The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-27 00:00:00

THE ABBOTSBURY RAILWAY.

A number of Idc's. including Ma:Molders of Mb
sconomlcal little line. coat at LW, Xing's Arms. Dor-
chester. on Tuesday Mimi:won, iunong them Ming—The
Mayor of Dorchester (Mr. A Pops), Mr. W. Mantleld.
mammy, Mr. IL Barnett, Kr. Barnes, C. IL (Cnarminster).
Mr. R.P. Edwwlo, Mr. Haul, Mr. John Walker (Croydon),
M.. Holland. Mr. Soudy, Mr. Chapman, Mr. T. POUller,
Mr. Milse, Mr. T. G. Dryer, Mr. Lush (Wilts and Wriest
Bank). Kr. frost Mr. IL Pops. Mr. Ulm, to.

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The KATO& Pad it was in deference to the wishes of •
oirtain number of shareholders of the Abbotabury rail-
way in this town that he had cosuented to take the chair
here to-day, and the number was not very inomemderable,
since of the shareholders in Dorchester were nearly 100
names. Next togood manegement they knew the great secret
of success was to have ample command of capital, and the
object of this umeung warn to lay before theta the exact
position of this company, that we might judge for our-
selves its prospects of @nooses, and to attract more dune
holders and greater public eupport—that the friends sad
wellorishers who WI not already shareholder& m ay become
so, and throe who are fortunate enough to be shareholders
may increase their holdings. The main question was—
Will the undertaking be • commercial success? Will the
line when cimpleted limy • fair dividend That he must
leave to the board of directors and the secretary to answer,
and If they answered it in the affirmative, he had not
much doubt they would not have much difficulty in get-
ting the remainder of their share capital subecribed. As
far as he could judge, the company had a great
deal It. favour, the bill had peeved through Parliament
an object obtained at • cart • great deal smaller than
usual The land was obtained at a very moderate cost, •
very favourable contract had been entered into for the
construction of the line at • low oust per mile. the first god
wag turned, which looked like business, and iron
and steel being low in price, • very great saving wee
the ruby effected on the original eetimate. Taus
far the toot of construed in had been very much
in favour of the shareholder& The question of traffic
wee also answered in their favour; it is of • mixed
nature, which is well known to be • great security for •
paying line. First is the passenger traffic, which, during
the SUPIIIII. 01011tili is favoured by numerous natural
advantage ,—the S eannery. the Pebble Both, the sub-
tropical gardens f Lord Itchester at Abb itibury all
these would be very considerable ettractione. Iticxt comes
the agricultural, mineral, and &hind traflic, which also
may be expected to be greet, and last, but not least, a
large traffic may be expected in Portediem stone. Sonee
of them m ght never have beard of Ported:am stone, but
Mr. Manfield would tall them the tower of our good
old St Peter's church is built of that stone, and
this is • standing monument in its favour. Si far as the
stone traffic is concerned, he mentionel the Portland
railway, as • dividend-paying line. He now called on the
Chairmati and the Board of Directors to elf, the meeting
some idea of wont they had been dai sines Le meeting
at which a predeceesor of his took the chair.

Mr. R. P. EDWARDS thaakerl them fir• attending to
midst in the great prolect before them. Tile Hey..r bad
very niedy and succinctly told the advantdges of the jjee.
As his Worship said, the cost of the bill was ea nerliney
low, not one hill in a hundred had been produced at the
ton of the Abbotsbury Railway Bill, and It win
economic as a considerable share of the cost of the bill
had been paid by other people, who will not have the
adeantage of the bill. The land will be nearly all bought
at agricultural prices, and that 1t... alone would be not
more than half, possibly not mire than a quarter, of the
usual cost of land for the various lines in the country.
The cost of construction. and here they went from the
problematical in the region of actual fact. The original
estimate was CS.3OD per mile, but they now had • contract
for moking the line which will not ant so much by miveral
tboumnds of pound, as wee estimated at first, and Mr
Clarke, the engineer, said it would be one of the
cheapest bite of line he knew, even witi that very low
estimate, they would have it thousands of pounds
lower than Kr. Couto promised. The difficultrwas that
people had not come forward as liberally as they were
wanted to do, bet he bad no doubt the people of Dorset
are suffering from the depression which exist.' everywhere.
He went seat, week north, and south, and was told the
times never were so bed, hundreds of tradesmen are not
paying ratas and taxer, leaving alone making profits. Still
they had sufficient capital raised to justify them in entering
Into the contract for the construction of the line without
waiting for wages to rice. If the public supported them,
he supposed they would have the railway finished in about
a year from the prompt time. Since he had been in the
room he bad been egnrina, and could place before then.
the result of his calculations. At Porteshun was a deposit
of stone! that stone bad been tested, and it was because
of the known value of the stone at Portesbarn, and the
enormous deposit, of Iron, that people at • &Aimee took
an interest in this railway. Here are enormous sources of
wealth, and only a little link in the chain of railway is
wanted. Itt, aseeetalad not only that stone is there, but
the quality is no satisfactory, that if they had the railway
they could have contracts for hundreds and thou.nds of
tons at once. One Bath stone company are paying the
Great Western Railway £70,000 • year for carriage alone.
Of course he did not suppose they would have that for
Portesham
Mayo*: Say £7OOO first

