The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-06-12 00:00:00

THE CONSOLIDATION SCHEME.

(irxnnAr.4.—Two new gunboat a of 11ev Majeaty's
Navy. the Firm and the Forester, from Hull, put
into the Roads on Monday, mini, after taking in coal,
proceeded to their lestination- Plymouth.

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HORS)/ KILLED AT CASTLETOWN.-0110 of Mr. JON.
11,.1.1er.71 lionies on Thursday WWI battling stone on
the merchant's railway when it slipped, fell on the
rails, and broke a leg. To save It from suffering
further the animal wan ehot.
Tint billianlinsen for the prison officers, which hi
underneath the library, and reading-room, is visited
both evening and day time, for in the want of other
pleasure., the new billiard table is a great :icquimition
to the officers, though they wish it were a little larger.
CONFIRMATION co CONVICT& -BOITIO of the guilty
and suffering men whose crimes are punished at the
Convict Prieon, were further admitted mender,, of the
outward and vinible Church of England, by contirma.
tion on Sunday morning last. The solemn rite was
performed by the Ilinhop in the Convict's church,
which is within the prinon walls.
" VERA BAD FOR THE COO."—The "coo" that WAR
to run against the railway train, said old George
o Stephen. 'n, would find it "Vera bad." So did that
cow of Mr. IPhomas Comben's which could not lift up
a load of stone on Thursday, by putting its leg under
the wheel. ' 31en.rs. G. and W. Andrews attended to
the smashed hoof, and staunched the flowing blood.
FALL INTO A (2exaer.--Mr. Henry Otter, eon of
Mr. Abraham W. Otter, W:l4 occupied on Thursday
in one of :deems. Giles'. ,marries at Weston. As the
jib of a crane wan being lowerml, it surgml from some
resmon we have not heard, and Mr. Otter jumped to
save himself, but the handle struck him, and he fell
lit', the quarry, first pitched on some rubble, and
thence to the bottom, about 36 feet. An arm was
I •ken, his body broiled, and his head badly cut; but,
I ing attended by 11r. Rae, he is getting better.
FEATA or THZ BORNE ARTILLCRT.—MT. Threnher's
rse 'lea not seem to have got quiet in harnens by
ing in the Royal Artillery. Last week we recorded
in Pimping the cemetery wall, and on Monday he
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Thresher will find him a horse. The Fortune's Well
people don't eels for these extra feats.
Drain or A TRADINM VC— I much regret toannounce
the death of Mr. Thomas Hartrani Fox, of Fortunes'
Well, Portland, and Detroit, 'U.S. The new, WAN
received on Wednesday morning that Mr. Fox had
flied on the 17th of May, at Detroit, Michigan, U.S.,
of consumption, at the age of 48 yearn. The ileceaned
was remarkable for his genial affability and indepen-
dent views with regard to public affairs, the latter pro-
holly gained from him extended knowledge of both
'lien of the world, for he often went ;tennis the Ocean
botween England and the United States. He leaves a
widow awl three daughters, who have my sincerest
sympathy in their loois.—DisceNs.
THE Foovesrii u'r OLD lIILL.—Was not the Sur.
veyor to the Local Board etrictly instructed to do aa
'little as posnible to 01,1 Hill? Snrely the Board did
not intend him to interpret their instructione—" as
little good an possibie.” Yet the footpath, which had
got trodden as firm as concrete, antl was quite pleasant
to walk ap (bar the steepne.m) or down, has been
picked over, aml in now etrewesl with loon.' atone, that
make it painful to go lip 011, :111,1 dangerous to run
down, while the Imese rolling knobs, are mixed
with a It of fine Portland stone slinst, keit tolerable
in wet weather, but which will torment passenger'e
eyes when the elm Anil wind have their way. We
have often wondered at the "way not to do it," so
frequently illustratisl on our road., and footpaths ; but
the lioard ought really to have the leiwer of giving the
word of comittand " .to you were," tto that fidgetty
labour may not make thing.; worne.
Sttr•Miorttatiox DV A CONVICT. —A convict,
named Balfour, a Sintchinisn, ran a serious risk of
killing himself a night or two ago. He mutilated
himself in a very extraordinary way, (from slimmed
moral Ill,,tiVen,) and bed a grdat deal of litsxl, iii fact
hail he not been promptly attended to by 1/r. Askluim
and Dr. Walker. he would have bled to death. AM it
Is, though inn,4l weakened, he is now progresning.
