The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

ecclesiastical latelligmcc.

THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIE&
"Mg dellpimpa who have lately "shaken of
the duet of their feet and goes to another city." which
Is the bitgliaP In which the organ of the Ritualist'
dwrib" the PulVersion of members of the Chan* of
England to Peper7, wears the name of Mr. Map:eta
The anteowlenta of this individual are instructive, and
Si,,. to throw light upon the wietobed state of tbe
0?Ionla1 Chetah under the managemect of the Bishop

of Oxford.
Is that Part of South Africa, which le called " the
Orange Pres State," there is a town by the name of
Smithfield, the Inhabitants of which were, up to 1880,
without any minister of religion and white they ftli
this to be a great deprivation, it had the usual effect of
=hint those who had any thought about religion to
think more deeply and reed more extensively about the
greatreligions quinine of the day,as plainly appear' from
their eornemondenee with Bishop Twills. In 1880 they
wrote to the Bishop of Caudown, uprisen( • greet
desire for • resident clergyman of the Church of England,
promising • liberal contribution for his support, and
they ooneluded their letter with then word,: "We
would earnestly beg, in order to purest 01111•115 of dia.
NiellaiMi between the minister and his Soak, that you
should ones any applicant for the °barge of this piece
to be plainly warned that should be have any views
mach as are in nuseral celled those of 'the Prieniter,'
It would behsterfo, him not to come, as should be
ad upon rub views, or uphold them, our support would
be immediately withdrawn." The Bishop of Oapetown
replied to this letter, noting that be hoped shortly to be
able to provide them with • Missionary Bishop,
which the Society for the Prom of otion the
would grant 111100 a year, and £lOO a year sash for
&lawmen in three Merest plasm of whin Smithfield
would be aim. The iStelup, however, eiriestiod to the
last senfesiee about Pneyism, sad neared them that
there was no fear of that. In morn of time the Bishop
of Capetown announsed that with the kelp of the
Bishops of London aid Oxford he had found a Bishop,
the Bev. Mr. Twells. Now, as Mr. Twells bad been at
verianse with the Bishop of London, it is pretty clear
that his lordship's nonce was only used as • Wind, sad
that Dr. Twells was Somas! of Oxford's sabietion.
On the Bishop's arrival he WU received with the
greatest kindness: his travelling expenses were pro-
vided; be found • temporary ehere.h reedy for him to
is; the French Protestant II welcomed
LlT:th cordially, and invited him to preach in their pulpit.
as did also a Wesleyan minister; and so liberal were his
expression that be got the nesse. of "the Wesleysa
Bishop." But the time tame when the mask we. torn
of by the hasty Indiscretion of Mr. Sheraton, and
nothing mould better describe Bishop Tingle' whole
behaviour than the words of the Perilmist, "me words
of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was
Is bic beak,. The opw notorious MY. inmoto woo,
contrary to original plans, =pointed to Smi eld, the
Bishop having acknowledged that he woe &wire of the
Smithfiekl people's aversion to " Pun " The and
act of the new Anglican priest wu to Greet an "sitar,"
with supneltar and erne; to elevate the elements over
his heed, having his beck to to. people ; bushing each
piece of Mead with kis forehead before giving it to the
sommunicant ; openly teaching the Corporal Presence
after the most approved fashion' of the Church of Rome.
In fast, when the Hanish Priest in conversation said to
him "You truly hold Transubstantiation r be answered,
"We are not allowed to call it by that name in England."
Upon this the people of Smithfield appealed to the
Bishop, and when three of the priasipal inhabitants
met him by appointment the following mane took
place :

"Mr. Shapoote, no being esked If be did um the word
• converts,' raid, No, I m/3, muses it to become to us.' His
Lordship Men proceeded to nowt upon the Marin rsliwfling
the elevation of the elements, and asked if,. !Alopecia if he
did 60 saying, ' I suppose you only did as I always do ; raise
It, as ordered hi the rubric, eo—to • level with the Medi'
Tee; said Mr. Shsprote, ' that is elL'Too did not then
robe It above your head as it le Meted T mid his Lordship.
• No; replied Mr. Shapcote. ' Imp be did—l maw him do it„•
mid Mr. Harvey. "Then I IMIBt request you to Nave dm
room as you deny what • gentlemen Mar as truth,' mid hie
Lordship. ' I won't go' said Mr. Harvey. Ilk Lordship bare
mood up and going to the door, opened it, and mid to Mr.
Harvey, ' I insist upon your Inning;i it is my private room.'
'Oh I very well,' esM Mr. Harvey, and left. Mr. ?Way then
mid 'I ma conlirm what M.. Wormy has Then I must
repost you also to withdraw,' said his Lordship. • With
&mum; replied Mr. Finlay, and he left. The Bishop raying,•
rn teach you to behave younelves, and not to deny what •
gentleman states as truth.'

