The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

WEIFIIOI7TH.

TOWN COUNCIL. —A meeting of the Council was
called fir Friday last. The only business on the
agenda paper was "To examine and settle the
Harbour and Bridge accounts, pursuant to the
statute," to. The only members present were the
Mayor, and Councillors Thome., Vertue, Buck,
Roberta, Boonton, Mason, and Maunders, and as
thitteeo were required to form • quorum, His busi.
nese tau adjourned till the next meeting of the
C..uned.

Bortocatt Poidne., Wednesday. —galore the
11,40, gnd W. Symonds, I:eq.—Anne Denman, ripper.
headed by warrant. was brought up on a charge of
keeping a di...orderly house in the parish of Weymouth,
and committed for trial at the ensuing assist... She
we also required to And sureties for good conduct in
to interim. The matter arose out of the proceedings
• li'eh we have mentioned under Tuesdey's
Walter shorey, cab driver, was charged with being
deunir and incapable, and also with ansulting the police
Mitchell received a ceoplaint of prisoner's
cmduct on Tueeday afternoon, and going to the Statue
be found the prisoner there; he wan very drunk and
iiicapable of taking care, either of himself, his bone, or
his eab. Took tb• horse by the head and led the
online down St. Manotreet, prisoner being on the
box. When near St. Albans'•row, he jumped from the
box sad Nei", 4 eitnees by the collar, and afterwar 'a
took him by the leg. throwing biro down, tearing his
trouser., which were completely spoiled. The value of
the trowels was 18.. Prisoner .übsequently resisted
very much, and tried to bite witness several times.—
P.S. If arvey corroborated. —Prisoner acknowledged to
being drunk, and mid he bad been brought to the
Court before for the Name offence.—The Mayor
remarked that if it rested with blinself he should be
di.posed to deprive prisoner of his limence.—Suot
Lidbury said the system of granting licences in this
boroegh was a bad one. Parties could go to the Town
offiee and obtain a licence without any inquiry
b dug made as to the fitness of the applicants. In
London it was necessary to obtain • certificate signed by
two botneholders as to the respectability and good
condom of the petty for the preceding twelve months,
Prisoner was one of the worst conducted driven in the
t ons.—The Mayor inquired for prisoner's Hoene...—
Prisoner obligingly offered to go and fetch it ; but the
Court declined troubling him, and sent a con.table for
the document, but it could not be found.—Tbe MAI or
said the magiatntes bad decided to suspend prisoner's
licence for six months, it. would also have to pay 18-.
for the trouser., and El for the assault on the police,
including the expeneee of the Court, or 14 day,' impri-
*oilmen' in default. The money was paid by sympathis- !
ieg friend. in Court.

