The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-12 00:00:00

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St user it s. Sa/idoary I)iuce4.in floral 4110c10.
- Ti.e wan awl I hapter iif SAlisliory have
14 in.lly gis en their iv instil' to a festital of parish
choirs iif the iliomeie being liel..t iii the Hai e of the
Citheilral. ii Thilrisla%. the :kith of May ncat.
The I, rd Bishop of Salisloirt will preteli in Ili,
nioi long. snit at the of the ler% ICU •
doiiirr • ill Ite protirivil ior the singers. up thr
Nlarket. houve. There aill also he service lii ill.
aft,. noon. The music to lie u.eil at the lualliul i.
now in the press. under the seperinteliilence of Mr.
Richardson. Assistant Organist of Vie Cathedral. moil
will be 1,10,11.111•1 111 as cheap a form &I pii.siole
Wu unilerstaril that it is also intended to hate a
district festival at Devises on the tint or &amino
Tuealay in August.
PIC MINT A TloN Or A SILVER BUGLE TO TUR
SALISBURY HIP LB 0111 Pa. —The silver bugle sal"
scribed for by the 11.11105 .1 dalishury and ita neigh.
bourhooci am presented to the corps on
day afternivin, at three o'clock, in the market-plata.%
Lady Catherine Buckley &pp...4'lNA as the repnlienta-
live of the subscriliers, sea Lieut,Gelieral Buckley
acted as oolonel of the hatt‘liou. Ti.. bugle, which
is of sterling silver, and beauttfully ornamented,
was exhibited in the window of Mr. Aylward's
music warehouse, and ling been much admired. It
liears the following inscription :- -" Presented to
the let Wilts (Salisbury) Ride Volunteers by the
ladies of Salisbury and the neighbourhood, I 8611."
The ball at the Asseuibly-Rootos formed an appro-
prutte termination to the promedings of the
day.

CHURCH MIRHIHN•RY SOCIETY. —On Monday, the
4th inst., two meetings on behalf of this society
were hold, one in the morning and the other in th.
evening, at the Cotineil.house. The Lord
Bishop presided, and gave a long and usterestiiii,
account of the operations of the wetet). if (said lute
lordship) they 1,...ked at its receipts during the last
year, they would had • oonsiderable increase,
wally le the sysi..us year, but also, he believed, on
ay year. Tee lass year's receives

aniotinted to 1,132,000. but perhaps that was ii.it the
omit important feature in the present state and
condition of the society. The point to is Inch he
attached the 'dwelt iniprlance was that, whereas
ii Coener years there hail only heen 34 students in
the Nlissionary C.illege at 1 " gt ii Out Humb,y
lately IO•011 increased to 51. (Applause.) Rev.
R. 11. (That held then read the :14th aui,snal report
from which it appeared Ih4 the won of C3lll its. 44.
had been c invoke' iloring h.i. ear, J.2SO had
remitted to the parent society, and there was a
halance jut hand of L 9 17a. I Id: The very Rev. the
the [IOC uu.me,l the adoption of the ieportf and the
ineetin.• was aftersanis addressed by the Rev.
P, ihuinlary Sivart. the Rev. T. V. French.
Missi.olary from Agra. soul concluded by sonic
ohiservationii front the Chairman. The evening
meeting took place at hal/past six. the bin( Bishop
of the Diocese again oresiiiing. The speakers were
the Rev. R. NI. Chatfield, the Rev. Canon Carus.
the Rev. T. V. French. and the Rev. IL L Alllllll.
Thu C .11,4:6.U0 at the ikons wee.. —in 'riling:
. 6 Is. 3d. ; evening. 1:4 Ills ItP.l. Collected
after sermon and ineeling by Rev: Sir. Car's,
Steeple Langford, .C 3 its. 6.1. _ _

Matti bowmen., — BisAop Ttifeefl. —We learn
from the .11orema, B.i c ourier, of the Ithir Note's'.
her last. that tm the permutes $ lot Bitten. T.i'iiuhl
pleat:heti twice in the English Ui.nteh.Warwick,
air I that a in, was hell *lie punt diry, at wAtieli
thu Bishop a41.18.0060.i those i•stmott on the holtieut, ~1
sitimerilthig for the ntipegol or Clic or LW., Mergyllll.ll.
At tile sloe of the meeting 24110 wat ioutruhteed
tewents the futtil. anti there Mbll 41.001.1. that
1:20U ttttt ea...Ay Thol4llllo paper
—•' A correspontir sit sends tis the substance of
a conversation a Idyll to. k 1.12ac0. as ho it erts(il4)
itiforteml. hula eels Bishop Tanen ami ,me of the
nienthere of the of Assenthlt-. The latter
pernortage earnestly intnatttl the Bishop not to
remove )our city the present recipient state.
aid, assigning as a reason that they would ditrhe
aide to support a elcrgyniati in Brisbane without
such donation from Government. ' Indeed,' replied
thu'lloshop, it is very sitigtear then that, entertain-
ing such an opinion, you shoal,' have voted fur the
abolL Mu of state aul to religion.'"