The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-21 00:00:00

THE Rsarmaa.—The followloe is oar meteorologic'
report foe the week eadsne Sunder

g 1....
I 1 A ili
June ' ' I
13 06 46
14 70 Si
15 70 SS
14 74 56
17 65 66
15 63 49
19 67 51 i

Dimotion Btato 4 Wfouber.
of Wind.
W Fine
WSW rine
NW .Iaxo), One
BkN Fne. tkonclar, ligblaing, rain
W y, ens
W ercoa, Ise
8W Fine

D010111:87112 AGILICULTIMAL 80C1117.—The anima
mowing match took pines on Thursday last, in • fleid
on Wolvetos farm. There were 20 entries, and 18
appeared in the competition. The judges were Mr. J.
G. Horner, Martin/town, Mr. R. Demos, Fordingtoo,
and Mr. T. Ohl* /*tattoo, and they awarded
the prime as follows £2, Abraham
Gibbous, in the service of Mr. James Crane,
of &laborer, Tolpuddle ; 2nd. El, Thomas Pitman,
in the service of Mr. Willi&Ml Chink, of Over
helm.: 3rd, 10.., Hoary Palmer, In the service of
Mr. J. Chick, of Colophon Velem*. Richard Gannett,
In the service of Mr. G. Byrnes, of Oerue would have
woo the Ant prise, but he was disqltslilied by being
25 minutes more than the time allowed, in consequence
of his scythe " giving out."

; PIOPAGATIOIOF TB. 130111.2 L AMONG THE JrWS.—
Oa Suede, morning last the Rev. Coral R. Carlon, WA.,
I association SIIIITOta4, preached an impressive sermon At
; Christ Chung', Weal Fordingtoc, on behalf of this
society, when £1 7s. lid., was collected. The after.
noon meeting was held at 2.30 on Monday, at the
Townhall, B. Williams, Req., of Bridebead, in the chair.
The pouchy in the attendance wee extraordinary, only
12 being present besides the speakers and other clergy
as the platform. The following oompoesd the sada:woe :
—Miss Williams, Kn. Ludlow, Mrs. Knipe, Wise
Johneoa, Mr. Lod Mrs. Oldfield, Mimes Cowll, hijas
camploall. On the plelloom were the Rem Henry and
Handley Monle, Rev. J. Miller, Rev. R. Ludlow (load
secretary), Rev. R. Headland, Rev. T. W. Knipe, Rey.
W. M. Vakntiae, Rev. 11. C. Mann it.,. v. S.
Cape' (Wareham). Rev. H. Pigon (Littlehredy), and
Rev. H. Botbanaley. The Rev. Dial B. Carlon, asso-
ciation secretary, attended as deputation. Alter waiting,
without result, for the audience to i ocreese in number,
the Rev. E. Ludlow opened the coset:ng with prayer,
after which be read the report,abowing the oontritutions
of the Dorchester Branch for the part year to hare
been £77 l. 2d. Addresses were delivered by the
Rev. J. Miller, the Rev. Cecil B. Carlon, WA., the
Mee. a Cipel, of Wareham, and the Rev. & Ludlow,
and after Quake had been voted to the Chairman foe
his kindness in predilteg, the easetiag was Mooed by
singing a brute.