Counrr Pows, Friday.—Before B. ff. Eliot,
Esq. and Major Wood. Susannah Stevens, of Port-
land, was summoned by Superintendent Underwood,
with having a pair of goalie with the balance against
! the purobaser.—Mrs. Stevens said she bad them
adjusted two years ago and she oould not account for
their being deficient.—Superintendent Underwood
said the other wales and all the weight. were correct.
The lightning of this scale might have been caused by
scouring it. The Bench said the defendant had in-
fniiged the law, but as they believed it had not been
wilfully done, she would be fined only • nominal
penalty of Is. and without costa In future she had
better have her wales adjusted oftener than once in
two years.--Robert Pewee, baker, of Portland,
vies charged with • similar offence. Superintendent
Underwood said that be went to the defendant'.
shop on the 22nd June, and found • pair of flour
scales in very bail condihon. —Defendant said that
if he scraped off the dough adhering to them, they
would be "all right," and witness gave him per-
mission to clean them. Witness then turned away
to call in the sergeant of the police, and defendant
said "they're all right now," and witness on looking
at them replied, "They do appear to be pretty
middling correct." Finding that defendant evidently
wlshrd to get him out of the shop, he lifted the
goods' wale and found a large piece of dough had
been stuck under it to make the balance. Witnew
then took the dough offend found the scales out of
balsoos—lo drachms against the purchaser. When
witness first lifted the scales, defendant said, "All
right--only • little bit of paste las bung on." —The
Bench said that they believed the defendant had a
guilty knowledge that the scales were unjust, and
accordingly fined him in the full penalty of £s.
Eli Fowler, Portland, for riding on shafts without
either reins or • driver, was fined 55., including coots.
Christopher Vine was charged with aessulting
his father, Joseph Vine, • beer-shop keeper at Port-
land. —Mr. Howard, who appeared for the nem;
plainant, stated that this WM • very painful owe,
and that it was not till time after time that the com•
plainest bad forgiven his son, and the son's 000 duct
had become more and more outrageous, that these
steps were taken. The present case was one of the
most scandalous that had ever been brought before
his notice, and he trusted that the Bench would
fiat such a punishment as would teach hum a Isogon that
he must not assault even his own father and mother
with impanity.—Tbe complainant then stated that be
WA a beerhouse keeper at Portland, and that be was
at present suffering from a broken leg. The defendant
his son, wee in the army about five yews, and came
bona two years ago, and ever winos his return, he
had refused to do anything towards his own main-
tenanoe, but bad persisted in remaining at home
idle. On the night of the 25th of June, about a
quarter past II o'clock, defendant name into the
house with another man. Defendant "told" his
mother to draw a glass of beer. She refused, as it
was "past hours." Defendant then pushed his
mother away and drew • glass of beer himself and
banded to the man, who, after he had drunk it,
left. As he was leering, Mrs. Vine slaked who was
to pay for it, and defendant, employing very vile
language, asked what business it was of her'a Mrs.
Vine then went to close the door, when defendant
knocked her down by • blow with his fist, upon
which complaisant said that he hoped his leg would
enable him to take his own pert in the course of
another month. Upon this, defendant swore that
he would take good care he did not, and knocked
hie father to the door as he we. sitting in hfi4 char.
Mr,. Vine and the servant then tried to raise the
complainant, when defendant gave his mother
another blow which felled her to the ground. The
Bench senteDoed the defendant to two months' hard
labour—Mr. Samuel Tits was charged by P.M.
Pitfield with violating the rattle plague order, la
carrying some clean straw and hay from Weymouth
to Portland, through Wyk' Regis, at the Urns the
latter parish was declared to bean "fidgeted plena"
There was no preen*, that the hay or straw have
ever been within • mile of any diseased cattle, and
the Bench said they believed the defendant spoke
truly when be said that he offended innocently.
They therefore inflicted a DOOlll2ll penalty of Is.
without costa. James Gelpin and Edward
Moslem Snore, butchers of Portland, were
with violating the cattle plague order. They
art
been to Abbotebury for • fat bullock and some
calves, and in consequence of Chiokerell being a
prohibited district, although they had • license,
they were obliged to go round by Langton. The
consequence was, the sun had set before they
arrived at Portland by several minutes. The Beach
fined the defendants in the nominal penalty of Is.
without onsts.--Osorge Itendell, of Portland, was
summoned by Mary Ann Randall, his wife, for
assault. Mr. Howard appeared for the complainant,
the defendant did not put in an appearance,
and it was said that he had absconded. It
appeared from the evidence that the defendant
was a drunken fellow, giving his wife no
money, so that she was obliged to depend upon her
father for food. She was guttering from illness, and
Use doctor said it was cionsumption, nevertheless the
" husband" called her an idle creature and beat her
because she did not provide him with the food for
which he Rego her no money to bay. It further
appeared that Iteodell had for • long time past pur-
sued • course f great cruelty towards his wife, and
the Bench ordered his committal for six months,
with hard labour.—Harrat Cross summoned Ann
Pearce, for assault. Tbe parties live war the. MOM
stone sawing mill. The defendant had given the
complainant considerable provocation to create •
breach of the pesos, besides committing the assault
oomplained of, but in consequence of having an im-
becile son of 25, the Bench only inflicted • penalty
of 2a. 6d. and costa—Edward Cornelius Pearce,
for being drunk and obstructing the polies while
they were endeavouring to clear the beer-house of
Edward Maitland, was fined 40a. —Samuel Sam.
ways and Biesksird Peters, for being drunk and
fighting with ewe other at Portland were fined 5a
snob and amts.—John Idarkwell was also fined in
• like sum for being drunk and fighting with Simon
Ashford, at Portland, Ashford himself being fined
and costa.

