The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-12-07 00:00:00

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WET MOUTH.
Tenure Cuoici.—Sinnnons in behalf ol the Dorset
County Hospital were preached on Sunday task in the
morning by the Rev. J. I). Addison, and In the evening
by the Rev. Y. F. Ramon». The collections amounted
17.
TRAnsawa's BALI. —The Mayor presided over •
meeting at the Cutter on Wednesday evening. when
hey decided to hold the annual tradesmen's ball
about the second week in Jimmy at the Royal

hotel.
THU WYKI ROAD STATION or •t least ooe be.
tween Wemouth end Portlas;d, ta oll'unFtflr 6";:t
d.
J.
hes
receivedlaalar foci
Western Railway Company, stativa tltit the nice..
to and the engineereery expense he' been agreed
has been instrucied to Proceed wfia.7l;_
Ova New Maxon, R. N. 11°wrdwrAZO:j7pnbrina
giving • Dumber of dinner parties _
b...
the
Indies. Azooog those entertained have
tee, the Port-
Weymouth Corportion, the
Board. eumbse7ar thas tradesmen of
Weymouth, and Nat rridat_evoning the whole of
the Prorating minister& Thus our new Mayor
ebow. that be is determined to radio the hospi-
tality befitting the Chief Magistrate, and fulfil
the premier he made on accepting the civic chair.
THs ToursAas OF llultOnaat CAPTLINII.—In the last
few weeks a coed...ruble number of sailors have been
committed to our county gaol for disobedience of order.
on board vessels when going along the Channel, and on
Monday another 'meth of five was added. It all seems
to grime haat • regulation of the Board of Trade that
merrebaot searben's "advance notes" for a month'.
wages shall be payable a few days after the vessel has
sorted. On the time coming, the men refers to work
say longer and go to prison—the ratepayers of the
port put in at having to keep them, and the
onsets of the vessels being robbed of the wageg ad.
vaneed. The ship Mallard of Liverpool, bound for
Anchland. New Zealand. with 25 isasengers and •
general cargo, has bad two troubles of this sort and sot
no further than Portland Roods. Eight matt IMO takes
before the Margate Bench for refusing to work, at the
Nore, upon which the paftengers masted in getting the
vessel to North Foreland. The men complained that
the deck was "lumbered" so as to be dangerous, their
food was bad, and their berths wet. Captain Andrew.
and other °Soars diaproved it, and the sailors were
committed for six weeks' bard labour. On Monday five
men from the sanie vessel were bronght before W. Eliot
and FL L Eliot, Esqrs. at Weymouth, for a similar
offesom It rimmed their deems notes were payable in
Leaden last Saturday. They were sentemeed to 12
weeks' bard labour each.
LITERARY AND FICIaNTIVIC INIrrITVIW—A lecture
was delivered on Wednesday 'sewn, Dec. let, at
the lecture room of the institutioo, by Mr. Walter
Cole, jun. M.Q.M.8., co " The Links of Organic
life." There was, se usual at this institution's
lectures, • rather small attendance; but the chair
was taken by R. N. Howard, Beg. Mayor of the
town. The lecturer treated his subject with all the
oars that an educated man shows for his scientific
hobby, and his lecture showed the most thorough
research. Mr. Cole adopts and enforces the Darwinian
theory of natural development, or natural selection,
contending that the difference in plinth and animals
also, hsveleen produced by circumstances acting on
successive generations. He gave a great number of
illustrations, and presented them in • forcible and
popular ws:,r, with language and in • style agreeable
and refined. Mr. Cole goo the whole length of
supposing that plants and animals alike might have
been produced from the mme primordial type, but
he did not consider this opposed to the teachings
of Revelation, and revereetly acknowledged the
evidences of the Divine mind, in natural laws. Votes
of thanks to She lecturer and the Mayor were cordially
given at the close.
Tag Pmvirg Thursday iamb*
the Athletics stud their friendagave 'repetition, with
certain alterations, of the entertainment of Monday.
Mr. J. J. Rolls was chairman, and be filled the poet
with • freedom and ease that much pleased the
audience. The behaviour in the promenade was
still further improved, and showed that the polish-
ing effect of the entertainments is telling fast. Owing
to the regretted illus. of Mr. Parsons, the pro-
gramme could not he strictly adhered to, and this
was the occasion of the audience enjoying a very
rich and unexpected treat, in the singing by Mr.
Dench, of the " Bay of Biscay." But upon his mettle
by the shortness of the notice, Mr. Dosch threw his
heart into this fine old song, and, aided by • most
imitable voice and impressive action, he achieved
loth a woos= as seldom falls to the lotof an amateur.
If our taste corresponds with that of the public, Mr.
Gench must give this song, or one of the same class,
another time. Mr. Legg gave "Clerk Mugging"
neatly and humorously, and Mr. C. erickmay was
successful in " Robin Rough" another of the semi-
comic moor in which his dignified humour delights.
Mr. Ford was very spirited m the "Speech of Henry
V. at the Siege of Harfleur," and dfr. Wallis over.
il.,wed with comic energa, in "The Collegian and
Porter," Mr. Pretty very sweetly sang "Th. Bloom
is in the Eye," and Mr. Urusys was great in his
spirited song "Up with the Lark in the Moraine."
