The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

Iv Corm I'ITIRM AND 1011,TertTI71tAL GAZETTg, MEMO, 'FEBRUARY 11, 1868.

WOtanit Mug CIAM.—The thirteenth annual
mww‘w6 of this excellent sosavy was held on Friday
•••wiwg. 31st, in the reading-room. The "W'D'lawws
of
be"' wee good. especially of the juniors.
.Kr. W.
wo unanirnously oiled elon W 3 mid
h pro-
Zcinel explained the 1116010 of Kr. Per k's 1=1:
to reed over the minutes of the lest point
and then called upoo. the seerstaries (Kr.
Yanaaid Kr. igesdeel for their report. —Kr. Kann
thee read the following report :—" The time be. again
aim round when the club is annually summoned for
the purpose or bearish the true position in which we
stead, and to make sash arrangement& for the future
,
' minein.ageotimieuntwaol
.thbeeingels.th
gooarearia.moldostliktoet two
mike stow,, and eituongh in taking stock of the society's
affairs, we have not to wade through dust and dal and
othwebs, there hag not been a emus in all the amounts
bet who ham been tumbled over and over again to me
~hei,h,er a ready was what it stood for and without
detracting is the smallest degree from the painstaking
labours of former auditors, it may safely be said that •
more marching audit has not been brought to hear upon
the sthiety's financial position than that just completed
by Mr. Hodges,and Kr. G. Freke. May the honors thereof
keg be green upon their brows- In presenting this,
the 13th annual report of the Wm king )tan's Club, your
secretaries ate perticiularly glad to be able to Otte that
after the examination above referred to, the balance of
accounts show there steads in favour of the club the
sum of £l9 Is. 3d.; a fall and detailed amount of
this will be promptly read by our excellent and
highly-
esteemed treentrer. In the number of our benefit
members we have a slight increase, 105 as compered
with 100 last year now 'tend as members of the club.
During the year 171 throes have stood on the list of
beuefit members—this floating, shifting number of
members is perhaps to the extent of one-halt unavoid-
able, but we feel sure that • very large proportion of the
other half might hoopoe pennament members of the
club. We venture. therefore, to opress the hope that
our present number of benefit members will be
perrathently lueressed from this latter portion of our
floating members. In library members we have at
present but six, but amongst the members themselves •
lively imprecation of the contents of our library
continues to manifest Rolf. During the year 2650
books have been issued by the librarian, an average of
51 volumes weekly. We have received several hand-
some presente for our Itheury in the shape of books
from various Moods to the club to whom the warm
thanks nt the modwas are due Our library now
°octane 815 venoms ; sad here it may be abated that
steps have been taken still further to Increase the
number of loooks, and to expend some of the present
babas, to band for that purpose. We hope, therefore,
the announcement will gladden the hearts of those who
are craving for new books. With respect to our
bosomy members, we are thankful to be able to state
that the club is still kindly and as heartily supported am
heretofore. Without this oduable aid it would be
impossible for the club to maintain its ground; the
; wannest thanks of the members erodes to our honorary
subearibers. In referring to our readings and entertain-
ments from the period of our taking office in February
; lest year up to the present time • few remarks are
neeessary. We ascertained that it would be wise quietly
eater upon penny reading*, and we had therefore but
two in the former part of the year in the Town-hall.
These met their own expenses. At the ooninieneement
of the present winter session a plan of readings and
ontertaininent was drawn op, bat we found that
Mrs. Edwards and the Glee Union .11111 so
Rath occupied with the Harmonic Society the
with no abatement of interest in and a desire
to aid the club, they were unable to assist us to the
same extent as formerly. Mrs. Edwards and the Glee
Union, however, very kindly offered to render us all the
occasional help they could under those circumstances
We were, therefore, unable to arrange for penny read-
lags as former secretaries had done. The entertain-
ateuta we have had, however, we are happy to say, were
sources of profit to the funds of the idols To the
resdas in the readings and particularly to the Bay.
James Taylor, for his (cations Irish readings, the
members of the (dub are mesh indebted. To Mrs.
Edwards and the members of the Glee Union, for their
unwearied kindness in giving us their invaluable •ervioes
so eonstantly, and, we may add, so cheerfully, our
heartiest cheeks are due. We may add that Mr.
Payne reports fairly of his clam for junior members of
the club, carried on twice every stab, in connection
with the science and art department of the Kensington
11111161101. We would express the hope that every
member of the classes will strive succoodully until the
session is over. Before closing this report we deshrs to
revert to • subject mentioned in last year's report, thus:
More commodious premises are now more urgently
needed than ever," Ira. This want hes been kept before
as, and your committee had what appeared a dc-treble
Isite offered to them by a gentleman owning the pro-
' party ; for some time negocistions were carried on
respecting the same, but after much consideration the
committee very reluctantly declined for the present the
offer of purchasing the property for the club. The room-
mitte• deers to maks this want of more commodious
premises widely known, believing that it we could offer
more accommodation we should secure a larger number
of members from the working and labouring climes of
our town; also that the various benefit and friendly
othearee, which are now compelled to hold their meet-
ings at public houses, would, we are assured, gladly
rent a room of the club if we had suitable accommoda-
tion to offer. The good resets to individuals. families.
and to society at, large likely to follow such a ohmage sre
so great, that the subject of more commodious premises
for the doh is well worthy the earnest consideration of
every thoughtful mind, and the offer of ready practical
, &miaows for the Otalommt of such an object from
every lover of his fellow-men and well-wisher to
the working and Lthouring clamed of Blandford.
In conclusion we would notice the continued good
attention of the manager and his wife to their
duties and to the interesta of the club, and now with
our hearty wishes for the well-being and continued
prosperity of the club we lay before you our report"
—The Chairman having made a few remark on one or
two subjects mentioned in the report, its adoption was
unanimously agreed to, and the treasurer (Kr. Eiger)
then reed his financial statements. follows :—lthosipte :
Manes in hand last year, Ell 2s. ilid.; honorary
members' subscription*, £l6 185.; members weekly sub-
eriptions. £3l 13e. tid.; library members', el • entrance
fees, El its; visitors' panes and fines, 10s. 10d.: rent of
room., £5 13e.; premeds of treedinp and entertainments,
£13185. 6id.; sale of catalogues, flu.; interact on bank
deposit of LIO us.. Os. 9e1.; sale of paper. ha. and by
omission. £2 7a. 4id.; total, £B4 lea. sd. Disburse-
ments: Gratuity to manager, £2; house rent. £l4 ;
rules, IR 12a Bd.; gas, £4 4s. ; weals and wood, £7 9s. 2d.;
iwwwwwwe (two years). 9..: corporation fel use of town
ball and am easbas4e, £4185. Id.; selleeteriee salaries
£3 3..• gratuity to Mrs. Edwards, Eli 54.; tradesmen's
bills, 'lll9 its. lid.; incidental expenses, ER Is. Id.;
balance in hand, £l9 2s. 3id.—total, £B4 16s. sd.
The Treasurer congratulated the members on the in-
creasing properity of the society, and contrasted it.
mesas with • similar one established in Portsmouth;
fro their seethes they were greatly indebted to the kind
and liberal support of the honorary members, rbe
report was then adopted, and after • cordial vote
of thanks had been awarded to the retiring
secvetariee, Ithe treasurer, honorary members, and
the theimittee for the peat year, the Chairman said
the next business related to the have, and first to the
election of a secretary or secretaries for the ensuing
year. It was We proposed and carried unanimously
that the retiring seeretaries,Kr. Meador, and Mr. Kann,
be requested to continue their services.—Kr. Meade°,
on behalf of himself and his °abacus, said they bad
had some 0011Veriati012 shout the matter, and at first they
fully made up their minds not to take *flee again,
but after reflection, and looking to the welfare of the
club, which he be/loved was injured by a change of
secretaries, they hid screed, if re-elected again, to take
(Aloe, and be traded that by so doing the caab would
go on in the same satisfactory
_stet. daring the present
as the pest year--(theers). Kr. Elgar was thee 1111/oi.
measly cleated teammate. The 'committee choose for
the ensuing year were :—lfesers. Bartlett, H. Hodges,
W. Lance, W. Iteikle, E. George, C. Curtis, J.
Dudthrideps, Aleford, Jen. Lanes, and Thomas Peeks.
On the proposition of Kr. Blear, the customary vote of
thanks was passed to T. H. Bedard. Fag., the founder
of the club. E 5 of the balsa°e in band was voted
towards the perehmo of books for the library. A
gratuity of Ell was very unanimously voted to the
manage, and his wife for their services during the year,
In acknowleging which Kr. Will, expressed his mtidee-
Mon at the inereaming preeperity of the club, and cadre
very highly of the conduct of the junior members during
the past year. After awarding • vote of thanks to the
Chairman, the National Anthem , was sung, and the
meeting separated.

