The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-03-16 00:00:00

Do rsttsb ire.

MK Right Rev. the Lonl Bishop of Salisbury has
*pi...U0..1 the Res. Prebendary Rank.* WA.. ilechw of
Porte Pestle with Kingston. to be Rural I)ean of the
Mint Port of the I beauery of Dorchester. in the route
of the Rev. Prehenttar). Bowl, re.igned.

The Hight Rev. the Istsl Bishop of Salisbury has
instituted the lies% Fmleric Thoinas Colby, clerk, &D..
to the rectory of Little Cheney, void by the death of the
See. J. S. Cox, on the presentation of the Hector and
Scholars of Exeter College, oxford. liii lonlship has
licensed the Has. Arthur Henry Kearney, clerk, to the
curacy of Carle Castle ; end the Itev. Walter 'Artesia(
Holland, clerk. ILA., to the curacy of Stalbridge.
The Bishop of Salisbury ham aildressad the following
letter to the Archdeacons of his Diooeso :
Salisbury, March 3, 1376.
My dear arehdaseon,—You will be surprise', and perhaps
distremed, to obeerve that my mune is not attached, aloug with
thee of all the Bishops in England and Wales, except the
Rehm, of Durham. to the addnee remomtly issued to the tierkof
.nd 1.14 .4 our Ilion:h. I fecl s• great rein at findiog neveW
much shoo, Is loom my eel sonnet qui are not, I believe,
different from those of tu,. lotthren, that I lose no time in
endmeouriti4 to explain through to the clergy tatty
of the Lriocese, to when I think an explanation is due, the
pounds .4 any apparent wwl I will wld unexpected isolation.
The design .4 issuing • Pastoral Letter from the whole
Epetompate to the Clergy and Laity under the present circum-
stances .4 the hurch, was by no .itie .1 our body more ardently
wishedow more earnestly pressed than by me. I thought that
• kitdly and fatherly address, which, while it kleiddled the
rowition ,g , bishop., and distinctly declared their detcrtui-
nation to maintain the tem.:Mice of the Reformed Church of
Engles d. and P. uphold the law when finally pronoutictaLshould
esteems the fullest confidence In the !oyalty of the out majority
.4 the Clergy and Laity might help to do sway with the i•ain-
ful impremion that the repressive measures .4 loot year
were addreseed, without distinction, against the whole
High Chunh rarty, as it is called, among us. I hoped that as
'he somewhat severe bill .1 the loot Seaton had now become
law, and already, during the perlst .4 the suspension of its
operation. Church people had come to hairy and unex-
pectedly unanimous Judgment to prefer the existinz Rubrics
interpreted by the Courts to any alteration in their wording,
such words of le. Mg eounsel and exhortation might be useful
to soothe leclimpi irritated and aggrieved by the strong language
.4 last y ear, and that by the isisagng of God they might help to
restore the affectionate duty and contilence on the text .1 the
Clem, and Laity towards time Bishops, whhh I feared had been
in some degree Impaired. I hoped that such ah address might
also conduce to the eeparatlou of the mmt nod leer-mating
numbers of loyal iligh Churchmen from the few, if there be
Stith. %ONO are deterunnately disloyal to the reformed doctrines
and the legitimate authorities of the Church of England,
There secuml me to be all opp..rmuity. if it were grotty,
tenderly, mid discreetly used. of helping to rook,. psia,
(it h-s- mum is witch !waled), among Mom who are in their
&AAA as true as ourselves 1,0 the Church .4 England, and Its
0g.4.0.1 royriool teachers. But nothing, I thought, sir.
IltOre to be deistta,..d than any unnecessary revival of coot.
' *Wildcat - .1, a.l' enumeration of

tdAints already ow— 41iv.11. -.Many w seta
of disobedience anal the likel alatad, amply provided for by the
Act .4 Y'Arlialuent, which is to come inlo i.perasi.in to the let
of July.
With thine feelings I took tan 1,, 'ming to amend the drab
*ldiom which waa 1.14 before the Bishops, but was unable to
carry the points mi which I was inoet anxious, or indeed to be
present 4.iring the last hour .4 the dieedsoion al which it was
dually eon' plebs'.
Whets I Ina raked wlietlier I would 0101 It. I .114 n. 4 know
the mind or Intel:ton of any other Ilishop "nth, klatch, except
the fkirlsaiu I hmitated fora while what answer I
e„., In. the one aid- I ...nhally agreed in deprecating
the ereeping InnotaUona in Ghia. *enter, .4 which the
address spoke. and utterly Ms./Tinted .4 the • dimeminatimi
.4 it xlkes,' and ,specially
.4th. • lisultiplieatt aml • eireulation •of ..4bujs
doctrine and prii ate devotion •as it referred to. vs L. the
• interruielon •tnspathy ali4 mutual osildmice between
Clergy and Laity. ana..untinz •ha wane =sew' to ...rm.
alienation.' and the died... Jimmy of arra to Episcopal &11l
4thaT authority. I feared there nsight he some grim...ll.w
th u4h I am thankful to my that I know of
n.y..wit di.wcse.
s:ut. .m the .44.1111.11.1, whatever gin.usid there might be, or
'night I. thomflit to L., forme+ consplaints. the rea
que.dimi ore It.. lac t.• he whether or no it sa.l desired, to
pros them in lb Pastoral latter. and to pre. them me,
on this leant I felt ...doubt ; I thought the Addrews unlikely to
4.• feud. and not unlikely to do hams, and I wished that it
elvinkl not he iraue.l
Aor .nlingli, I replied to Au Grace the Archbishop's Liter
by *syn.:: that I did si 4 Iske doeurnent, aolree.enteu•„l.l
that It elsouldi be withheld :yet I abled. that believing the Melo-
n...site .4 it 10 be tint and true. I sotll.l attach my 11.1lti. to It
rath.-r than le. Ilia. "lily ..,n.4 all *lie Wallops, except the
nieh,,p .4 Inalum, to refuse Hut a few honni thought oni.
timed me that tin. was usittake I felt that it s. my duly
to act upon t 11) ; that I 11.1, or slznied 1,101.4 an
In4Jvidual snan, who for y• stake usiglit shrink Inn.
appealing to alter from slt is mdleagues, many of whom were
more experieneet att4 wrist titan hmisoll. but is the Bishop of
a Inoceve which Is an iiitelad ton .4th. Church .4 Itsigland,
mid .4th. Church .4 ilirist It arattaal 1.. we that it woul4 be
unfair t., n.y .11.kviDe to appear to inelude il without distinction
un,h.e the 'central taatenarttta .4 the address. onsanilly in m 7.
ear t.. shrink from .I.rlarnie my teal mind in a Mae .4 to
gval iinvorunt•t. nni Minn,. to the Church to run the het .4
tatitrx rather that, soothing the agitation which exista. I
thervfore art. a semos4 letter aitialreain, My sipm,„r,. end
to thi. I alln.rul.
I diannered b. my gnat pain, and I will add
alit Iran +bale
N.:m.11.01 reloier more connally than I shalt Lethal that
tt,s heirs nee and that the wide.,., has the amothing
11..., al., have dr..sen it lip anal waned It 1.,..h for
my .001.1 I. well founded, or no (mod
itsU More In Us litter cam), I Usiab It quite due to my diocese