OOMMTTTI ¶ ta Dossier COUNTY Panktii.—
&iciest : William Itideont, stealing • watch it East
Slower. Hard Labour: John Andrews, marsh at
Dorchester, 6 months ; Sarah Fturaell, vagraney at
Weymouth, 3 months 1 Caroline Haskett, sasauh at
Dorchester, 2 months • Mary Jure Cimitri, assault on
pollee at Weymouth: 2 months; James Talaswell.
stealing potatoes at Blandford, 1 eabrudar month;
Frederick Make. stealing beer and tobasseo at Sher-
burne, 1 ealendu imonth ; Frank Monday, smith al
Mothombe, 1 calendar month ; Charles Borger. sesanlt
at Marlton. 1 calendar month William Williams,
vagrancy at Maleonibe Regis, I calendar moptl,
Vrilliam Hatcher, assault at If otoombe, 21 days ;
William Frampton, assault at Gamma* . All Saints.
21 daps • Patrick Smith, vagracey at Walditcb, 14
days: George Green. John Moore. and William Bird.
stealing beer sad tobseeo al Bherborne, 14 day.; Issas
Gray, them& at Shastoo. 14 days; Edwin Rivers.
vagrancy at Walditoh, 7 days; Henry Sheri/cad.
VIY , 7 dais John Whitehead,
vagrancy a!: 14 LelgigibamryAbbaa. 7 days ; Thomas Tile,
vagrancy at Wyke 7 days. imprisonment
Henry Durrant, bastardy at Mai nhull I calendar
month ; John Hassey, non-payment of rates at Bri3-
port, 1 calendar month ; Matthew Clarke, drunk abd
riotous at Weymouth, 21 days ; William Foyler,
drunk, ka, at Wimborne. 7 days; nom" Hook,
drank, Ac., at Weymouth, 7 days.

