The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

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TAUNTON.—bintriceoLY DUVAL IT DROVIN•
ING.—qop Wednesday afternoon a young ma:owned
Henry Feet, aged Sheet ,;teen a strident St the
Independent College in this icieh, accompanied by
others of the same establishm.nt, went to babe ftt
the River Tone, at splice called Rough Moor, el
. short distance from the college. While in the
1 water he was seised with cramp, and, though a good
swimmer, he mu unable to regain the shore, and
sank in deep water, his companions being unable
to render him alaistanee. An alarm was at once
raised, and • number of persona were quickly upon
the spot. A life-buoy and drags were procured from
the station of the Taunton Bathing Committee, and
a search was at once commenced ; but it was not
suocsiodul for nearly two hours, when of coons life
was extinct. The plane where this occurrence took
place is much frequented by bathers, and amide:eta
are constantly taking place.
BATH.—Snortirriso Errasounirraay. —On
Friday two middlo.aged females of respectable
appearance went to the shop of Messrs. Jolly and
Son, College-green, and under the pretence of
making a purchase, succeeded in carrying off four
silk mantles of the value of twenty guineas. The
following day Messrs. Jolly's establishment in this
city was visited by two women answering the same
description, and a very costly silk mantle was after.
wards found to have been stolen by them, fib
doubt both robberies were effected by the IMO
women, who ars suspected of being travelling
thieves.

—TII-11-WAYFIt SUPPLY or Toe Boitoonff.—The
Town Council has now tinder its consideration a sub-
ject of great importance to the health, the oomfort,
and the well-being of the city, vii., the water-
surply. Accounts of the shortness of water are con-
's, being heard of, and when complaints are
mad, ibat the few public fountains of the borough
do not How, the answer is that the email quantity
required for that purpose cannot be spared. There
should he no stint of what is so indispensable to
sanitary arrangements, and the knowledge that the
stipply falls far below the demand ought to stimulate
the Corporation to active exertions to remedy the
deficiency. Mr. Alderman Gore states that 2,000
houses in Beth are not supplied with pipe.watet, and
calculates that 16,000 persons, more than one-fourth
of the population, are inadequately provided with
good water. Where an abundant supply is most
wanted it is not to be had, and the inhabitants have
to depend upon well-water, of the purity of which
we do not care to venture an opinion. A thoroughly
efficient water supply, as Dr. Falconer w
observed, will enable the Council to set at net the
street-watering dispute, for it woeld allow the carts
to be filled at the mains in all parts of the borough,
instead of from the sewagnoorrupted river.
OR DIN •TION AT Tllll AIMS 01171ICH. —On
Sunday morning week our venerable abbey was the
scene of a very interesting ceremony, novel, how-
ever, to Bath—the ordination of priests and deacons.
For three mornings previoualy Divine service was
held in the abbey, when the Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Bath and Was, sad the v..
deacon of Bath were present. •••r1 °.,lurda,7 there
was fullservice, 1111300 nis tornecup
...4 an earnest and suitable address to the
cataidates who were about to enter the ministry of
the Church, setting for their duties as ministers of
Christ, and urging them to pursue their studies with
all diligence. On Sunday morning service com-
menced at the Abbey at ten o'clock. Prayers
having been read by the Rector, the Rev. C.
Kemble, the Ten. Archdeacon Browne ascended the
pulpit, and preached an excellent sermon from 2nd
Corinthians, 2nd chapter, 16th verse, "Who is suffi-
cient for these things r At the conclusion of the
diaoonrse the Archdeacon presented the candidates for
the order of deacon, who were eight in number, to
the Bishop. The Bishop then asked if any "notable
crime or impediment" were known to than persons
presented to be admitted deacons. The candidates
for the order of priesthood were five in ntutiber, und
were also presented to his lordship by the "Van.
Archdeacon. After the usual service the oath of the
Queen's sovereignty was administered to the deaoons
hidividually by the Registrar, Mr. E. Davies. They
wets then examined, and the Bishop, laying his
hands severally upon the head of every one of them
"humbly kneeling before him," gave them the
authority to execute the office of deacon in the
Church of God committed unto them, and also
authority to read the Gospel in the Church of God,
and to pteach the same if they were so licensed
by the Bishop himself. The oath of the Queen's
supremacy was then administered to the candidates
for the priesthood, the examination of *bon having
been gone through, the Bishop and priests present
laid their hands upon the hod of each one of them,
and the Bishop formally admitted them as priests in
1 the Church of God. The Bishop then delivered the
Bible into the hands of each one of them, giving
them " authority to preach the Word of God, and
to minister the Holy Sacraments in thecongregation."
The Ten. the Archdeacon. the Rural Dean (the Rev.
H. Calverley), the Rector of Bath (the Rev. C.
Kemble). and the Rev. J. Bond (Prebendary of
Wells), assisted at the laying on of Windt The
remainder of Ordination and the Communion Berrien
followed, the Bishop officiating, and at the con.
elusion dill. Nicene Creed those person. who did
not With to port,ake of the Sacrisment quitted the
church. The administration of the Sacrament to
the deacons, priests, and congregation, concluded
the solemn and impressive rite, which lin not been
performed in Bath since the Lent ordination of ism,
when Bishop Law officiated. We understand that
it is the intention of Lord Auckland to regalatly
hold the Trinity ordination in this city, his lord-
ship considering that Bath should participate in some
measure in the ecclesiastical ceremonies of the
diocese. The following are the names of the candi-
dates Ordained l—Deaton.—Augostn. Rickards
Blundell, 8.A., Queen's College, Oxford • Charles
Albert Bragge, 8.A., Trinity College, Ca:abridge ;
William Henry Gale, RA., Wadhanz College,
Oxford; Edward Kington Hanson, B.A. Pem-
broke College, Oxford; Edmund Whirtting4all St.
Maur Macphail, RA. Jeans College, Oxford;
Walter Willany Martin, RA. Brannan College,
Oxford; William John Sinallw;sed, Magdalen Hall,
Oxford; Walter Henry Trevelyan, RA., Christ's
College, Cambridge. Priests—William Arthur
Allen, 8.A., New Inn Hall, Oxford; Daniel God.
dard Compton, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxford;
Frederick Charles Kinelake, 8.A., Christ Church,
Oxford; George Terry Moulton Mounter, 8.A.,
Exeter College, Oxford; Thomas Williams Open'
thaw, M.A., Brannon College, Oxford.