EDWARDS amen . Sppoee they sent 200 tons a
day at • halfpenny per ton per mile, that would amount
to over a day, and would bring in between L6OO and
£2OO a year.
Mr. Mutts : There are the terminal h
Mr. &Dwaine was hermitic out the termicearrtargea. He
ocintintsed there are five mills oti the line, and could not
=ppm, they would take lees than ten tons a day each
way, thus thwe mills would pay the railway glop a your
In wish. As to the Ask some one had mime tied that 3,000
or 4,000 tons a yaw would pass over the line ; but he
would put it at 2,000, at 6• • too; the general traffic
would poesiWy be something like 100 tons • day, or MO •
week, and at le. a ton, this would pay DM • week or
£3,000 a year. The passenger traffic, only supposing 60
people a day travelled over it at an average of It, would
give 4:750 a peer; but he believed that £750 would be
obtained in only two of the securest months, foe many
would trtett the place.
Yr. Sexual): I haven't been there yet.
MT. EDWLLDS: Yon US waiting for the railway. He
continued that the niccees of Ilfracombe does not come
from people who go there to stay; bat the street. of
Ilfracombe in summer we all Wive with breaks, trap.,
Ism., taking the Thelon away to other surrounding places.
These llama showed a total molt of Mg • peer, allow
ono half of that for werkise expenees, that left a orollt of
£4lOO to be divided AMOS; the abarehoidere, Reckoning
only .64,100 a year profit, be pointed out that if they made
tha line for £5O 000 they might reeeionably., expect £8 Per
cent profit. But what would they do Diddle I They
would stir up building and eaterpriess which would still
further Increase the business of the railway. It was the
iten at Abbotabury which Mcleod strangers to taken
the project of the line, and this iron had been estimated
to be of good standard vales At the present moment it
wee not very valuable ; but let there be once a reviv.l of
the iron trade in Mlle country, and be ventured to antic' pate
Abbotsbury will be one of the wealthiest localities about
here. He happened to be connected with the iron Wade,
and was interested in the experiment tried at Middles
borogb am to the making of iron into steel, and knew
We at Abbotabory is suitable for the proems
Abbcdtbory might probably become one of the reinitiated
owe in England, and they would be standing in their
own light if they did not help it at, while if they put
their sbouldere to the wheel and help on the line, very
good dividends would go into their pockets, and they
would probably thank the directors for introducing the
gig to their notice.
Mr. WALIIII spoke of the terminal charges se an eddi-
Menai source of income, and Mated of reckoning ,C 630 for
the cantor, of stone, the terminal charges would ahnoit
double It,ringing in about £650 more.
Th. KATO'S.: You mean to ear that instwid of £8 oar
cent it will pay £l6 per cent I (A laugh, and no, not
Mr. MANFIZLD explained the terminal charges, and it
=the Abbotebury railway would be authorised to
e d
not more than Id a ton in addition to terminal
charge. on goodi lent, say from Abbogabury or elsewhere,
and terminal charges he put at, say one shilling per ton,
in addition to the mileage rile.
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Kr. EDIILILDS alluded to • report about that the knees
for fro, had taped. They had no definite intervention on
that point, and he did Dot know it was so; but he bad not
the remotest idea but that, 11 it were true, they could
Probably got Kama again on the rune Of better terms. the
owner would be quite se mach disposed to let them now as
before, and pamibly more at it. now invited inquiry ,at
Weymouth they mat away every one perfectly satisfied.
and be hoped they would ba able to do so here.
Yr. Illuenatia wee called on to speak an the financial
position of the company. When they met last, he asked
thme to help him In raising a sum to carry the railway
themeh. That sum Ind £51,000; but since than the tide
had tamed in their favour, everything had gone toward'
e redaction. and now, instead or their wanting GNAW. he
Imagined the whole thing would he ferried throush for
to.. than £40.000. The differenca betweenaprmdfee cite.*
and £51,000 could not possibly make any difference in their
reasipte—by spending the larger aura not one and 6 Pound
wow be added to their gross remote, but if they did it
well, they would be able to carry all the traffic brought,
and out spend £IO,OOO, and, as the dividend would be
dedac'out of the balance of profits he believed it would
be that about doubled. It was hardly possible for this
line toocat £7,000 • mile, whereas the Portland, • mineral
railway, wet £16,000. sad their repairs were very much
pester. The libbotabury railway ran no nob of being
washed away,
se the directors did not build their line apart
abl and shells, way • good man would have them
do—fore they were leaked to build their lino on the Chesil
beach. sad thee 0 or £lO per cant. might have been
received for • veer or so, and than large sums be absorbed
by make No grist river. are as tiv-jr route to wash
away their works, and very few bridges to tumble in.
while the cetttlag was • mere bethink Re had seen in a
piper they were to have a enamel like the Ridgway
tented; and, as the report was Parham caused by
p sup ey his, he would explain Ose dar he hePP•bed
to sow to a versos at lkoadwer—" Where I. the south of
teasel r sod so It got wooed shoat they want.
v. tunas' ; but Uwe weeld be ao mon am • simple
trtwaywith. lagnelitidler =Lit Ziwal=

