The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-19 00:00:00

CLERICAL DECORUM.

(From the Brighton Guardian.)
To give the key to the following correspondence
which has been forwarded to us, we must state that
some weeks ago a poor woman—and we believe she was
a widow—attended at the Bench at Steyning to ask
whether she could there obtain redress for the injury
done to her by the Rev. John Hurst, who bad shot two
of her pigs that had trespassed into his garden. The
applicant was referred to the Sessions which were then
about to be held at Chichester. Nothing public seems
to have been done in the matter ; but the complaint of
the poor woman has been the theme of serious conver-
sation both far and near. The reader will now compre-
hend, and, we have no doubt, appreciate the following
correspondence :
From the Rev. W. Barlee to the Rev. John Hurst.
" West Chiltington, Nov. 8, 1840.

" Sir,—As I think that everything between gentle-
men and neighbours should be open and without dis-
guise, I think it right to give you the following infor-
mation upon a subject which you must remember was
voluntarily commenced by yourself.
" After the conversation which I had with you the
other day, I took occasion to contradict the report
which was prevalent against you ; but I am sorry to
say that your contradiction met with no credit, as young
Duke the thatcher had, immediately after the occur-
rence, openly declared in our village that he was on a
rick in the yard at the time the gun was fired, that he
heard, though he did not see it fired ; that he called out
to you, = Did you hit him in the ear ?' that you your-
self answered, No, I hit him in the back, and made
him cock his tail,' and that you added, Now they may
have some lead with their pork.' This was his version
directly after the occurrence ; but that now fearing the
loss of your employment, he is silent. Besides this, I
have heard from undoubted authority that there is a man
who saw you go for your gun, and actually shoot the
pig. What am Ito believe after this ?or what am Ito
think of your denial of shooting the other pig ?
" I can assure you, sir, that the indignation of the
gentry and respectable inhabitants of the neighbour.
hood is completely roused, and that I am of opinion
that the matter will not be allowed to rest as it is.
"There cannot be, there never has been,any prejudice
excited against you unconnected with your own con-
duct ; but I will frankly tell you that both as to
your clericol official conduct and other circumstances of
the kind I now mention, the eyes of the whole neigh-
bourhood are upon you. " I am, Sir,
" Your obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " W. BARLEE."
FROM THE REV. JOHN HURST TO THE REV. W. BARLEE.
Thakeham, Nov. 4, 1140.

" Nothing but the fact of my not reading the compo-
sition you sent me yesterday till I came home to dinner
after dark, and my desire not to annoy the female part
of your family, prevented my coming to Chiltington to
inflict a stout personal chastisement on your reverence
for the most intrusive, insolent, impertinent, vulgar, and
lying letter ever penned from one stranger to another.
1 have always understood you were a meddling, offi-
cious, open-mouthed, gossiping sort of village prentice ;
and when you wrote to me last year offering my house
to a curate, I found I had not been misinformed. You
wrote then upon undoubted authority' about as good as
your own when 3 ou told me seventeen lies last week about
an old luggage van mare you bestrode, which you said had
trotted you 18 miles an hour, together with your having
sold a chesnut plough horse to a young man for ninety
guineas under the pretence of its being a hunter.
" These things establish your character as a screw
Jew parson horsedealer.
"My ricks were thatched in August ; ergo, young
Duke's being on a rick in my yard is a lie you have put
into his mouth. Your undoubted authority' is also a
liar, but not a greater than he who propagates and
spreads it.

" I should think you would be much better employed
in the honest endeavour to provide something to put
your twelve children out to get their own living, instead
of cackling about the country, and when you die be-
queathing them to the parish.
" From this day forth, I will thank you not to take the
liberty of writing or sending any message, or speaking
to me on any subjeet or matter of any kind or degree
whatever, but confine yourself, as far as I am concerned,
to your friend and associate, the miller farmer.
" I always have avoided your acquaintance, because
nothing is so odious and hateful to me as a village gossip ;
and I heartily rejoice that I have done so.
With regard to the last part of your letter, touch-
ing my clerical duties and conduct,' who made you a
judge over me, presumptuous pedlar? Look to your
own business. Arc you my ecclesiastical superior ?
You, a person dropped from some distant part of the
country, an incubus upon the landowners of Chiltington,
have set yourself up for a judge over me ? You are
undoubtedly a very great man, but, I am afraid, only in
your own opinion.
(Signed)

"J. HURST."

