The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-04-17 00:00:00

ST. JOHN'S EASTER VESTRY.
To Use Editor.

Sir,—As the proposer and seconder of Mr. Milledge
at the Se John's Easter Vestry, we shall feel obliged
by your making one or two corrections to the
Laraph which appeared in your contemporary of
igtirdaray, 7th April. First, a minor point as to the
result of the election :—Mr. Milledge had 23 seat-
renters votes against 6 seat-renters for Mr. Kendall ;
there were nine hands held up, but three not being
seat-renters were in-eligible. The next is a point of
paramount importance to the church and parish of St.
John's, and, is this, Mr Milledge was duly elected
"Seat-renter," warden, and qpt parish warden, all
reported. The part of the opinion of Stephen's and
Jenne in reply to the Bth question of the Church
Defence Institution's case, which was omitted in Mr.
Ottley's copy of this opinion, is exactly what refers to
St. John's—" Except in certain places where special
custom prevail." That is exactly our case, for beforl
and even since the pawing of the Act, 14 and 15 Vic',
c 97, sec. 23, it has been, still is, and we hope will
always continue to be, the custom of the parish of St.
John a to elect their warden by the voice of the seat-
renters, and not by that of the ratepayers, who do not
wish, nor have they (in consequence of the special
custom), any right to a voice in the matter.
We are, Sir, yours faithfully,
G. E. Asosors,
THOMAS Colitsalt.
P.l3.—We can iv:O.MA you with • list of the 32
persons who held up their hands if osoissary.
Portland, AP& 10th, 1817.