nartkini to impede. The cmaractore sod others west
O'er the line last week, and AMY inspected Abbots
bury sets the promos'.. of a dividend, AC , 504 they
rixt....lumaitorczor.zisr.:usat.ri:et .777;
they ever ben to do with, and that it would be conetructid
St the lowest poerible figure, but there was *very prospect
of bringing • good traffic to the line and the district from
the local advantages—they should have no difficulty
whatever in constructing CM bus, but every prospect of
Paring • rattllo4 good dividend. The gentlemen who
expressed this opinim way Items Monk sod Edwards,
standing very high in their profession, and, their engineer
being with them they were satisfied that if only the line
were constructed forthwith, the shareholders would never
✓egret it He should like to see the subscriptions come in
more freely ; but still they do come In &mom daily, and if
this continued, and those present do their best to increase
their subecriptione and get other friends also, the work
would get on well What was menet by the financial
position of the company I Should capital enough be
obtained to finish the line, or should they want to borrow
In order to de sot A little more help is still required, or
they would be driven to take up mousy; it might be little,
but he advised them to advance it all without being
obliged to barrow any. Up till now, everything wee fair
and square, sit paid up, be did not believe the compani
owed .C. 50. and the shareholders should do their omelet to
Bandar capital, in order to keep free from borrowing, and
pull together, for if differenos began, it would reduce the
dividend perhaps fort pm cent. (hear, Mar.) He (1(r.
Haat:lad) had now worked very hard, and spent money
dear—(bmer. Issar)—end bad done his best to Preeit,s and
increme every shilling he was entrusted with, by paying
It out at interest, end nous had been spent in
With the landlords they had endeavoured to treat. Ose
Party had given • little trouble when • bill was
filed ; bat he had very soon to cry " pecmiri I" and the
company were none the worse for it They had been
endeavouring to get ell the landowners to come to,
and some of them were very to treat with; but
oke
ne
land orgrylaultewrartarms7 but nl
only
'PT( 13Z to
the concern badge" and only yesterday they learnt on•
of the landowners would very glad to spare his
land at • fair value, and take it in shares Three-quarters
of the land they might congratulate themselves had
been obtained on very moderate terms, the remainder
it might be neceseary to purchase compulsorily, and
II • man waited £4OO for land only worth .Cl9O, no
alternatis • remanded but to take it, and leave the price
,in arbitreCon. But it was only three persons with whom
there was the slightest doubt, and thus the lend had
been obtained very easily. About £lB,OOO worth of shares
had beau t titan. and • large number promised, and if
friends will double their subscriptions or take two-thirds
more, the railway will be kept quite clear from financing.
Let them put • little more capital into the concern, and
keep off the gems of financing, and it will be better for
everyone's interest He spoke feelingly, for he had taken
• large number of shares and would look on it as •
grestarsonal favour if the remaining capital is sob-
I seri .
Yr. Smut) asked woe It true Lord Ilchester bad takes
• large number of shares I
The Mayo. said his Lordship had taken 100.
Hr. &watt, mimicked the Le would reap the greatest
benefit.

-1-itBncarrartY said many MOM shun. had been taken
= ter am at . at WaYouth ; there was nothing to
and he wished everyone to know sa mock as
namable about ths concern, then they would feel with him
in wishing to put their shoulden to the wheel with a good
h.!" _

Yr: EDWAILDS explained that £l.OOO or £1,400 might be
eared In rails could they enter Into • contract at onca for
Lb.? had been (Iran to understand the price of rails has
reached Its lowest atone.
The Cuatauan : Have you exercised any of your
borrowing powers yet I
bitagrtun : None at all. We have no reason to
borrow.

