The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-05 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE TUESDAY, JUNE 5 186%
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Gouges, carrying streams of life—giving moisture to
the thirsty cotton pinata Steam tare/AWng machines
hum under the shadow of the pyramids, amid the
temples of the Brahmins, and near the glittering
mosques and domes of Constantinople, while even
the swarthy Spaniard exerts himself to satisfy their
ceaselem craving for the splendid corn which waves
over the fields of the peninsular conflicts, or thrives
by the magnifioent ruins of the palette of the Moors.
Oxen no longer plod aluggiably along, dragging an
instrument formed from the rough hewn branch of
a tree and shod with iron—but now move briskly
forward propelling the beautifully symmetric.'
production of a Ransome, • Howard, or a 11rosby. .
In our own land the effect of improved implements
is everywhere apparent, in the high character of
the cultivation and the increased quantity and quality
of the yield. Tracts of country heretofore covered
with tangled masses of vegetation or stunted Sr
tress, are being rapidly clewed and broken up, to
provide means of subsistenoe for our increasing
population, and even the ocean if restricted in
its boundaries to that the dismal swamps and
fens of our eastern °oasts are converted into
pleating landscapes and fruitful borders. On
the eve of so important a meeting as the forth.
coming Show at the Bath and West of England
Society at Salisbury, it is profitable to review
the past in order fully to appreciate the labours of
those man who have striven so earnestly for the
spread of agriculture and by the introduction of
first-clam machibery, to bring into action the
dormant faculties of the agricultural labourer and
raise him from a stupid, slow, and clumsy eninial,
to a thoughtful, careful, and skilful workman.
Let the fanner, are he seta out for Salisbury,
picture to himself things as they were half •
century ago, and we shall be surprised if he
be not more deeply interested in inspecting
the objects exposed to view in the show.yard,
and noting their admirable qualifications for the
operations they are designed to perform, than if he
merely go there as • matter of course, or to gratify
an idle curiosity. Notwithstanding the degree of
IMOCOGII, which has been attained, perfection still looms
far in the distance, and there is yet abundant scope
for the further exercise of genius, either in improving
oa present omistruotions or devising new methods for
accomplishing the Mlle respite, it is by such meet-
ings as the one to which we have alluded that a
healthy stimulus is afforded to generous emulation,
and opportunity presented for the public to select
the best machines by careful comparison and deliber-
ate judgment.

Town Onnitcm,.—A meeting of the Corporation took
place yeeterday. Present The Mayor (Dr. Aldridge),
Alderman Gilpin, Councillors Bishop, Steele, Bennett,
Gregory, Frond, Slade, and Andrews. The first business
VU to consider the expediency of taising the money
expended in rendering the Wooßaotou field estate
available for building purposes on the security of the
tame property—The Mayor stated that the amount ex-
pended on the property sines the appointment of Mr.
Jowett was 1090 —Ald,rman Galpin said the total
receipt.' were nearly 1100, and the expenditare not teoo
altogether. —The work now reqUired to be done Is tot ,
build • wall, and level the ground.—Mr. Proud obaerved
that the north wall ism bulged out in one or more
"iscer. —lt appeared this had teen certified by the
surveyor.-111r. Jowett said the wall erria not out of the
Perpendieular.—Alderman Oalpin remarked that this
wall, oldish eine to have been built of stone, proved to
be Portion> constructed of brick. —On the motion of
Mr. Bishop the matter ww referred to the Finance
Committee to report therron.—Mr. Gregory onkel if it
war intended to take say strl, for miring smb6criPti°'
to recompense Mr. Laver for his losses by tho cattle
Plecue. M. understood that some of the cows were
slaughtered at the suggestion of members of the
Council, and that, therefore, it would be at toady for a
subscription list to be beaded by the CoUnciL--The
Mayor observed that it was only sufiltested to Mr. Laver
that the cows should be killed; there was no oompul-
lion in the matter. As to compensation the subject wee
referred by the county magistrates to qoarter Sessions;
the borough was at the time virtually though not
formally connected with the county, and be did not
think Quarter fiesons would take adsantage of such •
thing to repudiate Mr. Laver's claim for compensation.