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MARRIAGE'S, BIRTHS, AND Dzierss.
The Registers of the United Klogdoso show that the
births of 142,974 children and the deaths a 163,0E6
WWI@ elf both leen, were in the three
months ending es De.,,e,ber3ls. Iles retarded
naturel therms" was 88,949; the nag" "kraal' vex.
30353. The Mineral swirls'ss of the United
Kingdom in the quote" ending September 30.10967,
were 54,561 The resident popoletiou the United
Kingdom in the middle al -1867 is animated M
,t 57.473 that of Inked mid Weise amounting to
21.499,504, of Soothed to 3,170,769, and of Ireland to
5,567.19& The commuted desth-rat• of the qearter is
3.136 Pm mot; the tuirth.r.te 3190, the marriage-rate
for the previous quart. 1.591 lagnightod in the sine
months of last year the marriage-rat• Mgror•g &AP'
sloe; it was in • marked degree less active then it had
been Is the three previous peon ; and when the returns
are completed CR the fourth quarter of the year it will
FooboblY he men that the depression oontinued
throughout 1867. Tb. 000dition ot the people 'applied
lees opoomailmnost than it had does to form froth
family ties. The burth•rate, which had bees high
&tried three-fourths of the yesaorsa veil maintained to
its close; and another feature of the returns, which
will be observed with gratification, is the unusual low
mt, of mortality last quarter. As compared with
the four previous years. 1663-66. the whole of
1967 must be classed as beslthy. The following are the
for this county :
OZATh.

