The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

Morsetsbirt.

TR. SPRING CIRCUITS or TIER 311D0111.-00 the
17th inst the judges of the common a, Roans will
aseemble in the Elohequer to choose their circuits—
the chiefs have the fleet choice.?
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Wi find that a strong protest ii being most
influentially eiTned in this Oodoty again" that
Portion of the answer of the Bishop of Salisbury to
Lord 8. O. Osborne, wherein a claim is set up on
behalf of the Anglican priesthood to the powers
professed by the church of Rome. The protest, we
understand, will shortly be presented to the Bishop.

BIISSINTATIOR. —The certificated masters of schools
in this county have jest presented • testimonial of
regard and esteem to the Rev. W. W. Howard, one
of her Majesty'. inspectors of schools, who has relin-
quished that part of his duties which he has hitherto
been called upon to perform in Dorseashirs. It 000-
sisted of an elaborately designed silver fruit-stand,
with glass vases, supported by sea-horses, and an
elegant silaer Bower-stand. The present woe
accompanied by an address, neatly engromed on
parchment and signed by upwards of sixty of the
subecribers, tostifying to his uniform kindness of
manner, combined with • zealous and thoroughly
faithful discharge of duty, daring the time these
schools were ender his inspection. The rev, gentle-
men acknowledged the present in kindly terms; ,
sending a letter to each subseriher. He is succeeded '
in Dorset by the Rev. W. F. Tregartlien, well
known in the county.
A DEATH BLOW TO ADVISITTUNG QUACKS •KD
QU•CKSIIY.—Uedsr this title appears at Darlington
(J. 8. Garrard) a fearless little pamphlet, purporting
to form an exposers of the means to which the ad
-
yenning quacks resort in extorting money from their
dupes, as well as the ignorance of the "general
median practitioner" of this country; and affording
useful information to all in smirch of medimil aid from
professional men propeirjy quelitled. The writer
announces himself as • lona fide victim of their
practices and, although iii. • painful subject be
allude to, we have arrived at the conclusion that
from the very extent to which these impositions are
coirried on, it lass become incumbent to expos. them.
A pamphlet having the same object in view big
already proceeded from the io of • professional mai,
signing himself "Detector," but this is the first
revelation made by an actual victim • and ointainly
his einneetness cf purpose merits the atteotioo which
will doubtless he given to his warning voice. May
his sixpenny pamphlet be the Man, of saving many
from misery.

LORD SHAPTHRIURY ON Tut CHURCH Or ENG-
LA.ND AND THR REPORMATION. —The letter addressed I
to the Times by Lord Shaftesbury, a short time ago,
has called forth considerable criticism, and his Lord.
ship replies es follow* to his Dumerone entice t —" IL
I. mid that I ought to hare asserted the peril of the
Fatabliebed Chinch, rather than the peril of the Re-
formation in Ragland. I plead guilty to having teed
the word 'Reformation' intentionally, and not by
ovendght. The peril of the Church of England I
easnmed as a matter of course, but I desire to In.
a far greater peril. Deeply as I value the
Established Church, I value the Reformation a vast
deal more. Among other reaeons for profound and
tsitrantLil affsetion to the Church of England, be lass
Liturgy, her stated ministry, and her ordinances, I
hold that she is the grand and only effective bulwark
for the maintenance of the Reformation ageinat the
uncaring efforts, the indissoluble oombinations and
methodical eocrpachments of the Pepsi Rea I have
logs been, bud I am still, oonsoientously convinced
that were the Establishment swept away • large pro.
Donlon of her members would join Hie Church of
Rome; many would remain indifferent; some, no
doubt, would bold steadily to her doctrines; but even
they, by their very weakness, would contribute to
the progress of the great enemy. Highly as I ap•
promote the seal, learning, talent, and principle of
several of the Nonconformist bodlee I cannot see, in
their organisation and action, any power of present.
log • systematic and continuous opposition to the
Papal policy; and as for the Neologism] part of the
community, but a few of them, even of those who
are not already Romanista, would probably become
eventually the blind and trilling disciples of the
Contagion end absolution' of a subtle and easy
priesthood. Even the Church of Scotland, once so
zealous in the cause, seem. to be asleep in that false
security which is, to every one of us, the greatest
danger of all. That all traces of the Reformation
would be obliterated I did nob mean toassert. They
are not obliterated in Austria or in Spain ; but it
would osass to be predominant, and the Ragland of
no distant future would no more resemble the Eng.
land of to-day, than the actual Chen% of Smyrna
resembles the Church of Smyrna as exhibited in the
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