mars ASSAIL XILIISRALLIIIIA.
pendent chapel
A little excitement hes boss Mused during the lest OX the Bth inst., at above Bar Inde
few da,ri in ww., mussy quiet parish in oonescluence of Mr. Henry Robert Hornhy, Jeweller, of Southampton,
there being a contest for tb• election of two guerdion• was united in marriage to Mies Eva L. T. Roles.
The candidates were Mr. now° eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Roles, and grand-
for the poor.
ted the parish for five daughter of Mr. Roles, Wareham, and Mr. Chas.
Dunning, who has
years; Mr. Jame. 17137:ren, who has filled the same Goner, Stoborouph. The ceremony was performed by
ffiee 14i yean • and Mr. John NATI, • new candi- the Rev. Mr. Gregg, in the Moments of the Rev.
od-ate-, The declaration of the votes on Tuesday nee as Carliele, through domestic affiction. The bride who
Riven away by her
i , an rennin, Mr. Pommel'. WAS
follows :-James Hellyar, 129 ; Thomas Dunning 125 • w
34. beautifully &need in dove =loured silk, trimmed
John Parr Y.- handsomely with white Maltese lace and orange
WAILEICANL blossoms, wreath of the same and veil. bonrmet of
ELIeTTOo Or MAGUrrnarns' Cteee..-A private meet white flower., and maidens hair fern her brideemaide ;
lug of the magistrates for this division wan held at the Mints L. Hornby, was dressed in pile blue eilk, wreath
Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of elect--
and veil. After the ceremony there wee a perfect
lag • clerk to the Bench in SUCCASWOD to the late Mr. W.
t' for the shower of rice over the happy pair me they proceeded to
C. Lacey. Nearly all the magiw
divieiou were present AMOUR thentrneranouisni!sndidates the carriage Among the company annembleil to witness
for the vacant Posit were Mr. Chancy Lacer, son of the the ceremony were the bride's grandmother Mrs. Goiter,
late clerk,
Mr. R. N. Howard, of Weymouth, and Mr. If.. of Stobiwough Wareham, the Miens Rolm, Mr.
C. Winton, of Dorchester. We believe the names of Stillyaril. ars. kr. The preeents were numeroun and
thew, three gentlemen were put to the vote. end the conly combining the lintel with the ornmental. The
Mud was thee Mr. Lacey was electe;lab • majority of bridecake Win given by the bride's uncle Mr. J. Bites,
one vote over those given for Mr. Ho
EuscolOa Or GUARDIANS.- Accorchato the official of Morthollna.
declared= made on Friday by Mr. F. we clerk to the
POOLE.
Wareham and Purbeck of Guardians, the new
Board is composed as follows :-Holy Trinity, Mr. S. " TRE Rgv. A. TOOTII AND TN! ENTABLTaFtIrENT."
Bennett ; Lady St Mary, Messrs it J. Garland and W. The Rev. T. Neave, of Dorchester, delivered his
uddls. Mr W
J. White : St. Martin. Mr. J. S- Drew ' ALP i Messrs.' T. lecture on thin enbject at the Temperance-hell on
EBeas.
Don.t,d.• trni:,,,fMc.r.B...C. Items.... Tn.
.esday. evening, in connection with the Liberal
Biloelxvi; oßrthorn, Mr. G's.. T. Young;
Chaldou Herring, Mr. J. F. Tod • Church Knowle, Mr. R. Association. The chair wan taken by the Mayor,
DY : Coombe Keynes, _Mr. G. la. Sudden ; Corte Castle, President of the Association, and, the room Was well
Rev. E. S. &cakes and Mr. W. H. Haskins ; Ent Holm& ! filled.
Mr. J. Garland; East Lulworth, Mr. J. J. Bates • Bat BOARD Or Grail:6loM. -The last meeting of the old
Stoke, Mr. H. White; Kiturueridge, Mr. J. Lane; Lane- Board was held at the Union-bonse, Li-melees. on Thnrs.
ton Matravers.
Mr. W. San/ IL ; Morden, Mr. C. C. Stick- day. Mr. J. W. Buckley oreopied the chair, and the other
land; Moreton, Mr. J. D. Pau ;Steeple, Mr. C. Tuck; I alerted Gnanilans present were Memrs. G. Curtis. F.
Studien& Mr. W. Meikle ; Toner s Puddle, Mr. W. I Mi 11... and R. C. King, with Mr. (1. H. Glitch, ex °Pin.
Hooper; Tynehant Mr. J. S. Bull; West Lulwortb. Ws'. ! The Clerk (Mr. J. Slade) submitted the accounts for the
Willsam Gthlea ; Winfrith, Mr. J. Scott; Wool, Mr. W. past half-yen during which period the total expenditure
Spicer; Worth Matravers, Mr. T. Caine*. , had been 1:11.045 1I a
ArPOISTUF.NT OF OvU.3EIIIII. -The following overseers ET.Serroa or (IL'ARMANs Or rEr POOR. -The result
were appointed at the County Petty Session. on Toes' of the election of Guardians for the Poole Union was
day :-St. Martin's out-parish. Messrs. W. Summers and known on Tuesday night in St. James's Parinh
T. Lock; St. Mary's out-parish, Menem J. Beer and G.
Mertens S L. Baker and J. H. Rivet, were nominated
Bohn : Holy Trinity out-parish, Messrs. J. G. Crumple?
and T. W. Head; Swann& Messrs. A. Gillingham and J. in °monition to the four old guardians, and the voting
King; Arne, Messrs C. Yeareley and G. Grant; Langton I resulted am follow', --Mr. E. C. Oakley, 848; Mr. G.
.
Matravers, Messrs. J. Haynes and M. Bower; Worth I Curtin. 8.19; Mr. J. Heyman, 765 • Mr. F. Millis,
Matravers, Messrs. W. Turner and A. Bower; Winter ! ms ; Mr. S. L. Baker, 405 ; and Mr'. J. H. Breit, 296.
borne Kingston, Messrs E. Best and W. B. Percy; ChM- The old Guardians are, therefore, re-elected. For
don Herring, MAWR W. House and W. Brown: lion- Lonefleet, Mr. J. W. Buckley was an', n elected, and
worth, Messrs C. Garland and C. Bartlett; Morden, at P.arkstone, Mr. E. J. Conway olotained the net
Messrs. W. E Lawrence and W. Bollain ; West Lulworth„
Messrs. W T Dom and H. M. Cherie., men. ; Sere Regis, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. T. W. Green.
Meagre. It Tozer and C. Baecombe ; East Holrne, Mr. G. without opposition. The Guardian for Hamworthy in
Strangernan ; Affpuddle, Messrs. W. Jackson and J. again Mr. W. Meioln.s, and at Lytchett Minster Mr.
Bennett; Tynehans, Maass. J. Chileott and J. S. Sell; H. Slade. There wee a contest for the representation
Studland. )essrs, k ht. Luckbam and W. Meikle : Win- of Lytchett Metres-en, Mr. W. Plowman opposing
frith. Messrs. R. White and F. Spicer; Steeple. Moron Mr, C M. Cnimpler, the old Guardian. Mr.
H. C. Tuck and C. Seaman. The other parishes in the 1 Crnmpler polled 106 votes against his opponent's 46,
division had made no returns of the nominatiims. and. ma. amain return,' At Kinn= A contest was
r)OUtrrY Pierre Suasion, Tuesday. - Bei or i Colonel
Maisel (chairman), Captain Filer, Mr. M. Rodgett, and avoided by the withdrawal of Mr. R. C. Ring, one of
Mr. it J. }Wayne, jun the former guardian., and Mr. E. B. Eliott and Mr.
William' Hoare, a rojectable•looking young labourer, of H. Sharp walked over. For Canhard Magna Mr. J.
Wool, wee summon for being drunk and riotous at Bawling and Mr. C. Paternal were rethrned. the latter
Wool on the 13th ult -Defendant pleaded guilty, and was , succeeding Mr. .1. W. Luff, who has left this part of
fined 2... 84. and costa (70. the county.
Tyneham, was summoned for
and
n!
fiteXliGul:fochtant, Saturday.-Bef ore Mr. J. B. Duren
William Lucas, carter, of
being drunk whilst in charge of four horses and a waggon,
at Church Knowle, an the 31st ult.-Defendant warn re- Charlet If sins/. 'labourer, of Little fiennon,Wimborne,
promoted by bin daughter. -P.C. Burden said he found was brepSht sons =only charged with being drunk and
defendant's waggon in a ditch at Bradle,.Church Knowle, dinnierly in Strand-street on the previous afternoon, and
and it required the maistanee of two ;oblational horses to ,
was
amastinorthe cell door to the extent of ss. after he
pull out the waggon. which was loaded with Minks and
-1" T C. Beek proved
. pved the offence.offence.and
oats Defendant was so drunk he could scarcely stand, I locked p -
i pnenner was ordered to pay le. fine. Is. damage, and 94.
and he accompanied him to his destination at South , cost., which he did.
Egglestone.-Thn Bench fined defendant 10s. and the I
, DORI:MeIt POLICY Monday -Before Mr. C. .T. Stone.
costs (Mt or 14 days' hard labour.
...., I George Pork,. a" latnorer., was mummoned for being
William Randall, farmer, of Woolbridge. Was summon.. • drenk'and disorderly in Leglorol-dreet, on Sunday week.
for assaulting Charles BARKA a little boy, of Wool, on the
