The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

CHURCH DISCIPLINE

On Friday a return to an address of the House of
Commons, made in February last, was printed, showing
" the number of suits against clerks in holy orders, in
the courts of the archbishops and bishops in England
and Wales, since the Church Discipline Act, 3 and 4
Victoria, c. 86," stating, " whenever an offence has
been proved against such clerk in holy orders, the name
of the clerk, the nature of the offence, and the sentence
pronounced by the judge." There have been fourteen
suits instituted in the Arches Court of Canterbury
against clerks in holy orders, under the Act mentialied,
in two of which suits the offences charged were nut
proved, and two suits remained, on the 13th of March
last, undetermined. There were two suits against one
clerk in the diocese of Bath and Wells, and seven in tie)
diocese of Exeter. There were three suits in the diocese
of Gloucester and Bristol. In the Court of the Bishop
of Lincoln preliminary proceedings were only
taken in three cases, and the parties accused con-
sented to abide the summary judgment of the bishop ;
no proceedings were taken in the Court, and ceirse-
, quently (to use the language of the registrar), no of-
fence was proved against any of those three clerks." In
the case of the Rev. William Day, of Hawridge, in the
archdeacunry of Buckingham, after the preliminary it,-
quiry, the suit was taken by letters of request to the
Court of Arches. The offences charged were drunken-
ness and the commission of gross acts of violence. Air.
Day made no defence, and the judge suspended him c.e
officio ci tcneficio for three years. The costs of the pro
secutiun amounted to 223/. ls. 10d., of which 50/. will
be defrayed by the Rev. H. Jefferys, a landed proprietor
of the parish, the rest by the bishop. Costs were given
against Mr. Day, but as his living of Hawridge was
under sequestration, none can be recovered. In the
Court of the Lord Bishop of Norwich there was a suit
against a clerk for non-residence, and sentence was given
against him, on which he appealed ; the sentence was
confirmed, and an appeal was made to the Privy Council,
which is still pending. A like suit was instituted against
the same party for eight months' non-residence in his
rectory in 1844, which is still pending. In the Arches
Court of Canterbury William Hassles Langley (clerk)
was proved guilty of brawling in the parish church, and
suspended ab officio fur eight months. Henry Erskine
Head, for publishing a letter in derogation and depraving
of the Book of Common Prayer, was suspended at
officio et beneficio for three years ; Henry Henslowe, fur
refusing to bury a corpse, after notice and warning given,
was suspended ab officio for three months ; John Hurst,
for profane cursing and swearing, and lewd and indecent
conduct, and conversation, and adultery, or iiicontinerce,
was suspended ab officio et beneficio for three years, and
until a certificate of good behaviour and morals during
suspension, signed by three beneficed clergymen, be
produced and approved of by the Court ; John Jenes,
for adultery and fornication, was suspended ab officio ci
beneficio for two years, and until a certificate of good
behaviour during suspension be produced ; Frederick
Oakeley, for having published a pamphlet affirming doc-
trines contrary to the articles of religion—his license
was revoked and himself suspended at officio until he
shall retract bis errors ; William Day, for habitual and
excessive drunkenness, and having been convicted of an
assault, was suspended at officio et beneficio for three
years, and until a certificate be produced ; Arthur
Loftus, for lewd and indecent conduct and conversation,
adultery, fornication, or incontinence, was deprived of
his preferment ; Henry Cresswell, for quarrelling, fight-
ing, and habitually swearing, frequenting public-houses
and intoxication, was suspended for eighteen months at
officio et beneficio, and until a certificate be produced of
good behaviour ; and Henry Heathcote, for having been
convicted of an assault with an intent to commit an un-
natural crime, inhibition from exercise of the ministry,
and from all discharge of his clerical office. The offences
in the diocese of Exeter were in publishing the bans and
solemnizing a marriage when neither of the parties lived
in the parish ; for officiating without the license and
against the monition of the bishop ; for omitting in the
burial service certain parts of the office, and for pub-
licly reading prayers, &c., in an unconsecrated building.
