The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-08 00:00:00

1847, and a spirited representation—" all but
bagged !"—of the last effort at escape of a wounded
duck with an eager spaniel close upon it. Among
the literary contents of the Sporting are "Hunting
and the Million," by Harry Hieover, " Sketches
from the Cape of Good Hope," " Bath and . Bristol
Steeplechases," " The Turf," &c., &c.—The
Farmers' Magazine has " portraits" of a magnificent
" Hereford Ox" and a " Cart Stallion."—The
Farmers' Magazine, as usual, contains an abun-
dance of matter of agricultural interest.—The
Colonial Magazine, having recently passed into
new hands, its managers propose to add to its
attractions by giving it a literary as well as a colonial
character. The present number opens with an article
on " Responsible Government for Colonies," mainly
quoted from a pamphlet by the late lamented Charles
Buller.—The Follet, in addition to its three beauti-
fully coloured plates of "fashions," contains a sheet of
patterns of fancy work and dresses, fresh from Paris,
which will doubtless prove highly acceptable in the
workroom and the boudoir.—The London Journal and
Repertory of New Patent Inventions presents us, as
usual, with some beautiful representations of newly-
invented machines, instruments, Sze.; among these
are improvements in constructing breakwaters, gas-
meters, boats, thrashing machines, &c.—The Patent
.lournal and Inventor's Magazine possesses manifold
attractions to the lovers of science and mechanism.
Manufactures of all kinds, from Damascus blades to
boots and shoes, are here described, in a very interest-
ing manner.—The Church of England Magazine
furnishes its wonted variety of admonitory and inte-
resting reading for the several Sundays of the
month.

BISHOP PHILLPOTTS.
Bishop Phillpotts does not appear to have succeeded
any better in his attempt to perform the part of a judge,
than he does in the imitations which he occasionally
gives of the character of a Bishop. Having nothing
particularly on his hands the other day, he must needs
go to Devenport, to hold a voluntary " Court of Enquiry,"
into a matter of great Christian scandal, and so indiffer-
ently did he play the part of an honest judge, that in
several passages he was horribly hissed, and in others,
which he thought the most effective and impressive hits,
ho was met with the most derisive shouts of laughter. The
unhappy talent which the prelate has of burlesquing so-
lemnities, appears to have overshadowed him on this oc-
casion. All the accounts of this proceeding concur in
showing that it was a very bad performance. But the
evidence of failure is not left to the concurrent testimony
of the journals merely—the most considerable of the
spectators have published a solemn protest against the
day's performance (which appeared in our paper last
week). We had not time to refer to it then from the
lateness of the hour at which it was received; but the
certificate of the Bishop's failure in the part of the "judge'
must not be entirely passed over in silence.
Now this is a very grave matter; and though we have
been tempted from the notoriety of the performer to look
at the technical character of the performance, yet, there
is a very different aspect from which it might be re-
garded. This gentleman (Bishop Phillpotts) receives a
great deal of money every week of his life for teaching
the Christian religion; but so little does he appear to
know about the spirit of Christianity, that he is charged
here with conduct which strikes at the root of all respect
for religion itself ; for if the well-paid teachers of reli-
gion cannot add to their lip instructions the necessary
virtues of a candid and truthful practice, why then it is
evident, that the sooner their offices are abolished, or
they are removed from their offices, the better for the
security of the Church which they are so well paid 'to
defend. A clerical writer in an episcopal paper ob-
serves, "the gentlemen who have signed the above de-
claration in a very coarse and virulent spirit." We
almost fancied that he had dipped a very jagged pen into
Bishop Phillpotts' own ink .stand. He calls them the " re-
cusant schismatics of Plymouth—with the Rev. John.
Ilitchard at their head—who have been guilty of at-
taching their names in cold blood to an insulting docu-
ment"—" this vulgar attack upon their diocesan." The
publication of a document like this is not to be railed off
by harsh words and outrageous epithets. Bishop Phill-
potts may complain of the insult, but the question for the
public will be—is this attack deserved? It it be deserved,
his bishopric,
instead of sheltering him from punishment,
ought to ensure a double measure of reprobation, if not
a summary dismissal from the post which he so badly
occupies. We will not, however, frighten him too much
at once, but we would respectfully advise the Bishop to
be on his guard. He is now so fully known that old
practices cannot be continued with impunity.— IV estern
Times.

