The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-02 00:00:00

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The patronage of the Bishop of this diocese Is
being called in question. In the onus. of some
remarks on the subject, TntrA says :—" I understand
that Dr. Moberly has deferred his resignation antU
certain clerical (equities which ore going on In the
diocese have been concluded ; but it may be hoped that
the step will not be much longer postponed, for
not only is the Bishop quite iocapalltatel by
age and infirmity from attending to his business
and performing ht. duties, but there are gnat
complaints in the Moms of the manner in which the
ePisooPti patronage hoe lately been dispensed.
Sydney Smith oil*. observe i that he hut seen in the
coarse of hie life, as the strength of a prelate decayed,
' wife bishops, daughter bishops, son bishop., chaplain
bishops, butler bishops, and even cook and house.
keeper bishops.' Report has it that for some time
past the extensive patronage of the Bi.hop of
Salisbury baa bsen managed by certain member, of
his family, but whether or not this has been the o
the results hare bren far from witbfactory."

Our English prose oocesionelly becomes excited. sad
the soberest journalists each the idection of some
political fever. But the French press is still more
liable to such attack., and takes the malady in an
aggravate I form. It is not merely the light and
frothy amongst Frenoh journal., but also the grayest
and most 'edge, that are spluttering with malignant
rage and hatred towards thie country. We—that is
our newspepers—have failed to appreciate the strategy
of French °fibrin, or the heroism of French soldiers
and sailors, in the pirstioal Chinese expedition, with
Its cruel butcheries and savage Vandalism. In a
moment all the acrimony of former centuries Is
aroused, and our neighbours, or Felber the men who
write for their mere, profess themselves ready to
join hands even with Bismarck in tbe task of
destroying perfidious Albion. All this i/ Vet
amusing In its way. But what about the Ohaa-
Del Tunnel ? (leftist eminent politicians were
telling us recently that the days of war w:th
Fresno* had passed for ever, and our excitable neigh-
bors:li were echoing the sentiment with the most
cordial sir of sincerity. Yet Perinea imp-slide eve
now Instructing thair country and the world that It
Is the duty of the Continental Powers to twits in
crushing Great Britain, and wiping it off the face of
the earth! Douglas Jerrold never said • much
grittier thing, and certainly never said • wiser, than
when be remarked, at the time of the Anglo-French
Treaty of Commerce, that the best thing between
Frame and Eogland was—the Channel. Admiral
Courbsit's decidedly panic tactic@ &fiord a remarkable
lemon with reference to the projected tunnel. Apply.
lag the principles of warfare as conducted on the
river Min, it may be suppoeed that in time of peace.
several thousands of soldiers might per through the
tunnel disguise I, say as w srkiag men 7as emigrants
and in • few hours Dover might be sacked, and its
inhabitants mernacred.

Pormissioa has been given by the Govetament t
sell tobacco in railway owriages. This apposed to
us to be ass extraordinary proceeding, and one which
we feel sure will be resented by intoreeteid tradesmen.
Tobaooo shops are @efficiently numerous, isven in the
remotest country towoe, to satisfy the demands of the
most energetic lover of Use weed, stod why the
Llovernment should offer to the Hsi' way Companies Vs's
undesirable senroe of revenue balibe ne. We notice
the companies who avail themselves of the offer will
have to take out s licence for each otrriao in which
the tublike.° is to be sold, eta oast of se. 31. a year I
We may anticipate a fell la the Income Tax now.

The bigoted prejudices and objection* to diming, or
anything approaching it, which were formerly so
characteristic of e nee sections of the Bitabliatied
Church, hare recently received pointed rebukes at the
hands of tw eminent bishops. Oatdoor preaching has
ever boon considered a useful and Scriptural mode of
working by the majority of, if not all, the Dissenting
portion of the c =moistly, but many earnest and
sealoue clergymen would rather forsake their holy
calling than descend to anything so utterly cestrary
to the custom and usage of their Church.
Tim Bishop of Sodor sod Ban, however, has jrvt
established isuiee of outdoor Sunday services, and
the beet part of it is that he la himself the preacher.
&Dottier departure from the old lines is one that w"I
without a doubt scsodalise many within the fold of
the church, viz., the permia.lon of the Bishop of
Lichfield to laytneo to preach in churches as will el
in mission rooms. We anticipate a huge amount of
cawing from owlish' ecolesiaitioal jack-dews, but the
Bishop will remise the hearty support of the
majority of the Christian people, not only In his own,
but in ivory diocese in the country. We are eons to
beer some doubt has been rabid 141 to the legality of
the movement, but we hope It will soon be set at
net. As a writer remarks, 11th. Bishop's notion be
declared illegal, so much the worm for the Church of
Instead.