The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

io—tia4; limbers of the Dorchester Rills Volooteer

Corps.
"Cientlemein,—The time has come when I may no
longer delay my resignation of the command of your
corps. The state of my health is such that, under no
possible circumstances. I could hops to fell in again at
your head for some two or three yeare at the earliest
even should I then be permitted to do so; and, snob
being the ma*, I have no alternative bat to send in my
resignation for the acesotance of the Lord•Lkutenant.
How deeply it pain. me to do so I cannot my. You
who with me have gone tbroush lb. five years of the
mop.' esistenes, and with me shared its labours
ono its j peg, will be •isle to say deep • bold A is
'astable of laying on the elections; and to you I will
simply my that few evens' could have afforded me such
heardelt regret as this.
And sow, in bidding you farewell, let me ono, again
tell you bow deeply I appreciate the unvarying kind-
ness and ever ready sympathy that I have received at
your hands from the first day of our enrolment until
now. That our connection could have continued for
that length of time, without one jarriog acoideut to
mar its plessantness, would have seemed almost too
much to hope for, but it is nevertheless. • tact; and
with equal troth I non assert that any appeals that I
h.ve made to y-ou for work or drill (and I did not spare
you) bare been unhesitatingly and fully responded to by
you; while your uniform steady ConduCt and respect.
able demeanour on every occasion ha•s won for you
esteem from all sides. By such like means you bane
laid me ender a heavy debt of gratitude, and, believe
ins, I shall never forget it.
" Let me add one word with regard to the future.
Another will now fill my place, and will look to you
foe the sama suppoit you have afforded me. Be trne to
him ; be true to yourselves; let union ever be your
watchword; and it will then be his highest boast, as it
is mine, that he was a mamba, of the 3rd Don't.

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"Yours truly,
"RDwo. L
Woggiju Miss INITTITTION. —On Wednesday even•
ins the Right Hon. Lord Dufferin and 'Candela:le,
KP. LOB., the new Under Secretary for the
Colix;ies, will deliver a lecture on " Ancient Syria" at
the Townhall. The chair will be takel by R. B.
Sheridan, Esq., M. P. The proceeds will be devoted
to the funds of the Working MOW. Institute, sod
we have no doubt from the high repute of the
Iw/turn, that in • pecuniary sense, it will be one of the
most anecenful of the present sesnon.
PHOTOOSAPHIC SOOICTT 01 BOOTth•D. The
Edinburgh Caning Courant, of December 14, says :
Tim monthly meeting of this society was held yesterday
evening in the ball, 117 Oeorge-street.—Principil Sir
avid Breeder in the chair. Mr. John Poinicy, of
Dorchester, read • paper on Photographic Carbon
Hinting, of which he claimed to be the inventor, and
at which he bad laboured for seven years. He described
his process of producing photographs direct from the
n-gative in printing ink, and showed examples of his
.o.k at different stages of Lis experiment, in photo-
lithography ant printing. He also gave practical
Illustration of his pruners with his "sensitised paper"
and movitive ink, and tabled specimens of pholigraphy
on gelatine and other transparent substances. The
production of photographs in printing ink and in
orteinic colours waa Skeet's Oxiiinplilled, Mr. Penney
',marking that by applying his system to earthtneare,
the good housewife would be able to have photographs
of all the members of the family in her tea service, or
any gentleman could obtain • dinner or dessert service
decorated .ith photographio views of his estates, 64
favourite h dogs, kb. He made bold to eased that
his procaine an ed a wider field than any other
system of photographic printing, and if by himself he
carried it so for, who should predict the limits or extent
of its application when it should have received the same
amount of attention and talent that had hitherto been
given to silver printing? Mr. Ponney's specimens,
whieh showed great improvement on his prodootions at
pretious vidts, were regarded with great interest by the
tedtpany. Profrietir Moir motied I rote Of thank. to
, MY. Penney for his very instructive and interettinp
' taper. There «mid be nothing more uncertain than
the proems of silver printing; and if they could obtain
• proms which secured psrunnency as well as brilliancy
it would be ciao of the greatest boons to the photographic
artist He thought Mr. Penney had not only scoured
permanency but given them prints, the beet of which
were quite equal to those prefaced by the silver proem&
Mr. Kinnear. architect, amonded tin motion, which
was unanimously maid."
Waanizn.—Tlui reading of the thermometer at
Darebeeter for the ease week ii.. follow.:

Medias
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37 15 86
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31 NE
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