If they did, however, he should be happy to support •
subscription to recompense him.—Bills to the amount
of £474 were ordered to be raid. —Some conversetion
took place touching the bridge leftsnn the mill-tail from
Fordiugton, to Stand sot, which the Duchy
of Cornwall purposes constructing, at a cost of MO or
Eta), and the project ow hesruly rproved.—The pro-
po-od alteration in the Council chamber and surveyor's
office was next considered, and Mr. Hall, the architect,
attended to explain the project.. As we stated last
week, it is proposed to do •way with the pillar intended
to support the wall of the Council ohamber, by passiog
• ttrong girder seross, and erecting • slighter wall
thereupon. unpierced with side lights to the Council
chamber, the lighting of which and the surveyor's otbee
In to be etreeta4 from the roof. The first estimate was
£5O, but Mr. Hall now handed in an amended estimate
from Mr. Wellspring, (saying a mistake had been
made before,) which amounted to £ll2 above the surn
the Coro Exchange was agreed to be built for. After
the model in the room had- beep thoroughly examined,
Mr. Bennett proposed that the scheme be carried out,
as it would be kerma improvenp at. There was no re-
sponse to the Mayor's inquiry whether any one would
second the motion. —Mr. Freud said he did trot approve
of the excel& —Mr. Slade said be did not want • new
corn Exchange at alb—Alderman Galpin and Mr.
Bishop done remained beside. They said notbing.—
The Mayor then asked if there Ives any objection to the
motion. Again no reply. He then declared it agreed
to stem, do. The Council then resolved itself into a
committee meeting.

A ROW AT • TOLL•OATIL-011 Saturday, Mr.
Robert Eyers, proprietor of the Crown hotel,
Blendford, and bandmaster of the Dorset yeomanry
calvary, was summoned for assaulting Thomas Cox,
the keeper of the Ferdington Moor toll-bar, on the
19th of May. In a cross summons, Cox was charged
with illegally demanding and taking • toll of 9d.
Mr. Atkinson, of Blandford, appeared for Mr.
Eyers. It seemed that on the day in question Mr.
Ryer* Win driving to Weymouth two horses, drawing
• carriage, Containing three cavalrymen beside,
himself, with musical instruments and music. Mr.
Eyers wore an overcoat, and the others were partly
drained in regimentals. The gate keeper demanded
9d. toll, when Mr. Eyers claimed exemption which
had been allowed for four years before, observed to
Cox he knew who be (Mr. Eyers) was, and where
he lived, that he wished to have the right to as.
ertiption tried, and he (Coi) could either summons
him, or refer the ra.atter to Mr. T. Coombi, and be
would abide by the result. Coe said he would not
let the carriage pass till he had the t(11, and took
hold of one of the reins. Mr. Eyers whipped the
horse., and also struok Cox over the hand with the
whip. By some means the horses were backed the
wrong side of the her, which nearly led to the up-
setting of the carriage ; that would probably
have resulted had not two of the men jumped out,
and partially lifted round the vehicle. The gate
was then closed, a regular block of the road
ensued, and some dozen carnage. eelleated, waiting
to go through. But Coo wail as obdurate a toll-ber
keeper as ever Dickens immortalized, and would
not open the gate till one of the men in Mr. Eyerea
carriage paid the toll, though under protest. Mr.
ti contended
Atkinso thin by e 3 Gee. tr., c.l26.aec.
32, Mr. Eyers was exemptedfrom toll on the ground
that he wash member of the yeomanry cavalry, going
on duty, and that the instruments and music were f
the time being baggage within the meaning of the
Act, oonsequently, that Cox illegally demanded toll,
and, touching the sasault, that Mr. EMS used no
more violence than the circumstances warranted
to prevent an accident. In answer to Mr. IL
Williams, it was stated that the instruments in the
carriage belonged to the Members of the band, ex.
oept the kettle•druma, which were regimental
property, that the band were sworn in like every
other man in the force, and where paid when on
duty. Mr. Williams said the Bench had not the
slightest doubt but that the instruments under the
circumstances were not baggage under the Act, and,
therefore, that toll was legally demanded. They
were willisig to grant a case on the point, if it WIN
desired. For the agesult they inflicted • fine of sc.
and coats. It may be satisfactory to koo* that the
decision is in accordance with the opinion given on
the case by the Justice of Peace, June 2nd.
