The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

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•
Row ADutirristraters Worm—A French paper
thus traces the sensations of • reader a advertitemcnta
The first advertisement —he doesn't see it; the second
intertion —be sees it bat don't read it; the third inser-
tion be reads ' • the fourth insertion—b• looks at the
price; the fifth insertion—he !peaks of it to his wife;
the sixth insertion •hi is will* to buy ; the seventh
insertion—be porehesse.

DINTRUCTION or SARI Buns IN SOOTWJID.—The
Haddinpronsiire eaerier says :—" Within the last few
days two very rare ',thaws belonging to the feathered
tribe have (mind their way within the district, both of
which have fallen victims to the gun. The Greta times
wu a fine specimen of the little bittern, • bird that ham
never before been seen in this quarter of the country,
and is extremely rare everywhere. Mr. Thomson, the
bead gamekeeper at Luffnees, got his eye on it one
day last week, and after pome trouble came within shot
of the earn atris and brought it down. The other
bird was. remarkably fine specimen of the golden
eagle, which was first seen on Saturday last by Dr.
Dirleton, hovering on the sandy fiats near the
I beach, as if on the look-out for the rabbits which am
I be plentiful in that locality. The keepers at Archerfield,
having been made acquainted with tbe rare visitant that
' had come to the neighbourhood, were not long in
bagging him. We believe the bird was a splendid
' specimen of the eagle tribe, and had • magnificent
am panda of wing. Specimens have occasionally been
observed in the vicinity of the coast, but their visits are
of extremely rare ocinuTenee, the last seen having
been shot at North Berwick a good many years ago.'
nth Recluse Peaaa.—When I hear that the British
people are not educated, that they are ineePshls of
exercising what is very natural to • Briton whether ho
possessed it before or now, namely, the exercise of the I
suffrage, I say we forget in this country that them is •
goitres of education perpetually going on, secular ethics.
Son of the blebs.' class, which affords • future mine
for the performance of public and political duties, and
that is the indirect:4, thank God, of a free rreee—
(cheers). When the education of a people is brought
forward, and the statistics of continental nations are
eddied to prove the advantageous position those coun-
tries bold and the comparatively disedeantesectes Posi-
tion occupiel by the people of the Limited Kingdom, I
always reediest that theme philosophers and statisticians
forget in their dews the inflames of the great educa-
tional power to width I hese referred, and I remember
with pride and ertaeollatvoe that Ragland, and Basked
dose, is the eountry in which • free press moth:ally
and redly existe--(ebeers). That is an educational
power of the highest intluesee ; it is exercised in this
country under' I believe, the highed responsibilities:
but whether It be the sondem' of those who exercise it,
or the temper of the people to whom it is addressed, I
Care not; the infiuenee of the press of Reiland theses if
It is not moral influence, and is not exercised upon these
principles which you have been taught to look upon as
necessary, not merely for the preservation of society,
' but foe the highest ooneideratioes which can influence
man - (cheers), —Mr. Disraeli at Beleablirgli.
SUSPICIOUS 0001:1111101 •T ALDWHOT.—La
cided of a startling character warred at Aldershot on
Friday morning which has caused some sensation in the
camp and town, and which, if correct, and there is no
reason to doubt the word of the man concerned, must
cause some UIIBIWIINIII In the minds of the commandants
of the various garrisons throughout the kingdom. The
report is that as attack was contemplated on the prin.
arid magazine. Near the central or
_grand magazine
situate on the common between the North and Beath
*amps is a small wooden hut used es • guard-house—
the Laird oonsisting of a corporal and three privates,
who do duty over the magazine. The guard on Thurs-
day was furnished by the 56th Regiment, and according
to the statement of the gentry on duty at half.past 12
o'clock a.m. on Friday morning, he wis alarmed by the
movement of several person. in proximity to his box.
He duly challenged them bat received no response. He
challenged them a wooed time and with no better re-
sults. He then called to the guard to "turn out,"
but owing to the wind blowing in goats be failed to
make his comrades bear. The man's thertioe is that he
saw five persons armed, and that they approached
within 50 yards of him, and on hiding his mill to the
guard they made off. He was unable to communicate
with the noo-oonsmiseioned officer of the guard until be
was relieved, more than an hour afterwards. The dr.
ctionstanom were reported to the authorities, but whether
the man's statement received credence or not has not
transpired. The magazine, which contains several
thotriand pounds weight of blank ammunition sad •
large quantity of ball cartridge, is, although in the eery
centre of the government property, so isolated that •
party could approach from any direction, unseen ead
unchallenged by any guard on either camp. Various
rumours were afloat on Saturday, connecting the affair
with Fenianism, but nothing has transpired to throw
any additional light on the oecurrinoe.

