The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-13 00:00:00

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The Court was occupied the whole day with the part-heard
case of " Crosley v. the Derby Gas Company."

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KING S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN
and a Common Jury.)
YOUNG V. FF.WSON.

Mr. PLATT stated the case. It was an action brought by
the supercargo of the brig Lima against Thomas Fewson, the
master, for harsh and improper treatment on the voyage from
London to the Southern coast of America. The vessel was
freighted by Messrs. Clarke and Logan, cf London, and the
plaintiff, as their agent, was entitled to hi; passage out. Ile
paid in addition 501. for his cabin fare, the defendant under-
taking to.suppty the table with every requisite. It would be
shown that the quantity of live stock taken out was wholly in-
sufficient, that the fresh provisions were exhausted before the two
first months had elapsed, and that for the remaining four months
the plaintiff was obliged to subsist on salt beef and pork, with a
very insufficient supply of bad water, by which his healthwas seri-
ously injured, and he is not now quite recovered. It was for
the injury be had sustained by this bad treatment that the pre-
sent action was brought ; and the Jury would, he trusted, give
his client such damages as they considered him entitled to.
The depositions of Cox, the cabin boy, who also acted as
steward, and of Stevenson, the chief mate, were put in and
read. Their evidence generally was to the effect, that the
supply of fresh provisions and water was short ; that the
plaintiff frequently remonstrated with the defendant ; and that
they had frequent quarrels on the subject. The crew were
ordered not to speak to plaintiff, and his health appeared to be
much injured by the treatment he received.
Captain Martin— I am a master mariner, and command the
Bolivar, 20 4 tons burden. I have been engaged in the trade
between this country and the western coast of America, and
harve taken out cabin passengers. I think the quantity stated
to have been taken out by the Lima was not sufficient for
three cabin passengers. The witness here stated the quantity
he would consider necessary, which was considerably more
than that stated to have been taken out in the Lima.

Thomas Mews—l ani captain of the Corsair, burden 184
tons, and have made frequent voyages to the coast of America.
This witness's evidence was to the same effect. A gallon of
water a day was a fair allowance to each passenger. Half a
gallon would be too little.
Captain John White, and Mr. Crawley, a cabin passenger to
America, gave similar evidence.
Mr. Logan deposed that he was abroad. when the vessel
arrived out in America, and was present when there was some
quarrel between plaintiff arid defendant at the Commandant's.
Mr. Young took up a ruler, but witness told him to desist and
mind his business. The defendant put his hand to his breast,
where witness believed he had a pistol, and said if Young had
touched him with the ruler he would have settled him. When
plaintiff arrived he did not appear in ill health ; only a little
burned by the sun. There were letters written by Fewson to
witness, but they did not alter hiss (Mr. Logan's) opinion of
Young's character.
Mr. THESSIGER addressed the Jury for the defendant in a
very able speech, and the Learned Judge having summed up,
the Jury retired, and returned in about ten minutes with a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 10/.

TIIE " OBSERVER " SUNDAY NEWSPAPER.—
An excellent and complete report of the trial of Lord De boos
v. Cumming appeared in yesterday's Ohsercer, to the extent
of upwards of eight of the Observer large folio columns. A
Monday afternoon edition for coumry readers is published
every Monday afternoon at four o'clock. Price of the Observer
five-pence. Office, 170, Strand.
As a poor man, named Owen, in the employ of Mr.
Spencer, of liowshill, was going to his work on Saturday
morning, about half-past four o'clock, a miscreant came behind
bins as he was getting over a style, and knocked him down with
a bludgeon. While on the ground the monster heat him most
ferociously, and then robbed him of his watch and a few shil-
!logs. Owen was taken home, where he died the following
dal/. Oqr officers are in active pursuit of the murderer.—
Worcester Journiii:
The influenza is beeoudng wory general at Brussels.
4erpral of the public offices can hardly .go With fig
liC55 beicki9 Chop, The military' hospital is crowded,

PUBLIC MEETING.

