The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

TEI 80VCILLIOX CHAPTIS of Übe Amiga, Order of
the Red Creme for the Proviso:4e of Dorset met et the
atilt. on Monday, to .leot a WS. Soverrign
for the mumps year. T. choice of the brothmhood
fell upoo !Sir Knight liontogue Montage., al, Lyme
Retie.

GATT. GRIDLEY, 11. P., presented a petition in the
Roues of Commons, n Wednesday, from nine
ministers and twenty-6re church °Miters coun.oted
with seven Dissenting chapels in the boroughs of
Weymouth and Ideloombe Regis in favour of
'sighing inarriage with a deceased wife's sister.

BRITISH AND FOIZION FRIZDYNN's AID SOCIETY.
—On Wedn.sday evening • meeting in aid of the
above-named society was held at the Royal Hot.l,
when the Rev. Talbot Grieves took the chair. The
proceedings having been opened with prayer, the
chairman briefly stated the objects of the society,
end called on Dr. Tomlin', who attended as the
deputation. The societi , it appeared, was established
in 1863 for the relief of lb. were population who
are expeed to much poverty, privation, and diffi-
culty in their transition from slavery to freedom.
Tile society had raised about £BO.OOO in this osontry.
and by the last report something like 200,000
coloured men end women had been taught to reed
and write-50,000 of whom had been educated with
the money sent from this country. The apeaker
denied that the position of the negro nee...aril, was
that of servitude. There were sot • few among the
black race who possessed ability, energy, and all the
finer feelings of 'humanity. When in the Southern
States of America be saw one black who was one of
the most socomplished men he had ever miesi, being
a mathematical scholar of the greatest ability. The
nerves had sympathies of the deepest character, and
a vast amount of poetry in their nature, in proof ot
which he read several_piesse of poetry wowed by
impose The Rev. Mr. Jams, a fres metro from
Canada, neat addressed the meeting. Tbe prejudice
sealant the negro, Iva mid, was fast dying out in the
North, and the black man was getting a mood social
position, several of them pmeeming ormaiderahle
property. The free impose of the North had annual
congresses, 6111 preachers, 200,000 members of their
onogregations, and 1.000 oharobes and chapels, and
moo. the termination of the war had mot much
money for the benefit of their poorer brethren in the
Southern States. In Canada, the Dego', settlers were
in • peoeperous state, tillod the soil, and soot their
prod see to the Rtiglish and United States market*.
Tbe Rev. R. 8. Ashmo proposed a vo.• of thanks to
the Clotirroan for presiding on that occasion, which,
being seconded, was acknowledged by Mr. Grimes*,
and the prooeedinwi terminated.
PORTLAND.

Acmnswaa. —Oa Wednesday • man named Kates
met with a serious &widest in the quarries. The
'• buffer" of a stone waggon came so suddenly apes
him that hia hand was crushed against • large stone
upon which it rested. He was immedistely ono.
vs y ed to the Dorset County Hospital—On Wedneedse
the marriage of Mr. William John Pomo. nod Mies
Janet Hine was oelebrated, and, as a matter of
course, the Bring of gene, he., wee the sequence.
A cousin of the bridegroom, Mr. Edward John
Pearoe, had bravely discharged his piece some two
or three times; but on loading again (the socket
being hot), the powder mrph.ded, and the charge
seemed to have almost shattered the hand of t.O
unfortunate man, and it may be • long time ere be
can again resume the use of the suffering, aweigh
all-important limb.

Tot IIICH•1111C/I IneTITUTIOIL —The NUMMI meeting
of this society tiok place on Wedne.l.l eerneg. at the
Kea 'leg rooie,F.reone..wrll. when the report and the
vowionts eers submitted to the mee• 4.g and appeased
a. The chair was taken by Mr. S. G. Brown, ooe of
'be vice preeidenta. The following is an abstruse of the
report : —The receipt, for the p.st year, including the
lisos brought forward from previous en:omit,
amounted to CP4 10. 104., and t e canonises to
176 13.. 2.1. ; leaving • balance to be parried forward of
£7 17s. 84. The n.l vonnal receipts for the pest tier
piers hese been £44 12.. ; 1993., 84. ; £7O 4. 61.
and £739.. 74. making • iota of £286 10.151. and the
wet exnesiww £55; 1.717.. 14.; £715 2 . 6d. ; £7613.. Si
—total, £278 13. 90.; leaving us before stated, •sorplos
of £7 17. 84. Tbe number of members now registered
on the books 1. 81. which is a slight diminution on the
previous year. The books taken out were 1,239, as
against 1,019 last year. The remaining portion of the
report refers to the great momsn of the penny readings,
and the festival soiree : sad due acknovile 'gement is
"nide to C.pt. Manning, W. Filet Beg .1. Coode, Fe, .
1."5... wtesr.re. semi .4 hors, fee th i • c .n•i••to-4
support 2. thi lanthation. The chairmen, in moving
in. odoptioa of 1.1.111 report and aoconote, remarked that
tbe meeting had been d-laved beyond the usual time,
owing to the penny readings having extended over •
looser period than bed been contemplated. After .11.4-
lag to the prospe.ous state of the society, be referred. in
, complimentary terms, to the wiling& servicea rendered
by the ladies and gentlernan who had so kindly amisted
at the penny resdny ; and, .100, to the ladirs who bed
provided tea on the occasions of the festival soiree.
Votta of thanks were than moved to all there who had
cootnbuted to the suscose of the Institution. The
gentle:Deo sleeted to 611 the escanciee on the committee
were Berm Greenwood, Patten. sod Hooter. A eotti
of thanks to the chairman tenninakd the proosedinp.