The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

ST. GEU RG E'S-I N -THE-EA ST.

On Tuesday night a public meeting of inhabitants of
the parish of St. throrge's in-the-Rost will held in the
schoolroom of the church of St. Mary, with a view to
memorialize the queen, and to petition Parliament in re-
(creme to the reevi.t whammy disturbances in the parish
church and the mlitferences between the rector and the
jx.rishioners. Mr. Cliurchwanten Thompson acted as
chairman. Souse 'item people were: pretit, a small pro-
portion of the inhabitants of the parish ; but the extreme
inclemency of the weather way have partly accounted
for the paucity of the attendance. Mr. Smith, a
parishuner, -eml • ie.:elution, prefaced by a speech,
stating that " the conduct of the Vey. Itryan King, the
rector, in his ninny at 3 in the forms and pr.-
tiers of performing Divine service in the pariah church,
and the unseemly min-unit ttttt s of the Communion table,
icu 33 to it Roman I 'atholic altar, contrary to,the
faith and feelings of the Protestant parishoners, and
eAlculatcd to lead to Romimisin in its most idolatrous
form, together with litigation, and also the introducing
police into the parish church, rendered him unworthy
of their eateem or respect ' • and that the meeting pledged
themselves to use every legal means in their power to
abolish clone innovations and decorations, and not to
cr..: their eauleavouni until a law be obtained to pre-
vent any repetition of such innovations and practices in
future." Time resolution was *emanated by Mr. Herbert
and carried with only a single dissentient. On the mo-
tion of Mr. Neale. secondems by Mr. Hopkinson, it was
resolVeti, That the recent attempt to enforce 1111
iptonniett penal Act against certain (erodn who were SIM.
mount by the pelimx for preferring to say the public
prayers of the I 'berth, instead of sioging thew, was most
unbecoming awl cruel, especially when it wan considered
that the saimi .let was passed in the reign of the Popish
itueen Mary to aid her design of burning out and thrott-
hug Protestantism ; and that time resorting to a law of
such a nature, whisis manifestly retained in place in the
statue-book by an oversight, was evidence as to the anti-
mmtional spirit of the Tractarian party." A memorial to
Her Majesty, ILA the supmssie head of the Cuited Protes-
tant Church of England and Ireland, was also adopted
on the l tion of Mr. Toon. 'fix memurialuita stated
that they had heard with deep concern and knew front
17 years' sod experience in their pariah church that men
haml received holy orders in the Church who taught doe-
triton at vernoice with the Thirty
trary to the Word of God (the source of England'n great-
nese,) hostile to the stability and supremacy of the Throne
mei Gee integrity of the euipire, end who also used cere-
monies unsanetautted by law and hymn:de coma' g
many 'tannish errors. They prayed that iler Majesty
might Le graciously pleased to issue a Royal commission,
with all nenlful authority, comprising honourable and
loyal peroins, free from Tractartan principles and prac-
tices, to examine any clergyman holding offices or pre-
ferment iii the Established Church charged with pro-
mulgating erroneous doctrine ; and should he be found
guilty of teaching any anti-Christian, or anti• Protestant,
or unscriptural doctrine, or using any Popish decora-
tion, vestmenta, or geuudexions, to deprive him of his
melice or prefernient, and to appoint another clerk of
I 1111 l est Proteatant Evangelical repute, full of the lloly
Ghost awl wisdom, to till such vacant odice or prefer-
ment. They likewise prayed Her Majesty to command
the publication of a Protestant Catechism and Hymn
Book—so I, comprehensive, and purely Christian in
doctrine, to be read and learnt by all the children taught
in the schools of the Established Church in the kingdom,
and to maks it • breach of Church discipline, subjecting
to a like privation any clergyman who should introduce
city other i'ateehistu or hymnal, or neglect to have tho
autiterizA t'etechisin and hymns thoroughly taught to
all the children .ii the schuols under his oars and mans-
, gement. " Believing," they added, "(hats oetuniiiniuti
ouch an they 'duplicated Her Majesty to issue would in
doe time restore tinier, peace, and prosperity to the Ea-
Cliundi, faithful worship to (kid. and loyalty
and devotedness to Her Majesty. they humbly submitted
their petition to the Throne, praying that Her Majesty,
blessed with health, might lung enjoy • happy reign in
righteousness and holiness, and, by the grace of God,
continue to be the beloved and popular monarch livitg
amid reigning in the hearta of her faithful subjects, and a
nursing mother in the trite Protestant Church." A pe-
tition to Parliament, which was afterwards read and
adopts:el, set forth iis great detail the mode of conducting
1/inue service in the church during the last 17 years,
the period of the present rector's iuicumbency, adding
that in 161:1, when he entered on the living, the pariah
was. to ILISC bin own words, "distinguished for its loyalty
• to the Sovereign and dutiful attachment to the Church,"
but that ii, coueequenoe of his obstinate and overbearing
' conduct usany of the perishoners had been alienated from
the Church of England, while the once utnnerout con-
gregation at the parish church haml been reduced to a
few scuree, and that in a parish of 45,000 people. The
speaker* dilated chiefly upon the circumstances which
had given the parish leg great notoriety of late, and ex-
' pressed what they believed to be the general wish of
the petatiunera to return to a simple forum of Protestant
I wonthip. They completely carried time audience stung
, with them, and the resolutions and memorials were
r adopted with acclamation.

