The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

BL A N DFORD.

DlllllllllllO • F•MlLT.—Bonjamia Letal. Milton
Abbas. was, on Wednesday het, brought Kr. J.
J. Farquharson (Merged with leaving hie wife as
fantly ebargeagle to the Blandford Union. The de-
fendant admitted his /gilt, and offered I. pay the.
'waist of relief granted to his family. Kr. Miasmal,
who prosecuted. documented to wait • lorto4tlit to enable
Legg to make his drat payment. In default of parsonh
he was ordered to be oommitted for two esUnder
months' with bard labour.
Co-Ornery' 8 ciert.—A bout the beginning of last
month wend of the workingmen of this town, having
beard and read the report of the great ammo which
has attended the establishment of 00-operative societies
in many of the towns and villages in ogland, and
especially of Wilton uml Whitechurch societies, met
together for the purpose of considering the desirability
ol establishing one in this town. and after the matter
had been oarelnlly oonsidered, abet of names was takes
of those willing to become shareholder.. The meeting
was then adjourned to the 16th November last, on
which occasion a committee of management, consisting
of eight of the promoters was chosen, Mr Counter
being appointed chairman, Kr. H. Mayor secretary,
ansi r. 0 Rosaiter treasurer. On the 23rd November
the committee met at the Assembly Rooms for the
purpose of considering what rides should be adopted,
and after examining three agreed to by other societies,
it wee rewired that the Weymouth Industrial Co-
operative Society's rules be adopted is the roles of the
tilanilford society with the following alteratinis,
namely instead of se. being the amount paid nn each
share, it should be 2s. 6.1 , and instead of the meetings
being held monthly they should be held quarterly, an&
membas admitted once a week. On Saturday last.
after • very interesting paper from the Co-operwor, on
the formation and success of the Rochdale societies,
had been read by the secretary, the chairman said that
their next businms would be to receive the 11111101110 of those
present who intended to take shares, for until they knew
how many shares would be taken, it would be impossible-
to proceed. Schedules were then handed round, and the
result was that 16 put down their names for 28 sh.res,
the share, being £1 each; 12 who had paid their
entrance fee of Is. were not present, consequently about
£4O of shares grill be signed for. The desirability of.
holding a public meeting was then considered, and it.
was resoleed that a deputation should wait upon T.
11. Bastard, Feei„ J. C. Mensal. Ess, and Kr. J.
Smith (seoretery of the Whitechurch Pioneer Society.)
requesting those gentlemen to attend, and take part in.
the proceedings. _ _ _

