The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

recommendation of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons in its favour, and may point to
the prinCiple established by the adoption of the
Prison Ministers' bill ot last session. We
always maintained that the Prison kinisters
Bill was the thin edge of the wedge; the Work-
house and Public Schools Bill will be the oppo-
site. The alarm has already been taken, and
meetings have been held in London, and the
Poor-Law Guardians throughout the country
are about to be appealed to, with a view to
resist the aggressive spirit which the Roman
Catholic party have of late manifested. It is
intended to oppose the measure on the grounds,
amongst others, that it will tend to subvert
all good government, all good order in
workhouses and distriet schools, impose an un-
just charge Upon the ratepayers' limit the
religious freedom at present enjoyed by inmates,
reduce parish and school authorities and officers
to mere agents for the priests, confer upon
Popish priests privileges not enjoyed by Pro-
testant dissenters, and be in direct opposition to
the principles and eonstitution of the country.
We call upon all our members in the counties of
Somerset and Dorset, to give the bill, whenever
it shall be brought forward, their most strenuous
opposition.

DORC Fl ESTER—PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—Wheat in large supply, which sold freely, in many
Cages at Is. per quarter advance. Barley of all sorts
sold at late rates. Oats about 6d. per quarter dower.
On the 30 ult. the Right Rev. the Lord Biaho of
Sslisbury instituted the Rev. Francis Warre, Clerk,
MA., to the Vicarage of Bare Regis, with the Chapel of
Kingston, Dora t, void by the death of the Rev.
Carrington Ley, Clerk, on the presentation of the Master
and Scholars of Balliol College, Oxford. And on the
some day his lordship licensed the Rev. Thomas Waters,
Clerk, B A., to the Perpetual Curacy of td.iiden Bradley,
Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Richard Rowley,
Clerk, on the nomination of the Dean and Chapter of
Christ Church, Oxford.
Donner COUNTY MUSEUM. —On Thursday, the 29th
idt, the annual meeting of the subscribers of this
institution wan held at the MR,OUM. The chair was
taken by Dr. t,"sowdell. The Rev, C. W. Bingham,
hcin. sec., read the fogosting rep9rt t—" The past year
has been Marked by no ..vent of any special interest.
Though there have not been wanting indications of the
interest still maintained in the institution by several of
its old friends, there has not been such acquisition of
new ones as to supply the waste which time and cir-
cum,tances necessarily involve. The council would
express their earnest hope that the proposed ciongreei of
the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland, at Dorchester in July next, under the presi-
. dem of the Earl of Ilchester, will exercise a happy
influent* upon the county, and afford a new stimulus
to the examination and study of threw antiquarian
treasures with which it abounds. The cordial invitation
of the Mayor and Town Council of Dorchester, together
with the many promises of welcome from the nobility
and gentry and clergy of Dorset, whereby this honour
was secured, augur a sueowsisful meeting; and the
council confidently trust that nothing will be wanting
on the part of the intisedm and library which may tend
to promote the objects of the visit, and to render it
agreeable to the learned visitors." The income during
the past year has been £lO4 145. &1., and the expendi-
ture £lO2 9s. 101. Votee of thanks were accorded to
the chairman, and to the ,acretaries, one of whom, J.
Short°, Rio,,, was unable to attend in consequent:* of a
domestic affliction.
Tan WEATHEB.—The reading of the thermometer at
Dorchester for the past week is as follows :