The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853.

The figures within parenthesis denote the number o
day's racing.
AUGUST.

Liverpool Hunt Cup (2)..24 Lichfield (2) 29
Derby (2) 25 Chelmsford (2) 30
Hereford (2) 25 Plymouth 30
Eccles (3) 29
SEPTEMBER.

Lincoln (2) 1
Bridgnorth
Marlborough
Cheadle (Staff.) (2)
Warwick (2) 6
Totnes & Bridgetown (2) 7
Weymouth
Morpeth (2)
Western Meeting
Rochester &Chatham (2) 8
Western Zoyland and
Bridgwater (1) l2

Folkestone, Hythe, and
Sandgate l3
Doncaster (4) 13
Dover 15
Pontefract (2)
Bedford (2)
Leicester (2) 21
Lanark (2) 22
Manchester Autumn (2) 22
Canterbury (2) 22
Newmarket F. 0. (3) 27
Walsall (2) 28
Northallerton (2) .29
BER.
Warwick Autumn (2) ...18
Caledonian Hunt and
..18

OCTi
Chester Autumn (2) 4
Monmouth
YorkshireUnioullunt(l) 6
Wrexham (2) .
Newmarket S. 0. (s)_ 10

Kelso..
Richmond (2) 19
Newmarket (IL) (6) 24
IBER.
Shrewsbury (2) 15
Newton Autumn (1) 24
Aberystwith (3) Last week

" igOVE
Worcester (2) ............ 1
Epsom Autumn (2) ..... 3
Co wbridge Hunt (2) .... 9
Liverpool Autumn (2)... 9

COLLEGE APPROPRIATIONS.

In the House of Lords, on Thursday, August 11th,
Lord Lyndhurst presented the following petition, which
he supported by a short statement of facts, and expressed
a hope that, in the next session of Parliament, the Go-
vernment would introduce a bill to render more effectual
the enactments of the statutes referred to :
To the Right Honourable the House of Lords of the United

Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament
assembled.

The humble petition of the Rev. Frederick William Free-
man, M.A., Perpetual Citrate of Little Finborough, in
the county of Suffolk, sheweth :
That your petitioner has for the last four years discharged
the duties of parochial minister in'the aforesaid parish, of
which the provost and fellows of King's College are the
patrons and appropriators of the great and small tithes,
and from time immemorial have provided and paid for a
li curate (generally one of their own body) for the discharge
of the parochial duties.
That in February, 1849, the living became vacant by the
resignation of the then incumbent, the Rev. Charles Fre-
derick Parker, for whom your petitioner had for some time
officiated, and your petitioner continued to officiate under
letters of sequestration from the Bishop of Norwich until
June, 1850, when the living having lapsed to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, his grace nominated your petitioner
to the incumbency.
That your petitioner begs to acquaint your Right Ho-
nourable House that the Provost and Fellows of King's
College became the appropriators of the tithes of the parish
of Little Finborough, under a grant of King Henry the
Sixth—which grant is to be found in the first patent, 31st
Henry VI., part 1 of sheet 20, or in the statute book,
passed in the 15th year of Richard the Second, or in 1392,
for the apportioning a proper stipend to the officiating
ministers of appropriate parishes, it was directed :
" That upon every appropriation of any parish church
the Diocesan should ordain, according to the value of such
churches, a convenient sum of money to be paid and dis-
tributed yearly of the fruits and profits of the same
churches by those who shall have the said churches in pro-
per use, and by their successors, to the poor parishioners
of the said churches in aid of their living and sustenance
for ever, and also that the vicar be well and sufficiently
endowed."
This Act was confirmed by statute fourth of Henry the
Fourth, chap. 12, which made void all appropriations
made after 15th of Richard the Second, unless reformed
within a short period, and also made void all appropria-
tions of vicarages made since first Richard the Second. The
same statute also provided :
" That in every church appropriated, or to be appro-
priated, a, secular person should be ordained perpetual
vicar, canonically instituted and inducted to the same, and
conveniently endowed at the discretion of the ordinary to
perform divine service."
Now your petitioner is desirous of acquainting your
Right Honourable House that the Provost and Fellows of
King's College are the recipients by themselves or their
lessee of all the fruits and profits arising out of the said
parish of Little Finborough, to the amount of ninety-six
pounds per annum, which sum they appropriate wholly
and entirely to themselves, and that no convenient endow-
ment has been made by them at the discretion of the ordi-
nary for the performance of Divine Service; the only sti-
pend received by your petitioner, for the discharge of his
parochial duties, being an augmentation from Queen Anne's
Bounty and the rent of eleven acres of land, amounting
collectively to the sum of 251. per annum.
Your petitioner, therefore, humbly prays your Right
Honourable House that you will be pleased to institute
such inquiry or pass such enactments in confirmation of the
above recited statutes for the apportioning of proper sti-
pends to the officiating ministers of appropriate parishes as
may enable them to obtain without a ruinous expenditure
that just and equitable arrangement at the hands of their
Diocesan, which has been denied to your petitioner by the
Provost and Fellows of King'S•College, Cambridge.
And your petitioner, as in duty bound; will ever pray.
The following are the facts alluded to by Lord Lynd-
hurst. In October, 1848, Mr. Freeman undertook the
duty of Little Finborough, for the Rev. C. F. Parker,
the incumbent. In January, 1849, Mr. Parker resigned
his incumbency. Soon after, Mr. Freeman addressed a
letter to Mr. Sampson, the bursar of King's College, on
the subject of the duty ; the college having, with only
two exceptions, since the year 1555, appointed one of
their own body as college curate ; the exceptions were,
in 1830, the Rev, John Deadly Mony, of Catherine
Hall, Cambridge ; and, in 1834, the Rev. Charles F.
Parker, of Pembroke college, Oxon ; both these gen-
tlemen receiving from the college an augmentation to
the stipend granted by Queen Anne's Bounty. Mr.
Sampson answered to Mr. Freeman's communication
" that the college would have nothing to do with the
living, and that the churchwarden must supply the duty
untifMr. Parker's successor should be appointed." Mr.
Freeman having found a small but attentive congrega-
tion, felt unwilling to leave them without duty (once on
the Sunday) ; and, at the earnest request of the church-
warden, who bad taken out letters of sequestration, con-
tinued to discharge the duty. In June, 1850, the Arch-
bishop nominated him to the incumbency, and the whole
amount of stipend received by him since that period,
viz., in four years and a half, has been 90/., or deduct-
ing Land and Income Tax, considerably under 201. per
annum, the college uniformly refusing all application for
a proper and equitable adjustment.