REMOVING SEINE FROM AN LVIECTED PL4C/L
Mr. Thomas John Eaet r, auctioneer, and Mr. Henry
Bound, salseinaci, of Newgate market, were sum-
moned before the County Bench last Saturday,
charged with illegally *ending lamb skins out of the
borough of Dorchester, it being an infected place.
Mr. Andrews for defendants. A journeyman butcher,
named George Longman, said that on the 23rd May,
Mr. &woe directed him to kill 23 lambe of Mr.
Bound's, at the slaughter house, in the repository
ground, and send the carcases and the skins to a
sideman in Newgate market for Mr. Bound.—Cross-
examined : Was not told to take the necessary steps
for sending the lambs to Londoo, as Mr. Ennor had
nothing to do with them.—Mr. Andrews Have you
epoken to any policeman about the matter Witness:
I don't know; I have done the same as I was
ordered I I forget Whether I have spoken to • oon•
stable about it. —Mr. Andrews Is that the way
you mean to give your evidence !—Witness: Well,
I forget.---Mr. Andrew,: I'll ask you no more.—
John Norman, working for Mr. Lipscomb., carrier,
spoke to assisting Longman to pack the cameos and
skins, after which he directed them to Mr. Absalom,
Newgate market, took them to the South-Western
Foods station by Longman's orders, and put them
to • train for London. After they were packed Mr.
Bound entered the yard, and was told what had been
done, when he said it was all right, ash. understood
skins, if properly covered over, could be sent—P.S.
Vickery examined two hampers at the goods station,
and from one of them he took It lamb, and 12 skins,
and from the other 11 lambs and 10 skies. 'the
skins were packed at the bottom. He got Norman's
assistance in re-packing them, and saw them go off
in the train as far as the coal yard. Could sot swear
the train did not come back, but he waited there
three-quarters of an hour and it did not. This was
the whole of the evidence offered. Mr. Andrews
contended no offenoe was proved, though the cit..
cumetanoes were suspieiona. The connection of Mr.
Ensor with the matter rested on the evidence of
Longman, who, when premed, said he did hot re-
collect, and it was evident that he merely stated what
would be said in the ordinary comes of business. But
Norman stated that Mr. Bound said the skins might
go if properly covered, which was oorrect es regarded
everywhere except an infected place, and considering
the difficulty attaching to understanding the orders
such • mistake might easily occur. Then it was
not proved that the hampers Vickery, searched were
those seat from Mr. Essor's yard, but that the
hampers spoken to were taken possession of by the
police, and therefore, if they went it was the polio.
who sent them. Further Vickery did not show
they went oat of the borough, and lastly it had not
been proved that the borough wet an infected place!
After racteratation, Major Frampton said the Bench
of their own knowledge were aware that the borough
was an infected place, and would take it upon them-
selves to convict, and fine each of the defendants
£2O and oosts.—Mr. Andrews said, with all sub-
mission, he held that the Bench had no authority at
that time to deal with the awe, inasmuch as nothing
had been proved under the sot to set in motion thn
orders in question, and he quoted the 29th Viet.,
o. 15, to show how the necessary notices were to be
proved. After further deliberation, the Chairman
said the Bench decided to alter their judgment, and
dismissed the came, on the ground that it had not
been properly proved.