—The Cearnyug : Then you don't grant any mom money
Mr. MAIIPIRLD: Not at ptesent •, but we don't went to
be kept waiting. If the thing is done well it ought to be
done quickly. The contractor my. :—" Find me the
money at once, and the lbws shall soon he opened.'
Besides be did not mint to wait for hie dividend, but
would tether have it soon.

r. Wilifird-krnot"-see why Abbotabury should lilt
become s famous watering place, if Lad Ilehester would
only sell sites for villa.. &aides this, the railway would
eventually be carried through to Bridport, and further on
to the proposed (meet line.
Mr. &man asked If Lord Ileltinter would (ITU gIOW
villas to be built

—lt wes answered it would he to Use Ears Interest If he
did, and Kr. Walker said U Lord 1101864 pr had taken •
Larger interest la it than be had, be believed all the abases
have been taken Wore mow.
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Mr. piZlalics;;;J; line going on in such
a prosperous condition. The contract was much lower
than he had any idea of, UN level of the ground and the
locati,in of the line were so desirable that it wonted almost
aa If nature had given them • line of herself. (Haar. hear.)
He wee very &ask to hear Kr. Mandeld had • little stone
gunny—(lr. EDW•RD• : It I. • gnat one, sir.)—and ha
wad only surprised the railway had not been put on the
other elle to run to It at moo.

Mr. ilanrictn : Then they would have said it wail a
personal lune.
Mr. HAZEL continued if it were in kin power they should
not want for money; the day could not be far off when
the line would he continued to Card must he carried
through, ani then it will certainly become very remunera-
tive.

—Kr. FILM added if it were carried to Bridport it must
be a profit...his line.
Mr. MAX11:111.1) (to Mr. Burnett)—Toll no all about the
fights you have had, and the battles you haw, won.
Mr. Sultana's said they had had none, everything had
gone on too smoothly.
Mr. ZDWAILD4 aid no objections had been rnised, and
it was lalrly presumable all were pretty well satisfied. He
then [moved • Vote of thanks to the Mayor, which was
eseneded by Kr. WALKEN., and carried unanimously.
The Camillus, responding, said he was away. pleawd
to be of wrest:a to his fellow t .enstalen, and if anyt`ung
be had 'aid would induce otlaers to come forward and
support the line, he should be plasm&

BROAD WIT.
QUARTERLY SESSION OF THE 10.0. T.

'llse quarterly scission of be 1.0.0. T. for be County of
Dorset orno held lo ths Tat:caparisons-hall, Smut...sty, on
Monday leet, the various lodges being reprissoted by
officers delegated for that purpose..
The work of the ...ion commenced in the morning
with closed doorr, and niter certain business bad been
proceeded with, the members adjourned for luncheon,
which was provided by the members of the Broadway
lodge, In Mr. Symonds' born, just below the Temoeranca-
holL After luncheon the bustnees of the seml-oi was
again proceeded with, the members sitting till four
o'clock, when the hustness of the scission we. over.
. . .

At ere o'clock there was • public tea meeting of the
members and friends of the distriet lodges, many friends
from Weymouth putting in an appearance. The tea was
weed in the barn, the space being screened off by • large
rick cloth in the centre of the barn. and hung with small
balmiest.. It had • truly old Engliah look, and re-
minded one of the each times when, instead of so much
outward ceremonial, there was the true, sincere, and
earnest effort of purpose from which, though wall, bare
grown into life and maturity large flourishing churches
and chapels throughout the land. The tea was all that
could be desired, and reflected the highest credit upon the
friends of the Broader'? lodge.
The public meeting and entertainment took place in
the Temperance Hall, at half-past seven o'clock. There
was a good attendance of friends from Weymouth,
Dorchester. and other district., and Yr. W. J. Bond,
b& T. (GilUn.laarnf presided. .

The proceedings commeaced by the Gloster-street
Chapel Temperance choir (Weymouth) singlnx the opening
hymn—" Christ our Saviour from above,. alter which
the Rev Irs Bdton. Weymouth, engaged in Prayer.
The CHAIRMAN, who rows amidst ooludierabl• Arises,.
seeks of the great pleasure it afforded him at being present
ea their chairman that evening. It was his pleasure at all
times to stand up for the care they one and ell had so
much at heart. They were there not so much
is Good Templar*, but as temperance workers to
express their Indignation at the drinking customs
of society. He (the speaker) felt this to be the caw,
and feeling this it would be his obiect to stimulate the
Mends present, if he could, to greater eernlistness and
vigour In this great and grand work. (Cheer) Seeing
the great evil. In the land, which existed through drink,
he thought they needed to use grater exertion in the
work. It was easily igen when they looked around th.sm
that rim energy wag needed, and I. trusted that the
result of that night's meeting might be the means of
ceasing them to work more earnestly in thaw wk before
them Alter dwelling at length on the evil indueece. of
the drink tragic on society at large, he compliments:l
the Mends at Brawl try on the progress they had mad.,
and arson having such • splendid hall He added that
after another piece from the chotr, he would call upon
Bro. Holsowood, whom Isa knew was boiling over to say •
few worda—The choir rag in • very affective manner,
"The Temperance Lifeboat,"

