The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

I.—Paiviensm has at last had a field-day,
but it has been in the police court, and before
the sitting magistrate. The informer, Nagle,
has become somewhat timid, and by no means
seems inclined to make so clean a breast of
it as might have been expected in the chosenl
informer out of A great host or volunteers.
Seeing this, we become prepared for the arrest
of another informer—George A. F. Giles— ,
from whom the Crown derived its informs-
tion against the blacksmith Michael Moore,
the same who made the pikes set down as
"rods" for this miserable armament of fools.
Gilles was arrested on Friday evening, and ,
committed for trial on his own information,
on the charge of being a member of the
Fenian Brotherhood; for nothing, it would
seem, excuses treason, not even the giving of
information to the Crown. He now says he
would rather have taken ten years' imprison.
ment than have done What he has clone, as
his family would be ruined, and that he
would accept of five years' incarceration to get
out of the prosecution. The son of Jude, the
eminent Grafton-street hotel-keeper, has also
been arrested as a Fenian at Mullingar,
where he managed a hotel for his father.
But of all who have meddled with the Fenian
conspiracy, the Pope, who is the lea person
that need have troubled himself about the
business, has "put his foot in it" most com-
pletely. Hia Holiness has no doubt been
strongly instigated to denbunee
and what has he (lone but excommunicate all
secret societies whatever, and the most
harmless and least objectionable amongst
them all—the merely- charitable association
of Freemasons in particular I This is the
grand mistake Of "the last of the Popes."
Standing behind the Fisherman's chair, in
the secret chambers of cabinet ministers, in
all ranks of politicians, (some Gentian pitten:
tales, such as the late Prince Consort, who
never would be made a freemason, excepted,)
in all quarters and in almost every com-
munity of the world, the Pope's allocution
must of necessity create an enemy of his faith.
It is nbt With regard to enmity as it is with
regard to other things, for enmity can seldom
be said to exist until it has been provoked by
show of enmity on the opposite side. As
love begets love, so enmity begets enmity;
nay, there is an old proverb which says that
the way to make men your enemies is to
believe them so. This is what the poor old
' Pope has done in regard to the Freemasons.
We have, not long indeed, but latterly, dis-
covered to our great surprise that Rdman
Catholics c'ould not beebitte Fretintsons,
(although scale of the beet old Masons we
have ever known are Roman Catholics, and
almost all Roman Catholic ehurches are both
constructed and detorated on niaaonic prin-
ciples, and filled with thasdnic insign;a to this
day.) There have been times, asthere have been
countries, when and where the abuse-not of
Freemasonry—we deny the possibility of such
a thing, especially in this country, whether
under the statutes of Kilwinning, dating as
BIRTHS.
far back eta the thirteenth century, or those
October 8, at 12, St Mary-street, Weymouth, the
wife of Mr. R. T. Atkins, news agent and etationti% of of the revival of Freemasonry at York in
& SOO.
September 28, at BlaadfordN the wife ot Mr. James 1743—where the abuse, of the principle of
Green, of a mon, secret association, as in the case of the Italian
October 8, at Ferdhigton, Dorchester, the wife of Mr.
Henry Fraakfiti. ion., wheelwright, of a son. Carbonari (of whom "the eider son of the
October 2, at Elmstead Vicarage, the wife of the Rev. Church," the mperor of France, of course
Osmond Fisher, of • son.
September 28, at 13eaminster, the wife MI. 'Enos knows nothing,) or of the German revolu-
Genge, dealer, of a doubter.
tionists who plotted under the name of Free-
David September 27, at IfettlecOmbe, the wife of Mr.
phe C°MiusiNtArtqfnartaiiri,leaaid.:ugtherterthe wife of Mr. masons, (and of whose tmditithill hitt late,
W. Frammaa rraha,yeoman. of anlig. Prince Albert Was probably afraid,) was the
October a, at Nottington Pont, the wire et Mn
HMO Wintaca Roper, of a doughty% Wise or a bad odour attaching to Free-
tisnalat3ta masonry on the Continent. But this was no
October 3, at the Roesatt Catholic chant of St more Freemasonry than' were the cenobitism
G•orlle, Taunton, by the Hon. end Right Rev. Dr.
