The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-05 00:00:00

NOTES OF THS WISEL

The Queen and the Princess Beatrice have
returned to Balmoral Caatle,from the temporary
rzeldeuce at the Glassalt Shied.
In what may be called etzictly home politke
there is • complete hill at present, and there is
nothing more important to record than Mr.
Cardwell's last move in the way of army reform.
Our War Minister, while dealing with such great
matters as the abolition of purchase and the re-
organisation of the army, seems to have an eye
for the the smallest details of military life. Re
has now sanctioned the introduction of playing
cards into soldiers' recreation zooms, with the
hope of weaning the men from the public-
house.

The Parliamentazy and Municipal Elections
Act his now been sufficiently tested to show its
generally workable character; but the various
muniolpal elections of Friday last will no doubt
add to Mr. Fonter's stock of Information with
regard to the amendments required to make the
act what Parliament intended it should be, al-
though, considering the novelty of the principle
In this country, the new law has worked bettor
than such experiments generally do. Tke bal-
lot may be " un- • " but it appears to be
an exotics which very readily becomes acclima-
tized in this land.

All sorts of appointments are falling into the
handa of Mr. Gladstone this autumn, Bnglish,
Irish, and Scottish Judgeships, Deaneries,
Canonrias, and we know not what else. The
appointment of the Rev. Morgan Cowie to the
Deanery of Manchester has been followed by the
appointment of the Rev. J. W. Brunton, the
Vicar of Witham, in Ream, to Dr. Garnier's
stall in the Cathedral of Winchester. Mr.
Branston was one of the few clergyman who
stood by Mr. Gladstone when he proposed the
desestabliahment of the Irish Church. He lost
his seat in Convocation; but he will find the
cushions in Winchester Cathedral softer that those
of the Jerusalem Chamber. The most important
of the vacant legal appointments is that of the
Judge of the Divorce Court, through the retire-
ment of Lord Penzance. Half a dozen men are
spoken of for the seat, although the vacancy
mime through the prostration of Lord Penzance
partly from overwork and partly, it is said, from
the wretched ventilation of the Divorce Court;
but according to onstom it will be offered first
of all to the Attorney or Solicitor General. It
is possible that Sir John Coleridge may accept
the appointment, if it Ii coupled, OA it probably
will be, with a Peerage--for Sir Alexander Cock-
burn makes no sign of riving up his gold chain
—and in that case Mr. Henry James would
probably find a seat upon the Treasury Bench.
The Irish Attorney• General takes the vacant
seat upon the Irish Bench, and through his
appointment the House of Commons loses the
wittiest and most humorous larciar it posessess,
the only man who is able in an encounter of wit
to hold his own against Mr. Bernal Osborne. Par.
Palls. of course will take Serjeant Dowee's post,
and with it perhaps his seat for Derry.
A Church Cionferenoe has been held at
Uirenoestar during the past week, and, in dia.
cardng "Th. best mode of carrying out the
dieripline and practical working of the church,"
Mr. Goklney, MP., made mine trenchant
remarks. The rules of Church discipline, he
said, were difficult to understand and impracti-
cable. The Parches prosecution cost at least
£5,000; and that of Mr. Bennett upwards of
A 3,000 • and he startled the Conference by
asserting that the fees paid to officers by the
Church who do nothing in return amount to
more than the salaries of all the Common Lord
Judges in the Kingdom. Coe man was elected
to be searetary to a number of bishops, perhaps
five, and he got £5,000 a year for it, and did
nothing (laughter). Another was secretary for
two or three, and he got £2,000 or £3,000 a
year. Some time ago, a return was moved for
In the House of Lords asking for a statement of
all the fees received by ecclesiastical employda,
what the work was that they did for it, and how
many there were. He copied out a list of names
and the same paid. Here was the list of ecolasi-
satioal officials by which the discipline of the
Church was carried out :

Bishop's seratery, vioar-general, ohaneelloronaMer of
the familty, oink of the !sanity, rogietrar of iib•
faulty, deputy-registrar of the faulty, geseral
registrar of the donee, deputy-regietrar of the dloeeee
(bieghter). In • peat many of the amass they had
made the regielan patent Map" baring nothing to
do, and they had allowed the deputy to no the work
(laughter). Tam there was a sealer, or ess/-keeper,
the vioaripturrere officer, the arehtleacon's agar, the
reoord-keeper, the appsrstor, the deputy-apporitor, the
amiataalmapparitor, the ~ober of the meads, the
surrogate, the notary, and the priest's vim (loud
laughter). As far as he could learn, the amount
rewired by that gentlemen among themselves wee
somewhere about £BOOO a year. In that dames
alone the fees amounted to somethiag Wm AOOO •
year. The searetary to tie bishop, a pronamot
06461 la all Meows, was • now motion. He had
lithinell7 mat on, and he now took a share of the
."" i Heger fee (laughter). It would probably
astonish many to know the large amount paid for
marriage limmese, for which nothing was done
exoepty the arrogate. The surrogate got el for
swearing the parties; the ohanoellor of the Mame did
nothing, but his name war used—ilaughtar). The
Hogiotrar did nothing, but his seal was oesd—(load
laughter). Three of the men who 'got • share
of the plunder out of the £3 11s. 6i., did
nothing. That was wham!: paid .C 40,000 • year.
for. The whole of the machinery of tam
Mime should be done away with. All they wanted in
each dame was we am, who should at se general
registrar or watery, who should be able to note down
amarately the different maims which passed between
the bishop, Merry, and himself. Ha would aim to see
Lb. juriedietion of the eardesiamia.l marts done ay
with, and matters of discipline governed by low. °TIM
did exist in reality now, for everaidng was mottled by
ow privy Connell. If the question was ooe of doctrine
the Mao° might certify so, and the cue go before the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. If they
wanted to keep the power of the (March, they mat
mecioiste with the bishop, a lay committee, who should
and uphold the bishop, who amid have power,
and haw.. going to ay equal patronage with tie
biahop—Haughter). He raernaleoded tb. appoint-
:4w," of la.' b"rdsmbergol glaaarsaof the Corm."' to b 0
an"da'fipleelli of
Gardiane, ad he thought that would get rid ot the
charges of twoopmenoy, mal-adinlnistratioo, and
led, and he believed if would strengthen the Cara
iter-f—(hear, hear).
Sir Mishasl Hicks Beech added that many of
there fees are utterly defenceless, and
Botherou-Katcourt hinted In very plain tom;
that the machinery of the Church for dealing
with a coatuinacious offender is about as
applicable to the ems as • piece of artillery
would be to chase spiders from • garden.
A coal owner writes to the Times to expose
the greatest swindle of modern times, the "On.!
rig, He We it la a mistake to believe that the
men caused the rise, for whereas the latter hare
had 40 per cent. increase of wages, coal ham been
Increased from 130 to 390 per cent. As • result
"one small proyeistor 1 Imo, has realised this