The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-13 00:00:00

ygolf OUR OWN REPORTER.

MARIE•LANIS, Ocrosn 12.

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Good supply of English wheat, demand very Mantle,
god saes Mold only be effected at a oonsiderable redo.-
tics. To this Motors were unwilling to submit, and
trod* was nominal. Foreign bad a decidedly downward
Underlay. Barley and malt dolt Oats, beans, peas,
and UAW, quits., dear. Floor doll and drooping.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, Oman 12.
For both foreign end English beasts there was a
dead, demand at Liat Monday's rate.. Sheep Eno-
Gahm steady. Pigs In demand at fall prices.

MONEY MARKET Ocr. 12.
Consols for money stand at 94 to 911, and for Um
meonnt, 941 to 941.

R. GLADS'TONE'S ELECTION ADDRESS.
Mr. Gladstone has issued his address to the *lectors
of South-West Lthcashire. Ile commences by giving a
brief history ot the Reform Bill, and says that in •
future Parliament severeNexatious clauses will have to
be removed. The raXites growth, he says, of wealth,
especially among the of the greatest activity and
enterprise, has led for a number of years past to a
diminished watchfulness outside the walls of Parliament
respecting the great and cardinal subject of economy in
the public charges, soil the relation between the Income
of the State and Ha expenditure. He earnestly desires
that the paramount interest of the lately enfranchised
classes In thrifty administration may operate to bring
about • change. The tendency, be says, cannot but be
strengthened by the ;invest decline of the permanent
revenue, and by the aadition. sines the present Govern-
moat took office, of three millions to the public charges.
This addition, he thinks, has not been justified either
by the wishes of the country or the demands of the
public service. He is in favour of the ratepayers having
°petrol over the county expenditure. As to education,
be thinks that the declaration of Earl Russell still marks
the proper basis of national policy for the three king-
doms, it being increasingly desirable that the Slate
should stand elesrly apart from responsibility for the
teaching of particular and conflicting creeds in schools
aided by grants from any national fund. The state of
Ireland, and the actual temper of no small portion of its
people inwards the throne and Government of the
Ituitel Kingdom, imperatively demand the care of all
public men, and of all good citizens, who would seek,
not merely to live by expedienta from clay to day, but,
looking onwards into the future, to make provision, as
far as human mesas avail, lor the strength, concord, and
stability of the Empire. The object of a truly liberal
policy is by equitable but decided measures to mks the
name of law in Ireland respected as it is in Great Britain;
to make it respected, by making it loved; and to
create this attachment by creating in the natiinal
mind the conviction that law is • friend and not
no enemy ; the friend of every class, but especially of
those classes which have the greatest need of its proteo•
tion. The present House of Common, has four times
been called upon to suspend the Act for securing personal
liberty in Ireland ; but it has not forgetten the work
of improvement in that country. In Ittell, the Govern-
ment of Earl Russell widresuied itself to one absolutely
vital portion of this work, by introducing a Land Bill
for securing to tenants the value of their improvements,
which the obstruction of the Ministers now in power
prevented from passing into law. But this year, those
Minister% rightly judging that the necessity of coercion
did not impare the obligations of justice, very
deliberately proposed • policy for Ireland; did not
shrink from the questions of Education atd Religion ;
asked to establish at the charge of the Exchequer a
Roman Catholic University; aml declared their readi•
news to recognise the principle of religious equality in
Ireland by a great change in the status of the
nnendoweel clergy ef that country, provided always
that the Established Church should be maintained
In it. integrity. In this statement, for the sake of
accuracy, I have adhered as nearly as may be to the
language which they used. We thought that Ministers
had mistaken alike the interests and eouvictions of the
eountry. We refused to open • new source of discord
through the establishment by the State of any dersomin•
isthmus! university. We repudiated the policy of
universal endowment. But, agreeing with the Govern.
meet that the subject was ripe, we proposed a counter.
plan of disestablishment of the existing church, with
striet regard to the rights of property and to vested
Interests, but without establishing any other Church,
and with a general cessation of State endowments for
religion in Ireland. The Church of Ireland is the
church of a minority, insignificant in numbers. True,
while insignificant in cumbers, that minority is great in
property, in education, and in 'power. All this does
not amend, but aggravate the case. For if a National
Church be not the church of the nation, It should at
least be the church of the poor. Every argument
which can now be used in favour of civil establishments
of religion is a satire on the existence of the church In
Ireland. But while that establishment is thus negative
for good, it misapplies the funds meant for the
advantage of the 'nation at large. It remains as ,
the memorial of every past mischief and oppree-
Moe. It embitters religious COLltTovelly by infusing '
Into it the sense or the spirit of political ; and
It carries the polemical temper into the sphere of social
life and public affairs. Nor need we feel surprise when
we fitel that, 141200 the penal laws began to be repealed
the relative number of Protestants in Ireland appears,
to hays declined. In the removal this Fathiffehowat
we the discharge of • debt of civil justice, the de.
appearance of a national, almoet a world-wide reproach.
• moilition indispensable to the success of every effort
to secure the peace and contentment of that country:
finally, relief to a devoted clergy from a false position,
cramped and beset by hopeless prejudice, and the opening
of a freer career to their sacred ministry. This is • great
change, and it can only he effected with the aid of much
energetic, and much considerate, support. In the
tnancer of proceeding we ought, I think, to be governed
by three considerations; &regard for Irish Interests and
feelings as enlarged equity towards those who would
lode in point of civil privilege • and a careful heed to the
spirit of equal dealing throughout the detailed arrange-
ments. After all that these rules can warrant has been
done, there n-ay remain • *maid, ratite property at
the disposal of the Stet'. The mode of its sprit.
cation can only, in my judgment, be ellgiteeled
to Parliament by those who, as a Government, may
have means and authority to esamine fully the provision
now made by law for the various public and social wants
of Ireland, and to compare in each case both the
urgency of the demand, and the facility of meeting it
with general satisfaction. It would, however, ill consist
with the principle of the measure for which we are now
contending, if the State, having disestablished the
church, were to apply its funds to the teaching of
religion in any other form. To sum up this great sub-
ject—Rest as we are, by common consent we cAnnot.
Rudowment of all, alter the event of the last
ficaion, is out of the question. Retrenchment or
mutilation of the existing thurch, by reduction of its
spiritual officcralms been proposed be • itoyal Commis-
Mon; but I do not learn, from the late. and most auth•
colic declarations of the Ministry, that they adopt that,
or indeed any other, method of proceeding. We, of the
Opposition, Gectlemen, have clone oar part. The mat-
ter now rests with you, One path, at least, lies before
you, broad, open, and well defined. One policy has adv-
ocates who do not ihrink from Its avowal. It is the
rplicy of bringing absolutely to an end tho civil estab-
hment of the Church of lieland. It has received the
solemn sanction of the representatives whom the nation
chose in 1865. For this line of action, the only ono just,
and the only one available, I confidently ask your
approval.

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1.004100—MWDO•pOOdr08 of • Plymouth raper
writen—" At Bath I am told (the head-quarters of the
Bimennite party in the Church) the Roman clergy are
meting coneersions so numerous, caudally aroong tho
upper clawww, as to astonish themselves. I am not
surprised at it. One extreme always begets the other :
at. as the author of ' Friends in Council' has well
itspreissel it, 'A foolish l'uritan is the partials° of.
wicked Pope.' There is nothing for Rome to bout of
In .1.1 theoe 'eonversions.' Over du Wading adds of
the age she he. Do longer any power."
RENTS.