The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-30 00:00:00

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EXTIWADI ENS. —Tb• Ride Voittitteed Corps geed
lieett.er of their ouiertalualeato it %to C r.Zto h spy.,
on Toes lay dila, to a full bows. TIN programme
yea sa follows :
PAM I.—Chorue, 'War eohd of the Druids "(N•r.ad.
lkllro);rdlt." E.lr k Mt," II .o. Ca.plain 11. F.;
" Army aag hare ,C .k 4 Private' Bold.. atbd
Lloyd Joist; panoplies. Pretty village IA eiden'eod "Game,
oad C encode (Feuer, CI wood) stdFnit,"tieranage
I. Dena thaw% tesamer-rommar &resent Madden and
14:r1eeat Kerrelge ; chortle, " The • ft etude &MIMI" (W 1.610.
Pal/ —Cade veretta, "The Tichborwe T 1.1 ;'' c
...g. " Meadow Jai' Orenvitlo Ponaouby, chorus,
Away, away" (XsasnieUo, Auber).

?be reading by the pergetate sod tie soots eremite
gate shush sethleatiee. The eoUrtaisaiest wee. ea
She whole, most auocesafal.

BLAB blO B D.

Bs meßtgoteet—While the church holiest Wimborne
Sr. now I darts.' the prenot erson for being silent,
the hurts of our townsfolk have base oheerr by
frequent peal mud argot well rang.
Aordener.—ln getebouretet. on Wednesday evening,
• child mened Hared 1. oroesing the street keno-
diately in frost of the beers in the statloa 'bee sad it
was re over before the drier raid pall up. The
private., friary .e.tered was • Woke. arm.
LltearanriCaln.—The parish church was neatly
ornimen bed in commemorattes of Chriatmes. Bailable
texts, nioely termed of holly leare and tenter, ford
the front of the galleries on • white ground with
• band of evergreens at the top and bottom, and
similar bob& loterlardng over the pillars. Along the
front of the math gallery the words " I am the Root and
Offspring f David, sad the Bright and Moraine &sr."
In front of the urges gallery "The Bun of Righteous-
sue," and along Um north gallery "A light to lights°
Lb. Gentiles, end to be the Glory of Thy people Israel.
Tr pulpit holly filavell roma shaped on • grotbd of
white wool, the ambit p.nel having the sacred mono-
gram "I. 11.8. formed with variegated holly leser.s.
Ov.r the oommuniou tabe the word. "CIA'S the
Lord" le white lett•111 On • rod groan and underneath.
formed with variegated holly, very prettily worked, the
word "Jeer " in iargu letters, having oo ern &de "Tim
Bon of God,'' and on the other "The Soo of Mao."
Festoons of evergreens bung from the o apbals of the
pillars supporting the galleries, sod wreaths of the runt
underneath. The Mimes Peoney, Mrs. Citotoo. Mrs.
Idermds, and other ladies kindly rested in the props-
retion, and the task of hanging the adornments was
• eoulided to Mr. Elder, decorative painter.
Ttil LABOUR QC/illTtoll.—Mr. T. H. Bastard, of
Charlton, Sandford, who took part to the neer meet,
ism hors in conteetion with the Labourare Vote.,
Wilk% so explain Le position there and to state his
opinions on the gnarliest. He says :—After Mr. Arab
sad several others had spoken, sod ties weil•kuown
oldest. of the stair lad been detailed, I rose and said
that I appeared there bearer I thought it was a ditty,
as an owner of po °platy, to meet the 'Aboukir@ end
beer what they had to 5,7. I admitted. •• I do, that
the labourers ha,.. pocket riut to oomblue, aid foist
unions for the peeper of Poprock% their corobiou,
sod that I could not complain of the .ay in womb Mr.
Arch bed acted on their behalf, and farther, its t he
•as ern ed to praise for Laving °annulled them to
accomplish their objecto aolely by rearo, without
✓.eortieg to any Cores. So for I might be said to haro
been in seeerrose with thew who preored me, but I
then rebind my regret that the previous addressee
had been marked by strong &steals to the hello's sad
that more details had not been given of Lb. Broke by
whir the laboorera were to be baro.fitted, especially as
rens-tied that by enaignuion. I then et.ted tat dons
appeared tube three ways of improving rho p Ike,,s of
late nun, viz.. itimease of wages, shifting Om*. of
▪ kto sew koalliiiv, and oungra• ion. Tat the fint
pended, sad must dread, on capital, cod its dint-btu.
ton in the rape of wages ; that the farep-re Could not
'he exported to pay weer which left th,-ex no profit,
sod that if iseressed wages sore to be issaietataed
wilt-
cot profia, than that rents must be lowered. All
which. I relit taro edd el, would rest ma population'
stets of trade, demand, supply, and so on. As to lb.
round seeds, than it seemed lie N. very doubtful see,
for many who had mord from Booth to North had
retuned dkuppoielted, of whir I gate rostrum ;
but it was afterwards Wasted by Mr. Mayor that
