The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-28 00:00:00

KNOX-LITTLE AT IT AGAIN!

On Wednesday the fourth of a course of 'medal
services for working men was held in St. Peter's
Parish Church. Liverpool, the preacher beim; the
Rev. W. J. Knox-Little, rector of St Athens Man-
chester. There was a large congregation, which
included about 250 meu and women of the working
clam, who entered in a body and seated themselves as
nearly as possible in one part of the church. The
service, which al meal was choral, was proceeded
with and due decontm observed until the reverend
gentleman named had amended the pulpit in his
surplice, and given out his text, which was the 911
verse in the 6th chapter of Galatians," And let us
not be weary in well doing. for in due meson we shall
reap if we faint not." The body of working men
referred to thereupon rose simultaneously from their
seats, and shouting "No Popery." and "We shall
want no priests'," left the church in a very noisy
manner, headed by a Mr. Flannaghan, a local lecturer
of the Protestant Reformation society. On getting
outride the doors of the church they cheered loudly,
and proceeding along Church-street quickly gathered
a very large crowd of persons around them. Some
police-officers hearing the cheering came upon the
scene and endeavoured to disperse the orowd,
but were unable to do so until Mr. Flannaghen
mid his followers betook by way of Churoh
Alley to the gime in front of the Blumoat
Hospital, where they held a sort of impromptu
open-air meeting. aod amid loud cheering -'eased
by a show of hands a resolution condemning the
rat e service they had just attended,
This
th
about half-past eight o'clock. and the police
again showing themselves the crowd moved in the
direction of Boldmreet. On the disturbance taking
place in the church, the remaining porklon of the
congregation seemed greatly alarmed for a time, but
the Rev. Mr. Knox-Little quietly waited till the
Interrupters had left the church, and then proceeded
with his sermon. No further Interruption took place,
but as • precaution, doubtless, two poUrem it stationed
themselves inside the west entrance, the door at the
met being securely bolted. Several of the ring.
leaders of the disturbance alleged that the course of
services was being ouried OD under the auspices
of the English Church Union, and that it is an attempt
on the part of that body of advanced ritualist, to foiat
upon the working cleanse the peculiar views which
have made them oci noticeable. However this may
be, we are informed that the rector (the Rev. Alexander
Steward) expressly stipulated with the promoters of
the course of **Nelms that any preacher who might be
'selected, and who might hold extreme views 'should
not take advantage of the opportunity to oroinulgate
them. If the removed preacher of iset night holds
any extreme views, and such a promise as we have
referred to was made to the rector, certainly no
breach of faith was committed, and the notion of the
dieturbses of the service cannot be too bWhly con-
demned.—Liserpoof Mercury. [This is all boah
every one knows that Knox-Little, is one of the ls
triaton in the church. He ought to its kiekedinto
Rome as soon as passible.)

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4 (101111111111.0•111110C1 headed " Evicted," published in
some at tit* Iloreetelilre papers, says the flawpaidre
inelepwidenf (a Wasted contemporary that fully wits up
to it. unmet throw* • curious light on the subject of
property awl its Hose and du11.... it Ia regarded in
sotn• !WU of this lishly civilised land. The Doormen
Ledy Weetnilneter, we are Informed, roves the lowa al
Kb lechery ..n.l ton letter from the motor of
that taR to Mr Merthyr Goes% bee ledyehint
one of het tenant. there, Kr. O. Clanby. the perm clerk,
a loornernma carriage trimmer by trade, who has rearird
on the =We for the past 16 years, halt always Paally
paid his house nut, lan man of Irreproseliable
sod Ilk and low a large flintily depandast upon Wu.
beside. • bedridden farther- in-/aw roan 44 los reesiv
foam to quit tfie 4ieek no ?timelier* Woo aultsted to
him wise S• otwald be required to do es. h. *set od the rector I latter was to ar.prest his WWI that If Laily
Wastadastar's acts wore always carefully weighed --a
&Med is Julies lsopsisi with isssey—shis I**, is

will Ls athwittede Mr. Peckseill could not more keel*
base pat the case—Mr. Onset declined to laterfem
edumg—thi• being doubtless written " mrkaricar
for the imperial benefit of the rector—that be end not
see he, or indeed anyone, could bare any ritht to in.
trade on it. rebstions that exist between landlord sits
truss. The correspondence ends with • letter from
the rector h. the clerk regretting that thixepplicatlon has
been without ettneese• "It is evident, eimitintied the
rect. r, that you area marked man. You bate no sllft.
native but to 1, lirer up Your hoe..e at tho utrrs of
you entered. I shell Its Imppy to assist you in any war /
can, to obtain • situation mu some more •rteptsble ply%
where thu mlmmtlet. a. well as the right. of Prr'eedr. ars
respected. Now It Is not, as we undo...aeon the rector's
lettur. Thai Le at all desired to " intrude ein the retell.%
that t XISC in this lantana. "between the landlord aas
irflanL Ro.hor hi. "Meet woe to secure that Mom re.
tattoos shoula not be stra:ipni to so uovarrantulle 1.401,
—a length which in Ireland. we have seen, has enot many
a life. The sentence in Isis letter to the clerk "You ars •
marked man" is significtnt The parson, it seems, ts
Liberal in politic;
_and at the last election for Snafu,
bury, when Lady Westminnter. hitherto a Liberal. Id*
all the Seal of • renegade exerted bet ineuence ia 'avow
of Mr. Bennett-Stanford, the Tory candidate, Ssosy
emulated no aristocratic an example, only he voted Liberal
fnorood of Tory. peestld this explains the mystery .64
lurks beneath the warning- You are a marked um,.
and if Mr. Gandy had but reflected beforehand that nut
In tbe captain's a choleric word which in the 'other I. us
blasphemy," our vaunted civilisation melt have he,
spared the open contradiction now given to it by
ou
moving in the highest circles in the land, and our comes,.
humanity would not have had to regret that • nap Moms
he turned nut of his residence. and apparently with it
bare to give op his dtuation, because he ventured te
ruerciee his undoubted right in voting for a mentor of
Parliament to represent him. If these Mines took pls..
Thobootoo we should prohnbly at least thank God tlmt
we are not as the be Ithno are. if we did not send out
missionary to investigate the proceeding and to tea,d.
people the better way; an it took place at Shaftesbury.
nod, coroneted lady, we shall hold our peace. And ot
we are perpeeually lamenting the enstrangemto.,that
.„,..r to inn growing up between clam and clam in tkle
country.