The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-18 00:00:00

AGItICULTUILAL BENEVOLENT INSTITU-
TION.

The second anniversary festival of the Agricultural
Benet*lent Institution, for the relief of farmers, their
widows and orphana, was held on Wednesday night in
the Freetnasona Tavetn. The Right Hon. Benjamin
Disraeli, M.P., presided, and among the numerons
company present were Lord Dynevor, Mr. P. Wynd-
ham, M.P., Mr. A. Benyon, M.P., Mr. Alderman
Meehi, Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., kc.
Alter dinner the health of the Queen" having been
loyally toasted,
The Chairman gave "the health of Um Prince Con•
sort,"—the first of British farmers, whose farms were
all model farins—" Albert Priuee of Wales, and the
other members of the Royal family."
The toast was heartily lesponded to, as was also that
of the "Army, Navy, and Volunteers" which was pro-
posed by Mr. P. Wyndliani, M.P., and acknowledged
by Major Parker, M.P., for the Army, and by Lieut.
Scott for the Volunteers.

The--Cl:aTim-an-,ln—r-iro—isosing the toast of the evening,
' Proaperity to the Agricultural Benevolent Instituticn,
and the health of its President, his Grace the Duke of
Richmond," said he would now ask their consideration
of the cause which had aezembled them to-day under
that roof. It certainly appeared etre .rge that, where no
calliurtnd no kind of suffering had not found in the
organized sympathy of society some means to retnedy its
calamities or to niitigate it. urrows, the claims of the
most ancient vocation in the world, and one still not
the least lieneured, should never have been recognised.
Undoubtedly it vu not difficult to find the chief cause
of whati at the first glance, appeared to be • strange
anomaly. Foe a long period in this country the petition
of the farmer bad upended him, not only from other
dames of society, but even from his own confederates
in the same pursuita. Fire-and-twenty years ago the
life of • farmer was passed among the fields which he
cultivated, the permit was his horizon, and for his
knowledge of human nature he was indebted to market
day. But all this bad changed, or was rapidly changing.
The great revolution in the nicsi,s of communication
which bad affected all classes, had particularly influenced
the fanner. The railroad which intersected his acres, the
station which was built perhaps on the site of an ancient
homestead, had extended the area of his occupations and
placed at his command a selection of markets. The
peony post permitted him, almost with the facility of
conversation, to c-otuniunicate his wants and to receive
suggestions from every part of the country. Five-and-
twenty years ago lie dosed over the local news of a stale
Pr" now the penny papers supplied him with all the
information and intelligence of the world. And,
in this country, where voluntary combinations
for the public welfaie were it. proudest boast,
one might appeal to it. public exhibitions and it,.
learned transactions to prove that their culminating
glory had been found in the Royal Agricultural Society.
(Cheers.) Well, then, what had been the inevitable
consequence of all this ? It was said that intercourse
produced knowledge; intercourse produced something
even more precious—it prodecd sympathy. And when
farmers became habituated to frequent and familiar
conference, they could no longer be blind to the injustice
that in their class alone no effort was made to sustain
those of their members who had sunk beneath mis-
fortunes which no prudence could knee and which no
perseverance could endure. All human occupations
were liable to adversity but for the farmer there were
peculiar visitations. (Hear, hear.) A breaking bank,
a bad debt, • foolish or perfidious friend might be the
fate of all; but it eau not all who had to meet tbe
barren harvest and the dmtructive stuns, or to
encounter the three plagues, or rather furies of rural life
—the mildew, the murrain, and the rot. There was
something, too, in the fernier's position, when struggling
against impending ruin, which aggravated it. In the
street and the city, in the counting-bowie and the shop,
the blow, however severe, was mitigated by the
sympathy of friends, by the leas ainiebie consciousness
that the sufferer bad companions in misfortune, by the
distraction of the rapid incidents and the ever varying
feelings which prevailed in all aggregations of human
beings. But the farmer was alone in his cares and
calamities, on the acres which he had, perhaps,
cultivated for • quarter of a century, to which he had
