The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-07 00:00:00

Mlt. GROOM'S TULIP SHOW.

This annual exhibition commenced yesterday, and is
the best that we have seen at Walworth for many years.
The flowers are fully a fortnight earlier than those of
last season ; the colours, probably owing to the bright
clear atmosphere that has so long prevailed, are more
dilicate and more marked, and, what with the fine wea-
ther, and the endlesi variety of colours of every hue,
the exhibition presents one of the most gratifying sights
that a tulip fancier, or any one who has a taste for
flowers, could possibly desire. The number of plants is
about 1,600, some of them have arrived at maturity,
others arc seedlings, and will not be in perfection till
next season. " Nourri Effendi," the prince of the col-
lection last year, still preserves his superiority. The next
is " Prince Albert," which is not very dissimilar in colors,
(yellow and black), but the great favourite appears to
be one which has not yet been named. It is a beauti-
ful flower of the bybliomea species, and surpasses
" Nourri" and Albert" in grandeur and colour.
Louis the Sixteenth," (white, with a slight tinge of
dark on the edge), and which was exhibited last season,
we should put down as the finest flower in the collec-
tion. The following is the list of the best tulips, with
the prices of the first two :—" Prince rAbert, 1001. ;
Nourri Effendi, 1051. ; Louis XVI. ; Pompe Funebre ;
Reperbe en Noir ; Lac ; Duke of Devonshire ; Sir
R. Peel ; Michael Angelo ; Emperor of Austria.

