The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

ecclesiastical Intellignuc.

We (Bath C7srositk) are informed that the Rev. W.
.1. E. Bennett, the vicar of From., has commenced the
use of Mouse at the Eucharistic services in his church.
THE Rev. Henry Thompson, of Chard, is preparing
for the press • second series of his well-known
Concionalks. It will be published by Messrs. Masters.
THE Newcastle Croniele understands there is a proba-
bility of Mr. Joseph Barker, the onoe famous free-
thinking lecturer, becoming ordained u • clergyman of
the Church of England.
Ma. HOBBARD, r., has prepared adroit of It Chinch-
rate Bill, suggested for the consideration of the York
Conroe,. He states that the object aimed at has been
to release Dissenters in the simplest and most accept-
able manner from liability to Church-rates if they object
to pay them; but at the same time to maintain the
legal skalds of Church-rates and to amend their opera-
tion at regards district churches.

COLISIDOZ, speaking at Exeter, meridiem on the
effect of the Coleus° Judgment. It will be unwise he
thinks, to attempt to renew that legal ionneetion' be-
tween the Church in England and the Churches in the
Colonies, which that judgment has declared not to exist.
It is not desirable that it should he renewed. But it in
all the more desireable to preserve and strengthen that
Informal but subetantial union, which, under Providence,
remains the best antidote against the deniers incident
to small widely-dispersed religious bodies—the danger,
especially of new standards of faith being set up by
perverse or narrow interpretations of the old. Every
man must feel that there is that danger ; every Colonial
Church must be senOble of it. It is their duty, there-
fore, and ours, to keep up • living connection in what
ways we can, hut not to try to build an impossible legal
supremacy on Acta of Parliament.

xlii Cuoacu'is ADAPTABILITT.—ia was in conse-
quence of this iconoclasm that much of the art produc-
tions of Christianity has been lost to us; nay, much of
the literature and history also, for in the sack of •
monastery little discrimination was used, nave as to
precious metal,. We frequently read of valuible books
and manuscripts being consigned to the flames, bet the
cups, the chalices, the contents of the coffers, invariably
found their way to the treasury. We mud always
remember this, that human nature was not wholly con-
fined to Roman Catholics, but that there was a consider•
able atr.ount of it amongst. the Reformers. Still, in
spite of iconoclasm, in spite of misguided seal, sufficient
has escaped destruction, and being preserved to our
inspection, to convince no of the beauty of those arta
which sprung up in the wake of Christianity, though
they did ultimately become tainted with human error.
And we may see in all this painting and sculpture,
poetry and music, the marvellous adaptability of
Christianity as • regenerator and stimulant, how it
takes up what is good in the world—genius, skill, love,
devotion, and Marta them into new channels, with
Increased vigour and nobler aim. It took up
philosophy, purged it of itt errors, and of philo-
sophers made fathers; it took up ecienee, and
bid it labour to alleviate human sufferings, and
renege the physical condition of humanity; it took
up art, and not only embellialied it, but gave it an
inexhaustible realm of subjects—a realm in which it has
been labouring ever since, and though improving and
advancing in each age, will never exhaust its treasures;
it has been, SA its founder declared it should be, the
salt of the earth ; it has rescued the world an momenta
of darker' and danger, aroused it from apathy and
indifference, purged it, stimulated it, sent it on the
right way, end brought it beak again when it had
pevishly wandered ; and not the least evidence of its puri-
fying, elevating effects upon the fine arts, is this which
we have been faintly endeavouring to describe in the
rise and development of missal painting, that beauty of
oloistered bolinees.—Dublist Usivirogs Magazine.

Lab, anti (Trim.

THE investigation of the seteunte of Mr. Noah, the
Isle borough treaburer if Salford, hm been completed,
and 0,189 proves to be the mount of his def.thation.
Me is mid to hare sought ref ego ill France.
POISONING BY • M.MUS.—A lady named Mrs.
Simkin, at Wardsley. Betlendshire, has been poironed
by Mr. fiptneer, ber =Mimi attendant, who bent her
merlicine in which strychnine bad peen put in mistake
for birtouth. In the ',dim nt of two bottlos 'here war
found enough atr,clinine to kill If, peremr. The jury
found that the btryoltaine had been 11411111A4tOrNi 6, Mr.
Mpermer a ith grou neglect, tool he 1.1 counnitted for
trial for manslaughter. but admitkel to b•il.

A Queen EXPLANATU,N.—Otk Wednesday, at the
Midrib:sex setwion, a primner named John Itiitiop, de-
fending himself against • charge ef previous ewnvietion,
accounted fur having borne the naose of O'llonohne in
very curious manner. Ile said that on being taken into
custody he refined to lay who lie was. and was tried
without any name at al. The 1.1. putr•Governor wrote
on the top of the indictment. "I don't know who,"
whieh because the prisoneee designation in the briefer
torus of tYbonohins

EVADING TUX DUTINS Or Joaruss.—A case has
been pending for some Ull3O before the magistrates at
the Guildhall, in London, in which an agent named
Mayhew stands charred with a number of 1).1-Juries, in
order to get persons excused who hod been summoned
on Firing. On Wcdumeisy the case came on again,
when another men, named Davies. an ettwney's clerk,
was placed in the dock aa an accomplice. Evidence was
given that he was employed by Idaybew, and that be
wrote affidavits, and nod the names of the persons
who, it was pretended. had made therm The prisoners
were remanded till Thursday when both were ouismitted
for trial, but bail was accepted.

