The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-07 00:00:00

A.CEMETERY S4iTABBLK

At Richmond there is a new oemetery port for church
',wish, awl part for Nonconforinists. The Rev. T.
Proctor, the Vicar, iiiidertook to managenomt, and pro-
mised to do his .et to meet the wishes of N
But it on, foood ithmt otrall between the two port
MSS to be erected. mei on this attention of the select
vestry being .11,1 t.. the fact, an indigent resolution
was pads.sl, aim a deputation was appointed to wait on
tho vicar, the tastl it beiv shown an Mc eno adopted
In spite of this the wall was carried to a height of about
two feet and completed. During Wednesday night the
wall was pushed down, and when the site was examined
next turning a number of footprints, prominent al 11111 l g
which,was the impression of a lady's high•houllallosit,were
visible. The authorities gave orders for its 'wing no.
erected without loss of time. A public Inhering was
called, and it was crowded. Mr. Jamie Thonip.on, of
Dunstable House, Itich 1111 l nd, as leading Churchman, pre.
and ig the gentlemen present were many of
the vostryinen and a pool number of the leading inha-
bitants of the town, of all shades of religious belief and
political opinion. At the mooting to letter was read from
Earritussell, wko gave the ground. Ile pointed out that
dissenteis are not merely tolerated by law, hut having
this right on the payinentof a oniall fee to erects building
for Divine worship accoreing to their own faith and ...at-
science, they were in reality established. lie expressed
his regret at the erectionof the wall, thi.obvious effect of
which would be to drive away pc»ce and ipsolwill between
confonuists and nonce,nformista. "As I cannot," his
lordship conch:dish "ouppn.t. that ouch is the design of
Mr. Proctor. I trust that either he will give directions
that the wall should be Pulled down, or that the bishop
of the diocese will point to him that the object of Christ
coming upon earth was not to destroy peace and goodwill,
hut to inspire them." Rasolutiono protestini against the
erection of the wall, and expressing all opinion that the
burial ImArd should he revived, were carrial by ACCIIIIII4.
lion. Meantime the Vicar has called on the contractor
to rebuild the stall, and application has been made for a
special hotly of police to watch ithe cemetery and protect
the wall from further molestation. A committee, con.
slating of Mr. Cave, Ml'., Rev. 1.0. Sanderson, Rev. G. S.
Ingram, Rev. T. backlit, Rev. J. Whittaker, Rev. T.
Smith, Mr. Ratumont, Mr. iliscoke, and other gentle-
men, were appointed to submit to the select vestry the
resolutious_passed at the public meeting on Wednesday
evening. The committee ii. also authorised to take any
other stels it may think neenoury in order to obtain the
removal of the wall.
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-ine—iiy—irie;re—pA says :—Now, It woUld be difficult
for ingenuity itself to devise a more insultinA fashion of
saying to Ifiment "We are holier than thou . Riau that
which has been adopted by the Vicar of Richmond. It
1.., not enough for him that one pert of the cemetery is
preserved from the intrusions of unrelenting Noncon-
formity. It is not enough that one part of the ground
should he sacred for the dead who profit by the benedic-
tions of the Burial Service. There roust be • wall of
fieraration, as If Churchmen hated the very sight of
burials unlilemsecl by surpTice aud Prayer-book—aa if
Dimentere were Parialia—u if the Pharisaic sanctity of
Episcopacy disdained even to see the publicans of the
meeting-hones. Spiritual arrogance could scarcely put
forth more intuit:raffle pretensions. If England were a
Nahometan country, if Mr. Proctor were* Mahometan
priest, and if the wall had lieen built to hide the burial
rites of Christianity frem the eyes at believers in the
Prophets the act seeltlsi Wins to heat a besotted fanaticism.
But we preseme that Mr. Proctor is a Christian as well
tut u Clein-hman, and we are williog to simpers that he is
