The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-05-16 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF L()ILDS.
MOniar.—la Committee 011 the UM veriity Testa Bill th.
111•1,illiS of S•l44lll'Cir moved a new claim,
tutor, profiss.mr•, be , to mikes declaration that tipsy
teach nothing contrary to the truth asi revealed In the 14.1
New Tcstwnwnit ; and it we, carried by • majority of onlv 5 --
to Ga. An amendment moved by Lord tiallsbury on awl.,
3 oxcepiint; the heiulahlp+ of colleges from the operation+ of
tile Bill, wasi accepted by • majority of 8 —57 to 49. A thirst
amenelmet t, pr.,viding that no atattate or ordinance requiring
immix rship of the Church of England as a qualification for the
holding of any office shall be repealed, except by the authority
of Parliament, secured • majority of only tam, being carrie I
by 54; by 51. Some other alterations were made in reitemqvivot
cUuse+, but no more dirislen, were taken, and the Bill p
through Committee.
TUCISDAT.- The Workshop Reg dation Act Amendment Bill,
was real • +ceund time.
TIJURIDAT.—VarioII• Bills were read • second time, and s.i,
the report et the Crilverrity Tests Rill, Lord llouoirrox appealed
to the liarqubi of Sagisbuti to withdraw lib, new test, but the
noble lord refused.
reinar.-Boveral measure+ were advanced • stage, and the
univeralty Testa Bill was read • third time.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mos Der. —The Paine HOMMea announced that the Ooveni
merit intend to withdtaw the Local Rating Bills and the
Licensing Clauses of the Licensing Bill, retaining the Pitee
Clausal of the latter measure. This intimation ..Yas rociote
with warm expremions of satidaction from both sides of the
Ileum, but the cheers with which it was greeted were not so
loud Co those which rose from the Liberal benches when the
Premier promised that the !Idiot Bill should be pressed 1.. -
-ward next to the Army Regulation Bill. Besides those the
Government hope to Is the Scotch Education Bill, the Lee•
tionary Bill, possibly the Lord Chancellor's Bill, and perhaps
the metropolis Water Bill. the Mina Regulation Bill, the
Pilotage Bill, and Merchant Shipping Bill.
The Income Tax and inhabited House Duties Bill passed
through Committee with opposition.
When the House was asked to go into Committee upon the
Army Regulation Bill, Colonel Arms moved a resolution
affirming that, if the Purchase Sydem is to be abolished, in
order to secure the authority of the State over the officers of
the army and In justice to the officers themselves, the retrula•
Lion value of their commiesions ought to be at once returned
to them. The debate was of a highly technical character.
The amendment was rejected bye majority of 63-250 to IV.
After several obstructive divhdons, the debate was adjouniel
till Thursday.
VIVADAY.—There was a large attendance when Mr. MIALL
roes to propose his resolution declaring that it Le expedient
at the earliest practical period to applyilhe policy initiated by
the decstablishment of the Irish Church to the other Churches
established by law in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Garnoass lIARDT deposited upon the the table • urge
roll of paper, and, amid the them of the gentlemen sittlug
behind him, informed the Speaker that It was a petition from
Bradford signed by 24,700 persona against the motion about
to be submitted to the House,
Mr. MIALL amumd the House that he had taken up this
question for the gratification of no sectarian bigotry, but
solely from a desire to advance the social, moral, and religious
interests of that ...lacala...autty. Th• ehanah, ha argued. w..
no longer the church of the whole people, it was torn by din.
pensions, and by its very legal formality lowered the tone of
religious sentiment amongst Pb. People. Those who gain their
subsistenee by manual indwitry form no inconsiderable part
of the State, and you are doing an immense inju.tioe. not to
Dissenters merely, but perhaps to a larger class of the people,
whom I should designate Absenters, when you abstract from
the common fund a sum which, when capitalised, amount,' tin
one or two hundred millions sterling for the support of the
religine institutions of the upper and richer part of the cone
munity—(" hear, hear,* and "no, no.") Every town and
village almost have their two exclusive epheree of social inters
eourse-0110 appropriated to Dissenters, sad one to Church-
men. Every section of society is split up into incoherent
parts, and many benevolentschemes have had to be abandonel
In consequence ol the absence of good feeling between the
Istablishod and the non-Eetablisbed portions of the cont.
enmity. The schools of the country, owing to the
nee cause, hese been worked inefficiently. The
Church as by law established has reached a very troublei
stage of her existence. She ham a fulness of life too great for
the narrow bound:rim within which the law is trying to
mistrtin her—(choers.) She yearns for more liberty. The
atmosphere she breathes is oppressive. Now, and especially
within the last few week., she bitterly realism the fact that
she Is not free enough to do her work with satbdaction to her
own conscience—(mer, hear.) She cannot be at once free and
Established. There is another dimdvantage which the Church
suffers from its connection with„the Stato—secularinti in.

