The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1839

We are reminded by the appearance of a further
Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into
Charities, of the existence of that body. It has
now been a number of years at work, and the
volume before us is the Thirty-second Report,
Part IV. The Commissioners have been, we
presume, diligent, for the results of their
labours fill a great many ponderous books.
The present volume contains upwards of 700
pages, and treats of a great many Charities in
the county of Lincoln, to which it is confined. In
almost every parish apparently there is a Charity,
and in some parishes several; for the behoof of the
poor, or for the promotion of education ; so that
our pious ancestors, had their treasures been pro-
perly husbanded, seem to have taken ample care
to provide both for the relief of poverty and the
instruction of the people in all time to come. But
their bequests have not been taken care of ; trus-
tees have been false to their trusts, and individuals
have appropriated to their own use the pious gifts
which God-fearing men gave for the benefit of
the poor. Some of those perversions the present
Commissioners have brought to light ; others are
known, but no trace can be found of the property, or
who are the delinquents. To go carefully through
such a ponderous volume requires more time than
the daily demands of the press will allow us to
bestow on it, but in turning it over, we have found
one or two cases which are worthy of being noticed,
and probably may be taken as specimens of the
general manner in which the sums and the land
bequeathed to feed or to instruct the poor have been
stolen—filched away from them, to swell the
opulence of the wealthy.
We find, for example, at page 377, an account of
Bell's Charity. Bell, no longer ago than July Ist,
1706, gave 1001. of lawful money of England, for
the purchase of land in or near the parish of Bran-
stone, for the use and behoof of the poor of that
parish. There the record stands at full length and
very clearly. written, but what has become of
the 100/. nobody knows. It has long since
been lost sight of. An unsuccessful inquiry
regarding it took place about twenty years ago,
and it is the opinion of the Commissioners
that the amount can now never be traced nor
recovered. That is a specimen of a charitable
donation, wholly made away with or unaccounted
for by those to whom it was entrusted.
Nearer the commencement of the book we find
an account of the Kirton Free School, established
by Sir THOMAS MEDDLICOTT in 1624, and
endowed by him, though to what extent is not known,
because the Church chest and its contents were pur-
loined. It is supposed, however, that a conveyance
was made by Mr. RILEY, the nephew of Sir T.
MEDDLICOTT, as the charity is endowed with
certain lands. That it now possesses all that it was
endowed with is not certain, and possibly those
who purloined the chest, did it to purloin the land
with greater security. From the chest being pur-
loined, how the charity was administered for many
years is unknown ; but about 1773, say the Com-
missioners, one SAMUEL WILDBORE, an attorney,
pretending that all the intermediate heirs of the
founder were extinct, laid claim to the inheritance,
as it should seem, on the part of his wife, and as no
one appeared to dispute the title, the WILDBORE
family assumed it without opposition.
The Commissioners go on to throw doubts on
the pedigree on which Mr. Attorney WILDBORE,
founded his claims ; but we pass such a trifling cir-
cumstance by, forgery being the necessary practice
amongst those who have been accustomed, like the
monks of ancient times, to fabricate titles to other
men's goods ; we pass it by too, because the case
has with great propriety been referred to the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who has filed an informa-
tion which is now pending. Mr. Attorney WILD-
BORE and his descendants seem to have known
how to work the Charity. Soon after getting pos.
session of it, as heir to the founder, Mr. WILD-
BORE'S son, the Rev. CHARLES WILDBORE, ob-
tained a license, as master of the Kirton School, from
the Bishop of LINCOLN. Shortly after his death,
in 1802, another Rev. CHARLES WILDBORE,
the son of the old Reverend CHARLES WILD-
BORE, obtained a similar license, on his own no-
mination, as Master. But neither of these Rever-
end Gentlemen " ever officiated at the school or
interested themselves in its conduct or management,
but appointed a Deputy Master, to whom they paid
what in their discretion they thought proper, ap-
plying the whole of the surplus to their own use."
Before 1790, the WILDBORES gave the Master
101. a year ; subsequently to 1790 they gave him
20/. The WILDBORES fell into poverty, the poe-
tical judgment on such conduct as theirs, but not
always the judgment which actually overtakes it :
they parted with their interest in the property,
which is now in other hands. Before that, how-
ever, the last of the Rev. CHARLES WILDBORES,
the sinecure Master, appointed his son to be the
working Master of the school, though he was not
qualified by the will of the founder. The property
is now in the hands of the purchaser, who gave for
it 4,4001. The extent to which this Charity has been
annually misappropriated by the Reverend Messrs.
WILDBORE may be guessed at from the purchase
money. The annual rent of the property belonging
to the Charity is set down at 1101. 6s. 4d., so that
the Rev. Messrs. WILI)BoRE must have taken
from the funds, which the piety of the good Sir
THOMAS MEDDLICOTT devoted to the education
of the youth of Kirton, from 901. to 1001. a-year.
They gave a tithe of the endowment to the• pur-
poses for which it was granted, and took the other
nine parts to themselves. So much for the Kirton
Free School and the Rev. Messrs. WILDBORE.
We now turn to page 394, and there we find an
account of the " Mere Hospital" founded in 1244 by
SIMON DE ROPPELL, " for the support in all time
to come of thirteen poor persons, as well at bed
and board as in clothing and other things necessary
for the sufficient sustenance and apparelling of
them, of the Chaplain therein officiating, and of his
family." To the Bishop of LINCOLN was given the
patronage of the Hospital, who was to appoint a
tit person to be Chapel Warden of the Hospital.
Moreover, the donor made the Chapel Warden ac-
countable to the Bishop.
It is needless for us to trace here the history of
this Hospital, and the care with which the Bishop
of LINCOLN has exercised the patronage ; the reader
will perhaps suppose that it is not very creditable to
the Dean and Chapter of LINCOLN, as they refused
the Commissioners all access to the documents in
their possession. It is, however, a fact that the
poor now maintained by this Hospital are only six,
instead of thirteen, who, instead of being clothed
and fed, and found in all comforts, according to
the will of the donor, receive just 41. a-Vear each,
and that the salary of the Chapel Warden is only
8/. a-year. With such a salary the reader will be
surprised to learn, that amongst the Wardens have
been the Rev. Dr. BOOTH, Dean of Windsor,
the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S in 1778, the Bishop of
ELY 111 1785, the Rev. FROGMERE CUMMING,
and that the present Warden is the Rev. RICHARD
PRETYMAN, who received the appointment from
his father, the late Bishop PRET MAIIT TO MUNE,
then Bishop of Lincoln. Such Dignitaries would
surely not trouble themselves about 8/. a year
salary 1 We do not know that, for no fish are too