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is 1
ilaaawitss. 1111. TIM
u 1405 1867 1865
00 13 11 I 4 I 1887
14 SO 11 $3 84 8 43
14 60 64 100 11 73
a 12 se no las 1 1 63
15 30 19 114 Ilb 1 10 82
11) 46 sr 134 .44 1 411
74 100 202 11 101 140
47 44 40 181 161 1 I.- 1 ID
18 20 a 95, 1 11 4 61
25 16 22 99, 91 47 4 47
41 a 81 la 117 14 II 85
MS 16 1366 1490 I 0041751 li6

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FARMING IN THE COLONIES
(Prom S. W. &leer grad CO.'. Circular.)
Vierronis, Nev. 911. —Trude bag eetenderably improved.
Is breadstuffs during the oast fortnight abet 36,000
bushels of wheat sod 1,660 tons of flour have been
quitted. 7.,187 bales of wool were sold in Melbourne, and
over 900 in Oeelong—prbies 74. to 12901. for grease and
144 d. to 230. for fleece. A favourable change In the
weather has removed the fears entertained by the
farmers ; and, although rust exists ii. many early fields
ef wheat, the late crops promise so well that it is antici-
pnted the supply will apes exceed the demand for home
esiesumption. It is estimated that the fat sheep in
Victoria and the adjoining part of New South Wiles
are 3,000,000 in excess of the present carrying ems-
bilititen f the lend. Boiling down 0011tillUIS in all parts
of the °Amy, but on too mill a scale.
NEw Sows WAlge, Nov. 23.—Trade sound. The
wool market is depraved, end prices rule 24. to 3d.
lower then opening rates of lest season. The grain
crops in the north are unfavourably reported on. The
statistics of 1866, recently peblished, show • net increase
of population in the year of 20,026 persons. Total
extent of land held, 7,448 200 ecru, 66 per cent, being
freehold, the remainder leasehold. Wheat sown,
175,033 acres —produced 2,226,027 bushels. The returne
of live stock show • Imge increase. Of sheep there were
11,562,155, being 3,429,644 in excess of list per's
returns, or 27 per head on the popolation. Wool
, shipped and sent overland. 36,960,6851 b., the
, l
quantity ever sent from the colony ; taken at a=
fim of Is. 6d. per lb. the value of tbe year's cilip is
12,773,554. The public debt at the end of the year
wee £6,416,430.
Soule AUISMALIA, Nov. 29.—Trensactione very
limited until the middle of the month, but great activity
his sines prevailed owing to telegrsphie advice., and
heavy purchases of wheat and flour—prime for wheat,
6s. 6d.; dour, £l3 101. to £l4. Orders still deeding
over through the extreme difficulty experienced in
securing vessels. Red rust his appeared in many '
districts, and much damage has been done to the growing
crops. The opinion, however, prevails that, owing to
the wide area of land under cultivation there will still
be a large surplus for exportation. The Berth has
*ailed for London with 9,210 bags tour and 1000 quarters
wheat; the Star of Gwent for Liverpool with 6,340
bap dour; and the Robert Mime for Cork with 6,514
bap of wheat. Export of wheat to 16th, 286,394
quarters, and flotr, 40.102 tons, together equal to
90,637 tons of tour. Quantity exported In 1866 foe
einem period, 36,696 tons. Reports from Maltose state
that the wool is in excellent condition; copious rains
had fallen ; grass was abundant, and on the whole the
season had been a favourable one. The molten& vine
has been successfully introduced from the Cape.
QuittwaLsen, Nov. 9.1.—A general improvement in
triads end oon6dence returning. The wool sewn hes
met in and large quantities are daily 'arriving ; 1353
bales is,
two pockets dispatched by the Young
Australian ; the Harmolins will follow in a few days,
she has already about 900 Wee on board. ghosting
operations much impeded throughout the colony, owing
to the scarcity of labour, conseqneat upon the rash to
the Grapy Creek diggings. Cotton arrivals are almost
over ; during the season 1324 bales passed through the
customs, say 383,7531b5., declared vales £15,086; the
absence of rain prevento progress in planting. The
' yield of wheat acid oats will be unpreoedentedly large
Ibis meson should nothing unforeseen occur. The &Men-
tion of stociko gnats is directed to the subject of turning
the enrolee stook to bemire amount than boiling down.
A company is proposed to be formed with the view of
importation, after subjecting the meat to a patented
proems of freesia( by artificid means, when, it is
eroded, it will keep for an indefinite period until
thawed. The experiments made have invariably proved

WITIU AUSTRALIA, Nov. 27.—Tra4e tolerably
salve during tbe month. A eonsiderable balance of
cereal produce still remains on hand. Stooks of all
kinds of imported goods are full. Flour has been sold
at £l2. Freight moot wanted for sour, sandal wood,
and ore. Pearl shell promises to become an item of
some importanee for erpert— considerable quantity
goes forward tnithie season s wool ships, and enterprise
1 in the fishery has been greatly stimulated by the
eaosllsnt prime realised in linglend for some shipped

hones.
Tamtawia, Nov. 2&—The quietness of th• mouth
has limo brokes by the demand, within the last ten
daps, for breadstells for the English market; prises
have rim ends better tons proesils. Flour £10; wheat
4s. 3d. to 41s. dd.
CUR or GOOO Flora —Ospr Tows. Dos. ll—Cook-
morotal matters are slowly improving. Tb• scope look
, very promising; wheat and baAry especially are expected
to belarply la exams of former years. Value of GEC
of wool ...a Warr prodore hence since last mail 947.
Parr Elisabeth. —llls estimated that nearly 10,000
of wool have arrived during the peat month.
As/2mm Comanuvrtor.— Boom Ares, Dec. it
- -limey is abundant and in good demand. Wool is
walling at roamed rates. Land is not realising so high •
firm is formerly. A dock of Alpamis and Llamas
recently imported hes arrived in good 000dttloa as tho
plains of the Brads Oriental.

