The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-28 00:00:00

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SMENSONNII.—The annual meeting of the trusteed
end inanagers of the tilierborsis Savings Bank was
held on the 111th hut., when the amounts were
molted and certified according to the forme required 1
by the Commissioner' of the National Debt. The
',weber of depositors exceed that of last year by 36,
and their balances upwards of £l,lOO. There are at
the present time 1,3116 accounts open, amounting to
£14,663 a.. Nil., an es Went proof of the prosperous
state of the town and neighbourhood.
COMMON RIOIITS. —A meeting of Commoners was
held Wednesday to receive the report of the cono
mittee appointed to negociate with the railway com-
pany relative to the laud required in Lenthay ; Mr.
liotter in the chair. Mr. Avery read a report
as Well named Pin as the sum which should be taken.
lie fircibly advocated the claims of the middle poor
in this matter, and suggested that the sum should be
paid into the Bank, and used if necessary in defend.
nig the rights of the Commoners, and that they
should appoint a Caro Taker, and make rules with
regard to the stocking, so as to avoid the present on.
fair mode of stocking, by which the cattle of the
largest fanners eat up the best herbage. It was
poi ti ted at that the Commoners were only tenants,
nod thatthe fee of the land belonged to the Lord of
the Manor, who would he entitled to a large slice of
the compensation. After a long debate, the follow-
ing resolution proposed by Mr. Ituegg, and seconded
by Mr. Dodge, was paned nem oon :- • That the report
now read be received, and that the Committee be re-
quested to endeavour to effect an exchange of land
with Mr. Dighy, and to continue their services, for
the pileimee of ascertaining the rights of Common in
Leethey, so that a more equitable mode of stocking
way be settled than haa been customary."
ASSOCIATED INSTITUTES. —The drat meeting of the
cleeeed of the Dorset and Somerset Associated
lestitates warn held in the Institution Rooms at
y,,,,ca„ ea Thursday week, when the Sherberne Corn.
mitts suet delegates from Crewkerne, Yeovil, We),
mouth and Dorchester. W. C. Macready, Esq.,
.Chairman of the Council, presided, and announced
subscription*, which, added to the value of the
hooks that were not awarded last year, approach
£lOO t lalt this is only the beginning of the response
made in reply to the Chairman's letter, and after an
appeal is more generally circulated we hope to be
aide to announce that a fund of £2llO has been
subscribed.
The following resolutions were unanimously agreed
to —That a list of the names of those noblemen and
gentlemen who have given in their adhesion to the
associated imititutes be printed, with an appeal, and
that the honorary secretaries of the different societies
in &mutilation be requested to circulate the same in
their respective districts, and to assist in augmenting
the euliseription list, and that the chairman be
requested to prepare the appeal—That any institu-
tem in the two (*imams that will guarantee the for.
nation ofelessee '4 students, be admitted to the
heeeilts of the assoeiation, without any money pay•
meet to the general fund. That the committees of
the iustitittions in union be requested to open
~I,Ases, not later than the let of February, in any
three of the following subjects —Heading, writing,
avithmetie, hiatory, geography, grammar and dietti.
this, drawing, Fnineli, geionotry, and surveying.
Ault that they be espeeially mated to keep mord* of
the attendants* of the simian* and to make siieh
vegetations as will mem a fair competition among
all the attitlents—That the travelling SEIIOIIOO4 ur
delegate* attending moinell meetings, and the eandi.
dame 'Hoeing lip for examination he paid out of the
general hititl!---Tuat the uont uatteee of the several
Amee'ettuns be rewlested to frame regulation, for the
smsiimslaiisiiof youths iii country parishes, who are not
membere of their inetitutione, to the uompetitione of
the Asasilatlen,
limhrsins is DISUMETION, .We (/)01'00i I'IsNISP/0)
hftyo mir extreme regret at 1110/111d iii
meted the paragraph which appeared iii our Mat
week's impreeelon, runt to lIN by our wirrempoitilent,
iii *halt It was dated that three indiviihinle Wed
"m the molt* of the NAselmeion Jeer/mil, by walk•
lug in and mit of the einireli timing service, for the
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