The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-22 00:00:00

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REFORM of the ENGLISH

(Front I'Velter Savage Loudon's Letters.)
Does any one believe that all the English and Irish a,
Welsh bishops, in a body, have more Christianity, more wis-
dom, more knrwledge of theology,
more eloquence to en-
force it, than Robert Hall ? It it as his oninion—it was also
Alilton's—(and other teen equaly wise and pious have assen-
ted to it)—that the union of Church and State is injurious,
not only to civil liberty, but to pure religion. Men varying
far asunder in theological creeds, have agreed in this, and
have shrunk with horror from that pride, wealth, and stateli...
mess, in the Ministers of Christ, which he himself was the first
to prohibit and condemn.
" I ant writing now within sight of the city in which Robert
Hall-was preacher ; and a newspaper is lying on my table re-
commending to our charity the Irish Clergy of the English
Establishment. Hall and Milton were much nearer to starva-
ticin than Irish parsons are : and one of them was kept from
etarvieg, not bv tithes, although a clergyman, but by the
voluntary contributions of those whom be instructed. When
the Irish parsons (sent over from England) are as diligent in
their datios Is Robert Hall, Ireland is not the country for
their starvati.:n. But they must occupy less of their leisure
cri.stiog bullets for the murder of their parishioners ; they
rnlst consign the musket, the bayonet, the pistol, the cutlass,
u,Nons eerated hands; and even the bravest, the proudest,
and mat ambitious of them, must be ce.ntented with as little
pay and a 5 little fighting as Rear-Admirals."
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A lady in tc:e. country was turning over the dries roses in
her dragon jar, tier own maid entered the room, with a
salt-cellar in one hams,and a teacupful of clove; in the other,
ad the floral mummy. This dia-
to ensure the preservation
logue ensued—
', Well, ma'am ! true enout, is, that my Lord Bishop
is to be put on board wages. He have in future but a
hundred pounds a month, which, Goa' knon:,s, is only twenty_
five a week. There are some of their own. cloth (shame upon
'ern) who have no bowels' for the bishops. O.
6141 be was
old enough to know better, said on the occasion—
" Seven years hence it will appear far stranger, a
reduction to such a sum should have been considered as a Itar2-
ship, when my Lords tell us that the clergy in Ireland are dying
of hunger, and even obliged to water the garden.
A" He went on, ma'am, worse than that : he said, Of what
sercice are deans, canons, prebendaries, and precentors? The
Church of England is composed of bishop, priest, and deacon.'
" < I Think, ma'am, he counted wrong : there is clerk, sex-
ton, and ringers. We could not do without them : I know
nothing about !.hose others; we have done without them pretty
well, in these paro ;• and belike they may do as well in others.
But to strip a bishop' I There will be nothing in his noble
park but nasty bulls and cows. Cook says his haunches are
the finest she ever laid hard upon. Twelve hundred a-year
indeed ! Why, ma'am, what with poor, and gamekeeper,
and school, and hot-house, I should not wonder if we spend
all that here at the Hall. And my lord bishop has four houses
to keep up. There is palace, there is London-house, there is
Parliament-house, there is Opera-house for the ladies. No,
it can't be done, ma'am, nohow; and those who say it can
must be wild, little better than quakers and radicals. Lord
help ',lrri ! they don't know how money goes. Ma'am, they
begin with the bishops; when they have plucked them, they
will pluck its. I should like to know where is the end on't.
We can stop 'em, Midford, we can stop 'em, take my
word for it, be they ever so wilful.
" ' I don't know, ma'am. My lord bishop told 'squire
Eaglethorpe he wished he, being a country gentlemen, a
county member, would make a motive about it. 'Squire said,
" My lord bishop, they are a kennel of wiry-haired hard-
bitten curs I have no mind to meddle or make with 'em.'
" Then,' said his Lordship, cu will see your organ sent
to the ale-house ; and your servants will have to sing hymns
for it, like the Westphalians.'
" We are next parish, ma'am. Cook, housekeeper, Bess
Cockermouth I sing in church ! and hymns too ! Well, as I
hope to be saved, that is funny ! Why, they have noia couple
of teeth, dog's or double, between all three ! Lord J—t
ask pardon !' "

