The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-09-20 00:00:00

ASSASSINATION OF TFIE GOVERNOR OF

NANKIN.

ST. Prrsassuna, Sunday.—lntelligenoe from Nankin
dated ?.2nd ult., &nominee that the Governor of that
city hag been nasassinatel. Teo cause of this crime
wee the fact of the unfortunate Governor being favour.
ahleto foreigners. Several Governors of provinces have
Ninee been changed.

THE POLICY CF THE FRENCH
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
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M. Jules Fern has eddressed a lengthy circular to
the representatives of France abroad, summing up the
policy of the Provisional Government In accepting
the tank imposed upon them by the fall of the Imperial
Gemnmenk M. Jules Favre uys they were
entreated by hut one idea. and that was to
d. fentl the territory and to save the honour of
Vrknoe, and to give hack to the nation the power
which emanated from itself, and which It alono
could exercise. Iteferring to the war, ho exerevacv a
hole that Pruada will hearitate before continuing
the conflict in whir& more than two hundred
th,,,teeed men have already fallen, hot should it
"nlYnte unacceptable terms upon France, there
would b., no alternative but to fight it out to the
hitter end, for the nation which orders divitatcre •
thousand times to divhononr. M. Jule. Fvvre aricirts
'that there iv not a .incere pervoin in Europe who could
rfnem th.,t freely consulr..d. worth, have made
ear .o:aintt I.r,,ie,hnthsllneq not draw from this oen•
elmien that the nation is not responsible for what has
taken place. Indeed, he admits that France has done
expiating the niivtake of hay-
wronc, that it is cruelly
lox tolerated the Government which led it to ruin ; hut
it is rrady, he veyv, to repair in a mna•nro of justice
the hi it ha. tatheted. Should Prrivvia. however, take
advantage of the misfortunes of the Frew% people to
overwhelm them, they win "PPaa° a desperate
rtaistance.

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DORSET COIIXTT HOSPITAL. —The Rev. C. W. Bingham
as chairman of the committee of this valuable charity.
has issued a circular to the clergy, appealing for a con-
Vnuance of aid, of which the in etitution standar° much
in need. He says the committee would have gladly
abstained from making their usual request to the clergy
for eongregational collectioi, being fully conecieua of
the presaing demands, both on public and private
charity, which are just now preeeiting themselve-, ; hut
they are mat unwilling to diminish the amount of
accommodation in the hospital, whichbaroly suffice",
for the applicants, and find themselves still utterly
unable to maintain it on the existing made, without the
receipt ef specie' funds in addition to the dividi nds and
subscriptions. The year was begun with an uufavour•
able balance, and hardly any donations have been
riceived ; so that they are again obliged to appeal to
the I i bend ity of the county for oungregational collectiosa,
which thr_l were thankful to And recommended in his
recent ch.rge by tl,e Lord Bishop of the diocese.
Attention is called to Rule VI., which points out that
collectors of I:2 2s, shall be entitled to recommend one
in-patient or three outpatients from the pm i•li in
which the collection is made; and no on for every
I'2 2a. collected. Such privileges continue for one year
from time of payment to the treasurer.
THE Slca AND WOUND= is WAlL—Great efforts
have been made in this town to raise contributions on
behalf of the sufferers in the war on the continent, and
gratifying swamis has attended them. At Holy Trinity
church on Sunday three sermons were preached in aid
of the National Society. in the morning and evening
by the Rector, the Rev. IL Everett, and in the after-
noon by the Rey. T. A. Falkner, and the evils of the
present war, sad our duty as a Christian people to
alle.iate them were eloquently described. Upwards of
1:25 were collected.—At West Tordington school on
Sunday afternoon, after an address from the Rev. J.
17. Bird, a collection was made of 16s. 3il.—At the
Wesleyan chapel sermons were preached in aid of the
French and German sufferers, and a toolleetien amount-
ing to El 154. 9J. was mktg.—The efforts of Miss Pears
in gathering together a number of ladies at St. Peter's
school-room to prepare lint, bandages, lee., have been
very successful; sod we are requested to state that
contributions of materials from friends In the
country will be gratefully reoeivol. A sermon entitlei
"Right and Might," occasioned by the Franco-German
war, preached by the ltev. T. Nese., of lkirchester,
has just been published. It is an exceeding by able dis-
course, well suited to the times, and will no doubt
introduce Mr- Nese° to a large number of readers. The
profits of the eels are to be devoted to the fend for the
sick and wounded in war.
SUNDAY ScIPIOL USION.—A public tea in connection
with the Dorchester Sunday School Union, attended
by a oonsidereble number of teachers and friends of
Sunday took place in the Congregational school-
room' at six o'clock on Wednesday evening last, A
public meeting was held at half-past seven, the Rev. T.
Neave in the chair. When the meeting was opened by
praise and prayer, the chairman addressed a few words
of congratulation and enoonragement to the members
of the union, and referred to the necessity of making
it practical and useful, and not simply an occasion for
an annual tea meeting. Mr. Bunting, the secretary,
then read a brief report of the operations of the society
during the year. The union, he stated, had been
resuscitated through the visit of Mr. Perry, the depots.
floe from London, last year, whose visit was gratefully
remembered by the friends. Preparation classes had
been formed during the year, bet unhappily with little
success, owing chiefly, be believed, to the want of a
l'resident who might guide and stimulate the inemb,rs,
who hen greatly fallen off through discouragement, a
difficulty which he sincerely hoped might be met this
year. The object of the union were simply mutual
encouragement and aesistance among the different
teachers in their importsnt and arduous work ; as also,
participation in the advantages of Sunday school
libraries, which usually belonged to the union schoolie
A list of the office hearers for the ensuing year was
read, consh.tin,t of the following names, l'resident. M.
Devenisb, Esq. • Vice Pre.identa, Rev. J. linaill. Rev.
T. Nosy:, at.,! Her. J. E. Brett; Treasurer, Mr. Olive ;
Secretaries!, Mr. Walter Penney and Mr. hunting; nem.
mitt..., Mr. Woolfriev, Mr. Crocker, Mr. Lockett, Mr.
:.:rook, and Mr. Jeffery. Addresses of a pointed ant
stimulating character were at tereards delivered by the
Rev. J. 13, Brett, Mr. I). Thomas, of Cerne, anti Mr.
liugill. The meeting was closed with the limediction.
At three o'clock on Folulay t. e,,,s in the conare.
itAional Chap, I, a large and iakre•ting gathering of
the childn n and teachers of the different schools was
held, when an earnest laud affectionate addreas by the
Rev. J. E. Brett was delivered. The meetings have
been both useful and interestng, and we can only express
a wish that they may afterwards b • repeated with the
like results.
13oRcit MITER VOCAL AXSOCI second
sedition of this association was umiinenowl on Tessis,.
evening, by • meeting of member. and intending sill,.
scribers, at the Holy Trinity Infarit Fr.en
the atatamenttreml by the lion.eoc. ( lir. H. W. tro.h.;,),
It sestris that iumbero joined kr Stu) preliinuitry