The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

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THE DUCID[OB AUGUNTE DE SAXE ("minim Axn THIS
GREFIC TIIRONE.—it was lately stated in 'the journals
that Duke Ernest of Sane Coburg would, if he accepted
the Greek thorn°. choose as his heir a voting prince, his
nephew, who in that event wonl I embrace the Greek
religion. The Dl6ats of Wedneiday contain+ a letter
written from Vienna, anal says—" The Duchess Anude
de Sane Coburg bees unto correct a statement made by
the !cornea/ de Likes, of the intention of one of bee
sons to einhrsce the Greek religion. No prof °whisk
has tern mad, to any of her sons relative to the Natalie
of Greece. The Princess adds that none of her SODS
would eonsent to change his religion in order to gain a
crown."

Co.or6RATIONii LANCMIFIIRT- —The ao-operstive
principle is flourishing apsix in Lancashire. We learn
From a statement made the other night at the °letting
of the new building of the Liverpool Cooperative
Society that about twelve years ago that society was
established by three working men. From this in-
significant beginning sprung, during the first year of the
society's existenoe, thirty four menibers, a capital of
£6O, and total receipts for the year amounting to £317
In ISO there ale 3,800 members, with a capital of
29,000. while the receipts over the counter amounted
to 230,0110. There are now 110 co-operative societies in
Lancashire, with 48,184 members, with a capital of
2334,000, and taking over the counter every year in
ready money receipts £5,012,117. It was stated that
the Lancashire societies represented about one-third of
the co-operative movement in the country. Well done,
Lancashire!

THE A ISALEOLOGICAL CONGRISS TOR Isa —The
Archieolngical Institute Inc decided upon holding its
annual meeting this year at Rochmiter. under the presi-
dency of bLirquis Camden, K.G. Professor Wills, pre-
sident of the Hritish Association for the Advancement
of Science, Lord Talb it de Malahitle, F. 8.4. and the
Very Her. Walter Farquhar Hook, D.D., Dean of
Chichester. will preside respectively in the sections of
Arch;teature, Medieval Antiquities, and History.
DggiitXriog Or HINGE:WORD BRIDGL —This bridge

is rapidly disaimeannz. Nearly all the framework as
been removed, nod On Tuesday haU of one of the
towers, from which the chains vivre suspended, was
taVen away. It is expected Unlit the other tower wit
disappear before the cisme of the present week. In the
course of. month or two what was formerly Hungerfonl
Brilite will span the A yen at Cliftnn.
CONsECIUTION Or The Very Rey. Charles

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John Ellicott, D.D., Dean of Exeter, having been
elected to fill the vacant or of (annotate,. and Bristol
by tiie Dean an.l Chapter of Bristol (the electors for this
turn) on the 12th inst., in pursuance of her Majesty's
Liter Recommendatory, or, rather. imperative direc-
tion, we hear that 1.6 Grace the Archhi•lmo of Canter-
bury has fixed Wednealsy, the Vith of March (biting
the Fort of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
Mary) for the Comsecratien, and that the ceremony is I
now fixed to be in the cathedral and metropolitan
church of Canterbuu. It 1i likely that the new Bishop
of Gibraltar and the new &situp of Gellman, Australia,
will he conaecrate.l at the arum time.
EXTRAO.DINANT SCENE IN A CIII7RCII.—On Sunday
morning, in the parish church of Hurley, immediately
after the service, soil before nny of the congregation
had I-ft the church, Captain Wood walked tap and on
to the and addressing the congregation, maid in •
loud cilia, tbat a lady holding a high proltion in the
parish had been slandering bins (Captain Wood); that
lie was then awaiting the charges to be repeated.
Having paused for a few minutes, and no response being
male, he, in a s.till more excited and • louder tone of

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voice, denounced the lady in question as • "bar and a
alanderer." The affair of warn took the congregation
be surprise, and, in fact, alarmed very many of them.
We understand the churchwardens have taken up the
matter, and that it • ill come before the Reigate Bench.
—Surrey Standard.
MALT DCTT.—The bill to extend the credit for pay-
ment of • portion of the excise duty on malt, jun
brought into tie House of Commons by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, enacts that it nhall be lawful for any
maker of malt who has or shall have given proper secu-
rity, if be shall think At, and upon giving due notice,
to defer payment of the duty of excise tin all midi made
or to be made by him on or after the lilt day of April
and before the 16th day of May in the present year, or
in any subsequent year. until the lit day of October
next following the making of such malt; provided. that
ouch maker of malt shall give notice in writing, signed
by him, of his liitention auto defer each payment to the
July in collectoror ofaneyx csiaueb.4, onuoernt year;
the d ltstheredauo
ypot!
there shall be charged and paid for the use of her
Majesty, her heirs and suooemorn interest computed at
the rate of four per cent, per annum upon the said duty,
for the period of three months, that ix to my, from
the let day of July to the lit day of October in the
mime yens%
Ms. Kout.euVe HINTORT.--The unpleasant feelings
excitod or resuscitated by "Kinglake's invasion of the
Crimes" have led to some disagreealie developments. It
cannot be true that General Airey, who is ea mains •
very Penang' man, instigated Eetbeti long ago to write
this book, which is se beautiful in style, and so exited-
ingly destructive of puss and harmony? Smooth and