So after many efforts to come to terms, the people of
Smithfield withdrew from the Bishop and his clergy
altogether, and obtained • clergyman from England to
reedit among them. The Bishop upon this purchased •
building, which he dedleated, with peculiar propriety,
to "Bt. Mary the Virgin." But after • time it booms*
'airiest that he could do nothing with the people there,
and so he has no clergymen there at present. Now we
have • right to inquire what sort of men are supported
by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel' shin
year by year we are espeetrd to support it, or looked
upon as no churchmen. Last year we had • Bishep
appointed to • diooese in Australia, Greffen and
firmidels, who him the arduous task of superintending
two rderltillterk hos of whom, being the Archd
mold almost teat core of himself, and help his lo
to look after their undignified brother,, who, however, i
Bishop's chaplain. We have another Bishop " loafing"
about England, the Bishop of Dunedin, without any
diocese at ell, or rather one shish declines the honour
of his company; and here is Dr. Twells, • pretty
specimen of those Colonials, who helped to swell the
number at the Paa.Anglioan Synod, and who claim to
legislate for Christian ministers and Christian men.
But let as look at the Bishop's good feeling and
honesty t—
toultrigrrs tltiatet the Bishop Free , kept &
and that lir
journal
during his first
ished
In England: Enreiy was aunt to • gentleman in the Free
Mate. In it the following notice of the French Wm
!Anomie in toiand, In whets pregame be had given the
aesuranoe to their coogregations and the chiefs that he had
COMO to teach no other doctrine than that they had recoiled
from the Trench missionaries, but to strengthen the hands of
thaw good sew, who had elected so mud good among them.
"I like and admire the French mlesionades. They live
dmple self-dimying lives, sod only maim MOO per annum
and their house, idta they 'morally help to build themeelvei.
But I never was sews impremed with the maimmu of a
mere Protestant emtern, and with the &beeline lack of know-
ledge concerning the nature of public worship. The SUDO
devotion for thirty years, united with the Catholic faith and
system of the Chirat would, I verily believe, have couveted
the Basuto wades before this."
It will be nmsmbered that the Walley= minister at Bloom-
font= gave up hb chapel for the Sunday to the Bishop, on hi,
OW arrival, sillended his services, and cirdially welcomed the
Maw and Wenn& at • public meeting. The Bishop noticed
, far hob thus IS We
ifteAunpliCreenarewhemrtd.heorsothasl"`"":., Ir.t.beorts'Ut:
Church next Sunday. The Wesleyan manta was Kermit
Morning and afternoon, and elects to be pisued at our
sousing, and is very respectful. But he has not been well
supported, and now feel, that he will be nobody in the oleos.
we sorry for him. Unfortunately he has the grant o( LlOO
frogs the Volkeread 'hid. the Church would have had; so
there is no hops of withdrawal, and no hops an present of
Oommement Melee as Rom"
grio shag, emecgoi to suppress the one orgy of his journal
lam gig roogiet ths Free State, but not before extracts had
bum mml eirentated amongst were at those principally
Inimemsd, prig the arrival of another expereed ropy.
And thee look 'Sibs testimony of the Bea Mr. Clules,
tatellear miesiassa peid by the Society for the Props.
The Sallee of the deepel
Be,. Kr. auks, of Patumenith, holds similar views to
the Bishop and Er. fibepcote, on the subject of Protestantism
end At Lafloytoo, on the }minim up the country,
he meinblesd that the Reformation bad dew users harm than
geod Heenpreseld his contempt of Protestantism, hie
of use Bishop's pally of mews and his judgment
ci rr " hiperas. thus Re (Mr. Bbapoote) pursued his
hopengently, and utterly beyond the exemeivaly low
rpribtizi MI his hearers. I could wldi be, and I
too, were moo no our flakap, who in • most admirable sad
abattoir:mew impromel blame so happily as to endt the
opinion that It mis slier Quash sermon ; not that beat all
veiled the troth, ant bikini out of sight thole awkward pante
which we mob a buntw to the Protestant Wed. • better
Proteetset than euifllsbap I never knew.'
Now whet ere& is Maly to aeorue to the Church of
England by the mialetry of such men in distant parts of
the world? Is it the Gospel that they propagate, or
Popery? We have before us the whole eorrespondeam,
• pamphlet of ate hundred pages, printed at Grahame.
town, f roes which the above extracts sr=
and we wish that we could eat It
throughout this country, that our fellarrokareitmen
might see bow crawly the funds cl the litoelety fir the
Propionates of the Gospel aro misapplied whet nee
are seat forth to reatessat our Ohara-as Bishops; their
°verb/wing tyrenn despotism; Weir gravelling gaper.
Akira. We have the Bishop's private &nations to his
elergy, most of them taken from the Direttervse Aleph-
ormsum ; but ore it worth notice :—" Altere—Paquire of
slab if we have cloths; till than do the best we ma"
In a note to' this we find :—" The directions were to
Inquire if • stone slab amid be obtained to let in, in
tterel of the table, dash with the wood, and be
with the cloth."
It is quite trim that Mr. Shapoote was oxamobissi by
the examinee of the illesiety for the Propagable's ef the
Gospel, and rejeeted en amount of his Popish deelekteei
and that the rommillos usiderstood that the Bishop
would not lake him out. But we do not find that whoa
he wee taken out In opposition to their delecetiestion,
they withdrew their pent for bin support,
It is high time, therefore, that these- harts were known,
and indeed *hie mischief is not confined to the Orange
hos Stow. Ilan would DO longer be amused of bed
Chorobwoubip because they refused to support a
society that Is bringing the Church of iagiand into
contempt in the colonies, is making Dr. CO4llOlO the
most popular man in South Africa, whilst it employs
men who profess ocatempi for the very Mara which
supports there, and introduces all the6resst eepersti-
tion of the Church of Roma Will 74°eters of
the licetforill=stiew el the "T bali."
that at of the Cathedral et) Bloom-
Pimookantifiedtb, .eveOlicalerto nasth: Deaconlataking" dime Intbetb.dooßandabr per.
Donating the evil spirit, and prollendina to mist the
entrance of the Bishop, until he is exorcised One we
more. The Sacramental theories of this Bishop and his
stagy are identical with those enunciated in the late
Charge of the Bishop of Serum. llt. Eth"Poflo
acknowledged to the Popish priest that he believed in
Transubetentlation, only "we are pot allowed to call
It by that name in England." The Bishop of Saliebery
therefore styles tthe objective presence "an initiate
mystery," that is something we may not call by its
right name in England, 6S prose&

Frun.—Th• emetary of tke dun lire Innuranee
Mos stated to th• Ownaions' Wiest Oosmittee of hat
session on fires, " that wolframs in using limiter
matches causes to that ogles • loss of £lO,OOO • year."
Barely statements of thio kind should indent the Tun
Mass and the public to do rwry•hing in their power to
ernewanup the sr of Drys.* and May's Palest OM*
Malebo whisk ligh. only 44 Iba box.

atonal NON.

