The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-20 00:00:00

1 Captain RODGER, referring to the eh „sung
expreeeed the interest he felt ix it which he
*d'
had been rewarded with some success, and he h:4l
that 'nooses would be increased this year. The vie'ered
sending up a very good team to Wimbledon. YWith
regard to acting as Adjutant, he wart rather loath
to undertake the duties, but he did his bees i•he
duties were not very onerousl but, at the same tune
he believed they were carried out to the satisfactioi;
of Captaix. Batten and the Colonel (hear, hear).
The CHAIRMAN than proosed "the Health of the
Non-commissioned Officers.' As they knew, they had
had some changes owing to the promotion of their
quartermaster. They very much regretted his
leaving them, although he congratulated him heartily
on his well-earned promotion. 'l'hey would be yet.;
in' Se
t
pleased to know that he was one of them still, for
he had taken upon himself the duties of Treasurer and
Secretary to the Corps- -(cheers). He was Also pleased to
think that he had such an excellent quartermaster.
Sergeant to succeed him as Mr. Crow. He wea
quite certain no one could have done better
Sergeants Homely and Harris,
He threw himself into his work ably, energetically,
he must not forget Pioneer.
sergeant,
enthusiastically.
oat which
h Thhadeirhigt:edrtooldbeefrinen:
Durden, had taken upon himself the pest of Colour.
in
abeyance, but which he had revived. Their good
although a staff-sergeant, was one of the 3rd still, and
he hoped would remain so for some time, and continue
stillfriendss en;Sergeant
remained;
nTdy stickers
o:wahom
he
mw
before
him,
who
to undertake the duties in that kind, efficient way
which he had in years past. (Applauee.) ff
thought he came next to the new sergeants. They
were stickers at drill, always present and ever
ready. With regard to Sergeants T. Roger" and
G. Mutford, he must tell them that the joining of the
24 recruits was a great deal due to their efforts. They
looked round the town, and they saw young inn
who were only waiting to be asked, young nice who
would be a credit to the corps, and lie thanked them
very much for those efforts. Then lie came to Private
Osmond. He did not leave them at the same time
that he had got a staff appointment honourable to
himself, and one that he knew he would carry out
with a great deal of efficiency, and with natisfaction to
the Colonel. (Cheers.) Privates .1. Guy, .1, E„eett,
B. A. Hogg, and J. Dart had been promoted t,
corporals, .our good men in whom they coidd place
confidence, and who, as corporals, would make then.
selves efficient. Then, he had instituted the rank
of lance-corporal, which was rather an lame ation, hut
he was glad he had, for it showed that there were two
young men coming on able to take the iswt and
and discharge the duties with credit. He believe,'
had made a good selection in Private. St-0r
~,ed
Baker. As they knew, although good ult...
necessity, a good working organisation en, see,
much due to the non-commissioned officers. 1.5,,,
quite sure they had such a batch that they need n.s,
be ashamed to show them before their liattilioli,
indeed, before any battalion in the kingdom. (Cheers )
Sere. RUMARY returned thanks, lie considered it to he
an honour to any man to be a non-couunis.iones Aker
in such • company as theirs. They had lots ofathantsg,
They had three very excellent officers, and so long as Ise
was a volunteer, and he meant to be as long 11 he fired
--(hear, hear)—he meant to stick to his post s, Aware
had done, and to do his duty in the way an Englishman
was supposed to do it. (Cheers). Hi, imPreei.in &brays
had been that the secret of the greet sues", of the eon.
was that officers, non-commissioned officer, Uld nun had
always gone hand in hand together, and assisted each
other in maintaining the prestige of the corps. no ,hs
sincerely trust and hope that now they were eettine into
smooth water, the same energy would be continnet
lie
concluded by expressing his pleasure at seeing then...
her present, and • hope that on another occad,,e, they
would meet in advanced numbers. (Applause).
Corporal Ermine replied for the corporals and spoke of
the honour which be felt in belonging to the 3rd Derset
Lance-Corporal STATNER said although he had only one
stripe he valued it very much, and would do his la.,t
to
merit the confidence reposed in hire. (Hear, bear.)
The health of the Privates and Recruits followed, coupled
with the names of Private Phillip Taylor and Priram
'taiga Homer, a very smart specimen of the recruits.
The CHAIIMIAN then gave the health of a body of men,
whosuppliedthem with the sinewsof war, tbe hon. menden'
of the corps. They bad been very fortunate when the
corps was frirtned, in securing a large number of gentle-
men of the town and neighbourhood, who were enrolled
as hon, members, and he believed a great deal of the
efficiency of the corps was due to their keeping on the
right side of the book. With the toast he would couple
the names of his friends, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Midges, Mr.
Pope, and Mr. Burnett. (Cheers).
Mr. G. ANDRAIWS, responding as an old volunteer though
upon the lists of non-effectives, remarked the feeling
was inherent in the breast of every k:nglishinan, that
they would protect theruselves against the foreigner. and
they might depend upon one thing, that as long u
Englishmen would be true to themselves, and they Nould
bind themselves together in the way their volunteers had
done, and were still doing—and he could not but express
his pleasure at seeing so large • body present -they need
not fear foreign invasion. He believed the mosement to
be the secret of England's greatness. (Appian's,).
Mr. J. F. Ilimegs, who was much applauded, assurel
them that 17 years ago he experienced great gratification
in assisting with his friend Mr. Devenisli, then the
Mayor, in swearing them in as the volunteer Corp., No. 3
in their county town. Alluding to what had fallen from
the worthy adjutant he might express an opinion that the
success of the 3rd Dorset, both as to shooting and drill,
a recognised maxim in the movement that nothing made
depended entirely upon their attention to drill, for it was
a man so good a shotas attentiou to drill. He believed the
3rd had practised that from the first moment they were
enrolled until the present. He need not tell them that
that evening was one of • very pleasurable kind is him.
Ile could only say if their Captain was u geed in the
Post he had now taken as he had been to him a. A »la
the efficiency of the 3rd Dorset would not suffer in his
hands. (Loud and continuous cheering). It was a
great gratification to him to see hint at the
time join the ranks, and, an additional gratification
to him when shortly after he found another son, now
unhappily taken from him by God', will, ailled upon to
take a commission in a battalion of use of the Wilts
companies. He believed the state of the 3rd Dorset was
owing to the excellent managenient which they had had,
and which had preserved them for many years the
credit of the county town, and he hoped it would never
be diminished.