irro. lio—u7wooo esid seth. District Chief Templar had
asked him to gay • few words he felt proud to do so. He,
however, felt it very embarraming to gtand up and speak
to such an audience as that, seeing how many there were
from Weymouth and other please present, who could
speak much better than be. There were ooe or two
veteran workers in the temperanos cameo present who
were not in the Templar body—he need not mention
DAWNS. (Laugh(er.) He hoped that marly that night who
wire se.PirDic workers wenn hand in their names for
proposal to to. Hroedwee Lodge It might be argued
that the work wee hard; but he mast say the worker'
were few, end would seruestly ask those present who
were temperance workers and not Good Tempters to join
the lodges of the Order. The Broad ..7 brothers and
esters had worked and were working like Zolus.
(Laughter.) It wits true they were not • large band; but
they had worked nobly and well tegether—they were few
in number, but they were eager and anxious workers, and
were seeking to solve the difficulty before them. He
would, then, most earnestly aak too.. present who were
not Tempters to hand in their names al candidates for
proposal. (Cheers.)
The ilinsinorr here stated that he hoped at the I.e.r
end of the present meeting there would be • lot of twoucieels
for membership, end that at the neat district meeting
there would he a great ingress. of membership to report
from the Broad wey..Lodg..).
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The choir gave— from the Sparkling Rill," and
The Catalano:l called upon Bra Otter, • veteran In the
awe of temperance, to address the meeting.
Bro. 01114 said from the remarks of the Chairman it
would almost appear nail he was gen** an old man, but
he felt, he was • young man yet. (Cheers.) He had not
done so mach am be WAG in Ma Temperance movement
He did not intend to make • long speech—the audienos
would judge If be did—for he never made one. What-
ever Mr. Holnowood had sad about certain person, present
not being Good Tempters. be himself should think it an
honour to belong to a Good Templar Order; but he had so
much to do that If he were to join he Mould not have
time to attend to the duties. He could say that there
were those in Brosdemy who, 93 yeses ago, were Isas
respectable than they were now. Hs deprecated the evil
of drink with its terrible power to draw men into its
Inflame* more than any known evil existing—and • man
under such an Influence ought to be • Good Templar in
order to hold him In the We path. What was wanted
was to show the man who drank and who brought himself
and his home to ruin, that they were all brethren -that
=ere all one—thst the members of temperance
and Um members of Good Templar lodges were
alike one in trying to banish the drinking customs of
society. There were several reasons why so many
were not present that evening. Some had gm* to their
long homer, others in the village—he might say the niv—
el( Brosdwey (for they bad • bishop)—(ianghter)—were
kept away by sickness and other causes He rejoiced that
Broadway was better off than it used to be, when Broad-
way
wee considered to be the most drunken place, in the
county or went. Now they were 50 per cent. better in
this than this time lad year. (Cheers.) God
tessienmrttlay when temperance and truth might reign
sagrthroughout the lead. (Cheers.)
e Rmioni, ems. (Weymouth), then bri•ar sadmised
the meeting. In the COW* of • few pithy remarks he
ekormeed hls pleasure at meeting them in their new hell
we eye mewed that the city of Broadway was looking
up. He advised them to keep on in the good old cause to
the end of their days. (Charm)
Choir "Temperance Choristers."
Bro. OLOVOL, agent to the Hinted Kingdom Alliance,
addressed the mewing at great length-
The
A choir then saug—“ Come and join our Temperance
rmy."
The Rev. E. Dotson and Yr. Otorma gave short but
luteresting &Minima The former speaker advocated that
for our country's sake and for ClUiell sake they should be
earnest in this metier. The latter speaker (W. (lundrY)
dwelt upon the importance of laying hold of the i 01124
and drafting them Into the juvenile temples—one of
which they had at Broadway.
" Don't Fret • was, by special deeire, sung by the
choir.
Kr. Z. Snook proposed • heart, vote of thanks to the
speakers and to the choir for their valuable 11111rdoss that
"rite
reilk gelelea and
lMa

IWAINLUIJILL.
ErTERTAISIIBIT a? THU NOTE!! FOIL Our
military friends' kind effort was reported prophsticially
in the I'dmovas last week; it came off last Wednes-
day night, and who, comparing "our own prophet's"
paragraph with what actually hainwumd, will, ail&
this, profess unbelief in aersed sight

rltar PUBLIC Tam OF SRI " Emrarse."—The
new steamer which had her trial trip on
tarsdidady lead., took her first trip on Monday Lint, her
destination being Alum Bay. Owing to the mwning
being clJuds there was not such • large number of
excursionist' am was expected. We wish the company
wrery sumer in the additional enterprise.

