The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-03-19 00:00:00

"ABOVE BOARD."

Sir,—Our Town Council have been dtbating, with
late Mr. Philip Dodson,
closed doors, the liability
who contracted fur various
of the representatives of the
works connected with our eater supply, to make Food
sundry esismses which the Council have beeu made liable
to through the execution of his contract. As their
deliberations will no doubt embrace several questions of
law. which it is desirable to keep as Leticia.% attorney
and client, the ratepayer* will not object to their seeing
sitting ; but allow use to say, sir, that hereafter it will
be expected that eecrything connected with this matter
shall be laid before the town, and it will also be ex-
pected that every member will keep the pledge a
anti will not by hint, innuendo, or the natural
desire which the possession of a secret engenders,
convey information to others who have less right to
know it than the town at large. We all know that the
estate of bk. Deidwin is being realised by Mr. Herbert
Williams, the banker. IVe know that bsh hers ore into
of great influence among tradesmen, but we ect our
Town Council to act as firmly in this matter as they
would lute. done if they had had to deal with Mr. Dodson
himself ; and for my part I have confidence in your
representitives to lalieve we shall not he thaqq.inted.
—Your obedient Servant, nom. IlEaralt.

JtCK 1.).11V5, GREAT ANL, SMA
Sir,—You have rained " a storm in a puddle," The
great .finekdaw ciii your small contemporary have
clubbed their little wits, and, settingjackdaw minisetia
I before them as a scare-crow, have concocted a tooth of
dowel, bad French, sod bantams spite ; seasoned,
however, with the preen admission that you were
Perfectly accurate in your description of the mode in
, which Sherbet's news (!)6" coneocted for dintant parts
and ignorant readers." But, why, Air. Editor, all this
pother ?--this rabid fiereeneas, and o'sretrained exertion?
You must have hit a sore place somewhere, or your
amusing verse would never have excited such on absurd
display of anger. The truth is, your four lines have
demolished the painfully piled-up labour of • year.
Decry it as you may the Press is a very powerful organ.
Even a "small contempirary," with a select circulation
on the Chesil Beach is nut altogether to be despised ;
whilst for the purview of the puff oblique,_
it may be useful. The drum ecclesiastic may be
heaten above our beads, but we get used to the noise,
and doze away as under the drowsiest of preachers;
but even a leader in the Dorm! Chruaiele (the
drowsiest thing out of the pulpit), exist.' as long as the
paper holds together. Now, fur a aeries of months
you small contemporary has allowed himself to be
made the tool of • party in this town, who have
constantly harped on two strings—the Church and
the School—the state of feeling in this town being
continually misrepresented. Ouce when the paper
showed • feint syiuptoin of independence, these parties
had the amazing meanness •to seek the aid of • small
dowienting paper, whose polities they monied and
whose religion they anatheruised. &a long as the
authors of these articles were kept secret, the public
wan hood-winked ; Now the smote is sip /and the reader,
thanks to you rhyme, knows now the enact value to
attach to ColTelWlldelle4 about Church no- Schools,
written by a little boy —(and 1 out sorry to say his
letter shows him to be a vulgar little boy)—who is
under the thumb et the Vicar.

Sherborue.

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