FARZWILL BANQUET TO MIL CHAIM'S DlClCtlft
A oomplinientery dinner was riven to Mr. Charles
Dickens at the Freemasons' Halt, previous to his
departure ifor America; and the company assembled
:flood th:moiomion
nwasesremar
whichtble itforinctilhuedednuter
peerage, the House of Commons, the bench and the bar,
literature, science, and art, being all eminently repre-
sented. Lord Lytton presided, and proposed the
health of the honoured guest in • felicitous speech.-
-Mr. Dickens (whose rising was the signal for • hearty
round of applause) proceeded to acknowledge the toast.
He spoke with deep emotion. He saitl—My lords,
ladies, and gentlemen No thanks that I can offcr to
you can t einem my acme of my reception by this great
assemblage, or in the least surest to you boo deeply
the glowing words of my friend, the chairman, and
your aoseptance of them, have sunk into my heart
(ohmrs)—but both combined have so greatly dialten the
composure that I am used to command before an audi-
ence, that I hope you may observe in me some traces
of an eloquence more expremive than the richest worth
(loud and continued cheering). To my that I am
fervently grateful to you is to my nothing. To say that I
can never forget this beantiful sight is to my nothing.
To ray that it brings upon me • mph of emotion., not
! only in the premot, but in the thought of its remetn-
, beano. in the future by Shoes whn are dearest to me, is
to say nothing. But to feel all this for the moment,
, even almost to pain, is very much indeed. Hercutio
eap of the wound in his breast dealt by the hand
of • foe:—" 'Tis not no deep as • well, nor go wide as •
church door; but 'tis enough • 'twill serve.* I may
! say of the wound in my breast, newly dealt to me
I by the hands of my friends. that it is deeper than
I the soundless sea and wider than the whole Cetbolie
Olsnreh—(cheers and laughter). And I may wifely add
I that it has for the moment almost stricken me dumb,
I should be more than human —and I assure you I ern
! very human indeed—if I could look upon this brilliantly
representative company and not feel greatly thrilled
I and stirred by the presence of so many brother artats,
I not only in literature bat also in the aster arts—
I especially painting —.vamp% whom professors, living
I and, unhappily, dead, are many of my oldest and best
'friends. I hope that I may without presumption reprd
this thronging of my brethren mound me as • testimony
on their part that they believe that the came at art
generally has been safe in my keeping— (loud eheers),—
and that they think it has never been falsely dealt
with by me —(eontinned applause). Your resounding
sheers would have been but so many cruel re-
proaches to me if I could not here declare that from
the earliest days of my career down to this proud
night I have always striven to be true to my calling
—(entlinsiestie cheers). Never unduly to smart it on
! the one hand, and never under any pretence or for
any oinsideration to permit it to be patrouised in my
person on the other, bee been the steady endeavour of
my Life •' and I have occasionally been vain enough to
hope that I may leave its social positioe lit England
better than I found it —(loud sheen). Similarly, and
equally I hope without presumption. I trust that I may
hake this general representation of the public berg,
through so many orders, pursuits, and degrees, as •
token that the public believe, notwithstanding a host of
hoperfeetioes and shortcomings on my head, that I bare,
as • writer, on my mai and conscience, striven to be ac
true to them as they have ever been to me. And here
in reference to the inner circle of the arts and the outer
circle of the public I feel it • duty to-night to offer two
remarks. I have in my day at odd times heard • great
deal about literary meta and cliques. and eateries and
barriers, and about keeping this man up and keeping
that man down, and about sworn disciples and sworn
unbelievers, and mutual admiration societies—(laughter)
—and I know not what other dragons in the upward
path. I began to tread it when I wee very young, with-
out money, without eompsnion, introducer, or adviser ,•
and I am bound to put in evident,* in this place that I
never lighted upon those dragons yet—Hood sheers.) Bo
have I beard in my day, at divers other odd times, much
generally to the effoot that the English people had little or
no love of art for its own lake, and that they do not greatly
etre to acknowledge or do honour to the artist. My own
a:perfectos bee been uniformly exactly the reverse—(tond
sheen). I eon say that of my countrymen, though
cannot my that of my country—(ohmrs). And now,
gentlemen, paring to the immediate maestros of your
doing me this gnat honour, the story of my going to
America is very easily and briefly told. Since I was
there before a vast and entirely new generation ham
arisen in the United States. Since that time, too, most
of the beet knows of my books have been written and
published. The new generation and the hooks have
come together and have kept together, until at length
numbers of those who have so widely and constantly
read me, naturally desiring • little variety in the rela-
tions between us, have expressed a strong wish that I
should read myself—ha laught. This wish, at first
conveyed to me through public as well as through
business &metre, has gradually become enforced by an
immense meemciation of letters front private in-
dividuals and associations of individuals, all erestrug
le the same hearty, homely, cordial, unaffeeted way •
kind of personal affection for me—fload cheers), which
' I am sere you will agree with me that it would be
downright insensibility on my part not to prise.—
(shows). Little by little this pressure has hosome so
that, although, as Charles Lamb says, "My
great
gotta strike • terribly deep root," I ham
driven them from their phew, and this day week, at
We hour, shall las upon the sea. You will readily ooneeive
that I am inspired besides by • natural desire to see for
myself the astooishing program of • quarter of •
mature over there—to grasp the hands of many fsithful
friends whom I left there—to see the farms of a multitude
of now friends upon whom I have never looked—and,
though test not least, to use my bat endeavours to lay
down a third cable—{loud ebsters)—of istercommunica-
tios and album between the old world and the new.
Twelve years ago. when, Heaven knows, I little thought
I should ever be bound upon the voyage which now hoe
before me, I wrote in that form of my writings which
obtains by far the mast extensive oirealetion, these
words about the A mericas nation:—' I know full well
that whatever little motes my bossily eyes may have
descried in theirs that they are • kind, large-hearted
generous,and greatipeople"—(ehisers). In that faith
ith
am going tome them again. In that faith I shall, plasm
Cod, return from them in the spring, in that some faith
to live and to die—(loud and continuous sheen). Hy
lords, ladies, and genthmen, I told you in the beginning
that I could not thank you enough, and Heaven knows
I have most thoroughly kept my word. If I may quote
on. other abort @entrees from myself, let it imply all
that I have left unsaid and yet deeply feet; let it,
putting a girdle round the earth, comprehend both sides
of the Attretio at mom in this moment. As Tiny Tim
observed, "clod bless us every one" (load 'been).
Mr. Dickens resumed his mat amid repeated rounds at
ebeering, and was evideatly affected by the eherastrer of
the auspice given to Mai

