The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-16 00:00:00

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Cinnabar. All offerings made during the day will (unless was an extempore discourse by the Rev. Talbot Grooves,
uroet (Canntti (Brinell et, otherwise directed) be divided equally between the two of Weyinouth, from Eph. v. Pi.— "Bo not drunk with
gnat Church of England Societies. wine, wherein is en:cess ; but he tilled with the Spirit -
'This is, as far ea lam aware, the first great diocsaa The " Otee.t.4" Witi 410%11 to be in the wine it elf and not
TOSSDAY, JUNE 16, 1874. effort of the kind made in England. It is not be regarded in the quantity taken. After leaving church there was
as a joint meeting of the two aocietim, but as a meeting luncheon in • marquee.—Mr. Norton, the president,
t of Church people held independently of societies for the moved a vote of thanks to the Rev. Tnlbot threnves for
NOTES OF THE WEEK. encouragement of the missionary spirit in the Church. his admirable sermon. —This we: ..econilenl by the Rev. 0.
There will be no deputations; but the chief speakers will, L. Mandel and carried with aerial ::::: ation.—Mr. Creaves
It is a subject of the heartiest congratulation it is hoped, be working missionaries who happen to be in in responding spoke of the great eneo..ragenient which
that the Rector of Melcombe Regis has evoked England. These good men will declare to us, after this Temperance reformers had afford:el them during the lad.
example t
among the
Gailltill.Lantabyb.theas,.'.. what things God few months, owing to extra exertioes hying male, through
so much sympathy on behalf of the new church fear that change of the ministry would souse increased
he 18 months ago set about providing near the his lordabiP in soliciting aid in this festival, say% " 1 drunkenness. It WU 'now the duty of all to work as oe, tor
eas:Tiot hut resard it as a movement of great importlec the entire closing of all public.lionses on Sunday. for when
Weymouth railway station, that there is every
ItOntlee. th3t Imperial measere roubl obtaieeil its etfert would
probability of the building being opened in a be such, that in six months the decrease of crime and
few weeks free from debt. Our readers will ; inenorality would be tio great that nothing could possibly
remember that at the time this project was i stand in tho way of further r.:strictions and eon,etillent
blessings to the conunimity.—After a visit to the rectory
mooted there was an under-current at work for gardens, the business meeting was hell in the school-
establishing in the town a pronounced Ritual- room, which MIS appropriately decorated. The migAoo.
istic church, but the determined action of the wive reports were as favouraMe as could be expected for
this season of the year :several new places were open. The
Rector, with the good help of the many who financial statement was also satisfactory. The annual
have rallied to his support, has saved Weymouth conference of the association is to be held at Shot tesbury
from such a scandal; and Churchmen can September lit and end.—Mr. Curtis very feelingly referred
to the loas of Alderman Harker, who had liven a member
rejoice that in Christ's Church, as the new build- of the Poole Temperance Society for 22 years and a V ice-
ing is to be called, the sound Protestant and president of the Association from its commencement.
concluding his timely remarks by leering that a letter of
Evangelical doctrines, which are so manfully ronslolunce be sent to Mrs. Ilarker, from the Executive.
held and eloquently preached by the Rev. This being readily se:onile.l by Mr. Gatehouse, and
Talbot Greaves, will alone have currency, while supportni by the Rev. S. Knell, was iananimonsly carried
with a demo feeling of sympathy.—Tea WWI held in the
the ceremonies of the church will be conducted
to the marquee, then about half-an-hour to 11011Penletilt in the
with all sober-mindedness, and according hell, which WOO followed by A public meeting on the
order of the Book of Common Prayer, as it has rectory lawn, where a large numbers I instened to addresses
delivered by Mr. Norton,. (Ow president). the Rev. C.
been understood for the last 300 years, and Chamber% of Swanage, ; Mr. a Hallam, of Lybthett time
agreeably with the natural interpretation of its Rev. 0. 1.. Dl:inset : Mr. Curti.. of Poole; Mr. Llewellyn,
language. That a sum of nearly 6,0001. should of Poole ; aunt Mr. thsalchild, of Wareham.
be raised in a year and a half inuicatea emphati- POOLZ.
rally the irresistible zeal of the Protestant.
members of our Reformed Church of England ; No SCRUTINT.—It must be a welcome r.:lief to the
people of Poole to be told that it Is not ietended to
attempt a disturbance of the recent election by a scrutiny.
and from it we may draw this comfort, that
After all the " tall talk " ali nit another petition and
should Ritualism and Rationalism eventuate charges ot personation, it is refrediing to find Sir Ivor
in disestablishment, the devotion of Evan- finest accenting the unpalatable fart of his rejection. It
is a hopeful sien te titel that all anticipations of StireC
gelical Churchmen will still bear up the old iA -
ill-founded as they were—have failed in imbuing the lion.
standard of the Bible as the ultimate rule of , baronet to continue a contest in which both his brother
faith and practice, and abide by the old battle- and himeelf, after the moat strenuous exertions, have
cry of Protestantism. been worsted. The most sensible thing for all parties
do now. is to "bury the hatchet." and resume business.
