The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

By ofttimand of the Queen, lb. Court will be is
mourning 1,3 a three weeks, cammeocing last Sunday,
for his We Majesty the Emperor of Mexico, who
was comin to lb. Queen by bie marriage with the
Princess Charlotte, daughter of Leopold L, K tog
of the Belgkiea. It is understood that the review
which etas to base been held in Hyde-park on
Friday has only been postponed for • fortnight.
Hader Mut oireematances, it was just m well that
it did not take "lea ; for according 10th. Army
dud Bury Onnufe the connuiseariat arrangements,
whioh are ales), the tint to go wrong in the
!MUM barrios, were disgracefully bad. The
regiments whit* arrived at Honoalow from Alder.
Mot at nine in the mornieg, were without rations
for man or horse till five o'clock in the afternoon.
The remit wee that the horses were by no memo
creditable show east day. This incident remind.
us of oar wretched oommissariat mismanagement
in the Crime.; but nom then it has been
ruanilly supposed gut noes anons cibtage toAcria.
We may Lave changed all our organisation, out
cen hardly have improved it, if this story be
true.

dotal! Drogram las been made during the past
week with Reform Bill, hot the battle of the
greet towns he. been fought and woe by the Omni-
Lion, and Mr. Lowe has advoca.ed with mach ability
his scheme of cumulative young, though without
surecees, In the course of the debates the Clovers.
went hays received several hand blows. The boo.
member for Wee, in hie owe f ircible stile, hes
averred that "same they bad got into committee on
rho Bill it bad bean one uninterrupted course of
Protean °lmage. so that hardly one of the clauses
originally proposed remains," while their °es
familiar friend, General Peel, ham nothing better to
gay for their ouednot of the Bill than that he bee
learnt from lithe.. three things —1" That nothing
bee so little vitality as • vital principle; nothing is
so insecure as seetirities and nothing is erreleatio as
the ormacienoe of a cabinet minister." These are
smart sayings at least, and have sufficient troth in
item lb be provokingly unpleasant. Bat the
Chancellor of the Exaequer holds on his way in
" the spirit of compromise and mutual coooes ion."
which he displays with consummate an wheoever
yielding or defeat is imminent, and will ere tag
evolve • Bill mesh as the berat ardent democrat Dee.,
anticipated. not the moot extreme tory ever feared
when the House entered upon the work of amending
the representation of the people. But we have
sufficient faith in the natural Conseryatien of the
great body of the people of England to be severed
that neither the hopes of revolutioaiste nor the leers
of those who roped change as synonymous with
deterioration will he realised as • result of the large
measure of enfranchise:neat about to be Oen.
Maximiliao, having refused LO leave klezion when
the Frenoli mullion were withdrawn, fell into the
hands of the Jeanne by the irresistible 110160 of
teethe, and, as he muse have fully regarded as •
possibility at least when remaining behind, his life kis
been esorifired. This deplorable result has created a
terribly Ingebrioes sensation throughout Europe, but
especially in Frames where the people most be, and
are, as we are aemered, painfully 000artons that they
are greatly responsible for the death of the Mexican
Emperor. He went out to that distracted country
to • throne he did not erect, *blob the Emperor
Napoleon solicited him to occupy, and promised to
defend, but with characteristic French fickleness the
people soon grew weary of the difficulties and
expense of the expedition, and the onfortuoate
Emperor was left alooe. True, he had an oppor-
tunity of leaving the country, but doing so would
have consigned the thousands who had attached
themselves to his cacao to certain death, and, with
true noMlitv of ch./aerie, he refos-.1 to leave them
to imam and sad a fale. But his devotion was 01.
repaid. Ho fail by the hand of • traitor. Miguel
Lopez, the colonel of the regiment of the Empress,
the kr 'per of the key of Queretaro, the commander
of the fort of La Croa, sold his lord and cower for
48,000 dollars, aid at midnight on the 14th of May
the traitor colonel opened the gates of the convent
of La Cruz to the enemy, while Maximilian tran-
quilly alept. At the first gleam of morning the
Emperor nee, and immediately perceived that some
unexpected event bad taken place. He directed his
steps to the outer enclosure of the convent, but bad
scarcely advanced • few peat when he ma nor-
rounded by • detachment of soldiers accompanied by
Lopes who pointed out the Emperor to the troops,
crying out "That is the man—eMse him I" Five
days later Maximilian with generals \firemen and
Wks were shot The emigre has fallen, Om
Emperor is deed, the Empress Charlotte is a raving
lunatic. Boob an accumulation of eons may well
arrest the attention of the civilised world, and pro-
voke the.. to unqsalified banal of urns crowning sot
in Minima evil-doing. But " the reprobation of all
civilised teatimes" se the Mowitege anticipates, is not
enough. Rameure have been and are mill current
that all the Frew* residents in Maxie i had been
butchered, and that the French Minister himself.
H. Deno, was amoog the vie tom Be this true ne
not, certain it is that all those who favoured the
fallen Emperor's cause, are in an exceedingly dan-
gerous strait, and the honour of Frames is concerned
in providing them • protection and an 000 DDS. The
late Archduke Maximilian was born on the 6th
July, 1842, and had not, therefore, attained his 33. b
year. He was brother of the Emperor Praucis
Joseph, of Austria.
The political consequences of the execution of
Ildasinnliate form the subject of a good deal of span-
Won. The general impressim is that it will
greatly interfere sith tee attempt to get up an
alliance between Francs and Austria. Nevertheless,
the organ' of the French Government give it to he
o°4kt-stood that the visit of the Emperor and
Empress of Austria is only adjourned, and that it
will take plane all the mem, bet this may be fairly
doubted.
The speech of the Emperor of the French, us
distrinuting the prises et the Pens exhibition
beta:hes • spirit of pease to all the world, but its.
, principal value lies In its releremie to the ecormoruiosl
beerier of the Exhibition upon the welfare of man-
kind generally. The friendly rivalry in the arts of
peace, of which the French exhibition is the arena,
effects not only the comforts and condition of the
rich. The people of the earth—the toiling millions
—will he taught how they can livechesper, bow their
domiciles can be rendered more Wettable, how even
the tip they breaths can be purified. The Emperor, ,
in causing these lemma to be told in • °wirier so
popular and an agreeable, is surely giving the best
practical guarantee in his poser that the ploughshare '
sad not the sword is uppermost in his thoughts at
this moment., and that throughout the present
magbilioent material display in Paris he has shown
his aim is peaos and the general advancement of
civilization.

