The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

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THE GREAT SEVECURIST.
TO THE EDITOR C,F THE TIMES.
Sir,—You have done the Ray. Robert Moore iejnstiee.
The stomach ok the great sinecurist, like the trunk of
the great elephant, has capacity for the largest acquisi-
tions, but dues not scorn the smallest. The rev. gentle-
man condescend=, in addition to his other r?cpontibili-
ties, to encumber himself with the rectory of Rolling-
bourn, in Kent, value 551. per annum—a mere crumb
dropping into the gorged lap of this clerical Dives.
Again, Bishop Porteus left years ago—you know how
long the bishop has been dead-1,0001. Consols towards
the foundation of a school in the parish of Hunton. A
few extra hundred pounds subscribed by the incumbent
the Rev. Robert Moore, at once (and, the contribution
would hardly have been missed from his plethoric pur,:e),
would have furnished the children of Ilunton with need-
ful instruction in a becoming dwelling. The 1,0001. not
being sufficient for the endowment, a generation actually
passed away, while the Rev. Robert Moore prudently
allowed the bishop's bequest to accumulate at compound
interest. After 30 years' delay—l believe I speak under
the mark—the school-house is built, time having quietly
added to the 1,000/. the needful amount which this Ca-
lifornian pastor refused to grant to the children out cf
the abundance of his wealth and the charity of his heart.
The Rev. Robert Moore to do his work by deputy.
Your faithful servant,

MEMENTO.

JUSTICE TO MR. MOORE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—You and your correspondents have (I am sure
quite unintentionally) done an injustice to the Rev. Mr.
Moore, in failing to give him the honour duo to him as
rector of two more livings than you have enumerated.
You have rightly described him as Registrar of the Pre-
rogative Gain of Canterbury, Canon of Canterbury,
rector of Hunton, Kent, and rector of Latchingdon,
Essex, all in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and presented to Mr. Moore by his father, the late Arch-
bishop Moore.
But Mr. Moore rejoices in the possession of two more
rectories, proceeding from the same source. lle has had
ever since 1802 the sinecure rectory of Eynesford, Kent,
which though put down at the moderate sum of 1501.
annually, has annexed to it the very substantial benefit
of the patronage of the vicarage of Eynesford (value
4101. a year), to which the said Mr. Moore presented in
1807, and may therefore not improbably be able to pre-
sent ugain. Moreover, since 1801 he has had the sine-
cure rectory of Holling,bourn, Kent, valued, it iL true,
at the very moderate sum of 551, annually; and at
first sight it might appear strange that it could
have been worth his while to have enclosed such a
minnow in his net. But the report of the Commis-
sioners on Ecclesiastical Revenues, published in 1835,
will probably nO considered as affording a glimmering
of light on the subject. for the following important ad-
dition to the 551. will be found there :—" Income 551,
and fines on renewals, but none received for 28 years."
Everybody, I am sure, will sympathize with Mr. Moore
for his not having received a fine for so many years ;
but as 28 years from 1835 brings us to the year 1807,
and Mr. Moore was appointed (according to the Clergy
List for 1851) in 1801 (the " report" says 1802), no
doubt there was something to comfort him at that more
interesting period of his incumbency, and, as the fines
are generally large in proportion to the smallness of the
income, we may hope the best, though Mr. Moore did
not favour the Commissioners with any further informa-
tion on this point ; and, as 17 years more have now
elapsed, there is every probability that the patience that
was so sadly tried by a delay of 28 years in receiving a
flue has been abundantly rewarded.
In future, therefore, Sir, justice to Mr. Moore will
require that you should give him all the honours due to
the holder of the following six offices :-
1. The Registrar of the Prerogative Court of Can-
terbury (worth, say, 10.000/. a-year).
2. A Canon of Canterbury (1,000/. a-year, and a share
of the patronage of 34 livings).
3. The Rector of Hunton, Kent (7831, and a suitable
house).
4. The Rector of Latchingdon, Essex, (6801., and a
suitable howe).
5. The Rector of Eynesford, Kent (1501., and patron-
age of living of 4101.).
6. The Rector of Hollingbourne, Kent, (55/. and fines).
The interest felt in Mr. Moore is perhaps enhanced
,y the recollection that his brother, the Rev. George
Moore, was till 1846, by gift from the same quarter,—
Canon of Canterbury (value as above), held since 1795.
Rector and Vicar of Wrotham (value till his death
2,0611., with suitable house). held since 1800.
Vicar of East Peckham (value 750/, with suitable
house), held since 1805.
But here I stop, lest I should exhaust your patience.
I must leave it to the Clergy Lists of this and past years
to do further justice to the Moore family. One question
in all seriousness, and I conclude. Is there anything
but an Act of Parliament, providing some check similar
to what the bishops themselves placed in a recent Act
upon the exercise of their patronage by men equally, I
suppose, trustworthy—namely,deans and chapters—
that will bring the bishops to their senses, or suffice to
teach them that the patronage intrusted to their disposal,
especially that more valuable part which they almost in-
variably appropriate, is not their own, nor intended to
enrich the families of those already so munificently pro-
vided for, hut a solemn trust placed in their hands for
distribution to those whom in their consciences they be-
lieve to be the most deserving of it, and likely to make
it yield the most benefit to the great object for which
alone the clerical office exists? Many think there is
not, and their own legislation for the case of deans and
chapters may be fairly taken as their own testimony on
the subject. A FRIEND TO THE CHURCH.

