The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

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August 13, at Winfrith. Mr. George Cox Smith, after
a long illness, aged fil,much beloved by km family and
respected by all who knew him.
August 16, at Blewlford, the infant daughter of Mr
J. Parsons.
August 18, in Old Orchard, Poole, aged 71, Sarah
Rarfoot. • faithful servant in the family of J. lAnkester,
Esq., upwards of 30 sears.
August 18, at Holt, Wimborne, after an illness of
seven years' duration, Mr. btephen Janie", fosmerly
ironmonger of Poole, aged 61.
August 18, at Chesi borne, at sm advanced age, Mr.
Jobn Phil'ips, • well known inhabitant of that ierish.
The death of Dr. William Mackenzie, the famous
ocuust, of Scotland, is announced. lie was 74 years
of age.
THII EMIL Or ABIRGAVINNT. —The death of the
Earl of Abergavenny, took place at Rifling
Manor, near Maislstone, on Monday evening, at five
o'clock, after an illness of three weeks, brought on by •
severe chill. The deceassesl earl was in his 77th year.
DIU AAAA ItT-GUE.AL Hg.ay BLACKIZT died on
Thursday, August 20, at his resislence, llanwell,
Somerset. He served in the Peninsular war from
February, 1812, to August, 1814. At the investment of
Bayonne and repulse of the sortie he was wounded in
the head by a musket ball. He had received the silver
war medal with five clasps. He entered the service in
1804.

Ti BIRWiP or Prrgmeow:man. The Bishpp of
Peterborough died at a quarter b fore eleven on Friday
morning, at Whitby. The deceased prelate, who was
62 years of age. had hell nucoessively the offices of head
master of the Birmingham Grammar School. Dean of
Jereey, head of Pemhroke College, Oxford, Vice.
Chancellor of the University, and Dean of Lincoln. In
April, 1864, on the death of Dr. Davya, he was apt ointed
by Lord Palmerston to the see of Peterborough. As
11.hyter of Pembroke College, it will be remembered
by thefonl men that he took hish Evangelical ground,
and WWI the determined opponent of Dr. Furey and
the contluctors of the "Tracts for the Times." The
late biabo p, in him place in Convocation. was • warm
•upporteg of liberal principles, coinciding on all
inghori4na'Vigoints with the Bishops of LOIRIOD and
51. iiavo'.,y 4e. et, iiiebopa of thifool anti
Baliaitury. TLe bishopric, which is worth 14.500 a
year, falls to tie nomination of Mr. Disraeli, the second
he will have !had at his diaposaL
LOAD AND LADY FARADAY! were burnt to death On
Thursday, bear Abergele, through the railway robinion
elsewhere desnibed. Lord Farnham was the seventh
barns of that title in the pemage of Ireland, and was
born in Dublin on August 9 li, 1799. tin December .ird.
1828, he was married to the Hon. Anna Frances Esther,
youngcat daughter of the 22nd Lord Despencer. This
hdy wes C.:l years of age at the time of her death.
His lordahip was kr aome time one of the reprm
mentative seers of Ireland. The deceased peer, who was
a knight of nt Patrick. le tves no issue, and his brother,
the Hon. sr °menet Richard bias .wsll, who is now in his
66th year, succeeds to the title.
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ai Hie, sin A ICUOTie-Jii-i , who aloi was a
Dimonger in one of the hoot carriages of the ii fate 4
;ran, wu born in 1804. lie was educated at Queen's
College Cambridge, where he gradua.ed AL A. in 1829.
Sir Nicholas, who was formerly assistant minis,er at
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Triniety Chapel, londuit.sireet, Hanover-square, sue-
o.edd his father as third hereto! in 1840, ao4 MIS
marrie I. in 1843, to Anne, daughter of the late 1t,..
John Vernon, of Cavan. In defau.t of an heir male,
the title b. °ones extinct.
Couitat PRINGLa. late of the Cnldetrinim Guard.,
lost his life on Alonday, the 27th ult., am-ng the
mountains on the eut side of the Lake of oneoa, by
falling over • erpendicular precipice 200 feet high. He
Was a great-grandson of the first Earl of Chatham, pent,
nephew of Willion Pitt, and one of the editors of the
'Chatham Correspondence."
MIL VATTH KW Juin If wattle died at Kingston
House Abingdon. on Friday night, after • Phort
illness.' He was for many years a contributor to the
Tints and other journals, as well as to the ifiiisiebargA
Review and ConsAiU Magazine, and has recently been a
frequent contributor to the Pali Mal/ anr•tfe. He
was, llov,ver, beet known to the public by his favourite
sigT Xures of "Jacob Ominium" and " Pat erfamiluu,"
which are identified with many important soci•l and
educational reforms. He mair el the daughter of Lord
Chelmsford. Th.. Weekly Register says that some days
before he died he desired to 1m received into the Catholic
church, awl died a t atholie.
A DIS.CaIiD•II7 or WCIAIII ROYALTY—The death of
Me. Bulkeley Hatehett limkeley Owen. of Tedamore
Hall. Salop. is announeed. The deceased gentleman
boasted a descendant of great lustre, being • descend•int
from Howell fAia,or the Oud,the celebrated Cambrian
legislator, who on the demise of his father, Cadell,
King of South Wales (second mu of Hhodri Mawr King
of Wale.), inherited the kingdom of booth Wales, and
subsequently, usurping the thrones of North Wales
and Powis. %sunned the title of King of Wales. Howell
I.llla was succeeded by his son Owen, whose younger
son, Orono ap Owen, Lord of Tegaingl, married
Edelfleda, laughter of Edwin, Earl of Afercia and
Chester, and widow of the valiant Edmund - -
Xing of the &um&

