The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-01 00:00:00

Dorsetsbire.

TIIN Right Rev. the L ird Bishop of Salisbury has
lioensed the Rev. John Temple, clerk, LA.., to the
Caracy of Wainbruok, Mallet.
Tits LAITY OW DORSET AND RITUALISII.-131•
understand that • movement is efoot in the county, fur
convening a yobbo mseting. umber ths preeidener of
the Rai of Shaftesbury, and attended by Lord S.dney
Godo!phin Osborne, en the subject of ritualism in the
Church of England.

MOPUICINT Gum BY THS EARL Or ELDON TO
000 STY INSTITUTIONS. --We are much gratia4 to
learn that the Rev. C. W. Bingham received lest Satur-
day too cheques of 1.100 each unsolieited from the Earl
of Eldon—one for the Doreet County Hospital, and the
other for the Smell Bendier, Fund; his lordship has
also given £1.00) to the building fund of the Dorset
County School.

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COUNTY COURT CIRCUIT FOR JANU•RT.—For•
diugbridgs, Monday 7th; Dorchester, Tuesday filb;
BrAport. Wedusedsy 9th; Weymouth, Thursday
10th ; Blandford, Monday 14; Poole. Tuesday 16;
ebrietchurah, We Ineeday 16; Shaftesbury, 'Woodsy
21; Wineanton, Tuesday 22; Salisbury, Wednesday
23; Andover, Thursday 24.

TIM DORSET VOLUNTIMUL --Frau a table .bowing I
the attendanoss at drill in the year ending 30th
November last, we learn that the corps stand in this
respect in the following order :--1, Rridport, 33.50
per amt.; 2, D.ircheeter, 3101 ; 3, Gillingham.
12.96; 4, Sherborne, 28,25; 5, Shaftesbury, 2326;
6, Wimborne, 2230; 7, Weymouth, 21.61 ' • 8,
Poole, 20.94; 9, Stalbnage, 20.33; 10, Starminster,
19.22; 11, Wareham, 11.79; 19, Blandford, 15.15 s
Total average, 94.18. The names of the following
volunteers are given as those who have distinguished
themselves by attending the greatest number of
drills Sherborne W. Way, 75; Gillingham, W.
Built, 74; Dorche ter, T. Stainer, 64; Bridport,
Sergi. H.,ansell, 51; Poole, S. Marks, 47; Studies.
I bury, J. B. Knight, 46; Weymouth, &morays,
42; Blandford, C. Buchman, 35; Wialborne, A.
Trigg, and Stalbridge, Elias Green; 34; Wareham,
S. Churchill, 33; Sturminitter, T. Howland, 31.

Tali EPIPHANY SIMMONS. —Thesesessions winnow-
mono, this day (Tuesday), when the financial business
of the county will be transacted. The trials of pri-
soners will commence the following morning. The
calendar consists of the following : —Edwin Foster,
stealing a bag and bones at Blandford ; William
Maidnient, assault on constable at Blmidford;
Matilda Stone, obtaining beer by false pretences at
Portland; Albert Evans, stealing money, &a, at
Weymouth; William James Thomas, obtaining two
baskets by false pretences at Dorchester; John
Mc Cluir, stealing a watch at Portland; Alfred
Newton, dins Henry Tailor, obtaining • suit of
clothes, and two half sovereigns at Dorchester;
Eliza Sweet, stealing money, &a., at Portland;
Michael Price, stealing money, Itc., at Portland ;
Sarah Littlejohn, stealing perk at Dorchester; John
logy, embezzling money at Broadmayne ; Charles
&nib, stealing money at Winterborne St. Martin;
Augustus Galion, stealing money, ho. at Sere Regis.
On Bail.—Frederick Maiden, being a bailee of a
certain waggon or van, did fraudently convert the
same to his own use at Corfe Mullen; Edwin
Ridout, being • bailee of • certain pair of boots did
convert the same to his own use, and thereby
feloniously steal the same.

TOE BISROP OP SALIPNUKY ON BPOLUTION.
The Rev. W. C. Templer, La., of Burton Brad•
5t0....1t, has addressed a long letter to the Bishop of
Salisbury touching the statement contained in his
lordship's letter to Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne,
that "the Church of England justifies thaw who
have been ordained in believing they have had com-
mitted to them the same powers which the priests,
both of the East and West, have ever claimed as
their inheritance, and to which the literal and plain
meaning of the woe ;s points" Under six heads the
Rector of Burton Bradstoek "reminds the Bishop of
the powers with which Rome mesas her priests, and
of the several comers in one Prayer Book in
which the Church of England protests against
them," and he thus some up his remark.:
"Rome teaches that ti•oburoh is infallible; England
teaches that Rome borealf is fallible—" Am the '
churches of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch have
erred, so also the church of Rome bath erred, not
only in their living and oerenionies, but also in
matters of faith." (Article six). Rome teaches that
the priest has power to absolve absolutely ; England
teaches that her ministers have power to declare the
forgiveness of God, conditionally. Rome teaches
that the church has a power in herself to add the
traditions of the Church to the Word of God ; Eng.
land teaches that the Word of God is the only role,
arbitor, and ground of the authority of her ministers.
Rome leads you to the Church, that ia to the Priest,
for salvation; England leads you to Christ, (for
Christ is the Word pers.:milled) for the saving of the
soul; that is, Rome leads you to man for safety;
England leads you to God."

Same° Los roost Striterarcn IN 1866.—We
have received elegantly embellished with engravings
and full of articles of even semational interest, the
new quarterly January number of the Lifeboat
Jennie!, whams we obesrv. that during the year
which hen jug dosed, the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion has contributed by its boats and other means to
the rescue, daring stormy weather, of the large
number of eight hundred and seventy-6x lives—as
well as of fifteen vessels—from shipwrecks on our
oast. In the same period, the lifeboats of the
institution have either assembled or put a in reply
to signals of distress 122 times to ships not eventually
requiring their version. It often happened that on
these OCCIIIIOI/11 the lifeboat crews had incurred much
risk and exposure throughout stormy days and
The number of lives saved either by the
lifeboat' of the institution, or by special exertions
for which it has grouted rewards, sines its formati n
is 15,856; for which service 82 gold medals, 767
silver medals, and £23,380 in cash, have been given
las rewards. When we remember that nearly every
I life saved by lifeboats has been rescued under perilou
1 circumstances, it will at once be seen what great
! benefit has been confemd by the Lifeboat Institn•
tioo, not only on the poor men themselves and on
their cJuntry, Out also on Omit wives and children,
who would otherwise be widows and orphans. In •
leading article on the wreck of the steam-ship London
last winter in the Bay of Biscay, The Times
eloquently remarked—" There is one oonsolatory
reflection, and one only, suggested by the aid records
of the frightful disaster of the steam-ship London.
If we are tempted to feel that man, with all his
boasted triumphs over the forces of nature, is still
but the sport of the elements when they put forth
their full strength against him, we may find comfort
in dwelling, on the courage which, inspired by a
sense of duty, raises even men of ordinary mould to
the moral level of heroes and martyrs. Could •
history be written of all the services rendered by the
lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution, it
would contain more golden deeds then Plutarch and
his anommors ever culled from the nasals of war."
SiDOll the beginning -31 the past year (1866) the in-
stitution has also expended £29,667 on its one
hundred and seventy-two lifeboat stations on the
coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and sines
its first establishment the institution has also en•
pended £160,400 on its lifeboat stations. We may
state that eontributions for the institution will be
thankfully received by all London and country
bankers, by the several bon secretaries of its
different breathe*, and by Richard Lewis, Esq.,
secretary a the institution, John-street, Adelphi,
London.