The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

Somtratobire.

Yriovn..—We have been informed that the Rev.
Thomas Brotton, son-in-law of Mr. West, the
Governor of Shepton Mallet gaol, is a candidate for
the vacant Chaplaincy of Taunton.
Fran Wolin. Gyngell gave a display of
fire-works on Thursday evening, in the borough, fol-
lowed by an amusing entertainment at the Townhall.
Lkortrax. The Rev. F. FL Young, Unitarian
minister of this town, gave a lecture on Monday
evening week, at the Townhall, on "Talk about
the Tongue, or the Use and Abuse of the Faculty of
Speech.' The lecture, which was given at the Lite-
rary Institution some time ago, was repeated at the
request of some of Mr. Young's friends. It pos-
sesses considerable merit, both as to its matter and
style of composition, containing several striking por-
traitures of Character, and embodying a fund of most
excellent advice, in reference to the rel3llll4ice of the
"°'Y member," which formed the subject of it
We observe. that Mr. Young has reveal delivered
the lecture at leakeerd, in Carnitial, and quote the
followieft notice ire= the Contie4
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last, the 3rd instant, the Rev. F. R. Young, of
Yeovil, gave a lecture, to which he had affixed the
quaint title of ' Talk about Talk.' He described,
with great effect, the various classes of persons who
abuse the noble power of speech :—the inveterate
talker, the exaggerating talker, the forth-right
talker, the flatterer, the slanderer, the gossip, the
blab, the inuendoer, the slang talker, the passionate
talker, itc., dm., giving illustrations, partly from his
own experience, of the evils which had accrued to
innocent persons from a free use of the tongue, on
the pait of their gossiping or slanderous neighbours.
We have no doubt tliat the audience could have
added largely to the stock of the lecturer's Expe-
rience' if each had told his own. A discussion en-
sued as to the best remedy for these ' diseases of the
tongue,' some recommending that nothing should be
done, others were for tracing the evil report to its
source, and exposing the slanderer, whilst the lec-
turer feared that nothing but a radical change of
heart' would effect a cure. We think the publication
of such a lecture might do much good, by presenting
a sort of • mental mirror,' in which many notorious
offenders would see a vivid reflection of themselves.
The sight might do them good."
Itraimrrza. The Rev. A. H. P. Trewman,
M.A., late vicar of North Petherton, has been pre-
sented to the vicarage of Ilminster, by Mrs. Scott
Gould, of Moredon House, North Curry, vacant by
the death of the Rev. J. H. Mules, value £6OO per
annum and residence. When it became known in
North Petherton that the rev, gentleman had been
presented to the above living, his old friends and
parishioners testified their joy by having the church
bells rung, and drinking his health and long life to
enjoy his new sphere of duty.
HUNT DINNYR. --The Bruton Hunt Dinner took
place at the Blue Ball Hotel on Wednesday week,
when about 60 of the admirers of the "noble science"
met to regal themselves upon the substantial viands
prepared for them by the worthy hostess, Mrs.
Morgan. The chair was occupied by Captain War-
riner. He was faced by Daniel Ward, Esq., and
amongst the company present we noticed—Major
Stanley, Rev. John Brown; J. R. White, Lowrance
White, Gatehouse, H. Dyne, S. E. Mullins, J. P.
Fitzgerald, J. B. Mullins, G. Chitty, and R. Free-
stone, &qrs., and many others. When the cloth
was removed, the chairman gave the usual toasts of
the Queen and Royal family, the Army and Navy,
Ac. In proposing the health of Major Stanley, the
chairman regretted that the dinner should have been
fixed for the same day as Mr. Farquharson's, and
wished it to be generally understood that there WM
no desire on the part of the members of the B. V. H.
to manifest any spirit of opposition, but that on the
other hand they could not but admire the manner in
which Mr. Farquharson had hunted the country for
fifty years.