BRITISII COLONIAL BANE AND LOAN COMPANY.—
The annual meeting of the shareholders took place yes-
terday, at their offices, in Moorgate-street, when Mr.
James Stewart occupied the chair, and the report of the
directors was submitted to the meeting. It stated that
since tho last annual meeting debentures to the amount
of 1,5004 had been paid off, leaving only 3,6004 still to
be paid by the company. In consequence of the general
depression felt in the Australian colonies, the receipts of
rent and interest had rather fallen off; yet the bslance-
sheet would have warranted a dividend to the same
amount as last year, but that it was necessary to reserve
1,3121. to meet the possibly unfavourable issue of
Chancery suit. The directors, therefore, recommendee
only a dividend of two per cent. this year. The state
went of accounts gave the mortgage loans, now exist
ing at 38,654/, and such as were foreclosed at
197,1441; and the amount of cash and bills in the
hands of the company at 6,5671. The profit and '
loss account for the year showed a balance, after
paying the expenses of the establishments at
home and abroad, of 3,394/.; but that sum included
1,099/. of forfeited shares, and also the reserve of
1,3121. to meet the Chancery suit, which could not
be made available for the dividend. The chairman
in laying the accounts before the meeting, begged the
proprietors to consider the general commercial difficul-
ties of the year, which had affected that company in
common with every other; that, although there had been
a slight falling in the mortgage interest and in rents,
there had also been a considerable reduction of their
liabilities; that there was now a prospect of property in
Australia rising in value, in consequence of increased
emigration, and the enhanced value of Australian wool
in the British market. Several proprietors, in a conver-
sation that ensued, urged the reduction of the expenses
in Sydney, and the speedy winding up of the company's
affairs. The directors said they were as desirous as any
to reduce the expenses to the lowest amount compatible
with the interests of the company, and they had already
given orders to the managers and directors at Sydney to
sell the property as soon as the sums advanced on it
could be realised; but that the last advices from Sydney,
of the 2d September, said the value of property was re-
duced, by the general wish on all hand to realise, to a
merely nominal amount. Resolutions were adopted,
receiving the directors' report, authorising a dividend of
2 per cent., and voting tho thanks of the shareholders
to the chairman and directors. The meeting then ad-
journed.
The Right Hon. Sir R. Peel gave a Parliamentary
entertainment last evening at the Right lion. Baronet's
residence in Whitehall gardens, when the following po-
litical friends of the Right lion. Baronet honoured him
with their company to dinner:—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons, the Right Hon.
henry Goulburn, the Right llon. Sir George Clerk,
Earl Jermyn, Lord Alfred Hervey, the Hon. Mr. Stuart
Wortley, Sir John Pakington, Bart., Sir Philip Grey
Egerton, the Right Hon. Sir F. Lewis, Sir John Young,
Sir James Weir Hogg, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. J.
Wilson Patten, Mr. W. Beckett , Mr. B. Denison, Mr.
Adderley, the Dean of Westminster, Mr. Shaw Lefevre,
&c. &c.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury gave
a magnificent entertaintment last evening to his Royal
Highness the Prince of Orange, at the family mansion
in Arlington-street. The Royal Prince was attended
by Admiral Arriens and Captain Gendriche, and arrived
shortly before eight o'clock, and was welcomed by the
Noale Marquis. The guests present to meet his Royal
Highness were the Duke of Wellington, his Excellency
the Dutch Knister and Mdlle. Schimmelpenninck, the
Marquis of Granby, the Earl and Countess of Eglintou,
Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscount Cantilupe,
Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Cranbourne, Viscount In•
ges' re, Lord Brougham, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord
and Lady Charles Wellesley, Sir Henry Lytton and Lady
Bulwer, Mr. Johnson, &e. The company separated
shortly after eleven o'clock.
Haft MAJESTY'S THEATRE.---The opening night is
definitively fixed for this day week, the 15th March.
The opera will be the Cenerentola, in which the princi-
pal characters will be sustained by Mdlle. Alboni, Bel-
letti, Lablache, and Gardoni. Carlotta Grisi, Marie
Taglioni, and Rosati, with Paul Taglioni and Louis
d'Or, will perform the ballet of the Diable it Quatre.
OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,-..Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
and her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured the per-
formance at this theatre with their presence last evening.
There were also present—the Marquis of Anglesea, his
Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, the
rdL oßussainadn
LAamdy-
bassador, the Baroness 13runnow and Mdlle. Olga de
Lochner, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, the Earl and Countess Craven
Newport, Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, Countess
Tankerville, the Baron and Baroness de Nieumann,
Lord Mandeville, Lady Isabella Blackford, Lord and
Lady Trimleston, Lord Clifden, Lord Ossulston, Baron
and Baroness Dimsdale, Sir William and Lady Herries,
the Right Hon. W. Lascelles, Lady Quentin, Lady and
Miss Macdonald, lion. Mr. Spalding, Sir Philip Brooke,
Miss Mitchell, Colonel George Knox, Major Udney, Mr.
and Miss de Horsey, Mr. Ball Hughes, M. and Madame
Urielle, Miss Udney.
LEGAL STATISTICS.---It is stated in the preface to
the second edition of Mr. Parton Cooper's pamphlet on
the " Delay in the Offices of the Masters in Charetry,"
that in 1814 there were 821 barristers and 1,836 London
attorneys, and that in 1848 there were 3,176 barristers
and 2,872 London attorneys. The barristers, therefo, e,
have during 34 years increased almost fourfold, whilst
the London attorneys are far from having doubled.
Allowing for such barristers as may be abroad, it is
probable that the number of barristers in London ex-
ceeds the number of attorneys in London; and that,
therefore, a London barrister who has but one London
attorney for his client has, nevertheless, more than his
share.

TRAFFIC ON THE LONDON ANDNORTII•WESTERN
RAILWAY.--Amongst other indications of a revival of
trade may be mentioned the fact, that the traffic of the
London and North Western, for seven weeks since the
closing of the last half-yearly account, shows an in-
crease of nearly 17,0001. over the corresponding period
of the previous twelve months, or an increase at the
tate of 2,4001, per reek.