The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-04-24 00:00:00

Jain&
D. B Rawlins.
Randall.
W. Smith.
I. Randall.
Rayt!...r.

liZili;
Osip
Paoli Rawlins.
R Pankhunrt.
Madame le Comtesse de Mauleon M. Ryan.
.... Howard.
The scene of the that act is Ivi, .. studio in Paris,
and here the hero and heroine of the drama soon
appear. Ivan, a poor but talented paenter, is engaged
on the portrait of the Countess& when that
lady enters the studio, ostensibly for the purpose di

... (Seth)

Captain Amersfort
Peter Spyk
Swyzel
Gertrude

Mr. M. Heath.
Mr. T. Randall.
Mr. W. Ftandall.
... Miss F. Ryan.
intesiiite Roseddaal- . Miss E. Howard.
Miss Ryan as Gertrude, an innocent and pretty
servant girl, and Mr. T. Randallea Peter, a well-to.do
country simpleton, provided a fund of amusement by
their unaffected drolleries, and the piece was very
enjoyable. Mr. Rayter's "get-tip as Bwyzel, a
bloated steward, was capital, and Alias Howard per-
formed with great ease the part of a capricious young
lady. as Eruestine. This piece included some good
singing.
On evening W. S. Gilbert's Comedy in
Three Acts, "On Guard," was produced, and the
characters were :
Denis Grant (an African travelled /b.f.:. H. W. Parkinson.
Corny Kavanagh (an adventurer) Mr. F. Johns.
Guy Warrington . . . Mx. T. D. B. Rawlins.
Baby Boole . Mr. W. E.Pankhurst
Grouse (an attorney) . . Mr. J. W. Smith.
Druce (a soldier's servant) Mr. W. Randall.
I Mrs. Fitzoshorne a (widow) ... Miss F. M. Ryan.
Jessie Blake (Guy Warrington's
cousin) .. . . .. Miss E. llosard.
Mr. Panishurst, as Baby Boodle, aped the lisping,
brainless fop to perfection, and Miss Ryan, an Dirs.
Fitsosborne, cleverly played the part of a mischievous
young widow,—particularly fond of repartee. Mr.
Farlcinson was wonderfully cool as Denis Grant, an
honourable gentleman, and Mr. Smith, as Grouse, an
unscrupulous and fussy lawyer, and Miss Howard, as
a harmless young flert, did their parts welL
The Quarrel Scene followed, and the entertainment
was concluded with "The Loan of a Lover."

SHERBORNE ABBEY.
(Continued from at law.)

• -
Leaving for the present the west arid, -which presents
ma,,y knotty points, we find the piers of the central
tower are Roger's work. TM, tower, like that at
Malmesbury and Devizes, is broader from north to south
than from west to east. The arches opening into the
transepts are narrower than the others. At Sherborne
and Malaresbury they are highly-stilted semicircles; at
Devizes they are pointed. The two coupled shafts
under the lower order of the arches are identical in detail
at Sherborne and Malinesbury. The western arch le of a
depressed form, partly due to Its original condition, partly
to the nettlements which have so often put the tower in
danger. The heart of the north and south aisle walls
are probably of thin date, and it is very likelytthat the
core of the nave-piers, cased in later days, is Norman
work. The Malmesbury piers are great cylinders, and
from the portions of the responds left at Sherborne in the
tower-arch piers, it seems as if they may have been so
there, but it is, perhaps, more likely they were of Krasner
oblong shape, with shafts like those opening into the
transepts from the nave aisles. There are short lengths
of the Norman string-courses existing in the north-west
tower-pier, which are valuable as defining the respective
heighta of the abacus, the string-course under the toil origin
and that of the clearstory.
There are no evidences of the Norman triforium, but
there is a portion of one of the clearstory windows in the
east wall of the north *wept, which bar rich zig-zag
mouldings, supported by • drift with • sculptured capttal.
in character with those el the south pen& MU perch is
a very fine example of the data Ile and
youu -ribs are exesealegig deli la4&llaa k the
inner . The &dr aid p VP. es
was this graterally the ease, ssal
tower.
The aktarsa.....W2lll4lll=llddblls el=
work es
1101 dam le 1-112. TIZZIP SSW.