Look to the right and responsibility of appointing to a
benefice: that is, to choose the chief relizious pastor in the
parish. That in property, advertised in the daily journals,
and every day bought and mold. Can anything be more
demoralising See the mode adopted in the appointment of
bishop.. There is first the Royal mandate, next the ensure'
obedience of the Doan and Chapter, enforced, if necessary, by
the penalties of prerounlre—whatever that may be—and then
solemn prayers addressed to the Almighty. All thin in really
shocking, and may well hamper the spiritual influence if the
Chureb—(cheere) See the influence of thin secular system,
on the chief rulers and dignitaries of the church. The
bishopn di manifest their anxiety fir the well being of
the church no often and so strenuously, when its tempo-
ralities are threatened, and so hesitatingly and so tirnilly
when doctrines and discipline are afiected—(hear, hcsri
1 an, told that I am going to abolish the persons, and what is
to bee ene of the rural perishes Well, in each of the
wishes the clergyman, maintained by the public in common,
Is a living link of communication between the highest and the
lowest of his paririoners. lie is an educated gentlemen. Ile
10 the fixed centre In the parish of civilisation, of education,
of charity, of piety. This portrait of the rural clergyman may
be an over-coloured one. There is, however, another side.
What are the most conspicuous characteristics of our labour-
ing agricultural population ?—(hear, hear). Do they include
'erectness and light I—(a laugh). Do they include highly
developed intelligence? Do they include superior morality?
Do they include an affectionate veneration for religion Are
thew them st prominent features of the character exhibited
by our labouring agricultural ?population, awl in respect of
which they bear away the palm from the Inhabitants of towns?
The discouraging and depressing answers to these queries—are
' they not to hut -found in blue-books, verified by minute per.
spend observation? When I am asked what is to become of
the rural parishes if we abolish the endowment that MASAO'
the panons. I answer by asking another quention—What has
become of them under the encouragement of these mime
endowments ?—(cheer.). Finally, he urged that Christen zeal
would amply ni..tain a sufficiency of rclizioun instruction.
When at the clone of his remarks the member for Bradford
implored the Home not to regard this as a matter of specu-
lative interest, but as, especially in the present condition of
affairs abroad, a really practiced question, the "bear, hear,"
of Mr. Gladstone Was clearly distinguishable.
The motion was seconded by Mr. .1. D. Lewis, " • Church-
man anxious to secure more liberty for the Church."
It was OppOsla by Mr. Beenkon the part of the Government,
as inopportune in point of time and unjustified by any
legislation of past years.
Sir It. PALMER opposed, because among other mischiefs whack
sssel.l soon, Is would weaken or sta-stro the
y Church which is "the very inheritance" of the poor. I say
confidently, he proceeded, the Dissenters themselves are
affected for good by the influence of the Church —(rame, hear).
External things In religion are of importance as showing what
is going on within, I go through the City, and ask what is
that beautiful church 1 see erected—excellent in its archi-
tecture, and with • spire reaching to the heavens, and I WM
told that this church is due to the munificence of some eminent
Nonconformist. Their architecture is getting more like ours,
and I am told that, though they confine Grampn.°, to no
Liturgy, there are few congregations of Dissenting bodies who
are not to a great extent,indebted to the Liturgy of the Church
of England. I think much smother and light are to befound
in the relaUons of the poor to the Church in our rural din-
trier The best light is the light of life which makes men '
content, vutuous, and happy in the positions of life which they
occupy; and I think those who know the rural districts of
this country will bear trithnony to the fact that there are
multitudes of poor people who have given them both sweet-
ness and light. Ido er wish to speak against any claim but
I wish to say that the clam above all others which has attracted
my sympathy ts the class of the peer and not least of the rural
lasocoracheers). And for the excellence of their character and
habits I cannot Imagine any institution which Ls more
answerable as • cause than that which plants in every little
amass of population throughout the country • man educated
and intelligent whose business it late take care of their souls,
as far Le be is enabled to do, and in every way to be their
friend, their counsellor, and to do them good, to help them
In their education, to relieve their distress, to follow them
from the cradle to to the grave with all the office' of love.