'rhe singular Nell damage was not at all with theobject
of mutilating himself W. an to get into llompital. still
hes to commit suicide ; but entirely from a deeire to
escape temptatlel, and in ignorance of the danger he
ran by the illjudged act, which if nnecessflilly performed
would not bane removed what he wished to avoid.
TIIE GRANT FUND ACCOVNT4 have been published.
The anionnt received in 1876 wan £27194. 3.!.; that
presented being £241 Plit, so that the balance due has
been reduced from 1.221 Os. 10.1. to £l9l 9n. 7.1. The
dintrilmtion of the Finnl seems to have been abont in
the name manner an ill former years, the largest items
are two of 650 each to the pariah churchyard, and one
£0 to the 4th 1/.V.A. Drill Hall, the parish lichooln
have £4O, the Royal Dinpensary has 14:0 itl two pay-
ments, St. George's church £l9, St. George's
b frge's co
cluor 1475, £l6 17n., for 1870 £ll ,rl4. 6d. and
£l5 7s. 9,1.; Mrs. Himlinarelufor dinneratwo £lO SUM.,
and the mailer itemn are B. White, 1.7 lid. res. ; Eye
Infirmary and Connty lbeipital, £4 4s. Oil. ; Cheque
book, 2n. fkl. ; quarry Accident Fund, £2 25.; Mr.
Ntilledge, preparing accounts, £2 2,.; the Wesleyan
Seh....ls, In ; James Lane, in great ilintrens, SR ; J.
Gibbn, £2; Ben Petters £1 • Horswell, Rowell, and
Jane Roberts el each;' B. White, Li 19s. 4,1. ; E.
Byatt, £2; Parish Clock, winding and repair'', £5 ;
Mr. Wallie, printing, three yearn, .£6 6s. ; .1. Fusaard,
£1 1 Widow May, £2; Hoidnus for J. Stone, £2; total '
£33,-, 12s. 6,1•
IVarciitxo FOR THE Boar.—The fishing and pilot
boat Essay, Captain Henry Attwooll, was out in the
fierce gale of Thursday night and Friday. The crew
were afraid to run her for port, so violent was the
wind, and ao terrible the sea ; but they put up just
enough canvann to .deatly her, and hove.to in the
,fling. IFI Portland the friend,' were of course very
anthem, as she could not be discerned for the distance
and the spray, and they telegraphed to Brisham, but
when they learnt she was not there, the anxiety was
increased. About eight o'clock in the evening Phis
was seen coining across the Bay, and a crowd gathered
at Fortune'n Well to sec her make the mew°. About
half-pant eight, favoured by a shift of wind, ehe
weathered the Bill, and came into the Roads about
midnight. Captain Attw,sill reports that he never
RAW such a sea in the Channel; and, that there never
was much a sea so late as May and June, is confirmed
by the memories; of old sailors ; it seemed equal to that
In the November gales.
THE I !ONFIRMATION&—The candidates for confirms-
tion gathered at St. Peter's beautiful new church on
Sunday afternoon, from the three district.' and
parishes of the 'eland. and they numbered 83. All
the clen.,7 attended —The Rev. .T. A. Hew:oe and the
Rev. \V. Briggs, from St. George's; the Rev. A. Hill
and the Rev. C Rickards, from St. Peter's; and the
Rev. 'l'. A. Ottley, from St. John's, and we cont.-man-
late the latter clergyman on being able to attend
after his Late illnesa—The Bishop, in the course of
his Marcel, remarked that it was a great blessing
that 83 young pm pie had come forward in this inland
for confirmation, a fact which should carry joy to at
least 70 houses. The usual hymns were sung, and the
choir were ready with npecial music if there had been
an opportunity for its performance. Among those
confirmed was an old lady ,d Southwell, 60 years of
1 age.—The Rev. Arthur Hill, **senior chaplain at the
Convict Establishment, had the honour of entertain-
ing the Bishop. We must not forget to notice that
the church was crowded by a very Large congrega-
tion.
TA! GALE on Thursday ni,,oht and Friday emote
violently on Chesil, and had there been spring tides,
, the water would have poured into the village. So
, violent were the waves, and no high dashed the surf,
, that some landsmen declared that two or three way"
I bro o ke ver the Beach.—The fishermen went went out early,
' and brought their boats to the eastward, under the lee
of the beach; but one empty boat was blown right
over to the Weymouth road.—The potatoes were, in
exposed places, much cut down by the keen Wind, and
' here and there entirely epoiled. In the gardens to the
' west of the Common Mr. William White had a fine
lot, all hoed up in ridgee. but these looked black as if
they had been ripened off, though there is nothing at
the roods • Mr. White will probably re-plant, and_ he
suffers a loss of 1:10 or £l5. In many other places the
unfortunate „oardenera are re-planting; but we were
glad to see that those at the foot of the Hill and
opp.ite Belle Vile-terrace, as well as in Mfrs Winter's
pleasant garden, eeemed to have escaped. On the top
. of the hill Mr. Pavey and others had suffered much
loss.
