The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

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appeal to the Ordinary. In like manner the bells and
other goods of the Church, are vested in the March
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wardens, as • sort of goelesiastical Corporation and the
officers of the Ordinary, but only in trust to hold for
the use of the Parishioners, in accordanoe with the
licciesiastical lA's of England.

4. The objection to the ringing of the church bells,
on toe occasion of Miss Iline's wedding, was not, as it
has been insinuated, on the ground of Mr. Hine and his
family is leg Dissenters—(Mr. Alfred Hine and Mr.
John Hine himself, though Dissenters, were both
married according to the Rites of the Church and had
the bells rung,)—but because it would be a palpable
inconsistently, a yielding up of the church's legal
position, as well as of her distinctive principles, if her
bells might be rung for weddings performed otherwise
than according to the Rites of the Church and by her
own Ministers. As an honest Dissenter, Mr. P. Hine
ought to understand, there ins real difference between
his principles and mine, and that he has no good cause
to febl hurt, because, in the conscientious discharge of ,
nay duty as the minister of the established church in 1
this parish, I prefer acting according to my own prin-
ciples rather than his. Nay, surely, it would be more
consistent with the principles of those who dissent from
the Church, not even to wish to have the church bells
rung for weddings performed in their own meeting-
houses, when they know that those bells are kept in
repair by a rate which is levied for the express support
of the Established Church, from which they dissent.
5. One word ri specting the payment of Church
rates, which many seem to think reason sufficient why
the Dissenters ought to have the bells rung, after
weddings performed in their own places of worship.
A very little consideration sill show the unreasonable.
nese of this. The Church-rate is a charge at Common
Law, to which the real property of this country has,
for many hundred years. been subject—long before
Dissenters were ever beard of. Every Dissenter pur-
chases or holds his lands or houses subject to this
charge, as an equitable claim at the least. And, as •
loyal citizen, lie pays Church-rates because all the
land in this country, unless specially exempt, is by
Common La* anciently chargeable with it. But
Church-rates are made expres-ly for the support of our
parish Churches and Churchyards, and for the due per-
formance of Divine service according to the Rites and
Disoipliee of the Church of England. To suppose,
then, that because property held by a Dissenter is by
lsw chargeable with Church-rate for the support of
the Established Church, he may therefore claim
to have the use of the church's bells at the
celebration of marriages performed in • plate of
worship dissenting from the Established Church, is an
absurdity which must be palpable to any fair and unpre-
judiced mind. Carried to its proper issue, the same
principle, if once allowed, would justify Dissenters (in-
cluding, of course, Non-Conformists "of all kinds and
degrees) in claiming to have the bells rung on the
occasion of any other servioes performed in their re-
spective places of worship!

In conclusion, I would say, let the Dissenters of
Beaminster rest assured, we have no wish to interfere
with them, nor in any way to restrain the freest exercise
of their religious liberty. But let them abstain from
infringing on our liberties of conscience as Church•
men, or invading, by the means of unfounded attacks,
those rights and privileges which we do not assume,
but which the Law has assigned to the National Church
and to her appointed Ministers. No one questions
either the lova'ity or the benevolence of many of our
Dissenters. Ido most thankfully admit both. Bat
what I claim is this—that we shall not be exposed
to ixisolent abuse, nor the peace of the parish disturbed,
because we wish to act in strict acoordanee with those
principles which are alone consistent with our position
as Ministers of the Established Church.

It has always been my most earnest wish that the
cause of "truth, peace and love,' might be advanced
amongst us; and no one regrets more deeply than I
do, that, from whatever cause, any hinderance should
be cast in its way. But for the sake of a hollow peace
and pretended love, I can never be content to sacrifice
what, as a conscientious Churchman, I maintain to be
the truth; and I hope my parishioners will never wish
me to do so.—l remain, dear brethren, your faithful
and affectionate pastor,

THE CATTLE FLAMM
FIPTT•TWO cattle have died in the neighbourhood 61
'Plymouth from the nettle plague.
, As yet, says the Scottish Farmer, no check hu bees
pat upon the frightfully fatal Riuderput in the Edin-
burgh dairies.
TEfi Record says the call for special prayer in referees*
to the cholera and °atria plague is fall in Ireland as well
as in England.
Tan Daily News thinks it useless to deny that that
,neaaares adopted to prevent the spread of the disease
amongst cattle do not appear to have been attended
with the slightest suouss.

The line herd of Ayrshire tows, which are kept 66
Holly Lodge, Highgate, the property at Miss Bard,*
Coutts, has been literally swept away daring the lad
ten or twelve days by the plague which is now so pre.
valent. The herd numbered twenty COWS of the meek
Ayrshire breed, and an Alderney bulL
FRANCS has taken alarm in respect to the edge
plague. The Minister of Agriculture has addressed •
report on the subject. The result is that decrees hone
been published, prohibiting the importation of cattle.
hides, he., from England or any of the countries where
the disease is supposed to exist.

A D 1874111 AMOIIGHT SWUM—At • meeting of the
sanitary committee of the Hill Beard of Health, this
cattle inspector reported that he had seised and destroyed
several sheep which were suffering front • disease which
was entirely new to him. Mr. ll'Hillan, surgeon, said
that he had paid considerable attention to the cattle
disease, and he believed that the rinderpeat attacked
sheep as well as horned cattle. The inspector stated
that the sheep above alluded to had been brought trees
Bremen, and he believed that at the time they mare
landed no trace of disease was outwardly visible.
EARL GRANVILIJI has been • serious loner by tbe
cattle plagne. He has a farm at Gonldersirreem near
Hendon, where he keeps cows. When he left Ragland
a month ago there were about 130 milch cows in boar
sheds; in the two largest and best managed he found
only one cow on Tuesday. "His Royal Highness the
Duke of Coburg," says the noble earl in a letter to tLis
Times, "informed me last week that what he believed
to be the same disease visited Coburg last year. N.
one could trace ite origin, and no medical treatment was
successful. Air and water were their only remedies.
Sonic men had died from eating the meat killed at si
particular stage of the disease. His Royal Highness had
seen • horse die in four hours, killed by flies which
came from the carcase of a cow which had been allowed
to remain above ground. The disease disappeared ia
the autumn as mysteriously as it had come." Lord
Granville appends a copy of a report from his bailiff.
Mr. Banter, as to the outbreak and progress of the
&eases, and the remedial mantra adopted. Meti
Banter closes his report discouragingly with the Lamle
remark—" I have read of iron water being • preventive
of the disease. All the water your cows hare &mak
came aix miles through rusty iron pipes.'