thanking Ivan for protecting her from insult at the The inside eon of the walls and piers, however, was dis-
totora the previous week. The Countees lingers in the covered by my father tube no better than the generality
studio, and intereats herself in Ivan's portfolio, till at of Norman builders' work; and the fall of the central
length the latter status up courage enough to toll the tower of Malmesbury just before Leland'. fume is thus
sttc,orted for. The old roofs were of a higher pitch than
former uf hie love for her. Th., Counte. ten Ivan
that his love is reciprocated, and that clue is willing to 41,.tcre,:ion37;,t7tr ,YitiPortaotn of gle,,,'"„s,k-,,, tth,:esloo" a.
lay her birth, rank, and position at his feet. Knocking inside of the western wall. It must have r'eacheedncotS
is then heard at the daor of the studio, and the Countess snler.thly above the sill of the present clearstory window,
takes refuge in an aftjoi n i n g room a, the Pri n c e noel,,Cl,
„.ir7
Salisbury
et
thehi( i
work'
7besohnilidkgrbc
o,ethi
:ric-iph:,:ai,it catici:,:h,tt.:;c:idoldrzet.
..roof :
:nye
7,6fcraltth ee.ntrhgT:ipii.p
etr):ci :
withlh.
ii ets:wilt:o.tfßsui
fcihl,tu.dhh:...:;rpta;tabvrlite:l7:::;,:nni:l7;l iss.
Khovalenski enters. The Prince's MiAllioll is to demand haeh int° it-
ith
satiafaction for the gentleman pitche I into the
in chegtra from the grand tier at the tpert by Ivan, and
ends rebuilt. . e
exceedingly
c e.d. d e b
ew
ur
whitewash 'ln' the
this
tphreetilia,t,itemr.tNeefkoredttohe neamne,emaetofrie ennttligwhitthbewhnoemttathed•
, Ivan leaves to find llistigria, a fellow painter, and cnhms::::; n
rot
aenhdiciciarvielede bac:pi:nil:Y. nucohw
resemblernetins
north,
1 l and
O:pntl e the Counteas enters and has a conversation with the
, chapel now forming part of a house), they yet retain their
Prince in which she finds that the person who
insulted her at the elvers is no other than Count ' Inn,'
nrr.igrb,.,lnalcomlowubrleanaTTelildfoinutdat3,l=
which
fhitchhe s
Karateff. The Prince is surprised to hear that it waa
here:. CTouhnetecisso,nenntL sapyrsonithiemeotonnatmshaptll
tahpoolia,gpilie,logt;
show that this -chapel
woe
of
three
tape.
Ishatilfpeltsrearmeaioi
conditionally upon the duel being abandoned, and as the arch, now blocked, into the eastern thoulanu:rdy by
the Coma enters the Countesa leaves to enable the the choir, which was groined in the style of the chapel,
Prince to make her conditions known to the Count. as is indicated by the lines in the wall of the former
The Count mimes to consent to the conditions, wall ribs, and anarble abacus mouldings of the vaulting
There next appears iip,n the scene Khor, an old serf
i.tnivtkaa,fawthheor.inbrilanwg s h Tftst'e . change.
luring. centurymadewindows to the church in the fourteenth
tier) were Inserted
imaintelligtecelotritene devaitilhagoef tohfe t.SI
with a request from his mother, the Princess, that he aisle of the nave, called the Trinitie aisle. These were
shunla return to Sit, tvka, of which place he would be however, soon blocked up by the building of the ctn. tart 4
the Prince at leer death, The Count tells hie riend by Abbot Fryth. about 1360, and the 10410 then acquired
the l'rince that his mother dotes on him, and t at be ft h.
~e,,
tuenetontehocfon"ttryhe
century, was
built the
Thesee.hh were
was all.some
eie 2 pulled
ft above
Is Prince of Sitovka already. Khor hands th 'count
:UOllllll9 the west end of the abbey. on the site of the
a list of the serfs, and the ('tint then le is that
toetistlsier nrecwh torhweer,rhannt,lx
floor level, Ivan, the painter, is a serf, and a son , Khor.a
Ivan hail been gent by the old host to gutty, ft n 0 the the abbey church Patel; they therefore left standing the
latter, just before his death, wrote to the former— garions plinth and base of the great porch, just high
" Ivan! Must I close my eyes without seeing thee enough for the pavement to go over its
once again? Come hack to freedom, and thy second The new church was of three stales of unequal widths,
father Bariatinskan The Count gleans from Khor with a narrow chapel on each side, at the ends of the
ambulatory, between its altar and the abbey church doors.
that Ivan knows nothing of the death of his bone.
,The aisles were divided by arcades with slender pillars,
factor, and then takes possession of the letters an" the responds of which remain against toe most wall of
orders Khor to return immediately to Ht. PeteNbirrgh the abbey church. The masonry is not equal to that of
