The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

WICYMOUTH.

TFIZ Weirtirotrrff liziotot.—Our annual races are
Reed to come off at Labium"- on the Bth and 9th
Sept,Wher, and as a spirited committee of gentlemen
is appointed to manage the whole of the sports,
doubtless capital fun will be had on both days, not to
mention the splendid list of prizes to be run for. The
powticulare of the races will be found in an advertie
ing colt/cwt.
Tax NEW Hanc.—That magnificent building
which has been eilentli growing to perfection for
many months, and the proportions and external op-
pearanoe of which oall to mind the superb structures
of London and Manchester, and otherlarge places,
is to be puttiely opened to-day (Tuesday), by a house-
warming dinner, at half peat 5. The hotel is fitted up
in a rich etyle, and is repe with every convenience.
The title of the building le "The Burdon Hotel,"
and it is a sufficient guarantee deg travellers and
fermillt, will be properly accommodated when we eal
that 14r. YearaleY, the well experienced and highly
respected JAW:fiord of the Antelope Hotel, for-
chaster has the entife management of the business.
We understand that already the hotel is nearly
full, many families of note having taken up their
residence there.

BLANDFORD.
The following Appeared in the Illustrated News
of the nist nit 1—"-11 is well that dimuseion should
he raised about the monument to the Duke of Wel.
lingten before we ars irrevocably committed to the
memorial unworthy of him and of England. But
we see nothing unpromising in the present staW of
She matter, A young and unknown sculptor haa
been selected solely bemuse his work is *kludged to
be one of genius, And he is to be assisted by gentle.
men of appmved ability" The " young and on.
known soulptot" referred to is a native of this pleas,
and there are many pow living here who were his
companions in boyhood, and who have not forgotten'
the diffident manners and studi,ors habits of the buy,
Alfred Stevens thirty years linos. His hither war
the town arlisit, mu t never did "mine host" of the
Black Bur or King's Arms think of attrasting the
traveller's attention by swinging algn•board without
George Stevens being called MIA) paint an 'Botts'
Stan of the brut* or to emblased the arms. His
shop, hung round with "bite" of ornamental writing
and heraldic epeolniens interspersed here and there
with performanow by the brush belonging to a
higher range of art, was resorted to by the Alturoh
warden who wanted the ton omarnandmonto " wrote
up" in the parlsb 'Anna, the undertaker for the
hatoliment, and the sportsman Air the rentrAlt of hie
horse or dog, Thus amosiMed from childhood with
them art tendenclea, it is not to be wondered at that
the stihket of our notioe was early In life tempted to
handle the brush and to transfer to amass the
Immatured fancies of a naturally Imaginative mind,
His produotlons, however, rapidly assumed greater
merit and importance, and soon astraoled the at.
tention of the Hee, J Best, ajetlilaue Latron or
art living In the Immediate. nelghtsninreml, Through
his liberality "the buy artist" was sent to Italy, that
his taste and Judgment might have a more moving
training than they were likely to twelve at home.
Thom his genius lint 110111Velt a bias In favour of the
study of seulpture and arehlteetum, mill the brush
was frequently exchanged for the modelling tool and
the severer study of Architecture, miler, and
proportion. After an Absence of several years he
returned to ugland, atilt though he has not et'
tempted to attain to eminence as a painter In title
country, he is nut Itheillether " unknown" ass see'
gerbil onmpeoltor for fame In other department' of
Art, He furnished designs too inatiohseturlng house at
Sheffield for ornamental alifinney•pleces awl grates,
to whieb Mt prises were awarded at the first elblid.
Cron lit 11th t and him valuable assistants In painting
the frescos iii the House of Loral' placed hint In an
Inviable position In tho rank of tutgll.lm artists.
The Ileantlful vaulted milling. after Battelle, neer the
Central Transept In the Italian Court at Plydenhain.
Is the result of his genius, Ana attained for him ths
highest cenntuendatlons from Mr. Dlgby Wyatt and
other ommoisseurs of artistic eroollenos,

MOIAPPRUPHIATION OF LOFT VuopsllTv, A
short time sinus a large package oontaining °input.
hug and other valuable property, alltheued to Mr.
fireethend, upholsterer, In this pleas, wee dropped
from Syne wegon engaged In conveying goods from
the Wimborne station to Blantiford. The wives of
two men, named fiellop and Real, living In the
village of Snettisbury, wore wen by a navvie to
bring a truck to the plane In the road where the
package haul dropped and take it away. The loss
was known immediately the wagon arrived at
Wendt ,rd, and from inquiries duly instituted in.
formation was quickly obtained of the manner In
which the package haul been removed. The whole
of the pmperty woe found equally divided in the
two house. occupied by the women who hail taken it
away from where it ha4l fallen, and is now in the
pouession of Superintendent Watts awaiting further
proceedings. We trust that this matter will be
fully gone into, as much valusble property is onn.
veyed by oarriere on this lino of road ; and a lesson
real by the magistrate% on the law of nieurn and
to the rural population living in the villages through
which the road passes, may nut be thrown away.