The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-18 00:00:00

ecclesiastical intetligentr.

Ow Fritlay Isst, at At. Peter's. meictnee, the
oonereeetion consisting ne two ladle@ only, the curate
ententenced with "nearly beloved sisiers."—Chorth
Tine&

GAWP/ v. SUIPLICII. —A change has been made in
the order to be observed for the future at the Loudon
Ordinations. Forinerl• the insirnetion wee. "Gentle-
men will 'maser in lOaelt gowns with bends, and
without academical hoods." This has been altered into
the following :—"Oentlemon viii appear Is surplices.
and with their aeadeinied honda Cendidsten for priest'.
erders SUI wow stoliss."—Ck &vier.

A THOROUGH CATHOLIC. —We have the eincerett
pleasure In announcing that the Rev. George William.,
Senior Prllou ,4 Rine. College, Cambridge, a
thorongh catholie—on fact, the leader of the preitent re.
rival In that university—will be the new vicar of Rich.
mood. A better •ppointment weld not possibly be
made. He will carry on and develop the good murk of
hi a revpactablit predeerstor.—Churpt News.

Wit hear that the Bishoe of Dimitam ha inhibited
the Bi.hoe-Coadjator of Vinberoth'from offlcia.ing in
hie dioawie, bemuse recently, when premhing at Bit.
()meld's, Derham, his lordship head the Invocation of
the Tnnity before the sermon. In bin later the Shibon
ignores the splannel charaeter of hie brother. pointedly
adeirewsing him a Dr. MnrrelL —JoAn ffah rho Bishop
of Durham is quite right. Dr. Morrell is Rot • lawful
Bishop, as by Act of parlament them is no mortised
Bishop in Scotland. Moreover, be is not a territorial
Bishop in &dim& and hie atia. be Bishop of Edin-
burgh a invalid.)—Record.
AN AGED Digeramma lIINWINN't Carpal me Nei
'MAIN OF THE DIOCESE OE B•LIPREIRY, •ND OF TEE
Cettscm in 0 The following extracts arc frog'
• private letter of an aged Dissenting Minister of up'
wards of four-eaore years of age written to • lay
churchman in a distant pared the country. It displays
a spirit and temper well worthy of imitation:—" You
will be glad t 0... by UP enclosed letter that the mass
you am interested in is still programing in the Diocese
of Balisbery. The laity cannot endure the evil, and are
thereby driven from a "harsh they love, and where they
had plovionaly been well fed w,th the alai truths of
the rapid, a now opposed by the innovations of Popery.
You will see how the Church of England I. 'offering by
• monsion of good men, and some in wealthy air.
ounistances, who are about to creel a c.burell and
schools at their own expense, and to be supplied by •
Minister of their own chase, with the Me of the Liturgy
abridged (which shows their attachment to the forms of
our National Church), oith the omission of some ex•
pressions which lean to favour the present evil in the
church, which has excited so amok alarm by the oars
and daring announcement of the man and the ma
fes-ional. It is lamentable that such good and wealthy
men ohm!" be so driven and compelled to leave their
Church; but better to do so than to seerifoe a good
conscienee end endanger their SPUN by Popery. I feel
intensely concerned for the prearwation of our National
Chnrch, as I am persuaded that all other sections of the
Church of Clime among all other Evangelical de-
nominations., are very dependent on the preservetlon of
our wealthy and powerful church, if continued and
maintained as • reformed Protestant Church." We
need scarcely my that the secession alluded to km taken
place at Cane, the first-fruits of our Bishop's attempt
to introduce theerdotalism into his diocese by • milkier
use of his patronsge.

