who now lies bleeding—perhaps dying—at
Reggio gave him a kingdom? and was on his
way to place the capital of Italy in his pos-
session? At the instance of Louis Napoleon the
king has not only shed Italian blood, but com-
mitted one of the most monstrous acts on record,
for the purpose of confirming the French in the
possession of Rome. From henceforth may we
not regard Italian unity as a mockery, a delu-
sion, and a snare.? The London Observer, in
referencesto this subject, says

The Telegraphic news 'free'. Paris that Garibaldi
has been defeated, wounded, and made prisoner, in
or near Reggio, by the troops of the Italian King,
is the most important event of the week. He had
crossed the Straits in safety, had advanced in
triumph through tbe southern portion of Italy, on
his way toward the object of his expeditions, Rome,
and had been received with open arms by no fewer
than five Italian cities. Everything seemed to smile
upon hie noble purpose—that of delivering Italy from
French domination—when of a sudden Europe is
thunderstruck with the intelligence of his defeat and
captare. If this news be true a heavy reckoning is
in store for the Italian King, who, forgetful that
Garibaldi gave him two kingdoms, and that he was
even then engaged in an enterprise which had for
its sole end and aim to give him a capital for a
united Italy, sent Italian troops against his benefac-
tor at the beck and bidding of a foreign potentate,
for the express purpose of keeping Rome in the
possession of foreign troops. Better a hundred
times the brutal rule of the Austrain in Italy than
that of such a treacherous sovereign as the Italian
King has proved himself in this matter. That the
capture of Garibaldi, and his death, which would
almost be a happy event to himself, and which is
very probable to occur,perfas et nefaw, now that he
is in the hands of his worst enemies, his recreant
friends, will consolidate the kingdom of Italy, or
remove all ground of fear from the mind of the real
tryant of that kingdom—Louis Napoleon—may,
however, be reasonably doubted. It is likely, on
the contrary, to render Piedmontese rule more un.
popular than ever in the Neapolitan portion of Italy
as well as in the Duchies and the former Legations;
while it will most certainly cancel, and with just
and sufficient cause, every remaining vestige of
good feeling in tile individual Italian heart towards
the muter of the Piedinontese Government—the
French Emperor. In the meantime the purely
French portion of Italy—Rome and the Roman
terriority—swarms with French troops; while the
Italian waters, from the Gulf of Genoa to the
southernmost point of Sicily, are covered with French
ships of war. It has been stated, and only faintly
dented, that this military and naval force is intend-
ed lees to repel Garibaldi than to occupy —of
course; in the interest of "order," as despo-
tic France understands the word—Southern Italy,
as Rome has been occupied now upwards of thirteen
years. In that case what would become of English
commerce and English influence in the Mediterra-
nean? Would not that sea then be to all intents
and purposes "a French lake?"

DORCHESTER. Prrothn Conic MARKET,
Saturday, August 30.—The attendance wee limited,
and consisted principally of millers and dealers.
There were plenty of meld, pitched, and the quality
of the new crop generally appears to be about an
average, but the quantity is reported deficient.
The wheat trade was dull, and sales were generally
confined to immediate wants, and to choice seed
qualities, for which prices varied from £l2 to £42
per load of 10 sacks. Malting barley was held at
40s. per quarter. Oats in good demand at full rates.
Winter tares fis. to 9s. 6d. per bushel. •
THE ANNUAL LICENSING DAY for the borough
nas held on Wednesday, when all the old public.
house licenses were renewed. There were no
applications for new licenses.
Co:, the murderer of the late Dr. Puckett, was
on Thursday removed from the Dorset County Gaol
to Dr. Finch's Lunatic Asylum, at Fisherton.