The latest intelligence from Persia, received in Constan
tinople, was of the 28th of July. It stated that Herat had
been garrisoned with English troops—a circumstance
which had caused great anxiety to Colonel Duharnel, the
Russian Ambassador, who, since the recent successes of
the British army, was beginning to be treated with indif-
ference at the Coutt of Ispahan. The monetary system
had undergone an alteration of 10 per. cent., yet the mea-
sure was announced as an improvement.
BO URSE.PARIN, THURSDAY, SEPT. 5.

r irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Price
French 5 per Cents ll2 ... 112 55 ... 11•.! 415 ... 1.2 50
3 per tents 8()50 ... 80 65 ... 80 ,5 FO 65
Bank of France... ......... 27;5 ...2775 —.27;5 _2775
Laffitte Bank 1.1)00f. 1060 ...iO6O
—.1160
5,000 f. 5h 52.20 ...5-220 ...5220
...5220
Belgian 3 per Cents IOIIE ... 11211 1“:15i 11 shi
Bank 7r.o 7to ... 775 ...775
45 25 ... 46 25 ... 45 ... 45
Spanish Ac,ive
Passive 6 6 ... 6ti 6
New u.ferrel
Portuguese 3 per Cents
'lea, ()nun
Roman lll3 10:3 163
RAILWAY Sti A iiES.
Versailles, N. B. 566 ... stis ... 580
L.B. 317 51) 320 ... 317 30 al)

Bishop, and has
Hospital.
small for the net of these gentry, but the Chapel
Warden is accountable only to the Bis
the letting of the lands belonging to the
Now comes the fact that is the key to all. The
present Chapel Warden received
as fines between
1819 and 1834, 13,4281., for the lease of lands
belonging to the Hospital. We are happy to learn
that this Charity, too, has been placed in the hands
of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL ; and if ever the
Court of Chancery should be able to bring the in-
vestigation to a conclusion, we should like to see
the fates of the PRETYMANS and other Reve-
rends, when they are ordered to refund the money
of which they have despoiled the thirteen poor
persons for whose use Stmort pE ROPPELL be-
queathed this property.
No doubt there is much other property under the I
same circumstances ; and we must ask whether all

