The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

a NEW HIGHWAY BILL.

The English are justly proud et* that usage of
local Government which gives everybody a taste
of dignity and power, and secures that one
village shall not be the exact reproduction of the
other. As it is; hill and vale, forest and corn-
field, down and river, cannot present stronger
contrasts than those of our social constitution.
On one side of the hedge is an improving land-
lord, on the other one whose heart's desire is to
have his estate as it probably was in the civil
wars. In this pariah you have fifty freeholds,
in the next one farm, or perhaps fifty copy-
holders, or probably twice that number of
squatters. Where you stand, not A cow, or a pig,
or a jackass, could appear on the roadside
without being oonsigned to the pound; walk a
mile, and herds of cows range over the common,
every tree is polled down to the stump, pigs
plough up the bank, and geese warn you off the
premises. Enter this church, and you are at
Rome ; that church across the road, and you are
at Geneva. Were there, indeed, gods of the
hills and of the vales, and had spirits their walks,
they could not make greater varieties. Well, it
is pleasant to think here is a humble sphere for
great aspirations, and that if fate dames you to
be second man in the world, you may at least be
the first man in the hamlet of Lowrnarsh.
it runs throughout our system. Doctors,
hounds, religious societies, clerical meetings—
all have their (mantis§ or district& The same
stream that divides the diocese of Athanasius
from the dominion of a John Knox, separates a
" dukery" from a nest of eqiureens, a coterie of
old maids, or a band of parvenus. This is all to
the Egg.liah taste. If they don't like one thing
they teEy try the other, and they can always
indulge in the luxury of thinking their own
neighbourhood the best or the worst in the
world.

But there is a point where the system fails, or
rather where its inconveniences become too high
a price for its sentimental charms. It is when
you have to pass from one district to another,
and when the question is no longer local, but
universal. The roads are for the use of all the
world who may happen to come that way. Of
course, if you have a pair of strong legs, and that
is your usual conveyance, or if you live on horse-
back, like the old English gentleman, and
consort only with others like yourself, you no
more want a good carriage way than they do in
Turkey; but to the world at large, locomotion,
and that on wheels, has become no longer a
luxury but a necessity. Our tastes lead us to
transport ourselves all over the country; and
when we are there we wish to diminish is much as
we can the gulf of ten miles, more are less, that
divides us from old friends or pleasant neighbours.
We must then go from pariah to parish, perhaps
even from county to county. Whatever our local
tastes, we then feel we are part of the great,
advanced, and fastidious public, and we expect
to be well served. Should the hard road end,
and the wheels sink into clay, or labour through
the sand; should we find ourselves jolting over
unbroken rocks or boulders ; should we overturn
at a short corner, come in a collision at a narrow
bridge, or break our horse's wind at an ascent;
or, worse than all, should we have to pull out
our purses, or show tickets every mile, we feel
it absurd that a thing which concerns all should be
at the mercy of a few. Talk of armies breaking
up roads or cutting dikes? Why, it is in the
power of many an individual in thia country to
stop the communication of an whole neighbour-
hood, and compel anybody whose time is
precious, to make a detour of miles. "A. the
crow flies," you are barely half an hour's drive
from your friends, but trust not to that; his
dinner hour is 6, you are ready to start at 5,
and find your coachman going round three miles
in order to avoid a few hundred yards
of vestry road-making, just now quite
impassable. You meet old college friends who
propose an interchange of visits, and ask the
distance. It is only ten wiles by road, circuitous
as it is; but do not delude your friend that it is
only an hour's drive; it will take an hour and a
half at the least, and that is • long time to be
out after ten o'clock in a dark night. Were the
roads uniformly cheap and bad, and the evil
part of the state of things, you would acquiesce,
and live accordingly. But the hardship is that
you don't know what to except, and pay for
good roads while you have to endure bad ones.
All your own roads are good, and your way-rates
high. You have had to subscribe to new roads,
new bridges, new cuttings and embankments,
shortenings and rounding.; but all in vain, for
in the next parish they want only just roads
enough to carry dung to the field, or corn to the
market. Evan this requires hard roads, but the
money is wanting, or withheld.

