The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION.

The following la an extract from the examination
of the R. A. D. Wagoee's evidence before the Rites
Ciesiztisioni _

Alohb;11-4 of Canterbury: You bare spoken of eau.
fusion ;I Oink you acknowledge you practice
confession ?—Yee, Imu always at the church for three
days a week d•ring aertsio hours for the pewpes. of
hearlog confessions, or of girls( opiritual advise, m the
cue may be.
Have you a confessional? No, I bear them in the
vestry. . .

Do you require them to confess periodically? I do not
require anybody to coolers. It to quite voluntary on
tbe part of everyone.
. _ .

DO you exhort them to confess! I haw* spoken of it
U a great spiritual bleating, and advised people to
coolies.

lir. J. Abel Smith : Are penances imposed I—When-
ever a person makes a confession, of Douros there is
always some penance enjoined ; it may be laying a
prayer. It usually would be saying some one or two
prayers. It would be one's duty to impose some penmen)
or oilier.

Mr. Bamford Hope: Do you impose any penance
hiaolsins corporal pain ?—lt is not, psi hap., • question
lone ought to speak about. I have
certainly, imposed any such penance, but !cannot say
II to others.
Earl of Harrowby : What form of absolution do you
Tho.one in.thit Visitation of the Sick.

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Mr. J. Abel no you always srear• surpliae
when pea receive confession ?—Always, and a stole.

A VICTIM OF CIRCITMBTANCES.
Mr. Payne, at the Midair:ewe mentions, has sentenced
Aufusta Ann Mitchell. a respeetable•looking young
woman, to eight months' hard labour for petty larceny
under the following circumstances. Bbe had not long
been in London when she fell in with a groom, arid alter
a little persuasion consented to live with him, and for
live weeks did so as his wife. The groom left •ES note
and some gold in his room, which she took out and
appropriated to her own use. In defence prisoner said
sbe thought that lush. had been living with him as bis
wife she bad seertain amount of right to use his money.
She hail only spent • few shillings of it, and did not
attend el deprive him of it, when he gave her in charge.
Her history is • sad one. Her grand father says :--Bhe
was taken from Warminster by her mother nearly seven
years ago. Themother had • considerable sum of money
left her, and in the lebeenoe el her husband in Canada
was seduced by the base and villanous fellow /I—,
and eloped with him, and thus ditres2ed from that
path of rectitude and respect ibility in which she bad been
reared up and lived previously. Her age (eie
prisoner's) at that time, the circumstances, and the
temptations of London life for youth, I sincerely trust
will combine to induce the judge to temper pieties with
mercy to the utmost of his power and the circumstances
will admit. It appears to me that she may be the
victim of circumstances, and I cannot but regret deeply
that the law does not reach the seducer snore frequently.
Instead of the seduced and weaker sex. The Joie Bull
trust, that Mr. (isthmus; Hardy's attention will be
called to the hardship of her sentence, and that BMW-
thing may be done to reclaim her.

PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS.
Tuesday. 10. - Poole County Court.
Wedue.day, IL—Excursion to Bath and Bristol from
Weymouth. Dorchester, ke. (0.W.1L)
Christehureh County Court.
Wareham (Donet) Fair.
Thursday, 12 Gillingham (Dorset), Wilton (Wilts),
and Giles' Hill, near Winchester (Hants)
Fain..
Saturday, It --Wimhorne (Dorset) Fair.
Mr. Eames Repository Sale, Dorchester.
Monday, 16- Shaftesbury County Court.
Tuesday, 17. Wincanton County Court.

Excursion every Monday in September to Loudon from
Weymouth, Dorchester. /to. ISM E 4

BIRTHS.

August 2 at •Weetbary-lodge, DardhamAlown,
Bristol. the wife of W. de Winton, Esq., of e daughter.
August 26. at Midland, the wife of Mr. Joseph
Lukins, of a daughter.
August 214, at Portland, the wife of Mr. H. Patten,
Dometehire Rank, of • son, Prematurely.
August 29, at Reaminster, the wife of T. r.
Req.. of • daughter.
August 30, at 1, augusta-plsoe, Melootabe Regis, the
wife of Mr.. F. W. A yling of • son.

August 31, at Channinster-,-the wife of Mr. Bunting,
loonier of the British school, Dorebeater. of &daughter.
August 31, at tilatulford St. Mary, the wife of Mr.
William Cross, of • daughter.
September 1. at Parkstone, the wife of Mr. Charles
Hibbard. butcher. of • .on,

nepteniber A, at Litton Cheney, am wife of Mr. A.
Steele, of a daughter.
September 4, at Swamp, the wife of Mr. Charles
Lock, of a son.

tiePtember 4, at the Police Station, Wareham, the
wife of Mr. John Sansom, Dorset Constabulary, of a
daughter..
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September 4, at Wimborne, the wife of Mr. Frederick
Ellis, wine merchant, of • son,
September 4, at the Rectory, Sutton Veny, the wife
of Ike Rey. tleorge F. S. roweU, of • son, who survived
his birth but • few hours.

MARRIAGES.
September 3, at the Cathedral, Rochester, by the
'Right Rev the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, and by the
Ven. the Archdeacon of Rochester and St. Albans,
Illwanl Tanner, Fom , Captain Bth (the King's) Regi-
ment, youngest son of the late J. Houverie Hussey
Tanner, Esq., of salisbury, to Georgina Wyndham,
second daughter 01 Colonel G. Powlett Bingham, C. L.
at The Vines. Rochester.
September 3, at All Paints Church, Haggerstone,
Lou on, Henry W. Lee, eldest son of Henry Lee,
Thunfoni, Notfolk, to Martha J Alexander, youngest
daughter of the late William Alexander, of Fording-
bridge, Ilants.
September 4, at St. Mary's, Ilmadwinsor, by the Rev.
S. C. Malan, vicar, assisted by the Rev. E. R. Breton,
rector of hannouth, and the Rex J. p
brother-in-6M of the bride, Andrew 'hacker, Seq.
of
rharnionth. solicitor, to Marianne, youngest daughter
of .1. C. :Backdate, Esq., of Drimpton, Breadwinsor.