replied every experiment of eclence and every device of
ant; which be had so often ploughed, and drained, and
drilled, and hoed, and harrowed, and scarified, and
burnt, and tossed and tumbled about, that he wee as
wall acquainted with their heart as with the disposition
of his labourers or the family round biz baar.b. It was
bitter to leave these, but more bitter to feel that be be-
longed to a class numerous, wealthy, and public.
spirited, but which would make no effort to pre-
vent him from being trampled into the herd, which
would not listen to the cry of hia widow, or secure to
his children the only moans by which they could re-
trieve the position of their parenta—a sound and useful
education. Having toothed upon the put of the
farmer, having lightly sketched the present, let him
briefly allude to his future. In general it was pre-
sumptuous to predict, yet he would say, that, notwith.
standing they lived in a period of fearful change, he had
no apprehensions for the future of this country. (Cheers.)
Under Divine providence he founded that belief on the
fact of the population which this country had realised
during the lamb hundred years. Thirty millions of
human beings, free and experienced in freedom ; •
community eli:ch combined the vigour of liberty with
the sobriety of tradition ; possessing time greatest
amount of capital known in the history of man • and •
Crphical position which connected them with the
isis much as the Old World, might defy all political
revolution and all commercial change. These might
disturb it, but would never eventually remove it from
It. pride of place. Well, this was the country which
they had to feed. Whatever might be the resources or
the supplies of commerce, the people of the United
Kingdom would always mainly look for their sustenance
to the soil of the United Kingdom. Without attempt-
ing too curiously to calculate what might be the effect
on that soil of our accumulated capital, increased skill,
and inspiring science, he would still express his opinion
that the British farmer would be found «malt° the great
occasien which awaited them. (Cheers.) If so, was it
not, then, clear that in exact proportion as their trans-
actions became more extensive and more complicated,
so also would be the risk and bawd? And in cunt
proportion as they were elm, ited in the soda' scale so
also would he increased the onruish of poverty when any
of those sad vicissitudes eon ire I the possibility of which
they were there that day to recognise and to provide
against. These were the fee uses which had led to the
formation of _that society. He was surprised that some
one had said it was not wanted. For that to be possible
two conditions were requisite—fir fi that the farmer
should be exempt trout the contingencies which
affected other deuce ; secondly, that he should he
exempt from the feeling' of human nature. The right
hon. gentleman then paid • merited compliment to Mr.
Alderman Hecht, who had first conceived the idea of
the institution and called the attention of the late
Duke of Richmond to it. This was really it. first year;
yet it had conferred 20 pensions varying from £4O to
£2O each, and had invested £4,000. This was no in-
considerable beginning, but it was only by united
efforts that they could accomplish their greater objects.
They required no expensive advert, no elaborate
staff. There was a fanner in every part of
the country. He saw in that room men from all
divisions of the kingdom; "folk" from the Eastern
Counties, gentleuien from the pastures of the West,
from his own valley of the Thames ; several from
beyond the Trent. Wales was nobly represented ; some
of the leading Sootchnmen were amoug their Vice.
Presieenta, and next year he hoped their Irish brethren
would rally round their standard. Well, then, it was
idle to pretend that they bad not the means of making
their object known and of carrying it into effect. They
had only to write letters all over the country, and the
next anniversary would show the benefit of that crop
of manure. (A laugh and cheers-) The right hon.
gentleman concluded his remarks with a tribute to the
tuesnory of the late Duke of Richnoad.
The toad was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Among the other toasts were, "the Chairntan," pro-
ci
d by Lord Dynevor ; "the Agricultural tiocietiee in
Eland, Ireland, and Scotland," proposed by Mr.
Al ennui Muhl; 'the Arta, Manufectures, and Corii•
merec," by Sir Joseph Paxton, he.
The amount of subset iptions collected daring the
evening was £1,500.
Mr. Toole acted as toastmaster with his usual
efficiency.

