The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

ecclusiastical Entztligalte.

Tug rival Convoesations of the Scottish/Kirk have now
closed their sittings for the year. The next assembly
is appointed to meet at Edinburgh on the 24th May,
1866.
PREFICRIIENTEI AND APPOMTMENTB.—Iiev. W. J.
Nearne, to Curacy of Child Okeford, Dorset ;
Rey, F. Wayett,M.A.,lo Vicarage of Otterton,Devun.—
earache Vacant.—Froute Selwood, Somerset, her. W.
J. E. Bennett, incumbent ;Ilisineler, Somer.et, Rev.
A. H. P. Trevroian, inoumbent ; Stour Provost, Doren.,
Rev. R. A. F. BArrett, incumbent; Torquay, St. Diary,
Raw: F. Tate, incumbent.
Nsw CI11:78CH AT CARLISLE. —On Tilelday the new
church of St. Stephen, which has been erected in one of
the most populous districts of Carlisle, at the sole cost
and charge of Mho Angela Burdett Coutta, was opened
and cons, crated by the Lord Bi,thop of the diocese.
Miss Coutta is not connected with the district, either
by family or property, and was induced to this act of
bounty solely on representations made to her of the
spiritually necessitous state of the dist.ict.
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SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A CHURCHWARDRN.—OIIe et
the churchwardens of ffit. Thomas's pariah, at Oxford,
has been committed for trial under peculiar circum..
stances. It is the practice to heat the boundaries on
Aseensiou-day. Mr. James Williams, in hie capacityof
churchwarden, protested that the perambulations had
been only partially performed, and obstructed the vices.
in a very insulting manner in his efforts to enter the
church for evening service. The police were called in
before Divine service could proceed. On Tuesday Mr.
Williams was committed for trial at the assizes. He
was admitted to bail.

TH CHARITY CHILI:IIMR AT S. PAUL'S. —Ow
Thursday was the anniversary meeting of the charity,
children of the metropolis in St. Paul's Cathedral. The
nave was crowded with elegantly.dressed ladies, while'
the dome were assembled the children' upwards nt
4,0n0, whose neat, clean appearance, and happy, fresh,
and innocent faces, touched every heart. The musitalt
services were happily arranged, the singing of the'
children being, as usual, the principal feature. The'
sermon was preached by the Bishop of /tensor, and at
the close there was • liberal collection.

ADDITION4L CODATD9 AID 800117 Y. —The annual
meeting was held on Tuesday, at Willis's rooms, St.
James's. The purpose of this society being to aid the
home missiohs of the Church of England by appointing
additions/ clergy to,poot and populous districts, it at
onoe commends itself to acceptance. The report stated
that the receipts of the soinety during the past year
amounted to £34,039, showing, as compared with the
previous year, an incre.aw on the keel inoome of
£8,42); part of the increase arose from £1,720 eves by
the Bishop of London's fond. The number of grants
last year was 453, showing an increase of 28 over the
previous year. The grants for this year were 478 in
number, being a further increase of 25. The repeat
was adopted on the motion of the Bishop of Oxford,
seconded by Mr. Powell, M.P. and after some remark.
by Archdeacon Emery, Mr. Beresford Hope, and others,
the proceedings terminated with the usual vote at
thanks to the chairman.

ARCHDEACON DENISON'S APOLOOY.—" Mr. Asland;
the member for North Devon, came to me this after-
noon," writes Archdeacon Denison to a contemporary,
"at the annual meeting of the National Society, to
complain of a statement made respecting him in the
May number of the Church and State Review, to the
effect that he bad reprinted for circulation portions of
Bishop Colenso's book on the Pentateuch. His corn.
plaint is that I have stated of him what is wholly with.
out foundation. I regret extremely that I was misled
by information upon which I thought I might depend,
and lose no time in making such reparation as is in my
power. It is too late to send the statement I have here
made to the June number of the Church and State
Review. May I ask the favour of its being published in
the Times /"

THE CHURCH AND THE LIBERATION SocurrY.—
Dissenters know very well that the way to keep people
interested in any subject is to keep them spending their
money about it. Th• may be • clue to the following
circular, which is being circulated "privately" (as usual)
among their friends. We commend it to the attention
of the Church for two reasons ; first, because it warns us
whet we have to expect; and secondly, bemuse itsbews
what sacrifices men will make when they are in earnest
about anything. We should like to see half-a-dozen of
our wealthy farmers putting down their £2OO or £5OO
a-piece for any good work in the Church :—" At the
suggestion of some influential friends in the North of
England, the executive committee of the Liberation
Society intend, at the Triennial Conference in May—
when the society will have been inexistence twenty-one
years —to propose that a special fund of £25,000 be
raised. Among the reasons which have led them to this
determination are the following :-1. Three central,
and between 400 and 500 provincial organisations bare
been created for the avowed purpose of counteracting
the influence exerted by the society. This ha, neces-
sarily increased the work, as well as blue responsibility
of the committee; while the annual income (£4,500) is
not much larger than it was when the society's proceed-
ings attracted comparatively little public attention. 2.
In the expectation that the approaching general election
will be a more than usually important one to the friends
of religions equality, the committee have already col-
lected a large amount of electoral information, and have
employed a thoroughly competent agent to visit some of
the constituencies. The election will also afford a good
opportunity for the circulation of information on eocle-
siastical questions, and for other measures which will
involve considerable expense. 3. With a view to the
passing of the Church Rate Abolition Bill, as well as to
prevent the extension of church rates to new parishes,
' it is thought desirable to appoint local agents, to work
in parishes where rates are still unopposed; as well as to
afford other facilities for extending the parochial agitn.
tion. 4. The commencement of an Irish agitation
against the Irish Church, and especially the prospect of
a movement on the part of the Presbyterians of Ireland
against the Regiam Donunt, will probably lead the com-
mittee to extend their operations to that country. 5.
In addition, it is felt to be needful to appoint a lecturer,
or lecturers; to appoint the society's stock of publica-
tions, and particularly to issue a series of treats relating
to the Scottish establishment. A much wider distribu-
tion of publications, especially in the rural districts, is
also desirable. 6. In addition to these particular modes
of action, the committee wish to be in a position
promptly to adopt, from time to time, such measures as
may be suggested by the circumstances of the times,
without being hindered, as they sometimes have been,
by inadequate pecuniary resources. It is not intended
to make any public announcement of the fund until the
conference assembles; but it is hoped that the greater
portion of the amount will previously have been secured.
Contributors will hove the option of either paying their
promised contributions in one sum, or by annual pay-
ments extending over five years. It farther proposed„
that the contributors shall, if they desire it, merge their
present annual subscriptions to their contributions to
the special fund. Such contributions will, therefore,
Practically, be increased annual subscriptions for s term
of five years." Than follows the list of contributions
already promised :—Messrs. G. Hadfield, KP., £500;
J. Sidebottom, £500; J. Leese, £5OO ; B. Johnson,
£500; R. Rumney, £950; H. Lee, £250; J. Thompson,
£lOO ; J. Spender, £150; S. Dewhurst, £100; A.
Haworth, MO; Titus Salt, £500; Messrs. Hell, £250;
If. Dlingworth, £250; Messrs. A. god H. Illingworth,
£250; J. Craven, £250; Crossley and Sons, £500;
Hugh hfa-on, £250; E. S. Robinson, £130; J. F.
Norris. £100; S. Morley, £500; W. Edward*, £500; A
Friend, per ditto, £500,; H. R. Ellington, £110; F. J.
Sergood, £100; S. Allen, £lOO, &c.—Sherhorres Ferias
Magazine.