The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-06 00:00:00

Liitrature.

Tee CPWRCIIES Of BELGIUM AND AMMO PRUSSIA
RZYISITED.--By the Rev. Reginald Awith, iLA., &D.,
Rector of Stafford, near Dorchester. —This is an
Interesting little work, containing a record of the ,
author's impressions of visits to various continental
churches with thoughts upon their bearing on
questions now agitating the religious mini'. of England.
It contains important facts, described with studied
fairness, and with most of his conclusions we can
cordially agree. In his concluding chapter, the rev.
gentleman gives this warning, lie says that in writing
this book be " only had in view the spiritual benefit of
the young, whose routs I think endangered by an esthetic
taste, and by the strong current of Ritualism. That many
have been swept thereby into the abyss of Popery is
notorious. lliose who are yet sporting in the stream are
perfectly confident in themselves, they call them them.
selves Catholics and look down upon others as belonging
to • the Protestant Faction,'. . . . They think it will
be a relief to confide their anxieties and mental
perplexities to SUMO 'good Priest,' who in course
of time becomes the Director' of their conscience
to whom they deliver up their own free will and indepen.
dence. They are afraid to judge or act for themselves ia
any matter, and thus subject themselves to • veritable
bondage.
spare time employed in the details of Ritualism, which to
a certain extent satisfy the conscience without a change
of heart or separation from the world. The result is that
many of them go into that corrupt Church, in which
alone the craving for Ritualism can be fully indulged,
together with the 'comforts' of the Confessional and of
Direction,' without question and without limit."

Bismarck was 00 years of age on the lit of April
The will of the late Wui. Sterudale Bennett has Wes
proved under £5,11110 perwmalty'
The will of the late Dean of Lichfield has been proved
under £15,000 personalty.
The quwtion of the representation of minorities in the
govemuig bodies is being diecus.sed in Bale.
It is proposed to build • Shakespere Memorial Theatee
at Stratford-on• Avon.
The North Wales colliers refuse to accept a reduction et I
Mil:Lent, but are willing to submit to 10 per cent.
are as many as 136 applications next term to be
admitted as attorneys betides numerous renewed notion.
It is stated that Mr. limn, the spiritualist, has become
a member of the Homan Catholic Church.
The stay of the Prince of Wales in India is likely to
extend from November to April next.
Sir John Gray. member for Kilkenny city, lies in a
dangerous state at Bath.
The bazaar in Glasgow for the Hospital for Incurables
has realised .1:14,000.
Mr. Gladstone has taken rooms at liable college, Oxford,
where he will study theology.
Great preparations are being made for the six weeks'
joumey of the Emperor of Austria
The autumn neueeuvres in Germany this year will be
conducted on an exceptionally extensive scale.
Seven young women have graduated M.D. at the Boston
University School of Medicine.
The christening robe of General Sickles's baby, baptized
In Paris recently cost 3,1e10 dolt (gold).
The recent conscription in Spain has already produced
°Prince r-spoleon is about to establish a newspaper at
Brussels.
Mr. Charles Wilson will move the rejection of the
Merchant Shipping Bill
At Terre Haute, India, is shown a silver penny, MO years
old, and coined temp. Edward 1., of England.
A Colorado audience has presented a " musical prodigy"
with a gold fiddle an inch long and 40 dollars.
The snow birds iii Kansas are making a good beim by
eating the eggs of the grasshoppers which have been thrown
out of the ground by the frost
Torpedo practice continues without interruption at
Toalon. A man-of -war leaves the port every day for
exercise in the use of those engines of war.
Sir George Honennau's retiring allowance has been
fixed at £11.500, exactly the WOO as that of Sir H.
Keating.
Six Milwaukee women, with babies, met the other day
and agreed to vote which was the handsomest infant
Leh child got one vote.
The Conuniesioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt announce ttat the sum to be invested during the
.current quarter is £.311,667.
The departure of the Arctic Exploring Expedition is now
Led for the lit of June, and the return in the autumn
.1 1007.
Sir C. Legard, M.P., will move, on the 10th May, that
the Bill to abolish the Game Laws be read a second time
that day six months.
Lord and Lady Wolverton arrived at their residence on
Carlton-house terrace, loadon, on Saturday from their
mat in Dorset
Lord John Manners has vrithdrawu his censure on the
olficials of the Savin4o Bank Department, and increments
of salary will proceed as if nothing had happened.
Mr. James Alexander, shipowner, of Liverpool, com-
mitted suicide on Sunday by shouting hinueU through the
bead.
It is said that the Chinese Government has applied for
the admiseion into the English navy of • number of
(Aimee cadets.
)(essrs. Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, have already
mid some £13,001 for the use of public halls in London,
In which to bold their meetings.
A Liverpool publican has given to the Licensed
Victuallers AS* Wadi Oa £6, " the extra profit derived by
him during Messrs. Moody and Sankey 's visit to
Livetr A epool mains, Thomas limp, a Manchester quack !
iireatitioner, waif sentenced to death for the murder of
armret dilclvett by causing abortion. The jury_ meow. I
waded prisoner to mercy, but Baron Pollock, held out no I
hopeof repneve.
tis believed that the Jesuits and members of other
religious societies recently expelled from Prussia have
stationed themselves on the frontiers of Holland. The
Goveriunent has ordered a strict watch to be kept.
Reports of the Australian wheat crop Five an estimate
of flee millions of bushels as the yield in victoria. and ten
millions for South Australia, leaving a surplus, in the
latter wee of 11t3,00e tons for export.
It is stated that it is proposed to mart the approaching
eetstiseesary of Her Majesty's birthday by the distribution
of • number of honours and rewards to naval and military
officers of distinction.
An eagle of Gm Pyrennees, measuring from wing to
wing about eight feet, was caught last week in Finisterre.
'To one of its feet was attached • heavy trap, which had
prevented it from flying.
New cuing Fog CONSOurnos.—A new remedy has
hoes discovered for the cure of Consumption.— The old
treatment entirelr supereeded by a more certain method
elf cure. Full part cubus of the remedies. with testimonials
M cure, wid be sent by poet to any person free of charge.
Address :—Mr. 10, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park,
London.
A grand banquet of horse, ass, and mule flesh tookplace
In parja on Saturday. About seventy persons sat down.
,rh. imam News correspondent says—Every dish was very
In no one was there anything disagreeable in the
Zightest degree either in taste or smell. Had I not
known beforehand I should hare supposed throughout
the dinner that I was eating various preparationsoLbeei.
&dad horse as e w simply as good a_ soup es I ever tasted.
Ass milk butter, good enough, but rather pi an
home sausage from Beaucaire, which nobody could dis-
tinguish from the ordinary spiced pork sausage of the
nelghbour'ng town of Arles. Horse fillet roasted Was
toi*bsome and tender, far better than the average beef
served In restaurants. I did not much like the donkeys
liver, which seemed to me rather strong. The tongues of
hone, am, and nude served with different sauces, could
not be distinguished from tongues of beeves, muttons, or
mate.

Iterroitmon 07 Tug cm mai. —The chanca °f
edce is being rebuilt. mid &wording to Mr. Kinard's
connect will be completed by the latter end of next
Ilepteiuber. The whole of the expense will be borne by the
I.llof Salisbury. who, with the Marchioness Ann him
. be present at the os.cay of ,opening the

Aoneen.—Whilet riding on his farm on Thtuldl: kr. Walter llaSthaws was thrown front his bone, en
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