The Cff sway( proposed "The health of their e‘cellent
Bet geant-Instructor Legg."
Sergeant-Instructor LEG.; responded, and created cheers
and laughter by promising to swallow the drill book if
they did not win Mrs. Mount Batten's cup.
Captain Honors then gave in coniplinientary terms
" The health of Bandmaster Wellspring," and vongrati-
',stet' him upon his success in getting together a hand of
18 performers, and the efficiency to which they had
attained. He believed they would soon have a, good •
hand as they had ever had before—fhear, hear).
Bandmaster WELUIPRING suitably responded, and
promised to strain every nerve to do the best he could
for them, as long as he had the honour of commanding
the band..

.."-The —health of the Vice-Chairman,- prope-ed by
Quartermaster NErritsN, was then heartily drunk, and
the proceedings of a very pleasant evening Caine to a
close. _

The following programme of musk 11116 rerf..rmeol
by the band during the evening under Mr. H. Well.
spring, bandmaster : —March, "Mulligan Guards,"
R. Smith ; quadrille, "The Belle of the Fae,- N.
Marie; selection, "Silver Threads among the Gold,"
B. Smith : vase, " Adelia," R. Smith polka,
" Floretta,"E. Newton ; quadrille, "Excursionist,- R.
sothh ; march, "Belle Mahone's Reply," R. btheth
"God Save the Queen."

Previous to the dinner, Captain and Adjutant
Mount Batten made his thly inspeai.,n t,f the
eon's. Captain Hodges, Lieut. Williams, and Sul,
Lieut. A. Williams were present, and Sergeants
Rumsey, Harris, Rogers, and Mutford, awl Pioneer.
Sergeant Taylor and r,o rank and fik.

