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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21

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QOAMTIII 8211111011.-/41 the 10shaeheis maidons,
Viscount Smoky presiding, it wee resolved out the
report of the Memos comminee, that from 10th July
last the pay of the polio* be ss followc
sergeant-enajor shall receive 44 2d per diens, or
£76 Os 104 per annum.
The mageasta, 41 per diem, or ATE per annum.
Merit clam constables. Ili lid per Mem, or Us 04 per week.
ist clam constables. 3.44 pa/Mem, or 221. ad per week.
Ind class constables. Ss Id per diem, or 11,74 per week.
itrd clam constable., I. II per dim, or 10.34 per week.
The scale of stoppages during slogan or aceWnt to be :
Serpents Is Ild pet them
Merit elms constable. ....1. 13 „
Tint clam „
Second clue „
Third clam „ lid „
The report of the Chief Constable stated :—" As Dom•
pared with the year ended 28th September, 1872, there
hes been an Monate In the number of person brought
before the magistrates for drunkenness of 331, but this
locludes persons classified in former nen wader the
Refreshment Rouses Apt, but now as drunk and die-
orderly under the Urainaing Aot. The actual Increase
I estimate at 286 I believe this famous is more
appearent than real, and is to be aooounsed for In many
wayr." The report also Meted —'On: the whole the
Act ha. worked beneboially, bat might, with advert-
Mg., be intended. The different hours of aiming as
filed by the several Local Authorities muses mune
difficulty to the pollee, and tin fad that the licensed
houses in the boroughs In the Isle of Wight .lose at
11. end them IA the coonty at 12, Is mischievous In its
effmt."
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21

WYE. REGIS.

TELNIJIGIVING finliaoL—A mercies of thanksgiving
for harvest was perforated as ?heredity atternaca at
the parish chunk, the Ker. J. H. Vaudrey. of Wey-
mouth, befog annoasosd as the needle.. The attend-
ance was protireod. The choir sang the anthem
" Praise lb. 0 Jarnsalem," directed by the
organist. Mr. o.o.acne, and the hymn before sermon
was " Come, ye thankful people, some" The text was
the quettion of our Lord,' Were there not tea deemed;
but whore are the nine?' The Bor. FL C. Pigo. read
the prayers and lemma and pronounced the
altar the To Dena had beta sung.

ST URMISSTIR MARSHALL.
fosisr•T.—Oonti Monitory, A. 0. F., only ten
months old, has established Itself and I. now in •
Bouriahiag 000dltlos In this tillage. It numbers
already 100 member., and It is intended, on the 10th
D.osmber nut, to celebrate Its birthday by a festive
'abasing in the Sobool.rootn, which ha been no
kindly placed at the disposal of the moiety for thew
sseeting., by the Rev. C. Keats Paul, the vicar.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21

DoKOHEaTIR.

ENLADOININT Or TIM 0111.ie NATIONAL PCBOOL.—
We underataud that on Monday last the eommittee of
the National schools sooopted the tender of Maws. W.
and L. Tilley, builders, for the enlargement of the
(lbis' National sohool,fr £314.
WEST FORDINOTON PANNE, —The Vioar (Bay. W.
C. Debora) has issued • (tinnier to his parishioners
asking their ?royal on his ministry, gluon the
churchwardens aortounte, and asking their motioned
support to the maintenanoe of Divine worship at
Christ church. The expenditure from Lady day, 1872.
to Midsummer, 1e73, was £3O 18e. 611.. and there was
a Wino° du* to the Treasurer of £1 16a. which
was increased at Miohaelmu to £6 00. 61., sad
current liabilities make the amount required Ed ils.
ANIMATION CLOD. —WS hear that the memorialists to
the Town Council for the use of a portion of It, old
Corn Exichange as • reereation room, or British Work-
man publio-bouse, have withdrawn their application.
and found • temporery habitation at a bons* in North
Square, where • weenie of rooms will be suitably
furnished, and supplied with games, km, so that men
may meet there and chat and arouse themselves as •
Club. Mrs. Colonel Bingham hits most !badly given
for the society such of tlie "material" used In the
militia recreation room as may be useful, and other
friends bare promised help, so that there is good hope
of tbe Club being established on • firm and braid

THE WEATHEIL —The following lo our metworolosioal
qrart

1 I Wind
I Ile MAW 01 Weather
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Oct. • •
IS 4$ 37 NZ Fog, min
14 47 37 NW (1W Fin*
13 41 39 SW Rain hazer oilman
16 60 63 NW 813 Cloudy, doe
17 63 43 8 F. cloudy
18 fo 44 Wk NW 118.4 y, doudy, In.
19 61 44 ISIS Drizzling rain, gloomy
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21

CH A RVINSTER.