THE ALLEOnt STRIKE IN ONE OF THE
DORSET M.P. e HITCH ENS.
A few weeks ego we inserted e parsgraph frets owe of
Use Bristol dallies telling s ludicrous story of s inmate
strike la the east of Dorset, whop the Duke Of 0101.
bs4dçe wee shoal to visit the 'Squire. Putsch has
vesilled the alleged oecarreuse es follows

!MAYA/PIS" HALL IN MR STIISAT.
Tuna—Parochial Padua
Sind Christian friend, and brethren dear,
Before Toe here this day,
We are ashamed thus to appear.
In this diegrandul way,
Which we, that better days have known,
Do now declare to you,
It hi nemmity alone
Occation+ um to do.
We once were servants at a 'Squire's
In haprier days gone by;
Though then our meals did our desires
Not fully +Lay
But yet the vtatuda weren't es bed
But what .0 .11 did thrive ;
The number every day we hsd
Amounted unto Ave.
For break-feet, breadend-butter, toe*,
Korn tea and oodles too,
With bacon, which may be &lewd
TOO muds for souse of you.
For loneh we aft bad Wad and meat,
And never did we fall
Of an 4 and elusion enough to eat,
To 4 Ink, of ample ale.
for dinner Joints we did obtain,
Paotry Akimbo bed we,
And bread-and-buttes had Wills
And bettered UNA for tea.
On breadead-chems, or meat once mace,
At yapper am were fed,
And deo had our ale before
We went, each night, to bed.
But, oh, we couldn't red contest,
But more meet need Moho.
And in a body .0 09 went
Complaining to the 'Squire.
Our waste he couldn't underseand,
And him lashed to tell,
We desks for breakfast did demand
Ilsaidas, end dm". SS .41.
The Duke of Oambridge, wit •• losews
Wm :waft them to slay:
• threat of *Oft, out we threw,
And smear tbses gave way:
Which, when HY Royal Highness left,
He eirsteray did recall.
W. gruntd of the boon bereft ;
Thin be Ambled as all.
Rotor, we are, all out of Owe,
Prom holding out for board,
Whleh everywhere we found the cam
No mester would afford.
Of thews lon steals a day we had,
Winn 0. o'oo in employ,
Oh, now should be very glad
Obe only to shio7
We had, at this loaleamed time,
And 110100 of the year,
licendomed to abundance pima,
Privation is given.
ht on poor .out., who didn't know
Who,. we were too well fad,
lind Obrigthe friends your our help bate*
To boy a bit of

--
Bob it terns out that the whole affair is • myth, as
everybody in this county noticipated. The follow.
int letter formally denying the dory Ica been
received I,—With e 0011111d1R2ble amount a
astonishment. I have read, in most of the daily as well
as the weekly ceerspapers, • passtraph copied frog' it.
Drilla news, reffieling the highest discredit and, at
the isms time, inflicting the greeted injestise oil all
the domestics in the establishment of one of the
members for the manly of DOLMA. Allow me to my
there is not • para&l of truth in the statement
czefora, and it is entirely without foandation.
los hem no striks Us the loitehos, act has
there been a depetation of the domestic' to the worthy
M.P., neither bas there been anything maid In 11111M11200
to the food provided for our consumption; but there
Wits the best paedble feeling between the employer
and the employed. I bops you will give this an early
Insertion in order to contradict the false report that has
gone forth. I defy contradiction to this etatemost. I
Povi c.b.ditwataiffvmm, Una= lisnawa,
Feb., 1868."

atnrcal Nevi.

