The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-16 00:00:00

vAtus anb Nints.

Pater-families who can't maintain the enormous
outlay to keep him and his family in the gay ruin of
France, the often-captured and ever-fresh capital, will
do well to look at home, and try a smart, lively,
and tolerably cheap town on the tout of Dorset,
where the South Central county Duda specimens of
its industriew at the end of this month and the
beginning of next. The dainty lame, the beautiful
pic ores, the delicate stone-carving, that are
occasionally shown to tne on private view, are capital
foretutee of a widely various collection of the gifts of
that Genie grew er than be of the Lamp or the Ring,
the qenius of Indo-try, whereby all raw and dull.
looking materials may suffer a
"ichange
Into something rich and strange...

Friends from the inland will please not be deluded
Into the Lies that our Regatta is over. That bright
and spiited Rowing Regatta for the sailors was only.
• partial affair, compered sal h the splendid three days'
Regatta at the end of this month. It is to commence
with yachting matches, promoted by the Royal Dorset,
who have now settled and grown prosperous amongst
us, end then follow two days of the real Town Regatta,
with both sailing and rowing matches, of which our
epirited townsman, r. Pelly Hooper, {shop. secretary.
The subscribers to the Town Regatta are not to hold
their hands, but to give subscriptions just as generotutly
self as hadn't had the Regatta for the Fleet.
Dorchester has, I observe, been grumbling at the
disorderly sailors and marines who disturbed the quiet
of that sedate and peace-loving town. The fact is that
Dorchester beer is • good deal too strong for sailors,
who can do their glees on board their ships mid the
ozone-laden air of Portland Roads, and feel nothing
of it Dorchester bad better add to her fame in the
drink-producing line by inventing some beverage that
grill wet the whistles of ..or gallant defenders without
muddling the poor fellows' brains and making them so
stupid se to outstay their leave and lose their pay.
An invasion of Ir-land I Ire& I hear the sth Dorset
Volunteers, a corps which has been mourning the
absence of their leader, are tired of their weeds and
suspicious of the cause of the gallant captain's long
absence. Lest he should be detained • prisoner among
the loughs or green hills, it is suggested they fit out
an expeditionary force, land on the Island, and rescue
the long-weent offi ier from the thraldom which
detains him in the" Girn of the say."

Our Rifle Volunteers, though unlucky in the
nu ober, ire very fortunate in the quality of the
officers with them. I say " came," for though there
is only one. Lieut. George lies if 004 as three, and he
gpt through his drill with the 39th in less than bar the
usual time. Still it is too bad to burden one dhow
with all the comusaad.work of the oorpa

I hear on very good au•hority that it is intended to
riles an Artillery corps here during the winter
months, and have nod .uflt that U it be well started it
will prove a moms, from the fact that several towns.
men, who have time to spare for the defence of their
country, are too "great guns" to go in for the Rifle
Corp.. Some of the latter are complaining that they
are called may to their annual encampment at the
busiest time of the year. with little regard as to their
private ways and mean.. Of course, 'tie awkward to
be away in regatta week. • but then in July there is
more chimes of dry meter and les. of rheumatiem
than if we had to camp out in a dropping time.

Long and valuable as Kr. Carey Read's merrier
were as postmaster to Weymouth for 30 years and
more, some of his friends are rather disappointed that
the subscription for a testimonial to him only realised
£36. or a little over a soverekn for each year of service.
It may, h,wever, be more satisfactory to know that
the Government give Mr. Read a pension of £lO5
year, so that reel merit is occasionally
even in the Poet Nike, the employees of Wri6wectirtin
most instanom wretchedly peat, especially those who
do the most laborious work.

In the famous cues of Balboa v. Bootees and Bootees
V. Beaus it was never decided whether the bull which
got into a boat ran away with it through eating the
hay-band, and setting it loose, or whether the boat
carried off the bull. There might have been • similar
difficolty had the magistrates to settle betweenorter
Churchill and the boat in which he wee journe ng to
the Breakwater End against his will. One chuck!..
inwardly at the thought of a "letterman" losing his
oar" and drifting helpless to sea on • calm e:erintenct
and had only Churchill and the boat been coo
one could have wished their voyage to have lasted as
far as the tight little island on whirl stands the
Breakwater Fort. It might have taught the owner
better than to lend his boat to a man who tried to
make • pi ofit oat of her without skill enroogh. and
Churchill might have amended the old proverb to
"Let nct the porter go beyond his trucks." But, for
the sake of the unlucky and terrified roan woman,
't was well that "jolly young waterman," lir. Hines,
came across them and picked them up Porter
Churchill should pay attention to drainage disputes.
and he'd have heard over and again that the outgoing
tide seta straight out of harbour to the Breakwater
End, washes everything with it, and we Dever see it
any more. I reorimmend Porter Uhurohill not to get
into • boat again until he can—" Feather his oars
with skill and dexterity," and especially let him not go
to asainthehopethat should he " catch a crab," he
will bestowed bT his young tamale "film " The young
woman I east too much praise fur
stiZit in
brines( Wes When the neagatistras, and him
kr plena