A MOTH= CONVICTZD OF FALSIFYING • BAPTISMAL
CERTIPICATIL—On Thursday at Bradford, Ann Farrar,
the mother of a child named Fanny Farrar, who was
employed at a mill, yes charged by the rub-inspector of
factories with having altered the baptismal certificate of
ber child, with the object of having her passed by the
medical inspector as being of euelLaent age to work full
time. Ihe alteration, which consiated in changing the
Gomel 1854 to 1853, was detected immediately on the
certificate being presented at the mill. The family, it
appeared, were in circumstances of great poverty, and
the magistrates, taking a lenient view of the ease, els-
' missed the defendant oa payment of costa, after
admonishing her.
Foaotio BANK Noegs.—The charge made against
three Spaniards of forging Spanish bank-notes came on
again on Thursday at the Clerkenwell Police Court,
before Er. Barker. It appears that the Spanish
eutherities have suffered oonsiderably by the circulation
lof forged Government paper, and the manufacture
having been traced to England, steps were taken to
discover, if possible, the guilty persons. It does not
• appear whether the &preens amused were concerned in
these tranmetions, but having engaged engravers to
make dies for th• printing of • Catalonian note, they,
suspecting they were employed for • dishonest purpose,
gave information, and the fraud was nipped in the bud.
After a lengthened examination, the hearing was
adjourned.
A VIRAGO IN THS DOCC.—On Thuesday in the City
Police-court, a woman named Catherine Duff, well-
known to the police, was charged with assaulting a
witness who in the course of the morning had given
evidenoe against one of her friends. She was senteneed
to 14 days' imprisonment. At this the woman, is an
excited manner, exclaimed. " Fourteen days! Then I
will .lo far her .1 once. I'll murder her now," and at a
boiled cleared the front of the dock, and made • furious
dash in the direction of the witness box, escaping from
the o'fieer in charge before her intention becatne obvious
to him. Three or four officers rushed in, bat were
speedily vanquished, and it took no fewer than seven of
them to overpower her and remove her to the cells, she
all the while using her feet and teeth on the officers in
• mo-t determined and vigorous manner.—MaiscAester
Courier.

A ccmomi cam of mistaken identity, if not some-
thing worm, was investigated at the Middlesex Sessions
on Wednesday. A man named Bishop was at • previous
sessions convicted of an offenoe. Five rolice sergeants
and four pollee conitables subsequently swore that
Bishop had been convicted sod sentenced to penal servi-
tilde in 1860, at the Central Criminal Court, under the
name of Eirworth. lie declared this was not true, and
stated that in 1860 he wan • convict in Herolnds.
was convicted in 1853, sentetized to penal servitude for
sin yews, under the name of O'Donohue. He was sent
to Milbank Prison, thence to Portland, thenco to Ber-
muda, back again to Milbank, and discharge,' them* in
1861. The case was put back for further inquiry, and
came up again on Wednesday. Sergeant Cole was
callid and swore that the prisoner was convicted, as be
asserted, in 18M, and • witness from Ilillbsek Prison
identified him as having been there about that time.
Mr. Payne was sorely troubled with the cue; but the
jury, who were charged to decide, speedily gave a verdiat
to the effect that the prisoner's statement was true, and
the nine policemen muteken.

SISOCLAS CONVICTION Or • SERVANT
servant girl, named Elizabeth Longhurst has just been
sent to prison by the York magistrates under somewhat
remarkable circumstances. Site had been in the service
of Captain Lowry, the governor of York Castle, and
was discharged. She did oat return home to her
mother's house, and the captain and her mother went
to the lodging she was stopping at to endeavour to per-
suade her to do so. A. the still refused, it was deter-
mined to take away her clothing, ko in order to compel
her to return. While the things were being packed SP,
an old box, hardly worth GI. which had been used in
C.. w••
found, and the captain gave her into custody for stealing
it. The almost utter worthlessness of the box was sid•
milted before the magistrates, and the girl said she bed
used it for her own private purposes for months before
she left Captain Lowry's, and hail put it away with her
other thirty' without any felonious intention. The
Bench, nevertheless, r rdered her to be imprisoned ter a
month, but aubsequeutly redueed the term to • fort-
night A subscription on behalf of the girl has been
cooonenoed at York, • feeling prevailing that she boa
been the victim of "justice's justice."
FROLICSOME SERVANT GIRTA —A taw days back the
household of Mr. Clark Hills, Singleton, Great Chart,
was thrown into • state of alarm by the discovery of
what seemed to be as attempt at burghrious robbery.
Sarah Herring, the cook, came to the parlour door and
said the housemaid heard some one walking upstairs.
A search was made, and liundry articles of female wear-
ing apparel were bond done up, and dropped in different
rooms, as if by MOMc one who had made a hasty flight
front the house. In one of the bundles was rolled up
six silver forks. A search was made all over the premises
but no one was found. The next night, about nine
o'clock, the housemaid came running to the parlour say.
jog that Sarah was screaming in the garden. A general
rush was made there, and the prisoner was found sitting
against the wall of the house outside, bleeding from
several cuts on the back of one of her hands. She said
that a man had attacked her, but after some 40 men had
been at work all night searching for the supposed
burglars, she confessed that the whole affair had been
got up for a "spree," by hereon and the housemaid, and
that the wounds on her hands were inflict's! with Mr.
Hill's razor, which the housemaid procured from his bed-
room for the purpose. Sarah was accordingly given into
custody for dealing the six silver forks, and brought
before the Ashford magiatrates on Tuesday The
prisoner made a long defence, in which she detailed the
proceedings of herself and the housemaid in • Very
humorous manner, and asserted that the housemaid was
quite as bad as she was. The latter, however, it appears,
au only 15 years old, while the prisoner was 23. The
Bench committed the prisoner for • month, for miade-
metnour in service, dismissing the charge of stealing
the forks,