The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-16 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

TH lltr RIBBON INC:RANCH Swint.— CAMM
Step',Hewn writes with reference to the recent meet
ing in connection wilt than society : -Sir,- In the
few words I •looke an Friday last, Wilt'ti prePl.llllg at
the Blue Ilibison Insurance Society meeting, I 'said I
weilied it to he dintinctly ineleretood that I was not
in a position to recomniend the society. I believed
it witii worki,tg lln the right linee, in giving advantages
to total uluteinern, but I wan not competent to give
an "pinion *bout its weituineen, anal I urged the
audience to he very careful, anti to take gosl cit tee
ledore joining that or may other In•urneice Society.
As these remarks are ~.sittLwl in the report if tic°
proceedings which apteesred in your paper taut week,
I clash Lw oldigisl if you will inaert this letter. —I
am, Sir, your obedient rervant, huts
luau ENTICRTAINNICSTN ruM TIIK PiCOl.l.l. - The
•iath .11 the ,oeriee ut Irtlihar eaaterta,nraa.nta to.k
PL.,. at the Weat,,teent Mission Hall on Monday
•ning. when the Hey. Cl. litre, of Itadiinde, pre.
Thr ..1"”)."1 with the Issettifid hymn
"▪
Hem the Bells of tharoti." after which A. Macey
nicely recited the first 'art of the "My Queen," and
M. Combl.holine the eecoml tart. Minn Doswell
nest sang a sacred wmg. slant was followed hy a
reading, entitled '• The little Chimney Sweep," by
StafTSergeant Austin, ILE., of Portland, who also
gave a abort addrenn an the benefit., of total abetin
✓ime. Mann E. Martin gave a recitation, "The leak
in the Dyke," and her sister, Slime L. Martin, Pang
two pretty " Father, prsy with me to-night"
and "The Veteran." Mr. W. Dodge and Mr. S.
Nfillidge gave inteneuing readings, and NI. Simmondn,
A. Davidson. and Edith Scott gave reeitathma. and
Mr. Curtin played a very ',loaning nolo I.n the piano.
The rev. Chnirinan followed by reading Macaulay's,
line poem " Horatitin," front the "Lays of Ancient
Rome," and he sitlinequently pointed mit the moral of
the A •isiter propoeed a vote of thanks to the
Chairman for presiding, to the readers, and to thou
who had sang and recited. The meeting, which wee
both entertaining and inntructire, Wiloi brought to a
ennelunion by a hymn anal the Benediction. .1 he
pama warn very kindly lent by Messrs. Ifilledge.
There was a large attendance.

Tug Tag-trim—Mr. C. H. Hawtrey's celebrated
comedy company. from the 1:10be Theatre, Loudon,
appeared in "The Private Secretary" before flyer.
flowing and fashionable houses on Nfonday, Tuesday,
and Wedneaday evenings. The first night an exceed
ingly large number i 4 'tenons came from Portland,
them being a apecial train to take them back. The
farcical comedy of "The l'rivate Secretary" has
gained such great popularity that bog little need be
said about it. Each of the characters was exceed.
ingly well anatained, and never was a Weymouth
audience kept in a greater state 8. merriment. The
inaitridity of the Her. Robert Stolding was pen-
tear.' by Mr. Arthur Whittaker. The comical, And
by no means delicate. bolting Mr. Cattermole was
well delineated by Mr. Frederick Rood, whikt poor
deluded Miss Ashford was admirakly represented by
Miss Bella Cuthbert. It would hie rather difficult
conroive a play which could abound more with
aide.splitting puns, jokes, and 'awkwardly ludicrous
situations, in fact for "The Private Secretary " the
majority of reir nineteenth century playgoers have
given a favourable verdict, and it bids fair to cion•
meal the plaudits id the public for many a day to
0.111.. The cast was as follows Mr. Marsltrel,
MI:. If., Mr. Richard Dalton : Henry Nlarslan.l, his
nephew. Mr. Raymond Capp .Ir. Csttenreile,
Mr. Fewleric 11.1110. rAtt,rlll,ii.. In. althea..
Mr. Frederick (7. I:l.,rer Mr. Sydney tarlor
rif Bond-street. Mr. Frederick Tyrrell : Rev. Robert
Spalding, Mr. Arthur Whittaker. John, Mr.
Wilton Iferiot ; Knox, Mr. William A. Rowri in ;
Edith Nlarr.land, Miss Mary I ; Eva
Webster, Miss Valet tine :Coed : Mrs. Stead,
Mir. Marie Brewer; Mire Ashford, li.. Bella Cuth•
beet. We congratulate Mr. Wheeler for having
obtained for the peopls of Weymouth the services of
i. good a company.

Witritin-TH Tows Snciarr. A PAP/ii ox
" MITIVL Solar AND law."—At the meeting of
In" Town Society on Friday evening, a ints:r was
real hy Mr. IL P. Slime., " Primitive
Society und Law." Mr. Sylre.ter was in the chair,
and oleo wa. a iiiinwroto attendance —Mr. Syrup-.
prelvissl his p,per by expo...Ms a fear thst him
audience it. till hod it • dull isubject. lir proceeded
to enumerate the source. of information on till. *OF
jwct ocently at ridable to the student, such a•
law. of the primitive inhabitant. of India, the Itsehou
Laws .4 the !rut,, and the researches of 11401 WI item
a. Sir Henry Mains, Mona Fiotel Cool:amps,
I)1) t.avvlapi, Ilsors. Lubbock, Siolli*an,
Ilifsclellan, Montan. and German writers. The
majority of pemde, continued the lecturer, seemed to
that the moor we approach barbarism the
nearer we are to a 'ditto .4 liberty, in which emit on
do what •111,91.1 right in his own eyes. TIM,
espoused in Tennywin's "Lament" " that the
individual withers while the world grows tutor, and
more.- dicived vitality from the philosophy id the
last century. Mr. Syne. &soiled the leaching. of
&moron and Locke, which had inch an influence on
the French kevolutiim, but procosted 1.. eliow that
however philosophically &tine:tire were such Woos urn
the law if nature - the centrit social, the voluist•
t'vTl -these idols went
iation meant the growth of individuality, and
primitive man warn in • state of bondage to tnatow,
to perstitiiin. to family, and to rm.,. After
touching on th• opposing theories of Maine and