The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-13 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. J. R. Major, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, and the present Head Master of King's College
School, London, has been appointed by the M iyor of
Stamford to the vacant Mastership of the Free School in
that town.

Robert Whiston, B.A. and Scholar of Trinity College,
Cambridge, has been appointed Head Master of the Ro-
chester and Chatham Classical and Mathematical School.
The Rev. Thomas Mills, M.A., one of the Minor Ca-
nons of Peterborough Cathedral to the Rectory of North-
borough, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the
Rev. William Head; on the presentation of the Dean and
Chapter of Peterborough. .

The Rev. Ge,rge Ayton Whitaker, 8.A., to the Vica-
rage of Mendham, in the counties of Suff.lk and Norfolk,
on the presentation of the devisees in trust of Thomas
Whitaker, deceased.

We understand at a meeting of the working
classes at the Crown and Cushion, Church-gate, the con-
duct of Mr. WILLIAM EVANS, in voting with Ministers
on the assessed taxes, was generally condemned, and a re-
solution passed to the following effect:—" That he has for-
fited the confidence of this Union, and of the working
classes generally, and that we cannot find words sufficient
to express the indignation we feel at his conduct."—Lei-
cester Herald.

ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND DINNER.—
The 24th anniversary of this institution, founded for the
purpose of affording relief to the widows and orphans of
deceased artists, was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern
on Saturday last. The choir was occupied by Lord CLlvat,
and among the company present were Sir M. A. SHER,
P. R.A., B. B. CABULE, F.S.A., W. MULREADY, Esq.,
ILA., R. R. REINAGLE, Esq., R.A., W. DANIEL,
R.A., A. COOPER, ILA., J. DICKINSON, Esq , &c. The
festivities of the evening, which were much enhanced by
some excellent singing, were kept up to a late hour.
About a fortnight ago the two daughters of
a highly respectable English gentleman disappeared. Their
mother eloped on the following night. The children were
returned to their ;agonised parent last week by a mysterious
person, who would answer no question. The young
ladies, the eldest not yet sixteen, preserve equal silence.
They pretend they are under the obligation of a vow, or an
oath, and wish to insinuate that they were the objects of a
religious speculation similar to that in which a Miss Loves
DAY figured, or was said by her father to have figured,
'acre some nine or ten years ago. Their mother has not
yet reappeared.—Paris Correspondent of a Morning
Paper.

EXETER, SATVRDAY, 16AY 1.-Our city was
this morning shocked with the report that a duel
had been fought between Dr. Hennis, a young
Irish physician, who has resided here about four
years, and is a great favourite, and Sir John W.
Jeffcott, who has been recently appointed Chief
.Justice and Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court,
Sierra Leone. It appears that Sir John had been
introduced to a respectable family in this neighbour-
hood—the late Colonel Nlacdonald's—and paid his
addresses to one of the daughters ; having been suc-
cessful with the lady, and ❑nobjectionable in the
eyes of the family, preparations were making for the
intended wedding, which were so far advanced that
the bride-cake was actually ordered. In this
state of things Dr. Hennis is said to have re-
ceived a letter from a friend in town, containing
some remarks on Sir John, and the doctor placing
implicit reliance on the statement of his friend,
showed the letter to the family, and the Judge was,
it is reported, dismissed. Having at length disco.
vered the source of the rumours against him, he
called on the doctor,who refused to give up his author.
The charges being in general terms, he was unable to
substantiate them, and refusing to retract them,
the meeting took place yesterday afternoon,- on
Haldon Hill, about six miles from Exeter, on the
Plymouth road. Dr. Hennis was accompanied by
Captain Halsted, R.N., and Sir John Jeffcott, by
Mr. Charles Milford, the hanker. A surgeon also
was in attendance. They left town in two post-
chaises, and were observed going along the fore
street in great glee, so that very different conclusions
were come to as to the object of their journey, the
doctor himself appeared to be in very high spirits.
The postillions were ordered to drive to Ashburton
(twenty-one miles), but after ascending Haldon, the
party got out and desired them to proceed slowly
on with the vehicles till they were overtaken. In a
very few minutes they heard the report of a pistol,
and stopping to ascertain the cause, they saw the
doctor borne across the heath in the arms of his
second and the surgeon—the doctor mortally
wounded, and unable to speak. He was imme-
diately brought back to Exeter, to his lodgings
at Mr. Uphans's, bookseller, High-street, when
his wound was examined by Mr. Barnes, and
other eminent surgeons, and it was found that the
ball had entered his side, just above the hip, and
going over to the opposite side, had broken a rib,
where it lodged. The ball has not yet been ex-
tracted, and doubts :ire entertained whether it ever
can be. Sir John Jeffcott and the seconds, &c.,
started for Plymouth immediately after the melan-
choly transaction, to await the result of the surgical
examination. 'Warrants have been issued for their
apprehension, it is stated, but this rests on very
vague report at present. It is worthy of remark
that Doctor Hennis did not fire; his antagonist had
the first shot, and the doctor fell withot being able
to return the fire.

Miss Macdonald, to whom the Learned Judge
had been paying his addresses, is grand-daughter to
the celebrated Flora Macdonald, the friend of the
Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, after
whom her son, the father of Miss Macdonald, was
christened. Dr. Hennis was also about to be mar
tied, in a very short space of time, to the daughter
of the rector of a neighbouring parish ; the young
lady's distress may be readily imagined. In fact,
public sympathy is very generally and warmly ex-
pressed for the doctor, who is universally beloved,
from his goodness of disposition and active benevo-
lence. With the poorer classes he was a great fa-
vourite, from the circumstance of having attended
them zealously during the visitation of the cholera.
The above is an outline of the facts as far as I could
sift them out of the various rumours afloat. An
affair of houour" is, happily, a rare occurrence
here, and of course every incident in it is not only
much distorted, but the facts themselves are so per-
verted, that it is difficult to trace them even to any
connexion with circumstances to which they assume
to belong.