his first confirms-
bury (Dr. [charley), is now making .
I.
ConTtgraTtne AT ALL Sare're—The Bishop of
'Mints' church for the administrn.
held a service at All
the church was
• nof the sacred rite. At four o'clock
tioo tourthrough the diocese, and on T f oo
trommpletely filled by the candidates (who occupied the
body of the nave), and their friends and curious
spectators a the ceremony. After einginc a hymn,
tbe
order for confirmation was proceeded with. l
solemnly to address
before putting the
questionthe on the serious responsibilities they were about to
Bishop. it will be
indid te
the
undertake; and much as we diftered from Dr.
oaa remembered.
ue
' think this was • whole-
Hamilton on some points, we
some p maim, and worthy of cmitinuance by his
successor.r And the "laving on of hands, which closes
the first division of the ceremony, was oonduntad in a
manner markedly different from the form of the late
Bishop, With Dr. Hamilton this part of the service
was invested with great solemnity. The clergymen who
bad prepared the candidates presented them to his
lordship at the communion rail and knelt in
1 the midst of them, and the Bishop fervently
I gave his blessing to each child. Not so Dr.
Moberley. The clergy seemed instinctively to leave
1 their young people at the entrance to the chancel,
and their wait, scam knowing what to do, while
the Bishop laid his hands upon a pair at • time I
while the form of words is for each individual. Now
it's very odd that this exhibition of the new Bishop's
practice should have been first shown, in this part of
his diorites, at All Saints' Church ; tor only • short
ago, from All Saints' church was sent a memorial to his
lordship, complaining that the Rector in administering
the herds' supper mined the words of the 'orrice and
made general what waa individual. Before the " laying
on of hands" was concluded with the females one or
two of the clergy made up their minds to kneel in the
chancel at the seine time as. but apart fro,o. their
candidates, bet the Bev. V. F. RanilLina, from Trinity
wish, Weymouth, ascended the dap, and koala
tot,man his candidsts whilst the Bishop was laying
on hands. nik Bev. G. P, Topple, of Compton
Valence, was particularly distinguishable, for he bad a
gold embroidered tress in the nape of . his seek.
When the boys went up to the Blelicip the Bev. R. T.
Marke• displayed the greatest amount of nerve in going
up to the comreunlon rail to kneel. Others of the
surplieed clergy followed his example. When this
oen.steny was over the Bishop was escorted to the
pulpit by his attendant verger, andaddreesed the newly
I confirmed. His lordship said he took it for granted that
they bad been fully instructed in the faith, and he
wished to address • few practical words to them. They
' knee quite well that their Christian spiritual life began
I when they were baptised, and that they were then made
1 members of God's Christ, children of his love, and
inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, and that if it had
pleased God to take them away at that time, before
they ware capable of sinning themselves, they would
have certainly gene at once to the inheritance pre-
, pared for them. This knowledge was a moat comfort
to Christian parents in the midst of their sore distress
at the loss of children But they had been spared that
they might attain to higher degrees of Christian holiness
sad service, and for the glory of His same; and, whilst
it was a bleated thing to part with Christian children
in their early infancy, it was yet more blessed that •
child should be spared to grow up • Christian man or
woman. His reason for referring to that was this—that
when the arst blessing (baptism) was given them it was
without any thought or act on their part. He then
spoke of their beooming capable of sinnlogand of know-
ing,andlof praying,and of having faith in arise for them.
selves, and that in such proportion it lay upon them to
do all the things previously done for them for themselves.
They had DOW come to the age which the church fixed
upon for their confirmation' and he impressed upon
them if they would go forward in the Christian life and
be cheerful and hopeful in taking upon themselves the
vows they had that day made, they must deliberately
kneel down and go back over the years they had
since they were conscious of doing wrong ear rd
en.
feel their sins to God End ask His pardon for Jesus
Christ's sake. He did not understard bow any persons
could suppose they would receive the blessings which
belonged to their confirmation if they did
not go through some such prep:iation as that—they
most make their peace God, by true confession
&admit-jug Paxton for Christ's *eke, if they wished
to Ito fr,rward and take their vows with the cheerful
rope which belonged to the young Christian on confir.
oration day. Raving so sought forgiveness of God, he
advised such as had their earthly parents spared to them
to go to their father, or still better to their mother, and
say, "I have been kneeling down and confessing to
God the tins I committed in my youth, and there is
something which I don't think you ever knew of, for
if lon did I don't (kink you ever showed it to me, and
feel sure God forgives me for it, for I have asked
faithfully for Christ's sake, and now I mins to ask that
you would forgive me t 00.," and he could only tell them.
what he dared my they wool I know themselves, how
joyfully a Christiea parent would receive • child going
to bar in that frame of mind, and how she would bless
God for the grass given to • child to go to her and say
that gracious thing, and would bless her child, and pray
to God that all her life through she [Mint have the
same tenderness of conscience, and resolve, by the help
of the Holy Spirit, so to act all her Ilife through.
He was not quite sure that such an experience would
not do the parent good, too, and when, in the course of
time, their parents were taken from them, in the sore
distress of such a time, it would give them great com-
fort to remember that they had the grace to do what
he had spoken of, and were rewired as he mould promise
them a Christian parent (certainly would receive them.
He sommended it to them am • good and wholesome
suggestion. This was a very great day for them; yet
001st all great in outward things: be did not suppose
it would make any differentia whatever outwardly to
any one of them, but it was a great day to them in that
spiritual life which was begun at their baptism. He
then spoke of the °Miasmas being instituted by the
Apostle.; it was administered but once; it was not a
sacrament, yet most important; it was designed to be
the strength of youth, and was given at a time when
dangers were great and temptations many, and at the
commencement of active life in many ways. When
they took their vows they should be thoroughly resolved
by God's gram to keep them, not in their own strength
but by canned prayer for the help of the Holy Spirit.
He traded that all present did really pray to God every
morning and evening, that they attended church
regularly, and that the heeds of families had family
prayer daffy. He proceeded to any that confirmation
was the gate to communion. Hitherto they had
never refused the invitation read in church to
the Lord's Supper, henceforward that invitation would
be addressed to every one of theme He then spoke of
the clam and mysterious drawing near to Christ in the
Holy Communion, and proceeded to speak of the
difficulties in the way of young people:bees:ming regular
ooremanioants. He specially mentioned the absence from
the Lord's table of those whom they naturally and
properly looked up to for an example in the matter.
This was one of those sad things they mast ;way God to
alter. He attributed it to the feeling that attending
Holy Coemennion was a solemn prolessiou that they
intended by the grams of God to lead a holy life; and,
while, saying that was its true interpretation, he
regretted so many shrank from it, and appealed to them
whether they would let their conduct he a help or •
diseoursgement to the 150 young people that day con-
firmed. He than epitomised the profession of faith that
day made by all who had been confirmed, and urged
Meet to prayer and steadfaatnees in the path of God's
ordinances their lives through. The ooncluding
prayers were thou and, and the service closed with the
blessing. Bishop Moberley lacks that fatherly unction
which distinguished Dr. Hamilton, and does not enlist
the sympathies of his congregation as did the late
Bishop. There were about 150 young men and women
confirmed from the following plasm :—Dorset County
School, emend and presented by the Rev. R. G.
Watson; Dorchester Grammar School, Rm. T. R.
Ksititew • Holy Trinity, Rev. T. A. Feltner; St.
Peter's, Ilse. K W. Lean' All Saints, Rev. J. Miller;
Holy Trinity. Weymouth, Bev. V. F. Ransom.;
Piddletrenthide, Rev. T. F. Big g and Rev. J. F.
Falwasser ; Bradford Peverell, Rev, H. B. Williams;
Chilfrome, Bev. W. Hooper • Tineleton, Rev. T. W.
Knipe; Frame Vanehumli, Hooper;
P. H. Newnham •
Weymouth Collegiate School, Rev. J. Ellis ; Batoombe,
Rev, P. a. Newell ; Compton Valence, Rev. G. P.
Toppin; Maiden Newton, Rev. M. Haukey ; Hilton,
Rev. H. P. 8a1k..; Charminster, Rev. C. Tucker. The
Bishop was sesisted by the Archdeacon of Dorset and
the Rector of All Saints,

