The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

IMPR.ISONMENT OF THE REY

JAMES SHORE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT,)
EXETER, SUNDAY EVENING —Mr. Shore was brought
here in custody of Thomas Burch, the Sheriff's officer,
and ph eed in the prison of St. Thomas the Apostle, ad-
joining this city, on Saturday night. The rev. gentle-
man was met at the prison door by Mr. Latimer, of Exe-
ter, but no other friends awaited his arrival, as his ap-
prehension was wholly unexpected. The rev, gentleman
was taken, as you know, in Sp. fields Chapel, immediately
after de-4cending, from the pulpit and o❑ his way to the
vestry. He fell into good hands, for a kinder or more
respectable man than the officer charged with this un-
pleasant duty does not exist. The Bishop of Exeter has
two writs against the rev. gentleman; one for costs in-
curred in defending the ecclesiastical proceedings taken
against him by the bishop, end the other for costs in-
curred ley the bishop in responding to the appeal which
Mr. Shore made to the Privy Council. Ile is arrested on
the latter writ. The imprisonment might have been in
London but the bishop's proctor would not consent there •
to; and. Alr. Shore will, therefore, be put to the expense
of getting a writ of habeas corpus in the event of his
wanting to go to London. After Mr. Shore has paid
ti ese two demands, he may be then imprisoned for con-
tempt of the Ecclesiastical Court, as he has preached
after having been admonished not to do so. Mr. Shore
is, however, determined not to pay either. Mr.: Shore
told a friend to-day that ne considers the question now
placed in the hands of the people of Eng-
land. He has neither the inclination nor the money
to meet the Bishop's demands ; and he therefore sees no
release from his present captivity but through the
medium of Legislative interference. Mr. Bouverie's Bill
does not provide for his release, as it would be an ex post
facto law. But why should it not do so ? The Tolera-
tion Act was held to be a sufficient guarantee of re-
ligious liberty for upwards of a century and a half, till
Bishop Phillpotts gave it the crooked interpretation, in
which he has been sustained by the Ecclesiastical Court
and the authorities of the Queen's Bench. Whe❑ cer-
tain noble horse. racers were pursued at law for penalties
incurred by infringement of the laws against gambling,
the Legislature made an post facto law to relieve
them and thwart the informer. If the Legislature has
been thus tender over gamblers, why can it not be con-
siderate towards a worthy and religious man ?
The Right Reverend Prosecutor sent a young gentle-
man, who is clerk to his secretary, to tell Mr. Shorn
that if he would pay the costs he might go out, that all
the Bishop wanted was the money. Mr. Shore did not-
dispute this fact, but declined to listen to any over-
tures. This young gentleman laboured also to impress
upon the mind of the Reverend Gentleman that he was
not imprisoned for preaching, but for costs. Mr. Shore
asked how the costs would have been incurred if he had
not been charged with the offence of preaching?
I can state to you further, but of course in perfect
confidence, that the Bishop has sent our Reverend Friend
no dinner to-day. What would you say to a shepherd
who clapped one of his lambs into the pound, and gave
him nothing to eat ? There will probably be a public
meeting here, and various other efforts to protest against
this act of vindictive bigotry. It is not improbable but
Bishop Phillpotts, case-hardened as he is, veil live to re-
pent this rash step, and that the hour of repentance may
not be very distant.

TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.
SIR,--Having observed in your paper of the 17th ult.
some remarks on the proposition of AI. Edouard Char-
ton in the French Assembly, that no person should be
allowed to exercise the elective franchise unless he could
write and read, I beg to say that I think a much better
test of a person's qualification or capability of exercising
that important duty would be that Ile should be able to
work or solve correctly any rule-of-three question in
arithmetic. This wou!d not only prove that he was able
to read and write, but it would also prove his power to
think and reason, which is a very necessary qualification
in en elector. Besides, in my opinion, the qualification
would be much better defined in the one case than the
other.—l am, Sir, yours obediently,
WILLIAM WRIGHTSON.
Thorne, March 10, 1849.

