The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

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Extra& —Rpfs Corps.—The Exeter and South
Devon Volunteer Rifle Corps have been undergoing
their usual tntining and inspection in the respective
places et mueter during the last few days.
AGRICULTURAL MIIITINGS IN THE WIST.—The
first Devonshire agricultural meeting for the season
vu held at Monkton, neer Moulton, on Monday.
There wee a ploughing match, and prises were
awardod to &men in the district for the best alai-
Toted farm end to labourers for haring brought up
large families without parochial aid. At the dinner
which we. afterwards bold, Mr. R. S. Gard, M.P. for
Exeter,
_presided, end itt responding to the tout of
his heelth he expressed himself, strongly in favour of
educating the labouring and agrithltural daises in a
manner suited to the 'kitten of life which they had
to fill. With regard to the coming Reform Bill, Mr.
Gard said there could be no doubt but that a greet
;Demure of reform would be introduced in the ensu•
hag souion of Parliament, which be hoped would be
pandialY IE4 hAPartially considered by efl parties.
The Hon. W. W. Addington responded to the tout
of 'theitormi and Navy,' and referred to the
ittperior on given to English sailors now in
Oninolionn I!! , that °Oho post The hon. gentle.

man tenderly rebuked Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Roe.
buck for having spoken in terms of disparagement of
the French navy, which were calculated to provoke
the hostility of a sensitive and gallant nation like
France,
TIVIATON.—CONSeCratiOII f use Burial Ground al
Cemetery Chapet.—That portion of the cemetery set
apart for the interment of members of the Church of
England was, together with the Cemetery Chapel,
consecrated by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese on
Wednesday week. His Lordship said he hail delayed
consecrating it until he could have a wall as high as
four feet to separate it from the place where dead
Dissenters lie. The Legislature, however, bad
decided that no wall warn necessary; so the Bishop
conaenta to the views of the Legislature, while re-
gretting that the partition was not seek an "nouns.
takeable one" as could have been wished. "It is
necessary," continued his Lordship. "that there
should he a division, a palpable linalif demarcation,
in order that the Church might bury their dead apart
from those who do not die within its pale." The
right rev, prelate, accouipanied by the Veu. Arch.
deacon Bartholomew, his Lordship's secretary (R.
Barnes, Esq.), ete., arrived at the station by the
10.49 train, and WM conveyed in the private oar.
liege of T. Cerew, Esq., whioh wss in waiting, to
the °smeary, where it arrived shortly after eleven
o'clock, A large number of the local alergy, hielies
gentlemen, and inhabitants of the neighbourhood
had already assembled, and book up their position on
either side of the path, from the entrain to the
cemetery to the chapel. The right rev, diocesan,
preceded by a moos bearer, and followed by the
clergy and others in procession, prooeeded to the
chapel; his Lordship and the clergy reading the 49th
Psalm, The Van, Archdeacon Barthioniew read the
sentence of consecration, which his Lordship tigned,
and ordered it to be registered. His Lordship then
read the form of prayer used at the " consetration
of a burial ground and cemetery chapel," at the eon.
elusion of which he delivered an address from the
lectern.

CONNTORATION OP A Now OIVIIOR AT TORQVAY,
—A new churoh,dedlostod to St. Matthiae, was oon•
secreted by the Lord Bishop of Exeter on Thtuiday.
It oonstitutes a ohripol of eass to the new roolealw
ticsl parish of Torwood, of which the Rev. J. IL
Hogg 111 the incumbent and, in conjunction with
the mother church of bit. Mark, is endowed by Sir
L. V. Palk and Mr. Palk, M.P., by whom also the
cite were given, with a tithe•rent (Margo of £l6O a
year. The ceremony wee performed inihe presence
of • large body of the local clergy, and a Bar oongre•
gatlon of the gentry and inhabitants of the neigh.
bourhood. The Bishop, who arrived at 11 am.,
was met at the west entrance by the clergy Inc body
' the petition for consecration was presented by Mr.
Palk, M.P., the aliuroliwarden, and the 'Groton well
preached by the Rev. Prebendary Downall, chaplain
to the Duke of Devonshire, from I Peter, o. IL, v. 4
and 6.