The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

Trig handsome donation of £lOO has been given
by Charles Hutchings, Eisq., of Weymouth, formerly
of Sherborno, to the Endowment fund of the
Yeatman HospitaL—.Sherborne Journal. . .

APPOINTIIIVIT. —Mr. Albert Newman has been
appointed by the Honourable Corporation of Trinity
House, chief engineer of the Trinity screw steamer
yacht Triton, Captain Pascoe, to be statiooed at
Holyheld.
DISPLAY OF FL•054.-00 Friday last the Wey-
month and Channel Islands steamers and other
vessels in the harbour, flew their bunting, in honour
of the marriage of Mr. Frederick Hallett to Miss
Rudd. Tbe families of both parties are respected in
, Weymouth, and Hags were see floating from many •
flagstaff on land.
I Firm I). R. V. —ln ooneeti news of the great income
attending the winter evening drills, and the large
number of members who have been present at the
New Auction Mart, arrangements have been entered
into with the Worshipful the Mayor (It. N. Howard,
Em.), who is about to fit up a comfortable store for
the clothing, do., and a room for committee Meet-
ings, and will grant the nee of the room for drill at
• rate very satiafactory to the corpa
Tux LOOK OUT P•TH. accordance with the
promise of Lieutenant Colonel &afield to the Town
Council, the War Department fence has been opened
apposite the top of Hill's Lane, and there is now
free acmes to the Nothe and Bincleaves. Colonel
Bel6eld stated that this opening waa "temporary
but the inconvenient,' of the path being blocked was
so great that we hope the free passage will be
permanent, and that the War authorities may see it
right to give • small space for a new Pilot's Look.
out. The courtesy of Colonel Belfield, in gracefully
according the passage while be doubted
the right of the public, will make him more
popular than ever for although ancient custom
niches it clear to every Wercouthian that there is •
public right of way, yet it might have been difficult
to °onetime the War Department of the fact, and
litigation would have been expensive. This act of
the Colonel'. only crowns those amenities between
the town and the Engineers .whioh rendered them all,
from the Colonel to the rank and file, so deservedly
liked, and which made so painful the parting with
those who left. We hope that no trespassing with
beside on the Nothe will be attempted, but if CoL
Relfield should find it necessary to have any each
trespassers impounded, be will be supported by the
feeling of the town.

Ramolove Tither Socagry. —The annual meeting
of this society was held on Wednesday last, at the
National schoolroom, Melcoaibe Regis, Mr. G.
Andrews in the chair. Among the ministers present
were the Rev. E. Whateley, Rev. D. Hogarth
(Portland), Rev. W. D. bong, Rev. W. Lewis
(Hope chithell, and the Rev. J. Burns, the depute.
tion.—The Rev. W. Lewis having offered prayer,
the Chairman in his introdoctory speech, feelingly
remarked on the departure to his test of their valued
friend, the Rev. P. Saffery, since their last meeting,
and Mr. Andrews in appropriate terms, asked Mr.
Burns to convey to his friends the expression of how
much the Weymouth Auxiliary of the Tract Society
valued Mr. Satiety, and regret his lose. (Heir,
hear.) The title given to the society is the report
was a very intensive one—" Home and Foreign
Missionary Society for disseminating Evangelical
religion through the Press." At home it combated
the two great errors of the day, infidelity and
Romanism, and all its publioations tend to point out
to the reader the way of eternal life. It had under-
taken the work of Bible revision, by publishing
emendations for the margin of our Bibles, but he
(the chairman) would be sorry if another version of
the Scripture should be published by authority.
There was no reason why a new edition of the
Bible is necessary, and it would be a pity to super-
sede the present one, around which the national
thought has grown, and which, Romanist' being
judges, is the strong hold of Protestantism. (Hear,
hear.) The society had been established 70 years,
and issued now 40,000,000 of publications annually
from the London depository, while there are
47,000,000 issued, including those of foreign tract
societies. The languages and dialects in which they
are printed are 119, and since the establishment, the
society has issued 1,285,990,000 publications, there
being at present 8,000 different works on it.
catalogue. Since 1832, 19,047 had been granted to
Sunday schools, Ac., for circulating libraries, and the
wet of the gnats for His past year was £20,360 7s. 6d.
Of the local society (at Weymouth) the total receipts
for the past year had been £23 41. lA—Paid for
printing. 17a, 64., purchase of tracts, £3 16a. 74.,
remitted to the parent society, £lB 10a —The Rev.
D. Hogarth, the Rev. Joseph Burns, and the Rev.
Duncan Long, addressed the meeting, telling of the
progress of the great work of the oonversion of souls,
and the general illumination of society at home, and
nations abroad. The meeting was a very cheering
one, and the facts detailed proved that the old
regenerating power of the word of God, however
conveyed, is now, perhaps more than ever, mighty
to save and to bed. The proceedings were closed
with the doxology and benediction. --The amount
oollected was £4 13a, and £6 more was sent for the
society —total £lO 134.