The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTUit..

WEYMOUTH.

Tun Brio Faunar. tbs tender to the training
ship ll•iecaven at tiontbsmpron, hi. been cruising in
our hay for the last few days.

Eitcrion Exessota.—The return of this late
el vim' expenses has just been published, from
which we lesru that the ell-0100one of Mr. Brooks
and Lord Grey de Wilton was £l.lOB, and of
Capt. Gridley and Mr. hlwards, £940. The coots
if the returning were I2s.

SCHOOL Tact?. —On Thursday last the children
belonging to the Hope Independent Sunday school,
had an •• outing " at Frampton Park, the number,
silent 400, being conveyed thither by special train.
Tea and other refreshments were provided, and
various athletic sports were freely indalged in. lin.
fortunately, while engaged in running for • doll, one
little girl about 10 years of age, named Susan Dean,
fell, and fractured her leg. Inspector Morrison, of
the G. W. Police force, immediately telegraphed
home to the poor girl's mother who rendes at
Serambridge Hill, acquainting her of the
disaster and requesting her to get
everything in readiness against their arrival home.
Accordingly, Dr. Nathan was in attendance,
but it was found impassible to reduce the fracture
that night. Mr. Nathan, however, sucioessfully per.
formed the operation on the following morning, and
under his kind treatment the patient, we ere happy
to say, is doing well. As Mrs. Dean ia • widow
subscription list, we are glad to bear, hie beets
entered into to provide proper nourishment and
other comforts for the poor child while she bee on
her bed of pain.

