The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-18 00:00:00

WHAT'S IN • NAXE

lienry Cooibe,i, a young lu.sn, was burutnoiled by Richard
Pearce, for a•saulting him at the Rodweltlway
station, on the all hut—Mr. Howard appeared for the coin-
and Mr. Hooper for defendant —From thc state-
ment of complainant , who live., at Mr. Snooks, it
appeared that, on the day in question he was at Rockwell
station, where • man asked him if he would give him some
tobacco, which complainant, da—Defendant them came
up to him, and asked if he would give him sonic?
He said he would, but pointed out to defendant,
that his pipe was full. On this defendant drew
and deliberately struck him on the eye with
hittancbed fist, blackening an eye. Had never said any-
thing to Cowbell to induce him to commit the assault, and
=knew him by the name which he was commonly
—Mr. Lourman, ticket collector, and • fellow shop-
man named Davis, corroborated complainant's statement
P.C. Horn also spoke to finding defendant drunk and using
bad language—The defence was that Mr. Pearce called
Comben by • nickname, and that the latter told him if
he did so, he would hit him across the mouth.—Defen-
dant also called two witnesses who corrnhated him—He
was fined 11. k. and costs, altogether amounting to about
355.
BOROUGH MIT SUSI OK& WOO IMO ay : Before Mr.
W. Talbot, Dr. Drew, Mr. G. Reynolds. Mr B. Hopkins,
and Kr. T. Abbott.
THI A LLY.O ID POUONIIIO OP • HOY/
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Charles iics-rsio7i-e;a7 brought up on a charge of polgon-
ing a hone belonging to Mr. Richard Cox, ironfounder.
Mr. Howard prosecuted. The horse had been ill, and Mr.
Richard Cox, purchased • packet of sulphur, for it ; but
primmer who was • carter, gave him none, Mr. Cox having
given instructions that nothing should be done to the
hone before be came back from London. Mr. Cox also
brought a packet of embrocation, which was labelled
**Poison," and was made up in • different parcel from
the other. In consequence of something prisoner did, Mr.
Cox discharged him, and primmer was afterwards beard to
utter threats as to what he would do for Hr. Cox. After-
.

n;Cci
agonise, and prisoner admitted that he had given the horse
the emMomtion, but it was by his master's orders. Mr.
Howard proceeded to say that Mr. Drina, veterinary sur-
geon, We. called in Mono., and the horse recovered. The
roan was liable to be tried at Dorchester; but he (Mr.
Reword), would proceed under &section which would allow
of the cam being disposed of here.—Mr. R. Cox deputed to
the facts as detailed by Mr Howard.—J,,.e Lskey, engin*
cleaner. said defendant threatened he would warm old Mr
Cog. gad would not do another stroke for h. James
Cos eon of COMpininnat. on Sundt?' morning wont to the
stable met defendant, who said Never mind the key,"
he haw the way to get in, and went and bunt the lock.
witness went in and fed the bore% leaving about three
behind.—
tr." tile los Sunder, oltrirtm&A.l""lliti; TChenharided
og paean to Mr. .11 hone. ohiji
ha said. "I 'mow all about It. Mr. Chaise
M.R.0.V.5., found the horse showing synigngt24l34
ransom putsolood ; and it wee damaged pony
tlurkoskpoinida. It appeared to be white
la the with that in ths
meet. Prisoner pleads= tal:g ' the
bather, in nristeke for the sulphur. He was icily
iDucesit any ill-foollm to his sustor. ,or of
injury go Ms collie loa he worked for iirMsuarho
always warn • goed soma; sever maimed a day. Mr.
Howard, se the part al Yr. Cos, desired to my that when
the an was not in liquox, be was • very fair servant.
The Bench roared, and on 'Mgr rotors, Mr. Talbot said
ode wee rerr grave charm indeed ; foe a man te do
each a twee itethai, to Wore hie madder's horse, was
et, eget prisoner nu a serious risk of being
west
mat toaitragassehes for trial. The sent ence we. that he be
imprisoned for one mouth with hard labour.
CRAM" 01, 5011151110 LODGIIOWL
reraZo sad Louise Berms, alias Ciliet, brought oe on
thump& with ssoalingzeriousy articles from led.
rooms let them hy .—Pressarior let the
lodgings In primol and last two shoots ends blanket.

