The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY SCHOOL.

We have beau requested to publish the followiag
earns/sondem, :
Dorchester, 28th April, 1818.
Rev, sad gear 81r,—When the register of shareholders
was handed to me for examination, at your request, at
the annual meeting of shareholders of the county
school, on Thursday last, the diamission on the last
clause of the report, then going on prevented me from
giving it the attention it required; and is I had be
some time been sitting on thorns, knowing that I vs.
enxiously waited for el:Nowhere and had kept a carriage
at my door for three-quarten of an hour to take me
there, I was obliged to hurry away.. soon as that
discussion closed. However, I wrote to the secretary
the next day for a copy of the list of shareholders, I
have carefully examined it.
Allow me to tbank you for so readily etpreming
your willingness to loonies' the number of lay members
of Council, in accordance with my suggestion, that it
would probably be more beneficial to the school if there
were less inequality in the numbers of the clerical and
lay members. In reply to that suggestion I understood
that the following allegations were made by you.
lit That the proportion of clerical to lay members of
Council wan justified by the inequality of clerical ad
lay shareaoldera
2nd. That though there was a strong desire to enlist
the services of laymen, there was such a dearth of
laymen eligible for the Council as made the election
difficult.

—ire: That there wee a desire or willingness that all
parties in the church should be represented. I wish to
lee suarate, but I do not remember that you said,
equally represented on the Council.
it, examination of the list of shareholders, and the
explanation of rune matters contained in it which has
hun 'ought and supplied, enable me to submit the
following regalia.
lA, A. to the preponderance of clerical over lay
shareholder., T god thetotal number of shareholders is
6.5, of whom 73 are clergymen and 42 are laymen.
When the present proportion of these to be elected into
the Council was adopted, and it has never, that I am
aware of, been altered, three of the clergymen: now on
the list bad not shares, but have since received them
gratuitously, on your taostrearks., as 1 an reformed,
from among the four shares urrendered by a layman.
Now had the layman's four shares been given to four
laymen, or bad they all bees given to one layman as
'bay had been held before, the proportion of lay to
clerical shareholders would have been rather more then
two to oee ; while as it stands it is ot I) a laths lug
than two to one. On the other lung, of the lb elected
eonnallon eight ere slerscal and seven ate lay, while cy
the gr.ojleie members two are clerical and on. is lay,
giving to the Workeseg Council the propoetim of 10
clergyman to eight Isymee.
2nd, As tn the great desire to mild the services of
lay shareholders in the Council and the difficulty of
vacating them, I find in the list some laymen who am
I believe, fully competent and eligible for the daises of
the Connell, eied if nay of these not yet sleeted Leto
It bare lama limited to enbu it and have declined,
I hung *at all hove as. Bal bad the dilleelty

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The VPD. Archdeacon Sanetuery.
P.S.—As reporters were present at the meeting ft
appears to me desirable that this letter and any Is:plana-
tion you msy like to offer, should go before the public
through the same channels from which their knowledge
of the meeting will be derived.

Dorchester, 30th April, 1868.
Dear Mr. Bingham.— My suggestion made at the
annual meeting of the County School shareholders last
Thursday, that it might be desirable to lemon the in.
equality of the numbers of clergy and laity in the
Council, was animadverted upon by you as indicating a
"jealousy of the clergy." I was, and am quite unable
to see, how the clergy, who have been as one to two
laymen in the list of shareholders, bat who are repre-
panted in the Colman by more Man one to one, can
complain of "jealousy," when the suggestion is offered
that there should be as nearly as Doable an equal
number of each on the Conned.

The enclosed copy of a letter to the Archdeacon will.
I hope, be considered to contain a sufficient vindication
of the step I took.
At any rate I think you will agree with me in the
opinion, that whatever may be the amount of confidence
Inc to the clerical b3cl7, it is not likely to be much
increased by the discussion at a subsequent stage of the
proceedings and the division, in which, though in so
considerable a minority, it was some satisfaction to find
myself ia your good company.
I oak, dear Mr. Bingham, yours very einoersly,
CRARLIM clowirlibL
P.S.—You will not, of coarse, be surprised if I should
think it necessary to place before the public this cor-
respondence, arising out of a discussion of some im-
portante to those interested in the County School, and
without which the proceedings published in the papers
would be incomplete.

