The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

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I. .444480 'SCHOOL ilatos.—Tbe seventeenth maul
'Matting of the friends and support. of ,he
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ticketc wean 9aabloj3e. Plotata •Ohinssio• los want at
•An "liymn haring been sung, the
ea ppinied ; with a poger by the Rev. Cr Allatalls.
The ahainzign addressed the neetiag at oossiderabl•
fingW.Mi W. Locke read the 174 annual
Arcp•,:whistili it appeared at tin member of =I
nuebuildingsbr of
wiruiday schools as last year 99
last yearl7o.,ansdwasnolwl .0d 76. Moans
now 207. The scholars in them last year were 22,310„
and were DOW 25,264. The number of day schools was
hut year 140. containing 15,427•seboline, and was now
151, containing J 7,230 children. The evening schools
last year.were WO, contoniag 9,413 boys, and were this
year 216,'cotitalning 9, 1. The attendance tithe boys'
.fittelnelnal•Ouses was last. ?est 4134," against 462 this
and the giria' dames wine. alanidee lest year by
against 2,714 this year. The &dap laminas
were 605 last year, and were 698 this year ; and the
cgiendanco at religious earldoms wan 4,711 last year,
igkinft 4,340 this year. The number of voluntary
Attached was 2,8341 fan Su, and 2,992 WI year. Tim
Had tasobets were 416,1a5t Feu, and 40 7this yees,aod the
Waibir 'of paid monitors wan SlB last year and 404 this
year. 1.486 scholars won seat to 1111•86101111 last year.
and 1,818 this year. 870 prises were awarded he
scholars last year for haring kept is ens situation all
least 12 months with good character, and 1,216 this
year; 88 scholars became EMEktflinioants lan year, and
122 this year; 133 eeboiars became W*lll lea_ yew_
and 144 OAS year; 76 puny banks were i.blisbed is
you, said 84 p.s now ia operation; and 49 elating
clubs last year had increased to 58 in the present year.
Expenses of 'whams' peim meeting, ; salar4es.
colors' poundage, he., £649; tranglieg sad ogles
expenses, ; leaving a balance pt the bankers at
£343. Deposit fluid, 1750; &leo fund balance hist
year, £276 ; Iron the general fund, nOD ; contribution.
£76; paid be schools as competition grants, £806;
balance at the bankers, Ent- Emigration Pend—
' Balance tart year, £128; contributions, 214 ,• paid for
=8 to Canada and South Africa, 248 ; leaving •
in hand of £95. The report haring bees
adopted, and several resolutions having been passed, the
proceedings terminated with Um ama Tote of Omaha to
So. chairman.

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BT. GIONOeII,III-2011-EAST.-11to pariah *berth cif
St. Georgp's-in•the-Bast, on long known fee the din.
turbine*, which took place tiers week after week,
seems to have heat completely handed over to whet, Is
clerical phraseolou, is called "the low chetah party.'
Mr. Maguire, of nerkenwell, hes been Pinnebing there,
and last Sunday Mr. Kyle, of ftelmlngham, was to have
posiession of the pulpit. Mr. Brian Kbee Isere of
absence will expire ia July, but it seems to be doubtful
at present whether he will again enter upon the active
duties devolving on him as rector of the parish. Then I,
• rumour in the neighbourhood that a chugs of
benefices, with • clergyman near Colebesier, is in eon-
templation.
Ton ll.x.uron Mu IU)La . —The inquest en the body of
Joseph Smith, of Ilkeston, who was shot by his son on
Thursday last, was resumed for the third time on
, Monday afternoon before Mr. Coroner Whiston. •
number of additional witnesses were examined, mut
the jury returned • verdict. of "Wilful Murder."
Tax Donau CUILD lloaxma In Surrom—The
miserable woman Salmon, who recently murdered two
of her children at Edwardatone, near Box:feed, ban sines
her imprisonment in Bury 81. Edmund's gaol mani-
fested such unmistakeable symptoms of insanity, that
it has been deemed advisable to place her, without
further delay, under proper restraint. She has sewed-
ingly been removed to St. Georges-in-the-Fields Lusatia
asylum.
