The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER
Movento had oommenoed in this neighbourhood.
LORD AND LADY POLTIMORE have arrived At 43,
Lowndes-square, for the season.
Tux annual general meeting of the Salisbury
Diocesan Board of Education will be held this year
at Dorchester some time during the autumn.
MR. C. A, BORRESON, of this town, who was article
to T. Coombe, Esq., solicitor, has recently been a&
witted to the roll of attorneys and solicitors.
Mn.. FREDERIC% CROSS, of this town, has been
itippointe I station-master of the Great Western Railway
I at Birmingham.
Tee officers of the Dorset Militia entertained the
officers of the Royal Hmse Artillery at Mess on
Wednesday evening. The 'aand of the regiment played
• selection of music on the removal of the cloth.
Ws are informed that the Enrolled Pensioners of
I this district will assemble for their annual drill at
1: Dorchester from the 19th to the 2711 inst., under
I the command of Major Astell.
We regret to learn that Mr. Henry Hawkins, who
I lately sustained serious injuries in crossing Fordington
Field, Dorchester, on horseback, died on Tuesday
morning, at his residence, Friar Waddon, deeply
lamented.
Tics ST. GIOROR'S VA/M.—The 12 competitors to
shoot for the St. George's Vase at Wimbledon will
I be those men who shall make the 12 highest aggre-
gate scores at 500 yards at both trials for the Queen's
prize; and all desirous of competing for the vase
: must enter beforehand, and pay the fee of 2s, before
such entry.
TRUNDSRSTORM.—This town and neighbourhood
was visited by a heavy thunderstorm early on Tues-
day morning. The elemental warfare continued for
nearly two hours, with varying intensity. Now the
lightning flickered feebly, and then it flashed
fiercely • while the accompanying thunder gently
murmured away in the distanoe, or crashed and
rolled with terrific violence overhead. Torrents of
rain fell at the same time.
AN instance of the love birds bear to their young
occurred during the thunderstorm last week. Mr.
harrack.aergeant at the barracks in this town,
had a fowl with a brood of 17 chickens a week old.
Early on Tuesday morning after the rain pour, Mrs.
Wilson went to see how the hen and her brood had
fared, and discovered that 12 of them had been
washed away by the flood and drowned. The other
five the poor bird had shielded from the storm by
gathering two under one wing, one under another,
and having two upon her back
THE WALKS IN BLOSISOM.—London advertise.
ments proclaim the glories of the cheanut trees in
Bushey Park now in full bloom. The sight is said
to be magnificent. We are quite sure however that
it cannot excel the grandeur of our chesnut walks
at Dorchester, whose superb avenues of ancient
trees uplifting to the pure May skies enormous
masses of the most lovely foliage of a delicate green,
unrivalled in any other forest tree, teem with
brilliant tapering florets, flame coloured, and lighting
up the verdure with all the magical effect of an
illumination. Dorchester is just now worth ooming
a day's journey to see.
CUD RCH• RATKS COMMUTATION BILL. The
minority of twenty-six who voted in favour of Mr.
Ne wd egat e's Church -rates Commutation Bill consisted
of Conservatives, the only exception being Mr.
Charles Buxton, who got into the wrong lobby by
mistake. The majority consisted chiefly of Liberal.;
most of the Conservatives who did not support the
Bill declining to vote. The following members
connected with our district voted. For—R. Brooks
(Weymouth), J. Floyer (Dorset), Lord Grey de
Wilton (Weymouth), W. H. G. Langton (West
Somerset), Sir M. Lopes (Westbury). Against—
E. Antrobus (Wilton), W. W. B. Beach (North
Hampshire), Hon, G. Denman (Tiverton), Sir J.
C. Jervoise (South Hampshire), A. W. Kinglake
(Bridgwater), W. E. Knatchbull (East Somerset),
W. Morrison (Plymouth), W. D. Seymour
(Southampton).
CAMP ORDSRS.—The standing orders of the
battalion have just been printed. From them we
extract the following rule relating to parades at the
camp. The companies will always be equalized on
parade. The "Rouse" will be sounded at 6 a.m.
