The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-21 00:00:00

kN UNCLERICAL CLERGYMAN.

The Manchester Examiner publishes, on the authority
of Mr. Henry Knowles, of Patrington, Holderness,
the following account of the reception accorded to
the Primitive Methodist superintendent of the Patrington
Circuit at Halsham, by a clergyman resident in the
mighbourhood :—The minister, as was his custom,
was paying pastoral visits to the sick and
others in the neighbourhood, when a parson rode
up on horseback, and stopped directly opposite
the house into which the minister had entered, and began
to call out at the top of his voice, " Turn him out ! turn
that fellow out ! what does he want here ? " The minister,
observing the parson through the window, whom he took
for a farmer, said to the mistress of the house, " Does
that gentleman want your husband ? " (who was
returned from his daily employ). She went to
the door to ask the gentleman what he wanted, when he
angrily replied, "Turn that fellow out! What does he
want there ?" The woman returned and said to the minister,
"He wants you, sir." The minister inquired who the
gentleman was, and was told, "It is our clergyman." The
minister, not conceiving what he could want with him,
except it was to ask him what he thought of the sick per-
son whom he had visited in the village, of whom the
doctor had given little hope of recovery, went to the
door, when the clergyman, in a very angry tone said,
" What do you want here? You have no busi-
ness here-! You'll get away at once, - you
have no authority here ! What authority have
you to come here ?" The minister replied, " By the same
authority which allows you to be here, legal authority."
" You have no authority," said the clergyman' " You are
a blackguard ; you are a swindler; you are a Dissenter ;
you are a devil in sheep's clothing ; you are going about
deceiving the people by wearing a black coat ; you have
no right to wear a black coat." The minister said he did
not know of any law to forbid him wearing a black coat
so long as he paid for it, which he always had done. The
clergyman still insisted " You have no right to wear a
black coat. You are a blackguard ; you are a devil in
sheep's clothing ; and you know that what lam telling
you is the truth. You have no authority to come here.
The soil is not yours." " No," replied the minister,
"nor is it yours." "It is Sir Clifford Constable's,"
replied the clergyman, " and he won't have you coming
here ; and he will use means to keep you and all such
like away." The minister believing that Sir Clifford was
not so illiberal, said that Sir Clifford had got more sense
than to attempt any such thing; to which the clergyman
scornfully replied, More sense ! You are a blackguard !
you are a devil." The minister finding there was not
any chance of getting either sense or reason
from the clergyman, turned away and left him.
It was about half-past six o'clock in the evening. Several
labouring men were walking in their gardens, and heard
all the clergyman said on the occasion. The minister was
afterwards told that the clergyman said be only regrettek.r;
that he did not dismount and give him (the minister) a
downright good flogging with his whip across' his
shoulders.

EMIGRATION FROM THE WEST.--"--Large numbers
of people are emigrating from Devon as well as Cornwall.
Within the last few days above 100 emigrants left North
Devon for America. Upwards of fifty will leave Corn-
wall for the same place in the course of a fortnight, and
about twenty for Australia.

A. Montreal despatch, dated the Gth instant, pub.
lished in the New York papers of the 7th, says :
" Major-General Lindsey arrived here yesterday,
_and
has issued an order taking command of the troops int
Quebec and Ontario. General Lindsey will command the
expedition to the Red River and the Volunteers will pro.
bably be led by Colonel Wolsey."

Three Liverpool vessels are missing—the City of
Brussels, which left New York on the 28th of March,
and was spoken to on the 9th instant, without propeller;
the Venezuelen, bound for Liverpool to the Westndies,
and not heard of since she left, with her stern-posts gone,
and in a terrible plight ; and the Sirius, a new steamer,
has not been heard of since she sailed from Calcutto, to
Liverpool ninety days ago.
The police at Milan are said to have discovered'
a secret manufactory of ammunition. They entered
the house during the absence of the inmates. One of
these happened to come in while the search was going on.;
dangerously wounding a gendarme with a revolver,
and then succeeded in making his escape, The police •
conveyed to the barracks a cartload of cartridges,
projectiles, and gunpowder. Four persons have beck,
arrested.

THE DACOTAII INDIANS AT WAR.—AdViCf3S from
Fort Sully, Dacotah, say that the Dacotah tribes are pre-,
paring for the war path. Two hundred lodges of Sioux?
and other Indians have camped near the Cheyenne agency.
They say that they want arms and ammunition, and in-
tend to drive all the miners from the Musselshell and
Yellowstone Rivers. Another murder is reported from
South Pass, Wyoming, and a company have started in.
9-arsuit of the savages.
THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Tha Melbourne
Age makes some remarks on the federation of the Aus-
tralian colonies, and says that the bonds of union between
the Southern communities grow slowly but surely. Mr.
Casey, the late Minister of Justice, has brought forward
6 proposal for uniformity and reciprocity in matters of
law and its administration, which was unanimously ,
adopted by the Assembly. A committee has been formed '
to arrange for a conference with the other colonies to bring
the proposition into effect. One approaching event which
ill tend to hasten a federation, far off as this may be, is
„le withdrawal of the British troops, whereby the sole
Imperial representatives left will be the Governors of the
Colonies.

A. Reuter's express from Portugal asys--" The
Xing has made Dauesi, an Italian balla master, alczight.
of the order of Christ, a pioccediug which has Wand:
much. adverse. criticism."

A. man whose wife hung herself in his preselleer
on being asked why he did not prevent the tragedy,
replied : " I cut her down three times last week, and E
can't be always cuttinz her clown.'

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