The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-30 00:00:00

Merchants and Traders' Dinner.

This annual minion took pia*" at the Victoria
Hotel, on Wedassday evening last, under the prod-
&may of the Mayor, R. N. Howard, Eq., J.P., and
our Liberal borawis member, Henry Edwards, Rao.,
also kindly ated, though he bad to cam down
from London for the mossion.
Mr. and Mn. Driag provided a lint-rate dinner,
worthy of all the best traditions of the Victoria
Hotel. Among the gnats were :—The Mayor (R. N.
Howard, Eat. J.P.-),Mr.• Henry Edwards, M.P.,
Rev. 3.11. Scott (rector), Mr. G. B. Weldord (coon.
cilia), Mr. Percy &reek Mr. H. T. George. Dr.
Smith, J.F. Mr. Mercer, Rev. J. Wood, M. J.
Robertson, 1.1'.. Mr. Vim:ink Jan., Mr. 3.0. Rows,
Mr. H. Wheeler, Mr. R. Oakley, Mr. Howard Bowea
Mr. Harbert Groves, Mr. Coundlloe A. R. Curtis:
Me. Moeda, Rev. W. Lurk, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Beetle.
stone, Mr. B. Herridge, Mr. Pratt, Mr. T. H.
Mr. W. T. Hallett, Mr. Z. hi (Badge, Mr.
Councillor B. S. Milled's, Mr. H. Hobbs, Mr. Wood.
ward, Mr. Blackman Werke/, Mr. 1,01Ma!0 Mr.
Jeans% Mr. Stow, Kr. Fare,. Mr. L. Rossi, Mr. F.
Orabb, Mr. J. A. Bartlett. Mr. Imsdie, J.P., Dr.
VtillKr. G. R. Oriclassay, Hears Whattans„
.ttatn, Jan., Hill, Teropleman, Jolty, E. B tames,
Greenwood, Cooke, J. Parson., D. Ryan, I'. R.
Charles, Arden, Graham, R. O. 13eme t, reelect
(stationmader), Kwirrell, Vine. isver, Abbey (Imo-
lai* Hotel). Plitt. (Qiseen's Hotel). Whit+, E. Bans.
toe, J. Rows, R. R. Talbot, W. Gregory, Ac.
Graos before and after meat wee said by the Recroa,
and after the expellent dinner bad been heartily en. I
joyed, and a choice dessert, with the most recherche
wines had been placed on the table,
The CHAIIMAII proposed the health of the model
Queen, the model mother, the model woman —' Oar
Cameo," God bits. her, and long may she taiga over
as.—The National Anthem was led off by Mr. J.
Parsons,
Mr. Alderman Logout moped the Bish m and
Clergy of the Blooms', and Ministers of all denomina-
tion., o 'splice with it the names of the Beate% Bev.
H.. Scutt, and the Rev, J. Wood. The tpeakrr
was pleased to see rads a brotherly feeling bmwein
tbs chirpy and the mialstws, sod hawed that narrow-
ness of views on °asp at, and illiberality on the other,
will now be ialogs of the past. la an aloqamt speech
Mr. Lnadie notated out that religion had been the
mesas of elevating this *matey, and be h pod the in-
flames brought I. bear upon the population by the
clergy and ministers would long preserve us from that
wild liberUaisin which exists in others, an I from the
dimension and dissatisfaction with their raters which
Is likely to bring about results of a mwt unhappy
ohareeter. With the tout he coupled the nem 5 of
the Rector Rev. J. IL Scott, and the Re.. .1. Wood.
Rev. J. 11. Boon responded, mayine certain pcpie,
are prone to look upon the gl.wmy side of thi..g. in
both chard' anti municipal matter. Some th meht
the Church of England I. Incurably diseased. and they
had better let her die a natural death. Bat she Is
now doing for the manse more than sr r, and a pans
like Leicester, £lOO,OOO had been raised in the last
year, for the boUdlig of (*arches and whereas I 1337
there were only fin charelm., sow there are 22, end
the Bishop thought all had been renovated or rest red.
I. Um &yowls of Lichfield, 000,000 or £700.000 has
hem rased, so the chetah is not losing her hold in the
Amnions a the nation. The dersy, be heikvo.l, ate
sot surpassed in their earnest and united de ‘ire to
support the intones of the tows in which they tire.
"Veal°
am J. WOOD would have been please I to
follow the Roo. Me Lewis, who had for many
years carr'ed on • work well appreciated in t i. town.
Altar stating It was not the hilt. of None mioribista
to witenrch any body of min on somunt of religions
0111/1111101a, he pointed to the awns as showing that
looms Nowionfonalme are doing their fall share in
Powo4b4 for the Pee*, and standing side by aide
and iw.ii I. shoulder with the national church. As
to Weymouth, elm has • capital situation, a capital
Oseporatlos had bees prn.Msg wonderful things—
fooffe4 dx socaths tbri besati
will love ama abbrs. (Applease.)