The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

HONSSTE AUDAL

THE Overland Mail arrived last week with news
from Hong Kong to the 92nd July, Calcutta to
the Bth August, and Bombay to the 10th
August. Sir Hors GRANT after relieving
Mius Sisas, who had been besieged in Shah-
gunge bye large body of the rebels, has occupied
Fysabad without opposition, the enemy having
evacuated it on his approach. General Houma
has defeated and dispersed the Gwalior rebels at
Kotarea with great loss, and Colonel BasssLiv
has captured the fortress.' of Dheyoun, Tarowl,
and Bhispore, s ith a loss to the rebels of from
1,500 to 2000, killed and wounded. The rebels
still infest the Bareilly, Asimghur, and Ghana-
pore distriote, and are gradually making their
way to Gude. Sir Com( CAMPRILL is earefully
husbanding his resources and preserving his man
from the heat anti sunstroke, in order to strike
a dealsive blow at time ommumumement of the °old
season,

From China we have further details of the
Treaty of Tien-sin, not in its official form, but
in a summary of its principal 0014410 mi pub-
!Mod by the Nora Mina Herald, In addition
to the provisiona mode known to our Evaders
last wools, each Clout is to have the option of
inaintEtioing a Minister at the capital of the
other, with the privilege of transacting business
with the Noorotary of State on a footing of
equality, boll without the right' of demanding a
perstioal andionee of the Sovereign, All offielal
otirrespondefice on the part of the Ignglish officials
tutu be conducted in the Inglis's langliaga, hint the
term " barbarian" is lioneeforth to be 11111111r0111i011
iii all Chinese unigim &omen* liritisli solo
Pets, whether metulionts, iniasionories, or travel,
lers, Pre to he allowed to 11484 at pleasure, tinder
a passport system, thnotglinut the length and
breadth of China, British ihipe of war are
to be allowed to visit any port in the empire,
eitti the commander' are to be treated by
the Chinese oflieials on terms of equality,
Christianity Is to be tolerated thrtnighout
the empire, and persons teaching or pro.
teasing it, whether Protestants or Unman Cathn.
lice, are to be entitled to the protection of the
Chinese authorities, The nine new ports to be
opened for trade are—Chin-Kiang and three
other ports on the Yang-tee-Kiang as far
11/111kOW $ Tang-chow in the Hutt of Peahen
Tai-wan in Formals* ; Kiting-allow in Hainan ;
Niuch-wang in the Gulf of Liantung, the chief
entrepOt of Manchuria; and Mwato, where, in
spite of treaty prohibitions, there is already a
large foreign trade, The remaining clauses
provide for the revision of the duties, the settle-
ment of the indemnity by oommissioners, and
other matters already made known by the tele-
graphic despatches of last week. Lord ELotx
having successfully accomplished his mission in
China has left for Japan to present to the
EMPIIIIOII, in due form the steam yacht sent out
as a present from Her MAJIIIITY.