DEATH or ANTHONY WHITE, ESQ.—The medical
profession has lost one of its brightest ornaments in
Mr. Anthony White, the eminent surgeon, who died at
his house in Parliament-street, on Friday morning last,
at an advanced age. Mr. White was of a north-country
family, and was a graduate of the University of Cam-
bridge, where ho took an honourable degree. He came
to London at an early period, and commenced practice
as assistant-surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, with
which institution to the day of his death he continued
to be associated. Mr. White speedily obtained ce-
lebrity for the dexterity and success of his operations
in the most difficult cases in which surgical skill is re-
quired. He acquired, at an earlier period than is
usual in his profession, a very extensive practice, and
was not long in obtaining the recognition of eminence
by election to a place in the council of the College of
Surgeons. Mr. White twice succeeded to the presidential
chair of that institution, and was highly valued as a
member of the Court of Examiners. In consequence of
repeated attacks of gout, which specially affected his
hands, Mr. White was necessitated some years since to
relinquish active practice as an operator; but he conti-
nued to a very recent date to give the public the benefit
of his experience as a consulting surgeon. His name is
one which will be long recognised among the eminent
men of his profession, which he not only adorned by his
talents, but in the practice of which he was distinguished
by a remarkable benevolence. His skill was always at
the command of men engaged in the pursuits of science,
literature, or the arts, to whom not unfrequently his
purse was open as his hand in the hour of their distresses.
To Mr. White surgeons are indebted for many of the im-
portant improvements made of late years in their instru-
ments. Those ascribed to the Baron lleurteloup were,
we believe, almost all introduced under his auspices.
The superintendence of the several prisons under
the control of the Government and of the convict de-
partment is about to be consolidated under one board,
an arrangemeat that will combine uniformity of treat-
ment with economy in the management of the prisons
and hulks. No additional expense will be incurred, as
the service of some of the members of the Boards of
superintendence and of the inspectors of prisons will be
made available in the proposed consolidation, which is to
take effect from the beginning of the next month.
GAOL DISCIPLINE.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—
Captain Maconochie, the author of several works on
" Secondary Punishments" and the " Marked System,"
has accepted the governorship of the new borough gaol
of Birmingham. The building, which is of immense di-
mensions, and constructed according to the design of
Mr. Hill, a local architect, is said to be singularly well
adapted for carrying out the peculiar views of the first
governor.
LORD GOUGH'S LAST EXPLOIT..---" I came, I saw,
I conquered," was the boast of Caesar. " I came, I did
not see, I did not conquer," should have been the bulletin
of Lord Gough. He came, he made no reconnaisance, he
shut his eyes, he put down his head, he rushed at the
enemy like a mad bull.—Examiner.
A son of the late lamented artist, Mr. Haydon,
whose untimely fate excited so much public sympathy,
has been appointed by Lord John Russell to a junior
clerkship on the first vacancy that has been filled up by
the Treasury for some months past, in consequence of the
reductions iu the several departments.
It is said that when the special train by the South-
Eastern that left London at six A.M., to meet the nine
o'clock steamer for Boulogne, at Folkstone, and the cor,
responding train to Paris, to be present at the anniver
sary of the French revolution, started—only six pas
sengers availed themselves of it.

THE PAYMASTER-GENERALS OFFICE.--MT. Os-
borne, M.P., has obtained a return showing the saving
effected by the consolidation of the offices of the Pay-
master-General, Paymaster of Civil Forces, and Pay-
masters of Exchequer-bills, &C. It appears that the
amount of the said saving in salaries is 16,145/., equal to
45 per cent., or the difference between 36,045/. and
19,9001. The saving of expense which may arise from
giving up the offices of the Paymaster of Civil Services
and of the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills, and from the
decrease of other contingent expenses, cannot be cor-
rectly ascertained. The expense of printing, of station-
ery, and other incidental charges of the office of
lPay-
master of Civil Services, have heretofore been
Ir_urthecuddr
in the general expenses of the Treasury. f
since
appears that thirteen clerks have been
promotedwhose salaries has
August last, the aggregate amount o
thus been increased from 3,8401. to
not renewed
al-
lowances were withdrawn on promotion,k. and
f3,w95'01 Certain
to the successors of the advanced clerk.
Griffin,
THE STONELEIGH ABBE U
last mad© an application at the
solicitor, on Wednesday
John Wilcox, on a charge of murder,
Petty Sessions on behalf of John Leigh, of Preston, for
a warrant against
said to have been committed at Stoneleigh Abbey. The
warrant was refused.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The council of
this College have determined that the examinations for
the Fellowship shall take place on Monday, the 2d, and
Wednesday, the 4th of April next.
WRECK ON THE LANCASHIRE COAST.—During the
past week a quantity of wreck has been washed ashore
on the coast near Rossall, and other portions have been
seen floating in Morecambe Bay. The appearance of
that which has been secured indicates it to belong to a
vessel of about 100 tons burden, but nothing has yet
been gained by which the name of the unfortunate vessel
can be identified.—Preston Chronicle.
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE —At Fulford, William
Rankin, a private of the 53d, was this week married to
Miss Maclaurin, heiress to 15,0004, who was given away
by her father. The bride is 26, and the bridegroom 30
years of age.
Greaves, Fawcett, and Brenhead, the three men
who, oa the 10th of January last, knocked down a
banker's clerk at Wakefield, and robbed him of 173/.,
were convicted at York on Friday, and were each sen-
tenced to 20 years' transportation.
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, Miami' B.—The Alice and
Mary, Jones, from Port Carlisle for Liverpool, was
brought in here this morning with damage, having been
ea shore.