Au Arsuoucronat, TOAST. —" Tim game of fortune I
Unite the cards as you will, spades mast win.'
[WS I price of barley fell last week in the
Dorsenshire marketo, owing to the falling Off in the eon-
gumption of beer, in consequences of the high price of
seat and bread.—Bristoi Paper.
Thu RiFollM BILL LCD COTTAGI PILOPUTT. —Con-
siderable difficulty being anticipated in the collection of
rates from the ampere of onstage', the authorities At
tialisbury lave just resolved to mike a deeinction of 25
per cent. hom cottage property let milder any:annual
rental of Ilk
Rani AID Till RI7ORM BILL. —Mr. Bright, in •
letter on the reepaying °lessee of the Reform Bill.
points out that it le not necessary that the rates ehould
be paid directly by the occupier, and 'the eysten of
payment by it. owner need not be disturbed if he will
undertake to pay the full rats on all his occupied
property, leaking an arrangement with Ms tenant in the '
matter of rent."

NOM lIMIANUOAS AT 711 OLIO COLLIERY.- -
About half-past lee on Tuesday afternoon there was
a violent explosion at the Oaks Colliery, the lathe.
reaching nearly to the bead gearing. It was foUowed
at intervals by four others more or less violent. all
comarring vrkhin an hoar. It is apparent that the=
has been smouldering Ire in the pit since the explosion
Is December, and the removing of the mil from the
scaffold down the No. 2 evidently let in the sir, and
so °slued the ignition and explosion. Happily no
persons were injared. Every precaution has been taken
to prevent fluiher widest&

InTiIIOPTION or Dryly, flaavrat—Dirina service
at the Lee& parish church was interrupted on Sunday
morning bye man named Charles Eastwood, a lals,urer.
He interposed in a loud voice by declaring that he
considered Ireland was an oppressed nation ; that be
wee bent, like David to the Israelites, to dames them
from the Philistine.; and that be Gould take the field
with 900 men against Ila}or itobinson's (an Alcor in
the Leeds Rile Corps) 1,000. He was immediately
removed from the church, cad as it was found that
be was suffering from insanity he was banded over to
the Poor Law authorities.

