The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-30 00:00:00

jtlorstt Coulittl

TURsDAY. JANUARY ao, 17.

NoTEB OF THE WEEK.

Tho annnal nieetne, and dinner of the Davon
and Cornwall Chamber of Agricultore—one of
the ~blest ant larpest agriculture chambers in
the kingthim—was held tet Thursday evening at
Devonvirt, Mr. Satan Symons, late a candidate
for the representation of Devonport, presiding.
Congratulation was expressed at the largo share
of attention which agricultural matters had
, received in Parliament, but the Agricultural
Holdings Act was unanimously declared to lie
abortive in operation, and its being made com-
pulsory was demanded. The reintroduction
next Sessien of the Prisons, Highways, and
Valuation Bills was urged, but the power con-
ferred on surveyors of taxes was rigorously
opposed.

The Bishop of Manchester, preaching at 1
Heaton Moor on Thursday, on the occasion
of the consecration of the Church of St. Paul,
referred to the difficulties and controversies
which are agitating the Church of England.
The Church, he said, could not remain banded
together as a religious organisation if every
clergyman were to have the right to put his own
interpretation on the laws of the Church.
' Those tril is, therefore, which had roused
MCA'S passions so much, and had drawn upon
them so much bitter and unjustifiable language,
hail not altered or attempted to alter one matter
of faith, nor one single rubric. He freely
admitted that the Ritualistic party had A great
deal to say on their !MC of the question, and
poieted out that several important decisions of
the Court of Final Appeal were being revised,
while the reading of the rubric stand the same.
Go had heard IRA Churchmen say that the
Court in question shanld consist only of
laymen; and, for his own part, he would prefer
that laymen should be the only judges, believ-
ing that their decisions would be characterised
more by a calm judgment, and less by passion
anil prejudice, than if they were ecclesiastics.
Cler,lmen would be blind to their own special
dangers if they did not believe and realise that
they were as a body liable to be led away by
preference and prejudice. The Bishop con-
cluded by observing that it was not for him to
sit in judgment upon others, still less upon
clergymen not belonging to his own diocese ;
but he ti glut he should carry with him the
judgment of all present when he said that if
the incumbent of St. James's, Hatcham, whose
case had brought about the present critical
juncture, had simply submitted to the judg-
ment of the secular tribunal under protest—
and he might have made that protest as
distinct and loud as he pleased—he would have
: presented a much nobler spectacle than he did
as a prisoner in florsemonger-lane Gaol.

After what the papers call an animated discussion
the 1440.1 Templars of Dublin have decided in relation
to the " niln.fer " question and they remain loyal to the
Eight Worthy Grand Lodge of America, which means
that they refuse to allow ladies and gentlemen of
colour to participate in any of the imaginary benefits
of the order. A philosopher once sail. upon being
shewn the skull 4.1 a king and the skull of a " clod-
hopper," that he couldn't see very much difference
letwe 4 them. We fancy in the OW dan Irish Good
Templar and an American negro it 4be marked—
hut most decidedly in fa, Or 44f the latter.

P...r M. T.eith, the cantankerous high Church
Parson of liatchatn. has entered ins.n what lie speaks
of a a pn.hahle icartyr.loin. Ile is now
1..1gc.1 in I lonwnionger.lane But still he is not
happy. lln arriving at the prison, to Ijiti isitene
disgust, he was not acconinto late.l with the nisal-
revxntly I.y a late " hrst-clas..
demean:int," lint placed in a common cell, his "(fence
ii. .t beim; rt critiohial ; s., that it w0..1.1 scent it is
t.. lie a wieke.l Valentine than a ritualistic Tooth.
Ills friends are much exercise& in their minds for
far he .1....11.1 have to clean 4411 t his rooms himself, an
moler the rules ht. is 11 111141 to .111. Surely, the
I Lit Imin priest, who daily taught little eitiblren "to
sulnitit tliturceli es I.i their governors," witl not
attempt to question the 1010, •.f his governor.

The Tries f Salisbury have had their annual '
feed. Earl Nelson imesided, and three eloquent
NL P.'s threw a halo over the proceedings. lord
Harry Thynne, with a &limey that can be fully
appreciated, fonght shy ,A the magistracy, and
instead took upon himself the task of defending the
'Government. With what telling effect the noble
lord did at one liassage will show :-
1 cannot help thinking that Bulgarian etroeities have
hat very little to do with the cry which has been raised
throughout the country. The one great object and aim
hat been to bring about a change of places between the
pout and the present Ministry. Glear. heard
I How much obliged the gentlemen who sit .in the same
side as Lord Garry will be to him for hit V. 11414
a Imission that the great aim and object of the country
is to return to its old love -a liberal Government
Still, there is an intelligent perception displayed in
the obeervations of the noble lord which might
perhaps have hardly been hoped for.

The Prl-tapeicm whieh in too many instancec at
the hands of offieionc officials direct, the application
of the law—must disguct mind-. that rise above a
mere pettifo=ing 'civility. The laneachires justices
as they are complimentarily called —have fined a
man who cold tripe 4tt& mut cost, a. he had no licence
for the cellim! of " provl4mc.'• Thic wax appealed
ag.tinct hut the judges emifirmed th, decision. Next
we shall be having coine of those pictorusine obi
ladiec who ketp ntallc at the corners of the streets in
our larger town,' for the retailment of "trotters."
! Inflicted in a like manner. There ix one consolation
in the proceedings. however. In delivering judgment
Mr. ductice Grove took otcasion tn may though a good
denl of a derogatory charm-ter had, in the cource of
the argument, been wii,l about tripe, yet it had been
j .e.l by acientlhe invect;gation to be one of the
meet digective and nutrition, of fonds, so that he
thought it ought not to he abscerl. We could have
niched hic lordchip had ni•ao favoured the world with
hi' opinion upon the proverbial ina4vtashilty of
buying the delicacy in question on a Friday.

Parliament meets on Thuniday, February Bth. Sir
Staffrml Northcote ham C.rwartlel a circular to the
.mpporters of the Government in which ho nay—
interesting dehateg maT he expected." Interestin7
debates are all rery well but what the country would
like to see vrmild be a little more work done; and, if
at the expense .4 half theAreary platitudes that crowd
the "Dailies," why so much the better.

The flee. .1. G. Metcalf, of Gawber, Yorkshire, iii
another of those intolerant bigots who are doing all
they can to disestablish their church. A labouring
man in his pariah lost his only child, an infant only
eight months old. It had not been baptised. and the
Rev. gentleman, in consequence. refnseil to allow it to
he buried in consecrated ground. We don't imagine
for ins. moment it makes any difference whether one
ia burifq In ;ground round which a lawn-sleeved Bishop
baa walk,.l or not, but it shows the almost vulgar
superstition of some people. Certainly we don't read
that when the great Teacher nail "suffer little
ektbiren to come unto me," lie first of all reluired
their mothers to produce their baptismal register,,.
We would omest Mr. Metcalf should ili-pense with
the first half of his name. and then such proceedings
would be better appreciated.