At the approaching Dorset assizes there will Conmetition in trade is more profitable and pleasant than
be two trials for wilful murder—one a soldier election contests, or irony polities—at least that is the
experience of Poole.
from Weymouth barracks, who, in a moment of 'Time Met O' THE PEOPLE."—And who is he "
rage provoked by an act of wanton trifling on am." many on certain occasions would readily cry. Such
the part of a comrade, shot hint dead ; the other, would be the case at an election. The tent, is a favourite
one. Some are uncoermionly fond of it. They by
a man who last Wednesday evening killed the mimic it, to awsiken sympaihy and gain snipped.. Seldom
foreman of his mowing party in a field at Power- now-a-days is there a political contest in which one or
stock. Both deceased and his assailant were more candidates do not claim popular patronage on this
wore. "The people's man" is LI,. man whsi allies I • self
middle-aged married men with families. The with them pledges himself to seek their interests, mica-
mowing seems to have been prefaced, as is usual, Yours to remove thine injustices under which they are
with a drinking bout; and, after this, one of mime:Ted to labour. Into party questions we du not enter
This is not the proper place for them. Nevertheless,
them, named Legg, was in a bemused state, and we cannot help reinarkinz that the term which tones lair
incapable of keeping time to the mowing of title is frequently unfairly monopolited. It is ::::::: ties
good to be monopolised by one order, and it ought not to
Cousens, the leader of the company. Finding be. A man may be no politician, auil yet a " people's
Legg lagging, Cousens remonstrated and pushed num." The citizen who setehis heart on the well-Icing of
him aside. Legg stumbled on his scythe which his fellow-citizens, whatever that well-being may be,
merits the name. Whoever tries to give " the greatest
he was then sharpening, and cut himself in the happiness to the greatest nliniber," is the " people s man.
leg. Cousens fell to mowing in Legg's swathe, All public benefactors should have the title. The author
when the latter ran up behind Cousens, and who sends the white shafts of light into the dark realms of
ignorance ; the discoverer who mitigates misery by mak;
struck at him twice with his scythe, inflicting inc steel do the work of AineWd ; the Llndloul who builds
two deep gashes on his left thigh. In less than homea insteasl of dens for the poor —each of these may
s
fitly be called "the people•sman. The lainwoefl. y .3(0..0f
half an hour the poor fellow died front loss of Clowelunan's Magazine.
blood. When apprehended and charged with
the murder, the poor drinkily-stupid fellow
could only say "1 dunno how it happened."
There call be littledoubt that it wasthe wretched
drink that led to this sad tragedy. Abused and
pushed down by Cousens, by which he sustained
a cut on the leg from the scythe, he returned
the attack by giving Cottsens two cuts with the
same weapon, little expecting, of course, the
fatal issue. But the law holds men liable for
the legitimate consequences of their acts and not
their intentions, and hence the unhappy man
will be tried for Wilful Murder at the July
assizes.
Poole May election is now an accepted fact.
The confident threats of a scrutiny and a petition
which were heard before the heat of the election
struggle had evaporated, have given place to
acquiescence in the result with a promise of
fighting another day. No doubt this is a
prudent decision. The late petition caused a
certain amount of irritation against the house of
Canford, and a second questioning of the choice
of the constituency would have intensified the
feeling of annoyance, and rendered Sir Ivor
Guest's future candidature altogether hopeless.
But if, during the next five years, the hon.
baronet carries out that fancy programme for
the good of Poole he sketched out for himself !
when electioneering—removing the bar, freeing I
the bridge from its tiresome halfpenny toll,'
slackening his hold on the foreshore, &c., &c.
—he may be sure that the inhabitants would
regard hint much more favourably than they at
prtment do ; his political " ratting" will be
condoned by hislocal beneficence and the vagaries
of Copemau and Co. , will be softened into& h utuotu--
some escopuie. At the same time we believe
Poole is intensely Liberal, and that if Sir Ivor
is desirous of Parliamentary honours he will be
wise to go further a-field in search of them.