Another instance of natural cow-pox was discovered
last week in the neighbourhood of Paris, by M. Charles Gan-
lard and M. Fiard. It was found upon 16 cows, and four
females, who had milked them. The fact was examined by
a Committee of the Institute, Drs. Magendie, Double, Breschet,
and Hazard, whose opinions were decisive as to the nature of
the eruption. Another instance has been also ascertained at
the Themes, by M. Dupuy, Member of tho Academie de Mit-
decine, on some cows which came from the neighbourhood of
Chartres ; and a letter from Chartres announces that the cow-
pox has been likewise discovered there, and inoculations made
from it with perfect success.
Ott Wednesday last, several gentlemen having gone
aboard a London smack, in order to accompany one of their
friends, who was a passenger, to the Roads, they went down
below to regale themselves with a parting glass. A smart
breeze having, however, sprung up in the interval, the vessel
set sail, and-before the party had become aware of their si-
tuation they were nearly opposite Prestonpans, and sailing at
the rate of 10i knots an hour. Of course they were consi-
derably startled, and anxiously requested the Captain to set
thent ashore, when he informed them that their first landing-
place would be in the Thames. As may be well supposed,
this was C
Do comfortable tidings. However, the aptain,
moved by tbeir solicitations, especially as one of them was a
bridegroom was to be married on the following day, lay
to at Aberlady, and also at North Berwick, hosting a signal
for a boat at each of those places, but without success. At
length they reaches' Dunbar, where the party were landed
with considerable difficulty, and the adventure ending by post-
ing direct to Edinburgli.--.Caledonian Mercury.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, as a train of
carriages, the first class train, was approaching Manchester
front Liverpool, at a quick speed, supposed at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, when, on the high embankment between
Winton and Chat-moss, an axis of the first carriage suddenly
snapped asunder. From the great speed the carriages were
moving at, and the collision produced by the breaking of the
axis, the consequence was that the engine carriage, as well as
all the other carriages, with the exception of two, were cap-
sized, and thrown down the embankment, which is about 20
feet high. It is very fortunate that no one was severely in-
jured, except one lady, who was much lacerated. The alarm
waa beyond description ; passengers were necessarily turned
topsy-turvey, and thrown upon one another, and without the
least chance for some time of being extricated from the vehi-
cles. Numbers were slightly cutand otheinvise injured, in at-
tempting prematurely to get out. There were 120 passengers.
THE BALLOT.—A public meeting of the inhabi-
tants of the town and borough of Lewes was held on Monday
evening the 18th instant, at the Crown Inn, to take into ccn-
sideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament to enact a
law that henceforward all elections for members of Parliament
be taken by ballot.
Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock
the following melancholy and extraordinary occurrence took
place at Nc. 31, Islington-green, the residence of Mr. Wil
Liam Wilmott, who had for some time past been labouring
under an aberration of mind, but not to such an extent that any
fears were entertained for his safety. The bed-room he occu.
pied was the back second floor, from which a door opened ;to a
leaden flat, the height of which is 33 feet from the ground,
from which he jumped into the back area, but, extraordinary to
state, did not in the least injure himself, arid immediately ran
tip stairs, and instantly precipitated himself head foremost from
the same F put. when he received a dreadful concussion of the
brain, besides having his head severely fractured. The poor
maniac was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where every
possible surgical assistance was rendered him, but he lies with-
out hopes of recovery.
On Wednesday nn inquest was' held at the Bell and
Horns, Highgate, on Mrs. Sarah -Pointer, the landlady, who
put a period to her existence, under the following circum-
stances :—The deceased was a widow, and had kept the house
between two and three months. She had lately manifested
symptoms of despondency, and complained bitterly that the
business did not realize her expectations. Sunday morning,
during divine service, she retired to her bedroom, and her
daughter, on going up stairs to call her to dinner, found her
hanging by the Led. post. A medical man was promptly called
in, hut she teas dead. The jury returned a yerdiet—Tempo-
ritry deinigement.
Much to the get get of the lovers of ancient rcliques,
the newly discovered Roman city gateway, which was recently
disclosed by digging near the castle, fell over on Friday, .and
became a mass of rubbish. The work-people endeavoured
to prop it upright, but the damp caused by being so many
centuries buried, had disunited every joint, and the super-
nbuntiant pressure forced its fall. An iron head of an arrow,
bent and blunted no doubt by having been shot against the
wall, was picked up, as also several Roman coins.—Lincoln
Gazelle.
Steeple chasing is now so fashionable that two ladies,
one the wife of a field effieer of a regiment in Dublin, rode
one those break-neck races near the Curragh, on Monday.
In'sh• Paper.
At tiie Taunton Assizes, a few days ago, a country-
man, who was put into the witness-box. to give a prisoner the
benefit of his evidence as to character, en being asked by the
Counsel whether he ever knew any harm of the prisoner at the
Ear, replied, " That he never knew much harm of him, only
that he was given to thieving a little." '[lie Counsel indig_
windy inquired whether the prisoner had ever stolen from
him, when the witness to character answered, " Never more
than one' eor twice, I believe. B, Journal.
'' Wc have authority to state there is no truth what-
ever in the report taken from a paragraph in The Sun news-
paper,
that the East of England Bank will materially suffer
from the Bankruptcy of n gentleman lately connected with
Mr. Bi.tiold'e Bank. A large accession of business was se-
cured to the East of England Bank by means of the junction
with the Norfolk and Norwich Joint Stock Bank, hut it
was
made perfectly free and uncompromised by any previous bank.
ing operations whatever."
INP:LINGS OF ADVENTURE.—BY THE AUTHOR
op " PENCILLINGS BY TUE WAY."-We are requested to state
that Mr. N. P. Willis's new work, " Inklings of Adventure,"
will be published on Monday next, by 11,1 ears. Saunders and
Otley, Conduit-street, Hanover-square.
A few (la leant of the Ist
ys ago, a ser- of the line,
rand a quarter-master of the Bth Carbineers, met on the plains
a Grenelle, to settle a quarrel with their swords. After
having fought for several minutes without effect they agreed
to terminate the affair with their pistols. They were sta-
tioned at 50 paces' distance. The carbineer had the first fire,
and wounded his adversary in the arm, but the wound was not
sufficiently severe to prevent the shot from being returned.
The sergeant missed his antagonist, but the ball struck and
'killed a young gardener, a spectator of the duel, who was
standing 200 yards ofE