LATLNG THE FOUNDATION STONE OF •
NEW WICSLEYAN CHAPEL.
On Thursday the ceremony of laying the foundation
stone of • new Wesleyan Chapel, which is to be erected
on the site of the Ohl King's Heed, took place. There
does not appear to be any writing astent of the history
of early Methodism La Weymouth but the hest oral
tradition or history known, it that given by Mr. Sherren,
at the Masi. Hall on Thursday evening. Mr. Shernan's
father was one of the first Methodists la Weymouth.
A society was drat established here about the year
1798, and their first preaching place was, singular to
remark, the old aseembly, and billard room at the
King's Head, the very elle on which the new Chapel
will be built. Then Poole was the head of tbe circuit
which extended to the Isle of Portland. At that time,
the persecution the Methodists were raided to, was
most severe and trying. Every species of annoyance
was adopted, bet strange to tell most of be MEM of
the chief persecutors bare now died out in Weymouth,
while In the atm of the rest there is not one whose
deecandants are professors of Christianity. After
• while the room it the ring's Head became
too small for the congregation, and a large room,
formerly occupied by the Quakers as splash, of worship,
situated in lit. Tbouras-atreet. was taken. Persecution
followed them there. On one ocriesiou a drunken sailor
entered the preaching room and wanted to bays part of
the talk as well as the preacher. The latter requested
him to be quiet, bet as he would keep talking, and as
none of the congregation felt willing to pet him out,
the preacher himself—a tall, strong, muscular man—
descended the pulpit, caught the sailor up Is his arms,
worried him to the door, and threw him from the too of
the stairs to the bottom—a very convincing mode or
arguing, certainly. For a long time efforts were made
for • piece of land for the erection of . chapel, but
such was the prejudice against the Methodist. that no
one would sell to them. At length an old coal store was
amand for them in Coonar-diteh, now Lower Hood.
omit, for CM, with hove to need on the site ichapeL
The mila um Miss is Qs Ewalt burying posad. sad