BLOCK ix Foirrores-wv,L.—On Tuesday afternoon,
shortly before 4 o'clock, a team belonging to Mr.
Ward, were hauling a load of stone to the station,
when, in front of the Portland Arms Hotel, the box
of one of the wheels brake. This being about one of
the narrowest parts, the vehicular traffic was at once
ntopped. A party of quarrymen with jacks were emit
to the rescue, a new wheel was obtained from farmer
Comben's, and about 6 o'clock they were able to
comply with the wish of the police and move on;
when a long procession of vehicles of all descriptions
and Prizes got into motion again, the block having lasted
about two bourn—A correspondent suggests that the
lane opposite Mr. Thresher's (in front of the Britannia)
should be continued from Rural Place, passing behind
"Bedlam" to the bottom of High-xtreet, so as to
relieve the traffic through Fortune s-well, and avoid a
block in case of an ambient in the middle of Fortune's-
well-street. To this end we learn, from enquiries about
the locality, it would have to go through "Paradise."
Whether 'twonld be worth while to make • way for
the Rural-Place people to" Paradise" by going close to

One of the grandest schemes that has been thrown upon
the Council table in the form of three resolutions, was
ventilated by Mr. Aldermen George Eliot on Wednesday,
and yet the innate dryness of the subject may prevent
the general public from sttemptinse to devour awl digest
the very clever speech with which tic Eliot heralded the
on-coming of what was indewl to be the panacea for Wey-
mouth's hydra-affliction, nay, twin of afflictions,
impecuniosity and debt. Assimilative as we all are of
what we conceive may bring us "rem, rem, ganavaln reel,"
its when the body politic, and not the enri,a4 inilividnal, j
is to be decterce awl fattened, that we neglect the
gathering of sticks which is to light the fice and keep thel
municipal engine at working presume. So the great ten
thousand of Weymouth's population are hardly likely b
run, wolf-like, after the great apparition of wealth andi
prosperity that Mr. Geo. Eliot conjured up. Yet did th
, worthy alderman tell of Vi9loll4—(it is too early to Proj
' nounce them " dreams") in which a renovated Pile-pi
had risen, lice a phomix, from the rotting dicks that n i
even 71
Ili. of creosote per foot could save from th
unleveled fate of resolution into their element.. Beholilt
again, • ILvhour, with all its unhorizontal Minded°no re
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stratified, or.—to translate this from " linteage " intals
Saxon— with its quays walls made right Behold, again *
Market lUmee, hold in 41.ign, beautiful iu detail, and
always, like the house of his Worship the Mayor, kept in
the best of repair and covered with the freshest of decors
ahon. And, more lovely than all to the wan of integrity-,
all this to he our own, all pail for With a proper amount
of interest, while the principal is a fast-diminishing
quantity, soon to be reduced to a vanishing poiut.
Aladdin', palace has lees charms for a Weyteouthian than
such a vision, because the ruhysttemined structure of gold
and pearls has uought to do with our home, while we rate
our l'ilepier one of the wonders of stir cyce, becaii if We
don't take especial core there conies out slit, mysteriousl ,
the power to rate us. Mr. Eltot's plan, no met r
whether it lie that of Mr. W. Eliot, o (ten,r Mr. (ten, t4l
should he entertained, and scanned. and examined, at
criticised, and yet borne with, although some of its f r
reaseuing is shown to have no basis, and some of i
anticipations may never become reality. And, hefore a
pew have any acceptance in our minds, we must
deal severely with the intolerably rotten part of it, I t
the worthless excrescence obscure the real value f
what is good. This useless part, this utter y
mischievous idea, is that which is supposed to deal vri h
morel obligation "Grossly fallacious" is a pretty stro g
phrase wherewith to qualify estimates put forth by •
Corporation, and that the Corporation of 011e.4 own tow
and still more forcible is the combination of words wh n
we consider that upon ouch "grossly fallacii me" estima
small trwlesmen, WidOWS, and bowl Jul. investors w re
induced to lend their money. And, although Mr. Alil t.-
man George knot tried to save the credit of tue
Corporation of that past time, by declarine that t y
deluded eniall tradesmen and widows in utter ignoran e,
the lesson of the pant t not be let -lip, when snot or
scheme, more vast than that of the Market Howe to y,
awl I venture to say, 111.1 Te dangerous still, is propound el.
