The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

A petition against7th- e return of Mr. Brookes and
Lord 1)c Wilton. who were returned fur this borough
at the recent election, was ii)melitAal to the House of
Commons on Friday. On dil that the considera-
tion of such petitions will be deferred till the next
melon.
LECTURE pN Lire AsNURANCE.—Mr. T. W. P.
Taylder, of the British Protector Assurance Office,
delivered an interesting lecture at the Guildhall, on
Thursday evening, on the subject of "Life Assu-
rance."
Here CHACEL.—On Wednesday the opening of a
new organ just placed in Hope Chapel, was cele-
brated by a public tea in the schoolroom. After tea
the company adjourned to the chapel when the
builder, Mr. H. Bevington, presided at the newly
erected instrument, and a good selection of sacred
pieces was performed. Mr. Barling stated that the
cost of the organ was £22.), which had been sub-
scribed mainly by the persons attending the chapel,
and but a small sum had yet to be collected. Ad-
dresses were delivered by the Revs. John Smith, J.
Burt, and Lewis, between the musical perfor-
mances.
The season seems already to have commenced in
earnest, many houses being taken and few lodgings
remaining to be let. The steamboats to Portland
are numerously patronized, and on Wednesdays and
Saturdays the Prince steamer ply. to Lulworth.
YACHTING.—In consequence of an accident having
happened to the Lady Bird in her passage from this
port to Cowes, and the withdrawal of the Ran Avis,
the Royal Yacht Club Prize of £5O, to have been
sailed for here on Friday, will be contested for at a
future date, the match having been postponed.
CHANNEL FoRTHOCATIONN —Cherbourg is a port
at which 100,000 men, with all their stores. ammu-
nition, and baggage, could in a few hours be em-
barked. Those who have not witnessed an operation
of the kind can hardly form an idea of the rapidity
with which French troops are put on board ship, or
stewed away when there, together with their appur-
tenances. Two thousand is the number assigned to
a line-of-battle ship ; and as the large docks can
contain forty of that clam of vessel, wholly irrespec-
tive of a far greater number lying in the roadstead,
it is evident that 60,000 men could, with that num-
ber of ships, at any moment be marched on board,
without needing the aid of boats. This is a "great
fact" worth bearing in miud.—lians Bask's Navies
of the World.
TOTAL AinTINENCE.—A lecture was delivered on
Tuesday evening by the Rev. W. P. Taylder, at the
Guildhall, the use of which was kindly permitted by
the Mayor. There was a numerous attendance.
After some general remarks on the importance of
the temperance question, the lecturer noticed elabo-
rately the various objections raised against teetotal-
jam, answering the remark that great, good, and
intellectual men indulged in stimulating drinks, by
instancing many eminent characters who had been
injured by them. He also entered into the physiolo•
gical and the scriptural views 14 the subject, and
concluded by describing, in vigorous ternis, the
evils of inteillperance. At the close the chairman
(the Rev. W. H. Walton) signed the pledge, and
many others followed his example.