The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-21 00:00:00

FOURTH HEAT.

Rice (Pink) 1
Skinner (Red) 2
A beautiful race. Skinner took the lead, followed by
Rice, who shortly overhauled him.

GRAND HEAT.

William Skinner (Red)

Rice

(Fink) 2

The heat was well contested. Although the winner
took the start, and kept it, his opponent was close on his
quarter all the way. The distance extended from Rat-
cliffe-cross to the City Canal Buoy—twice round each
heat.

THE STATUE of PRINCE ALBERT.
Monday, according to the previous announcement,
the marble statue of his Royal Highness Prince Albert
was opened to public view at two o'clock precisely. The
committee for erecting the statue, and the committee of
Lloyd's, proceeded through the underwriters' room to
the vestibule, which was crowded with subscribers and
,the public.
On the covering being removed an universal buzz of
approbation ensued, which on subsiding
Mr. THOMAS BARING, M.P., addressed the assembly,
and observed that they were all aware that the mer-
chants and underwriters, in order to commemorate the
laying of the first stone of the Royal Exchange, had
subscribed to plaee a statue of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert in some conspicuous part of the building,
and he felt assured that those who now witnessed the
guecess which had attended the labours of the committee
would congratulate them on the beautiful statue which
had just been uncovered to their view. Mr. Baring
then observed that his Royal Highness occupied a high
station in the country, and the members of Lloyd's, in
contemplating the elevated position in which the statue
appeared in their rooms, would feel gratified that they
were in the possession of such a work of art, reflecting,
as it did, the highest credit on the sculptor. The sub-
scribers were aware that it was mainly owing to the ex-
ertions of his friend Mr. Thomas Chapman, the deputy-
eilairman of the committee., that the splendid and appro-
priate tribute to his Royal Highness had been placed in
their rooms, and he felt convinced that, on their behalf,
he might congratulate Mr. Chapman on the happy ter-
mination of his labours.
Three hearty cheers were then given for the statue,
followed by three other cheers for Mr. Lough, the
sculptor. The meetin4 then separated, but the vestibule
continued crowded during the remainder of the day by
persona anxious to see the statue.
There were present Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Chair-
man; Mr. Thomas Chapman, Deputy Chairman; Baron
Goldsmid, Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., Deputy Master
of the Trinity House; Sir George Larpent, Sir Peter
Laurie, and Mr. Charles Graham, the honorary secretary
to the committee for erecting the statue.
The statue, as a work of art in the class to which it
belongs, appears faultless. The easy poise and dignity
of the figure, and the natural expression of the coun-
tenance—perfectly true, yet elevated in character—
exhibit his Royal Highness in a style consistent with
his station, and admirably suited to the position in which
it is placed. The artist has also succeeded greatly, by
his skilful management of the drapery, in giving sim-
plicity to the robe of state, and rendering that which
generally looks so cumbrous, both becoming and
oTaceful.