uniidu,

KAMES CRYSTAL GUNPOWDER.—
Cleanest sad Strongest made.

KAMES CRYSTAL CARTRIDGE.—&.t
and Cheapest. In boxes only. Pries on box.

DOEBEI CHURCH AND STATE MEETING.
We publish to-day the PIMP of the oommittee
for promoting • public meeting in support of the
Irish Church. Although many names are wanting I
which would have given great influence and
weight to the committee, the managers cannot be
accused of exclusiveness, as it includes gentlemen of
every eoclesiaatical party, and every religious
opinion within the Church; we cannot therefore
doubt but that the meeting will be well attended, as
far as numbers are concerned. But in order to give
it real weight, great care must be used in the choice
of the.. who are to speak. The 'abject is a difficult
one, and much may be said on boils irides; one
unguarded assertioo, one unfounded statement, will
furnish the opponents of the Irish Church with •
handle, which they will not fail to make use of to the
disparagement of the whole affair; and, in • meeting
composed of such discordant elements, great judg-
ment will be necessary to avoid a collision. It
should be remembered that the day of preeeriptioe
right has passed. away. This is essentially •
utilitarian age; it Judges of institutions, not by their
antiquity, nor vested interests, but by their utility,
and if they won't stand this teat, they will sooner
or later be swept away. The day is gone by when
the Church could be maintained by after dinner
speeches, Church and State toasts, and the Kentish
fire. Those therefore who are to speak in public on the
Irish Church question, must put sentiment in their
pocket*, and make themselves thoroughly well
acquainted with the facts of the case, and be pre-
pared to prove, not merely assert, that the Irish
Church eases her income, and deserves the support of
all Protestants.. _ .