A NtW ARTIVICIAL LIG:IT.—An improved (min of
the lime light originally experimented upon by Captain
l)rummund some years since. was shown by Sir Charles
Height in the Exchange News.reouis, Liverpool, on Sa-
turday week. No substantial improvement has been
made in artificial lighting since the introduction of gas
at the commencement of the present century ; and Lilo
steadiness, continuity. and ditrusirenem of the new
light, as well as its enormous power, were fully shown.
A single jet of the improved lime light is estimated as
equivalent to ;X:1 A rgand, or 30 fishtail burners, each
consuming five cubic feet per hour, or to 400 wax can-
dles of four to the pound and its power. unassisted ho
a reflector, was stated to be 40 times greater than the
present oil lamp; and for coma lights, under the sante
c'rcutustances, should the light be as economical and ca-
pable of as ea.! manipulation as it was on this occasion,
there can be no doubt it will effect a considerable change
in the lighting of lighthouses, public rooms, large tho-
roughfares, and probably of factories and other crowded
places, where the preaent 'system of exacting the
oxygen requisite for respiration front the air is so objec-
thmable.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IX A LUGGAGE TRAIN.—About
three o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday week, one of
the wagons of a luggage train from the south for Pres-
ton, L.neashire, laden with braids for weaving, and a
quantity of costly china in crates, was discovered by tha
engine-driver to be on tire when the train was • quar-
ter of • mile from Preston. This wagon was next to
the tender, and it is supposed that • spark from the en-
eine ignited either the hyoids Of the straw in the crate.
The engine-driver promptly detached the remainder of
the train from the burning wagon and steamed quickly
into the Preston station, and as the engine with its
flaming freight pained over the bridge which spans tde
Ribide. just below the town, the unwonted speetacle
excited the astonishment of the hundreds of permit's
who were walking on the banks of the river. When
the station was gained the dames were quickly extin-
guished at the water column, and it was then found that
the damage done was very considerable. The healils
were shuost whooly iestreyeil, and the burning of the
rate,' had cracked and hniken a very large proportion of
the costly goods they contained.

11OLLOWAIN PILLS AND Otsvrevv.—A frequent mum of gout
aml rheumatism is the inflammatory Mate of tbe blood. at-
tcLiirall "kb bed digmtion and DVDeral debility. A few do. a
of 14,e rills, taken in Hum. mv an effectual preventive spit 4
gout and rheumatism ; but any one who lea• an attack ,•1
either hhoutl tic Holloway's Ointment Liao, the powerful F....-
lefties nt which, combined with tbe elect of the Pills, nso4
Infallible effect a complete cure. Timm Pills act dinsstly ou
Cie blood. which thcs purify and Wapner*: tit•Y olo° =i4
the secretions and give tone to the steramb, liver, and

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