I Tng RIME CORPS.—On Wednesday afternoon
the member. of the Stb U. R.V. corps assembled in
good strength, under the command of Capt. Thresher,
Ensign Hill, and Assistant-Surgeon Third, and pro-
ceeded by the 5.20 p.m. train to Dorchester, in
order to be present at the monthly inepectioa by
Capt. and Adjt. Bernet. The corps numbered
about 60 rank and file, exclusive of the Mad, who
played remarkably well, under their able leader,
Mr. Jones. On arriving at Dorchester the corps
marched through South-street to the rends:von" of
the 3rd (Dorchester) Corps, where they were dismissed
for • short time. At seven o'clock the men again
fell in, and were joined by about 50 of the Dorchester
corps, under theoommand of Liens. Hodges and Arr.
tent-Surgeon Penton. After a few preliminary move-
manta, the corps, beaded by the 3rd D. R. * . band,
under Mr. H. Wellspring, proceeded LO the Pound.
bury, where they were lonised another commutes,
and put through the light infantry drill—the various
meartivres, and more especially the skirni b •I.
being done to the benefaction of the Adjutant, who
at the close oomplimented the men on their steedi.
nen. and efficiency. and urged upon them the great
benefit which scorned to the meeting together
of the corps of the two different towns for combined
drilL He stated that all the arrangements for the
forthcoming encampment at Lulworth were progress.
Mg most satisfactorily, and he sincerely trusted they
would have fine weather whilst under canvas. The
corps then returned, and were dismissed in High
Wm-Meet ; and the Weymouth corm returned
home by the South-Western brain about ten o'clock.
SRA-FIAHINO EXTRAORDINARY. The following
(says the Field) is so curl us • fact in the EAREIR of
sea.fiebing as to be worth recording :—We were out
for a sail in Weymouth Bey, and stopped at drift.
anchor off Portland Breakwater, in water nine
fathoms deep, a strong tide running at the time, for
an boar's pout-fishing. Very soon (the lines, alas!
being rotten) one of them broke in the middle awl
sank • another soon followed its example, and we
were ;educed to one line between four of us, to catch
• dish of fith for dinner! Of course, no one losing •
hook in deep water ever expects to see it again. In
• short time, however, the holder ni the only hoe
14t began vigorously hauling in, saying "be had
caught • big fish at Ire for it was so heavy ." and,
, to the on small astonishment of everyone, he brought
op the identical line which had sea a few
minutes before, and which bad evidently kept our
interests at heart during its wanderings through the
deep, baring honked on its own amount, • little fat
pout. Taking all the circumstance, into considera-
tion, such • thing was not likely to happen 01100 in
• thousand years, and the catch therefore caused
great wonder and merriment, and ironical arise of
"Angle for the other one !" were thouted on all
sides. The two lines were thrown out again, and,
astonishing as the fact may seem (and it certainly
ass marvellous), in • very snort time another heavy
fish was apparently booked, which, on being hauled
in, turned out to be no other than the first line
dropped, baying also • fish, and which must have
drifted some way, being picked up on the opposite
side of the boat from which it went down. So we
terstify.—(Signed) 14. E. Tapper, E. I. Topper,
Henry C. Cane R.N., Arthur A. Caere (Wey.
mouth, June 4th, 1866). The two boatmen were
named John White and Edward Hart.
SAMAR •ND FORTION BIERS SOCIETY.—OR
Wednesday last, the fifty-fifth publics meeting was
held of the Weymouth branch of the British and
Foreign Bible Society. Previous to the meeting,
between 400 and 500 ladies and gentlemen sat down
to tea together in the Meleouthe Regis National
School TOMB, the trays tieing gratuitoolly presented
by Mrs. Eliot, Mrs. Fitzherbert. k.rs. Talbot, 11m
Luadie, Mrs. Beddow... Mrs. (laird, Mrs. Lewis,
Mrs. Crickmay, Mrs. Rebate, Mrs. Damon, Mir
Beals, Miss Robertson, Mir Ransom. Mir Dyer,
Mrs. Pegwell, Mrs. Nobble Mrs. [turbid's, Mrs.
Malted, Miss Reynolds, Miss Slyfield, Mrs. Berlina,
Mrs. Vincent, Mrs. Thurman. Mrs, Tizard, Mrs.
Burt, WS. COIORy, and Mrs. RueelL The proceeds
of the tea are intended to he devoted to the erection
of the new Bible house. At the public meeting the
Rev. Talbot Gram, wended, and G. Arden, Esq.
read the report, from which it appeared that during
the past year the receipts had been £316 18a. Id.,
of which £302 19s. 54. had been remitted to the
parent 'society. Of this £302 odd, £93 19. 6d.
had been remitted on the purchase fund and £209
on the free account. During the year, 1,491 copies
of the sewed Scriptures-702 Bibles and 789 Testa-
ment' bad been sold at the depot. The chairman
then announced that the profits on the tea were
, expected to amount to about £3O. The meeting
was then addressed by the Rev. W. Lewis, mare.
ptimalist, and by the Rev. H. Barnes, who attendee
as the deputation. 'The last-named !gentleman said
that when this society was established, 62 years ago,
there were only four millions of copies of the Holy
Scriptures in the world, two millions of which were
in circulation in the United Kingdom. The British
and Foreign Bible Socii-ty had put in circulation
more than 50 millions of copies—or as many as a
shelf, 785 miles long, pecked close together, would
contain. If placed upon a railway, side by side, the
ism, of last )ear alone would reach from Paddington
to Bath and back again. They would fill 150
waggons, and between 3011 and 400 horses would be
required to draw them. More than four copies of
the scripture', either in whole or in part, were
issued from the depot every minute. When the
society was first established there was the society
belonging to the Church of England—the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge—but there
was no other Bible Society in the world, and
now there were more than 9,000 different
associations over the whole world for the simple
object of circulating the Word of God. Sixty
years ago there were but 50 translations of the
Scriptures, now there were 178, about 100 of which
were due to the society. The Moravians bad re-
plied them with a version in the Esquimau'
lenges(' ; the Rev. Henry Martin no* of the
brlghteet ornaments of the Church of Ragland, bad
supplied them with one for Aria. In Southern
Africa there were 22 diderent version', 19 of which
were supplied by Marelimen, Carey, and Ward, of
the Baptist Church. China was indebted to Mid-
burst, Morrison, and ; and the Cherokees
had • translation supplied by the Americana. For
Ceylon, the celebrated Mr. Cad, of the Wesleyan
connection, bad given • translation in the Cingalese,
and South Africa was imelebted to their version by
the first native bishop—Bishop Crowther. Robert
Moffat gave the Be:horns people their translation ;
Pritchard laboured in Tubati, and Archdeacon
Williams in New Zeeland. The Feejee Islanders
had • translation by John Hunt, the Lincolnshire.
ploughboy In England, during the last 22 years,
112,215 Bibles and 1,818,828 Testaments had been
supplied to Banda, Schools, at a oar of £13,639.
In Ireland, dm ing the same time, 284,150
Bibles and 363,750 Testaments, at • cost of
£5e2,000, whilst £41,703 Ila 10d. bad been supplied
in that country as free grants. The rev, gentleman
then gleaned at France, where the Bahr Society
found a firm friend in the Emperor Napoleon. In
that country more than 90,0000 copies had been cir-
culated during the past year, of which 70,000 had
been done by oolporteura In Frame there wars
now two millions of Protestant', of which one
million nine hundred thousand had been converted
from Popery through the agency of this society. The
rev, gentleman ooncleded with en eloquent Weal
on behalf of the society. The Rev. Chairmen then
briefly addremed the meeting, and the singing of the
Doxology concluded the proceedings. The stun of
£lO wee collected at the doers.

