The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

Cultsiutical_ Intelliput.

Tee Qom hes milmeribect 100 guineas to the Curates'
Augmentation Fund.

A New CHOSCH i about to be built at St. Denys, •
populous suburb at Southampton. at • wet of about
£7,000. St. Denys is the stattott foe the branch railway
to Neils, Abbey.

Tao Cwratoat Vmmuurri Ilict..-111. Esti of
shafteebary stated in the Houma of Lords that netwith•
standing the announcement of a royal commission to
inquire into the ezistenee of oartaln ritualistic practices,
be should. with .11 respect to the right rev. bench,
persist In the Clerical Vestments Bill.

LORD BEAFTReRDRY OW THU CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
—The powder lecture at Surrey Chapel on Monday
evening nu delivered by Mr. Handel Coalman, on
"Power." Lord Shaftesbury presided, and in the ours,
of his remarks, said—" The Church of England I. not •
prinoiple, but only an instrument. If it does not stand
up for the Reformation, as a balturk between us and
Popery, I uy let the Church of Ragland go. But I
hope better things."
Dn. CoLgsBo.—The proesedinp in the Supreme
' Court of Natal In the case of Bishop Colmmo v. the
Bishon of Cape Town. the question at issue being in
whom the title to the ground on which the
Cathedral stands is vested, keen been bronght
to a close. The Chief Jostles gave judgment fm
the plaintiff, relying mainly on the eircurnstance
that the Bishop of Cape Town surrendered his original
letters patent ow the constitntiou of the see of Natal.
The majority of the Cut aosurred. Notion of appeal ,
was, however, given on the part of the Bishop of Cops
Town.

LIBILLING Tan BISHOP OF OXPOILDe Bishop of
Oxford has authoritatively called upon the Record to
withdraw the epithet " Romanisleg prelate." which that
power applied to him. The Record replies that the
bishop, on publicly asennsing the rejected putoral staff,
and allowing himself on such times aa those to he photo-
graphed, crook in heed, as If in the act of blessing, has
certainly countenancied the idea which is by no means
disinclined to the views of the ultra-Ritaalist,. at least
in regard so the clerical ornaments and customs. but
add. that it never imagined that the phrase " Roman-
Wing prelate" mould be tortured into • personal insult.
The Record retracts, okaying that it had no hesitatioN in
withdrawing an expremion which the Bishop repxdsd as
an Impeachment on his charsoter as • Prelate of the
Protestant Church of England.

"k LITANT 01 TR. Flour Fan" has just been
printed (without any publisher's name attached), which
Is recommended by the Ceara New to persons who and
benefit from the use of devotions somewhat different
In kind from those customary in the Church of England.
In case any of our readers rney like to say It for them-
selves, hers it is —"0: adorable Faso, mournful at the
sight of Jerusalem, and shedding tears over that
ungrateful city; 0 adorable Fees, covered with a
bloody sweat; 0 adorable Face, kissed by the traitor
Judos ; () adorable Fees, whose eanetity and Majesty
struck the soldiers with terror, and made them fa to
the earth; 0 adorable Fan, ertruck bg aservant,
eivered with Ignominy, and profaned Lit aaarihwriaaa
hands of thy enemies; 0 adorable
soiled with
spitting, and disfigured with so many blows; 0 aiorable
facie, whose divine glance touched iris. heart of St. Peter
sorrow and lone; 0 adora•;le Few, bumbled for
us in the streets of Jerusalem; be,. mercy vpm, ,„.”

Tex CHURCH Aseoctsr, AND
'mined of the Church Amor "Lien ha,. ieseed en oddrro.
with referrotie to ritually^
cad Mr. Andrews. .oinwiti.. disarm. is f
our
methods of Pmceedinf with ritualist& The Ant plan,
the prosecution for P.eolipt...tio... deed..d their
end they too' sssistod local parties (sic) at
East Teignmouth lii the sane which is now before the
courts. The see Jwill visa, that of giving the bishops in.
crowd
.P", they think unadvbeble, and especially
ci the b''P's have shown so little readies's to take
ad"' To third plan, the leans of a Rani Cam.
wity are lens imposed, but they think there am
B°"°'s Mations to it, inasmuch as the action must be
dilater and circuitous, and the results distant and an-
cart' Ai., and depoidont on the composition of the cow.
mu Arm. The fourth plan, that of proceeding by Let of
orals:neat, they thorouehly approve, and they urge
eat Lord Shaftesbury's Bill shall he supported.

PILTS Or TEM RE',. DL Osltelitrz.—The death is
announced of the Rev. Dr. Sohn Campbell, who for •
long time held high built as a minister of the Inde-
pendent or Congregational denomination. The deceased
getleman was born in Forfarshire in 1796 and having.
received 1.4.4 preliminary education at private schools
entered the 'University of 81. Andrew's, when.* be
migrated to the University of Glasgow. He was
ordained in 1829 to the partial °harpist a eongregation
in Ayrshire, but oomine to London he was appointed
minister of the Tabernaele in If oortelds, built by the
eslebreted George Whitfield. On resigning that post,
&her twenty years' arduous labour, he devoted himself
entirely to literate's, and was the editor of several
periodicals (ineleidlng the /kind' Sranciord) and the
author of several works, prineipelly of • oontroversial
&smote, \ In 1839 he opened a controveray in the
newspaper' with the Queen's printers on the Bible-
printing monopoly, which resulted In an Immense
reduction of the prise of the Scriptures. In the year
, 1841 he received Underlie of D.D. from the University
'of Si Andrew's. A few months since he received •
splendid testimonal from his admirers and friends on his
retirement into private

Tee BISHOP OP OXFORD AND TB. CHolcll IN
Mame°. —The Bishop of Oxford haa jest replied at
some length to the address from 237 communicants in
Reading, forwerded but week, expressing their perfect
eatiefaction with the manner in which his lordship had
fulfilled the duties of he episcopal °Moe In the dimes*,
this step being taken in isineequence of an addreca,
signed by 2UO communicants in the same tottn, and sent
to the bishop, in which they declared their want of eon.
fidence in him se their diociesan, owing to the count.-
name which they alleged the right rev, prelate had
given to the Rittallstal movement. The Bishop Oates
that the address by the 237 communicant.(whoineluded
the Mayor of Rending, the ez.mayor, and a number of
churchwardens) has afforded him much pleasure; it is
a proof of their confidence and affection, hi., thanking
Clod that his endeavours to diseharge his duties during
the 21 years he has been their bishop are appreciated.
His lordship ooneludes—" I attached very little weight
to that other address to which you refer. I felt eon-
rinced that it was not the voice of eharohmen in
Reading. I saw at once from the few signatures to it,
which meant anything, that it was put forth by tboes
who are, unhappily, notorious for that narrow and pre.
jedieed spirit which must make them dislike any attempt
of mine to maintain the distinctive doctrines and
cipline of our Reformed Church in that large spirit of
toleration which ix so essentially bars."