II has been resolved to erect • motinstent to the late
It, David Brewster, at Bdinbargb.
Tin navy estimates show • total net ingress' on those
of last year of £901,037.
CHLORIDS of copper is now extensively used in
Germany as &preservative against the cattle plague.
Tao Wreaks at Perth are to he lighted with the
lime light, which it is said will cost only ball the price
of gas. At Perth pa is Is. dd. per 1,000 oabis feet.
ML HAMILTON, M.P., for Salisbury, intends on
Friday, the 20th inst., to tell the Mouse of Commons
about the hardships indisted by 'be "win " a 18"
on tb• es-compound householders.
THI. Cornish macherel MOOD 1410 falai 0001X1•11044
d°l-4111 the past week, when several bopheads of fine
fish wart caught. Nearly all the supply ems sent to
London. Prime ranged from 375. to 50s. per six some.
Tint Government has resolved to send out Mr. Angelo,
the African traveller, to the Beulah ooantry, to inquire
Into (hi alleged existence of British captives there, sud
provided with means with which, if Possible, to effect
their liberation.
Bormarfor.—lt Is said that the compulsory system
will not form a part of the Ministerial measure; but it
will provide for the extension of the present educational
orgsnisaiion to the various diarists which have not
hitherto enjoyed the benefits oonfernd by the Perlis-

mentary grinie.
IT was stated by Mr. Hardy, in the Hones of
Commons, on Moods', that the Homo Moe and the
Commissioner of Pane were fully informed of dm whams
for blowing up the prison at Clorkenwell ; and it
appeared from hie narrative, that any cleneiesity in
measures of prevention redo eritb the sabordinste

pagers.
Th. Kvangenoel Church party in the Eastern Counties
have formed a church theocietion for tb• ddenes land
maintenance at Protestant and Evangelical principles in
Lb. Church of England. The object of the aseoeistion
Ii farther cleaned to be a union of the Protestant and
Evangelise/ Churchmen of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lax,
to more. effectually counteract the progress of

Romanian and Ritualism
Tan Bristol and Bast Somenet Steepleshases on
Thursday were attended by two sad redshaPs. In the
nue for the Parkhouse Bantere'Stakee, Mr. W. Smith's
Miss Glangow, in taking a linos, fall ha.", aad brake
her back, end had to be killed on LIMB spot. In the sax
rase Mr. Jelley's Beverley mot with a similar disaster,
and in this owe slap the animal had to be slaughtered.
TIM Ong steles that tlas bill for the punkas* by the
Shale 4 the besisess sad pleat ef the varione telegraph
ampulla in the United Magian is already
end wffl probably be laid apes the table of crot:
by the laor of the lizelsequer before leater. I
no MO will the Government seek eas= powers of
parabola ; bat, in the event of the absorption
taking plies, a uniform ream of for merges of
XI words, Irrespective of dishiness, will be made.
A. BIRTH ix TIIII Sarnenv.—On Thursday morning,
about two *Work, Polies-Conetsble Pearce, while on
duty In Bate Terms, Cardiff, observed • young woman.
about 18 years of we, lying on the door steps of one of
the bosses. ftert4 itrarde, and before insistence
wad be procured, eke was delivered of a male child.
The attendance of • surgeon was obtained, sod the
woman was soon after removed to • public-hostas, aloes
by, sal later in the day she was conveyed to the work-
house. It is said that the woman had formerly been a
etyma girl in the town.
ROYAL NATIONAL LI/1410AT
oven Lifeboats have been built during the Pat Year
by this instil:taloa. The life-boats of the society now
number 188. They were the means of saving no
leas than 783 lives during the past twelve months
—nearly the whole of them under eirounatanees in
which they weld not have been saved by any ordinary
description of beet. Happily them valuable sorriest
were performed withont the lose of a single life on the
part of the brave men who formed the mews of the
notwithstanding that the boats were afloat on
actual service 103 times, manned by 2,500 men.

•
A. Nov= RIMILDT FOZ bum —Mr. Barnes. ILP.
for Bolton, ham disoovered • remedy for Irish grievances
for which we have been seeking so lett, In addressing
a Reform meeting on Wednesday ht, he said he
would give a marriage dowry to every rishwonsan who
married an Englishman or Bmtch ; and, of course, the
same to every Irishman who fetched a wife from England
or Pootland, and Ell) to every baby that was born.
Weald not that, promote anion, the hon. member asked,
amid roars of laughter, ea might have been expected.
He was further of opinion that it would help to moment
the two countries together, and both would be very
much improved by the cross in the breed. At any rots,
he considered the plan harmless.
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A Wires Rwrowr.—Mr. John It—, &Cheshire trades-
man, recently had omission to segment* from his wife,
and by way of making the fast known to all whom it
might concern he sant an advertisement to • district
p.p.r, outing Is the usual formula that be would not
thenceforward "b. responsible for any debt or debts
which his wife might sontrain." In the following issue
of the same newspaper the following indignant rejoinder
appeus :—"I, Sarah Ann 13-7, Use wife of J.
DOM did entreat any debts in my husbands name;
on the contrary, I have paid • great many of his debts,
and also had to clothe and provide for him.--Signed,
Sarah Ann R—."

