The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-07-07 00:00:00

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The rev. gentimean, in soknowiMlginir the toe*
mid that he found the task • nether difßmilt one,
is it partly oommitted bus to mink of himself.
As regarded the bishop b. wee sere he night Maly
say this so man meld try more than be did to do his
duty, both is the church sod out of the thumb.
He as • firm and oonsimeat upholder of the truth,
sad s hard-working and merged° prelate. As re-
gerded the Mery lie hoped they did their daty ; he
bebeved they did, sod that nothing afforded them
greater then when their servioce were
appreciated by Pa wee as compoesd the Manches
to. ups,. As rsisseged biresell he noel heartily
thanked them for the very kind way they bed drank
• health. He had new beim 49 years a clergymen,
aawpesie the minimise at Mud parish, and be
11. to ash
_tad could say it
! eat is MO weber*" sere
than 5000 mu* he ails. enee•l7
(I=.l Them WON AN.Ms
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Ito 11 ow al .. ism is WI
'and .Ise Irate& as amebas. weal& a-
rena man sad was, aid ibunaleflers by las
Nei* of Muir land by4bis Madam to ark ailma.
dad bv• dad goodwill lbw akiwed to ail, would

meminee all that in Oddfdlowsliin there wee wow
thing Mere than met the eye. le 2852 b yeoredwiet
Were that areellent body, he aid dotes today(
eta Ite hoped to do so ten years belies, should lie be
hemmed by • request to do SD. Me was ex
well ggareed to roe the vary gob* Wagner it=
Wig Nal modeled trasenedteist church that day—
• might have beard a pin fdtoan4 he wipe*
that the remarks he them made ~,, it ghg.-their fau
weight with them, that they wd booms wor*.
isebearine, kind, and unenhalia Ile bed mrellt
plegenre in reposing the health ot "The Manebelar
13 sits," and would couple with the tome '
If Past Grand Arnold, of the Bcini-halinp4as authok:
P.G. A Irwin, in responding, 'sad' he biliagg g
Mr almost impossible to proPeeb in derm arme.
"MO important loam than the health of elm
Murder Unity, which he supposed Melaka the.
Bard of Directors, 111 Id the pal and Orebro& dime
eir the Milo. On their behalf and Ms owe be
Mull, thanked them. No society, be believed,
had, during the past 20 years, demote, trmit than
She Manchester Unity; and though IS SM
misrepresented, and as he oomidered ttojaild 1711 .
had gone on mid Sauteed, It teri,
Ingest number of membem of my bliall 51405557
the world. It might be as well fcr
_the_ 4084_
I smialated to consider the origin a OddieWemb*,-
! for there were many ern/aeons opinions about that;
but after a very careful investigation Mar Si.
matter, be bad ODOM to the ootielesies this whoa
it won first established it was merely • anvil*
society, and he was supported in his belief by scam
remarks wade in Dickenis Banieby Riedge, whafl
referencia was made to a society 'of tha nettast'
Now DOWD shrewd men in that pa of the 'country,'
DOW in DOD deep distress, emesived the idea of
engrafting upon this purely emmirial meaty seem
of their own plans for raising a benefit club • mg
from the commencement of the present °seta; 111
the present time, the Manchester Unity has
on increasing in number, in usefulness, and in
so that it now has it more than 348,000
and during the yaw /861 has inflamed 12,ffil. Me
'mildew& the Poole district DM of tbe InNi
important in the south of Ingltaid, tad Tls,.
as the Peet Grand of two distrait'. rejoiced to eel
his brethren in • adj using district thus meeting to.
paha.. There was another point to which he wished
▪ draw thew attention, and that was, that Odd-
Mows, as a body, were net selfish. They felt for
sad endeavoured to relieve the distresses of others.
As • proof of Lb* he might meal., that during
Ow famine in holed the Oldfellowe enhelibed
more than £2,000, and during the Crimean Yew they
added to the patriotic Fund upwards of, o,eno,
thereby showing as a body, we were lo* said
patriotic Englishmen ; and if we come down to the
present time, it would he found that the means' of
Oldfellows redoended greatly to their anat, for
they had sohneribed upwards of £5,000 in aid a Me
Ismeashin distrea, which the Board of &rulers
way wisely, as he onesidered, bad to
the me of their saunas brethren, and by it they
were enabled to keep them from becoming cut of
semplimoi. The speaker then rehired Ia tha
general benefits of the order, —as relief in
sr oxidant, and the burial great, arid then=
oat some of the peculiar advantaged cf the fader,
imtancing the ass of a man being obliged to pe
hest town to town, the inhabitants of which he
knew little of, would always find being an Odd-
fellow, those whose moiety he *odd feel at hems
in. No working man could be independent who did
net belong to a society of this kind —who had not a
hold to ga in the time of sicklier so u to keep the
men from the door. There was another and a
blighter gem as he considered, in the Manchester
Unity, and that was the establishment of • Widow
and Orphans' fund. He bad known many oases
where, on the decease of a brother, his widow
received from this fund such • sum as materially
masted her in bringing op her family. He was
not aware whether the members of the Benevolent
Lodge belonged RI it, but if they did not be treated
they would. There was one thing be was furry to
find whipi attending the A. M.C. at Leamington,
that the Poole district was not represented. He
thiamin that • matter much to no regretted, as many
gumless arose on such occasions in which they as
members of the general body were interested in.
The speaker then refired to the opposition shown
to the society by minim of whom they might
have expected better, particularly 'nudism to
that of the Earl of Abet-mane, who endea-
voured to show that the society would
not be able to meet the demands made upon
it; and he considered that the replies sent forth
by Mr. Drew,. a member a a lodge in the ease dis-
trict SD the Earl lived, entirely and satisfactorily
contradicted the assertions of their opponent They.
might remember that a short time ago Lord Bury
solicited the suffrages of the electors, but previous to
doing so, he waited upon the officer, of the society
and fully retracted, on behalf of his father, all he had
written against the society. Br. Arnold then reed
an extract from the speech of Lord Leigh at
Leamington, in which his lordship said he knew of
D 4 society which had done more good in that beauty
than the Odelfellows, especially to the poor. He
believed that the pockets of the ratepayers had bees
relieved by at least ten millions sterling, by the
formation of the Manchester Unity. The Rev. E.
Perron, himself a pest-grand of the order, also stated
at the same meeting, that it was his belief that if
the principles of the order were fully understood,
their numbers world be not hundreds of thoosands,
hut millions. He ( the speaker)trusted that many more
the clergy would join them; for of this he was sure,
that if they wished to know the feeliop of the work.
, Mg-chums, and show an interest in their welfare,
they could not do better than join with them. In eon.
chiding his very interesting and practical spelt,
Mr. Arnold referred to the very excellent sermon
preached at the Minster, and earnestly entreated all
present so to medal themselves that no reproach
could be reined &gloat them, whereby their =caked
order might suffer injury. (Loud cheers.)
W. Dnoirr, Fag., said the pleasing duty devolved
upon him to propose the prosperity of the Poole
District, and in doing ache could give his testimony
to the many and great benefits conferred upon the
town of Wimbonw, by the formation of the Loyal
Benevolent Lodge. (Chem%)
The GR•PD-MA5171 of the District returned
thanks, and said the reason why the Poole distil&
was not represented at the A. M.C. at Lea,
waribecense the majority of the members was
sending one on amount of the expense; and
he was of opinion a representative should have been
there, they were obliged to bow to the majority.
As regarded the Widow and Orphans' Fund, he was
merry to say that the Benevolent Lodge had not one
subscribing member to its fonds, but he earnestly
wished that many would join before long. In the
Peels district they bad 26 lodges, with 2,400
seembere, and they had upwards of £9.000 wealth.
He was glad to say that the district was increasing
in number, wealth, sad its diffusion of the benefits
of the order. He would now propose the "Heath
of the Officers and Brethren of the lienevoliat
Lodge, Wimboree."

