The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-19 00:00:00

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DOROHZEITER. SEPTEMBSIL 19th, 1888.

All friends of the great temperance movement in
Dorchester may well be cheered by the swims which
has attended the mission of the last week. The
unanimity and gooi-feeling which has been displayed
by the various branches of the movement existing here
Is not the least satisfactory feature; and not only have
the little differences between temperance workers been
souk, but on UDS platform were to be found Canons of
the Ifestablithed Church working side by side with
"adulators of other denominatiow," all wog/Waif°, one
eommon cause and the common good. Ono of the
incidental benelita of temperance work is he
tendonoy to bring different deporninatthas to-
gether on • friendly fu.Aing. A very striking
example of this was displeyed last week iu Linduu
Daiwa Wilberforce, • power fur good in this move-
ment, the win of • stiff liigh Cburctunan and the
grandson of • not leas stiff Clapham:nits, preach.
lag Blue-lt:bbonism shoulder to shoulder with
pronounced leaders in Dissent at Mr. Spurgeou's
Tabernacle ; and it is also not an extraordinary thing
for Church clergymen and Homan Catholic priests to
address sasesnlaLies in 1-resenting Cuspate on Tempet.
woe subjects. Although we had rot the pleasure
of witnessing this phenomenon last week, still the.
WS/ ample evidence that the lISOMI printiple existed,
and that il the efforts now being made are to be suc-
cessful they must be the efforts of • united church
and • united laity. Good practical results have nut
been wanting, and the Mission must be reckoned n
great moue's, although we regret that financially there
Is • oonsidenthle deficit.

The cool off -baud manner in which Mr. Hollinp
wee at first received at the Town Had on Saturday
struck us am remarkably like the suspicion attached to s
"dark hare.' at Derby time. His opening rvmarks
were reodved in studied but respectful gleam, but his
honed szposttlon of the asricuttural sitaattun quirk.),
disarmed euspiciou, and hie Neutiments were at times
very warmly appliuded. There was a genuine ring
In the fainters' appreciation of Mr. Hollings'
sympathetic utteranon, and if oonvinoed of nothing
OW
they mud have been sidsfied they hid no enemy
in the speaker. He had evidently been looked upon
with some suspicion, for various rumours as to certain
ulterior motives had been rife, but laving declaimed
connection with any organization, his remirks being
en open, and the general tenons Si in SCOird&OCIO with
their own feelings (at lewd one would imagine so) that
the dark clouds of suspicion rolled away long before be
had reach his peroration, and should Mr. Hollings
lake upon himself the task of addressing another
audience of Dorcheeter farmers, be might red assured
of a much larger miserably.

We are as excited as the net of the country at Sir
Gernst's viatory. We are as anxious to believe that it
was an arduous achievement, and we are inclined to
exaggerate any details which serve to show that
Azsbe's soldiery made • stout resistance to our Utlll
bat we may justly pride ourselves on the completeness
of
Sir Garnet Wolseley's arrangementa, and the skill
with which he regulated the movements of our fine
forces. We have reason for more than satisfaction at
She military genius with which Sir Garnet calculated
the time and manner of acoompli,bing his task. He
has earned a peerage better than some military oam-
=seders who have been so rewarded. It is an
inunenae satisfaction for the country to know that it
powwow • man of hie cool and confident judgment
II another Crimean War were to take place, it would
Sot find us in doubt as to the hands in which the Army
should be pieced. Sir Garnet has bade wider military
experience than Sir Arthur Wellesley had had when
the latter took command in the Peniosule. He has
possibly in him the making of as great • soldier as the
Iron Duke, whom patronymic is to similar, and who,
Like himself, an • Hibernian peasant pot it—" Was
sacs only an Irishman."

Finigan Is deed. The war of obstruction is
calculated to ruin stronger constitutions than his, and
he is no doubt a victim to the tactics of Pernallism. II
Is no slight task to sit cut the wearisome debates of
such sessions IA recent ones. And young Land-Ltaguers
are not allowed to sit silent. They are returned to
Parliament, and, it is no libel on than to., say mons-
bully supported, in order to talk, and that often and

loudly. Their speschee may consist for the most
part of rank nonsense. But the mental effort all well
the physical strain is great, and when to that is added
the labour of preparation for the Bar, as In Mr.
Viaigen's cieee, it is little wonder that nature refuse+
ea heavy • burden.

The Democratic Federation, in the second year of
It. exisispoos is still in sore need of • programme, and
Is amusingly ready to seize even the most shadowy
pretext for keeping itself en evidence. It has lstely
been engaged in protesting, without very much
necessity, against the introduction of Chinese labour
Into these kingdoms. The number of Celestial
employed in England is se yet so ridiculously small
that no great alarm need be raised even amongst those
who entertain the singular medley of political views of
which Mr. Hyadman is the prophet.
The Methodists last year had their dEcontenical
Oallereaoe. in imitation of the Pan-Anglican Synod,
and next year the Presbyterians intend holding a
General Council of Presbyterian Churches at Belfast.
As far as confessions of faith are concerned, all the
different Presbyterian Church*. might well be
merged in one. The distinctions which exist amongst
them turn on points, of Church Government al but
incomprehensible to anyone but • Scotchmao. But •
new departure is believed to be at hand, which the
General Council may accelerate. When the Church
of Scotland is disestablishel, it is said north of the
Tweed that a reunion of all the Scotch Presbyterian
bodies may be confidently anticipated. Bat there
will be a re-divislon of parties. Professor hobertem
Smith is only the representative of • large body of
ministers who adopt the "newer criticism," and hold
Latitudinarian view• which startle the old and severe
school of divines. A Strict Church and • Broad
Church must diverge out of the coming reunions and
this re-adjustment et parties may sot improbably be
beamed by the Belfast Council.