The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-12 00:00:00

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TuzaDAY span, 12, 18111.
orsetstire.
MR" NRWDEATriI MOTION AND THE
MEMBERS TOR DORSET.
To the Editor.
,atai•--Tbe Chairman of the Church Aseociation
the proceedings of whieb were reported in
L.mr la!! Mixer, .111 doubtlees not aware that Mr.
11°T9, toongh be had 1106 voted, had paired, in tether
ot wth. Newdgate's motion for the visitation of monasteries. I heartily hope that both he, and our
other memberaorill hare the courage to vote against
Mr. Cop's mottom for reseindinu It. The storm,
which ita rumor his raised amongst our Homan
Catholic brethren, is the fullest proof of its necessity.
We have the best authority for hying Mutt the reason
1011 "me. fors darkness better than light " is,
'heroine their deeds are evil."—With thanks for
your Protestant tone, I remain youre telafullr,
A CATHOLIC.

DORSET VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION.
Tbe annual meeting of this Assoeiation wea held at
Dorchester on Tuesday lt Lieut.-Col. G. P. Manuel in
the chair. Amongst those present were Lient:.-Col.
Steward, Capt.. Coombe, Capt. &Ake', Limo, Hedges,
ltel, he.
no following report of the Council was resolved end
adopted and ordered to be printed :
" The Council, in presenting to the General Meeting of
the Association the Report for the past year, are again
enabled to congratulate the county upon the re.ult of
its operations The ninth Annual Ride Competition
for Volunteen of all arum, held in June last, mot with
geed sumer, and it is intended ill the present season
to hold it again in June, and with the able aid of it.
Battalion Shooting Committee, the Connell feel that it
will highly tend to keep up the eSesessy of the
tem Corps of Doreetshirs.
Tr. Council desire to 'sprees their thank' to the
subscribers to the Camp Fund of the peat years for
their support.
" The Bosun emeriti have answered so well that the
Council sincerely hope that the Battalion of Rise
Volantsers may be enabled to inert again this year, and
U so. it ie Proposed to encamp at Bad Lulwortb.
" As in the past years, the Council still invite the
Rifle Volunteers indiridually, as well aa in Corps, to
take upon thetnaelVes a portion of the wet.
"The thanks of the Council are due to all, who by
giving prises or otherwieti, have kindly contributed to
the Success of this usociation."
The imbue' prise meeting at Dorchester, was arranged
to take place on Wednesday the 22nd Jane neat.
A corn of £2O was ordered to be paid to the County
Wimbledon Fund in aid of the entrance fees and ea•
posses attending the nest competition, and dB for the
annual subscription of the County Amogiation to the
National Rile Assoointioo.

DORSET MENDICITY SOCIETY.
A meeting of tits central tainmittee took place at the
Shirehall on Tuesday. John Floyet, Esq., M.P., pre"
aided. There was • large attendance of magistrates.
The hon. see of the society (Captain Amyatt Brown
read the following report:—' I beg to lay before you •
statement of the operations of the Dorset Mendieity
Society, the formation of which wen figreed upon at the
meeting held in January Wt. The local oomniitteee
baying met and appointed places of relief in the several
dietriota the society is now established throughout
Dorset, and has been operation in the greater portion of
the county for the last two months. The total number
of Stations which have been appointed is places viers
ticket, can be exchanged for bread amounts to 73;
1,598 circulars and 23,206 tickets have been distributed
to subseriben and others- Of the numbers so distri-
bated 1,22 tickets had been exchanged for bread up to
the middle of March. As regards the stete of the funds,
the amount received by sobecrirtions and sale of
ticket. to 31st March has been £7B Bs. The eapend-
iture Printing. 1.2314.. 6d.; stationery, £1 14.. 10s1;
po,tage, LI 4a 2d.; advertisementa, 1.6 4s. 6d.;
sundries', Cl 45.; paid for bread Februst7 and Marsh,
£lO 12a. —total, £46 144., leaving n balatoe in the
honorary treasurer's bands of £3l 14s. I beg to state
that the principle of giving bread tieltets instead
of money has been well received (with scarcely an ex-
ception) throu4hont the comity ; and reports from all
diitric's agree an stating that in consequence there is a
marked decreese in the Dumber of beggsrs. The
returns of casuals relieved at unions will, however, be
the best prrof as to the effect on the professional
tramps, whose numbers have till now iocreaaed no
by year. to so alarming an extent. In the quarter
ending 31st March, 1870. 2,113 vagrants were relieved
in Dorset, against 3,602 in the sorresponding
quarter of last year, showing • decrease of 1,483. It is
hoped that, considering the great severity of the
weather and prevailing distress, these results any be
deemed satisfactory. The society has been the means
of supplying food to many in want, whilst it has also
bad the effect of greatly reducing in this county the
number of those professional vagrants who live by Itn•
posing on the charitable ancrbuinaue. The Chairman,
moved the adoption of the report —Mr. Joseph Guudry
seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.
Captain Amyatt Brown stated the amounts received by
subscriptions and pale of tickets in each nnion—
Reaminster, 1:3 Is. ful.; Blandford, £2 15a.; Brislp'rt,
E 7 l'Lls.; Cerne, El 15.; Dorchester, 1.9 18..;
711. 6d.; Poole. £4 18e.; Shaftesbury, £5 165.; Sher.
borne, £4 4.. 6d.; Sturminater, 172 95.; Warrbam.
£92.. 6d.; Weymouth, £l6 155.; Wimburne, 1.74.. 6d.
—total, £788..

bORCH ESTER.
COLOIE. NAPIER 8113 P., attended the levee
bald on Wednesday, at Baakinghain Pelvic, by the
Prince of Wales, on behalf of Her Majesty.
MALIMouit lalut4.—During Saturday night some
senseless boobies who went noising and pricking round
the walks late, broke off about four feet of the upper
part of a chestnut sapling of about two years' growth in
the Sooth•walk. Should the police be able to discover
who did it, or took part in the damage, the magistrates
will send them to prison to be taught better.
C,MltirraD To Tin Donau,. Couary ?Immo.
Asaiita ' John Vincent, bipmy at Celine Ablisa.—Hard
Latour : John Brown, vagrancy at Cherminater,
days; George Ford, damaging property at Shafteebury,
14 day.; William Caw, William Case, jun., and Williaia
Oarlend, robbing garden at Bothenhamptco, 2 months;
'Biomes Knight, misbehaviour at Bcaminater noMn, 28
days ; John Skinner, misbehaviour at Seamiest& union,
N day.; Bengston Rams), Ind Jimbo Cooper,
vagrancy at Storminster Marshall, 1 mouth; John
Leakier, stealing boots at Hinton. 2 months Ann
Hartley, stealing money at Bridport, 2lmonths ; Chides
Sonewaya, stealing eggs at Wylie, 14 dep. —imprison-
suet : Phoebe Forge, drunkenness, at Wegmoutb. 7
days ; Henry King, and Henry Crutcher, assault at
Crenborne, I Wender mouth.
Tee W &atm al —the following is our meteorologitial
report for the week ending Sunday:—