The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE CONVERSION

OF THE JEWS.

A meetincin connection with the London Society
for the Conversion of the Jews, was held in the
Boys' National Schoolroom a few evenings since.
The Rev. E. H. Etches, of St. Stevens, Beth, at-
tended all a deputation. The chair was taken by the
vicar. In opening the meeting the vicar remarked,
that while many were found ready to take interest
in missions to the heathen, be was afraid that there
was not a like interest felt in the Jews, where.. it was
buttes conviction that the Jew had the greatest claim
upon them as Christians. Amongst other reasons,
this had always appeared to him the most unanswer-
able, the fact that our Redeemer was, "as concern-
ing the flash" of that race, a Jew.
The Rev. H. Waist' then addressed the meeting,
concurring heartilyin the remarks that had fallen from
the vicar as conveying remiss that we should labour
to the beet of our power for the conversion of the
Jews. He remarked further, that an additional
reason to those already brought forward, seemed to
him to be the first retribution that wee due to that
people for the wrongs that had, in past centuries,
been heaped upon them by us, in common with
other nations. He said we were hound to do what
we could to atone for the injustice done by our fore-
fathers.

The Rev. E. H. Bum then &Orli-awed the meet-
ing. He begged to remind those preload that he
came amongst them on properly as • deputation,
with which title the vicar had honoured him, bat as
• stop-gap for the deputation, the gentleman who
should trays properly add/amid them that evening I
being prevented from attending. They should there-
fore, he hoped, be satisfied with a very plain and
simple address upon the intervening subject which
had brought them together this evening. In open-
ing the subject that mations to the Jews had more
especially for ita aim the glory of God, the holiest
object WO should have in view, he remarked that the
society for which be pleaded was engaged in
a very hard and difficult, as well as a very OlLlelive,
, work. There were very special difficulties in con-
I nection with mirmonaries to the Jew& An
accumulation of wrongs WI peat 'naturism had
prejudiced their minds against the Christians. T
had been for centuries • down-trodden nation,aheni
they could not readily be induced to linen
to instructions from those who had shown them-
selves such bitter enemies to them. Now WOOS
these wrongs only past. A Jew las not yet ceased,
by the generality of Christians, still to be an object
of reproach. The weaker here enlarged forcibly
upon the injustice and wickedness of such • course
of conduct. He stated that further, in Rowse
Catholic mantras, and in the Eastern Church,
image worship and picture worship mom
powerfully operated in prejudicing the miad
of the Jew against receiving inetructioa
from the Christians an those countrin If
that. was anything which the Jew had learnt in all
his miseries, it was to abominate any nape or form
of idolatry. Then again there wee the exceedingly
better precaution, which a Jew had to indulp from
his fellow countrymen, if he embraced Christianity.
The wife was given up by the husband, the son by
the father, • convert became dead to his own Jewish
countrymen. The speaker here gave some striking
examples corroborative of this alatemaat. Further
he
maid, the work this society was engaged in
was a very cotenant one. The Jews were not
maned together, but scattered through all eountrim
The difficulties of reaching them was thus consider.
ably increased; the languages of them countries,
bend's the Hebrew, bad thus also to be acquired.
What was the agency, under divine blessing,
that the society employed for overcoming them
difficulties and bringing the Jew into the fold of
Christ? Firet,there was the ordained minister, about
, 30 cleromen, ordained members of the Church of
England, were at pressed engaged in preaching
the gospel to the Jew, a 000.11OXIOW with
this society, the majority of these being
converted Inselites ; and this fact was in
humanly speaking, • great pledge of moms. Then
there were the catechiste,of whom•large number were
employed by the society, and colportsnr., whose
business it was to sell books, os
_Prieto, bibles,
prayer-books, and copies of the New Testament.
He fully believed that a blaming sometimes attended
the reading of the Holy Scripture, even when there
was no living teacher. There was, besides the
schools, a most important agency established for
Jewish children--he instanced the schools in the
East of London for boys and girls, which he had
visited lately, and he was very panted with the
intelligence and appearance of the scholars. What
wen the results that bad attended the n=
employed? There had been reason to u
God for the gnomes which had attended the
exertions of the Society. In the report of the pest
year, he remarked especial reason for encouragement
in the fact that copies of the New Testament were
sold in greater numbers than before, and in the fact
that 116 adult waver* an increme upon peat years,
had received baptism. The rev. gentleman con-
cluded • able sod interesting address, which was
listened to with great attention.
The VICAR, in thanking the rev. speaker for his
address, trusted that all present would leave the
room with deeper feelings of interest in the olost e:te
of the society. He strongly urged that any
made should be systematic; that if cooly a little
could be given, that it should be refuter. Hs hoped
that then we should all be sworn in our prayers for
the conversion of the Jew, and that it would be •
subject of prayer not ably in our private but our
family devotion/.
The meeting then terminated.

