The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-07 00:00:00

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Wirrisetrri.—Preservation qf Li(e. Pole and
riegpme der ihr reeming drowning persona, are now
at the police station and the watch house
0,1 the Weymouth side, and instructions for the
trestment of pintas taken from the water are also
pet sp. at the IMOD phase. This excellent arrange-
ment is dee to R. N. Howard, Eeq.. who broulait
the subject before the Council. The cost has been
cooperatively tritling—on/y €2 10a.
WaLsrAzt CHLTIL.—On Wednesday evening
teeth a tes took Owe at the school-roons of the
above chapel, and afterwards a splendid lecture on
"Self Conquest" was delivered in the chapel, by the
Rev. K. Roberts, one of the celebrated Exeter Hall
lecturers. As the lecture is already printed, and may
be obtained at the bookseller's for a small sum, its
unnocomery we should report a.iy portion of it. We
0,0 result, however, that it was one of the most
inagnilinist ofomtory we have ever listened
to. sad we believe perusal of the lecture would
afford no km gratification than the experience of it.

deli very.
mrDDLE scnooi--On Friday evening, the pupils .
(the above establishment presented • testimonial of
heir id to Mr. C Stroud, one of the teachers
tu " '
bobs. ropsagJy obtained a fint-claas certificate, and
Imo quieted the Middle School for Cheltenham Col-
lege. The presentation was celebrated by a tea, the
expense being defrayed by subscription of the 'cho-
ws. After tem the testimonial, consisting of a hand.
weal watch and chain, was presented to Mr. Strood,
w,waapeuied b 7 the following address:—" We the ,
emismigoed friends, teachers, and scholars, of the
w glow* Middle School, beg your aoceptancs
this small token at the esteem an which your services
have been held whilst one of the masters of the above
~,boola. We meet you on the present occasion with
wiaod feelings of regret and pleasure; regret, ,
bemuse we feel that those amongst whom you have ,
wboorad will DOW lOWA • friend and one who has :
always Mown himself interested in their progress,
and anxious to promote their welfare both temporal
and eternal—pleasure, because of the success which
Nu amid, attended your studies, and the increased
hatities you will now have afforded your of carrying
awn on with renewed zeal, and gill more, because
you will be now placed is that position where, by
the blaming of God attending • careful preparation,
you may be still more fitted to occupy that high and
holy station which during your presence amongst us
you have shown yourself so well adapted to filL In
conclusion, we pray that the riobest blessings of the
Almighty may rest in abundance on you, and that
your future career may be crowned with that success
which shall bring honour to God, and benefit all
with whom you may be connected. Your sincerest
friend; ke., Ac." Mr. Stroud acknowledged the pre-
sent with a suitable reply expressive of the delight
and satisfaction which he felt at the manifeetation of
esteem. The watch and chain were obtained by the
contributions of the pupils, teachers, and friends of
the Middle School
Pours, Monday.—Present, the Mayor and G. C.
weheg,b Beitwflotirlitact.a/tifly, • " turnpike" sailor, was
chord id& drank, dismderly, and nislatin'g the
poles. He had • mob of boys around him,
and oesesiamed at annoyance to people going toduariel.
Whim takes into custody he resisted by laying down,
and was carried by the constable to the station. Fined
be., and coda, in default committed to Dorchester geol.
--Seated Ckalker, & boy, WAS charged with di.terb_
ing the congregation of Trinity Churoli, during divine
brawler evening. Prisoner conducted himself
in • ,*y diorderly manner, laughing and talking so
Iced 1111 Maloney the congregation. The pew-opener en-
deaveured to remove him, and he nearly pushed her
lockwuds. Remanded till Tuesday, when be was dis-
missed with • reprimand from the Mayor, for his bad
behavioer, it being represented to the Bench that there
vu no desire to proceed severely against him.
Tvearizr.—(Present: The Mayor, E. Bayly, Esq. R.
