The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-08 00:00:00

BEHR REGIS.

A gums of nested song, .ith adapted connective
reedinp, illustrative of the Pilgrim'. Progress, was
'riven la the Independent Ca•pel. on Tuesday *realm,
April lst., and was thoroughly appreciated by a
numarous audience The Nato, of the ehtueb, the
Bev. W. flarsrell, prodded, and, lifter prayer, intro-
duced the mortise by referring to some Interestlug
incident, in the life of John Banyan, and by deseribing
the nature of tile book they were shoat to illustrate.
Se thee sommeseed the remilags, witioti were ligtened
to throughout with marked attention, and sometimes
with deep feeling. and were intenpereed with appro-
priate soap, which were admirably performed by the
*Aar, under the able conduct of Mrs. G. Howse. Two
hours were thin meet pleasantly and profitably spent.
, Prayer woe official for God's bleeder/ on the serrioa
and after Manisa the *rogue by..., the promiediags
I were brought to a close with the beandiotion.

DIAN STANLIT ON THE BURIALS BILL
The following letter, with the mell-knova ektnatare
of the Dein of Westminster, appeared in the Timm GI
Wedoesday

anticipation of tee diseumice on Er. °Morns
Morgan'. Burial NUL I venture to neer • law resuiis in the
bops of naltigatlng mem ol the ditScoltles which have arles•
In the -peaceful aoconamodallon of • loather that lead
of all ought to awakse &manioc.
Ths did,. of the Noesionforniirts to be buried in the
churchyard. of the National Church appears In limit to be.
feeling at once in natural and eo coniniendable se to render it
the duty nod the policy of the clergy by every pomade means
to mooing, it. It is • feeling beam on the principle on
which the National Church !WWI is founded, se intended to
comprehend and to oldster to the wawa of the whole Eng-
ISh people. The Bill is • direct acknowledgment of the
national character of the churchyard, and of the etisUng
lights of the dery tetablinhed In regard to than. It in,
lator•owW, In prisolplis as apipliamiou to England of the mem
law white Indeed la Ireland while Um Church of [NAM was
In full pommies of lie farmer legal privileges, sad whkh pre-
vails in regard le the &Whitetail Chdrch of Scotland. In
Ireland the principle of the pimiet Burial Mil was maisloneid
by Astute le ISM, and memers to have beim adopted In mas-
tics mach seri se. In Scotland It In well known that of lass
years Episeopelian derv, whether of the Establlched Church
of England or of the Prete...sot Lpiseopal Church of Soots
land, hare, with the full mocurrence of the Soclimeastimil
authorltise of the Celablielesd Church of Scotland, performed
the full Anglican service in the national Presbyterian gramn
yard.. The provision. of the Burial Dlll as now amended
appear farther to secure the clergy and the churchyards from
my danger of unimmly asole•MUas or hnproper behaviour.
TVs befog the cies. It would be • matter of such regret
by any' unneosmary /Why or inadvertence of detail, any
priMert abonkl be Worded for the isoisolitic courm (of which
various indications have been gime) of discounering teals wel-
come rsergaltien of the mikes& altalfOlde of the Church, or
of cresting ewe boundariee of demaresitloo ilby the formal:los
of aessirste conasterlas In every perish In Borland. The
" rights and 4.11. 01 a National Church" are, as the leader
of the Oppodtien Informed in me Thursday last. semen the
visetions whit* demand the conederation of LH Salomon
friendly to ha continuums and welfare. It le dedrabie
on a point wherein may of its best friend. are weal with
thus who are ohm regarded as its smialants to Imre no
aces untnroed which may tend to a peaceful adJusUneot of
the ceetroverm,
With fbi. feeling It say be worth while to Mimed two
tftwtiowt I. demil which would miss no q motion of principle,
while they would tend to promote that spirit of conciliation at
which • immure of this kind le hound to no..

filti-con— tiles a -new neirleTiort- c7n--the 114erty of the
=ln Übe provision which its lint section contain against
um deny other for.. of Darin Service than that pre-
scribed by law. It le obvious that this prohibition in of they
superfluotte or miedilevons. If the Lot of Uniformity alrmdy
precludes the um of any other form, it I. ussisemary. If (ea
would appear from the fact that in many funerals of the
Church of Indian hymns, anthems, and addressee are intro.
duced which have no warrant I. the ruiner of the Prayer-
book) the Act does abaft of variations. it 110401. unreasonable
by this BM te cern an additioaal redri of And In regard
to Use question annally U be.. between Churchmen and
losneformiels, it is perfenly conceivable that such Noncon-
formists se night entertain ;objection to the Burial Berme, in
whole or In part, would be saddled with the sub.titution of
some ether form, son se the Bill provides, and that the sane
feeling wtdah pro then to dean Um use of tbe national
graveyard t also prompt these to dein the minscrations
°gibs Perla. elergysna. In such came it is bard that by this
Bill the clergyman &add be debarred from meeting their
wishes.

