The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-01 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY,

THE QUEEN V. THE REV. 3IR. RAMSA.Y.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The Bishop of London, the Rev. Mr. Dale, Sir J.
Bailey, the barrister, and several other distinguished
gentlemen were called, and gave the defendant a high
character, both for religion, benevolence, and morality.
Mr. Sergeant SHEA then proceeded to address the
jury for the prosecution. He said, when it was
his duty, as counsel for the prosecution, to open
the case against the Reverend defendant, he had
refrained from saying anything which would pre-
judice their minds or interfere with their calm
and dispassionate judgment. He felt it due to him, and
the Church of which he was a minister, in a case of such
a serious nature, and involving all his prospects in life,
peace of mind and happiness, and usefulness in the
ministration which he exercised, not to submit any-
thing which would divert their minds from the
dispassionate consideration of the case. It was
with great grief that he was compelled to say that
it was his firm belief and conviction, after all the
evidence which he had heard, that the Rev. Septimus
Ramsay was guilty of the offence imputed to him
on the record, to the last letter, and that he
was one of the most shameless and abandoned
profligates ever brought to justice before a jury.
—(Sensation.) his Learned Friend Sir F. Thosiger
with a degree of eloquence which he never heard sur-
passed in a court of justice, thought proper to draw a
comparison between the positions of the prosecutrix and
the defendant—the woman, he said, was looked
upon with great commiseration by every one
present in the Court, whereas the defendant ap-
peared with prejudice against him, charged with a
crime which it was almost impossible to disprove.
But he (Mr. Sergeant Shee) considered they would find,
on a comparison of the position of the two parties, that
the reverend defendant bad a great advantage over the
prosecutrix. Twenty or thirty witnesses of all classes
of society, some dignitaries of the church, and some
barristers spoke to the high moral and religious re-
putation of the reverend defendant. Whn look-
ing calmly and considerately at the evidence
which had been produced, he could not help thinking
that they would be of opinion that the rev. defendant
was guilty of the crime with which he had been charged.
It was a matter of experience that even among the
priesthood of the very church to which the de-
fendant belonged there were men who, although
they held a very moral and religious cha-
racter, had been satisfactorily found guilty of
of the most abominable crimes. Such men were gene-
rally watchful and wary in their conduct, and were
careful in selecting a moment for satisfying their lusts
and appetites. They put on a saintly appearance to their
congregation and friends, and seemed to the whole world
not only' incapable of such a charge as this, but eien in-
capable of the slightest deviation in their conduct, and
it was only by some unfortunate accident that the real
charge was brought to light and the people all
amazed held up their hands in astonishment. It was
impossible for the witnesses ho had been called to
speak of the defendant's character, to know his conduct
towards Mrs. Emmerson, How was the Bishop of
Loudon capable of knowing if he had committed the
crimewaa
more absurd
againstsnrd
and hi m ? In
trnth,
than
nothintgo
witnesses call a number of
who might
preposterous
per-
haps be the most moral
and religious in London,
to say that they never heard of thelous men
defendant being'
guilty of such misconduct. Two
of his Learned Friends
at the bar had given
evidence of the respectable cha-
racter of the defendant, and he thought •
their testimony
was worth more reliance b • eing placed upon it
than of all the reverend gentlemen in London.
(Laughter.) It amounted to nothing more than this
they never heard anything against him, and they were
the last persons who were likely to hear of his conduct
towards this woman. These and the other witnesses
should have called upon the young women
who had been insulted by the defendant. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded its a very pathetic manner to
implore the jury to consider the painful importance of
the case to young womon, her husband, and five chil-
dren. The prosecutrix was as unitnpeached in point of
character as any innocent woman could be.—(Laughter.)
(The trial had not concluded when our reporter left).
Some imputation having been cast upon the paternity of
the children of the prosecutrix—that they were not all
the children of her husband—they were taken into the
Court this morning, and, certainly! they bore more re-
semblance to each other than the generality of the chil-
dren of one family.

THE COLONIAL Bisoratcs.—Yesterday a meeting
was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose
of raising funds to provide additional clergymen to assist
the four bishops recently appointed for Australia and the
Cape. Lord Eldon, who has subscribed 1,000/. in fur-
therance of the object of the meeting, was voted to the
chair. The Bishop of Antigua, after a very lengthened
address, in which he contrasted favourably the present
with the past colonial episcopates, moved a resolution, se-
conded by the Rev. J. Anderson, to the following effect:—
" That the recent establishment of four bishoprics in
the southern hemisphere, two to be supported by pri-
vate munificence, ought to cause deep feelings of thank- 1
fulness on the part of the community, and also stimu-
late
their energies towards providing and sup-
porting
clergymen for the new dioceses." The
resolution was carried unanimously. The Right Hon. E.
Gladstone said he had no doubt that the meeting
and the public would sympathise in the object contem-
plated, for he believed that they had a deep conviction
of the importance of the relations between the mother
country and her colonies. These relations could be best
and physical •
kept• uP and strengthened by extending to the colonies
iant home, Possible way the religious advantages enjoyed
tor this than the appoin
It was notorious that too much of our moral
power was transmitted to the colonies, and
too littTesiol
made. The Right
the intellectual power which controls and
guides the former. There could not be a better remedy
strengthen the hands
Tii Gentleman proposed
ntments which had recently been
of the new colonial bisahorpess
andth thea Bishop
them."aiding the society 0 lbuy-
th meeting pledged itself to
additional clergymen tor
Archdeaconin providing
Robinsona t
having addressed the assembly, of Oxford
noblO chirmiu, and the meetint seplowere Toted to f'
rue