The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

Coutsponbencr.

TEIE BROADWEY ROAD CAF.

To the Editor.

Sir,—! have just read a notice in your paper of the
" Broialwey Road C 4114" which seems to me to place the
matter in an unfair light as regards the ratepayers *I
that pariah, and, therefore, In justice, to them, I hope
that you will admit a plain statement of the feet, of
the case. AN every one is aware who knows the locality,
the river " Wey' Bows through the parish of Broadwey,
hones its name, because at that part the river becomes
"broad," or at least the bed of the river is broad, the
river itself in winter and at flood time covering the
whole or greater part of the bed, bat not at other times.
Through this broad bed of the river an 'indent right of
way has been established. No antis compelled to pass
through it,as there are other roads in the same direction,
and the road from I.lpw,v leading to this riverbed
turns sharp round by Broadway Mills, and ascends the
bill to the turnpike road. The demand of Mr. Hopkins
is in effect that the ratepayers of Broadwey should
make • dry road through the bed of the river. The
inhabitants affirm that it is the bed of • river through
which there is a right of way; Mr. Hopkins and his
party, as I understand them, that it is • road over
which • river rues, and that we are by law *noodled,
not only to fill up holes and keep a passable track, but
to make a dry road through the river bed. This is •
plain statement of fasts.

I ern, Sir, yours obediently,
Lynton, North Devon, August 12. E. 11.

NEW PROTESTANT BISHOP OF DORCHESTER.
The following letters have appeared In a London
daily pap, :

supremacy of the Crown and the unity
!' of the Protestant Episcopate have hitherto been
regar,fed am the two chief bonds of union and
guarantees of order amongst English cherchnaen in all
i parts of her Majesty's dominions But all this is now
changed, and the Duke of Buckingham has, we under-
stand, invited the Archbishop of Canterbury to apply
' for a inundate to oonsecrate a second bishop for Natal.
It is certain that the example here set must soon be
followed at home —at least if dissentient English church-
men are to be treated with even-handed justice in the
diocese of Sarum as well as in that of Natal. The
Bishop of Salisbury has made himself at least as
obtrusions to the Evangelical clergy by his open avowal
of Roman doctrine as has the likhop of Natal by his
commentary on the Pentateuch. "'lts far as the Evan-
gelical sod Protestant clergy of the diocese of Salishary
are cool:erne& the Bishop may be said to be "opirit-
sally
de1...t0i1." Let, thin, those of the clergy who
are di.astil6.4 with the teaching of Dr. Ifau.illom lose
no time in electing a bishop of sound Protestant prin-
ciples, and then proceed to mtmotialise the government
to issue a mandate for his consecration as Bishop of
' Dorcheattr, to have jurisdiction over all the Protestant
clergy and laity who may •ish to transfer to him their
allegiance from the present Rounnising Bishop of barum.
—I LW, &0., VELUUM SAT."

"Sir,-- As one of the aggrieved clergy of the diocese
of Salisbury. I cannot withholl my thanks to your cor-
respondent Verbuni Sst,' In your impression of to-day.
Surely the Protestant clergy and laity of a home diocese
have at leant as good a right and title to the protection
of the proper authorities as bare the members of that of
Natal to the interposition in their behalf of the Duke
of Buckingham and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
That • privilege—most deservedly extended. I admit—
to the latter diocese should yet be withheld from the
former, is an anomaly and injustice to which I trust
sincerely the Protestant clergy anil laity of Wilts and
Dorset will not upon principle quietly submit. I
venture with all confidence to affirm that in so great
and good a causes. that of the vindication of the Pro-
test,nti.m of an English diocese no sfTort or trouble
should be deemed too great, even should the same in-
volve, as you suggest, the repeal of one statute and the
enactment of another. What we poor clergy need,
however, is moral courage. 'We fall from cowardice,'
as 'SALO.' remarks upon the subject of our sermons.
I venture to think, however, that in the defence of
Protestant and Erangelicel truth and doctrine,'failure'
shoald be 'a word not to be found in our vocabularies.'
—I AM, ka, FIAT JUSTITIA."