The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

GRAND TEM PERANCM DEMC NSTRATION

AT CHRISTCHURCH.

During the early part of this week our generally
happy and lively town hae been more than usually
attractive. What with the promenade concert and
the circus on Monday night, and the Temperance
demonstration on Tuesday, we have been kept in a
whirl of Vessurable excitement Certainly never
did excursionista, pic-nic parties, and other pleasure-
seekers have more suitable weather than we have
lately being privileged with, and the pleasant ride
to the scene of festivities has been greatly enhanced
by the ever-recurring view of fields waving with
golden grain, giving promise of an early and abun-
dant harvest. On our arrival at Christchurch ws
soon were made conscious of the holiday about to
take place by the arrival one after another of various
vehicles of all classes and deectriptions, but more
especially of farmers' wagons decked with ever-
greens and fi.-mers, and containing the juveniles of
the Bond of Hope, with many of their instructors and
supporters About Dias o'clock the Whitchurch
Temperance band arrived, and a proctor
Mon was formed in front of the Townhall, and after
marching through the streets, proceeded in the
following order to the some of the day's festi-
vities :

President and Vice Presidents of the Temperance

Society.
Royal Marina Artillery Band.
BaDONIT.
Committee of Christchurch Temperance Society.
Ni'hitehurch Temperance Bra Bend.
Members of Temperance Society, two abreast.

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limbers of Societies in town and villages adjoining.
Fda and Drum Bend.
Female Yawners of the Band of Rope.
Male ditto.

In this order, with the beads playing alternately,
and forming a procession about half-a-mile long, the
party proceeded by Purewell-crose, through Barton
and Winkton, to the froot entrance of Winkten
Park, kindly placed at the disposal of the committee
by Admiral Walcott, M.P., for the borough.
The charge for admission was 6d., and the
company needed all their patience as they
one by one passed the turnstile to proceed into the
park. Here a delightful scene met their pee in
the beautifully laid-out Hower gardens and lawns by
whir the mansion is surrounded. As soon as they
reached the open parts of the park they saw that
everything that could conduce to their enjoyment
had been provided in the shape of swings, round.
about', cricket, archery, buss-ball, football, quoit.,
ha. le., while the inner-man was not forgotten,
there being • bountiful provision of the usual bill of
tare at temperance gatherings; and certainly after the
hot and dusty walk from the town these were not to
be despised. As iron as possible the match at
cricket between eleven members of the Christchurch
Temperance Society and eleven non-abstainers from
the parish of Christchurch, which had been looked
forward to withcousiderable interest by both parties,
took place, the contest being for a pair of Bamboo
elastic bats, which it was arranged was to be the pro-
perty of the winning side, and handed over to the
scorers of the two highest number of runs. The
match was watched with considerable interest, the
noo-abstainers winning the tom for the fur innings
and lapdog 44- The teetotallers then took the
willow, and at the Ihr the game was against these,
but at the end they distanced their opponents
one run. The esciond innings was then oom
by the non-abstainers, who moored 126. The
abstainer. then went in and snored 50, with four
wickets to go down, but as the time for the doming
of the contest was six o'clock, and it could act be
played out, the match was decided by the first
raisins in hirear of the sowahataiaere. One of the
bate was awarded to Mr. Arazianaterser, and the
other to Captain itareen, Doe
The wooed oo atmorweed haltpaet.
' taer tr=itr. ifolilowhqi asholits was perforated ia

a most beautiful utile by the band of the Royal
Marines :

March ... "Wedding' Blendelssohn.
Overture 'Tamp' Darold.
Valise "Dinorah" Strauss.
Selections " nide"
Mazurka ... "True Love" ... Faust.
Selections " Errani" . . Verdi.
Quadrille "Popular Tulles" Go,lfrey.
Galop "Warrior" .. .

