The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-14 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1878.

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DArs )(swarm Thsirearriaew
MIRK LANZ. -Tan DAY. pw 1,001
TOT&DAY. MAY 1L lisherw
Wheat dui/ at le. sad eccesioselly 9s. lower an_the the Births and Deaths
week. beet white Easlish "abslit Burley melba" la thicaelasattlilotrotion embelkkiets el
awl males AL Zugkeed mad Wales
feeding aorta ea. lower. Melt dull. =ger querlervairs:
seeder. Beesulancl pees unaltered. Tow ed. we barrel Mara IVli and the la et
lower. =I., In 8,05= places of meow
with the Churok sad all
tendent Registrars' Moss, in the three weft ending
Mat December 1177.
During the beet three months of lan the number of
persons married in England and Wales wee 115,1106,
showing a decline of 4,0112 from the number in the
quarter of 1876.
corr
=l:.nhir first three months of this year, ending
31st March, 221,617 births were ulna to
an annual raw of 861 per I,ooo."trd'birtlui were
MN fewer than the number recorded in the first
gender of 1877, and the birth-rata was lower than In
the eerreepowahle quarter of any year since 1861, when
k ad emceed 351) per 1000. This marked.
in s thellbasse, I. probably in great measure due to
the recent derewiew in the marnarata.
The regithree elf Deddeetwe sob-amid of Astoa
reports that der* the quarter he registered • cased
low children at a birth. as well as a caw of triplets.
With reference to the latter caw, the mother
delivered of a Living chfi i on 18th January and 17 days s
afterwards wee delivered of twins.
The average number of paupers relieved in England
and Wales on the last day of each week in the quarter
we. 703,063 of whom 182,468 received In-door, and
640,595 outdoor relief. Compared with the numbers
In the corresponding quarter of 1877, the increase of
In-door paupers was 9,690, and of outdoor paupers
7,898.
The measured rainfall of the quarter at Greenwich
was but 31 Indies, and was 21 below the average
amount in the corresponding period of 63 years.
During the first three month, of this year 139,825
deaths were registered in England and Wales, and the
annual rate of mortality we. equal to 221 pee 1000 of
the estimated population in the middle of the year.
This death-rate, although slightly higher than the
exceptionally low rate in the first three mouths of
1877, we. 11 per 1,000 below the average rate in the
corresponding periods of the ten years 1868-77.
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wattestairy WO .. a 38 -8- 1 -- - 9
Footman 24 19 liii - - - _
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Milton Abbas a .. 46 U - --8- -
Mandl card V 54 et 1 - - - 4
Cranbaros ....61 21 - - -
Witeliampten .. SO 111 I- - - - -
{Timber.' V 39 27 I - - 1— $
Toole V 11, 6I I 1 - I - --- 6
20 11
Bare Regis .. 29 16 - 3 -1--
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DorebesterPuddl.tow.liff 8279 9: 774 11 L= 4
Malden Newton L 41 33 1 - - - 1- - II
Caro. V 68 33 iii 2 1 -
Teuninster
40 12 B—k
Bherborns Wit 86 24 - - 1-----
Bradlonl Abbas .. 19 19 8-I 1- - -- -
Rrarsbot .. 13 16 - - -
Notbsrbary SI 21 7 - - -- - I
Sarboa Braciaieek 17 - - -
Widow( 2ff .. N 61 sol- -
141ilteburch Canonical II 17 1 -- - - - -
Lymeila ....1916

THIS

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
The fact that Hobart Pasha, an admiral in the
Turkish earykr, was specially Invited to dinner on
Monday last by the Queen, ia held In many quattses
to indicate that war is conaidered outgo, since, it is
argued, her lidajest7 would not have taken this step,
which mnat neomsarily be distasteful to his Imperial
Majesty the Cur, without being assured that there
was no longer any amid to regard the Imperial
humours. This, however, seems to be putting • very
strained construction on a Ter, natural act. Her
Majesty takes, as becomes her high position, the
Interest in the affairs of the East, and is
always desirous to obtain information regarding them
at first band. It woe therefore quite to be expected
that. on learning that Hobart Puha was in England,
the latilleD should desire to see Min.