I P.C. Lee proved the case, and defendant wan fined 10s. and
fieth of March at Eon Stoke.-The boy stated that he .
was on Woolt;ridge Heath with two cows belonging to . Fern SlthaTONa. Thurolay.-Magietrates present: The
Mr. William Bennett, and the defendant came up to him i ...ye.
(Mr. A. Balston). the •x.Mayor (Alderman F.
and asked him what he wanted there. Defendant took • ' ftyrine) . and me.„. W. p,,„,,.. C.
J.
stone.
IV. D.
dog whip out if his pocket and etruck him ten or twelve i
! Ande
times arena the head 1.. G
and ears with it, making one of his Mr. T. MH. (bitch, and J. B Durell.
uslewhite was elected one of the overseers for
ears bleed. -Cron-examined 'by defendant: He was on !
Hamworths. in the place of the late Mr. J. Lent
Stoke Heath with the cows at the time. The boy who 1
1 Richned preemmn, carter to Mr. George Minton'. builder,
kept his (defendanen) coma told him it was a dog whip.- ,
of Poole, was summoned for being drunk whilst in charge
In defence Mr. Randall said he had the exclusive right to
1 of a hone and dray, on Tocsin! evening. in Lagland-
feed cattle on Stoke Heath, but a number of boys were
'wen. -P.C. Holloway proved that defendant drove
continitally trespassing there with cows. He admitted through the street in a very f orioun and dangerous manner
that, under provocation he did strike the boy several Defendant was very drunk. and ahmed him and
times with a nmall riding whip be carried in his pocket, , challenged him to fight. Mr. Pinafore came up and took
but he did it from a good motive, SA he thought it better
, ar of the horse and dram'. amid defendant went on the
than summoning the parents-The magistrates imposed i Quay—The Bench fined defendant 7s. Oilend costs, and
a fine of to. and costs (Si.) ! allowed him a week to pay.
I Simnel Monk, another carter of Poole, was summoned
' for being drunk while in charge at a horse and waggon on
the name evening.-P. C. Holloway also proved thin case.
Defendant wee driving along the Quay, quite incapable of
taking care of his horn. The waggon was laden with
Potatnee, and in attempting to unload these defendant fell
down two or three times, be was so drunk. -Defendant
wee fined 5. and roots, the money lobe paid in • week.
Thnnem French, landlord of the Garibaldi Arms, Strand-
',Weer was summoned for keeping his home open during
prohibit,' hone, on the previous Sonday.-P.S. Ballet
stated that an lie WAR AIsOUS to visit the defendant's homeo
at quarter-neat 11 o'clork on Sunday morning ahoy opened
the door. On erring him the boy quickly dipped back into
the home and motioned to someone in the taproom. He
entered the house and SAW a young man named Lacer
sitting on a nettle in the taproom, with a pint cop by his
xicle, and he afterwards footle' it to be three parts full of
beer. Lacey got up hastily and let the room. but the
landlady Wel hint he need not go. He Wild the landlady
Larne wan not a lodger, and the admitted this, but paid he
had his meals there on Sowing -Henry Martin, a lodger
at the house. wax called forthadefence, and maid he asked
Laney to clean his boom for hkmn about 10 o'clock on
Sunday morning. He gave Is a Pint of beer, which he
drank nut of and al,, paid to Lacey paid for nothing.-
In answer to the Bench Si t. Hunt said defendant had
not been snmmoned before, Vint he had been spoken to.-
The magistrates fined defendant ss, and rests. and the
Mayor cautioned him not to come again, or his license
would be eudorent
Henry Lacey, a labourer, of Longfleet was summoned
for being on the premises of the last defendant during
prohibited home. -Defendant admitted being on the
premises, and said be had all bin meals at the house. lie
did not call for anything on Sunday morning-The Beneh
ordered defendant to pay a fine of Is. and the costs. He
wa, allowed a week to pay the money.
There were several eummonne for non-payment of poor
rat..
nonOneo Pour& Saturday.-Before the Mayor and
Mr. G. H Glitch.
One Price, a ;woman on board the planner "Miss
Hunt," was brought op in custody charged with deserting
from his vessel on the 9th of April. his term of service
under articles being then unexpired.-Evan Keane, minter
of the schooner, said he arrived in Poole on the 3,1 of
April, and the prisoner bad been absent without leave
ever since the 9th of April. He had bad to get another
man to do the prisoner's work.-In answer to the Mayor
the prosecutor said he was willing to take back the
prisoner, as he did not consider him no much to blame as
the mate, who left the vessel at the same time-Prisoner
consented to return to his work, and was discharged upon
his paving the coat., 7..
Tows COIINCTI, MUTING, FRMAT.—Present : The
Mayor (Councillor A. Ralston). the ex-Mayor (Alder-
man F. Steering), Alderman U. Kemp-Welch, T.
Helen, and J. Buckley; Councillors J. S. Hudson,
(4. Curtis, W. N. Western. e. J. Stone, W. D.
Eingitzle, IL R. Domnore, W. Penney, C. Hill, T.
Buckley, E. N. Blanchard, F. Minns, and E. J.
Conway-The Town Clerk (Mr. H. W. Dickinson)
said he only gave credit in the estimates for £3OO for
the police estebliahment, but he was happy to gay the
amount he had received wan £470. -The seal of the
Council was affixed toe- lease in revension to Mr. GB.
Aldridge of a home and premises in Went-street,
occasioned by the death of Mr. C. Spurrier, an-1 also
to another lean in reversion to Mr. G. Sticklen, of the
house adjoining, occasioned by the death of Mr. F. G.
G. Ssiger, both npon the proposition of Councillor
Western, neeonded by Councillor Buckley. -Several
'poke of the necessity of looking after the allotments
belonging to the Corporation, and a propoeition WWI
made that the matter should be referred to the Land
Committee, but as this was not in the agenda paper it
fell through-The Watch Committee made a report
recommending that the police should be inetructed to
call the nearest medical man in cane of accident, and
that the medical man who attended nhonlil be paid at
the rate of ss. for every case between the hours of
8 a.m. and ft p.m., and 7n. Ild. between 8 p.m. and
8 a.m. and that after all that Was necessary at the time
had been done, the patient should he handed over to
the care of a private medical man, or the medical man
of the union, or district, or club, or nociety, to which
the patient might belong.-The report was adopted,
upon the proposition of Councillor Hudson, neconded
by Councillor Western.-A long and heated discussion
took place as to whether or not 31eners. Bayley and
Son'. bill of £167 Frs. for lighting the town with
petroleum for a quarter should be paid in full, or fines
deducted according to the contract. The Surveyor
(Mr. E. Pearce) certified from the police reports that
on an average one lamp had not been lighted for 25
nights, and this rendered the contractors liable to fines
amountingto £6 55., the contract specifying that a fine
of ss. was to be paid for every lamp not lit.-
Councillor Western proposed and Alderman Styring
seconded, that the bill he paid in full, on the grounds
that Mews. Bayley had clone their beet to carry out
their contract, and that the average of less than two
lamps per week not lighted out of 200 or 300 lamp', was
not much to complain about. -An amendment was
proposed by Councillor Conway, and seconded by
Councillor Dngmore, to the effect that the £6 se.
should not be paid till Meows. Bayley had given a
satisfactory explanation as to the non-lighting of the
lamps.-The original proposition was carried by seven
votes to nix, and Messrs. Bayley get their fell charge.
-The Streets and Highway.' Committee considered
it desirable that all the fire engines nhonlil be kept in
one place, and recommended that a portion of the
Green Market should be converted into a shed for the
purpoin.-Councillor Curtis proposed, and Alderman
Xemp-Welch seconded, that tenders for carryin out
the work according to the plans imbmitted be an dver-
tised for, and this was agreed to.

