The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-19 00:00:00

sudden appanage of the lady's mule, who, by ma or the
telegraph, had be enabled to arrive shortly after the rm.
awns. P WNW la a cab, the old gentleman drove
eg. (seeing the iinggelalai swain in deep dejection. The
latter was said is M a collegian, and the lady's relative*
nuns in the lb* ides in Cambridge. A. letter left by the
fair fugitive on her toilet afforded a clue to the affair.
THE BMW! or JEWILLLEILY ET • CLIRGYILLN.—.
It will be resellested that a short time ago, some petere
dressed as a allegyman, obtained a quantity of jewellery
valued at 6001., Mule. Lambert and Co., of Cirreaft
e.
saute by the impasse frisk of ordering the property to be
sent to the Skew of Wiasheistees residence, is St. Juan's.
square, for this isspostisa of the right rev. prelate. It wria
proenmed, hem devereass and contpleteesis of me
robbery, thee it bed best ememplished by some dezarees
thisfe wise had 11111111 ad the dotal garb as the surest means
of dienniag megislem Sines the period of die robbery the
pollee bare been in march of the successful thief. After
wash trouble, it is understood that the police have obtained
amiss to the perpetrator of the robbery—that he is actully
a dams= In orders, holding a position of some imperious
emeeseed with a grammar school, and rather noted for Newt
considerable railway vwnlations. The presume thief is at
present I. Wain, though the
Polies an Pnaed with
evident*, it is believed that no farther steps will be taken et
proeseit. About 4801. worth of the property, it is said, hae
bssa retaversd.—Seseclay Papa..
Fllllll.—At Finsbury, yesterday morning, shortly
before 1 o'clock, a fire broke oat on the premises belonging
to Messrs. Jennings sad Yu, wholesale dealers in furniture
and cabinet-makers, carrying on business et No. 11, Eldon-
street. The flames were dimovered by the policeman on
the beat, at which time they were raging furiously ia
the front warehouse. This part of the premises contained
a great quantity of valuable furniture, and but few minutes
elapsed ore the whole was on fire. Several engines shortly
arrived, but in spite of the exertims of the firemen the vela.
able stock in trade in the shop was destroyed, and the re-
mainder in the upper warehouse and show rooms injured
by steam and smoke. The fire was caused by the
overheating of a pipe stove in the shop. Messrs. Jennings
and Teo were Mewed In the Phoenix fire.offiee.—
At H
onleydown, ea &turd"! morning, a
te an early hour, a
fire occurred at No. 86, Preachool•strt, the property
of Mr.:Willians Saunders, china and glass dealer. The
policeman on the beat, !a naming the building, noties4
smoke pouring from the akettera- H. aroused the inmates,
but the smoke was se dem% that they were unable to de.
mend the stairs. Having meshed the Meager front, they,
with the aid of the polies, were enabled to daft their asps
In their nightekthes, and wiling receiving say paeseeal &-
jury. Regina quickly attended ; but in spite of the tor-
rents of water thrown um the fames, they could not be
extinguished until they bad posed through the houses de-
stroyieg the contents, sad severely burning the adjoining
house, belonging to Mr. T. Hart, general dealer, and de-
magins the outhouses of Mr. Carmen, landlord of the King's
Arms Tavern. &widen only was insured.

DR. MALTBY- AND THE RECTORY OF
BISHOP WEARMOUTH.
(From the Sundericad Herald.)
The value of the living, according to Dr. Maltby, le
3,8281. • according to the Four.and-Twenty of Sunderland,
it is 4,3'001.; end a writer in the Daily News—a journal
which has earned golden opinions on all hands for its pains-
taking investigation into the revenues of the diocese gene-
rally, and its withering exposure of their gross mismanage.
meat and malappropriadon--estimates it, in an article
which we have transferred entire to another page, and
which we beg of out readers the favour to peruse, at
4,695. The difference between the last-named se-
nsate and that of Sunderland vestry is more ap.
parent than real, and arises, we apprehend, from the
Daily New taking, as the latest annual return, the
produce of the coal under the rector's manor last year, when
it was 1,0001., whilst the Sunderland vestry, choosing to be
within rather than above the mark, takes the return of the
preceding year, when it was first worked, and which gives
it at 7001. Assuming, however, the bishop's estimate to be
the correct one, as founded on an average of years, let us
apply the test of the aim' lest rules of arithmetic to his
figures. Then, when 1,2001. is paid to the new rector out of
3,8281., the goodly sum of 2,6281. is left to bo " divided
between his curates and the four incumbents." The
latter are to have 1,6001. divided between them, which
is preciPely 4001. a piece. This, again, leaves 1,0284
which divided of course between the two curates will be to
them 6141. each ! How the curates of Bishop Wearmouth
will marvel at their singular good luck, and rejoice that their
lines have fallen in this pleasant and fertile nook of the Eng-
lish ecclesiastical land of Goshen ! How the worthy Mown-
bents of Hylton and Deptford will open wide their amazed
eyes, and look unutterable things, and praise the good pro-
vidence that placed them under so bountiful and considerate
a bishop ! And how each and all will be ready to take up
and re echo the exclamation of the applauding ancients of
Bishop Wearmouth: "Oh wise and upright judge! 0 noble
judge ! A Daniel come to judgment !'
In truth the whole thing appears so utterly incredible that
we have strong misgivings as to the accuracy of the pub-
lished report of Lord John Rumell's statement. Nothing is
more likely than that either 1,2001. to the rector is a misprint
for 2,2001, or that the bishop has been unwittingly made
to exaggerate the revenues of the rectory to 3,828/. instead
of 2,8281
It is vain for Dr. Maltby to shelter himself under cover cd
the Bishopweannouth veetry. The case cannot be permitted
to rest where it is. Mr. Herman bu given notice of a
motion for an address to the crown, and the merits of the
qucition, as so admirably brought out in the Sunderland
petition, and as they may otherwise be elicited before the
house, era so convincingly strong that we do net see how the
" People's House " can get over it without adopting mine
such step.
In the =centime, we earnestly appeal to the wealthy and
right-minded inhabitants of Bishop Wearmouth, by all the
hied sympathies and offices of friendship which link one
neighbourhood with another, and by all the dutiful regards
and charities inculcated by their common faith, to disclaim
the odious responsibility of having stood between their poorer
brethren of Sunderland, Deptford, and Hylton, and im-
proved means of spiritual instruction. We are sorry, indeed,
to see Mr. John Scott, our late excellent mayor, whose con-
siderate reason, and kind, courteous, conciliatory temper we
have had frequent opportunity of witnessing, occupy the ' bad
pre-eminence" into which the bishop has dragged him. But
there is reason to suspect that he and hie friends were taken
in the matter unawares, and we therefore hope that, on re-
viewing the whole circumstance' of tie cue, they will we
the necessity of reversing the approval they gave to the new
arrangements.
Failing Mr. Horsman'e motion, however, and no proceed
of a modified re-adjustment of the revenues in view, there la
yet one other courro that the people of Sunderland can
adopt. The can petition for the repeal quoad sacra of the
act of 1719. If need be, we shall not fail to remind them of
this, and hope to see the suggestion vigorously and success-
fully acted upon.