The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-05 00:00:00

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(LOCAL NEWS CONTINUED PROM PAGE 4.)

SALISBURY.

The annual meet-ii7g-Of-trie-llan-ts and Wilts Edo. i
cation Society, and the oonferenoo of institutions in
union, will be held in Salisbury on Wednesday, when
the chair will be taken by the Right Hon. T. H. S. I
Entwurt,
RAILWAY Excumuotc.—The South-Weatern Rail.
way Company ran an excursion train from this pithy ,
to the Crystal Palace and back on Monday lasrEy
way of Andover, which conveyed about eighty pas.
sen_gers.
SALVOR/RV LITYRARY AND SCIINTIVIC INNTITU.
to.—Au important meeting of the committee and
friends of this institution was held at the Council
Chamber, on Thursday last, to take into consider.
&Sun the prebuilt state of its financial affairs, and to
form plans for the extinction of the accumulated
debt Of about .€ll4. His Worship the Mayor pre
sided, and in a lucid 'pooh laid before the meeting
the claims of this institute, which has for some time
past declined from various causes, and he urgently
impressed on the meeting the necessity of adopting
sonic plans in order to free it from the encumbranoe
pressing upon it, and place its future prospeta on a
ohqeuenVetirl R
y po.inviedthoeutb"nthe
dill Masses towards the reorganisation of this 'mai.
moredesirabilityfollowed
o soliciting ef
na
ably
a 'diTt
e more general support
tution, forcibly showing the advantages derivable
from such societies to young men, artisans, ito., by
the formation of evening Muses, in order to perfect
thorn in the theory of the arts they practised, and
raise the educational standard of the young men
generally, concluding by expressing his desire to see
this institution plead in a position to afford higher
advantages than it has ever yet done, and stating his
willingness to oo.operste with the oommittee in this
olkicot. General Buckley Ml'., the Bev. Preben.
guy Smart, Mr. James Hussey, Mr, T. W. Gilbert,
M. lAA, Mr. Style, and other gentlemen, expressed
their sentiments to the sonic effect ; and the meeting
terminated with the adoption of the following
resolution :—" That the following gentlemen do
form a oommittee for the purpose of drawing up •
statement of the present and prospective financial
position of the institution, with a view to obtain from
the inhabitant' of Salisbury the means of liquidating
the present debt, and of fiirnishing means for fully
developing the important advantages of the institu-
i tion i—The Mayor of Salisbury, Major-General
Buckley, M.P., Very Rev. the Dean of Salisbury,
Rev Prebendary Smart, Rev, T. H. Tooke, Alder.