The public meeting annouooed to be held
at one o'clock was unavoidably
peistponest
till alter the concert in consequence of the
absence of some of the speakers—The chair
was taken by the Rev. S. Knell, the president, who,
in the coarse of his observations, very pointedly
"showed forth the very great benefits of total
abstinence." A meeting like the one he was pre-
siding over would have been carried out very
differently if intoxicating drink had been allowed
there; and no ono could look on that large assembly
withottkhe was sure,beingcoovinoed that teetotallers
could be as hapoy and NI well in health without
the aid of such liquors. Hs felt very great pleasure
at the manner everything had been conducted
with but one exception. He thought that the game
of drop Imadkerchief would have been bettor if it
had not been followed by the modern fashion, but
he did not see any harm in innocent recre•tion.
After further exprosing his very great pleasure at
seeing so many present, and the groat obligations
they were uoder to the Royal Manna band and the
Whitoburch Temperance bawd for their services,
he called upon Mr. Lawrence Gans to addrise
the assembly, who did, in • very humourons
and telling speech, replete with thaw argu-
ments which come borne, especially to the
working classes. He depicted the state of
ruin and degradation into which thousands were
placed through drink, and urged that men must use
their own exertions, and be convinced of the truth
of Temperance principles ere they could be lifted
from the deep pit of degradation into which so many
had sunk. It was of no use to let down the
cord into the pit to save the man if be did not
keep tight bold of it, and it was the same with
those who adopted their cause —they must not
only sign but keep their pledge. He related several
anecdotes to show that the only way to check
the evil of temporalities was by closing the mouth
against the drUk. The temperance cause was suc-
ceeding. Men of all ranks and in every station of
life had tried its principled, and even the Daily
I'rfegraos, which was oontinually giving them a slap,
acknowledged that to give strength intoxicating
drinks were not necessary, but only a luxury for
the working-clasess Teetotalism was making happy
homes all over the country, and would yet go on
adding daily to its ranks, not only the wise and
good, -bat raising the depraved and loot. He than
referred to the Sabbath-day closing bill, introduced
by Mr. Scannas, and said that from what he knew of
the working-chuees be was sure they were not
opposed, as a body, to the measure, and expressed
his belief that ere long the selling of intoxicating
drinks on the Sabbath would be abolished.
G. C. CAMPIIILL, Esq., treasurer of the National
Temperance League, than addressed the mooting.
In the opening of his remarks he alluded to his
experience as • lecturer, when • young man he
could like his friend Mr. Gene quote and write
poetry, but since he had been married all his '
patio ideas had fled, and in their place a little more
common sense was perhaps to be found. Two
chapters of common sense were worth a hundred
of poetry. (Laughter.) He then alluded to the
danger attending the use of intoxicating drinks, and
said wherever you find these drinks you find danger.
He did not mean by this that no one could take
them without getting drank. Far from it, but they
were exposed to the danger. If they divided the
company into 50 parts, and 49 of these could take
these drinks and not be intoxicated by them but
the other part were injured he held it was the duty
of the 49 parte for the sake of the one to give up
drinking, The speaker then related some very
amusing anecdotes, suad kept the audience in a roar
of laughter, adding that he had been a teetotaller 26
years, and officially connected with the league 21.
The Hey. H. OALIS was the next speaker, who warmly
espoused the cause of the Alliance, and stated his belief
that it was only by the adoption of the Maine Law that I
the evils of intemperance could be met. While there '
were 130,000 hones licensed by the Legislature for the I
sale of the accursed drink he had but little hope of the
ultimate sitcoms of the cause. Hs would ask who dug I
the pit was it not themselves in part, and the Legida.
tare chiefly by licensing public-houses? The pit had
become *so deep that there was scarcely a family in
the land but experienced the misfortune of some falling ;
into it; and who were to blame ? Was it not the licenser/ j
of these hotter? The rev. gentleman spoke in very
strong terms, apparently to some extent contrary to the I
feelings of the other speakers, and when he had finished
the Chairman me& a few remarks on what he had said,
showing that many could not go his length until public
opinion was more decidedly in favour of the measure.
A WOW of thanks was then most unanimously awarded
to this worthy Adiniral for his kindnees in permitting
the use of the park. The grounds were cleared at eight
o'clock by the sending op a balloon, sod this eirrel one
of the happiest days ewer spent in the vicinity of Christ-
church. is oomputed that from 2,000 to 3,000 persons
were pretreat.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
Parliament was prorogued on Tuesday afternoon
by commission. The following is the text of the
Royal Speech. read by the Lord Chancellor :

