The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-22 00:00:00

OF lIERETORD

" My Lord,—'We, the undersigned clergy of your
diocese, desire most affectionately and respectfully to
make known to your Lordship our satisfaction at your
having been called to preside over us.
" The acquiescence of all the bishops in your ap-
pointment to the Regius Professorship of Divinity in
the University of Oxford, the very efficient manner
in which you have discharged the important duties of
that dignified office, and the statute of 1842, by
which the same University expressly appointed you
its Theological Examiner, completely justify the con-
fidence we repose in the soundness of your theological
opinions ; whilst your eminent learning and irre-
proachable life, your prompt and enlightened judg-
ment, your known determination to uphold the pure
faith of God's holy word, and that charity which is
the bond of peace ; and, above all, your sedulous
endeavours, through God's grace, to fully and deeply
impress on the hearts of your parishioners at Ewelme
the saving doctrines of the gospel, and to lead them
to Christ, their great God and Saviour, the Lord their
righteousness, for pardon and justification, and for the
sanctifying grace of his Holy Spirit, to enable them
to walk worthily of their holy calling, and to bring
them to everlasting life '* fully warrant us in be-
lieving that you will discl;arge the duties of a Bishop
with caution, fidelity, and diligence, not seeking to
lord it over God's heritage, but in all things proving
yourself a wise and faithful steward over the house-
hold of God.

" We earnestly pray that the great Shepherd and
Bishop of our souls may send down upon you the
healthful spirit of his grace, and pour upon you the
continual dew of his blessing, that under his guidance
you may be enabled to maintain the pure Protestant
doctrine of our Church inviolate, to repel impiety and
error under whatever form: they may appear, to pre-
vent discordancy of principle and practice amongst
the clergy of your diocese, and to guard the Church
as well from external violence as the more dangerous
and insidious attacks of internal enemies.
" In all dutiful obedience and affectionate respect,
we have the honour to be,
" Your Lordship's faithful servants,
tHere follow the signatures.]
The address will be presented in the course of a
few days.
• See the Bishop's farewell address to the parishioners
of Eivelme.

RAILWAY DILLS in PARLIAMENT
DUSIN.ES3 DISPOSED OP Sy EXAMINERS YESTERDAY.
Before Mr. May, Room 11.
UNOFPOSED.—Dundee and Perth Railway (Dun-
dee Junction). Dundee and Perth Railway (Tay
Crossing). North British Railway (No. 1) (in-
crease and division of capital). North British Rail-
way (No. 2) (branches, &c_) Standing orders com-
plied with in all these cases.
OPPOSED.—Edinburgh and Northern Railway, and
Sterling and Dunfermline Railway (Queensferry and
Inverkeithing Branches). Allegations heard. Edin-
burgh and Northern Railway (Roscobie, lieltyliead,
and Glencraig Branches; Dunfermline branch altera-
tion ; road crossing ; purchase of corporation and
public property at Burntisland ; purchase of land at
Perth, and amendment of Act 3). Postponed.

Before Mr. Smith, Room 8.
UNOPPOSED.—Scottish Midland Junction Railway
(amendment and branch to Lawrencekirk). (Sus-
pended bill of session, 1847.) Scottish Midland
Junction Railway (amendment and branches to Bir-
nan and Dunkeld branch of Scottish Midland Junc-
tion Railway, and power to abandon part of the
original lino of the said Dankeld branch). Standing
orders complied with in both cases.
ADJOURNED CASES.—North Staffordshire Railway
(Ashbourne branch, and approach to Congleton sta-
tion). Standing orders complied with. Newport and
Pontypool Railway Act Amendment. Standing
orders not complied with in several instances.
OPPOSED.—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole
Railway Amendment (extension to Penistone and al-
teration of Dodworth branch). Allegations heard ;
decision postponed.

Sir John Guest had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.