Mr. C'prwyswas rewarded by • vociferous encore, but
would have done better not to have given mother at
full length; the last verse of the song encored is
generally enough. His action and costume were
however, very amusing, and for the sake of those
who are enraptured with him, he must be pardoned
the slight mistake of being too loom The other
pieces were as before, and there was no want of
success in any. Messrs. Jones, Mr. Wallis, Mr.
Modem, Master blarshalleay, Mr. Pretty. Mr.
Warren, Mr. M. U. Roberts, Mr. Hanger, Mr. H.
Roberts, and Mr. Burridge, all deserve to be re.
praised ; but as their pieces were the same as on
hlonday, our readers must, as the chairman said,
take the will for the deed, and consider all that
was said of Monday night's performance repeated.
The character recitations went as fresh as ever ; but
we must notice the gorgeous dress of Mr. White as
courtier, since we did not on the last occasion, while,
if the " gods " will permit us to ask, we should like
to know their opinion of the old style of comic wing,
so well illustrated by Mr.W. Jeffery, compared with
the modern style. Mr. I'. teller), Mr. Fookv, Mr.
ioniiny, and notably Mr. Style, were all capital in
their turns. Mr. Rolls between the parts made
se me appropriate remarks upon the value of good
reading, and urged the importance of carefulness in
this matter, instancing the rapid progress thereby of
the great actor Kean, who nu not thought much of
when he came to Weymouth trot ; but who by care
mid attention became ODO of the finest performers in
England. Mr. Bells believed that those young men
who came forward and devoted their time, energy,
and ability, would by and b)e he able to soy tW
they had very much for which to thank the Wey.
mouth Peony Beading., lie afterwards announced
that the next performance* would be given entirely
for charitable purpose. The committee would pay
the expenses of printing, lighting, dm, so that the
whole ot the proceeds would be devoted to providing
bread and meat for the poor in this inclement
*wen. So whatever they gave on the neat occssion
would not, • penny of it, be for the benefit of' the
nociety, hut all for the poor and he hoped the neat
would be • bumper heaps.
Priaarsotoev. —Mr. Hodges, professor of Phrenco
logy, the been delivering lectures at the Lecture
Hall of the Institution, on this science. The lecturer
showed a thorough acquaintance with his subject,
and ezplained it in so intelligible • manner that the
audience were put in peemesion of the means for
reading at sight the character, as far as indicated by
the shape of the head and the physiology of the
person. He said that the organs of the brain are
divided into four greats, the mental, moral, social,
and animal, and the character would be a model one,
where each group is dominated by its central organ.
and all are well balanced. Thus individuality, or
the power of obeeevation and identifying, seated in
the middle of the forehead, rather above the eyes',
'should govern the mental part; veneration, on the
top of the head, the morel; philoprogenitiveness, or
the love of offspring, pets, and defenoelees things in
general (at the ectreme hack of the head), the social
pert; and destructiveness, or the power of over-
turning obstacles, the animal. Where the power of
identification is small, the person though he may
otherwise have great mental capithilities, will not be
able to tern them to advantage; where the organ
that practises reverence for the Hope... Being
is small, the character may be rendered easily
impose I e n through undue benevolence, or offensive
by too great self-esteem ; where the social organ,
referring all the others to the grand duty of per-
petuating the race, is in abeyance, the character
may he rendered licentious by too great amativeness;
end where destructiveness' is small, the man will be
weak, perhaps overcautious, or miserly, or greedy,
from the predominance of one or other of the omens
around. Mr. Hodges referred to thelittads of certain
great public characters, in illustration of his state-
ments— to Mr. Gladstone as possessing great in-
dividuality and conscience. Mr. Disraeli powers of
enduring, Lord Derby as full of energy, John Bright
as distinguished by prominent t cnevolence, and
Ernest Jones he considered a model Liberal. He
spoke of differently shaped beads, and said he had
noticed the round head, with the animal organs in
predominance, as very general among the convictsat
Portland, and he proceeded to the difficult question
of 1,,,,,,aa; responsibility, arguing that all men are
not eqoally respoosible, and this was supported by
the statement of our Lord that "where much is
given meals will be required." Yet he stated that
persone isesetaing such ill.balanoed heads must he
veetrairied, and he believed if phrenology were more
thoroughly undererriod, we should thus be able to
"catch and chain the devil," for every person was
ie sensed by his own devil, leaving out the question
whether Ihe Satan of Scripture was a being or the
perwnification of sin. By knowing his own tenden•
cms god temptations, • person would be set on the
wnirh to reask, and where the brain was an ill'
balanced that the individual
by Perceiving this at 6, was dangerous, society,
would its its ovii
pote.rer
mon the shape of his head,
analysis of chancier from Mr. Hodges
gave
a ah"wd
submitted it for examination ° a rapa
who
cious remarks the ire • and added some
intellectual ehildr.n too early in lit°. Am 4 ...... "forcing with"
a proper amount of animal ens;
more likely to get on than one with • be nnnnd.r.d
higmb
bat a comparatively weak body, and oh,
minds were too &denser:l should not b. .:?as
to
imbed, I ut rather have plenty of play, for th;,-5.;,.
in or 12 year,. Every person attending was eee—
eente,l with a capital pictorial head, end left satieVa
the' Mr. Hodges, if any one, vas fully eapewe of
reading awarder by the slaps of the head.