RAILWAY Accinewr.—On Friday last, an acci-
dent, fortunately unattended by loss of life, occurred
on the Great Western Railway. It appears that the
driver of the down train which arrives here at
12.35.; after leaving Grimstone station, observed
something on the road and sounded his whistle. He
afterwards saw that it was a "trolly," or small
truck, and some men upon it with materials for the
purpose of repairing the rails. The men, on being
warned of the approach of the train jumped off, but
had not time to remove the trolly, nor had the
driver, although he used every effort to do so, time
to stop the engine. The consequence was, the
trolly was smashed, and one of the new rails upon
it was completely bent up, and the other was
snapped in pieces by getting entangled with the
leading axle-tree of the engine. The timbers on the
but were also disturbed, but not sufficiently so to
prevent the traffic. The break of the engine WAS
also rendered inoperative, so that the train had to
' proceed at a very slow pace during the remainder of
the journey, especially down the incline between
Ridgway and Weymouth. We understand that
the mishap arose from the ganger being anew hand,
who had not made himself so well acquainted as he
ought to have done with the line for the running of
the trains. The ganger, when he saw the mischief
that had happened, absconded, and in his fright
jumped into a river and waded across. A warrant,
we believe, has been obtained by the Company's
inspector of police for his apprehension, as be had
neglected the precautions against -aocidenta in Ms
printed instructions.
COMMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER GAOL.
Sessions: John Bewley, and Augustus Galton,
stealing wearing apparel at Dorchester; Peter
Wilmot, stealing pork at Shaftesbury. Hard
Labour: Ellen Rusher, vagrancy at Wimborne
Minster, 3 calendar months; Frederick Budden,
assault, &c., at Lytchett Matravers, 4 calendar
mouths; John Johnson, vagrancy at Bridport, 21
days; Michael Curns, vagrancy at Weymouth, 14
days • Henry Spencer, assault, &c., at Weymouth,
1 calendar month; Edward Yeatman, leaving
family chargeable at Haeelbury Bryan, 1 calendar
month: Leonard Morris, assault at CerneP Abbas,
1 calendar month; Isaac Locock, poaching at Wain-
brook, 4 calendar months; Edwin Dicker, leaving
family chargeable at Milborne, 1 calendar month;
Thomas Sthedley, damaging hay rick at Bridport,
14 days; James Chick, leaving family chargeable
at- Bridport, 1 calendar month. lutprisoranent7-
14dwreollina,-staaling *pipe; bobseatoneli, &c., at
Dorchester, 1 calendar month George Wallis, for

same offence, 14 days; Charles Stohe, drunk, &c. at
East Slower, 7 days ;Theodore Ironsides, idle
apprentice at Symondsbttry, 2 calendar months;
Henry Curtis, drunk, &c., at Langton Matravers; 7
days.
TDB EDUCATION 07 TUN PARIIIDI.—We repro-
duce from the Orford Herald, a paper largely de-
voted to agricultural matters, the following review
of Mr. Wallace Fyfe's " Catechism of Agricultural
Science, as applied in practise." It will at once be
' perceived that our contemporary holds exactly
similar opinions to these we have so frequently ex-
pressed relative to Mr. Wallace Fyfe's high preten-
sions as an instructor in the practice of a science of
which he knows but little, except in thy:ivy. Every
one knows how different theory is from practice in
every pursuit. The one is easily learned by the
fireside, the other can only be acquired by long
years of hard work and dogged perseverance.
Farming in a carpeted parlour and farming in the
fields, with-adverse weather; blighted and mildewed
crops, and disease in cattle, oftentimes to contend
against, are two very different things ; and be who
has only A superficial knowledge of the first is no
better qualified to set up as a teacher of the latter
than a man who is dumb to give lessons on elocution.