METROPOLITAN OATTLll.—'flun DAY.
tee i.choog eeerly_l.o99 foreign. trade
ea,. 4. SI to 6a Pi About 11,090 sheep sad bu.b..
quiet .t 3.. to 6. : lamb. ek to 9a Woo..
rairl to 6. M. Pr. 4. to 51". pee Oth.—At Deptford
109 Weds old 19900 sheep.

DORCHESTER SATURDAY'S CAITLE
MARKET.
MIL T. MOWS /1110111 TORT.

• large vupPly of etock of all description& About 1.510.
etejragd over fee haute. Heifer and calves fent
tr), .011 lea to £111; ditto (second quality), £l5 to
lig 10e • In-calf heifers. PS to £3O per ml,: larresors
gent qsualty), £4O to £4O per pair. mr. T Homer's fat
'Leifer made tram £39 13, to £3l met. and • prime ox
from the mew gentleman realised £405.. Two good oxes
of Mr. Pearee's made £44 sad CH 10. sae'. Fat beef
generally from 14, 61. to 15.. 6.1. per score. Fat bulls,
135 to £33 fa. A large quantity of nodal two-year
old hailers made from 1110 lea. to Ale 16e. The
sheep pens were made attractive by Hr. H. Haroll
rams &ad a quantity of off going horn ewes. Mr. (Wide
owes made trims ON. to 73..; Mr. P,,n7S 33.• 413'.
Mn. A. Smith's, flea toffs 64.; MH r. anneld's, 53 64.
to 10..; horn chilver bogs. Ns. el. to 535. Howe
welt,: feint reo. ea. Mr. H. Mayo'. rem
exceptionally good lot. Lot 3 vow cold to Mr. Paull at
; Lot 7, He F. Pope. ; Lot le Mr. Symr.
Came, 14101. • Lot 11, M m.. Sir. S. Caws 16er, : Lot 13,
Mr. Sheppard, 14re. ; Lot 10, Mr. Gregor, llgs. : the
test made from 7ep to 100.111ret mottos. 104. tow.lldi
rrltelbiL:leatitdanialgelh74 Ityigir...tofroltarpri)ts. There woo
was
brisk through. r, and sous but a few exceptions every-
thine le the ya'rid was sold.

I am sorry to bear that the old-fashioned formalities
of courtship, which were so chivalrous and a-coastal,
ala quite • thing of ths past. When I, in the early
bloom of my youth and ardour, wanted to propose to
a young woman, I always went down upon one knee,
and raising her dainty lingers respectfully to my lips,
"Fair one, wilt thou be miner I need to say ; and the
fair on. used to answer promptly, " Not on any
savant." Such I had read in the novels of my boy-
hood was the manner in which ..Lord Ernest was wont
to propose to the Lady Amelia, and such I believed to
be the formula generally employed by the nobility on
similar occasions. Therefore I warn greatly shocked to
hear that a recent and much discussed esgagement
was settled in the following unromantic and unease.
monious langnage :—He said, " Would you like to
marry • fellow like me?" She said, "Yes, Ton are
Just the sort of fellow I should like to . "All
right," he answered Dimply, "you're on." And on AO
woe—Vanity Pair.

