The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

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RELIGIOUS INELLIGENCE.

MK Bre. DIR. IrNICILIt LCD JIRO!? °NOMURA.
TioNs.—At the meeting of the Liverpool Pastoral Aid
Society. on Monday evening, Dr. WNeile, during the
course of a lung speech. repeated certain charges which
he had made • few weeks previously, at • similar meet-
ing, against the Jesuits. He charged them with in.
sinuating thennielves auto the social life of the poor by
various affiliated societies, such as the "Redernptorist
Father.," "Christian Brethem," "Fathers of the
Faith," "St. Vincent of Paul," AA., le.c. He also re-
peated a etatement that recently in lilanehteder. a person
wearing the garb of a Roman Catholic priest during
the day, was occupied at night, dreamed as a labourer,
advocating the muse of the Church of England, in
order that his opponent might (by previous arrange.
nient) have an easy victory in favour of the Roman
Catholic Church. Dr. ICNeile dehied that, in • com-
munication recently hewed by the society to the
" Bishop of Liverpool." these excavations had in any
degree beeu shaken ; and, in conclusion, he earneetly
entreated English Proteetants of wealth to come to the
reecue of their "beloved Church," and not let it lan-
rajah for want of fund% but to exert all their energy
and liberally to secure, by an increased ministerial
agency, • complete and constant opposition to the
operation of the Jesuit.
Till BISHOPS AND Di. COLLNRO.—We are informed
that the meetings of the Eptecopal Bench last week
were held at the Bounty Board, in Dean's-yard, and
not at the residence of the Metropolitan.. .1t the first
; meeting, that of Wednesdny, the 4th inst., the
English, Irish. and Colonial Churches were largely re.
presented. Without one dissentient voice the assem-
bled prelates expressed their indignant condemnation
I of Bishop Odense and hi. b00k... The only differences
of opinion which arose related to the beat way of deal-
ing with the natter, whether by inhibition of the
author or by censure of the book. It is added that a
strong conviction was expressed an some quarters that,
had not public attention been called in tilt, newspapers
to the intended episcopal gathering, it might have been
better, leaving the author to the judicial tribunals and
his books to the refutations of scholars and divines, for
the bench, a, a hotly, to pans both by in that dignified
silence which would beat indicate the value net upon
such ignorant and arrugant reproductions of long and
oft-exploded cavillinge at the Scriptures of truth. We
trust that this opinior will not be allowed to prevail,
as it rests on • etrious misapprehension of the condition
of public feeling arid of the just expectations with
which the lady look to the hiships for some decisive
I grAion ; an expectatinn of which the sentiment* of the
/ press are the expouenta, lout by no means the producing
ems. Record .

CoLONIAL EPISCOPATE—Since the Bishop of
Sydney arrived in this country last June, negotiations
have been in progress for the further division of his
That dioceae. We have authority for stating that ar-
rangements Lave now been made for erecting a new
see, taking its designation from Goulburn, which our
rea4ers, who may hank at their maps, will find be-
tween Sydney and Melbourne. The new diocese will
• mbrace an extensive though thinly inhabited region,
which, however, like other parts of Australia, is rapidly
progressing in population, wealth, and importance
We hope, ere long, to make • farther and unarm:tory
announcement on the subject. It may be mentioned,
as interesting at the present moment, that the tracts
of country over which the colonial and missionary
diocese extend Limy be reckoned at upwards of 6,000,000
arm•re miles. The population of these countries, en'
desire of the indeventlent Stat,s of Hindostan, may be
net down at 106.000,000. For this field there are forty'
flee bishops and less than 1,1490 clew. This propor-
tion may be•t be estimated by parison with England.
where we have twenty.eiglit bialsope to 50,000 square
mile., .nd about 17,000 clergy to • population of
20,00rw00. In other words, while in England the
avrrage gires a bishop Li every 2.000 square miles, in
the colonies we find one to every 154,000 impure miles;
and while in England we have on the average a clergy-
man to almost every 1,000 persons, in the colonies we
end only one to upwards of 62,000.—Record.