ROYAL VISIT TO VAUXHALL.—On Monday a
grid gala was given at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall,
which was honoured by the presence of her Royal High.
ness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, the
Duke ann. Duchess of Somerset, Lady Augusta Somer.
set, the Hallo verian Minister, the Baron de Nieumann,
the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Baron Knesebeck, the
Countess de la Tour, Lor W
d W. Lennox, Baron Roths-
child, &c. The royal party were received by Mr. R. War-
dell and Mr. R. Brown, the lessees, and were conducted
to a suite of rooms, the came that were set apart for her
.Majesty when Princess Victoria, on the occasion of her
visit with
with the Duchess of Kent, Prince George, and the
and Duchess of Cambridge, to the gardens. A
salute of 21 guns yvas fired, and there was a superb em-
blematical coup de feu exhibited. The stage was fitted
up with a royal box.reostelegantly decorated for the
occasion. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
fary repeatedly expressed their gratification at the per-
formances.
DEATH OF HUGH W. BOULTONt
IST LIFE GUARDS.—It is our painefnul: Esc4
duty too
rannounceuTE
the death of the above youthful g
place at an early hour on Sunday meornmaPm, which took
ceased caught a violent cold early in the month The de-
ceased of June,
while quartered at Windsor with his regiment, which,
terminating in inflammation of the lungs, caused 'a-
death. :The deceased was second son of the late Matthew
Boulton, Esq., of Tew Park, Oxfordshire, and
.Staffordshire. He was universally esteemed and beloved
by his brother officers. His loss will be deeply felt.
CAUTION TO STEAM-BOAT PASSENGERS. —On
Sunday morning a young woman named Donovan, re-
siding in Church-street, Soho, having received the pro.
ceeds of a half-year's pension due to her father, took
.her passage by a Gravesend steam-boat for the purpose
(se conveying the money to her parent. It was not until
she arrived at her destination that she discovered she
had been robbed of her purse containing all she pos-
sessed, viz., 71. los. in gold and silver, when she recol-
lected that duriner, the passage two genteelly-dressed
sheyoung men had engeged her in conversation, to whom
unsuspectingly
wbo Unn sou
doubt
told the object of her journey, and
d
similarly
dexterous effected the heartless depredation in a
us manner to which the omnibus rob-
beries are perpetrated, and against which the public
have been so frequently cautioned. The hardship of
the case is greatly ao• ated by the circumstance of
the poor man Donovatil;aei
hitilan infirm state of health,
(depending for subsistene_onanug,htesrmall pension and the
precarious assistance his daughter can afford him
ifrnodmi.
her earnings as a shirtmaker. A
widuals on board, commiserating thy: distress of the
father and daughter, made a small collection to relieve
their immediate necessities.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.—To obviate the numerous
celomplaints lately made as to the obstructions
ea
vehicle;, &c., the Lord Mayor has issued notice that
by
the
thoroughfare through Smithfield-market for waggons,
carts, and carriages will be for the future closed s'
. from
tour o'clock in the morning of Monday's market till
twelve et noon on the ;tee day.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ARCHES' COURT, July 19.
7•11 E OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY VARNALL v.
CRAIG, CLERK.
This was a cause of office promoted by Mr. George
Hooke Parnell, of Burley Park, in the county of South-
ampton, against the Rev. John Kershaw Craig, a clerk
in holy orders of the United Church of England and
Ireland, and minister of the new church of St. john
the Baptist, at Burley, in the said county, touching his
soul's health, and the lawful correction and reformation
of his manners and excesses, and more especially for
having been guilty of the crime of adultery, fornication,
or incontinence. Although the pleadings and evidence
have extended to very unusual length, yet the substance
of the case lies in a very narrow compass.
A libel was given in on behalf of the promoter, which
after the usual formal articles went on to charge the
11ev. Gentleman, being a married man, with entering the
l,edroom of his female servants in the years 1844 and
1845, and remaining with them frequently for several
hours. That on or about the 3d of June, 1344, he com-
mitted adultery with a woman who had been one of
his servants, in Ridley Wood, near to his residence.
That in December, 1944, and January, 1845, he fre-
quently in the kitchen of his house sat before the fire
between two of the servants; and that on some of such
occasions one of them laid her head upon his lap, and
also sat upon his knee. That on a Sunday, shortly
before Christmas, 1844, two or three young girls, who
were his parishioners, and among them one Ann Smith,
went to drink tea in the kitchen of his house, and that
after tea his wife played to them in the drawing-room
upon the organ, and with him sang or chanted part of
the service of the church. That the girls having had
their supper in the kitchen, Mr. Craig being in the