The first bugle for breakfast at 8.15, and the second
at 8.30. The dreseinf bugle for the morning parade
will be sounded at 90 clock. The non-commissioned
officers' call at 9.30, when the whole of the non.
commissioned officers will fall in by companies, in
open column right in front, sergeants in the front
rank, corporals in the rear; they will be paraded,
wheeled into line, and the ranks opened by the
sergeant-major, for the adjutant's inspection, at the
conclusion of which, the "Fall in," will be sounded,
when every officer and man must be in readiness.
The companies will then fall in, and be inspected,
told off, and proved, when the sergeants' call will be
sounded, and the adjutant will form the parade for
the commanding officer. The first bugle for dinner
will be sounded at 12.45, and the second at 1 o'clock.
The dressing bugle for afternoon parade will be
sounded at 1.30. The non-commissioned officers'
call at 2 o'clock, and the
_parade will be formed at
2.30. The "first post" will be sounded at 10 p.m.,
and the last at 10.30, when the rolls of companies
will be called, and no man will leave camp after-
wards.
POST-OFFICE Nonora.—A notice has just been
issued by the Postmaster-General stating that infor-
mation had been received from the French Post-
office, that the French mail packet on the line from
Marseilles to Malta, vii Italy, has been withdrawn.
Correspondence for Malta can, therefore, no longer
be sent by the French mail packet via Marseilles;
and mails for Italy, which have hitherto been for-
warded by French packets twice a week, will in
future be sent only once, viz., by a packet leaving
Marseilles every Thursday morning at ten o'clock.
This packet will call at Leghorn. Civita Vecchia,
Naples, and Messina, and letters, de., intended to
be forwarded by it must be posted in or reach
London not later than the evening of every
Tuesday, in time for the night mail to France.
Another notice, in reference to the mails for the
lonian Islands, vii Italy, states that information has
been received from the Italian Post-office that the
mail packets on the line between Ancona and
Alexandria, which leave Ancooa on the sth, 12th,
20th, and 28th of each month, will no longer call at
Corfu on the outward and homeward voyages. In
future, therefore, correspondence for the lonian
Islands, via Italy, will be forwarded only by the
packets of the line between Ancona and Naples,
which will continue to leave the former port every
Friday night. Letters, Sm., to reach Ancona in time
for the packet on Friday must, as heretofore, be
posted in or reach London not later than Wednesday
morning, in time for the day mail to France.
DORSST AND THR FINN ARTS.—The Athenceum,
speaking of Mr. Millatia' new picture in the exhibi-
tion of the Royal Academy, "The Romans leaving
ollaitAin," (294) says:—" Mr. Millais' idea seems to
be this: The four hundred years of the Romans
poesessMia of Britain were past; they had had the
beet of the land, and were, as says Hobnailed,
"minded to go acid not return thither again." Those
who held the southern parts of the island were
iaismbled at Dorchester, having come thither by the
long Fosse Way, from many colonies, camps, and
from the high fort of Chlorms that overlooks
(I:sisPlain of Sarum, from Aquas Solis, Sherborne,
and the holds upon the shore. They came to meet
the last galleys which lay waiting in the windy coves
where Lulworth is. Many Britons followed them
on the way; wivesand mistresses these were chiefly,
who might not go, yet hated to remain. This is the
scene before us. The gigantic bastions of the ohalk
downs that the sea ceases not to wear sway, frail as
they are even in their grandeur, face the shore.
I Their crests, one behind the other, lie in long rolls
of many heights and forms, sa far as the eye can
reach; they are bare, and swept by the wind that
comes from off the water. Below on the narrow
the hurt boat lies. Two soldiers descend the
.idroad; their backs are towards us. In • notch of
land in front are two figures—a soldier and a woman
—he kneels before her, his head buried in her lap,
his arms about her body, hers are upon his shoulders.
He is a Roman ; she is a half-savage Britons., of the
ancient Celtic blood, dark, lithe, tall—a splendid
beauty of the fiercest order. She is clothed in •
mantle of wild cats' skins, a scarlet embroidered
kirtle, and her own magnificent crine, that touches
the rook she site on. Her face is set forward; the
eyes are fixed ; her red lips held together. The
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