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

DORORIMITER GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

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The Daniel distribution of pities in connection with
this echoed, took pleas tut Friday, in the presentee of
ladies sod gentlemen tallies am interest in educational
work, sod pareets of the e4ohus. The Worshipful the
Mayor (Dr. Aldridge) melded. At ter prayerei read by
Mr. theeksw.
The Malaise said they were met on that very
interesting ormesion to receive reports from the
esenathers of the school as to the progress the boys had
made in their varicose studio, during the pest half-year,
sad he bad saelldencie that the judgments they would
deliver, wools, be most ma-factory, not only to the
borta:ltheeceelves. but to everyone interested in their
we as well as in the proryerity of that noble
imtit4" The adeantages rebutting from the 'due.-
lion reselud in that school were well known to every
Inhabitant of the tows; for many years past boys
bad been educated there who bad now gone forth into
the world, where they did infinite credit to the school,
and attained honourable positions for themselves ; and
there was no doubt but that others now under training,
if they exhibited attention and painstaking, would
similarly distinguish themselves (applause). He then
trailed ten the Hey. M. J. Green Pi deliver his teport
Ths lie.. ii• J. °aim, V.A., late fir low of Lincoln
College, Otter& arid rector of Winterbourne Simpleton,
said :—ln again giving • report of the examination of the
bop at the Dorchester Grammar School in divinity
cod classics I desire to aeknowl, dge the Keystones of
the same 'scare' tuts of geed order and eheerfulness
with frbieh I was struck last year. Thit is evidence of
the maintenance of • firm and kind rule in the school
and the house. From the youth of the boys their
friends mart not expect to brava a uniform proficiency
I. all their studies. Great exeellenev in such a ease is ,
out of the question. The mee sou and translations
from Latin and Greek into English were, with • few
exceptions, of • good character, and one from Homer I
thoutht particularly well rendered by Watson the first bey
Lod pellet the present holder of the feoffees exhibition.
It was gratifying to And that they had received a useful
!tumulus from their seems last year. Souse of the
juniors also hold out • prianise of iniproverneut--I got
alai a very good historical *Mount of the portion of
Livy in Which they had been digested. MitlY lid
doubt will he glad to bear that justices was done to that
great favourite Hones. To • school boy his knowledge
of the language is the most important point wither,'
that he no foundation for becoming a scholar,
but at the same time I confider that be marks his in-
telligence and Interest in Alaimo* by making himself
matter of the contents of his books. He then gives
promise of becoming either a lively instructor or a go d
companion. The oomposii ion was unequal to the trans-
lations, but where so large a number of subject, are
Wight steellencee here is more difileult of attainment,
The viva woes musing also was inferior, but this was
in some measure redeemed in the papers, where
some of the answers to the questions in grammar
make me hope that with iiiereased attention my
young friends will make an improvement Compoeitioe
is always a superstntrature, and though not to bo looked
for in • high degree. any more than good letter writing in
youths, still it is Deceseary for entering in a scholarilke
insane, into a study of the higher authors. Great
attention is paid in this examination to Divinily.
Watson alone sent me • pod Liturgy and Catechism
paper. The answers to thelleriptetral questions were
maey of them good, particularly those on the Old
Testament. There was also little of that rambling of
which I complained last year. The account of the
capture and return of the ark. in the book of Samuel.
chewed much attention in their reading on the part at
most of the bop.