MB. REUBEN PLANT'S SAFETY LAMP. —Amici the
many inventions of utility and economy which now fill
the Dublin Industrial Exhibition, none perhaps deserve
better notice than a safety lamp just patented by Mr.
Reuben Plant, of Brierly-hill, Staffordshire, and espe-
cially during a time like the present, when so many of
our labouring population are exposed to the dangers of
mining operations throughout England, Ireland, and
Wales. From statistics it appears that the annual loss
of life arising from explosions in mines alone, amounts
to upwards of 1,000 persons, and these accidents arise,
in nine cases out of ten, from the want of a proper safety
lamp. -under these circumstances it is exceedingly gra-
tifying to find private gentlemen spending their time and
money in the perfecting of inventions calculated to re-
move the numerous risks incurred by miners in their
daily labours, and we are pleased to be able to say
that Mr. Plant has pre-eminently succeeded in all his
experiments with his safety lamp. It strictly main-
tains in the first instance the principles propounded
by Sir Humphrey Davy, but adopts a white wire
gauze instead of the common black one, which at once
gives a very great additional light in the mine. In
the next place, he has so constructed a little glass
chimney, that the whole of the smoke is consumed as it
rises from the lamp, and this also tends to increase the
light to a very great degree. Another principal feature
in the arrangement of the lamp is, that no matter how
long-the-light is kept butming, the lower portion of the
wire through which the light is thrown out, remains
perfectly cool ; and, from the construction of the gauzes,
the one inside of the other, there is no danger of an ac-
cidental breaking of the glass chimney, as in the case
of almost all the other safety lamps. Mr. Plant has
also adopted the precaution of locking the lamp, so that
under no pretext whatever can the miner get at the
light, and this precludes his risking his own life and the
lives of his comrades by lighting his pipe—a very general
custom in the mines—through the wire' gauze. There
is also a great improvement in the capillary action of the
oil, which gives a steady light without having to be con-
tinually raising the wick. In short, the lamp, once
lighted and locked, has not to be touched until it is
burnt out. But the principal feature of all is the fact,
that this safety-lamp will be much cheaper than the or-
dinary lamp, and last much longer—thus, in every way,
presenting a boon to the miner in his hitherto dangerous
avocations.—Morning Advertiser.
FLYING FISH.—A sailor, wbo had been many years
absent from his mother, who lived in an inland county,
returned to his native village, after a variety of voyages
to different parts of the globe, and was heartily wel-
comed by the good old woman, who had brig considered
him as lost. Soon after his arrival, the old lady became
inquisitive, and desirous to learn what strange things
her son John had seen upon the mighty deep. Amongst
the variety of things that Jack recollected, he men-
tioned his having frequently seen flying fish. " Stop,
Johnny," said his mother, " don't try to impose such
monstrous impossibilities on me, child ; for, in good
truth, I could as soon believe you had seen flying
cows ; for cows, you know, can live out of the water.
Therefore, tell me honestly what you have seen in reality,
but no more falsehoods, Johnny." Jack felt himself
affronted ; and, turning his quid about, when pressed for
more information, he said, prefacing it with an oath,
" Mayhap, mother, you won't believe me, when I tell
you, that casting anchor in the Red Sea, it was with diffi-
culty that we hove it up again ; which was occasioned,
do you see, mother, by a large wheel hanging on one of
the flukes of the anchor. It appeared a strange old
Grecian to look at, so we hoisted it in ; and our captain,
do you mind me, overhauled him, and discovered it was
one of Pharaoh's chariot wheels, when lie was capsized
in the Red Sea." This suited the meridian of the old
lady's understanding. "Ay, ay, Johnny," cried she,
" I can believe this, for we read of this in the Bible, but
never talk to me again of flying fish."

