The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-06 00:00:00

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)91 Fr, un-bont. for till purpose of destfOYlOtile shipiing
inside the Mole ; and in September, 1517, he'agaiu • >
invalided from the effects of his former wound,-4rom
August 5, 1318, until discharged, June 14, 180, Mr. -
Burton next served, as flag-Ilcutenant to his relative •-
Rear-Admiral 0 tway, in the Vengeance, 74, on the Leith
station, an in Nov. 27, in the latter year, he was pro- 4,7,-:14!_5...
muted by the Admiralty to the rank of commander, as a ,
reward for an invention for propelling ships of w
during a calm. His last appointment was Blay 23,1823 r k,
,
a r-4,-
to the command of the Cameleon brig, of le guns. in
which, after an attendance of some time on George IV.,
he was dispatched, early in 1824, to Algiers, in order to
convey thenco the British Consul, to whom the Dey had
offered a serious indignity. On working out of the Bay. in
company with the Naiad frigate, Captain Burton fell in
with an Algerine corvette, the Tripoli, of IS guns, and
100 men, and; after a close and most gonna action, under
the very batteries of the place, boarded cud carried her.
Ills conspicuous conduct on the occasion was rewarded,
immediately on his arrival in Ragland, with a post com-
mission. dated Fob. 23, 1824. Captain Burton was no-
minated a K.IT. Jan. 1, 1337. A pension for his wound
(from which th, 13.11 has never been extracted) of
91/ 55., awarded him in 1818, ha.; been of late increased
to 1501. 11:r married July 2, 1822, Anna Maria, young-
est daughter of the late Lord Dausany, widow of Philip
Roche, Erq., and mother-in-law of Lords Trimlestown
and Louth, by whom he has an only son, Francis Adol-
phus Plunkett Burton.
Captain Ryder Burton has served afloat 13 years
since his first entry into the service, and although he
has not been so fortunate as to obtain employment since
his promotion to his post rank, ho has ever evinced an
esprit de corps which has distinguished him among his
brother officers, and he has always been foremost
amongst those who have incessantly laboured to improve
the navy in all its departments, and to induce the Ad-
miralty to build a class of ships of such tonage, and
mounting guns of such [calibre, as to render tnhem capa-
ble of contending on equal terms with an enemy—a class
of men.of-war which, we are glad to find, are now being
built in our dockyards.

NAVAL AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN.
The Duke of Northumberland has conferred the va-
cant
appointment of naval aide-de-camp to the Queen on
Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford (1825), lag-captain
to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., the
commander-in-chief at Sheerness. Captain Stopford is
the 14th on the list of the senior captains; and there aro
now only three officers senior to Captain Stopford on the
list who do not hold good-service pensions or appoint-
ments of naval aides-de-camp.
The Honourable Montague Stopford, born November
11, 1798, is fourth son of John George, third Earl of
Courtown, K.P., by Mary, eldest daughter of Henry,
third Duke of Buccleuch ; brother (with the present
Peer) of Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Edward Stopford, who
died sth July, 1840 ; and nephew of the late Admiral
Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. This
officer entered the navy October 8, 1810, as first-class
volunteer, on board the Scipion, 74, Captain James
Johnson, bearing the flag at the Cape of Good Hope
of his uncle Hon. Robert Stopford, under whom, in the
ensuing year, he assisted as midshipman at the con-
quest of the island of Java. After serving for 12 months
at the Cape with Captain Henderson Bain in the Lion,
64, he returned home in the early part of 1813 in the
President, 38, Captain Samuel Warren. On his arrival
he was placed as a supernumerary in the Trent, Capt.
Jones, lying at Cork ; and in the course of the same
year he was sent in the Leonidas, 38, Captain George
Francis Seymour, to the West Indies, where he remained
until September, 1814. He next, in June and Decem-
ber, 1815, joined the Tonnant, 80, fitting at Plymouth
for the flag of Sir Benjamin Hallowell, and Alceste,
38, Captain Murray Maxwell. In the latter ship he
accompanied Lord Amherst in his embassy to China,
and was wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on his pas-
sage home February 18, 1817. In October, 1819, at
which period ho had been serving for six months on tho
Halifax station in the Newcastle, 60, flag-ship of Rear-
Admiral Edward Griffith, he was presented with a
commission, dated July 17, preceding. lie was appointed,
Feb. 24, 1820, to the William and Mary yacht, Cap-
tains Andrew Sproule, John Phillimore, and William
Bowles, employed on the attendance on the Lord-Liente-
tiant of Ireland; was promoted January 29, 1822, to the
rank of commander; and of April 8, 1825, atter having
served for about fourteen months in that capacity in the
Algerine, 10, in the Mediterranean, was advanced to
post-rank. He subsequently, from August 1, 1842, until
paid off in 1846, commanded the rique,36, on the North
America and West India station. Captain Stopford mar-
ried, August 25, 1827, Cordelia Winifreda, second
daughter of Major-General Sir George Whitmore, Kt.,
K.C.H., then colonel commandant of the Royal Engin-
eers in the island of Malta. By that lady he had issue.

?HE BEDFORD FAMILY AND ME PRO-
PERTY OF THE CHURCH.