without geeing his son. When Ivan returns the the other beildinga and the stone is soft. The line of
Count tells him it his discovery, and threatens to the long low-pitch roof of this ambulatory is still marked
tell the t'onntess that he is a serf. /van's demeanour on the west wall of the abbey church. The central aisle
then changes from that it he dthiegs to supplication, itself most probably had a clearstery, for there 14 in the
gidtle of the. old abbey gnesten hall the springing stones
awl he implore', the I 'emit to keep the secret from the
WOlll3ll he loves. 'flue Cenntees le railed in, and the of
.11111711 :eeitt.r.;:sosi
i,..,f,hei c.....h 2;o: utEetoo :roc:
ambulatory
clearstory
,o,
ic
Count aptatth,riges to her, and infortua her that the at the level of the aisles, which were not vautted7 but had
encounter will not take plat*, a. Ivan had apologiaed curved wooden braece rising from wall-shafts. 'The north
to him. '(lie Connteaa, in astonishment, sake the aisle wall of All Hallow's still stands as high as the
martini for the apology, and the Count leads her to wintlowaills, and is arranged in a series of shallow
believe that it ia cowardice on the part of Ivan. She rcresses. The vicars rff this church of All Hallow, were
appeals to Ivan tor the reason, but he in painfully appointed by the abbots, who held the great tithes as
silent, 31111 she then tells him that till he thouht rneLee. r:i and
the aiti still
uinstiLitere
liturin.hbaertrisetis:oltrsigtrt:rldoe in 4.llatee
proper to taxable in her they nmat be strangers, but vicars es to have resen'ted this; and on the abbot: fixing
they need not be enemies. Ivan appeals to , • small way, evidently moved from atone other place,
C teas ti give him m a month in which to 7 de ` th °bland whiter mn er Nora archway of the south aisle
hii
~,touch this she agrees to, and un Ivan, aware f w the font was, they made it a cause of dispute, and
the old henna death, or of the Count's connection with the old enmity between the regular priestsu and the
monks ',voice out. Leland gives a full account of this. It
the Princeee, resolves to return to Sitovka on I obtain
scent,' to have extended over many years, during which
the freedoin offered him in the letter which has been the great work of the reconstruction of the abbey church
handed him by the Count. The mecond scene iutro- was begun by Abbot Bruning, and his successor Abbot
duces the Russian village id. Sitovirs, and Khor is ri,af,,,a.
welcomed home again by the serfs, and ahortly after The choir was the first portion taken in hand, and the
Ivan arrives at the cottage, and is warmly received whole of Roger's work was nulled down t 4, the door level,
are at the same time the guests of the Princeas, and the tower was rebuilt, with • now panelled eastern arch
Icy his sister Acoulina. The Countess and Mistigris and the new work huilt resting on it. The upper stage of
while rambling near the serfs' cottages the Countess under it, in place of the Norman one,. which was alto-
gether removed; the walls of the chow and it. aisles,
unexpectedly meets Ivan, who tells her that the ineludine the springing stones of the groining (but not
owner of Sittsaka had been a secontl parent to him, the grouting itself), were carried up, and were
anti that never failing kindness lie wast about to pet temporarily roofed in and thatched until such time as it
ti its last proof. When Ivan meets Khor he learns was considered safe to construct the groining. It warn
to his mortification that the i,ld lord is dead, just then that the bug-standing disputes between the
and that the new lord is a son of the Princess secular priests of All Hallows and the monks reached •
climax ; and the priests erected a font for themselves in
by a former marriage, who he discovers to be the
Ceunt, and the latter ison makes the worst known ellotrßhalwltteasys,., saying that
otrhethedzsevoart
that the
tthhee
monks
to the Countese. At the bidding of the Count Ivan would ring their hells just at the time when the sacrament
Is attired as a serf, ana compelled to submit to of baptism was being administered, and further that the
varitsus degradations at the hands of Steinhadt, who monks had moved the old font in the abbey church to
drives the serfs with a large whip, and as the second another place. At the Easter processions, when the
scene closes Ivan is being flogged for insubordination biahop was present, the Cll9O wa• laid before blur, and ha
ordered :-1. The abbey hoist to be placed in the old
in the presence of the Ceitutesa, who haft interceded