RIITIZTAIWNIIIT AT THII ISTOYH It FORT. —An enter.
!Antonia of a sparkling character came off on
Wednesday evening at the Roth,. being supported
entirely by the offlrere and men of the battery, and
patronised by the officer in csnmand, and those acting
under him. There warn a very large audience, and
the entertainment throut wee carried thiough
with great spirit, 50°'L
audience were loud and
frequent In their applause. The proceeds were in aid
of the widows and orphans of the brave fellows wh3
have fallen in India and at the Cope.
TUB RAILWAY Branox.—Grest improvements are
being made at the Weymout Railway Station with •
view of rendering It more comfortable to the thousands
of visitors we hope to see during the coming season.
Workmen areno ',busily engaged in beautifying the dull
and dreary looking terminus, and at ter about 15 tons
of paint have been laid on the timbers, 40, something
Adidas; and novel may be expected. The waiting.
room has been re-deoors,ed, and ;swats a much
more handsome appearance than it did a month ago.
Sweets° New& Brighton, Falls,
Jersey and Guernsey, general; Aquila, Fisher,
Jersey and Guernsey, general; Vulture, Painter,
Cherbourg, general; South of Ireland, Pawn, Cher
brrarg, general; &mpeses, Cozens, London, progenies' ;
Venda, Walker, Teignmotith, nil ; Transit, Robinson,
B surnemouth, passengers; Konigsberg, Ainslie,
Konigsberg, wheat ;Jane Jonee, Joss; Portland, nil;
Little Dove, Kallaway, bricks; Midtskov,
Hansen, Konigsberg, peas; Duda Fox, Cowes. nil;
Garcia, Peterson, Gottenberu, deals and battens.
&Slings Brighton, Fell*, Jersey, general; Aquila,
Fisher, Jersey, general ; Volt ore, Painter, ('herb ,urg,
pound ; south of Ireland, Pearn, Cherbourg, general;
Alma, Mountifield, Portsmouth, nil ; Ravensworth,
Lovell, Hartlepool, ballast ; Marnhull, Hodder,
Guernsey, ballast' Transit, Robimon, Bournemouth,
passengers ; Excelsior, Dashwood, Portsmouth, nil;
Vends Walker, Cowes, nil.

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Mae. Gmuso's VISIT To WMIIOI7III. Mrs.
Gluing, with • number of her followers, members of
the commucity, paid a second visit to the town last
week, and brought her five addressee to • close in the
Theatre Royal on Sunday week. The addressee
were of • more spiritual character than that delivered
on a former occasion. Several members of Le com-
munity were " moved" during the address, and the
singing of the female follows', was something of an
unearthly nature, and we were assured by a gentleman
present that it was "All the work of the spirit of
God" Mrs. Giding's theme appeared to be that here
was • Divine Mission from Christ Himself, and none
but those who Used holy lives c uld be claimed,. His
followers. This Mrs. Girling held she and her followers
were doing, mil that, however persecuted and evil
spoken of they might be, Child was with them and
would ere-long take them to be with him for ever.
The audiences en Sunday afternoon and evening were
large coneideriag the state of the weather.

THE frrg D.R.V.—The adjutant's inspection of this
corps toots place on Tuesday evening. There was a
good muster if the members of the c .rps, who,
meeting at the King's Statue, marched to the cricket.
field, where they were put through the customary
evolutions, which they performed with much credit.
The newly formed drum-and-file band, under the
leadership of Mr. G. Cosh, played the corps from the
field, round the town, and to the King's Statue, where
the men were dismissed. Great credit is due to Mr.
Cosh for the energy, promptitude, and ability he has
displayed in organising so good • band in so short
a ipso° of time. Two months ago there was not the
least hope of the corps being again preceded by
martial music for • long time to come; but now Mr.
Co.h has organised a band which, though small, is
complete, and gives promise of great advancement.
We trust that with this most nee meaty adjunct
the corps may henceforth thrive and prosper, and that
the town may show greater appreciation of its home
defenders than it has hitherto done. Certainly great
credit is due to Mr. Coah for his ready and willing
senior, and ti every member of his baud.

Warnotrst Rowinn Ctun.—We very much regret
to hear of the resignation of Mr. R. J. Noble, the
hon. esc., and Mr. J. A. Shorten, the captain of this
club. Ever sines Mr. Nobbs has taken to the duties
of secretary the club has increased rapidly in numbers
and popularity. Since Isat May, when Mr. Nobbe
took the office, the club, numbering then between 20
and SO members (active) now numbers some 80
members, showing clearly in one 12imonths that it
has increased 50 metnhers. The club eines its forma-
tion has never been in • more itirishing condition
than at the present time ; and now, just at the time
when the management has taken such a grave
responsibility upon itself as the purchue of new bnata,
and the beginning id the seas in, such a step is doubly
unfortunate—alike for the club and for the numerous
visitors who come to the town yearly in order to
witness the aquatic performances of our local oars-
men. With the season upon the very threshold of
opening. it behoves the club to be up and doing in •
subject which if let slip cannot but prove • great
drawback to the club and to the town. Both Mr.
Sherren and Mr. Nobbs have always taken the keenest
interest in the financial as well as the general
prosperity of the club, gild we feel sure that the with-
drawal of the names f the captain and secretary from
the administration of the Weymouth It iwing Club,
at the present time cannot be rezarded otherwise than
as • great misfortune to its ba. and true3t. interests.
Bosatiou Pouca. Thursday.
An 00USIONAL Vtarron —Nary °Towner was brought
up het. e Dr. Drew and Mr. ft A... charged with loitering
In Chapeiryetreet thst morning early for the purp we of
Prostitutiou. and having riven a good deal of trouble to
the police, she was sent to awe .aster fur seven days'
with hard labour.