Cokerell, Esq., R. Griffin, Esq., W. Talbot, Esq., 'and
Captain k`rowee, R.N.)—Henry Meech, tailor, was sum-
moned for an assault on John Bolt also of the "gentle
craft" Defeudant did not appear, and complainant
stated his one. On Saturday night he was at the White
Hone, when defendant same in, and abused hint very
math, struck him in the face, and made his nose bleed.
He also struck him again, and knocked his hat off. Gave
him no provocation whatever. Service of summons hav-
ing been proved, defendant was fined is., and is. 10d.,
eats. Defendant had arrived in court some time after
Ike ease terminated, and the Bench had retired, and
king informed of the state of matters, said he bad no
money and must have time. He could neither pay to-
iler or to-morrow. He added that complainant called
bun •b— thief. He was acquainted by the superin-
tendent that the alternative was fourteen days imprison-
ment, and went away with the philosophic reflection that
" be opposed he must go to gaol.'
POITLADD HASIDOUB.- 011108 • Week contains • plea-
not paper on the harbour of refuge at Portland. We
take a paragraph : "The first object of the engineers
here has been to construct • rubble bank; and with this
view • temporary staging carried on piles into the water I
is erected in the following manner. A pile is loaded
heavily and souk into the blue waves ; its lower end is
shod with • large cast-iron screw, while it. top is fitted
with • cap, having long radiating anus of wood. The
ends of throe arms are notched, to carry • grout rope
coiled round them, one end of which passes to the shore.
The arms thus form a kind of large skeleton reel or drum,
wound about with a rope, the loom end of which is then
hauled upon with powerful machinery; and the pile
steadied by guys, hieing thos mad* to revolve, slowly
screws its way down into the 'died earth, becoming
finner and firmer with each revolution. Ou• row of
piles Is thus Geed, and another parallel row at thirty
feet distinct* from the first is also screwed into the soil.
Upon these, as a foundation, longitudinal timbers are
laid, and on the timbers a strong platform erected. We
hart thus progressed thirty feet into the sea, and the
balding machinery is now worked from the stating thus
formed over the spot where the blue water gurgled
uninvidied yesterday. Another row of pile' at thirty
feet distance from the laiit is now screwed in, and
another thirty feet won from the water. Simply told,
this is all that is requisite to carry out the wooden stag-
ing far into the esa. Of the practical difficulties in-
volved in the work we say nothing here: Out they are
often coanderable will be amity inferred, when we
remeinbik the great depth of water in which mealy of
them piles are strewed, and the immense weight and
size of the piles. themselves. Strictly speaking there are
now two separate breakwaters being coostrocted at
Portland, the first running due east from the shore for
about 1,800 feet, and an outer or main breakwater,
shish Is to be about 6,000 feet long, separated from the
fird by as opening 400 feet in width, and 'weeping in a
eireslar carve away to the north-east. The lirst of
thus, now pearly completed, is not only &sea wall, but
• landing and coaling stage for large vowels as well;
while the outer or main breakwater is at present nothing
mote than '• Um of ridable stonework rising shove the
sea. _ .

Stinteistm.—Richard Morris, one of the inmates
of the Stierborne almshouse, who had recently at-
tempted to drown himself in Purlieu, died on Fri-
dai! week. The unfortunate man has been gradually
sinking since be made the rash attempt upon hns
life: -His remains were interred on Tue last,
in the Cemetery, in the same gmve as those of has
wife, who wee also interred a few days prenomly,
slielaving died, it is end, of a broken heart.
A deputation from the Dorset Central Railway
CoMpley, ordesting of Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P.,
chairmen • Sit E. B. Baker, Bert., deputy chair-
man; Messrs. Henry Rey Seymer, Esq., M.P.,
George Reed, and J. C. Memel, directors; Mr.
Getard Start, M.P., the Hon. W. H. B. Portman,
M.P., Mr. John Mengel, Mr. Toogood,Parliamentary
agent • Mr. C. H. Gregory, the engineer; Mr. R.
C. "Raid, starstaty • and Mr. Donaldson. resident
engineer 'h an interview with the Right Hon. T.
