The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-16 00:00:00

DORCIIISTIR.

Till 1111 U POLICT Ot THE GOVIIISMENT.—Th•
("Mining voted in the minority of 904 for the
adjournment 4 the &Nun on Mr. Holmes' motion:
••••ii,411. C. ADAPT% H. R. Farquharson, Lord
Folkestone, Bit J. 11. Kenneway, E. If. I,lewellyn,
W. If, Lo n& R. H. Paget, end I:. J. 6).4)11,1. The
following ware in the list .4 361 uirml.ers wh, roted
with tho.s(lnrerniumit : —A. 11. D. Acland, C. T. 1).
. . .

sir T. I). Acland, Baker, lion. B. Coleridge,
H. Comham, L If. Courtney, Vi.coont Elirington,
S. Fletcher, I Fry, T. Fry. 1. P. Fuller Hoc. P.
C. Glyn, C. S. liayne, 11.110141005*, lewd Kilcveirsie,
Lord Gymington, L. 51'1 stir M. It Story
Maakelyne, J. W. Mellor, Mildeney, O.
Pitt-
L.wia, 11. I'. Millie. /fon. K. It. Portman paired.
Lowi Iin:WARD lavoicgrion's new title will be Baron
Stelbridge. He takes this title from the name of his
met near Sherburne.
Ix the House of Commons on Tuesday a petition
warn presented by Mr. H. P. Sturgis, fruits theMay.w,
Aldermen, and Burps.. of Dorchester, praying that
nnemployed workmen should be immediately encor4
in the weitartiedim of refuge harbours.
A xdossoca .4 Lord Almiton writes to Troth
"There are good landlords and bait landlord*. fowl
Alingtos is rise of the former. Ile hie a good cottage,
with • garden. , the •grieultural labourers for Is. per
week ; and be rants a held at 043 pat annum near
Dorchester, and lets it in allotments which bring hi ii
Is 1:40 pet annum, thereby bring £45,
Dues or hit Ex•M.P. —The death is snnuunced,
at the age at 64, of Colonel Napier Charlie Stud,
which took plage on Setarday.tternoon at the
barrack., Wincheeter. The dice , who was the
brother of Lord Alington, and who reprimelted Ilvr•
chtster for smog years to the House .4 Commons, hat
been in ill-health fie about ,ht or Ma. days snder•
ing from • Revere cold, which brought or cosireetins
of the lungs, fro ii the effect. ..I which he snosuwitted.
• Ms Wiatatax Seipsiceoim.--A very
interesting and instructive lecture wio, deliernest at
tie, Wesleyan Sehoolri.•nt on IVislnewley evening. by
Mr. Fielding, of Willman', Suldeet : "Peter
Cartwright. the heck...oil. Nem-her ' he Rev R.
I idiot, Weeley an utiniaterawr.elid, and very briefly
introduced the loot liver The lettere was uf a newt
interesting character. Tbe life .4 l'eter Carl.. right
from early childhood ; hie parentage ; early pursuit.;
his conversion and litany wonderful reperiunces
in his prearliow tour were alludel ;
his aritual auceemei attending his unwary ;
and the many difficulties and herrn oppreitions he
had to encounter were pleaeingly shown.- Ile. brilliant
and presperoue eerier and triumphant end all Potily•
Mg to the snide aelfsainfire, ability of character,
and eoseiteration of life erroMee to the cause 01 Ili.
Muller were vividly portrayecl. The sec.ret of 111.
success warn prayer. TWi lecture was listened to with
marked attention. And the attendee°, was reinarkaley
good. • vote of thank., was accorded the lecturer by
the Kee. W. Altar. which was mciaded by me. G.
Crocker, Jun., to which Mr. Yielding reeponded. A
collection in aid of the School Renovation Fund wee
made, which realised El 5.1.