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THE CATTLE PLAGUE AT BURTOE.—Mr. George
Corsa; miller, of Burton, was summoned before the
county Bench on Saturday, for having had two cows,
two yearlings, and a calf on his premises on the 28th
ult., affected by the cattle plague, about which he
did not give information to the officers of the dis-
trict, and also for having neglected to slash the
hides, and bury the 01rOaeee Bye feet under the
earth with quick lima The magistrates were Major
Frampton (daimon), Major Kinder'ley, Major
Alta, H. Williams, Esq. H. C. Goodden,
and C. Sykes, E.g. It appeared that on the 28th
ult. Sept. Underwood saw Cozens in Doichester,
and told bim be beard that wine of his cows had
died. Cozens said two bad died, which he had
buried Ni feet, and covered over with lime, end he
asked the superintaudent not to my anjthing about
it. The same morning Supt.,. Underwood acid
Plummer went to Burton mill, and in • manure
haw found the carcases of four beasts skinned, and
•oalf unakinnecL The besets had been diseeoted.
All save one were much decomposed, and Sept.
Underwood said he could smell them at the bottom
of Grove Buildings I Parte of the beasts were only
covered with three inches of manure, and some
might be as much aa three feet Cozens mid one of
the oows died near calving, and a yearling came to
It. death through • chill. No information had hum
given to the cattle inspectors appointed by the local
rintho=r Mr. Redwood, veterinary surgeon, and
Mi., his assistant, examined tbe exhumed
blade, an pronounced one of them at host to have
died affected by the rinderpeat. In croes-ezeminso
tics, Mr. Milhies, said be had practised as • voter.
iary largess in Edinburgh, Damokiw, LiYirpool,

and Manchester. He could Dot tell how long
.the
animals had been dead. Several of them were in •
bail state of decomposition. Did they smell very
badly Just about ! He ex unined the third
stomachs of two animale, and found them very mach
inflamed, two hearts bodes& extravagation of blood
in the left ventricle, where be had never known it In
any other disease than the rinderisst. Professor
Gungee wee an authority, but he spoke from his
own observation. Q. Where did you see any cattle
plague before coming to Ibrobester? A. I have
Seen it nowhere else. Q. Have you seen any hero?
A. Yes, I have. Q. That's problematical ; then pour
sole experience in rinderpest is *btu you have seen
in Dorchester? A. Yes, it is. He ttielb deuribed
what be regarded as symptoms of the cattle piagtfe,
sad went on to say he examined the lips of one of
the animals exhumed and found the lips ulcerated;
it sass beast of the bovine tribe—an animal with •
cow's head Mr. Redwood said only the last cow
that died could he made the subject of pathological
examination. Prom the condition of the third
stomach of that cow, the lips, and the heart, he was
confident it died of cattle plague. He had not seen
the disease .rc-pt in this neighbourhood. tie did
not lino* anything about one dying in calving: it
might have died olden, for anything he knee. For
the defence Francis Weldon, of the Sun Inn, Burton,
was called, and said be had been used to cattle all
his lifetime, lie attributed the death of one of the
yearlings, which had beep poor looking since a calf,
to having been fed on hay all winter, and then
turned into quick grass. A cow died in calving,
and the calf followed through getting no milk. A
yearling that Mr. Nash, veterinary surgeon, at.
tended, he opened after death, and found it all right
Wept that the lights had grown to the side, and the
gall wee unusually large. Neither that nor another
cow that died two months after calving bad ulcera-
tion of the lips, or, when alive, running of the
nostrils and eyes. Henry Kingman c.rrotiorated.
Mr. Nash spoke to treating a 2-year old from 14th
May to 17th, and it died on the There was
no discharge from the eyes or none when he saw at,
and no ulcers in the lips. In his opinion the cause
of death was • chill, owing to its being kept badly
all winter, and then being turned into quick grow
grass, with which it filled itself. In answer to
questions put at the suggestion of Superintendent
Underwood, he said be had seen cows with node:,
pest in Faux. He attended one of Mr. Layer's
cows, sod saw the rest. They did not exhibit the
symptoms manifested by those he saw in Essex. The
owe of Mr, lever's placed tinder him he treated for
• chill. After a very brief oonsultation the chair.
man said the Bench considered both charges proved,
and fined defendant £4O and the mete Ll ha.

WEST STAFFORD.
ANNUAL MISSIONARY GATHERING.

The thirtieth anuiversary of the valuable branch of
the Dorclosier Association of the Church Missionary
Society which flourishes at West Stafford was celebrated
on the let instant, with all that beartinese geniality,
and niece= which has long distineuiehed its recurrences,
under the guidance of the zealous and kindly Mrs.
