The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-10-24 00:00:00

MUM eV* expo.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1'471.

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NOTES OF THE WEEK.
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The " New Political Alliance'
No sooner
ii out to Iv
the vorieat wiud-ba over au; oing.
is its authenticity probed, than it collePeee ; aear
are more surpri,ed , apparently ,at the Ton po
vats.
of the now People's Charter, that:
.th.
it.
truth seems to be that this novol gr.
tive peers whose names were appended ded time Thwaea
Pr:attires chiefs
actually laid before the
to do their
accepted it, though all wore_ willing..
muses. through Mr. Scott II
(„artuirvon, Sir
i.Cbutcttatzt uuno had
best for the socialse
elevationl
ardy, have each
having expressed approval of
sLzardifiodSaslisobritihryco,toD, oarnifay,inaunda
written to deny
points, though they not deny
have taken
thatNo son-able iuntilwould suppose that the
eminent linen se
wou'd assent to such sweep-
the"nileogvocenia'tns of "seven"
somo kind h p 1 acc.
hanges of a socialistic tendency
but they are el ;
leg c .idoutly willing to enter-
tain tho thought of social 'dorms, if
the working uten will disclaim further
organic changes. The Opposition have no
definite peliey—villy not take up social reform,
„5 sir J. suggested at the Social
Science Congress I Though the working-class
leaders have not offured any explanation of their
share in the transaction, the London Democrats
have held a meeting, at which they avowed
their resolution to stick to the Ballot, and passed
a vote of confidence in Mr. Gladatone ma the
trusted leader of the people. This is a re-
diculuusly small denouement to what was so
promising a beginning.
The first Cabinet Louncil of the recess was held
in Downing-street on Saturday, when the whole
of the Ministers were present, and, no doubt,
the general plan of the forthcoming session WWI
laid clown, Nnw, however iinprobablu wrs Liao
Corse: vative Peer and Radical Artizau compact,
the subjects embraced in that progaimme—the
health, organisatiod, education, moral and
physical well-being of the as tisau chi,* and the
relation of that class to lab.ur, capital, and
trade—are the questions of the day, and demand
eympathetic investigation by stateamen,not apes t
from, but in association with, men personally
familiar with our ISOCiAI disorders. Neg,lec: of
these matters will promote discontent among the
poorer classes, infiehly productive of political
mischief. Smarting under difficulties that touch
a man's person and home, ho flies to revolu-
tionary and communistic theories. Hence the
nriversal ackeowledgment that next session
must not be barren like the lest in social reforr,
We have been busying ourselves all over, at;
country in sending relief to the sufferers ',,, fire
Indies,
in Chicago and by hntricaue in the
and the Mansion House ti uud amouuta to
E 36,000! . _

The United Kingdom
A
round the hat for ' Banco has been passing
000 .and getting three
as a ' g that-
other rev, .art to rorin afund,among
-awl the attack on di iuk tug iniquities
gin not flag.
The Birmingham League, with Mr. Dixon,
IMl'., as the representative, has recommenced
its Educational agitation, and thrmitons to pull
down the Ministry. For the Leaguers have just
discovered, that while it was quite right—and
indeed a thing to ha made a noise about, as a ill
be recollec:ed—to arzept large Parlidmentary
grouts tit -wally for the ma ntenance of
Deuominat:onal school i, it is • •,iquitous to
pay the icbool Iles of pour chi their out .
of au Education rate I For this differ-
ence between Cesar aud Pompey some of
the apoakers at Birmingham are ready ta go to
gaol; and nobody uilt envy thew !Aim cheap
martyrdom rather than pay threepence a week
to have a poor child taught read p•ILL %iting
In a Denominational School.
Three of t o Agricultoral Societies of Dorset,
viz., Shafteabn.y, Wareham, and Melplsek,have
hold their annual moot.lgi ia the past week.
The clever witty speech of M.-. Gerard Stint at
Sir ftesbe is one of the " of the recta,;
and Mr. I. loyer'a devotion to the sorvics of the
county,inscsion and out of sessiati, h.' I k mitred
for b tnthewell.meritedeatcemof nil classes. It
is gratifying to find that all three societies are
nourishing.