But we will let our reviewer speak for himself :
" A young man fresh from the University, who
had taken cordially to the position of a country
gentleman—and, among other occupations, had
adopted that of agriculturist—was riding round his
land one morning with a neighbour of long expe-
rience and well-proved practical ability and judg-
ment as a farmer. He listened with docility and
geed-will to the instruction and advice that were
given to him; and, struck at length by the wisdom
and good sense of his companion's discourse' he at
length exclaimed, " Ah, Mr.—, I wish 1 knew as
much as you do." "Make yourself perfectly easy
on that score, my dear fellow," was the reply—
" You never will." The one was fresh from the
schools,- and the other had spent all his life in the
fields, and yet there WDA neither shock modesty in
the speech of the one, nor arrogance in the answer
of the other. Let us hear Mr. -- finish his
reply :—" have been accustomed," he said, "to be
amongst plants and animals, constantly riding or
walking on the soil which supports them both, since
I was a child. Ever since I can remember I have
had to do with the tillage of the land, the
cultivation of crops, the management of live
stock. There is not an aspect of weather,
land, or life so far as the live stock of tho
farm are. concerned, which I have not habitually
witnessed, realized, and studied—that of which
instances are striking oases may be observed by you
is foreseen or recognised by me in its first beginnings
almost as an instinct. Long familiarity with the
details of my occupation, beginning, too, with the
mind of a child which lms hardly any other impress-
ions on it to weaken the sensitiveness with which
its early knowledge is received, gives me almost
unconsciously, and without the effort of any special
attention such as you must exercise, those intima-
tions of fitness or of unfitness, of quality and
condition, whether of soil, or crop, or animal,
on which the right direction of our business
of coarse depends." Mr. was perfectly
correct; it is an immense advantage to an
agriculturist, as to the follower of any other
occupation, to learn that occupation young.
Now, we have before us a book written, we presume,
with the intention of carrying out the idea of Mr.—,
and of impressing agricultural truths upon the mind
when young. Unfortunately, however, there is a
great difference between its pages and those from which
the early lessons just alluded to were learned.
The latter were on the face of nature, and ex-
plained and pointed out in the familar words
of a homely practical observer. Here, in Mr. Wallace
Fyfos'a Catechism of Agriculturil Science' as applied
in practice,' we have not a familiar talk of air and
earth, and plant and animal, but a formal treatise, in
which truth is stated not as observed in the field, but
as exists in the mind of a philosopher. Take for an
example of its teaching, the question :—' What is
lime?' Well, we might say to a child—it is sometimes
chalk; often it is in a stone, which they burn in the
kiln, and so make it 'quick' in various ways, and
active for various uses to which it is applied—oftener
still it occurs not more perhaps than a pinch in every
handful in the mould of ordinary soils, where it lies
hid in other matter, and where, though its action and
activity are both hindered and hidden by the condition
in which it exists, it yet is ' quick' for many useful
purposes, and does much for the fertility of the land.
What these purposes are might be farther enumerated
one by one, and explained pretty fully without the use
of very long words. Ent we do not think that Mr. Fyfe
helps forward the knowledge of a child by declaring that
' lime is an alkaline earth of insuperable (!) importance
in agriculture, sines it forms an essential organic con-
stitwmt of every cultivated vegetable.' The fact is, Mr.
Fyfe and Mr. differ altogether in their plans of agri-
cultural education. The first note on the first page of
the book, just published_ by the former, speaks thus—

JUNIOR CLASS.
" The teacher will occupy the Bret year or years in turn UM-
ing an idea In the 'chola of the nature of the 'deucee engaged
in agriculture ; he will then arrange in the neighbourhood to
illuatrata them practically on the farm.
. . . .

Now the suierioriti Which the well educated Uni-
versity man detected in his companion arose from just
the opposite plan having been pursued—he had seen
every aspect of nature on the farm before they had
been pointed out to him there—and they had iteen
pointed out repeatedly long before they had been
explained to him in books. We are bound also to say
that when pointed out and discussed in the fields they
were explained in simpler words than. Mr. Fyfe employs.
