The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-27 00:00:00

GENERAL SCHOOLS-SCIENCE AND ART

DEPARTMENT.
The returns from the Committee of Council on &Nes-
ti South Kensington, to the above schools, are again
this year oil highly satisfactory nature, and prove that
the school maintains that st.ite of efficiency for which it
has long been noted. The following is the result of the
first grade, or elementary examination, held on the 11th of
April last It will be seen that Ernest A. Sliby obtained
an 'Excellent" in the schedule for geometry.

FREEHAND.
Good.—Joseph Bartlett. William Bassett, Frederick
Bennett, George Farwell, Walter Gale, Edward B. Gange,
Frederick W. Hall tt, Thomas Ilarrison, Robert Harvey,
S. H. Hawkins, Herbert Hayti&ll, Joseph Lock, William
Morey, Frederick Old, Robert Hawkins Charles Record,
Albert Ka ell, ilklllo6 Seale, Samuel Stuckey, Samuel
Synses, John Tett, Cecil Vann, Thomas Welch.

ROIIETRY.
Geod. Robert Bassett, Joseph Bennett, William
Diluent, Thoimus Ford, Harry Gale, Daniel Hann,
II imilton house, James A. Reid, H. J. Scadden, John
Stieklancl.
Exesilsur.—Ernest A. Stiby.

Mr. Lefroy bids fair to revive the popularity he
obtained for himself a few months ay. Our circuit
judge evidently holds in horror protracted evidence—
probably the inexhaustible effusions of a Crewkerne
solicitor have sickened him. There is not the slightest
doubt in the minds of many that his Honour gave a
verdict as it should have been given, in a case which
came before him on Friday last. But did anybody
ever hear of a judge deciding a case upon the evidence
of one witness (witness for the defendant alone), and
without hearing (excepting the solicitor's opening
statement) any evidence for the plaintiff? Verdict
was given for the plaintiff. This, in the face of an
application for an adjournment on the part of defend-
ant (refused), in order to produce witnesses, sounds
r.ither strange.

Mr. Warton, it is stated, was present a few days ago
at the leather-sellers' dinner in London, so there is no
truth in the report that "Mr. Warton is lost." We
are solemnly informed that he is actually coming down
to see us on the occasion of the opening of the "Old
Castle," in South-street. How do we know that our
member is coming? Well, we can't say positively, but
an earnest advocate for Conservative rights has been
running about the borough like wild-fire, exhibiting
two or three letters (aye, and the envelopes too), which
are purported to come direct from the member. Voters
and inhabitants of Bridport generally—surely in the
face of this you won't despair of the annual contribu-
tions, nor will you any longer lose faith in the £l,OOO.
Mr. Warton will undoubtedly bring it with him. If
be hasn't got it, the "St. Stephen's" Club, which it is
said didn't mind advancing some portion of the
election expenses, won't mind, on good interest,
advancing a little more, just to keep matters going,
and to disabuse the minds of those suspicious electors.
Fiddle-stick! He's got no end of money, and is only
having a little game with the borough. He'll come
down one of these line days, and literally paralyse the
electors by the style in which he flings Ms gold right
' and left.

Somebody took some comfortable furnished apart-
ments near the sea-side, just before the election, and
very affectionate have been inquiries after the little
man who engaged them. Of course the landlord, after
the manner of " Bonifaoe," won't care a fig whether
the family comes to spend a month to hear what the
wild waves say, or not, so long as the money is forth-
coming. All things are now ready, and only await
the happy circle. We expect to be lively at the
harbour this summer.

There is no foundation for the statement that the
iron church scheme, will, from force of circumstances,
have to he delayed, much less abandoned. Although
there might have been reasons for supposing that the
owner of the East-road site had refused to dispose of
it, the grounds for such a supposition were quite
unauthentic. The owner of the site has not refused to
sell : the promoters of the movement are probably
calmly considering the advisableness of accepting the
site on the conditions offered. Even in the event of
the promoters refusing to give the price asked,
there are other available sites at their disposal.
rndoubtedly the East-read, for many reasons, would
be a spot the most desirable on which to erect the new
church, which bids fair to be well and liberally
supported.