THE HEALTH OF THE BOROUGH.
At the Town Gonna' meetins on Friday last Mr. 11.
Ellis, Ileilind 011ie, of Health ler the Berough, made his
third minuet report rn the health of the heretigh. Mr.
Ellis commenced an elaborate rep irt by saying that be
regretted he MIA unable to Imor before the Council so
satisfactory a statement as on previous °sessions. The
exceptional heat of the summer of the past year, together
with imperfect sanitary arrangements, had no doubt,
much to do with the fact that the vital statistics of 1876
did not indicate an improvement in the sanitary condition
of the borough. He begged permission to quote two
paragraphs from his first report, in which he said :—" The
geographical position of the parish of St. James's has a
most Important bearing on its sanitary condition and
arrangements. Situated as it is on a low-lying peninsula,
the town reuld only with much difficulty and at great ex-
pense be effertually drained. The existing drains are
few, and for the most part bad, from imperfect trapping:
who ceeip sals prevail largely theeigho•it the most
poptdoes localities. Such a system renders the inhabitants
especially liable to those diseases which are pestered by
accumulations of excreta and animal and vegetable refuse.
This liability can nitly be guarded against the extreme
attention to the emptying of cesspeels ist regular inter-
' eels, and the thorough scavenging of the streets. The
latter service is, on the whole, eflioiently performed, but
the fonner requires more attention; and 1 consi; ler it nest
desirable that the Sanitary Authority should take upon
Itself the entire charge of the arrangements necessary to
this end. In the course of time it may bec.ome desirable
to suggest the sul isti tenon of a system which would be an !
improvement on that of resspools, for adoption in crowded
neighbourhoods, hut until means of removal are in the
hands of the Sanitary_ Authority any such suggestion I
would be premature. He (Mr. Ellis) need not ronend the '
Sanitary Authority that the suggestions therein contained
had not been acted upon, although ag tin referred to in 1
his report of het year, but he would venture to express a
hope that during the present year they might receive
attentive consideration. Mr. Ellis then spoke of the
satisfactory working of the Borough Hospital, and pro-
ceeded to give details of the age distribution of the popu-
lation, which he estimated to be 10,314 in the middle of
the year 11711. He then dealt with the births, of which
there were ae registered during 1876, against 350 end 317
in the two preceding years. The birth-rate was equal to
37.0 per 1,000, or 0 5 above the average rate in England and
Wales during the year. During the live years 1071-5 the
birth-rate in Poole averaged hut Xi 7 per 1,009 PO that that
of 1876 showed a marked increase. The deaths in the
borough, which had heen 184 and 213 in 1t474 and 1875,
further rose to 234, in 1876, or equal In a rate of 92 7 per
1,000 of the estimated populatlin. During the four years
le7l-4 the annual death-rate in the borough war
successively 23 8, 111n3, 111 5, end la 0 per 1,040; in 1875 it
rose to 9U 7, and further inereaseil in 1676 to 227. The
death-rate in Poole in 1876, therefore, exceeded by 2.4 per
1,000 the average rate in the preceding five years (20.3),
and was higher than the rate that prevailed in any one
of those years, except 1871. The average deatlerate in
England and Wales in 1876 was equal to 21.0 per 1.000, and
was lost er than in 1074 or 1075, although in Pole the
death-rate showed a marked increase in 1.76. The report
then detailed the sees at which the Eli deatbs occurred,
after which the causes of death were given. The deaths
included 12 from measles, front whooping rough, 10
from typhus and enteric fever, two front scarlet fever, two
from diphtheria, two from diarrhen, and not one from
small-pox in all :VS deaths resulted from these seven
principal syinotic diseases, against but 0, 17, and 12 in the
three preceding years These 314 deaths were equal
to a rate of 17 per 1,090, against 1.7 and
1.2 in 1174-5. The average zymotic rates of
England and Wales in 1876 was 30 per 1,000, or
lower than in the two proceeding years, Starlet fever was
fatally prevalent in Poole in 1871. when it caused 45
death's and 7 in 1472, hut no fatal case was registered in
1873 or 1874, and one and two respectively in 1875 and 1876.
In speaking of the satisfactory fact that no death from
smallpox had occurred in Pimle since 1873, the Sledical
Officer steengly ad verated vacrinatien and re-vareination.
The deaths from typhus and enteric fever were one and
and six respectively in 1874 and 1075, but further rose in
11476 to nine, of which three were certified as typhus and
six as typhoid or enteric. The death-rate from fever
during 1876 was equal to 007 per 1,000, whereas the average
fever rate in England and Wales did not exceed 0.4:1 per
1.000 : it only averaged 0.45 in twenty of the largest
English towns and even in Liverpool did not exceed 0.75
per 1,000. A high death rate from fever was almost
invariably accepted an a test of unsatisfactory condition,
and the excessive mortality from fever in Poole during
1876 should not be neglected as a warning that there was
sanitary work in the Istrough which was urgently called
for. The report referred at some length to deaths front
diseases of the respiratory organs and other causes, and
chatted by saying that the proportion of deaths in the
Workhouse to the total deaths in the borough, which was
6.8 per cent in 1176, was el per cent in 1874, anil 9.0 per
cent in ISIS, which appeared to indicate a decline of
pauperism in the Union. The Medical Officer of Health
al-si presented a special report on the rases of continued
fever that occurred within the borough during the year
1876. In this supplementary report Mr. Ellis remarked
that as the deaths from that cause anmented to less than
per 1,000 of the population he shiodill not have con-
sidered any further ninths than that contained in his
annual report called for, were it not that the IL teal
Government Board, observing that five deaths (nun that
cause were registered dining the last quarter of the year,
assumed that the disorder was (II the increase, and in con-
sequence required especial information on the subject.
Having made enquires (rem all the medical practitioners
resident within the 'swoosh he (Mr. Ellis) found that they
hail had no case of typhus or typhoid fever under their
treatment during the present year, and that consequently
the disorder might he considered as having for the present
entirely disappeared. The report then dealt with the
fatal cases senetirn, and in seven cases out of the nine the
cause of the attack was accounted for. The probable
number of the non-fatal cases was about 20. The revert
concluded by reconamending that several minor sanitary
Improvements he carried mt.—Councillor J. S. Hudson
proposed, Alderman M. Kenap-Welch, seconded, and it
wax naeniumuslY agreed to that Mr. Ellis 's valuable
reports should be adopted, and printed and circulated.