And if this was an advantage even when the things
themselves to which the words related lay before his
eyes, how much more important must it be when the
words alone, are the only chance the pupil has of
obtaining right ideu. A catechism of first knowledge
for the teaching of children ought to be written in words
of two syllables at most, and everywhere the child should
be made to feel how much better off are those whe
have facts and knowledge in their minds thanthose who
have merely words upon their tongues. The very first
answer in Mr. Pyre's book sins against both of these
rules. The child is told that hitherto agriculture has
been commonly regarded more as an art than as •
science, and "it is only of late years that education has
been called in to propagate a knowledge of the cultiva-
tion of the land." Instead of talking about " pro-
pagating knowledge," the child had better try
to get it ; and this he will do better by learning
what farmers do in the field and farm yard, or
even what his master is doing in the school garden,
than by hearing farmers laughed at or condemned for
their want of progressive intelligence. It is quite true
what the author states, in answer to question 6—" what
agriculture has yet to accomplish is, largely stated, this:
The amount of produce which we now raise must be
driven on to the amount we could raise—bearing in
mind that as far as past experience goes we shall never
raise more than is economically required. We must
attempt, however, to redeem the needless destitution of
the land by undertaking to raise an adequate supply of
subsistences. This may be quite true—but is a child
likely to understand it; and if he should come to know
exactly what it means—ia the end desired brought any
nearer by teaching of this kind?; A child who is to be
a ploughman or a herdsman, or a labourer on a farm,
or even himself the master of these men, may have the
details of his future duty impressed upon his mind
most usefully at school—he may even by and by learn
the "reason why," land so have the reasonableness of
his duty impressed upon his mind with great advantage
to the future faithful discharge of it--but 118 for " the
value and importance of CAS stay of agriculture"—
"the limits and capabilities of cultivation"—" the
manner in which agriculture is advanred by science"—
and so on; these, which are the subjects of Mr. Fyfe's
op:ning titaptoef r are tat: on whricehyseSnenata irs A c:sed:cticts,
—may interest themselves, but which are not the
points to which the attention of a child should be
directed."
FORDINGTON.—SimmuTY Music.— We had
thought that in these days of enlightenment, with the
schoolmaster abroad, the customs of a semi-barbariff
age had passed away, never more to return. They
have, however, been revived; and, we regret to
say, in the county town of Dorset. It seems that
the reporter of a contemporary, following in the
wake of the Old Lady's predecessor, had been guilty
of a "peccadillo" with his servant, a girl 13 years of
age, who, being an orphan, had been taken from a
frostier situation by her spiritual protector for the
preservation of her morals. The circumstance
coming to the knowledge of our literary friend's
wife, the girl was discharged. The girl now being
without a home revealed the whole of the
circumstances to her relatives, who, finding
upon inquiry that a prosecution could not succeed,
as the girl had been a consenting party, resolved
open the expedient, by way of revenge, of giving
the girl's seducer a taste of " rough music.', The
consequence has been, that on several occasions
High-street, Fordington' has been the scene of the
most discordant sounds, produced by tin kitties,
horns, and indeed every implement that could be
brought into requisition for adding to the din. The
police,- with praiseworthy efforts, have tried to put
a stop to the proceedings, but they seem to be power-
less. No one will come forward to make a complaint
that the throng, with their discordant noises,
disturb the neighbourhood. In short, they rather
encourage the proceedings than otherwise, and
assert that they wish the noise was "five times as
great." Hundreds of people young and old, and of
both
sexes, have congregated on these occasions,
all 'evidently enjoying the "sport" as they term
it. That there should be so large a number
with such vitiated tastes, is a circumstance greatly
to ho regretted. We have no sympathy for the feel-
ings of the man, but the wife's feelings surely de-
serve consideration, and the interests of society
at large demand that decency and decorum should
be preserved.

PEESTON.—Disnoxierr SERVANII3.--John Davie
and William Galpin were on Monday,
,the Istinst,
brought up in the custody of Sergeant Vickery, at
Dorchester, charged with stealing about 94lbs.
weight of flour, the property of their master, Mr.
• Charles Shorto, miller, of Preston, and were re-
manded by the presiding magistrate, H. Williams,
Esq., until Saturday next.
