The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

DORCHESTEIL

Tag principal tradesmen have agreed to does
their shops on Wednesday nest, and the Mayor,
upon thoor requisition, recommends that the day
shall be observed ass holiday generally.
COON•111•RLIff. —The supply
th
eoLodwh,to beat at
generallyatSatur-
dbiday's; rwmgodktyw paroels as small,
i.
were in good demand, and
made about Is. per quarter more money. Best
barley also fetched •streme prier, but 000pog
quality sold slowly at rather lees money. No sakes.
tion in the vane of oats.
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Boaonoc PETTY fizauons, Monday.—Before the
Mayor (G. Curiae, Ifeq•), J. F. Hodges, gag. and
It. Davis, Feq.—A Fordinglon lad named deorge
Evans, chitregd with stealing • Brahma fowl, be.
longing to Joseph Foroe of the same pariah...
eentenoed to three montis' hard labour. —Henry
Said. a respectable-looking lad, for embezzling money
belonging to James \lomat. Pease•lane, shoemaker,
his master, was committed for trial at the asseozet
A GOOD Dun.—Mr. Henry Matthews, of Lower
Stunmerlands, Exeter, who formerly resided for •
fe• years at Dorchester, recently sent two guineas to
the Mayor (G. Game, Esq.), requesting him to per.
chase with it Vbs. or elha of tee, and distribute the
packets =woad the moir4lnzet:l/ and deserving of
the poor. His worship ta the kind donor
that the distribution shoe d be entrusted to the
ministers of the different congregations of the town,
whicli Mr. Matthews apprevul, consequently
aasaoaable gift will be disposed of in that way. Wa
hope that so goossilsnt an example will be followed
, by many.
I R 1-0 MI LEG OF DORCHESTER CArna
! MERKEL —Some oorrespoodence from the Clark of
the Peace for the twenty, was laid before • special
misting of the TO.III Council on Friday lams, taw*
tug that they should appoint Superintendents Coder.
wood and Plummer to reoeive licenses and grant
paws in connection with Dorchester cattle market,
the appointment of persons to fill that office, and its
confirmation by the Court of Quarter Sessions, being
a preliminary step to applying for the rs•opening of
the cattle market, The Town Clerk read • letter
from the Privy Council office, impressing upon the
authorities the imperative necessity of restrictions
and vigilance at this time and skating that if proper
measures were not adopted in any district, the
Council would feel it their duty to dealers the whole
county wherever such district is situated, an infected
Owe. The Mayor and Alderman Galpin said that
so far as they could learn the farmers of the district
feared the re-opening of the market at pivotal, and
would rather it wear deferred. After a bnalcoaressa-
Lion, it was unicamerally agreed to lake no steps
with • view to the re-openiug of the market at
present.

TIIIII,IIIANCII LICTURIL—A meeting for the pro-
motion of total alatioenoe principles sea held at the
Sbirehall, last Friday night. The attendance was
limited, yet larger than awe, though • charge bre
adminion was made, and the meetings are usually
free. But Ibiroheater seems quite apathetic in
regard to dna social reform. Mr. S. Hotta, of
Weymouth, presided, aid brietly opened the pro-
everting'. Mr. C .Ilies, of Pieblletown, lip-he of the
crime, the luoacv, and the misery ocessioned
through the drinking aistorns of the ootin.ry, aro'
couteniled that no man was teeter meotilly
physically r.r the use of intosicatrng Irnuore
Filially, he challenged any pinion in ochesier to
argue the teetotal goodien with him before i welve
, impartial men. (Very probably the argurnen• would
be decided in Mr. Collie's favour, hut the v
is to get over the circumstance that the People life
, the drink, for liking is more potent than logic, and
there are so many diatiker in the world which all
! must suffer, that one cannot touch wonder there
j .'mould be a clinging to an easily-obtained like.) Mr.
Eddy, a professional lecturer, then addrested the
, meeting on "What stops the way r • question for
the friends of progress, of whom he said there were
three classes. First, the friends of education :in
regard to the efforts of this class he maintained that
education would never make • man • sober man,
and he went on br say, and to give illastrations ..f
it, that there is as much drunkenness and de-
butchery among the educated and higher dance as
amongst the unlearned and the lower classes. He
almired strong drink because it was co respecter of
persona—making • fool and • beast of the rich man
equally with the poor. He held that if total alati.
nence generally prevailed, the working-Osman would
not need the help of the higher in educating their
children, and that there would he no occasion fir
raising the question of compulsory educatiou, fir
then the people would be in • position to par for
the educe§ eto irf their children them-elves. There-
fore, the friends of education should be foremost in
aiding the total abstinence aura. Second, the Social
Science Assiciation for the advancement and im-
provement of the working cleans ; He referred to
the singular "argument" of • gentleman at the late
congrese that drunkenness was • good thing,
because of the beautiful visions it created in the ima-
gination, and expressed himself strongly in favour of
reality. He also noticed as remarkable that the
0.1 of Shaftabary, (though as • Commissioner in
Lunacy, he had stated that fourdlfths of the lama in
the kingdom was tramahle to drinking) said the cause
of the wretchedness and immorality that prevail ,
amongst the lower orders is the overcrowding of
their dwellings. He contended that if men gave up
drink, and took their wages home to their wifes,
instead of to the Liana Banks and Sinking. Funds—
if they lookod after No. I, which Mr. Disraeli sail
was the moat important number of all, they wool I
soon become sanitary and social reformers for them-
selves. lie spoke in the warmest praise of John
Bright, as loyal, patriotic, arid honest, hoping that
success would crown the efforts he was now making,
though he remarked that if men would become
teetotaller, they would not need the franchise lowered
for they would raise themselves to it. Much might
be done by moral suasion. but that would not reach
all, and for tbeir sake' they must persevere tall
Government pat the temptation to dr.nk net of the
way of such. Third, the men who strive to inculcate
in the minds and heart, of the pet Tie sentiment, and
truths to prepare them for the future, as well as for
the present life: By a happy figure, he °impanel
teetotaliain in regard to religion all the guiding star
which led the wandering shepherds to find oat the
infant Jesus, and he told that there were now 10,000
reformed drunkards members of the Chri4ian church.
Mr. Collins, in the absence of the chairmen, made a
few concluding remarks, dissenting from the political .
sentiments of Mr. Eddy. During the evening,
several glees were sung by Mr. J. Robinson's choir,
to the gratification of the company. The proceed-
ings were closed by singing the National Anthem.