The Viceroy of Egypt, whose visit km beep
looked for daring ha lost few days mid been lb*
subject% of SO 11300 h comment and coatrooms',
reached Lund.. ou Saturday eveciog. Although
his reception Wai not a royal ooe, a. had been
auwenicad—it having been stated that the Prince
of Wales would most the V oeroy at the railway
shame—Mill it sea as hearty and enthosiastio, so far
ash. publie were oonosroed, many foreign potentate
could have daeirecl. He was received by Earl
Dudley, and two of Her Majesty's carriages arm
rwvided tor 1b.... of His Highness end suite. The
eroy is described as • remarkably good looking
man, about forty years of age, somewhat below the
middle stature, and stoat His face is mainly 01,411
Si 111•410, be has au affable expression, and is by
sio weans of so dark a complexion as many of his
suite.

A Bombay paper ham publiabed a lettor written,
on March 31. by Dr. ISlane, lone of Mr. Itasimai's
oompaniess in the nalnoky mission to. the release
of Consul Cantsiroo, to an Indian ofßeer. Tbe
writer expressly, no dobt, the common wish of ail
the Emperor 'T coders's captives, that their suffer.
hip should be brought to an end, ono way or the
ethm., by tho &demists of a British army into
Abyssinia. It is rsinoarsd these portion of her
Midway's Indian foiese aro held in readiness to take
part In any sopedition that may be decided upon
against Abyssinia.

THE IRISH CHIJRCH.

There is no bore in society more intolerable than the
man who bee, without knowing it, oetdireahi. poyen
of making Minna' •Crintablo, but still Persists in the
Yin attempt, despite the constant efforts of all his
• ,quaintanosa, to keep out of his way. Lord Russell I.
the political of been of the prepaid day. He can't
bring himself to believe that the world GAD get on with-
out him. He can't imagine that there can bee Govern.
meat in which he has DO share; sad now that no man
marks him, he is continually forting himself upon the
notice of the country by some absurdity. For no other
reason than • desire to remind people that he is still
alive, he has lately renewed the attack upon the Irish
Church, end, regardless of the fact that he eras un-
blushingly adopting • plan, which, when in oSco last
year, he declared to be Impossible, he went through the
operation of blowing h • own trumpet, at the same time
displaying the grossest ignorance of the history of that
Church, for which he was prescribing. No Protestant
can object to • commission to inquire into the revenues
and position of that Church. A oaruniselon will do
much to dissipate the colon& of ignorance which pre-
vail on the eubjeet, and render impossible a repetition
of the false statements that have hitherto been put
forth.

The history of that Church ii most deeply intending,
mil =din • yen impanent dining to aitetehmem
14 iit• meat der. gal amiss /kw, be eisparkus

Rem the faith, her sutesquemt bondage, lie =Mikis
made by Rugland with regard to Ireland at the Refor-
mation, her later endowments—all ought to be well
known to Rngliahrnen, that they may know how mooed-
km are the charges brought against her, how plainly
marked out the one efficient remedy for the evils of
that lau.l.