Boeotian Pou.Friday. —Before Dr. Drew, and Mean.
Hopkins, R 'benison, end Hoban.
Wort Datnix.—ffkonolfe Miller. an elderly female,
was eummoned for being drunk and incapable.—Kr. Supt.
Vickery on Thu...day su ad. three o'clock found the
defendant lying on Chspelry steps in • state of helplese
drunkennesa, and Moot was If wig freely from her WON
and mouth. Defendant stated Met she kept her aged
father's house, he was eighty yoars of age, and she bed
come across Ma water to buy wino groceries, and, meet-
ing • cmnit7 woman, sho was induced tag, in awl tike
• glum of beer and soup. one Noting gin RI her beer it
had overcome %Am —Mr. Sept. Vickery, In answer to the
magistrates, said he knew nothing of the defendant, iirid
he believed that what sbe bad dated was q tine. Ile
sent her budget of groceries on home, and • kiwi
neighbour bet sat op with Vie aged OM all tile night.—
The Bench dismissed the MO:MO. with a caution.
GAIIIIALOI NO2 IN Ron! —Nara Want. who is known
as " Gantialdi.'. was agsin brought up in nobly charged
with being drunk, and ansultine she pato, whits in th.
execution of their duty.—P.C. Carter was in King-etrret
early Thursday morning. when tho prisonerlwas making •
noise and insulting everyone that came along. He asked
bim tog, quietly away, but hi said 'me would no. Ttog
him into colliely, and oat, did • iritaner kicked him nu
the loc. He bade deal of trouti!e to out him t the pall",
Prisoner wee so •idens th.t he kicked one of
hie boots off, which he left in Kingatreet. Night after
night he gave the police nothing but troubie, so awe the
public-bombes were nosed he kept rambling about the
streets creating • disturhance.—Prisoner here made • long
rambling statement, at the chess of which the Bnich
Inflicted • penalty of 10t or seven days hard labour. He
went to Dorchester.

A Perarm. Cam—Mrs. Margaret Legs, wife of Hons.
, Henry Levi, St ThOttlaP-Shaat, was charged oh& warrant
I with mining an obstruction iiiipinito her husband'. house,
, on the gird of April lut—P.C. Riggs stated that on the
day in queetion, he w on duty in Bt. Thomas-street,
about bill-past three o'clock in the afternoon, when
defendant was on the pavement opposite her busband's
house with • crowd round her. She was creating a treat
dieturbance and annoying her bullsand in his business.
Defendant was drunk and very disorderly, struck •
" chap* named William Hardy, and erratclud his face.
A crowd collected from hall-pest three till five o'clock.
Ho ordered the defendant away at least 20 times, but
ase ranged to go. Mr. Howard now entered the Court,
and made a statement on behalf of the cow plUnant to
the (4,4 that Mom. Leys had to carry on his busineu
as a surgeon dentist in Bt. Thomasotreet, and had taken
lodgings at Cpway for the defendant, but she came to
Weymouth at times to annoy him in his business. The
defendant allowed his wife one pound per week to keep
away from his place of businen, but on the present
occasion she went there in a beastly state, and as there
were certain marks upon her it wee thought right to
employ a party to he 00 the premien, so that it coul I not
be sad those weeks were made on that occasion by the
complainant —Attendant (to the constable): Dd I come
into St. Tbonge-nnet and imske a disturbance
otabl.: yes, you 44.—Defendant: Ni, I did not; I went
Into my husband'. bouee quietly, and eat down--The
Bench: Did Bro. Leis cause an olestructioo by her riot nig
conduct I—The Cemstable : Yeas—Mr. Sopt Vickery et sled
that from complaints haring been made of the defendant's
conduct • man natued Hardy had been placed on the crini-
plaintint's promises to prevent a breach of the peace
between the piaties. On the day nain..d Mra 1., le went
to her husband's house and connulite 1 the offenne for
which she was summoned. N appearing on the 2501, of I
April, • wan-ant wan issued for her apprehension. That
(nid.y) morning the defendant cams to the police-
station and asked what the warrant was out against her
foe—what was she wanted for / Thia we, at had-pest tea
o'clock, when she we, the wane for drink and woe
detained on the warrtht, He knew she WAS wets lee-
drink both by her appearance and conversations—Defend- j
ant, in answer to the charge, 'aid, with streaming leers: I
When I went to my husband's plans of businees
I went that-, foe the purpose of main iensuom
went in quietly and gat down in the room, when the won
Hardy came in and lifted me up and put me out, -.nil I
slapped him in the face. and I should do it again, foe he
had no business to pat his bends on me and irmse. me
from my husband's bon/ie.—The Bench :—Yon will be I
fined Ma orbn default 14 days' hard labour. —He. Itsben•
said a sadder or more painful cue had never been brought
befoge them a more painful sight had never been lien In :
the town—and all this throash drink—Defendant: I
suppose 1 mast go to prison—The Superintendent:
Remove her down babes—Defendant (clasping, the dock):
said—" No I will not go--but will piy the fine. --She bed
been paid £1 that morning for her week's support —She
was, however, mowed without the chance of pm ing the
fine in open mart