an educated man as well as a elev. At all events, he is
the salarie•l official of rt Christian Church, an•l the
Dissenters are Chi:means likewise. And yet this priest
ehooses the solemnities of the grime as the weapons of
insult, and he tells one body of Christians that even their
dead are unworthy to tic, laid beside the demi of the
others. "See how these Christians Ince one another
has 1101.41T1C a shaft of irony. Red the Vicar of Rielunond
Is only a plagiarist altar all. His intolerance is •
borrowed weapon. The pwt history of FAgland is rich in
illustrations of the feet that a portion of her clergy like
any farm of religion butter than the Dissent which has
written intpenshahle chapters of our history ansl done
priceletei serviota to um' ineathood, That spirit has
written Reed( in the bitterest diatribes ever raked from
the storehousen of theological literature. It has expressed
itself in the anathemas of the pulpit and the sneers of
society. It has found vent in the edicts of Ciiiversities
which doomed Dissent to exclusion for two •-enturies.
The great minds of the Church, it is true, have Heim far
above the insolence and the ignorance of a supercilious
fanaticism The very strength of their Intellect haa
taught them to disdain such provincial folly. And the
rim: of the Low I 'hunt platy —that great into ement
which every !Menai remembers stith gratitude and
respect -ilia for the first thee bring a large niass of the
clergy into contact with the Dissenters, to du in concert
those works of merry which are better than isacriliee.
liot that movemmit has been replaced by another, which
is stimulating the spiritual mumniption of earlier days.
Again fve Mid a body of the clergy much more eager to
denounce Dissent than to rel•iike sin. They hold aloof from Nonc•eiformist Christianity as an Eastern would
avoi•l a leper, and if they had their own way- they would
mice noire shatter this Church with their fanaticism. The
Vicar of Rid I seems to be a typo of the 'hurrh.
inaliship Which suiii,, up the km and the prophets in a
hatred of Prete-data Ithesent. nt, kitty, however
have a w„rd ea) to such fanatics. The laity are
sincerely devuted to the Church as liy law estalgislied.
They have no m the wish to cut it a•lrift fro State,
.4 in truth they would keep it moored to the
State even if they had no other desire then t•• fetter
priestly pretensions. But at the Reformation the laity
took the r 1111111 l and if the Chureli, and they Intim to Leo',
it. They rule the Church through the instrumentality of
the queen in Parlirmient aseembled, of Itialimps who are
appointed hy the Prime Minister, and of law courts which
dre tirade up of lay Judges. The great body of the ',lit).
IL, not penult themselves to he heated by the extreme
doctrines of the high Church on thsi one hand er Dissent
on the other. They disdain as well 414 dislike fanatici,:e.
Alia if the fanaticism of the High Chunh cannot
restrain itself within the bounds of Christian courtesy,
but must seek to insult those Englishmen u-ho are Non-
conformists, it will find the laity armed with sham• co"'
iii the form 'if Acts of Parliauteut. liiich clerio -
mien as the Vicar of Richmond cannot LOO .0011 loanuLh.t art, like his are as hateful to the laity as they •ire s-"e• teniptible. And it may interest them to learn dot ther
could nit do a greAter sore to the Lilmration SiMiety
even if the) were the sworn allies of Mr. Mi."' ef sacenl•ital ax-rogance, or f'",,Tf , y
i public n
publicly •ast at Noeonforrnity, does that wc""Y p wurat u.. 1 than is donation Lir a thousand powe The— Atee,ii •
foes of the Estaldishment are not men lit.' ^•r• . •
they are Ultil like the Vicar of Richmd. "on fegerr
And if 'the:
son
in,, far more dangerous than the loscis'er'
lie ii
It wilt
!' sl lii fall into the baud. of 11, tit o
lune to blame the clerical intempesunou st- ts
Aso ! ticallY Wyat
t+ lealenterous pretemems aud ,
, unutfonding Christians at a time when uf! r!!_eafa:e..efe±
its faith is menaced. and seam Ite Te." -fre
fighting with inch Other iaUs, 44. 42,11. LaC6 "4"1 bq