THE REVENUES OF THE WELSH CHURCIL

(From the Chester Chronicle.)
As had been previously announced by advertisement, in
consequence of a petition to the Mayorcnumerously signed
by respectable and influential citizens, a public meeting was
held on Friday last, in the Pentice Court, at the Exchange,
in this city, for the purpose of considering the propriety of
petitioning parliament on the subject o". the Established
Church in Wales, and more particularly with reference to
the effect of the Established Church Act, transferring the
Espicopal revenues in Wales, to purposes unconnected with
the Principality. The meeting was fixed for twelve o'clock,
when G. B. GRANVILLE, Esq., was called to the chair.
Among the company present, we observed Colonel Ince,
Reverends J. Folliott, T. Harrison, W. Harrison and
others. R. G. Temple, Esq. Barrister, in consequence of
severe indisposition, was prevented being present.
The Rev. EVAN EVANS proposed the first resolution—
" That the due maintenance of the parochial clergy is of
the first importance in affording efficient religious instruc-
tion to the inhabitants of the Principality of \Vales, and that
the transfer of any of the disposable revenues of Church
property in Wales from such purposes, is alike destructive
to the efficiency of the Establishment, and in direct violation
of the principles laid down by the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners in their first report." In rising to Move this resolu-
tion, he said—Nothing but a deep conviction that the sub-
ject which we are met to discuss, is ital I y connected with
the Established Church in my native country, and that it
does not belong to any particular party, could have induced
me to come forward on the present nocasion. In 1835,
Commissioners were appointed by his Majesty to inquire
into the state of the Established Church in England and
Wales ; in the report since published, they recommend that
two new sees should be erected, and to prevent any addition
being made to the present number of Bishops, it is also
proposed that two of the old ones should be abolished.
Amongst the la:tcr is one of our northern bishoprics. After
the demise of one of the Bishops of North Wales, the two
sees of St. Asaph and Bangor are. to be united, and the
revenues, which will, in consequence, be rendered available,
ere to be devoted to episcopal purposes in England.
In order to carry these plans into effect, a Bill was
introduced during the course of last session, and hav-
ing passed both Houses of Parliament, and received the
Royal signature, it is now the law of the land. This
Act contemplates the appropriation of a very large portion
of the ecclesiastical revenues of North Wales to objects
unconnected with tho Establishment, as it exists: in that
country. It is, therefore, for the purpose of petitioning
for the repeal of that portion of the Act, that we are this
day assembled. I must confess, with every possible defe-
rence and respect, that after giving the subject my most
attentive consideration, I am inevitably led to the concht-
sion that the measure must have been conceived either in
positive ignorance of the real condition of the Church as,
it exists in the Principality, or without due regard to its
wants and necessities. The Commissioners, in their se-
cond Report, express an earnest wish to abolish pluralities,
and enforce residence ; but they bitterly complain, that,
in some instances, insurmountable difficulties present them.
selves. And what are those difficulties ? Why cannot
they abolish pluralities, and enforce residence Is it be-
cause they are sanctioned by laws, like those of the
Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed ? No,
gentlemen, " but because of the great number of very poor
benefices, and want of glebe-houses ;" and again, we are
told in the Report, " Residence cannot be restricted
as much as the interests of the Church require, without
the augmentation of poor Benefices." Nay, in the pre-
amble of this very Act, we are told that one express pur-
pose for which these Commissioners were appointed, was
" To devise the best means of providing for the cure of
souls, with special reference to the residence of the clergy
on their respective benefices." When we find a Commis-
sion, appointed for such purposes, influenced by such views,
and the prosecution of whose labours is chiefly directed to
such ends—l say, when we find such a Commission propos-
ing to take away from the country a large portion of its
ecclesiastical revenues, we naturally conclude that all the
parishes there, are endowed with a sufficient income to
support a minister, and provided with glebe houses fit for
residence, and consequently that there are no such things
in North Wales as pluralities and non-residence. Alas ! my
country, I wish I could say that such is the case. But are
there no parishes in Wales with incomes too small to sup-
port a minister ? Are there no parishes there without a glebe
house, or a fit place of residence for a clergyman ? Are there
no cases of pluralities there ? and are there no parishes
without a resident Minister? If there are, I go a step-
further, and ground my objection to the projected measure
upon this plain and practical principle, that in any plan for,
the re-distribution of ecclesiastical property, the interests
of the Church in the country which contributes it, ought
first to be consulted ; or, in other words, the wants and ne-
cessities of the Church in that country ought first to be sup-
plied, before a farthing of its property can, with justice, be
