The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-29 00:00:00

DOZOKZITEIL

Ws are given to understand that a rpecial train will
leave Weymouth at 7.50 am. on Thursday next for
Wirnborne, to enable ',Artie, to attend the Lawn meet
at Crichel with their horses.

-60-1011711-117 TO Tiit—DOSSIT Cotorrr Pitons.—
Hari Labour Charles Upshrdl, stealing tea at Farn-
ham. 3 calendar montha William Hall, vagrancy at
Bridport, I calendar month; John fibong, stealing a
watch at Woutki, 28 day;
WI Ham Day, Thomas
Wright, misbehaviour in illandford Calm, Henry
Manabridge, misbehaviour in Cerne Union, William
Udder, unlawful pedlar at Chideock, and John Morris,
vagrancy at Bridport, 14 days ; John Bryant, vagrancy
at Lyrae Regis, 7 days.
Jura:rut Lmoorm —At the Borough Petty Sessions,
yesterday (lloeday), a boy named *ilium Bork was
summoned by William Prince, of Fordington, another
bat a smaller lad of about same see for an assault. Re
admitted it waa true but pleaded Prince first kicked him.
Pence on being sworn said he understood the nature of an
oath which was that he was to speak the truth, and if he
didn't bed "go to the devil" The boys are school fellows,and Burt led some Bowers on the day of the alleged
assault and blamed him for taking them, and on
denying it struck him twice. It was whilkt they we. at
lessons, but the master did not see it and he did not
complain, as he did not like to tell tales Afterwards
when in Pease-lane he hit him agile He in his turn
kicked the defendant who knocked him down three times.
—George&abe
tsaw the big boy hit the little 'ten.—
DOu was ordered to pay the cede
WESLEYAN METHODISM. —We have just closed the
Foreign Mission &comm.:, in this circuit for 1877. We
have held 18 missionary meetings, the congregations
have generally been good, and in some instances the
duple. have been crowded, and a deep religious feel-
ing prevailed the assemblies. All the meetings, with
the exception of Dorchester. at which we were
favoured with the assistance of the Rev. Mortimore
Allen, of Weymouth, have been held by the circuit
ministers, assisted by the local preachers. The follow-
ing amount' have been mused in each place, vit. :
Dot.c4estee, £l7 61; Whitechnrch. as is &I ; Kingston,
£l6 ; Bore Regis, 1.1 15s 53 ; Mareinstown, Lis Id ;
Maiden Newton, £9 Is led; Bare Herb, £7 19s;
Tolpuddle, 18s lid; Abbey Milton, is Ild;
Broadmayne, Os bd ; Milborne, E 2 2a 4d ; Dewlish,
Et 91 63 ; Piddletrenthide, 74 led; Stratton,
El 16s 10u; Sidling, El 144 Ild; Cern' Abbas,
£2 12s 93. • Thicleton, ; Charminster, Hs lid;
Christmas dealings. £2l 17s lid; Juvenile Associa.
Son Ell 3s 9d ; total, t 127 13s fid, being Eli 144 7d in
advance of the previous year, making an increase
during the last three years of £l6 165 Bcl. The expenses
have been ler than five percent.
I an sorry to learn that the state of health of the
Princess of Wales is such as may render it necessary
for Her Royal Hignese to forego the pleasure she
might be expeited to derive from a participation in
the pities of the season. This explanation is doe, as
there an always flowery& who lose no chasms of
accounting in their own way for any temporary dis-
appearance of Royal personages from that Society of
which they form a centre. Possessed of • weak con-
stitution, Her Royal Highness is apt at times to over-
tax her strength, awl it will. I am assured, be with the
utmost reluctance that the Royal lady will occasionally
absent herself from gatherings at which it would be
her wish to appear. I trust that this announcement
may have the effect of keeping quiet the tongues of
those gossip-mongers who seem to take special delight
in slandering the Throne and those who surround it.
—APASTAICHUOin the Whitehall Review.
. . . .

The Whitehall Review this week c.i-ntaina an ex.
quiaite crayon drawing of Lady Alington. At this
particular period It will possess, if possible, for the in-
habitants of the county even • greater interest than
that wbkh under any circumstances which had made
It • valuable end valued addition to the album. We
do not exaggerate when we say it is done in the first
style of art. Attached is the following letter-pr...--
'Thu.. whose memory is long enough. and abase intaraaa
in defigentra ia sufficiently keen, will easily recall the
more Lkata cordial reception given to the two listen Lady
Augusta and Lady Lavinia Bingham when they entered
that do. corporation. Society, within which so many
imagine then:toile= called, but yet are not chosen.
Their father, Lord Lean, woo accounted the best-look-
ing man of his tame; their mother (Anna, the seventh
daughter of Robert, sixth Earl of Cardinus) was admitted.
iy a beautiful girt The exceptionally good looks of the
daughter., coupled with their unaffected manner, made
them nreatly sought after. Lady Lariats, who married
Charles Stewart, second Visount Flardiune (brother to
lea popular Equerry to Her Ilinesty, General Arthur
Hardline), died in 1861, leaving eight children.
Lady Attract& Bing Lam married in 180, Yr. Henry
Gerard Shirt, K. A., who represented Dorchester from
1817 t 01856 and the Couuty of Dorset from 1856 to 1876,
in January of which latter veer he was raised to the
Peerage as Baron Alington—en old family name, whoa.
first recorded representative, Sir Ilillebrand de Alingtont
wan Under-Marshal to William the Norman at the tattle
of Basting..
County Society has its failings, and the worst and most
pronounced of theseiojeelouey. Dorktahlre, whatsoever
It. merits may be, le not exempt from that blemish; and
the occupants of hoiti‘tatile (..N.icheL which has for its
centre the town of Wimborne--abeolutely unknown out
of Dorstahlre save for its labiate ; loots, Ramsey, in the
neighbouring counts of Banta would beLgeocvughtcsl
mi
expression bet for the Abbey Church and a
regarded with feelings of jealouey from the fact of the
Prince of Wales having proasteed to visit that remote
quarter of Hui world.
Lady Llington haa six children : the eldest, Humphrey
Na wee born in 1166, and the Youngest. SI OA Cornelia.
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