The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-26 00:00:00

WIMBORNE.

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Arrosrris TESTIMONIAL. —The committee of the
Wimborne Minster Auxiliary of the British and
Foreign Bible Society waited upon the Earl of
Shaftesbury, at the Crown Inn, on Wednesday, to
present to his lordship, as the President of the
Auxiliary, a Bible. The Bible was the Society's
quarto reference, neatly bound in morocco, having
the following inscription thereon :—" From the
Committee of the Wimborne Auxiliary of the British
and Foreign Bible Society to their President the
Earl of Shaftesbury, 18.57." The Rev. C. J. Glyn,
one of the secretaries, presented the Bible to his
lordship, and in doing so referred to the origin of
the auxiliary, and stated the success which had at-
tended its efforts, having in forty years sent to the
Parent Society on purchase account and for free con-
tributions, nearly .£B,OOO. The Earl of Shaftesbury,
in an appropriate speech, said he felt obliged for the
present, which he received as a testimony from his
neighbours of their good wishes, and as an encourage-
ment to persevere in the course which he was pursu-
ing for the good of mankind; nor did he forget
that all the strength and wisdom he needed for his
work were to be obtained from that precious book,
and he should place the present in his library at St.
Giles, there to remain as an heir-loom. His lordship
in again thanking the committee for the oft said,
that in reference to the war in India, many who had
Ignored missionary efforts were beginnine to admit
that India must have Christianity, and that it was
the British and Foreign Bible Society which would
do much of the work by the distribution of the
Bible. Mr. P. Hawke made a few remarks com-
plimentary to his lordship's efforts, not only for the •
benefit of this country, but the world at large.

SALISBURY.

The parish church of Iffrigto—n. St. Michael's, near
Chippenham, was re-opened, after restoration, on
Thursday, the 14th inst., when sermons were
preached, in the morning by the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and in the
afternoon by the Rev. J. E. Jackson, hon. canon of
Bristol, and rector of Leigh Delamore, Wilts,
Box.—On Sunday evening, at the instance of the
General Board of Health, Mr. Holland visited this
parish for the purpose of inspecting the burial ground,
which is alleged to be overcrowded. A memorial
from the inhabitants had been forwarded by Mr.
Mant in consequence of the recommendation of the
jury who recently sat at the painful investigation
respecting the death of Mrs. Horlock aLd Miss Sud-
den, ample particulars of which have already ap-
peared.
SALIBBCRY TRAINING SCHOOL.—The Committee
of Council on Education have just published the
result of the late examination for Queen's Scholar-
ship. Among the female candidates from Church of
England schools there are distributed 398 scholar-
ships, 255 of the first class, and 143 of the second.
These 398 young women will forthwith enter upon
a course of further training at one or other of the
twelve Normal Colleges for school-mistresses. Their
scholarship will defray the whole expense (as regards
themselves) of this training, and in the case of scholars
of the first claw, will give them a personal allowance
of .£3 besides. As, under the minute of 2nd June,
1856, this important boon is open to any young
person who may be presented for examination by the
authorities of a training-college, as well as the pupil.
teachers who have completed their apprenticeship in
elementary schools, the operation and advantages of
the system cannot be too widely known and dis-
seminated. Any young woman of good character
and fair attainments, if she has reached the age of 18
years, has thus the opportunity offered her of
receiving two years' excellent education in a
training-college, and so of being prepared for an
honourable and remunerative position in after-
life, without any expence either to herself
or her friends. Our own Diocesan Training-School
will receive its full proportion of these Queen's
Scholars, and has been rewarded with a great success
in the examination. Of 23 students who competed
for scholarship 20 have succeeded in gaining them;
and of 24 other candidates examined. at Salisbury,
21 have been equally fortunate. The general result
is, that the excellent Principal, Mrs. Duncan, will
open the year 1858 with 61 pupils under her charge,
of whom 50 will be Queen's Scholars: by far the
largest number of this, the most eligible, class of
pupils that has ever been in residence at the same
time since the institution was founded. The Queen's
Scholars are classed in order of merit; and it is
worthy of remark that the young woman who stands
first on the list is a pupil teacher from Bradford
School, where she was educated under a mistress
trained at Salisbury, thus affording an additional,
though indirect, testimony to the soundness and
thoroughness of the education given at this Train-
ing-School. The result of the examination for certi-
ficates will not be known, probably, for another
month. We have no doubt that it will equally
redound to the credit of this valuable institution.
This Christmas, 19 trained young women have left
its walls to take charge of schools in the two dioceses
of Salisbury and Winchester.

SOUTHAMPTON.
THE TEUTONIA, Jan. 24.—The screw steamship
Teutonia, Captain L. (cede, belonging to the Ram-
burg-Brazilian Steam Navigation Company, arrived
here this morning from Rio Janerio direct, which
port she left on the 17th of December, the clay after
the mail-packet Medway, and consequently, brings
no news.
FATAL ACCIDIST AT PORTSMOUTH. —Chi Wed-
nesday aftemoon, a seaman of the Blenheim, but
doing duty on the Ccesar, 91, fell from the main-top
of that vessel to the deck, and received such injuries
that death ensued shortly afterwards. His name was
John Kent.
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