The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
L D CO tileT.

THE IRISH SOCIETY'S ESTATES.
A deputation from the Irish Society has been for some
days inspecting their estates in Derry, with the view to
making improvements and giving employmEnt to the
poor. In a report of the proceedings of the deputation,
given in the Derry Sentinel of Seturday, there are the
following passages :
" The building leases of the society, generally speak-
ing, will be extended, and most of the tenants who either
have expended, or who intend to expend money on
building, are satisfied with the terms granted them ; but
with a few who hold under the society in this way the
deputation have not come to a complete understanding,
they being desirous that the occupiers and not the mid-
dleman or intermediate tenant should derive the chief
benefit.

" A deputation of their tenantry attended at Milton
Lodge, and they were well pleased with the result. A
long conversation arose respecting the state of the poor.
The society are determined to aid, in every possib:e way
in their power, in providing work during the approach-
ing winter.
The deputation had small parties to dine with them
every day, as it was their object to procure from the
clergymen, magistrates, and gentry of this district, who
were best informed, their several opinions respecting the
condition of the people, their wants and wishes. When
time permitted, they also drove round different parts of'
the neighbourhood, in order to ascertain the exact state
(If the crops, and the weather being remarkably fine,
they had an excellent opportunity of gratifying their
desire on this subject.
" Another matter which engaged their attention de-
mands our notice at greater length than any of the pre-
ceding. It has frequently been remarked that the north
coast of Ireland abounds with fish, and that Culdaff
Bay and the Back Strand of Magillan, which are both
open to the sea, are abundantly sueplied with turbot,
sole, plaice, &c. That they are abundantly furnished
with cod is beyond dispute, but, notwithstanding, from
the apathy that exists, and want of skill, there is no
person of sufficient means willing to fit out a craft-pro•
perly equipped for fishing this boisterous and exposed
coast; nor has it yet been ascertained if a vessel adapted
in every way for the purpose would repay herself, al-
though the prevalent opinion among those best qualified
to judge is, that if knowledge and indu,try were com-
bined, she would make a handsome return for the ex-
penditure. It was lately represented to the society by
their officers, that a subscription to a pier to be built on
their slob at Moville, would benefit the letigh and trade
in various ways, especially in of shelter to craft
employed in the deep-sea fishing, and they imme-
diately granted 3001. and the ground on which it
wee to be built. The late deputation, on their ar-
rival here, inquired what progress had been made with
the pier, observing that there was the harbour at Port-
rush on one hand, and that the pier of Moville would
shortly be completed on the other, and that these ought
to afford abundant protection to the small fishing craft
of Ennishowen and the county of Derry; but, on being
informed that the latter work was not even commenced.
and that their Admiralty yacht was well found in sails
and ground tackle, they immediately proposed to lend
her to two of their practical officers, and to grant a sum
towards the purchase of a first rate trawl, provided
preper persons were brought from Liverpool to instruct
them in all the branches of deep-sea fishing, and that
they would supply the vessel with all kinds of fishing
lines, make such alterations in her at their own expense
as were necessary, keeping a true account, to be fur-
nishc'd when called on, of the income and expenditure,
and submitting to other regulations, as required by the
general agent and the vice-admiral.
"-Their subscriptions to schools and places of religious
worship were on the most liberal scale, and we greatly
fear that if the pri.perty of the society was placed in the
hands of persons resid, nt here, local prejudices and
various other causes, which it is needless to specify.
would operate very seriously to the detriment of those
valuable and important public institutions- to which thee -
present lords of the soil are such muaificent benefactors."

CLERICAL INTOLERANCE.
(From the Newcastle Guardian.)
A glaring and shameful act of clerical intolerance has
just occurred in this neighbourhood—a case, unhappily,
not uncommon, but, for that reason, all the more de-
serving of the most unqualified condemnation. It
appears that the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, the incumbent of
the parish of Wallsend, deems the rite of baptism to be
valid only when administered by a clergyman of his
own denomination. Accordingly, when recently asked
/to grant Christian burial to the child of one of his
parishioners, he stoutly refused, on the ground that the
child had been invalidly baptised by a Wesleyan
minister, put the keys of the church-yard into his pocket,
and, unceremoniously walking off, hdt the poor heathen,
as we suppose his Reverence would call him, to bury his
child the best way he could. The corpse of the child was
taken to the church-yard, conducted through the sexton's
house, instead of by the usual entrance, and interred
without the customary service. Can any one imagine
the feelings of the parent so harshly and so rudely
treated ! lie immediately communicated the circum-
stance to the Lord Bishop of the diocese, who as
I promptly returned the following reply:—
" The Bishop of Durham is very sorry to hear that any
of his clergy has acted in the manner stated by Mr.
Giles. If Mr. Armstrong has reused Christian burial
to a child, because it had been baptist d by a Dissenting
minister, he has acted unworthy of his calling, and ren-
dered himself liable to punishment in the ecclesiastical
courts if Mr. Giles or any other wish to prosecute him.
The Bishop will not fail to write to Mr. Armstrong."
This is the answer we should have expected from the
worthy Bishop, and it is highly creditable to his lordship.
The parishioners followed it up by sending a deputation
to Mr. Armstrong to remonstrate with him on his un-
feeling conduct, and to assure him that unless he-pledged
himself never to repeat it the bishop's recommendation
would be carried out, and proceedings instituted forth-
with. This is said to have had the desired effect on Mr.
Armstrong, and we are promised that such an outrage
will not again occur at Wallsend. We purposely delayed
noticing this until its publication becanle absolutely ne-
cessary. Such cases, we know, are not more disagreeable
to dissenters than to many pious and liberal members of
the establishment. Yet the system that allows a
minister of any religion, Episcopalian, Congregational, or
Wesleyan, to practise such acts of intolerance must be
bad—radically bad—and in need of serious reforination..
Mr. Armstrong is blameable; but how much more so
are the laws that allow him or any other clergyman—we
care not of what religion—to degrade themselves and
their profession so miserably? Verily the country has
need of many reforms, but church reform is the crying
necessity of the times.

