The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-01-19 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTONE AND TIIE VATICAN.

Mr. Gladetone's article in the Quarterly Redeir,referring
to the Pontiff, says :—Pope all over, from heed to foot, he
bee fed for twentydAt years upon the mortal diet which
• too sycophantic following supplies, till every fibre of his
nature is charged with it, and the simple-minded bishop
end archbishop is hardly to be recognised under the Papal
mantle. When the Pope speaks of the liberation of the
Church he merely moths that it is to eet its foot on the
neck of every other power, and when he 'peeks of pesos
In Italy he mesas the overthrow of the e.tabltohed order.
sa regards the Syllabus, the author says it is
upheld ell the great or only hope of Christian society.
One of its main objector is to re-establish in the mass ill
the mod extravagant claims ever lodged by the Homan
Catholic Church against the Christian state. Hardly any
outrage on society has ever been committed by the
greater
rthan by =tau tisciaratiotut respecting civil
marriage

THE LEADERSHIP OP THE LIBERAL PARTY
The Doily New rye it may he doubted whether ;public
av&nlun will I
a. peritl:o in the traria! leadership of Lord
n silly dlsparagements
of the end of ethneever
old poilticol familie, of England.
=ave rendered services to the country of which their
in, been before the school board period, are uncon-
scious, and they have stall their part in public affairs. We
have differed from some incidents In LG. Forster's career.
but we cannot deny that in most of the emotions which
are riecerary in a Urdu, in perception of the feeling of
Parliament and the country, in the act and faculty of
management, and, above all, in a strong sense of the his-
toric greatness of England. and of her duties to herself
and the world at large, he is truly a representative of the
better feeling of the nation. He unites reverence for the
Cmplialliita. to improvement in the future. On
we are inclined to think the Liberal pary
will consult its own interest. and Magid the country, if it
designates him u its representative in the House of
Commona . .

Me Standard says it seems probable that for once the
Whip will recover the ascendancy they had in DM and
that the men who could lead by right of intellect being all
disqualified, the choice will fall on one who can lead by
right of birth. In that case the Marquis of lfartington,
as the hair of one of the old Whig house, will probably be
loader in the Howe of Commons, under the guidance,
avowed or understood, of Lord Grannies greater age
superior tact, and I.llofo genial and conciliatory temper.
The flow mays:—" Mr. Gladstone having communicated
to liar Majesty his intention to resign the leadership of
the Liberal party, the Queen expressed her deep
and offered, not for the first time, to confer a marknlThliti;
Royal favour on Mrs. Gladstone, as she had done on the
late Mrs. Diaraali when she was created Countess of
Beaconsfield." . .

The Pell Neil Gantt , in its continuptous way, says it is
Idle sentiment to be antigens regret over Mr. Gladstone
retirement " The influence -exercised by Mr. Gladstone
on public drain, whether through Parliament or the
pnes, has of late been anything but salutary, and there
will bee distinct advantage in his confining himself to one,
and that with him the least potent line, of erten upon the
National mind.'
The Observer imagines that the question of Mr. Glad-
stone's successor will not be decided till alter the approach.
ins meetings at ItirmlneAsam, where /Lr. Wight is expected
to appear, and in Sussex, at which Lord Harlington is to
be present : and adds,so far, Lord Harlington seems to have
the best chance of being selected to lead the OPPositiell in
the House of Commons.
Mr. Hunter ItodwelL M.P., speaking at the Cambridge
Chamber of Agriculture, on Saturday expressed regret at
Mr. Gladatone resignation. He would rather see the
Opposition lad by a responsible man than left in the hands
of several, would carry on a guerilla warfare.
The Nam of Monday, observes—There are sunny
great q ns in Church and State of which the dis-
cussion is close at hand, and of which the settlement
cannot be very far Wreak that It is well that a mind like
Mr. Gladstone's should approach =liaised by party con-
nections, and not weighed on by the sense of future
offidal responsibility, but with a &entwined re4s::
sound principles of policy and the public as
are the reasons on party grounds for Mr. G -
stone's retirement, wider public considerations suggest
scene consolation, and may enable his fellow-countrymen
to" And in loss a gain to match.'
Kr. Charles Hark Palmer, M.P. for North Durham,
was sj= on Saturday night at the annual dinner of the
Chamber al Agriculture, and in responding to
the tome of the County Members, alluded to the retire.mint of Mr. Gladstone, which he said was the greatest
blow that maid fall neon the Liberal party at the present
time, when it so manifestly lacked united action. His
PIN" be thought, would be difficult to OH, though the
choice of thaprt7 be had no doubt would fall upon the
Marquis of liarilngton, who had not offended either
section of the Liberals by any crotchets at his own.

,rgrq3owssppa.

On Friday Ilia All-dTa;ri; admitted by the Bishop to
the once of deecosees, to be the heed of the Salisbury
ynoonson Dell0012111•11W Institution. The service was per.
formed in the Mace Chapel. in the menace of several of
the tuber:Aber, and friends. It oommwaced with
the Verlag Jan... ii. 17, lit and ROM= . xvL 1 ki":11.11
inns followed by two collects. asking for Gods
upon the dingo of matting apart WOOIIII2 for such minis-
trations. Then Mims Aldred was prs.entsd to the Bishop
by the chaplain, the Her. R. S. ladling" and, isk reply
to questions put by the Bisholeiscpressed her humble,
desirehj thfully and diligently, God's help, to perform
the severs] duties of Use office of ones., and her inten-
tion of devoting herself to the wort for the spasm of three
ma, at least. Upon which the Bishop said—" Almighty
Who tre celled you to serve Rim in this holy life,
troisisru the power to fulfil this your service acceptably,
JOWL Christ our Lord." Then, laying hi. heads
heed, be gave her his God Um
;Coy, God the Son, and God the Hholdatost bier you
both in body and soul with all temporal and eternal bless-
ing, n0.._1..w hencdorth. and far evermore. Amen. I admit
lieuai".77 beloved,
er rf the Sew, the oce a:ad of the lityhe name
Ghost.
Asases." The service concluded with Nome vmdcles and
another collect praying that the newly made &amend
might be endowed with the gifts and grace needful to
ditobstWs the sacred dotted now comutittod to Mir. The
=Um adjourned to the Oratory, n the Dancenesesa
where the Bisbee= drawn up for
the manic; besonot to prosper the wort
to which the home wee dedicated. Ind linnt"
upon thous who night be brought together under his roof
tabs trained for Os eclentTlscharae of the duties of
the 'am for whkkibar desired is oler themaelver It
was clasudn with dlftalo. les, " Hymns Ancient and
Modern." ed dr

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