The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

THE B.V.H.

AT a MEETING of the Members and
Friends of the BLACSMOOR VALE HUNT,
holden at the TOWNHALL, SHIIRBORNII, on TURSDAT,
APRIL 25, 1855,
Mr. DIGBY having expressed his intention of retiring
from the Mastership of the.B.V. Hounds, and baring
introduced SIR R. CARR GLYN. Baronet, at bit

successor,
It was proposed by Mr. MARWOOD YRATMAN,
seconded by Mr. NEVILLN GRKNVILLE, and carried by
acclamation,
That the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to Mr.
Diner, for the handsome and efficient manner in
which he baa hunted the B.V. country.
Mr. DIGHT having retired,
The Hon. W. H. B. PORTMAN, M.P., was voted to
the Chair, and the following resolutions were carried
unanimously :
Proposed by Mr. Nzvti.ms GRittiviuz, seconded by
Mr. Mazwoon YRATMAN,
That a testimonial be presented to Mr. Dishy.
Proposed by Mr. NIFILLZ ORZNVILLZ, seconded by
Mr. YIATMAN,
That the Testimonial take the shape of a picture.
Proposed by Mr. St. Lo, seconded by Mr. TROTT%
BULLOCK,
That a Committee be appointed to carry out the fore-
going resolutions, and that the following be such ,
committee:—
The Earl of Cork, Mr. Neville Gren-'Mr. Vincent
Chairman. villa. Stuckey.
Sir Richard Glyn. Major Paget. Mr. Fitzgerald, of
Sir William Med. Mr. I. G. Berg- Discove.
lycott. man. Mr. Game.
Sir Henry Hoare. Mr. T. Rogers. Mr. Seeley,
Mr. Yeatman. Captain Sandford. Mr. Shaw.
Mr. Baker. Mr. W. Wood. Mr. Woolming-
Mr. St. Lo. Major Fitzgerald. ton.
Mr. Bing. Mr. Henley. Mr. Spicer.
I Mr. Littlehales. Mr. Messiter. Mr. Harris.
Mr. Conon. Mr. J. Batten. Mr. Perkins.
With power to add to their number.
Moved by Major Fin !BALD,
That Mr. Troyte•Bnllock and Mr. Henry Mesaiter be
requested to sot as Honorary Secretaries.
Moved by Mr. BOURN, seconded by Mr. KING and
rla ptain SANDFORD,
That the thanks of the members of the B.V.H. are
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eminently due, and are hereby offered to Mr. Dendy,
for the valuable saststaine which he has rendered to
the sport and good feeling of the hunt.
Moved by Mr. YIATMAN, seconded by Mr. St. Lo,
,hat s Testimonial be preeented to Mr. Dendy. and Vast
a Committee be appointed to carry it out, viz :
Mr. Baker. Mr. Henky. Mr. 13,.Me.
Major F,tsgerald. Mr. Wood. Mr. Smiley.
Mr. Ye.tman. Mr. Conop. Mr. Harris.
Captain Sandford. Mr. Rogers. Mr. Croaker.
With power to edi to their number.
__Proposed by Mr. WO.D seconded by Mr HENIALT

That

That the Testimonial to 11r. Dandy 'consist of a piece
of plate.
W. H. B PORTMAN, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the Chair' on the proposi-
tion of Sir RICHAFU) GLTN, the thanks of the meettng
were cordially voted to Mr. Portman for his conduct in
the Chair.

BIRTHS.

At Colehill, Wimborne, the wife of Mr. George
Baker, of • son. _ _

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May 6, at Hill Butt, Winiborne, the wife of Samuel
White Whit., Esq., of • daughter.
May 7, at Dewlieh, the wife of Mr. Charles Kent, of
a eon. _

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May 4, at Herringetone, Dorchester, the wife of
Edward W. William., Esq., of a eon.

MARRIAGES.

May 11, at the Cathedral, Salisbury, by the Rey. W.
Lempriere, of Rozel. Jersey, Harry Reid Lempriere,
Eau., 3rd son of the late Captain W. C. Lempriere, R. E..
of Ewell, Surrey, to Ella Louisa, second daughter of
John Locke, of Chicklade House, Wilts, El.
May 8, at Corte Castle, by the Rev. E. S. Banks.,
William John Vye, of Swsnage. to Eliza • no,
third daughter of Mr. Joseph Horlock, of Brinscombe.
May 4, at the parish Church, Shroton, by the Rev,
F. W. Mauna-11, Mr. John Painter to Miss Rhoda
Ridout, both of Shroton._ . . .

May 4, at the pariah Church, Shrnton, by the Rev.
F. W. Maunsell, Mr. Joseph Crew to Misa Elisabeth
Ann, Painter, both of. Shroton.

At Bt. Mary's in the Castle, Flutings, by the ftev.
Guildbeard, Mr. George Sutton, of Hutings, to
Ellen Mary Martin, of Blandford.
May 9, at Binoomhe, by the Rev. E. Headland, Mr.
Edward Bridle, of Tinoleton, to Catherine Jane, eldest
daughter of the late Mr. Read, of the former place.

DEATHS.
May 10, at his residence, New Lodge, Salisbury,
George Pain, Esq., aged 68 years.
May 12, Abraham Jackson, Esq., of Grove Home,
Fisherton, aged 49.
May 11, at Lowbrook Farm, Okeford Fitsoaine, after
eight hours' illness. Mrs. C. Wittoridne, relict of the
late Mr. William Witteridge, in the 75th year of her
age.- . _ .

