The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

Joel said the primmer ems bilis and sold shit Imel
porchned it at two different chemists'. This was an
the 24th of last month. He took her to et. Mails
Hospital, where she had remained ever BialS. The
chaplain of the hospital said it wits a molt painful tam,
and the unfortunate prisoner had not been 'fixing in •
very respeetsbls way. She came from Whitby in
Yorkshire about live years ago. Mr. d'Eynoourt
, inquired it prisoner's parents were olive. Prisoner said
her mother was dead. Mr. d'Eyneourt asked what her
father was. Prisoner: A shipowner. The chaplain
add he had a boon, or refuge, to take prisoner to If she
were discharged. Prisoner (eobbinz) said she was
extremely sorry. Mr. d'Eyncourt handed the prisoner
over to the oars of the chaplain.

STRUMS ATTAIR AT HARROW.—The sergeletiaajor
of the Harrow Ride Corps on Monday evening fell in
with • man who appeared very curiotui to know the
number of rifles, fcc., which were k..pt in the drill-shed,
• born situated a short distance from the town. The
sergeant having oommonicated this to his captain. and
their apprehention of dancer being eonsiderably increased
by the report of the presence in the neighboushood of a
number of very stopiciona.looking men, it was deemed
sdrisable to place • guard over the barn for the night.
Accordingly xereral riflemen were told off for this duty,
end, haring provided themselves with • good supply of
beer and tobacco to sustain their courage, anxiously
awaited the enemy. Nothing, however, occurred during
the night to cause any fortlur alarm, but still it was
thought best that a few riflemen should Ternain at the
shed during the following night also. Where thcre
riemen were, or what they were doing at the time, we
it °mot say. but, at any rate, about two o'clnek in the
morning they were alarmed by • loud report and the
simultaneous felling in of the doors of the barn. They
, ionnediately rounded the bogie and discharged their
rifles. Messengers were at once dispatched for the
officers of the corps, and the whole town was nu.
mediate)), in arms, and rushing to the scene of action,
expecting nothing less than to and a Fenian army in.
tding their homes. The doors had evidently been
blown up by a train of gunpowder placed beneath them;
bd. no clue whatever could be discovered as to the
culprits. The general opinion is thst it must have been
done for "a lark' by sonic one oonnected with the corps.

: TIN Po:11710N AND DOTT OF Till
LAITT.—I have learned, and I wish it to be known,
that the Clergy are for the people. and not the people
for the Clergy. We don't wrongfully or tyrannically
enures that the Clergy coast-tette the Church. The
Clergy and the people constitute the Church. The
baptised people, and the regularly and rightly ordained ,
Clergy, in the exercise of the great office of prayer and
praise, and thanksgiving, sad reading hod hearing, Gerd's
Blessed Word—that constitutes the Chants. It is
good for us, and useful for no to know, that the eyes
of the laity are on us, and that the I.lty are open to
what we coy; and the Idly are determined we shall
nether brae nor allure them, nor draw, nor induce
them, nor incline them. nor dispose them to • par-
ttcipation in anything having • resemblance to, or
a similseity to, the worshipping of a Chnreh that moot
Reformed— that Church from which our ancestors
separated; who transmitted to us, es our birthrights,righte
that we value, and are valued, more than houses, more
than land, more than titles, more than crowns or king-
doms. Laymen, I charge you to have a sharp eye, in
these days of danger and monstrous inooneistency.
charge you to see that the Churches handed down to
you by your ancestors won't be made by Bishops, or
Clergy, or people, "show placea" I charge yoe to see
that the noble servile we have received from our
ancestors, which is embalmed in immortal truth, be
not turned into an opera, and that the Clergy be not
mere performers, a,tore, and mountebanks, for the
people to look at going through their circumvolutions.
I have great reason, as a Bishop, to be thankful for the
blessing of having my lot cast among a Clergy and a
people free from this babyism. How is it that 300
years slier the Ref dination some are endeavouring to
substitute for our ennobling, essltiug, sod Scriptural
service, one whioh appeals to an inferior faculty—
merely the faculty of taste? Are we to have sensurrets,
or to use • bard word, an Aesthetic service? The true
Ponies is one purifying the heart, elevating the under-
standing, and enlightening the souL—(An extract from
a speech recently delivered by the Bishop of Cork).

