The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

TRZ ARCHDFACONIIT OF EXETER. -In the recent
charge of the Rev. Canon Woollcombe to the clergy of
the archdeaconry of Exeter, the rev. gentleman made
the gratifying statement that in 74 out of 193 churches
in the archdesoonry the old arrangement of high square
pews had given place to low uniform seats. In one of
the deaneries. Plynitree, the substitution had been rtimAe
in no less than twelve out el fifteen churches. The
rector of one of the churches, in making his return,
stated that the effect of the substitution of low, open
pews, was, that the o ngregation are now to be seen re-
gularly on their knees during the time of prayer.
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TUE COMIZATION OF THE New B 1880! OF
BVIIHAII. —Soon after Bishop Baring's intended trans-
lesion to Durham was announced, • letter was addressed
to his lordship by the Bishop of Exeter, asking for
some explanation of certain passages relative to
baptismal regeneration in the charge lately delivered to
the clergy of Gloucester and Bristol. The Bishop of
Exeter also intimated that, in case he did not receive a
satisfactory answer, it would be his painful duty, as
Canon of Durham, as well as Bishop of Exeter, to
object to the translation. It is said the Bishop of
Durham addressed a very short reply to the right rev.
canon, simply stating that he congratulated himself on
the fact that the Bishop of Ester was not Itis ex•ininer.
THZ CONTEIIBIOB Or THE JEW.—On Wednesday
evening, at Park Chapel, Rydenham, the Rev. John Gill
delivered a very interesting lecture on the mission to
the Jews, conducted under the atiapiera of the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the
people of that nation. It contained encouraging infor-
mation as to the progress of the work in England, in
Italy, in Palestine, in Wallachia, and on the borders of
Morocco. The Jaws of London, and other large towns
in England, are evincing ieriousneos in religion, and a
candid spirit of inquiry. Aware that to the bulk of
their race the Hebrew language is rapitay becoming an
unknown tongue, they hove translated the Scriptures
Into English anti published them for themselves, have
established regular meetings for the exposition of the
sacred text, and are not averse to a free consideration of
the claims of the New Testament to their acceptance.
Partly through the intervention of Mr. Ridley Herschell,
but more particularly by the Providentially favoured
labours of Dr. Mayer, late of Glasgow, in Leghorn, there
is a prospect of much good being done, not only in that
town, but also in Rome, Florence, and Pisa.
THZ REV. THOMAS JACIEMON'I RF.CePTION AT
M•NCHIBTRIL —ls oonaection with the visit of the Rev.
Thomas Jaskson to Manchester, for the purpose of
assisting at the dedicatory services of the Cite-road
Chapel, • public breakfast meeting was held in the
Assembly ROOlll II on Monday morning, for the purpose of
giving the Methodists of Manchester and the neighbour-
hood an opportunity of expressing their high respect for
his character and appreciation of his aervices. Between
300 and 400 ladies and gentlemen sat down to break-
fast at half peat nine- the company, including the
leading ministers and lavnien of Manchester, besides
friends from Liverpool, Bolton, Bury, Runoons, Koch.
, dale, Bradford, Stockport, (Sdbain, and other places.
The President of the Conference unfortunately was
I obliged to leave almost as soon as the meeting opened,
' but not before lie had uttered • few cordial, unaffected,
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and appropriate words. Llr. Hannah succeeded to the
chair, and, after singing and prayer, proceeded to relate,
in his own happiest style, ssnie of his earliest reinimis.
entices of Mr. Jackson, and some particulars of their
long and lasting friendship ; after which he passed in
review Mr. Jackwn's course and character as an
itinerant preacher. as editor and author, and as
theological tutor. Fifty-four years ago, at Lincoln. John
Hannah knew Thomas Jackson. Dr. Hannah then pro-
ceeded to read, on behalf of the meeting, • long and
elaborate address to Mr. Jackson. This address was
from the pen of Mr. T. P. Bunting, in eonaert with Dr.
Hannah, and fully merited the epithet of "exquisite,"
bestowed upon it by so competent • judge an the Rev. J.