It may be said with safety that .I.lthougli is•ry nrich
that is true, very little that is new cm now I, written of
the Volunteers of Great Britain. A long tune has now
elapsed since the force was called into existence -a great
portion. that is to say, in the life a human being,
although a mere speck in the history of the nation. It ii
now working on to twenty years ago that, at the close of
the war with RUM* a plot was forme' by sante Italian
exiles to assassinate the k:mperor Napoleon, who hail been
our steadfast ally in the Crimean struggle. There were,
ilt s true, unkind critics • '(the French Emperor who
declared that at the time when England was thoroughly
Wepared to carry the war tot more successful issue than
that which was its result, Napoleon sought a pretext to
patch up a peace, the French notion of military glory
lwung for the time satisfied. But there are always anther.
itahle people in the world who never fad to put an
unfavourable construction upon any act performed by a
public man, and although it is undoubtedly true that
Napoleon was, in 1856, more eager to make peace than we
were, let us do justice to him, and ray that while the war
with Russia lasted, he was loyal to his allies. The conflict
over, and the attention of the people no longer absorbed
by the fate of contending armies, there was more time to
• study domestic reforms, and the refugees of all nations
then assembled in London, in noticing the Emperor
, Napoleon's internal policy, detected, or at all events.
professed to detect many a serious flaw, which, in their
estimation, could only be removed with the extinction of
the life of the offending potentate. .tt length the plans.
being thoroughly matured, were earned out, tin the
evening of the 14th of .1111113rY, ICA desperate men
gathered round the Rue Lepelletter, in Paris, and as the
MU darkened towards the west, deadly bointhells wow
cast under the Emperor's carriage as he was going to the
opera. Six persons were killed, and more than a hundred
wounded. Napoleon himself and the tiler occupants of
the equipage miraculously escaping.
Strange as it would seem, the flinging of the Orsini
bombs was really the beginning of the Volunteer move'
ment in this country. No sooner was it known in the
French army that the villainous plot for the Emperor s
assassination was incubated in London than a cry of indig-
nation went up from the ranks ; and stronitlY-worded
addresses were published in the *teeter. the. French
official organ, answering to our L in whicha
most offensive tone was adopted towards west Britain.
London was denounced in unmeasured terms so a "den of
assassins," and the gallant colonels of the trench army
went on to say —" Give us the order, Sire, and we will
Fofr..edethese wretches into their hiding place. The feels
insecurity was still further increased by the menae•
by the emperor Napoleon to the AIVIIIIIII.I
Ambassador on the Ist of January. IF:ei : and by tbe to
the campaign in Lombardy was over in the following
June, the English people were flocking on all Linda
Volunteer standard.
WEYMOUTH.

iNCUISIONS BY STEAM/IL—On Friday la.t, the
Heather Bell arrived in Weymouth Harbour with b.:twerp
31, and 10 passengers. She left port early in the formula.
and occupied the middle of the day beatinz angia frog
the east of Dorset against the west wind, and cons...mull
her passengers did not have so much time in Werian
as we could have wished; the weather was also *hewer/.
She left again the mama afternoon.
PouLTraT Socia-n.—On Friday evening. a meeting "caa.
venial by circular was held, in ordor to start • pnilitg
eoclety. Mr. Baunton presided. supported by bit 11.
Wheeler. Mr. H. Naugle, Mi. Charles. Mr. Sea
l'lt'Wickwal.:slrYtil!lhr,;;edwß°wtow:"lliol:dbsr.onlea"u44 Be6intAtgusta.ct!'l'lnhwetearn
privisassinth4:lndbe
spen to breeders and fanciers in the United
Mr. H. Naugle sad Mr. Atkins wereappointed serretsnes.
Mr. Rowe treasures, and Mesas -Eliot bankers
commraittee of management was apirinted. consiwing
Masers Baunton, Wheeler, Charles, Naugle Hanger.
Maraud, Vickery, Leya Rowe, Thiseltou, and (liana's
to collect subscriptions and arrange the affair. Ta;
borough members are to be asked to beeutue patrons, aso.
it warn said that the Mayor (Mr. (;. B. Welsford) sod Mr*
Turner Turner will help support the Society.