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There surely would bit nothing unramonable, sad It
would obvioudy toed grettly to harmony, If the proeisloos of
Me snood motion wee to be oo for insidiflod so to place the
ministrations of the Nooconformlot minister on the mew
ground so the mlolotratioas of a Moulmein of Me lietahlialool
Church, net briny the isseessetesL No extranoom clergyman
can at present eSsleett without the consent of the Incumbent;
and. soil on the me hand ought to adard no mom of dimes
to the Nooconformist to he placid on them.. footled ea they,
to. on the other hand, It would protect such rights of lb*
content os sto ono Moho. to Mks away.
Thom are well-known prescriptive customs of burial in
cathedrals, collogiato churches, nod coll.g. chapels which DO
one &Urea to Miring*, and which this Bill doss not touch.
No Nonooolorraist can In thaw cur Mel it a mortilication to
bo utilised a Weiler* which is equally refused to the Arcb•
blame of Osatarbury. And In lite manner, provided it were
postiblo for Nonconformist ministers to be Mooed In this
empoct on the name Motion as all clergy of the ratabliebod
Church who were not incumbents al
?trial whore the
funeral occurred, It I. oddest that In pis they would
hare no nienace ; sad in practise it s hoped that most of
the Loglieh clergy 'mild ho guide! by Ms ye good fooling
towards Moir Nonconformist b00th.,.. they ere towards
Lb* brother elesemen of thole own Ohne*, though .01 01
their own welt. No doubt one, or both, of Mae madder
Moos of the Bill y the Muse -would require Mat Use
clergyshould, by lb. sualfeltatlon of such • coaciliatery
fldt, show terrine worthy So Main Mb trust. But,
mosidering what • Christian fussed is—oassidesing the moo.
lily and the mailmen% of on rasa," church —lt I. sot too
much to think that MU might be esp.ct.d If Mill were met
ly • corrospooding spirit oo the part of Me NOleconfOrilliODL
Everything In n maim of this Shad &coat. on the Mame
'nth which it is approschod. What omi party dolma as a
triumph Use other manta at • defeat.
In the cam of the Irish Burial AM (5 Omer IV., c.
which,. I have said, was wood to coolirm by law
ememant of
~ burial long by an dunes of Ws Naiesty's
eu hiscto," the with the pernksa doo of the Imam-
beat, of such was huller stangthated and guartiof by
the following wise prey Moo
Bo It matted that I/ ouch perml.NonshiLl In soy cam bo
withheld, the mass or withholdlng the gene Moll be *nodally
and distinctly distend in midair by such officiating Waimea.
of Um Church of Indeed, one poet 01 which written declaim
eon Mall forthwith be detivored to the person nuking malt
applicatioa as Moreeld, sad Om other part thereof Mail bei
forthwith Unmounted to Um Bishop of the &looms in whit*
such elturahyard Mall be @Bossed, and Yon he by hint trans-
alluod forthwith, Aged by too registrar of ouch Moors,
to the Lard-Lioutemat or ether did Governor or Governors
of Inland."

-17 lga providen, It la believed. worked sucomfolly to Ireland.
sod it can hardly be gusegoned that, If adopted. muted,
witgawatie, in England, it would very won either extinguish
vs:Wow refusals, or sloe gin such a gunge of clerical gag-
men% as would furnish en authentia and peremptory guide for
future leglalation.
But, however this gay be, It cower= so all to ems thg the
"country cltSzvttysrdi" which the recollections of twelve
anitaria hare hollowed, sad which the nobieg piggy In our
language has linanortellseg should be ...d.. • rouge of
pros' and not of warfare, and those should be raved frog
Oh. calamity of further sewage( those who, if divklad Is
U, would fain be united in gas grave.

Aissucarua

Early on Saturday morning an expiation a ro-damp
look plate in the South Wales ColUmor coal pit at
Abseilliery. Is Kountouthstgrit, by which sir lives were
unfortunately lett.