they would have been shut out from the light of
[leaven except in front of the chapel, but for an expe-
dient by Sir William Palteney, who warn a great friend
to religious liberty. The architect of the chapel was Mr.
Commins, father of Mr. Richard Commies. it Thom..
'Ow i.. 11 it was opeted for religious worship in 1885.
In 1861 Weymouth was separate' from the Poole cir-
cuit, and many eminent and devoted mioisters belonging
to the Methodist connection have sines laboured ben.
For many yearo put the present chapel has hen booed
to be, not only too small, but most inconveniently
situated for the ocogrezation, bat from various cane.
no tiorts that were put forward were successful. In
1860 new 'Mitts were put 1-e-ward, and at a public
meting held in the chapel in November of that year,
upwards of IMO were promisee towards the new edill
Shortly afterwards a site in the !treaty minuted inalf,
and land num-oared at the trustee of the Johnstone
shwa on • lean of 99 years., It was, however, feared
that its proximity to 55. Mary's Church would interfere
with both congregstioos, and oonsequently the site in
the Friary was, with the consent of all parties, exchanged '
for that of tie Old King'. Head.
The DOW chapel. now in courts of erection, is from •
design by Mean. Foster and Wood, architects, of
Bristol, and in erection has been entrusted to Mr.
Stephen Brown, the moat spirited and extensive builder
in the town Once the decease of the late Mr. Dodson.
style of architecture adopted I. Lombardi* or
Romaneeque, its mein charecterietioe being beady and
simplicity combined with economy of space. Its
dimensions are 88 feet long (including the portico) and
44 feet wide, and will consist of two principal &torte,
the basement, slightly below the street level, and the
principal or chhpel hoar. The basement floor is
Intended for • Sunday schoolroom, week evening
services, tea meeting.. Au, and will be 19 ft. 9 in. long
by 40 feet wide, and 11 ft. 6 in. in height in the near.
Besides the large room on the basement there will be
four clan rooms. The chapel will contain tin side
galleries and • front galore, and there win be "Mine
for the acoommodation of 930 persona, 300 of which will
be free. The oust of the chapel will be £3,462. Towards
this the Cannexial Chapel Fund Committee have pro-
mised to give £lOO and to lead 1300 more without
interest, lobe repaid by half-yearlv instalments in 10
years. Then it is hoped to obtain £6OO from the fund
raised by the Rev. Mr. Purehion he the erection,
enlarging, and beautifying of chapels in the pried*
watering places. This will amount to £l,OOO. Them
they have already £I,IOO in the bank, and the premeds
of Monday amounted to £237. leaving about £l,OOO
still to be raised. To meet this there will be the value
of tb• 01it shawl, when sold, a aostingent legacy,
several promises of further subscriptions, and 3130
collector' of lk each are asked for, as one of the
trustees. Mr. Roues, besides his present noble sub-
haa promised to giro to each of the 300
aeother shilling to wake it a palm,. Altogether it is
hoped that by the evening of the chapel neat year the
amount required will have been rai.al to within some-
thing like IMO. Among the non sent to swell the
amount no Thend.y I.st was £25 from Henry Edwards,
Esq., one of the candidate. at the last election, who
hinted that the min might, probably, at some linen
time, be increased.
The prooredinp on Thursday last were comment:ad
by a prayer meeting in the moening at the old chapel,
•n 4 • herein again at half-peat two, when the Rev.
Francis A. West, chairman of the Bath district, to
which Weymouth belongs, delivered an eloquent and
Impressive addrese on the doctrine and discipline of
Wnleyan Methodism. At the connexion of the service
the ministers, trestees, and friend., attended by the
Sunday school children, formed a peoesenon to the site
of the proposed new builchne. and shortly afterward'
the ceremony connected with the laying of the founda-
tion-stone was commenced in the preemies of some
1,200 or I,EOO spectators. Flags were hoisted on the
site of the new chapel, and a platform was mind for the
sitting accommodation of several, also to enable the
speakers the better to address their audience with the
view of being heard. . . .

The eeremno—y oorameneed with an appropriate hymn
the opening lines ol which aro—

" Thou who beat in Zion laid
The tree foundation stone"
The Rev. ThOMAII Bronkes then offered • prayer, after
which the Rev. J. Pratt read a suitable portion of
scripture from the First Book of Chronicles.
The Rev. J. B. WINIT, of the Weymouth Circuit,
then said it was usual On these occasions to give an ont-
line of the doctrines that would be proclaimed in the
new chapel when it should be erected; but as that
service had been already no efficiently and delightfully
performed in the chapel, It would be unnecessary to
repeat it. Buffice it therefore to say that the doctrine
to be proclaimed is the now chapel would be pi., eisely
the same sis that preashed In the present sanetaary—the
doctrine of oar Lord and thiviintr Jesse Christ. He
would now call on Mr. Anderson, the secretary to the
trustees. to read • sopy of the parchment document to
be placed in a jar and deposited in the corner stone.
Mr. ANDMIOS then reed the following.—
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Weymouth.
The foundation stone of this chapel was laid by
William Ding*, Eisq., of Bberborne, cm Thursday, the
28th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1868, being
the 28th anniversary of the coronation of tier Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,
President of the W Methodist Conference—Rev.

1 of leave, seven months of his mentenos remaining on.
expired. He wee booked for Wolverhampton, at
•hich town it would have been his duty to report
himself to the Superintendent of the Polioe, in order
that the money to which be was entitled from the Li (111141.
oflioe might be transmitted to him. He arrived et the
Oxford station of the Great Western Railway by the
four o'clock down train from Didoot on Wednesday
afternoon, where be had to alight for change of train to
cotivey him to his destinatiin, iii i evil moment he
thrust his hand into the pocket of Mrs. Lydia Hallam
(mother of the solicitor), who was standing upon the
platloint. She immediately liaised his band before he
could release hinmelf. He struggled violently, sad most
ferociously &moulted the railway-guard and the polio,.
man who secured him, seriously injosing one of them on
the bate joint, and it wee not without considerable
difficulty that tlie city polio* at length overpowered
him, and ender remand lodged him in the city gsoL
At the city amyl on Friday, before the mayor and city
magistrates, he was brought op in cnstody, when Mr.
G. Hallam prosecuted, and the prisoner, against whom
the charge was fully proved, was committed for trial.