The Rev. W. Italtlllll, B.D. rector of Winterbourne
reme, the other examiner, said :—The examination of
candidates for wheel honours and prises is • very re-
sponsible work, which I am not very willing to under-
take, though I hope my markinp, as those of one of
the examiners of this school, are eroded«, on • fair
judgment of the work that came before me. lam
happy to say that on the whole I have found full proof
of sound teaching and good learning. The work which
I hove examined seems to have been the strongest, and
indeed highly good, in geography and history, and the
weakest in &Liston and French. The English grammar
rose, in souse mesa, to two-thirds of the whole marks,
and the writing from dictation was very correct, and
most of the sways bees shown, for boys, • fair share of
reading and knoeledge, and a promising power of mind
mid activity of thought. There are some fair markings
in Euelid,algebra, and arithmetic, and the deesiencties in
these subjects are owing to the want of • ready
knowledge of the resources of the sciences, for the treat-
meet of 'specie' cases, as of the idioms of Freneb.or of
the devices for particulsr algebraic expressions, or of the
application of geometrical problems to cases of mixed
geometry, or the summatioe of series in arithmetic,
though I am not mars that thus practical forms of
knowledge were all taught by the text books of the
school. The Head-Master said that summation of series
wu not n their arithmetical tent hooka) Mr. Bernie
went on to say, I have often thought that it examiners
were to change places with the boys, who might, in their
torn, set their questions to their elders, they might, in
some cams make but short norm. I had set, as one of
the subjects for an English essay "The game of
cricket," and was told in one of the papers more than I
knew myself, the history of roced-bud bowling, the
invention, is it seem% et girls, sisters of some men
players, whom they often joined in their games; and. as
their dresses were in the way of under-bind bawling,
they threw their bells with a round-band swing, which
so baffled the batters that they found it desirable to
take it for their own play against others: another proof
that "necessity is the motheeof invention." I would
now speak to the boys • few words (am hints for their
neat half-year's work) on Om subject of the deficiencies
in some of their papers. I would say, mark well
expecte' oases of departure from trommon !eau Whether
in tenpins, or in algebra, or arithmetic. If, for
instance, you find in • language that it words a thought
as does English, you have only to learn the words; but
If it womb the thought otherwise than English, mark
well the use of difference and its treatment, as that
most likely, will give you a pattern for hundreds of
other such cues One of the potations was of the way
in which the Frenoh treated the eases in which we its.
the word "just," as in "I have jest dined." Ti. French
idiom is "Je view &diner." "I come from dining
which oely oar boy bed observed. So in algebra, as
long as expressions are treated by the common rules,
they need only common attention, bet if you find
especial expressions wthab allow short forms of treat-
ment mark well the expression and ite treatment In
the multiplication of the expression (ar —yri by (n'+)')
mark that the middle terms of the product vanish,
and therefore it is hem:lett ont by two strokes of
writing x and r with thine iodises doubled, • short
treratment of that form of (repression. I believe your
text book does not take up Summation of series,
but, in • case which I gave all the fermi were added
together instead of being berneht out by the short rule.
Now, addressing myself to the friends of the boys. I
would speck a few words at the value of the sundry
branches of knowledge. We sometimes hear people
saying "Oh lit leant worth while for my boy to learn
this or that. It will be of 2o Oaf to him." No pod
knosledge is for ever berrma Well Worth your study
as both Euclid and Latin acti Greek. There is • good
saying of, I believe, Bacon. "Quid dignum emends,
dipum '<Untie." Wbaterer is worthy of being (in
the wisdom of God) is leerily of knowing. I will give
you a little instance of the tinily nee of knowledge. A
man, as I have reed, who hid studied botany, was cast
with others from • wreck, men • rook, at night. Th. y
found the thle.water was ridng up towards them, and
some of them would have cast themselves into the
sea with the chasm of swimming in to the land." No,"
said the botenist, "The water won't rise high enough
to drown us." Why not? "Because here I. atrophies
growing, sed it grows above watermark." They staid
sad were saved. room say that in learning a languagei
as Greek or Latin, you Imam only words. It is not
tree. You island learn Latin or Greek analytically, u It
should be learnt, without learning much MOTO the.
words. A seeker of • pehlie Aloe in Ruse was
called "eandidetus," a candirate, no., a whitened man.