StIoCIING MUNDEN IN A CHURCII.—On Wednesday
evening a dreadful murder was committed in the parish
church at Blakeney, • village betweeen the stations of
Newnham and Gatcombe, on the South Wales line, and
about four miles from the latter place. The parish
clerk, named Steel, left his house as usual to get • pint
of beer for sapper, and not returning for corn. time his
wife went to the public-house in search of him. She was
told he had been there, but left as Woo as he got the
ale, and thinking be might have called at the church--
which was on his way home—ehe went there and found
him lying on the floor, straaptsd, his handkerchief tied
in a belt knot round his meek. Some strabismal
to be from the Forest of Dean, bed been sees lit
village during the day, and it 1100nlectur,d thal 447
bad entered the church by Mean of a false key, for be.
pampa of stealing the plate; land that the alert mpi,.
the deer open, wait to see who was there, when the
men attacked him. They pishably did not intend to
commit murder, but finding the man dead they quitted
the church in alarm, lamb; Weir key in the door,
Everything in the church was found untouched. There
were marks ot a severe struggle having taken taft-.3
the unfortunate man having apparently been
along the door for • considersiin distance. A_ nos .y2/s''.
clue to the murderer or mapiersra has been discovered
bat the Newham police are at the alert, and.are not
without hopes that their exertions may be ssessabil.

GFALTD, DAPPIN- , AND LONG LIFI
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Phyricein, by the see of

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.arp.. bclif.their IffiCaCy hal been proved la
thousaml, of canes, attested before, and Areal 171 he Pro
ai,ling Alderman at Guildhall, within the jerisdistire el
The Hoe. the LORD MAYOR of LONDON,
oil a..so littera the Magistrates sitting in, Lod for the
".,untica of if ii;lleaes, Surrey, he., he., at time following
'..0 re s, sit., Maribor...malt Street, Westminster, Worship
Pow Street, lie. They are used by the most
lr bros.! 31,eal Hen in their private end hospital
; 01.,0 by Clergymen Rod others, who bays voles.
gt‘en their sifts, to certify Le the Fables as Ii
tie reliability of 'lime remedies

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Patrut sugar Soattb ill*:
proecoi of costing the pills with veva Das sow.
cIcI the Proprietor' to take oat Letters Pateet
liritein, in order to protect them trots imitate's,
.111, ir covering, which is couleur de reee (Oak),
j.ijiuiniju them (ruin all others. They are pleasest
n the taste, and may be taken by the nest delicate
•mielv or child, without fear of manses sr dingsdort,
ing down imperoptibly like a rem plum.
II E.ILTH DEPENDS UPON PURE BLOOD.

fior rem is subject to an *cordon of vitiated bap
is both prevalent aid dangerous ; bat thane Mt
fri.n invaln.ble sod efficient protection. ntair lee
.rervnts the collection of those impurities whisk WWII
.1 nt.tzh .Isngcr to the fine organs of the stomach and
s.wels. Thor .011 core liver complaints, dyspepsia.
'hen stetism, iiaulence, wind and griping in tholiololll
id bowels, diurrkaa, loss of appetite, Iseadasks, Mari
ctn. pain in the chest, sudden faintness and sootily&
.!=orbuitic affections, skin *minions, dimp-sentall
do•rg, hc.; also acting most visibly on the somplatica.
.reserving, improving, softening, and boautif as She
Ain, thereby giving that blooming and
.ppesrance so desirable, yet so vainly
se by all. . In brief, time Pills work lamb
to gm very roots of each disease, cleasslng
ii their passage removing every unhealthy seesaw
u, till the brood is ponied, the whole system mar
Atel, snd all the functions acting &maim to nabs»
re doties of life become where Won lig
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