IT if now raid that Mr. Mieroric is to be ornisesrated
In south Advice.
1111111110.—Mr. Cochrane, of the firm of Pollock and I
Coebrass, Paisley, dhappeared on Friday week, and
Ism not Woos ham seen or beard of.
by their
Till committee of the Clerkenwell Esplesion Relief
Fend has announced that baying now waived a aufß-
tient sum for the purr:roes contempla
Present aetion, they have suspended their appeals to ths
pahlle. ted
OLKILEIM COLRESPONDINTL—The number of letters
remittel to the return letter department of the Post
()Moe in 1865 wan 3,518,001). Of them 12,000 had ls en
posted without any address, and contained property
representing 133,700 in vales.
TOO MUCH LIIIIITT.—The Ordinary of Renate gaol
(the Re.. F. R. 1.. Jones, M.A.), declares that he has
some to one general conclusion. "that the prevailing
sod Intitfel source of crime at the premier% time is the
general right which is claimed for the unrestrained el•
premien of opinion." Ought he not to be Chaplain of
Bedlam!
MUNICIPAL ELOQUINCL —Kr. Warren a member of
the Bristol Town Council is responsible for the following
stansas whisk be recited, without "laughter" or "ap-
plause before the Town Council on Tuesday :
Mae Corporation. stoop to folly,
And learn too late snit
_neer. betray.
What soup can soothe their melancholy,
What punch can wash their doe away I !!!
Ulf END OP TBS WORLD.—Dr. Cumming says : I
Diver proteasd or attempted to prophecy, bull believe,
as I stated twenty years ago. that proximately 1867
winds up "the times of the Gentiles." Elliott states
1866; others sty 1868—these being inferences from the
great chronologies of prophecy. I gather from inspired
prophecy that we are plunging into times of atm.
eedented severity sad trouble, and that it is time for
every man, while doing his duty to his country, his
family, and moiety at large, to have his loins girt end
his lamp butting, 'for the coming of the Lord dreweth
WO."
PROTESTANT DENOVITIATTON IN D11111.M1.--A meeting
of the Protestant Defence Araosiation took plus at the
Rotunda, on Wedneadey. The Earl of Bandon presided.
About 3,000 men were peasant. The meeting was
orderly but entbulia.tis, especially when any reference
was made to the "Settlement el 1688." There was
loud and sustained cheering for an earnest condemna-
tion by one of the speakers of Ritualist approaches to
the Church of Rome, and also at the announcement by
Lord Bandon, as chairman, that the association desired
"not to prop up shapes in the Irish Church • not to
procrote an exclusive object, but to include within their
ranks their Presbyterian and esleyan countrymen.
and all denominations who valued Protestantism."
The platform was rocupied by a considerable number
of Irish peers, members of Parliament, and deputy-
lieutenants.
Ong lION-CLAD PIXIT.—In professional circles the
report of Rear-Admiral Warden, who commanded tne
Channel fleet on its lad cruise, has been to • certain
extent anticipated. It is held to be tolerably certain
that the gallant officer is in favour of the Achilles, con-
structed by the late eminent ship-builder Oliver Laing.
She is pronounced to be a better sea boat than the
Minotaur, which the present Comptroller of the miry
Intended to be an improvement on her. She steams
better and is faster under sail. All these are excellent
qualities, but as her sides are only protected with com-
paratively thin armour plates she would be no match
for such • 'hip as the Bellerophon, which, as a fighting
man-of-war, must be deemed the most powerful ship of
the squadron, although in • PM Irby she may not have
the seine amount of speed as her competitors.
IT WM to promote health that the Parliamentary
Committee on food adulterations was appointed; there
is, however, one hurtful custom of an especially
objectionable character still in force, for English mer-
chants continue to allow the Chinese to cover tea
with mineral colour, purposely to increase the profit as
I it enables the inferior brown leaves to be passed at
I high rates off with the beat. Green tea when imported
perfectly pure has a dark olive lea, and the pure
'black is never intensely dark. Horniman in Co's imports
command universal preference, being very strong,
wholesome and cheap. An imitations abound, we that
" Horniman in Co., London, original importers of the
pure tea," is on each packet. Agents—chemists, con-
fectioners and booksellers—are in every town see the
I Est in these columns.
"PATERS" BUSTS FAREWELL 811111011.—" Father"
Hunt, of Northmoor-green, took leave ofhis congregation
on Sunday after his own peou'iar fashion. At eleven
o'elock, morning " mug" and prayers were sung, in the
presentee of • tolerable congregation who behaved in a
very daunt manner. The rev. "lather" was preceded
to the reading desk by • boy dressed in a Popish
garment, and by rig choristers. The Sunday echo&
shildren joined in the canticles and the choral part of
the service. They also sang " 0 Paradise" loran introit,
and at the elevation they sang • hymn with • chorus to
each verse :