last Monday they left without notice, and he had lost a every moral support; his own Mends would subscribe
sheet and two towels similar to those produced, besides half the capital, the other half he expected would
other things, but would not swear to & looking-eau Iwo- come in from the advertisements; issued in the different
duoed. After hearing evidence by Elisabeth Goweii. monetary journals; but if anything wag left to sub-
Sergeant LP.", s• tbe miiiiatrstes said was
a ver7 ecribe, he would sek the Weymouth lto ak poop e me it
suspicious case, but there was not evidence to convict pn-
up. At present he did not ask Weymouth to furnish
loners for trial. The (lei warned Barnes that they
bad had a very narrow escape, any capital whatever.
Dr. Ditzw said he was V,ry glad to hear that,
because Weymouth people had a great deal more faith
in other people's capital than their own.
There was a great deal of discussion, principally on
the figures.
Mr. Dirritts said all Weymouth people were very
anxious not to throw env obstacle in the way. but
only to undeceive these gentlemen as to the actual
amount of receipts on which they could reckon. He
questioned whether the total would amount to £I,OOO
a year. and could only make it out about £4,200.
Mr. T. B. GROVES could not see how such an income
as the gentleman expected could be derived, and
therefore he could not ask for either moral or pecuniary
support.
Mr. it. Horatio% also took exception to several of
the items, and could not see that any one of them
would be sufficiently high so as to reach the total
altogether.

Dr. Daew said that when a gentleman had pledged
himself to these figures after he had made every
investigation, he felt bound to receive them, although
he had come prepared to climmte some of the items.
He had for some years catered for the public in steam-
boat accommodation, and could not endorse the
figures put before the meeting: still he felt bound to
accept them. He propoaed—. That this meeting
pledgee itself to give the proposal laid before it this
morning, of building an aquarium for Weymouth,
every support in its power."
Seconded by Mr. R.IIIRTSON, and carried.
With this the promoters felt they had all they
required from Weymouth for the present, and the
meeting was then constituted a committee to carry
out future transactions, keep themselves in communi-
cation with the promoters of the company, and render
all the aid they could.

A CLERGYMAN'S REASONS FOR
DISTARt.ISRUENT.