DLitt in mu LLCM 6 ROOK. —On Wedneiday
evening last a lecture on "Wit and Humour" wee
delivered in the lecture-ball of the Athenaeum, at Bury
St. Sdmunde, by George Groasmith, Fay., who, after
some critical observations •upon those terms, related
various anecdotes characteristic of English, Irish,
Scotch, and American humour, and read extracts frees
Dickens, Hood, kc., in a manner which appeared to
, give much satisfaction to a numerous audience. The
Rev A R. wesu.dsis ...opted the chair. At the
termination of the lecture many who were prosiest
learnt the painful fact that, while they were listening
to a lecture of a light descriptive, a Teeing lady' who
had entered the hall as one of the audience, full of life
and spirits, had expired in an adjoining room, from an
attack of tetanus, most awful in its suddenness. The
' officers of till institution, supposing the poor girl to be
in an hysterical state, left her in the bands of some
ladies, and having returned to the hall, knew nothing
of the sad termination of the attack until the lecture
was nearly concluded. After consultation it was
thought that it would be then most unwise and even
dangerous to some present to announce what bad
taken place, and the lecture, therefore, proceeded 10
its close without interruptica.—Bery and Norwich
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ATTIMPT TO ENTER THR LORD MATOR'S PARLORS.
—Considerable sensation was excited in the courts on
Tuesday morning by the discovery that during the night
the locks of the Lord Mayor's parlour and several ot.r
rooms in the budding had been tampered with, and
although an entry had not been effected into any of the
rooms and no property stolen, the locks were so mash
injured that they could not be opened with the regular
keys. There appears to be very little doubt that scene
person must have secreted himself about the premises,
and after everyone was supposed to have lett, be
attempted to obtain access to the different rooms, and
ho very probably hoped to obtain possession of the
sheriff's gold chains, or some other valuable property.
A Mrarratore Arrata.—On Saturday a stylishly.
dressed woman, with a child in bar arms, was walking
along the Grand-parade, Brighton, when she sco
a little boy, and asked him if he would mind the baby
for a few minutes. Tlie little lad consented, and the
woman accordingly placed the holy, which also was well
clothed, in his anus, and he sat down upon • doof step
to wait until the woman returned. The latter, how-
ever, never came back, and the little fellow waited two
hours. on the door step, nursing the poor baby, whine
cries attracted the foot passengers. Ultimately the
infant was taken charge of by the police and con-
veyed to the workhouse, but nothing has been heard of
the woman that left it; and whether she plunged into
the sea, or went off by a train to London which was
then about to start, has not, we believe, been determined.
—lVest &weer Gazette.
PAPER Dunce, Ac.—Prom the Inland Revenue
Department it appears that in the year ending the 31st
of March, 1859, the pounds weight of paper manu-
factured amounted to 199,015,818, and the pone produce
of duties £1,281,023, and net produce £1,142,113. In
1860 there were 218,947,4621 b. of paper made, and the
grom duty £1,457,154, and net £1,291,769. In the
year ending the 31st of March last the quantity manu-
factured was '229,503,0851b. and the groat duty
£1,462,&:5, and the net produce £1,305,901. With
respect to paper of foreign manufacture, the quantity
made and charged in the Customs' department was. in
1859, 1,039,a1511i. ; in 1860, 1,465,9921 b.; and in 1861.
4,735,1361 b. The gross receipts of Customs in the three
'van were respectively £11,199, £15,629, and £35,438.
The net produce was, in 1859, £.11,180; in 1860. £15,581
and in the year ending March last. 05,400.—m0re than
double the amount of the preceding year.
MUNI/If:ER(3 OF Till PUNE/ OF WALRIL—Whena
the Prince of Wales was in Canada, last autumn, a
lady, • Mrs. Secord, endeavoured to obtain encase to
his presence for the purpose of setting forth • claim to
oonsideration for hay.ng, during the war of 1812, car-
ried the intelligence in the night to the officer command-
ing a certain position on the frontier, of some move-
mends of the enemy, thus leading to the prevention of
a surprise, and probably bloodshed and detest. SU
kul'ien t t:
air tehrepulses,
however,
tierver, plc.. andoueveryocca at Qusiw
aionon.whi4
Heights, when
hsequently mentioned to • gentleman who had hem
itilatforernyi7l risety wasreass re,
htohweee wasvr, moved
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roughly off the ueb-
introduced to the Duke of Newcastle, and who ail-
dressed him on the subject, setting forth the partienlern
of the service she had performed. The Duke at eon
replied that the ease would be submitted to his
Highness. This was accordingly done, and the
has sent Mrs. Secord the handsome present of 800 do,.
for the heroism and patriotism she displayed upon the
occasion referred to.