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 kiand
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 mentioned,
in two of which suits the offences charged were not
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 the
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 conse-
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
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officio et beneficio for three years. The costs of the pro-
secution amounted to 2231. Is. 10d., of which 501. 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 Hawkes Langley (clerk)
was proved guilty of brawling in the parish church, and
suspended ab officio for eight months. Henry Erskine
Head, for publishing a letter in derogation and depraving
of the Book of Common Prayer, was suspended ab
officio et beneficio for three years ; Henry Henslowe, fbr
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 incontinence,
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 Jones,
for adultery and fornication, was suspended ab officio et
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 ab officio until he
alail retract his errors ; William Day, for habitual and
excessive drunkenness and having been convicted of an
assault, was suspended ab 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 Cress% ell, for quarrelling, fight-
ing, and habitually swearing, frequenting public-houses
and intoxication, aas suspended for eighteen months ab
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 gut
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 troop, 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
CMABE.—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 he 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
ceremony 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-
mentjourney.—Nottinghamshire
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from a locomotive, drawing waggons laden with sand, on
the Orleans and Tierzon Railroad, 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 Minister 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 oft the face of
the earth."—Glasgow Paper.
THE POISONING IN ESSEX.—Another child, sup-
posed to have been poisoned by Sarah Chesham, has just
died at Clavering. The inquest on the body is appointed
to be held to-day.
EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE. —On Monday
last, James Stevens threshed 248 sheaves of wheat, at
St. Allen Vicarage, within eleven hours.—Devonpert
Telegraph.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, Sim 29, 1846.
The Qneea has been pleased to appoint the Honourable
George Grey, Captain in the Royal Navy, to be Captain of
the port of Gibraltar.
CROWN•OFFICE, SErr. 26.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Clonmel—The Hon. Cecil Lawless, in the room
of the Right Hon. David Richard Pigott, who has accepted
the office of Chief Baron of her Majesty's Court of Exche-
quer in Ireland.
We, the undersigned, Inclosure Commissioners for Eng-
land and Wales, hereby give notice, that an application has
been made by the Rev. Joseph Taylor, clerk, Vicar of Castle
Sowerby, in the county of Cumberland, for the advance of
2001. by way of loan, under the provisions of the Act of the
9th and 10th Vic., cap. 101, for the drainage of the glebe
lands of the said parish of Castle Sowerby.
Witness our hands this 28th day of September, in the
year of our Lord, 1846.