Limn:ins ox Cowin. —The third lecture in con-
nection with lb. Early Closing Association was
given by the Rev. R. agent d , •., rector of
inalarle. on "The FAeots of Colour on the Eye of
Man." The Holy Trinity Infante' School Room
was well tilled, and the Rev. J. Fisher, as af. iretime,
presided. At the outset Mr. Fozgerald offered a
defence of lectures. lie reminded his bearers that
300 years ago It was by oral communication chiefly
that knowledge was imparted, and he held that
lectures were now most woeful, for there was an
attraction in the human voice and a pleasure in per-
ceiving the evident understanding by a man of his
sol,ject, by means of which, the wheat features of the
iii. and sciences could be popularized and conveyed
to those, who, if they studied them from books
would probably soon fall asleep over them. He
lamented, however, the incoherence of many of the
lecturers of the present tone, and during the next
hour, gave an extraordinary illustration of the rime,
for be was continually dying off at a tangent into
some new subject, and the number of his parentheti-
cal observations war remarkable. Sell, his address
was chatty and instructive, and generally
well pleasing to the audience. He adored some
remarks on the conveyance of light to the eye, and
expressed himself in favour with modern scientific
men of the undulatory motion of the ether which fills
space beyond about 40 miles spward from the earth and
permeates our stmoritphers, &nonpareil to the eorpus-
cularian theory of Newton. He spoke at length on
the analysis of the spectrum, and of the beat rays at
nne end, and actinic nye at the other beyond what
Newton had discovered, Of the beauty of colour in
the world, he spoke In the language of enthusiasm,
and fought • absdow, we soaped, when he said,
there where WHIN people who instead of the varying
and lovely hues with which our eyes Sr. gladdened
in the world, would rather all wag of a dun colour.
He gave two amosiog instances of colour.blindnese ;
in each c ise scarlet and green were to the persons the
same colour; one was • dressmaker, and she lout a
breadth of scarlet silk in a dress otherwise of pea-
green i and the other, an artist, painted his
own portrait, but put all the shadows in
with colour which to everybody tut himself
was verdant in hue He told that if two duce
differently coloured be placed near together and
looked at, in • short time there will be perceived
not the two colours bet one colour such as would be
formed by the amalgamation of the two; that scarlet
is the colour most tiring to the eye, and, if looked at
long enough will give place to greeo, and if the eye's
be removed to another colour, it will not be sten as
such, but what it would be with an admixture of
green. The practical outcome of this was • hint to
drapers to learn the couopenesting or consolobary
colour which each hue has, viz., black, whit.; red,
green; and so on, and when customers get puzzled
as to the colour of • certain article, through looking
at s variety of hues, to place before them something
having the oonsolotary tint, which will restore their
sight to its normal state. In illustration of the effect of
this he told how a celebrated French dyer being
complained to about the colour of some black cloth
which he knew to be good, put • piece of it upon •
white substance and sent it back, asking if that
would suit Lim, when the complainant replied he
should be delighted if be could get such a colour es
that, to which, of course, the dyer rejoined "It is a
piece of the very stuff you have returned." Upon this
the lecturer took occasion to remark on the importance
of considering all things in conjunction with their
connections and serronndioga He referred to the
better taste manifested by the fair sex in France ard
Belgium, than in England in the matter of colour,
and pointed out that the result of this in • com-
mercial point of view, was not satisfactory to this
country, while much was lost throe- it in the matter

Arougb it in toe
of eleiranoe and refinement. During the evening
Messrs. J. Bennett, Corfe, and Patch sang "When
the winds whistle cold," and "Fair Flora decks,"
8.c., the latter being enthusiastically applauded,
when Mr. Patch sang, in splendid style, "The Bey
of Biscay." The prooesdin..a were closed by sing-
ing the National Anthem.