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.
The Revising Barrister, S. C. C. Fyshe, Esq., com-
menced the revision for the above portion of the county
of Surrey, at the Town-hall. Reigate, yesterday.
Messrs. Drummond and Chrees attended as the Con-
servative agents ; Mr. Jeans appeared as the agent for
the Surrey Reform Association, and Mr. R. Russell at-
tended on behalf of the free trade party. The Learned
Barrister went through the lists of the whole of the
parishes, but none of the cases involved any new point,
or any question of importance to the public. The next
court will be held at Croydon on Wednesday, at eleven
o'clock.

• ANDOVER.—CONCEALED TREASURE.—SoiIIe alter-
ations being found necessary to an ancient dwelling.
house in the High-street, the workmen, in removing the
bricks from the bottom of a chimney, were agreeably
surprised by finding several gold
.coins of great antiquity.
It is conjectured they were concealed by the removal of a
brick and replacing it, nearly two centuries since. Two of
the pieces are about the size of the present half-crown,
but much thinner ; they were coined in the reigns of
James I. and Charles 1., and are in good preservation,
having apparently lain dormant almost from the time of
their issue. It would appear they were deposited in their
hiding-place wrapped in linen, but which was entirely
decayed, leaving only a decayed cover of dust about the
coin.—Humpvhire Independent.
The paragraphs which have appeared in the English
papers, stating that saloons were to be provided on the
Eastern Counties line for the accommodation of smokers,
have attracted much attention on the Continent, which
is but natural, as there every male traveller is by habit
a consumer of cigars. The example will most likely be
extensively followed in Germany and Holland, should
the system be found to answer the expectations of the
Eastern Counties Company. Without wishing to inter-
fere with the tastes and pursuits of the public, we think,
however, that smoking on railways ought not to be en-
couraged, simply on the ground that it must be more or
less dangerous. With a strong current of air passing
through railway carriages in motion, there must always
bo a chance of ignition in the case of clothing and other
inflammable articles which may happen to lie loosely in
the way. The accident on the Versailles Railway a few
years since, from fire,
should operate as a caution to rail-
way boards with regard to smoking. The
paint
and
varnish were found, on that occasion, to contribute freely
to the melancholy and extensive loss of life that took
place.

Edt and Iforgan George Bethe:l,nd Thomas Ballard
surr,odered to take th4.ir trA upon an iL,lie.moot
ett4r,..;iog thorn with 1.10 :iolAv ~tealing a chrioce car-
riage, the property of Richard Kean.
Mr. Doane prosnnted, a,td Mr. Clarkion. with Mr.
BallAotinP, d.tihAl the pris,ners.

The circumstances under which this charge was pre-
ferred against the defendants were of rather a peculiar
character. It appeared that Morgan was engaged in
business as a coach-builder, and he had had some trans-
actions with a cab-master, named Worthington, and on
the beginning of the present year there was some nego-
tiation between them respecting a Clarence carriage, the
result being, according to the statement of Morgan, that
the vehicle was hired by Worthington for 51. a month,
but the latter declared that a purchase out and out had
been effected, and that it was to be paid for by instal-
ments. Very soon after the carriage cattle into Worth-
ington's possession, it appeared that he took it to a re-
pository and got an advance of 20! upon it, and he then
ordered a person, named Kenn, to whom he was at that
time indebted, and who had brought an action against
him, to repay the 201. so advanced, and take the carriage
in liquidation of his debt and costs. It then appeared
that Morgan, having become nevaint ,d with those cir•
cumstances, went to the place where the carriago was
kept by Kean, accompanied by the other two defendants,
and under pretence of purchasing it, they obtained pos-
session of it, for the purpose, as they said, " of trying it
upon the main road," and took it away altogether. It
appeared that the matter had been investigated by the
magistrate at the .11ammerstnith Police-court, and he
dismissed the charge of felony, but the parties subse-
quently went before the Grand Jury, who found a true
bill.
The jury returned a verdict of Not guilty.