PROGRAMME OF TR' RRFORM LIAOII7I. —The FIGOGRy•
of the Reform Longue, having completed their term of
°Moe, have issued • report end balance-sheet for the
half-year ending the 2011 ult. From thelllrst, elp learn
that the programme, as it stands at present, include.
the repeal of the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Bill,
the adoption of the R.llol, "Just and good" Reform
Bills for Ireland andlßeetlaxd, to assist new voters getting
on the register, to secure the return to Parliament of
advanced Radical Reformers, and te, obtain a redistribu-
tion of N.M. This is the work r. Beam and his
callosities; have cur out for themselves. Unfortunately
for them, there apposes little prospect of its per.
formanee ; for, while their receipts during the half•
year have been £5lB, the expenditure has been £1349, so
that the League lit, debt £I3I.
. _ _ _

Tag public are deprived of the full benefit of the
reduced tat oa tea, owing to the uten4proffte with
which tea is charged; it is usually sold the grower
to the Chinese merchant, then to the English merchant,
neat it is peened to the tea broker, afterwards to the
London dealer, who mils it to the groom. Horniman
awl Co. are large importers, and •supply tea wholesale
only, and so do not incur many of these charges; their
tea is surpassingly ineellest and cheap, and is sent
direct to °ono:mem. through agents, in sealed packets;
the prim being plainly printed on each ; so that the
public are supplied on the best poaaible terms in all parts
of the Kingdom with Horniena's tea, the very strongest
and cheapest grown. During the past quarter of a
century this tea has eommaoded no iinmenee We, some
ham taken advantage of this to offer spurious imitations,
It is therefore needfid to cheerio that all genuine
whets am signed Horniman and Co., London, original
Importers of the pare tea.

DOA?, FROM 171111 ESOITZMINS OF Joy.—!o the
" Registrare' Notes" &Method to the lain quarterly
repel of the Registrar-General there is the following
from Preston :—" On the 11th of hugest I register/A
the death of a female. aged 43 yesn, the wife of an
overlooker, ' from aremlexy reused by intense mental
exeitmitent (12 boate).' Her husband infnrmed oto that
their dnaghter was returning by railway hem Long-
ridge, when • oollidon occurred, whieb caused a large
number of the passengers to be injured. The most
storming report. were 'desolated reepeoting It. The
damaged went to the Deepdale Station to most her
daughter; and when she found that she was not hurt.
her joy warn so great that she threw her arms round her,
fell down in a At, and expired in a few boon after.
wards."

0111.1TITIr0 TZSTTIIONTAL TO TNT CAreAtir AND
°MOMS or AN ATLATTIO POITISOIR STEAMSHIP.—
A t sea, off Nantucket : The passengers on board the
Nstional Steam Ship Ormspany's steamehip Penoril-
'anis, bound from Liverpool to New York, desire to
express to Captain George A. Lewis, &Ireton
Keough, and the °Marrs and crew, their hart-
felt thanks for their constant kindness and
thorough sanitary rules enforced on board throughout
the voyage. Witnessing with pleasure their unwearied
and diligent attention to the affsire of the elrip, all
have felt an assurance of safety. We shall remember
Captain Lewis and officers with sincere respect, and
untte in an expression of deep desire for their future
welfare. Committee on behalf of the peonage:a
Janice Banau, 78, Floytetreot, Brooklyn ; Captain S.
H. Wall. Paterson. N.J. ; Rev. Mr. White, Louisiana;
El. Rielly. New York; Mr. Lonalev, California S. S.
Co.. New York.—Froui the New York Herald, October
19, 1867.

ROSAWATS IS DISTLISIL—Thtios lade belonging to
the ?revel Training School at Gorey, in the island of
Jersey, haying become tired of the restraints imposed
upon them, on Monday night resolved to take their de-
parture. Thy proceeded to Flititiet Bay, where they
mat adrift • boat, in which they made for the opposite
°oast of France. They had provided themselves seals
with a revolver. The weather turning outwore boisterous
than they expected they were compelled to take refuge
on the Eahrehos, a large bed of rocks which stands above
high water, shout midway between the two mega. On
them rocks are two or three rude buts, in which the
fishermen take refuge while fishing in the neighbour-
hood. Here the runaways were isompelled to remain,
being unable to get away. On Weinesday they wore
perceived by some fiehermen who were returning to
Jersey. The fishermen went to them and found them
half famished for want of food. They supplied than
with what provisionn they bad remaining, and proceeded
to the shore to give information to the authorities. Oa
the next day her Majesty's cutter Jereey wee sent to
the rooks and brought off the runaways. During their
rmidence on the rooks they had kepi up • fire in the but,
tearing out the bottom boards and planking of the boat
when their supply of stray fuel was exhausted.

