The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

Varitttas.

COUNTRT BRAINHOLDI/15.--PlOURhalen.
THE POACHIII.I3 P ‘II•DIIIL —A Gin Palace.
A Brame WELL ReLCD.—Dr. Nancy eomp4ain4 that
the Judieial Committee hero not interpr,te,l a certain
ruble, relative to the MacitonocLie case grammatically.
They trill be eenerally sossider..d to balm Interpreted it
ace.wding to its obvionaly intended meaning. Dr. Posey
moot not expect worldly judge. to interpret seven
Church li. In a nownatural sense.

"A BLOAT= AIIINTOCILACT AND • BLOATS& CDuNDEL"
—"John Knox" confides to Mr Puna hit opinion that
"Like all people between two stools," Ritualista AKIN
some to the ground. They are neither Protestant nor
Papist, "neither dab, flesh, nor rood red-berrin'."
Neither fish nor flesh, perhapa Bet Pooch most demur
to the resit of the deseripton. Many Ritualitta are
" good," a few are not only "read." but well read, and
nil, without exorption, are "errin."

1411 EA KI NU.
I lave term the morn break tier the hill,
The breaking !envie .don roma 1,4 glade,
The mer•break. upon a headionz
or breaking ligitt through .tornly dole arrayed.
The break in .unte long rang, ~fm nmtain•peaks
That gives • glimee oil ,velinter beyond—
The Wye.% that bespeaks
The future reconciliation fond.
But of a/I breakage. that I have met—
And I have wen a little in that line—
The unc that I have neer experienced yet—
The right which I ahall never claim no mine—
The dght that never sill he beaten—no!
Toe man that break., yet pa,• what he dull. owe.

Ntw ['MITT NAM I& —Advertisements for OUT at« are
now furnishing ample food for thaw who scan the
'newspapers with an eye to the carious. In • recent
issue of a contemporary, for instance, we Sad
a "liberal" rector asking for • fellow labourer, who
among other qualifications must be "an extreme
Boothe," or • "Disrselitish Hecordite." If we were not
tolerably well acquainted with the foibles which even
grave and reeerved men 'sometimes manifest, we should
be helloed to regard such an annonnoement as a hoax,
bus we have reason to believe that it Is really bona
fide—English Churchman.
Ties Oononix•rionax TALI Been.—The new edition
of this annual whloli furnishes a variety of
personal and statistical information respecting the
Independents, has just been published by Wows.
Hodder and Stoughton. The following summary shows
the number of the Congreational elturehes:—ln England,
2,003; Wales, 866 ; Scotland, 102; Ireland, 27; Islands
of the British Seas. 16; British and North America, 125;
Australia and New Zealand, 158; Cid* Natal, ha; 19;
foreign mission churches, independent of numerous
out-stations, 133—total. 3,442. Of resent charlottes
there are in England 163; Wales, RI; Aeolian& 10;
Ireland, 3; British North Aviaries, 37; Australia and
other colonies, 20-4otal, 314. Of ministers and
missionaries in England. 1,915; Wales, 393; Scotland,
102; Ireland, 25; Continent, 7; Colonies, 237; foreign
lends, 166; native ordained minden in heathen
63—total, 2,898. It appears that the number of pastors
li, in Ragland, 1,492; Wales, 342; Scotland, 88; Ireland,
22; Continent, 5; adonis*. 181; Inhalon.rieujEurulusarth
168; native pastors in heathen lands, 00. There are In
England 420 minsters without pastoral 'heron. 123
new passim were called last year. 383 students are In
the colleges, and 63 in institutions connected with the

Maaanot.—The contract or essence of a marriage,
according to the reoommendetion of the Royal Com-
mission, Mould, maintains the dforeirig Pool, eonsist of
" an interchange of declerstion of matrimonial consent"
00 the part of the brld• and bridegroom, made
pp..vs.o. of a amly assthorlsod amasoolp,
• minister of religion or • eelebrant civil °Seer. It is
this interchanging of verbal consent In the presence of
authorised witnesses which la of the Nuance of the
marriage contreet,which may take place in • Diameter's
or • Roman Catholic Chapel or meeting.honse, or in •
Jewish synegoguess well as In • church. So much for
the placer where marriages may be solemnised ; and a,
to the time, the Commissioners are of opinion that
none should be Reed by law, so that merriages may take
place at any hour. Two witnesses ere to be Demmer,
to attest the solmenisation of marriage. With these
exceptions all mere forms are abolished, and the maim
of all denominations and sects of Dissenter, will be held
good. The power of contracting marriage "without
any religious ceremony," that is before the registrar, is
to be oontinued as heretofore—this functionary being
the ciridoflioer before alluded to. It follows from these
propositions that all mired marriages, that is, boatmen
persons holding different religion, creed*, will be valid
If there hu been the proper interchange of consent in
the mascot of the proper functionary or celebrant and
attested by the proper witnesses. The principle of
getting rid of mere forms is carried out in the mem.
mendation to do away entirely with banns, which, iii.
laid down, are not merely useless, but inoonvient and
otherwise objectionable. To carry out the principle of
preventing clandestine marriages, however, there are •
preliminary forms recommended as essential for securing
this end. Notices of residence, and of intention to
mast be given together with declarations in
merry,
parties to UN :proposed oontract must give an
account of themselves, such as maids or widow;
bachelors or widowers, and the like When these
potion and deelaratious bam bow given, • certificate
superseding the licence now In use, and authorising the
marriage, will be granted in do. source. In seaners
with the principle of reodering;marriage as easy as
possible" the exaction" of all fees and compulsory pay-
meets will °ease and be dons away with. Tbs new law
Is to be uniform for the whole of the Milted Kingdom,
sod there are, as we have said, reeemateedatiorte for
the aineedment of the law ea regards lite marriages
of British subjects In our possamiees beyond sea sod ID
foreign Skstio. This report bears smog( the signaterar
attested to it those of Lords Hatherlity Ohm Sir W.
P. Wood Chelineford, Lyveden, sod Cairns • Sir
Bounden Palmer, and Mr. Justice Wilde, all eminent
Reglish lawyers • and also that of the no less eminent
Scotch laurar. iledJesties Omen! Inglis. The one
tidal tkia raPart Moves Is the paramount nes=
no. allowleg soother awake to pm without
legisisign motion is UN maSktr.