There are two great arguments tot the Consolidat on
Scheme,—Mr. W. Eliot, for whom everyone in Weyino th
I
should feel reverence, anil Mr. George Eliot, whose ald ity
as a financier, and abundluit eloquence in the Coo eil
Chamber, command attention. the advocacy of t sea
gentletneu is the main foundation on which the wl ole
scheme reets, ant I should Is, very sorry to come bel nil
any oue in respect for such powerfully ender ied r
arguments. Where two thoughtful and alde men sup artj
a scheme so warmly, it gives 011 e pallMe, even althou I '
WI. eo overwhelmed by Mr. Robens's counter argun out.
that I could not Ace the Consolidation Scheme had yeg
to stand on. Serving illy apprenticeship as a printer ii W
Weymouth Mice, at the time the tierce debate ahoutthr
Mathes 11 mem was raging, i was behind the scenes, triad
the quegion of moral obligation is Mew very clear. But hat
moral obligation does not rest upon the then Caarpora ion
far less upon the Council of the preeent ilay ; but iteu
those gentlemen who, in faee of the most trenchant an
the steadiest oppositiew forced the Market If euse eel one
through by the casting vote of the presiding 0 ceri
Certainly, Mr. Robens has no "moral obligation" iii tti
matter; the eloquent ant witty tribune of the people h
well nigh crustiest the whew.: by his own effertit, if
argument could have done so. The "morality/ ail
deluding widows and small tradesmen by growl
fallacious estimate m s was only saved fro annihilatli Is
the plea of utter ignora ce n; br ut there is still oof fr
relieving the sufferers. Gentlemen Mill live wholoo
. part in that Market Houma scheme, who supported ghe
party with all the tirione-s St fanaticism; ttruncegentl7iaefl
have great abundance of this world's goals, and iflthey
think that "moral ohligation" should be celfece.l to
weigh, nothing can be much easier than for them ti buy
of the poor holder. of Market Reuse meek their she sag
par, recoup those whom their estimates involtin Avaii
misled, and themselves bear the lessee of their ow n a
their party's errors.
The argument that a sinking fund might be raised its pay
off the debt would have shared the fate of the " Peoria
obligation" argument, had it not been for the calm judg-
ment of Mr. Alderman Howard, whose long experience in
the legal profession. and aptness to look at heti, Mice,
enabled him to see a valuable chance of suceces. It was
this :—"That though the Market House debts could not
reasonably be paid at par, yet if the creditors would
accept the market value of their shares, the Council tuigkt
proceed with the scheme, and gain thereby." In there,
Me. Howard proposes a liquidation, and the creditors are
to get a dividend according to what the estate meg pro-
duce. If "ho who is his own lawyer has a fool flu his
client," the converse may be the case, and the bondhelders
prove themselves wise people by taking Mr. Howard's
advice. But we must have no "gm-sty fallacious"
ceti.nates of the value of their stock. If they will meet
the Council in a practical way, the NOICTIIC of Mr„ Eliot
may he digested further, and "Ire,,, the nettle danger"
we may "pluck the Hower safety." Supposing the Council
invite from the bondholders offers of their stock at the
lowest price for which they would dispose of it, then we
should have further data on which to calculate.