EY?dOUTII.— Wanly/sr; SUNDAY Sonootts.
The anniversary sermons in behalf of the Wesleyan
Sunday Schools were preached in the Wesleyan
Chapel, Lower Bond-street, on Sunday last, by the
Rev. James Ray, late of Gosport. the newly-
appointed superintendent of the Weymouth circuit.
The rev, gentleman took for his text in the morning
Psalm ciii. 4 But I give myself unto prayqf
and in the evening, Matthew iviii3 Except:
ye be converted, and become as little children, ye
shall not enterinto the kingolom of heaven." In
the afternoon the usual examination of theohildren
teak 'place in the presence of their teachers and
friends, and the answers they. g.sve-wers, highiy-
cteditable both to themselves and those who had

had the charge over them. Collections were made
at the cisme of the services in behalf of the funds of
the schools.
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were liberal collections at each of the services. .
eW CONOREOATiONAL CNAPSL. —We understand
that the contract for the erection of the new Con.
gregational Chapel in Gloucester-street has been
taken by Mr. Thomas Dodson, builder. The build-
ing will shortly be proceeded with.
Fbown Snow. Mr. Hawkins,
florist, greengrocer, and fruiterer, of this town, was
one of the successful competitors at the Trowbridge
flower show, which took place on Thursday init.
The competition was very great, but Mr. Hawkins
carried off a prise in each oPthe classes he exhibited.
These were, for six verbenas in pots, let prise ; for
six petunias in pots, 3rd_ prize; and for the most
artistically arranged centre-piece for table, composed
of fruits and flowers, Ist prize. A contemporary
remarks that the winning of this last prize is con-
sidered a very important achievement—a sort of
Derby, so that Mr. Hawkina's success is the more
creditable, more particularly as we understand
that he had to take everything in baskets and build
up the piece in the tent, while the others were
brought there completely arranged and trimmed.
It is computed that the show was visited by not
less than twelve thousand people. ln the evening
there was a grand display of fireworks, and the houses
throughout the town were illuminated.
COUNTY Prrry Siosioss, Friday.— Before Captain
Manning, H. C. Goodden, and R. F. Eliot, &gra
—Robert Pearce, of Portland, was summoned for
selling four quarts of beer without a license, on the
the 21st ult. The charge-was proved by P.C.
Clapp, who went to the house in disguise. Fined
El, including costs.-- Charles Lee, of Portland,
was charged with a similar offence on the 10th ult,
—Mr. Howard appeared for the defence, and argued
that as the defendant was not present when the
beer was sold, he was not liable, as it could not be
said, in accordance to the wording of the Act, that
he sold beer.—The Bench considered that the argu-
ment was fatal to a conviction, although there was
no moral doubt of defendant's guilt, and therefore
dismissed the summons, but ordered that a fresh
summons should be taken out against the lodgers
who, itawas admitted, had drawn the beer. It will
therefore be seen next court day whether defendant
has really benefitted himself by evading the
responsibility in his own person.—John Dampier,
a boy, whose case was remanded from the last court
day on the charge of stealing gingerbread at Chis-
well, was discharged, the prosecutor not appearing.
—Joseph Marsbalsea, was charged with sleeping
in an outhouse at Chickerell. According to defen-
dant's statement be had simply gone into the out.
house to take shelter from the rain, and being tired,
be fell asleep. The case was accordingly die-
missed.--William Bridle, an old offender, was
fined El, including costa, for drunkenness, and in
default of payment to be committed for seven days.
---Whittle,. Edwards. The parties in this case
reside at Wyke, but the complainant, considering
the) discretion was the better part of valour, with-
drew the summons without coming into court.