D. Haden. Thin address was moved by our dear but
now feeble friend, the Rev. IV. Kelk, seconded by J.
8., Kay, Esq., in • apecially happy and effective address,
and supported by Mr. Geden in a speech of gnat beauty
and power. After that Mr. Jackson, with the love-
feast spirit upon him, poured forth one of those true
effusion' of the heart which are so characteristic of him
wheu his deepest feelings are touched. It wan rich and
affecting in an extraordinary degree. Then his old
friend, the Rev. John Bowers, appropriately and with
his charactsiristio fervour and unction wound up the
muting.

Th. BISHOP 07 GLOUCIIITII AND MR. Stow:mon.
Some time since Dr. Thompson, the Bishop designate
of Gloucester and Bristol ; the Rev. W. B. klackenise.
M.A., incumbent of St. James's Church, Holloway;
the Rev. Prebendary Boyd, M.A., incumbent ef
Paddington; the Rev Canon Miller, DI)., rector of
Birmingham, and other clergymen, consented to deliver
lectures during the course of the winter, in connexion
with the Young Men's Christen Association, of which
the Earl of Shaftesbury is President, at Reeler-hell.
When the list of lectures came out the naine of Mr.
Spurgeon figured among them, his subject being "Coun•
terfeita." Whether merely post /toe or also proper hoc
does DM appear, but the bishop designate has addressed
a letter to the secretary of the association, requesting
to be released from his promise. He says, 'Had I
foresees the difficulties which stand in the way some-
what earlier, I should have asked you kindly to release
is. from the engagement. I new take the earliest
opportunity of doing so, and, as a month's interval still
minims, I trust you will be able to supply my piece.
I should be very sorry, indeed, if this were supposed to
arise from any want of interest is your very useful
hesociation, for that masa, certainly, has no place
among *ow that now ma upon we.

OUR PUBLIC MIN.

MB. E. A. LCATIIAM, M.P., ON THE NATIONAL Ex•
evenereac—The annual soirve of the itesoacy
Mechanics' Inetitution was livid on Turrela• evening.
There was a very brim ettemlaticse, and 'Zr. E. A.
Ml'., for Hmidersfiehl, presided. In open-
ing the pine...bogs, the chairman, after some prelimi-
nary ..bisereatiens, cold : The great (onetime of Parlia•
meet i., 54 all knee, to toe the people through
their repeaentetives ; awl, to jeelet from the cheerful
alacrity with which that fnnetien is elerelsel, oms
would titillate that the han?er se exerrhied it the
better every eme would be pi. asp& (" Hear, hear."
and laughter.) But suppose that one tithe of the in-
klligetite and ability which people bestow upon the
accumulation of the wherewithal to pay taxes were de-
voted to Cie cousileration of the queeti .... of how far
thew tau; are just end nectasary.— (I.t ar, litar)-1
can conceive that in thet ease this graiel function of
which I have spoken would he perfornied with much
lees levity then it sometimes is, and with far greater
regard to the pockets of those who, of', by a ioter,,
pleasant Gellert, we are supposed to go to Westminster
to represent. (Lou,) cheery) Fee how vast this guess
lion of the national expenditure is becoming. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer told us Net spring that
the public ezpenditure bail rieen above the figures at
which it stood seven years ago by no less a MIMI than
twenty millions sterling. It is very difficult to conceive
what ta meant by twenty millions sterling, but partials,
you may form some estimate of what must be the
effect °leech an additional bunleu Uroll the reeourees
of the c 'entry fram the fact that twenty millions
sterling is supeoned to be the sum which the nation
lost owing to the bad corn crop of last year. (Hear,
near ) That, as yon will reineinlar, was • season of
unprecedented inclemency, mid hail it been followed by
:motile: equally unprepitione it is almost impossible to
realise thed Pesters that would hare ensued. (Ifear,hear.)