Let Us suppose • dear ex ifoach bat to appear, whether in
the form of an individual or a firm, able and willing to
lend a sum of from 111000 to Ag 50,000 at £ll per emit. or
11 per cent., the essential condition being that the
security should be good. The question is—would it
eventually lie necessary to increase the borough rite in
I order that our supposed genie should not lose any part of
I the money? Mr. Robens says " Undoultselly so ;/' and
after Mr. Itobena's figures he may write Q.E.D. But let
' us apply Mr. Howard's common-sense idea and see how
the matter stands. I will leave out the present £7,000
debt, for that is now the cause of a borough rate, awl we
cannot complain if we still have to pay that; we shall be
no worn off. The other debts reckoned by Mr. Habeas
are :—harbour, £14,050; Market-house, £lO,OOO ; arrears,
l'ilwpier, 4:9.3110 ; stheing, £10110: Outer-pier,
£1,000; Pile-pier repair, £2,500 ; Act of Parliament,
£l,soo—total, £17,350. I reckon the Herbour stock et
par; but, if we put the Market-house stock at DSO, on
that we might save £1,1500 ; the Pile-pier stock at £44
saving £1,e450 ; and, as the expense of the llarbour stag-
ing into he repaid out of the extra potato traffic, it may
be left out of the reckoning, reduciug the gross animist
£l,OOO more, and thus the cash necessary to buy up theta,
stocks might be £6,'5511 less than Mr. Robens rethone ; but
I allow £llO for commission and expenses of transfer,
leaving the reduction 16,t31 ; and the capital sum to he
lent would be 140.700, the interest of which at 41 per
cent would be £1,114 1115.,1 or at I per cent tons. In
my calculation I have allowed the £1,5101 for an Act of
Parliament to remain, though I have a vision of even that
being saved. The income from the three trusts is esti-
mated by Mr. Bellew; front the best material at £1,750
per annum, so that our new creditor or ereditors could
have their money, and yet a little he left towards the
sinking fund, without increasing that dreadful bugbear
a borough rate.
The state of the Quays and of the Piers is a matter for
profound anxiety on the part of every lover of aVeynimo b.
I will not now deal with the burning qiiestion of the Mel-
combe Regis quays and the tramway ; but anyone who
posses in or out of the harbour must notice the sad dila-
pidations on the Weyumuth side. Just where the Outer
Pier starts from the land, and to the north of the Fort on
the Nothe, is one part where the tiers of masonry are
bent as if they were some geological stratum sunk down
by an earthquake. Here it ban parted the lino of stones
to a distance of foer inches, and the large flight of steps
is divided by a great fissure, the three top steps being
tvvisted, on an average two inches away from the rest of
the Right For a distance of 10 or 12 yards the quay wall
has sunk down and "slimed (ant" /wilily. This is perhaps
ono of the worst cases ; but dilapidation is notorious
everywhere, and underpiuning is wanted for, I should
judge, half of the Quay wall at the very least Are we
caught on the dilemma of leaving wins that are inellicii nt
without repair, and of being without tummy for the
restoration! Is it the case that the Pile-pier dues not earn
its own livelihood, and yet that we can't do without it? Is
the Market-houee a white elephant and can't we make it
earn? Mr. W. Eliot, the only freeman, the senior of our
community, otters • scheme; it is supported by another
who has very great inserest in our prosperity, and, though
Mr. Robens's arguments seemed conclusive, dire necessity
should force us to wish that Mr. Eliot's plan may he good
and sound, when thoroughly sifted and carefully worked.
We all have a wholesome dread of financing in the
modem sense, and a shrinking from attempting to "bur
and sell sand live by the lose ;" but where is the altematiVe
scheme I Weymouth, according to the judgment of our
Surveyor, and our own observation, is like the four men
at the gate of Samaria, who said, "If we sit still here, we
die." Let the financial scheme be well coneidered by a
sub-committee, and I would suggest Mr. G. Eliot, Mr.
Robens, and Mr. Webb, as representing different . pinions,
Mr. Howard to blend the two sides, and the Mayor of
course at their head. These cattlemen could bring us a
welidlgested scheme, or Mr. Eliot might be convinced
that wine could be carried through.
Such • decision as the latter I should much regret, for
It would seem to leave us shut up to our own fate, with
impaired credit, and decaying and unprofitable property
In two at least of our most important trusts, while another
stands on the verge of similarly poverty-stricken old age,
although we have expectationaof coming into property

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(roes',
of a ;
Prison Bill i
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soßedmbemlara'srliu.:thris
..ab::: woortenindnld it Pro
gcmn?