INSURANCE CO:

PANIES.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ a. d. £ a. d.
Albion .............. 3/. 108. 500 0 0 50 0 0 95
Alliance Brit. and For. 71.145. 6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 1 -
Ditto Marine ... .... 61. p.c.& ha. 100 0 0 25 0 0 50
Anchor .............. 6 per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
Atlas ••• ••• 135.6 d. 50 0 0 515 0 •,2%
Argus Life ... .. .. .. • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 23%,
British Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 5 t , 7%
Cleriel.Med.& Gen. Life spr ct. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Z %
County . -
14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 22%
Eagle .
Equity and Law...... 41%%Z per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 57/8
European Life ...... ... 15s. 20 0 0 All paid. 20%
Genera 1.............. - 5 0 0 ~ 57i
Globe .. ... 61. per cent. Stock. 151
Guardian . ..... .... -5/. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 61%
Imperial Fire......... 111. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 WO
Imperial Life -
Indemnity Marine.... , ~.b.& ••s, 100 0 0 20 0 0 60
Law Fire .......... - 25.& 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 4%
Law Life... .. - 100 0 0 10 0 0 56
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
London Fire ..... 10e & ba. 25 0 0 12 10 0 31
London hip.... ..... .. 103 & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 -
Marine... .. .. ~. ••• • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Med.lnvlid& Gen. Life 4%1. per et 50 0 0 2 0 0 314
Minerva ............ sp. ct. & ba. 20 0 0 2 0 0 6%
Monarch •• • • - 50 0 10 0 21s.
National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 9 210 0 2%
Palladium Lite 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3%
Pelican - - - 45
Plicenix ..... ..... - - - 185
Professional Life 5l. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 %
P ',dant lAife 11.55. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life .......... „„ 58. 5 3 0 010 0 8%
Royal Exchange ....• • 6/. o.ct. & bs. Stock. all 212
Sun o'ire ...... 6'. 11's - )1 -
Ditto Life . . F. 68. -
2 t 65
'United Kingdom .. .. 41. p. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 5%
Universal Life ... ..... 21.55. per ,h. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45%
Victoria Life ...... • • 51. per cent. - 4 12, 6 5%
BRIDGES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
• Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Hungerford . ..... .... - - - 12
Southwark. .......... - 100 0 0 - -
Ditto New of 7% p,c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 - -
Waterloo.. ......... • - 100 0 0 - 5
Litto Old Ann. of 8/. 2/. Bs. Od. - 60 0 0 -
1 itto Nw ditto of 71. 21. 2s. Od. - 40 0 0 -
Vauxhall ........ Av. 2/. 70 10 3 - 231%
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
, Annum. Share.
s. .a.
East London
100 128
Grand Junction .... • • 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 all
Kent.-- - 841%
Lambeth .. - 100 0 0 - -
Newßiver Company 2'.los. - - -
Southwark & Vauxhall 5!. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 89
IA est Middlesex •• • . - - 113%
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Commercial ........ -4/. pr cent. Stock. - -
East and West India 6%1. pr cent. Stock. - -
East Country 2OB. per sh. - - -
London .... .•• • • - 51. pr cent. Stock. - -
Ditto Bonds - ...• - - -
St. Katharine .... • 4 per cent. Stock. - -
1. outhampton
-
Victoria .........., 20 0 0 6 0 0 8%
CANALS.
Names of ai„, DividenZ) i„,.,„,, Names of t Dividend
Companies. 4 per --- Companies. a ' Per Price.
7, Annum. 4 Annum.
cil
- - --
X £'
A.shtn &Oldh 98 7t. p. ct. 168 Macclesfield . 100 i 2/. 108. 56
Barnsley.... 160 - - Neatt ...• •• 1001 16i -
Ltrknk& kbrg 150 5!. 921% Oxford.. •• • • 100, 13. -
Birmingham 40 41. 102% Peak Forest. 78 31. 188. 97
Coventry.... 100 251. 200 Regent's.... 30 17, 161
Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 21. 66
Ell•mre&Chs 69,2% p. ct - Semrset Coal 140 - -
GrandJunctn 100'4, pr. ct 70 Do.Lk Ird St
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10'61, pr. ct. - Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 410
Grand Surrey 100 2/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. :25 -
Grand Galen 100 1/.los. 12% Stottrbridge.. :45, 20/. 290
Kenrit& Avn 89 as. 04. 7% sevens and 7' . 2/ 24
Lancaster . 100 - - wye RAIL j 26 •
Leeds&Livrp 100 251. 554 Warwick &"? 1 A, 41
Leicester .... 100 54 67 Binning. 5 too' -,-
Leiestr &Nth 83 41. 44% War wick & „‘„ .., iu
L ,ughborogh 14a, 701. 550 Napton._, C '•-1 -
)11,,nmeuthoh 1001 - - Worestr & / ..,81 31. 36
Mntgmerysh 100; - - Riming. '
MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Erks - IQs. Od. 7