The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

Tim bliuma. —The StaffSargeaate of the Dorset
militia am now aodergoiag 14 days' drill under
Major Clapoott.
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fug special weekly service at St. George's church,
Fordington, to implore that the threatened visitation
of cholera may be averted from this plane, is now
held on Thursday eveninga
COIN MAAR.; Saturday.—The supply of old
wheat was very short, but several parcels of the new
crop were offered in firm oondition, which found
buyers at prices quite equal to those paid for old
wheat. Barley for grinding in good demand at Is.
advance. Oats sold slowly at late rated.

THE ingathering of the harvest has been rapidly
proceeded with in this neighbourhood during the
past week. The wheat lands are for the most part
dared, and a considerable breadth of barley is now
in process of reaping. In Fordington field we noticed
one of Samuelson and Co.'s eeltraking reaping
machines (supplied by Mr. Henry Taylor, South•
street), cutting barley, and the manner in which it
did the work was admired by all practical men who
taw it.

&motor( Potacit, Friday—Before the Mayor
(Dr. Aldridge).—llen Curtis was brought tip in custody
charged with sleeping in • closet in Lester-square, For-
dington. P.C. CburobW found her in the skeet about
one o'clock that morning, and took her into custody.—
lihe was sentenced to 14 days' bard labium—The Mayor
remarked upon her bed oourse of Ws, but thotioght it
was owing to her basins • father who eared nothing for
his cliklren, aud, with hi. usual kindness, his worship
promised to see the girl In • day or two, and endea-
vour to get her into a penitentiary. The girl thanked
his worship in tears and was then led away.

COMMITTED TO THE DORSET COUNTY GAOL—
Hard Labour: Samuel Jones, vagrancy at Bland-
ford, 1 month; John Langford, Martin Dark, and
Matthew Goage, night poaching at Thornoombe,
3 months, and to find sureties; William Dymock,
vagrancy at Portland, 2 months; Ellen Curtis,
vagrancy at Dorchester, 14 days ; Samuel Gills,
stealing wearing apparel at child Okefora, 6 months.
Imprisonment : Wdliam Lupe, drunk, ko., at
Weymouth, 7 clayey Joseph Clinch and Ashley
, vagrancy at Blandford, 1 month; John
Boudfield, drank, &c., at Swanage, 7 days.

Gams BRUTALITY To • Cow.—about a week
gime it was found that a sow, belonging to Mr.
Cross, dairyman, residing in Grove-buildings, which
was &pastured in • field near, had been wounded in
• very brutal manner by some sharp iruitrument
having been thrust inside its body. The animal
was akiLfully treated by Mr. Redwood, veterinary
surgeon, bat it died last Sunday night Two men
were seen to go to the field on the evening of the
occurrence, and it is believed that • groin crime wee
perpetrated before the sot above referred to was
done, and they are suspected of being guilty of both
offence&

Toe dispute between the Town Council and Mr.
J. T. Ensor occupied the attention of the Corporate
body yesterday for several hours in committee,
but we understand that no decision was arrived
at as to the course to be adopted, mainly
on account of the difficulty found to exist
in the way of proving what the oommittee
stated in their report to the Council last week had
"come to their knowledge," viz., that there is an as.
signment by way of mortgage of the low of the land
held by Mr. Ensor under Übe Corporation, and we
hear that the question is to stand over to see if any
evidence on the point can be elicited before the
town is plauged into litigation.

THE REV. ALEXANDER J. D. D'Oastitte Kum's
CoLtsot Lac-mem—We venture to remind our
readers of the appearance of this accomplished
scholsx and rhetorician in our Town Hall this day.
Mr. D'Oreey has commenced a crusade against the
errors of delivery both in public speaking and read-
ing which are so prevalent in our day ; and as his
views are clear, his practice admirable, both pre-
cept and example concur in his cam to induce and
promote improvement. There will be two public
prelections—a morning one at two o'clock, at which
the Rector of Holy Trinity will preside, and an
evening lecture at eight o'clock, which will be pre-
sided Over by the Mayor of Dorchester. Schools
and families are alike interested 1 enoouraging Mr.
D'Orsey's exertions and attending his lemons and
lectures.

ROYAL HORSY ARTILLMY. —The A battery B
brigade, Royal Ilona A-tillery, under the command
of Captain Deane, left their barracks at Dorchester,
on Friday morning Co route for Ireland. At an
early hour the neighbourhood wee Wife with persons,
the majority of whom were, of course, young women,
come to say "good-bye" to the soldiers they had
acquired an Interest in during the two years they
have been at Dorchester. Tears and vows were
plentiful, and as the battery, with their guns, and
fully equipped, marched off at a quick pace clout
baltpast six, unmixed morrow was the portion of the
girls they left behind them. The first stage of
their route was to Yeovil, where they were billeted
on Friday night; on Saturday morning they pro.
°aided to Wells, and Sunday being 'halting day"
the battery remained there until yesterday morning,
when they proceeded to Bristol, and on arriving
there at once embarked for Dublin. The women
and baggage of the detachment weredispatched by rail
to Bristol on Thursday. Daring the time the men of
this battery have been quartered here their conduct
has been generally commendable. The barracks
will be next occupied by the D battery of the same
brigade, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Mitchell ; but they will not arrive till the end of
this week, so as to afford time to effect the neces-
sary cleaning and repairs of the barracks.

