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

PROMOTIONS.

Mates—Warren Hastings Anderson, sen., of the St.
Vincent, 120, Joseph Robinson, of the Reynard, screw-
sloop, and George Willes Watson, sen., of the Caledonia,
120, seniority 1847, and the second on the list of mates,
have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant; George
F. Meeham, whose name as acting mate has appeared in
the Navy List for April, 1848, and as having passed fur
seamanship, but with no figures to denote where serving,
has been promoted to be acting lieutenant; Henry
Christian, acting mate of the Harlequin, 12, at Lisbon
(seniority Jan., 1548), to be acting lieutenant.

OBITUARY.
Commander John Fleming (1814), of Mansdale, re-
cently died at North Bank, Campbeltown, Argyllshire.
This officer served with much distinction during the
whole of the war. His services were recorded in the
London Gazette on three occasions, and he received pe-
cuniary honorary reward from the Patriotic Fund. Lie
was Deputy-Lieutenant of Argyll.
Lieut. William Robert Adair, acting lieutenant of the
Spartan, 24, died at Trieste, Feb. 21. He was the third
son of Major-General Adair, C.B.
Lieut. Nathaniel Cranstoun France (1814), died lat
Brixham, Devon, in the 57th year of his age, March 3.
Paymaster and Purser William Anderson (1833),
died at Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Feb. 27.
The Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W. Carter, was towed
out of Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, on Friday
afternoon by the Confiance and Fearless steam-vessels.
She appears to have started rather too soon on tide, for
she touched the ground slightly when off the dockyard,
near the Rubble bank moorings. She brought up for a
few minutes, but as she had scarcely gathered way, there
was no apprehensions of serious injury, consequently she
proceeded. Tho next day, however, in order to satisfy
the authorities, the diver was sent down to examine her,
when he went all round by the side, and under her keel,
forefoot, &c., and found everything all right, with not a
scratch even. She will be ready for sea on Wednesday.
The Wanderer, 12, Commander Montressor, arrived
at Spithead, on Saturday, from Sierra Leon, on the
coast coast of Africa. She left that port on the 10th
February. The Wanderer received orders for paying
off at Chatham, and sailed about 4 rat., the same even-
ing. She has not been one of the most fortunate ves-
sels in the prize way. She was taken to the coast in the
summer of 1846, by Commander P. H. Somerville; but
in the spring of 1847, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,
not approving of the discipline or management of the
vessel, obliged Commander Somerville to exchange with
Commander Montressor, of the Cygnet, then about to
come to England, so that Commander Sommerville was
displaced from the command of a very fine brig, and
Commander Montressor got a double allowance of the
coast service.

The Rolla, apprentice brig, Mr. Fenwick, command-
ins, was beat into Plymouth harbour on Saturday
night, and will again proceed to Spithead for exercise
to-day.
The Janus, 2, steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant Com-
mander Powell, arrived at Devonport on Saturday, and
coaled preparatory to leaving for Gibraltar the same
night.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, FIVE P.M.—Fresh westerly
winds, with cloudy weather.
THE COAST OE AFRICA.
The Wanderer left Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,
K.C.8., in his flag-ship, the Penelope, 12, steam-frigate,
Captain L. T. Jones, at Sierra Leone, where the French

commodore was also lying, and, singularly enough, his
flag-ship, a steam-frigate, is likewise called the Pene-
lope. Sir C. ilotbam had been beating up the slavers'
barracoons at Gallinas, some of which he had burnt, as
a punishment for an infringement of the treaty. He
was to leave Sierra Leone, Feb. 24, for Porto Prayo, to
wait fur Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur,
and to turn over the command to him. He would then
make the best of his way to Spithead.
The squadron was generally healthy. Little of inte-
rest had recently occurred on the coast.
The Tenzer, screw gun-vessel, Lieutenant. Commander
Selwyn, had arrived at Sierra Leone, and had gone on
to Ascension.

The Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, left Sierra
Leone for Seabor, Feb. 10.

The Amphitritq, 25, Captain R. Eden, had finally
quitted the coast for Valparaiso.

IMPRISONMENT OF THE REV.

JAMES SHORE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
EXETER, SUNDAY EVENING.—Mr. Shore was brought
here in custody of Thomas Burch, the Sheriff's officer,
and placed 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 Spaflelds Chapel, immediately
after descending from the pulpit and on 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, and the other for costs in-
curred by the bishop in responding to the appeal which
Mr. Shore made to the Privy Council. He is arrested on
the latter writ. The imprisonment might have been in
London, but the bishop's proctor would not consent there •
to; and Mr. Shore will, therefore, be put to the expense
of getting a writ of habeas corpus i❑ the event of his
wanting to go to London. After Mr. Shore has paid
tlese 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 ho has been sustained by the Ecclesiastical Court
and the authorities of the Queen's Bench. When cer-
tain noble horse-racers were pursued at law for penalties
incurred by infringement of -the laws against gambling,
the Legislature made an cc 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. Shore
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, sill liveLto re-
pent this rash step, and that the hour of repentance may
not be very distant.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—Having observed in your paper of the 17th ult.
some remarks on the proposition of M. ildouard 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
teat of a person's qualification or capability of exercising
that important duty would bo that he should be able to
work or solve correctly any rule-of•three question in
arithmetic. This would 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 an 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 OF 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 he 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
iu the most difficult cases in which surgical skill is re-
quired. He acquired, at an earlier period than is
u-u 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 Heurteloup 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 bulks. 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 ithe peculiar views of the first
governor.
LORD GOUGH'S LAST EXPLOIT.—" I came, I saw,
I conquered," was the boast of Czesar. -' 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. ilaydon,
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 in 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 PSI-MASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE.—Mr. 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/., cqual to
45 per cent., or the difference between 36,0451. and
19,900/. 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 Pay-
master of Civil Services, have heretofore been included
in the general expenses of the Treasury. It further
appears that thirteen clerks have been promoted since
August last, the aggregate amount of whose salaries has
thus been increased from 3,3401. to 3,9501 Certain al-
lowances were withdrawn on promotion, and not renewed
to the successors of the advanced clerk.
THE STONELEIGII ABBEY CAsE.—Mr. Griffin,
solicitor, on Wednesday last made an application at the
Petty Sessions on behalf of John Leigh, of Preston, tor
a warrant against John Wilcox, on a charge of murder,be
said to have been committed at Stoneleigh Abbey. T
warrant was refused.
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WRECK oN THR LANCASHIRE COAST. During the
past week a quantity ofwreekhas been washed
have
ashore
on the coast near Rossall, and other portions been
seen fixating 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 15,000 L, 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, on the 10th of January last, knocked down a
banker's clerk at Wakefield, and robbed him of 1731.,
were convicted at York on Friday, and were each sen-
tenced to 20 years' transportation.
RAMEY, ISLE OF MAN, MARCH B.—The Alice and
Mary, Jones, from Port Carlisle for Liverpool, was
brought in here this morning with damage, hating been
en shore,