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On one Fi ,jot, indeed, all will easily agree, viz., the
unprincipled audacity of this unprovoked attack upon
that Church. Whether it be for good or evil in the
bane, the fact that a leading statesman should be
tinning to swallow all his past words and opinions,
and sacrifice such an institution for the sake of
uniting his party and taking the Treasury Benches
by storm, is a disgrace to the political history of
Logland. On the other hand, if this meeting is to
have any real influence, it must declare itself quite
willing to support an impartial and sweeping reform
of the Irish Church, and not blindly ignore the
many anottual4s that exist in it; otherwise it will be
set down as • mere exponent of the bigoted prejudice
of • few Tofies. One most important matter the
meeting, from its very constitution, will be pre-
cluded from touching upon, and that is the real
cause of this danger which threatens the Church ;
the cause of the alienation of thousands of Non-
conformists in this hour of the Church's need ; the
cause that makes the Church's pretence of being the
bulwark of Protestantism rejected with scorn; and
that iv, the amount if Popery and Infidelity
that is openly preached and practised in her
Churches. It is in vain to protest against the
evil when you are silent about the cause of
the evil. It is woree than useless to uphold
Mr. Disraeli as the champion of the Protestant
Church, while his every appointment to places of
authority in the Church displays either a gross
ignorance of all religious truth, or • wilful detromi-
mitten to unprotestantize the Erglish Cherish. It is
this that makes many men hold back at this time,
and if this meetiog will effect any real good, and
strike • chord that shall vibrate through every county,
let its utterance be clear and distinct, that the
Governmeut may understand it, and let it declare '
that it will uphold to the last the National Church,
but then that church mud be Protestant. 11 that
church is to be the church of the Gregory',
Mackonochies, bennotta, and left in the hands of
ritualistic bish,rps, tbs snorter it is diesetablisbei and
disendowed the better; but, as • Church that brings
the gravel to the poor, who otherwise would be left
to perish 'meowed for, it is worth all our exertions to
purify, as well as maintain, that it may still occupy
ita present high position, and deserve that position
as well. We cannot refrain from giving one or two
extracts from • letter just published in • contem-
porary, by tie Rev. W. S. kloncrieff, of Tiverton,
which some ol our Nonconformist friends would do
well to lay to heart.
I will commensal with a quotation from a sermon
preached by one of the mrnd prejudiced and bitter of the
dissenters, the Rev. C. IL Spurgeon, on the
oi May, 1861 :-
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"There is growing up, even in our Dissenting
churches, an evil which I greatly deplore—a depiaing of
the poor. I frequent'y bear in sonveration mach
remarks aa this : 'lt is of no use trying in ouch a place
as this ' • yoa could never raise a self.supporting
cause. There are none but poor living in the neigh-
bourhood.' If there is a rite to be chosen for a chapel,
it is mid : ' Well, there are sach a lot of poor people
round about, you will never be able to keep a minister.
It is of no use trying. they are all poor.' You know
that in the city of London itself, there is now scarce a
Dissenting place of worship. The reason for giving
moat of them up, and moviog them into the suburbs, is
that all the respectable people live out of town, and.
of *aurae, they are tie people to look after. They will
not stop in London. They will go out and take villa.,
and live in the suburb*: and therefore the beat thing is
to take the endowment that belonged to the old chapel,
and go and build a new chapel somewhere in tie
suburbs, wbere it may be maintained. •No doubt,' it
is said, ' the poor ought to be looked after ; bet we had
better leave them to another order— an inferior order.
The city missionallas will do for them; sand them a few
•treet preselisms'."
Now, sir, the language of which Mr. Spurgeon com-
plain, as being " frequently heard" by him is, I believe,
never heard by clergymen of the National Church. We,
however, very frequently hear language the very reverse.
Instead of "There are none but poor living in this
neighbourhood, therefore we eta,t wog try to haild a
chapel," we constantly hoar amongst Churchmen "There
are none but poor living in such and such • place, there-
fore we smug try to build a church."
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That which 'damps the energies of many bodies of
dissentere Ins proved the greatest stimulus to Church.
men. We hold that the greeter the poverty of • neigh.
bouthned the more the oetcl of • well qualified Pastor
and of • commodious church.

But further there are many pariah's so populou., with
Minister, so poor, that the paatoral work cannot be
sufficiently prrformed unles. additional ministerial help
I. provided. To provide thin help the members of the
Church of England raise shout E 50,000 • year with the
distinct understanding that the curates thus supported
shall labour amonpt the poor. I may add that tdoo,ooo
a year is also raised for the evangelical& of the colonies
and of the heathen.

can- --co—n-c-1;16 without noticing one sentence in
the extract which I have quoted from Mr. Spurgeon's
sermon.

H. .y. "You know that I. the city of London itself
thtre la DOW WIMP 111 DiweenpnA p!ane of woeakip."

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He give. us the reason—" AN the respectable pal.
Hee out of town," and dissent ham followed them, leaving
• large population of poor to be looted after by Ike
National Church. She looks lifter them, Wr, not by " an
Inferior order, eity missionaries, street preachers," hut
by maintainag for them—poor though they be—well
appointed churches, and well educated clergy.
It will be an evil day for England if ever her National
Chorch—disestablished and di/endowed—confines her
ministrations to "respectable people."

We believe Mr. Spurgeon'a to be a true and
faithful exposition of the voluntary system ; and we
belies Mr. Itloncrieft's to be the true answer to that
exposition. Wbat would happen in England 11th.
church were destroyed, will happen ins lees degree
in Ireland. The Protestants, the moat loyal (-the
population, the unfailing upholders of the English
power, will either he left without any religious in-
struction, or will be forced to submit to the Church
of Rome, and thus the only hold that England hes
upon the people of that land will be lost. We shall
look forward with much interest to the approaching
meeting, and trust that its result will be the deepeo•
lag of true Protestant feeling throughout the county.