To this toast the Derirry Gateru•Mterma suitably
replied. They had upwards of 150 members in the
=and their funds were going on prosperously.
the 14 years the moiety had bean formed
they had saved £lOO a year. It devolved upon him
to propose the health of a gentleman to whom they
were mach indebted, and wham peseenoe among
them that day afforded them considerable MOD-
halm. He proposed the "Heath of Mr. Druitt."
W. Dasnrr, ffacj.,in reply,maid, he hoped that the
very excellent advice given them by his esteemed
friend, tbe Rev. Mr. Good, would be carried out by
than. That there would be no bickering among
them, DO jealousies, but that all would go on num-
nineely together. He confessed that he had kepi
away from the lodge because he felt there was not
that kindly feeling which ought to exist among
them. There must of necessity among such a large
body be differences of opinion, hot each difference
should not be a pretest for personel differame. He
should be most happy to come and see them again,
as he had ever kb great interest in the axiom of the
order. (Cheers.) _ _

Mr. Drink's health, aa surgeon of the lodge, was
then proposed by Br. YIATM AN, who 'sprawl his
belief thrt that gentleman bad gives every satisfac-
tion to the members --To this toast Mr. DRUM
responded, and stated that sometimes their duty as
semen= was not always an agreeable one. His had,
ho knew, given Whoop to certain parties because he
gave it as hie opinion that a member of a lissefit
society who had been ill was fit for work, bat
they must have no skulking. They knew when
a man ass fit for work, and they should not
be doing their duty as medical OffiOIMI if they
&Slowed any man to remain on the hinds of a waft
when be wee fit to work. He told the niembew of
that society that he would wooer give up Wks
their surgeon than that that party should remain I
on the box. (Haar, bear, and Wears ) 80 iagaU'
they did him the honour of giving him Weir I
support, be should be most happy to give them his
1111174081 and advice. (Cheers.) He would now
propose the "Health of the Mame*, Cossimilliss"
He was sure their e&eto to plessed kik tookflo-
faL As the ladies wars beginning to cous into ke
ttbe was awe the yews men prima would be
snore pleased ne jingling them in " trip-
ping it on the light fantastic km." than in sift*,
to listen to hum. He was act ow of theta
fastidious people who thee& there was kno in
dancing, or in pertains of • gond slam of wine or
MC. Irian partakes of moderately.
P.O.M. OLA NM in a few mashie rework',
returned thick..
The Cusinuse them Drowsed the " "Mk of
the Visitisg Olken sad linibres." and hoped they
would relent home highly satisfied with the pro-
wain, of the day. With the reset he would
couple she sew of Mr. Sakai ofßootboroPkw
(Loki Misers.)
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mu, . oftlo ollodkil to the
interest be felt in the prosperity of Use tows M
Winsberde, said he looked twos the beselift tuft
ferred apse the seeking Mama he Odftsfirmsylv
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