The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-23 00:00:00

DORSST COUNTY HOSPITAL.

During the week aiding Jaly 118th, them have
been admitted 2—ln-patients, 5; dkicharged, 5 ; Out-
=is admitted, L 3; discharged, 12 ; swierguscies, 0 ;
, 0 :—ln.patisets, in the hospital, 42 • out-
pathets on the books, 230 ; casualties, 4& Ph;sician
for the week, Dr. W. V. Lush; surgeon for the
week, Mr. A. Emeon ; house-surgeon, Kr. Harbert J.
Three In-patients and six oat-patients hare been
'applied with renewed tickets ol reconunendatAan,
giving them • further period of two mouths' medical
treatment if their cues need it.

BOROUGH MIT SESSIONS.••••MONDAT.
Before Dr. J. P. Aldridp Olayod, Mr. B Dads, Hr.
John Galoin, and Mr. M Demnish.
Limn.. to deal in game were granted to Cecil Cm and
Henri Samuel Mills, of High East-street, and Henry
001. 01 High Wed-street
Alfred Pane, labourer, of Broadmayne, was summoned
for being at. greater distanos from hb mum drawn by
two domes than would glee been proper control over them.
This era. on the ISM, and the offence was committed in
the South Welke
Defendant 91.64.1 not gUilti, and P.C. Gould Proved
seeing him about four is the wternooe 'ding another
Carwhilst his own was following aout twelve yards
d ;irith no om in &Sip.
need 7s. ed.
The Bench stating they were determined to put a stop
to the practice of riding without reins, which had become
very prevalent
Jam Axt,labourir. Of Leiter 00art. Peatiblaaa,
his wits, Answered to a samisens charging bittrzt
allowing hie chimney to catch are.
Tills was the first cam of the kind.
P.C. Gould proved the service of the summons, end Kr.
Supt. Coward stated he we, idled to a Sr. in the Court
on Tuesday lad and found the defendaat's chimney one
man of Sr. frees the t3p to the bottom, obliging him to
ham the bon-red t 3 ex tiogabh it The chimney was
very dirty, and the wife admitted they bad not had It
swept lately, but she mid they bad sent for the sump,
who, however, bad .not come. They bad been in the
house about three months, and she believed those who
Lead there previously had not had it done for about two
year&
Ordered to pay the cods, da., and this being the first
summons under the Act, the Ins would be remitted; but
in future cum it walla be enforced.
Slsede Hedges, landlady of the White Home Inn, was
smemeasd (or a deader aenta On Thtusday last the
esisat="teek dam
had It swept la May last, and probably
some met in • atennr. oadl ander these dream-
demon tliek Wks wft nmen• Berard of the mode
and the stu '