QUIIMIZID EMIGRATION.- The Ship Banaloy, 893
tow register, 1500 to.. burtbee, Melon Taylor.
Bothell, and Roberto, 110, Fonehnroh Street, London,
tailed front Oraventad oath. 23th ult., bound for
Briabant, Qactealand : -Captain, Stephen Adel,
Sargeoe-Suparustendest, J. Aohbertaer, Esq. • Matron,
Was Abbott. The Bernsey le the 115th veinal that
hat tailed under the Land Order Blass of Beira-
Moo, and ander the Immediate direction of the
land °over:taunt Ofiloa, 32, Outing Cron, London.
She carries 369 souls, divided Into fell-paying,
remittance, assisted and free passengers, and °owlet.
tag of 209 members of families, 109 Meg% meo, and 51
eines Is ii - -

MA. LLOYD Q.C., AT TRY RAILWAY Banyan,
USTI SUTTON. —Tit* aosompanylag speak wash .as
msde by Mr. Home Lloyd, (J.c., at the Railway Bate-
volent Institution Dinner at Willie's Rooms, on the 27th
ult., In answer loan unespeeted command (that is thinly
• With expressed) from the othlrman—the Priam" of
Wales—has not thawed so yet in any of the Lona
papers, but we hays reeelva ft. takes by the pritetieed
short band writer of the IVookly London Mirror who
was there, sod though the immediate oolasiono. whir*
It was given is now past newspaper date, the Interlude
value of ma • speech ad this time le so clear that we
cannot do MAW than give it in fall, and grealv
ocatesed It to the attention of all who read. Mr. H.
Lloyd, Q.C. : Th.toth has bsea thrigned me of pro-
posing the toast of the House of Lards sad the House
of Commons. aid lam sure that is will be received
second—aid meson only— to those which have preceded
It. As laglialunen do we think item indivklual
members of the great friendly orgasleasion of &glad
—I may my of the United I/therm—do we honour it.
I. either capeeity the prosperity and good 'overawes'
of this country I. of the first and foremost importanee,
end that gad government is secured under the
sovereignty of the QlllllO by the two greed conultatin
waned' of the nation—the two Houses of Parliament
Li our 0013Stitat1021 has been for hundreds of yeathipeol;
so we all, I isope--usy I am sure—hope and trust it
may be for hundreds and more than hrindrsda of years
to ootne. We do so, not merely from o sattiment
'orally for the past, and gratitude for what has ban
done In agee frODO by, though far be it from me to my
that that madmen la not a worthy one, holding Is doe
plies In the affection with whiob we regard our Men,
but we dolt still more (for this lea free country where
we are free to thane oil things), from th• owes we
feel of the greet work thst Is don Ey these two bodies,
and from their noble and analectious diaoharge of
the trust which we leave In their hands —(hesz, hear).
Words of rola would be but very weak and very poor
to express all that we feel for
regard to
for our
lamest+ as Roglhaunes and eves in so the great
railway system dose, for they ha,, studied our welfare
above all thins la dealing with an vat an onjealeeoe
as it Is. Of earth there is something coat
be date by them in this vattor, sad no on who has
seen them elating in Committee in pliVSell
en fail to admire their laden', their patinae, awl
their emaciatioul claire to do what Is right. of
earls no ow oa their behalf, end India they them-
selves Gotha own behalf, 'moth not pretend that they
are not liable to num errors, but as far as we deo see
the tribunal Ithe worked satiefasiorily, an we desire no
china Othtleasee, we are hoooured on the presets
omission by the thentessase of many members of both hoe. of legislature. It is no doubt oe their part •
somewhat graminl and beaming omnibus'', so sba
Prince who has boa as goods. to preside over u te
night, but I know I shall be forgiven for saying va,:s la
to slat a seawall of their interest In railways at
111134 in the Railway Benevolent Institation la
sad we desire to thank them for the interest shown b;
them not only on this then= but on many pea
otheaions, and as we hope to be shown on many
woman' hi fats», net merely by their prwwww. A
annithramy tractheee, but by Cissli which thaw
have an will freely give to thiea=6 seer."—
Gentlerame, I ask you to driak with use and with -AG eartliality It doesethe—and I eon irkao
emd , the toast el the " Roues a Lords bed eh,
Hoes. 011•0111 W