How um you understand this word without learning
the custom of eaneassing in ',White tope "Were" is a
Latin word, sometimes used by the Romans for "to Imre
• wise. Why effero, which means to Garry oat, but from
their mato= al buying without the walls? Or how can
you understand "suoeinctos," an engirded men, foe an
active man, and "diseinctus," for an idle man ,without
being taken beck to the =stem of belting up the loose
garment on setting te work or quick walking. One more
case, which is one of the showing some ancient history
by a singis word. There is near Marlborough • forest
called "flavarnak" forest. Now when we find that
"flavernsk" is • form of an secant British word" Scour- !
ask," and • word of the British of Catillnn, the Cornosk
language ; and that it meansa hare, and that forest also
is a Celtic word, what do wy learn from this one
word? That "an forest Soovarnak," muss "The bare
wood." That it was • wood in ancient British timea, as
ills now. That it had then many hens. That the
Sason-Eaglish settlers did not drive oat all the Britons,
but had among Own some front whose lips they took
the name, and what is useful for forth* discoveries of
early British history from such oases, dial the speech
of the Britons of all the West of Englead was, as we
might guess, rather the Corociak than She form of the
modern Welsh, eines the Cornoak "Soovarmak,"• hare, Is
In Welsh yanvArnot. Greek and Lade are the keys
to the old life andcivilisation of Zeroes, acid no
lion can give us the amanita knowledge we pin from
the old writers' own works. The Arahs have • saying
that he who learn, another language besides his own
doubles his mind.
The Maeoli then distributed lb* surds of the
eltelainerl as follows, making an encouraging remark to
earth boy as be did se. The prises consed valuable
hooks handsomely bound.
Rututmonsait —Foolfee's Eblatim, 840, Boma
Subscribers' Exhibition, EIO, Dams.
Plum —Climbs, Watson ; lktbeiaatits, Wed,.;
Extra Mathematical, Brown ; Divinity, Weteon ; Iheash,
Beenett ; 2nd Mathematical, Mush, ; 2nd Chu,
Peens • 3rd Clue Way, miner; the Memeoee wan,
Roberti (Elementary Religiose linewiedis).

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Ile irons= the- n midneed the hope thus:— It
allords me the greatest pc.eibls phew* en my own
behalf, as well as on bebl of yes, friends now preweat,
and very many who, though abeentt Mks • lively
interest in your welfare, re well es in the Misrule of
this valuable institution to eengralnlate you es the
resalte of the stamina*. you have ON sad all under.
goon indicating, u It dera, the ecesiderable progress
y-cit have mad* through diligeses and appilastioa in the
grant work that is before yew— s.ul.tug that aorobtsitZ
and grammatical knowledge which sea toady be
during your school days--upats which you will be
enabled to mar • supers... Muse whisk will ettabie you
to bear the burdens of the future with boooar to your.
selves and adrantsore to the community in which you
may be placed. Theft are Indeed golden hours, and
very much will depend upon the mapper in wblott they
are need. If negkoted they usa never be recalled, and
=dreamt will be the cocesqueooa. But if properly
swum will, by the blessing of the Almighty,
be the result, sad your future be happy sod prosperous
Let me entreat you then, each ono, to look to It that
you Dewiest no opportunity of advancing in knowledr
and learning, which cen alone At you to 'wooed in
the betties of life in the futons I would entreat you
in the words of Longfellow, the American post—
"ln the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb driven cattle;
Be a hero in the strife."
You are now shout to Wive you Alma Maker for the
holidays, sad I believe in holidays ,• for " work and
it=makes Jack a doll boy."—rapPloute.) In eon-
he taltpuneed • hops UM *oft wbo hod ad

sweeriried in obtaining prises this half would not be
din:other d, bat let it serve to etisulate them to
inert aged diligence sod attetition—(epplause.)