The evil is manifest; and yet attempts to
legislate on the subject have hitherto proved
unsuccessful. One would almost be inclined to
come to the conclusion, that our M.P.'s never
passed a winter in the country, for nothing can
be more notorious. We can only say that
something ought to be done, and it can only be
by some such measure as that Ahich Sir G.
Grey obtained leave to bring in on the second
night of the reassembling of Parliament, for
associating parishes and bringing their roads
under • common management. If anything
should be a common matter it is the means of
communication. As we understand Sir G. Grey,
all he proposes, is, that parishes may for this
purpose have the same power of incorporating
themselves into unions that they bad for the
relief of the poor long before the New Poor
Law. Even now the law requires parishes to
keep up their roads, but it does not compel
them to improve their roads up to the standard
required by modern usages; still less does it
compel that unity of management which alone
can secure uniformity of condition. No doubt
the present system gives many good roads, for it
gives many opening* to personal generosity and
what is called public spirit. The State, however,
will hardly cloaks its duties, bums individuals

are apt to undertake them; and it will remember
that those individuals have other things to do,
and other outlets of social feeling, besides
making roads or keeping them in good repair.
But it is a still more important consideration,
that road-making is not merely a question of
generosity. Many a parish, with the best
intentions, makes very bad roads, and many a
gentleman has only buried his money in the mud.
This is a science requiring some degree of skill
and experience. At present any farmer may be
waywarden, and often is made one against his
will, as soon as he has settled in • parish.
Should he know nothing about the matter, he
takes the advice of his labourers, and the road Is
kept up as it has been for the last five hundred
years. The difficulty in generally in the material,
for all other difficulties are easily surmounted,
and, as the best material is often distant, it is
only under combined management that it is
likely to be obtained. As the proposed Bill, if
carried into law, will be a means of affecting
much good, there can, we think, be no shadow
of a doubt. The objection that the measure is
not wanted, certainly convicts itself, for every-
body who lives in the country, knows that he is
often brought to as deed a stand from want of a
good road, as he would be on the rail by a break
of gauge, er on a siding that led to nothing; and
that on these occasions, the only account given,
is that he has passed out of one parish and
entering another. Now, a parish may claim to do
what it likes with its own, but we submit that
a road is not quite its own, but held in trust for
the public.

DORCHESTER.—Ts• FAIR, Friday, February
14.—The attendance was unusually large, and so fall
was the cattle-fair of farmers, dealers, and others,
that it was with difficulty we managed to see enough
of the stock to make our report. Cows and calves
were plentiful, and in good condition,and prices were
well supported. The total quantity of stock on
offer was not Tide an averages consequently the
trade generally was good. Mere was a great
demand for anything that would readily. fatten; and
those barreners, oxen, and steers which were fresh,
commanded high price'. As us*, a few rough lots
were difficult to dispose ot—th the labour mart
there was not so much doing alumal ; the majority
of farmers having at last set their faces against
"mops," and it WU generally admitted that an
advertisement in the :A-press or Telegram for a
labourer answered the purpose much • better than a
few minute's conversation and agreement at one of
these "mops."—in the horse fair there was a short
supply of good, bad, and indifferent animals, but the
trade, although we have known it worse, was any-
thing but brisk; and as steam power is becoming
more generally used in agriculture, we must expect
lower prices, till the time comes when • less num-
ber of colts are reared. —ln the corn exchange there
were more "lookers on" than purchasers, and the
trade generally was dull. Prices of wheat remained
the same as last week. For malting barley there
was DO demand, but seed qualities were more in re-
quest. Oats were a little dearer. Grinding corn
and pulse a dull trade, and generally lower. In the
seed trade there was net much doing, but prices
were firm, and we may expect a rise ere long.—
Dairymen were complaining that the butter trade
was bad. Factors were trying to buy lower, Lilt
some of the producers determined to try Mr.
Webber, whose advertisement appears in our
columns.