CHOLEILL—Oar Malta oorresoondent writes, under
date of the 29th of August:—" Cholera has increased
at Messina, but fallen off :n the rest of Sicily during
the week ecding the 24th of August. It hss diminished
is Paletmo city from $8 to 53 cause for the week ; in
Catania from 100 to 84; in Syracuse from 87 to 88;
Lad in Trapani from 31 to 22. From Msesina the reuri
is u follows :—From mid-day of the 18th to mid-day of
the 19th, 32 eases and 15 dentlis; on the 20th, 48 oases
and 33 deaths; 21s1, 74 oases and 47 deaths; 22nd, 82
cues and 50 deaths ; 23r4, 108 eases and 81 deaths;
24th, 101 Malls and 119 deaths. A letter states that
some 50.000 Perriiis have fled from the town, which is
in • most deplorable condition. scarcely five shops in •
hundred keeping open, and tbs..e for only • few hours
,in the day. Thine of the inhabitants who have
remained go home at dusk and shut up the lure and
windows—anything but pleaunt with the thermometer
lat 85 deg. Ctil irodyne has been found most .ffiesciotis
I as • remedy. aid • number of persons are reported to
I hare b. en saved by its use. Great numbers of people
die •itlinat culling • doctor, having no confidence in
any of them ; but as the news of Chloroayne having
done good is !Treed, applications for it are being con.
etantly made to the English, who seem to be the only
pentane who possess any of it. A telegram bona Toms
of to-day :states that the cholera boa totally dieappeared
there. Within the last few days some 'suspicious'
cases have occurred at Malta among the civil populso
Nee, and as g meeting of the hoard of health held to-
day it was decided to prohibit intramural sepiilture.
Clean bills of health, however, are still issued. An
I attempt has been made to isolate the patients and their
families, by keeping theist in • kind of local qaarantine,
but this will hsve to be abandoned should the visiiation
sesame formidable dimatsions. The heat has been at
! least bye degrees greater during the pad fortnight than
the corruponding ry!riod of Itat year. Greece has
I already impend a quays' tine of eleven days on arrivals
I from Malta, unions provided with a clean rig from the
I Consul ; and no doubt this term will be rained very
I shortly."—From The Malt. 6th September. 1867.

