The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-07 00:00:00

ecclesiastical intelligmet.

PRATE" BOOK BKVISIOIC—Ref mini to the report of
the society for the revision of the Prayer Book, the
aerie& Journal says :—Ae we predicted • year ago, so
It has happened, that the extremes of the Ritualistic
party have tended to Ix attention on the alnbiKaities
and doubtful rubrics under which that party is enabled
to find exessee for ita novelties and enemas. We have
always hitherto deprecated any Liturgkol eltances, not
because we thought the., could not be made with ed.ll°-
tag., but because of the relations of opposite parties In
the Church; but is now hardly possible for those who
are anxious for uniformity of doctrine sad practice to
postpone
geosieu.stt; Prayern of
wisely, Bmankd s v "D. and
iaf freedom from mere party Brit, it may do great good,
M
and help to tree She Marsh from her present unhappy
entinglemenin"

THE MAY urnstitiOi.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY MOCIIITT.—Tb• annual meet-
ing was held in Jlisetectall on Ifeaday. The night
800. we, lot.] 38,,y0r pokieled. Th• report of the
committee atated 4hat the total receipts for the year
emanated to £148,140 14r 94.-' sod the expenditure.
including the coat of the Cantor ad Hankow miamone.
the miodon in Italy, and • grant of .21.000 loweirela the
new mission premises in Petrie, CO /147.61111
Twenty-eaten udseionaries and twelve wines of oduainn•
eerie' bad been mat oat by the society einem the het
annivereary, and during the asnie period there bled been
• ret increwe in the membership of 2,300.
rat:Moll MISSIONARY SOCISTY.—Os Tuoiday morning
the asinaverwry meeting of this society was held at
Exeter Hall, nadir the praidsncy of the Karl of
Chichester. The attendance was very numerous. The
Inctudal statement for the past year showed that the
recreate from a/I soarers daring that period had heen
50,356 Is. 1110. The ordinary ineomee had been
£115,286 he. I'M., while the ordinary cape redder,
"walnut' to 1:150,981 de. £l., leaving a deficit of
£5,177 lets. Id. It appear", from • statistical relent
air,,uteodinaby&lll4ohtlentswltOeltfity*, coatnnteethetiorn.t:fthh"w4hisTittneeren
see 216 clergymen engaged. 198 being Zuroperws, ant
87 scitive and country horn. There are also pewit
2,000 number of achonmaiters, lay *gent,. Isobel-
teecbers, native and .Gentry-born cateebits,
engaged.

_
CHORCEI PANTOSAL AID SOCIIITT. —The mutual meet.
ing of this eotnety was held on Thursday in St. James'.
DJ?. the proceedings attracting •unmerons attendance.
The Earl ef Bhaftesbury presided. It appeared that the
society'. AnanciA puition was far more eneouragint
than it men at the hot anneal 'fleeting. ne toifli
receipte amounted to £47,1199 Ti,. 14.. which. as ciom.
pared with those of the previone year. preeented an
inereaee of £5,54$ 6.. 71. The espundlture had been
£46 147 flu. 114., being more than that of loot year by
£243 the. 94. During the past >ear 37 grant. became
vacant, slid 25 grants were male to new liistricts,
whose efurregate population wee nearly 193,601 The
number of grants in each clue at present were—for 461
clergymen, 161 by assistants; end, to suatain the
grants, au income of C. 53,795 WAS required. The total
number of grants since the formation of the society
amounted to 1,609.

BRITIAN anfli POMPON BIWA SOCIETY.- -The annual
meeting was held on Wednesday, at Bleier-hall, the
large room of which use fined. The chair was taken by
the preaident of the society, the Berl of Ithaftesbury.
The reoripte for the ordinary source. for the year
ending March 30, 1817. have reached the atm of
C171,7M 12.. Rd., being C 10,0114 17s. hd. In advance of
the pre•imis year. To tbi. inlet he added £444 14a. 104.
received for Cm China feud; CAI 9.. 64. forth. &venial
fond foi India; £14.01111 15.. 11.1. farther oontribteens
to the building fund ; and £772 41. fkl. for the Paris
4.llibition fond; making a grand total of
, £147,504 17.. 74. The sum applicable to the general
pommel. of the society is £47,760 15... being
£7,214 4s. 104. more than was received under this head
in the preceding year; the receipts for Bibles and
Tevtaments have reached the earn of £84.162 16e. Bd.,
ehowing an increase of 2,559 14.. 31. ; sod adding the
sum paid on amount of the Jubilee. Chins. and India
Fonda, the total has reached £202,318 ht. being
£19,916 1.. 71. in advance of the previous year. If to
this onto he edded L'14,127 12a. paid on account of the
society's new premitee, it will be aeon that the total
expenditure of the year ham amounted to £216,445 17s.
The society ii under engagements to the extent of
£100,502 14.. 104. The issues of the nociety for the
year are as follows :—From the depot at home 1.393,976;
from depots abroad, 989,501-2.351.380 copies. The
total issues of the society now amount to 52,669,089
copies.

Tan LIBBIATION 8011/117. The anneal council
meeting of this society was held on Wednesday alto.
noon, and in the evening the soiree took plc. at fit.
James's-hall, Piccadilly. Front 600 to 7(J) ladies and
gentlemen were present. and the company was
subsequently increased to at least 1000 persons. The
first resolution was proposed by the Rev. W Reed, and
was in the following terms: "That this meeting warmly
congratulates the society's executive committee on the
chars:ter and resul.o of its operations during the past
yea', and more especially it rejoioes at the increasing
disposit on of Parliament to pass inessures based on
the principle of religious equality ; at the commenoe-
ment o systematic efforts to develop the political power
of Welsh nonconformity; and at the auspicious initiation
of a movement designed to secure the 00-operation of
young men in the proses:mil in of the society's atms."
The resolution was monde' by Mr. E. S. Robinson,
Mayor of RristoL The resolution was unanimously
carried. The neat resolution was moved by the Rev. M.
Wilks:— "That amid the confusion now prevailing
within th 3 English Establishment. this meeting
observes with satisfaction the growth of a consciousness
or the inaptitude of legal and parliamentary machinery
for regulating the affairs of religious communities,
together with an increased desire for the possession of
the freedom which is enjoyed by Episcopalians in the
colonies, hut is denied to them in the mother country.
That at the same time, it having been suggested as •
remedy for existing evils that the restrictions imposed
by the Establishment should be so relaxed as that the
widest diversity of creed and practice may be expressly
tolerated within its pale, the meeting feels it to be •
duty emphatically to protest against • system which it
believes would be injurious to religion and demoralising
to the nation." This resolution was seconded by the
Rev. 0. C. Hutton, and was supported by Mr. K
Miall, who sow received with long-continued cheering.
The last resolution was moved by 160 Rev. C. Vince,
and seconded by the Rev. C. Neville—" That, looking
to the tendency of public events and of public opinion,
and particularly to the probable enlargement of the
elm:torsi bodies, this meeting feels it to be the duty of
the society'. friends to prepare for bolder and inor•
vigorous exertions to commend their principle; to the
judgments and consthencee of their fellow-countrymen
and to press them upon the attention of the Legislature.
It ••• earned unanimously.