The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-24 00:00:00

WAR=A3L

The BISEOP hie licensed the Rev. Charles Goddard
Dupre, 8.A., to the curacy of Corte Caatle, sod tlic
Ray. William Percy Schuster, M.A.., to the curacy of
Bees Rees, Dorset.
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.rammtrartott. The body of superintendent
registrars end other registration offixre, throughout
the Kingdom, will ere I mg, and ae a mark of respect
ad=i-will to the past RegiArar-General of births,
and matrimme, Major George Graham,
brother of the late Sir James Graham, present him at
• special meeting of officers, from the different pert'
of the Kingdom, with • portrait ot himself, now being
painted by an eminent artiet.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS COMMISSIONS.
The Commissionen appointed to inquire into Muni-
cipal Corporations in England and Wales not subject
to the Municipal Corporations Act (other than the
City of London) have made their report. There are,
It appears, 110 Corporations not under the Municipal
Corporations Acts. The majority of those into which
inquiry was made by the Commiseioners produced
charters under which they prole as to be governed;
others exist only by prescription. The revenues
belonging to these bodies are in most cues of small
amount, though they have, on the whole, considerably
increased since 1835." They are derived from various
sources. "The appropriation of the revenue" (the
Commissioners add) seems to be less open to objec-
tion than at the date of the former report. The
salaries of the municipal officers are now inconsider-
able. Dinners and feasts are leas frequently paid for
out of the corporate funds. A portion of the revenue
Is very generally applied to some municipal purpose,
such as the payment of the police, and the lighting
and watering of the town. Subscriptions are fre-
quently made to local objects of utility, such as
schools, churches, volunteers, &c. These complaints
are dealt with in the special reports. At Seaford,
Dunwich, Kenfig, and St. Clears it has been the
custom to divide the surplus revenue among the
members of the Corporation. At Seaford, in 1869, a
sum of £44, and at Ounwicb, in 1888-9, sums of £B3
and £26 were so divided. At St. Clears the 36 senior
burgesses received in 1875 El 84. 68. each." Having
given a general view of the exist* state of these
Corporations, the Commissioners proceed to recom-
mend that Parliament should deal with them :—" It
appears to us that it is not expedient that any of
these Corporations which are municipal in their
character should continue in their present state and
condition. We are, however, of opinion that in many
of the boroughs municipal institutions might usefully
be retAined, and Hint the bent mode of dealing with
them would be to subject them to the providons of
the Municipal Corporations Acts, placing them, as
nearly as may be, in the position of the boroughs in.
chided in schedule B of the Act of 1835. A list
follow., of the lwrouglis which, it Appears to us, may
be so dealt with :—Christchurch, Malmesbury, Oke-
ha•rpton, Wareham, Wilton, and Wootton Bassett.
In making U. s selecLion we have been guided generally
by the nomber f the population, its increase or
decrease since the firmer report, the vaule of the pro-
perty VUNISCUCti by the Corporations, and the nature
and extent of the municipal ond magisterial functions
now earn:is...l by them, rsther than by any one of
them consid,rati.ms in p iticilar. We have also
kept in view the importance of she boroughs relatively
to the atm minding districts, and the difficulty or
otherwaie of obtaining the arintanos of the Justices
of the county."

'MANAGE.
JAMES AT SWANAGE.

Swear" February 17th, 1880.
Dear Ilarry,—lt was quite a supprise for me to gut a
letter from you, hit at the same time I was very pleased
hear from you, it ii not many letters I get from your
Aunt Jane, an she never was very much for writting, and I
now the baby is so troubles ome I mast not expeet to get
any. I hope she will weane the baby before I come home
again, as I not like walking the headroom at night.
But my dose Ilarey don't say no to your aunt, you can
say how sorry lam hat the baby is so troublesome, ,t^- I
am glad to hear that Mary Ann still write to you. When
are you going to make up the match, will you please to
tail your aunt whets you go round again that I am very
careful of the tow iit, le t'•iuga she wished you to mention
in your lever, but wthdi we have • cede wenn I think we
ought to ph.ased him. ,nietirnea If I go into the "Shades"
with Bill tie won't lot me pay tie anything. No he says I
have got • ',Late. and I know you have no more than you
know ,hat odo with, I take just a little of Liaises
gin and pliperinciit. 11.1)00 not know dear Harry that
mine was th: p .!rink but not get tipsy. I
shall not 13- t tolo, much news this time, an we
have hal tOO% Lady f .41(11 and wet lately, I have not been
nit ninch, and toe dx•ris have been so randy, until
Friday night: •e kat mud, a rein that washed all the mud
away, an 4 it the 11-,vo not a stock laid In it is
their own banks, We have 'aid • meeting about repwing
the Pier, but some want it done one way, and some another
that ',is not sAtle.l viz r•n way It will be yet. Bat as I
am much better than I was, I shall try and get a job
there tea foe mow h., and if I do, I must send for your
Aunt Jane to cone &mu and stop the summer.
We have had it very roti,ch here this last few days, the
water yest,rday I seo have lifted up some very large stones
from the roadway on the bankers, that was lately fixed
there. The Alpha is hero ag .in discharging coals, but
they have had a v. r/ tal Unlit for it, as they have been
obliclge 1 to put off for stielt,r, to., several times. Our
peacekeeper here have got that Bob Keats, and young
'Appy in tow, fort 'king eggs that did not belong to them,
and as Keats have only lift liar Majesty's servic,, since
Christmas, it is a ohmic it wo are troubled with him
again for some time. Deer Harry you must
excuse my short hotter this time. I shall be pleased
to gat one from yoil io a few daps to hear all thats going
on at home, and wbeo you to.: your aunt remember me
eon emote, and! hope the dear children are better now
with kind regard, to you, I remain,
Your affectionate Uncle,
MIDDLITOPI.
• P.S.—Aunt Eliza and to. talk of going to see Kingston
Church if 800 next wink, aud there to Corte Castle. they
do tell me that the church in worth going to see. it is, at
John Coffin said of Parbirk House, a little heaven on
earth. I hope next time to be able to tell you all about it.