Brave or roe Owes HS Weer Boirinerr.—The
acme in this diatriet an looking remarkably well ; in
deed, wheat, early barley, pees, and beans =mot be-
expected to look better than they do at present.
Wheat is corning out well in the ear, and the straw is
very strong and stiff, and very unlikely to fell; miler
we have BOUM singularly heavy weather, such as severe
thunder-storms and the like, wheat is not likely to be
beaten down as it was last year end the year before.
The market, consequent on the doe weather, for wheat
is easier than last week. The young wheats are also
most promisinf,. With reference to barley the emir
sown is very forward, and promisee a good crop, and is
sufficienUy advanced to keep the ground sheltered from
the sun, and the dampness of the grouted contributes to
the growth of the plant, and makes it feel the want of
room less than might have been expected. The later
sown barley, as well as other late sown corn, and also
roots, are much in want of rein, • want which has also
retarded sowing. The early sown oats will probably
yield well, while the later ones are likely to be light,
in consequence of the drought. Owing to the fine
weather in February admitting of the early tilling of
peas they have grown, and are ooming out in bloom.
very be. Beans ere now out in full bloom ; they have
reached • good height, and if there is no blight there
will, in all likelihood, be an abundant crop, and very
early. Many pines of rye grass, clover, and naiad
have been cot in this locality, and are being saved in
prime condition. The clover, while light on the hills.
affords • good crap in the vales • rye gran and main'
are light. In February and March then presented a
luxuriant appearance; but the May frosts checked their
growth very much, and they have experienced the want
of rein exceedingly ADM. The latter hay crops are
sadly in want of rain, and unless we have some tamely
showen the shears must be very light. It has been
remarked that in a footpath lield on the side of the bill
behind Bamboo's baths, as yet inneoent of the scythe,
there is not at present so much grass as it had three
months ego. The potatoes on the whole en looking
well; while in some pines, in drafty valleys, they have
bees wonderfully out off by the frosts, in other plane
there are no signs of the frost. One who bee taken
that route informs an that for twelve miles from Bristol,
or the Sodbury Road, not a angle Sees of potatoes is
affected by the frost. On the poor lands at Ooalpat
Reath heeds are busy working the potatoes ; in mere
favoured parts the plants are very forward. Hazard*
an opinion from plena. appeanaces • good crop may
be inferred; there has bees no whisper of the disease
as yet, but probably this las little bather than it has
been Nis ca foam you&