Poor Tom Ellar is about to take a benefit at
the Victoria Theatre. T. P. Cooke, Paul Bedford, Wie_
land, Mrs. Keeley, and a host of others, have all agreed to
give their services gratuitously, and Mr. Ratcliffe, the
lessee, has kindly consented to give the use of his theatre
for the bare expenses.

Mr. Leslie will move—" That as, by the Bill of Sewers,
23 Henry VIII., c. 5, sec. 3, it is a duty imposed upon a
Jury of the honest and lawful men of the Shire, upon their
Oaths, to inquire who path or holdeth any Lands or Te-
nements, or Common or Pasture, Sm. &c., any payment to
Messrs. Sibley and Taylor, Professional Valuators.' of
any sum of money from dm Sewers Rates, for the duties
imposed upon a Jury, is an illegal application thereof; and,
as the Justices of Sewers have neither the authority under
any Statute or Ordinance made before the first day of
March, in the three and twentieth year of the reign of
King Henry the Eighth, nor by any Statute made in or
subsequently to that year, to authorize them to make such
payments, this Court cannot pay tLe same."
8. Surveyors to present Reports, Opinions, &c., as fol-
lows :—On New Gullies required—On the best mode of
improving the Drainage of Blacklands Sewer, with refe-
rence to the Report of the Committee on View in Crom-
well-lane, Old Brompton ; and estimate of expense of
proposed Penstock at Junction of Blacklands and Gore-
lane Sewers.

9. To consider as to the steps to be taken with reference
to the Pipes laid through the banks of the Counters Creek
Sewer ; for the relief of the West London and Westminster
Cemetery.
10. To inspect the Book of Informations.
11. Mr. Goderich to move—" That upon a Sewer being
built to the satisfaction and under the superintendence of
the Court, by the Owners of Property and others inte-
rested in the construction of a Sewer along Keppel•street,
Chelsea, 650 feet in length, at an expense of 5031. 103.,
a sum not exceeding 140/, be given by this Court in fur-
therance of such object."
SEWERS IN PROGRESS.
PUBLIC. PRIVATE.
Tufton- street, Westminster. Thurloe-street, Brompton.
Romney-street, ditto. Uxbridge-road, by She-
Ranelagh Sewer, Kilburn. Pherd's Bush Bridge.
Norland's-lane Sewer. I. Mews South, Phalle°.
Milton-street, Dorset-square. Camden-street, Kensington
Coventry-street, Haymarket. Gravel Pits.
Vere-street, Clare Market. Bathurst Mews, Paddington.
The Contractors' Bills for the Quarter ending at Mid-
summer last, amounting to 3,236/. 10s. 4d., are laid upon
the table of the Committee-r•orn for the inspection of
Commissioners.

ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS.

THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAIL-

WAY COMPANY.