those who returned did not amour sob per rot on
the 'bole And as to the third mode, that no detaila
had been given of hew litheoren by thourods were to get
to Canada, and be advantageously plaeel there at ou.,
and that aothing had her stated to show that
all the best parts of the I.ed there were not already
appropeisted, sad Ooly isodisireble looationt new to
be bad. I itould have rid more, but whin I rose it was
late in the realm, after mazy v.ry long addreers,
and thrre was evidently as iodeposaten to hem &nye
thieg not seseational, In abutting •.pitelistm or
upholding labourers, and I concluded with begging the
letter to be very erten. how they entered oci new
°taros for improving their ordttioe. There use also
• gulped lightly alluded t 0,., whioh I inert to have
raid something, had the or portunity appeared fitting.
I tarn that of small holdings ei land, wideb is if ga
much importance that I beg to add • few words on the
robjrot. It la now more than forty 75551 005 that •
party of gentlemen in London, of whir I was one,
formed aad established the Lithoureis' Friend Society,
with the object of promoting artist is salted tbe allot.
asset system, and other means of bootabing labourers;
but in 1841 the name was rue* to that of "The
Satiety for roproviog the Condition of Labourers," is
which Lord Shaftesbury has taken • prominent part.
The principles advocated by the soolity for carrying
! out the above system were that se ouch land should
be let to labourers as they, with the help of their
families, grid saltiest' in their Nature hours, and the
rent to he at exactly the ume rate as the land in rob
, perish was let at in farm.. The system, with my
experienee up to the Keret time, arid after an
acquaiotatme with many pruttical trials of it, I believe
to be perfectly sound, as a means of benelittlog
labuttren, and giving them, to ere extent, • stake in
I the !ultra But the leaders of the Union go father
than this, and advocate the providing shooters
sub with • few seise of land to be cultivated a*
small terms. Now soon after the establishment
of the above society, dm late Captain libuto•
(• member of it) sod I entered warmly halo the
stitj .itt —took steps for the formatiou of a new
, sodety to carry *tit the idea of small farms, and a ,
pivotp, clue was prepared by myself and pot in Oltenia-
Von. But the more the rheum was gone Into in 1.1.11
and considered, the Ice hkedhood there awned of It.
socoose, and in • *bort time it was abandoned. In far,
• it was found Viet (aims, however Gioia!, could only be
". w
eutitl /orld%
large bycaplcatapil,
capital.
Ithbastysimsailot givenleouldu frequent
e•oreouem.
, attention to the gullet, both in Groat Britain bud on
the Continent, and have foiled no ostler:no of the cultb
! vation of small portions of land as lams being suited
to give comfort and plenty to the cultivato.a, in um
wut:tullbeZe,altwtho°l4, or • oviill'aage7sescoomr?ingbstoselaits
p 4311.4°13,1111de, the sprial advantage of selling milk
I and ether thblis to imuiedlate neighbours, The allot.
I meat system has the advautme of not tequiring any
capital bat that of labour, except to tar seeds. I Will
I not yield even to Mr. Arch to desire to improve tie
°cortical of labourers. but it moat be by praotloal
1110dr and I wish it was mot Utopian to think of OL1•01.
log that no more than two houses should any where be
built aajolniog, and no hour to have less than one
eighth of an acre for ifs site and garden. At all evert,
I am for giving them far wage., a chant hour and
, gsrd. n, sod allotments of laid. Mr. Ar,,h csolutiOna
I that labourers cannot be provident, because tip y hors
nothier to lay by; admitting title, although there is
some evidence to the epootrary in the furniture and a
f. rt to be boned In the edtage of mauy s thrifty coup 4,
there is one TM, importaut matter in whieh they can
be provident, and thereby bo saved from their meet
pressing merles, and that is not by rushing r'ckl.ssty
Into marriage at very early &Kea For this, however,
we must watt for that grand panatela for diminishing
&oriel ilia, • goaeral sound edno.tion, terhing know-
ledge, proclaim& sad thrift, hat whir at preesut sum
distant enough.

Oil AILDSTOCY.
A vestry molls( wail held hers on %Vedas*licy on ths
subject of Ow ileinsatry Kincatiou of the pariah. 'rb•
prinoipal ratepayers attar clind, and it was decided to carry
on the voluntary principle, awl • voluntary rote of two:.
pesos in ins X was ward to as sufficient for tLe
present purposes. A pommy or • peony farthing at
mod won tMallombmlfekns wawa nw