Tilt WIDILEYAN ANNU•t. GATRIKING.—The
annual tea meetings of the Wesleyan' (both above
sod below hill) took place on Thursday last. The
site was within a Said not vary far front the chapel
at Easton, belonging to Mr. Hodder, and • very
large tent was erected for the occasion. Some
400 or 500 persona sat down to tea, and afterwards
several interesting addresses were delivered. The
meeting thus formed was presided over by Mr.
Henry Flew, who was unanimously voted to the
chair. The hay. J. Rought was the first speeker,
and during his remarks stated that about £24 had
been taken during the day, and Mr. Flew had
received between £35 and £36. There had already
been expended for their chapel on the bill shoat
£6OO, Out it was still necessary to raise £4OO more.
He would suggest that 50 friends should have cards
and undertake to raise, between this and Christmas,
20s. each, and thus help them out of their present
difficulty. The rev, gentleman oontinued his address
and, amongst other observations, remarked that he ,
WAS "glad he was a Briton ;" hereupon Mr. H.
Stone shouted tint "So am I too, Sir," which caused
some little merriment, After a few remarks from
the Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Hind. addressed the
meeting, and amongst other topics he touched on
the slave trade. the Maynootb grant, Kosenth's
opinion of Englishmen; and wound up by advocat-
ing the great power of Cbrietain love in converting
souls to Christ.—The MR. R. Wrench then addressed
the meeting, the object of raising funds being, be
said, to defray the expense of the enlargement and
beautification of their two chapels in the Wand. He
had preached in Africa and in the Western Indies; ,
but never had he felt the heat so much as when ad.
dresniog them on a former occasion in their old chapel ,
in which there wee no room—no ventilation, nor
anything tending to the comfort of the congregation
But, thanks to their worthy superintendent, (Rev.
J. Rought), through whose efforts • new chapel had
been erected, this had been remedied. The rev.
gentleman remarked that his address would be
something like Joseph's coat, " of many colours ; "
and truly was it so, for he touched on numerous
subjects, including politics—the resignation of the
Ministry and the formation of • new Government
under Lord Derby. The Emperor Napoleon, who
he believed bad been very much abused, also came
in for his share. France, he said, excelled as in the
fine arts; but we excelled them in many things.
Hr. Gladstone was likewise brought under notice;
but one great thing he lacked was " proportion. "
Novel-reading the speaker denounced as very per-
nicious. Sir. Walter Soott's writings he objected to, as
wanting a religious principle. Dickens caricatured
religion from this fact, that all hie principalcharactera
wereshown as professors of religion. Thacker*, ...flied
to write as if man were made for this world only.
"Essay, and Reviews" was leeched epos, the error
taught in the work being this, that no testimony can
reach the supernatural. The decisions of the Privy
Council and Convocation on this subject was noticed
by the speaker, and then " ritualism " was for admen
time dwelt upon. After this Mr. Wrench related
amoral amusing aneodotes, and stated the cure for a
bite from • mad dog to be nitrate of silver poured
Into the wound. William Shaky's:. was eulogised
as being the greatest man the world ever produced,
and the lecture concluded with the words that "Au
honest man's the noblest work of God. " A vote
of thanks wee duly given to the rev. lecturer. Mr.
Henry Stone again referred to this being the Jubilee
year of his becoming a Christian, and concluded by
proposing a vote of thanks to the chairman. The
Rev. J, Bought proposed votes of thanks to Mr.
Hodder for the use of the Bald, and to the ladies
forming the committee, and then the meeting was
brought to a close.