The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

Sontersetsbire.

YEOVIL—TeIt:ITV SUNDAY AND DAY Sato°le.
—A tea ineetinv in connection with them schools
wee held in the New Schoolroom, on Wedneeda y, as
which about 200 attended. By the e un'
arrangement made, everything pared offweiihnett:
greater order and satisfaction. The waiting table
were arranged on one aide of the room, while th:
large
space on the opposite side was well -occu pied
by forma, at which visitors seated tlienmslves, and
were attentively waited upon by the young indlui•
who superintended the tables. The tea-servo:es and
tables have lately been purchased by the wapitie
donatices of members of Trinity Church r -
g entep-
Ron, and they will henceforth be kept for use at
tea-
meetings connected with the church and schools,
thereby doing away with the °G w.p.m.. and inoon-
venire:a in future borrowing. ram ems sung te.
fore and after tee., and after an adjournment for an
hour, a public meeting was held, when addresses
were delivered by various gentlemen present. The
Rev. J. D. Elliott occupied the chair. After singing
the Natimal Anthem, which Mr. Elliott said was
not only • song, but also a prayer for bleeeinge upon
our Qnsen and the Royal Family, the rev. gentle-
man engaged in prayer, after which, he called on Mr.
Penny to address the meeting. Mr. Penny adverted
at some length to the valuable labours of the
Rev. J. D. Elliott in the pariah, in the
osnee of advanciug education, and of his
untiring zeal and energies in raising funds
for the pest erection and present enlargement of the
echoolroome. He ex premed the pride and parer*
which he felt at being present at a meetings.
numerously attended, and proceeded to pre high
minium/ on Mr. Pitt and Lord Brougham as the
great promoters of education. He adverted to the
efforts of the latter for the abolition of the slay
trade, and for the promotion of civil and religion:
liberty throughout the world. It had biles be the
lot of the noble lord to do more than other mem le
promote the difforoo of adoration amoog his fellow'
countrymen. He had pored • life in acquiring, but
not in acquiring only but also in diffusing knowledp,
and thereby oonferring great benefits on others. He
neat dilated at some length on the assistance
✓endered by Government, by mechanics' insti-
tutes, by cheap postage, and' above all, by
▪ cheap, free, and unfettered press, to the
MILO of education, and concluded by wishing
the school every success. The Rev. J. 1). Elliott
in the coons of some most complimentary remarks
Introduced theißev. Mr. Drake, who, he said, had
been • missionary in the Indies, and was from the
emerald iale. The Rev. Mr. Drake delivered a
very felicitous speech, which was frequently inter-
rupted by warm applause. Tbe gist of the rev.
gestleman's remarks was on the advantages of •
nett system of early edocatioe. They would feel
that the object' of education, to whatever breast
their thoughts were tented, was not simply to store
erne rinds with • ornain number of fare, or to
become acquainted by vote of certain things
without applying them to their own moral
and intellectual profit; but the object of education
was to train the mind by methods of instruction and
the systematic application of knowledge; thereby
training the character, and thus fitting them, in
their respective walks in life to discharge
their duties to their children, to their fellows around
them, end to their Creator, in whatever positions
in life they might be placed. The main objectof Woos-
ter' was to teach the subordination of sense and of
temporary obj. ota of gratification to the higher
considerations of moral and religious improvement
The great object of moral training was
to teak the subordination of self to reason, not
mere abstract reason, but mem refined, elevated,
and chastened by the truths of revelatin. He
trembled, under God's blaming, they would put
before themselves and their children a hig6r
standard of arra than mere wordly &arterials,
while the distinctions they gained wen all valuable
as means to an ecd,the end was that the character
should be so formed,trained,and reguleted,as to or'
them to do good to room around them, and
mote the will of the Creator who bad - Plfte
In the world.—After some raw' _ Plista.„n fasea
the Rev. J. D. Elliott said" Mt slob at
re
at
awing so many prier- •
children, Ind /"... wleCnti flv the mother, of
larger "m1:....cr of fathers tiara That meeting was
eadandmod promise from last year. It was
am moss& aserstiag of the kind they had mime the
2:l4emeting, from the periods of which
4were enabled to make a consideraba
addition to the funds, but this, as well as the pre.
'visa meeting had ban • anal km It was not,
however, right to look at pecuniary metiers when
the moral o the thing was fully understood. He
• should like to have a similar meeting every year. and
the committee had permed • resolution to that effect
He wished to promote harmony and goodwill
moos.' them, and be believed the time was not far
-distant whin eniiversal harmony and goodwill would
prevail anienget the people. The working man was
• a reapestable man if be respected himself ; and when
4n 4W star be was happier than many of Use
width Work rather dignified an individual than
relherwire, and that rate of society was wrong whin
2enlied down upon the working MEM berme is. wee
snob. Referring to tho school, he said the eyetre
of education reeve adopted would benefit, not only
the children of the working elares, but also the
traders of the middle ramie up to the age of nine
or tea years. mach more then the systems adopted
in many schools. The system of discipline they
used was amok better for cultivating juvenile minds.