IN the present dearth of political interest and
excitement, one is apt to take a glance at certain
home or local topics, which, under other circum-
stances, might psis without particular observa-
tion. Thus it is that we may refer to an
unknown correspondent who has addressed a
letter to us relative to Mr. POROHIR, and the
Labourers' Friend Society with which that gen-
tleman has long been so immediately identified.
The letter, being anonymous, is necessarily
excluded from the Express; but it is a plain,
sensible production, and written by ono of a
class of men :whom Mr. POW:IMM. would hardly
credit with so much shrewdness of observation
as our correspondent exhibits. It is not with the
principles and management of Mr. PORCHER'II
Society (properly so called) that our correspond-
ent deals; nor is it our intention on this
occasion to advert to them—though something
might be said on this head at a fitting opportu-
nity. He observes upon the affectation of
learned lore by Mr. PORCIIER in addreessing
annually his hard-toiling countrymen; and feels
evidently chagrined at the disposition manifested
by that gentleman to favour tee-totalism in the
harvest-field in preference to good malt liquor.
These are the heads of our correspondent's com-
plaints, and he dwells upon them with much
evident dislike, and looks upon them both as
equally out of place and unsuitable. But there
is more in this than meets the eye of our humble
correspondent. Set and flowery orations on all
such occasions all the meeting of agricultural
labourers, mechanics' institutes, and the like,
have long been the besetting sin:of those of the
upper classes of society who have undertaken
from time to time to admonish and instruct their
humbler brethren; and personal vanity would
seem to be the only end calculated to be served by
the "smooth sterility" of those gentlemen. Mr.
POROHIER is a type of his elan in all these elo-
cutionary displays ; the only thing to be re-
gretted is, perhaps, that these habits are in-
veterate and immutable in him, in proportion
to the closeness of his identification with the
society in question ;—that is to say, being the
originator and the constant director of the
movements of the society, he must be allowed
to illustrate its transcendent benefits, its great
and diverse interests, to enlist the sympathies
of the hardy sons of toil, in the way most grati-
fying to himself—not omitting altogether the
gratification of self-love. If he directs his dis-
course above the hada of those humble men
'whom ho seems to address, his carefully-prepared
speech, well impressed upon the tablet of his
memory, is attractive to certain ladles and gen-
tlemen who oondosand to lend their patron.
Wog presence on those occasions, and the dia.

Unvisited benevolence and philanthropy of the
speaker are men with an euviable lustre through
every walkurned phrase, md ovary chosen
couplet from the Ininiortal Hard, Hut IA ell
that which glitters is not gold, so it is not
reasonably sitspeettal that a large deduction Mtlilt
be made hum the estiinMed ykille on a, super.
tidal view of many of those oratorical dentin'.
110.11gUin, Hit is said that Mr, reams ell %Maki
0110 word fur the society and two for himself,
we motet help it, end are unwilling to deny it.
We ourselves have watched Mr. Puistomale de-
ineanowir hi commotion with this soolety for
teeny ynare—for yeas' long anterior to the local
knowledge of thole arrogant straisgers whose one
It ilk ai our nearest contomporarlea, to load this
gentleman and all other* of his ohms, indiscrimi-
nately and on all ocoasious, with hilsomo
lation--and we are nitich shimmied to believe
that we have seen evidences of a pursuit of
personal 0100 U—such PA the " bubble repo-
teflon," not to go further—which, to our view,
has thrown the main, apparent purpoee of his
efforts very much into the shade, We have
hoard him exclaim, with transporting triumph,
" Alone I did it, boy I "—ln allusion to his
foundation of this most distinguished of all
Labourers' Friend Beetles and we remarked
at the time the complacent smiles and sup-
pressed applause of his aristocratic friends (mine-
chattily around him i while the poor labouring
men and boys in the body of the Hall gazed at
him with open mouth, wondering what he had
done I Had these guileless people been told
that what they had just heard was the speech
of one Co/mimeos, a most haughty Roman, who
pertineoeously held in superlative and ineffable
contempt all those industrious producers of
wealth of whom they at that moment formed so
worthy an example, they might possibly have
wished Mr. POROIIIIR had pitched upon a more
happy as well as a more intelligible, not to say a
more modest, extract from the English classics
by way of adornment to hie annual oration.
We leave these points for the present. With
respect to the tea-and-coffee and gingered-water
fare, as substitutes for good and wholesome beer
in the most severe and trying manual labour of
the harvest-field, which Mr. PORCHaIi seemed
inclined to introduoe, it may be questioned
whether that gentleman's view of the matter is
not as discordant in this its physical aspect,
ea the indulgenoe in lofty flights of fancy and
poetic immagery, while appealing to the sense of
English labourers, is, in a moral point of view,
abortive and out of place. A London contempo-
rary, in reviewing the admirable speech recently
delivered by Sir Glossas GROW at the meeting
of the Northern Association of Mechanics' Insti-
tutions, has the following trite and opportune
remarks, bearing strongly upon the subject to
which we have briefly adverted :—" Let us
frankly wiles' that we have oftentimes been
disappointed at the smooth sterility of noble end
honourable reiteration of threadbare common-
places about the general diffusion of intelligence,
and the obvious duties of a docent and sober
life; and that we have sometimes been tho-
roughly disgusted with the condescending air of
intellectual patronage into which learned and
scientific orators have been betrayed in address-
ing their hard-toiling countrymen. If popular
inatruotion were nothing better than an auxiliary
dodge In aid of the pollee, we should wholly
despair of its eventual triumph luta if rank and
learning really believed in the power of know-
ledge to raise men up to the true level of self-
respect, they would never venture on their
impertinent platitude', of all places In the world,
at meetings of Meolianiese Inetitutes,".—Ntili lees,
it may he added, at meetings of toiling agri-
cultural labourers,