DEVIZES. —Mara Ward bare jest finished a
miry bendsoine silk flag for the borough, (at the
request ot the Mayor), from the buds Ish from the
lestiritirm It contains the borough'
lons= ilk, with • handsomegold triage. Round
the arms ars hematifid floral doterstiorm The flag
wee displayed a• lien* Kensingtos on the mausim
at the asoommiag 01b. Memorial of the &hilliness
of 1851, cm wasseday, ia the preemie of the Prince
and Prisms ot Wales

E:LTILAORDDIAZT 1401ITAL117. -- The past
week his bees a sad sod wounafal week in
Dooms ; Pulsed, we saver remember so loamy
deaths, with so tittle previous manias, ma hare
sakes plain with= so brief a space of time. flare
soe pawn it the lowa who did aot sympathise
with the family of Mr. Meek, to Mosday, when
they hoard of tbo death, after only a few days'
amok of the eldest daarhtar of that mras"
n dentlsonan. —On Tuesday, Mr. roman, of rea,
visas a visit to him sou, sad had left the hewn to
so in the beak yard, when a sodas& am& mined
L., and in an iastaat be tell to Übe puma dood.—
ow Thursday, Willilllll Gawk an old and cow
&Wig aorvant of Mr. Hall, in the Brit's; was
Noised with sift; on Tuesday he died.—Aboat tea
days ago a rompoolablo young man, mood Thome

Oakkird, living in the Nursery, wee taken ill with
What appeared at the time to be but a trifling all-
bent; on Thursday he died.— A young woman,
named Neste, in the Green, was taken ill, only •
few days ago; she is desd.—Mr. James Haines, of
Woodborough, ate a hearty dinner on Tuesday, and
went to bed in the evening in apparently exoellent
health ; in the morning he was • corpse. —Bolton,
the landlord of the Crown Inn, Melkshain, was seized
with a fit a few days ago, and is now lying dead.
In short, on all sides of us, we have warnings of
the (malty and uncertainty of life. —Derive Gazette.

•
DETEItiIIINED SUICIDE IN DEVIZES GAOL—On
Wednesday a determined suicide was oommitted by
• prisoner, named John Mudd, in Devizes Gaol.
Hudd had only been received into the prison on
Friday, be having been sentenced to • month's hard
labour for stealing bread at [pooch, near Chippen-
ham. It appears that when the prisoner was taken
to the gaol the constable intimated that there were
doubts as to his amity, and the special attention
of the surgeon (Mr. Montgomery) was called to the
subject; but, after • very careful examination on two
occasions, the surgeon failed to discover the faintest
symptoms of insanity. Hudd was therefor, treated
as an ordinary prisoner. On Wednesday morning
he wee at work at the wheel before breakfast, and
returned to his cell about twenty minutes after eight.
His breakfast was then taken to him, and he ate it
as meal ; but shortly after nine o'clock, when the
warder altered the cell, just before Divine service,
be fogad the prisoner suspended by the neck to the
bare of the window in his cell. The wretched man
was at once cut down, an alarm raised, and the
sent for ; but, although every exertion was
surgeon
restore respiration, it proved unavailing.
The prisoner used his towel to effect the dreadful
deed.

TROWBRIDGE.—Peamous Rammer ADVLll-
'roam —The other evening, on the anima of the 8
p.m. down train from Weymouth to Bristol, an in.
tosicated soldier reeled from the steps of one of the
carriages on to the *dorm. According to the
statements of the passengers, this adventurous eon
of Mars, had setuallly nddea from Westbury to
Trowbridge on the steps of the esrriap I Consider.
leg that tic. disease. is about flve miles, and that
there are some sharp carves, and one or two bridges
toper under, the wonder is that he arrived at Troy,.
at all event, ; or at all even with a head oa his
shoulders.