MATION•L Sunday morning a sermon
s-u preached in Blandford Church, on behalf of the
National Society, for promoting the edomtion of the
poor in the principles of the Fats Wished Church, he the
Rey. F. R. Warren, fellow of St. John's Oollev,
Oaford. The preacher took for hi. sex. Psalm exis.
In the course of his remarks he stated that the National
Society, whirl was founded in the year 1811, had
succeeded in establishing 12,200 schools, eontaining
1.157,000 scholars, and had spent £400,000 on building
*shod,. and 1:15,000 in establishing depositories for
hooks and granting books to schools. He characterised
the present age as in a peculiar manner an age eie
progress, but withal one in which it wee especially
incounbent on the members of the Church of England
to be up and doing, iind to take special care that the
instruction given was founded upon religion, and not a
mere secular education, which only fitted for tho
diechargo of duty, without inculcating those higher and
nob', r principles into the mind, by which alone it could
be fitted to discharge such duties in the fear of God,
and be prepared for an everlasting state of exiatenoe.
At the close of the service the sum of 1.111 ss. was
collected.—On the foil...trios day a public meeting wee
held in the Corn-exthang, under the presidency of the
Rev. J. R. Quirk. Invitations had been previously sent
to the neighbouring sleep, but only • few responded.
The meeting was opened with prayer, after which the
Chairman in • few remarks introclueed the deputation,.
Mr. Warren, seer., secretary of the Notional Society.
Mr. Quirk alladed to the great necessity them tram in
the present day for promoting to the very utmost the,
edueation of the people, and also that such education.
should be of a religious character. The National Society.
had done good tenths to the same of admission by
carefully guarding its interest in the flosses of Parlia-
ment. Its prmary rules were that the teschiog
imparted should be based upon the Bible and the.
Proyer Book, and therefore it had peonliar claims on
churchmen. The Rev. R. It. Watts, the looatmeretary,
said that he had only lately been engaged in Ant
capacity and be bad not much to report of its operations in
this district, that be hoped that nest year sot only to
see &larger martins, but also to have to report increased
conirdritions to it. funds, for he wait sure the/ they
were under great obligations to the National Society by
which they were enabled to procure books and other
school requisites at greatly reduced pekes. The greet
object of the safety wee to teach children towelling
to the principles of the Fatablished Church, 'and he was
sure that every clergyman was very greatly indebted to
the Nation.' Society Mr. Warren, (the deputation)
entered into • full and interesting recital of the firs*
formation of the society in 1811, its plan of operations,
the meter which had been vouchsafed to it, sad thir
way in whit* it bad guarded the interests of ednostios
when they were smelled. He then reviewed the changes
which had been made by the committee of council by
the revised code, showing how it had been sought by
some to remove the legroom of the okra is the manage-
I meet of the schools, and of the reosemful opposition
which the Natiosal Society made to such a change. The
primary object. of the society he stated was at Bret, the
1 granting of sums of money for building schools, 140
building grants, having been made for Hamadan, ;
second the troining of entreat masters and ;
for this they had 23 institutions in which from 1400 to
1500 were being trained ; fourth, the fiti Melling of school
materials • the National Society having for the last
25 years godsend the price of such requisites 30 par omit.
The speaker then showed that one of the thief mem.
of crime was ignorance, as wan shown by the late
Archdeacon of Hereford, and he eoneleded his
remarks by earnestly appealing for farther aid and
support to the society—The Chairman in the name of
thee* present thanked the deputation for his interesting
speech. and expressed a hope that the example of lira
Michel, who spent lly fully £350 in suPPmel
I schools for the education of the poor, would be follow
by the other landed proprietors of the district. He
trusted that that good lady would he spared neer
years to earry on the same benevolent work. re•
meeting then concluded with the Benediction. pie
amount col acted was £3 7, Bd. On Sendirf neat
Demons on behalf of the National Sosistf will he
Preached at Stourparne nod !worse Minster aerobes,
by the Rev. F. E. Warren, and oleo in • *mei " two at
Milton Abbey.
MORAVIA)! MIVRIMIR—OR Wednesday last • public
meeting on behalf of Moravian minions woe held in the
I Town-hall, Blandford, under the presidency of air '1"
D'Oyley, Hart. The audience was not quite minty as
on former oonalOns. The meeting having then
opened with prayer by the Rev. J It Quirk, Sir John
said be felt himself greatly honoured in occupying the
post of chairman at • meeting on behalf of Moravian
missions. This muse was one which had his mintiest
sympathies, for he believed that no body of Christians
were more faithfully and sealcriady carrying out the
command of our saviour in proclaiming to the heathen
the truths of the Gcsjsal—atepr, bear). Hy John then
read two extracts letters, one bithe late Mr.
Wilherforen sod the other by Dr. Chilmers,
In which the writers very • ly extolled the seal,
simplicity of oharsoter, and y Apostolic teaching of
the Moravian Church.' The Kew. J. Plunkett Mooney,
who attended as the deputation, said that as he was
not a minister of the Moravian Church, but a elm,
man of the Church of Ragland. he "%Id mere
speak of the seal, consistency, and truly eelf-danying
labours in the coupe at Christ, of their Mcsavisa
brethren. The Moravian Church approached the neareet
in its form of church government and order to the
Church of England, of any of the i=cie hedie"
It was, like the Church of •
church, and had been one orends'tnialleet °Wee";
to Papal authority, and in former times many of
ihet ruppori ens sealed with their blood their
adherence to the truth. He considered that st the
present time especially it was the duty sad would be
to the advantage of the mentbers of the Church of
Ragland to cherish a close nun* with that church.
The members of the Church of Enema should feel an
Interest in, and sympathy with the Moravia. Church,
Deputes, Ist, of its trials sad dilatable, • 2ncl, the
primitive simplicity of Me sessoben ; 3ed, tis order sad
shush goverment ; szA Oh, the posaliss Imam