POLITICS IN vas PULPIT.
Sir,—The eslienflicleney if Mr. Nears I. evklently
ono of his permanent sad met striking characteristias.
I was under the immesh= that his bumptiouisse
was but a passing cloud teat occasionally obscured
the surshine of a genial and unassuming disposition—
one of those isedtary blemishes which now and than
remind even the bast of us that after all we are "more
fit for earth than heaven,' bat this impression. which
I even DOW scerosly Wm to relinquish bloom's un-
tenable in the tem of such abandant evidence in
support of • leas favourable opinion. I may remark
that Mr. MOTO appear, to possess an epistolary in-
firmity fwhkh abhor, everything in the nature o/
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delights In prevaricatton,and revels in abuse.
'ltricit lea of Genius merit a philanthrophic
consideration, but the conceit of fatuity le intolerable.
The vanity of a Mcataigne or the coeneares of a
Poreon Is excumeable, but when mediocrity becomes
Imitative it should solicit the aid of reflection to pre-
serve it from contempt. Forotheians therefore must
not yet be the mead of Mr. Nears, however, pro
-
padre that may be. The injunction to "assume a
virtue if you have it not" needs an artistic application
and the assumption of mental superiority should rarely
be resorted to for fear of Iro vividly illustrating the
fable of the s MO in the lien, skin. Now for Mr
Name's letter in your ism of today, which he oom,
mences by stating that I have failed to give evidence
of having mastered the point in dispute, and that my
letter being hand on entire misapprehen of his position
I. not worth Rhe paper whereon it Is written.
Mr. Neave, cf course. evades all further reference
either to the point in dispute or his position. The facts
are simply these, Mr. Nears preaches • sermon, which
he afterwards publihes in a 01) per, and in which
he refers to the resemble Pre as a rare Jewish
curitestr. The matter now comes legitimately subject
to public comment. For my own convenience I take
It for granted that Mr. Nears Le not entirely
:nacquainted with the elementary principle of lark,
ad that he will allow ix/ meet tom ha fair play. Mr.
Bradley, in a latter which, on no account, so fez as I
can see, is liable to censure objects to the Premier
being thus referred to in the pulpit, and cogently and
politely supports his opinion. With Mr. Bradley I agree,
and assert and maintain the right of everyone to
exercise an individual freedom in criticising a public
utterance Surely it requires no great amount of
understanding to express an opinion upon this " point
in dispute." That I may not have succeed In
evidencing my ability In this respect to Mr. Nears is
possibly correct. Comprehensions like opinions diller,
and his object in misandeesoandiao may perhaps to
many be es apparent ea the deficiencyg;.•
tin
inz part to
which be refers. I san, however, f the
knowledge that in matters of this kind the dictum of
even Mr. Near* is not a court of final eppeel. My
letter is based upon an entire miaapprsbsution of his
poekion, "and is therefore not worth the paper It is
written on." Short and sweet this Mr. Near*, and
complimentary, sir to , your editiorial judgment ; for
aI really know to the ("mislay Mr. Nears •
Cilimma dfferent from that of the generality of
be
brother lilnlstsn, but I scarcely think so. At any
rate I am disinclined to believe that he has been
8P04417 Privilered to thus abusively ventilate hi
antipat. I have an old fashioned notices,
It may perhaps be "pious twaddle or " not worth the
piper ft is written on," but for all that I intend to
retain it—that a Minister of Religion should be
otnentillY • OWWWWOO. Who, as the poetess says
Wound, no breast with few on Jest
Yet bears no honied MOND
Who's social with the gray haired one.
And merry with the yowls; ,„
Who eravel shares the Conant snack
Or joint e rustic mom
And shine* ashisture's gentleman,
In every Place the same.
No haushty restore marks his tit.
No pompous tone his word,
No studied attitude is seen.
No ribald gossip braid
H. worships God with inmost seal,
And nerves him in each deed,
Re wield not blame another 's faith,
Nor have one Martyr bleed.
Justice and mercy form his code,
He puts his trust In Heaven;
His prayer is, "If the heart mean well,
May all else be forgiven."
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And one upon whom it is incumbent to " put away
all bitterer's, cLuncoa, wrath, evil speaking or
malice," who should teach by esample as well as by
precept, the necessity of a broad and humanizing
emartmy, a chivalrous regard for the eusceptibUlties of
ethers, and the necessity of maintaining invoilate the
mired Charters of Peace and Goodwill, and who in all
places and to all men shows his Steams for his sacred
selling, not by inflaming the imagination or applying
Pe stimulants to the peadons, but by elevating
serrtual directing the deep fountains of thought and
feeling in the human sod. However crude my news
may be, however, much they may meow of common
platitudes, I believe Mr. Heave with a Uttle thought
wilVuot entirely differ from them. Let it be understood
that I youth not presume to judge him harshly for a
fault, owing whale more to the head than
to the heed, but, what I do blame him for
Is his persistency in defending that which he
must know to be indefensible, and the rudeness with
which he treats Mom who differ from him. An
unfortunate lapel's linguae, says a quaint old writer,
generally allowed a quick trop into oblivion hots
keno calari, the graver offence of the two cannot ,
plead unpremeditadon and therefore leaves its author 1
more to answer for upon the principle of Liters Scripts
wear. Mr. Weave, in continuation states that I
charge him with an outburst of passion at the very
Idea of Mr. Bradley attempting to criticise his
opinions. I suppose by this he refers to my quotation
from Memoir who says that " when we are in •
condition to overthrow falsehood sad error we ought
not to do it with vehemence nor insultingly, and not
with an air oficontempt, but to lay open the truth,
and with answers full of madams to refute the false-
hood." I then said that according to this, Mr.
Weave, in calling the Premier a rare Jewish curiosity,
had left undone the very he ought to have
done, in other words y objected to thaw com-
mendable precepts. now say the same. Mr. Near.
further sage "If Mr. Bradley had set himself to
rhallefte my opinions or if anybody else had dime so
I would have riven them the most respedful conaider.
rime." Bat what does Mr. Weave do Mr. Bradlee
unquestionably challenges Mr. Neave's opinion, which
may have been that he had • right to stigmatise Lord ,
Beaconsfield as a rare Jeria4 erriosity, or I presume
he would never have done so, and, Mr Bradley, in
his second letter in your lame of the sth mat, says,
"Mr. Neave's uncharitable assertion is challenged,
upon which he curtly tells your correspondent to
keep to his own line of thing, in other
words to mind his own " For
thus challenging Ai epinion of Mr. Neese, Mr.
Bradley is Inforalla that he is one upon whom
serious confruve sesH be thrown away—a portion
rpt his letter is resd to m pious twaddle, his ability
questioned to write a letter worth answering, and
he is alluded to as giving evidence of " pong •
oerebral weakness which pleads for kindness gather
than harsh treatment," which certainly sounds very
much like calling a man • fool. So much tor Mr.
Weave's "moat respectful consideration." Mr. Nears
then my. "I will Mew Mi. Bradley or any other such
writer that I am aot to be dictated to by them as to
what my rights as on the Sabbath Day," ko.
Mr. Weave, gently sir I or I shall begin to thini that
you really ere langry. There is •
If I may be allowed to coin an
_expeeision, aCVInMs.'
meth! of your letter which Is decidedly intimidating,
Is it not as well to keep as cool and tranquil
sebte this hot weather? lam again referred to
as sot having the ability to see as Mr. Nears sees,
IZSITof my letter as net calling for notice, and
I am wrong in my " fundamental charge" all
dr, I say, is beside the point, and that it would
theratore be a waste of time to nodes it. By this, as
Mr. Nears may bailey*, I am metaphorically annihi-
lated. That I am sadly disappointed I cannot but
acknowledge.
July 15th, 1878.

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