The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-11 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICU, hatter' 10 —Assiitaut-Sorg:ons A rai-
-1 bald Sibbild, M.D. (1841), to the Pluto steam-ye:32.-1 at
Woolwich, for service on the west coast of Africa sta-
tion; Henry Eales (1849), from the PeneA(Te steam-
frigate, on the west coast of Africa station, to the Rod-
ney, 90, at Portsmouth, vice Ricfirdr.
Cletk Edmund A. 21-owe (1848), to the Arrogant
screw steam-frigate.
Clerk's-Assistant Silas W. Parker, to' the Impreg-
nable flAg-ihip at Devonport.
The Polyphemus steam-sloop, Commander ChsrlEs
G. Phillip and the Pluto steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander West, are both expected to leave tVoolwich for
the coast of Africa station on s.l,nd.iy next..

ELAND.
TUE VICEREGAL 1106/SXHOLD—THE AIDES•DE-CAMP.
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—IIis Grace the Commander-
in-Cbiet has been pleased to approve of. the following
officers being appointed to the staff of his Excellency the
Earl of Eglintun, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland :
TO BE AIDES-DE-CAMP.
Brevet Major George Begot, 41st Regiment.
Captain Lord Adolphus Vane, Scots lusileer Guards.
Brevet Major F. H. Ponsonby, Grenadier Guards.
Captain Hon. John J. Bourke, 82th Regiment.
TO BE EXTRA. AIDES-DE CAMP.
Lieutenant Lord OA° Fitzgerald, Royal Horse
Guards.
Brevet Major C. L. B. Maitland, Grenadier Guards.
Captain B. Bernard, unattached.
H.. -Captain. H. F. Cunt, Bth • Hussars. - -
Lieutenant Hon. J. W. Hely Hut.thinson, 13th Light
Dragoons.
Captain F. A. Thesiger, Grenadier Guards.
Captain Arthur Wombwell, 46th Regiment.
Captain Hugh Hamilton, Ist Dragoon Guards.
The undermentioned officers who were employed on
the staff of the Earl of Clarendon, late Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland, will rejoin their respective regiments.
AS AIDES DE CA3IP.
Captain Lord Dunkelltn, Coldstream Guards.
Captain Sir William Russell, Bart., 7th Hussars.
AS EXTRA AIDES DE CAXP.
CaptaißS. T. Williams, 2d Dragoons.
Captain W. S. Sandee, 11th Hussars.
Captain C. B. Molyeeux, 4th Light Dragoons.
Lient•Sir Robert Newman, Bart., 71st Regiment.
ILLNESS OF JUDGE TORRENS.—QUEEN'S COUNTY ASSIZES.
Mr. Jui,tice Torrens has been obliged to come to Dub-
lin from circuir, owing to severe illness. The venerable
Judge presided at the Queen's County Assiz-s on Mon-
day, when he was but badly able to get through the
business. His Lordship passed sentence of death, to be
commuted to transportation for life, on Mr. Matthew
Colgan, convicted of administering poison to his wife,
with intent to murder her. The poor woman died from
the effects of • it; but some doubts were raised on the
trial as to whether he actually designed to destroy
her life.
John Fahey, who had been convicted of the murder of
Judith M‘Donnell, was then placed at the bar, and after
a feeling address his Lordship ordered sentence of death
to be recorded against him, to be commuted to transpor-
tation for life.

THE MTJNSTER EXHIBITION.
Yesterday there was a meeting at the Mansion-house,
convened by the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of pro-
moting the success of the proposed Munster Exhibition.
Sir R. Kane, Mr. J. C. Deane, Mr. L. Foot, and other
gentlemen, addressed the meeting.
It appears from the observations of the speakers, that
the great majority of the Irish exhibitors in the Crystal
Palace have agreed to send equally attractive article■ to
Cork on this occasion, and that other manufacturers and
producers of farming stock, stimulated by the example
and success of the " Great Exhibition," have promised
to contribute.
CONVICTION OF A MONK FOR BIBLE-BURNING.