In the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, Harry Grey
was suspended for three years for frequenting houses of
ill-fame and committing fornication ; and George Marcus
d'Arcy Irvine, for celebrating an illegal marriage, was
suspended for one year.

THE APPROACHING PHEASANT SHOOTING SEASON.
—Thursday next being the Ist of October, pheasant
shooting will commence, and sportsmen will enter the
pheasant covers this year with a good prospect of sport.
The pheasant preserves in Surrey, Sussex, and Hants,
are well stocked with young pheasants. The past
summer has been equally as favourable to the hatching
and rearing of pheasants as .to partridges. The hen
pheasants stole away to nest very early in the spring,
and brought out large broods, and the young birds got
strong before making their tail feathers, which is the
most precarious time for pheasant poults, as, should the
weather or the lands be wet at this period of growth,
they are frequently seized with a kind of croop, which
kills them in large numbers. Young pheasants are now
very strong on the wing, scale the woods swiftly, and
will require a keen sportsman to bring them down. The
young cock pheasants have attained a good plumage, and
by the general early clearance of bean and barley crops,
the young pheasants have fed in the shed corn, and are
now in exceeding plump and good condition.
MATRIMONIAL BLUNDER AND EXTRAORDINARY
CHASE.—The greatest excitement prevailed amongst the
inhabitants—the female portion in particular—of Quorn-
don, on Tuesday morning, by the following occurrence.
A gentleman from the neighbourhood of Ashby-de-la-
Zouch was about to lead a young lady of that place to
the hymeneal altar, and on the happy couple and their
attendants arriving at the Baptist Chapel, where the
registrar was in attendance to perform the ceremony, it
was discovered that the gentleman had not brought a
certificate of the notice from the superintendent regis-
trar of the union in which ho resided. It was now half-
past eight o'clock, and to obtain a certificate not less
than thirty miles across a hilly country was to be tra-
versed. The arrangements being of a nature which did
not permit of delay, if it could possibly be avoided, the
gentleman took postchaise to Loughborough, and pro-
curing a horse and gig at the King's Head Hotel; was
speedily skirting the lofty hills of Charnwood Forest.
The chaise awaited his return to convey him imme-
diately to Quorndon, where the greatest anxiety for the
result prevailed, and where, although the bride and her
friends did not leave the chapel, there were not a few
who predicted that he would not arrive in time for the
eeremony to be performed that day. At a quarter-past
eleven o'clock, however, all doubts were dispelled by the
bridegroom entering the chapel with the important docu-
ment ; having been only two hours and three-quarters
performing the journey.—Nottinglianisliire Guardian.
The Orleanais states that on Friday last the sprks
from a locomotive, drawing waggons laden with sand, on
the Orleans and Tierzon Railrcad, set fire to the wood
at no less than six places on the line. In one place a
wood of young fir-trees extending over nearly five acres
was entirely destroyed.
A FREE SECEDER.—The Rev. John Macnaughtan,
a Free Alinist,r in Paisley, thus expressed himself, at a
public meeting in that town :—" I say, for one, that I am
prepared, whenever I may be called on to join in the
warfare, to sweep the Establishment from off the face of
the earth."—Glasgow Paper.
THE NEWMARKET AND CIIESTERFORD RAILWAY.--
The "first sod" was raised on Tuesday at llnllinghana,
in the presence or Lord George Manners and several
other directors, and a large assemblage of the inhabitants
of Newmarket. The line, which is to be completed by
the autumn of 1847, has been leased for 999 years to the
Eastern Counties Company, at a guaranteed 5 per cent.
on the capital, and a share of all surplus profits of the
united lines, len 2 per cent.

REVIEW of the BRITISH CORN
TRADE.