TIII PROPOSE) RATTY° OF PIZIONAL PIROIPUTT.—At
• Conference held lest week in Manchester, at whisk 1
Lb* Chorlton, Birmingham, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool,
and Warrington boards of guardians were represented,
Lb. proposal to throw upon the national funds a portion
of the noel of maintaining the sick poor was dimmed at
some length. The following proposition woe adopted by
a majority of 16 against : That • portioh of the
cost of the maintenance and sere of sick inmates of
workhouses should be repaid to boards of guardians by
Government, in rich unions and parishes as provide
boopitat aenocamodatioo, se.dical and other attendance,
he., up to a certain standard of efficiency." It was
also rewired, "That a portion or the whole of the wet
of maintaining lunation and imbecile persons should be
borne by the nation at large."
THII HASDEL FISTIV&L OF 1868.—The programme of
this great musimil gathering is now published. Past
experience Deems to have perfected the arrangements,
at least in outline. With regard to the lank of the
performances some " greatly enhanced effects" are
promised as the consequence of a more intimate air
qvuuntanee with its acoustical properties. But the eon.
Witution of the immense band and chorus of 4,000
remains unchanged, and Mr. Costa will again be the
coadactor. Certain alterations of obvious utility are
' also promised in the auditoria'''. The grand reheanal
will take pines on Jane 12, the "Messiah" will be given
oath. 15th, • .election on the 17th, and the Israel in
Egypt" on the 19th. Such are the arranSelnents forth.
great musical event of the year, and the direetore having
so far done their duty, it is now for the pablie to do
theirs, by sustaining an enterprime unique alike in its
magnitude and Its usefulness.
The Times and other of our London contemporaries, are
teeming with • moaned " new though Infest it
Is only " history repeating " but rendered
unusually interesting for its intimately coneernins tbe
ladies. We refer to imosomy in tea, and other own.
moditiee by " 00-operation ," this mode of apply has in
last been long exemplified by the well-knewn firm of
Horniman and Co., Loudon, who as tea importers,
have for thirty years past, availed themeelme of their
direst connection with the growers, to eo-operate
through agents in all parts of the kingdom, to supply
the public on more advantageous terms than the
ordinary channel that require the tea to past through
many hands before reaching the public. Horniman •
pure tea is always obtained by the consumer in the
same unsophisticated date as it leaves the grower, as it
is securely scaled and the price printed on each packet
it cannot be changed Or sold at an Mermaid rate. The
groat social importance of this mode of ripply is
evident from the magnitude of Mayne. Hornimans
sonnestica, being separalled in the annals of the tea
temle.
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•••••••
• PLOCOLTAIL Ihmo.—Amkt our noisier berms of
grim sod drams, Courts, Penatae, and cities. let us find
pleas of broom for one who parse away as quietly as
he lived. "Os Tuesday the reinsina of a man named
now Ken were followed to their loot reating-plami
In ihe churchyard of the one's al Carrington. near
Edinburgh, by • great number of Meads. including both
masters and sees, showing that reepeet to whieh be was
highly entitled, as secount, cot oily of the many well-
merited prism that be had won at the plan/him am
-
goddess during the peat twisty Ire years, but also of
Li. good ohanoter and great ability as a general farm
servant. From 1841 to 1866 he dallied upwards of sixty
prime it emepeeitioss in ploughing forty of them were
the Memel prises awarded. At tieh time of his death
he had in his poessiMee tweets -ow medals of lite High-
land and Agrierillaral &stay it 800tlaad." Here was
I eciaqueror in a peaceful Sad ; s Motor Ins bloodless
light, who was a good heed at the Menai "
for seignior," sad did as some oink* at the tue.
tail. Other berms kill, burs, end plmder ;he helped
es feed as, to teach us to hold the share straights sad
to get the most cubit fallow. Does anybody think that
very easy Tom Ear woald have ruled them a line
&Om beedlaed to headland, by the side of which
ordinary plaughieg would have looked likes youngster's
Snit down-stroke.

Tel POLTOS MUTUAL A/ASIANS' AISOCIATION.—We
are glad to learn that • very simple and iciexpensive
system of assoranee was established lest March in the
polies sod conetabil:n•ess. IP objecit is to provide
• sum of money, ' to the amber of members.
for the benefit of the widows and orphans of d
constables. It is managed by • 'committee of police
OOeTI. Presides* Admiral Davies, the Chief Ocostable
of Cambridge and Hontingdowshires. Tim-President,
G. Olossop, Esq., the Chief Constable of Birmingham,
and J. Maxwell, isq. Deputy Chief Constable of Exeter,
Chairman. 96 County and 52 Borough Polies Force., in
all upwards of 4000 members Melodic( nine Chief
Constables ef Counties and the Chief Constable of
Birmingham are already members of the ms
the maehinery of while is of the diskplislikitr,Z
'holm how may lii. for the " many to help the few."
All ponce olloors may Massie members without
reference tongs or length of genies, no mistier whether
married or Magi*, sad them are no entrance fees what-
ever ; and as soca am the as.. of a member is registered
his wife, children, or nomieess become entitled to the
benefit of the assosistion. There are two olasses—via,
the fret eonsisting of Chief Constables, superintendents
and inspectors; and the messed of sergeants and con-
stables. On the death of a member of the first class,
each member thereof contributes 9a ed., and those of
It. second elms Id. each. On the death of a member of
the second class every member of the emaciation con-
tributes COO penny. When a death takes place, the
fact is notified in the Police Sergio, Advertiser, a news-
paper which Predates among the polies, and which is
published at Windsor. And immediately following each
notice, the members of the emaciation throughout the
kingdom collect their pesos, Lod the amount is then
forwarded to the chief ofilloer of the force to which the
deceased member belonged, who, when the whole of
the forces have forwarded their subscriptions, hands it
over to the widow or nominee, as the mse may be
taking • recisipt for the same, a copy of which is thee
limpid in the pollee paper. The whole of the wilco-
Pons, less only the postage and poct-oftice orders, are
handed over to the widow, so that DODD of the money is
swallowed up in payinect of officers, secretaries, or
bookkeepers, he., indeed there are no books or aiments
required to be kept. We gladly give insertion to the
above to show what sin be see= by no-operation,
Tit* Hoaorlity Fieststegy Is MA ftillsaioni Toug.
Wobanta

