The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-02 00:00:00

termscmon.Ntrairioyef,
Tuesday a lecture in defence of the Voluntary Pri,v-tiple—
thaTt heofßetvh.eJoh,,n;Baisirueienrnt,sl)et, of Camberwell, delivered on
(in reply to Mr. M'Neile)—at the Hanover-square gowns•
csswlqs'io
cohfgueamohrise.i
ou:esb.
nettl audienceadiydtonochao_fi
many
Dissentingcrowded
Ministers
eminence,
severalwee
Members of Parliament. The Rev. Lecturer said the lee-'
lure was in connection with the Voluntary Church As-
sociation—and he rejoiced that the friends of the
Church had formed themselves into a voluntary so-
ciety--.* The Christian Influence Society"—and had
come forward fairly and manfully to discuss the
ssn connectedlf
it eho.unh,
sepselitifihshttdiehee
dmreenasstoleil
bstryl
yfot,
professingnhnosaal tytsc
ratwtthph compulsoryieetthartecommunityh.e
Christians.associationT nreligious
of that
bs ae wittyppbq
Ttpri
brat
:eawreadct
which
ptii of
n onn
shf
next
trohnberee:- '
hltaihdbletdtrraaal
controversy. The Rev. Gentleman having spolten 'll
to
constituted a National Church ; and to contend, on the
baptized
pa i
tdrnni t
zdaaet
ni hdndet Scripturalphg.2road communitybl,`.Wheat,"
ehhsa;_ a
s raa t
csecrofsnoet
constituting
which,
imtigcut together)
instance,
hnn meant h tier
a•
Church, re-
ferred to the inaccuracy of several of the analogies 114 r.
rs
spysomhtbhubuerotc:lihisz;
ni nantngfhd(rahcioeam::g
uag Churche 0 (andits
Dtihvei
nr thereby b yAut
hor ,
said, did not justify Mr. WNeile's theory, by
supporting
representedtki m b l"
the field of—the world." The Rev. Lecturer went on
to exhibit the incorrectness of Mr. M'Neile's phrase as
applied to Dissenting Churches, of " feudal insubordins- -
tion and heterogeneous patchwork," and said that, con-
sidering
of doctrines) in the Church, comprising the Dean
gidering the mixture of constitutions (to say nothing a
and (levier institutions, the tithes, the Church-rates. the
the Church heel!' was more worthy of these characteristics.
Whereas, through all the Dissenting communities,
die voluntary principle etas uniformly displayed. Then,
Proprietary Chapels, and the District Church system—
wcknihuntronehsc: of Mr. m,Neile, proceeded
as to the challenge which he (Mr. Burnet) had held out
at Hertford—that no instance could be fLuni in the Old
Testament (nobody ever hinted at such a case iu the Newt
of a penalty against refusal of the sacred offerinje--and
which challenge Mr. M‘fieile had confidently ono gm-
lentil/ accepted, but had contented himself with refat.'ing
to I:eviticag rfli. , where, he Paid, such refusal s'isa
-
I threatened with a " cutting off from the people." e
Mr.
1 Burnet said, on a deliberate consideration of that passag
1 he repeated his firm but respectful defiance. The case
then mentioned referred not to the offeiing, but
the place of presenting it. The offering was
&-
dared to be of the people's own good-will, and thel
cutting off on refusal of it—meant separation from the'
congrega•ion, not the infliction of death by man. The
Rf.v. Gentleman expressed his deep regret that Mr:
ItllNeile should have made it an argument for the con-
nection of Church with State—that such connection was
needed by way of restraint upon the influence which would
otherwise b.- acquired by the clergy, owing to the ghostly
character with which their office invested km, and the
temptations to superstition which they presented, by the
alleged necessity of their sacraments ; could it be
wondered at that Dissenters, who gave no such
extreme sanction or weight to their administration
of their ordinances, should shrink from such a Church ?"
The Rev. Lecturer further dwelt on the acknowledged
inability of the Church to correct many regretted abuses—
as the mockery of the conge d'eli, e, and the unmanageable
extent of parishes—by reason of her connection with the
State,
Mr, Ilurnet was warmly cheered thr:ughout, and find-
ing it impossible to finish his subject then, adjourned till
Wednesday the question of the . Duty of the Civil Raler
in Matters of Religion.
