The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-06 00:00:00

-40 net Contitti Expo,

DoßcgigrEß, TUESDAY, JiNtrARY 6, MO.

TM efieota of th• Tay Maga disaatur were to depre-

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cline North Bridal Railway Stock le parcs. and
to run up the opposition Una, the Caladoaian, about 3
t raom.ent. The ries has been maintained, and Cale.
sold on Saturday at 1061. but tha North
British still further reasded, and ware down as low as
64, about 15 per oat below their figure before the
accident.

The event of the week has been the " difficulty "
between the diplomatist' of Turkey and England.
Having surrendered Cyprus grudgingly, Turkey
probably thinks it hard if It cannot occasionally
Indulge in a fit of the sulk, towards us, especially se
the Sultan's toothache was received so meekly by
Lord Salisbury. But tilt not slightly off-nsive to our
self.respect as a nation to be crossed, even for a day by
power for whom we have done so muck? One can
quite understand indifference about the fate of Ahmed
Tewfik on the part of those who felt no Indignation
over the Bulgarian massacres ; but even Jingo himself
must be "up In the back" at the impudence of a
brokeu.down ruler like the Sultan in declining to see
our ambairador in a matter of life and death, on the
plea that he was " indisposed." The difficulty, of
course, is to be arranged. The Sultan will eat dirt pie,
and his ministers will promise a be; but there are
thousands of eyes following the fortunes of Ahmed
Tort*, and the country will require his safety, or
demand, if he is done to death, a terrible retribution.
It only requires the judicial murder of a Christian
mind nary to open the eyes of all England to the real
character of the " unspeakable Turk."

In Bristol Cathedral Spohr's " Last Judgment"
was performed at a special Advent service by a band
and choir, and the collection was £l2B 10s. As the
expenaes were alsoot £lO nure than that, the experi-
meut of usir g the c.t'lealeal to compete with Concert
Halle has failed, as It deserve.. Can 'n Girdlestono
declares he'll try the spec. sushi. 3,770 pardons went
to the cathedral, and gave an average of 41. a bead;
but if canons want to make a profit out of Advant
services, they must make a charge at the doors. We
believe that in Hind.° temples the priests find it pay
to provide the a 'ditional attraction of dancing girls,
and if cathedral authorities want to gain profit
perhaps they wLnld find opera Wulff the right thing to
make up their completion funds, of course with the
aid of Church and Stage Guilds, while lady amateurs
might devote themselves to the object that covers a
multitude of naughtlnesses, by appearing in male
costume or short a/urts.

Who wcruld be a Mayor or magistrate, unless witb.
ambitien or public spirit his bl sod is warm within
him! A watch was stolen in October, and hoar-
lug for the third time this cme occupied the Bench
Dearly two hours on Friday. After all this wearisome
occupation of business time the prisoner must be tried
again. Scarcely should we be better off with
stipendiary magistrates, for they could hardly do as
our County Court Judge so often and wisely recom-
mends -settle the case.

Some people's ideas about the Ten Commandments
are getting dreadfully obscure. It is quite true they
are not exhibited in some churches; but in others the
written words have the compliment of being painted
up, so there is • lingering ides they ought to be among
the rules of • Christian Government Mr. Nicholson,
of Brivtol, writes thus :
OOTZLNIIINT IGNORING TUZ RZLIGION OF TUE ETATS

CIIURCIL
"Italielonely and politically our nation is adrift, haring
beets torn from its moorings by the Tory Government.
which seems to have little religion. and less conscieace.
their deeds for souse years past bearing witness against
them. Tories used to be advocates of the divine right of
and ''twas unspeakably awful to touch the Lord's
!sta
ted ;' and the Church, by moon of her intimate con.
section with the Almighty, was reverently placed before
the King. se the cry of 'Church and King' was once
universal But now monarchs, mostly of the minor sort,
we overthrown by Tory ministers, anarchy follows over.
throw ; murder, arson, desolation, famine, and death are
on the track of the invading army of this Christian nation;
and Tories, who worship monarchs at home, upset thrones
and overturn dyneetige abroad—their religion being geo-
graphical, their morality home-made. Heaven's being con•
sidered not so good, or. at least, not to workable on this
planet. Throughout the State churches of the land, within
the Gemmunion rale, there is set up the Lsw of God—this
is the law of the land fundamentally—and by order of the
Church, whir.% is ordered by the Rest.. these Ten C un-
mandments are read by nearly 10,000 clergymen of the
nate Church. If this be no standard fir • nation's smile,
as well us for orttea, then very like an orgeolseil hypo-
crisy is this union of the Stet, with the Church. At
home, not an infant bells faulty but the coroner and jury
are empanelled, sift all facts, and hear all evidence on the
death; but across the sea thousands may be cut down
with 'rap, and canister, and those who shoot them are
decorated an .l honoured by the hands of the great. What
Is this sl *tighter of the Afshans I Murder 111 aggressive
and tioi tat telr he snot,. Whst the destruction of Sloth
Arriesti trilvs I le it ric:or,ling to the law which the
,stablielo-rt church hag •Iway• proclaimed to thi• nation!
I. the to "Tema, the ri b.xion of the St•to and
tho low of 1:o.1 I IS that Mitalltry at bottle, ant its gover-
note abroad, hi rule us OD their Own remrpmeil ilily merely,
or so tb 4.1 incipler of ththteoneness and jo,tioe I P,f-
-;4134+1 rec.ineivatb.ne decide nothing; if there be no
recognise:4 standard our etruplaints ate wssted breath.
We kno theC ntempt with which dioceet and thorough.
going Toro, recard all gospel usorabtr, but tie !question
In this letter is :—ls there, or is there not, is church, • part
of the destitution. which proclaims the goso•l. a. well as
Vi, law of bLeses, and which is for ever preaching what it
believes to be the laws of b as the rule of life, and
for the government of the world. The omlncote 'ileum of
the church on these foreign wars is a proof of ite unfitness
to be the guide either of the faith or the practice of the
State."
Poor Mr. Nicholson! lie seems to forget that the
charter of 'l'..ryism is "the right divine of Kings to
govern wrong," and, as to Sir Bartle Frere nail Lord
Lytton, have they not sent thousands and tlymaande,
yes, myriads of wicked heathen to what the 11 ,mauists
call "the uncovenanted mercies!'