The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-08 00:00:00

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NOTES 03' THE WEEK.

Friday was the feast of Saint Francis, the patron
saint of the Emperor of Austria, and, if we are to I
believe official announcements, the occasion was ale
bested by loyal manifestations on tit• part of the
inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the
Catholic and Greek Churches solemn services were
held, and even the Mahornets's, population in many
Instances took past in the demonstration of=
Several towns in the new provinces were ill
in the evening. It must be oonfeased, however, that
it I, difficult to believe in the oniversalit7 of the
refoking•
What I. taking usnow to Afghanistan? We require
an independent Prince to realties British Residents
protected by British garrison*, and this is eh/A we
call a menage of freedom. But people who call
• sped', a spade know that It is simply • dimmed of
the surrender of Afghan freedom. When one Mlle us
that England is • messenger of freedom, let him ex-
plain why it is that that messenger maintains slavery
In honour in Cyprus, and is the mainstay, the especial
protector, of the only great slavetradlng and slave
holding State in the world, Turkey. And let him
compare this vaunted love of freedom with the fact
that Rumia has put down slavery in all her opaques*
that in IChiva shiest at liberty 30,000 slaves., and in
Kuldja—wbich we learned the other day from the
Tema has become in her hands a highly Prosperous
and productive region—no fewer than 75.000 sinew
were set at liberty by her. Let oar Jingoes I°°k these
tante in the face without blushing, if they can.

The Whacks!" Review publishes. list of converts to
Rornanism, among whom are the following :—John
Bridge Aspinall, tic., Recorder of Liverpool ; Thomas
Arnold, n. 5.., Oxford, youngest son of Dr. Arnold, of
Rugby; Arthur Aliockstt ; Chisholm Ansley, some
time and Attorney General, Hong Kong; the
Marquis of But.; John Edward Bowden, author of
the Memoirs of Father Faber (a Prisag Jahn
Bothell, brother of Lard Westbury; F. C. Borland,
author of " Haopy Thought.," /cc., &c.; Arthur
Boa:rhew of Lord Justice Bovill ; Janus Burns,
; Rev. J. C. If. Bellew, the Elocutionist;
Cies Emily Bows* author of several popular stories;
W. Bagehawe, q,c., County Court Judge ; Rev. Henry
Janus Coleridge,lL 11.. fellow of Oriel College
(Oxford), scholar of Trinity, and brother of Lord
Coleridge (a Jesuit) ; Rev. John Somers Cocks,
rector of Sh.vlock, Exeter' Mrs. Rom Church
(Florence Marryat) ; Rev. Frederick W. Faber, fellow
of University College, Oxford (Rector of Elton),
found*, of the Brampton Oratory and a voluminous
writer; Min Fronde nines of the Idstorian LHenry
Foley, eolkitor (a Jonah Lay Brother) ; Edward
Dwyer Gray, ;cr., proprietor of flie
Joeneal; Miss Gladrtone, sister of the Right Hon. W.
L Gladstone, n.r. ; the Lady Herbert of Lea; Rev.
C. Hamilton, Exeter; Edward. Hood, solicitor (a
Jesuit)' Rev. E. Horne, axe., St. John's
(Cambridge), Vicar of St. Lawrence (Southampton);
J. H. Jonas, Methodist Minister; Sir Arnold t.
n.n., some Mayor of Shellield ; Rev. T. H. ,
Exeter College (Oxford) a solicitor; Rev. J.
(Cambridge), now a
solicitor; Henry 11 Borgia., brother of Sir John
Kerslake, some time Attorney-General (a
Charles J. Kerslake ditto, (a
(teuth..A.) •
„If.i.ev. Francis
"Cuiracetell Merev2i, noCollege w
a Barrister--at7i...a. wPreb:l
Laing. Town Clerk of Jedburgh ; Henry Edward
Manning, fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Ranter
ef Lavington, Archdeacon of Chi&siter, Cardinal
Archbishop of Westminster; Sir Paul ILolasworth,
Bert. (formerly Rectorof Tetcott, Devon) ; Rsv. James
R. Madan, it. A. Queen's College, Oxford, head of
Protestant Missionary College at Warminster, (a
priest); Hon. Charles °ratio Nelson, son of 3rd Earl
Nelson; William Pace NeVille, Trinity
College, Oxford (a priest • Rev. Lord Francis Godol-
phin Osborne, Rector of thin, Frame, son of 3th Duke
of Leeds; Rev. R. R Osborne, eon of " 8.G.0." ;
Rev. Henry Nutcomb Oxenham, rte., *choler of
Ralliol College, Oxford; Rev. William Palmer. M. A.,
fellow of Magdalen College, and elder brother of Lord
Seaborne ; Augustus Welby Pugin, the reviver of
Gothic Architecture in England; Adelaide Ann
Procter, the poetess ; Professor Pepper, of the Poly-
technic; Rev. Philip Ross, we., reader at the
Temple Church, and since known as "Arthur
Sketchley" ; Hon. and Rev. George Talbot son of 3rd
Baron Talbot de Malehide, and vicar of ?keens...oh,
Somersetshire (a priest); Elisabeth Thompson, painter
of the " Roll Call"; Rev. Lord Charles Tynne, son of
2nd Earl of Beth, vicar of Longbridge, rector of
Kiagston Deverelld.al canon of Canterbury; Lady
Charlie Thynne, liter of Right Rev. R. Begot,
Bishop of Bath and Well,; William Wilberforce, eons
time IL P. for Hull, eldest son of the Slave Ektanci•
pater; and Charles C. Noel Weisman, Norton Manor,
Taunton.

Most of the acting chaplains of our Volunteer forces
are on the hums a an. luando principle; but there
are some exceptions, and in the case of the—.shire
Vounteers • vary notable one, as the following "owes
true tale" will set forth. Onos upon • time, not many
weeks ago, there was • certain Volunteer battalion
which had as adjutant an en-Line °Hoer, who, when
he wished to be particularly impressive on parade, !
was wont to inform attention in the ranks by shouting
is stentorian tones, "Not a word—not • move
of so frequent occurrence was this impressive caution
that it be Aims • byword in the corps, and whenever
any member of it threatened to become at all irre-
pressible, he was at once sat upon with "Not • word ,
—not • move." Now it chanced One Saturday evening,
when the chaplain was enjoying his 0411111 LIM (rn,
little) diger* and • fair allowance of grog, that this
yet phrase of the adjutant's cropped up for discussion,
end the parson was dared to introduce it into his
sermon on the following morning. Some say that
• portrait of our Sovereign Lady the
done in gold, aim depended on the result; but
let it pass Ile battalion rambled in due course for
divine service on the Sunday morning,. and our clerical
friend took his text from I Sam. trio. : "And the
Philistines stood on a mountain on the or sid*, and
Israel stood on • mountain on the other side: and
there was • valley between them." He carried his
audience completely with .him as he described, in
glowing terms, the locality of the scene' but his
greatest effort was marred for • spirited contrast
between the gigantic champion of Oath and the
stripling hope of Israel, and he pictured in vivid
language
the eager expectancy of the two mighty home
aaMembistants went forth to meet in the struggle
of death. "Fray eye," he continued, "was fixed
upon them—every nerve was strained to • tension
almost of pain—therp was not • sound to break the
calm that preoeeded the awful storm of bitter, deadly
strile—not • voice broke the stillness astilsieltrit and
his ruddy foe stepped out between the o lines,
and in those serried ranks drawn up on moantais.
tops there was not a word, sate Isom" Bet there was
considerable movement in the faces of the--shire
Volunteers which was not speedily repaired.