The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-20 00:00:00

natal anb Vinta.

Dosroheeter appean likely to be denuded of some
more fine old treat, the bac.oine clum,, at the corner
of the knap being now threatened. Gentlemen
pro-
se. that the number of the trees will not be
as more will be planted; but what resembl ince is there
between a pole with s tuft on the top, and • grand
chestnut or sycamore in Its vernal bloom! As well
might we supplant an sena-kneed 'ountillor, or even
an Aldermen, by half-a.slosin babies, and expect the
Council Clamber to be ea handsomely mul se ueefully
filled. The real feeling of the public is indicated by
the fact that each en-Mayor diocloimed the responsi-
bility of having lost the trees io his mayoralty, and
the present Mayor, when it came to his casting vote,
would not deride co the cuttinz lown—just yet—a
piece of diarration that will be welcomed .s far better
than valour in this cm* Only let our load legislators
compare the gl..riee of the Chestnut Walk—a diaplal!
which Weymouth would give hundreds of acres 1'
with the beggarly row of perpendicular &ad.-brindles
which taisse the warners on the road to the Great
Western, and which, to prevent the dangerous sum.
Mons of young Dorchester. have each to bo clad 1° an
odious garniture of furze Should the clump at the
corner of the Weymouth and Great Western vads
come down, the outbuildings attached to the Junction
Hotel will be revealed in naked ullanom" vidfAmi
from the Weymouth road, indeed of
=lioriclOingure being purified as now by the leaves, and
their forms partly concealed by the friendly curtain of
the tress. 'lt was a sensible suggestion to cover the
naked bank with • coat of green turf, and if DlN-
cluster councillors know bow much their town's adorn.
meats are envied by other place., they will 11,ske haste,
complete this work, and banish all thought of destroy.
log any more treat

Of course we mud not coesidee that engineering
skill at the South Western Iris exhausted i.• lf in the
completion of the asphalt* pith, the necemii y for which
I pointed out last week. Thanks .or the c .nipleted
, gentlenial, our oorns are uot tortured now.
Mit, why don't you try some means of shorteoim; the
Weymouth passenger.' Journey to the new Carnc-i,ad
shed' The benighted South kmericm Indian. if he
visited this station, might surrest the contrivance 4,4 •
bridge. Could not the South. Western manage that
Dorchester speculator. are to have the opportunity
of investing in the Abbotsbury railway premed on them
on Tosedsaidie:. I expect tide will be nearly the last
time of , and thme who don't oubseribe will only
have to bite own nails when they beer that pars
of the shores, allotted to the contractor, are returning
fri per cent., with every prospect of arise to 14. How
everyone will rush for the shares if the borers should
find coal in Waddou Vale I

Rev. Mr. Marion suggested that • few Buddhist
onarise, working under the same conditions as the
English owe do, would only worst • few silly people.
It was • risky suggestion, considering how faehknable
It is to count the dimes of the cross oolishnem ; but
the Chairman, Mr. Will Ins most happy in his
reply—that the Christian missionaries are helped by
the -Highest Power. The converts who endured the
Boman, the Vaudois, the Malagasy, the Betsey, and
later the Chinese periecuticese, attest • Prussico beyond
the power of man.

• grand &drams on the Zulus I rejoice to note
the Dorchauter Young Men's Christian Aasociation
mem to have a good plan of campaign ; at all erects
they have attacked the spiritual Zulus, the priests who
receive private c0d...100s 1t.,. W. C. Templer,
who bravely pruts.ted against a " Lard " Bishop's
claim of special royal powers for the ministers of the
Church of England, ham espeesd the fallacies of those
who fancy there is wine support for them claims Mr.
Templer earns the gratitude of members of the English
Church, for he alms at proving them claims are
not In the Prayer book. That is not neosmarily the
concern of the Free church..; but all who love opal:-
nem and purity in English homes may rejoice if even
the secular influence of the Church of England Is not
to be abandoned to middlemen who come between
parent and child, husband and wits, sovereign and
subject, the penitent and the Lord.