MORPETII.
Wilt. B AMIRE.
G. DARBIL

COURT-MARTIAL at HOUNSLOW.
A district Court-martial assembled on Tuesday at tin
barracks, Hounslow, to try private Thomas Matthewson,
of the 7th Lancers, on a charge of insubordination" and
using insulting and disgustingly abusive language " to
Lance-sergeant; Robert O'Donnell, his superior officer,
accompanied with threats of violence. The charge was
brought forward by Lieutenant Viscount St. Lawrence,
as prosecutor.
The 7th Lancers having left the barracks, no officer of
that regiment sat upon the Court-martial, which was
composed of the following members :—Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Smith, Royal Horse Guards, President ; Captain
G. C. W. Forrester, of the Blues ; Captain Mansell,
Captain Morant, Lieutenant R. IL Smith Barry, Lieu-
tenant Sutton, and Lieutenant 11. Sutton, of the 12th
Lancers.
The Court having been opened in the usual manner,
and the prisoner pleaded " Not guilty,"
Robert O'Donnell, Lance- sergeant of the 7th hussars,
was sworn. Ile deposed as follows :—I was sergeant of
the guard at Hampton-court Barracks on the 20th inst.
I was at the Trophy-gate about a quarter past six
o'clock in the evening, when private Thomas Matthew-
said, " You b— break your b— head." I asked
him who he meaat. lie said, " You and that other old
b— (meaning Sergeant Jones) ; I'll break both your
b— heads for you."
By the prisoner—Did not witness first speak to me?
Witness—Not when the prisoner was on sentry.
By prisoner—Did he not tell me that I could not have
my sentry hours changed?
Witness—l told him a quarter of an hour before I
posted him that he could nut hare the hours changed.
Prisoner—Do you know if there is a regimental
order that when a non-commissioned officer visits a
sentry on duty he must be accompanied by a private of
the guard ?
Witness—l was not visiting the sentries; I was on
duty, but was not going my rounds.
The prisoner put no further questions to this witness.
Matthew Routh, corporal of the 7th Hussars, sworn—
Was on guard at Hampton-court on the 20th inst.;
was standing near the front gate when the sergeant
of the guard (O'Donnell) came in; the prisoner was on
sentry at the Trophy-gate; he turned round and spoke
to the sergeant, but he (witness) was not suffi-
ciently near to hear what took place between them.
By his manner, prisoner appeared to be speaking dis-
respectfully to the sergeant. That was all he knew of
the matter.
In answer to questions by the prisoner, witness stated
that on the Saturday he had not told prisoner ho
could not have his sentry hours changed. On the Wed-
nesday he had received an order from the acting regi-
mental sergeant-major to take a man with him
and inform private Matthewson that the commanding
officer could not grant his request, and neither would lie
see him.
Prisoner—Did you consider Sergeant O'Donnell sober
at the time?
The COURT directed the prisoner to confine his ques-
tions to what took place at the gate ; the point he had
referred to would come in his defence.
The prisoner put no further questions, and the evi-
dence for the prosecution being closed, it was read over,
and the prisoner called on f,r his defence.
Private Matthewson then made the following state-
ment:—" Sergeant O'Donnell came to me on Saturday
at Hampton-court, and told me I could neither have my
sentry hours changed or be relieved. I said I was very
sorry, as my brother-in-law had just arrived from the
East Indies. Ile then went away, called Corporal
Routh, and said something to him that I did not hear.
This was the conversation which the corporal overheard."
The COURT—The corporal states he did not hear the
conversation.
Prisoner—That was the conversation which took
place between me and Sergeant O'Donnell, when Cor-
poral Routh was standing by. Nothing more occurred
between me and the sergeant. The charge brought
against me by him is unfounded and without one word
of truth. I also wish to state, that the sergeant was
drinking in the canteen before he went on guard, and
afterwards, and that he told Private Hutchings he might
post himself on my sentry, for ho would not do it.
The COURT—Private Hutchings should have been
produced as a witness.
Prisoner—lle has left with the regiment. I do not
consider the sergeant was sober at the time. When he
came into the guardroom at night he laid down on the
floor and was to all appearance quite drunk. I have
nothing more to add; all the witnesses I could have
called have gone with the regiment.
The COURT—Did you apply to the commanding
officer to have any of the witnesses detained? Prisoner
—No, I did not; I thought the sergeant would have told
the truth.
The Court was cleared for a short time; on its being
re-opened,
Corporal Routh was recalled; in answer to a question
from the Court he stated, that Sergeant O'Donnell was
perfectly sober when he was talking to Matthewson.
The defence was then read over to the prisoner with
the above addition to the evidence, and the Court again
cleared.
When again opened,
Lieutenant Viscount St. Lawrence produced extracts
from the regimental books of the 7th Hussars, the books
themselves having gone with the regiment. Ile depre,ed
to their being true copies, and having stated that the
prisoner bad been duly warned that any former convic-
tion would be used against him, proc- eded to read the
minutes of the former trial and conviction of private
Matthewson on the 22d of June, on two charges of inso-
lence to St rgcant Temple, of the 7th Hussars, while in
the execution of his duty, and disrespectful and insolent
conduct to his commanding olin•er, Colonel Whyte. On
these charges Matthews to was sentenced to a punish-
ment of 100 lushes, which was carried into ( fleet.
In answer to questions from the Court, Lieutenant
Viscount St. La N mnce stated that the prisoner's age a as
twenty-three years and six months, that he had been six
months in the regiment, and that in his p-evious gent ral
character and bearing he had been insolent and extremely
disrespeeVul towards his sui:cri( rs.
The proceedings then terminated, and the Court broke
up. The sentence will not be made known till confirmed
by the Cornmantlersin-Chief.
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MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.
PnomF.NADE addition to M. Jullien at
Covent-gfrirden Theatrs, it is stated that Mr. Alloroft,
the monster toncat sprcula!or, has taken the Lyceum,
after the close of the present season, for a month's pro-
caoriade entertainments, for which vocalists have also
been engaged. At the Adelaide Gallery, under Mr.
Laurent, tn., promenade concerts are to be given.
TIM NEW MUSIC ItALL IN LIVE/WOOL—WC an-
nounced, some days since, under the head of " Music in
Liverpool," that the Philharmonic Society had resolved
to build R capable of holding upwards of
2 000 persons. The first stone was laii on the 23.1
instant, by J. B. Braneker, Esq.. When St. Georgo's
Hall is completed, Liverpool will boast of two immense
music rooms, one to huld 5,000 and the other 2000,
whilst London is without ri single concert-room of eny
dimensions. Paris Is about to have a music-hell con-
structed in sileh a manner that it will hold 5,000 or 500
auditors at plea,ure, by a system of contracting the
space by partitions. Stith an edifice is sally wanted in
the British metropolis. Hanover-square rooms, with
800 persons, is a Calcutta black-hole, and Exeter Hall,
confined as it is to sectarians only, is not adapted for
musical sounds.