&moos FOOD LOOTS AT FarTZI.-4srloas riots took
phis in Exeter and suburbs on Monday evening to
connection with the present dearness of provisions. The
riots be. an with the breaking of the windows of some
bakers' shore and threatening essemblages before the
shops of some butehers. Between ten and twelve
o'clock the rioiers became very daring, and nearly
evety baker and several hoteliere were visited and their
shops broken into. The shop (mite were destroyed,
itn-I the houses were gutted. Much damage was done,
and In eome cases the tills were robbed. The rioters'
were principally lads. The militia were called out, and
• telegram WU sent to Plymouth for sedateness, where-
upon 200 soldiers of the 20th Regiment were forwarded
by special train by the military authorities of that town.
sore dealers premises at Exmineter were burned
down, it ie feared by bieendiarka. The city authorities
were at first paralysed, but severs( arrests were after-
words effected. The Mayor addressed the mob In Iligh•
street, advising them to go heme, and telling them that
riots Gould do so good. On Tuesday night the rioting
wag resumed, as the mob insisted on making a bonfire
sad diseharging • quantity of fireworks to the eathedrsl
yard. The military charge the mob. A provision riot
took plaae at Torquay the IMMO night, and the Riot Act
was reed. Datttrbances also occurred at Crediton, on
amount of the dearness of proviaiona. Quiet has been
restored.

THB WAG.. OF Al AGRICULTURAL LsPouen.—le
the coons of • oase heard last week before the judge of
the county Dried at Yeovil, the wife of • Somernetabire
labourer, who via sued for • sem of £2 for shop goods,
declared the income of • family of ten to be 124. • senik;
arid the jade*, although he eau' the plaintiff • verthet,
virtually deprived him of redress, by refusing to make
any order as to the rate of payment. We have sines
been put in possession of the real facts of the case, and
they have so strong • bowing upon a great public
question as to be well worthy sposial attention. Hers
we have a typi of the old searecrow "the Dorsetshire
Mourne—honest, hardworking Thews-sad Sinews, try-
ing to keep life within them and seven Wail Iren. on 74.
a week. Now, these are the particulars of B. Webber's
family and leonine :—He Las nine children; the eldest
is in household ear-vies; the ascend, • boy, minis Lie.
a week to the nominee fund; the third, • girl, ear=
fla 6d. ; the fourth, • girl, fa bearded, lodged, end
clothed by the dairyman on the farm. The *ash wares
of the man are 84., but he hos also a house, • garden,
potato ground, • faggot of wood • day, hauled to his
&or and four pints of eider a day, with an extra
quantity In harvest; so that the suppeeed 13s. a week,
to keep soul and body together, in ten beings, amplifies
Into 15i. 6d. • week gash, for nine; home rank potato
ground, fuel, and drink free—the whole fairly repre-
sented by a sovereign. No doubt it is hard work enough
to live cie this, but it is. very different picture from the
typical West-ef-England labourer. Wherowewe Journal.
The Love Lingua op Miss Logaworre (YELvge-
✓og).—The following letter has been addressed by this
lady to the New York Iferald :—"1 Rodeo in • recent
number of the New York Herald, that, in aosordanos
with the pniothis of ancient and modern authors, / aim
about to give readings from my own writinga I mast
ask you kindly to correct the error, and try to explain
that the Yelverton udencee alluded to is
nothing more net less than the love letters written to
my husband, Msjor Yelvertoe. prior and sabsequent to
our ill starred marriage. They were written by the
silvery moonbeams that light the shores of the °lassie
Mediterranean for one beloved eve allow, or by the still
mere mystic :horn of the Bosphorus, in might of the
very tower where Hero pined until Leander breasted the
treacherous wave. They were the first outburst of a
young
irn‘Gbeoring,waai irahMeiaerr rasit t'itugat.6,
the first oedemas of the bud, wbieb aftertime destroys.
Whatever their merits as literary prodeetioes, whatever
their interest as emetioaal effunous, I do not inquire.
To me they are the only relies.' love's young dream;'
aad.now that the heart is broken and the object they
were addressed to— dead to me--• nameless wanderer,
unknown, unwired for, those letters are the sepulchre or
funeral urn which sontain the ashes of all that ever was,
of all that ever can be, arid it would seem like a desecra-
tion to me to expose them for the criticirm or amuse-
ment of the public. True, they have been brought
before the astonished gage of bewigged Lawyers to inter-
pret or misinterpret, to the beet or worst of their ability,
aceording to the :de they were engaged on. True, that
two judges on the bona have been moved to tears in
quoting them. True it is that most people have an in-
vincible eariority about love letters for the reason given
by the brilliant ?nog post :

quo to Sots oda ton maitre
tot, a.
Those who have not been In love wish to aseartain pre-
.* what iii. bk.; those who have wish to renew, if
eitly for a moment., the pleasant delusions. I shall be
most happy to eoatribute to these Elysian clro.oua, by
rendering, to the beet of my ability. the loves of He
and Abelsrd, or s'iwiporie gull but I meet respoot the
ryes turf mow growl:isa
v; ;me grave of my own. —I
era, sr, yours truly, Yonne'', Albsoule
Ho4ol, Or 4. 21, 1112."

