The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-14 00:00:00

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The CHAIRMAN said, although the circle of their
club was small, numbering about 70 members, yet
it was large enough to embrace more than the town
of Dorchester and neighbourhood. He was happy
to say they extended their circle also to the town of
Weymouth; and was sure it would meet with the
approbation of all the gentlemen present if he took
the liberty of proposing " The prosperity of the
town and trade of Weymouth," coupling with the
toast the names of their friends and respected
members, Mr. Howard and Mr. Vertue. (Applause.)
Mr. HOWARD, after returning thanks for
the honour conferred upon him, said agricul-
ture and commerce must go hand-in-hand ; one
carried on successfully tended to the success
of the other ; and it appeared to him agriculture
could not prosper in any land, nation, or
country, unless commerce did so as well, and where
the two could pull together and go hand in hand that
nation would be sure to prosper, and Weymouth,
being so near to Dorchester,he trusted the prosperity
of that town would increase according to their beat
wishes. He was sure it was the wish of the
people there that agriculture should improve,
prosper, sod increase, not only in the town of
Dorchester, but throughout their native land.
(Applause.) He concluded by returning thacks
for the honor done him.

Mr. J. G. VERTO6, in response, said he had only
lived at Weymouth for six years, but had
attended the Dorchester market for 18. He cor•
dially endorsed all the sentiments which Mr.
Howard had uttered, and did think with him that
agriculture and commerce tended to the benefit of
each other. Mr. Aldridge, the worthy mayor of this
town, had alluded to the Market House, and what
was proposed to be done. He (Mr. Vertue) thought
the stone floor of the present Exchange did not only
affect the feet of the elderly portion of agriculturists
who transacted business there, but sowed the seeds
of disease to the feet of the rising generation.
(Hear, hear.) He had attended the market for IS
years' and haVelt the inconvenience; but no one
could speak better on that point than Mr. Damen.
If the Council went in for any exteasion of their
Market House,it would be well to steer clear of any
difficulty; let it be a comprehensive measure they
intended to carry out, and one which would be
adapted for all time. (Applaase.) They had a
Market House at Weymouth far too large for the
requirements of the place, and if it could only be
brought to Dorchester it would make a noble Corn
Exchange.
Mr. Bnoux was also called upon to acknowledge
the toast. In the course of his speech ho said he
did not intent to desert the town of Dorcheeter, but
do all he could to promote the prosperity of it.
trade and commerce. It seemed rather bard, he
thought, that its architectural profession should be
neglected. He considered a town had something
to be mud of if it could number amongst its
members any who were connected with a profession
which had been, if he might say, respected for 100
years.
The MAYOR said when he spoke of the gentleman
calling upon him, it was only a passing visit from
one who had been in the habit of rendering assistance
not only to the Corporation but to the town of
Dorchester. He gave them, many years ago, a plan
respecting the cottages in Wollaston field, which
was carried out according to his design. His
calling on him had nothing of a business nature in it.
It was a friendly call and friendly conversation in
respect to any building which might be carried our.
He (the Mayor) should be sorry, as would the Town
Council generally, to carry any work which might
be done in the town away from the professional
residents in it, and he hoped Mr. Shout would not
think he had in any way slighted the profession by
the remarks which he had made. He hoped from
this explanation that Mr. Shout would feel satisfied
that he had not the slightest desire to impeach the
profession of the town, but that it was the desire of
the Council to respect and do all they could for
them, (Applause.). . .

