The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-22 00:00:00

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE
SHERIFF OF BUCKS.
Lord Campbell has addressed the following letter to
Mr. Scott Murray:—
"Cambridge, Saturday, March 13.
"My dear High Sheriff,—On my arrival here on Wed-
nesday to hold the assizes I was told that there was a
letter addressed by you to me printed in the London
newspapers, and subsequently I received a manu-
script copy of this letter. I have since been in-
cessantly engaged in the discharge of my judicial
duties, rendered more onerous by the absence of
my colleague Mr. Justice Crompton. Having at
last attentively perused your letter, I confess that I feel
great reluctance, under all the circumstances, to take
any further notice of it than to acknowledge that I have
had the honour of receiving it. But you expressly ask
an answer,' on the ground that ' your office is judicial as
well as ministerial' I should be sorry to be thought
wanting in courtesy to a brother judge, and I would
anxiously avoid the risk of appearine to be wanting in
respect for that large and valuable class of my fellow-
subjects of whom you assume to be the organ. I will,
therefore (although it must be very briefly), reply to the
complaints which you prefer against me.
" You represent that I had no reason to be surprised
by a Roman Catholic priest being introduced into the
carriage along with me as chaplain. If you will refer
to the correspondence whieh had previously taken
place between us, you will find that, from your
I statement to me, had good reason to believe that
no one in the character of sheriff's chaplain would
appear at the assizes.
" You then (I think very unnecessarily) protest
against the supposed dictum that the chaplain ap-
pointed by the sheriff oecomee the chaplain of the
judges.' What I said upon this subject evidently
meant that pro hac vice, he officiates as chaplain to
the judges; and there can be no doubt that he
does so, as he invariably preaches before them, and says
grace when they entertain the magistrates at dinner,
although the sheriff is not present as a guest. I very
readily allow that, notwithstanding the immemorial
courtesy upon this subject, there is no legal obligation
on the sheriff to appoint a chaplain to officiate on such
occasion; and, when you wrote to me to intimate that
there would be no sermon preached before the judges at
the Buckinghamshire assizes, I only in a friendly manner
advised you to make provision that the decent solemnity,
usual and expected, before the judges proceed to ad-
minister justice, might be observed.
" I should have hoped that my meaning was as little
liable to be misunderstood, when I said, that the Pro-
testant religion is the religion of the judges of this coun-
try,' viz.—that all the judges of England who go as
judges of assize are Protestants—a fact uncontested and
notorious—and I cannot imagine that any sheriff, eith
the knowledge of this fact, would do anything to offend
their Protestant feelings, from the consideration that, in
point of law, persons of a different religious persuasion
may be appointed judges.
I now come to the great grievance—the alleged en-
croachment on the privileges of Sheriffs, by Protestant
Judges not permitting Roman Catholic priests to sit
in the carriage with them during the public pro-
cession which takes place on entering the
assize town to open the commission, and to attend
Divine service at the church or cathedral, while trum-
pets are blowing and javelinmen are marching by their
side. Ever since the Reformation it has been the custom
that a Protestant clergyman, appointed by the sheriff,
has accompanied the judges on those occasions, and has
set in court by the judge who presides in trying crimi-
nals. Surely, however, this has been at the pleasure of
the judges, and out of compliment to them, not ass privi-
lege of the sheriff. The sheriff's chaplain, qua the
sheriff's chaplain, can have no more right to sit in the
carriage with the judges, or to have any intercourse with
the judges than any other member of the sheriff's esta-
blishment. The sheriff may abstain from appointing
any one to officiate as chaplain for the judges, but he
cannot be entitled to intrude upon them his own chap-
lain, of a different religion from theirs. A gentleman
of the Jewish religion may be, and iu several instances
has been sheriff of an English county. He may appoint
a rabbi to minister to him in religious matters during
his shrievalty, but I conceive he has no privilege to in-
sist upon this rabbi, attired in the costume of the Jewish
priesthood, being seated in the same carriage with the
judges on the public occasions to which I have referred.
" I do not doubt that you state the precedents you rely
upon exactly as they have been stated to you. If this
statement were correct, I repeat that I should refuse to
be bound by them, believing that they passed per in-
cur*" or upon an erroneous view of what is becom-
ing. From a letter of the Rev. Mr. Coidwell, the
very worthy rector of Stafford, I find that you have been
misinformed as to, what has occurred in his county;
for Mr. Fitzherbert, the first Roman Catholic sheriff of
Staffordshire, appointed a Protestant clergyman to offi-
ciate as chaplain at the assizes. the sheriff not being
accompanied by any Roman Catholic priest whatever;
and, although Mr. Whitgrave, the second, had a Roman
Catholic priest as his 6 personal chaplain' (which he had
an unquestionable right to do), he employed a Protestant
clergyman to preach the assize sermon, to attend with
him to meet the judges, and do all that pertained to the
office of chaplain during the year.'
"My brother judge, Mr. Justice Crompton, fully ap-
proved of the course adopted by me at Aylesbury, as
was stated to you in his hearing; for, although,
like myself, a warm friend to religious liberty,
he, with me, regrets to see attempts by persons
professing the Roman Catholic religion to do
things which are not at all necessary to the lull enjoy-
ment of religious liberty, and which not unreasonably
alarm and offend good Protestants. Highly rejoicing
in the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, I sincerely wish it
to be carried into efftect in the spirit in which it was
framed ; but I am sure that in the year 1829 nei-
ther Roman Catholics nor Protestants caleula ed
as a consequence of it that it conferred upon
any sheriff the privilege which you now claim. I
lament such claims, from my sincere good will tor those
who indiscreetly make them, being convinced that they
not only stir up religious strife, but prevent or retard
measures which might be c.f great benefit to the Roman
Ca'holics in the Uuiteo litegdoin.
" I have the honour to remain, my dear High Sheriff,
" Yours very faithfully,
" CAMPBELL,
64 The High Sheriff of the County of Bucks."
THE LONDO