Although, as was to be expected, none of the daily
newspapers have reported it, there can be no uae in
ignoring the fact that the divorce suit instituted by
Lady Henry Somerset against her husband was heard
in raisers on Saturday last. This is known all over
the town, and it is being whispered all over the town
that in the course of the proceedings certain grave
Imputations were made upon • noble Duke, it seems •
pity that that part of the proseedings at least should
not be made public, inasmuch as for want of dos
publicity the imputations made are repeated without
the full and complete answer to them which everybody
who knows the Duke must feel sure was furnished. If
the proceeding of a Court with closed doors are
Intended to be sacred from the Ira's*: eye altogether
that is another thing, but in that ease all those
engaged in the case should be sworn to secrecy;
whereas as present they come out of Court and give
accounts of what has taken place which cannot be
known to be either correct or incorrect, and by which
therefore, as in the present case, the greatest harm may
most unfairly be inflicted on an individual for want
of an authoritative report of that which really did take
pia".
The paper on which a bank note is printed is heavily
ribbed with a very peculiar pattern, and to forge a
bank note it is necessary to fabricate, net only the
plate from which it is engraved, but also the paper
upon which the impres•ion is taken. Now, to make
this particular material an entire piper mill is required,
and, as it is beyond the resources at the command St
any ordinary gang of forgers to set up a mill of their
own, they either print their bank•note upon that
which is, after all, but a clumsy imitation, or else
have to steal some genuine Bank of England paper.
This last is what was done by the so-called "Seward
gene," in 1862 A man named Brown, who was an
assistant at the LaveretokelNl Ills. contrived to secrete
considerable quantities of the pow manufactured for
five, ten, and fifty pound notes. These sheets he
conveyed to a couple of men—Brmcher, • butcher, and
Barnett, a labourer—from whom they were sent on to
Griffitha, a printer at Birmingham. Griffiths printed
the notes, and they were then passed back to London,
where, the paper being genuine, they moon found their
way Into circulation. The whole gang were tried at
the Old Bsiley, before Mr. Justice Blackburn, by
whom Griffiths was sentayed to penal servitude for
life, and his confAerates to various shorter terms. It
Is A significant fact that Griffiths, after his conviction,
owned that he had been occupied in bank forging all
his life, and that he had printed the whole of the notes
which had been forged on the Bank of England for the
last seventeen year. Whet was the amount of his
I forgeries will probably never be known. The Bank
paid the notes as they came in, and has since kept its
own secret.

The following curious advertisement appears in •
provincial paper :—"The Rev. can recommend
• young woman of about 27 years of age, of excellent
character and behaviour, as parlourmaid ; abio can
milk a cow or two." This is indeed an aocomplished
Clergyman who can with equal trustworthiness recom-
mend a seri ant and milk • cow.

It appears that in much of the work of our iron
-
clads is done by machinery, that about 44 per cent,
of the crews are virtually non combatants, and not
even sailors. The present rules do not admit of their
being either. This is a grave error, and active service
against an enterprising enemy would soon demonstrate
as much.

It is said that Mr. Banbury was compelled by great
pressure on the part of the Government to vacate his
seat for Txmworth. Lord Beaconsfield, so rumour
goes, was eztremecanxious to get one or two defeats
in order to afford him an excuse for appealing to the
country at • time when it seemed likely that the war
passion and the " jingoes" would give to his party a
new seven year,' !Sae° of power. In a year or so he
will have to undergo an election anyhow, and It might
be under auspkes far less favourable than at the
present moment

Great interest ia felt generally in the announcement
that the Duke of Connaught has at last a bride in
proapect. The Princess Loui-e to whom he has been
betrothed, is the third and youngest daughter of
Prince Frederic Charles and of the Princess Marie,
daughter of the late Leopold Frederic, Duke of
Anhalt. Her sister, the Princess Elizabeth, who is
SOMO three years older, was married in Frebruary
last to the Hereditary Grand Duke George of Olden-
burg, at the same time that the Princess Royal, was
united to Prince Bernhard of SaseeMeiningen. The
eldest daughter of Prince Frederic Charles, the
Princess Marie, though she will be the last of them to
be married. is now but tweny two years of age;
whilst the future Duchies of Connaugbt ham not yet
completed her eighteenth year.

We now give the various districts of Dorsetshire.
a= A OWL Population. Martinet. Births. Death&
s .
36693 13137 31 103 76
Btursolm4ocr .. 37934 10851 23 77 66
Mandford .. 67271 14684 20 101 61
Wimborne .. 81103 17M 68 116 76
Poole .. . 24662 14734 68 157 88
Wareham .. 96301 171311 40 114 62
Weynamth . 34174 31218 62 186 116
Dorchester . 116717 WM 49 186 163
89erboroe .. QOM 11082 Is 04 56
Bearolostor .. 63764 13111 21 90 60
Brldport .. 31187 16732 32 116 88

at Shaftesbury—enother borough sphere the county
Pass Is in --the town is wasobed for en a
year _
_for cos superintendent and two men are
provided • where at Lyon* llegis. =saw sousfY
police Nation the cost only amounts to £93 Us, as
staff of two men and one auperintendent
rd.& If the authorities are really animated
a sincere desire to watch over and rrotect
ratepeyers' interests, they will assuredly allow the
I=t anomaloui state of affairs to continue no
but will at once sink their own peculiar ideas
for tie; good of the general community.
'Tbe introduction of • ohm's into the County
Government WI rendering it compulsory on the part
of all small boroughs to amalgamate with the county
pollee, as suggested in • letter to the President of the
LooalGovernment &AM by • gentleman well-known
and respected in Dorchester, would, I feel sure, have
been attended with very greet benefit. The writer
said :