_ Mr. Gen ,us said be was now going to propose a
toast which he knew they would have as much
pleasure in drinking as he should have in proposing.
He did not think it would be exaggerating in saying
that the success which had attended their Farmers'
Club had been chiefly through the labours of their
excellent chairman. (Applause.) He had spared
no personal inconvenience, and nothing had deterred
him from doing that which he had been called upon
to do for the advancement of its interests.
(Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN, in response, said he could not
thank them enough for their kindness—Mr. Genge
fur the way he bad proposed his health, and the
manner in which they had received it. He was
quite sure of one thing, that Mr. Genge's kindness
towards him had led him to say more than ought to
have been said. (No, no.) He was not oonscious of
the labour and anxiety which Mr. Genge had spoken
of in reference to the carrying on of the Dorchester
Club, but he (the chairman) could truly say that it
bad afforded him great pleasure and satisfaction to
have gone on with the work of that olub, now for
three years, and especially during the last year.
He might say that on such festive occasions
as these, which he might call their jubilant
occasion of the year, it would be right for them,
if any personal animosity had arisen between the
members of the club, which it might pe quite
possible had arisen, that this was the time when
they should cast them all into oblivion. He was not
conscious that during the past year the slightest
alteration of kindly feeling one towards another
amongst the members of the olub had transpired.
He did not mean to say there had been perfect
unanimity in the club on all the questions which had
arisen and been discussed ; that would have been
rather a Hat and uninteresting state of things if such
had been the case ; but although there had been
differences of opinion, there had been a general
agreement of friendly sentiment and feeling of one
member towards another. And whilst they had
freely delivered their opinions, those opinions had
been reoeived with as much respect by those who
differed from them, as those differing had evinced
towards others. (Hear, hear.) He thought he
might go so far as to say that their discussions during
the last 12 months had eontributed somewhat
towards the enlightenment of the public upon several
important questions which had been brought under
consideration. He thought any one who had notioed
their proceedings would allow that the subjects
themselves had been of the utmost importance to
the public generally, and he considered they had
been conducted in a manner whioh had tended to
ventilate the subject, and give information to parties
thereon who had bad up to the time of their dis-
cussion not sufficiently brought them under their
consideration. Ile would mention especially two
aubjeets, the subject of the utilization of sewage,
respecting which nobody could deny that it was •
most important question, in reference not only to
the health and cleansing of towns, but also to the
agricultural interests, and the eondition of the land
and production of those crops which went to the
support and cemfort of the inhabitants of this
country. He thought the discussion on that subject
took a right course, and was of opinion that the
liquid manure system was shown to be an erroneous
and wasteful system, and that the system of utilizing
the sewage of towns in a dry state, whereby it mild
be carried to all parts of the kingdom, to fructify
those parts which were especially in want of it, was!
the course which was right, and which ought to be
adopted, and which he had little doubt would be
eventually adopted when the question of the manage.
ment of the sewage of towns was rightly adjusted
and came to be thoroughly understood. Moreover,
he thought the sewage of towns, which had hitherto
been a most wakeful and expensive system, might
eventually be made not only a cleansing system to
tbe towns themselves, but a productive system to
those who had the management of the towns, and
return them good interest for the expense at which
they were pat. Then there was the other question,
to which, however, he should only incidentally
advert—he meant the question of the preservation of
game. (Hear, hear.) As he had taken a consider.
able part in that discussion, it would not be proper
for him to speak largely upon the question, except
so far as to say that it was considered on all bands a
very important question—a question which WM not
tube pooh-poehed--not to be put aside. The time was
now come when the question must be thoroughly
ventilated and understood. (Applause.) He thought,
if they would allow him to say so, that it would not
do to settle the question as a matter of bargain
between landlord and tenant. He did not think
the dry hard bargain which obtains between buyer
and seller in the market generally was the
phrase of the question that applied to the kind
of relationship of landlord and tenant. That
relationship was a peculiar one, and it might be
shown to be a peculiar one in many respects ; there-
fore it required to be treated in a peculiar and sin-
gular way; and he thought the more the question was '
talked about and discussed at Farmers Clubs, and
written about, the better they would understand it. It
was their happiness to live in a day when the public
would not be satisfied without the production of
truth in the matter. They mast know what was
true, right, and just to be done in the question, and
they might depend upon it that question would be
agitated so long as it remained misunderstood and
unsettled between landlord and tenant. (Applause.)
Then there was another question which had more or
leas occupied the attention of this club at every
meeting they had had during the last session. He
referred to the question of the repeal of the Malt-
tax. (Hear, hear.) They knew, as well as
he did, the history a that agitation. They
knew they were either the first, or amongst
the first, to originate that agitation. They
knew the history of that ; they knew that when it
was first introduced Into Parliament it was put aside
and evaded by a count-oat of the Howe. They
knew it was then proceeded to argue the question in
a particular form, and he thought there was a
minority of 40 gentlemen who voted for it. It was
then brought forward again in a more formal way, .
and obtained the votes of 119 members of Parliw '
ment ; and lastly, it had been introduced in a way
which he thought was the only way, and in the only
manner, and with the only development of the case ,
which would be at all satisfactory to the agricultural
interest, when it had obtained the votes of 171
members of the House of Commons. (Loud
applause.) And here he might be allowed to state
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