Money would Imee risen to a fabulous price, trade
would have been crippled, multitudes would have
besn thrown out of employment, and only sedition and
crime would have groan etrung—(cheers)—and it is a
consideration the ,importance of which can scarcely be
exaggerated that the same figures should denote the in-
crease in the expenditure of the country during seven
elan t years, and the *hole fall from prosperity to coin-
parative scarcity—the whole lose which the nation
ettstained by • season snore inclement and more unto-
ward and dieastrous than any which the present gene-
ration can remember. (Cheer..) By increasing the
expenditure of the country more rapidly than the re-
sources of the country increase—and this has been :abun-
dantly proved to be the Case in our own country—what
effeet do ewes poet., epou the amlang man? yos
increase expenditure and diminish capital, and the
population remaining the NAM!, the effect of the
diniinution of capital is to lower wages. As far as the
working Man is coucertied, you are burning the candle
at both ends; you are slot only compelling him to give
a larger amount to the support of the Governinent, but
you are decreasing the sieges from which he has to
give it. (Hear, hear.) You are, therefore, decreasing
his physical wonfort ; nut beariog in mind that his
moral and religious condition depends, to a certain
extent, upon his physical comfort, I think we shall see
that as long as this process goes on we are rendering
the working man leer moral, less intelligent, lees in-
clined to cultivate his mind, than he otherwise would
be, and therefore lees willing and able to avail himself
of thee, benefits which inetitutions like this place
within his reach. (Chien.) There is another queetion
suggested hy that which I have jest glanced at, which
may bee-ice, at any moment, one of gigantic iiiipe.rt•
once, because it may any moment cease to be an
abstract oue. That is the queetion of peace
and war ; and I .10 not hesitate to say that
if this country should be involved in war with
• great neighbouring nation, net only all that we have
done here, but all that has been done by every similar
institution throughout the country will be undone.
(Applame.) The country itself will be arrested in its
path of improvement and civilisation, soil the mind of
the people will, iu all probability, be thrust bock from
all the ground which, during so many years, .
with so much labour, and with so much patience,
we have been struggling to win. (Cheers.)
Now, what is the advaetage—the great. the ,
incalculable advantego—which is to outweigh calamities
eueli at (he-it? Why, the chance—fer it is but •
clience—that you may prevent the Emperor of the '
rived, from sequiring—by negotiation, mind you, not
by force—an island in the Mediterranean Sea, or a
petty province umm the lthine. And it is fur this WO
are te go to war; and I euppose it is in anticipation of
this that eminent personages, high in the coadidence of ,
their Sovereign. make big speeches at little ports.
(Hear. (tear.) Were it not that from C 31144.4 lees grave
than this some of the direst calamities that have befallen
our race Lace sprung, It would seem puorile, •Inioet,
idiotic, to imagine the case which I have (net hint, but
all experience proves, however, not only that latch •
case is very poesihle, hut that, unlees tho nation which
is about to be via' 'sc.l is forewarned in time, it is I
very probable. From such a probability, so hung as his
reason is undisturbed by passion, man shrinks as from 1
the contemplation of come great crime ; and great
criminals will they be who, knowing what must be the
cost of war—knewing that the empires the supi.ssed
aggrandisemetit of which they profess to combat, rests .
upon no stable foundation, but probably upon the lute
of a eingle individual—shall persist in involving this
Illation in calamities and diffieulties from which
no living man can extricate it, and the issue
from which no loan living can foresee.—( Ap-
pleuse.) Now, my reasonn for referring to this I
subject are these :—The first is, It-cause I feel
that an attempt is being inade to prepare the public 1
mind for • policy which must eventuate in war; and
the second is bemuse the time has happily gone by
whet, it rested with • knot of statesmen exclusively to
dictate the foreign policy .1 the country, (Hear. hear.)
Fifty years ago it would have mode little difference
whet might have been the opinion, for example, of the
present audience upon questions of foreign policy ; but,
thanks to the establishment of thews institutions, to the
teaching of innumerable schools—ierhaps more than all 1
to the inotitution of the cheap Kees —the time has
passed Away when • Parlieinent, a Cabiuet, or a sell-
tory Mini:ter could exclusively control the foreign policy
of the country. (Cheers.) Nor is it possible to esti-
mate what may be the coesequencen of even a tempo-
rary debasement of the class upon whose moral and in-
tellectual well-being, perhaps niore than uimii that of
any other, the hafety and glory of the empire depend.
