The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

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Soirrninrrox.— The Races.— The contract for
the building of the grand stand has been taken by
Mr. Stevens, of Canute Castle. The erection,
when complete, will equal any moveable stand in
the kingdom in elegance of appearance and conve-
nience. The South-Western Railway Company
have intimated their intention of again subscribing
the sum of .C 2.5 to the race fund.
THILAKSTONN, TIMM BANK DUAULTIR, AND His
FAMILY. -On Monday an application was made to
the inagiatrates sitting is petty sessions, by Mr.
Low, the solicitor for Thaskstone, who is now con-
fined in the borough gaol, awaiting his trial at the
nest gum ter sessions, that the family of the pnaoncr
might bib *Bowed to visit him. It w appear
that in consequence of the condition of the prisoner,

an order had been made that no person should see
him e About the consent of the magistrates, which
rendered the present application necessary. The
Bench retired to consider the application, and on
their return into Court, the Mayor said that, after
due consideration, the magistrates felt bound to
accede to the application, subject, of course, to the
prisms reguiations.
!Seri:soh to BiTar.—The newly-arrived clergyman
has signalised his ministry in the village of listen-
street, near Ityde, by proceedings which, for the
credit of religion and the sake of humanity, it is
hoped he will never repeat. On Saturday, the 14
inotatit, Henry William Hale, a youth of seventeen, end
member of the Wesleyan church' after a very short and
psiiiful illness, passed out of tune into eternity.
Application was made in due coarse to the clergyman,
the Rev. Dr. Knowles, to have the corpse interred
in the village churchyard ; but, as if the sorrowing
parents had not suffered enough already in the sadden
bereavement of their son, they were informed by the
rev. gentleman that they knight bury their son, but
that his conscience forbade bun reading any portion
of the burial service over it, as he understood the
deceased had never been baptised. It was replied
that the deceased was baptised in his infancy by
& Wealeyan minister. To this the learned doctor re-
joined that that was no baptism at all, as that he was de-
ternained to discourage such wickedness in every possible
, way. It was then urged, with tree parental fondness,
I that the lad had been every affectionate son, • most
f ..thiut esrv•oo, coil altogether a lious youth • Ma to
this the do, 'or merely replied, ''l want to lever no-
thing al-out that, I mitt bury hits, hut will procure
clergyman from Ityde who will do it for you." In this
position the affair stood until the following Wednesday
evening, when the parents were informed by Dr.
Knowles that the clergyman he bad &pplie 1 to could
not make it convenient to comply with his request, and
that he could de no more for them. Whether the
corpse would have reusaiued yet unburied, or would
have been buried like a dog, or what else would have
taken place we cannot say, but just at this juncture the
affair having reached the ears of Mr. J. Wheeler,
at Ryde, he at once proceeded to Ha‘en•street, and
I offered to get the corpse interred free of all expense to
the parents, in the burial ground connected with the
t Independent Chapel at Brading. The parents, worn
out with grief, and anxious to be relieved of all further
suspense, gratefully aoceptet the offer, and there,
, accordingly, the deceased wig interred, the burial
, service being read by the Rev. .1. Shiploon, the Wes-
: lapin minister of Hyde. Such a galls as this needs no
' comment. It is only wondered bow much longer girth an
influential body as the Wesleyans will tamely submit to
have their siva rights trampled on, their religious
ordinances ignored, and their dead insulted by a narrow
and oouituan& lelersraby.—lisacrpebirc Jeckproolcer.