There is another matter whidi I regret bas not received
some attention in the proposed bill—the establishment of
the police force in small borough& Many small boroughs
still insist upon keeping a mpargta ptlica force of their
own at a great cost to the ratepayers, and will not consoll-
det• with the county force mrrounding them. Sono
boroughs hare given in. lunch to their advantage every
Under an old Act of Parliament the county rate is
for the expenses incurred by the suneriotentivoto ol
these boroughs in conveying prisoners to the County
Priam. It would have been a One stroke if Mr. &later-
Booth could have introduced a change in the new ea
making it compulsory for all borough; say under twelve
or fifteen thousand, to consolltiate with the county force
in which they are situate."
The only argument applicable against the adoption
of such a muss as that shadowed forth in the foregoing
extract is the old worn out clap-trap cry about
oentraliastion which our worthy town councillors take
shelter under to keep this borough establishment? Is
it recommended that the borough should be handed
over to the authorities of Seatland-yard If no, there
might be some reason for the cry of centralisation. But
what is the fact before in? Our present excellent
Chief Constable, Captain Amyatt, is our neighbour
and our friend. Superintendents Plummer and Batty
Rye among us, and we know and have seen their dis-
cretion, their coolness, their careful consideration in
every on.. that comes before them. f Mt, then, 01101
and for ever with this. Let it he a Mat tied non that
every future aspirant for municipal honours shall
firmly resolve that £lOO • year shall be saved to the
inh&bitants and that the town shell be watched anti
guarded by men who have no persecuting tendencies,
and that the pockets of the ratepayers shall thus be
saved.

—in conclusion allow me to allude briefly to the
conduct of the p lice in reference to the proceedings
instituted by them against a respectable Dorchester
shopkeeper as reported in your lest, and which ham
occasioned • good deal of hostile criticism. In the
, first place I wish to quote • short extract from the
' book of instructions framed for the guidance of the
Dorset County Constabulary in their performance of
their duties of that able a- d melons officer Colonel S.
Cox, at the time be was at the head of that force, and
which may be studied with advantage by the members
of the Dorchester force. After pointing out that the
principal object to be attained is the prevcatiirn of
crime—to wbich great end every effort of the police is
to be directed—there occurs the following significant
=, which bears so intimately on the proceedings
alluded to as almost to suggest the idea that it
had been specially framed to avert such tyrannical
and arbitrary conduct on the part of the police of which
there has lately occurred such a notorious instance :
"Superintendents will use every means in their power
to instruct those under their command in an accurate
knowledge of duty, so as to prevent stedes ezercial qf
pews,: for it is only when a constable has obtained some
prover legal knowledge that he can be considered properly
cautioned against todwasssing wet, task arbitrary. ov
$111162110.14 inter/maws sate the ie kabit eau lebieA
penersity arts in petty. retrained utabtialtra e at.e. and
away keit to maims isfrections of LA. liberty of the

the only hope. I tun see, Of pacific solution of this
business Is to subunit the resohitions Isla' financial terms
to the decision—to he accepted 11 *OOl on both iddee—of
fin arbitrator. • men of known ability, evangelical and
gpiritual character, and enure independence, suck •
man for instance. as Br. Robert Bsiter, whom we all
know by reputation, and I believe none of us personally.
But if this is done, not • day must ha lost, the meeting
of some of the bondholders celled by you (and which I
much regret, Ricoh" R is regarded bv the trustees as a
menace), leaving us no alternative but imniediate legal
action, it is my Wiled PnLyer that this may be averted.
Aa the beet miaow of shoeing to others that our pereooal
eetrangewent is LI an end, e ill you preach at St.
Mari • on &ma., moming. and thus enable me to
take the gervice at ftsdipole, for which as yet I Lave no
curate.