nerv,
Saturti.

Po a tramp, was in Tuesday
sent to seven day's hard labour for beg.4-iiag.
Tint " ANCiENts."—During the rehearsal for the
grand crmeert by the Musical Union last week, the
inmates of St. John's Almshouse, were allowed fleets
in the Town-hall, to hear and witness the artistss go
through their performances. It was very interesting
and amusing to hear the quaint exclamations in the
Peculiar brogue of the old ladies in scarlet, and gentle-
men in blue, and the wonder and admiration with
which they greeted each performance-
Accimr...Nr.— On Friday evening last an accident
happened to Mrs. T. Yotng, of Bristol-mad. She was
engaged in the removal ,if some furniture with a
spirited horse, when the animal kicked her in the leg,
breaking the limb. Of course, Mrs. Young is
incapicitated from performing her routine business,
which is a serious consequence now that she has,
through her non, accepted the scavenging 44 the town.
GUARDIANS. —There have been two contests for
Guardians in the Sherborne Union; seven gentlemen
having been nominated for five seats. Subjoined are
those elected :—Henry Ensor, farmer; B. Chandler,
solicitor; W. Whittle brewer; A. Wihnott, silk
throwster; and Iseris Ruegg, newspaper proprietor.
The unsuccessful candidates were J. Trevor Davies
and W. L. Hetherington.—ln the parish of Folke,
John Trowbridge has been elected 17 a majority of
two votes over his opponent, Mr. lliarles Tool!.
CURIOUS STaTiSTion.-4- In the Sherborne Union last
year the quantity of ale consumed in and out of the
House amounted to 3,454 pints, and .if spirits to 217.
pints. Of wine the consumption was only 584 pints,
and this was all for out-paupers, not a single pint of
wine having been ordered for any inmate of the lionise.
The total cost is. Ale, £4l 10s. 84. ; spirits,
£lB Si. 54. ;" and wine, 1:5 175.; total for the year, ,
E. 65 16s. Id.
FO,T-BALL MATCH.—A foot ball match was played
in Mr. lbsiper Miller's field at ()borne, on Saturday
lard, between the Sherborne and Templecombe Foot
ball clubs, and resulted in a victory for the home ,
team by two tries, and five rouges to one rouge, of the
Templecombe club. Both teams mustered in strong
force, the Templecombe men being very sanguine of
victory, they having won every match which they have
played this season. There Wai some rather rink+
playing between the (lobs, not a few on either side
coining away with marks of the combat. Mr. Lowitz
was Captain f the Sherborne Club, and Mr. S.
Bewsey WAR captain of the Templecorube team. This
is, we believe, the last match of the Num for the
Sherborne Club.
KING's ScHOOL.—At a meeting of the governors on
Friday, Mr. G. D. W. Digliy, of Sherborne Castle, in
the chair, there ben's,b also present the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord Clinton, and Sir NV. C. Medllymtt,
Bart., three of the representative governors, plans for
an enlargement of the existing chapel and the erection
of a spacious schts)l-room were laid before them, and
it was resolved that the works should be proceeded with
as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made.
Mr. IL H. Carpenter is the architect, and the contract
of Mr. William Seeley, of Sherborne, has been
accepted for the building. Mr. Sealey is also the
builder of a new house to be erected in Acreman-
street, for Mr. E. B. Din_gley.
RIFLE CoIIPETITION.—The c.,mpetition of the 7th
Dorset Rifle Volunteers for members to represent the
corps at the following contest at Wimbledon took
place last week, with the subjoined result, seven shots
being fired at each range :—Private Dennis, 77;
Corporal Stubbings, 61; Colour-Sergeant Stewart, 63;
Captain Calder, 55 ; Lieutenant Williams, 53 ;
Corporal Luffiir, 42; and Private Simmonds. ft
The monthly competition for prizes in connection
with the 7th corps took place on Wednesday at the
Dymore Ranges, the result being as follows, at five
shots at each distance Colour-Sergeant Stewart,
who made a score of 47; 35., Private Dennis, 38; 25.,
Lance-Corporal Stagg, 36. The others were Lance'
Corporal Luffin, 28; Private Simmorels, 28 ; and
Sub-Lieutenant Williams, 26,
7rtt D.R.V.—There was an Adjutant's drill on
Monday evening last, when a very !food muster om-
gregated at the Drill-hall, there 'being also present;
Captain Calder, Sub-Lieut. Williams, Hon. Surgeon
Williams, Sergt..-Instructor Purser, four Sergeants,
one bugler, and 44 rank and file. Major Falwasser
(the late commanding offioer of the 7th) and the new
chaplain of the corps (the Rev. W. H. Lyon) Were also
present. Captain Batten put the company through
the manual and firing exercises, after which Captain
Calder and the non-commissioned officers put the men
through various movements. At the close of the
drill the Adjutant expressed himself highly pleased
with the efficient manner in which the mameuvres had
been performed by the ccrps, which was significant of
the fact that the men had well attended the squad
drills.
POLICE MEWL—Joseph Downey, a tramp, who said he
was a native of Surrey, was brought up in custody before
Major Falwasser on Monday last, on a charge with sleep-
ing in the open air at Sherborne. Prisoner was aroused
on Saturday evening about 12 o'clock, by one of the con-
stables, and in reply to 4uestions put to him, acknowledge 4
that he had nowhere to lay his head.—Accommodated
with seven days hard labour.