I think it was Mr. Bright who once eloquently said that
it wits not in the anceetral ball, but in the cottage in
every age and every country that the oat ion had dwelt.
And I might go further and say that, whatever may be
the qualities of those who dwell in palaces and lances.
tral halls, it is the gladness of the cottage which in
every age and country constitutes the true glory of the
commonwealth. (Loud cheers.) No doubt that the
splendour of a nobility, the magnificence of the great,
wise statesmen, skilful artists, great poets, may confer '
a certain lustre upon the raere whose dOba they are said
from whom they sprung ; but unless the national great-
ness be based upon something more than this—unless.
at the mime time, the heart of the people be sound and
in its right place—unless the mind of the people be
exalted and refined—tulle's the condition of the people
be one of independence, comfort, and Isar-respect—and
unless the love of God and their fellow-men be shed
abroad in their heerta, you may have wise etatesmen in
your Cabinet, • noble monarch upon your throne, pomp
in your courts, and luxury in row capitate ; your &eta
may traverse every sea, your soldiers may triumph upon
every shore, but there is • worm at the root of your
civilisation, and the days of your prosperity are 1111111-
bered. (Protracted applause.) These are consideretions
which we cannot affect or afford to neglect in forming
our eetimate of the greatnese end the permanence of
States. (Hear, bear.) Bet, most of all, we eliould
bear them in mind when, as now, there are hellcat.
of the approach of one of those great perimlical tempeets
which involve the whole civilised world, and in which
nations perish or grow strong: (Applause.) It would
be a nice investigation to ascertain how it is that revo-
lutions never occur alone, and how it is that at points
the most distant, and among people the most dissimilar,
• siniultaneousmovewent takes place, resulting in emus
instances in the u,mlification and development of
political institutions, and in ethers in the downfall of
dynasties and the disruption of empires. These periods
of change are almost universally preceded by periods
of restlessness and uneasiness among the popnlation
corresponding to the area over which the storm is shout
to rage. At this moment these eyniptoms are meking
themselves felt everywhere. In America, the storm has
buret *heady. We know has been palming in
Italy. We turn to Hungary and to Poland, even to
Turkey and Russia, soil we sec a modification of the
same symptouis. Does any one suppose that a wino ry
which is the very centre of free opinien, at a 1111 l ;molt
when the whole civilised world is beginning to tremble
with the pulsations of • new and Redden life, cen
remain sleeping in indolence, and altogether insensible
to the univereal vibration? (Hear, hear.) If any one
thinks en he is probably misled by what is ealle.l
the apathy which upon the question of politics
appears at the present moment to have fallen
upon the people ; bet what if this quiescence, in itself
so unnatural, should be but the lull which precedes the
storm. (Hear.) It certainly hoe been PO on previous
occasions, and all experience proves that it may be ;
and, if there is Noy truth in this anticipation, we are
about to enter—l do not say this year, or the next
year, but within • few years—into one of those great
periodical timeo of change, and we ahall enter them
under very different conditions front thooe under Whiall
we have paesed through them formerly. It is a eery
happy thing that there are much leas than there used to
be of matter which can either constitute or be con-
structed into grievances. There is fer MOre knowledge
•inong the people now than there NW either in 1832 or
1846, when they hue tried conchoions with the party of
resistance, and, while in that knowle.'ge there is vast
power, at the same time there is infinite sefety. This
has not always been the case in titues that are past.
, There have been circumstance' which, from time to
time, have led patriots to fear teat the arm of faction
might strike said shiver wheie it was impotent to re-
place and to restore, and there have been momenta
when the leaders of an agitation themeelves have etood
ni.t at the work of their own hands. More than
once the dignity and safety of the empire have seemed
to tremble in the balance ; and if there is any man in
this company who, from the recurrence of that inevit-
aLle agitation—for it is only • question of (ime—fears
peril to the State, let binm apply himself to removing
that ignorance in which is danger, &eat to let light mon
which is safety, from the masses of the people, from
who*, Imartai and thoughts, far more than from great
poets, skilful artists, or great statesmen, proceed in
crises such as these the irresistible current of events.