II t%!fr ING APPOINTIIISKTS.

Cattistesk Hounds—Friday, Castle-hill (by psniumiiou)__o.
11.30.
ith,cimoor Hounds—Thursday. King's stem
Saturday, 11th, Hunter's Isxlgo —et 11.
BIRTHS.

March 6. at Toronto, Canasta Weal, the Wife ad Mr. Thoodore
Ilutere of • eon.
x„,e6 rt., at East :Arlon, the wife of Mr. T. Llether, of •
d-hter.
Za...:1 IS. la Tolptallie, the wife of Yr. WWOO Ilawmett,
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27, at Reston Chapel, near Manchester, the wife of
Mr William Munday, of a eon
March 27, at 14, Royal Cren,nt, Weymouth, the wife of Mr.
a Jackson, of a daughter, stillborn.
March 27, at Heaton Chapel, mar Manchester, the wife of
Ne William Mundy, late of of • net.
March 30, at Oemington Thanv‘e, the wife of the Rev. Arthur
Chielwater Duman', of. net.
March 31, at South *nitwit, the wife el Mr. John Mud, of
• OM.
March 91, .1 2, Deaumontterraw, Bournemouth, the • ife of
the Rev. T. P. ()ander, of • daughter.
March 31.2 1, Branknenettlace, Commertial-rt.l, Itourne-
meeth, the Wit. of Mr. W. flotelfellow, saddler, of • 114,11.
March 31, at Stoke, mar Warcham, the wife of Mr. Henri
White, of a eon.
At Tarrant Itushlon, tut wife of the Rev. A. F. Smith, of a
141,1
March 31, at West Stafford, the wife of Mr. Joltu Loveless, of
a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
M.rch tat the pariahll church, Winterborne Zeletone, by
the ker. 23,T. . Bowie. Mr. T. Burt, 4 INxile. to
youngest daughter of Mr. Robert Boaditch, of Wintarborne.
March 29, at the parish church, Whitaurth Ganottlourum,
Bridport, by the Rev. F. E Allot, Mr. Win. ILdier, 1.,W.
Elisabeth Galph,, youngest daughter of Mr. Samuel Gelpin, ii
Deanduater, Dorset.
DEATIIS.
February 11, at Melbourne, Victoria. Mary Anne, wile of
Matthew Isevenialt, junr., Enquire, yawl Yssrs
January 5, at South Brighton. Australm, Mr. W. Wedmore,
late of Dnrereeton, IllatnUord,
March 17, al the Abbey Farm. Abhotsbury, after s short 111.
"Llea. Mary, wife of Wil.nun Wmtansoott.
Mmah 21, Maria, the helot-oil wife of the Kee. I. R. Quirk.
II A., maim of Mandford, Dorval, and p.n.:test Us:Chits of
the late Y. tit.,rr, Ron , 11111 Ifouae, Tooting.
Mutat *-2, at tiwertwitzlie 11..mth. Mr. 4:..kinan, aged 82.
Mara, if at, oarliaseititoo. La!tra .%111C114, yousirst alatribtar
of the late Joho tiayll.okoi. Fait. agt..l azt
March 24, at lastromatouth. Mary, the hek,sod, our of Major
William Blount. 'Lateral last Madras Army, and daughter oil
Uio ha. 0 of Nu. 0, Merriourquat•
North, Dublin.
Starch 24, at Tama Uiletoll, >int 1.007 (5i1b4.1% aged yit
years.
March at Weynsmtb, Mr. Joseph Kirkman Walker, aged
'2; .
suul:y,
Willaten Wsalooofe. for,..rlY '4 1"""4"''. ok
ms,set, at I:landlord, alm. Mar) Caah (for twiny years a
faithful sem ant in the Late (laillalui Donalthootes Way),
74 years.
mar,.a 29, at spestlsbury, Mr. Robert Hunt, aged rry
March :al, at Child takeford, Mr. John nolallway, aged 70.
ma,,,A 32,03 Durm.....t.st, Mrs. Ann Mehouth. aged sl.
March 31.1 Mdu.o,do lkiio,Mueha Edith, dsughterof Mr.
E. T. Taylor, agaal 4}Y'°-
Mirth 27, William E. Abbot, Infant SOrl 01 LAC Isla Mr. T.
Abbot, Temperance Metal, Cramentutrost, Weymouth, aged 5
months.
igmob sg, John Otter Hawkins, muter mariner, aged 56,
nii„r ..haw painful
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'71117,4; 2V, at iiiiettiabury, deeply hunouted by • large circle
et Inane* Mr. Robert Hunt, ammo% aim' 63.
Murih 29, at Spettiabury, Mr. Kl.rt Hunt, sew, aged Cit.
114M11 ii, al 14, Walpole.sdrt.vt, The Park, Weymouth,
thsrtruile, ihuulite-r el Mr. U. Cox, U. W. atilwiy, n.l 3 ytal3
awl 5 months.
Hawk :ki. at the Elm Tree Inn, Langton Herring% in the
29th year of hie age. William, acreuth bun of the late Jolla

San% 31, Nary, youngest daughter ot Mr Thomas Dulsou,
buith-r, Wevuouth, aged 21, bet o all who ICHOW her.

Prbated tad Published at d, Usgbeitreet West?
Doroluster, by Liman Arum*, b as (wish el
Holy Trlulty, for Ben sad tro-peoprlotor.
Tnuday, April?, 187 k