SUPPOSED INNOCENCY OF A PRISONER.
At the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions last year a
seaman named Patrick Tyrrell was sentenced to twelve
menthe' hard labour for stabbing a man named Sam-
ways in Denneta-lane, Strand street, on the night of
the sth of October, upon the evidence of 'several dis-
reputable girls. Mr. P. E. L Budge, the solicitor
who defended prisoner at the trial, has obtained the
signatures of the Mayor, ex-Mayor, moot of the
Borough magistrates, and many ether influential
inhabitants of the town, to the following memorial on
Tyrrell's behalf, and it is to be presented to the Home
Secretory:-
To THE RIGHT Flonevaeste 11. A. Cues& Her Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Home Department
We, the undersigned. Justices of the Peace and other
Inhabitants of the Town and County and Borough of Poole,
be most respectfully to present this memorial on behalf
of • prisoner named Patrick Tyrrell, now undergoing a
sentence of twelve months imprisonment, with hard
labour, in Poole Gaol. The said Patrick Tyrrell, who was
a seaman on board the ship Emma, was committed by the
Justices of Poole to take his trial at the Michaelmas
Quarter Session*, 1876, before the Recorder, Mr. A. H.
Collins, Q.C., on the charge of having unlawfully wounded
• man by the name of Samways on the night of the fifth of
October. 1876, and was found guilty by the Jury.
Your memorialists would humbly beg your re-considera-
tion of the verdict of the Jury on the following grounds :
" I. That on the first examination before the magistrates
it was admitted by the chief witness for the prosecution,
• woman of the name of Maley, that the man who did the
act had. beard, which the said Patrick Tyrrell had not
Malley was not forthcoming at the trial.
2. That on the evening on which the deed was com-
mitted a seaman on board the Adelaide, at that time at
Poole discharging her cargo, returned on board the
Adelaide late at night and, awaking the others, told the
cook that he had been in • quarrel' and had cut s loans
now. The said man, as will be seen by the declaration of
Captain David Pullen, of the Adelaide, deserted his
vessel, leaving wages due to him, and has not been heard
of since. Both telteaidnin and the cook were subposndad
at tams WI el aa beine al lee defendant but were not
Mirlas Ilta Owl te glee 'aldose on this subject.
eignarmilir. wbe usN.,M &elm tow, swore

DOG•POISONING AGAIN!

Dog-poisoning has re-appeared in our town, odnce
Saturday there having been, we hear, several more in.
offensive animals poisoned. It is a curious yet signifi-
cant fact, that the first victim to the poison on this
occasion WM owned by Mr. James Ellen. who also
owned the first dog that was poisoned several months
ago, when the dastardly work begun. We sincerely
hope the wretch or wretches whoever they may be,
will be discovered and get the punishment which they
.Itare merited.

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 187.

at the trial that be had been drinking only peppermint. PRINCE THEODORE AT SHERBORNE.
/0. liaall, the chief officer of coastguard, and who
charge of the Naval Reserve force in Poole, ban
The Prince Theodore, son of the late Ring
that he actually came to him in the evening to Theodore of Abysinnia, arrived in this town by the
IbILW some money for the purpose of getting drink, and five o'clock down express on Friday afternoon lad,
list he sew him drinkinn beer with several ether men in accompanying his tutor, the head master of Rugby
tbe course of the evening, and that later on the same School, on a visit to the Rev. Hugo D. Harper, head
evening he saw him intoxicated. The prisoner himself, muter of King Edward's School, Sherlxnne. The
whenever visited either by Justicss or otherwise, has Prince is now about 17 years of age, a very slight figure,
always declared himself to be innocent of the charge.
with a c,•untenance expressive of comprehension
Under these siren nistances, and consi.lering the
irreproachable character hitherto borne by the prisoner, Me boa not finite lost the peculiar gait of the native,
the grave doubts that rest upon the ease, and the character and his complexion, a little paler than when he first
of the whole of the witnesses f..r the proseention, your arrived in this country is still that of a Moor. He
memorialists would humbly pray yo,lr kind ronsideratlon appears to have acclimatized himself to the habits and
of the case. I oneluet of the English, and the courtesy and gentle-
-1 manliness which he evinces to all with whom he conies
1 into co-
l'rince
seen,

