The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-01 00:00:00

THE BALIBBURY 81N00.

SVDDZJI DEATH Of • BTNODSM•II.

The ann'tta.Tmee— i/i;:c.-:•—•;--fiynod took
paws ander the presidency of the Bishop, in the
Chapter Rouse at Salisbury. on Thur. lay and Friday,
and will long be remembered in consequence of the
melancholy incident which took plaoe on the morning
of the former day, in the sudden death of Mr. Wilson,
• well known and very highly respected member of the '
Synod.
Mr. Wilson had just concluded a speech noon
Sunday Cksing of Publichouee., in which Rad
Nelson, Sir J. Phillips, Mr. Burt (of Swarme), Mr.
H. R. Du (more, and others had tams put, end had
only jolt retired to his seat when be fell back and
pima in a few ninato, the °suss of death
being apoplexy.
Mr. Wilson will be much missed at the Synod, of
which he was a most active and useful member, who,
while the sound common sense he displayed always
gained him the attention of his hearers, was•wont by
his humorous speeches to enliven the dulness of many
of the discuedons and occasionally convulsed the
whole assembly with laughter.
It may well tie imagined that the melancholy event
bad • most depreseing influence upon a meeting to
which already a sombre tone had been given by the
opening speech of the universally beloved Biehop of
the Diocese, who had expresewl his conviction, almost,
as he said, amounting to • a certainty, that this would
prove the last meeting of the Synod at which he
should preside.

The Vgazaasta 1315801% in opening the Synod, was
graitly affect ii. I, Use courts of his 'mech. be old—lt
is a great thing to meet you here ti-Jay. and a greater
thing—l never thought likely or probable—to meet you
here for the last as mion of the fourth Synod that we have
held in this Diocese. It is not only the 'eat of the fourth
%tool, but it is the 13th we have held altogether since we
consti:toted it. And I think! may hold it bar answered
• good purpose. Before we finish to-morrow evening I
should like just to say a few words with respect to the
mein facts which it appears to in. it have been produc-
tive of in the diocese during those 13 resew I repeat It
is a great thlng to meet you here, and I cannot but
suppose that this le likely to be the last of such meetings.
We hays had ranch to be tbenkful for. I don't think
in rp oking of our meetings to-day I should quite ignore,
or goes over in entire silence, the foolish criminal folly
which has excited a certain amount of uneasiness with
"WO to which I may call—indeed, whet shell I eel
it I 9$ is folly, aping crime—(hear. hear)-ean 1 tboo
Wogs are painfully connected with one another ; tbost
who can feign crime are not very fee off hem desiring
to do it I Jim tbsaktui to thlak then la no MUM for
supposing anything beyond that extreme folly of which
I speak, and which occasioned such alarm to the citizens
of Salisbury. No further or doper design. I inn 0.0
-
viewed, was intended by it. It naturally p.o.
&iced • great deal of sic tament here. and I will venture
to nay over the whole di coe—for we have inherited a
noble pile—we bays inherited • noble ple wh;ch for Mx
hundred years and more hal bloc the centre not only of
worship but also of • great feeling o prod" of such to noble
speelmen of the greatnest--(if ter • woo Hot tordshitoon'
Untied): I can't speak. I want to say a few words on
one or two matters I pasr over this matter now. I shall
first allude tea subject whioh doe, not acme op in the
agenda paper. 111. of great importances, and alludes to the
Board of Finance It will probably come up in the course
of the Synod, tot! ma anxious that I shall not pan it
over in my opening remark.. I aro informed that papers
have bees received from 136 members, including 13 li'e
rosmbers, • :pressing :hi, desire to INA enrolled; that IS
rural deaneries out of 91 have elected Alms to serve on
omenittees, and act es local 11.0r•terias or treesurers of
their di. roan nob ties in their ger oal deaneries; end that
toorrixplor,ng lelidoniatioraxinetau.n..ti!re
pt., /134..131:1t
I wish t oaf oral and paid
clergymen. either by mean, of
an offertory o• other methods of their owe, paying the
sum of SI are themselvee thereby WeintwrO. (Flis Lord-
ship was swain obliged to pours, and WO, a time pro-
ceeded): I want d to say a word about that. but I can-
not say more. There is one thing I should like to be
allow.d lo say, oil to aek your sympathy. Since we met
lot one honoured mennher of our Stood boll been elected
sod appoitted to a Bishopric in Sc tend. the Hoc
Arthur Dougiss—(applanee)—who has been elected Bishop
of Aberdeen. I desire to rugged that if you think proper
we should by acclamation determine to offer him our
hearty congratulations upon the appointment, end our
earnest &sine and pruner that by the many and blaming
of God It may be prodoc• ire ct everything that le meet
hspp• and blessed to him in his new diocese. (Applause.)
May I anomie that the Is accepted and agrerd to by MI
who ars here present I (Applopose.) I do not know If Mr.
Douslas Is here. If ht is ant I will tike care it Inform
himlof your kind scamp once of my Pronottd.
The active bonnets then commenood with the report of
the Organising C oomittne. The Von. AltalitteCooor of
DORS= next subM teed the Conomil to of Selection. The
Bee. ti it OLortexo mov.rl that a Petition he presents/
to Poribtoiroi In, ...your of filroday Closing. Mr. BUSTY-
STL,I,OIaI lle6OnCled al, motion, Kr BASUTT moved the
previous onssina. which was loot by a Isms majority.
Mr. a BOIT (Swan o
Met migeotal that the pobVohouses
ohould be lett upon two boon on S Inlays, and that tens
file travellers should be supplied also, that publicans
' should be compelled to supply; tee and coffee. Be sub.
, mitts) an aniondment as follows:—
"That on Sanders all houses leaned for the sale of
inter rating liquors, wbether to be ooneutned on the
prernaes or not, he closed excopt between the beano( one
and two p.m. and eight and nine p.m, and excititl for Has
supply of tea, Ade travellers.'
It wan during this debate the sad occurrence above
i referred to took Ware, and the discussion at once oozed.
On morning Litt Ngtaox and the DLLS ellnded is
feeling terms to the aid lom the Synod and the Church had
sustained by the death of Br Wilson.