- -
Sweet merament. we adore thus;
0 wake us love this more sod more.
The candles were lighted on (rah side of the crusills,
and the chasuble and frontal were of rich watered white
satin, with superb orphreys of vermillion end gold.
There was a very handsome braes senior at the foot of
the oomannion table, but it was not used during the
*orrice. Mr. Hunt preached from the etrincel store
(wearing the cap of a Roguish priest), sod mend himself
at the anoription. The airmen, which was addressed
eseleanly to the Sunday school children, wee founded
on the words " Be not wise in year own eavanitst" He
mad in their own parish they had been men who could
neither read nor write, so " wise in their own onceite
that they thought they knew more thaa their priced.
us a saeigthowrime nasty it had beelines worse. There
they had seen MOO " country bsunpkinr" Osaka the
Church Catehcism to their bishop, who was, perhaps,
the most /tote and learned prelate of the are I He de.
flounced this, said warned them that they could not
possibly take the first step in learning until they had
got rid of their vain conceits, and until they took •
delight in submitting themselves to their spiritual
pastors and masters Mr. Hunt looked very thin and
pale, and was too unwell to conduct afternoon service.
Tun Reilaitteatts Disarillancatoll or Ma. Regis.
—Rarely does an incident take place so inesplicable as
the disappearance, without the slighted evident motive
or new, of the Rev. B. finite, brother of the eminent
African traveller when untimely an/ accidental death
is still so keenly regretted. Five hundred pounds are
offered for the reproduction of this gentlemen among
his friends, with • conditional ammo' of a free
pardon in the event of his having met with foul treat-
ment, to any indistinals not actually the•
triton of the outrage. The circumstances irriS
disappearing* have been explicitly stated, so far as
narrative bend on personal and inferential knowledge
, goes' but we are bound to say that • haw hangs
about the whole story, which it would be mosj satis-
factory to have dissipated. The topic there an be no
denim is just now the talk of London. When the
Han. Mr. Bathurst, neredited sea representative from
eOrest
ver,peoßripltas!aputot tthsheirCoomt of Berlin,
wn doolarPesuprod hforis
viuthhing ; but hen, in this instance, those who know
the man are without • thought concerning any reason
for his deliberate obscuring of himself. He had not
mush money with him; it seems beyond • doubt that
he left home with a perfectly sealed and innocent
purpose; he went his way, so far as he did go, with
ocimplete • brMht-forwardnees and directness; there
can hardly Mei t • doubt, indeed, that he intended
to dine at no boor inikated by his engagement,
and to attend at the wedding Sled for next day.
Nest, therefore, it Is hinted, he might hove been
the pcomeor of some secret, the arbiter of some
scheme, which would have rendered his temporary
absence from home, and seclusion from his friends,
wombat. We think that this motion may fairly be
relegated to the domain of the Minerva press novelists.
Under any cireumstanoss, there is • secret in the
sadden darkening of • well-knewn Manse
which ought to be, and must be. penetrated. If Mr.
Spoke ham wilfully disappeared from the soelety of his
friends, the fact should be accounted for. If not, there
hes been • *rime committed, and its mystery most be
punned iota its last labyrinth; and the responsibility
of our detective police become minus. For here is the
circumstanes of • gentleman disappearing whose friends
are urgently seeking for him, for whose recovery
an
estesordinary reward is offered, of whore no trace or
slue of the Witten kind an be detected ; who
is not known to have been the associate of any
dissolute or mysterious people ; who was bent,
as everybody had reason to think, upon a happy
social errand ; who conducted himself with perfectly
easy conlidence, as in preparation for • festivity; who
orders anew bet at leakiest five in the afternoon
whose old hat wee found in Birdenswalk at balf-pargi
nevem. and who Is never again visible. What are we
jastilled in believing upon the question which IN really
disturbing the mind of the metropolis? The angular
point 4, that in no direction is there apparent any
distinct opinion upon the matter. There are the
amens of murder, suicide, kidnapping. self-oonosal•
meet, and so on bet nobody can give three consecutive
reasons for maintaining any one of them. In the wean.
while the mystery, whether one of London or not, Is,
up to this hour. &demi one and &dreary one: for if any.
thing mat be supremely bewildering to the imagination
of a Londoner, it is bow • man on vanish in this
tremendous 'aldermen from eight, leaving no traces,
and yet leaving vestiges whin everybody can recognise,
to the still greater perplexity of aIL--After referring
to several of the theories advanced to mount for the
disappearance of Mr. Spoke, the Pall Vail llamas says
a more probable thing is that, looking like a eiergyeten,
and detected by the sharp Tian of practised rogues for
a country clergyman, be wee solicited la the street to
go immediately to some dying men in the neighbour-
hood, and went, and found himself in • den of thieves ;
and gm there either killed in • monMe, or boomed to
death, or made insensible by chloroform —in which Inter
case • dread of what might be said may hays operated
on his min after recovery, in the way suggested by
the Times viz,, resolve to flee. That are
sometimes deeefeffPnbolffsnlterous 6:Zasenolielta-
ties to visit some dying men, Of woman, or child, is
known; and a conespeadent of the Tim wring that
an attempt was mete the Ober day to get him into •
cob by a sham debunk% who urged the neeenty of
immediate attendance as • vitals, is some Nolan am.
And, of mew, with the driver as a emaederne, stupe-
faction by chloroform might be assompliased in • cab;
or 112111141 r, partly by ehlorof arm partly by strangulation,
where the subject was diSoult and the robber d
A correspondent, signing himself "An AmateurMst
t
tics," supports the supposition that in some way or
other the rev. gentleman wee decoyed into the -low
haunts of the neiehboarbood, and there made away
with. The Daily Telegraph alludes, with great reluct-
ance, to the alternative of premeditated suicide, and
hint, that there has been derangement in the family.
The visor of Ilminster, the Rev. G. T. °eyeing, says
he travelled with Mr. Bone from Chard to iSalisbury on
the day Mr. Spoke left home, and has since membered
with eatiefectioe "his perfect freedom from absence of
mind or forced opiat' Mr. Gaming Mies slide
"It is, I ma sue, perfectly Impossible that he on have
Purposed suah • shameless enterprise es to &beat
himself from his home or his work. He washy no means
alikelymnantobeent?upped;be yam a very pure sad
abstemious man is youth and nor/legs, and len been
so to my knowledge ever since ;and the oaly alternative
' but widens Is a sodden shertatioa of labials* of
whisk then arms /faiths pamomal mad bacadMary
BYlarilm•e

IBMNIINO

Palmas grAIIIIL —ID 1865 1,200,000 ported* 16•81Ps
Pot loons from letters and newspapers in tte poet offices.
and 760.000 in 1866.
RAT.= BARLY.—AL labourer found • Uvalde@ wig*
enntainine four em, on Kr. Conway's form at Yeovil
Marsh. a few day. no.
WINDFALL.— A prisoner in Taunton gaol, whole term
of imprisonment Pipit,' in • short lime, kar prat brae
left • legacy of £16,000.
Ti. Relsdal Mercury dates that at raeast two day's
sale of stook. near Peneitb, upwards of 70 rallons Of
spirit. 22 barrels of ale, and 3.0001 b d beef wile
oonsumed.