After what has been lately witnessed at Dorchester,
it becomes an important and serious question to ask
whether the police may not be the means of promul-
gating a positive wrung? If you lay hold of a man
and try to assume or prove him guilty of what he is
not guilty—to fix on his character • stain of which he
is Innocent—or endeavour to make him • rogue or a
thief when he is neither the one or the other, you
promulgate one of the most cursed and infernal
doctrines that was ever conceived in the imagination
of the evil one. You get in motion a machinery for
the purpose of evil, and you spread and give to the
world an amount of misery, sorrow, and distress which
can scarcely be calculated.
All I have to may in conclusion is "Beware r for
whilst we have unscrupulous men at work in our
midst there is no saying whose turn for persecution
may not be next.
I may have expressed myself somewhat strongly on
the subject, but I hope I may be forgiven.
A RLIMPATII.
Dorchester, May 13, 1878.

- • -
[By the insertion of this letter we do not by any
means intimate that we coincide in the opinion of the
writer. But, looking upon • newspaper as we do, as
a vehicle for the expression of public feeling, we give
it space. Probably "t'other side " will have something
to say next week.—&i.]

answirod. Vee troops nood not Is to Wads, at AIL But
the Suals aro rather /wavy ground for the hared: bow-
ever the Prelimildry inordinate, Including Inrmeinns of
squadrons, end troops, in coltunn awl In Igoe, fo. okini
fours, in, and all the rest, which tad • wystery to
ciribens were well gone through, an I seen thug early, the
whssiing woo very oreditade. The sun froqueonT
shining. the &planate was quit.,. fit..
Lieut. Yellows waa subaltern of the day, sad for picquet
wore Lord nchesties troop.

WWIIIOIITIL •
Tax Marna Dare.—We are informed that on Monday
the 29th July. the Royal Dorset Yacht Club, instead of
taking part in arranging for a Channel Race, will kindly
give prises for a day's racing in the Bay, under the
management of the club. Thus the Yacht Club racing
will precede the town regatta, which is to be a two-day'l
ooe, namely, ,in the 30th and 31s1. Tuesday and Weidner
day.—We confidently expect some good contests ; the
Royal Artillery galley has already "shown out," and its
crow display plenty of muscle sad strength.
I ormorY refrain from admiring the innocence with
which our Western friends interpolated a suggestion, when
recently the Corporation of Weymouth and the Great
Western Railway Critroy were haggling over the der
to be charged on the steamers which the company
proposed, and if I understand aright have now arranged
to run betweeu Weymouth and Cherbourg. "It is a
pity; hinted the Ply mouthians in their public prints, with
an innocence sogretive of more then one old fable,
" that the Great Western Company should waste any
more patiere in the controversy. Why should they not
rhyme their scheme, and run their steamers between
Plym iuth sad fh. Maio, They would he cordially
received at the ports named on both sides of the Channel,
and might utilise their own One docks and approaches
without any dues or Impedimenta. The difference in the
distance from Paddington to Plymouth or to Weymouth
Ii not material; the fastest train to the one takes 31) hours
and to the other IM ill The sea passage from Plymouth
(tool is no longer than from Weymouth, but (what virtue
there is in so 11l it is freer from the dangers of the
narrow Channel, and St. Maio is nearer to Paris than
Cherbourg. As the French Transatlantic Company haws
been driven from Plymouth by adverse Board of Trade
regulations, there is the greater rope for • regular line
of trane-Channel packets, and, of course, it would be far
the beet route to France for passengers and roods from
South Wales and the Western Counties." Now. this I
mil Perfectly charming and lot the Southampton people
recollect it has a awn about it which few communities
can command, for there is a substantiality and earnest-
ness in the proceedings of our Western rivals which some-
tarn commands soccer when they really on the ground
of aubsteatial merit do not deserve it —J. Cull, in the
Emits indepradasit.