kitchen pulled back the chair whereon Ann Smith was
sitting, and putting his hands round her kissed or
attempted to kiss her; and that with one of his hands
he tickled the knees of Jane Shelley, saying that he did
so to see if she was jealous, or to that effect. The libel
then referred to the proceedings which had taken place
before a commission of inquiry instituted by the Lord
Bishop of Winchester, under the Church Discipline
Act, and concluded by praying that Mr. Craig might
be duly and canonically corrected and punished according
to the exigency of the law, and also be condemned in the
costs.
In answer to this libel a plea was given in by Mr.
Craig, setting forth that since his residence at Burley
he had faithfully and diligently discharged his duty
thereat as minister, had acquired the good-will, and had
conducted himself to the entire satisfaction of the great
majority of the inhabitants of the district committed to
his care, among whom he was held in high esteem and
regard, as well for the manner in which he performed
his public ministrations as for his attention to the
schools, and also to the poor and sick of the district,and
such esteem and regard continued undiminished up to
the present moment. That Mr. Craig and his wife, who
had been married 14 years, and had issue of their mar-
riage four children, had always lived and cohabited to-
gether, and still did so on terms of great and uninter-
rupted affection. That Mr. Farnall, the promoter of
the suit, had entertained and manifested in various ways
a feeling of great personal enmity and towards
Mr. Craig, and that all the charges made against him
had been wickedly and maliciously brought against him
by Mr. Farnall, and were utterly false and unfounded.
That he had never been guilty of any act of adultery,
fornication, or incontinence, and had never taken
any indecent, improper, or unbecoming liberty or
familarity with any woman whatever. That the charge
of adultery in Ridley Wood was falsely and foully
pleaded. That the only person examined on that charge
before the commission deposed to the offence being com-
mitted on the evening of the 3d of June, 1844, at the
hour of seven o'clock. That the wood consisted of full
grown beech trees, without underwood of any sort, had
a public road leading from Ridley Wood directly
through it, and was crossed by paths in various direc-
tions ; that it was the play place of children in the
neighbourhood ; was much frequented by such and
ethers, especially on summer evenings, and was exposed
.hroughout to public observation. That on the 3d of
June, 1844, Jane Shelley was at home with her parents,
from between five and six o'clock in the evening until
she went to bed, and that during no part of such even-
ing was she at all in the company of Mr. Craig, either
in Ridley Wood or elsewhere. That he did nut ent-r
the bedroom of his female servants, neither did he ever
sit between them at the kitchen fire, nor did any one of
them lay her head upon his lap. That the
charge relating to Ann Smith, contained in part
a perversion of the truth, and in part au
averment of what was absolutely false. That what
really then and there occurred was as follows : namely,
that Ann Smith having, with her father and brother,
recently become an attendant at the church, was
asked by Mrs. Craig to come to their house to drink tea
with the servants, which she accordingly did, on the
19th of October; that, between tea and supper, four
young girls, including Ann Smith, had gone up stairs,
into the parlour, and assisted, or been present at the
singing of some hymns whilst Mrs. Craig played upon
the organ, and just as those four girls were preparing
to leave the house after supper Mr. Craig had some con-
versation with Ann Smith relative to purchasing a couple
of prayer-books, which she requested him to do for her;
but neither on this nor on any other occasion did he
either kiss or attempt to kiss Ann Smith or tickle the
knees of Jane Shelley. That Mr. Farnall, previous to
the institution of the suit, had been repeatedly told and
assured by Ann Smith, that neither on that nor on
any other occasion had she been treated with or had
ever witnessed any impropriety whatever on the part
of Mr. Craig.
In reply to this statement a responsive allegation
was brought in by Mr. Farnall, pleading that Mr. Craig
had been and was in the habit of performing his public
ministrations in an irregular manner. That he had al-
lowed the clerk to be in the reading desk with him, and
to therein read the lessons, and had on many
Sundays omitted to read the Ten Commandments
and the prayers immediately connected therewith. That,
partly owing to such irregularities, the church, which
was capable of containing about 280 persons, was during
the year 1843 seldom attended on the mornings of Sun-
day by more than six or eight person=' and in the even-
ings by more than twenty persons, exclusive of children,
many of the inhabitants having attended, since the com-
mencement of 1845, a Dissenting chapel, built in 1841.
That in or about the year 1840 several of the subscri-
bers to the parochial school discontinued their subscrip-
