The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-30 00:00:00

SFIERBORNE.

TflE FAST till'llitaie.—Colonel Hato%ins.'s ILL
his report to the Board of Trade relative wt....
of trains over the level crossing noir the ioa
elation, expresses the decided opinion tLot tO
party cannot run trains over the craning in
more than four miles an hour. It i 4 therefgrro;
that the company cannot, exoept at their prr..;.,
Untie to ran past Sherborne. Teo Bard of
seems, are unable to tune any mandati
tho company to cease offending against the
it seems • strange anomaly that such • &star/
cannot move farther in the matter, Howes,
open to get an injunotion, and thit we u-dnat,
private individual is prepared to proceed w.U.12
wait time table shows no ..Iteratioa.
FIRE THBOINIII RIADING IN Bsn.—Betwein rsd,
two o'clock on Wednesday morning, the Loptieu'
Mr. Lyon, grooer,Sherborne, was alarmed by 1,0
shrieks. Mr. Lyon jumped from his bed, ate
to the attic. Upon the floor, a burning on.s,
servant girl, and her bed wee on fire in two
lir. Lyon wrapped blankets, rug, cloths —anythiti,
could lay hands en—round the girl, and hot
fire with Lit hands. Astistants arrived, "I::
tingnished the fire in the bect.clothes.
surgeon, was called in. Tao girl', back up to the',
is much burnt, but, fortunate'', the ch,t: it unit:rl
and although the poor girl but! ors greatly, i: is
she will entirely recover. Br. Lyon was g,y etely
about the hands, hie whiskers and beard eiuk.,l..•
his foot hurt. The sir!, who is ouly lo oft
named Emily Abbott, and her parent. roil:
Milborno Port.

VISITATION OF THE ARCHDEACON
DORSET,
The Archdeacon of Dorset (The Rev. This
Sanctuary) it on his VJatstion Tour. This was e
minced on Monday last at Sherborne. After mori
service the clergy of the rural deanery, with the
ei
Hon of two or three, answered to their names, sal,
Archdeacon delivered his Charge, which lasted ea:,
and c half, and was solely oonfined to one sol-

Fal-ugation;
The ArunlikaCOu began by salting them to I
him if he had nothing new to impart on this se:
but he was sure they would all agree it was their
to take *mussel together on this most important
meat the Elementary Education Act. It We
longer an open question whether the people in°
taught, but the question that must beat ono° an.'
was—whether by voluntary effort, or by comp
rate. Mr. Forster had stated that there would b
feat impartiality between she schools raised by'
tary efforts and rate provided aohoole. Ile had..
was a right principle to aot upon, aad it wee
oordanoe with his lint declaration, that we shoul,.
rate-previded schools where there were none, b:.
, where • voluntary effort had been suocesafuliy
lie (the Archdeacon) thought there was no vv.:
saying that the measure was introduced in • to
hostility to the church. There were many pre,
that might, by a wise and diligent application al
girerigthen and support their tease. (The Areit4''
enumerated many of the provisions of the me*
which he thought might have this effect.) AO:
he added, a practical answer must be gifts to
appeal which the Act names, and it w...uld be
that they should consider the importing,: ei
interests at stake. The Church it b"iiawd
educated 75 per cent, of the chit hen who
education w
under ucation before the Act, and -ill the
of the country up ohlcat..
to the present tin rests A",
religions A.ud yet educati.in •as suit van
P 18144 Out of 1,900 families in Manchester. 71.
unabunableto read, and 35 per cent. oht of
persons convicted of offences could neither
write ; only 2 per Gent, having received 11,4'
Instruction, and 96 per cent. 6, tug eic,"twlw
knowledge that might be available as • safeknos,
trims. These figures sufficiently jrPtitied the
ts
making education compulsory, and so far tied
the country had been given in favour of that
Upon the religious question the State had
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neutral position; it had withdrawn limn the Wl.'
hitherto made into religious testi-notion. In 'l'
aided school shall any religious formula or niu
be taught. For his part he thought it seente.l,:.t;
gamble to complain of this. With the
Lincoln we must admit that the Act is • red.:,
own religious condition, and that CO see IS
of our own religious laxity. Showing amw"uvr.
regard for what has been ul-eady dor:w 00, GA;
In
his measure, and erotegeotis w
consideration. Yrooeeduig to "I.Le.ov. pboted;
of the voluntary principle, h
that it was the best gusrsiiiteee
of honest
religious teaching. Aaio. if schools could M
t
tallied by voluntary effort limy woes uu
be
In the country. lie urged that manage!
eouipelled to boater their schools sliendid t
ir or,a,a;
preserve their religions character, ite ay
should they let the budding be irrewa.s 1' .be 0;;
with. Quoting the Minquis of Belisha:3V,
sue de,'
School Boards were not ot one mind, and th."loi,, •
would prods.* onitantion in every cam
was applied—that there would he c.inaw!
end wrangling", and that the Bill had law
standard of religion to which we (weld *IT,
Archdeacon observed that their ineanang
education WAS Sot that of Mr. Mill, wiio ha"
' Some people may think (as I do not) that
amount of religious teaching belong'
elementary education." They rather mad •,",.
, Timothy :—"Continue in the things that
learned knowing of whom thou hest tousled
that from • oldid thou hut known the II
eli
which are able to make you wise unto aalval
AAP" they did not limit their meaning of sodunam!')
the liaising of the mind sad body's 110.11461
Pbriati Powers. Irdiontios with them Wan jeuTO
it Oho wholes—ell No pommy. larigig'