The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-04 00:00:00

the rumour is prevalent that he has resigned.
The Daily Nymph contradicts the statement
of the Government's intention to apply for an
increased elllo*6lloo to the Prince of Waloas—but
only rot the present session."

—THE PARLIAMENTARY interest of the
week has centred entirely in the House of Com-
mons. The most remarkable discussion and
division, at least as respects our Chureh and
Country readers, was that on the Union
Chargeability Bill on Monday. The Govern-
ment propoted a system of union, instead of
parodhial rating for relief of the poor, and
carried it against the counter proposition of Sir
Rainald K.nightley, "That considering the little
knowledge this House possesses as to the prac-
tical working of the Irremoveable Poor Act of
1861, it is inexpedient, without further informa-
tion, to legislate on the subject of union rating
during the present session." The inequality of
' the poor rates has been a long standing-subject
of complaint, and a general opinion prevails
that by ah eitension or the area of rating,
they would not only be better equalised,
but the hardships devolving on rural towns
or cities like Salisbury, which are forced to
harbour the unemployed poor of the surrounding
districts, as might be observed from a local
discussion last week reported in our columns,
alleviated—perhaps removed. Sir R. Knightley's
object being consequently only calculated to
gam time, and the plea of ignorance an unbe-
coming one in the mouth of the legislature,
where injustice of any kind demands redress, we
do not wonder that the bill should have passed
its second reading by a majority of 203 to 131.
Mr. Ferrand, however, has given notice that on
going into committee, he will move, by way of
amendment, that since poor.rates in aid of
manufacturing wages are oonstantly levied in
the agricultural district* whereby the burdens
on land bettime greatly increased, the Union
Charges Bill would eitend the area of tatation,
and be the means of creating serious discontent.
This is therefore a tug of war betwixt town and
country, and the state of the division list proves
it so. Amongst local members we find in the
ministerial majority General Buckley, Sir
R. P. Collier, Mr. Dillwyn, Sir W.
Jolliffe, Mr. Kekewich, Mr. Kinglake,
Viscount Palmerston, Colonel Pinney, Mr.
Portman, Mr. A. Russell, Mr. Sheridan,
Colonel Sturt ; on the other hand the minority
comprises may of the county menibers--aolonel
Bathurst, Mr, Beach, Mr. Bramaton, Mr.
Bremridge, Sir W. B. Bridget, Mr. Brooks,
Mr. Ferrand, Mr. FlOyer, Mr. Gard, Viscount
Grey de Wilton, Sir A. A. Hood, Mr. Gore
Langton, Mr. Long, Sir W. Miles, Sir S.
Northcote, Mr. Powys-Lybbe, Mr. Sclater-
Booth,Mr. G. Sturt, Lord H. Thynne ; whilst we
find amongst the pairs for the bill Mr. G. Glyn,
Mr. H. D. Seymour, Colonel Tynte, Dir.
Langton (Bristol), and Mr. Marsh, t against it
Mr. Drax, Sir L Palk, Lord E. Thynne, Sir
Massey Lopes, and Captain Dawson Darner.
Friday tight brought the Lord Chancellor
more hot water, in the shape of an inquiry by
Lord Robert Montague in the House of
Commons, into the appointment, by Lord West-
bury, of Mr. Stonor, a person under the ban of
the house for corrupt practices, to a County
Court Judgeship. It may be remembered that
some years ago the late Duke of,NeweaStle got
into trouble by sending Mr. Stonor out to
Austoght as a stipendiary magistrate; but the
Duke instantly made the amende by sending out
sharply after him to cancel the appointment, so
that Mr. Stonor on landing at the antipodes
with his commission in his pocket, found that he
had simply had his voyage for his pains. Mr.
Stonor seems to be one of those persons for
whom official patronage is specially ordained;
for notwithstanding all this, he appeari td have
held a very fair appointment had he been con-
tent with it, that of Judge in the West India
Encumbered Estates Court, to which he was
appointed by Mr. Labouchere in 1858. It is
questioned what difference it could make to Mr.
Stonor being transferred from one bench to the
other; and it is not easy to understand how, if
he must hold official appointments, he could not
let well alone. The public have now got ant-
picious of all such appointments ; and ta the Lbrd
Chancellor happenl to have this time set at
defianne not the authority of the House of Lords,
where etiquette to 'some extent restrains
animadversion on his distributions of patronage,
but that of the House of Commons, he is likely
to hear of it. "Misfortunes never come singly,"
it is true, and surely Lord Weitbury may clinch
the one adage with another—" it never rains
but it pours.''