Believe me,
Yours faith( oily,
TALBOT Gauen.
Mr. Ellis in a latter marked private declined all my
rellr. Ellis complains Mat I refused to speak_ him, se to
read a latter which he had written to Mr. W. Talbot. I
did so, hot not until Mr. Ellis had inn letter dated Jule
1/3th, 1876, distinctly refused to accePt as true my with";
itgtonent, unions sulmentiated by the secretary.
cannot me that after this immersion mat upon in, troth.
I was at all celled atron to acknowledge Mr Ellis, snob
lees to read a letter which he had thought fit to write to
Kr. W. Talbot.
Many of Mr. Ellies recklees statements, especially that
In his lest letter charging rue with knowingly doing an
Illegal act, are, I am informed by 011 legal adehllemr
libellous in the highest degree. but it is altogether foreign
to all my feelings toward Mr. Ellis even to make an
entry retort. I only ettlilish this statement in order to
counteract the efforts which be has made (mid which I
cannot brit believe he will one day regret) to destroy the
confidence of my People M their pastor.
must decline, under. any circumetenees, to take any
further notice of Mr. Vbs. attacks. indeed I trod he
will see that he has been all along under s very grave
mistake in regarding me no his enemy.
I remain, very sincerely yours,
TALBOT GMAT'S,
Portmore, May 4th, 1871.
Curiously enough, the pamphlet Is finished with a
" tail-piece representing a dragon apparently trying
to destroy flowers.

ARRIVAL OF TUB TBOYANIa.
All the long winter ha. the town remained in a pupa
or chrysalis state and even farther on, into the spring,
has it continued almost dead•alire, for though the opera-
tions of nature bare been accomplished in about the same
time as usual, yet from a loudness point of view, the
spring has been slow and cold. But at last our ehrysalie
town show. signs of bursting the dark shell, and caming
out butterfiy.like, for, in spite of shadows of threatened
war abroad, and "tightness' at home, returning 'pries
has brought with it the visitors, always welcome, and
perhaps never more so than this year, the visitors from
the country —who re-establish business on a tolerably ftral
heals, for where.te _

" The soldier fighte for all."
and let us hope our ellaPutin4 "reverends.' don't forget
that—
"The parson prays for all."
We can't help rerncenberiog thiLi
The farmer pays for all."
It is the large proportion of the agriculturist elesocutt in
our gallant Q O.Y.C. that wakes their ?mogul invuion
have such a freshening influence upon Weymouth eociety,
which gets, if the truth must be told, a little stagnated
during the dark dam Al3l not only in the influx of the
Yeomanry themselves iv this influence felt, but the friends
who come with them, wid who afterwards look thews up
at the favourite waterlng-place of Dorset—these cease
that revival of energy and of business which diatingnith
the Yeomanry week.