Tan CBOlB or Hour Tstairy Caracii, through
the liberality of their Rector, made their annual ex-
cursion on Thursday last. The vat selected for this
year was Abbotabury, where, among the many
antiquities in which this delightful village abounds,
they had long looked forward to spending a pleasant
holiday. An unfortunate accident occurring to one
of the party, however, did much to insr the day's
proceedings. An excellent dinner was served up by
"mine host" of the Ship; the party then proceeded
on their voyage of discovery, making first for St.
Catherine's Chapel; md, cricketing gear having been
provided, it was proposed to pitch stumps at the bot-
tom of the hill on the other side. Meantime& football
had been lustily kicked up the hill and some one had
given it a most unmistakeable sender down the other
side. Chase was immediately given, and the
descent being steep and the grass slippery, many
tumbles were the result. Mr. Randall bang, unfor-
tunately for himself, one of the fleeted, be went
down with such force as to fisctius his collar-bone.
Mr. Boyton Smith, under whose superintendence
the excursion was, immediately drove the sufferer
home, where the fracture was set, and we are glad
to hear that under the care of Dr. Aldridge, the
patient is doing remarkably well. The reel of the
party returned later in the evening, having, with
the exception of this untoward circumstance, vent
an exceedingly pleamant day.
Tin SANrr.ter STATIC or FOIIDINOTON.—At the
last Council meeting the Mayor (Dr. Aldridge)
made the following alarming statement teaching the
sanitary state of Fordington :—"Many of the cot-
tages are madly unclean and want purifying; and
some of theaters quite unfit for habitation. There are
families of eight or nine living in one room, 8 feet
square, badly ventilated, having walls green with
dampness, and dirty in the extreme. Talk about
the Black Hole of Calcutta I I would rather go into
that than into such rooms in a morning, and stay
there any length of time." The new Sanitary Act
has led members of the Local Board of Health with
others interested in the 'abject, headed by the
Mayor, to pay a visit to some of the worst parts of
the pariah. The need for great improvement was
abundantly apparent, but what the nature of it should
be remains a difficult and unsolved queetion. For
instance, how can you improve such a room as that
described by the Mayor, so as to make it a decent
habitation? and what can be done with such a
disgraceful human burrow as the block if buildings
known as "the barracks," except indeed to destroy
it, but, in that case, what is to become of the
evicted tenant'? and then, who is to prevent the
Local Board themselves from making drains in the
very houses of the poor, the mouths of which they
are obliged to cover over with clothe, that they may
escape being poisoned by the noxious pees arising
from the sewers We learn that it is not oonsidered
clear who is the "sewer authority" under the New
Act, and that the Town Clerk has written to the
Howe Secretary for information on the subject.
ALL awns' Cuoscu.—The recent appointment
to this living has given rise to the following corms
pondeoce in the column' of the Standard, under
the heading of "The Simeon Trouts*, and their
Doings

When the late Charles Simeon set on (cot his wordly•
wise ninon of busing up poor livings in populous
parishes for the purpose of thereby perpetrating his
own peculiar theological views, Instead of trusting to
the providence of God to propagate His divine truth in
His own way, an apprehension was felt in the Church
that the day would probably come when opinions would
be more regarded than character by those who should
exercise his patronage after his death. Whether that
apprehension was well founded the following facts will
enable Churchmen to judge :—ln our county town of
Dorchester, which oontains several parishes, that of AU
Sainte' is one of the most important. It pommies a
beautiful church, restored • few years ago by the late
Arthur &eland Troyte, of revered memory, and has
beets served for some yeses by • solitary CUTII4I, oa
very slender stipead, in the absence of Um rector, who
was non resident. The citrate was a man of devoted,