COUNTY BALL—The ammud county hall which
this year was postponed on account of the lamented
death of the late Prince Consort, wee held at the
Townhall on Thursday night last, under the patron-
age of Lady Digby, Lady Poltimore, tha Baroness
Hambro, Mrs. Ker Seymer, Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. G.
T. Bullock, Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh, and Mrs. C.
Hambro. The stewards on the occasion were the
High Sheriff of the County, Lord Poltimore, H.
Ker Seymer, Esq., M.P., R. B. Sheridan, Esq.,
M.P, R. P. Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., J. Farquharson,
Esq., George Troyte Bullock, Req., A. B. Foster,
Esq., Major-General Shirley, and Captain Williams.
Mr. Stagg's quadrille band, from Weymouth, was in
attendance, and dancing was kept up with great
spirit, with the exception of the interval for supper,
from ten o'clock till between four and five o'clock the
following morning. The supper and the
whole of the arrangements got • up by Mr.
Yearaley, gave great satisfaction. About fifty
couples were present, among whom were:—
Lord Digby, Miss Digby, Lord Poltimore, R. B.
Sheridan, Esq., M.P., Mrs. and the Misses Sheridan,
Lord St. Maur. Lady Michel, Misa Michel, Mr. Michel,
General and Mrs. Michel, Mrs., Graham, Sir W. Madly-
cott, Bart., Miss bledlyeott, Lieutenant 'Medlyoott, Mrs.
Strode, Mr. Clarke, Miss Churchill, Mr. C. Hambro,
Mrs. Hambro, Miss Radolyffe, Kr. and Mrs. Fetherston-
haugh, Captain and Mrs. Wont, Miss Freemsn,Rev. T.
and Miss Hinds, Mrs Spencer Meade, Mr. Coddington,
HE., Mr. and Mn. J. Farquharson, Kim Farquharson,
Miss A. Farquharson, Lieut.-Cot and Mrs. Digby,
Mires Soott, General Shirley, Rev. James Shirley,
Mrs. Shirliihand the kiissesShirley, H. Her Seymer,Rsq.,
M.P., Mr. and Miss Seymer, Captain'•Hawkins, R.N.,
Hon. Mr. Burke, Mr. C., Mrs., and Miss Oliver, Lieut.
and Mrs. S. Oliver, Miss C. Farquharson,
Mrs. and Mile H. Waldy, Captain Vandeleur, Mr. W.
H. Bower, Mr. and Miss G. Blennerhasset, Mr. end Mrs.
Prior, Mr. A. B. Foster, Miss Foster, Miss Hunter, Mr.,
Mrs., and Mies Saunders, Miss Mackenzie Kettle, Mr.
Seymour, Mr. Marker, Mr. and Mrs. Littlehales,
Kum Chadwick, Miss Pawl, Mr. B. D. Newboklt, 36th
Regiment, Mr. Wyndham, Mr. and Mrs. Troyte
Bullock, Mrs. and Miss Rives, Mr. Montague Guest,
Mr. Percival Hambro, ha., Ste.

MISSION& —Ssrmons were on Sunday preached in
behalf of the Colonial and Continential Church
Society. In the morning at .Fordington by the
Rev. H. Monle, &actin the evening at Christ Church,
West Fordington, by the Rev. R. L. Allnutt, M.A.,
vicar of Damerham, Wilts. Collections were made
at the close of each service on behalf of the Society.

DORCHISTER TOWN COI7NCIL. - The usual
Monday's meeting will be held this day (Tuesday),
when we hear that the rate will be made id. in th•
k less than the last. We heartily and "feelingly"
congratulate the Town Council and the other rate-
payers upon this reduction, which, slight as it is,
certainly leads us to hope that our local taxes may
be eventually lessened so as to become bearable.
Sr. Pirrxes' Cautice.—On Sunday afternoon the
bellows of tP,ei organ gave out, and the service had
to be conducted without music; so the parishioners
will have to raise the wind in a double sense of the
word, before Mr. Patch can discourse sweet music in
this good old parish church. _ .

.iJoucriswrza GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 011 Saturday
night or Sunday morning last, the Rev. T. R.
Maskew's larder was entered, and a large piece of
beef which had been cooked for the pupil's Sunday's
dinner was stolen. It mast have been •
cruel thief, and the cook might have said

"Yost dinners are goes, both meat and bone;
Come and look here,
The cupboard is bare,
And so the poor boys can have none."
But it is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and
we believe we are right in Itying that the only
difference which the robbery made to the young
urchins was, that they had a hot Inner instead of •
cold one.

COMMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER GAOL. —A sakes:
Louisa Morris, deserting her child at Moreton;
George Ashwood, obtaining barley meal by false
pretences at Iwerne Minster.—Hard Labour:
Joseph Tolema, leaving his mania at Chideock, one
calendar month; Edward Bartlett, misbehaviour at
Sherborne Union, fourteen days; William Riggs,'
breaking windows at Wareham, one calendar month;
Isaac Hallett, leaving family chargeable at Phaeton,
I six weeks; George Hurst and Thomas Lucas,
vagrancy at Weymouth, one calendar month;
Elias Gale, stealing hay at Powerstook, one calendar
month; William Ceram, stealing a bag at Marsh.
wood, fourteen days; George Sargent, staling fowls
at Wimborne, three calendar months.
BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS, Monday, Feb. 17th.
I —Before the Mayor, and R. Davis, Esq.—
William 'rep's," was charged with being drunk and
disorderly at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. The
case was proved by Supt. Panay, and defendant
fined sa. and costa, or a week's imprisonment.
James George Jones, a seller of nuts and oranges
from London, was charged by P. C. Keech with
being found on the premises of Messrs. Taylor and
Son, engineers, Trinity-street, supposed for an
unlawful purpose. Defendant said he was in liquor
and got in by mistake. Committed for seven day's
hard labonr.—HannaA Breton, a hawker from
Exeter, and Joseph Martin, from Southampton,
were charged with stealing a coat from Mr. Steele's
shop.—P.C. Keech said he was sent for to the Grey-
hound public-house, and the prisoners were sitting
in the tap-room. The landlady said there was a
coat up stairs which she thought had been stolen.
He went up stairs, and lying on a bed in one of the
rooms, he saw a cat. He took off the ticket, and
amongst other places went to Mr. Steele's shop. From
what he there learnt he went back to the Grey-
hound, and charged the woman with stealing the
coat. Martin was present, and she pointed to him,
and said he gave it her. The landlady went up
stain s for the coat. On their way to the station
the woman said, "If it was'nt for the liken of we,
you 'oodn't be wanted." She was searched at
.the
station-house, and on her was found Ba. Bd. in
money.—George Case said he was assistant to Mr.
Steele. On Saturday evening P.C. Keech brought
him a ticket. The coat produced belonged to Mr.
, Steele, and was taken from the side door, opening
into Trinity-street. He saw it in the afternoon.
That department of the business was under his
management, and he had not sold the cost in
question. Neither of the prisoner's had
been in his part of the shop during
the day. The coat was worth 28s. 6d.—Eliabeth
Pope said her husband kept the Greyhound public.
house. The two prisoners came there on Thursday
afternoon—the day before the fair. The ITOMILD
asked for a beff for herself and a man whom she
called her husband. The male prisoner afterwards
came, and said he also wanted a bed, and
when witness rid they were very full and could
not accommodate him, the woman begged that she
would. Witness then agreed to accommodate them.
The three slept there on Thursday and Friday ,1
night—. Breton and ha husband in one room, and