RI% invilaw Tfl Alglitsl.4.—A Icililic tneetingi was
110,1 at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening f,,c the
purls.* of hearing an addrees by the 8.,. K. .t.
rector of Wont Parley, on " Kindness to
Manuals in relation to Vivisection." Coneidering the
bitterly cold weather, there was • fair audience. The
Mayor (.slderman Orevry) proofed, and on the
platform were the Rev. T. IV. Knipe, Res. T. Notre,
mut the Rev. J. W. Werninck.—ln opening the meet•
ing, the Mayor ...premed the plesaure lie felt at pre•
aiding. The eubject was one in whirli they were, or.
at all events, eleeild be, all interowed— the pre rent ion
of cruelty to animal.. Alimet every day they wa-
n...writhe undue punishmentof animaleeither
or unknowingly ; and it was their duty toil° all they
could VI protect theme dumb beast'. With regal,' to
whether it was justifiable to experiment on
Animate, it had been tweeted that vivieection was a
great help to science; and lately they hail loom in the
papers that • great Many cures of hyiln,phobia
been performed in France by M. Pasteur. It wa. a
rpeviion how far it wax ju.titiable i. esperiment in
the cause of science; but he thought, comidering it
was the means if torture 4, many poor animal., it
could not be upheld. (Rear, hear.) —Th.. Rev. T.
W. Knipe then midremed the meeting. Ile elludeol
particularly to M. P.t.eiir'. now lemon. eviwrimente.
A great many people had gone loon woes the
Atlantic, and from many State. in Europe, to Is.
inoculausl against hydniphobiaty thi. greet chymist
with a view of preventing ill effects from the bite of it
toad dog, and there hail I.m.n ..nly one in-tan'e of a
fatal remilkand that was the CA.P.I a doh! who was
brought to Pwiteur after many ahee
the air...oho! developeil to a great eat.... Itut in
the evidence that had onne before him, he roold not
we that NI. Pasteur hail eidablielied his isont. Ile
hail not seen a single came in which there was any
aatisfactory e•elenco that the persona operated lope.
were actually Affected with the dieease, mei 'until
lii,. was proved he could not lint regard the necessity
that, mot only one eminent Frembellyntist and iloctir,
tut ilictaire generally, would Is. melee in order to
apple this *flows' discovery ol keeping 'atm+ of dead
rabbits &Mule' with this most horrible complaint v.
that their spinal marrow may he iteeil to inoculate
perein. who had been bitten liy semi dotes, as • need
1.. rrible hies. It. would not gl, into the question
thu if whedwr, if Pasteur had clearly ;coved his
point, it wiwild 14 w.idil merely ary
ono word 101 l the general .pie.tion kindn.... to
animals, sad on tine he mid lie held views who. li, lie
knew, were lipposeil t.O °pee i 4 English people
generally. Ile had a strong uoniiation that we had
nii right to inflict aufferiug iir de3th upon animals for
men. amusement. And yet, in Christian England it
was thought a tip. and 11,44.. thing for a man lo In. a
eporteman, and the idea .4 sport warn sheep either to
kill toms, plmaaanta, ralibite, mr soinethinf Arr. Ile
warn afraid be m d ought 0.. 01. 0. wool deal t....r.•
and yet get a good niglit'e rest ; lea he ledieved if,
whim he lay hia head- on Ili. jelw that night, Its
thought be liad for hie pleasure and sport killed •
rabbit, he aboutl be so unhappy that his would get
no deep at all. Its did n. 4 ow what right a num
had, except for the puriswe .4 sustaining his
own life. to take away life for sport, or pleasure..
The Rev. K. A. Chiellesigh then delivered it,. ad Iresa,
awl to thoughtful Jerson. it volibl not fail to le•
intends. inter•at. With recant to the action of the
legislators u.n th• nuluort, lie rionwiced there was
already an Act of Parliament that regulated .1,551
lion, but it hail the happy felicity a idrisong every.
body. Vivisection MLA rendere.l illegal withmit •
certificate. .nil a iliwtor wee prohibited front eallitit
ing eiperiment. iin li, ing animal. before • popular
audience, i.e from making them tie rely to attain
eitaioul The Art al., re•pio•••1 the us. to
.not.ttliettch ; but llos euol.) a. 1,4 if the
epersior certify that their lie. ...old interfere
with the ieuilt of the elperitilerit•. Tlll,ll. (40-1.