TROWBRIDGE MID THE FORTUCOXING WOOL/DOE
Megnao.—Colour-fierjeent Graham, (who was so
clam upon gaining the representation of the battalion
in the competition for the fit. George's Challenge
Vase), and Lance-Corporal Thernse,of the 2nd Wilts,
(Trowbridge) Volunteer Rills Corps, will, we beer,
represent that corps at Wimbledon tn July.
A WAREING TO WIFE BEATERS —AE the ClOOl
of one of the public house festivals at Hilpertoe
Marsh, • few days ago, a •• lord of the creation"
objected to his wife dancing with "any other man;"
in coussquence of her disobeying his command, he
knocked her down two or three times on the way
home, and pulled her about by the hair of the head.
Some sympathetic women who witnessed the
barbarity communicated what they sew to • few
nma, who took up the ranee warmly. They beet
the husband till he took refuge in his house, and
barred all the doors; but his pursuers were relent.
Ws, sad they bunted him to the cod-house. From
this retreat he was elnipelled to fly, and hide in a
nettle bed. When has prosecutors wen gone, he
relented to his house, and win beat his wile. The
neighbours, however, have marked him, and the
wife has had a respite from punishment lately.
NORTH BAVANT.—Atandiso Fins—At five
o'clock on Friday morning, • fire broke oat in the
riakyard of Mr. James Knight, of Norton Havant
The inhabitants of the village were quickly on the
alert, and did everything in their power to stay the
Mr:of the flames. The limtesbury fire-engine,
of the Warminster fire-engines, together
with brigade, and a large number of the inhabitants
of mob place, made all bade to the scene of the fire.
There was an unlimited supply of water close at
hood, and the wind being at the time very quiet,
by the strenuous exertions of all, the fire was
essfined to the yard in which it originated. Hod
there not been plenty of water at band, and bed the
amine from Heytesbury been • short time later, it
is more than possible that mother Damerbaso con-
&patios would have raged throughout the village,
for the nekyard was surrounded by buildings, barns,
stables, ricks cottages, &a., roofed with thatch.
As it was, the damage was considerable, a rick of
draw, • pea rick, • rick of clover•hay, • mat-house,
end cider home, together with • eider-mill and
press, U., were entirely destroyed. The property
was insured in the Sun Fins Moe. There is no
amounting for the origin of the fire, but strong sus.
Scions are entertained that it was the act of an
incend
DOrAON.—uiIItICILIT.—A match was played
cm the Buford ground, on Friday, June 5, between
Captain Trollope's eleven and the Downton
United. The following was the score :

DOWNTOS UOlO2O. CArr. TROLI-Ores &SSW.
James b Tubb .. 0 Bettors b Welch .
COMA., b Tubb .. 2 ll•rristr. e Nelms 1
004124440, b Terry .. 18 Trollops 0 Cowes.. 16
Welsh c Tubb . Willis..., e Costes 7
Taunton. Lb.. 7 Tubb, b Welch 7
Deur, • Trollops . 811 Tronope, b Welch . IS
0604. Nelsre, b Urry .. 0 bouthwell, b Welch ..
tool, b Helmut Lerlngtoo, b Taunton 0
11•10:41 b Sutton 7 Gray. b Welch . .. 6
Deer, not out . 2 Crooks not out .. 6
. 7, b. 6, Lb. 1, 14 W. 8, b. 10, Lb. 1 .. 111