We are glad to see this Company taking the lead in
printing and circulating amongst their servants ac-
counts of accidents on railways generally, with a view
to furnishing them with additional means of informa-
tion and motives to caution, in the discharge of their
responsible duties. The first publication issued by the
Company, is an octavo pamphlet of 18 pages, entitled
" Accidents on Railways, published by order of the
Board of Directors of the Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way, for distribution amongst the Company's servants.
October, 1840." It opens with the following address
—" To all persons employed in the service of the "
Company :
" In consequence of the number of accidents which
have taken place on railways recently opened—in many
cases through the unavoidable inexperience of the per-
sons employed, the Directors of the Manchester and
Leeds Railway Company, with a view of affording to
their servants the means of acquiring most rapidly a
knowledgeueriesoef publicthe
frominatten-
tion
frightful con
q
to, or ignorance of, the rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the Board for their observance, have deter-
mined to print and distribute for their perusal and in-
formation, Reports of all judicial inquiries arising out of
accidents on railways caused by the negligence or dis-
obedience of the persons employed. As the information
thus furnished must tend to prevent accidents, if pro-
perly regarded, so it will increase the responsibility of
those through whose negligence or ignorance accidents
occw, if they neglect to make use of it. The Direct-
ors, therefore, most earnestly request the attention of
every person in the Company's service to these Reports,
and most particularly to the circumstances under which
accidents are reported to arise, to their immediate
causes, to the means by which they might have been
prevented, and to the consequences which befal the cul-
pable parties. By order of the Board,
"JOHN JELLICOSE, Secretary.
" Manchester, Oct. 26, 1840."
The cases noticed in this little pamphlet are a fatal ac-
cident on the South-western Railway, through the want
of signal-lamps, &e. ; another, in which two labourers
were killed whilst walking on the London and Birming-
ham Line ; a third, on the Great Western Railway, in
which the engine-driver and a guard were killed owing
to the negligence of the former in not shutting off the
steam ; and the committal of an engine-driver, on the
London and Birmingham Line, to hard labour for two
months, for being drunk whilst on duty. We should be
glad to see, not only other railway companies, but pro-
prietors of collieries, circulating information amongst the
workpeople in their service, as to the causes of fatal ac-
cidents occurring through the negligence of any parties
employed.—Manchester Guardian.

CHRISTENING OF THE DUKE

DE CHARTRES.

soold and
(From the Debats of Sunday.)
The ceremony of the christening of his Royal High_
l
ncss the Duke of Chartres was celebrated on Saturday,
at half-past five o'clock, in the chapel of the Palace of
the Tuileries.
All the Ministers, Marshal Gerard and the Duke de
Reggio, the Chancellor, Duke de Gazes, and the Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Deputies, Count de Montali-
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those of the Prince, and the Ladies in Waiting on the
Queen and Princesses, were invited.
The Archbishop of Paris, assisted by the Bishop
of
Morocco and the curate of St. Germain l'Auxerroi
presence.
christened the Prince. The Duke of Nemours and th;
Princess Adelaide held the Royal infant over the b
Queen, the
y, the Grand
tismal font. bap-
tismal
King and the Queen, the Duke of Orleans, th
Duke d'Aumale, the Duke de Montpensier, the
Duchesse
of Orleans, the Princess Clementine, the Grand Duchess
of Mecklenburg, and the Infante and Infanta Francisco
of Paulo, were present at the ceremony.
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Spain, the
Ministers, the Chancellor,
the President of the Cham-
ber of Deputies, Marshal
Gerard, the Duke de Reggio,
the Duke de Cazes, Count Montalivet, M. Duping and
the Archbishop of Paris.
lace. The table was laid out t
At half-past six there was a_gra.nd dinner at the Pa-
or 130 persons.

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Old Jewry, City, and No. 36,.
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nourable Society of Gray's Inn. .
The Voice Conductors invented by Mr. E
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yesterday
ly
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Old Bond-street, have
.proved eminently efficacious is
Solomons, Optician, No. 1,
some of the most distressing case.s of deafness, They are
not as large as a fourpenny-pieFe, and notwithstanding
their very small construction, no instruments extant have
proved of such advantage to the deaf. From their metallic
vibrating quality, table talk is rcndered perfectly audible
and the wearer is enabled to distinguish the faintest
i
inflec-
tions of a distant speaker n church, theatre, or public
assembly. Mr. E. Solomons Patent Spectacles are far
superior to all those in modern use ; they extend immedi
ate and continued relief in all cases of defective vision,
,
enabling persons to engage their sight for any length of
time, at the most minute employment, either by ay or
candle-light, and ire thus calculated to preserve vision
unimpaired to extreme old ago. No other improvement
has been effected in spectacle lenses for the lasE twenty
years, and as Mr. S. has secured„the exclusive disposal of
them to his establishments by Royal Letters Patent,'
the public should be guarded against the various attempts
of parties of a similar name to counterfeit the above
invaluable assistants; it is therefore necessary that par-
ticular attention should be paid to the Proprietor's address
namely, 1, Old Jewry, City, and 36, Old Bond-street,
Piccadilly.