Cottereamtirat Or TR! Frain°, Or Rneentrrea.—The
festival of fit Barnaboe was lead Um lb. Gamper .lion
of the Rev. Or. Thomas Logi elangtiton, of Trinity
College, Orford, late vicar of Kidderminster, to the
bishopric of Rochester, and it was determined that the
opremony should take piece hi the eathedrei March of
his own dioc.ee. At ho3Upeort eleven o'olcork the pro.
00811i0:1 mowed into the cathedral, the whole of the
congregation standing. There were present in it the
trehhishop of Canterbury (the ennseenoting pralete),
the Bishop of Oxford (lb. Bishop of Dr Cloughtrin
University), the Bishop of Bali bury (Provincial Pro,
o-ntor of the Province of Canterbury), the Bishop of
Woreeither (the Bishop of the diocese in which Dr
(iaughton was lately beneficed). the Bishop of Ely, the
Bishop of Bt. Andrees Ite. The pros. mien up the
choir consisted of 30 sleety, five officiale, seven lora
sleeks, end 12 choristers. The archbishop was attended
he Dr. Travers Twits, the vicar-general of the province;
Mr. F. Hurt Dyke, the registrar ; and the Hon. and
Rev. U. W. Borate, La., his grace'. chaplain. There
wan • large meembly of other clergy in their gowns end
hood., awl of the principal laity of the
homer. On entering the choir the Archbishop promedei
to the north Ride of the altar, the Bishop's assistant to
mete on the south side. Dr. Cloughton, who wore •
black gown, was seated on the outside of the roils At
'hie time the oothrairal was Oiled to overflowing.
Prayers having been said at an earlier hour in the
morning, the Archbishop began the Communion service,
the responses and Nicene Creed being sung. The semen
was preached by the Rev. U. A. Woodenra, aD ,
honorary moon of Worcester Ihothrairal and rector of
Relhrottehton. He selected for his text Matt. ill. 82
—"Every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom
of Heaven I. lilts unto • man that is an householder
which bringeth forth out of his treasons things new mid
old." He remarked that that Moores was twelve
hundred years old, and he did not know why dueler
more than six hundred years • Bishop had not been
comeerrated within it.. cathedral. However, the 931 h
Bishop of Rochester was shoot being eonseerated there
that dny, and he trusted it was • return te a better
state of thine.. Rochester, he thought. Icieht be no.
madly rennet] the great naval and military diocese of.
Boal-nA, and it W. most important, therefore, that it
should have an able man to rule over it. With regard
to the pretest Mateo( the Church he did not oomider it
surprising that higher internal aspirations on the part
or many had I.d to an improvement in external mermen
ROMr eV:MPH there had no doubt been. but they watt d
never be put down by legislation. At the close CI the
1 sermon the Bishop-elect retired, and in a few miautes
afterwards returned, vested in his rootlet, and a semi.
episcopal COM., and was conducted by the Blahop• of
Osford and &Moloney up the step, of the altar. The
Bishop of Oxford addressing the Archbishop said,
"Most Reverned rather in God, we present to you this
godly and well learned man to be ordained and son.
restated bishop." The Arebbi-hop then demanded the
Queen's mandate, which was read by Mr. Dyke, the
registrar of the drktrict. At the close of the Liten•
Hereby, the Bishop.eleet put on the episcopal babel,
and kneeling down the Veal Creator wan mune. The
Arerabishop and Bishops ['Teasel then placed their hands
on the head of the Sieben-elect, the Archbishop admitt-
ing him to hi. new dignity with them words :—"Reeeive
the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bisitop in
the Church of God, now committed unto thus by the
imposition of our hands in the name of the Father,
and of the Mon, and of the Holy Ghoist, Amen. And
rememher that thou stir up the gram of (lot whieh is
aeon thee by this imposition of our bands, for God
bath not given us the spirit of fear but of power, and
love, and soberness" The new Bishop then took his
seat within the altar rail., and the oOlce M the Holy
Communion wan proceeded with, the Sander and
Merit is Excelsis being sung. Dr. Claughton, tie
IWD Bishop of Bathometer, was educated at Rugby
School, whence 1.. proceeded to Trinity College. Ozford,
and took his I- A. degree in 1831, wbee he took a first
close in el .miee. In 1841 he wail seleeted preacher,
sod again in 1850. In 1832 he wee elected Professor of
Poetry in the Univeroity, and held it until 1857, when
he was ratemeded by Mt Arnold.