Man. Witadaint a Man PAW AND Bataffaa.
In Nola and 0.04 es Mr. m•id.g.s Williams mu.s
to the remarks of Mr. Those, the prods
adviamed of the reatimarianiesn of Mr.. g. Naas.My. He
:--" Wore allswering Mr. Thomas sriticista let
mme observe maarally, what Mr. Thom& will asely
' hardly deny, tint the testimony of patents to the as
of their children is the very beet possible. Mr. Tboms's
children know as certainly and surely their ate from
him or their mother, so both be and they know his from
his parents, or they again knew theirs from their
permute; and the messily recurring birthday serves to
keep up the memory as accurately as it is parable.
Now mopes' Mr. Thenotobe lifty, say at the present
time : his child:ea know his age and birthday as
ocooeotoli, though sot in the same manse; es his
peteoofil-ooapabhcothaisyliksonrk:if.Thid.inz]sillifi;;Lpoanhalyyimhg:ahntiheyobry.- wYetli:::ldand:be.tbapacioelayttiir"Or;
and they would know it as surely then as now,
although they have toad. no reference to the baptismal
' register if it was known. The knowledge ham grown
lop with them from their earliest childhood. Now by
I me means, as Mr. Thome would have it, • rest my am
entirely /moo the moolltetions of the lady herself as
sesorded by her grandson on several motaion. the
esrliest being mode when the lady was eighty-Oa r'
Than is first of all her epitaph, written by her me-in-
lay, the late Rev. J. W. Cunningham, vime of Harrow
who "Any rate knew her ever sincolBo6,whou he married
her daughter; and which epitaph may be sees In the
aura at Little Brady, in this county. Them lithe
Moliniony of be: sous, both of which I myself have baud
ham them ; the one my grandfather, who prodeseased
hersoine two years ; the other his ;bier brother, who
arrived her nearly six years. There was the notoriety
of the ems, not only among a anmermas family, but •
very large ramie of Maas. It rested not as what in
her extreme old age *b. may have slated, but upon
whet her childteu and others had known from their
serlisst dam, II so happened that I had an issideotal
etwrobonanon of her age- in my pomsetios, which was
istoresting, not only as eorroboretlnp whet was already
notorious, but marking &leo • remarkable *mot Now
to reply to Mr. Theme sainsina It is not surprising
that we should not know at the present time the place
or data of her baption. wing that these who were only
likely to know have loom elms pared away, and there
Ms no articular okra for soy as of the fatally to
haraire. Possibly it may be in St. Marylaces, when
as any ran her father at on. time resided, as recorded
In her epitaph. In its alemos, however to be regretted.
I still mast conned that them is no reasonable ironed
he doubt, arealieriag the mature and tharaciter of the
tellinsay. At this memeat of writing I ma not able
he ow lowborn. iseedenittag the eatriet in her Bible int
fads, as I have eel, • espy et them by nee, seat me by
my soothe, her grandson, three or four years ago. The
led eotry is that of her marriage to my post-=
tabor ia 1764 (no age mentioned); sitar whirl
In order the names and dale of birth of the several
anima, together with the names of their several god-
athlete, the eldest haring been horn Is Jas. 1766. It
Is, of coons, possible she may have mania a very
early age: no one ever baud that the was, which, had
it bees the ease, would searosly have been left us-
observed. The absence of any entry sat' her *Se ie
net remittable, as it was not, at that time at least,
maal ; not even, as Yr. Thorns doubtlaus well knows,
In parochial neaten befogs 1812. Now with regard to
My father's statenient, I am sorry to disappoint Mr.
Thera In his triumph: bet the figure "181" should
be urn. lam sorry the clerical error should have
mourned : whether my own or the printer's, or an
' over-
feat in °orna
te'the proof. I mama my. words
ad two years 5i10.," its. might to hive shown Mr.
Timms there was • mlitake. Irts otherwise very
natural observations, however, fall to the ground, and
he will find the statement is every way perfectly ma-
" Went with the fact of her birthday Lang November
LI. It is scarcely neunary for me to say that my
father's note wail not intended as an arida," of her
age, about obi& there was then nothing remarkable,
but to note a remarkable fact respecting her hand-
writing, slid her having been embed at that age, via.
when she was eighty-one. Doubtless, if Mr. Alexander's
journals are still in mistimes, the entry of the owe may
be found; as it wee, I believe, considered at the time •
telnartabie urinal ran Now what ma my father's
position a that time, which would give him ample
opportunity of knowing fora certainty his'peamother's
age? He was her eldest grandchild and grandson by
some mars. His grandfather, M.P. for Dorchester,
had been dead but six years, dying in 1814, in his
sineatyminth year—art for Mr* Thomas esti/action,
the baptismal register of his native village in this
scanty testifies. Her oldest won, his uncle, Kr. Robert
William; MP. for Dorchester, wee living, in kis fifty-
third year. His father, ILP. for Weymouth, was also
living, as well as some of his aunts : while one, if not
more, of the old lady'a elder sisters (his grandmother
was the youngest) were alive, as well as several other
members of her own family. His opportunities of
knowing for a certainty (not, of course, of his own
knowledge) her age at that time were se good es it is
possible. No reasonable man will believe it possible
for all them to have been ignorant of her real age at
that time. I contend, therefore, that my father's gate-
men, incidental mit is to the particular subjoin under
disousion, is most important, and to be relied upon:
and that " her age may be readily computed." From
the wealth and prominent position, first of her husban&
and then of her eldest son, in the City, there are doubt-
less many still living who remember her as an old
woman in the early part of this century; as also in the
neighbourhood of Riekmamworth. whore 11110 resided