position ; 2. That the door should be enlarged; and, 3,
for him hi Vahl. The scene of the third Act is an
apartment in the eel dean it Sitovka, where Mistß That the bells should not be rung till after the sixth
meets the Countess ley appointment, and the former When, in January, 1136, the faculty for this was
promises the letter tie give Ivan his paeeport and a granted, and the monks replaced ths old font and
disguise to enable him to escape from Itllllllht, the removed that in All Hallows church, the townspeople,
Countersa providing a puree of money te be handed to aided by the Earl of Huntingdon, resisted and
Ivan as the gift of Nlistigria with no mention of her, into the abbey church, and in the riot " a stouts ruera;
&facia clone the stone font," and a "priest of Ail
Mistigris desires Steinhardt to fit up the apartment as Hallows [imy% Leland] shot a shaft with tier into that
a studio, an& Ivan is sent to do the work. Whilst part of the top of tit. Marye Church which divided the
alone Ivan is joined by old Khor, who enters by a cot part that the monks mad from that the tounsemen
secret door knewn only ti himself. This object is to used and this partition chauncing at that time to be
make kinden to Ivan a diabolical plot, by which all in thalikid in the rote wax !tette a lier, and consequently all
the house would 1,0 destroyed. The old man was the the hole chirche, the leddle and the bells melting, was
dcfacid. But Westford, abbot of tiberborne, persecutid
only person aware ttf the fact that a large quantity t,f
powder was attired in the vaults of the Cluiteau, th'thenjuriez,l the f thin:lrene were forcid to contribute
platted there at the time Bonaparte invaded the to the
injury re-edifying
stainetl was :Ircollibiless very great, e_specially
country, and he had entered into a compact with the to the old work of Roger's nave then stand The choir
serf brotherhood to tire the powder with a slow match wails were burnt and tesldened Ity the tire, and are so
at that festival, awl I,low up the Chateau and all that still, 94 well as the great tower piers, where the stalls had
were in it. The signed for the deed wee the ringing stool; and the springing stones of the vaults are also
of a bell the rope of which hang in the room, and iaoeh "rot The "awes aeeni to have .specially raged
against the east wall of the tower, on winch their markm
Khor wro sent to ask Ivan to head the rising of which
:roeweevete-rrywhere visible. 'The lady-chats-I and the porch,
that deed was the signal. Ivan conisente conditionally , esu-apeit, as their roofs were lower, and they
upon the deed being deferred tlll after the Countess were pro-ecte on the nutter side by their gro'ning fro
had left the place, and Khor then returne to confer the 'lames rising int, them. Abbot Bradfard, nt
a man of
with the brethren. Ivan leaves to look for the paints greet energy, at once set to work to repair the mischief,
lug anil Acoulina enters the room, where and arranged his designs for the reconstraction of the
she has been sent to be painted by 3listigrie. The whole church in harniony with the new choir; and,
Count finds her there alone, and as he struggles to kiss
forcingepl
the people to contribute, he at once erected and
the old burnt stones to tell th .r tale of th ha
el.
her Ivan appears and tears away the Count from his "
'eted the groined vaults of the choir and it.
leavingaial
sister, and they have a fierce struggle,d in which they
oue ; and as an additional remembrannce, he carveednzion
are parted by llistigris, who enters with the i'ountess. souse of the bosses a representation of A burning arrow.
The Comae,ec, is acquainted with the Count's attempted The design of the choir is exceedinaly tine, by reason of
outrage, and she announces her intention of leaving the strong emphasis given to its vertical lines by running
the house at once, considering that where a woman's the shafts and panelling clown without an interruption
helplessness was no protection even her station would from the groining to the door, and recessing the arcade
arch to the plane of the. mullions of the windows and
not make her secure. 'The Count orders the carriage
running down these mullions forminc a series of blank
for the I totintese, and gives instructions sotto core, that m panels for the triforiu stage' re'
. (tat effect et height is
the axle shall be sawed l three parts through. rdistigris given by this, and by the !ugh level at which the spring.
has stone words aside with Ivan, who extracte a pro- ing of the groining is fixed. This v.tult is exceetlitorly
