The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-04 00:00:00

RETURN OF THE HON. HUMPHREY BTURT AND
NIB BRIDE.

The little village of Crichel attired Itself in Its holiday
costume on 'Merrier lart, when the eldest son of the
Lord Alington, paid a visit to the Dorset seat of
his illustrious parents in company with his bride. Lade
Feeders Blurt,. The place wee gaily d corated. • pretty
triumphal arch erected in the centre of the bridge
spanned the Allen. The outlines woe ov 'red with ever-
greens. the Oboe being surmounted with Baia, with •
trophy of liege in the centre. Just above the eppropriate
inscription, " Welcome Home to C idled" A little
further on, at Kr. BurVe residence a line of Bags wee
stretched across the road ; and at Kr. residence,
in addition
to • display of flag% was • smell arch, on which in red
letters on • pink gronne was the molt "Got Bless ant
Proper you. no Old House was enlivened with some
°erectile Bee end evergreen deeoryttone, conspicuous
among which was the motto, "We wish yon good luck,"
and at • c it•ag• 'nether on the word ' Hippinese in
effective lettering, speared aolgsguthe resits end
Begs Al many other house. flags, Wang. , were dis-
played sad in foot all along the route. from Witchamo-
ton to Crioliel, Begs and other decorations were to be .en
in great profusion. Tits archway at the lodge leaning to
the house WM enthellighed to • very elaborate and effective
manner. In the mate*, rosining down the span of the
web, in gold lettering on • red ground, was the motto,
The Lord prosper you." Over the small side arebee were
placed ie similar lettering the Christien names of the bride
end brideeroom, "The Hon. Humphrey " appearing on the
left end "Lady Feoiore " on the right hand side of the
main arch. On the outer pillars were Mrge red toe 1411ont,
bearing in gold the initials A. A. and li. F , whilst to,
tasteful arraiumments of flags gam smart dni•hed appear •
rums to the whole work.
The promodiuge of Thursday commenced with a
luncheon. This was laid out in toil .tyle, in • large
marquee, by Host Adams, of the Ctn. k-,. Hotel,
Crenbmtne, whom caterieg gave great eatief,toon. The
marquee itself presented • most siege.% eePsier orece, the
principal poste being very thickly coronet wit 4 the well-
known white clematis, while heavy festoons of clematis
and other Bowers stretched from poet to po-t. This part
of the work was ably carried out by Ile Beck, the bead
gneelsner, and Kr. Chinchen, the foreman or overseer it I
the workmen, on whom it reflected greet credit, and to I
whom very great praise lids'. About MO seta. wn, under
the presidency of the Rey. W. J. km Is, c yeat,..i..quea•
of 11. or Crichel; end after very ample justice let been
done to the good thine' provided, the cloth war removed.
At title stage of the proceedings the choir we vacated by
Mr. /Candle and wee t elven by the It.. C. P. Phinn,
rector of the Cilchels. Grace having been said by the
Rev. W. J. Ken Ile,
The Rev. C P. PHINN, at chairman, at once proceeded
with the loyal t oast,. He c ornruenited by oaring tit ot they
had already had one chairman, but that Ito bad been asked
to take the chair for • short interval while a few touts
were proposed. He would commence hr pr tp .ejett the
toast of "
The Queen. the Prise, and Pelvic o' Wales,
end the rest of thy Royal Family." It would ae LI very
few words on his part to comm ind to them the • at f tee
laiteett. They all knew her and! .yed her, t heath. p irtuerni,
very few of them had ever son her face. They kn-iw that
the germs erespathieeal with her peo,ele, that.)e., felt with
them Is their joys end in their sorrows end eery.. Every
one of them knew that the Queen did not It ep bersel
aloof from her people. Her Shims, had hod her eh.* it
sorrows, and she did not forest the morrows of her people.
A. to the rest of the Royal Feradri they bad see some of
them—the Prince and Princess ot Vides sal the Duke
end Duchess of Connaught—among them, awl thew hoped
to see them, or other members of the R iyel
among them often main. 'Hear, hear.)
Taw next toast was . ' The health of Lard and Lady
Alingtee." which was also waylaid by Kr. Petee, who
said that in proposing that Meat he dirt not want them to
regard Lord and Laly Alington simply es toe donors of
that feed They were collected there to join in vie f
Deities, to share In the joy end happlawie wllch their
noble hod and beide.' mast naturally feel at to,
return to hie parental home of their eon and h •i t, and
hi. bride. (Applause.) Whatever their sit laths on the
estate they would all loin in crnorotuhatng L .r.l and
Lady Alington that day, and ahem in the torten' of
happta se which they mast feel ,at day. He we. sure
they all elmired to express their 011•011.11 at heart with
Lord and Lady Alington on th anglicism, ere &sloe

(Cheers
L tr.l ALMOIVN, who was receivoi with cheer., an I will
addressed thee. present as" MI roof friend.," s•id be bad
not intended to trouble them with an address that otter
noon. but after the very kind way in which they hail
tiro...oil the toast that had been so 'MY kindly vrolti,tal
by Kr. Polon, be felt it incumbent upon him to make •
her, few geoguipi. To been with, he must • speela oh,
help, that they hula' enloYed themselves that tfteronon.
(lieer, hem.) He hoped, the first plact, that they had
all had a good feast, that they had ell had a. much as
they liked (Laughter.) They had met together that
afternoon to rabs an event which, as they might
'mama.., was one of very meat importance to him lel? and
to Lady Alingtein—(heat, heati—vis., the marriage
of big one and only sod (Hear, hear, and applause)
As they all know ha had only one soh, but he bad
got Aro daughters—flatighter)—and all he motel say was
that he wished he had got more exactly like them.
(Laughter.) He was sure that they would, one and a'L
agree with him when he said be hoped the day was far gin.
tent when anyone but one bearing the name of (tort
Hoed in that honme—Orichel House—which they sew in
front al them. (Hear. bear) He hoped that his ton,
when he inherited that Property—and he was sorry to
say that he (Lord Alingtoa) was now going down the
hill rather fast—he hoped that his non would follow the
example of his grandfathsr. by taking care of and
watching over the interest of the labourers and working
°teem (Appian's.) Any man who had the gond fortune
to inherit loch • fine property a• that of CI Jebel was,
in his opinion, bound t) lire 14 it—(hear, bear)—and tc
employ, as far as In his power lay, all the people in
the neighbourhood in which he lived. (Bear, bear. and
) His (the speaker's) grandfather, as tomes of
what -is vulgarly' called "m t no the -
stabl—(lw.ushter)—and instead of living at home there.*
was obliged to live abroad. When his (the speaker's)
tether inherited the lllMPartyhe oat to work like the
good kind-benited man I. vs•-•as mod and kind amu