Maner Gibson and the Right Hon. W. Cowper, on
Thursday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
PATAL ACCIDiNT.—On Monday a melancholy ac-
cident betel a young man named Mark Bolgin,
carter to Mr. William Bugg, of Toomer Farm, Hen-
*triage. Decemed, with two men named Day and
Lemon, together with a bid, a sou of the last named,
were employed in conveying some clover Need in
two wiqpitis to the mill at Clifton Maybank. They
noppeo about an boar at the Crown Inn, New-well
Water, where they had some refreshments. De-
ceased and the boy then proceeded on their way,
leaving Day and Lemon (the latter of whom was
much intoxicated) behind. When they got just past
the road leading to Lenthay, deceased, in endeavour-
ing to get on to the shafts of the wagon he was driv-
ing, fell on his back, and the wheels passed over his
right side, slitting his ear in halves, horribly mutilat-
ing his skull, and completely twisting his jawbone.
Blood towed copiously from his head and eari, and,
not a groan escaping him, death must have been in-
manta:mom The body presented a shocking specta-
cle. The Bole of the boot was torn from the upper
leather, and the " toe-plate" was half-twisted, from
which it appears that the foot of the unfortunate
man became entangled in the wheel whilst he was in
sot of mounting the shaft. Another sad [(Attire in
feature in connection with the melancholy affair is,
that the poor fellow was to have been married in the
course of a few days, and we are informed he had
that morning purchased the ring. The two men,
Lemon and Day, came up shortly after the accident,
in a state of intoxication, when Mr. Hoddinott very
properly refused to allow them to proceed any fur-
ther with the wagons, and sent some men on with
the boy. The body of deceased wrs placed in a cart
and sent to the Crown Inn. An inquest was held at
the Townhall the next morning: before J. Y. Mel-
moth, Esq., coroner, when the ury returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental death." was a line-
lolgiag young men, about 23 years of age.
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ILIT ILIURY Moniay evening
Wll¼ the Rev. E. Raritan lectured on "Poetry,
beings sequel to that delivered by him a year or two
sines ep "Reeding mid Writing." The rev. gen-
tians, remarked on the incorrect definitions given
of the tens Poetry by various writers, and exprmoad
Wows idea of its right inreta 'We. He doubted
*Whig English poetry dMed earlier then Chaucer's
tirilillmagh Atrium' may be traced as he bask as
the dsyu of Edward the Cashion', who had written
tb• •guM of ma lands in rhyme, probably the
better to furor it out the mischief those who were
unable to raid. In the mune of the lecture several
picots esd poems were reed and quoted from in
order to oho* the peculiar adaptation oi the difirrent
medieres and metres to their varroos themes. The
*ere frenr—emengst ethere—Shekeepere,
Milton, Coleridge, and Pope, the latter of whom the
lectimmuleakred ins pas eereibeser the pm* of the
Natili,m it r
t so
irouidawA ! wwhoinoirsortouithoo;tqbaiving
Vim; bgrilluriertyllgtElireleted the
weeds terrible idiots of the of the Piper

of Brunswick, every three lines of which ended with
the same sound Was read to show the great effect
given to poetry by rhyme. Mtivii applause was
elicited by the reading of this piece, as well as at in-
tervals throughout the lecture, and at the close
Thomas Ffooks, Esq., vice-president, tendered the
thanks of the audience to the rev, lecturer for the
evening's entertainment he had afforded them.—The
members of the Institution will be much gratified to
perceive that the Itev. Canon Girdlestone, of Bristol,
is announced to lecture on Thursday next.
BOARD OF flaatrai.—One of the subjects of ilia-
cession by this body, at the meeting on Tuesday
night last, Was the delay that occurred at the late
tire in rendering the reservoir water available. The
Inspector stated he was ill abed, but be declared
there had been no delay on the part of the man who
turned the water on. The Board agreed that better
arrangements must be made for the future, and
ordered the stand-pipe and bine of the Board to be
removed to the engine-house, and the Fire Com-
mittee will take steps for rendering the service more
efficient —The important subject of a Market-house
and approaches to the railway were than debated,
and it was unanimously agreed to seek an interview
with Mr. Digby with a view to the former, and to
write to the Railway Company for an answer that
has been long due on the latter subject.