first at Moor Park, and after her husband's death
tithe Moor till 1825. Finally I will only add' in reply
to Mr. Thoun, that the written arida.)e of a steed man,
when he was clearly i• a position to know the oorroot.
nem of what he wrote, is pretty nearly the strongest
of all testimony—unless it can be abowo to be Moon.
sisteet, or can be shaken by dime wastrary testimony
of • reliable netare • In the abasese of which,
in the memo ease, I apprehend that met
of your readers will agree with me In believing
this old lady's age to have been what her whole family
have received, and believed, and handed down, viz.
that she died, as recorded on her monument, "aged
102;" or more strictly speaking, one hundred and one
and eleven mouths.l have received a letter
a&On imy cousin' Mrs. Wilk*, the wife of the Roy. T.
Wilks, vicar of Woking, in which she states that she
ban in her possemion • Bible, given to berf ether the
late Admiral Sir H. L Baker, Dui, in 1830, by tl •
old lady in question, with his name and the date
written by her, to which the has appended her
signature; under which is written by Lady Baker (Mrs.
Williams'. grand-daughter) this note: "Written in her
thisty.first year." This, though no absolute proof of
her age, confirms in • remarkable degree my father's
previoss memorandum ten years before; although his
sister's knowledge was derived probably from the same
mums as bin own had been.
A HORRIBLE STORY OF • LIITLI "CLIMBING BOT."—
A truly horrible story has been told in this Maid-
stone Alain Court. 'Little George," was the property
of a ferocious human beast, named Samuel Martin, by
trade a sweep, who smears to have picked him up, like
1111 old hat or any such trilling rubbish, on the roadside,
and to bays premed him into the trade of sweeping
shimmya about the country. Nobody knows anything
shoot "little George ;" he never had any history; he
found his name and his vocation by meal hatard, and
was as his Maater end Murderer said, "got hold on
soinewherse." An sionour.ging aecimen of our social
landerneassi and Christianity is "little George," from
this poiot of view! Perhaps he ma originally •
baby who would sot sink in the canal, or choke
In the parcel, as some despairing mother pr
Perhaps be was timed adrift out of some=l:
Faro, when he got old womb to eat up all his
allowances. Nobody knows—but if he himself knows
it is too late to ask him; for his knees got sore with
climbing, and the man and womth with whom he
travelled about grew Mk of their stray apprentice; an
they illmadthim savagely, antil,what with a thick stick,
and what with a bitter cold snowy night Mr. Samuel
Martin made an end of this mysterious history alto-
getber ; and "llttla George"—who had lcog earned that
article on his small sorrowful back—" got the eask."
and is gone to "tell Father,' as snob tiny emaphilmats
my. It is an awful story to narrate, both legated the
the brute most to blame, and the Imlay in which an
English lad eau thus fall amide from all love ad pity, to
he tortured to death. The three—the man, the woman,
and "little George—were' it Appladore together, on
the bitterest day of the January of 1867; the mow wee
thick upon the ground, and the man ordered the boy to
light a fire. He melds% or wouldn't, as his knees had
been too more to sweep ob.itiriz
sthat day ; so the beast
fell upon the "wail and with a piles of a hop
stake, heat him, and kicked h "tremendously." One
brti:ata:thethasaidblor tole sissabowtitb.wastodestl.t.d..r.'ll7;sehi.aavueiridowehasAwn'weassaL:
white as a sheet." Why on earth, we should like to
know, did not the witness rush at the brats, and lay
the bop-stake about his villainous head? They were
men—at learnt the report says so; but " Georg."
had no friends than or at any time. After this piss* of
al fame education it booms too cold for Kr. Martin
and his female ompealoa. 'The night settled down,
and the Are did not born wall; an they retreated from
the roam to • hero hard by, where they got amoag the
Amor,
but told "little George to "go -he sad not
be with us any morn* Little George's only idea of
gWag " home" was to crawl book to the embers again,
and lie down in the snow, whisk be did' and, in •
fashion, it was his best " way home," for, when the
big sweep turned out from his mug lair in the morning,
he found his' waif and stray" either dead or dying by
the charred sticks. "Pro.. to death" is his own state-
meat; hat then he had made the previous admission,
that be picked the boy up alive and earned him to the
barn, with the rellestioc, "Shall I ever be froze alive
like this 'ore poor child r Mindful of the fate allotted
to singers its an amnia place of penal servitude, we
should reply, "Deeidedly not, but rather the reverse.'
However, dead, or juiriEltag, "little George" was
carried in, blue and speechless; and, says his master.
"he made • noise In Weide ;" whisk was the last
fobser:lbildtlyrrekticamys.o:l:l:siesne:i
jit:sin.s.::napionsati!
yuiatbeThiLitednithi...;::
ih!siridyltsciodmialst...strzabbkiegrrhiiirit::!ydis
In "little George" before, and nobody oared about
and feet off, but the rest was too lean and sooty
for their taste and when • drunken or remoneful
BfTb;;lreark:f a:y
the rate::he I"247,3ln4":"Pbsli."l"mraas:idtc:erainil:l4:l;c4;4""gliwielt:b:l;l:l;(3"l"rfdaailltttierbh:er:e
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that
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joine6h.ddiseedtb.thrbeed. zortheuwetiladdathmathosoetfinuwmaopowt4tag:therais.
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thehz.""ippiiy: theth aeobriB::rof Martin
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:rsubolastrwedyinaktapooot
npilbotyt*my!histFamertipirnitotialivlct:dn'bedige, gAwPenalhrh...t.ko oo .Thanalalit:ate,tildliandvbiagelaiesurom:ems.Tlhi4stipk:entlut:
warm straw while his riatim's &thing Dabs
soothed with the 60%th-sloop of hosts will, "
111•1111110111 no more small Bet we amid like
to kern; if time bre Mil UMW Georges worth.
irg isw.