—Tux CHURCH in our own neighbour-
hood has been attracting, this week, some atten-
tion, and the Briciport Nem, hose proclivities
have been somewhat dissenting has a moat bi-
oellent article on Chureh Extetudoil, We don-
gratulate our triintlehipoiary on his oonversion to
the True Paith. The active instrumentality of
, the Rev. Henry Rawlinson is making itself felt
throughout his important parish of Symondsbury.
And within the space of ten months two new
churches have been founded there—one at
Eype, in memory of the late venerated incumbent
the Rev. G. Raymond, and last week another
at Broad Oak, of which the foundation stone
was laitit by Mrs. Rawlinson, the wife of the
prelleht incumbent The Eype Church, it ap-
pears, will be becomingly decorated, and the
windows filled with stained glass in memoriam
of one who is every way worthy to be had in
remembrance amongst church-goers. The elitirah
of Broad Oak is platied at the opposite extremity
of this parochial district, and intended to ac-
commodate not only Broad Oak, but the, hare:
feta of Hemwood, Alta* DiiihitY, and Motrer:
bury, With a pOptilation of 00, nearly three
miles distant from the parish church, inde-
pendently of the outlying portions of Nether-
bury, Loders, and Marshwood in the immediate
neighbourhood. We art glad to finll our roon-
temporary praising the intrepidity of the Rev.
Henry Rawlinflon in Incurring responsibilities
not at all short of £3,500 for this disinterested
object of giving the Gospel to the poor of the
Broad Oak district. It is farther announced
that the Memorial Church at Eype will be
opened in June in pretence of two bishops,
90 clergy, and 300 invited guests. The opening
of the poor man's church at Breed Oak—to us
by far the more ititereeting of the twain—may be
antitipated about Michaelmas, if the public evince
a sufficient appreciation of its purpose by coming
promptly forward with their contributions.
Mr. Gladstone has shown himself in his true
colours ; henceforth this quondam friend of the
Church must be regarded m her *unit Old Wet
insidious enemy. On Tueedity night there Wes
a discussion in Abe Heels of Commons, intro-
duced ht Mr. Dillwyn on the position of the
Irish Church Establishment, which the hon.
member for Swansea wished the House to pro-
nounce "unsatisfactory," calling for 'the early
attention of her Majesty's Government.
Through what ordeals have we not beheld the
temporalities of this comparatively poor, and
literally persecuted Church of 'relied pats
Culminating in the menerablts straggle over "the
Appropriation ligletuiie,4 Which was, in fact, the
battle of the Standard—a fight, once fought,
Which we scarcely expected to see repeated. But
now, under the generalship of Mr. Ilsillwyn, we
know too well that Vrith all the prestige of her
ancient pnrity,es unfolded by Archbishop Clasher,
rendering her sacred in the name of centuries of
suffering and endurance for the faith, it is the
spiritualities rather than the temporalities of the
Irish Church that are menaced i and MA Glad-
stone must be aware of it. Mir George Grey
knew it, for in the name of the Government, he
shrunk froln laying a finger on the Church of
Ireland—emphatically proclaiming that she
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" rested on the . of centuries, was
rooted in the boo - of the country, and
could not be over‘uiiied without a revolution."
But what said the Chancellor of the Exchequer I
He affected to speak in the name of the Govern-
ment, but fortunately Sir George Grey had been
beforehand with him in saying the very
opposite. He, the minister of finance and
property in the United Kingdom, sought to
strike at the root alike of the Church's temporal
subsistence and spiritual independence, by ad-
vancing the daugesoea and startling assertion
that her Chun& property, her tithes, her glebe
lands—all that the Chnreh, as a oorporation,fondly
believes her own, are not hers, but held only by
sufferance of the State, This of course is a
doctrine which, if possessed of the shadow of a
foundation, does not strike at the Irish Church
alone, but at the "United Church of England
and Ireland," all one. The discusaion stands
adjourned. But -•ught to be aware
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