Now that so much is being said by the " religious
equality" men and others, respecting a re-adjustment of
ecclesiastical revenues, it may be interesting to the pub-
lic to be informed how the ex-Premier, Lord John
Russell, stands affected in this regard. We can advance
some " considerations" which mist naturally weigh
somewhat with the noble lord, when the question comes
fully before the country. The following tacts are taken
from uutheriti( s which cannot be accused of hostility to
the Church, and are worthy of reception for their accu-

racy :
At Castle Hyrocl, or Finneshcal, in the pariah of
Lashon, county of Northampton, stood a Priory of
Austin (black) canons, founded in the beginning of King
John's Leig., iie,lizated to the blessed Virgin Mary. In
26:h Henry VIII. it was rated at 62/. l 6i., and seven
vi,ars later (33d lionry VIII.) it was granted to " John,
Lord Russell." The probable present value is com-
puted at 3,8471. a year.
The Carthusian priory of Mountgrace, in Yorkshire,
was founded in 1396, and dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas, and endowed with the
manor of Bordelly, and Richard 111. granted it to the
lauds and possessions of the three alien priories.
of lee
at the dissolution 3821. ss. 11d. a yer. The site Value
at the dissolution 3821. ss. lid, a year. The site of this
priory was granted in 32d Henry VIII., to one James
Strangewayes; but a largo share of the territorial pro-
perty was granted to " John, Lord Russell." Houghton-
on-the-Hill was attached to this priory, of which the
present annual value is computed at 5,0001.,—t0tal value
of the whole probably about 13,0001. This property
has by marriage or purchase now passed into other
hands.
At Woburn, in the county of Beds, there was an abbey
of Cistercian Monks, to the honour of the blessed Virgin
Mary, the income of which, in the time of Henry VIII.,
was 430/133. Ild. The site, and a great part of the lands,
was granted by Edward VI. to" John, Lord Russell."
Woburn Abbey is well known, and its present probable
value is about 27,0001.
At Melchburn, in the same county, was a preceptory
of the Knights Hospitalere of St. John of Jerusalem,
given to them by the then Countess of Pembroke, with
lands attached to the value of 2421. a year. In 3rd Ed-
ward VI. this was granted to John, Earl of Bedford.
The present probable value is 13,000/. a year.
Beaulieu Abbey, in the New Forest, Hampshire, the
ancient De belle loco regis, or " Benley," was an abbey of
Cistercian monks, built by King John in 1204, and en-
dowed for the support of thirty monks to tho honour
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At the dissolu-
tion it was worth 429/, The site was granted
30th Henry VIII., to Thomas Wriothesloy, Esq.
The fanious hero of the Whigs, Lord William Russell,
executed for treason in 1683, married Lady Rachel
Wriothesloy, the heiress of her father's property, who
was a descendant of the above Thomas Wriothesley; so
that the family of that " deserving servant" of Henry,
VIII., became eventually also possessed of this fine pro-
perty, now worth nearly 30,0001 s yew
year.
Dunkswell Abbey, Devonshire, granted in 26th
Henry VIII., to John, Lord Russell, was then worth
2281., now it is worth 19,0001.
Tavistock Abbey, in the same county, was granted
five years after to the same fortunate person, value then
903/., now about 57,7121.
There is also a house of Dominican preaching friars,
which the ancient chronicler describes as being " on the
north side of the cemeterie of the cathedral of Exeter
but without the close," erected in the time of Edward 1.,
suppressed in 1538, and granted July 4, in the 31st of
Henry VIII., to John, Lord Russell. The present value
of this house of " Blake Freres," as Leland calls it, is
Cornwalhl,
un-
known. It is now called " Bedford House,"
prior
rictainnae
direction,
p p 2 has
some other church property at St. Pieran,
said to have been absorbed in the same
been valued at 10,1001.
with hB Benedictine
establishment, founded an
Thorney Abbey, Cambriddgfensrlaleiledwaws
several anchorites (" p Hist. ed Ox
ingugi 'tile sets the valueol3,
Du-ratsof the lands, at
4121.,
2s4p)e,eadsaetasrolyva. s
GB7roe.att2rp
part
Ed dVI with
the site,
so, whole is worth 25,0001.
~ to John, Earl
stated that there are in this
ofwas
Bedford.gran granted, d , the
It bas third
been
annual value
If o the
parish 19,000 acres of land, whose average
granted
a, OnOtOe
a year.
is
T2hes.nptherereacriseCovent-garden, said to be worth
1.
Th total present value of Church property
a yeaer.
to the Bedford family, and most of which is still pos-
Isessed by them, is nearly 200,000/.—Morning Advertiser.

.NEW FRENCH RAILWAY. Another large French
railway is on the market,
ofun.der the
Prance."desiFnatio9 of. the
‘e‘mSbourathn-cEbaasttetrwnblvtaoiilbwtsay,The line is
.to
upon ePaFri's and Lyons. Rail-
way—viz., at Macon and L
proceed to Geneva, by Amberieux,yo St.romß Lyonsb it will
and fromCulez through amert,Axuloisn,
and Fort L'Ecluse;
Savoy. to Chambery, to unite with the railway deter-
mined upon by the Sardinian Government to Modene,
at the foot of Mount Cenis. A glance at the map will
show that this lin," is, as the prospectus states, a peeve-
iiry complement to the French railway system, and it
is also apparent that it must become the direct route for
a very extensive traffic. The capi i
tal is fixed at
65,000,000 fr. (2,600,0001.), of which 600,0001. s to be
raised by debentures, and the remaining 2,000,0001. in
201. shares. Of this share capital, the London market is
to supply one half. The tender to
i be made by the com-
pany to the French Government s to be upon the ex-
press condition that the State shall guarantee a four per
cent. interest, besides a sinking fund.
NEW KENTISH RAILWAY.---Another new home line
has been projected under the, title o f the ~Chatham and
Canterbury Local Railway. This line is to commence
at Chatham, and, passing through Brompton, Gilling-
ham, 'Wuhan], ,Newington, Milton, Sittingbourne,
Faversham, and tneintervening villages, will join the
South-Eastern line at Chilham, being a total distance of
24 miles. The capital is fixed at 300,0001., of which
ono-third is to be subscribed by the contractors, and
this latter sum
upon there will be no dividends till the
ordinary Proprietors hsvo mired 5 per cont.