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A meeting was called for Monday evening last, at the
Concert Hall, for the purpose of hearing the Rev. J. B.
Heard, late incumbent of Pinner, deliver a lecture on the
above. The attendance was hut small, the body of the
hall being barely half full, and the calleries almost
empty. The chair was taken by the Rev. W. Leine,
Hope Chapel, and the Rev. .1. Bailey, and Mr. A. Dennis,
with the lecturer supported Mr. Lewis on the plattertn.
The Cis timid said it would have been just as well for
a clergyman of the Church of England to have been on
the platform to-night as a Nonconformist minister for it
was well to know one another's views and reasons on
what is admitted to be a burning question, and probably
would soon be a practical one for legislation.
The Rev. J. 11. 11tago said the late Archbishop
Whateley, whom he knew very intimately for many
years, used to remark that it was a very sreat misfortune
to Ise in advance of the age on any particular topic: it
was like getting up at four o'clock in the morning, when
nothing in the house was ready, and the early riser was
made to feel himself an intruder, the wrong man in the
wrong place. In this year lt7B, with a Conservative
Prime Minister at the bead of affairs, a person expressing
himself in favour of direstablishinent was rather in
advance of the age—(hear) —but there must be early
risers, or the world would net wake at all: thine must
rouse the house when they ire taking "• little more
sleep, a little more slumber," though perhaps to be in-
wardly cursed from behind the curtains. He wished to
proclaim the great truth that it is time for religion to get
rid of her leading strings, and for the people if this
country to come to the same experience that our sons of
the colonies have arrived at—of a free church i 3 a free
state. Lord Derby himself was the authority that "no
one would dream of establishing a church !lOW but that
Is no reason for disestablishing it. In this town could
not be found a Tory on pig-headed as to maintain that it
is the duty of the State to estaidish religion as such, but
the present doctrine of some is that we are to remain
poise-I between the old principle and the new—we are
not to imtablish nor are we to ilioestablish. The theory
was untenable: it implies we ore to leave the Establish-
ment alone, to say "Woodman, spare that tree ;" lint if
we do so. what are we to do ivith the rotten breeches?
He should like to use the man or %simian who would
stand up and say there are no rotten branches. Was riot
Ritualism is branch (A Wing : No.) Was net Prelacy
one, then! Ile never met a clergyman who did not wish
the hishops out of the Ili-use of Lords, because they never
were where they are wanted. Latimer, in his sermon of
the Ploughs said no bishop was so diligent as the devil;
he was never out of his diocese. The bishops of the day
were always rushing up to London for preferment, and
the lecturer said it would be a wonderful deliverance if
the bishops could be got out of the House of Lords and
into their own diocese, where they are wanted. In the
play of the Hunchback, it was sail of the baronets that
they were "of a mean degree, nine parts plebeian and the
tenth patrician ;" and for "Immnets" put "bishop,,' and
it was sight; that miseralde rag of "lord" tacked on to
the Christian minister thok away its true dignity and
primitive purity. Other rotten branches were patronage
and purchase, the first evil leading to the worse. What
a rotten branch! The purchase system had been
abolished in our army, and be would abolish it in the
Church. (A Voice How de you pronnee to improve
on it f)—He would show. The able Bishop of Peter-
borough, whom Mr. Disraeli, prompted by that sort
of instinct whereby one maa knows another, brought in a
bill on the subject, for the Bishop crossed under the
system, be had had to institute a great many clergyman,
and among them not • few "warning pans," or feeble,
, worthless old parsons, with one foot in the grave, who
were to hold the livings till the young hopefuls who might
he tailor's sons, for whom the livings were purchased,
were ready for ordination, and then the warming pan was
supposed to go off to a better world. The Bishop's was a
mild little bill ; but when he brought it into the llouse of
Lords, the Bishop used the expression that he regarded
Church patronage as • trust, not as a priverty. A
property in the right to minister to souls I In the middle
ages they called a traffic in such "property" by the name
of the sin of Simon Magus—Simony. But when the House
.if Lords, which had ehurch patronage up to the chin,
heard that sentiment, one said it was little less than re-
volutionary. That was the excellent Earl of Harrowhy,
than whom a better nobleman did not live ; but he was so
occustomed to speak of the livings as his livings, to be
converted into cash if he needed the cash, that the Bishop's
sentiment seemed to him revolutionary. And the House
of Patrons succeeded in massacring the bill with the
"innocents" about the month of holy. Some might ask
Why not reform these things f —Why come forward with
a root and branch measure of disestablishment / All his
life be had been hearing about Church Reform ; in certain
Church circles nothing else was talked about, and the
clergy, when got by themselves, are loud in their com-
plaints of the evils, and most anxious for reform, But all
his life he had expected these reforms, and they did not
comes ; as an old friend said—" It is the corruptions of the
Establishment that keep it up." Such a large class is in-
terested in it, the ortanisatioa is so laid to please and
flatter rich men that they are ready to say with the Jesuits
—" Let things be as they are, or let them not be at AIL"
Reform is impossible, and as we have looked for it in vain,
he said now "Revolution I The connection between
Church and State has brought all these evils, let us see
whether separation will not bring reform. The sepa-
ration would bring reforms; it would get rid of Prelacy—
of the conversion of a Christian minister into a great
officer of State, boiling a title partly plebeian, partly
patrician. The bishop is a lord, but is wife is not a lady.
Really, he had such respect for the marriage state that
either the wife ought to take her husband's title or the
husband should come down and take his place by the side
of his wife, and as there is a ?des. Tait, let there lie also
Mr. Tait. That title of lord he grudged to the English
bishops ; but when it came to the Colonial ones as it was
worse ; to call the bishop of "My Lord,"
carried vulgarity with it. Milton did not strike at Epis-
copacy, but he struck at Prelacy, and that word " Prelacy"
still stinks in the nostrils of ths majority of this country.
Englishmen would be glad to get rid of Prelacy, as their
countrymen in Ireland had dope. Three or four years ago
that wonderful woodman, Mr. Gladstone, with a few
vigorous strokes of the axe brought down the tree of the
Irish establishment, and down came the prelates, for
instead of running off to the Imperial Parliament, they
had not, like their enslaved brethern in F.neland, to
petition Parliament to deal with church affairs, for the
Irish bishops could meet in their own free synods, like
the Independents, Baptists ash others, and settle their
church affairs. Why should not the poor English church
have the, same liberty as Churchmen have in Ireland,
Canada, and the British colonies I But behind it was the
additional difficulty of slisendowment ; there the difficulty
lies. In a theatre, he might be pardoned for quoting
Hamlet.—

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" There's the respect
That makes calamity .4 so lon! Life;
• • •
For who would tartlets bear,
But that the dr.a.l .4 something after disestablishment,
Ilie unilisoocrol bui.l .4 voluntaryism, from u bin ho Mille
!co traveller returoc—ruaales the will
And makes us rather bear those Ills we have,
Than ely to others that we know not of.