A WEYMOUTH COUNTY COURT APPEAL CASE.
: It will be remembered that at the Court held in
Arbrltall/1•M • petitionpetition under the Trustee Relief Act
. and in matter of the trust of the Will of John Bridle,
Into of lattlw Olforte-strart, gentleman. deemeed, came on
for kisrum woe thq judge, Hr. T. E. P. Lamy. The
reistitz was Iliad by Mrs. Louisa Bridle, widow of
.4 and she claimed to hese/dried to • sum
1100 under and by virtue of • bequest of that •usount
contained in the will 01 he deemed. The will wa. dated
the 21st December, ws. and the hereet to the Petitioner
wag mad. in the f oilowiag words : And also the mortgage
of MO, which I have secured to me on a mortgage of
raii"" (describing them). In 1873 the teatetor called
. .
mkt sum of MA and the same was paid MI by the
mortgagee sad placed by tha testator to a separate and
distinct &dealt account in his own nuns at the bark of
luesra. Wtiliatna and Co., at Weymouth, be re-airier
the interest thereon up to the date of hi. death, 2211 of
January, 1817, and the question arising from the petition
wag whether the petitioner was entitled to the said sum,
or whether it did not lone part of the testator's residuary
wets, • devise and bequest of which wrie &misdated
In the aid will la favour at the dec,ased OWN% Elisabeth
gammas, widow, sad her &adios, who claimed the
Mid ism of 12/11 an molest lin. Bridle.-114. R. N.
Mind eppeeeed for the peaky's,. sad Mc. T. A. Haase

for Mrs. &towers and her children, the resideary teptosea
By consent the beanng of the patinas stood over Instil On
follow/tic C.ourt In Mush, when it Was argued by Mr.
Hahne that lb. bolos it of the mortgage of OW to the
petitioner ICIS NWT 11.; and had been adenned Is conse-
quence of the payment thereof to the testator in hie life-
time. ant now forts,,d Part of the Senator's renduary
estate. In support of this new he cited numerous cameo
It, point. Plaine more part milady on the cans, "Oliver*.
Oliver.* 40, Lear Joann]. Chancery. p. IW, and "Harrison
Jack,on," 47, Law Journal. Chancery, p. 142; and
he objected to the admissibility of ear so evidence
contained in the petition by which it aril sought to
obtain • variation of the wiU on being contrary to the
provisions of the Willa' Act. On the other hand Mr.
Mower., contended that the bsquen of the mortgage
to the Petitioner wee not specille but general, and
that there had been no wiempiles of the legacy, and
that certain acts and conduct on the part of the tes-
tator soheequent M the data of hie will showed that
he intended the money be bad so placed in the bank
to be for the petitioaer. In support of On It. cited
the case of "Morgan ix Thomas." 46. Law Journal,
Chancery, p. 772, upon reading which the judo ordered
that the costa of all parties should be taxed and
paid out of the said sma and the residue thereof he paid to
the petitioner. Against thin dedrion Mr. Benne appealed
by way of Special Cal.. ertrch came on for argument on
the leth inst.. in the Common Pleas Division of the High
Court of Justice. before Lords 11-nmast and Hindley, when
the annellents (the residuary legate..) were eolomonted ity
Mr. W. H. Green, instructed by Mr. Hanne, and the
respondent, Louise Bridle, by Mr. Outlet, instructed by
Mr. florrsrd. The Court, without hearing the appellaat'a
ponce!, called upon the respondent's counsel to argue
ant support his Pea which he did at cOnsiderable
length, quoting numerous cases, including Morgan v.
Thomae, but at the termination of his argument the
Curt riled that the cans quoted were not In point and
revereed the decioion of the County Court Judge, and
condemned the respondent in costs.