J. F. Howse. Esq. aid that be *as Unwilling to
allow the urowsedings of Hu day to pus Without
wipressing, as one of the (coffees of that fottudetion, the
arkat place*. With which te hal witnessed the interestg
baroness that had been ttwanitud. fin Vele( et
himself and his brother feoffeee he begged to tender
thanks to the eseminers for their kindness in under-
taking the onerous task of reporting on the progress
and efficiency of the arlool. The conclusions they bad
arrived at were such as lie felt sure were gratfying to
all present, and indicated a great amount of profi,iericy
in many brandies of knowledge, and that • great deal of
good sterling work had been done alike creditable to the
gnnyisurinkd
odlvidtnb. 6,
all y. 17: who 1 tbeaclait receivedl asa eoanod•
encouraged the unsuccessful this half to persevere. He
was glad to tee that a lour, proportiou of the prises
were taken by foundation scholars. It was allonym the
foremost wish of the leoffe,s to endeavour to afford to
the boys of the borough a supelior ,do ation, and he
thought that the exhibitions being awarded in so largo
• degree to foundation scholar" on various occasions
*field drall public attention in •n e•peeial wanner to
the wares. premiered there to the inhabitants of the
borough for securing a itiet•rlase edecation for their
boys. Many had gone from that school, and attained e
great amount of auccrew in various orotund:is and
pursuits. 11. conchs led by thanking the Mayor for
taking the chair, and Mr- Masksw for the kindness and
eMcieney with which be bad croducted the studies of
the boys nut Cur, during the lest belt bat on all
ocoorions.
Mr. 11.15[ZW, in responding, said that I raw days eV
be received a iriait from Her Majesty's Aasistant•lnapecto±
of endowed schools, and almost one of the first questioos
wilted him was, whet interest do your f off** take in
the abaci 1 He was enabled to answer that with •
good deal of pleasure. He informed him that the
Isoffoes subwribed out of their own pocket; E4O for an
exhibition' while readiente of the the town and parents
of pupils provided an exhibition of £lO. Toe
inspector was n. 4 aware but that the foundation
was richly endowed, and was very much struck by
these facts. Mote particulars were toes asked, and he
explained the scheme for examinations the troffer had
law down, and it met the !neurone?. Mini* approval)
he approved the limitation of the age of eseditixters to
18, the large number of subjects included in the
&theme of examination, and the number of marks
given to each of thew. The general impression
produced on his mind appeared to be that the boys had
the ereateet incentives held out to them to obtain •
sound useful education. He then :steered to the effect
of the exhibitions on the boys who had reCeived them
and gone from the sidwol. This was the eleventh year
in *lash exhibitions were even and be felt that they
bad proved of the greatest possible benefit, in inciting
boys to pursue • useful and honourable after coarse. Is
every ewe the decisions of the examinen were shown to
have been moat justly given by what was subsequently
attained. He was glad to see two or three previous
exhibitioners present. The firat exhibition in 1836 was
When by J. F. Hodges, who all present knew had dis-
tinguished himself in connection with thank movement,
wadi he honourable position behad attained; h. had chigoe
to follow haloes, in the town, and was universally
esteemed for his honourable and straightforward con'
duct Hs recollected very well the remark the 1t... C.
W. Bingham made when he awarded him the exhibition,
Mr. Brigham said that his (Hodges') piece of Latin
prose otimpoeition was one of the best he bad seen,
and here he would remark that it was very difileult in •
school like that for the composition at all to approach
that produced in the great public schools, where so
much more time weld be given to it. The next
year the exhibitioner was Arthur Adams, • resident in
the house, he afterwards obtained • 2nd clue in
honours amongst the Cambridge seniors, became house
surgeon to Winchester infirmary, which pwition he
believed he had now reelined to enter holy order.. In
1858 Walter Look was the exhibitioner ; he need not
tell them lits career at Marlborough college, whore he
obtained the senior exhibition, and was now a founda-
tion *Molar at Corpus Christi College. Oxford. In '6l
it was won by B. F. Lock, who had distinguish him.