, COMITY PETIT 81381018, Heturday. —l3d ore H.
, Williams, Esq.. (chairman), E. W. Williams, Bag., and H. B.
r Middleton. Esq.
r THOMAS Bust, an elderly man, was brought up for rarrency.
A cons able found him sleeping on Gime straw In a Reid of
' Mr. Denniex, Weymouth. ,He had been warned against doing
It the ',retinue, day.
Defendant mid he wee going to catch mom* mackerel, and,
' being a cripple, raided on this 'draw because he was they An
for his wife, sbe had not lived with him for two years.
' Sentenced to oven day? hard labour.
JOHN RAWL • Athenian, of AbholibUrf, wan charged with
an:aline four swan's eggs. Mr. Weston defended.
Hobert Pitman rid he a-as awankocper at Abbotabury for
the Earl of Ilcheoter. On 27th May herr, defendant take four
oas from • neat. Defendant saw him, and dropped two which
were smashed all to pieces—thi young one. were Just coming
through. He did not And the other two. At another poet
with Ave mai he knocked down the bird and stunned It, but
it moorland Haat He caught defendant, hid he hadn't rot
any egg. then. Defendant aid his (name was Joiirph Harley,
and Glared him 24. to say nothing.
Crowi-examined : Thla was on the bench, the backwater side.
He wax WO yarded,. A smut sitting would not come out in
you unless you went handy to it. Had ticveghad a blow from
a awn, himself. Did not know a swan would fiy at any person
union OM tried to oath it. Defendant mid be could march
hint, and ha did, but found nothing,
Mr. Winton did not den) defendant struck the anon, but said
aa be was going along the beach the swan dew at him, and be
took up • stone and struck it. A ntan was most powerful; he
believed a bird bad been known to break • man's kg with a
blow from its wing,.
Fined 20a and cots 7a.
Jon% II•l1111, JOllll 1100112, and 111111•11 On, were charred
with being drunk and riotous at Abbotahury. Mr. Weston
defended. They all pleaded guilty. Mr. Weston aid defend-
ants had been out an night fishing. and &Hamm* had some
" redreibment" which took effect Go titan.
Aped is. each NW Oohs.