Varistito.

iNFORTIMATL—Bethitg t. serlii_lor water.

Sums or Cwairrr.—Faith sad Rave.

A Quarry Ilmusou.—Os• illesinArd with *Asa
"Nous= Wissaii."—Tbe "Sae el Oifellows
and Natal I

A Aau/.L Ben Disraeli—Dui:able Klidatr.
—ll4

—.—
A series of &wisp umelodier, called "Soso for
&pokers." and "Trills for Tipplers,* will shortly be
published by Roomy sod Co. .

_
I Panamum PIRVESIT.—Tber• it a report that the
Bee. B. Bpeks is likely to wade from Om Marsh of
Zegiand ; and it is, of mum, notorious that he it greatly
addicted to Roam
" Jaz-snout= r—lt would not be sermable So the
feelings of the members of the Lower Home of Con-
voretioe to know that, in ttio opinion of acetennoamers,
the Jerusalem Chamber was • plass in mid& donkeys
were assembled.--Judy.

AN ONITINATII PAO/IL—Parish Dish.,: Well,
Nuns, how go the Patisintel—Hures : 06, snotty well,
slr —thesea arrow head —Pariah Doctor: Eleven I only
anew! Why, I kit medial's for twelve. —Nurse:
Yee sir, I know; bet ono waa so rstractory be wouldn't
take bWn.--Judy.
&MIT RAWARDED.—Hásy porsons bare wondered
what wad have bee* the moos a tho somewhat un-
gracious discharge of Lord Charderd frees tho Lord
Chaoralorahiti. It Is wet sorprieleg. He had just made
Mr. Haase, a judge " Ethan," the SaiNgor'e Anima
says, " reist to any sonsideration but Alamo.* He
Innuediatay had to azehaage th• woolsack fog the sue.
Pat this said thattogothor.—PureL

WOTAIDLIA.
Prison Fare—The Ordinary of Nowak..
Agreeable Advise—Tbis Commit of N 1...
Fisireditary--Carroty looks.
A key Irird to tarn —A donkey.
A sailor is not a drone when he is raked A.B.
A diegusting entertainment—TM Diet of Room
A disagreeable boon—A baboon.
The trempeter's pet—His trumpet.
Lag Alfred, when he buret the sakes, didn't ewe
his baking.
STAITTLIWO CONOWITTOW TO DIWOCIAOT OW TIT
Pan or Tax Quasi. —(Comonniqui by a dlegastod
Geotlecosn's Gentlisiman.)—lt is 11120011111111101 that the
Cloud will go lota moarnisg for his late Majesty, Louis,
ex•lClng of Bavaria, but that the Queen will dispense
with it at the Drawing-roes on the 12th, exempt for tlio
household, en amount of the leis* whisk might be
essiesed to taadot Defer Overt mearaing for as es.
Ling out of seseisieratios for the peak of a est of West-
er 1 sheplasepen I Moreilal powers, what ere ws.o.lng
to I The nest Ake( win be te ma apes people of eau-
&ties bspostpoe. that: own seaveniones awl &hi& to
the inbreed of their tradeemea ; ea, e.p., by paying
nay mosey and setting that:fame against eerreate
perquisites l—Pwack.
A GOOD STOZY has been going the round of the papers.
A ample presented tbemodves st shank to be married.
The clergyman, perceiving that the bridegroom was
drunk. Waged to perform the seressony. sad after
administering a reprioasd to him, told the bride to
return with bin the nest day. The eonplo did reborn
the next day, when the bridegroom appeared be be
even more drank tbs. he had bees the day beers. Tise
elergymaa then add:mood the bride, and asked bar hew
else could think of nailiag herself to such a otailirsod
lot. The girl replied with touching amieval, "Willy is
mot a esalirmsd sok, sir; bat whoa be is sober be &re
treat te marry me, so I Sessoli kelp bringing him bete
drank if I en to merry him al ell."

-- _
Tin Pow Lamtlare.-111r. Tesupsoo has ecetributed
soother poem to Good Words. whleli sow alvl4lo with
Ow a week, the favours of his WAIL This le his
latest routribotion to the former :

11611-1•14.
1 good on s tower in the .1,4
And the New TN, sad Old Tear met,
And the .in were roaring end We-Ins;
And I said, " Oh yeses, Mat met in Were,
lime ye ought that is worth the knowing?
Bolsocie eamigi end exploring.
Wendenn miering end going.
Natter enough kw deploring,
But might that is worth the knowing r
he.. at my iitet wen Sowing,
mama on the shingle pouring,
Oki Veer AAA( end Mowing,
And New Year Wowing end roaring.
Amp Timms.

L correspondent sends as (ir) tin following.
obielt be says be thinks raker aa haprevoneat oa
Tennyson :

11167 - lan.

I sat In • 'bus he the wet,
Good Words I had bappened to gef,
With Tenuyaoa'e Ufa bestowing;
And I mad, "Oh, bard who work so hard,
Hem Yen aught that is worth the knowing r
Verne though end so boring—
Tweddle quite orwilovring,
Rubbish enough for !
But that le worth the knowing r
Mora on wells were glowing.
Puffs in the papers pouring,
Good Words roaring and blowing,
Owe a Wok blowing and rearing.
Firsi parodies Quo Poet Liareste's lass la Ibi

—Tennyson stood in the M.
And be and his polishers met.
His publisiters cursing sad wearing.
And they mid 0 news= toil us.
Elam you nnything good to sell us,
The public mind it enrages,
To mad such bosh by mdse.
• Th. Victim was littie better,
And oh I that • Spitolui Lotter.'"
They spoke their poor Mir twine.
Tonnysonli poems nersandeg,
Publishers cursing and swearing.
Teneyeen swerlsig sad cursing.