AVEBURY.—The—freehold estate at Avebury—,
belonging to the late Mr. Ponta Hitchcock, and
consisting of 200 acres of land, with dwelling-house,
to., let at £320 a-year, was put up to auction by
Messrs. Parry and Son, at Aveatry, on Friday, and
was knocked down to Mr. Smith, of Avebary, at
£9,050. It should be mentioned that there is • sum
of £l4 17s. payable annually for land tax, and 10e.
tars quit rent, which reduces the antral rent to
something less Than £305 e-year—so that the estate
has been bought at about £lOO lees than 30 years'
purchase.
MARLBOROUGH.—The Marchioness of Allen-
bury entertained at dinner, oo Friday evening, at her
Tandem* in Hertford-street, her Serene Highness
the Prioosse Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess
Dowager of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset, the
Duchess of Manchester, the Earl of Westmorland,
the Earl Cowper, the Earl and Countess of Chester-
fleld, Viscount and Viscountess Lamont, Lord
Londeeborough, Lord Deakins, Lord Henry Gordon
Lennox, M.P., Hon. Henry Baring, M.P., and Mn.
Baia& Host. George Fitawilliam, Sir Henry and
Lady Des Vont, and Mr. and Alm Haillie Cochrane.
The Rev. Octavio, George 'Alabama Pen,"
RA., of Oriel College, Gibed, has been licensed to
the curecy of St. Mary's, Marlborough.
Pau' a Bmoornio.—A handsaws "Turner"
rite, value 10 guineas, is open to te shot for at the
Marlborough range, at the end of August, three shil-
ling' entry, provided that sixty entries are Ellietit.
There is also • ladies prize on the tapas, the an-
te* for which is expected to take place on Cora a-
non day.
MORETON FAILLEIGH. —Th. inliabitarrai of
this parish has presented a silver salver to the Key.
R. Powell, (for 10 years caste of this parish.) and
a batter knife to Mrs. Powell, with appropri ate
inscriptions as a token of their respect and regard.
CHIC KLA DE. Causal Itrarroa.mon. —The
perish church of Cricklede St. Sampson. wall known
as one of the meet in North Wilts being at present
in a state altogether unworthy of so noble a
structure, nape are being taken for its restoration.
The Earl of Radnor is shout to repair a pert of one
of the aisles, and the lessee of the Rectorial Tithes
the chancel, and the parishioners desire to put the
other parts of the building into thorough repair, and
to replace the pews by better arranged sittings,
which will give increased accommodation. It is
estimated that more than £2,000 will be required to
effect them works, and about half the sum required
having been obtained by subscription, it has been
determined in • vestry memintoo rain the behinds
by means of a rate, extended over a period of 10
yam. It is hoped that voluntary contributions will
still continue to acme in to lighten the heavy burden
upon the ratepayers.

" GIVE TO HIM THAT A/METH THEE.*
If the poor taut paw thy door.
Giro him of thy boantoons Store;
Give him food, sod give him gold,
Give him shelter from the sold;
Aid him his lone life to live,
Fee 'be angel-like to give.
Though work:l4l(4os thou hae not,
Give to him of poorer lot;
Wok thee of tho widow's mite,
In the Holy liastor's sight.
It am more a thousand fold
Then the this mea's board of gold.
Give —it Is the hotter part,
Give to him, " the poor in heart ;"
Give of love in large degree,
Give of hope sad sympathy;
Cheer to theta who sigh forlorn,
Light to hint whose lamp is eons.
Fos tho km* abemion'd one,
In thy pathway do not than ;
Of thy kinder' she hash maid,
Bled with balm the bruised reed ;
Give, and gifts above all prim,
WWI be thino to Paradise.

Air Iturretumarr FOR 111.1.ssuluxo yun firm) or
Vnextd.--An .zpsrumsot has hut been made on the
Seine with an Instrument called a tochesioire, for men-
the speed of vessels This instrument, which is
intended to supersede the log now in sae, is composed
of a metal syphon, of which the extremities are un-
mend in the water. A small mew is fitted to the top
and to the interior of the instrument, on which the
water *Me as soon am the ship or boat moves, by eon-
aannaly .ut.rini one end of the syphon sod running out
at the other. Sonic olook•rork is attached to the mow,
the fumeifees of vial& are to mark on a dial-0146.Z
Mode lie &Maas Tads performed by
eemossedog with ease salt, and extending to buodrede
el mita The esperinsent wee tried on board the
stmunhem beam, whisk maim pserusgem Weems
Puts and Si. med. The diatom* wee aesurateiy
meshed oe the dlal-pillo by the weevemsall el the hands.
litemzerates apron to he of the mod simpie