wi
ontact comtuand respect and admiration. The
seems to take a great interest in objects of
r, and his guardians took the opportunity on
ty afternoon of showing him the interior ot the
6n.! old Abby Church of St Mary, which is the
admiration of visitors to the \Vest of England. The
head master of Itniby School preached to the King's
School boys in their Chapel on Sunday morning last.
During a three-day's sojourn in this town "Allis,"
the Christian name of the Prince, and that by which
he is pqpularly known at Rugby, has fremently
walked and driven in a carriage, through our streets,
calming no little excitement among the inhabitants.
During his stay at King's School he was treated as a
visitor, and no display whatever was made, and on
Monday he was accompanied to the railway I=tation
by the Rev. H. D. and Mrs. Harper, who wished him
an affectionate good-bve before he left by the 2.30 up
train for London. Few persons assembled at the
station to 'see him away, as it was not generally known
by what train he would leave.

SHERBORNE ABBEY.'
The Albey Church of Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, is not
very generally known, although it has claims not only
from an historical paint of view as one of the oldest of our
bishops' seata, but also from its being in many respects
one of the finest examples of "Perpendicular" work in
England.
The church was restored in Itl9 and onwards by my
father, but he nut living to complete the work, the last
portion of it, the choir, for which he had left some designs,
was completed by his successor, my late partner, Mr.
Slates ; and being In possession of many of the particu-
lars of what was then done, I have sought to arrange
them in a form which may serve as a record of these
prk4. . . . . . .

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a .
In examining the church and its history, we find that
although our tiro impression is that we are engaged in
the study of a fifteenthe,ntury building, yet we are
carried back to a period not onlp as early as the Anglo-
Saxon time of the beginning of the eight century, but even
earlier; for on the site of the church, a long time ago, a
portion of :6 It, quart pavement was dug up, with founos-
tions of more than one bnibling resting on it: however, it
is in the curlier years of the eighth century that documen-
tary and architectural history begins. lip to the year
70,1, Winchester had been the one Episcopal Sec of the
West Saxons after its transference: from Dorchester to
Oxfordshire, but in that year, after the death of Bishop
Ileadda, King Ina separated Sherhorne from Winchester,
and created it a distinct bishop s seat for the modern
counties of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset Wiltshire,
and Berkshire ; and he then appointed his relative.
Aldhelm, its first bishop. St. Ablhelm, was one of the
greatest and best men, and one of the first scholars, of
that age ; he was a great traveller, but settled down as a
monk in the abbey of Malenesbury, where he had been
educated under the abbot Maidulf, who had founded it in
or about the year 610. Aldhelm in 670, was appointed ita
, abbot, and he refounded and reconstituted the monastery,
founding also. and attaching to it, smaller monasteries at
From,: and Bradfurdon-Avon. St. Aldhelm posseaso
very great influence with King Ina, and was his adviser in
the founding and building of Glastonbury Abbey and ita
church, that is, the new or "Major 11-clesia," which was
then built to the west of that known sus the " Vetusta
Ecclesio.," the, even at that time, ancient wicker church
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and mince rebuilt and
called St. Joseph's Chapel, SL Aldhelm was, however,
only Bishop of Sherborne for four years: he died in 709, in
the little wicker church of Doulting ; his body was brought
to and buried in his old abbey church at Malmesbury, in
the chapel of St. Michael, and by the directions of
Egwine, Bishop of Worcester, crosses of stone were erected
wherever the body had rested on its journey, suet the
wooden church was repla-ed by a stone one by the monks
of Glastonbury in grateful reinembranee of him. Portions
of the old cathedral church of Sherburne, erected in the
time of St. Abibelm, still exist, as does "the little
church," built by him and dedicated to St. Lawrence at
Bradford-on-Avon. The cathedral of Sherborne was
served by regular clergy, not by monks, whose day had
not then come, for the monastery of Maimesbury, as then
existing, resembled more nearly a collegiate or missionary
body of the present day, and was very different to those
bodies of monks of the great order of St. Benedict, which
in the tenth century extended over Europe. It is now
impossible to define the plan of this most ancient
cathedral, but as the works would he progressing nearly
simultaneously with the "Great Church" aS Glastonbury,
there would probably be some general reseniblance in the
two buildings. This chureh of King Illa's at Marston bury
is explained toy Professor Willis to have been afterwards
reletilt on a larger scale by St. Dunstan, when abbot, and
then again by its first Norman abbot, because, as William
of Malmesbury says, "it did not correspend in magnitude
with its revenues. It is possible, therefore, that the
early Anglo-Saxon Church at Sherborne bore the same
relative pr portions to its Norman successor as that at
tilastotibury ; there is, however, a circumstance which, if
it could he 'pate satisfactorily proved, would go fax to
indicate that the church was as long as it now is. It
appears that in WI, Bishop Ealhstan, of Sherburne, a great
military prelate.. buried in his church the holies of
,Etitellsthi and I Etbellext, kings of the West Saxons, and
elder brothers of Alfred the Crest: and the place of this
burial is described by Leland to be "behind the high
Altars of St. Marie Chirch, but there now be no tumbes
nor no writing of them reene ;" however, about the year
1810, a coffin of Perbeek nusrble WU dug up in the
ambulatory, behind the altar, and removed to the north-
clad corner, and this ceilin is beheved to contain the
rein tins of one of the royal brothers.
In the year ES, Bishop Wulain. of Sherborne, hy the
authority of a charter of King Ethelred, expelled the
ft -rotor clergy, and introduced the Benedictine order, and
became abbot as well as bishop of Sherborne. This bring-
ing in of the Benedictines seems to have greatly influenced
the plan of the church at Sherborne, and the point was
, enlarge( upon by Mr. Carpenter, who referred at some
length to one of the peculiarities in plan of the ancient
. . . .