Begin&ld Smith, the secretary and chid worker on
Ishalf of the breech, and who alihieves a wondrous
•momit of good, both personally end by her noble exam-
ple on behalf of the society. The ramble to Stafford
from Dorehester, icon, of the most delightful the neigh,
bonehead, with its many pleasant walks, can afford, and
on this, evening the e.untry round eppeared clothed in
beauty and radiant with life, while the air, tempered
to a gtiteful coolnipx, wes fragrant with hawthorn
blossom and the sereettimelling elarer, and jocund with
the joyous estrollios of birds, &Mid which the monoton-
oils note of the cask.° was now and again heard—a
circumstance, by the way, somewhat remarkable at so
late a period of the year. Ou approaching the village,
nestling ill a well-eooded valley, Die tinkling of belle
was borne upon the air, and the flog hoieted on
the ehureh tower in honour of the occasion was
just visible, and it served to guide such as might
be unfamiliar with the geography of the neighbour-
hood, to the place of assembly. The village was
ouusually aniurated. for not on!, were the people
in festive attire wending their way to the church. but
carriages rolled thithererard, bearing friencis f torn a
distaste*, and many visitors from Dorchester were '
present. Over the entrance porch to the church there
was inscribed in green. on • white field, "He that is
zealous for the Word of God shall receive a crown."
The motto was surmounted by • plies-entail., of a
crown, and • pretty edging of hawthorn blossom and
buttercups was given to the tablet The Interior was
redolent wish the odour of flowers, which were disposed
in various patte of tbe church. The chancel screen, the
old carving of which is always admired, bad reseived
special decoration. On the erne, part was a string counts
formed of sprigs of fir, on which were placed at brief
intervals, bunches of ',hits blossoms. which bad • very
pretty appearance, and the dome over the aide wail
decked with bright-coloured roses laid upon moss. On
either side of the church were Dieu sentences. "Pr.
ye the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth
labourers into his harvest," and "Let um do what we
can while we may." The gallery bore this proposition,
" As the glorious gospel has been freely given to us,
freely let ma support it," and on each side of it was
placed an emblem of eternity. The church wits eon-
pletely tilled, yet the congregation was not so literally
overflowieg as we have sometimes seen it. The Rev.
Reginald Smith testae.] at the meeting, supported by
ths following clergymen ;—The Rev. T. W. Knit. of
Woodaford, the Rev. E. Headland of Bincomlie,
the Reeds. J. G. Davis. and C. J. lard of Dor-
chaster, the Rev. H. B. Miles of Athelliamptoe, the
Rev. P. I). 0. Sylvester of West Knighton, the Rev. (I.
W. Binekasu of Bingham's Mekombse the Rev. S.
Hobbs, lets missionary in Ceylon and linseed'''.
the
Rev. D. Hogarth of Portland, and the Rev. J. R.
totter of Houghton. Anionget others present were:
Mr, Reginald Smith, Mr. and Miss Eliot, Mrs. Francis
Smith, Mrs. R. Hayfie, Mrs. E. Burnett, Mrs. C. W.
Bingham. Mrs. Elroy, Mrs. Med. Mrs. Foster, Miss
Knipe, Miss Arden. the Misses Millet, Miss Smith, Miss
Campbell. Miss Marriott, Mr. 0. Eliot, Mr, J. G.
Wood, Mr. T. Homer, Capt. Party Smith, ILE, Capt.
Maringay, RE, Major Smith, Mr. E. Pearce, Mr.
Cowdell, Mr. Robert firoilt Mr. T. Bauotobe, Mr. J.
Tau, Mr. Andrews, Mr. C. Good, Mr. Keats, icA,
The speeches were dislingoished by much ability, and
kept closely to the subject under consideration. The
crowded state of our column• prevents our doing more
than giving the briefest outline of Diem—The rev.
president, after giving all a hearty welcome, remarked
that many who assisted at the ant meeting they had for
missionary purposes had passed away, and reminded
them that "the night onineth. when's) man can work."
