The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-09-27 00:00:00

I remain, gentlemen,
Year meet obedient eervant.
.1011. ti F. tiODGEd,Jor.
blessrA. F.,Sridzr, Mason, and Co.,
and ocher recil:mitionists.

DORCHESTER SCR° "H., OF ART.

The supporters and friends of this excellent inetita-
which is ocie of the distinctive advantages of our
county *ma, met in ungt...mo numbers at the rows
slut on ruseday events( last, on the ~won or the
*nasal meeting and distriestion of the prises obtained
at the Government examination and the local comps.
titioa. The walla were adorned with the stadents'
work+, executed dariny the year, and it must have
been. triumph for the valuable hen. secretary, the Rev.
B. L. Watson, to whose eon ante» exertions the moues
of the echoes( is in great degree attributable, that three
hulas showed the scholars Ind made immense progress.
all of the works bore evideue of careful study, baud
on just principles, and sway of them were remarkably
beautiful, and beyond the salmon as works of art.
The rows of landscapes behind the chair showed that
the mahout of water colour for which England eau Mains
high rank is very well represented in Dorchester, sad
we look forward to some perdu arising that shall rudest
inereased honour on his or her native town. The studies
In blank and white einEenged alai:Mica for their
beauty of outline and form, sod In many of them the
appearance of solidity was so wont:awfully reprodused
that it reqaired tho e-ideace of tooth to prove that
, they were drawn, not carved. dia lady enthotia.thalli
remarked to Mr. Watson, it wan • sheering eight, anct
be was ot..patu! steel on all hands. The s :arrphshed
, master, Mr. Meru CuQbell, rnt ir.Oeed have thrown
his heart into patiently sad dimly gui ling his popes
'nob ifs paths cf t .3 IL otoor. ling them thoroughly
' In prism :plea, x..r suffering them fora moment to stray
Into the false path of any angumed royal row:.
Oa the platform wars :—J. Flom, Esq., 11. P.,
; (theirman) J. P. Sodom, Esq., (Mayor), Rev. B. L.
; Watson, bon. sec.) E. Burgett, Esq , (troseared,
H. Loth, Req., Rev. /12Lald Smith, Rev. Et. Everett,
Rey. T. R. w, a among the sadionee—Mrs. sad
the Miss.. /bur, Mr. T., lire, had the Mimes Coombs,
Mrs. Hodges, Mao Mine Hodges, Yr. J. F, Hodges,
J. F. Hodges, jun. end Yatt Hodges, Dr. Mrs. and the
Misses Cowdall. Mr.. Mathew, less Bowls. Mrs. and
Was S *hey, Dr. and Mrs. Pant:ia, Ott. T. Lock, Mn.
J. Galpio, Mise Batley, Mr, Sidney Lost, Milne Look,
was Goody', Ur.? T. A. Falkner, Miss Scott, Mrs.
Reginald Smith, thi. Mins..l Smith, Mr. Z Pearce,
Mr. W. C. and Wen Good, Mrs. and Miss Lust, he.
Mr. roper said tl.-9 stated the 'shoot, though it had
• male no greet progress is fir as akimbo» are unearned,
was each lig eloaki be regarded with satisfaction. The
goat principle Wag at the foundation of act is
truth bat toot troth Mons, nor all truth, for a sop,
may be alma* an easel seproduction of the o
yet not • work of art; tbe artist must exorcisms the
faulty of solution. The landempere of Rabeas, Claude,
and Tonne, ozonised faseination even over unlearned
• Wade bowies those great masters exercised that faculty.
He might be told that this would ooutrovert the
prineiple be lakl down—of 'nab, but does not Nature
hermit @genies that power in the lights and shadows
thrown over theandscape by the riming cloud or the
, gathering storm! She brings into prominence many
portion, perhaps the most beautiful, and withdraws
, other parts frocu the eye. The great muter@ of
portraiture also, thus loan the particular, loesl,
weaker, inferior truth to the back or the more shadowed
part of the piasters, and the least desirable clause-
teristiee of their subjects are pessed by. This faulty of
selection may be acquired by labour and eareful observe.
don of Nature, too often pseud with eyes blind to her
belittles. This was the..., in old thnes, for In the
great writers of antiquity hoe little do we Bed to lead
as to believe that a general pereeption of the beauties
of inanimate nature preniled among the &insists* al-
though they had their 1,461 e of Tempe, and in Homer
there are many passages loading us to believe he bad
that intelligent perception of Nate,.'. beauties: The
faculty is to be obtained also by an intelligent appre-
dation of the works of the peat manors. In Bic
Joshua Reynolds's time no whit was looked upon as
Sited for the execution of greet wake until he made
the Grand Tour, and had sun Ilse great works in the
Vanua. But London is now accessible to almost the
r. and in our gallery at Kensina we have works
atich Rome and Venice un Warily show any
superior—the "Raising of Luang," or the "Funilylof
Darius." Before sitting down be alluded to the one great
subject which loin all our minds—the mighty struggle,
All our hopes and desires, all our earnest aspirations
and prayers are that this straggle esav soon be ended.
—(hear, beer), We have supped fall of horrors. and
we sympathise deeply with suffering huinglin—g-
(appLiame). But there is another noun for
the struggle to sues. Perim is, to the outinsat north
of tin Alps, the home of the ado, end we look with
11111M1 at the prospeat which may Involve its magnifi-
cent works In rain. Sue a result would be
• almost • death-Mow to aria in Europe, and
the ices would be deplored by the whole civilised world.
Is dahlias to our high feelings of sympathy for our
fellow men, then is an additional reasoa tor out prayers
to be anointed to ths Throne of Grace that the Hand
of ithaighty Power may interpose and cheek the lens.
passions of the huts gathered in warlike attitude splint
each ottuar—(applases)—aad that oar @shoals may again
armpit* with the Presets people in the hosearslble
emithAlos of produeing gash works of art as thews In
which so south» in Strops sad no time, with onnol7
any usepthas, has ever surpassed them—(applasse).
The Rev. B. L. Waimea read the report.
The Chairmaa moved the adoption of the i=
which wag seconded by the Rev. lEL Everett asd
to.
Dr. oowdell moved the re-appointment of the corn.
milted and office» imbetituting the numb, the Rel.
IL Everett for that of M. Donnish, Req.
ileseaded by Mr. Wolter Leek god serried.
The Rev. Rev. Reginald Smith meowed • vote of
thanks to the Chairman, whisk wee seseaded by the
Mayor.
The Chairman moved a vet, of 'hash to the we-
WY, the Roy. B. I. Watmos, the trouaret, Kr. L
Barnett, and

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