and powerful abbeys of the fame lictine order, viz., the
large western porches. The remains of a similar feature
have been found at Sherhorne. These remains seem to
have Ir•en so much buried as to have escaped the attention
Professor Willis awl others who have examined the
lending. They have been now, however, uncovered, and
there are visible the remains of a plinth or base course of
a bulding t 1 feet wide outside, the centre line of which
c eresponds exactly with the nave. This ancient porch
was pulled down either in Norman days, or to make way
for the later Allhallows Church of the fifteenth century,
awl nothing now remains of it above the floor line of this
church. The plinth twitildings, especially the upper one,
are of a singular type, indeed almost Roman; and those
on the south side are partially embedded in the west wall
.ff the alder church, which wall is partly Anglo-Saxon on
the north side, awl Norman on the south.
There is a trolition that the church was injured by
Danes awl Seandinavain pirates, who, at the end of the
tenth century., invaded that part of Englard ; however, if
this were no, It is not likely it long remained ruinous, for
at a great meeting of the Saxon Estates under Ethelred,
at &ghoul, in Oxfordshire, NUN the duty of building and
repairing churcleas was strictly enjoined on the country at
large,
Altogether there were twenty-six bishops of Sherborne,
the last being Herman, the chaplain of King Edward the
(',onfeasor. He united the see of Wilton to Sherborne ;
but after the decision of a great council under William the
Norman in 10172., Herman removed to Old Sarum, and
col iiiii eneed ita .itheiral. The monastery at Sherborne
01 4, however, continued until 1122 for 1119 as says
William of tlalmedmrv), when Roger, bishop of Sarum,
destroyed the priory of Horton, and annexed it to his
pri.ory of Sherborne, whirls he made an abbey, and con-
serrated Thurston as the first ablett, and afterwards, in
1225, Pope Honorius 11. conferred large grants of lands and
eu,lotiiienta, on the abbey.
• Roger, the third bishop of Salisbury, was a noteable
• .

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figure in that peri.el of English history, and lie was a great I
builder. The castles of Malniesbery, Devizes, and Sher-
borne were erected by him iu the reign of Henry I. The
castles at Sherbonie occupied the site of the ancient
bishop's palace, which site had been transferred to the see
of Sarum. These three castles are described by a con-
temporary writer as being "for xpace very large, for cost
very chargeable, for chow very beautiful; the stones are
set in such exact miler that the joints comet be seen, and
the whole structure seems to be but one stone." The ruins
of the one existing castle, that at Sherborne, show that
this is a fair description. There is little doubt that Roger
also helped to build the churches at Malmeshery and
Devices, and he also rebuilt the abbey church at Sherborne
with Abbott Thurstan. There is a great resemblance in
the details and in the interlacing arcades at the church
and castle chapel at Sherhorne with work at Maluussbury
and at St. John's and St, Mary's Churches at Devizes.
St. John's Church is a tine speeinien of late Norman work.
Its emir:al tower is a grind feature, and, excepting for •
late parapet and pinnacles, and some filled-in windows, it
remains at the present thee as when first built. It is
oblong on plan ; and while the western and eastern arches
are semieircular, the other two are pointed, but have
' similar details. Both the Devizes churches have square
east ends, as that at Shertsarne had.
Bet to return to the abbey church at Sherborne, much
still remains of Roger's and Thurstan's work. They pulled
down al t the whole of the Anglo-Saxon cathedral,
bearing only the western doorway of the north aisle of the
nave and some portions of the adjoining walls. This door-
way (new blocked up)still exists, and is in the early Anglo-
Saxon style, with jambs of "long and short work," rude
impost moulding, and a projected label moulding continued
down the jambs on to a rudely-chamfered hase. A very
similar doorway exists in the tower of Earls Barton
Church, and at Brigstock Church the label-moulding of
the tower-arch returns in a similar manner down the
jambs. It is almost certain that we have in this doorway
the one fragment of the work of St. Aldhelre and King
Ina. Now, it is diffieult to say with certainty how Roger
treated this west end of the church, but there is an arch-
way tof his date existing in the west wall of the south
aisle. As I believe, this arzh gave access to • much wider
western parch than formerly, or a chapel of three or more
aisles. This view to strengthened by the fact that the
west wall of the abbey thumb is exceedingly thin, is not
faced with ashlar as the other Norman walls, and was not,
as I believe, an external wall. This western chapel and
all other chapelries in Sherborne and its neighbourhood
belonged to the abbot. an rector, the nave of the abbey
church being the parish church, and certain sacraments
of the church, such as baptism, were always required to
be held in it,—a rule which in later times led to serious
riots and the destruction of the ablaey church itself.
In Malniesbury abbey church, chiefly Roger's work,
there is, in some respects, a'similarity with that at Sher-
burne. There were then two towers, which were thus
described hy Leland ;—" Two steples, and one that had a
mighty high pyramis, and felle dangerously in hominum
owonori4; it stole in the middle of the transeptum, the
rather yet standeth a great square tower at the west end."
Now, the oil seal of Sherburne Abbey represents a church
ith • western anil another, or central, tower, and •
lofty western porch. There is the vagueness and disregard
of details u-oil in old seals, ant I do not think the date Is
I known, yet it seems to show a Norman church, treated in
a rather free and easy manner, and gives • general idea of
, Roger's church. If this is so, it would seem that the
, western tower may have been raised on the eastern
portion of the early porch. There are no traces of thin
western timer now left, excepting, perhaps, II foundation
!of great thickness, distant some 20 feet from the present
1 west end, which may have belonged to it,
(To be Continued).

• Substance of a paper " On the Benedictine Abbey of
St. Mary, Sherborne, with Notes on the Restoration of
its Church," read by Mr R. H. Carpenter before the
Royal Institute of Brßish Architects, on the 19th ult.

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