The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-20 00:00:00

WEALD OF t-31,1i,REY AND SUSSEX

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION,

The annual meeting and ploughing match of the above
Association took plaee on Friday, at Ockley-green, near
Dorking, on the borders of the county of Sussex, upon
the estate of Walter Calvert, Esq., of Ockley Court.
There was a very good show of stock, which also exhi-
bited a decided improvement upon that of last year.
When the ploughing-match had terminated, the com-
pany adjourned to dinner in a spacious marquee.
W. J. Denison, Esq., M. P., presided, and there
were also present C. Barclay, Esq., W. H. Sumner,
Esq., the Rev. Mr. Dawson, Lee Steere, 1' q.,
J. S. Broadwood, Esq., A. Spotiswo•;de, Esq., J. Small-
peice, Esq., Larpent, Esq., Arbuthnot, Esq., E.
Calvert, Esq., and nearly three hundred farmers and
others, members of the Association.

After dinner the prizes were delivered to those ser-
vants ix husbandry %vim were considered entitled to them
by reason of long and honest servitude. This portion of
the proceedings was most gratifying. Some of tl2e reci-
pients of the prizes had bees in the scene of employ.
meat for a period verging towards half a century, and
although their grey hairs and venerable appearance
bespoke their advanced age, they - still appeared
well and hearty, and the cheering position in
which they found themselves- placed, seemed almost to
make them young again. The Chairman, in award-
ing' the prizes, said he hoped the example of the
honest men he saw before him would be followed by
their neighbours, and that the Association would have to
award many such prizes on future occasions.
When this interesting portion of the day's proceed •
ings was concluded, and the usual loyal and patriotic
toasts had been proposed and responded to, -
The CHAIRMAN, in a short speech, then proposed
" The Weald of Surrey and Sussex Agricultural Asso-
ciation."

A number of other speeches were made on the occa-
sion, but they possessed little public interest.

THE REV. MR. HEAD AND THE

BISHOP OF EXETER.
It will be seen by the following correspondence, that
Bishop Philpotts has commenced proceedings against
the Rev. Henry Erskine Head. The truth may be
preached with boldness, but not with impunity. We be-
lieve that Mr. Head will do honour to the neat Pro-
testant principle which he has so forcibly maintained.
It was stated in Honiton, on Wednesday, that the Bishop
had declared at Mr. Justice Coleridge's, at Ottery, that
he would strip Mr. Head of his gown
:
Palace, Exeter, Sept. 15, 1841.
R3v. Sir—My attention has been called to a printed
paper, purporting to be " A.View of the Duplicity of
the present System of Episcopal Ministration, in a Letter
addressed to the Parishioners of Feniton, Devon, occa-
sioned by the Bishop of Exeter's Circular on Confirma-
tion, by Henry Erskine Head, A.M., Rector of Feniton,
Devon."

This paper, I am informed, was published on the 21st
August last, in the Western Times newspaper, with your
name appended to it.
I think it right to inform you that I deem it necessary
to take proceedings against you as the author of this
paper. 'With this declaration of my purpose, I now ask
whether you admit yourself to be the author or not.
It may be proper for me to add that I am induced to
take this step, by my having understood that you avow
your readiness to declare yourself the author, and to
submit to legal investigation of the case.
I am, Rev. Sir, your obedient servant,
Rev. 11. E. Head. H. EXETER.

Rectory, Feniton, Sept. 14, 1841.
My Lord—l have had the honour of receiving a letter
from . your Lordship, inquiring if I am the author of a
letter in the Western Times on " The Duplicity of the
present system of Episcopal Ministration," &c., to which
question I have the honour to reply in the affirmative.
I beg leave also to state that the subject of that letter is
more fully entered into in another letter in the Western
Times of last Saturday, " To the Spiritual Peers in Par-
liament, on their Abuse of Prelatical Power in requiring
unlawful and contradictory- Subscription from Candidates
for Ordination in the Ministry in the National Church"
(or words to that effect—for I have not the document aft
hand) of which letter I also acknowledge myself to be
the author—as indeed my own signature appended to the
document sufficiently attests.
I also beg leave to have the honour of stating to your
Lordship, with reference to my having declined, for-
merly, on a similar occasion, to give your Lordship ex-
plicit answers—that this proceeded, not from hesitation
to avow my sentiments, but in order that I might first
more fully lay before the public (which I have since been
enabled to do) what those sentiments really are, and on
what principles they are founded.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
HENRY ERSKINE BEAD.
To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter.
=Western Times.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlT.—Lusitania, from Newfound-
land to Naples, 3d inst., lat. 23, lon. 41 ; Emma, New
South Wales to Liverpool, 12th inst., off Cape Clear, by
the J. P. Dobree, arrived at Liverpool. Lavinia, Lon-
don to Calcutta, 13th inst„ let. 48, lon. 8. by the Ad-
vena, arrived at Portsmouth. Brutus of Greenock, 11th
ult., lat. 19, lon. 36 ; Triton of Westerweck, 12th ult.,
lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Bakenhaupt, arrived off the Start.
Isabella, bound to Bristol, 3d inst., lat. 50, lon. 12, by
the Eagle, arrived at Bristol.