applied to purposes unconnected with it. The revenues in
question are the produce of Wales, they accrue in that
country, and I therefore contend that the Church in that
country has a priority of claim, a previous title to the en-
joyment of them. If the establishment in the Principality
is in such a condition as to require that amount of its re-
venues which this Act appropriates to other purposes,
I do maintain that, by all that is right and reasonable, it
.ought to be. devoted to the promotion of its inte-
rests. In order to accomplish the desirable end, of
having every parish provided with a resident minis-
ter; we are informed by time Commissioners that
two things are- wanted, Ist, That every parish should be
endowed with a-Sufficient income to support a minister,
and 2d, furnished with a house for him to reside in—
without this, it will be impossible to carry this admirable
system into effect. I think most of you will agree with
me in considering 2001. a year not too much for a
clergy Man, when we recollect the character he has to
sustain, and the many calls made upon him. Now, ob-
serve—there are in the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph
upwards of one hundred parishes where the income of
the clergyman does not exceed 1201. a year (I should here
observe that I make my calculation according to parishes,
and not benefices, because many of the latter consist of
two or three parishes), and there are one hundred and fifty
parishes without glebe houses of any sort for the minister to
reside in, and nineteen with glebe houses not fit for residence.
this state of things renders the Principality subject to a
system of pluralities of the worst possible species. The
existence of this evil may arise from two causes—from the
abuse of patronage, or from the low rate of income with
which the livings are endowed. Now, my friends, it is not
necessary I should inform you how much more injurious
to the Church the latter description of pluralities is than the
former. They are both bad enough, but one much worse
than the other, for in the first instance, where an individual
is appointed to two rich livings, whilst he takes charge of one,
he appoints a curate to discharge the duties of the other.
But in the latter case, where pluralities occur from the
small income attached so the united livings, two or
more parishes are alloted to one person, who is obliged,
singly and alone, to discharge the duties of the whole. And
what is the result—that nearly all such parishes are
obliged to submit to have only one service every Sunday.
To such an extent is this ruinous system carried on in the
Principality, that in the county of Anglesey alone, there arc
not fewer than twenty-one instances, in which two Churches
are served by one individual, and four cases in which three
Churches are assigned to the care of one person, making
about fifty Churches where divine service is performed only
once on a Sunday—aye! and where some -are obliged to
have the service alternately every other Sunday. In other
counties, too, there are many instances of two Churches be-
ing served by one and the same person, and where the
duty is performed only once on a Sunday. Now, my
friends, if' this state of things would be considered an evil
in England, it is comparatively harmless, when contrasted
with the injurious effects of it when the scene is changed into
the Principality ; for there the physical construction of
the country, and the manner in which the inhabitants are
scattered over its surface, render the duties of a cler-
gyman infinitely more difficult and laborious than in Eng-
land ; and instead of allotting two or more parishes to the
care of one person, two or more persons ought to be ap-
pointed to take charge of oce parish. For Wales in some
places is so formed by nature, as to dispose of its inhabit-
ants into what we may call separate colonies, and I know
some parishes where there arc whole districts so remotely
situated from the Church, as to render it almost impracti-
cable for the inhabitants to attend it ; and in some in-
stances, two parishes containing several such districts are
thrown together, and placed under the care of one pastor.
If it were necessary to specify I could mention my own
native parish, which contains many districts of this descrip-
tion. The people are so distantly situated from the Church,
that they very seldom come to receive public instruction
from the minister, and he is placed at such a distance from
them, that he cannot, very often, travel over pathless hills to
instruct them in private ; and what is the result ? The Dis-
senters, in consequence of time wonderful elasticity of their sys-
tem, so admirably adapted to the peculiar circumstances of
Wales, find access to such places ; and some person or
other opens his house to receive them. There they estab-
lish a Sunday School, and a regular course of public instruc-
tion, and- in consequence of being provided with a number
of local preachers, the people never pass a. vacant Sunday,
from one end of the year to the other. At last they be-
come satisfied with the instruction they receive in this
manner, and they never think of seeking abroad, and at
such a distance, what they can enjoy with satisfaction at
their own doors. They see their children educated, and
they have their owo religious wants supplied,and they for-
get at last that there is such.a thingas a Church, until they
are reminded of it by some particular circumstance,
such as that of a death or a marriage in a family. lin-
fcss something be done, and that speedily, the inhabitanst