Respecting tho proposed Oharboart and Weymouth
staanter line, a tradmatut of good position
that when, on Yr. &brit* SE P.. =is
directors of the G. W.R are about to go out of We,.
mouth Harbour, a 'rood !timber of the inhabitants
should amemble on the Extension, for which we are
indebted to Kr. Edwards, and miss a cheer as the
party goes by. This would, he thinks, gin lb* I
renUemm a good impresaion of the feeling of We.
mouth tower& the peopoesd line. I recommend the
Idea to the Mayor and other geatlemen
working to get the direct coramonicadon with France.
Oes more chance of having the Cherbourg steamers
here makes me sok what hie been done to &tepee the
Harbour I have a few timer pamedth. wooden
walls of the borough, to wit, the Coporstlon ballast
lighter. lingering near Cho Pile-pier. and I hope it will
prove that the golden opportunity for dredgkg
not been allowed to slip by, though, indeed, corPoents
bodies are rather afraid of doing thins too woe
an.,MSheU.pslsbeoWe. The

next Council meeting should deal pmotptly with this;
tt but unfortuat-ly "How not to do It" a too ..ften the
apparent object of Corporations, as witness tbe resilt•
lees debate on the mys•erious stench, and the frequent
adjournment. of the Pile-Mer repair qt ration, which
require, real work atn.l not tal, however fine. Another
Town Council meeting is overdue,
according t the
remise of the Major, au,l at that, let me hope,
takes, talkie" will be at • di...mut and real work
be done.

While everybody is spectilating about the latest
assignment to Britain, the Isle of Cyprus, I look into ,
SOUtliDr• Travels, published about MO, and see that
fine old Frenchman gives among the things found or
grown there. Henna dye, ancient ruins, Mom of
gold, copper, blue vitriol, iron, crystal, precious
dap", jeePer. &ohmic* laid, plaster, ochre, marine
salt (valuable to Egypt), olive trees, mulberry trees,
carob trees, and he ipeaki of cotton, sugar-cane,
coffee, various corn, madder, coloquinala. ladanum.
mode, wood, wool, wine, and Turkey leather, while
as to Imports he writes:-
In "turn for them productions of nature and art.
the Cypriots receive woollen clothe, satins, light ituffs,
laces, some metals, India spices, commodities of t-or
colonies, /Lc. These articles of the import-trade are
not so numerous as they would be, if the worst 14
governments had not singularly weakened the popula-
tion and resource, of one 1 4 the finest countries ..f the
Rest." Sonnini continues: "In the summer the he
felt there is, indeed. ex *sive, but it I. not equal is
every part of the island, which being intersected. from
east to west by a chain of mpautja... affords
two different temperature*. To the north, the winds
that blow from the high mountains ot Cerement',
checked and repelled by tlice with which the ialin•l is
mimed in its length, temper the heat of the mummer,
pr ..ltace piercing colds .luring the winter, and
preserve frozen snow on the most lofty spots.
.luring the greater period of the year. Thi
northern region is also, generally, speaking, the
most hilly, the mct wooded, the most rural, and
the least fertile. In the plains of the south, on the
contrary, the beat of the sun, reflected by the shelve,
of rocks, which in a great measure, form on this ride
the beck of the mountains, there expands at full
liberty. The north winds not being able to clear the
natural barrier whi di the middle ot the island oppose*
to them, coot not the atmosphere; and did there not
spring up, from time to time, a light sea breeze which
moderates the heat, it would be insupportable in
certain days of the summer, Rain here is also
very rare in this reason, and long and oriel
droughts sometimes banish an agreeable verdrire,
and destroy the plants, . . • The it rigation of the
lands, neglected by men, as laborione perhsps. as
formerly, but depreesed and disheartened, can no louver
moisten fields parched up, while. in some diet riots,
stagnant end melees water' render them an tiny/bole-
some abode. Speaking of the position of Cyprus. the
acute Frenchman writes: "The conquest of the island
of Cyprus ought, perhaps to have preceded that of
Egypt. The French woobl there have found abundant
mesas of eubtiatence, and in the Greeks by whom it
is inhabited, zealous partisan., friends who would have
insisted them. . . . Numerous harbouri, which it
would have been may to put into a respectable Mate of
defence, would have preserved the fleet mecum (run
all attack. An easy, quick, anti c intinual commtini-
cation would hare been established between the two
colonies (Cyprus and Egypt), the island would have
furnished the continent with provisions, other war miles,
and particularly wood, in which Egypt lade ficient.
. • The roman:ma which the possession of tb • Islam
Cyprus would hare afforded for the con quest of
Egypt, would have extended to its preset eat ion, they
would have secured sad consolidated the aorpisition of
a country which, from its position. is the key and
emporium of three parts of the world."— I faney Lord
Salisbury must have been reading Aonnince ol I hook,
when he appropriated for the benefit of En:land, them
old French ideas,

Duciors.