'elf st gton and had it now in his power to proceed to
King's College, Cambridge, as • scholar. In '59, '6O, and
'63, the elbilatiorters were Charles Cowdell, L Butt,
end L. 8 ireff and two of them now held appointments in
Her Majesty a cisil service. In '6l, Thomas, obtained
the subscribers' exhibition of £lO, and was now an
exhibitioner of Marlborough, and a scholar of Wadhana
College, Oxford. Is '62, Sidney Lodi was the fe.ifeees'
• bitioner, and was Dow • fundation scholar of Cams
College, Cambridge. In '64. Treves attained the prise,
tad he had already distinguished himself at the London
Uniaersity. Watson was the exhibitioner in '66, and his
career, with that of Besant, who had jut received it,
wu before him, If they exerted themselves, he had
no doubt but that they would be equally successful with
those who had preuded thew.
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The proneedinge were brought to & doss by cheers for
Ulu Queen. the Ilayor, tire entruirmue, the ladies, and
Mrs. Masks w.

WAREHAM.

THE next meeting of the Amassment Committee
stands adjourned, we learn, to Tuesday, 10th July.
This committee comprises some of the most influen-
tial members of the Board of Guardians, and
amongst them some of those who take • useful,
active, and highly hosoarable pert at the Sessions.

CORONATION DAY AT WARRHAg.
(Bp our 0104 Reporter.)

When good Queen Victoria, the maiden Primus of
IS, came to the throne in the year of gnu 18:18, and
was crowned on the 2Sth of June, by Archbishop
Rowley, the glad event was greeted with enthusiasm
by the papal ce, and oelebrtted with universal
anerry-making and rejoicing; and during, the 26
years of her Majesty's prosperous reign which have
passed Eros that time, the sentiment of loyalty in
the public mind has been strengthened by the
domeetio prudence, the constitutional conduct, and
sympathy with the wants of tam people, evinced by
the highest personage in the realm. And thus it
happens, that each recurring anniversary of the
Queen's Coronation, is marked as the great ont-door
(serval of the year, and holiday making is the chief
burner of the day. In these latter tunes, however,
the 2Sth of June his come to be an occasion on which
the members of those flourishing and excellently•
based societies for mutual help—the Oddfellows and
rometere, meet in different towns in their district+
to make a demonstration, which takes this order—•
ptoeperion of members wearing red and blue scarfs,
rosettes or stars (varying as the wearer is simply a
"brother" or A " grind,") a display of banners, and
the inspiriting strains of bends of music to which a
parade through the principal streets takes place,
attendance at church, which not a Imo( the mem-
bers delegate to their brethren; a dinner, where
the fearing is without stint, and the consumption
of liquor is great; then the speechifying. when
loyalty, patriotism. self, and neighbour are all made
so many 000selois for a drink, till all get "merry as
sand boys," and greet everybody as "jolly good
fellows ;" then follow amusements of the most
varied character, from waltzing to shying sticks at
the none of "Aunt Sally ;" these interspersed with
beer and pipes, rollicking and jollity, play out the
day, and then ill return home tared and we will sup-
pose satisfied with the "outing." Such was the
general character of our Cormation day celebration
hit Thursday. The Loyal Victoria Ledge of Odd-
fellows had • demonstration, and the committee pro-
vided a very attractive programme. Thanks to a
tles day, end the publicity given to the arrange-
ments, the old town of Wareham received such an
influx of visitors as was unprecedented. The South'
Western railway conceded the privilege of single
fare ticket,
and the result was that no lees than 1200 peewee
entered Wareham by that means of transit, while
from all the neighbourhood round the old and the
youg, in carriage, cart, 'reggae, or on foot, poured
into the town. But the heat was intense, and the
, visitors all wore an uncomfortable appearance, not-
withstanding their smiles end gaiety; the fair taus
of the ladies were intensely flushed, and great drops
of perspiration stood on the brows of the men but
they—the latter, at least, smoked and drank in spite I
of it all, and made themselves marbly happy.
