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

Wiltshire.

SALISBURY.— A cconamodalion at the Nero Market
Howse. —A memorial, signed by nearly 200 farmers
and dealers attending the Salisbury market, is about
to be presented to the Directors of the Company,
praying for an extension of space for the transaction
of business, and for permission to place two rows of
sacks throughout the entire centre platforms, the
present crowded state of the market, rendering the
entrance and middle thoroughfare almost impassable.
The memorialists, at the same time, tender their
acknowledgments to the Company for having provid-
ed stch a "noble building," and express a hope that
on the completion of the South-Western line to
Exeter it will become a profitable investment, and be
the means of rendering this the first and greatest
corn-market in the West of England.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC DISTITCTION. On
Thursday evening, the Rev. Chancellor Fraser, Rec-
tor of Cholderton, lectured to the friends and mem-
bers of this institution, at the Assembly Rooms, on
"Dr. Johnson." The subject was most ably treated
and at the conclusion a cordial vote of thanks was
tendered to the rev. lecturer.
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SALISBURY PF.NNY SAYINGS B•NK. —A meeting
of the friends of this institution was held in the board
room, in the Close, on Thursday last, when a report
of the proceedings from the opening, on the 2nd day
of May, to the 314 December last, was read. The
auditors, Richard Hetley, Esq., and George Bracher,
Esq., certified the amounts, with the following
results :-446 accounts have been opened, covering
3,655 deposits, amounting to £166 17s. lid., of which
£l2 6s. 9d. have been withdrawn, leaving £154
Its. 2d. to the credit of the depositors. The Wilts
and Dorset Bank allowed £1 19s. 7d. for interest of
moneys paid to them, of which 3a. Id. had been ap•
plied to the depositor's accounts, leaving a balance of
£116., 65. to the credit of the interest account. The
expenses of management, as well for clerk's salary,
and stationery, as also for coals, candles, and cleaning
the rooms where the meetings are held, amounting to
£3O Os. 5d., have been paid- by the hon. secretary,
towards which he had received £2l sa. The friends
of the institution are desirous that all the expenses of
management shall be defrayed by subscriptions, until
ascient surplus can be shown from the interest
account to cover such expenses. They therefore ear.
neatly appeal to the inhabitanu of Salisbury and its
vicinity to support them in so desirable an object.
Subscriptions and donations will be thankfully re.
ceived by the hon. secretary, or may be paid to the
credit of the Penny Bank account, at the Wilts and
Dorset Bank, Salisbury.
BATH AND WIRT OF ENGLAND.— EXHIBITION OF
Mem—A few weeks since we inserted a paragraph
which had appeared in the Exeter papers, stating
that the Council of the Bath and West of England
Society had resolved on continuing the arts and
manufacturing department, which was so successful
last year at Barnstaple. We now revert to the sub-
ject in the hope that as the next exhibition of the
Society will take place at Dorchester in June next,
many of the tradesmen and manufacturers of Salis-
bury and the surrounding district may be induced to
become exhibitors. The object is a most important
one, it being "to engraft on the rapid improvement
in agricultural produce and machinery a correspond-
ing improvement in taste, and thereby to exteuid the
local demand for works of art and manufacture,
whether useful or ornamental, of the highest quality
and the best design." Now, as Salisbury has had an
exhibition of its own, and has also been honoured
by a visit from the Royal Agricultural Society, it is
to be hoped that our local tradesman have so pro.
fited from their past experience as to have resolved
not to be behind- their neighbours on any similar oc-
casion. With two lines of railway, they possess every
facility for the transmission of articles to the exhibi-
tion, and when we have to record the sayings and
doings of the Society at Dorchester, it will afford us
great pleasure to find that many of them have pat
in an appearance. The necessary forms and certifi-
cates may he obtained of J. Daw, Esq., Exeter, the
Hon. Secretary ot the Arts Department; and they
should be filled up and forwarded to the General
Secretary, Henry St. John Mauls, EN., 2, Wood
Street, Bath, on or before the 16th of April nazi.—
Wiltshire Minor.

Wiuroie.—An inquest was held by Mr. Wilson.
on Thursday, on the body of caroline Curse, aged
20 years, who met with her death under the follow-
ing eiremnstahces. iler sister Mattel that the de-
ceased WAS valiiit.Vt. to 144 ; that on Twatlay, about
one o'clock. ShO saw her sis.er ill the ganlcii en-
gaged in taking in some clothes, antl she -thought a
lit wan coming on. and begged the titxe.taed to come
in, hilt she made no answer, neither did she come in.
A few minutes afterwards her father went into the
garden, through which a shallow strt sin of water
runs. and which was at that tinlo als it lh inches
deep. He saw some of the clothes it. the stream,
and on going nearer lie saw his tlau4liter in the
water. He immediately jumped in, mei, with aa3ill-
- got her out. Mr. lirittan, surgerm, was called
in, but found her quite den Al. He expressed his
opinion that she fell into the stream es Inlet in a fit,
and was drowned. Verdict, " Accidentally
drowned." . _

Amr-snuay.—Conserratiors. —The Lord Bishop of
the diocese consecrated the new burial ground and
mortuary chapel, which have been provided through
the liberality of Sir Edmund Antrobus, on Monday.
The new burial ground is very conveniently and
prettily situated and is enclosed by a substantial
wall. The chapel is constructed of red brick and
mud, and the entrance is surmounted by a bell tur-
ret. The interior is paved with Minton's and
Peak's tiles, the seata and roofs are of stained deal,
and the communion table, reading desk, and doors of
oak. Mr. Butterfield, of London, was the architect,
and the works, which have cost about £l,OOO, have
been very successfully carried out by Mr. Edward
Andrews, builder.
W•KMINSTEIL - The Case of Assault. Jiolll
Franklin r. John White, Master of the Reformatory
School, which the Justices could not adjucate on.
because of a division of opinion on the Bench, and
which %WU to have been heard in the County Court,
has been compromised by the defendant paying
Franklin a saw of money as damages and costs.
A TII V.N.EVM. —On 'ruebsy last the celebrated Mrs.
Balfour delivered a lecture to the members of this
instant on the " Buonaparte Family." Mrs.
Balfour entered into a concise domestic history of
the various members of this noted family, but more
especially the female branches, Madame Lmtitia, her
daughters, and daughter•in•law. The hall was well
tilled, and the lecture gave great satisfaction.