The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

three or four lba. of cheers, and three ounces of tea.
He had examined the boots, silk handkerchiefs,
shirts, trousers, his best Sunday jacket, and the
other articles produced by Superintendent Under-
wood, and identified them as the property stolen
from his house. He also swore to a shirt produced
by George Northover, and the overcoat and a pair of
trousers also produced.—James Legg said he lived
at Mmickloll- About twelve o'clock at noon on
Friday week, as he was going to Dorchester, he met
the two prisoners going in the direction of Wey-
mouth. After he had been to Dorchester, he again
met them at "1110nckton Water-long." They were
then going towards Dorchester. Ho did not notice
that they had anything with them the first time he
saw them, but be noticed the *mama time he
met them the woomn had something under her arm,
and the man had a bundle at his back.—Elizabeth
Smart, residing e Maiden Newton, said: On Friday
evening the two prisoners came to her house and
aslcerl for lodgings. The woman offered the ostler
a shirt for 2a., and she saw him give her 2a. for it,
and carry it into the kitchen The other prixoner
MU not present. The shirt produced. by P.C. Hof-
loway was the mine, as she marked it at the time.
—Sarah Clark, wife of Joseph Clark, Stock
Howie, said the female prisoner came to her house,
sad after great solicitation, extending over three
quarters of an hour, she purchased a pair of trousers
that had been sworn to by the prosecutor. The
woman maid she had sold her own clothes, and was
now selling her husteuid's.—Eliza Smith, of Mel.
bury Osmond, said the female prisoner also came to
her house, professing to be in great distress, and she
bought the silk handkerchief- produced of her fee
2i. She also bought the overcoat of her for 20e.
Superintendent Underwood and P.C.'. Florence and
Maidanent deposed to receiving the property from
the witnesses, and finding the rest on the prisoners.
The man and woman wished to plead guilty under
the Criminal Justices Act, but the plea for the
offence for which they Wal:0 charged could not be
taken. They were aorortlingly committed for trial.

WHITCHURCH. TIDIPIRANCK tiocirrir.
On Monday, October 28, a public tea was provided
by the committee of the above society in the
National School-room, when nearly 100 regaled
themselves, to their heart's content, with the really
"good cheer" movided. After the tea a public
meeting was held, on which occasion the school-
room was densley crowded, and many who could
not gain admittance stood around the door. J. C.
Manuel, Feq., presided, and observed that, although
not a total abstainer, he was willing to listen to the
arguments for any !measure calculated to promote
the happiness and prosperity of that large class—the
producers of the wealth of this country. For some
time he had been living in that part of Fiance where
the vine grows in rich abundance, and where a
person may get drunk for two sous, or • penny in
our money, yet he had not seen a quarter of the
drunkenness there as be had in Ragland and
wherever he went—whether to France, Italy, or
Germany—the stain and stigma of his beloved
country was drunkenness, and he could not but say
that all honour was due to thou persons who were
coming forward, denying themselves, No that they
may erase that stain and stigma. That would be a
great thing, but he believed that a greater thing
than that was the aim and object of the promoters
of the temperance cause ; it was that man may show
forth the glories and dieities of his nature, which
the Giver of all good things kali endowed him with;
concluding with a brief outline of the act paused last
elusion, establishing Post-office savings banks through.
out the country, and the benefits acruing from the
workin4 chums availing themselves of that oppor-
tunity ; and stated that if there were two that would
coins forward and say to him that thew felt that
they were injuring their sonic an well as their bodies
by the constant use of alcoholic drinks, and that
they had not the courage to withstand the tempta-
tion, he would take the pledge with them. He
then called on Mr. C. Young, of Piddletown, who,
in addressing the meeting, said he supposed that
there WU no one present but what would agree with
Into that drunkenness was a great evil, but it
might be said that it arises, not from the proper use,
but the abuse. He would answer the use involves
the abuse, and whilst the excitability of the human
system continues what God has made it, the pro-
fessedly moderate use of intoxicating liquor is
absolutely certain to produce those effects denomin-
ated excess. When you recollect that we have no
oocasion to complain of excess from the use of tea,
coffee, milk, or water, you will clearly perceive Rut
the blame is often cut upon the drinker, which
belongs to the deceitful properties of the liquor;
the truth is, that Alcohol, in certain combinations,
has its use in chemical, mechanical, and medical
operations,. tut it would be difficult to find that it
had any use whatever in its combination with
*domed hop water, excepting that of filling the
asylums, the workhouses, and the prisons, and
diffusing misery. immorality, and crime throughout
the land. As the working men held up their ale,
he would, in order to ascertain whether ale is really
a nutritious beverage, enquire as to the articles of
which it is made. Unadulterated ale is made of
malt and hops; in the hop there is nothing
nutritious. The only article then used in the com-
position of ale, which contains anything nutritious,
is the malt. Malt is vegetated barley, and
here it is evident that the nutriment in
ale must be just in proportion to the
quantity of soluble barley which it contains when we
drink it. Ile then went on to describe the different
processes of malting, brewing, and fermenting, con-
cluding his address by quoting several passages from
Seeipture, to show the duty of Christhins in the
temperance cause. Mr. T. Turner, agent for the
West of England Temperance Association, although
he was evidently labouring under indisposition, gave
a very instructive address", scrutinising the conduct '
of some of the medical profession for the reckless
manner in which they order intoxicating liquors,
givine the reasons why some of them order alcoholic
beverages. He treated of liquor" possessing alcohol,
which is identical to all in its effects on the human
system. He scrutinized the purposes for which some
of them are 'opposed to be beneficially employed,
namely—as medicine, as food, as assistants to diges-
tion, and as stimulants. At the close of the lecture,
votes of thanks were proposed and carried unani-
mously to the worthy chairman and lecturer, which
was followed by eleven additions to the pledge books,
beside, many blank forms distributed to applicants.
During the evening the Temperance Band played
several selections of mimic, concluding with the
national anthem.