The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

DOIRCHISSTER.

HOMY COUNTY HOSPITAL —Sermons were jot-sashed
at 81. Peter's Church last Sunday, on bet fof this
imoellent institetiOn, by the Reettor (the Rev. R. W.
Pears it. a.), sad the millostions amounted to £l2.
RAILWAT Tni a. —AD important change will be made
I. the Greet Western railway time tables on the lst
November. The 9.17 am. train will be discootinned,
and one leaving Dorchester bait-an-hoar earlier
substituted.

POST-017101 ALTERATIONS .—Hesestailt the sitar
noon delivery of letters from London only will corn
mance at t3O; but those from Southampt.m and
intermediate towns (heretofore delivered at 4.15) will
not be delivered until the following morning, but
parties ems have them on spplying at the olio%

LONDON CITT MISSION. —A meeting in behalf of this
Important miaion was held in the Town-hell, on Mon-
day seining, 21st inst. The attendance was large, in
epithet the weather. The Res. Francis Tyrrell gave •
most interesting swath of the gigantic work in which
this society is engaged. and showed that it dose
its work cerefally and thoroughly, and that the
reformation effused is most satisfactory. He stated
that more than 11,300, from the lowest state
of degradation. had become, daring the put year,
oonsi.ti nt members of the Christian Church. As
an instance of the mune employed, and the " native
agency" brought to bear, ha mentioned a meeting of 250
thieves, at which the speakers were all reformed thievee.
Tbe peothe of Dortthester. we are happy to Mete, sup-
port entirely • miseionary in Tiger Bay.
BOBOOOR POLloiiii.:litlnirsasy.—Before J. F. Hodges
sad .7. Bishop, re —A yrung woman named
Elisabeth Smith, with a child in her arras, giving
Southampton as bee pleas of shod*, arse brought up for
disorderly conduit in the borough. For the lAA two
or three day. she has been about the town, in company
with two Irish vomit., In-gging, and when people
ref awl to gise her anything she abused them. She
I WS. Motioned on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wed-
nesday, being found doing the same thing, she was
taken into eastody.-Bentenced to • mooth's hard
labour.—Tw disorderlies of Fordington, named
Martha Trevitt and Deborah Con, were brought up for
misbehaviour in the white streets about 11 o cloak
on Wednesday night, and mine the most obscene and
shothing language. Trestle, being an old offender,
was senteneed to three months' hard labour, and Cox
to one Montb.—FRIDAT : Before the Mayor (().
Curate. Em.), and J. Biahop, Es..--Deorge Crowther
and Mary Hughes, vagrants, were charged with drunken-
noes and indemnity on the Londowroad, the previous
evening, about seven o'clock, end. being movicted, were
each senteneed to seven days' hard labour.--MOSDAT
Before J. P. Hodges and .7. Fasor, Epee -.John
M'Loughlin was brought up for Judean:A modest and
awaiting &tweet Tthood, of the Dorset Militia, at
Saturday night. It seemed the sergeant found primiter
near the Union Arms ion, with his wife, and when
be interfered prisoner struck him. —Prisoner said he
didn't know the woman was married.—The Bench dis•
missed the case.

Tee RigamlearsTlON Or nOltaffegrri.—The issuing
on Thursday but of an address by If.. B. Sheridan
Esq., announcing his attention not to meek reelection
at the next dissolution of Parliantent, created general
surprise and much regret amongst the Liberal party
in this borough. The reasons the hon. gentleman assigns
for his resolve redound to his honour. Everybody
pesoeived thatch the next elution the contest would be
severe, and the past pleasant state of things might be
greatly changed, for no Liberal elector will then be
able to split hie vote in (*Your of Colonel Start bemuse
he's • good fellow, and no Conservative elector could
hue done the some thing for Mr. Sheridan because he
was an honourable and usetel member, and party spirit
would have shown itself with the acrimony a political
canteet only brings forth, and the agreeable relatioes
which now no generally prevail amongst all theses in the
borough would bays greatly suffered. Bat Mr
Sheridan's retirement into private life when the next
general election suers, will avert much of this, though
we cannot Beppue it will prevent the borough being
untested, for the poeitiou of parties will be greatly
changed when the electors under the new Reform Bill
Bret exercise their franchise. The personal motive.
whieh weighed wii h Mr. Sheridan in taming to • decision,
have evoked the sympathy stall °kisses. His determina-
tion, we learn, wee made without unwitting his tried
friends, and probably it was wise, for they, doubtless,
would have urgently dissuaded him Isom such •
worm In reviewing the peat 16 years, Mr. Sheridan
esters to • few indepeedent votes, in opposition to
opinions entertained by a portioned his einstitueoey,
but be justifies them as the result of deep conviction, a
plea which thou who have regretted them wet, will, we
are sore, freely admit, while all will acknowledge that
he has " endouoared be serve them faithlully, and to
the beet of hie ability."
WISDIOITY.—The P.... ,7. B. Owen, IL A., of St.
Jude's. Chelsea, delivered • lecture on Thursday night,
at the Geiblhell, in connection with the Working Mine
Institute, on Meodieity. The Bee. J. Fisher presided,
and there was • good attendance. There is not much
that is sew to be said oa the subject, everybody admits
that Indiscriminate alasseivinx is reprehensible, every-
body manta to the declaration that charity is a
Christian duty. But tee rev, lecturer enforced these
trite maxims with the power of figures and of eloquence,
and his address could not fail to please. It is flattering to
self-lone to have it demonstrated how accurate is our
own theory of beam, and it is agreeable to listen to
deuriptions now erartial mendieity, and then of deeerv-
in' Poverty, eketehed by a muter hand, grotesquely
repulsive or pathetically attractive, as the case may be.
Such was the ketone Mr. Owen delivered, and it evoked
both laws and laughter. In the warm of his remarks'
he said it was calculated that £1,375,000 was annually
(iron to beggars in England, or about one-third of the
amount of thsi_poor.rate. Each begging family gets on
an average £55 • year, or • guinea • week for doing
worm than nothing—imposing on their fellow creatures.
Twenty-live thousand English families subsist on
begging, and, as it is a maxim of social economy that
every working man produces three times the amount of
what he countries, thew 15,000 families abstract from
the national productiveness the work of 75,000 pairs of
bands; and, as these families averse* Bye Onalli we
have a total of 125.001 peruse levying "black mar on
the energies of the nation. But these beggars were
only these who figured in polies reports. If the occa-
sional mendicant., and the Irish, Scotch, and those of
of other countries, were added, the number would
reach about hallia-naion. With a view to abolish-
ing mendicancy by rendering It unprofitable, be
sureeded the organisation in every town of an Inquiry
°Moe, protective aid &Untie*, similar to the Mendieity
Society in Londoei, suburibees to which, on being
applied to, gave the applicant • ticket to to to the
societies once, whereupon the agent investigated the
ease, and if Its., genuine, relief was given, and if not
• fraud was intercepted. Such' a system would speedily
met an end to beggary. He described with quint and
tender pathos the struggles of honest poverty, and
warmly commended such sufferers to the large-hearted
charity and sympathy of all. At the close the usual
folly was perpetrated of thanking the loiterer as the
audience were leaving. Being paid, the lecturer don't
expect it—indeed, usually thinks it a nuisance, while
the audience, having paid to hear him, don't, as • rule,
oars to ho called on to thank him. It is time this 'bunt
auto= was abolished. The Chairman was thanked
for presiding, which is all right end proper, but that
would be all the better if done before the whole audience
are moving from their meta.