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May 11, in London. Henry, youngest son of Mr.
Charles Guy, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, aged 23 years.
May 10, suddenly, at his residence, Weymouth,
Benjamin Morton Feating, Esq., K. H., R.N., aged 71.
May 9, at Waddon, much regretted and esteemed by
a large circle of relations and friends, Mr. Henry
Hawkins, aged 34.
May 6, at the Rectory, Piddlehinton, Mary Emma,
the beloved wife of the Rev. T. H. Roper, aged 46.
May 9. at Woodsford, after along and painful illness,
Mr. George Wellman, rigl 33.
May 5, at Ashmore, Mrs. Dinah Ridout, aged 66.
May 4, at the police-station, Blandford, Annie Ellen,
youngest daughter of Mr. Superintendent Watts, aged
14 months.

May 3, at Pimperne, Mr. John Hunt, aged 67.
May 5, at Stickland, Mr. John Puffin, aged 78
April 8, in London, Julia Bolimer, third and dearly
belovid daughter of Mr. Charles Newman, late of
Weymouth, aged 10 years.

American democracy, there would have been P
little chance even for a Government Reform
Bill, and there was less for that of a private
member. The members of the Administration
might vote for it, and they did; but they do
not appear to have felt bound to make their
friends do so. Those who are disposed to make
this, therefore, a , test for the hustings must
accept it as simply a sham.--Still more strange
was the scene on Tuesday evening in the House
of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, sitting on the
Woolsack, heard his son at the table reading
over the findings of the Committee condemnatory
of Mr. Edmunds, and then, after a protracted
debate, in a hich his Lordship's share of blame
was rather bountiful, although he himself was
mute, it fell to his task as Chairman of the
House to put it to the vote whether or not their
Lordships should rescind their order for Mr.
Edmunds' pension of £BOO a-year. To their
immortal honor they did so, rem. con.—The
Bill conferring equitable jurisdiction on the
County Courts, on Thursday pesssed its third
reading in the House of Lords.—ln Committee,
in the House of Commons, on the Unions
Chargeability Bill, both Mr. Bentinck and Mr.
Thompson vainly struggled hard to get the
limits of Unions altered, so as better to assimilate
the character of their population and equalise
the rating. Mr. Bentinck, protesting that
without a readjustment of these limits, two-
thirds of the ratepayers would have their
interests sacrificed to those of the remaining
third, lost his motion by 193 to 118. And when
Mr. Thompson rose to move a revision of the
same boundaries, not, as he declared, with a
view to equalising the charges between different
parishes, or even between different Unions, but
for the more efficient working of the present
peor law, and because the Bill would effect a
change in the incidence of the rating—the storm
of opposition was intense. Mr. Disraeli rose
and rebuked both sides of the House, and Sir
George Grey as its leader, for not calling it to
order, and the unruly debate was adjourned.
III.—THE QUESTION of Church Rates has
signally failed of reaching adjustment in the hands
of Mr. Newdegate. The object of that gentle-
man's Church-rates Commutation Bill, which he
moved on Wednesday, was to substitute a charge
of two pence in the pound in lieu of Church
Rates. But the Bill was pronounced by Lord
John Manners satisfactory neither to Churchmen
nor Dissenters, whilst Sir George Grey thought
the present by no means a fitting time for
pressing the settlement of such a question ; and
so the proposed measure feil betwixt two stools,
and was rejected by a majority of sixty-four.—
Following up the greater May meetings which
we summarised in our last, the Church Pastoral
Aid Society held its anniversey on Thursday in
St. James's Hall, under the presidency of Lord
Shaftesbury. Its ordinary redeipts for the year
have been £46,478 18s. 11. d., with a gift super-
added of 12,469 4s. Id. from the late Mrs. Scott,
and grants from the Bishop of London's Fund of
£1,340, in all £60,288 35., representing an in-
crease over last year's receipts of £15,742 2s.
whilst the year's expenditure was only
£43,622 12s. 2d., affording, however, 61 more
grants than last year. The Earl of Shaftesbury
made a remarkable speech at the close of the
proceedings. He was afraid, he said, of no
external assault on the Church of England; but
he feared traitors within, and the influence of
the soft and pliable men who give up point after
point. It was to be feared that the educated
classes were going deeply into Tractarianiam
or Neology; but he was satisfied that
the great mamas of the people, whom
he knew not to love processions and em-
bellishments, could be guided to Evangelical
influences if the means within the . power
of the Church were used to this end. We do
not know exactly what this means, but if it
means coercion of any kind, Lord Shaftesbury
must very well know that such a thing is utterly
repugnant to the spirit and teaching of our
Church. Indeed it has just been declared, and
has been long felt that Convocation itself is
powerless to exercise any authority within the
Church, which we repeat, not for the first time,
is the Church of the People.

IV. —The end of the American secession has
at length been reached in the surrender of
General Johnstone, on and after the model of
General Lee. Kirby Smith's and one or two
minor corps of Confederates are still reported to
keep the field. But it cannot be supposed they
can do so for any length of time, although the
Federal war expenditure is already stated to
have been curtailed to the extent of a million
dollars a day. Exaggeration in everything
would appear to affect America, and amongst
others not even an alarming accident can occur
on a reasonable scale. The latest disaster is the
blowing up of a steamer with 1,500 Federal
prisoners returning home from captivity, of
whom only 500 are reported to have escaped.