The country meetings of the Church Missionary Society
thia year were held under circumstances of great encon•
ragement. The addl. hood mow the committee stated
to be requisite to continue their operations on
the elithiej mule • year ago had been contributed,
towards which the went Stafford branch gave it.,
share. raising no less than i. 13 in the past year.
of which DK was subscribed at the last annual
meeting. As regarded the church, and the great work
it bad to do, the signs of the times were very bright.
It wee a striking and signifioent fact, that while the
state of the world mu most unsetisfactdry— agitated
and disturbed to the greatest possibledegree, the church
—the army of the living God- -was going on in its
peaceful, bloodless, and beneacient career, distributing
blessings in its path, and proceeding in the strength of
its Dieine betel conquering and to conquer. The
emu of missioos migh,, be arailed with midicule, or
slandered by worillylninded men. Some now affirmed
tom mbeicios effected nothing, but such be would refer
to the testimony of Fillr Herbert Edwards, who spent
25 years in India, and for teeny of them carefully noted
the working of missions, and to many others mooed
our oediers and sailors, as well as civilises. Men who
thus cisreksaly and ignorantly upessed missioeary Aorta
boaated of the achievements of scions, education,
philosophy and ci•iliz Awe. They might •-k what had
these things done, apart from christraiiity, for the moral
End opiritu•l improvement of the Ileum° tote / In the
all thousand years since when man began his mysterious
end µMural history, they had had tone enough to
manifest their power. What hart they don-1 Where
were the trophies and victories they had mooed
over ignorance and vice 1 Where were the proofs of
their regenerating power? Where was the nation, the
tribe, even the family, that bad been turned from the
moat degrading idolatry simply by those mean.l The (sot
was, only where the Bible had gone, where the name of
Jesus Curist •as known, did they find men turned from
idolatry and all its rand and d, besting abominations,
only there did they find men •Ith pure hearts and
humble minds, living In communion • ith the true and
eternal God. Ample proof of this won't' be found in
any one of the reports of the Church hfissionary
Society, or any other of the great Christian instrumen-
talities for mending the gospel to the heathen. But if
Ruh tangible proofs of the snooks= of missions as were
ethibited in New Zealand, Western Africa, India, and
elsewhere were wanting, it would be • suffloient &newer
to all objections to remind them Christ bad commanded
that the gospel should be preached to every creature.
But, wherever, men bad gone forth end proclaimed
that "God so bend the world that be gave his only
begotten ton, Dist whosoever belieseth on Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life," which was the
eery essence of the gospel, they had found by happy
rawest.)e that their labour was not In vain in the
Lord. —The Rev. D. Hogoth addresred the meeting. to
this end—that in mumbles to the heathen the preaching
of the gospel mast precede attempth to civilize.
Civilisation first was tried at Newfouoillond, and the
natives had all been civilised out of the country.
Some years ago a minister went there, and was so
ashamed to find only two natives remained, that he
tried to win them by kindness ; but, one was killed in
attempting to take him, and the other disappeared.
The other plan was tried at New Zealand. When
Captain Cook discovered it about 101 years ago, he
reported the natives to be the fiercest people be ever
met with, and be could have no traMo with them.
Well, in 1815, one of their missionaries landed in that
etheer7 caninbalism, and all kinds of wickedness
prevailed, but he moulted to them the gospel, and the
result was that within the memory of most of them
New &dud wee handed over to this country 111 a
land conquered by the gospel—it was given up to Eng-
land without a blow being struck. Oh I that the
Government bad socceeded es well as the missionary
did I But, by some sad mismanagement, very thing
had gou into confusion MOM. He also batenoed
Greenthod. To that country some 150 years aso 11111
Danish people emit Hens Itiede, who isommenced with
endeavouring to make the people yield to the charms of
covilizatoso, °Doddering they were not yet ripe to
rompi the gospel, but after 16 weary yeses he returned
disheartened, and without having made one convert.