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Martin in another. They were in and out during
Friday and Saturday. The woman's husband left
after the prisoners • were token into custody. Some-
time before this, a man in the house complained that
while he was asleep in'the kitchen ha had lost his
watch, and she persuaded him to go for the police.
A polioe-oonetible named Keech was sent for, and
inquiries were made, but the watch did not turn
up. Witness saw the prisoner and her
husband in deep conversation some time after-
wards, and this circumstance raised her suspicion.
Subsequently she saw the prisoner on the stairs with
a cost on her arm, and asked witness to take care
of it for her. She refused and went to her
own bedroom, when prisoner followed, and repeated
her request, but witness still refused to put it away
for her. Shortly after she came down stairs she
made a communication to Reach about the coat, and
took him up to the room to look at it. He took off
the ticket, leaving the coat on the bed on which
the female prisoner and her husband had slept. The
omit she afterwards brought down to Reach was the
same. She never eon Martin with any coat beside
the one he had on.—George Smith said be was at
the Greyhound on Saturday eveningabout 9 o'clock.
, He saw the prisoners in the tap room, but they
, were not sitting together. The prisoner Martin
asked him to buy a coat, which he had with him,
but winless did not want one, and nothing more was
said about it. It was a dark coat andheasid hewanted
10s. for U.—Elizabeth Wright, an assistant at Mr.
Steele's,said that she sew the two prisoners in Trinity-
' street, opposite the side entrance to air. Steele's
shop. They met—the woman was in the middle of
the road and the man on the opposite
pavement. She went to the footway to him,
and they together crossed over towards the shop.
She then lost sight of them.—Both prisoners pleaded
guilty. A towel and two or three other small things
found on the male prisoner, were owned by the
' landlady of the Greyhound, and • knife stolen from
the man who had lost the watch was also found
upon him, but these cases were not gone into.
Both prisoners were sentenced to IliX months'
imprisonment with hard labour.— Samuel Gillett
was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a
bundle of clothes from the Mason's Arms, the
property of James Thorns—Prosecutor said beanie
from Broad Chat, near Exeter. He was at
Portland at work a short time, and three weeks ago
came up to Dorchester. He met the prisoner near
the railway station and got into conversation with
him. Prisoner recommended him to the Mason's
Arms, and wished him to join the Dorsetahire
Militia. They lodged together till Tuesday week,
when prosecutor went over to the Asylum
for work. Prisoner went with him as far
as Mr. Wellspring's yard, and then told him
he knew where to go and get sixpence,
and told proseentor to go on to the San at Burton,
and get a pint of ale and wait there till he mane.
He got the ale and waited an hour, but prisoner
never came. He went on to the Asylum, and re-
turned in the evening to his lodgings, when he found
his bundle was gone. Had never given prisoner
leave to take his things and sell them. —Barfoot, a
dealer in ready-made clothes, said he remembered
prisoner coming to his shop on Tuesday, the 4th
February, and offered him a pair of trousers and
waismat for sale. He untied the bundle himself.
Witness asked him if they were his own. He said
no; they belonged to a recruit in the militia. Wit-
ness asked him why he did'ut come himself
Prisoner replied that the young man was taking some
beer and asked him to come clown with the things.
Witness asked what he wanted for them and prisoner
said 2s.,adding that he had a handkerchief and shirt
but they were too bad, and he would not offer them.
Witness asked his name, and he said Robert
Hunt. Witness told him 2s. was too much
for them, and prisoner said he should have
them for is. 6d. He gave him the money
and prisoner went away. On the same day the pur-
chase was made, Me met policeman Cousins ; the boy I
was with him at the time. He had been to him in
consequence of hearing about the clothes. The
trousers and waistcoat produced were the same as
sold to bun, —Prisoner, who is a militia man, has
been eight times convicted—at the summer assizes
in 1853 for felony; at the Poole sessions in 1864;
four times at Dorchester in 1857, spending nearly
the whole year in gaoL Again in October, 1858;
January, 1859, and for six months last year for
felony. He was again committed for triaL
Charles Force, of the Old House at Home, was
charged with keeping his house open for the sale of
beer on Sunday, the 9th February, between three
and four o'clock in the afternoon.—P.S. Davis said
he went to the house at twenty minutes to four in
the afternoon, and during the hours of divine service
at All Saints'. The outer door was closed. Witness
knocked, and a man named Hine opened it. He
went into the front room and found five men sitting
there, and on the table were a pint cup and two
glasses. There wag beer in the cup and one of the
glares. There was also a man in the bar.—P.C.
Cousins said he went with P.S. Davis to defendant's
house. He knew five of the six inn. They all
lived in the neighbourhood; four of them resided at
Emith, Greyhound Inn, wss charged with having his
Fordington.—lrmed 205., and 13s. eciets.--George
house open during the hours prohibited by law, on
Sunday, the 9th of February. Defendant did net
appear. P.C, Keech said that about half-peat three
in the afternoon he went to the Greyhound, and
knocked at the door. After waiting for four or five
minute', it was opened by Joseph Pope. He went
into the back parlour, and saw two Men there—
He did not see any drink there. He went
up stairs, and in a room he saw seven
young lads sitting round the fire, two
glasses of beer were inside the fender, and a glass
with some beer in it on the mantelpiece. Two of
the boys, named Jerrard, one Frauklin, and one
Voss. He did not know the names of the others,
but they were residing in the town. They were
about from 14 to 16 years old. When be came
down stairs he said you have a nice lot of young lads
there. Joseph Pope said, "1 would not have had
it happen for £5." The Mayor said this was • very
bad case, and would operate &pima Pope whether
he should have a license granted him.--Fined 4tes.,
and 10s. 6d. costs.- Ramie% Half Moon Inn,
pleaded guilty of having his house open for the sale
of beer daring prohibited hours on, Sunday after-
noon.—Fined 205., and 6s. 86. oosts.—Henry
Franklin, Hit or Miss, was charged with a similar
offence. P.C. Confine said he went to defendant's
house between three and four o'clock on Sunday
week, and saw three men in the tap-room. There
were marks of cups having been on the table. '
He went to the oven of the grate, near which a man
was sitting, and in it he found a pint
cup, three parts fall of beer, and a glass. He took
them out and put them on the table, and Franklin
said there had been no beer drawn there. Witness
knew that Norris lived in Fordington. He did not
know the names of the other two, but believed that
one of them lived also in Fordington. He then
went to the bar and maw a man named Old sitting
there alone. --Sergt. Davis corroborated the evidence
of thusins.—Charles Thomas Old said about a
quarter part 2 o'clock an Sunday afternoon he called
at the Hit or Miss for Mr. Franklin's son Joseph to
go for a walk with him as usual. He was not reedy,
and he asked me to sit down in the bar till he was.
I oat down in the bar and read the Church Service
till he came down. During the time I was tilers,
about 20 minutes to three o'elock, I saw Mrs.
Franklin draw a pint of beer. lam quite certain
there was no other beer drawn there afterwards.
At three o'clock the men in the house were ordered
to go. They did not leave directly, and about a
quarter after three the policeman came in in plain
clothes. The men in the house left shortly after the
policemen were gone.—George Squibb said be was
one of men in the house at the time and lived at
Nether Came, and in calling at Mr. Franklin's the
latter asked him to dine with him. He afterwards
had a pint of beer,and • man named Jacob Sergeant
came in and sat down with him, and they drank the
beer. The ale in the cup that was in the oven was
Norris's. Case dismissed on the payment of ss.
costa, with a caution.

