The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

We are glad to be able to state that the name of the
Bishop of Oxford has been most groundlessly connected
with the Salisbury Chapter appointments to which we
recently alluded. The Bishop.( Oxford's connection
with the matter was solely this :—He had ordained Mr.
Fisher deacon, on a title within his diocese, and having
found him admirably qualified in learning, piety, and
experience for the priesthood, he consented, on Mr.
Fisher's request, to receive him as • candidate for it
before the usual time. But having learned privately
that his doing so would give the young man • question-
able advantage over his seniors to chapter preferment,
he had, before the publication of "S. G. o.'s" letter,
withdrawn his consent to receive him before the full
term of ordinary probation.
THE NONCONFORMIST EMIGRANTS. SOON little
anxiety having arisen in to the safety of the Mitilda
Wattenbach, which sailed from London for Auckland,
New Zealand, on the 29th of May, we are requested to
state that the vessel has been spoken, all well, in lat. 7
N, long. 21 W, and that a copy of the dibereland
Gazette, printed on board, has been received in
London.
THN WENLIFYAN CONFILRENCIL—The members of this
body have just concluded their annual sitting. The
election of President, in the room of the Rev. John
Rattenbery, whoa* term of salmi has expired, has
fallen upon the Rev. Charles Fred, one of the leading
preachers of the society. The late President has been
appointed to the 11th London (or Bayswater) Circuit.
Dr. Elijah Hoole, Dr. G. Osborne, the Rev. W. B.
Boyce, (from Australia), and the Rev. William Arthur
are appointed general secretaries of the Foreign
Missionary Scielety. Dr. W. if. Rule will act as chap-
lain to the Wesleyan soldiers at the camp of Alder-
shot. Dr. JOlllOl3, who acted as deputation from the
Conference to the American and Australian Conferences,
is to be the superintendent at the "Metropolitan"
Chapel hi the City-road. The Rev. John Lomas has
been appointed theological tutor of the Richmond
Institution. The Rev. John Scott has been appointed
principal, and the Rev. Michael C. Taylor secretary of
the Normal Training Institution, at Horseferry-road,
Westminster, Dr. Waddy is appointed to Chelsea,
and the Rev. W. Mortal, Ptinshon to Islington. The
Rev. Gervais Smith is to have the new London
Circuit of Highbary. The Rev. Richard B. Lythe,
recently returned from the South Seas, is to be engaged,
antler the direction of the Missionary committee, in
the work of translating the Scriptures into the
Polynesian languages. There is no ebange made in the
appointments for the Theological Institute, Dr. Bowers
being the Governor, Dr. John Hannah theological
tutor„ and the Rev. J. D. Geden classical tutor.
We. (Glebe) are glad to observe that the Loid Bishop
Of Lou ion his returned to town in improved health
after a few days absence in Soevemetabire.
Tim Raw ARCHDEACON or WILY/L-1U Rev. Henry
Drury, MA., vicar of Bremhill, mid chaplain of the
House of Commons, has been collated and installed in
Salisbury Cathedral as Archdeacon of Wilts, in the room
of the late Venerable Archdeacon Macdonald, on the
nomination of the bishop.
Taxltay. if. S. Fteircince, OP BILSTON.—Tbe living
of St Leonard's is a perpetual curacy, worth 13600 a-
year, and is in the gift of the whole body of the parish-
maim The Bishop of Lichfield has been written to,
' and the following is a copy of the legal opinion which
hit Lordship has taken to ascertain how the conviction
I of the incumbent affeete the holding of the living :
" 27, Parliament-Mine, July 10,1861—My Lord,—We
have ascertained that the offence of which the Rev. H.
S. Fletcher has been convicted is • misdemeanour.
under the Act 24th and 25th Viet., e. 96 ; but be has
rip not yet been brought for sentence. Had the offence
been felony, a senteees of deprivation would be pro-
nounced by the Faelesiestiesi Court on proceedings
taken for the purpose. A misdemeenouris not in itself
a cause of deprivation or suspension ; and, as the offense
of which Mr. Fletcher has been found guilty is not an
offence against the laws ecclesiastical, we do not see
that your Lordship can take any proceeding under the
Church Discipline Aet.—We are, my Lord, your Lord-
ship's very faithful servants, BORDER and DUNNINO."--