Wareham exhibited its stock of booting in honour
of the day, and closed its shops to join the festivities
the Oddfollows —to-day, certainly, hot-fellows—had
inaugurated. Across the stresses, in some half-dosen
places, a line was prised, from which depended gay
coloured streamers and flags, some of which bad done
service apparently on not • few former occasions.
The assembly took place in the market-ground, at
half-past nine, where • procession was formed and
the regalia and banners of the Poole district were
displayed, with the banners of the Poole, W ey•
mouth, -Dorchester, and other lodges, while three
buds enlivened the march, viz., Byers' Blsadford
bud, the C.orfe Castle band, and the Lulworth
Castle dram and life band. The principal streets
were walked, e* route to Bt. Mary's church,
when divine movies book place, and a sermon was
probated by the Rev. 8- R. (lapel, r.a. The
question se to the propriety and utility of pro-
portions and regalia has been discussed hefore to-day,
and it he not yet_ eettled. Pee ourselves we think
them • poor display and the me feature that mars
otherwier noble sesiistoss. it is true that neither
the Oddlidlows nerFereeten amociiitions allow any of
the a:vended on demonatretions to COMO out
of the oeLsai7 feeds, bet It is not lam the Ws that
the melon ibcSh orders has laid a charge en the
fasiority of the members for regalia, which has, as
we see it, so sort of amosetion with the real objects
of the sossistles. It may be peWshli remarked that
Oddlellows have • right to-epied -*Sit own hard•
surd money in mark slam and timinpetieg if they
quorm4 in support of thet position the story of
Deacon Pody and hie pigs, wide* runs to this
end: Somebody hollered over • teem to Peabody,
saying, " I say Doom, the pigs are rooting up your
?Mato prob." To which Damon Peabody answered,
"NM 'S any comers of yonr'n ; they be my pigs
end my potato patch." Save we then any right to
call your attention to the circumstance that this
procerion penchant, besides being a display
of ribbons and tinsel, unworthy of men, who have
self-denial and independence enough in them to
deprive themselves in not a few oases of present
enjoyment to make provision for a possible "rainy
day," is prejudicial to your societies in the minds of
=the people, including • maidorable number of
your own members? That this is the case we may
jest observe, that while travelling between D.weliester
and Wareham Mdag, we beard • brother, otherwise
maniketang the highest regard for the order, and
who in cartels towns had done mach towards
esteblidass ledges, regretting that he had bad to
speed (and he contended that be was practically
compelled sepia% il 16ii, ld. for regalia, and he
was new to dispose of it at a "great
Maier" W. alba' Mot we base a Ilea to

question the propriety of proomaions otbealletribers
••in character," when it &Boom au impotent a body as
the Oddfellows or Foresters, and it I because we
admire so thoroughly the spirit of yoainstitetioss—
self-reliant and aelf-inanaged —that vesture to
direst attention to what we come to be their
only questionable feature. Of jour.., there
are wme member. of the "Metier) who
regard with the utmost fever a blue
sash, and who when the brew is adorned
with a star esteem it the seine of 'moor. Well,
so he it; but does it becomo an indaderidemt Briton
to be begirt with • scarf that mead grew the
shoulders of • clown, or to sparkle I, spangle' that
a pantaloon might wear with advant‘e? We think
not. It is • point, however, on %kith much may be
said pro and eon, and we leave it, without farther
remark. On leaving chinch, soothe parade sowed,
and the members then proceeded tea Held in front
of Bestwall Hones, which W. C. req., bad
lent them for this event. Here Ma large marquee
one of tbe brethren had provided dnotr, of which,
we understand, between 300 and 400 partook, after
which followed the customary areihifying, and this
part of the preceding. we bi Iteve was more than
ordisarily eseellent, hat as the Pres (contrary to the
Usual custom) were not invited to le precept, we are
not in • position to lay a report Wore our readers.