Powerstoch, May 2, 1868.
Dear Dr. Cowdell,-4 beg to acknowledp the receipt
of your letter of April 28. and to say that I have care-
fully considered it. As it *Dalian' many things of
peraotml as well as of general interest, which require
a considerable detail of explanation, and some of which
are of considerable impertance to the welfare of the
school. I propose to call a public meeting of the Com-
pany on some day which may be convenient to you. I
have to be in Dorchester on Satarday next, for my visit*.
ton, and I will then endeavour to pee you and to arrange
the time with you. In taking this course lam anxious
to give you in the presence of those who are well
amptainted with the matters in question u open and
full en answer ite can be gives. Pray allow Mk to
remain, with li.nd regards,
Very kaly yours,
THOMAS SANCTUARY.

Dorchester. 4th May, 1868.
Dear Mr. Areh4esoon,-1 beg to thank you for your
kind note. If you could let me know before band at
what time you amid call on me on Saturday, as pro.
posed, I will endeavour to be at home to see you.
I am, dear Mr. Arobdeseon, yours faithfully,
CHARLES COWDELL
The Venerable Archdeacon Sanctuary.

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rally sminkid Am, thd dooKA of lay abareboldars, pexPrairilioi.—the rite of oo
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a it not a prey thee your nomination of persona ministered at All Saint,' church, on T
the
tovuot
to reale,. the &unmake, I layman's shares bad Bishop of Soder itit I Man, as deputy °tew/
ithoubsi
ast
net been extended to four lumen, who, I have Salisbury, who is still unite% although .
to
reason to wise., could waAnut dillittity have been bls lordship has so far remivened Into be &hi,
.., . take
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cost f So walking exercise. The number of_calt,t 11_._1
Saints, . y (mull and induced to weed them free ef
that my examination •nd enquiry into the ist of share- muted was 118, made go u. folltiowf.s.:.,..ll"ddiub
....cab ;
holders does not enable me to find verification of the the "en. Archdeacon Brum 1
tecoad euedttioo. And on this I have further to Holy Trinity, by the Rey. J. Fisher and the Rev. T. A.
observe, thee in the list I see the name of one by Falkner. 27 females an' 24 wales
t.Watson,(;
urfraom
Shareholder who showed his interest in the school by Donee County School, by e Rev. it tia
the 4
becoming • shareholder early, and his readiness to 5. rye t modes; from the Dorchester Grammar School, by the
It by attendence as • member of the Pearled's! Rev. It. T. ll•sks.. 7 rules ; East FordtingtolLesb. y kv;...vat
as
Council. This shareholder w present when the draft II and F. J. Moule, 8 ferules and o
of the Articles of Association was weed upon ; he Forlington, by the Rev. C. J. Bird, 1 female and 4
was win pewee when the said Articles (returned in a males; Catereoth, 1 female; Brideheaf, Ife e. After
legal form by the professional gentleman to whom the ceremony the Bishop delivered an earnest &Adresse°
they bad been sent for the purpose) were read by those who bad been oonfirined, on their duties and the
you to the Provisional Council ; and presently Article 11 dangers to which they are exposed.
was read, defining the mode of proceeding in "the INDRCENT ASSAULT UPON • MARRIED WOMAN.—
removal of She Bead 'Geier.. In the draft agreed On Satuiday evening, shout half.past five o'clock, as
upon by the Provisional Council the Article stood sub- Mrs. Allner, of Little Piddle, was going homewards
dentially &sit does now; but you will remember, that, from Dorchester, by way of Froome Whitfield, Angelo
from the returned copy, you read to us this Article stubs', sweep, of Fordington, laid hold of her and
with .n important addition, so that, besides the words threw her down, and greatly misbehaved himself to-
"at wh ell mama meeting at leaden:is half of the members wards her. She screamed "murder," when he pulled
of the Council shall be present, the Resolution shall bacon- out a knife and threatened to cut her bead off. At
firmed by the votes of at least two-thirds of the members length he ;aid" she was not the party he thought," di
ea Mee", the Head Rader shall be considered at allowed her to go. By this time a man named
removed," there had somehow been added in substanoe Hicks, was attracted to the spot by her dise,Cia= I
the very important proviso " IF IT SHALL HI APPROVRD
oR OONFIRIIRD ST THU VISITOR, THE BISHOP OF THI
DIOCESE." Osi the questioe being put by yea to idie dgaorati,inntinated. Mural her till two women came up, who were
Provisional Council whether op not they would pan Monday he was brought up
1 .
irwmayruhboonorge....Sttlaynl.e
that &relate as altered after Inking to give others magistrates. In answer to the charge ho reed he was
pybp.hretadoreheenvditbeerlde,ntiallbbeeotynn
an opportunity to mait ;traria, and some of our druuk. He was °outwitted for trial.
Protestant
hiarri not
Present on
ithe erivegiee' BOROUGH Parry Susan% Mood. —Before H.
the lay sharedoider firmly proteined evoke the addition
that had been introduced into the article that had Devenieb, Req., and Dr. J. P. Aldridge.—Georde