Tax guardian et the Farnham workhouse have
resolad to demand la ass aad unbiased laquiry into
the serious allegationa whisk hare loads that institution
so notorious claim' U.. last few weeks.
Ma. Puna Tana, (1.0., the Isola of UN
Northam Circuit, is to he annotated Attorney Osumi
for the Coanty Palatine al LamaUr, la the place M tit*
late Yr. Edward James, Q.C., 11. T.

Somitwaal Lan.—Josigh Nadu, an old goliller,
now in his 77th year, who resides in Ashton-under-Li ait,
has jut been awarded a psnsloo of 9d. • day. Ns
served in Holland and Belgium, and a Waterloo and
was discharged from the ocelots on the reduction of the
arm, in 1819.
TO N•YORALIIITIL —A Persian eat
belonging to a neighbouring clergyman, having only
one kittee, estenred the inmates Of Horublottou
parsonage, by bringing Indoor little rabbit", end suckling
them with her bitten. One unhappily soon fell a victim
to • dog, aad author died, but the remaining two
were nursed till they were able to provide for them.
selves, when, preferring fresh air and gram to
the pantry and their foster-mother's milk, they ran
away.
A finvocalan noun Miami—On Thursday, the
keeper of some officers adjoining the Bonk of Li=
found in the basement of the building • strangle
piece of hollow iron, like. spearhead. eel charged with
detonating powder. It bore the words, " Improved
bomb lame." It is said that a servant girl found •
similar thing • few days ego, and u4ng it as • poker
weed an explosion, which did considerable damage.
• maim& of the Liverpool police Ls now undergoing
regular military drill.
TIER BIBLR 80011 TY AS Ogrooll AND THI Err.
W. Acwoora.—The aonlyersory of the Oxford
Auxilary of the British and Foreign Bible
Society was held in the 'rumba' last week.
The their was able &Bed by the Regius Professor of
Divinity (Canon Payne Smith). Who, in his opesing
reemb, observed that the society might be
Missionary Society WOMB. every Walonary who west
forth to Weed the knowledge of oar Lord Jamie Christ
must appeal to the Scripture as the rule of his faith.
There might he • difference of opinion amongst
Christians as to what was the true sense of Scripture
upon various point., bat as e rule the doctrine and
principles of their faith, which were delta oen•equence,
were so slur and plain that be who rung may read.
The Scriptures were like • mine, the deeper e mart
dived into it the more he got oat of it. • man. slier
be had spent his whole hie lathe reedy of the Balls,
would find new instruction and heehaw about it which
he never saw before, and ads was • obaracteristie which
did not belong to any other book. Although it was
quite true that there was in this eoantry differences of
opinion on religious questions. It did not follow that in
the Church of Rome, whisk claimed to be infallible, the
differences were less thou in our own. As a proof of
this he referred to the language used by Gevibaldi in
his address at Geneva, in which he spoke a the primas
as the enemies of all enlightenment and progress, so that
the result of Papa infallibility was not to bind men
together, whores. in this country, where men were
free to read the Bible, they found it bound men
together in the hoods of brotherhood. For his own
part he believed that the progress of truth was best
worked out by these differences amongst us upon minor
Points, for under this claim of infallibility, Instead of
people living in charity one towards another, they were
divided into bitter factions, and the result was to break
up all charitable feeling, all love and frientlium one
toward another. It never was the objut of Christianity
to cute division, and be believed that the truth would
he best promoted by endeavouring to find out what the
truth of God is, and there was no place au which the
truth was so plainly set before them as in God's woad—
(cheers). The Chairman proceeded at some length to
enforce the principle that theßible was the rule of faith,
and warning them against mixing up with it anything
that was simply human. Al? they knew of the will of
God was contained in the Scriptures; they reined their
faith upon that foundation which God bad given them ,
staborfty to tech ; and he hoped they would never I
rest until the Bible was translated into every language
on the face of the globe—(ebeen). The Row. A. If. W.
Christopher then reed the report. one of the gratifying
statemeets of which was that 210 undergraduates in !
ten Colleges subscribe about £4O. The committee
express the sincere and affectionate sympathy of all !
friends of the Bible Society in Oxford with the !
honoured and beloved vice-president of the society, Dr.
Macbrida, in his present state of health. They can
never forget that 54 years ago In was the principal
instrument of forming this auxiliary, in days when it
required most fearless decision for the truth to aid the ,
Bible society, and that for 46 years be was the '
principal hon. secretary, sad remains in his 90th year
with a clear sod vigerou mind in a weakened body, the !
stedfart friend of this much blessed agency for sprawling
the word of God. the religion of Protestants. The first
resolution we, spoken to by the Wu. J. Rogers sad J.
Bardsley. The second was moved by the Rev. IL
Unto°, and seconded by the Rev. W. Acworth. The
lastmamed gentleman was moat warmly received, and
made an Interesting speech on It, society's work,
especially in Roman Catholic, countries which he bad
visited. Be spoke with marked good taste of the
society, and of the need of its work, especially in !
ROlll.ll Catholic countries 'which he had himself Mated. !
He did not stall allude to the bishop', inhibition, or to !
any matter which °Queued himself rather than the !
society. The other epeakers were the Rev. F. Touch,
Rear. H. Young, Rev. J. Wait, and Rev. D. Marlin. !
The Chairman, in responding to • vote of thanks. said ,
be certainly believed it • proper thing to take the char
st • meting to further the extension of that Book front !
which they got all their divinity —(applause). A eon.
temporary adds :—We are informed that the Evangelical '
parochial clergymen in Oxford. who are members of the
Committee of the Bible Auxiliary Society, desired to
toady by their invitation to Mr. Acworth, now
resident in Oxford. to speak at the roestiug,thair perfect ,
confidence in his private character, and in his perwee.l 1
MMus for Christian work. From • lay quarter we have
aro received • corroborative statmeot of the euthuserdie