RIPON.° TO BMW Al • " SPECIAL."—Kr. Thorium
Addison Titley, of Gledhow. has been fined r 5 for
refusing to serve as • specisl constable, by the Leeds
magistrate..
Aporemese to custom, the Captain of Etmi School
recently presented. with much eeremosv, • birch tied
up with bias ribbons to the Rev. J. J. Homby, the
new Read Master of the College.
Ms. Seasersix, M.P., gave • leature at St. Junes'
Rail. London. on Tuesday night, on the political future
of the working classes. Re advised them to mend men
of their own order to Parliament.
Tss dividend paid by the Salisbury and Yeovil Rail-
way Company will be at the rate of £7 per vent.
annum for the pest half-rear. ending Dereembne 31,
earrying forward • balance of £3,84.1.
A WOlf•S named Jute Meadows has lied in the
Rouse of Correction, at Westminster. from swallowing
bed money to escape Adoption. The corrosiveMY
of the win produced epileptic fit., which terminated
fatally after isearly two Teen' Mums.
GIIOSTLY DOT3OII Or • BZITAITT family
residing in Falkirk have recently been mush alarmed by
the frequent mysterious ringing of the door bell, and nil
sorts of conjecture' have been liasarded as to the sense.
The servant girl barn now eonfeneed that she was the
culprit, and on Roadside wee ordered by the Sheriff
to pay • fine of 404., or suffer forty day's imprisonment.

CARTIL of defiance for another contest has
been sent by Cambridge to Orford. The seven oon-
aecutive defeats upon the Thames have not broken the
spirit of tbe Light Blues, and we shall witness in the
spring another desperate attempt to break the long spell
olOsfnrd vistary. Dark Mee, of ammo, ham accepted
the shallops*, and both belie Sr. out already upon the
two University rivers.
, A Mao.— A veteran saver of life was presented with
• silver medal—it ought to have been a handsome
annuity—at Holyhead • few nights since. He is • life.
boatman. named William Rowland, who, for fall hat-
e-century, ham gone out In every great storm that haa
happened down there, and, it is computed, has assisted
In saving no less than 2E4 lives. Though Deventreit
years old, be wee out again last week, and, to all apPotr-
ince, is as hearty as emir.
_ . .

