The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

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A "Dons= Paentsrairt If Erma" is to be bald
neat 'I hureday afternoon, in the Bhirehall, under
the presidency of the Lord Lieutenant.

PROTNNTANT LAY ASSOCIATION OF TEI DIOCSSZ.
—We are informed that the Marquis of Weatmineter
has acceded to • requisition signed by upwards of
1,000 Doreetabire and Wiltshire laymen, to accept
the presidency of • lay association of the dioosee, to
protect the Church of Safflend from Romig' inno-
vations and doctrines within her own pale, and to
m.mmve the integrity of her *reed ea settled at the
Reformation.

ADJOURN= Samosa —The adjourned sessions
were held at the police-court, Etherborne, on Thursday
lest, when George Werry, of Upway, Esq., took the
oaths and qualified to aot se magistrate tor Dorsal-The
Clerk of the Pesos read a letter from Mr. Scum, of
Dorchester, applying for a license to have • male of
horned cattle, at Dorchester, and several other
applications to ths same effect. After hearing •
letter read, which hod tom received from Lord
Portman on the subject, it was decided not to accede
to the application, but to await the decision about
to be made in the Islington ors, which I. almost
• similar one to this.

COMMITTED TO TEI DORSET COMITY GAOL .
A mixes: Sarah Rowell, rogue and vagabond at
Weymouth; Gawp Harris, stealing two lambs at
Preston. Hard Labour: Thomas Christopher
Hunt, posobing at Rdmoodaisam, 2 months;
William Smart, aseault at Hassibury Bryan, 1
month; William Stone, breaking windows at Brid.
port, 1 week; John Bradford, leaving fmnily
otuuriable at Bridport, 1 month; Robert Cosset,
leaving family chargeable at Shaftesbury, 1 month;
Joseph Beaky, damaging taws at Onuaboroe, 14
diva; Bartholomew 611, night poaching at
Woodlands, 1 month, and to Snil sureties; Henry
Corbin, leaving family chargeable at Wimborns,
1 month; Richard Davis, stealing a mat at Wey-
mouth, 1 month; Ann Cox Pram* stealing a
quilt at Bridport, 14 days. —imprisonment John
Solidi, drunk, ha, at Blandford, 1 month; Henry
8-Pswir. v!lfra"/ at Wo7moush, 14 days ; Ann
Lurks, William PitSeld, and Alfred Painter, arunk,
to., at Dorchester, 7 days.

CLERICAL rwonom To
_FMB BISHOP OF

SALISBURY.
The followisg manorial was recently preempted to
the Bishop of Salisbury by the clergymen whose
names are subjoined :
To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
"We, the undersigned Clergymen of your Lordship's
diocese, have reed with the deepest mourn • statement
contained in • recent public letter, with your signature
dated from Pennueamear, November 3, 1866, to the
effect that the Otero of the Murals of England are
justified in claiming she same powers es have ever been
claimed by the Priests of the Postern and Western,
that is, we presume, the Greek and Roman, Churches.
We feel bound, in 'wales to ourselves and our several
locks, to state to your Lordship, that, whereas the
Priests of those Chanties claim to offer sseridoes for the
Qua and Dead, and as • tionsequenee, regard the Lord's
table as an altar for that end, we, as Protestant Primary.
ten, utterly disclaim all such power', and deny,
squally with the book of Common Prayer, the
existence of an altar in a Christian Marsh.
And that, whereas the Priests of those Churches
further claim to be the Dispensers of Pardon, to which
point we conceive your Lordship soundly to allude, we
spin disclaim such power, as having no warrant of
Scripture; knowing also, that upon this suredotal
wentripPon is founded the practice of the Ceefessicnel,
by which we mean private confession and fedicial
priestly abut:d •rim u —a pasetice which appears to us
d angeu ro and sting to the clergy, • well as
deluive and visit to the laity'
"Apical thaw unuriptand gliiillll, we have ever felt
It to be our duty, an chill feel it to be our duty, most
energetioally and unesesiagly to protest, and faithfully
to warn our people; end we have therefore ezperleoesd
dismay and sorrow, when we have found ynurcrdehtp
thus publiedy affirming your own views to be in general
sceordanco with thus elideas, and at the same time
enooursog any, whether within or without our pule, to
'own that such doctrines are in harmony with the
teaching of our beloved Protestant Church.
"And if we have herein misunderstood your Lordship's
'waning, we most respectfully but earnestly entreat you,
by some slur stateuteols on theme points,—fat which we
have been tires far waiting in vain—to allay the fears
which we find existing, that your Lordship has departed

• A VAN be t.isierseaspieal owninatioa at the
animal Wino In heath and iforeses, by George Hartley,
ILA.S. sod Preform G. T. Brows, 7/110.VJ.,
bowing in the rade plague department, he. ks.
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