[The pressure of important political matters has com-
pelled ug much to condense this Lecture, and to postpone
M'Neile is to be the next.
the continua;ion
of our " Sketches of Controversialists,"
—of which Mr.

o'clock, a veung man, named Alex: Halket, about 18 years of
age. committed suicide by hanging h. raself in one of the cells
On Saturday afternooiff
of the Clyde police buildings. between one and two
be
GODM A NCIIESTEII.—There appear, tO a
great mortality now prevailing at this place an
p -k
d Pitintinx,duon,
seven persons having died here, and nine or u wards
ingdon ; during the past week many of them, we under at
have fallen victims to the typhus fever and the measles.
..t Hand,
Loss OF LIFE.—On Saturday mornincr,-I*A
the neighbourhood of Begelly, Pembrok _hire, was morning_
hYwn
into a state of great excitement, hi conseq ence of a most tra-
gical event which took place at the _Kilket colliery, belonging
to Messrs. Child, Hepinstall, and Co. - t six o'clock, tine
usual hour at vvhich:. colliers go to work at he Quarry Pit, on
which there is'an engine used for the purposes of pumping and
winding, the who has the duty don of letting do the work-
men had not'ived. On leaving his work oil Friday,
lie hrd given -,instructions to James John, the mart who
during the night had the charge of pumping out ,he
water, to call him on the following morning, and it a's-,
peared in evidence before the Coroner's Jury, that John
left the engine about six o'clock for that purpose, leaving a
man named David Davies (who had been discharged for bad
conduct) in the engine-house, and giving him strict injunc-
tions not to interfere with the engine. However, it appeared
by the evidence of a young girl about fifteen, daughter of Jas.
John, that no sooner had he turned his back than Davie% took
a bar of iron in his hand, went out of the house, and del;be-
rately altered the gear of the engine, and proceeded to lower
the ieople down. One tram, with five persons, arrived safe a:
the bottom of the shaft, forty fathoms deep ; the second
tram, with five children, had not been lowered more than
five fathoms, when, horrible to relate, the engine Tan
amain, ai.d the pour victims were precipilated to thy
bottom of the pit. On taking them up, William Morris,
aged fourteen, was found in the last agonies of death ;
John John, aged fifteen, was so s-verely injured that he only
survived till the following morning ; John Phelp had both
arms broken : John Philipps, aged 11, was severely bruised,
but not dangerously hurt ; and W. Ennorth miraculously
escaped without the slightest injury. On Monday morning an
inquest was held on the bodies before J. J. stokes, Esq.,
when a lengthened examination took place, but the Jury not
' agreeing on their verdict, the inquest was adjourned until nine
o'clock the following morning. On Tuesday the difference of
opinion among the jurymen still existing, some declaring it to
be a pure accident, and others that the deceased came to their
death by the negligence and disobedience of David Davies, the
Coroi.er dismissed the Jury, in which state the investigation
now remains.— Welshman.

A PRIEST WITHOUT ORDERS.—The inha-
bitants of the line du Petit Pont were awakened two nights
ago by a hoarse voice chaunting pa: ts of the Church service,
accompanied by still harsher tones of what seemed to be in-
tended for music, relieved at intervals by the sharp ringing of a
little bell. On opening their windows they beheld an elderly
man, dressed as a priest, in full canonicals, singing psalms to
the utmost pitch of h s voice, occasionally ringing his bell, and
accompanied by two men, one of whom played on a cracked
clarionet, the other on a violin out of tune. The pious man
was, however, shortly afterwards met by a patrol of Municipal
Guards, who conducted him to the guard-house, where he
accounted fir his conduct by declaring that as he thought a re-
ligious procession very amusing, and as he lived ia a free
country, he was enjoying himself in his own way. It was soon
found that he was as cracked as the clarionet, ard he has since
been sent to the lunatic asylum of Bicetre.—Paris Paper.
There is no truth in the statement which ap-
peared in several journals last week, to the effect that Sir Philip
Durham had been deprived of the use of his arm by paralysis. 1
The Gallant Admiral is quite well, and on his road to London
from his seat in Scotland.