FILTHY WATER.—The Directors of the Wenham
Lake Ice Company, in the Strand, are wags after a fashion,
and mix much of practical philosophy with their humour.
Looking about for some positive contrast to the huge trans-
parent blocks of crystal, which have added so much of luxury
to our summers comfort, what could be more trite than
.a
few glass tanks of Thames abomination 1 And there in their
windows, in tangible evidence of the inertness of metropoli-
tan conservators, and supine legislators, stands in undisguised
impurity, the veritable compound which gives an extra
shade of richness to the colour of our tea and coffee, body"
to our London porter, and an additional unctiousness to City
turtle. Our Transatlantic friends of the Strand do not,
however, step at this lesson, but they go on to teach us what
our river ought to be, by a rapid restoration to its unsophisti-
cated country state, through the agency of a most simple and
perfect contrivance, termed an Hydrostatic Syphon Purifier,
the invention of Mr. Alfred Bird, the ingenious analytical
chemist of Birmingham.

THE YORK AND NORTH MlDLenAeeNfdrDeodintßoiwAllrLk:ArsaTet.hare-r
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tires nearof the Kirkham,engi,ne
wheels, not satisfactorily explained yet, the train
thrown off the line, and
.with rather a serious shock ''as
For-
tunately, with the exception of the stoker, whose name we
could not ascertain, and who was severely bruised about the
body, and had several ribs broken, no injuries accrued to any
of the passengers, although all were necessarily very much
alarmed. The train remained on the line until near 11
o'clock P.m., at which hour a heavily laden excursion train
from Wakefield and Normanton arrived at the spot. It
being impossible to proceed on the up line in consequence of
the disabled engine and tender lying across the rails, the ex-
cursion train was oblig,ed to be shunted on the down line,
on which side it proceeded towards Scarborough for some
time. This reprehensible step happily took place without
any mishap, and the train, in which was our correspondent,
shortly afterwards passed again on to the up line, about ten
minutes before the last train from Scarborough to I ork came
quickly forward. Had the excursion train been a few
minutes later on the down line a terrible concussion would
have been the necessary result. By the delay from the ac-
cident on the line, the excursion train due at Scarborough at
8.30 P.M. did not reach that place until 12.20 A.M. (Sun-
day morning), and at that late, or rather early hour, pas-
sengers, wearied and disgusted, had to seek lodgings as they
best might.

DEATH OF AN OLD PROFESSIONAL
Yesterday an inquest was taken by fir. W. Carter, the
e coroner, at the Tankerville Arms, Car line-streeSl"R.
t,LamEbeth,
tahge( 74, once
Workhouselfee
as to the death of Mr. James Deverell Gibbon,
a popular vocalist, who was killed in the Lambe
on Saturday. The unfortunate gentleman was very
and had for some time been an inmate of the workhouse.
On Saturday he had had permission to go out, and, on his
return, was descending down a flight of eight or ten stone steps
into the yard of the house, when it is supposed his hand gave
'way as he was leaning on the railing, and he fell over into
the area below, a height of about sixteen feet. His head
pitched first on the stones, and Mr. Brooks, the task-master,
described the concussion as like " some one breaking a cocoa
nut with a hammer." Assistance was immediately rendered
by Mr. Duke, the surgeon, but he was wholly insensible, and
died in about eight hours from concussion of the brain. The
railings are three feet three high, which was considered too
low fur aged people. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death," and also agreed to send a manorial to the
board of guardians recommending the hand-railing to be

heightened at least six inches.
AIATRIMONY.—The advertiser, aged 40, of improv- 1
ing political connexions, and being as well known for his
independence of mind as he is for his independence of for-
tune, i 3 anxious to form a matrimonial alliance with a young
lady, not older than himself, who might be able to command,
;f not an army, at least the means of procuring one in the
hour of necessity. Temper is of no kind of object, as politi-
cal influence in the scale of Europe is the grand thing
needed. If this influence in the scale can be further in-
creased by the weight of a fortune sufficiently large to turn
the scale in the advertiser's favour, so much the better.
Absence from England having somewhat limited the circle
of his respectable acquaintance induces him to take this
now not very unusual mode of making known his wishes.
Has every reason to believe his name and position would,
upon acquaintance, make any one happy who accepted his
hand, though it still might bear upon it the stains of recent
political events. Any young lady answering this proposal
must send with it medical certificates of her having been
vaccinated, as well as her portrait, the likeness of which
must be attested by two of her dearest friends.—Address,
under the cover of secrecy, to L. N., Elysde, Paris, marked
outade, " Tender."—N.B. Young ladies of the House of Co-
burg may apply. P unch.
EICURSION FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO PORTLAND
BAT.—The members of the Southampton Polytechnic Insti-
tution and their friends, about five hundred in number, went
on an excursion trip to Portland Bay on Monday last, in the
steamer Jupiter, kindly lent to them by Mr. Willcox, the
Member for the town, and managing director of hell' nin-
,urn,tr.
accompanied
the works now in
Southampton, and several gentlemen and Clacdcileths
andr st lfaonr dseedvearn.adl
sular Company. The Maygoern,tlSemir,
hours inspected the ingenions ,
the party. A portion landed
andat Im'oargtnlairci,dche,
uth. Any ore willing to see
enjoyed themselves at Weynio
About a scale, should go and
progress for the Portland breakwater.
mechanical skill operating on a great
see the progress of the Portland breakwater.
The utmost courtesy is shown to visitors, and eAvelry facili
thou-
sand toes of stone is daily thrown into the sea to form_ .it.
affrrded to enable them to see the works. Sir ex. Colt
to attend to his professional business, but from some accident
burn intended to proceed to London by rail from Weymouth,
his portmanteau was retuned from Weymouth to the steamer,
and he Was under the necessity of returning to Southampton
charming was as
than smooththe
by the Jupiter. The colnpany arrived at Southampton Water from their excursion ,esterdav morning. The Chan-
nel
Southampton
to Portland is aysea3:amgeil.l-3Plo,nhde,dain:tdanncoetlfirienmg could be more
about sixty miles.