LIILWORTH.—On Thursday last a grand Roman
Catholic wedding took place at the Chapel, Spanish-
place, Manchester. The contracting parties were
Mr. Silverton, a country gentleman of considerable
wealth, and Miss Weld, daughter of Edward Weld,
Esq., of Lulworth Castle. The young bride, not
yet twenty years of age, was magnificently attired,
and attended by six bridesmaids and a considerable
number of friends. Mr. Silverton is a widower with
three children by his first wife, the Hon. Eliza
Stoner, daughter of Lord Camoys, whom he married
in 1853, and who died in 1860.-

BLANDFORD. —MARRIAGE CELEBRATION.—On
Tuesday last Lady Smith gave a treat of tea and
cake to the children belonging to the Blandford
St. Mary National school, and the children of ths
Rlandford Union, to celebrate ths marriage of Miss
Digby and Mr. Pinney, her ladyship's nephew. In
the afternoon the children met in the schoolroom
and formed a procession ts the lawn in front of the
rectory, accompanied by drums and fifes, and
carrying banners with appropriate mottoes. Tea
was provided by Mr. Etheridge, and after the
children had partaken of the good things Of this
life, various amusements, such as daneina, swing-
ing, running, &c., were indulged in, the whole of
the arrangements being under the superintendence
of the Rev. J. Mansfield. King's quadrille band
was also in attendance and added to the pleasures
of the proceedings, which were wound up by a grand
display of fireworks, and the ascent of some
balloons. A merry evening was spent by all
assembled.
MILTON ABBEY.—The contract for the
restoration of the line old Abbey at Milton has been
taken by Mr. Wellspring, builder, of Dorchester.
It is said that the restoration will cost something
like £4,000 or .£15,000. The fine old ivy which
has for so many years ornamented the outer
walls will, of course, have to be pulled down. Mr.
Scott, of London, is the architect _

WIMBORNR—Potiox.— Henry Frampton, of
Guseage All Saints, was on Friday last brought
before J. T. Baskett, Esq., charged with stealing
4s. 6d. from a letter parcel, given him to deliver to
Mrs. Ann Sims, of Onstage. The letter had been
sent by the carrier from her sister at Poole. Mrs.
Sims, upon opening the letter, instead of 10e., found
only ss. 6d. The prisoner was remanded for
further evidence till the following Wednesday.
PUBLIC Holm' Lieges'.. —The whole of the
public house licences for this division have been
renewed. Those landlords who, during the year
had been fined, were cautioned as to their future
oondoct. Mr. Kendell, of Cushmoor Inn, took his
renewal for the 41st time for the same house.
Several applications for new licenses were adjourned
in consequence of the applicants not being in a posi-
tion to prove the service of the notices.
HINTON MARTEL —The working men of this
village have set a noble example to the whole of
Dorset, by having subscribed £8 15s. in cash, and
£4 18e. 6d. worth of calico and flannel for the relief
of the distressed. operatives in the manufacturing
districts. These have been forwarded VI the relief
committee at Manchester by the Rev. Charles
Bridges, the rector of this parish. When we
recollect how nobly the cotton spinners and their
families have hitherto borne up against their
*offerings, jt surely behoves us to do all we can to
soothe their affliction. The winter will soon be
'here with it, attendant horroz% to the unemployed
artisan, and cold, hanger, sickness, poverty, and
perhaps death to thousands are the evils which all
should unite in endeavouring to ward off.
LANGTON. —OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH.
—On Wednesday last the Lord Bishop of Salisbury
opened the new church at longton, near Blandford.
