The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

JOUftNALS.

CANON BOYD', APPOINTIONT.—ft would alma,t
seem as though Lord Derby wee falling Into some of the
worst inittekes of Lord Peloon•ton. The appointment
of Mr. Archibald Boyd, of Peddingtoo, to the
of Exeter, is the most unsatisfactory nominatioTras
has taken place sines the period, now tots years ago,
when Lord Shaftesbury was suffered to fling the highest
dignities of the 'berth to the least deserving of the
°Limy. There are evanealitals of high character and
respectable attainments whims promotion would be
accepted ungrudgingly by all schools, but Mr. Boyd has
uot only no claim on the ground of abilities, learning,
and diligence, bet be is an extreme partisan of • section
which openly depraves the Book of Clommon Weyer,
and has no more moral standing in the Church of
England than the Colonies faction itself. If the Premier
matinees in his present frame of mind. Mr. Murphy, of
Birmingham notoriety, might get a good Canonry or
Creep I ving by taking holy orders, which mould be
more cheerfully conferred on him in Outdo, Durham.
or Cork, than upon the most high bred Double First
suspeeted of believing in the Ordination *orrice.—
CturrA TIMM ROMS months egos dignifiedelerrrinao,
serving a ohureh—perhaps we would rather say, preach-
ing to • congregation—within five miles from Temple
Bee, had the boldness to make • public declaration thab
he thanked God be bad never announced to an
individual sinner the assurance of the foreiveness of hie
sins Tbe clergyman who is capable of this outrore
eon be no more expected to declare the mind of the
Church of Iloilo:id to those among whom he ministene
than a Muggletoesian elder or • Mormon apostle.....
Our readers will know that we refer to %gentleman just
about being transported from Paddington to Exeter
...... .. A man with Mr. Boyd's temperament and
opinions must be likes fish out of water in • cathedral;
a standing reproach to it, or it • standing repr each to
him. Who ia there that has wit enough to paint tit&
moostrons and grotesque anomaly of • Puritan Dean
Mr. Boyd's promotion makes us wonder why Mr..
W.W.11., of Liverpool, has not before this met w.tit
an equally deserved reward. Church Review.
Tea MARTINI' MEMORIAL AT OXFORD, OS ACHAN
THE ANTITTPZ 01P CHARMER, LATINOS, AND RIDLEY.
—We have no wish to press the point, or to award to
Elisabeth's victims the boom's of martirdom, for we
should deem it a prostitution of the Victoria Croft
were it given to every policeman who behaved with
energy in a street row, so we regard the title of
" martyr" safer too noble a one to be sonceded to those
who merely happened to be on the weaker side in times
of political squabbling and religious strife. Of course
there is • debased sense of the word "martyr,"
which general commit recognises as possible, and no
one finda fault with persons who shoes to say of them-
selves or friends that they are martyrs to the gout or to
the toothache. And all we contend for is this, that the
term "martyr" does not in any true sonic belong to
those to whom it is commonly applied, and that scab
monuments as the so-called "Martyrs' Memorial" at
Oxford should be regarded merely in the light of silent
witnesses to the majesty of the law, and thus on • par
with that other heap of stones which indicated to.
posterity the place where Aches) suffered in days of i Id.
—Church ?nue Commenting on the foregoing
paragraph, the Daily Neon says :—" Anglican bishop.
write books to deplore the Reformation as a schism;
church newspapers traduce their (the martyrs') personal
character; and smocestions are openly formed to undo.
their work. It is no wonder that to these people the
Martyrs' Memorial is a scandal and an offence. They-
might, however, bur it with a little more petienee than
they do. especially while they consent to remain members-
of the Reformed Church of England, and to eat its bread.
There is no mistaking the school in which this
style was learned. Unbelievers have °cued to write
thus virulently against Christianity, end Roman
Catholics do tot thus abuse Protestants. It is this
ribaldry of Voltaire adapted to the nee of the youngest
of church parties. The blindness of the fanaticism
6 which compares Achan —the type of the bad and selfish
, ! citizen, who for the sake of a Behylonish garment and
, 1 a piece of gold brings rim upon his people—with men
, I who gave up life itself rather than renounce their con.
i 'idioms, is conspicuous enough. But let it be noticed
I how thoroughly admiration for Room can obliterate
, the manly sentiments natural to an Englishman.
When a party has got to reverence the "majesty of
. the law" in executions in the name of religion, there is
no depth of slavery to which it will not be easy to
, betray the country. It is • serious thing that such a
, party should be rapidly gaining ground among the
. national church. If, however, they are to remain in
, the Church of England, they mint of necessity destroy
the credit of the Reformers. Their hatred of Cranmer

Dhows that they have not forgotten the last words be
adthessei to those who came t see bin. die— • Aad cc
for the Pope. I refuse him as Christ's enemy, end Anti-
christ. and in his false doctrine.'"