Leon, with his troops, were encamped, and attacked them I the incomes of Rev. Chapel Wardens, derived from
fines, &c., are included in the returns of the in-
ofwith such fury that a frightful carnage ensued. The loss
comes of the clergy ? We appreh, ild not, and that,
the Christinos is estimated at 2,300 men.
like the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, when they
On the other hand, the Carlist troops at Andoain
refused the Commissioners access to their books,
revolted against their officers, cut off the heads of
them, and amused themselves by kicking
the Chapel Ward keep •
Wardens in darkness and secresy
the streets. One of the officers thus savagely
them about
butchered was reported to be GIUBELALDE, the the amount of the sums which they annually take
• from the poor and from .
the purposes of education.
newly appointed Carlist Captain-General of Gm-
puzcoa. SIMON LA TORRE and General URBIS• We rn
yesterday made a few observations on the co-
TONDO owed their lives to the fleetness of their
parative morality of idolaters and members of the
horses, having been fired upon by the insurgents. Church of England ; and we may now venture to
It is not supposed, however, that these out-
express a doubt whether the records of idolatry
rages will have any other effect than the speedy
present a more loathsome picture than that of pre-
dissolution of the remnant of the Carlist forces now tended men of God, your Rev. WILDBORES and
in arms against the QUEEN'S Government. Rev. PRETYMANS, plundering the poor and the
needy, whom they are appointed to protect and
instruct. Reverend Gentlemen appropriating a re-
venue which was bequeathed to feed and clothe
thirteen poor men to their own personal use, is as
base an example of low theft as is to be found in the
annals of Newgate.

It will be seen by our Manchester report that
Mr. GREG has been a second time elected, and
by a considerably larger majority than on the first
occasion. It is given out by the supporters of the
Tory candidate, that his defeat was owing to the
unwillingness of the voters in his interest to ac-
knowledge the validity of the Mayor's authority,
under which the second election was held.
On this account, it is stated, they kept away
from the poll yesterday, and thus gave a triumph
to the Liberals. To show the grossness, as well
as the clumsiness, of this fabrication, it is only ne-
cessary to refer to the state of the poll on each of
the two days, from which it appears that on
Thursday Sir GEORGE MURRAY polled 2,969
votes, while on Friday he polled 3,174. This in-
crease of upwards of 200 votes is rather an odd
proof of reluctance on the part of his friends to
come forward. The truth is, the Tories strained
every nerve to gain the victory ; but although as-
sisted by Colonel THOMPSON'S Chartists—to their
shame be it spoken—they have been soundly
thrashed, and they are achamed to confess it.

We have received Madrid Papers of the 29th
ult., but their contents are unimportant. The
greatest joy was manifested in the capital at the
prospect of an immediate termination of the civil
war. It is gratifying to learn from them that the
inhabitants expressed their willingness to fulfil the
conditions of any treaty guaranteed by England ;
and that they attributed the cessation of hostilities
to the friendly mediation of the British Govern-
ment.

There is no domestic news of any interest in the
Paris Journals of Thursday, the whole of which we
have received. Three clerks employed in the Fo-
reign-office, have been seized on a charge of ab-
stracting a number of confidential State Papers.
The news from Spain we have given in a separate
article. The following is a summary of the latest
intelligence from the East :
" Admiral Lalande had a long interview with Sir
Robert Stopford, at which he endeavoured to persuade him
to enter the Dardanelles, and proceed to Constantinople.
The British Admiral refused, because he had not received
instructions to that effect ; but, subsequently to that inter-
view, he left in the Rhadamanthus steamer for Constanti-
nople, to consult with Lord Ponsonby.
" The losses occasioned by the late disastrous fire are esti-
mated at 120,000,000 f. (4,800,000/. ), and the number of
houses consumed at 5,000. The Turkish Government
had placed tents at the disposal of the sufferers, and
caused 50 piastres to be distributed to each fan.ily. The
clergy of every religious denomination vied with each
other in acts of devotedness and charity. The Catholic
Bishop Hillerena particularly distinguished himself, visit•
big during several days the sheds under wl.ich the poor
people had sought shelter, and ministering to their wants.
His resources having at last failed, he sold the church-plate
and distributed the proceeds among the neediest victims of
the conflagration.".

MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

- - - -
LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—The business
of the week has been moderate, accompanied with great
dullness in the market, and unsteady prices. For Ameri-
can descriptions, (the holders of which have been rather
more disposed to sell), they arc easier in price, but not so
decidedly so in the better as in the middle and lower qua-
lities, which have been selling at a decline of full id. per
lb. Exporters have taken 3,500 bales of American and
100 Surat, and speculators 500 hales of American. There
is a better demand to-day, and a more steady market ;
sales about 4,000 bales of all kinds. Sea Islands at
auction to-day went off very irregularly, and the prices
obtained form no correct criterion of the market, as there
are 110 sellers by private contract at any change upon the
previous quotations.

WEST INDIEs.—A Jamaica mail has arrived by the
Linnett, sailed from St. Thomas's 1 t August, and Cape
Henri 6th August.

IMPORTANT Fl? 011 THE EAST.

Ex-tracts from the above Papers
:
" We understand," says the Standard, t. that the highest
civil authority in a neighbouring parish has been under the
necessity of furnishing athdavits to his Excellency the
Governor, with reference to certain threa.s which have
now become general among the labouring population of
that district, that they will resist with force ail attempts,
atter the Ist August, to disp•sess them of their houses and
grounds; iu other words, that they are prepared to fight
the proprietors for their lands. This is certainly a most
comfortable state of things i"
A sulhequent Paper says :—" In reference to the
intelligence communicated in our last with respect to the
negro labourers of a neighbouring parish, we have since
been informed, in confirmation of what we then stated, that
they have very generally declared it is their full determina-
tion not to pay a fraction of rent for their houses and
grounds, and in the event of any attempt being male to
eject them, to oppose the same with force. Authentic in-
formation haS also been obtained, we understand, that up-
wards cif 50 labourers on one estate have been lately much
occupied in the peculiar pastime of target shooting. This,
Sir Lionel Smith may think, and his Secretary, perhaps,
may say, is an innocent amusement enough. Su be it."
The Windward Island Papers to the 10. h July have been
received. Tney do not contain any news of importance.
The Barbadian of the 10th says, " Yesterday 114ving
been the day fur the meeting of the House of Assembly,
we regret to state that there were only eleven Members
ieresent, consequently no House could be formed."
The Barbadoes Paper of the 10th July seems to dread
the introduction of the small-pox into the island, in conse-
quet.ce of a man of the Glengaly having been suffered to
go ashore.
tiRENALIA.—Mr. M'Combie. Editor of the Free Press,
has been released from prison by his Excellency, oho has
directed that he shall not be called upon to pay the fine of
1001., which had been imposed upon him by the Chief
JuAtce Sanderson.

The Crops and Immigration.—" The crop for the pre-
sent season is," says the Free Press, " nearly, if not
entirely, over in the colony, and although the long and
interrupted period of dry weather which prevailed, may
have been favourable for cutting it, the want of rain for
the land for weeks has proved extrepaely injurious to the
plants. For many years we have advocated the necessity
of European immigration to the colonies. The system
has been tried in Jamaica and has generally succeeded ;
where it has failed it has been through mismanagement."

(From the Jamaica Dispatch )
" Our private accounts from Manchester and Clarendon
are by no means satisfactory. A correspondent in the
former parish writes—' The negroes struck on the 25th
ult., declaring they intend to take several weeks' holiday.
Our situation is dreadful, heart-breaking, nothing but ruin
staring us in the face, the half crop allowed to rot in the
ground ; nothing done for next year.' A correspondent
from Clareedon says—. From what I have experienced
:or the last four or five weeks, the cattle are allowed to
rarge at large; on riding round the estate we dispersed
100 or 200 bead of cattle browsing on fine young sprouts,
to the total destruction of next year's crop. Such, I have
heard, is the case in our neighbouring parish, Vere. I an-
ticipate that this August will witness more depredations
than last in the destruction of property from neglect.' "
" Another correspondent remarks that ' theyountry is in
a dreadful state. It is no wonder, having been left twelve
months without laws to regulate our relative position.' "
The Jamaica Despatch of the 30th July states that a
very severe shock of an earthquake was experienced in
the city and its vicinity, about live o'clock yesterday morn.
ing. The atmosphere had been for a few days previous
extremely close and sultry. We have not yet heard
whether any serious damage to the buildings has been done
by the awful trembling of the earth; and we trust a sea-
sonable fall of rain will cool the air.

REPLY CF THE YIEEROI OF EGYPT TO KHOSREW PACHA,

The news received from Jamaica by the mail are not of
a favourable nature, although the holiday of the slaves has
passsed off without any disturbance. Great idleness still
prevails among the labourers.