when it will be too late to save what we have now. What,
however, must be expended in order te Mid n ths position, I
when the proverbial- "stitch in time had been lift un-
done for want of ready cash? Why f the wealthy Petri-
I towhich the C tion is to oome, w in that
mony n e 'moors are getting a little uneasy at the tendency sewn in it i
caw have to bear the cost of rebuildinp and improve- ' to what tt ey call over-centralization. They' like the 1
ments absolutely necessary to keep up the status of the Bill. They are pleased that it unites the prisons of '
town. For no one would be found so foolish as to lend England under a central commission, lint the ' y are
money on the sole security of such undertakings as th! afraid that it will be worked in too centralising a
hfarket house and Inlepter. The "grossly fallacious A irit. Some representatimis were recently made to
estimates of bygone Councils, and the refusal or imrossi- (V 1 1D (' f labout • s .0 one u ace, or examp e, the oversworking
hility of the attempt to repair the shattered credit o suca ,
securities, will be retnetnhered, and it would then be iof the Civil Guard at Portland. Ho replied by
demanded, before any money were advanced, that the deprecating "outside interference." As only
property of the Council should be made collateral security. " outeide interference" can internal evils be reprwred, 1
This is only what Mr. Eliot RTOPOACS to do now. I confess the Howard Association took the matter up, and they I
that the strong and clear opinion of the Town Clerk seems have issued a pamphlet, written by Mr. Tallack, their
to preclude the chance id an Act of Parliament being
.„, secretary, urging that the powers given to the visiting I
granted until the present debts are first Paid. In me justices shall be real and notnominal, fit -
merely
. nne
ordinary course of things, and had we only ordinary turn . .
About us, the Town Clerk's opinion would be another other reforms they suggest, an, for instance, that first j
mortal blow to the scheme, already stabbed nigh to death crime prisons should be established, that the separate '
by Mr. Roberts. But I cannot think that such financiers system should be worked, that the military regent. of ,
AA Mr. Eliot, sen., and Mr. George,Eliot reckoned so ogres the institutions should be somewhat relaxed, the more '
irinu.ly without their host. It may he that they are efficient inspection should be carried out. Mr. MBank I
willing themselves to advance the .f. 10,000 upon guarantees has evidence of the prevalence if unnatural crime in
from the inemben of the Cirporatton, until after the the prisons, and he urges with force the modification
debts had been re arranged, so that the chances and cost „.... . .
of an Act of Parliantent may be avoided. Or it may '
be " '
tle gang system. Theme points, however, hardly
that they know who will. Two or three miracles have toneli the details of thee Prisons Bill. They are
already been is °rhea in Weymouth: is a vision of a matters which arise in working it; and they will need
greater miracle than ever supporting our venerable to be pressed upon the Home Ulliee when the measure
banker and his son in their Consolidation Scheme I comes into operation.
The future property of the Corporation is so large that
I cannot think it is wise now to remain until the quays BROADWEY.
give way in patches and the Pile-pier dies of old age, in
Geier that we may leave to posterity a pocket till of A GREAT deal ha.s been litely said and written about the
money, a Market-honse gone to rum for want of paint delights of hec-kceping, Int, Mr. Rogers, the worthy hoist
and restoration, a North pier shorn of its piled extension of the Swan thinks the pleasure is not without its alloy,
and rotunda, and quay walls tumbling for lack of under- I,lst Wednesday, in company with a friend, he went to
pinning. Posterity, which has done nothing for us, will take a swarm. The friend sod I ' If by poking
not even accord its gratitude. But if the "good time them up with • stick, and about lialf-a.ilogidi at „nee
coming" CM3I be made to cast its brightness before and futile wing-depositories of Mr. Itoger.',‘ arms. Ile was
improve the security we can give, so that we ean bee."' enabled to reach his Loss; and then, swollen, .liscolottred
at a low per rentase, and MO form the nucleus of a sinking and senseless he fell to the ground. Of c mrse there was
fund, that can hue greatly accelerated in its operations much Wants and excitetuent; ilocters from the village and
when the large income comes into hand, then " proptitty, Weymouth were ridden and ran for. Ilappily, some
Pronutty"will be the wealthy heritage that the Corporation kindly ueighbsurs rubbed in vinegar and water to his
may leave, for the ortolian of posterity to free entirely wounds, and he got ronnd, but it was several days before
from encumbrance, by a really efficient sinking fund. he resent to feel the effects of the stings. In fart, it was
the medical opinion that if this precaution hail not been
,
PORTLAND. taken the Swan would have been without a landlord.

UP WET.

" ifs drunk an a pig" k a very common saying, and thong
who were coining our way one day last week could, had
they chosen, have siwn it verified. More than two score
of these porcine gentlemen were to lie seen tumbling and
rolling about the road?, and falling into the ditches in a
tate that would have Justified our active and intelligent
P.C.—we hope soon to see the stripes on lii.i idoing—in
running them in. We trembled for a tinie at the thought
that some terrible and fresh-faxhioned disease had broken
mat in our panda, lint an oil-bond who was consulted
allayed our fears by quietly remarking " drunk, or I'm
-- (ahem !) go they turned out to lee, hot they got
right in 6 or 7 ham. They hod been indulging in
fomented whey.