niige that he would oleep that night at Khor'a cabin, beautiful in effect, though surpaased hey that of the
which promise 3listigris has no intention of keeping. nave Neither of these vaults is mentioned by Professor
When Ivan has left Migtigris intercedes with the Willis in his most valuable paper read here in 1a42 •an
Count for Ivan and Aeoulina, and the remit . that omission which it is difficult to understand, a• they
they arrange to fight a duel with pistols in that room ittafteroateeoadtype of vault which combines the beauties of
after supper. The Count retires, and filiatigris any
of
the
iliostances erne system to a m4cehrogereotaituo.r detgereevlt
followe t.,., find the housekeeper and obtain the key of of the cloisters and porch at Gloucester, built about this
the route, 811 that the encounter might be uninter• time, as "the work of men of bold and original genius;"
ringed. While Ivan is alone in the dark tbe Countess and he thinks that to them may be tarigned the Invent.
returns, the carriage having broken down, and just lion of fan-vaulting. Yet neither in boldness nor beauty
ao she hat, entered Mistigris, unaware that anyone is of design do these Gloucester vaults equal those of
in the moons, closes the door quietly and locke it 011 the Sherborne.
outside t, keep out intniders. Ivan implores the
Countess to leave the place instantly, and then
dist-overt; that the diner is locked and the windows
barre,L As they are clamped in each other's
arms awei Ling destruetien, Klior enters by the
secret way to give the signal for the powder to be
firer/ Klior runs to the bell rope, and is followed by
Ivan, and they grapple with each other and fall on the
stage, Ivan randermest. The Countess acreama for
, help, and Mistiris unlocks the door and enter, with a
, pistol in his handl which he fires, and Kb.. is is strock.
, Khor, vato is dying, then confesses before the whole
household that he murdered his wife. The e'ount :
" Murdered tier! Don't we all know she was drowned
in the floral with the infant prince, her nurseling.'
Khor: " No, the flood spared her; I was more cruel.
I killed them I tell
,you, her and her son !" Ivan, try-
ing to take Khor s hand: " Her gots! He lives,
father, he is here !" Khor : " Stand off ! Kitor's
hand must not be grasped by a Bariatinski. The
innocent boy I murdered had the blood, but not the
name. (To Ivan) : Son of Prince Bariatinski, I
saved you and reared you an a serf to avenge my order
and destroy your own." The serfs recognise Ivan as
their prince, Khor falls and dies, Acoulina is raised
from her father's body by Mistigris, and the curtain
falls as Ivan and the Countess embrace each other.
While all did well, the acting of Mi. Ryan and Mr.
T. D. B. Rawlins was most admired. Mr. Smith also
well performed the part of a decrepit, desperate old
serf, finch the drama was undoubtedly the leading play
of those produced at the entertainmenta.
During the interval between the two pieces Mr. J.
W. Smith, as Sir Peter Teazle, and Miss F. teL Ryan,
as Lady 'resets, kept the audience in roars of laughter
over the Quarrel Scene from the" School for Scandal,"
and the irritable old husband and the tearing young
wife were capitally imitated.
The first night's performance concluded with J. It.
Planche's Vaudeville, " The Loan of a Lover," in
which the coat was :

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subtle mresisti.everytioaletz:leniguntg
.disearicy
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Gazette.
EXIORATION TO QktIiENSLAND. —The high classed iron
barque "Charles Dic exs " Captain Bockwoldt, owne 1 by
MOV4TR. R. M. !Boman & Co., sailed from Hamburg on the
sth instant, bound for Brisbane, Queensland, having on
board the following number of emigrants, viz., 91 married
couples, 98 single men, 55 single women, 148 children be-
tween the aces of 12 and I, and 21 infants, making • total
of 507 souls, equal to 409 statute adult*. The single
women are under the charge of Mrs. Croueher, Dr. Una.
harlt acting a.s SurgeonSuperintendant.
Neither the Prince nor the Princess of Wale. is in good
health. Of late the Princess's draft... has very consider-
ably increased, and it is whispered that her medical
advisers are becoming anxious about the soundness of one
of her lungs. It is in consequence of thaw considerations
that her royal 44gliness bas gone to a warmer climates.
The Prioce of Wales is also in a very weak condition.
He has been suffering from a plague of "blind " bolls,
one or two have been cut.