The eider children paid one-penny, and the younger
children two-pesos per week. Last year they were
matted to return move than half the piece to the
children, and be hoped, by God's blaming, they
should yet be 'cabled to do more. The Govern-
meat Inspector, who had visited the =hoot, hied at-
lamed great mlisdiction at the manner in which
fibs matrons* imparted indignation, and the
•principles epos which the school was conducted
to a certain point, and that was, that
over the age of six yews, by the Govern-
ment rides were not allowed to be tenet in the
seam room as those below that age. They must
either have sasaar rasa and divide the children,
otition the room 18 inches thick in brick, or 20
inches
thick in erne. A board partition would not
be allowed. If such was not done they would lees
the Government grant. That to him was quite
• knock-down blow. He had !abound hard on
behalf of the new room in the commericoment to
get up the mosey ; and afterwards, while the school
was building, he almost morifieed his life by aired-
big its erection, in standing about in the winds sad
draught". Rs lost his voice, and was ocainad home
for several weeks, but he felt oenedent that He
who had called him by his grace would spare his
life, restore his voice, and seed him firth again
am:mpg his frieeds. Having detailed the noble
manner in which mama gentlemen had come
forward to weir in erecting the schoolroom, the rev.
gentleman spoke of the good effect which the school
was producing in moulding and influencing the
minds of the rising generation, to amble them to
Income good ambers of society, and ultimately fit
the. for another and • better world. He concluded
by eulogising the teashere on the satisfactory report
received from the Govoniniset Inepsolor, sad ex.
premed • hope that more wars would mad their
children to the school, where he felt confident under
the able tuition of the Mims Smith and Upton they
would Toosivo precepts which would be useful to
them to guide and adorn life, and terminate their
days with • mailing serenity. He felt amend that
as everything had given so much estistactioci in the
pests it would be for greater in the coming year.
The benediction having been given the meeting
tersdosted. In the merge of the evening the choir,
amisbed by other Moods, mug a selection of meek in
a most satiebanory and praiseworthy manner.
CNIMCE AOOIDIIODA7IOII.—At the elms of the
vestry meeting held at St. John's Church, on Thurs-
day morning last. Mr. Cox, one of the members of
the Town Council, mid in his opinion the moons-
medation at Bt. Joba's Church was not sallicant for
the parish, sad that slam the alterations bad been
it wee math less than before. The galleries
bad been taken down, and a largo sperm was now
monMed in the body of the chunk by the Sunday
school children, of whom there were between two
and three hundred. Cocain gentlemen present mut
it was anticipated that a new church would be
erected at Teeen Marsh, for which Mr.
Bullock bad offered • pros of land suitable for the
she, and had also premised • doeation of £2OO.
The Rev. Mt. BIS* Of SOAP, had also promised to
airs all the roue required to erase • March. We
have DO doubt, tberefore, with soot munificent offen,
and by a groat from the Ohara Building Society,
that so laudable an undertaking will be oarrad out
Yeovil being • rising town, and having • rapidly
iirsr,==o., ample church amommodstios
BUXTON lllALLET.—lineurics Aornmorr.
pa Thursday but Mr. Abraham Green, residing at
ommerdy Grove, near this tows, WO hand by •
Rade boy,ed James Liars, in a stain of in-
seedbeity, wed bleeding profanely, maid* a stable
I. width be kept his bores& The boy intowlia"4
na ter beluaudehabartly a medical man WWI OD the
spot, sad amistaat ateadaios we are glad
• slowly bet favourably. this
napposeto say he
labiragralskagmosoi Immo been Jackal en the hold by
his horns (whisk was found ramie( looms) whilst
cleaning it, and galled by niamaelery eassokuressa,
be found Me way out of the stable, and thus
raved from • salsa drab.
Os Tuesday, 19th Match, • vests, neaituld. wee
~taw tee
held for the of *lading church
the nest halfvear, when Mr. B. HUM Mr. F. Rich-
mond, sad CpUila Maid were reelected. The
two forma were thanked for the attention they pad
whilst this organ waa under repair. Sad the Prim"'
worthy mamas, in which the allershions were carried
sea
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maseing was held as Tuesday main& prided one
by Mr. Jewst_ti.liax. After money MOM bed
been gone • dissinelon arms se to the
validity el • r7iMperli2 rbe:peo=tedh• co=
▪ ei whica
amain* and retasharp debate pro. sal ea..
was W eba melorhy that 14 years of
the fewest ash of samisioa Aftpe
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imam te adopted for kunesliest a waist