Cliord, . Very and ligibits fraternities of the Church of
ff assilted by the Hon and Rev. Monsignor re
, (*stain of the bridegroom, and by the very Rome itself; or than were the Female
• Anon Mitchell, Charles Joseph Stonor. Esq., of •
Anderton Hall, Lan only 11011 of the late Hon. Masonic Lodges of France, whieh at one
Charles Henry Stoner Mary, third daughter, to
of diaries Welman, Eaq., of Norton Manor, time occasioned, by their scandals, the sup-
Somenetelitte. pression or the Order throughout that
bOctober 2, at the parish church, Kingpin°, Porta* „„„4.,,,,. The best proof that Freemasonry,
y the Rev. T. Steward, vicar, Captain Charles J. r“-"'''')
Urquhart, Roysi Inch Fusiliere, eon of the late Rev. in Great Britain at all events, is nothing like
Frederick Urquhart, of Throadmayne and Knighton,
Dorset, to Mary Breaths D'Arcy, third daughter of what the Pope believes it, is that in the most
Ro.ert Hildvard, Esq., late Rifle Brigade and Wine- troublesome of our political time*, when
stead Hall, Yorkshire,
October 3, at the parish church, Preston, by the Rev, all secret itfiloiltt4ol3B had to be rigidly
Joha Road, vicar of Weston, Bath, assisted by the Rey.
D t down by the Executive Power
Talbot Baker, vicar of the parish, PercySandford -
Neva!, Esq., 'of Skelbrooke Park, Yorkshire, to Rhoda the rights and privileges of the Free-
Marwood, eldest daughter of the late Harry Farr
Yeatman, Esq., of Manatee. masons were strictly reserved untouched and
October 4, at St. Peter's Chitroh. Dorebester, by the are so to this day. The erdtr is, in fact, in Rev. F. Monte, Mr. B. J. Blogg, of Brockhato, Surrey,
eldest soa of Mr. E. Blogg. to Hannah, only daughter England the only society that possesses the
of Mr. E. Wortley, of the New Inn, Durehester.
October 6, at Radipole Church, Weymouth, by the right to meet in secret. Odd Fellows,
Rev. J. T. %Bin, 8.A., of Birmingham, Matthias John Foresters, and other popular imitations of
Bosse Bennett, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Cam.
bridge, to Maria Clark, only surviving daughter of the Freemasonry, although perfectly innocuous
late Mr. James Bulgin, of Blandford. in their intentions, and indeed most laudable
September 28, at Si. Mare Choral', Andover, by the .
their objects, are, as secret societies,
• C. H. Ridding, vicar, Henry John, youngest see of Kt
at Chandoe-street, Gov, at Garden, formerly absolutely illegal. The Freemasons on the
Waloot. Bath, to Georgians, third doughter
r. William Wallio, of Dorchester. contrary are chartered and privileged on
at St. Peter's Church, Parkatone, by the
arr, incumbent, Mr. John Smith, builder, account, aa we believe their charter of
rth daughter of Mr. James Wakeman, of privileges expressly declares, of their being
romeetershire.
.at Maiden Bradley, Wilts, by the Rev. a body associated for the most commendable
- of Kingston Deverill, uncle of the
G. A. Fruiting, cousin of the purposes. 112-..
earl, Esq., only Eon of the admi ,-
ot Hermitage, Berks, to that the
body, so beloved and
of the late Copt-. _cct in England , he Pope 49
olindly singled out to bear vicariously the
Somerset, by t, whic-li We. 'are charitable enough t,o,
assist°
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recusants in the Fenian
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mastLisahath, daughter of ate kite B. brotherboOd. 'Of all organised public bodies;
io, Chstd, Sovereet.
the FreeinSsons by their standing rules, are
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ate who exclude; in this country
,tiglber 29, at Waiehim, Sarah, relict of the late Precisely *k- - - 111 Tie rr Iticessiaielconaged
Ire lasted
mlee Miter at Priddlehl ton deeply lamented, all oyes the
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