Entering as pleseent • field IL/ can hi well imagined,
thanks to the kindness of Mr. Lacey, who is •
gentleman accustomed to doing good without making
any fuss about it, the jingling of {lasses, followed
by cheer", and "God save the Quoin" by the bend.
itili.sted that "the Ann toast in ivory assembly of
Englishmen," ko., had jast been p• oposed, and was
thus being endorsed. J. Penton, FN. presided, and
we doubt not but that he dondentel the proceedings
with much ability. The principal residents of
the town were present, with office.. arid utemben of
the Order from various tows/ in tie county.
After the loyal and patriotic tout+, in due coarse
would come "Snowsc to the Maiohester Unity of
Oddfellows," and then the Distrixt Secretary—Mr.
Western, in this case —would give Kuno particulars as
to the state of Oddfellowship in toe Pools District.
We believe that during the past year 100,000 mein-
berd hate ,Joined the Manchester Unite, and that the
funds of the order have inereased .C5OO,tlUO ; Poole
district comprises F 7 lodge", wbl,h have • capital of
£l4OOO. As far as tbe Victoria lodge is concerned,
We understand that it is one of tie most siscoessful in
the district. The comber of Oddfellows goes on in&
arsaidag, and an enthusiastic individsal might almost
come to the conolusion that years hence, we shall all
have become so provident that poor-rani" which we
n,w feel to be such a burden, will be alone necessary
fir those who in these days have not joined themselves
to oneof the existing well-founded provideot societies.
May the day soon arrive The Chairman's health
baring been drunk, with that of the visiting
brethren, the officers, W. C. Lacey, Esq., the
mimittee of management, the Mayor of the
borough, and the ladies, the bretbrea who have gone
tlitough it all, emerge into the open field, and the
promenade concert by Mr. Eger* well-known and
mally splendid bend is begun. The skill and taste
they displeyed resulted in a charming entertain.
meat. The fullowiog programme was 'elected :
Pas Redouble 'l wish I were a Bird "... Purton
Grand selection Opera "Le Propb.te,'
(with bolos for Bemis, Flugal Honk} Meyerbeer.
Cornet, and Soprano)
Vales "La Innooenee."

A short interval then took place, durigg which a few
couples entered the dancing enclosure and footed it
to a country dance, played by the Cori' Castle braes
band. While this was proceeding, the raised plat-
form erected for Eyere's band, but which they very
prudently failed to occupy, came to the ground with
a crash, and severed persons received light injuries;
boy and a young woman, who were standing under-
needh the platform, were insensible for a few
minutes, and blood gushed from the ears and nostrils
of the lad. Both, however, mon recovered, The
dancing being concluded, Use Blandford land com-
pleted their task

Grand Seleetion Opera" Lorain" .....
Quadrille ... . Et.ntin's ... Marriott.
Uelet, ••• "Prince Imperl.. Coote.
The sword feats of Sergeant Dominy, Q.O. R. Y.C.,
of Cents Abbas, with which many Dorset folks have
long been familiar, then took place, and they were
observed with the greatest interest. They consisted
of the following—He placed an apple in a silk hand-
kerchief, and cut it in two without injuring the
handkerchief; placed a silk scarf on the edge of the
sword, and severed it with a sweep; suspeofied •
bar of lead, and cot it in two abet severing the cord)
Wore touching the ground; placed an egg on • boy's
naked band, and severed it without injury ; ditto on
boy's bead • but the most remarkable feat was sus-
pending a seep sad two bars of lead, and severing
with one stroke. These concluded, dancing warn
resumed under the superintendence of Meseta J.
Whittl,' F. Beggs, and W. Spicer. The air having
now become much cooler, this pleasant exercise
became tolerably general amongst the young folks,
though kies-in•the•ring was not neglected, and Aunt
Sally afforded amusement for othevs. in this manner
and in the various other ways which people enjoy
themselves on such occasions were in full force, and
the evening we. the happiest part of the day.
Crowds entered the field, and at one time probably
3,000 were present, so that the managers can con-
gratulate themselves on a onooessfal meeting.