The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-28 00:00:00

taming, or, in point of fact explaining our own,
opinions (for a conviction of their rightfulness
tells us they need no more), indulging the hope
of never giving offence to others, being careful
to assail no man's conscience, having too deep a
sense of the liberty of speaking our own. An
object, after which we have yearned for years, has
been to establish religious papers amongst the
people. Talk of high class journalism! Guided by
the Spirit of Truth, there could be no journalism
higher than that. Tolerant, because we wish to
be popular, we should like for that very reason
to shun controversy and contention. Taking
lower ground, there is an expediency apparent
in our adoption of the organization of the
Church as our ground work, as providing a
ready-formed parochial machinery, established
and maintained by law for working out our pur-
pose, territorially. The Country as well as the
Church, is, however, equally the object of our
secular as of our religious solicitude ; and we
hope to be able to present pages of far more
intimate and immediate interest both to town
and country than is usually the case with the
ordinary run of journals. To expect that these
improvements can be introduced at once, or in
an abrupt and startling manner, would be
absurd. It would neither answer our purpose,
nor that of the reader, whom we seek to pro-
pitiate by gradually meeting his wants and
wishes as they exhibit themselves. Meanwhile,
we urge the especial attention of Parochial
Clergy to our circular to incumbents, which we
shall be most happy to forward to any one it has
not reached, and we have emphatically to thank
those who have favoured us with so many
favourable responses.

Notice is directed to the announcement of
the Drawing Room Lecture of this day, morning
and evening, at Salisbury Villas. We shall
endeavour to make room for all who, in a
friendly spirit, may wish to hear something of
the style in which our journals are to be con-
ducted in connection with the Newspaper Press
Training College.

I. The arrival in this country of the King of
the Belgian', the Nestor of monarchs, the peace-
maker of Europe and perhaps of America, would,
once upon a tune, have been oonnected in the
public mind with some grand stroke or other of
international diplomacy. But the time for all
that, has gone by. The uncle of Her Majesty
may, however, have made his appearance on
the scene preparatory to some change in the
Court tactics—the re-appearance of the Queen in
public—or something more vaguely hinted at
of the royal desire to retire still more from the
turmoils of public life. This we must leave to
the Owl and birds of different omen from our-
selves. The only hope we shall express is that the
poor old King's visit may not have reference to
that condition of his health, under which he was
not long since snatched, under Providence, from
the jaws of death, by the skill of a celebrated
English surgeon.
11. The Prince of Wales has been holding a
second levee at St. James's Palace, (and
the Princess a drawing-room, 1 on behalf of
the Queen, with most of the ministers present,
and an unusual number of presentations, Tlae
Owl says with its usual sagacity that immediate
application is to be made to Parliament for •
considerable increase in the Prince's allowance.
On the same authority, proceeding from "The
secret solitary bower" we learn that Parliament
will positively be dissolved in July; that the
Queen will proceed to Coburg in August to
witness the uncovering of the Prince Consort's
Statue; and that the Lord Chief Justice (Cock-
burn) is to be raised to the Peerage (query—in
case Lord Westbury should retire!) and a *hole
batch of naval, military and citil servants to be
promoted to the higher grades of the Order of
the Bath. It is well known that with the close
of the present Parliament Lord Palmerston, if
the public will allow him, will retire from public
life, and this looks like "setting his house in
order."

111. The decision of the Privy Council in
the Colenso case on Monday, has thrown our
whole system of Colonial Bbhoprics into con-
fusion. The question which the Privy Council
had to decide, however, was not whether or not
the opinions of Dr. Colenso were in accordance
with the Articles and Formularies of the Church.
His Metropolitan, the Bishop of Capetown,
had deprived Dr. Colenso of his Bishopric of
Natal, and the question at issue was Dr. Gray's
right to do so. We confess that we have never
been perfectly satisfied at the wholesale facility
with which Biahoprice seemed capable of being
instituted abroad, whilst it required an Act of
Parliament at least to institute a single one at
home. Dr. eolenso's appeal would consequently
seem to have put in question, not only Dr.
Gray's lawful Episcopal authority altogether,
but that of Dr. Oolens° himself and the whole
Colonial bishops. The judgment of the Privy
Council declares null and void the proceedings
taken by the bishop of Cape Town and the
sentence passed upon the bishop of Natal, vir-
tually superseding all Episcopal power what-
ever in the Colonies, and deciarina that the
Crown has no right to create any Ecclesiastical
corporation in the Colonies, or establish in theiti
any metropolitan See bet that in order to give
a bishop legal status in any Colony, his authority
must be confirmed by Act of Colonial Legisla-
ture. This was done at Jamaica in 1824; and
where this could not be effected the authority of
Colonial bishops has been made good by Act of
Imperial Parliament, and this haa taken pia,
in regard to the Sees of Calcutta, Mader* and
Bombay. The Crovrn, it is admitted, possesses
what is known at the Congo d'clire, the ngb,t to
somtnand the consecration of a bishop as legal
head of the Church, but neither to assign him
any diocese or sphere of action within the United
Kingdom, nor in a Colony after it has obtained
legislative institutions like the Cape of Good
Hope.—But "out of evil good may come." If
Dr. Gray be not legal metropolitan, Del Wens°
Is not lawful bishop, and Care ean be taken in re-
oonstitating them.
IY,ee-In Parliament :—The House of Lords
with distinguished humanity has addressed itself
to the solace of the lowest dregs of society,
the outcast or casual poor. In the exercise of
the humble office of Journalism, we shall make
it our own business to waken up our Boards of
Guardians, and place them if possible bet Witt
two fires, by insisting on the effeetual relief of
the poor from the means at their chsposel, and
on the proper economy of those means by
keeping down the rates, and having a sharp eye
on the expenditure. We happen to be amonpt
those that hold the maxim—take care of yritir
local rates, and the pubis. volt% *ill mind the
general taxation. The frightful increase of local
rates sod Imposts of late years has certainly had
no effect on the relief of poverty; and this we
attribute quite as much to the exclusion of the
Press from the meetings of country Boards
of Guardians where ratepayers to enjoy, through
their representatives, a voice in the administra-
tion, as to the exclusion of ratepayers from the
county boards, where they certainly have ne
voice in laying on these imposts. In all large
towns, Boards of Guardians are obliged to give
access to the Press to their meetings. And
hence it is that the House of Lords has come to
learn of the harsh manner in which the low
tramps or casual poor are treated. The House
affirmed the right of persona having neither
means of employment, nor residence to receive
food and shelter. from the Poor Law Unions,
five of their places of settlement • and
;re:Manville undertook to impress upon Boards
of Guardians the necessity of relieving them-
The Budget has been postponed till after ilamer,
but the House of Commotni either Wants patience
with or confidenee In the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, for by a majority of 137 to 65, (of
which last minority 24 were ministers) it has
anticipated him in one point that will be popular
with the country—the reduction of the ditty on
Fire Insurance. This House also, at the
instance of Mr. Lawson, took notice of the
horrible scene of the Durham execution. It
may be remembered that the rope broke with
the Spell murderer, that he fell to the ground, a
bight of 13 feet, and was hung again, but this
time the rope being too thick, the noose did not
draw, and he could scarcely contrive to get hung
at all. The occurrence seems destined to accomplish
some modification in those disgraceful exhibi-
tions, if not to put a period to capital punish-
ments. Railway travelling in Ireland has
occasioned a short debate in the House of
Commons; in favour of a bill to compel the
Irish to one train each way on
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