The great rise which has taken place in the value of
wheat during the last two months has been a strong in-
ducement to farmers to bring forward supplies ; and
the deliveries from the growers have, within the last
few weeks, been on a more liberal scale than is usual
so shortly after harvest. Various circumstances have
combined to lead to this result ; the very early
period at which the crop was secured, and
the excellent condition in which the greater
part of the wheat was carried admitted of its being
thrashed without its going through the ordinary pro-
cess of hardening in the stack. The grain was, in fact,
in as fit a state for market immediately after it was
carted as in common years it is at Christmas ; and it
was capable of being ground with a very small ad-
mixture of old. At the same time the fineness of
the quality caused the new to bring higher terms
than were obtainable for the growth of last year,
and the former was therefore sold in preference to the
latter. Nothing can in our opinion afford a stronger
proof of the healthy state of the trade than the fact that
prices have steadily advanced in the face of such large
supplies as have recently been poured into many of the
markets in the agricultural districts. In considering the
probable future range of quotations, this must not be lost
sight of ; and it must be borne in mind that a material
falling off in the deliveries from the growers must be ex-
pected so soon as the preparation of the soil for autumn
sowing shall have been fairly commenced. It is true that
the millers are now tolerably well stocked; still there ap-
pears little chance of any permanent re-action taking place
in quotations when once the supplies from the farmers de-
crease. At present there is no prospect of arrivals of
consequence from abroad, and holders of the foreign
wheat in granary at the different maritime ports are not
likely to become more anxious to realise, now when they
aro sure of having less competition; and 'we are,
therefore, inclined to believe that the upward move-
ment will receive no serious check. That the produce
of potatoes of the United Kingdom will prove miserably
deficient is now regarded as a certainty; and less is
consequently said about the matter than was the
case when some degree of doubt was supposed to attach
to the subject. The failure of this article of food fully
warrants the rise which has already taken place in the
value of wheat, and affords sufficient reason to calculate
on a further enhancement later in the year ; hence we
feel no surprise at the firm tone which the trade has
maintained at all the leading markets. The inclination
to purchase has rather increased of late than diminished,
and higher prices have been obtained towards the close
than were realised in the early part of the week.
It appears from our Scotch and Irish letters that the
potato disease is likely to prove even more serious in
those countries than in England. The extra consump-
tion of flour and meal which must take place, in conse-
quence of the loss of so great a proportion of the cus-
tomary food of a large class of the population, will
unquestionably diminish the shipments of wheat and oats
to the English markets, and we must, therefore, reckon
on much smaller receipts of Scotch and Irish produce
than in ordinary years.
A considerable proportion of the 10,000 qrs. of wheat
reported as received during the week got up previous to
Monday's market, but not in time to be included in the
list of arrivals then published; the actual supply coast-
wise into London has been only moderate since then.
The quantity exhibited at Mark-lane by land-carriage
samples from the home counties has meanwhile been small;
and as the demand has been tolerably active, prices have
tended upwards. The few parcels offering on the Essex
and Kent stands on Wednesday were held above pre-
vious prices, and though no quotable advance was estab-
lished, good qualities could scarcely be brought on as
easy terms as in the commencement of the week. On
Friday factors displayed increased firmness, and needy
buyers were under the necessity of paying the prices
demanded, which wero in most instances Is. to 2s.
per quarter above those current on Monday. The
averages are now beginning to exhibit the effect of the
late rise ; and the aggregate return for the kingdom
having advanced on Thursday last to 48s. 2d., the duty
receded to 9s. per quarter. Next week it will probably
fall another step, and before the end of November the
duty is likely to be at the minimum. There was not
much doiug in foreign free wheat in the commence-
ment of the week ; latterly, however, more inclination
to purchase has been shown. Several parcels changed
hands on Wednesday at rates not previously obtain-
able, and the business done on Friday was at an en-
hancetnement of fully Is. per quarter. Wheat in bond
is very scarce, the shipments to France having greatly
reduced the stock in warehouse; the certainty of the duty
receding to 4s. per qr. in a short space of time has caused
holders of the little under lock to raise their pretension,,
and the prices asked fur bonded have been within 4s.
per qr. of what similar qualities would bring free, By
the official return just published it appears that there
were, on the sth instant, only 47,626 qrs. under lozk in
the United Kingdom, of which 14,512 qrs. were held in
London.