HINT TO FARMERS.—Mr. Baird, Greenbank,
Pollokshaws, having heard often that rats had a great aversion
to garlic, has taken the pains during these past two seasons to
test the truth of it. In the spring of 1838 he sowed a small
plot of garlic in his garden ; and when the grain was deposited
in the stack-yard in harvest, a little of the garlic was strewn on
the ground, and it was found when the stacks were put in in
the spring of the following year, that they were entirely free
from the inroads of the rat. In 1839 Mr. Baird repeated the
experiment, and last week he took in the last of his stacks
without having sustained the slightest damage.— Glasgow
Herat'd.
The grecs, the property' of the late lamented
Colonel Lincoln Stanhope, were sold at Tattersall's on Tues-
day, as well as the drag, which all who have been
in the habit of passing by Hyde Park-corner in the season
must well remember.
Some anxiety was felt by the inhabitants of
Romford, on Saturday night last, by the non-arrival of the
eight o'cl)ck train down, and fears were entertained that some
accident had occurred. About nine o'clock, however, several
postchaises and chariots arrived at the White hart Inn, when,
a red that
tt
hh
ee
etnrgaiinnelegfatvtehwealy.o,nadnodnssttoaptpioedn
onoe
inquiry, n
it pp
at its usual time, arrived safely at Ilford, and discharged the
passengers for'that place, but as it was about to proceed en to
Romford, of the tubes
its progress.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
ATTEMPJED SUICIDE.—MTS. WOHOII, Of
Pimlico, made an tt a empt to cut her throat on Saturday night
last. She was in bed, and her husband asleep by her side.
She managed to reach his trousers, put her hand in the pocket.
and
poc et.
and drew out a clasp-knife, with which she
made a desperate
stab in the throat.
•
Monday an inquest was held before Mr.
Higgs,
at the
Harp cavern, Jermyn-street, St. James's, on the body
of Mr. Williams, aged 59, for many years the landlord of the
above tavern. He had lately complained of pain in the chef,
but for the last few days had been better. The surgeons
opinion was that death was caused by disease of the heart.
Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God." The sudden
deaths that have lately occurred are more numerous than have
been known for a long period.
INTERESTING TO SEte•RET ORDERS.—On
Monday last (before T. FL Marshall, Esq.), a case was de-
cided in the Court of Requests, Leeds, of considerable import-
ance to Secret Orders and Benefit Societies, the following
being briefly the question at issue : Thomas Rhodes, of Morley,
but formerly of Hunslet, seas summoned by seven
in
comprising a Committee of a Lodge of Druids the latr place,
for balance of a promissory note'(lo/. 93. i(nidteesrest, included)
given under the following circumstancetsru: Rh
oappeared,
d stee b the
had in the year 1836 been app
by deposited _ ;'e, and
appointment bad 121. of its fund:
by virtue of such
a' dne till
in the Savings' Bank, where it remained 1837, when he
ted it to his own use. When
withdrew the whole, and appropriated
this fact became known to the I ,he was waited upon by
several of the members, with a view to ascertain when he
intended the money to be forthcoming. A promis-
sory note for 121. 10s. (which included the interest due
by the bank) was then given to him, payable on demand to the
Committee above alluded to. This was in September 1837,
and from that time until the present the Committee had only
received 3/. 35.; and they therefore sought to recover the
balance. The defendant did not deny his liability, but contended
that, as a member of the lodge, he had a right to deduct from
it the amount of money which he had paid in. The Court,
however, gave a verdict for the full amount of the balance, with
, the usual costs.—Leeds Times.
PRESENCE OF MIND.—A singular instance of
what may be done, undsr circumstances of danger, by coolness
and presence of mind*, occurred last week. Two elderly
females were walking on Tuesday on the south banks of the
river Ouse, between Newton and Linton Lock, near where a
drove of Irish beasts were grazing. One of the animals made
a furious attack upon the party, and threw one of the women
down ; and her companion, attempting to render assistance,
was served in the same manner, when the first called out for
help, and her cries were fortunately heard by two men who
were hedgir.g at a little distance, and who immediately hastened
t
to the spot. On their arrival they were surprised to
b the
the prostrate female had seized the savage beast so
firner
hyer ;ra
nose as to pin it down, as a dog would have do e a
was so violent that blood was oozing front
its n
ostrils; The
rithout
beat off the animal, and thus the women escaped
men
injury.—Halifizx Guardiax.