It was therefore very disappointing to the good folks of
Weymouth, when, after • little spell of fine weather, they
had so tempestuous a night as that of Friday, when the
lightning Sashed incessantly, and the streets were
deluged with heavy showers. But this state of weather
massed. and about noon the sun was shining cheerily, as,
like a young damsel, the town donned her ribbons, to
wit, her bunting, from the Pile pier end to St. John's,
blue ensigns being the favourite. The rattling of
Prelim's in the streets increased, and to these were woe
added the galloping of those early birds of the Queen's Own
Yeomanry Galway who had already entered and secured
quarters, but who now remounted and went northwards
to meet their comrades, With theme went • varied
assembly of "fair women and brave men" ; for blueand-
gold-dressed artillerymen marched along with an they
swing, red linesmen tramped steadily up with a cons.
quental air, tars from that giant battery, the Thunderer,
tried their sea legs ashore, their loose trousers • great
contrast to the trim nethers of the soldier,: then there
were numerous warders from the Convict Establishment,
and, of the civilians, Yount Weymouth "doing his
weed," and the many ham/ere-on who hope to get a
weeks living out of the stir, while everywhere the softer
sex, in all varieties of styles, from the delieately-nurtured
young lady of the mansion, in the tielthfitting costumes
of the present fashion, to the little sand-digger, with no
fashion at all, hot who perhaps enjoys life as well, made
up the great majority of the moving sesembly. The skies
had become leaden. and a few showers fell; but them
did not deter the gallant sth D. R. V. from having a good
drill in a field at the hark of Cleveland House School.
They were commanded by Lieut H. T. George, and there
were preeent Quartermaster Sergeant Lee, Sergeant C.
Jeffery, Sergeant Stevens. and the hardworking and
courteous drilliestructor, Sergeant Baron. with 42 rank
and tile. In spite of the long erase being freqently wet
with rain, the company did, good deal of manual exercise
and marching, even the recruits being very little behind.
As rive o'clock approached, the rifles marched out of their
field to the top of Radipole-hill, whence they could OVSI,
look the country towards the turnpike gate. On the very
brow of the Lill were also the fine hand of the 36th
regiment, about 35 in number, who had come over from
Portland. and elongeide were Major Eliot, Lieut.
Andrews end Mac Lean, Sergeant-Major Hayward, drill
instructor; Sergeants W. Stone, J. A. Stone, John -;ton.
W L. Pearce, W. W. Hinds, and J. P. Smiven, with 66
rank and ffle, besides the band, 16, under Mr. G. Paris
Jones. About five o'clock, the amps of the Yeomanry
were seen, and an the vanguard came fully into view, the
sue shone out brightly. As they approached, the forec,s
which had gathered to receive them marched into town
In advance of the Calvary, and formed in front of Victoria
Terrace, the Volunteer Rifles to the north, the Volunteer
Artillery In the middle, and the band of the 20th Regiment
to the south. As the Q 0 Y.C. entered, the balconies
were lined with ladies, while oi polioi gathered on the
pavemente and the Esplanade. The weather was tolerably
tine, the clouds which darkened over bead allowing peeps
of blue between, and a fees boats added life to the
picture formed by the Bay. Bandmaster Byers and his
well-known band were, perhaps, the first to be recognised
and welcomed; but admiration was felt for the Yeomanry
sea whole ; their accoutrement' were well put on, and in
vod order, the horses piwerful, active, and well-groomed,
and altogether the regiment had evidently been well
looked up. Having halted and formed lines in (route(
head quarters and the orderly room (Mo. 2, Gloucester
Row), they were dismissed and soon galloped oft to
qunrters the sth D FLY. marching to the King's Statue,
and the Portland Artillery to Hope Square. where Mr.
Groves's new store was decorated with the Union Jack,
and the Genevamrosa. Mr. B. Earridee was evidently
consultine physician at this hospital, and the Artillerymen
crowding in, he ordered plenty of bread and cheese and of
the genuine homehrewed. Upstairs they went, closely
pressed by young Weymouth, who turned assistants to
the Artillery, carrying carbines, or musical instruments,
In order to stet into the feasting hall, an immense room
which will be used for *hazing barrels, em. Oa the
beams were God Save the Queen," "Peace and Plenty,'
" Welcome, and the men fell to with • will. There we
learn they had left Portland at 4.10, and had been joined
hr some of their o4omrs at RodwelL The Band having
played "Nancy Lee "Major Eliot gave the men direction.
Three cheers were given for Mr. Groves, and three for the
good cheer, and then the men marched to the Guild-hall,
deposited carbines, and dispersed to see their Weymouth
friends till 8 o'clock, when they reassembled and went
home by train.
From the returns we Sod the Yeomanry number forty
more than last year, as follow :
Suer —Colonel-Commandant Lord Richard Groevener,
Major Yeatman, Captain and Adjutant 0r140,, Sergeant-
Major TuttilL Assistant Surgeon Daniels, Veterinary-
Surgeon Rowe,—total, 0.
Mmthene Teem.. Brytner, Lima Fellows',
Quartermaster Genge, 4 sergeants, 3corporala, 32 privates.
—total, 42.
DORCHISTER Titoor.—Captain roster, Lieut. Middleton,
Lieut, Thornton, Qoartermaster Bauntot. 3 sergeants, a
corporal& 1 farrier, 24 privates,—total, 96.
Vali ?Boor. —Capone Merthyr Guest, Quartermaster
Rtutlleh,l sergeants, 2 corporals, 38 prieusok—joeot 10.
Pthretheasa Tamor.—Captain Goodden, Sub-Lieut.
Sutton, Quartermaster SW.). I sergeants, 4 corporals, 1
trumpeter. 1 farrier. X private..—total, X.
BLWIDVORD TROOP. —Captain Hareems, Quertermaster
Tett, 3 sergeants, S corporals, 1 trumpeter, 41 privates,—
total, 49.
Wireolurs Thoor.--Captaln Sir Richard Glyn, Lust,
Bond, Quartermaster Teske,. 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, X
privetes.—tetels 40.
TOTALS. LAST Tua,
6
41 40
.36 36
45 38
.38 24
40 44
20
.206 215