Tea CHURCH Conning. —On Tuesday the Church
Congress was opened at Wolverhampton. Upwards
of 1,500 ticket. had been disposed of, and there were
present at the inaugural proceedings on Tuesday six
English and twenty.foureolonial and American prelates.
The bishops, deems, srchdeacone, end clergy of the
deanery of Wolverhampton met at 11 o'clock, at St.
Peter'. achoo!..room, where they were joined be the
Mayor (Sir John Morris) and the municipal authorities.
These united bodies formed a precession to the
Collegiate Church. where full choral Berries wee per.
formed, and a sermon preached by the Very Rev. the
Dean of Norwich. The first business meeting was
held in the afternoon, when the inaugural address
was delivered by the Bishop of Lichfield. The moat
interesting paper was then read by Lord Lyttelton on
the beat meaes for bringing Nonconformists into union
with the Church. Archdeacon Denison spoke on the
subject, and strongly objected to any compromise In log
made to bring back Dissenters to the Church of Rngland.
The questions before the Congree on Wednesday were
episcopal patrenage and the position of stipendiary
curates The Bishop of Oxford, Mr. Beresford Hope, and
the Rev. J. Haloombe. of the Charterhoure, were the
principal speakers. With regard to the question of
patronage, the Bishop of Oxford believed the system
of purchasing preeentatione to beings, in espective of the
property to which he thought the adifewson ought to he
attached, to be • miserable and degrading system. In
the course of the day • meeting was held in the School
of Art, where there was an exhibition of " yeetinents,"
to organise a large gathering in London next month, to
take such action as might be thought necessary in cons..
quenee of the report of the Ritual Commission. and to
deprecate any change in the law of the Church of England
relative thereto. Archdeacon Denivon presided, and the
Rev. Mr. ilackonochie of St. Alban'', the Deana York,
Bishop Twells of Orange Free State, and other
cle-gymen were present. Resolution. in accerdence
with the object of the meeting were passed. On
Thursday mosning several papers were read upon
the Bible and Science. The afternoon sitting was
devoted to the question of the appropriation of seat, in
churches, and the offertory. he Rey. Dr. Littledale
read at the vestments exhibition a long paper on
"aggrieved parishioners." In the evening • meeting
took place for the purpole of presenting to the Bishop
of Capetowis a crozier, in testimony of appreciatioc of
his firoinees in dealing with the Colenso qnestion.
Beresford Hope presented the emblem of
juriodiction in an eloquent speech, and the meeting
woe addressed by several prelates and other gentlemen.
At night a meeting of working men was held. The hall
was crowded. The Bishop of Lichfield presided, and
the other maskers were Dr. Barry, the Bi.hop of
Rochester. the Bishop of Alabama, the Bishop of
Lonsiaisa, and the Bishop of Oxford. Wilbeforce
/Avec ited the bre.king thronch of clam distinctions by
their 'showing sympathy one with another, and exhorted
the working-men to cooperate with the clergy in the
erotica the cherish of Christ. "I believe,"said he, "a new
spirit has come amongst no. • desire to spend ourselves
for Christ, and to labour amongst men. 1 believe lan
speaking the opinion of the great mass of my clerical
brethren around me when I say we don't want fine
chapels, with perfumed handkerchiefs, but great
churches fall of thinking men—(load cheers). Well,
then, I ask you to help us—help on to make this •
Messier to youreelyes anti to nerselvet Let the time
past suffile for the wretch sl jealousies of oonflisting
seed/. If any man thinks that be adding over and shove
to that which the Church of England has instituted
councils of perfection, such as I firmly believe John
Wesley inten led to institate—(hear, hear)—don't let us
of the *beech find fault with them, but rather adopt
them into the common bosom of a lovine Christianity,
and bid them God epeed—(oheers). I do thoroughly
believe that the great religious differences wltioh now
divide tie, that these things exist more upon the memory
of past evils that upon the existence of a present
neceweity, and I believe that if churchmen and dissenters
would suite together to exalt the one name of Christ,
end if the lave of that name led them to seek heartily
and thoroughly for brotherly communion in our
common church, I believe that England might have
it, and that having it, she might, first in things
spiritual, and then in things materisl, be more than
a match for the divided world around her—(chaers).
.o.n.Fheuirodishy.mreormainongiath.
ewrehenwmAreanhdescoaniniaatedliowdei.cureiriecd a
paper Adresse to r tualiw, and waa followed by the
Rev. T. W Perry, who teed • paper from the onletet"
point of view, maintsining that the oeremouial of 1549
and not that of 1849, was the legal inheritance of the
chug"' Most of the speakers were on the ritualistic
side, and so far as the demonstrations ean he sued as
• guide, that party bad the sympathies of the majority
of the congress, but the Dean of Chester wished the
gentlemen of the press to note his statement, that the
other side were the moat numerous, although not the
most demonstrative. This statement was met with
cries of "no, no," replied to by others of "yes, yes,"
and such expressions were frequently used by the
congress as the views of the two sides were prominently
put forward by the speakers. The sitting eft alto.
ftether of • more demonstrative character than say
that preceded it, In the afternoon sitting, "Hindrances
to Church Progress" was d seamed. The evening
sitting was devoted to "Church Music" and to "The
Maims! Training of the Clergy," the first introduced by
the Rey. T. Helmore and illustrated by • choir, and
the latter by the Rev. Sir P. °Way. It haa been
resolve.' that the next meeting of the eongraft should,
subject to the approbation of the bishop, be held in
Loudon, at the institution of the Chunk Institute,