Heron's Or 'MI CODIEHTEHH OT THE DORCHESTER
National. Sostoots, iron TEI Yeast 1861.—1 n
laying tfi6if 'anhual report before the subseribers, the
committee are glad to announce the continued proe-
perity of the Dorchester National Schools. Her
, Majesty's Inspector, after examining them in
October last, expressed his satisfaction with tie pro-
gress that had been made during the past year. By
a reference to the weekly registers it appears that
both in the boys' and in the girls' school there is an
increue se well in the average attendance as in the
numbers on the books. The following is a state-
ment of the attendance during the past year as oom-
pared with 1860:—Boys, 1860, on the books, 151;
1861, 166; 1860, average attendance, 100; 1861,
107. Girls, 1860, on the books, 222; 1861, 237 ;
1660, average attendance, 162; 1861, 170. The
subseribers will be pleased to bear that Mary E.
Bond and Mary M. Amey, pupil teachers in the
girls' school, succeeded in obtaining Queen's Scholar-
ships at Christmas. It may be observed that a
Queen's Scholarship is a reward of merit, awarded
after a thorough examination at one of the training
colleges, and conferring on the successful candidates
a sum of money sufficient to defray their expenses
at the College for two years. An important step hae
been taken during the pest year in the establishment
of a night-school for adults and others. A want,
long felt in the town, has thus been supplied, and
an opportunity of improvement held out to those
whose employments debar them from seeking In-
struction by day. It may be added that this
branch of the National Schools, though yet
only in it. infancy, premises well, and num-
bers already between thirty and forty pupils.
The financial statement is appended, showing •
balance of £45 2s. 4d. in the treasurer's hands.
There is an apparent decrease in this balance from
that of the preceding year, which however may be
aooonnted for by an outlay of £25 in the drainage of
the girl's school, the payment of £5 to an additional
teacher, and also a slight falling off in the yearly
subscriptions. The committee, in conclusion, beg
to remind the subscribers and the public, that not-
withstanding the balance in hand, there is a con-
tinually increasing demand on the school funds.
The drainage of the boys' school, which has hitherto
been deferred, must be effected during the current
year, and will of course involve considerable expense.
It idtoeld be added that in all probability the Glevern•

ment grants to the schools willll'in future be
diminished, and consequently the liberal support of
local subscribers be the more needed.
Financial Statement for the year 1861.
aZOILIPTS.
£ it D. £ P. D
By subscription due Jany. 1, 1861 41 18 6
„ Grant from County Sodety
First Moiety ...
Second Moiety

25 0 0
25 0 0
5000