Turmas I Dore Ldflt=-(Bp a pomp ledp).—l des
like, if a girl sets her eye upon • yaw( gentienau for
a minute, that lie &cold imagine she has • eel on his.
for life. I don't like to see two ladies oosversiag Is an
undertone in company, wearing • mahatmas look
upon their face., and directing their eyes frequently
towards me. I dotal like those ve-y young men whose
thoughts are always *antra on themselves, and whose
fingers are always twirling their moustashes. I don't
like to be one of • wedding party wheat all the Young
ladies are expected to damp their Lee basidkereitiefe
through sympathy with the weeping bride. I hail
like to sae my bean dirting with another girl, and be
obliged to look gay and unconcerned all the time, lest I
be accused of jealousy. I don't like them who tell you
they "ars plain people who speak their mind," and
m•ke that a pretext for giving you all meaner of ia-
t home blow.. I don't like, if • girl makes
pertinent
to • gentleman for hallos bear, that
that be should go away and tall Matti's& shit" is dying
about him" I don't like to be asked to play • little
=ode for the gratilleation of the company, and to find
during the whole performance that everybody prefers
listening to the musts of their own voices. I don't like
to see a pair of tappets that I worked at Lag and
arduously to render beautiful, floarbibing is the fest of
another girl's husbaad whom I owe expostsd to be
my own. I don't like, after eonvarsiog in an solonsbed
and semailde strain for live minute!, to bear at the sod
of it, "Pray mean a, but what where you talking
about?' I don't like to be called "heath..." bemuse I
esaaat sigh Doses withered roes-led, or weep over" An
Elegy oa a Deed (hoary.' I don't on showing •
elorroiag sew bootie* to a dear young lady friend, to
be told by her, quite patroaisiagly, that it woad do
pretty well, only it is so frightfully unbeooraing.--Jedp.

0 LNNY DEN D—.
(To tioi Air of " 801111141 Maeda.")
To his party arraablod You Dag Rua cake—
" Inv ray star it gar down Rare aro know to bark.
Theo Gook Tory bold who loon !lofty an' nor
Lot AN follow Ike kwOrma re many Bon
Oono book up pear May, war bask op your aim.
To addle, Nod 'Taylor, ore ell out your ;
Unhook no from *dam sod los mops Ink
For Ws up .1* UN tortrinar o' away D---.
ibis D— on the trout bomb dote rim trout Itio
Wil101odoloa• rondo block at' Rob Lowe be too= ;
But Uri Rads, dew ma, road Lot AN bids Mem we bs,
Win So war than wo Rhoda o hos canny Boa

"Yell be muftis( to flow what aty pristoples urea;
Saki Den D—, " they an just what they always has be..;
;
Fia st wr Lord Derby, sad aye shall Ibe
(he lea as it souse..)," said many Des D--.
" Wl' our neighbour§ nom Paaley will keep...' APS
gut ase huts se ye lay ystuon. stomoale toe Debt),
In the tad bleld o' °them like ateiding Johnnie,
,WVUno raoldle or saddle." And assay in. St—v.
" At hone aye lad no • Liberal true,
Wl' hob thinglar anon rn vary my hue
1t.... that is only ISM it to Ems,
rn aleare when ye want it," Ind away Bea
" Rut liana forgot win Terve often be.. told.
Thir, your ...try.. tradition' and eastana an oil;
And lion. forret eat than it ballad ma
Some tome *told wan," aid essay Des
" For the woes o' Weed' my heart late'
Oh I I trust the dare elek when shell sorrow nal•-•
is to. Hobeas
Inst...=
" lons Tosedny.that's eosin' vell lake her In hank
SW bee • alatab o'er bor Muds aue Mr Inetv.
La' then. from oar Ida Ilearelana.
You'll boor what you'll beer,' aid mop in. D--.
" There', moth wan to be does, an' the 141111 kin 'l Ins
I'll but hint bow par toll lam abbnolais—
iny opposite Meads inn their nesseente Is as,
An' watt what will law," nil Gamy 8410 D—.
" So I'll stick to the beech Uk. the weed to the rads.
ire I own • wpet there'll be some bard hanks ;
La' trentde, ye Whlln, se you look on at ma,
'will take oak Ikea ye ken to oast away in. D....
Coen took up tour Disey, some back w your Dela.
To meddle, Ned Taylor, an' esti out my nee '
Unhook an hoes pledges, sod tot so ga• 6;14
For it's up id' tee fanner o' away in.
—The Dui.

HOLLOW Well OINTIONT AID PILL& —Coadiumpliem
Prrented.—lnlitmem, colds, and fewer are OM pre-
wading in our changeable climate. Though senfli
cured at brit, when nftleoted they frequentby indsco
serious diseases, of whia the aid and most Wel io
consumption. If Holloway's pills be resorted to on tho
Int appearance of any ol tesS dimness, sad if this
simistome be vory urgent, his ointment &mid also
be well rubbed twice a day on the bask and deo* ; *bey
will own to cows slum. and all emesumpliee
entlenay will amiainly be banished. and tbe body.
freed from all impurities will to loft in a healthier
state than it was before the illness. The pills
bee from noxious invalidate of any kind, the most
delicate and timid may harmlessly take tisini.

Purser FREEDOM nos Goma= re 10 Iliewriel
AFT'S Gil LS 1510551) IT Di. LoooClei Pl7lllOllO
Wanuts.—From Mr. W. H. W Mecham*, chemist,
George-street, Aahton-nnder-Lyne "On. of the most
respectable townwiwn celled upon me yesterday. and
stated thst he had derived more benefit from Looock's
webs, than from all the cough medicine, he Ms used
for the past tivewad.twenty years. Several other rases
equally remarkable have been risperted, so Has the
seamy of the medicine in this disiriet is now hired
dispute. (Situad) W. EL, Waterhouse' Hr. LosociS
wawa give instant relief, mid. rapid sure of osseous
consemption,_ coughs and ell disordets of the broth
and bangs To singers sad psitsirtnge
tnithey are
invaluable for clearing sad the voles
and have a plasma* %Ma Prise la, , 011..
ft ft., to= his. add by eblObil•
/ran si