The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-16 00:00:00

fr oreeb i ogs of Varlianunt.

D DOSS OF LORDS.

ltlonnar• E art Remelt called attention to the
lame aa . rob el by Parliament for the porpoises of
education. coat osdet that the apstem adopted had not
be. semesafel, sad tint lberdfore it was the dety of
Governtneat sr A Parliament to establish a good reneral
system of rid, 'alien in England and Wales Earl de
Grey impreme I ths regret of the Government that the
premium) of • *bar matters rendered it impossible for
them to de .1 with the quiches in the prevent
Parliament.

TUKSDAL• —EU Hulce of Soot net wished to sak the
Secretaryd! State far Foreign Affairs a question in
reference t the papers latolv Premettd to r'ndi'mdal
resPesiwit IniMideteriee in Chins. The China Inland
Moslem Familia been gent to the town of Fang-chow,
the mob rusk and • rint took plies (ter neva force
was sent- toes mid on its arrivel order was soon forth-
with re aimed, and the mission was reinstated. H.
desired t.i icreaw what right we hey. to send missionaries
Into 'ilia inert of China. We cannot even stand
mia;nanieries in our own country. Readieet that when
raisitorway went to Birmingham to lecture agtinot the
PAllMMlNteciliee, the mob roes, first broke each other's
.oarafe, then caliet in the poli•e, and ultimately retired,
width their hose's broken, and their Christianity much
brupaired—(langhter). How, then, cionlsi we expect the
rpeople of Yang-,ho to receive with equanimity
persons preaching evilest their religion' Itmolleet
that Giese people knew that the followers of Jeans bad
cached Chinese towns, kiUed their inhabitants, forced
their young .en to join them, and eubjected their
women and children to the moat cruel treatment.
Naturally, theiefore, when miisionarise came to •
town, the people said, "Here are the follows re of Jesus
coma Junin with those who support them ;" the, rose
against the mimionaries ; and he (the Duke of Boilmrsed)
nod that it it most unfair to use the naval power of
England to ownwl them to receive tho-e who are
distasteful to them. He knew that we have treaty
rights T 0060 rights were ineUted on by both the
'item& end English theaters ; be believed mush more
by the former than by the latter. The rhinos@
Minister. la , strongly objected, saying that it
would lead to misery and distraction in the wintry.
He said, "Here are yoe, the representatives of the two
most powerful end the wisest nations in the world ; you
we some here as friends in everything else, but you
differ in Clariatianity. Now you are so wise and each
good friends, why not settle amongst yourselves which
is the Christianity before you distrait, our country"
He (the Duke of Somerset) thought the disciple of
Confucius pat • question that ft must he didlealt for
either the French or the English minister to enewer.
He objected to mippoiting missionaries in ti.e interior
of rhina, became it is met unfair to the Chinese, and
Is olnioet unjest to our naval officers that they should be
called upon to perform such a service. The Govern-
ment west to redaoe our navy in the Chinese seas, but
they menet do that unless they reduce the naimioneries,
bemuse at present every mimionary wants a gunboat
behind him—(lsughter). Our Christianity did 00i
wirtaiely appear under a very favourable aspect at
Shanghai, for every one who knew that place knew
than there was not inch another sink of iniquity in the
morld. How, then, oould we wonder that. having seen
• His example which we set them there, the Chime* were
- avers* to • religion which we Fought to thrust upon
• theirs by gunboats and Armatrong gene !--The Earl of
• Clarendun $.14 all classes of the population in China are
averse to our missionv, and the emsequense le that their
attempts to spread the Gospel are constantly repelled
by force, and we were thus constantly brought to the
brink of war, not by any political quarrels or by any
differ, nose arising out of cur commerce, hut by the
ill-judged efforts of our missionaries to spread the
Christian religion. Her Illsjesty'e Governmeet ham,
therefore, lately addressed to oar camels and naval
°Moen in China instructions to confine their efforts to
the pioteetion of our commence anti the maintenance of
discipline amonvt the crews id British mewls in
Chinese ports. They were told that they must not
employ form except in cams of great emergency for
the proteetWe of the lives and property of British
• vessel. inflames ports, and they must only do eo when
It is impossible to take our reinter men on baud shin,
and thus withdraw them from dangle. In • letter to
the Loudon Missionary Society be had adv Med that
.a,;,,,j00.rt0s should, as a rule, mutest themselves with
(following in the wake of trade, and he trusted that the
adeiee that he had given might he soffit:debt to prevent
any feriher imprudent conduct on the part of our
• missionaries. If it was not, then we must endeavour
to most the difloulty le mule other way.—The Bishop
of St. David's denied that the people of China are as
• smelt opposed to the reception of Christianity as the
noble duke had repreeented.—The Bishop of Peter-
borough contended that men do not low their rights as
Englishmen by becoming missionaries, but that they
had the same right to protection as traders. At the
same time he admitted that it is not desirable for the
sake of Christianity itself that a missionary should go
forth with an army at his back. He Must, however,
protest aliaimet the doctrine that niimionmies arc to
weatent .fhernaelme with following tradera—Earl Grey
mild we •ought not to undertake to protect any of our
,gghjecte who choose to go into the interior of foreign
awn ntrim where their appearance is certain to create
groat resentment and excite the people to vi ilenee.--The
Earl of Shale-bury pointed out that the missionaries
who have wattled this trouble in China were not eon.
nected with the London Miesionary Society or any of
the other large missionary organisations. The subject
-then dropped.
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TRUILIDAT.—The Governne-General of India Bill,
mused by lb. Doke of Arun, and which extends and
defines the powers of the Cloyernor-G I and his
Councils, 10010 Of Whieth CIS DOW unduly rertricted, 4.14
read • amond time. Thom wse pothing more.
Fems.e.—The Bad of Aisik obtained a select nom-
.ittoo to inquire the Lew of Hy potheo in Scotland,
and the Marqui. of Clanrieerde brought in a bill to
amend the Bankruptcy Laws of Ireland.