SAD En D OP • DESERTED wrrs—On Saturday
evening • poor wretched woman, the wife of an
attorney's clerk named Crofts, who deserted her and
went to America some years ago, in a fit of frantic
excitement threw berm& and female infant into tbe
canal in the Abbey Meadow, Leioester, and the two
w drowned. When abandoned by her husband, the
father cohabited
of
her child,
Intoxicating drinks. While undcr their influence. abs
"witdh
eridoaudtber mbea.n,mderhaoddwidateds the
frequently awowed her intention to destroy herself.
byttrbecitno.rifieede iltrerrelergy.—ht. petition, numerously
onnot.dmarotouth.sly
oosignzi.
cation of tlie Northern Prowlers., soegmting the appoint-
ment of a committee to confer with Nonoonformista on
the terms of union, arid to desise the way whereby the
ministers of the various Nonconforming bodies may be
brought into tio-operatioe and unity with the olorgy of
the church. A diacuasion earned. The Wesleyans
were principally considered. but they got more kicks
than caresses from the various opeakers. The following
resolution II ultimately passed :—"That, whereas
the union of all faithful ehristians is earnestly to be
desired, and ninny of the causes which originally led to
the 'operation of the Wipleyans from the Church of
England are sensibly diminished, this House would
cordially welcome any practical attempt to effect a
brotherly reconciliation between the Wesleyan body
and the Church of England."
"lTne Urttizertori or 800-LASD. —Though numerous
projects have been from time to time proposed for
utilising the bog-lands of Irelsnd and other countries,
they have resulted in a greet measure in failures. But
' • scheme has been devised by Messrs. °wrens and
Co., engineers, Essex street Works. London, by which
• very sorerior fuel can be produced from peat, and at
• moderate cost. fly this process mechanical perfection
In the treatment and manufacture of the peat has been
attained, and the foundation laid for sound commercial
undertaking :—The system may shortly be described as
follows :—A strong iron tube, several feet in length, and
with • powerful ram working at one end of It, is filled
with dry powdered peal; the ram compresses the peat
In the tube till it becomes very dense, and alter lb
tote is once filled and remorse:mod, a cake el compressed
peat will be delivered at the lower end of the tube, at
each strohs of the pressing ram. As each sake requires
about • minute to pea through the tube, 50 or SO cakes
are all under presume at the same time. As the peat
must be dry before it isnot to the tube for compression,
this is obtained by drying the peat partially by the
motion of the atmosphere, and afterwards so drying
ovens. The total coat of production is about 6e. per
ton; and the machinery can be arranged to produce
from 100 tons per week up to 1000 tons • week, depend.
lag on the size and power employed.
LONDON MID SMITH WIETZES
report of the directors of this company states that the
balance available for dividend is £Z4,342, from which
the elireaton recommend that a dividend be declared at
detheutarateeh.of,„sl,inpegrnosbannnt. ane,,,nu,
of £10,303.
on 2nd
revenue for the past half-year compares ratisfactorfie
with that of the oorremonding period of 1866, notwith-
standing the continued dePrtmion of trade which
generally pervades the countrE The passenger trate
presented an increase of £34,820. and the goods depart-
ment an increase of £10,486. The amount of debenture
bond' has been reclucod in this past half-year by
£197,420, while in the tame period the debenture stock
Issued by the commay has Increased by £292,025. The
average rate of interest on the mortgage debt has
slightly increased, being 444 per cent., as compered
with 440 per cent for the corresponding half of 1866.
Tb• total treat, receipts in the ball-year ending the
Slat of December last amounted, on 5061 miles, to
£893,199. against £207499 in the lame ball of 1866,
showing an increase of £45,630. The working extorter's,
including taxation, amounted to C 420,883 against
£416,721, showing an Increase of £4,162- The net
revenue for the past half-year amounteel to £432,246,
and for the corresponding half a 1866 to 390,778,
showing an increase of C 41,488 ; and that Herm earned
at an additional cost of only i 4 162. or about 10 per
cent. The train mileage run In tbe past belt-year was
16,654 miles fees than the corresponding period in 1866.
The capital account showed that £16,208,960 has bean
expended, baring • kazoos of £116,91&
MIL BRIGHT'S RIXEDT TOlt lama DISAJTECTION.—
Mr. Bright made • speech at Birmingham on Tuesday
night, on the Irish question. Taking as his basis the
speech of Lord Beasley at Bristol, and referring far.
castioally to bim as "this Cabinet lifiniMer," he de-
nounced both him and Mr. Roebuck as promoters of
disaffection and separation. if they had no other remedy
for Irish wrongs, than the .r, of no separation between
Great Britain and Ireland. For himself be had not a
word to say in favour of separation of the two countries.
He believed the Irish eburch was goue beyond the reach
of argument; when it came to be abolished be suggested
that grants should be made out of her capital of
£13,000,000 to Protestants, Catholics and Independents,
and that no state church should be recognised. He
advocated the porolisse of land, to he granted at in-
creased rents to tenants, so that in the Gowen of 20 or
25 yam they might become owners. The effect of
establishing a peasant proprietary would be Conserva-
tive. Mr. Bright concluded by painting a rose-coloured
picture of whet would happen if his suggestions were
adopted. Ireland would be peaceable and loyal. "The
Habeas Corpse Act would no longer have to be sus-
pended. Your Home Secretary would no longer be a
mere commissioner of poll.,; your Queen herself, with
a heart full of sympathy for the sufferings of every class
al her people—(lood and prolougedobsers)—your Queen
would no longer have to say that it was the opinion of
her Ministers that specie' polies and special sentinels
should eased bet Highland horns and her home in the
hit of Wight The prison doors which have been shut
upon many men mistaken and criminal—these prism
doors might be opened, and the feels for treason-felony
and conspiracy against the crown of the United King-
dom might hermitic. for ever be unkseern." Although
the bon. member met with great opposition at first, so
that for 20 minutes he was unable to speak, he sat down
amidst loud and reiterated applause.
ikI•EDAL is 111011 LlM—Lord WilloeghbY n'Erimbl•
twentieth heron. Hereditary Grand Chamberlain of her
Majesty, who eombines in his veins some of the noblest
blood, and In his possession some of the largest estates
I. England and Scotland, has just laid before the paths
his view of what the honour of the peerage and the
dignity of his station demand at his bands. The tree-
Mations ie Ids private life which he has thought fit to
publish show that be seduced • married women of reek,
a Frenolt-womaa, ia 11411, that ha had by her tot
virtuous wife could he, that be on his side introduced
Mara.:lrsdresidehil:..tetr.r.,a•birttm.heihirdu.hcingulbsatathhathe wanatoliolehhi7tizsl:auntmiLas:
her to his friends and relations se his wife, led his
daughter to believe that she wee legitimate, nought from
his father an allowance for her In event of his death;
yet, the.e year. ego. seduced her maid, mimes there-
after. finding that his father had made his coming into
full possession of his property dependent on his abut.
cloning the Frew/lemma, quacelled with the mistress
who had sacrificed all for him, turned her out of the
se bought
s Is the
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,:jikrhrdet:hi.t"et::.swiW:tiu:acuougo:byyt.aharantothu..:::oi:n:ny:
he ever remembered." And all for what? All this
scandal—bed enough in its meninissioll. Untold wone
in its publication—is filing into the face of the world to
save • prier with an illimitable rent-roll from restoring •
few hundred wands' worth of goods be had withheld.
All it Mantra rather than resort at first to the means
which the strengieetrage of the Judge mespelled to be
adopted on the day—s reference of the fads to
some gentlemen of character who could have arranged
them privately. We do not my the sin would have
been made km by sash • mama, but surely he evil
Isflames would. hypos*, be bat the loons
vies Ms Thilith7:.sahis lump vbisk Moo boo •
tight to dorm&