The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

Eailtshirr.

SA I.IMBURY. —ln this city tiencral Buckley is con-
sidered safe; but there is likely to be a very close
run between Mr. Marsh and Mr. Chapman, who
&Mares himself a supporter of Lord Derby's or any
other Doveniment that will uphold the constitu-
tional liberties of the country. lie is opposed to
the ballot, and on the subject of church-rates he
says he should Imre voted for Mr. Walprile's Bill,
an being the fairest way of settling the question.
ii.ps (Sorrii). —There will be no opposition to
the return of Loral H. Thynue and Mr. S. Herbert.

W (LTA HORTIC LTC II AI. SOUI ETY. The first
exhibition of the IlesUun will take place at the (AMP
Cil MOW, Salisbury, on Tuoubty, (i,o•day.) We
understand that it is likely to prove a moot attme•
tire ime.

W Poesy Bank. —The penny hank,
though not yet so extensively known as is desirable,
in order that it might preduce all the benefit con-
templated. has nevertheless yielded fruits which are
highly satisfactory, considering that at him beets open
only from the 27th of last December. Its friends will be
glad to learn that up to the cud of March. Its 39, there
had been 1253 deposits made by 2711 del ositors,
amounting to the aggregate sew ..f437 Itis. lid..
Toes: receipts, taken during 21 eve gs (14 Mon
days and 7 Saturdays) show an average for each even'
tug of 2:2 15s. 21d., and 59i as the average number
of deposits on each occasion. The largest 4111.11111 i
deposited at any one time was £1 58. 11(1. (on the
21st of March), being the total of lOU deposits. The
SUMS entered have ranged (rein Id. to 35., but the
average appears to have been about 11 Id. each. The
withdrawals have been very slight, so that the balance
in favour of depositors at the end of the first quarter
was no less than £36 Os. 6.1. These facts prove over
again, what has been already manifested in other
places, that where encouragement is held out by those
possessing mesas and influence in offering such a pro-
vident resource, there will surely follow souse whole-
some and praiseworthy use of it, as being an easy
method for all classes. but particularly the young,
and the industrious pow, to lay up in store, out of
their present earnings, or savings, or chance gratui-
ties, some certain provision for future wants.
Lieutenaut Beuett, 43rd Light Infantry, having
succeeded to a property of .0,000 a year, is about to
retire from the service. Mr. &nett is a younger sou
of the Rev. A. Pane, vicar of Warminster, and a
grandson of Mr. Benett, of Pythouse, for many years
31. P. for North
PEWMEV. Dinner to Col. Wrong/don. The
Board of Guanlians of the Pewsey Union, as •
mark of respect and esteem, invited their chairman,
Col. Wroughton, of Stowell bulge, who has been
Chairman of the Board ever since the foundation 4.f
the Union, to a dinner at the Pluenix Inn. Acconl-
ingly at six o'clock on Wednesday evening, sheet 341
gentlemen sat down to a first-rate dinner, provided
by Mr. Jarvis. Nearly all the guardians, several
clergymen, the inediad officers, and many of the
most respectable inhabitants of the Union were pre.
sent. The Rev. IL (:ale was the Chairman of the
evening. The proceedings were of the most her-
monious character.

Ilitrmaos.— Accidental Dmih. —An inquest
was held on Thursday week, at the Lion and Fiddle
Inn, before G. Sylvester. Esq., on the body of Charles
Harrold, aged 36 yotra. Deceased was returning
from Hilperton Marsh with a load of coals, and
stopped at the Lion and Fiddle a short time, and
when passing the turnpike the cart came in violent
contact with the gate, by which he was knocked down
by the horse, dislocating his neck, and causing death
in a short time. Verilict—Amidental death.

WM:DORM:H. R,moral of a Parids
On Tuesday. the Archaism:on of Bristol held a court
at this place, to inquire into a charge against Wm.
Johnson, 'swish clerk of that parish, for having
joined in ringing the bells, and invited others to
ring, knowing that such ringing had been forbidden
by the vicar of the parish, and bein; privy to the brestk•
ing down of the belfry door by a farmer named
Wirdinan, for the purpose of ringing the bells. The
Archdeacon declared the charge proved, and removed
the said clerk from his Ake, in virtue of the power
vested in him by the 7th and Bth Vie., c. 59.