The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

EXTRLORDINARY IuCCLESI ASTI CA L
INTELLIGENCE.

The New York Herald of the 2lat of February co,'
tains no hewer than eleven eolemns of report. of
fashions, tellies, and frivolities of Sabbath eorshipsert
and the principles, polemics, and pecialia.-ities of thr:
F reacher*;" and as it seems the oheraber e•tt •-
• thronged." it may be assumed that the Ne• Y
as • rule. rather like this sort of thing. The retezh
begin with an account of the morning servile at
Church. "Inside the aburob was • flood of 'I"
light • splendid music ; a gorgeous spectacle of Pla'r
and lime and diamonds ; and • risk perfume. 11..
essence of ariatoarasy was there and every one so 'we'
to vie with the other in efforts to render the w0,,,e
diseircres." At the Broadway Tebernaele, Presbyteria'
church, was an "immense audio/me ;" and stork
those "who worshipped in the full eousedousnew
being is the latest fashion—a aircuinstanrie very gratify-
ing to the goer religions feelings, ne in the baly'i
purity and adornment the mind rewires • °enema
sympathy—were the following :" and then Gomm • long
list of ladies and Lanthanum, At the Church of the
Messiah, a Unitarian edits., the congregation Mug very
"brilliant," and is britheatly described, as is also the
preeeber, whose theme was "Heaven and Hell," sal
who, "when referring to Eugene Aram as a eampe
of the hell • men can make for himself, b. came so
warmed up with his theme that his pulpit could seareMy
bold him." Al the Rom.n Catholic Church of Bt.
Stephen's "Over five thousand persons worshipped at
high mass • wealth and poverty knelt side by suite," and
" among ;Awes creupying pews in the centre aisle,"
were • long list of gentlemen, moons whose names those
familiar with New York life would reeogniee the titled
of some of the ckielteins of the Tammany Ring. At
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, we are some.
what sterieed to learn, the congregation was largely
eompowd of the "shoddy-rich, proud and aelf-satisilid."
of young gentlemen" with blue and red neckties," eh:
"smoothed their Hapoleonie moustaches with tbe iron
and gold beads of their bamboo canes, and performs
the task of praying in the haw-haw style." At AL
Sonia, a Unitarian *harsh, the tiongreg.tion was " coo
of gentlemen of intellect, distmotion, weelth at.
ra7ahtion." and of tidies who • were draped in grew
eostemee," and some of whom "even wore hand.so
and reofiercluf toilets, among tl.em that of the chars:Li
Mrs. John Eloey." The boast of the reporter son.er:
Ing "the wealth and intelleet of the congregation- l"
his enumerating among them " W Uhias. Cullen lb?"'
who in his youth gave us ' Thanotoicia,' but who 1144
in him silvery years his brought out the inilirei"
imagery of Homer in English verse "per Coop'
whose eimple-hearted chexaeter is visible upon his lace
" Moses EL Grinnell, the collector of the port
half-a-column of other worthies, with ••
daughters" and "prettily dressed" wives, We seize
know what might be the effect of this New TO
station if, in the progress of Americanising our lair
HOD., it should be adopted in Loudon. Our okra,'
have discussed many remedies for the evil. of ete
pews and smut, eongregations ; but it has not weer
to them that if they had a New Tor* Herald Pr'
they might end their churches WM itwoneemea:
Ifilled. There is the chasms, it is true, that th.,
prise if carried out in Loudon might prodow the
contrary effect: and that tbe amazed okra might co'
all be preaching td tweirsgations as limited as Ow
the cirraomo who wrote to the Mowing P','
other day to say that his daily morning 'erre, •
lattended only by "the little girl who opened the 0,
and rang the belL"

Cotrvionow roa ForlailtY.—At the &eta
Amiss on Monday, before Mr. Justice Hansen, C'''''f
Armstrong, a respereabledooking young man ."
described himself iii clerk, pleaded guilty to
uttered two forged cheques on the Were of ESP.-
Bank, to two tradesmen of the city, and was
to twelve months' imprisonment.
.kt Httffcrd assizes, Joseph Miller wits charred '''''
murdering his wife at Walsall in the month of JrW-.
There bed been • qearrel between the prisoner Aril '-'
wife before the murder was committed, and the
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was closed the whole of the day. On the police 010'
ins admission the primmer asknowled.ed the killed his wife, but urged that she had first atteetr,
to cut his throat. The jury found the prisooer tl-'
of manslaughter, and he was sentenad W teen if re
1 penal servitude.
' A Jot% or TRU DUillt or EraltßOaan'a—ne 1 bay Ousetts is answerable for the following story
Agra the Duke of Edinburgh is said to ha",0.„4, s
whether the city had • lanai., asylum. On ' _ll,ll
formed that snob an institation would be of
in the plsee. be devoutly thanked Heaven, on;_
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that wherever there was one they invariably, ""2- s
there,
and he always found the word " 'a"... .
turfte litters ever the entrance. e WinstateLe Poteisnum or FoiirouNDß.—So4B r
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online foxhoundsbslongto to Mr. Gerard 111
RietillOrdaktre) pack Mimi bile mama by ~..,:.,„,
1i,.,,. tutinegiieted with =Wend poison, Plate' "trio
emends is the way ths hounds bed to trafir" The
the keened no the ors* M delseis, on Wedneedif•
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steeneeles of UN elege are undergoing ebeaawil ,
Yeenwhile Use gentlemen of tile beat have 70
mined to offer • reward of £lOO for the diritr__.,
mml enstallessut of the mewl (toward who peßell"
the oftems.