!Dow in course of progress at th• lighthouses, met
with rather a severe injury. A crane fell upon him,
and the result was • fracture of the small bons of the
leg.—John Attwool, employed at the Stowe Saw
, Mills, on the Hill. suffered a severe (realm.. of the
band. A 10.410 f.-11 npen it and severely crushed
the boos.; but with careful medical treatment, it is
hoped the use of the hand may in time lie regained.
—Mrs. William Con, of Spring Gardens, has met
' with a broken leg. Unfortunately, a mat was on
the landing, over which the unlacky lady stumbled,
and fell down the stairs, causing the injury men-
tined. Dr. Carruthers attended the several eases,
and we are sanguine that each accident will not I
result in any very serious consequence,.

reason was referred to by tbediropliet Jeremiah. tt
'bat my people bad hearken to my ocunnsaodments,
then *mid their poser hare Sawn as • flew." tvh...
God made them partakers of the th•in• natio* by holy
biptiam, if they had b-en lahhfol I. their btptiamal
row., then a. thy y grew older their grows would have
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st.ength of ened- 0. TT./ Inf. *laid it be
said that they hal wanton,. lonoceocy. Had we not
mute fer gratittete that we had any put» at aIL Bat
not being innocent can we hams any hope of ining to
stored to that 'tide. Yee, even to the first and feeblest
strivings of true repentance. to the fainted beuthings
after God. there will be vouchsafed • bleosing—the
of re.and rot, for it was Clod' a Spirit
workmg in the w ul which clamed those strivings, and
He would satiety them of His fulness. Th. rev. prelate
concluded his discourse by showing that the peeoe thee
began in the soul was only the foretaste of that which
by faith in Christ the believet enjoyed, mud that the
latter—the pesos of the Christi*, on earth, we. but •
faint and imperfect shadow of that full and abiding
pease and reel which would be the sternal portion of
the glorified.
Dories the reading of the offertory sentences •
eolleetion was msde. . .

In the afternoon • number of vlsitars inspected
the church, and the very ezoollent
work ems finished elicited the warmest approval.
The Bishop. clergy, and visitors afterwards partook
of emplendid *Attica st the hospitable mansion of Mr.
Borgew, bat ta his lordship had to be present et
Dorchester to hold • oonfirmation at five p.m., the
ge,,ute wire ditpenwil with. In
addition to the clergy already mentioned, the visitors
were J. J. Farquharson. Esq.. lord of the manor, for
whom s most impressive prayer was offered by the
Bi.hop, and to which • hearty "mien' nounded through
the church, J. J. Farquharson, EN.. jun., F. F. Johns,
Fin. and Mrs Johns, DiltbY Wfalt KA, Mt. Burgas*,
Mr. Green, and several friends from • distance.