The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

Nampshtre.

SOUTIIANITTOX. —Election of Surgeon to the NOT
!found. —Applications were received from five candi•
dates for the vacant office, but only three were pro-
posed and seconded. On a division there were 12
votes fur Mr. Bencraft, and 11 for Dr. Palk, the
Mayor's son. Dr. Aldridge's name having been
withdrawn, Mr. Bencraft was accepted.

The annual inspection of the Portsmouth division
of Royal Marines took place at Forton on Wednes-
day, by Major-General Wesley, the deputy-adjutant-
general of the corps. The inspection commenced at
half-past 10 a.m., and concluded at 3 p.m. A more
minute inspection of the men, their kits, accounts,
barrack-quarters, and accommodation was probably
never known by the Portsmouth division. No one
escaped, from the officer down to the smallest bugler,
who was made to sound a call. After the men had been
inspected the non-commissioned officers fell in, with
company sergeants on the right, when the Major-
General addressed them in encouraging terms, and
complimented them upon the general appearance of
the men. vo ho are mostly recruits or Militia volun-
teers, no less than 230 men having been received at
this division from various sources within the last
fortnight. The barrack-rooms were afterwards
visited, and the men, who were at dinner, were
asked the usual questions as to their food, and gave
perfectly astisfactory answers. The rooms, bedding,
were remarkably clean, although only a day.
notice had been gird) of the inspection. The Major.
General expressed himself highly pleased with his
first day's inspection, which was closed by his visit-
ing the schools, offices, &c. Thursday the men were
formed for battalion drill, and the artillery com-
panies at Gosport inspected. The men were
inspected at ship gun drill in the Porton battery,
and at rifle shooting on Brown-Down. A bom-
bardier, who had only come out of Hadar Hospital
the day previous, fell from one of the firststory
windows while the men were marching round during
the inspection, and was so much injured that he was
not expected to preach the hospital alive.

Loss OF THE E•sTICRX MoN•RcH.—The wives
and children of the sick and wounded troops belong-
ing to the Eastern Monarch have been pro-
vided with an abundant supply of neceseary clothing
and every other comfort, since their arrival at Chat-
ham, by the ladies of the local committee of the
Central Association for the relief of the Wives and
Families of Soldiers and Sailors, who are most
assiduous in their attention to the sufferers, most of
whom have lost every article they possessed by the
burning of the vessel. A. sum of money has been
placed in the hands of Capt. J. Pope, of the Invalid
Depat at Chatham, who has undertaken to distribute
it among the sufferers, in order to alleviate their
more immediate wants. The whole of the troops
who came home from India in the Eastern Monarch
have been supplied with • free kit by order of the
Government, and it is understood that the personal
losses of the men by the burning of the ship will
also be mule good to them.
WINCHUTER. Hampshire Friendly Seeley.
The general annual meeting of the members of this
society was held on Thursday, at the Grand Jury
Chamber, Winchester, the Rev. H. Salmon in the
chair, si hen the statement of the income and expen-
diture for the year ending 30th April last was pro-
duced and approved. The officers of the society for
the ensuing year were appointed, and a draft of the
annual report produced, which was approved and
recommended to be printed for gratuitous distribu-
tion among the members. The total number of
benefit members was stated to be 1,752, besides 210
honorary members, and the progress of the society
during the past year was reported to have been Wis.
factory in every respect.