tions in consequence of the inattention of Mr. Craig, and
that the school had decreased from about sixty boys and
girls to about eight girls and two boys, while in 1845 a
school in connexion with the Dissenting chapel was
opened, and was attended by about forty-six boys and
girls. That Mr. Farnall had not manifested in various
ways a feeling of great personal enmity and to-
wards Mr. Craig; that the charges had not been wick-
edly and maliciously brought against him; but that Mr.
Farnall bad exhibited the articles at the instance and re-
quest
of the Lord Bishop of Winchester. That Ridley
Wood consisted of oak as well as beech trees; that there
was a great abundance of fern, which on the 3d of June
was upwards of three feet in height; that the only road
through it was a forest track, and that it was not fre-
quented by children.
A further allegation was given in on behalf of Mr.
Craig, denying that the clerk had been admitted to the
minister's desk, or had read the lessons therefrom since
the end of 1342 or beginning of 1843, when the practice,
which had not been in use more than a few Sundays,
had been discontinued. That the reading of the lessons
by the clerk from his own desk in the morning, but never
in the evening service, had been continued in considera-
tion of Mr. Craig having been long suhiect to a spitting
of blood and of the fatigue occasioned by the walk of
twelve miles every Sunday. That it was untrue that
11r. Craig bad omitted to read the Ten Commandments
and the prayers connected therewith on many Sundays;
that it was only done on one occasion, and that in 1842,
in consequence et' Mr. Craig's alarm and anxiety about
a son, six years of age, who on the preceding day
had met with a serious accident. That the average nuns •
ber of the congregation at the church of Burley through-
out the year 1845 was eighty in the morning and 130 in
the evening, about one-third of whom might be children.
That except those of the families of Mr. Farnall and Mr.
Rill no pew or sitting in the church was given up in,
or for long prior to, 1845. That a meeting-house for
Dissenters with a school attached to it had existed in the
district
of Burley for the last half century. That the
persons who withdrew their support from the Burley
schools in 1840 were only five in number. That the
sequence
nseuffnefretdhea
master
rraarnyd dmeipsrteresssisohnaivninlgon
845,
in
left con
ob-
taining higher appointments ; and that it now contained
nearly as many children as at any former period, any
diminution which it might have 'sustained being solely
eaused by the exertions of Mr. Farnall, his family and
friends, to impair its efficiency, and to sustain the Dis-
senters' school in opposition to it.
After publication of the evidence, exceptive pleas to
some of the witnesses examined on each side were
brought in by the respective parties.
Dr. HAGGARD appeared on behalf of Mr. Farnall.
lie had, he said, no objection to the admission of certain
letters from the Bishop of Winchester to Mr. Craig,
except on princ,iple. In what way the counsel for Mr.
Craig intended to make use of them he had yet to learn.
They only showed how very little Mr. Craig in 1846
merited the good opinion which his diocesan entertained
of him is 1836 or 1839. The defendant had been or-
dained by the Bishop of Winchester, who, forming a
favourable opinion of him at that time, when the church
at Burley was ready for consecration, in a compli-
mentary letter offered the incumbency to Mr. Craig,
expressing his regret that the value of the living would
not
exceed 1001. per annum. Mr. Craig accepted
the offer, and was regularly inducted into the church.
It was due to Mr. Farnall, the
would not have been built; promoter of this suit, to
state that without his exertions
he had no sooner beentoccarry
appointed andthlainberi
taliatpyptehaerechurch
t
and to do Mr. Craig justice,
rh,pepteonodkagacetitvoe ma edaiss
turriecst church, rry
into effect that necessary
te
building of schools.
From some cause, however,
had been put thoseechraiivischools had subse-
tesesteem for the
subse-
quently greatly declined.
for-
ward as a person entitled toMtrl;
It appeared,
general discharge of his ministerialgduetsi
nthfrom the
however, that some persons had withdr.aewf
it
church, and, according to the evidence
clerk, he some sometimes read the lessons ; beet
said that that only took place when Mr. Craig laboured
under under indisposition, and suffered from spitting of
The best evidence on that point would have been the
testimony of a medical man, but it rested principally on
the statement of the clerk. He (Dr. Haggard) was not
o,kere to inculpate Mr. Craig on that point, nor would
it be necessary to say more on the matter except that it
was extremely irregular and very unusual, more espee.i-
ery sober man. r. Crai
a d -eacher but it appeared
had been represented as a goo p.
i-
lly as the clerk was not a v M g
that he was in the habit of referring in the pulpit to the
quarrel between him and Mr. Farnall, although he did
not mention that gentleman's name,
and some of the
congregation had discountenanced it by their withdrawal.
La 1846 Mr. Craig wrote si letter to Miss Angus, who