remption given to Mr. Acworth, sod of the sympathy
which every mention of his name called forth. We are
also informed that on the part of some of the meet dis-
tinguished member" of the University Mr. Acworth
has received the most gratifying demonstration of a
like sympathy. It was • significant fact that the ,
Rosie. Professor of Divinity, in his capacity as Chair.
man, pobliely thanked Mr. Asworth for his speech. !
EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF • OLXIGTIN•If AND
sos Win.—At the November sitting of the Aberyet.
with County Court, the Rev. James James, vicar of
laiteddewl•Aberarth and Ciluoin, Aborayrou. was sued
by Thomas Griffiths, a grocer at Aberystwith, for £2,
value of goods 'applied to the defendant's wife.
According to the evidence for plaintiff, the following
were the circumstances of the case. In 1853 the
defendant, who derived an income of £BOO from his
living, married the daughter of a Birmingham brewer.
The rev, gentleman had just passed the Bankruptcy
Court, gad Mrs. James's fortune, some £2,500, was
secured for her use, and her husband settled upon bar •
leasehold house and garden, which were, however,
encumbered. When they returned from their hooey-
, moon, Mrs. James was surprised to find tint them was
no furnished house to receive her, and she called up
about Fl,OOO to make things comfortable. So many
law roussee cue. in, that soon afterwards all was sold
up, and Mr. James sad Mrs. Jonas removed to ledginu
at Aborayroo. In • couple of months Mr. Jutes left
her, but be frontally returned, and in 1855 persuaded
ber to go to Birmingham for mooey. The rest of Mrs.
James's extraordinary story had better be given in her
own words: Prior to sending her to Birmingham, she
said, his treatment of her was moat cruel and brutal.
His language was most obscene—language she did not
understand. Be called her a "vile &datives," "a
spawn of a viper," As. One day he reached • dog-whip
down to beat witness, and threatened her, but did not
use persona violence. Hs was very good tempered
when he was sober. Defendant took witness to the
mesh, and put her in, when he dulled her to go for
mouy. He told her not to return without the money.
She went to Etirmingbaso to endeavour toga the money,
but failed. Hawing failed to get it she did not return,
but wrote to her husband frequently, but never received
one reply. She invited ber hatband to some and see
her. The brewery failed, sod the wreck of her fortune
was £lO6. Toot was the only means she had of bring
now. Supported herself by pledging her clothes and
jurellery, and thee lived by supplying dressmaker'
with patterns. That was hard work, which only lasted
• short time in the year. Lest March twelve months
walked from ehrewsbury to Aborayroe. Was ell the
winter in the workhouse at Birmingham. Went to her
husband, in Aberayron, when he out for • policeman,
who refused to touch witness. Got • lodging next to
the poorhouse, and entered the house the next day.
Remained there for • year and five months. Several
ladies want witness food to the house. The defendent
paid 2a. 3.1. a week toward the maintenance of witness,
and sent her • sovereign last February to go to Liver.
pool, where • plus sanitise had been obtained for her,
but the money was not suffirdent to wiry her to Liver-
pool. Left the workhouse in July or August, and came
to Aberystwith, where she bad been obliged to obtain
everything on credit. In Mr.. James's oross-examination
• copy of the Welshman was put in, announcing her
marriage, at Birmingham, to a Mr. Ferguson. Witness
admitted her handwriting, She did it fore rase, to
get beg husband to some to her. She wanted to get
bins to Birmingham. She tried another rage. Sh• put
his death in the Birmingkerit Daily Post. Her sister.
wanted her to cores down and mourn for him, as they
thoeght he was dead. She also drew a draft of deed of
dissolution of partnership. This was also a ruse. The
following document, read by Mr. Davies, was received
with loud Laughter :
• Articles of Dinsolution of Partnership between the Rae. (1)
James Jame, Via, In nay (7) Orders, and Karla James,
his wife.
" Forasmuch no It ewe seemed meet and right unto us—to
wit, the Rev. James James, ricsr—ra.holic and apoeselo—aad
Maria James, to enter recklessly, profanely, and mailegiously
into the 'holy estate of tearaway; ao now, seeing the
m rstou. folly and sin thereof, to the faithful around in, we,
v. Jame. Jesse,,s icar—catholic and apostolic—and
Darla James, agree to disagree, thereby rendering such form
or corecoany null and void, ot no eeect. In oomideratlon
whereof we ' twain' desire to become two. To further which
desirable sod, substantially and {agony, the subjoined articles
are resolved upon by in:
" To wit That the Rev. Jame! James, ricer—catholic and
apostolic—may, end shall, take unto himself another wife,
or any number of wives aa may seem 'Vona y right onto kle4
always prorates Oat he ran honestly (without the on-
rightemn coveting of others' worldly cilects) maintain them
lo leeldaUott of which act or acts 1 (Maria James) lirmi"
proinim not to sue the rev. James Jensen vlcar—ernhour R.°
apostolic-1u any court or murk either for 'bigamy,' crim
con,' or any other • anti-ChrisUan offence.' but on the con-
trary, that I Marla reuses) do and rhea observe a strict
neutrality. Also, be It known u to all ewe. that I (Darla
James; do and shall claim a like Indulgence and forbearance-...
to alt. that I (MIAs Jam.) be trot to unite myself to another
always providing melt an one be found both able sad willing
honestly to maintain me out of she poor-house) as his legal
wile; and that I IMaria James) shall, for sot act or deed,
let... Pied from a I or any legal women vg, In any court or
court.. A. with., my bond this seventh day of Number,
onc thousand eight hundred and slstyala
" Mania JAMUL
"Janne Jaime,
"Time—Catholic sod apostolic
Wltnsss'—l'sO Seen,
" •
During lbe time witness was in Birmingham she lodged
I. the bones of John Thompson, who sued Mr.
James in the Birmingham County Court for her main-
tenance, sad he was nousuited. The defendant denied
that he had any of his wife's money, and stated that
when eke went to Birmingham be expiated her to re-
born immediate's, but she remained sway eleven yurs.
His advocate outended that defendant was not liable,
because his wife improperly left him. The case, which
usipied • coandernble time, and excited great interest,
sided In • verdkt for the plaintiff—payment forthwith.

