The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

A POL ETICAL FRACAS.

The new Member for Sunderland, Mr. Digby Seymour,
having been accused of dishonesty in his political opinions
by his antagonist, Mr. Fenwick, during the late election,
which personal aspersions were indignantly repelled, Mr.
Fenwick resorted to the expedient of writing to members
of the northern bar for their opinion as to Mr. Seymour's
politics, and obtained answers from Mr. Pollock, Mr.
Baxter, Mr. Otter, Mr. Price, and Mr. Campbell Fos-
ter, which letters be published, in some instances at
lean, witnout the consent of the writers. Thereupon Mr.
Seymour was very indignant, and in a speech delivered
by him at Sunderland he accused Mr. Campbell
Foster of having, from personal resentment, been a
party to this imputation on his political integrity, and
entered at some length into the grounds on which he ar-
rived at this conclusion. This speech was reported in the
Sunderland News of July 10; and on the same day the
commission for the York Assizes was opened. Mr. Camp-
bell Foster on Monday following addressed a letter to Mr.
Seymour, demanding to know
whether the report of this
speech was correct, and Mr. Seymour sent a reply, which
has not been published; its purport, however, may be ga-
thered from the subsequent correspondence. 'Mr. Dearsley,
a member of the Northern bar, on Wednesday, the 14th,
wrote to Mr. Seymour, as from Mr. C. Foster, professing
to be their mutual friend, and requesting him " to express
his unqualified regret that in a moment of great difficulty
and excitement he (Mr. Seymour) was betrayed
into expressions and matter of which his better
judgment disapproved.,,
Mr. Seymour replied—comply-
ing with the request of Mr. Dearsley, and expressing
his " regret that under great excitement he felt compelled
to make observations and introduce matters relating to Mr.
Foster, which his cooler judgment and the subsequent pe-
rusal of his letter satisfied him had been better omitted."
3nrrwas satisfied with this apology, and in one of the York Mr.
pa-
C. Foster (omitting, however, Mr. Seymour's reply to his
this
would end " this war of w ds,"butMon day brought Mr.
Seymour and Mr. Foster to an interview with each other,
firstal )ne c i ltoe wft t Dearsley
Saturdayoe url 'd alptp wase r rejoined,
correspondence was published by that on the part of Mr. C. Foster he
imagined that with this publication
ors
t some difference had occurred as to
whether Mr. Seymour's letter was to be deemed an apology.
The parties met in the robing-room at York Castle, and
after some words Mr. Foster. who had a cane in his hand,
struck Mr. Seymour three or four smart blows across the
shoulders. Mr. Seymour resented this violence, and a " set-
to,, commenced, is the course of which both the " Learned
Gentlemen" came to the ground. Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and
other barristers who were present, then interposed, and ulti-
mately the belligerents Were separated. Mr. Knowles, as
one of the Commissioners of Assize, felt it his duty to apprise
the judges— Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Wightman—and
summoned Mr. C. Foster and Mr. Seymour before them
private room. The facts being there stated, the
Learned
Judges required Mr. Foster and Mr. Seymour to
enter into their own recognizances, in 5001. each, tb keep the
peace an
months. and be of good behaviour to each other for the next
six Th L tha. e earned Gentlemen were also admonished
on the great
impropriety of their conduct. Thus the matter
at present stands.—Daqy News.
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'lssilre7fl; return , if6ruom"t3ll.—eiccelse.-
siastical Commissioners to Parliament was printed respect-
Aol7tDaineßd
ing the incomes of archbishops and bishops. There is a
mass of figures given of payments to and by the Commis-
sioners, and of the amount of the income assigned or con.
templated by the bishops. It would seem that the incomes
teridalTVßeZaMAinßHcEtalni
assigned to the bishops are as follows :—The Archbishop of
Canterbury, ; the Archbishop of York, 10,000/
the Bishop of Durham, 8,0001 ; Bishop of Bath and Well's'
'shop of Chester
5,000/. ; the Bi . ster, 4,500/ ; the Bishop of Chi.:
chester, 4,200/. ; the Bishop of Lichfield, 4,500/. ; the Bishop
of Hereford, 4,200/. ; the Bishop of Ely, 5,500/. ; the Bishop
Llandaff, 4,2°°l' i the Bishop of Manchester, 4,200/. ; the
Bishop of oxford, 5,0001. ; the Bishop of Peterborough,
• hop
4,5001. • the Bishop of Ripon,
4,500/. ; the Bishop of Roches-
ter, 5,000/. • the Bishop of Salisbury, 5,000/. ; the Bishop of
St. Asaph, 4,2001- ; the Bishop of St. David's, 4,500/. ; and
to the Bishop of Worcester, 5,000/. Other particulars are
given in the returns respecting the several sees.
DEATH OF MIZ. VINCENT.—The medical profes.
sion and the public generally will regret to hear that this
truly estimable gentleman expired suddenly on Saturday
evening, at his country residence, Woodlands Manor, near
Northam, Kent, in the 75th year of his age. Mr. John
Painter Vincent had been for many years one of the sur-
geons of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, from which institu-
tion he retired a few years ago as senior surgeon. The.
lamented deceased commenced the study of the profession at
on the 20th of March, 1800,
a very early age, and ..., was ad.
mitted a member of the _loyal College of Surgeons, of
which excellent establishment he was twice elected a presi.
dent—viz., in 1832 and again in 1840 having previously
served all the collegiate offices. The deceased having been
engaged in extensive practice had been unable to contribute
much to the advancement of medical or chirurgical science;
but after his retirement from its active duties he published,
in 1847, for the benefit of the profession, the results of his
observations on some of the parts of surgical practice, with
an inquiry into the claims that surgery might be supposed
to have for being classed as a science. This work was hailed
with great satisfaction by his numerous friends and ad-
mirers. The deceased has left a widow, three sons, and a
large body of friends to deplore the loss of one of the most
kind-hearted men in the profession. The Rev. Richard
Painter Vincent, youngest son of the deceased, is the per-
petual curate of Woodlands—a church built and to a great
extent endowed through the instrumentality of the famill
He leaves another son also in the Church, the Rev. Osman:.
Vincent,... and John Vincent, a barrister-at-law.
-I' EistiEsuELAN DEBT.--A. meeting of the Vene-
suelan bondholders was held yesterday at the London Ta•
vern, When a series of resolutions were adopted to the effect
that her Majesty's Government should be requested to pre-
sent a strong remonstrance to the Government of Venezuela,
upon the subject of the non-payment of the interest due
upon the debt of that country, and to endeavour to obtain
for the bondholders a better arrangement for securing the
future
payments.
SUSPENDED STALLS IN CATHEDRAL AND COLLE-
!MATE CliMeirEs.—Yesterday a return, obtained by Sir
Ben-
3.a_ini,n Hall, was rinted, from which it appears that from
/64( the Ecclesiastical C ommissioners having re, •
account received on
of sus ended stalls in cathedral and coils
churches, giate
sums ended
to 244,1414 17s. ld.