The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-07 00:00:00

of "jobbers" having been ahnost tesxfully dwelt upon
by hie lordship, who objects to "monthly notices to
quit" the 's resolution wss carried maid-
monsly.
TITHI lig/1T C 11•11068 were taken in hand by CANOIE
Hirronfsos who moved—
_ . . . . .

- That the Wisest-Mode of amassing the tithe rent
therm is anima ; and that two weathers of tha IParlia-
=enter? Committee be deputed to urge upyu Mr. sewer-
Booth that provisions to remedy the injustice be
intnxlnoed in the Goverment Valuation BilL"
It was agreed. after some bebate, to appoint •
committee to consider the question.
UP= the question of Comerrrie ON rits &mums.
Treat Dm. rummies Art Canon Hercanras moved:
—"
That the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act of 1871
urgently calls for amendment in several particulars;
more especially (I) in its unfair apportionment of the
burden of diMpidations ; (2) in Its unsatisfactory court
of appeal; (3) of the great cost of carrying it into
effect And that the Bisho be requesteif by ths
Synod to convey to the Home Becretajy the expression
of their earnest hope that the Government will take
the earliest opportunity of bringing ia a bill to remedy
It. defects." The speaker remarked that two years
ago the Act was condemned by • committee of the
House of Ocumacus, on the ground that the machinery
was cumbrous, and it was understood that the nmesune
would be amended with as little delay as possible. But
yet nothing was done in the matter. A great deal of
the burden involved in the Act was attributed to
the unfairness with which the surveyors made their
assessments, but that was unjust to the surveyors', for
they did their duty faithfully as umpires between two
parties, and it was their interest and duty to carry
out the law with the utmost strictness. . .

The Rev. -dsr-non-b4;DD gils-siy--seconded the motion.
remarking no poor parson could let his proPert3' docaZ
In this way, and yet we are bothered bullied, and
burdened enough, while IsT rectors or impropriators
seem to go scot free.
THZ TOIEZZANCZ BOARD.—The Rev. H. Rum
moved that the petition against the adulteration of
beer which was attached to the report of the com-
mittee of the Temperance Board, be signed by the
Bishop on behalf of the Synod, and that the Board be
re-appointed.
"He ventured to make that proposal on the ground that
the Board had been able to do a certain amount of work
in the diocese, and that, having secured the co-operation
of • very large and important body of clergymen
throughout their deaneries, the work was growing
satiefactorilr."
Mr. C. RAIZ= seconded the motion.
"Alcohol might strictly as • medicine he useful and
might save life, but the grosser kinds of adulteration to
which the petition referred wee an unmixed or rather •
mixed, evil of • serious nature. What could be more
cruel than to give • poor hardoirorking man a beverage
which in a short time at once increased his thirst and
interned his passions? He hoped the Temperance Board
would be active and suoceseful To Judge from the rosy
countenance of the chairman of the Board in Wilts, and
the gallant General from Dorset who did so much for
temperance, water drinking answered well, but, alas he
amid only say. Video whore deteriors eerier.
(Laughter.) Temperance might better than abstinence,
but abetinsmos foe the make of giving an example to others
was noble." _ _

V. Dr. SOBOVI expressed the opinion that he
was perfectly &Willed that • large amount of drunken-
ness among the working classes not from the amount
they =it by the poisoned condition of the boor
thar. R. If Witsoir while he deplored the prevalence
of drunkenness, he did not agree with those who told
them that it wait a vice that was greatly increasing
every day.
The motion warn put and au ried unanimously.
Comtism OK SICOKDABY EDOCATION.—CABOK Sir
TALBOT BAKER moved :—'• That the Synod concurs
with the committee in recommending HAL Charity
Commlieloners to use the endownments of the Milton
Abbe, School at Blandford for a !Diddle-clue school,
which shall provide • liberal education for girls."
Canon Buronts, seconded the motion.
Mr. Daum moved, as an amendment, that it was
not desirable that the Synod alionid take the miaow&
hefty of recommending the endownment of the school
to be applied in the manner proposed.
Mr. lliksint., who seconded the amendment, Spoke
strongly in oppotttiro to the motion,
Mr. FLOM, se one of the trustees of the school,
thought it would be best on the whole to continue it
as a boys' school, and they looked rather to the
evidence of tne neighbourhood of Blandford than to
that obtained elsewhere.
Mr. C. HAKIM) said the school was originally
founded for the benefit of the Milton Abbas boys. At
the present moment the population was over 1,000,
and it was against their wish that the change should
be carried out

-The-iit-siO; did not think much of the fact that the
Government department should ask the Synod their
views upon the subject, and the Synod was not called
on to say much beyond supporting their own com-
mittee who had reported to that depart:Debt in favour
of the scheme. The amendment was then put and
canied.

—fileiiirthcf.. Am BOAELL—EarI NILSON moved that
the Spiritual Aid Board be re-appointed.—Carried.
Tax Opttrbt TRADL—Tne Rev. Canon BINGHAM
moved "That it is expedient for the motion, at what-
ever cost, to free Itself from all Government COMlC-
flan with the opium trade: and that petitions to that
effect be signed in behalf of the Synod to both Houses
of Parliament. The speaker remarked that he had
been asked in London what the Synod of Salisbury
had to do with opium. (Laughter.) Ho explained
that his attention had been called to the subject by a
pamphlet, written by the Rev. Arthur Mode, and
which had been placed in his worship's hands. It wise
one of the most important subjects which as English-
men and as Christians they could deal with.
Canon ELDON S. BANK= seconded the motion.
Mr. C. Ram= said that as an old Indian 'servant he
was thoroughly cognizant of the question in its many
phases. If we could not keep up the opium trade we
must.give up India.. .

-6",;17-oinitir.l3 saked why our commerce should be
forced upon any people, and said It was never forced
during the time the government of the country was in
the hands of the Bast India Government.
The motion was carried unaaimouely.
The BIRHOP then said—That brings our work to an
end. lam requested to say that the attendance of
Syuodeinen upon this occasion has been larger than on
any occasion since the first Synod. (Applause.) From
the Archdeaconry of Dorset 65 clergy and 83 laymen
have been present, from the Archdeacoary of Sarum
29 clergy and 29 laymen, and from the Archdeaconry
of Wilts $1 clergy and 45 laymen, making altogether
125 clergy and 156 laymen, besides four cs-oiltrio
members, the grand total being M.
The BISHOP then pronounced the Benediction, and
the proceedings of the Synod closed at 5.30.