CHARITT.-04 Sunday afternoon. at the parish
ohursh, the Hee. H. B. Wtlllam., in the oourse of •
sermon on "Charity," drew attention both. feet that
on the previous Sabbath morning, the whole of Oh
hearers had absented themselves from the osiebraliou
of the Lord's Supper. To those, who, from a feeling of
unworthiness, always retrained from attending the
Holy Communion, he hail not on the prattent °ammo
anything to say, but If thaw who were ha the habit of
atteudieg *bigoted themselves, thereby wirhlog to offer
• slight to the priest, he would say, they had olli-ired a
slight, not to the priest, bet to the living Gad. and had
sinned against the Most High. Hight God In Hie
mercy pardon them for the in they had oommitard.

U PW EY:

Allll/WARY TR& 11/1111110 AND LIMA& —Tbe
anniversary of the Congregational 06.pel et this
pretty 'allege was olebrated oo Wedoesday, by a
gathering of the friend" in the chapel, to parteke
together of the eup " that oleos but not Inebriates,"
and to War • Mature by Dr. Drew, at Weymouth. The
chapel wee ridgy and teetotally detente] with fridge
and flowers sash as 'could seemly be prodooed else-
where. Nits of wheal from the harvest Wel were
interlisrloed with flowers from the gardens, whilst
apples of large protections and great beauty he
teraptiagly Jost • little oat of reach from the front of
the gallery. The atormlosse of the mornisg, sad the
ansosommodaUng arrangemeete of the Upway trains,
prevented friends coomiag from Dosimeter sad Wei-
moatis, still the tables, whisk were presided over Mrs.
Priee,Km. Hamden, he., were tolerably well Ailed with
guests from the village and nelghbourbood. After tea
the tables were cleated, cod the chapel soon Ailed with
an expestant audiense, whieh had gathered to show
their interest in the work carried as In eoseeolim with
this old established eongregational cianse„ sea also to
hem Dr. Drew deliver ooe of his popular Lod inetructive
Irotaree. The chair wee taken by the Pastor (the Rev.
J. Price) who atones invited the oongregation to Join in
singing the beautiful sad petriotle limm which stench
at In the congregational hyta• bosk. After prayer,the
chairman Introduced the lecturer, who hod tory medially
eoneentod to ono to Upwey and gratutlously give
them • lecture Os "The Berth— Pace—Present, and
Future." The looture, which was IlSetrated by
Gushily prepared diagram', and delivered in Dr.
Drews well known popalar style, wee listened to with
Len °al attention to the close. A vote of thanks having
by the chairman, d seconded by the
Ber. i'r.C:7l! an
, of Weymouth, the loiterer, In response,
expressed hie readiness to pay theta another visit It
lc naked, sitar whloh the &adieu.» dis2ourd, apparently
well pleased with the arrangement' for celebrating the
snalversexy.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21

To A. Edaor.

There is one phase of the question of pollee at
Dorchester, which turns on the money oast, that
deserves attention. In ooneequenee of the high rates
the respectable mechanice of the town are huddled
together in houses in such a Lancer that health, to may
netbing of decency, must inevitably suffer. And
who shall tell whit social evils arise from the
discomfort of overcrowded hones', and the corking
cares of etraltened means aggravated by the
too frequent demands of the rate oollectorf •
man who earns a pound a week has to pay
its. or is. out of it for • wools of rooms—of *ours&
rates increase the rent charged; and he who is the
nominal occupier of • house rented at from £l6 to £l9
a year, le compelled to let the best rooms of it out to
lodgers, and cramp himself, his wife, and family in the
back apartment& So much so is this the este that I
am told in a long row of houses on the Corporation
estate, there are only two or three without lodger,. In
Dorshester, alas, the Eriglishman's house is not his
wale ; the men is dethroned, debased, and in every
relation of Ufa be suffers. And this, I hold, is occasioned
by the unneeeesary imposition of, 61. pollee rate, when
one of about half the amount would softie& with the
inspolicy of whine such an expenditure I. the ootoome.
Yet, when the working cluses are redoolid to Usti state
of impecuniosity, and what should be their tome.
have become barracks by stress of dreams snore,
an attempt is made to stifle their groaoings by
the miserable chaff of the dignity of the
borough! As if a petty pollee foree, the mejorlty of
whom, it is &cense, would not "pan' for the county
coostabolary—a " fore." of three or four officers and •
people of men —Rosh men,that the best of them, peeing a
thief catching ducks (a osuple out of 50 or (Omelet) looks
very hard at his back, but forgets to LO'loll his face I
and again, when another thief threw three fowl. broueht
&relit from a farm yard ot on* let him escape I who
religiously prop op th town *lock, but forget to do
the small duty required ore month a year to prevent
lads breaking the heads of ritepayers by atone throwing
In the welts; who ki op a wrong man in custoly for •
week and then drop him :ike m hot potato ! as if such a
fores could add dignity or safety to the borough I Let us
have someellident patioemen, who will soar, tlirves, and
not pry into the of:fairs of how et men ; let us hare
ooestables who have la, for or eff,ction for any; let or
have men who will root toter upon k wild-goose chuff
and make throw:Aver; o laughing stock, and bring
ridicule on the borough Pat employs them. All this
may be achieved, I say, by having the o:unty polioo,
the pockets of the rale-payers will be saved, and the
general comfort of the borough promoted,

4ATCHYAN.