—(applauset The question whether we ought not to
come forvrar.l and lAD them to a deliverance, t, do it
tint, :uul let them find out the reason :if terwards. When
Mr. Gladstone dot it for the Irish church, he received
many of those benedictions which are said to he of the
nature of curses. but now the weeping is all over, and
there is nothing hit rejoicing. In the English Church
ministers might begin as curates with £75 a year: hut in
the Irish Church they paid their curates better and their
bishops worse, there are no prelates and no paupers—(ap-
plause). Disestablishment would not take one farthing
from the 111-paid curates. Yet these were the men put
forward to defend the Church; that sleek gentleman in
the corner who fulfilled what had been called " archidia-
canal functions" did not come forward, but some poor
starved curate. Disestablishment would be the greatest
benefit to these poor men. One of the last sermons he
was asked to preach before he left his iron church at
Pinner, was not for the conversion of the heathen; but
for old clothes for the clergy—(laughter) That was a
burning scandal :—thearl—vrith the Archbishop of Canter-
bury with his .1;15,000 a year,—(a Voice : "How does he
spend It? In charity:")-6W park at Iladdiairtort his
palace at Lambeth. Hundre& ef deserving clergymen
needed charity, and how miserably they got on under this
unfortunate system of prises and blanks ! It was like the
story of the giant and dwarf who went to battle ; but the
dwarf found he got all the knocks, and the giant ail the
glory. The Archbishop had his nson a year, and these
miserable deserving curates their £lOO or £l5O a year;
yet, good worthy souls, it was the curates who came for-
ward. It was most difficult to tackle them, for you could
not call them the "bloated clergy," they looked no
starved and so holy that people would say—" You would
not touch an institution that has such holy men as them"
—(laughter). But Liberationist* are not robbers- cher
would not take the maintenance from the poorest of God s
servants. The society was not formed to take the wt of
any denomination, or any party in the (7hristian Church;
its platform was broad enough for all who would do, as
all ought to do, remembering what the Lard Jesus did
one day of this week—testifiod to Pilate—" My kingdom
is not of this world"—(applause).— Ile pitied those who
are in the fatal circles—Endowment leads to witablisment ,•
establishment leads to all the evils of a corrupt and
worldy church. You cannot part from one without part-
ing from the other; it is a fatal circle, and he was sorry
for all who had to recognise the church with all the cor-
ruptions. There was only the re-nedy—perish mitres.
perish prises, perish purchase, perish patronage,
perish all that the rich and titled dear,
let us have what John Knox once callVar'la puir
kirk, but • pure kirk." Charges he brought against
no man, he had the highest respect for Doctor Tait;
he believed Doctor Tait to he a good godly
who used his £15,000 • year with liberality and purity!tt
probably Dr. Tait would be • richer man with £l,OOO of
CAM a year, without what attached to it; he was sure
the Dr. groaned under it, and would be glad to be rid of it,
but he was in • great office like the Lord Chancellor.
Conservatives cleave to the system because of it Ls the beet
roe the rich ; but he waa showing reasons why there WIII
more evil than good in It, and it was for the people of
England to say whether it is to be got rid of or not.
There is • mrsteriuus thing called " public opinion, which
all seemed to be afraid of, as if it did not exist in the
minds of intelligent resolute men ,• but look it in the face,
make up the mind, and they would find plenty of ministers
of state to carry the measures, and ;gear of press writen
to recommend them in the press. The metropolitan
Press, was the most squeezable article he knew, and if
they in the country made up their minds for disestablish-
sent, and sent up to London, it would he • neck and neck
race between the noes. the TslegrepS, and the Daily
am to which should say first that diseetablishment was the
great fact, and he must be • born idiot who did not see it.
the to assertwiat they be-
IlelAbteeduitobelnim—ile urgedan m
and to hold their opinions as true men.
—applause).—He entered the Church of England because
be was bees • member, because as • rational serious man
be approved ol bee articles aad liturgy; he Mill approved