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fur ita ettionolve oltitw of slump, hnrotio, ke,, to
uoitally hold en 41to Iflh ut Odulter, hue whott elute
day upon a Plumley, le etintmonette.en Naturilay
hu 0611, whieh will be the 114100 i fit gill next fair, blio
10th being Sunday,

AthmmimNt) qttAttlitt MN/witnnm.--144turility Wing
tha tiny Air haling tho gytteral QuArtor &mann, 411.
jtimnott from the BIN r tltlllol Cloy wern further
form Ally adJourna,l Mika (Jaunty tipai o Satuhlay,
October 2.

Excuttatottn tnenne.—The Mouth Weetern
Railway Company 1110101 mm another eiweitil
Rion train tn London, which will leave Doreheater
nn Wedneeday week, and return bum town the
Friday following.

Vierr or iii FIINNCO AMNAFWADott.—OnOre.
rlay there WM an on WI bruited about the town that
his Exoellenov the Duke of Malakoff would go from
the D.W.R. iitation, at Dorchester to Bristol, by the
.8.1/1 train, and carriages were reserved for his
numerous suite but, unfortunately, those who were
at the railway station were doomed to disappoint-
ment, for no Duke of Malakoff or any of his re.
Untie appeared.

Tlts MILITIA. —The men belonging to the regb
ment of Dorset Militia, now stationed in this town,
begin, although they have been out but about a
fortnight, to bear quite a military aspect, showing
that their daily drill is producing its proper results.
Their clothes and accoutrements, too, are in capital
trim. A band has been established which, owing to
the stasiduous attention of the popular bandmaster,
Mr. H. Wellspring, has attained to very considera-
ble efficiency, and on Thursday evening they per.
formed several piece. in front of the King's Arnie
Hotel, where the officers MU, in a very creditable
manner indeed. We are pleased to add that the
conduct of the regiment is well spoken of. Sub-
joined is a list of the ofHoere :—Colonel R. H. Bing.
ham, Lieut.. Col. G. C. Loftus, Major W. L. Hen.
fling; Captains E. A. Wood, G. Gollop, C. Little.
hues, J. Davis, R. Foot (absent on sick leave), J.
Gollop, G. Singer, and J. Warry ; Lieutenants
Hall, A. J. Hawkins, F. C. Henning, W. H.
Bragg., G. T. Falwasser, C. Herd (absent on sick
leave), and J. Anderson, Ensigns R. C. Brown, A.
H. Smith, and F. H. P. Duncan; Adjutant E. H.
Smith, Quartermaster J. Anderson, Surgeon G.
Curie, and Assistant. Surgeon R. Clarke. We hear
that the regiment will be reviewed on Wednesday,
and, in all probability, dismissed on Monday next.
ODD FLLLOWSHIP.-011 Tuesday last about 20 of
the brethren of the newly-formed Bud of Hope
Lodge of Odd Fellows attended the funeral of the
late Mr. Gregory, one of the fraternity, and the
under-secretary of the Lodge. Mr. Gregory, though
a young man, was very highly respected. The
brethren wore black scarfs and giriuoa, and their
aprons were trimmed with black. The procession
passed from Salisbury-terrace, the residence of the
deceased, to All Saints' Church, where the burial
service was read by the Rev. J. Townson, curate.
The following is the order of the procession :

Warden. Brother.. Officer..
Secretary.
V.O. and Supporter.. N.G. and Supporters.