The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

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weld tell them, It makes men very eovetons, for he saw
• man the other day who wanted to walk both sided of
the road at the sarne time. (Letighter.) He would
now call ox the Res. William Tubb to address them,
who was received with much cheering, said he had
listened with Considerable interest to the speeches of
the preceding speakers, but it was no use for neither
they nor he to come there wearing out their toogued
and the roof a of their mouths in talking about total
abstinence. The great and pressing question was, what
were they going to do (Hear, bear.) Were they going
that isigit to take the pledge and give it a fair trial?
Others may adopt it, principles, and participate in its
blessinge, and get clerks and schoolnodters, and farmers,
and esquires, arid states:men, with K. P. affixed to their
names, and make the walls of the Houses of Parliament
ring with the thtioder of their oratory; but unless they
adopted the principles for themselves no good would
accrue to them. (Hear, hear.) Ile believed there
were many a man whose position in the world, through
Islatmpermice, was not so good as it might and ought to
he. And he further believed there were many a saint
Is glory that would have shooed infinitely brighter had
they been teetotalers down here. If intoxicating drink.
was an impediment to them they ought to adopt the
principles of total abstinence. The rev, gentleman then
went into the temperance question at great length, and
coocluded an eloquert addreas by expressing • hope
that the time would speedily come when the fowl stain
of drunkenness would be wiped away from the fam of
this nation. (Loud applause.) After votes of thanks
were passed to the Be,, T. litaker for the kind uae of
the schoolroom, and to the Hwy. William Tubb for his
excellent address, the meeting alosed with the
doxology and benediction.
POOLE—Cou CT OF Qu KIN'S BztCiI,IST.
unurrttit.—Sittiop in Banco, before the Lord Chia
Justice, Mr. Juatioes Wightinan, Blackburn, and
Mellor. In the matter of Oakley and the
Justices of Poole.—Mr. Welsby, in this ease, moved for
• role for. maradamas to the Jastices of Poole to issue
their warrant of distress upon the good. of a Mr.O•kleY,
in order to levy a rate under • local Act of Parliament, •
Church Building Act, enabling trustee' to borrow money
and to levy rates to repay it. The trustees had borrowed
the money, of which upwards of £2,000 remained due,
and they had been in the habit of making rates to repay
principal and interest, and hod messed Mr. Oakley as
an occupier on a rate duly made under the Act. On
the application to the magistrates, however, for • war-
rant of distress he objected that the rate was a church'
rate, and that he disputed his validity, and that there-
fore the jellifies had no jurisdiction. And they eis held.
and declined to issue their warrant. The learned
counsel urged that this was not a case of a church-rate
at all, but • Parliamentary church-building rate, which
never could be within the cognisance of the Eceieslastl-
cal authorities. The Court apn,xed disposed no to
think and scoordingly grantml • rile nisi for a
mandossau.

An application was made to Mr. Commissioner
Goulburn on Friday last, to release Colonel Waugh
from prison. The condition of the bankrupt
was described as very pitiable, his eyesight being nearly
gone. The commissioner postponed his decision on the
application till he had seen Mr Commissioner Ilolroyd,
who refused the request when it was formerly made.
Pain Sitoovtxo.—R. R. Chester Waters, Esq , el
Upton House, having very liberally presented two
pieces of plate, to be shot for by the 4th Dorset (Poole)
Rifle Corp., Mr competition came off at the butts,
Lilliput, on Wednesday, 19 members of the corps
" good Muria and true "—couipeting. The
were 150, 300, 40n, and SOO yards. Private Gate7nE
winner a the first prise at the late annual competition,
was the winner of the first prime on the presertt *melon
with a total of 53 points. For the second prise there
was a tie between-Lieut. Aldridge and Private Hawke',
which being shot off, resulted in favour of the latter.
The weather was very favourable throughout the day.
It is reported that the extensive works of the Poole
foundry, which have hitherto been carried on by the
proprietor, W, Pearce, Hsu 4 are shortly to become the
property of C. A. Lewin, Esq., of the firm of Lewin
and Co., timber merchants, Poole.
CLealcia, Camioc—The Rev. W. Duckett, Dl).,
has just been appointed to the perpetual curacy of
%anima, near Poole, in the diocese of Salisbury,
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Talbot

Day.
SZAMONABLR OIPTS.—The Poole Clothing Club have
just distributed 139 pain of blankets to the poor of the
town and neighbourhood. During the year each
recipient pays one penny per week towards the
purchase, and the remainder is given by subscribers.
A.n.Ciwitch RAM—We understand that the con-
tending parties to this ass in the Queen's Bench have
obtained an adjournment, on the grounds of the illness
of their counsel, Kr. Phi_ pson, Q.C.
00n Commence.- The long-mooted project of
establishing steam oommunication between Poole and
Cherbourg on the French roast, distance about 70
miles, is again before the public. Several en-
terprising gentlemen are arranging for its oempletlon
during the ensuing spring.
AN APPROPRIATE TEXT.—A few weeks since a rev.
gentleman of Poole took to himself • wife, and of
, cour•e, being all attention to the object of hi. choice,
as best become • newly-made husband, he permitted a
rev, friend to occupy his place in the pnlpit. On the
first Sunday of his return to his mission be entered the
place of worship just as his friend gave out the text,
" Beloved, the bridegroom cometh with the bride of
the Lamb." . .