REFUSAL TO BURY A CHILD OF WESLEYAN
PAltawTs.-Vire have received aletter from the father of a child
which died at Torquay, and was refused christian burial at St.
Mary's Church, under the following circumstances. The father
says that " the child was two years and three months old, and
died last week, and it was determined by my wife and friends to
lay the remains of our dear child in the same place where all
her friends have been buried for generations past. Application
was made to Mr. Coleridge, the clergyman of St. Mary's
Churcb, for interment. He made a slight objection, on ac-
count of the child dying out of the parish, and seemed fearful
leet he should have half Torquay to bury. He examined the
applicants very closely, asking many questions. Is the father of
the child a Churchman, or not ? It was replied---he is a
Wesleyan. He asked if the child had been baptized ? It has,
was the reply. By a Church Minister or not? B) a Wesleyan
Minister, in the Wesleyan Chapel, Torquay, was the answer to
this question. On being told this, the form of his visage
changed,' and he said, with the greatest degree of [apparent]
abhorrence and detestation, and in the most disgusting and
offensive manner—' the body shall not be brought into the
church yard at all,' and swinging himself round upon his heel
left the applicants in a state of confusion to get away in the
best way they could." Such is the narrative which we have
received from the father of the child. We are not aware what
the law may be with regard to the burial of a child of parents
living out of the parish, but the manner in which the clergy-
man rejected the application, when he heard the religion of the
parents and the baptism of the child, shows a determination to
insult the powerful body to which the parents belong. There
appears to be a growing desire in the church to insult the Wes-
leyans. Western Times. [The intolerance of this clergy-
man, and his hatred of the respectable denomination of Chris-
tians to which the parents of the child belonged, are evident
enough, and his conduct—we wish we could say his unprece-
dented conduct—will receive from the public the reprobation
which it deserves. But he was not bound by the law of the
land to admit the body of this child into the churchyard of the
parish ; and the law of charity, it is quite clear, he cloes not ac-
koostledge.]
NAME OF THE CAPITAL OF NEW ZEALAND.
—We are informed that a full board of Directors of the New
Zealand Company on Wednesday resolved unanimously, that
their first and principal town at Larnbton Harbour, in Port
Nicholson, shall be called Wellington. The unrivalled situa-
tion of this spot as a centre of commerce for the islands will
probably ensure its becoming the capital of New Zealand.—
Colonial Gazette.
Had not the debate of yesterday been necessarily
postponed in consequence of the horrible and distressing event
which has caused so powerful a sensation in this metropolis,
the majority for at once extin,geishing the Stanley Registration
IS ill would, we know, have been considerable. We had hoped
that Ireland would without delay be relieved from a measure so
odious to her inhabitants, and which has created so strong an
excitement.—Morning Chronicle.
TIIE PORT OF PORTSMOUTH FLOATING
BRIDGE commenced its operations on Monday, at twelve o'clock,
and many hundred persons passed over the harbour. In the
evening, owing, however, to stopping on the Gosport side to
take in carriages, the tide receded with such rapidity, that for
several hours the new concern was fast on the shore. During
the few hours it ran, the Broad-street was like a fair, from the
multitudes of people. Very many carriages, carts, and other
. vehicle 4, passed across, nor,did there appear those obstructions
to the navigation so fearfully prognosticated by the naval idlers
in the High-street, who have nothing to do but find fault with
everything they do not comprehend. We have no doubt that
. this mode of conveyance will prove most beneficial to the towns,
and no lady will in future think of crossing by any other. The
public will very speedily appreciate the regularity and ease of
the passage on every day since ; the bridge has plied with exact-
ness; nor is an accident like that of Monday again likely to
occur. Our mercantile folks already find the convenience of
sending their commodities to Anglesey and the country, without
the trouble of shipments and unloa:lings ; the expense of the
bridge being amply repaid by the pin of time, &c. Ports-
mouth will eery shortly become, what it never yet has been,
a posting town, between Southampton and Chichester, and
the great thoroughfare between the eastern and western parts' of
south Hampshire, for all persons engaged in business.—Com-
,lnercial:Travellsr.
MANSLAUGHTER AT ROCHESTER C 3
roner's inquest was yesterday held at the Bear and
.Staff pnblc--
house, St. Margaret's, Rochester, before R. Hinde, Es(
Coroner, or. the body of John Gregg, aged 23, who died from
a mortal stab inflicted upon him blyt a. yp•oeuatrhdnafrmed Edward
place om
between th e etvnhi.
John Thomas, on Saturday last.
that some foolish quarrel had taken
Bence,
parties, and that the deceased had been stabbed, and the
Boner also wounded. The Jury returned a verdict of ‘•
alscr,hter," and the prisoner was ordered to be committed to
:Maidstone gaol.
EASTER CUSTOM.—Many years since, an
inhabitant of Hallaton, Leicestershire, bequeathed a piece of
land to the rector of the town for the time being ; in trust, for
the providing of two hare pies, a quantity of ale, and two dozen
penny loaves, to be scrambled for annually on Easter Monday.
This iand, which was called " Hare-crop Lays," being enclosed
in 1770, a piece of land was allotted to the Rector in lieu of the
same.; since which period the Hector, instead of two hare pies,
provides two large pies made of veal and bacon, which are divided
- into pieces, and put into a sack ; about two gallons of ale, in
wooden bottles, tvAout handles or strings, are put into another
sack ; and the penny loaves, cut into quarters, are put into a
joined,
soon The men who have charge of the basket arc
soon after they leave the rectory, by those who intend to en-
gage in the sport. In the course of their journey to a place
called " Hare-pie-bank," about a quarter of a mile south of the
town, the pieces of bread are thrown to be scrambled for. The
place of rendezvous consists of a bank,with a trench round it,
and a circular hole in the centre,
ich the pies and bot-
tls of ale are th.
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Court,.2 erary World.
INCEST the Consisto
the office of thee.fudr,e was promoted ointectielYsbyiJames Woods against
on Monday,
nhi having intermarried
George Woods,' his brother!,
with 11fary Ann Spratt, the dauaht.erto'f sister,
histtehre,
city
yo the
2-Ith of March, 1839, at St. Peter's MancsrOowftl,
Norwich. Dr. Lushington did not give judgment then a
question of evidence remained undecided.
THE NEW VAGRANCY BILL.—We have only this day received this Bill, and we lose not a post in putting our
readers in possession of its wicked and anti-social enactments,
f` is the last importation of British manufacture; and it is On
.
a par fully with the thousand-and-one previous acts of absurdity
Ind ,_,,-..,,ni:loll,—Dttbiln