Music am PAnts.—There has been no novelty. At
the Acaikasie Royale de Musique, Mtllle. Datneron has
appeared in Valentine in the Huguenot.. Madame Stoltz
left. Paris on Tuesday to sing at Lyons. Halvey's Moue
quetaires de la Reins continued to draw the public to
the Opera Cumique. Mdlle. Berthe, a new vocalist from
Brest. has appeared in the l're aux Clercr. She is de
scribed as being very pretty, hut having little voice.
Madame Persiani had arrived in Paris, to open the
Italian Opera in !Aria, on Thursday, Oct. 1.
LA SCALA or MILAN.—For the next Carnival, Mo-
riani, Marini, De Bassini, Revere, Madame Tadolini,
and lidlle. Angri have been engaged. Of these artists,
Marini, a young basso, as gigantic in person and voice
as Lablachu Rovers, the great buffo, and Mdlle. Angri,
the contralto, are engaged for Covent-garden Theatre
for the season 1847. Perrot and Fanny Elesler aro en.-
gaged at the Scala.
A new one-act opera, called Lu Sultana, composed by
M. Maurice Bourges, has been quite successful at the
Opera Comique, in Paris.
MADR motstLLE PLunxErr.—At length the engage.
ment of Mademoiselle Plunkett, which was to expire at
the end of December, has just been renewed for a year,
and from this moment she bears the title of Premiere
Danscuse. Her name, therefore, will appear for the
future in as large letters in the playbills as those used
for Carlotta Grisi. On the Ist of December the graceful
" Ballerine" departs for Turin, to dance for three months
at the Carignano, a theatre of the first rank. She will
still have two months rouge, between March and August,
1847. Already numerous proposals have been made to
her, and London, seemingly, will have the preference.--
Fruace Musicale.
As we have already announced, Madlle. Plunkett is
engaged at Drury-lane Theatre.
Tilt Htneeolin FESTIVAL.—The Festival passed off
so satisfactorily that four out of the eight stewards have
already accepted the office for 1849 ; one of the four is
the Earl of Oxford, who has served before, bat who in
the handsomest manner volunteered to fill it again ; the
other three are Sir Velters Cornewall, Bart., Sir Thomas
Hastings, and the Rev. Canon Musgrave. This liberal
spirit augurs well for 1849, and as we expect that the
restoration of the noble cathedral will by that time be
completed, and there will bo a railroad to the city, w•
look forward for brilliant success.—Hereford

The Annual llop Dinner was held at the Castle
Tavern, in this city, on Tuesday, and was attended by
many extensive growers of hops from this neighbour-
hood. The duty was set at 220,0001.—Canterbury
Journal. _ _ _

DEVONSHIRE ClDER.—Within the last few days an
order has been received and executed by Messrs. King.
don, of Thorverton, for a supply of Devonshire cham-
pagne cider, for tho special me of her Majesty.—Ply-
mouth Packet.

GROWING ONE'S OW CorrlN.—Died, on Satur-
day, Mr. William Whitehead, farmer, Eleswick, aged
82. In early life ho planted an acorn in his garden'
which grew to a full-grown tree. A few years ago the
tree was cut down, preserved, and, according to his own
request, has been applied for making his coffin, in which
his remains► are now deposited.—Plymouth Times.
VICTORIA PARK. - The operations for .1..
have been actively ref.'that the ^-1- '

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and it is anticipated
- ...vie will be completed before the termination
or alb coming spring. In its present state the park re-
tains all its attractions with the East-enders, and the
average of visitors has for many Sundays past exceeded
ten
thousand, The gates at the entrance in Bonner's
Fields having been placed up, all persons are excluded
at night, except those
passing through on business or
residents, a night park-keeper being stationed for the
PLFR°II-..BAlilding is -oing on very actively and ex-

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