Me'bur,
Wandford
Wimborne

Total for 1878

Thwi evening there wee irod oPPostuinlY for eseit the
town, the Mope being ell a lam will extra gas, to.
weather contMolne for The Yeomanry hand played
very teetotally ontaide head-quarters, mid many of the
townspeople !tethered war. while the Yeomanry quietly
promenaded in the town : but all was quiet at en early
hour.

134711 DAT.
Glorious weather ushered in Sunday morning, and the
40.y.C. prepared early for churclailat the Statue, falling
In on foot about half-past 10, in splendid ceder, with
uniforms looking their beet, nodding plumes, and all the
spawn and circumstance" attached. Only Surgeon Good
was absent from the staff ; 11•Ibury Troop numbired 47t
Dorchester, 34; Vale, 80 ; Sherborne, C; Biandford,
'wilding the band. 47: Wimborne, 40 ; total. N 6. or
wetly the same 11/ they rode in, according to our
iskia,,tion, though some returns made the total on
Mortaring day only MC Of comae a goodly number of
Oh. Inhabitants assembled to nee the soldiers, and didn't
01 to church: but why did two or three of the Yeomanry
fhemeslves put through St. Mary'e and go out by the
Saidenstreet door? Let on hope they returned.
Dorchester Troop was only on alters, while the Vale corn
nansbered five more; but where were the ollogra at all
*wow they were not among those whose shakos kid the
lannicipally gilded lion and unicorn at the Corporation
asst. Sherburne had, we fancy, one lees for church
parade. and Biandford two fewer, while Wambonse rent
smartly the same number as rode into town. The bend
payed outside, and the organist, Mr. Boyton Smith,
within the church, the brawl instrument. sounding w ;Lb
gather unusual effect upon the ears of those who were in
the church listening to Mr. Smith's beautiful voluntary,
for they seemed to sound out most strongly, when 3fr.
Smith arrived at his softer parts.
The rector (Rev. T. A. Greases) preached an admirable
sermon from I Peter. IL. 10, "As free, and not using
poor liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. but as the
servants of God.'
The earvice was unusually short, the eankregation
oomlne out soon after halfil twelve, insteed......of on•
o'clock as masa The weather
and the Yeemenry bead played in frost—(vh.;2
•Rond. in the aftwasea.
SIZ how% troop was aa plaque; was Limo,
was Wiliam ef do dew.
The YolkeerMS ereaseliess see tossaiseet : Corporal
Halt to b• romeata Bursett, PIN; j. X
to be corporal vise HA premeeel. la Moto Goolikain
troops.
llotwor.
Real Queen's Own weather continues to farm the
'yeomanry, and this was a comfort to those recruits who
turned out with side anus at the Statue at seven in the
morning, and went through their first esercless.
The regiment paraded in drill order at nine, and with '
them the inhabitants of Weymouth Gelf-constitnted
mepeetlag officers) gathered in front of the Gloucester
and the Ro7al. A very good gathering it wee, and the
Yeomanry themielyle looked in good order sad fettle,
man and horse.

The—d-owniiils of the preceding weeks had so soaked
Lodnscur, that it WM clear the ground would be
shockingly cut up. and the troops unatuovered, if they
went to drill there before it bad partly (Wad.
So, after a few abort movements, they rode ea to
the opining in the Sands, in total dawn of
the Corporation notice beard, which staled No home
will be allowed to eXiadit• as the Seeds cape 5&,.. The
Rohm& was wen lined for tbrzesall Its hula by
oil this lithabiteate who amid Ur the
wetted algid of the T muck
adwdsogillit -Fartenagely=is was gibe 04_ ind
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