"waive life; earned, ample, sod a seticcate, beloved
by his own flock, and by all Isis neighbour'; whose
genial influence was felt and appreciated by the officers
and men of the regiments sutheseively stationed at the
barracks in that garrison town, many of whom might be
seen reverently worshipping there,
as men al crap do
when their souls are 'tiered. There were daily 'amen
and weekly Communion, and the church was mowded.
The curiae vu not • man of commanding thereinto;
.
but his sermons (mostly extempore)
were plain an
practical exposition. of &ileum trot' • To rector
died, end the Simeon trustees were stalled to appoint
another. Did they give the living to the curste, as his
d
Mock fondly hoped? Also I no, he had the miefortune
, of being • High Churchman (though a very moderate
one), and so his character and labours! went for nothing
with the patron.. They sent him adrift, and gave the
rectoty to an ex-archdeacoo from one of the Australian
colonies, whose very first act has been to give up the
daily services, on the pies, "not that be objected to
them; but that be is not ahle, sinelelaerled, to under-
take so much &durum ditty!" Vet the humble curate
did this and math more; arid, certainly, • populous
town like Dorchester ought Got to he deprived of the
comfort of • deity serrioe in at least one of its churches,
for there are always some who are able and willing he
attend it, and by whom it. lees will be felt u • grievous
privation. It remains to be even whether the bishop
hie the power; am we know from his lordship's charger
that he has the will, to require the reeler to c-ntinue
this important right of the parishioners. Ido not wish
to Say a word against the new rector penonally. and I
will hope that his Character will it and as high se the late
curate's; but I call attention to these feels because they
confirm the apprehensions of thaw who objected to the
Simeon scheme as wrong in principle and mischievous
in practice. Can you tell me, why the Simeon trustee%
end the other cognete bodies founded miter their model.
are so partial to colonial and other dignitaries in their
appointments? Clifton was given to one who was con-
secrated only • few years sines as Bishop of the Red
River diocese, but who has left his work there to settle
down comfortably In a fashionable inland watering-place
at home. So, too, it is said that Camden Chap I, at
Camberwell, is about to be given to another ox-colonial
bishop. For this appointment the rooter of Bath is chiefly
responsible. And now All Sainte', Dorchester, is given
to "the Venerable Archdeacon Braim," returned from
Melbourne. Can it be that these Teflon, Low Church
patron. are so hard up for good men at home that they
are oompelled to draw on the colonies? Or is it, as
some have said, that the Calvinistic theology of these
clergy is so unpalatable to the mess that it requires a
"Lord Bishop" or • "Venerable Archdeacon" to make
anybody mellow it? Anyhow, the system is a bad one,
and is achieving miseisievona results.—A LAT ILLY.
I can throw some further light on the history of All
Saints', Dorchester, beyond what "A L.yrnan " has
given in his interesting letter to your journal. In the
year 1P24 I was beeneed by the Bishop of Bristol, Dr.
Kaye, in whose diocese Dorchester thin was, to the cure
of souls of All Saints. Them were then two full services
every Sunday, on every day during Passion week. and
on certain other holydays in the course of the Cloristain
year—salary about 00 per annum, under • sequestrip
Con, the rent of the personage house being reserved for
the nonresident rector. The patrons of the living
were the Mayor and corporation of the borough, to
whom the advoween was granted 111th of Jac. 1 by the
Crown, for the purpose of strengthening 'Church and
King during the Stuart dynasty. And with that view
the clergymen appointed to this church were al•ays
selected up to the yessing of the Reform Bill, 1832.
Taking advantage Of • clause in that Sill slipped in by
Lord John Russell, the corporation entailed the &dyes'.
loon to the Simeon Fund trustees, and appropriated the
proceeds of the sale to borough improvement.. The
building of the new chords by my friend the late Taut*
Acland, one of the first strictly ecclesiastical edifices in
the revival of Church restoration in the 19th century,
and the pecuniary contributions from the landed gentry
in the neighbourhood to increase the endowment of this
poor living, are circumstances locally interesting, but of
little importance to the public at large. There are,
however, some things connected with the old church,
in which my minatrations were performed, which may
serve to elucidate the principles that the layman in his
letter seems to lay down se the proper functione of an
Anglican clergyman in the cure of souls to which lie
had been appointed—e. g. daily service according to the
rubric in the Book of Common Prayer. Surely this
might be carried out at least io one of the many churches
richer benefices, in the county town of Donsetehire ! Mr.
Procter is one of the splendid exceptions of working
clergymen peculiar to the present age; but the latroarer
Is worthy of his hire; and though the new rector of All
; Saints' may shrink, with no small an income as the en-
dowment supplies, from following the praiseworthy
example of the sealoiu curate whom he has superseded
in the duties of the church, he might very reasonably
call upon his patrons to furnish him with an asaistant
curate. As they pun:hued the &dynes, n for • few
hundred pounds, their unharness will naturally guide
them in carrying out the duties as set down by ruleei.
asiical authority in the reign of lea 1. "No bishop,
no King," wee a favourite axiom of that mouarth ; and
his aversion to interference in Church discipline would
never for • moment have tolerated an hiperien me ilr-
perio, like the Simeon Fund Institution, or the ap-
pointment of ex-colonial dignitaries. It was left to
Cram well's time, for the influence of the Puritans in
Doreetshire, to make the notorious William Been rector
of All Saints, but he was ejected for nonconformity on ,
Bartholomew's-day, 1662. Even he found time from
the regular daily services to prime% to the prisoners in
the gaol. And from 1662 to 16e0, when bodied, and
was buried in All saints' churchyard, he preached per-
tinaciously in all conventicles in the county, and WAS
frequently fined and imprisoned for so doing. In thou
times God's house was not a hones of prayer, but for
preaching Calvinistic theology, which the layman sup-
poses to be unpalatable to the maas of the people in
populous towns, where the Simeon trustees have made
investments in Church patronage. How for he may be
right in his conjectures as to Bath, Clifton, anal other
Simeonite advowsoes which have fallen into band, I
cannot may; but this I know—when I was resident in
Dortheeter the great body of the inhabitants were insti-
-1 ralvinistia in principle, and deprecated the hour, which
has now arrived, of the influence of Exeter Hall.—R. C.