The Yawing Herald madonna& that Lent -Cabana
Ham phreLioneforirrly ILE for Andover, will shoe* be
amend a

A RICK P•I7PS• —A ma named Mika Twea wee
admitted the other day into the Oldham Waridioms%
to • data of apparent deetitirtion. Upon his pookele
boisi wombed, 05 In geld. 20• ed. In and hit
is coppers were found cesidally In•pped up in pleas of
ne=. The mosey was handed over to the
and will be applied to the eclat ol hie main.
Weasel so log as be reinains In the,heee•

Tan Pourioa. Fairaancommairr or Won:Mr.—A
meeting of the Ilauchreter Society for the Promotioa of
Worms Suffrage was bold on Widmerlay, the Rev.
8. A. Stelethal in the their. It was reseirerl that ibis
society Krim that its nimblest sbal tabs with the
monition of other simieties having the mos object, to
form one satiosal society for woman suffrage, with
independent centres of Miss.

Swim 07 • Putout CllllOllll WITH At-
mange MOMS& —A man named Webb attempted to
murder big wife at Epworth, by frseteriag b.c aka
with a hammer. Believing hoe to be deed be proceeded
• abort distant, on the Burnham-road, and attempted to
cat his throat; bet failing to do so afeetaally, he gave
himself up to the polies. One evening he oomplaised
of feeling very sold. The policeman La whose custody
he use eoesiderately allowed him to sit seer the ere, in
the office adjoining the justice-room. After • thne he
asked the policeman if be might retire to bed, as he felt
very 111. Again, with meek coesideration, he was
allowed to gain his gen. when, cc Irving the eilles. ho
adroitly lodged the phantasm in Ids own cake and
erfeeted his germ and lien not left been beard of. It
was three hours before the policeman was released.