The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1866.

entii3ed theoe three to 139, to 111, and 306 members
for the manufacturing, urban, and airiicoltural
districts resptctively. Mr. OA asserts that these
startling facts Cr. carefully concocted by the dom.
°cretin leaders, and not sufficiently appreciated by
the advueatmo of Constitutioual Iterfrtu.

Tllll ANNU•Le sent us now•ii-days may appear of
no great account compared with those of wetly
ineenificeeee long since estinet that need to via .ith
one another as Sourehirs, Books .1 Iteetoey. and s.•
forth,year by 3 ear. Nevertheleas, we c.oill.i better spare
these expensive toys than the little rem•olibrancers
of purely business details •nil egures s hieh silently
greet us at the present season, with the injunction
to think no morn upon the past but to be up and
doing for the future. There is our little friend The
Sarum A haanack and Dia-emus Kaiendar published
by Messrs Blown and Co., of Salisbury; everybody
knows it to be indiariensable within this wide and
important diocese. How else are we to make sure
of the very red-letter (ism here calculated and
maiked with extraordinary precision from Neale's
(poor Dr. Neale'.)) " Liturgiology ;" how else to
know the names—and, we believe, increasing numbers
of churches throughout the dime's—at which the
glorious Christian practice of daily service is still
observed "though some have fallen away ;" now
else to review the progress during the year in the
great work of restoring the cathedral church ; bow
to follow the diocesan authorities in their educational
capacity attlie Bishop's meeting of Archdeacon's Rural
Dams, and school inspector.; bow acquaint ourselves
with the pastoral letters of the Bishop; with the
admissions to holy orders, coefirmations, admissions
benelioee and licenses to curacies ; with the
church works completed and the church works in
progress; with all the various diocesan schemes,
associatiook institutions, whether of charity, utility,
or religian Were it only for its clergy and dmott•
lists this little annual must in its sphere be
held invaluable • and still it is amongst the
cheapest and twe'it got up that come to our hand.
Another little friend which for twenty-five years of
it. thirty-six we verily believe we have never some-
where or somehow failed to number, is Ree'a Ins.
proved Diary and A/744R irk printed at Llandovery
but now so well known that it is published in Lon.
don. With its neat little copious blank paper leaves,
smell and 'other am •unts, surely it is worth sixpence
if anything to,. Pieinchsen and Mnsysay's Royal
Amanda and nautical and astronomical ephemeris,
is however the most remarkable of all them public-
&Lions, being published cheaply (eightpence) by
authority, in order that no British craft may put to
see without it. We do not believe that one ship ever
does. But to thole on land it is equally valimide,
as embracing almost all public official lists, from
the Royal Family. the peerage, the parliament, the
Court and the Government, to an actual alpha.
betical navy and army list, banking and commercial
directory, including • very crowded list of fairs.
Mr. merles Penile; of Dorchester, is agent for the
Royal insurance (Jompatiy. and be Dever fails to
send us, in the shape of their almanack, one of the
prettiest pieces of colour printing we ever chance to
sea When the reader haa satiated himself with the
ingenious diagrams that represent the advantages of
life Seellellloo in general, and assurance in the Royal
in particular, he will even fled matter to carry off
and carry on his entertainment in tbe form of •
resume composed of short spicy extracts regarding
the lee continental war; and some obituary tribute*
to Lord Palmerston, King Leopold, General Soon
( he American), the Ex-qnsen of the French, and
Father Prout. Messrs. Abbott, Barton, and Co., of
the British, Foreign, and Colonial Advertising and
Publishing (Moss, Angel-court, have also issued •
bandeau:is sheet almenack, which marks very dis-
tinctly the law terms, and appends ample tables of
stamp and SUOCeeleoll duties and distribution of
estates.