The Boit. Evelyn Ashley will not be a silent
member, and the readiness with which he was
heard on Thursday night shows that his
experience with Lord Palmerston and his natural
ability, will soon establish for hint a Parlia-
mentary rosition, which will do honour to Poole
and be ad vanta.geous to the nation.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her
Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, and the
Court, will, it is expected return to Windsor
Castle the latter end of next week. We are
told that at a recent servants' ball at Balinoral,
the Queen danced for the first time since the
death ef the late Prince Consort, The Prince
and Princess of Wales have taken a house at
Sunningdale for the Ascotrace week.
The Lord Chief Justice of England has been
WO unwell for some days to take his seat in the
Court of Queen's Bench. The Premier is laid
up with the gout, and Mr. Gladstone's resump-
tion of his place in Parliament is an uncertain
event. Meantime his manly remonstrance with
the Aston Hall colliers has had an excellent
effect. The men took counsel together after his
speech, and, as the result, a deputation, headed
by Mr. Pickard, treasurer of the Amalgamated
Association of Miners, waited on the right
honourable gentleman to tell him that they had
abandoned the ground they had taken up, and
would no longer ask the company to dismiss
their non-Union workmen.
The Bath and West of England Society's
meeting at Bristol WM :? splendid success,
110,105 people passing throng'. Bto turnstiles,
and the receipts for the week aneaamting
£8,700. The largest number in the show yard
on one day was on Thursday. It then rose to
56,435. Croydon is the place selected for next
year's visit, with Mr. Richard Benyon, M.P. for
Berkshire, as President.
The Factory Act Amendment Bill, which
reached the second stake on Thursday night,
proceeds upon the well-worn principle that
women—not some women, but all—are fragile
creatures, incapable of self-help and self-pro-
tection. They are too dependent to possess the
franchise, too fair—as Mr. Disraeli puts it—to
follow a profession, too weak to earn money for
more than nine or ten hours a day. Their
vocation is to be the toys or slaves of men; and
if they bare an ambition to be anything better,
it is the duty .4,:f the State to interfere and pro-
tect them against .i.‘eir own desire of independ-
ence. What Mr. Femme and his supporters
,sked was that women siieuls; be allowed to
judge for themselves how much work they were
capable ef doing; but they were beaten ty 295
against 79.
The house of Commons has refused by a majority
of 24.5 to alter a word of the *sth clause, Sandon
adopting the views of Mr. Forstm, and Mr. Forster
enunciating those views afresh with all the eloquence
of his earnest convictions. Two fresh measures have
been tabled by the Ministry—one by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer dealing with Friendly and Burial
Societies, and one by the Home Secretary for
shortening the limas of labour for woman amid children
is factories. This Bill id Mr. Cross's met with a
*seamy reception from the House, Mr. hlundella pro-
it "a noble measure ;'• and Sir Seaford
•--.l(es NM brings togcthci in a kl of eighty
unsa which are scattered *ruses the
‘.• tans 84' iSo Acts of Parliameat,
4 eat tkives of infants in •bured
jihicrplrspf all
4 diekt accemits,

OPENING OF THE PGOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH
RAILWAY. .

The new line of railway connecting Poole with the
rapidly rising and fashionable summer resort of Bourne.
mouth was opened yestenlay (Monday) morning, the first
train leaving Bourne at 7.56 and arriving at P.sde at Slip.
The train comprised eight carriages, their hem; a fair
number of paasengers to commenee with and aS if to
show how trade would would be promoted, a man with a
board of bronze images wao imported —the first thing of
the sort, some one said, seen in Poole for years. The
image man, of cmwse, is only the promise of other good
things to come. The ruing was delightfully tine, awl a
crowd of spectators turned out to witness the opening
from the bridge crossing the Pariole. and the railway
station, which Woo reached with ',zloty and punctuality.
The 'opening" ceremony, as for as so Poole was om-
cerne.l„ was utterly devoid of formality, and a stranger
would have had no idea of linything unusual taldill place.
away from supposing that the crow.' co:ono:ea the inev.t-
able motley group of Monday excursionists.
Up to the tirst July, there will be eight trains
from Bournemouth to Wituliorne, and nine train, daily
from Witnhorne to Bournemouth, flume arrangements',
however, are only teinporAry. and on the tir.d of July
there will be al entire alteration of the times of arrival
and departure. The complete train service between
Wimborne. Poole, and Bournemouth, until the Ist of July,
will be as follows :

Nom,
clauses all
Statute Rook in
interdicts the insurance
societies, requires the registrat...
friendly societies and the publication
so that any one joining them may know es..
the society stands, what are its assets and habil..
who its officers are, and the tables under which it is
working. The fault of most of these societies is that
they are promising benefits which they cannot per.
form, because the original payments are inadequate,
and Sir Stafford Northcute propose, to publish a set
of model tables, and to take measures for the
periodical valuation of the assets and liabilities of these
societies.