The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-23 00:00:00

HIN'rON.

Trie VitLocoing Nuleagne.—ltti accident which
shows the danger ol velocipede riding °marred on Sun.
dap A party from Blandford on their way to Critahall
were riding slowiy up the hill between Hinton and
Gunville, and at the turn of the hill near the toll-gate,
ware met by • porton riding on a byeicde, who mime
down the hill at such • furious rate as to have no
power Over the veidele, which mote in canteen with
the trap. The horse suddenly turned sharp round, and
the party were thrown out with some force into the
road, but fortunately 'soaped with slight braises.

CELINA AND MISSIONS.
In the Tines there reoently'appetred a telegram from
Shanghai, stating that the Chinese Government had
made the following demands on foreign powers—that
female schools should be suppressed, that women
should cease to attend Christian worship; that all
teaching against Confucius and the Chinese religion
should mese ; that missionaries, except at the "Treaty
Ports" should be considered Chinese subjeets ; and that
In the case of any Mare massacre the only compensa-
tion granted or demanded should be punishment for
actual murder. Questions as to the above have been
I put to the Government in both House.; and the reply
is that as yet no °Medal notice of ruoh demands has
been received : but that our consuls have fall instruo-
-1 Mons in case of emergency. The following letter has
appeared in the Record from the pen of the Rev. A.
R. Monis, of the Church Misaionary's Sooiety's China
Mission, now home on have :
SIB, —Being unable in any other public manner to
draw attention to the subject of Chinese policy with
reference to Christian missions, I beg for a hearing in

your columns.
Meth ,ng. I believe, of graver omen as to the future
of our work in China has ever appeared then the
telegraphic' new, from Shanghai announmd in the daily
pipers of April 27.
My fears both as to its political and religious aspect do
not appear to be shared by others, if ailonoe thus far be
considered as an indication of indifferenoe. It is
possible that the editors of the daily press aro waiting
for • confirmation of the news before commenting
upon it or taking action with referent's to it.
And lest you, air, for the same reason, should decline
to admit my letter, allow me to observe that the
remarks which I shall venture to make will lose none of
their importanoe shoald the telefeam turn out to be •
forgery or an exaggeration ; and for this reason, that
nothing would be less surprising than the annonnee-
want a the literal truth of this Chinese deapatch.
The demands made therein are the legitimate Douse-
queues of what has pined in the House of Lords during
debates on the China question, and of hostile leading
articles and anonymous attack, on Cnristian missions
whir& have appeared daring the post two years. These
must surely have given to the ruling classes in China
(for English newspapers are translated now into
Chinese), the impression that Christian work may be
hindered and possibly extinguished by Chinese policy
without fear of remonstrance or.oppogition on the port
of Western Powers.
For what is now demanded? That female schools
be slimed, that woman be no longer allowed to attend
religions service', that teaching against Confucius and
Chinese doctrine be illegal, that missionaries away from
the open porta be densAionalised,and that in all "future
measures" no gompensation for loss of limb or of pro-
perty, be demanded, punishment for actual murder
alone being conceded by the Chinese authorities.
dome of your reader. will no doubt conclude that
this dispatch was peened under the influence of Chinese
moral instincts; as though female education and the
attendance of women at public service. were in Chinese
eyes indelicate, and opposed to sober etiquette.
It is a fact that promiscuous assemblages of men and
women are reproved in the Chinese Sacred Edict, and
In recent proclamstlons ; but all the idol temples in
China are crowded with women; and the objection on
the score of morality Is removed in Christian churches
by the arrangement of men and women on opposite sides
of the building ; so that if our churches are Hosed it
must in common justice be decreed that women shall
no longer frequent Buddhist or Taouist temples.
In the Treaty of Tien-tein Christianity is commended
as • religion with • benevolent object. Missionaries
are allowed to teeth and to preach, and to travel, it
not to reside, In all pert, of thr Empire ,• while
Chinese subject. indiscriminately are permitted to em-
brace Christianity. All these admissions and provisions
are, by the despatch to which I allude, revoked. The
treaty lain feet declared null and void. And if the
rights thus oenceded to miasionary enterprise are thus
suddenly abrogated, what sure ground have merchant.
for supposing that their rights will be any longer con-
sidered valid?

I apprehend that this I. • serious politioal eomptics
lion. When aof Power, mob as Russia,
repudiates • treaty, each an bet mast of eourie be
oonsidered calmly. Then we must assemble • eonfeeence,
and carefully weigh seasons and arguments. Weep
• barbarous Power repudiates • treaty, no wonder will
be excited, but prompt meemares of repression will be
adopted. Bat when a quasi-oivilleed country like
c 9".. "..`"i•••• • 6""7ltbs ewe is the most serious
of all it means deliberate and deeply-planned mis-
chief. It oan be met and defeated only by equally
deliberate and determined Wesel to entertain such
arrogant demands, and by a distinct reiteration of the
rights by treaty conseded.
I have no fear, Mr, for the triumph of the Gospel in
Chins, the provinees of that gent land shall become tbe
provincess of our Lord and of his Christ. But God may
wore without us. He may work as he did in Mada-
gascar by His word alone. The honour of bearing a
part in the evangelisation of China may be taken in
just retribution from our hands. And exultant as
the Oharch at home may be about the future
triumphs of Christ's Gospel, am I wrong in foaling
despondent, and in suggesting such a fear to your
readers, with referente to our share in those triumphs
It is for this that I ask the special prayers of all
that may see this letter. For if, In 30 year's time,
scam 30 of the English allergy have volunteered for
work among half of the whirls heathen population of the
world, if the breaches in the walls of Batan's great strong-
hold have beau entered and still must be entered, by •
solitary &Adler now &ILI then instead of by Christian
oohorts, can we °amebas, dare we 'sprees surprise,
should the work be taken from such apathetic workers,
and the triumph denied to inch slothful warriors ?
I roma* air,
Yours faithfally,
ARTHUR R. BOOLE,
Mbelonary of the 0.11.8 to Ningpo, China.
I May 1, 1811.

DILI% room OaLonoroam.—Lieutenant-Colonel
Roger.. R. 41.., wu staying with UM brother at Corn-
wood MO wools, and in th• garden at the' back of the
home fell over a piantpot, theratioasirersd Ting a corn.
pound fracture of the leg ane a tinkle; The
broken bones were set by two medial putlamen of
lnympton, but Colonel Rogers not programing, a third
doctor was celled, sad it was decided that the leg
should be reset while the Colonel was under the
influence of chloroform. The latter was administered,
sad caused &limit Instant math.
lIIIRDNEL IN fearful murder has jest
000 to to light in the County Monaghan. On the night
of the lOth inst. a young man, named Henry Murphy,
who lately got married, lett his father's house at a plain
Galled Long ratty, about half-past nine o'clock. Hs
was on horerbaak, and sett morning at fire o'clock his
Irina on Bs back on the road near to
=me oh a men named Bryan Hurpity.
bad boon heard to us threats towards the di;;;Zed and
his &ally he woo arrested. n his house • gun was
diosoescad will& appeared to have bees recently
dissisarged, and as if an attempt bad been made to
, wale
it to remove marks at the ammunition.