A Moravian missiocary erect there the year liens Egede
returned, and for a time acted on the Ire civilise
theory, but one day lodine several Oresslandeall
around him as he was trandatiag ioto their Weigel*,
*banters of the New Testament, deelaratory of God's
love fag sinners, he read portions to them, which they
liatened to with the deepest interest and antheament,
had one of them, • ompthstha and • murderer, esellainesd
'UR EDO that again, for I too, would be saved,"
testifying by Ista counteuseee and gestures to dm
reality of his feelings. Thus commeneed the weak of
God in that dark plus. At length that Greenlandee
bourne a fervent preacher of the word of God, and
after a time died rejoining in Jima as his Saviour.
The Indian, the Guileless, the bleak African, the

red New Zealanders, and the wild North Angerigan
Indian. were all of one blood with them, and
the word of God Ira calculated to reach their hearts
.Ik., convince them of sin and lead them to the
Saviour. With fegerd do the operations it this'll .clety,
they had been in the Lord's way, and he lied red
them. The Bev. J. R. Cotter orped upon them that
ehristians were to be an leaven in the wOrld. He then
spoke of military uMeers whom he had head my there
Is no each thing as a convert from heathenism to
christisoity, and remarked that one at Dorchester mid
to him the heathen ate as Orm in their raligion as you
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ago in Central Africa wea met when lic preached to the
people lei, h the remark, " we are ho ogre give os bread,"
and be wes only supported in his work by tin thought
that ebristiam in England were praying for him, yet
now In that dletrict there were six missioo stations, on.
native clargynivti, El native lay teachers, 1,125 own.
moon:lank, 2,198 oath,' ebristians, 14 schools, and
668 echolars. He then reietred to New Zealand, mint-
ing cot how chrhoianity had made Diem booourable foes
in war and humane. He related the Mori of M.
Volkneee massacre. attributing it to huntica, sad iomn•
tained that the guesses which bad attended foreign
missions was most encouraging. The Rev. S. Mehl,'
spoke at moms length of the remarkably gratifying
results which had attended the missions in Tionevelly
sod Ceylon, respecting which we reported his
speech at Um Dorchester meths( at considerable
length. —The Rev. C. W. Bingham impressed
upon the meeting the obligation meting upon
christlana to do what they could to support
the Chrireh Missiooary Society. He referred to
the wart field over which its operations extend, yet
Joked what were they doing comparing the wealth of
the el.riatians of thia eosintry with the wants of the
sorld ! In ledia they were told that the missionaries
of all denominations there were only tooching one three.
hundredth part of the land, and it was the *mooted
that there was not no moeh as one christian there to
every thouomd of the inhabitants, after their long
labours amongst them. He then quote I a calculation
which had been made, as an encouragement to chria-
tians in missiooary efforts. If at Olio time a man
became the first ebristian in the world, and in one year
led soother to • knowledge of Christ, they the next
yearlbrought two, and the four the following year four,
and so the work went on in geometric pmeremion. in
31 years the population of the world would be con-
s erted, the number being 173,741,824. He spoke finally
of the want which prevail, of men to go forth to presch to
the heathen, and Baked their prayers that more labourers
might be mot forth into the harvest, sod for the stemma
of the asbole minden work. The Chairman pronounced
the benediction, At the close the collection amounted
to nil and Mrs. Reginald Smith had received the
following donations : £3 each from Mrs. Fa:gunmen
and FF. Cl, from Mrs. Wingfield Digby ;El each.
from J. Player, lip., iar., BMA. Hawkins, Bed.,
Oliver W. Ferrer, Seq., Mrs. Yeatoten. of Stock Home,
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hayse, and Mrs. Sdaton ; El 11/..
from Mrs. Phelps, of Moockton, and her sister; 105.
from gra. F10p.., Mrs. Serrell, Mrs. J. Slone, Mn. J.
Hamm, and Mira Clayton'
, 5.., from Mr. and Mrs.
!Reale, Mr. and Mrs. F. Lock, dm, Ea After the meet-
ing the whole party were courteously invited hi the
rectory, where redreektnents of a most elegant character
were provided, and all were mate heartily welcome.
Thus oriooluded one of the pleasantest rural gatherings
of the year in this neighbeembood. The ocillesition
amounted to 00.