The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-04-11 00:00:00

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The OBEY CONSTABLI suggested an alteration of
rule 9, so that In towns where there is a union work-
house the tickets before being ezenanged for bread by
the baker be endorsed by the officer who grants orders
for the metal ward—the object being to prevent
vagrants getting relief twice in the same place.
This was adopted • and also rale 10, that local oom•
mittom be requested to appoint collectors, which,
Captain Brown said, had been a great help.
Mr. STURM moved that the report be adopted, and
he thought they should also pay • little compliment to
Captain Await Brown for the trouble he had taken
and the energy he had shown in not only undertaking
this work but in carrying it out so anceaufe'ly. lie
mu • •Ar..“.• .0
and a gentlemen said to him the other Might—he didn't
mind naming him, though he did not always like to
give his anthorities—it was Lord lashouu—" I really
must congratulate you on having such • capital Chief
Constable for Dorset. I have had a long correspon-
dence with him, and in consequence, we are adopting
the Dorset system, and I believe it will be a great
Burrows." 11l was glad to hear that, and was sere they
would be all pleased to know it—(bear, hear).
The motion was carried, and the meeting ended.

THE DORSET MILITIA.
On Tuesday evening the reading and refreshment
TOOLII WU formally opened at the Corn Exchange.
This arrangement for the comfort and improvement of
the militia has been continued for six years through the
kind consideration and LOliolll a Sr., of Mrs. Biugham
for the welfare of the men, and has boen.leued to have
I con attended with moat admirable results. 'fne Coleuel
and tire. Bingham, and the Bev. E. W. l'ears were
present at the opening. Between 50 and IA of the
recruits mustered on tho °Passion. A hymn having
been sung, ace ompanied by Mn: Bingham on the har-
monium, the Rev. E. W. Pears delivered • short address
to the men, observing that Mrs. Bingham had requested
him to speak to them on the subject of the room, the
meow why it was opened, the advantages they would
rewire from it and the return she hoped they would
make for the benefits they derived. The object of their
being in the town was for drill, and training thorn to
be soldiers. He took it for granted that as Englishmen
they had the emoted part of a soldier—a soldier's
heart. But that of itadf was nothing. If they had read
anything of what had taken place abroad during the
past few months, they would have seen the advantages
of di ill and discipline. But there were other consider-
ations. This room would do a great deal of harm to
the regiment if it at all distracted their attention from the
important matter that had brought them together.
They mast remember that the great differences between
the man that is useful, and one that is useless—whether
he were rich or poor, • clergyman, • labouring man, or
a soldia--was that the one did his wore heartily, and
the other elrelesaly. If they took a pride sect pleasure
iii their work they would do it well, and be useful
members of society; but not all the drilling in the world
would make • soldier of the man who had no heart in
his work, sad he could say that the regiment had never
been so well disciplined as since this room was opened.
Pointing out the advantsgei of the room, he said they
could not be drilling all day; they mast have some
time on their hands in the evening, and there was very
little opportunity of enjoymmat in their billets ; but if
they came there they would have every kind of rational
amusement without dissipation, refreshment without
getting drunk, and comfortable conversation with.
out anything wrong or improper ; and these thinp
were all that an honest mau need desire after his drill.
Beyond these ordinary matters, however, there were
some subjects on which he desired to speak to them
particularly, and one of these was the savings' bank.
They inight pay what money they liked into it, and
Use. Biughaus woull keep it for them, and pay it back
to them at the end of titer traitiog, or send it to teem
at their homes. Hi, was sure • great many of thews
would go out of town much more quickly and more
comfortably if they had no money than if they had • j
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were dismissed, with a penny added for every shilliog I
they put in the bank. This was about equal to 50 per
amt. per annum interest. They might take their
money if they pleased in the middle of the training but
they would get no interest in that case. This was done
to encourage them to keep their money until they
reaohed home, so that they might buy something that
would be of use to them. Let them just think of the
trouble a lady mast have in stten..Png there every
evening for such a purpose as the, yet Mrs: Bingham
gladly and *Aline), cause teal), night to receive their
money, and at the end of the training paid them back
—if they put in 10s, they would have 10s. 101. ; if 125.,
Ida., so that they would get something worth taking
home. But there was another matter for consideration,
whilst laying up treasure for this life, they should be
laying up treaswo for the world to come. When at
home working all the day long they might not feel
much int:dined to listen to anything that required
thought, brit here they had the opportunity of bearing
what would be beneficial to them from their friend Mr.
Davis, who was willing to give them every instruction
in those things that would make them happy both here
and hereafter. They might think as soldiers that they
had nothing to do with religion. Soldiers oirtainly did
very of ion despise it, but they would perhaps be
astonished to hear there was no class of men who
thought so much about it in time of war. Never was
this so plainly shown as during the eat few months
abroad. Young men like themselves, bold and active,
were glad enough to have a word of spiritual comfort,
and a Testament to read. He then related an anecdote
of a young Prussian soldier who was wounded in one of
the battles, and at his own request was left by his
' comrades to die on the field. An officer passed him
and asked him if he tould be of any assistance to him.
The dying soldier declined ell offers of help except that
the officer should take • testament from his knapsack
and read to him the 27th verse of the 4th chapter of
John—" Pease I leave unto you, My peens give I
unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you ;
let not your heart be troubled, neither be afraid,"
" Thank you, sir," said the soldier, "I have that
peace, and I want no more." If they had that peso*
their hearts would not be troubled; they would never
be afraid of man, nor of anything else, and they would
not be afraid of God, for they would know He loved
them. The reason why this room was opened was to
remove them from these temptations that would rob
them of that peace. If they would seek that peace,
and that hour should come when they would be like
that poor, or rather happy, fellow who did his duty,
and was content to lie down sni die then they would
know what that peaco was, and would want no more,
Perhaps there might be some in the Dorset Militia,
who when they came to lie down and die, having
found that peace, might trace to this room the blessing
of God upon them, and might praise Him that it had
vsterr, I into the hears of His servants to prepare this
pi ice for them. All the labour, and all the expense
tquk no credit to himself, for he had nettles.; to
do with it—were done simply from the constraiuing
love of Christ. He hopod when they left the town
Mrs. Bingham would have no souse to regret what she
hail done for them, and he exhorted them above all
that iu a higher sense it should be fouud all those
advantages hal not b-on placed before them in vain.
Ho a,k,d God's blowing us ths work this yoar as it
had b ion vouchasfed in time past—(applaitso). A hymn
having been sung, the proceedings terminated, and the
men settled down to their amusements and reoreationo.