The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

BLAND FORD.

Bonorros Pouci. Monday.—Before the Mayor siodW.
C Finrbain, Fog. —Sarah B rook, •ho stated that Au mime
from limitor, ishorgrd with being drunk arid riotous
in the Illarketoquare on Saturday look From the stair
ment of P.C. Saviour, it appeared that Use prisoner
visited assegai publio-bonow during the day, sod
wan in a Very diegramfol oondition when takes into
custody.—Sauteneed to 7 days' imprisonment.

Wrra a view of tartifring their reenact and emblem
few their departed minister, the Rey. R. Gilbert,
several of the members and Meads attending the
We.levee chapel in tbia town, hare determined to tweet
• suitable tablet to his memory in the (4.1,4. We
uwieretand that I. the 'entre of the tablet a tireezde;
will be fixed, the workmanship of which hubs*.
undertaken by 111 r. R. Hood, see. The work IN es-
peeted to bellinished by the Chrietmas week, sod several
ministers and friends are expected to be present at •
meeting which will be then held to commemorate the
even*

LONDON COURT OF BLIIERUTTCY, Nov 16.
Re J. S. Thomas—This was an examination and order
of discharge sitting under the bankruptcy of John
awoke Thomas, licensed victualler. Mr. Mawden re-
presented the creditor's usignee, and Mr. Loma the
barrister, supported the bankrupt, whose creditors
reside at Bridport, Blandford, Weymouth, and DOT-
Amstar, and who petitioned the Court attributing his
failure to "Being disappointed through the death of •
friend et a proposed advance upon his going into
buskins, and subeequent looses in trade." hr. Loess
stated that the bankrupt had made • proposition to
him creditors which had been accepted sod time wag
only required to comply with the term' of the statute
for the porpoise of registering the deed and
effectually &conning the banktuptcy. The
learned Registrar (Brougham) having examined the
papers, appointed the adjourned meeting for the 17th of
Jsnuary nest, in ortkr to afford time to the creditors to
execute the deed of aissirment (white provides for pay-
ment of Itio in the C), with the view of annulling the
=in. Solaro* protonic* hoe anon woo
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CORATZ/V AID 81XIITT.—The annual meeting OD
behalf of the Citrates' Aid Society was held at the
Town-hall on Monday week. The attendance was
very limited. The chair was taken by the Rev. J.
R. glirk, and among those prosiest were the Rev.
J. Hughes, rector of Gl' nagleton, Cheshire (who
attended as a deputation). Peva Prebendaries J.
Wat.“ treasurer of the Bleedford &nether)) and
R. Farenhareon, J. Mansfield, R. watt, J.
Percy. soil Col. TA. The meeting having been
opened with prayer. the Chairman expressed a hope
that notwithstanding so few attended thou
present would have their interest so thoroughly
awakened in the work of the Curates' Aid Society,
by the statements of the deputation, as to determine
to do more than they ever bad done for the society.
He did not, however, think that the smallness of the
attendance arose fromianyl lack of interest in the
work, but from unavoidable causes. The collections
after the sermon" the preceding day amounted to
.£l3 61., and the total raised last year was
about £l3, which be, by the kindles= of one or two
friend., was able to mate up to £l5. What they
chiefly wanted was to increase their annul sub.
scrimpoptnizisto, and isi statement
ent m badthepleasure of stating that in
which had been phood in
the pews on the preceding day • cull tradesman of
the town had filled in his Paine with an annul sub-
scription of 10.- —The Rev. J. Watts, as treasurer,
regretted that he had only four subscribers to the fonds
of the society from the whole of Blandford
and the neighbourhood for the pest year. 11,
.r. 47 t.t.ed this many mole would crone forward
to help them—Mr. Quirk explained that though
the number of annual subscribers was small, in ad.
dition to the £25 given by the satiety to support a
curet*, the town contributed fanotber £25, beside
the amount collected after the annual sernioas and
public meeting. He then called upon the Rae, 5,
Hughes, as the deputation, to "Admen the meeting.—
That gentleman, in his opening remarks, said he
found that the Church of England had been greatly
benefitted by the society, especially as regarded the
mares of the population in our large towns. The
Curates' Aid Society had now been established some
years, and no lees than 517 clergymen labouring in
the mining and manufacturing districts were sup-
ported from its funds. The theory of the Church of
England was • shepherd for every flock, but this
was a mere theory in the present day. Formerly it
might have bald good, but through the rapid nemeses
in the population some thouaands, yea millions,
of the people were destitute of the means oi
grace. The rev. gentleman then gave • de-
scription of the state of London, ltaneberer, and
Liverpool, and remarked that the conditioa of
the latter town was a diegrus to England.
In that town they bad only one clergyman to every
6.000 of the population, and at the lune time one
policeman to
faith in the moralising power of • preached gospel
, than in • policeman's baton. From • printed state-
ment of the c•indition of Manchester five year" ago,
and he was afraid it was no better now, he found
that there were in that city no lengthen 3.565 known
thieves, of whom 97 were hove and 63 girls under 16
years of age. There were 604 public houses where
such character" were harboured, beside 401 houses
of ill.fame, and the total oosta of crime in that city
amounted to no less than £2564606.. ld. Would it
not be better to train the people up in paths of virtue
and religion, even if it did costa large sum of money,
than to have in their midst vast muses of the people
living in ignorance and depravity 1 The criminal
neinultitioa WOO 00 evcrYwhere, and why was it so ?
Bicause the Church of England, as the national
church of the country, bad not futilled her duty. The
rev, gentleman then gave • very interesting account
of the changes to a better state of things which had
been achieved by the agency of the Church Pastoral
Aid Society, and the tkratee Aid Society, and
especially to the good which the agents of those
societies had been the means of effecting with repaid
to socialism and infidelity. He onsideinned the
appointment of the most able ministers of the
church to cures in agricultural districta, and
remarked that it was exactly opposite to the Wan
which Christ and his apostles adopted. They
always went first to large cities where the masses of
the people were congregated. Having paid • just and
noble tribute to the patience and chriatian-
like conduct of the operatives, during the
cotton famine, he said he believed the excellent
spirit they showed was in • great measure
brought about through the former labours of
Archbishop Sumner and his coadjutor'. He then
gave it as his decided opinion and unvarying
experience of the working classes, that they were
not indisposed to receive religious instruction, but
on the contrary where the truths of the gospel were
placed before them in • kind and Christian-like
spirit they heartily and joyfully received them. He
then impressed upon the ladies present the necessity
of seeking, in their visits to their poorer brethren,
to call the special attention of parents to the impor.
WWI of making home happy to their children, and
concluded by remarking that the Church of England
was a node legacy left to us by our forefathers, the
scriptural teaching of its liturgy we were bound to
hand down to their children, and to spread abroad
through the maws of the people. —A vote of
thanks to the deputation was moved by the Rey.
J. Watts, after which the Chairman gave an
account of an interesting meeting he attended in the
parish of St. Pancras, where, with only a few excep-
tions, in a large concourse of working men, it vu
decided to send • deputation to Lord Malmesbury,
in opposition to the having of Sunday bands in the
parks ; the working men considering that this was
the thin end of the wedge, which if driven home
woeld said in compolsory Sunday labour. —The
meeting wee then concluded with the benediction.
The total collection was £1510.. 9d.