received the Previous ePPrs'e"l of the Provisional
it be supposed (and recently published Pitfield, landlord of the Union Arms was summoned
for refusing to admit the police when .eked to do so.—
Council. Let
accounts sufficiently show the possibility of the case). Mr. Weston defended.—P.S. Cousins said that on
Sunday, the 26th April, be went to the Coin Arms,
that at some future time some Heed Master should
with P.C. Keerb, betneen 11 and 12 a.m. He knocked
latradhre
into
the "'heel the Preeike el A InCsia' CM-
fess/ion, and that for this the Council should pass the at the door, and Um Pitfield came and looked out at
requisite Resolution for his removaL And further ittmedewiinadtalowy..
He found she did not come to the door, She said nothing, and left the window
suppose that mob resolution should be submitted to the
Visitor, the Bishop, for cionfirthation, as by the meta- and, after waiting a minute or so, he knocked at the
door 'n, but it was not opened till two minutee
morphoeed article would have been necessary ; and thou after. He mild beer a deal of "muffling" in the house
suppose the idiot, the Bishop, had related to confirm _
R Persons moving about. After that the door was
loch &solution, what would have become of the Pro-
opened, and he asked Mrs. Fielleld if she had anybody
testant obese:tar of the Dorset County School?
the
io the hones,, and she ...ow no.. He went iyi
•• ~,
Bus happily the meet demurest' and utterly •
, tap-room, and, ea Ite entered the phase by one door, be
, oh...id& addition was expunged. Now this My Awe-
. saw onus pass oat by the other door and go into the
bolder was pre eat again at the general meeting'. , shareholders when the councillors were elected, and he brewhonea, which adjoins. He folioed him and as he
heard you, las one name after another was proposed an inner door. In the brewhouse he found the land-
appended the bewshosse be heard the bolt go of
meek of Dem as os being desirable for the council, lord's son. The door was belted oa the side he stood.
bemuse 'Shill _a" "rePeeelaSeSiese Men' some " He could not recognise dui the man Was he saw, but it
whom be sad never seen prevent to rode! was not Pitdeld'a son. lie asked defendant's son if
semen on the Provisional Council, while
ble, anybody was there, and he said "no." He returned to
r•Preallattai and WSW the °PIP " Yoreeentati_.se"
____., „e. the tap-room again, and found a woman named Richards
agaidersk4 Protataaal 1,6(171 snd n ee"hlt Pr'." "' very drunk. blefendent was in the house the whole
willingness to place his enviers It the disposal of the he thought time, and he told him and his wife that
shareholders by hls attendance on the Provisional they had some ones concealed about the home from
Counsel, Was not named ; end this, notwithstanding the
the scuffling noise be heard before witness was
great desire to enlist the services of laymen, and the
admitted. Defendant said he hadn't, and that witness
great difficulty of procuring them. Nor has the laymen was welcome to search the premises. He searched the
seer been asked to miter the Counsel though vacancies
have rooms up.t..i.
arid dewn and then
went wow the
yard,
s"selseed. until he comes forward suggest that and &eked to smith Mae the plam whisk was bolted.
the inequality of the numbers of the clerical and lay R. went to the plass (a house moupied by soma ether
members Meowed, which has been permitted for three person) and martially opened the door, but it was pushed
or four years, should be redressed ; and than, on being „_„,;„.. ~;_.
___„_ _„,, __,
ge ~. 1_
__,._,
pressed by one after another to become a oounaillm, his against him, rhe Zrea"trad"vt:"rertiv;'• Int'"'ed,.., "tan—.... 7.
mit reenact of oourae compelled him to deeds the that home, and Kn. ',afield eatd o yes!, as tad the
honour.
On the 3rd and last allegation it will be sufficient to Person there witness had no right to go in without a
wax-rant, and he would be very foolish to let him go
remark, that finding on the list of shareholders as walnut owe..._cwwwoseraided . semehed ea._ ~„„.. a
holding the four shares surrendered by one laymen, all the ueicei Are. meg., eve.' harms a p.7,:iii7"the
laymen and three clergymen presumably of mot of oar
es. On the east side of the boas& there is a unlace
thane parties, my inoestiyanba info the lin doee not
ing to the yard, in which there is a house occupied
permit Ine to aesept the assurance of a desire, if of a by a man named Gala ;it is also a way to the taproom,
that persons of en parties in the church
mad out of that
yard them is a reed to pordmsms peon&
should be "totally represented," or, even, that they Did not know that people used that puede to take their
should be represented at &IL
dinners to the bakehocue. The premises in the yard,
It is very painful to be constrained to speak out thus aea let to Gale at 2a. 3d. a week, were used is
°onus..
plainly, and especially to one whose unwearied courtesy tion with the inn, is the time of the previous landlord.
and kindness is fully acknowledged by reverend and It was Gale who retused him admittance to the house.—