of them ; be had signed 39 articles, from them he never
dissented, and he was ready to sign them again. But he
had not lived 95 years without seeing a multitude of cor-
ruptions, and that there was only one remedy—ti separate
Church and State. Was he to wait till that each-educator
of his party, Mr. Disraeli, said to the stupid into behind,
"It is time to wake up on this question." No, it was time
to say—there is an under-virrent of opinion on the subject,
mad presently there will be an outburst of that opinion
that will he quite unmistakable. That ch-pacificator
of his party brought in a 1411 to put down ritualism, to
please the Protestant party of the Church ef England, and
they were in othasies about It, It was to bring the Church
back to her old allegiance, but had it succeeded f Had it
put down ritualist° I Had • single priest who 1,070
naming Vincent.% like an ecclesiastical timing%
taken off thee garments and abolished his
ritualistic ceremsnies, in consequence of that Act He
thought not. At Ventnor he went to a Congregational
Church, because he disapproved of the practices at the
parish Church, and accepted an invitation to preach.
Soon came a letter from the parish minister denouncing
his Catholic conduct, and • little remonstrance was sent to
the Bishops of Winchester and of London. In due course
he received a grace and serious admonition in eight pages
from his Bishop, the timmort of which was that be had
ht come.
gonee irnrioltozrevnemitt'ieoientViiLt.h". while there a
clergyman came from the Church Association and
denounced the parish clergyman, in his own parish, as a
teacher .2! poisonous doctrine. Of this he returned •
letter to the Bishop, asking which was the greater harm,
his seeking the unity of Christendom at borne, or the one
cleri.iyinan denouncing the other. The Bishop wrote to
the etfect that he disliked the proceedings of both; hut
the action of the clergyman in denouncing the other was
legal; but his (Mr. Heard,) in preaching in • Dissenting
pulpit, was not—(laughter). The lawyers must delight in
such a state of things so that, and as long as the two
parties in the Church of England weeld fight the lawyers
would approve. For himself, the first thing was to resign
his license, and come before the people of England and
say " Will not you help this enslaved Church?" Some
might like to continue being slaves; they had been so, so
long; but the people of England would rather have
freedom, even if they had to pay a great price for it
(applause). The real power to strike at was the plutocracy,
the power of the purse; men who had become rich by
some brewery or bank, or worse, by some dirty dock-
jobbing transaction, men who made great feasts, and
invited all but their own relations, who bought land,—
these were those who supported the Establishment
A Voice here denied this.
The I.Erruar:R returned: Where is the shoddy gentle-
man? Where is this plutocrat I—Putting on his spectacles,
the lecturer looked round, causing • laugh.
A tientleman here stepped forward, and was received
by the LecTuitiut with the question "Are you the shoddy
gentleman, the plutocrat/
The gentleman answered that he was not a plutocrat,
nor were the plutocrats the !set friends of the Church
of England.
The Lccri: Rig anewered: The'cap does not fit him, and
therefore he is not hit.

The Man-retired, and
The becronya continued that the clam of plutocrata
were those who really supported the church. They took
the optimist view that it Is the best possible place for the
rich man, who migh possess Church patronage. But in
Scotland that Church patronage was only worth, accord-
ing to the estimate of the Duke of Buccleuch, one year's
purchases. It was difficult to shear a wolf; and the
Scotch were all wolves as to Church patronage ; but in
England the few wolves had gone elf to the Little
Bethel; and the rest of the Englishmen were like meek
inutton.s who allowed themselves to I* bought and sold.
Before long, another voice would be heard in the country,
that of the pour agrictural labourer, who is not enfran-
chised now, but who certainly will be: the Liberation
Society were willing to let the County Franchise Bill have
the way, and then the agricultural labourer, who is
probably a Primitive Methodist, would begin to ask why
his minister should not be established as well as the
Episcopalian parson And the expense of education is
increasing and probably Englishmen would ask why
should this burden of the cost of education fall on us,
when there are endowments ready to hand. In conclusion
he believed that the people of England would wnue day
wake up to the solution of the question—that the
Church of England ought to be disestablihhed—(applausa
The Bev. J. BAILEY el II vote of thank,' to the
lecturer, who had - hoe% tho blackest spot of the systein.
lie (Mr. Bailey) expressed his belief that the only reiuesly
was disestablkhoient.
The Rev. W. LEWIS seconded -
pleasure at sueh

The Rev. W. Lt:wis seconded the vote, expressing his
ileasure at such a lecture being delivered, end hoped they
night hear more. and that on both sides.
The vote of thanks WAS carried with ime dissentient
_
The
dissei

The Rev. J. B. HEARD expreNsed hie belief that the one
lissentient opposed the vote on principle only.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman proposed by Mr. J.
B. Baum wee seconded by Mr. BAILRY, who considered it
a scandal and shame to nonconformity that Mr. Lewis was
not better supported by the laity who were known to be
in favour of disestablishment ; hut who were absent
to-night
The meeting then broke up.