' Brother John Bridgman, a monk of the order of St
' Francis, was tried and convicted of a riot, at the Mayo
assizes, on Saturday last, before Baron Lefroy. In fact;
the offence of the monk was for scandalously burning a
, Bible, and thereby creating a riot. The local paper thus
gives the charge:—
" John Syngian Bridgman, otherwise John St. John,
otherwise Brother John, stood indicted for that he, not
having the fear of God before his eyes, but contriving
and intending to scandalise and vilify the true Protestant
religion, as by law established within these realms, and
to blaspheme the Holy Gospel of God and our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, did, on the 23d day of November,
in the fifteenth of the Queen, at the parish of B-dlyovey,
unlawfully, wickedly, and blasphemously, in the presence
of divers liege subj -cts of our Queen, sat fire to and
partly consume by fire a copy of the Holy Gospel of
God, being the uuthorised version thereof appointed to
be read in churches, called the New Testament; and
then and there, holding in his hands said New Tes-
tament, wickedly and blasphemously, in the presence
and hearing of divers liege subjects, then and there pro-
nourxed and spoke with a loud voice, and published of
and concerning said New Testament, as aforesaid, these
profane nod most blasphemous words—that is to say,
that It' (meaning the New Testament) is the
Word of Ged, but the word of the Devil—and the De-
vil's Book—Luther's Bible—or -your heretic Bible,' to
the great dishonour of Almiguty God, and iu contempt
of the Protestant religion, and to the great scan-
dal of the profession thereof, and against the peace,"
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Keogh, M.P.
It will be seen by the subjoined note of Baron Lefroy's
charge, that this venerable judge took a merciful view
of the charge against the prisoner, indeed, it may almost
be said he was his best counsel:—
The Learned JUDGE charged the jury. He said-1
am anxious that this case should be confined within
the limits required by the law, and shall state to you
what that law is. It is for you to say whether those
charges have been proved or not, and whether you
are satisfied that he said he was not burning the Word
of God but the word of the Devil, and whether the
words were applied to the authorised version of the
Holy Scriptures, and whether the burning of that
book is consistent with the reverence due to that ver-
sion of the Scriptures authorised by the law of the
laud. In this case he is indicted for burning the
authorised version, but the offence is Equally appli-
cable to any other version of the Scriptures, whether
it be the Douay Bible or the Rhenish Testament, and
the words used would be blasphemous against either
version, as showing a want of reverence for the Scrip-
tures, because it is not the version of the Scriptures
which will warrant the commission of such an offence.
' It is not because fallible men cannot agree upon a trans-
lation of a portion of the Scriptures that they are to be
treated with this want of reverence—that because it is
not a particular translation it shall be treated with such
villification. Is it to be held that when the law of the
land sanctions a certain version, and calls it the autho-
rised version, it is to ba raid that any man, be his opi-
nions what they may, shall pour contempt on it, and thus
be guilty of a violation of the law? Is he to be at li-
berty to throw that book into the fire, and say that he
shall vilify that book which the law has sanctioned? It
has been said to you that this act must be done with in-
tent,d and on that the law is clear—every man is presurte a
to understand the consequences of his own acts:
man can throw a book into the fire,' whettir it be a
Douay Bible or the authorised version, and if
t you
u
be-
lieve that he did not intend any contempt, ben you
should acquit him; but if you believe that ho did burn
the book, and made use of the language, it will be your
duty to find him guilty.
The jury retired, and after about half-an-hour's
deliberation returned a verdict of Guilty.

Immediately on the Clerk of the Crown reading the
verdict, Mr. Blake, Q.C., said to his Lordship that the
Crown did not wish to press for any punishment in this
case, the object of the prosecutors being to put a stop to
such acts.
The LEARNED BARON was very glad to hear Counsel
for the Crown say so, and trusted there would be no
further acts of this kind perpetrated, and, after a brief
addowress to
sentence: the prisoner, concluded by pronouncing the
folling
To give bail, himself in 201., and two sureties in 104
each, to keep the peace and good behaviour to ell her
majesty's subjects fur seven years, and to collie up for
judgment when called upon, getting ten days' notice."

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. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
On Tuesday, (James M. Bendel, Esq., President, in
the chair), in the discussion on the two papers by Mr,
Window and Mr. Adley on the electric telegraph, the
various instruments introduced by Cooke and Wheat
stone, Henley, Brett, Bain, Bakewell, and Siemens
were exhibited and described, their several peculiar
merits being fully explained.
The system of under-ground wires, coated
siewith gotta
Siemens
percha and lead, as introduced in Prussia bYbfr• 'a-iffin2„ty
in 1848, was stated to be perfectly successful, no
he
wires;
existing, in discovering leaks, or injuries
when any occurred which was very seldom, they
extended over nearly
easily repaired. The system now exten.
four thousand miles, in Prussia and Russoi was they were.
incorrect,
It was objected that the nomencl,?tiiitr
and that, instead of the " Electrie,
Telegraph, as the
should be calltd
the " Galvanic," or the
galvanism was not as
connexion between electricity and
3et clearly established. .
em was suggested for tracing
The use of a series of "Voltaic"
disturbances, and Berke of ob:=er-
the causes of magnetic
vations at stations along lines dlines were proposed, as likely to
and they would be easily per-
induce beneficial resu
instrument.l's likely to be rendered by the
formed, since the introduction of the photographic self-
registeringrt resu ,
The imports • hie wires with the Royal Oh-
Greenwtc • h were stated to be, among many
Ob-
servatory at
astronomicalobservations; the de-
termination
others,
a
of difference of longitudes; isno r
h onous
termination
connexion of the telegraphic
or any,
number or
nun)
of clocks, so as to exhibit Greenwich,
e agreed on, simultaneously at any
throughout
in the metropolis, or any other towns
clocks
the kiDgdOill. . ,
• sulation of the
The practical difnculty of the periectirl
Aprovisions no
rtltii:ll.ltim
wires, in the over-ground system, and thedthe Atmospheric
cessary against wanton depredation, an, wo molly i
040000, were fully climused; Ilud 4