(Cheers.) If this be our endeavour, and if our efforts
be crowned with proportionate semen*, the storm may
burst upon as—it may shrike to the foundatious many
things which we admire, but which we eannot venerate;
but I feel convinced it will pass away, leaving neither
desolation nor mourning behind it, but bracing all things
that were great and noble in the character of our people
and adiling new life to the State, new lustre to the
Crown, and glorious centuries to the history of Ragland.
(The (ion. gentleman resumed his seat amid loud and
protracted cheering.)

A deputation upon the subject of the revised education
code bad an interview with Lord Palmerston on 'Tuesday.
They brought before him the objectionable features of
the scheme, and his lordship promised that their corn.
plaints should have dne consideration. Lord F.nleld
delivered • syeech on the same question at Brentford oo
Wisdneadsy. He did not think that the code was as
entirely evil as had been represented, bus he at the
some time thought that the certificated teaebers had
jest ground of complaint, and thee the oseesare in some
other respects deamoded revision.

SUICIDE.

Mr. S. flair iledford, the Westminster coroner, held
• painful inquiry on Wednesdey at 6, Lower Eaton
Street, itilgravia, touching the death of :Unmet George
Walton. aged 20, the son of Mr. George Walton, vestry-
man. The evidence of the father was to the effect
that his sun had some time Igo been acquainted with
cone woman believed to he a widow, of whom he
and Mrs Walton knew little or nothing, except that they
had heard that ohe was not a fit and proper person for
their son, and they disapproved of the acquaintance.
At various times deceased expressed great desire to
marry her, and witness and his mother used
every means in their power to dissuade him, and
refused their consent. Every time he came home from
a visit to the female he would sigh and groan. and
threaten to commit suicide unless his parents sanctioned
the marriage. At loot witness, being apprelsentive
that be would carry out his threats, gave Ide consent to
their marriage, provided he applied himself to business
(perfumery) for a year, to expire next Michaelinaa;
but that did not satisfy him, the time being too long to
wait. On Monday deceased was out with the lady all
day, and returned about Ste o'clock in the evening.
Hs then again urged his father to allow him to marry
her immediately, and give them 2100 •-year. Witness
declined. Shortly afterwards deceased went away to
his bedroom. Soon after his mother fouud his door
secured, and gave an alarm. Witness immediately had
the door forced, and found the young snail lying dead
on the bed, with • oottlo containing cyanide of potas-
sium, and • letter, near him. The lettet was in de-
ceased's handwriting, and was as follows "It is iny
father who has casued my death by his cruelty. Find
out my poor Emma, and let her not starve ; it is my
dying reqiimt.—Sainuel George Walton." Mr. Walton,
after reading the shove, said the following letter.
addressed to his unfortunate son in the handwi iting of
the female in s,uestion, he received en Tuesday morn-
ieg : "My own darling George—l cannot express time
deep, deep regret I have felt at our coarrel, but, alas,
it cannot be undone. All I can say is, if you will for-
give me I will instantly do so unto you. My eyeballs
ache, and my heart has almost ceased to breathe.
George, why cannot this wretched life come to an end?
It is killing me fast. Do. darling. bring it to • con-
clnsion one way or the other. Write per return, and
tell me your intentions ; and may I see you on
Thursday or to-morrow, whichever night will suit you
bast? If you love me you will not listen to anything
any one says. Take me at once to yourself. My heart,
my poor heart is breaking. Address to me for safety
as follows . port MSc*, Poplar." Mr. Walton
thought his son was insane, and that this woman had
caused hi, uto commit this set. Other witnesses related
incidents to prove his insanity, and his parents' extreme
and constant care sad indulgence of him even to a fault.
The jury retorned a verdict of "Suicide by cyanide of
potassium while in • state of unsound mind."