Hew fevr Englishmen arc aware that Ireland was
finned throughout Europe as the "Asylum of Piety,''
"the Retreat of Sacred Learning," "the Wand of
Saints and Doctors," and "the Teacher of Europe,"
for oenturies before England had made much advanoe
from grossest darkness; that from the sth to the
12th century she had a pure Rvangelical Church,
hoLling the mine doctrines that the Church of Ireland
now holds, entirely independent of the Romish Church,
&ad even opposed to her; and sending forth her
missionaries through Ragland, Europe, and even to Ice-
land ! nd ye t such is the historical fact. Andhowwasthls
light extinguished? The Church herself was unfaithful.
Nalachy, the Bishop of t rmagh, was the great Church
agitator and revolutionist of the day. Idasatiafied
with the simplicity of worship and purity of
doctrine of his Church, and dassled by the splendid
Ritualism and specious claims of the t hurch of
Rome, he went abroad into Rumps to sea how
the Church of Rome "worshipped her Oods,'.
and, as his historian Bernard says, on his return
"Lo ! he began to lay the axe to th root, to pluck ups
and to pull down, and to scatter—to extirpate
barbarous rites, and plant ecclesiastical core; to
abolish old seperstitions, of which there were ants
few; and to establish in their stead, the spostolicsi
enactments and decrees Of the Holy Father, and au e-
cially the omegas of the Holy Ronan Church. And
then the most wholesome use of Confession, the Beers'
went of Confirmation, the contract of marriage, all
which his people before were either ignorant of; or did
neglect, Welsch,' instituted At wow."

He did what certain eocleeisstios of our Church are
attempting now. He introduced the superstitions of
Rome her seven Sacrament., the filthy coole
monks and nun.. of ell which the Irish Chnt6
been happily ignorant up to his time Then the
doctrines of the Scriptures were soon replaced by the
follies and falsehoods of the apostate Church. And
now mart what followed. Adrian IV., the only Rag-
Unarm that ever was Pops made over to Henry 11.
of Ragland the King om of Ireland, "for the purpose
(to nee Dr. Laaigan's words) of extending the bound-
aries of the Chunk An., moompanying the grant how-
ever with the stipulation for the payment to at. Peter
of a penny annually from every house in Ireland." flo,
that ono* glorious Church, haring betrayed the truth
which made her glorious, lectune a matter of bargain
between an ambitious king and an apostate prelate,
and lost her liberty. She forsook her God, and He
left her in the hands of the ungodly.
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But how came it to pass that at the time of the
Reformation, when England threw off the bondage of
Rome, Ireland Jul not join in that glorious work?
She did join to it, and every one of her leafs/ Bishops
accepted the Reformation, and so did the people in
general. But here was the mistake Elisabeth eras so
absolute monarch ; sad, although for the most port she
showed wonderful wiseloni, yet kmitilias she was in
error. She walled to crush out t e Irish language,
hopihg that when the people spoke the same tongue am
her own people, they would be more united. Se
Divine service was only to be administered in
the English or Latin language. Back came the
emissaries of Rome, told them that the reason of
this e Bet was that the Irish was a sacred I.riguage,
that heresy mild not be taught in it, and thus
drew the mass a the people beak to Popery in
her old age the Queen wished to undo this evil, but
died before anything could be done, and the types she
had prepared were bought by the Jaiuita and carried
to Rheims to print their boats for the Irish people.
After the reeteeatio4 of Charles 11. the property of the
Irish Popish rebels was confiscated and divided among
some of his supporters, about an eighteenth part
Wog allotted to the Protestant Church. So the cry
about the church property having been taken from the
Church of Rome is unfounded—the present Church is the
legal successor of that of which St. Patrick was a
member, which was reduced by force of arms into
obedience to Rome, and renouno.à that bondage at the
Reformation.

But, although Lord Russell's attack is absurd and
groundless, yet it is still dangerous. When there is an
amount of money in question, and a great many hungry
claimants for a share, and unprincipled men willing to
be carried into power on the leek of any party, it will
I net be very difficult to find an excuse for a fresh set of
robbery. Our great hope is this. Ibe Irish Church
was never so useful, never so popular in Ireland as at
the present time. She is comparatively free from the
Ritualistic treason which is undermining our own
Church. Her self-denying efforts in time of famine
and cholera have w n for her, and her minsters, the
hearty respect of the mass of the people, with
thef exception of the priests tbeinselvei and their
Immediate retainer. She has stood many a shock
before, and, we believe, she will outlive those who wish
for her destruction now; but of this we may be sure,
that her downfall, come when it may. will be but the
prelude for the downfall of the Church of England : they
stand really upon the Name foundation ; they have the
same historical claim to respect and support; so let no
English Charehman, no honest Protestant, view with
Indifference the mischievous meddling of Lord Russell.
Re has ever shown considerable cleverness in making
and doing mischief : his whole life does not furnish one
Instance of any thing really good. the Reform Bill of
18 I, of which he is so proud, is now confessed to
have been a most one-sided and imperfect measure •
his foreign seereiceiet was a series of blunders; we
trust the time is coming when be will i.e the necessity
of seising to meddle, where he cannot mend; and will
sink into that oblivion which haa king been waiting to
receive him.