If the Church weresdisestablished, if it had • competese inde-
pendence of action, there can be no question there would be
• tendency to a sharp conflict of opinion. At present, to use
• familiar expression, the Church is bound over to keep the
rlt in undoubtedly one of the advantages arising Irani
ettablishment of the Church, that the Church ass whole
Is moderate In its tone, and his iuducemente to be liberal and
conciliatory in its conduct. Being entirely free from legal
control, either established or disestablished, is • simple insp.-
siblUty—(bear.) Unless you do away with the Church abu-
sed its property you cannot put an end to disputes_
(bear,) an
Neither can you do so In the Notioonfonnist Churches
—(reg.) 1 rot...select being engaged in a CM, dunce/ my pro
ferional career, In which it was docldel that baptism was no
Indispensable among the Baptlste—(laughter.) 1 think re-
ligion wUI be all the stronger for the Established Church, and
I will and in the words of • great man who was by no moans
▪ bigot:
Hail to the State of England lend conjoin
With this a aelutation as devout
Made to thespiritual fabric of the Church 1
Founded on Truth I with blood of martyrdom
Cemented ; by the hands of Freedom reared,
Dernt and unrepro red 1 The voice which owns
The majesty of both, shall pray for both,
That, mutually supported and sustained,
They may endure long as theses surrounds
This favoured laud, or sunshine warms her *oil.
(Loud cheer, )
Mr. H. RICIIAID quoted Wales for the racers of the voter'.
tallPrhieloie.
Dr. Bra deuounced Mr. Bruce's half-heartedness, and rid
this Winery would abandon tne church as soon as its desertion
might secure their safety.
Rt. Leanlan expressed • hops that the Limo might rover
reraligioduelseptird:Lith.:.Cohnulirerhe
arutabliste establishment, and own when it should be asked ' How long aro we, • party of
of
Dissenter., to follow a Cabinet of Churchmen ?"
di
ndul'illd-
do you think the population ef the great towns will be snit& I
without e
enlace? You are educating them now, but when they are
educated do you think they will Ay to the Conventicle ?—(hear,
bear)—or will they not rather turn to the beautdul sender of
the Church of England? 1 look with hope to the enured the
Chutch of England in thessgreat towns. I oppose the notion
in the intment of civil and religious liberty ; for the rke of
the State more than the sake of the Cleurch—(hear, hear).
Kr. Chrome' rid the Government would oppose the
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subject toraorrow. we ung it at variance with the geoersl
sentiment of the country, and I would say to my hon. friend
that if he weeks to convert the House of Commune to his
SlliDlcsa he roust ;begin by convening the uasjerity of the
P.rEugland—(hear, beer.)
. Muir. said that great as was the work, it would yet be ,
dese—(loud cheers.)
The House divided—
For the motion
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Lii. Put movod the rejection ot the Bill.
rr. Class Mao seconded the sansodment.
or,•ii di.,elon Lis socond reading WA/ agreed to by 151
I Nemec 155
TirilIDAT.Oll the motion to go Into committee on the Army jugulatioe Bill, toe purchase question was re-discussed,
but the flouso was allows i to go into Committee without a
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Ireland, an amendment was moored by The o.Comoa Doi
tiaadsciarill;tcll.listhcArmea"'lncaelf'dedleattencnualmd'cYntiat:alladtotintiinZaerethbstalaetioPowsuealliirs'oeernnrie. United Kingdom and the Colonise, and Mr. Kea
gueessow &toured him the Go t was lolly hlCHpressBcLed. with the desirability of 'nalnlnllng worth, reihu. with ths
eokoila, and would %Are no Wort to do so.
The Custom, sad Incernataz Bill was read • second time.

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which has jut been holding its annual mooting in
Loden, on Thursday waited upon the Postmaster.
Geseral, and willed attention, inter alio, to the Moen.
redraw of the new regslation, whereby poatreasters
ware to be prohibited fres parohasing poesege-etarepa
be. the public, end to the expedisaey of equalising
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