dear Sir, Yours faithfully,
CHARL COWDELL. The e
tbtac.h dismissed else cue, on the ground
ES
-Elisabeth
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insuffi.iesicy of the •111331110111.
• single woman of Fordington, and now
Is tie Dorchester Cilia', was charged with enmity
awl inhumanly treating her obild—a boy eff three
b=;.-11r. H. Look prosecuted on behalf of the
ter Board of Guardiane—Thomas Corsa,
muter of the workhouse, geld that the defendant mid
her child John were admitted to the Dorchester Union
on the 15th February last, and had been there up to the
present time. He saw the child the same evening. It
had • sore heed and • black eye. He sent for Kr.
Penton. The child has not been under the care of its
mother .1 .11 since it has been in the workhouse, but
was plated in the aMk ward till it recovered. and then
was in the school with the other children.--Mr. Pantoa,
medical officer of the workhouse, said be found Jolla
Cake suffering from scald head. The head was ousted
with sores, the hair was matted together very much,
end the child was in • state of emaciation; as though it
had been starved and neglected. The child was under
treatment for some time in the infirmary, and when the
sores were healed he found numerous marks of braises
on the head and face, and two wounds which had been
covered by the some were still open. Several of the
wounds must Lau been extremely deep—quite down to
the bone, said roma were u loag as two Metres. The
owe appears to have been broken. One of the bones of the
right arm has been fractured, probably when the ehild was
about a year old, said the fracture had been neglected.
The child must have been cruelly trested.—Elisabeth
Drake, the wife of Daniel Drake, labourer, of Ford-
legion, said the defendant and her child lodged at
their Leine rather more than a year and a hell before
going to the workhouse. On Saturday, the Bth Feb.,
about breakfast time, defendant beat her lehild with
her hand ; the child fell on the floor, and while It was
there she kicked it several timex The child cried &good
deal. Defendant took up the ehild afterwards end said
*ha thought she had burl ite arm. At different times
she had seen defendant beet the chili with her hand.
end when in bed had known her take it out and beat it
on the door, and say she would kill it because it was
dirty. Witness had remonstrated with her for treatiog
her child so, and told her she would eet into trouble
about it, when defendant said "it was no business of
ours, the child was her own, and she should do what
she liked with it." In consequence of defendant's bad
treatment of her child, witress had taken it from her
and put it to sleep in a cradle in their room, when the
child had been very quiet all night, and not disturbed
them. It was very noisy when defendant was at home,
so mach that nobody could hide in the house. There was
the mark on the well now where defendant bad thrown
the child against it. She told defendant about it next
morning, when she replied she didn't mire. Had given
notice to defendant to leave in eonseqeence of her treat-
ment of it, and the noise it made. The child once
fell across their fender. and cat his heed on the
back.—Eliza Andrews, wife of George Andrews, outer,
of Fordington, living next door to Mrs. Drake, spoke
to hear.ng the child cry very mach at night, and the
mother seolaiog it, end thelsonad of some one being
thrown on the floor. Sbe had spoken to her about her
treatment of the child, several times. Sometimes she
replied "it was her own child It wee no difference to
anybody,"end at ethers sheeeld" she wished the child was
dead, and if she killed him she should hove to answer
for it."—Mg. Antoci, re-celled, said he did not think the
fall of the child would exeunt for the appearance
of the nue —Defendant said the child was full of
humours from a baby. She went out to work day by
day washing, coming home at night, when the child
was in bed, and she went away in the morning leaving it
in bed. She used to ask what caused the marks on its
face, when Kn. Drake said he fell down. Una Drake's
husband one night took the child from her when it cried
and beat it with a stick, naked as it wee; on another
mansion, in the day time, be beat the child with the
the beets end of his temp, and when she took the
child's pert he said be would kit* bet out of the house.
Mrs. Drake admitted that both she and her husband
had beaten the child, bat she esid she knew nothing of
the *eta defendant alleged against her husband. —Mr.
Devenish eommented on the want of natural affection
the defendant had shown, and sentenced her to two
months' hard labour. He also gemmed his thankful.
nese that tho authorities had be ht her before the
Court—The Town Clerk said it would have served her
right if the women in Fordingtoe had "ducked" her in
the mill pond, though it would have been contrary to
law. It seems that the prisoner has had two illegitimate
children before, which have died.

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Bishop's town.
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