The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

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CHIPPENHA hi. SUMS'S Dawns or nig
ANCHDILACON OF WILTS, AND CHAPLAIN 07 THI
House or COMMONS. —On Sunday morning, Jane-
ary, 25th, the Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., Arch-
deacon of Wilts, and chaplain to the House of Coen-
mons, died suddenly at his residence at Bremhill,
near Chippenham. The rev. gentleman had apps•
rently been in his usual health on the previous even•
nig, and, we are Wormed, was not indisposed until
a short tinie before his death, the fatal attack having
rime on very suddenly. Our readers will remember
that Mr. Drury was only appointed to the arch•
deaconry in July last, on the death of
the Rev. W. Macdonald; but his learning and
ability am • theologian, and his amiability as a gen-
tleman, gained for him the respect of the clergy and
laity throughout the diocese generally, and his
death will be the source of the most augers regret.
The melancholy event was announced to the con-
gnegation at Bremhill on Sunday morning, during
the service, and it produced the meet profound
wensatioo. —The late Archdeacon belonged to the
moderately High Church party, but his appoist•
ays,iL gave general astisfactioe. He waa educated
at Gowville and Caine College, c,embtidge, at which
roivereity he graduated in 15.15, the year in which
Mr. Henry Cottrell, now Buhl., of Graham's Town,
was the senior wrangler. Shortly aherwards he
became classical tutor to his college, heviag. fia
I 543, been Brawn's medallist for the Latin Ode aad
Epigrams. He was the editor of" Anticlines
a work which is held in high esteem. With the
family of the Speaker of the House of CoOHDOOII Mr.
Drury has been closely allied. The right honour-
able gentleman appointed Mr. Drury (who was
examining chaplain to the late Nate* of Salisbury)
to the vi is of BrembiU, which he ham held up
to the present tine, and in 1635 be was appointed
to a prebendal stall in Salisbury Cathedral. In
1•57, when Mr. J• Evelyn Denims was elected
pmak•T to the House of COOIOIO2I, he appointed
Mr. Drury chaplain to tbe House of Commons, in
the room of Re.. J. Gamier, now Dean of Lincoln.
The archdeaconry includes Caine, Marlborough,
Runah°,7, Wootton Barlett, Bradford-on-Avoo,
Devises, Idelkaliam, Trowbridge, Great Bedwya,
and other important towns.
DEVIZES. —anxious Luxus 01 Canary G LAD-
RTONge M.P.—W. regret to state that Captain
Gladstone, SIP, for Devine, and brother of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, is seriously ill at his
residence at Bowden Park, near Chippeohani. The
gallant captain is suffering from acartencleen the
shoulder, for %hid% an operatioe ass performed
some time ago by Mr. Soden, the eminent surgeon,
of Bath. That operation not having the denred
effect, a mood one was resorted to receetjy. sad
Mr. 244 m boa bs ainnpiag ai &tyke Park fon

love ral nights. It baying been deemed advisable to
obtain additional surgical assistance, Mr. B. .I,.neit,
of Landon, bee been sent for. Yesterday Mr. ) ones
reported that under the most favourable circum-
stances it would he a considerable time helms
I tbe milling captain would be able to resume Lis
I duties.

SALISBURY.—Cfittieu BCILDING IN Tits Diocese
Ivy fiaLlientall.—the annual meeting of the B.lisbuly
Diocesan Clears:li Beihiking Aesociation, of which the
Louleteentenants of Will, awl Dorset ens pattvreit
wet whieh is in union with the lnlorporatiefi Toasty
tor promoting the Enlargement, Huilditut, and Itcialr-
ini of Churches and Merida, has just been
held in the city et fiaii.bury, under the
presidency of the Hight Pew. the Bishop of the
diocese, the A mho:lce:eons of Sarum, Wilts, nod Dorset,
and numerous other influential clergymen being
pnment. It el-mean that since the formation of the
amincistfari by the late Di iliop Burgess, in Gm year
GM,no lem • 111111 than momoo. or thereabouts, has
been expended in the diocese In Gra work of clinic!'
building and restoration, of Whith about £20,000 have
been contributed by the society in grants, thereby
securing an entente of upward@ of 33.000 additional
mat., and that, although an much has been accomplished
there still exist nearly 330 churches and chapels in
Wilts and Doreet which are more or leas in an unsatis-
factory condition. At the meeting the Earl 'Schou
was unanimously elected to sumer, the Hey. Preben•
rimy Fan, of Boynton•honse, Wilts, as tresanrer or
the emaciation, and the Her. Charles Lawford, Vicar
of Winterbourne Stoke, Wilts, atd the Ron. IL 8,
Machine, Incumbent of fillitaktnn Wyld, near Char'
mouth, Dorset, •rere litto appointed to the office of
friocesan Snereopfnn, in the room of the Rev. Preben-
dary Lother. Rector of Orcheston St. George, Wilts,
who had retired after haring discharged the ardnoas
chiles of the Oftine (an honorary one) for upwards of
SI years. The following parestraph appears in
.the
annual report of the amociation, read at the meeting :
—"From the treasurer's statement of accounts it
appears that not many annual subscrilsers have been
added to the list of the preceding year, but minus them
the tommittee hail wit,. great pleuure the continuance
of the bite Lord Herbert's munificent annual sob@crip:
tion of FAO by his non, the youthful Earl of Pembroke,
who has mule known to the treamrer his intention also
to untie:lse the subscription of his uncle, the tate Lintel
Pembroke, than making himself an anneal subscriber
eif UM."

SALIODURY CATRIDIAL.—The OfIICO Of organist
of this cathedral has become vacant by the death,
on Wednesday, in the 80th year of his age, of Mr.
Arthur Thomas Corte, father of Dr. Charles Coda
of Oxford. Mr. Corte, who was admitted chrirlater
of Westminster Abbey in 1753, au ceseded his father,
3oseph Code, in the above appointment, on
his resigning it in the year .1604, and ha. conse-
nts/rely held it for a period of nearly 60 years. It
is elremarkable fact that within the last eight months
death has removed a canon residentiary of this
cathedral (Archdeacon Macdonald). who had been
connected with it for a period of 55 years. together
with it. precentor (Rev. W. R. Heathoote). •
prebendary (Archdeacon Diary), and two minor
canons (the Revs. John Greenly and G. L Bonsai),
one of whom had held his appointment for half a
century and the other for nearly 40 years.
Tiia LATI IMIZASE IN SHEEP IC WILTIRIKL
It will be remembered that when the late fearful
epidemic in sheep first made its appearance in Wilt-
shire, • committee was appointed by the farmers of
the county to take steps to arrest the di•esioe and to
inspect the flocks that might be attacked. At a
large meeting of the Society for the Prevention of
the Disease in Sheep held at the Townhall, Devises,
on Monday, the committee reported that there was
no further need for their services, and the committee
was thereupon despaired. The farmers generally
elpressed their thanks to them for their services.