The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

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SALISBURY.—EIection of Borough °filter& —The
following borough ottii*rs were appointed on Mon-
day :—Assessors: St. Thomas : Mr. John Churcher
and Mr. Edward Roe. St. Edmund Mr. R. H.
Hale and Mr. Alfred Miell. St. Martin: Mr.
Thomas Griffin (Exeter-street) and Mr. William
Beach,—Borough Auditors: Mr. John Knight and
Mr. Joseph Reith.—Revising Assessors: Mr. Ed-
ward Simper and Mr. Robert Gummer.—Mayor's
Auditor: Richard Hetley, Esq.

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MARLBOROUGH. - Havelock Memoricd. The
Mayor has given notice of a subscription fund being
commenced in this town, for this object, towards
which he solicits contributions, to be paid at either of
the banks.

APPOINTMENT OF THE REV. G. E. L. COTTON, M.A.
TO THE BLSHOPRIC OF CALCUTTA. -It WAS With
mingled feelings of regret and pleasure that the inhabi-
tants of this town were made aware of the appointment
of the Rev. G. E. L. Cotton, Head Master of Marl-
borough College, to the Bishopric of Calcutta, vacant
by the death of the late Dr. D. Wilson. Mr. Cotton
received the intelligence on Thursday morning, by
telegraphic despatch, when he immediately left for
London; and on the following day the appointment
was duly gazetted. Mr. Cotton's career at this
college has been highly auocessful, and his Christian
and gentlemanly deportment in his public and pri-
vate capacity have gained for him the greatest possi-
ble respect. The loss to the college will be gn3at,
and some anxiety as to his successor is naturally
felt.

EASTICENNET. - Accident—Thomas Wright, of
Yatesbury, was ferreting rata at this place, on the
22nd ult., and got upon a rick by means of • ladder.
He then requested that a double barrelled gun
might be handed up to him, and in doing so, by
some means or other the gun went off within a foot
of his knee, the charge taking before it a portion of
his trowsers and stocking, lodging the whole in the
joint, and shattering all the bones of the knee. He
was immediately removed to his house at Yatesbury,
where Mr. Fitzgerald, surgeon, of Avebury, per-
formed amputation of the limb above the knee, the
amputation being completed in rather over half a
minute. The man is progressing favourably.
WESTBURY. —On leaving the Treasury, Mr. James
Wilson will, it is stated, acquire and receive a pen-
sion of £1,200 a year. The hon. gentleman has re-
cently taken the late Duke of Marlborough's man-
sion in Belgrave-square,
MALMFSBURY. - Maltnesbury and Westport
Schools—lt appears from the financial statement for
the first year ending December last, that the receipts
for the year, including school fees, amount to
£396 Bs. 80., and the total disbursements to
£382 16e. 151(1., leaving a balance in hand of
£l3 12e. 3d. Among the list of contributors we
, observe the name of the Right Hon. Sotheron Est-
court (to whose influence the schools mainly owe
their present position, and whose contribution alone
for the last year amounts to £264 10.) At the in-
spection of these schools on the 20th and 21st
January last, by the Rev. R. E. Hughes, Her
I Majesty's Inspector, that gentleman in his report
bore the following testimony as the result of his in-
spection :—" That the discipline was very good, the
lessons well given, and the instruction highly satis-
factory; that considering the short time the schools
, had been in operation (less than twelve months), he
considered more had been done than could have
been reasonably expected; and that he looked upon
the schools already as among the beet in North
Wiltshire."

Tax BLEcnoN.—Mr. Sotheron Fatcourt, who has
accepted office as President of the Poor Law Board,
has issued the subjoined address. The election took
place at Devizes on Friday without opposition.
"To the electors of North Wilts. Gentlemen,—
I have to address you on this occasion in a position
which I never &ought or expected to oocupy—
namely, office under the Crown. Lord Derby
has invited me to take a place in the new Govern-
ment, as President of the Poor Law Board, and I
have given my consent. If you have observed my
votes you will see that this appointment cannot be
said to be the reward of a political partisan; and, as
you have had for many years experience of my
character and habits, I think you will hardly sup-
pose I desire it as an object of personal ambition. I
have accepted it—first, because I am glad to lend a
hand, according to my ability, towards enabling
Lord Derby to execute the arduous task which has
suddenly devolved upon him—that of providing a
Government for the Queen and country; and next,
because this seems to me to be a call of duty from
which I ought not selfishly to shrink, in that parti-
cular line of public service in which my ordinary
course of life has afforded me some experience. If I
judge your sentiments rightly, many of you will
heartily wish success to the new Ministry; others
will at least desire that they should have fair play,
and be allowed to lay their future policy before the
country; and, as I hope that in taking the present
step I have not lessened your good opinion of me, I
ask confidently for a renewal at the present juncture
of the honourable trust which I have held with
pride for many years as one of your representatives.
I am, Gentlemen, your faithful servant, T. SOTHRRON
Firrcowa.-51, Eaton-place, Feb. 26."