WA, on in.fieet ion r•viire•l ; hut he e 'mended it in...
o 1111,•••, in...mien as the operator eirreit omt a report
10 the in.pecti soil natural' i• would melte it aa
unobjectionable as pievilil• There wax thus an .1..1
that eatiolied no one mid au inspection that way
wrongly Mi called. 'the contr.. ersy on the question I
was like a pendulum swinging to and fro; •
simetimes, when the wwI•1 wAs 1111.4111...1 ...ma
111111:1O1Yrr through eat...remelt. on Animals. !
the pendulum swiing toward, their opponent, bog !
when, A few month. after, it turn.' back agent to
the able .4 the enti•viviseetionoits. 11•11. lie Omiplainel
that when these sooelled discorene. were made their
details were publialiel far and far, but, on this 'the,
hand, when tlicir failure was proved no urns heanl.4 it.
Thediec,.ernie. went up I ike • rocket Anil emu.. down lilt,
a etick. The meeting war .4 courseantious ii learn Nfr.
Chudleigh'a attitude with regard to Paste''r slid his
experiments and we may illy at once he appeared to
have an unmitigated Colittlnlit fur the Frenchman.
Ile ridiculed hie theories to such an aslant that WI.
should have been pleased to bear some gentleman on
the other It struck him a* wonderful that the !
British public had suffered itself to le Waled by this
last " exoloaion of French levity "with regard to the
cure of hydrophobia —or rather its prevention.
Already Id. Pasteur'e victim. tai whom he had given
artificial hydrophobia far outnumbered the natural
afilaaMS curs that mesh, take place, au pluming the' r
occurrence was at the aame retell. in the lost, if the
world exietml for 6,000 years. Ile had thus don.
more mischief than he could possibly cure. When one
heard A Pasteur taking the spinal marrow id a rabbit
affected with hydrophobia and ejecting it into the
human body. one felt ..ire either that 1.1,55 l ;seeming
n. hydrophobm would be develomsl in the patient ;
rw, I thaw sympt.mis did not follow them, that the
matter ejected moat have become wholly inert awl
innocuous. Ite contended that in the 315 am...feted
to have been cured by Pasteur iin:y one of them
that of th• child that riled pr ivisl t.O I.e hydro•
phobia. Every one itn.•w that poisoning iliil not
nacemarily follow from the bite if A 'lit, and I hwe
might be three thousand caaes ii, whieli it would not
follow. The only real cure for hydro' hi ibia was
by means of Dr. liiiisson's pyrtum rif ii. 't air liarlis,
which could be obtained in le.:idol, or at suinli
acre a. Bournm
eouth awl Nlailoek, and which
glad been tested in sixty cues, and hail never
Mr. Chudleigh referred at emw length to Ferriere's
•spevisaints, and to their rejeots,,n hy the Pathological
Society. Ile also alluded to the 'Millar eimilemnatem
by the English medical commission of Dr. Koch's
nneennt diaciiveries with recant to cholera a coin•
iniesion which, having watelesl the disease ift India,
reported the only hope they 11.01 of the prevention rof
Ibl...county of our ram was by incr....eft attention 4.
cleanliness. In conclusion the lecturer said he Wi.11.0
(lo have behind bun • few people in [torch...ter whom
his could regard as • committee. to guilt omd
information on this aubject for distribution &mow
their friends and public generally. Ile should be glad
if any ladies or gentlemen present would give him
their mimes for this piirpo.e.— The Rev. T. N/41,1,
proiseed a vote of thenks to Mr. Chielleigh fire his
mlinirable Wire., and expressed hi. readiness to
receit• any information he Mar like ti. .end. ‘Vhat •
ever decision men .4 !science might arrive at with
regard to v iviwction, the English peet4e hail a right
to demand that the lega•lation that ismtnilled it
ehould re vionweivel in a Chen.. i Oil eml liiimaiie aplrll.
(Applause.)—A tpiestion usa 3•kel it the lectuss,
agreel with vsecin %Mon, awl Mr. rhielleigh replied
vaccination owed nothing what... or to ‘l,o.,,th•ii.
11, briefly traceil the history of vaccination L..
this itasertion. While vaccination was the law nt the
Land he was perfertiy willing to vidunit to it, lett
never would he rive his voice r„ foss, his asighl,„or
take vaccination, or anyeving elo., if h.. objected.
The assiliair then terminates,.