velvety and bright-coloured as the apple which rolled to
the feet of Paris, it has proved the veritable fruit of the
tree of discord. In a few days, perhaps, the public will
hear some echoes from the battle-field, and see the akar
sky gradually obscured by the names and smoke of
Alma. In other words, Kinglake's book is making a
tremendous storm in the upper air, and we don't gm
where the lightning conchs:tors are to be foetid.
WRAT tax You, HAT ?—Our friend the Standard
(whose inidortune in differing from us occasionally is*
matter to be spoken of kindly and not in sant) has a
very seasilih• article inviting the Prince of W 06., whose
position will entitle him to command faahiee, to put
down the Hat, which our conteniporary rightly dr
scribes as dear, perishable, uncomfortable, and hideous.
Should the Prinoe hesitate, Lord Palmerston is sailed.
Upon to take the lead in the anti-hat MOVelbent, and
hodly come into the house in a Wide-Awake. There is
• fitness in the latter proposition, Pam's widivewakish-
pnlZebeSt.vi'l/;7llne "fitkardowirdedgsditse'lLD°iThilewabusenesa,". with
e.how-
ever, is rather one for the Prince, who, inarlTi
Danish Princess, becomes a kind of Prince of Denmark,
and therefore the ie. of fashion and the mould
form." But we decidedly decline to assume whet might
occur to the Prince. We are handsome, and look well
in anything, and we are aa brave as handsome, but
we cannot and dare not walk down Flest-strysi yid'
three tall ostrich feathers sticking up into the lima-
Dint. We prefer our six-and-threepenny to that. OWL
it would be a good thing if, on the 10th of Marsh, we
Mall all throw up our hats, and they should never ems
down again. Poach.
PUBLIC PARK TOR BIRGLIT.—We sew.
time KO that the enclosure conimisaienersr=tigpsyt
ten acres of land for the use of the inhabitants of
Bingley for ever, and that it was intended to Mil eight
acres to the ten by purchase, arid to lay out the whole
as a public park. Public entry is to be made on the
ground on the 10th of March, the wedding day of the
Prince of Wales, and the event is to be celebrated by
• grand public demosetration. The first soil is lobe
cut on that day by William ?errand, Esq., M.P.
'Ns Hoven or Commons AND AiII•WKDIMIDAT.
—There are two Wednesdays every session to white
' the HMOS of Commons allows some respect—the one I.
Aah.Wedunday, on which micasion the sitting is yowl-
poned until two o'clock; the other is the Derby Day
the Isthmian Games," as Lord Palmerston hes
phrased it), when the sitting is enspended al-
together. The reason for the postponement of
the sitting until 2 o'clock on Ash-Wednesday is grounded
on the assumed anxiety of hon. members to attend
Divine service on the first day of Lent, and formerly
it was the custom of the speaker and a Lorre number
of the members to be present at the morning service
in St. Margaret's Church, in which pariah the House of
Commons is situate, the sermon on the occasion being
preached by the chaplain to the House. The custom
gradually fell into disuse, and the speaker and the
officers of tte House at length ceased to attend alto-
gether. Mr. Goulburn, Sir Robert Inglis, and other
members of the old school, continued to make • point
of attending during the remainder of their lives, as did
also Mr. Spooner, until advancing years and partial
loss of sight compelled him also to abandon the prsatiee.
This year St. Margaret's Church presented • very dull
appearance. There was morning service, it is true, but
none of Her Majesty's faithful Common' honoured it
with their presence, either in their private or olicial
car.aeity.

STIMET TERRORS IN THE OLDICX TIIII.-111 order
to exert this principle in its full strength and puler
tion, they take care to drink theinnelves to • pitch that
is beyond the possibility of attending to any notices of
reason or humanity ; then make • amoral 'any, mod
attack all that are so unfortunate as to walk the stireelle
through which they patrol. Some are knocked down,
others stabbed, others cut and earbonadoesi. The par-
ticular talents by which theme misanthropes are dis-
tinguished from one another consist in the various
kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their pri-
soners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in
tipping the lion upon them; which is performed by
squeezing the note fiat to the face, and boring out the
eyes with their Bogen. Others are called the dancing-
masters, and teach their scholars to cut capers by run-
ning swords through their legs; • new invention,
whether originally French I cannot tell. In number
332 of the Spectator. • llohock hunt is described. The
victim wan run down with a view-hello! when the
savage pack formed • circle round him with the points
of their swerds. One punctured him in the rear,
which naturally made Lim wheel about ; then came a
prick from a seoond, • third, and wi on. Thus they
kept him spinning like a top, until, in their mercy,
they let him go free. Another savage diversion was
thrusting women into barrels, and rolling them down
Snow or Ludgate-bill. Swift, who was horribly afraid
of the Hobnob., mentions several of their 'inertias.
He writes to Stella on the 1611 March, 1712 "Two of
the Wheelie caught a maid of old Lady Winchelsea's
at the door of her house is the Park, with • candle,
and had just lighted out somebody. They cut all her
Uwe, and brat her without any provocation." Next
day he added "They go on still and cut people's
faces every night! but they shan't cut mine—l like it
Inas r as it is." . . .

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AN OLD SAXON CHURCH.-11 is curious that one of
those rude wooden churches ruinous to the present day,
and has been used for divine worship from that day to
this. It forms the existing nave at the parish church
of Greenland, near Ongar, in Ewen. A brick chancel
has been added on the east, and a timber belfry built
on to its west end, and a porch applied to its south
side. But there the venerable relict still exista to show
us what the rude log churches of Saxon times were
like. It is composed of large ehesnut trees split
asunder, and set upright close to each other, with the
round side outwards. The ends are roughly hewn so
as to At into • sill at the bottom and into a plate at the
top, into which they are fastened with wooden pins.
There are 16 of these logs on the south aide, and two door
pool.; on the north aide twenty one logs and two
vacancies now filled up with plaster. The church thug
formed was about thirty feet long by fourteen wide,
and the log walls are five feet six inches high. The
county historians adduce reasons for the belief that this
church woo erected for the reception of the body of St.
Limund. on its return from London to Bury, in the
year 1013. It ownis quite compatible with the evidence
which they submit, that the church already existed
when the bearers of the royal saint deposited their
burden within it for their night's halt.