THE EA UL UI, H FEE“II.111Y ON TEIE

We bavo bees z.,puste.l by tha r•v.c.:. Girt to
poblW

.one 001 . .18p de ncl botweeo duo Eon l of
lhaftesbury end tloe W top of Si.' e, respecting
the Diocesan Synod. but pre,. iti ro en prevents
rut giving more than • (..eminrey. Tee totters have
already beau oircub sled peivreely, bet ri Jo, too /I I of
Shaftesbury his c animated to the; • put:- 'on.
At the col of July, the idshrep so .t, to I ord
Shaftesbury a copy of the resolution' to I. proposed at
the Salisbuteoonf gentle on the 9:4 Au rut!. As to the
first eitebliehlug • eerier tent Synod,b' 10. "Cp wrote
that ho should have no 0bje0....0n the W loop cud La
advisers thought ii levitates:ly la tvoeny pr celi.hura.
In regard to the peopot ion of c' orgy iii 'ty proposed
In the second, he thougett tho hitter i ladequate.Tonah-
ing its work. as ind'. .Wd by the thit I, he wrote
I do not, at all, approve the scheme of appo'oting
an authoritative body to take chs-ee of the chief
operations cow ooetducted by volautsry socittions"—
I we', no rearon why the Pe tor,' Aid Society, the
Church Mhisionare• Satiety, cod the liko, should be
subjected to the advico Ind control of a Synod"
" Bat in the main I objoat to the scheme as inexpres-
sibly below the mark of our prewut exigonoies—l had
hoped, when I reoeiveed yoor Loraship'e invitation, that
soma wide and comprehensive plan wee to he under
deliberation for the immediate, and extortive, diffusion
at Ch..stian Truth through the tnatrument-tity of the
established Cm-rob, for tho remove' of impediments
to progress, for the conciliation of flonoonformists
and specially for some vigorous and 'loyal efforts to
bring tho le-eo mass of tho people under religious
teaching." On the whole, say. his lordship. I feel
rely d( .its disappointment.
Its reply to this letter, the Bishop says the Synod
will be the diocose acting ; ho thinks this proposed
constitution equitable; aid touching Lord Shaftwbrity's
chief objoction,be expiable," As to Mielmas,l would fain
see every Parish In the Dioccso suppet. both the Church
Missionary Society, and the Society for Propagating the
Gospel; holding an aim& Mies( is Festival, and
dividing the alms (when not expressly directed) equally
between Um two. And I should like to have a great
annuli Festiva for both together in Salisbury, dividing
the proceeds between them. The deed branches of the
two Societies only operate to diffuse information and
collect moue —They do not affect the conduct of the
Societies—The Committee of Synod (embracing all the
existing officia's a both Societies) would COO-
fine Balt to the work now done by the
branches. After ex [detain his porpow vi to the
supply of Meshy and education the Bishop says
"Your Lordship exprasaes &tape Aetment at tue
omiesioo of various groat and pressing miliaria in the
programme of the Synod. May I reply that my
object is to get an inefearneat, whico, if it works well,
need have no I imiteti in io the extort': of Its ultimat
work. I wi.h to gather into one, the now seetterod
follow which waste their etrenech and neutre';es each
' other as Wines are r,nduotel at present. I wieh to
utiliza 'high sad low," lay and oletical by joining
them in one body, re ly and honestly r presentative,
In which no el vs of 'Amick people, cud no corner of
the Diocese bee not it, due vote e"
Lord Shaftosbury sonde two letters by way of
rejemder. 1.1 tau Iti.a be Faye he alt support the
Synod, but C nnnt dr with the 3rd r.oin,rion, ond
in hit second cousteulie%tion., he say. "I could givo
but a sold nape, to the two fir.t resolutions, but to
the thied I should offer en on o,al ViNtOt I opposi-
tion,' sod the' fero lie thought it be( t to ho absent
from tie coufe.ence.