"My LORDS MID GENTLIMID,—
" We are commanded by Her Majesty to release
you from further attendance in Parliament, and at
the same time to convey to you Her Majesty's
acknowledge:unite for the seal and assiduity with
which you have applied yourselves to the perfor.
mance of your dutaes daring the Session now closed.
" Her Majesty has been engaged, in concert with
the Emperors of France and Austria, in negotiations,
the object of which has been to obtain the fulfil-
ment of the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna of
1815, in behalf of the Poles. Her Majesty trusts
that these stipulations will be carried into execution,
and that tbus • conflict distressing to humanity and
dangerous to the tranquillity of Europe may be
brought to a dam
" The Civil War between the Northern and
Southern States of the North American Union still
unfortunatelyooolinnee, and it is neoseserily attended
with much evil, not only to the contending parties,
but also to nations which have taken no part in the
DODD:Mt HOT Majesty, however, has seen DO reason
to depart from that neutrality which Her Majesty
has observed from the teginniog of the contest.
"The Greek nation, having chosen Prince William
er yof Denmark their King, His taking steps
with a view to the u•ion of the on,•n Islands to the
Kingdom of Green. For this purpose Her Majesty
is in communication with the Powers which were
parties to the Treaty of 1815, by which those Islancla
, were placed under the orotection of the British
, Crown; and the wishes of the lonians on the subject
of such union will be duly ascertained.
"Several barbarous outrages committed in Japan
upon British subjects have Tendered it necessary for
Her Majesty to demand reparation, and Her Majesty
has hopes that her demands wiU be conceded by the
Japaneee Government, without its being neoeseary
to resort to coercive measures to enforce them.
" The Emperor of Brazil has thought fit to break
off his diplomatic relations with Her Majesty, in
consequence of Her Majesty not having complied
with dienande which she did not deem it poseible to
accede to. Her Majesty lima no wish that this
estrangement should continue, and would be glad to
see her relations with Brazil re-established.

" GIXTLIXIS Or Till HOUSE Or CoMMONS,
"Her Majesty commands m to convey to you her
wium aoknowtadents for the liberal supplies
which you bare granted for the *orrice of the
present year. and towards the permanent defence of
Her Melody's docks and amenals.
"Her Majesty also commands na to thank you for
the provision you have made for the establishment
of H.R.H. the Priam of Wales.
'Mv LOVA MOD OVITLINKII

"The distrese which the civil' war in North
America has inflicted upon a portion of Her fdajeste's
subjects in the manufacturing diabriota, and towards
the relief of which generous and munificient con-
tributions have been made has been diminished, and
Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to measures
calculated to have • beneficial influence upon that
unfortunate state of things.
" Symptoms of a renewal of disturbances have
manifested themselves in Her Majesty's colony of
New Zealand, but Her Majesty trusts that by Wille
and conciliatory meseures, supported by adequate
mesas of repression, order and tranquility will be
maintained in that valuable and improving colony.
"Her Majesty has given her astent to °tonsures for
segmenting the income of • considerable number of
benefices, sad sbe trusts that this measure will be
conducive to the intermits of the Established Church.
"Her Majesty has given her MOM to an Act for
the revision of • large portion of the Statute Book,
by the removal of many Acts which although they
had bosoms obsolete or unneoseeary obstructed the
adminietration of the statute law.

" Her Majesty haa felt much pleasure in giving
her Royal assent to an **for placing upon • well
defined looting that Voluntest force, which has
added • most important *lenient to the defensive
means of the country.
"Her Majesty has gladly given her seesot to an
Act fee tarrying into MUM the additional treaty
concluded by Her Majesty with the President of the
United State, for the more effective suppression of
the slave trade, and Her Majesty trusts that the
honourable co-orreries of the Gavenunetat at the
United States will 'materially assist Her Majesty in
Mae endeavours which Gnat Britain hes long been
engaged in making to put an mid to the pupstau
it.. of the most &ultimata crimes.
"Her Majesty has assented to many measures
of public sesfuMess, the result of your label=
daring the present /111111011. It has been gratifying
to Her Majesty to observe, &het, notwithseending
many adverse cironmetames, the general prosperity
of her empire continues maim Med. Though grout
local distrem has been sutured in Great Britain boon
' the civil war in Amerlos, the Inanoisl remarcen of
the United Kingdom hare beim fay issinteined4
mul its reseel immunise with the void bee sever
been leekehily rapeked.

"It his been a source of great satisfaction to Hof
Majesty to find that her East Indian pomesnons ar
rapidly reviving from the disasters which lately
over-spread them, and entering upon a course of iso.
prevenient, social, financial, and commercial, which
holds out good promise for the growing prosperity of
those extensive regions.
"On retiring to your several counties you will
still have important duties to perform, and Her
Majesty fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty
God may attend your efforts to promote the welfare
and happiness of her auhjects, which is the °Wait
of her constant and earnest solicitude."