'N GAZETTE, March 19.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghull-street.
J. 0. Culjer, Edmonton, gas fitter, contractor, and
engineer, April 20, at eleven.
In the Country.
E. Andrews, Iwerne Courtney, Dorsetsbire, farmer
and brewer, April 20, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter-
-I'. Mit ward, Uticul me, Devon, miller, April 20, at elevt-n,
at the Court, Exeter—J. Broadbent, New Birn, Delf,
Yorkshire, woolleo manufacturer and merchant; April
19, at one, at the Court, Leeds.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.'
H. E. Thompson, Long-acre, india rubber bath manu-
facturer, 3d., on Saturday next, and the three subsequent
Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Groom, A bchurch-lane.

J. T. Brameld, Tichborne-street, and Great Windmill-
street, glass dealer, 23. 3d., on Saturday next, and the
three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven acid two, at
the office of Mr. Groom, Abehurch-lane.
F. Davis, Luton, merchant, Id., on Saturday next, and
the three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane.
J. M. Burnie, Exeter, draper and tea dealer, 25., on
any Tuesday after March 23. between eleven and three,
at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.
C. Besley, Milbay•grove. Plymouth, clerk, Is. 3d., on
any Tuesday after March 23, between eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. '
H. W. Hayes, Teignmouth, Devonshire, 2s. 3d.. on
any Tuesday, after March 23, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.
H. Coates, Birmingham, draper, Bs. 9d., on Thursday,
March 25, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven
and tbroe, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham.
W. M. Higgins, Birmingham, lawman, la. id., on
Thursday, March 25, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Bir-
mingham.

E. Round and W. Round, Tipton, Staffordshire,:tim-
ber merchants, Is. lid., on any Thursday, before June
31, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whit-
more, Birmingham.
J. Mason, Fenton, Staffordshire, ohina and eartlm-
ware manufaturer, Is. 2id., any Thursday, between eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Chri.tie, Birmingham.
R. Taylor, Liverpool, ironmonger, as , on Monday,
March 15, or any subsequent Monday, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Bird. Liverpool.

-- NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
R. HAvkins, Farnham, Surrey, grocer, April 22, at
one—C. J. Sanders, Collingwood-street, Black,riars-
road, provision-merchant, April 15, at one—R. Trower,
College-street, Chelsea, builder, April 15, at twelve—J..3
W. Lawson and T. E. William, Crescent-place,
New
tailor,
Bridge.street, Blacktriars, wine and spirit merchants,
April 15, at twelve—F. Winch, Margate, Kent,
April 10, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
Bristol—E. Lowe, Bristol, toy-dealer, ,p_
west Barkwith,
at the Court, Bristol—T. Cottingh, ail,
l at twelve, at the
fiiie.Teal Devonshire,
booruLtfhliec
Lincolnshire. corn-merchant, 'kr
certificate of
ii:l.Snin:orgt dealere e,
Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hua
RANTED.
CERTIFICATES
Woollen woollen warehouseman,
I. Gardiner, Bristol, saddlar, April
A22r,ita2t
2, at
eleven
tYr: Of the second class—.
-fisel ne oerti '
DISSOLVED.
B. lass—
D Boobbyer, Tavistock,
galvanic machines, cert..
class—J. Bill, Wolverhampton,
W, Nash, Nobthliet•rautriredeelrs,
hinge-man
Maroon, Newcastle-ender-Lane, y ,draper, . home t.,f
the first class.
pARTNERSHI
icreas. —u
pJo.n .
TBye enkei,n gmt oinl i e
ra:danijcl.
B. Dickison and W. T. Scott, Pbilpot-lane, City, wine
and commission merchants—T. Bouser, sen.. T. Bonser,
certificate fir:
jun., and W. J. Bonser, Newgate-market, City, meat
ecpwereri
anti:
4:
salesmen (so far as regards T. Bonier, jun.)—G. Pit-
took and W. E. Pittock, Deal, tailors and drapers—B.
Crane-
court, Fleet attruereetr,N'
Palmer, J. Clayton, men., and J. Clayton, jun.,
Beekington, jun.,
flour dealers—T. Mills and J. Billion, Leicester, manu-
facturer of gloves and fancy hosiery—S. Standing. W.
Standing, S. J. Phillip., B. P. Nunes, and El zabeth
Franklin, Brunton's Wharf. Commercial-road East,
potters—J. Cotterill and D. Large, Birmingham, boat
builders—J. Brown and H. Singleton, Preston. livery
atlble keel ers—l. Fairhurst and H. Cunliffe, Mancheb-
ter, packers—T. W. Ridadale and J. Holroyd, Iron-
monger-lane, City, twine manufacturers—W. Wright
and D. Jackson, Brighton, riding masters—G. Turner
and W. Reynolds, Birmingham, coal dealers—G. Whit-
ney and G. S. Whitney, Shrewsbury, chemists—J• v
Lacy and D. W. Witton, Cited Bt. Helen a, DiahoPs.