OuitEoe AL N eIItANCI. —ln commenting on the various
railway schemes in the Private Bill Office of the House
of Commons, the Daily Nem adverts to the proposed
Wimborne, Poole, and Bournemouth Railway, and also
to the long standing institution of " black mail" levied
on all passengers and traffic crossing Poole bridge, of which
our contemporary arm on, of the wealthiest oten is
Europe, Sir Ivor Gaeai, provides a toll tither. It is cer-
tainly true, that since the construction of this bridge,
the Lord of the Manor has imposed this tax on every-
thing crossing his bridge. We wonder the Corporation
of Poole have not long since stirred in the matter, and
endeavoured to rid the town of so gigantic an incubus,
either by purchase or otherwise. The present condition
of the bridge is considered very insecure.
NuYILS, THZIR HISTORY AND UNIS.—A lecture on
the above interesting hubject was delivered by kV E.,
Chester Waters, Esq., of Upton house, on Friday
evening, at the Temperance Hall, under the auspice* of
the Poole Mechanics' Institution, E. Lacy, Peg., vice.
president, in the chair. The lecturer gave a graphic
description of the "light literature" of remote antiquity,
culled from ancient classical writers, ensbra3ing the
humorous and magic productions of Rome, Greece,
Persia, and the Rest, and ending with • digest of modern
fiction—one of the great institutions of the ago. At
' the close of the lecture the chairman warmly thanked
Mr. Water. for the very scholarly entertainment, and
also tendered him the thanks of the committee. The
lecture was fully and fashionably attended, and the
audience showered repeated plaudits on the learned
gentleman.
BOY MISSING.— For the past week • young led named
Grant, 14 yeare of age, has been missing from his
parents, and many conjectures are hasuded as to his
fate. The last time he was seen was on Monday evening
the IPth init. He was employed by Mr. Mesden,
shipbuilder, and it is supposed that the poor boy when
leaving the ship on which he was at work, meet have
fallen overboard and been drowned, The harbour has
been dragged, but the body has not yet been recovered.
THZ CORPORATION AT CHURCH.—OR Sunday last our
new Mayor, the corporation, town serjesints, and other
officials, accompanied by the police, went in procession
from the guildhall to St-Jainee's church, where, acoord.ng
to "ye antient customs," the annual sermon warn
preached.
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CHARLTON MARSHALL -Nctortnoute' Quantum&
At the Magistrates' Clerk's office. before J. J. Farqu-
harson' and W. P. Okedon, &qrs., JOADINI Himoek
and Susannah and Mary, his wife and daughter, were
charged with having on the 18th November, at Charlton,
committed an assault 'on Sabina, the wife of James
Pope. It appeared from the evidence, which was very
contradictory, that on the day in question the prose-
crutris was washing her house, and some of
the water aecidentally went over Mary Hiscook, who in
rein= threw some over Mrs, Pope. In the evening
when the father returned from his work he went to
prosecutor to inquire into the affair, and was told It was
his daughter's own fault. He then went home, but soon
after returned, accompanied by his wife and daughter,
and went into Mrs. Pope's house. Mrs. Pope then
took hold of the daughter and pot her out, whereupon
the two elder ladies, with language more forcible than
polite, had a regular set-to, of which Mrs. Pope's fen
bore ample ltestimony.—The Bench. considering that
the defendants had no right in Mn, Pope's house, fined
Mrs. Hem& ISa, and costa, and bound her husband in
the Min of £lO to keep the peace for siz montbs.—Mr.
Atkinson, who appeared for the defendants, then ap-
plied for a summons against Mn. Pape, which was
granted.
BLA NDFORD. —GARIBALDI AID TRU GATTI.* ?LAYNE
OF ITALY.— We would direct the attention of our readers
to the announcement of an entertainment coming off on
Thursday evening next at the Corn Exchange, as being
one which, from its novelty, can hardly fail to prove
very attractive. Signor Viciento, whom eloquent orations
on behalf of his native land have mined him many
admirers, intends on that occasion, with the assistance
of the Drum and Fife Band, and a file of the Rifle Voltui-
teers, to give an original and picturesque representa-
tion of the battles and straggles through which Italy has
lately passed. Interspersed with the popular songs of
liberty, sang by the Italian and French armies on their
march to the battle-field. Our talented organist, Mrs.
Edwards, and several gentlemen of the town and neigh-
bourhood, have kindly consented to assist the Signor in
the musical part of the programme; and we trust to see
as Imre an sodium as the room will conveniently
accommodate.
Tug New Rlccrot—On Saturday evening a merry
peal from the church tower, announced to the in.
habitant+ of the town the arrival of one whom we
have every reason to believe will not only be most
welcome to all but prove a blessing to the parish. On
the following day, after morning prayers Mr. Quirk
formally read himself in as vicar, and preiched in the
afternoon and evening. At the latter service the church
was crowded.