This church, which was built by Mr. Augustine
Green, of Blandfonl, and designed by Mr. Wyatt, of
London, and is of the style of architecture termed
" perpendicular," whioh superseded the "Early
English" style about the commencement of the 14th
century. It covers the same ground as the old
church, which consisted of a tower, nave, chancel,
and south transept, and was insufficient for the
parishioners, and otherwise in a dilapidated condi-
tion. The now church is much larger, and has its
nave, north aisle, north and south transepts, and the
chancel, the old walls of which were left standing,
and is the only part not new. There is also a south
porch on the site of the old one, and a new vestry
has been added on the north side. The large
western tower is 57 feet high. It has a turret and
ringing loft, and its upper portion is of an elaborate
and effective design. It terminates in sunk and
moulded parapets, with a cornice of four massive
pinnacles at the angles, with few smaller intermedi-
ate ones. The larger pinnacles display each a vane,
and serve as a great ornament to the tower as seen
amid the tree tope when approached from the Bland-
ford road. The wells are faced with flints, in courses,
having bands of stone at certain distances. The
dressings, quoins, string courses, buttresses,
windows, and doorways are of Bath stone,
and the roof is slated. The whole of the
1 chancel is paved with Minton's encaustic tiles of rich
design, the mats, communion table, pulpit and
reading desk being of old English oak, elaborately
carved. A superbly ornamental stained glass
window, presented by Mrs. Farquharson, will orna-
ment the chancel, but three main lights are at
present at the International Exhibition, the upper
portion only being fixed. It is placed at the west
end by a window of heraldic painted glass, haring
the seven armorial bearings of those of Mr.
Farquharson's family, who are laid in the church,
and whose hatchmenta they replace. A monumental
braes beneath records it, purpose and its founder.
To complete the beauty of the chancel, there are two
other windows of richly stained glass, one of which
is "In Memoriam," and suffers not to die the
memory of two infant sons of the present rector. In
-addition, many marble tablets adorn the walls. The
windows are by Messrs. Renton and Butler.
Beneath the west window is the baptismal font,
elegantly designed of carved Caen, on four Devon-
shire marble shafts, the base being still unfinished.
The cover is of oak, with brass scroll work; Erp,
of London, is the designer. The benches are
low and comfortable, and the floor is covered
with matting. The whole building is heated by
one of Gurney's patent Gill stoves. The roof de-
serves notice. It is supported by framed hammer
beam, circular ribe of imitation oak, their moulded
and panelled brackets resting on stone corbels,
carved with natural foliage. The roof of the
chancel is divided into panels, and °memento/ ribs
moulded in dental Cornish. Altogether the church
is one of the prettiest additions that could have
been made to the neighbourhood, and will well
repay the trouble of a visit from a distance to in%
apart its beauties. It is built at the sole expense of
the Sguire, and at a cost of £2OOO. The church-
yardia laid out with no little taste, and the atteii-
Hofi Ails* hi the horticultural beauties of some Of
the gentos----one in particular, Where rest the bodice
of two of the children of the rector—testifies to the
affection whioh Re long outlived the death of the little
ones. The rectory is just by, and its well laid-oat
grounds an gay with floricultural taste. A nett
iron paliag fames-the, aliiirehyant frein_the road,
the tomb-stones have been repaired, the wham re-

gravelled, and fresh turf laid down. The foliage of
the surrounding trees serve to make it one
of the most picturesque of village church
yard, though they also in a great part bide the
church from any distant view. Prayers were read
by the Rev. Rev. Robert Farquharson, the rector;
the lesions by the Rev. Prebendary Watts and the
Rev. W. Harts; the Communion Service by the
Bishop and the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott, the
Bishop's chaplain. The sermon was preached by tho
Bishop from 1 Kings, viii. chap. and 18 reels.—
"I have surely built thee an house to dwell in,
and a settled place for thee to abide for ever." The
holy sacrament was administered after eerviee, and
in the afternoon the Rev. J. 8. Raddack, formerly
curate of Blandford, preached to a large conpega.
tion from Isaiah siitchap. and 81 verse.—" They that
wait npon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up on Wings as eagles."
F'ORDINGORIDGE.7-Saus3unr AND Doman
CENTRAL. —We understand that considerable interest
ii felt respecting this undertaking in this neighbour-
hood, and great hopes are entertained that we shall
soon hate the important benefit of railway com-
munication. Influential potties have been recently
actively engaged in inducing the inhabitants to pro-
mote the measure, by taking shares in what must be
so advantageous to the town, and it is hoped that
all who are interested in the welfare of the locality,
will bestir themselves to carry out the powers of the
Act obtained to complete this railway,