The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-02 00:00:00

RECORDER'S REPORT.

Yesterday the Recorder mane the report to his Majesty of the
prisoners capitally convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions, TIE.:
HousunnismuNn....larnes sturman, as; William Waters, u 4;
Henry Barnes, ; James Roberts, alias Skelton, 24 ; Thomas
Higgins, 14; and James Richardson, 14.
Binuas.Bv—john Grant, 29.
FORGERVILITIOS Moods, ; and Elizabeth Graham, 24.
STELLING IN DwELLINu-nousu—Stephen Bird, ; Samuel
Bohlen, 18 ; Caroline Fitztenurice, 23 ; Rachael Oddy, 24;
William Horton, 15 ; Charles Jones, 29 ; Elizabeth Harm, 25 ;
Mary Mitchell, ttS ; and Ann Davies,2o.
All of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite.
APOTHECARIES' COMPANY.

FACTS.
By the Act With Geo. 111., 1815, the Master, Wardens, and
Court of Assistants of the Apothecaries' Company, were em-
powered to elect 'annually a Court of Examiners oftwist per-
sons to inquire Into the qualiticatioiss of medical men, previous
to their being permitted to enter practice in England and Wales.
This Act confines the election to members of the Company of
ten years' standing,—a very small body,—to the exclusion of the
profession at large : a (close borough).
Is the first Instance the Court of Assistants elected themselves,
or at least a considerable portion of the Court.
After some years, from the dissatisfaction arising, the opi-
.nions of Counsel were taken, and the Common Serjeant (Mr.
Denman) gave an opinion that the electors could not be the
elected.

An Act of Parliament was then applied for (6th George IV.,
MN), enabling the Court to elect four of their own members, and
for some minor regulations. In the last stage Lord Melville
moved that the Act should continue in force only one year.
This Act has not been renewed.

The Court of Assistants, therefore, not being able to return
themselves, returned their sons, to the exclusion of able men in
the Company, and senior in ye..ro.
At the last election they ballotetl out the three senior mem.
ben, under a pretence of assimilating the Court to the Emit India
Court of Directors, and nominated two boys, sons of members of
the Court of Assistants, and a third iserson, to the further exclu.
sion of men of loa►g.standing in the Company, and of unqiits.
tionable abill, y.
Of the twelve, four are sow; of the present Court of Assis-
tants, and two of deceased Me.aisfas of the same Court • snaking
an equality of the whole body of Examiners. Can this be right V
Men, to be Examiners, should be of a certain rank and stand.
ing in the pro melon, of weight in society, of acknowledged
talents and independence, if a trust of such consequence as the
examination into the qualification of future candidates for the
profession be intrusttxl to them.
Though it was managed that theelection should be annual, the
Meml►ers were always re-elected, till it was found that the
electors could not be the elected, and the novel innovation has
only been introduced for the purpose of serving their own con-
nexions, to the injury of the profession at large.

DR. PHILLPOTTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sta,—With mingled surprise and astonishmentitave perused
Dr. Philipotts's attempt at showing that the Bishopric of Exeter
ought to be held with the rectory of Stanhope. His three coun-
ter-statements prove, as strong As statements can, Sir J. Ora.
ham's motion to be !bonded on just grounds. I will take his ex
perle statements, and prove, on his OWII showing, the case
against him. Ills first statement is, that Stanhoix! instead of
lit,ooo inhabitants, contains only .2,311. So that 2,;341 souls,
committed to his charge in the extreme north of England, are
not to be considered, when from pastoral attendance over, them
alone ran he claim the 4,0001. per annum he derives from the
' execution ot this duty. What a notion of spiritual responsibi-
lity does his own plea in extenuation show Dr. l'hillpotts to pew_
secs. 1 say that where there are '2,311 souls, to say nothing of
the dependent parishes, a spiritual incumbent ought to bet: In
no such ratio ought non-residenee to be allowed. This extenua-
tion then goes for nothing, supposing it true; and the next Ale-
Ration is totally untrue, and 1 cannot conceive that Dr.
potty was ignorant of the circumstances, viz.—']'hat the rector
delegates these awnil duties to two curates, who cannot, being
licensed, be removed. Now, lain an instance in person, of a
curate, tier a six years' residence!, being removes' ; and that,
without any other reason that ever reached tae, save that my
vicar was evangelically disposed, as it is called. ,he late curate
ofa parish near town (Hampstead), the Bev. Mr. SeSSittlete, was
removed, and the then Bishop of London, the present Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, told me, when talking over the case, that
he had no power to compel M
the incumbent to retain r. S..
against whom he knew nothing to the disadvantage of his chit.
meter. Dr. Phillpotts, therefore, is clearly wrong to asserting
that these curates =not be displaced ; they can when he pleases,
and at hit demise • so that the argument of a stationary spiritual
resident, which hei attempts to establish, is a fiction. No cit-
rate (I speak it from palultil experience), however beloved by
his people, can consider the tenure of his small stipend far hard
labour secure.

I'he~ third allegation, though it it not attempted to be denitxl
that 4,0001, comes directly or indirectly from the living, Is, that
the parishioners only pay about 8001. per annum, Even suppos-
ing this true, do they not pay for what they have not, a rector
in re, not in shallow Y In support of the convenient 4,0001. per
amino, to tho Bishop of Exeter, we have next' instances quoted
of Bishops holding livings, and this living with their Stars, and
men oistlnguished for leaning, piety and virtue. We will
allow the point that this was an, but still are not convinced that
non.residence was not in them love of lucre unworthy
of a child of light, a spot even on the spiritual lustre of Bishop
Butler, or, to come to modern days, on even a Blomtield.
rhilipott. is unlucky in many points, for not One of them can
stand before a man's reasoning.--With sincere respect I have
the honour to subscribe myself your's, CUR ICUS.