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INQUEST on Mrs.SHUTTLEWk TRTii N
On Thursday evening an inquest was hel :ctat thei - :,s.
, Manchester Arms, Adairastreet East, gisbica'lPatfir!. \--, o"
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body Of Mrs. Martha Rhodes, alias S u iilifir '•
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• who died on the 6th instant, at the Luna
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York House, Battersea.
Before the jury was sworn, Mr. WAKL
that the informations originally forwarded t lAsikriS Kahl
the purpose of holding the inquest, at the re-
' quest of Miss Rhodes, the sister of the de-
ceased, had not appeared to him to be sufficient,
as there was no statement made of any grounds for
supposing that the deceased's death had been occa-
sioned
by any violence or ill-treatment. That he had,
therefore, attended in the first instance more to
satisfy the feelings of the sister of the deceased than
for the purpose of holding an inquest ; but, that
having inspected the body of the deceased, he found
it so extensively covered with ulcerated sores and
mortification about the hips -and sacrum, and so
reduced to a skeleton, that he was quite con-
vinced that an inquiry ought to take place;
that, although it would occasion him great personal
inconvenience, he was prepared to hold the inquest,
if the jury, and the relatives of Mrs. Shuttlea orth
demanded it of him, but that he would recommend
that the body should be taken back to the parish of
Battersea, where the deceased had died, and that thee
inquest should be held before the Coroner of the
' county of Surrey ; as the inquest would be held with
much disadvantage away from the asylum where the
death took place, whereas the Coroner for Surrey
' might proceed with the jury to the asylum,
and examine some of the patients, as well as
the matron and nurses, as to the treatment
He was, however, prepared to do his duty if so re-
quested, and to show that he had jurisdiction, as
it was most important that persons should be made
aware that they could not evade an inquiry of this
sort by removing the body from one county to
another, but that the coroner could cause an inquiry
to be made where the body was found. In this case
the body had been in the jurisdiction of three -
coroners, as it had been removed from Battersea to
the undertaker's, who resided in Westminster, and
thence into the county of Middlesex.
Miss Rhodes being called, stated that she was very
anxious that an inquiry should be made into the
causes of her sister's death, as she wished to know
what her death had been occasioned by, and why
she had been removed from Battersea ; that she had
not seen her sister since the 10th of November, when
the treatment she met with was such that she con-
ceived she was not permitted to see her sister ; that in
consequence of this she applied to the metropolitan
Commissioners for an order to see her, which bad
been refused. She had no information given her of
her sister's illness, nor did she know of her death,
which took place upon the 6th instant, till the 11th of
January, when she was informed of it by Mr. New-
land, a solicitor, and that the body was lying at Mr.
Storkings, an undertaker, in Pimlico ; that, how-
ever, she had received a letter from the so-
licitor, on the Sth of January, requesting
her to call upon him upon important
business—which she had not immediately attended
to, as he was the solicitor of the asylum, and she
conceived the business referred to the appointment of
a trustee to her sister's property, which she had
refused to consent to; that she proceeded forthwith to
the undertaker, who told her he had orders from the
Rev. Mr. Rowlett, who had signed the order for her
sister's confinement, and from Mr. Parkin, one of the
doctors of the asylum, not to deliver up the body,
but to buryit, and to allow her to attend the funeral ;
that, however, after application to the Rev. Mr.
Rowlett, she received a letter from that gentleman,
ordering the body to be delivered up to her, which
was at last brought to her on Friday evening, the
14th ; that she was very anxious that Mr. Wakley
should hold the inquest.
The jury, with one exception, concurred in this
opinion, upon which Mr. Wakley ordered them to be
sworn in, and they afterwards retired to view the
body.
On their return the foreman and the jury stated
that they were very much shocked at the appearance
of the body, and thought the case was one on which
an inquest ought to be held.
Mr. Waxaer observed that the sores on the body
were very bad, and the mortification very extensive,
that such a state, however, sometimes could not be
prevented. The question was, whether proper means
had been resorted to to prevent such extensive injury.
Mr. Wakley recommended that a medical man
should be employed to examine the body—and one
acquainted with hospital practice.
The inquest was then adjourned till Wednesday, Feb.
2, at ten o'clock A.M.

ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.

Yesterday the first general meeting of the donors
and subscribers to this institution was held at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate.street, for the purpose
of electing ten out of thirty-six applicants on the
foundation of the institution.

D. AV. WIRE, Esq., proposed that the chair be
taken by Sir George Carroll, Bart.
Sir G. CARROLL, on taking the chair, said it
afforded him peculiar gratification in being called
upon to preside on the occasion of the first election of
the institution, and within so short a period of its
foundation, so recently as the 27th of October last.
The good effects of their exertions hail already ap-
peared, in their being enabled, so soon after the foun-
dation of the asylum, to receive ten applicants out of
thirty-six. The great object of the charity was not
merely to take the idiot under its care, but especially,
by the skilful and earnest application of the best
means in his education, to prepare him, as far as pos-
sible, for the duties and enjoyments of life. All per-
sons, without regard to sex, or place, or age, being
destitute, are entitled to be elected on the foundations,
childhood and infancy being preferred, as the most
favourably to carry out the objects of the institution.
The object of the meeting being the election of candi-
dates, he declared the poll open and the election to
proceed.
The poll was then opened, and at the close the ten
successful candidates were duly announced.

Amongst the donations announced were Sir Charles
Forbes, Bart., 100 guineas ; Sir George Carroll, 20
guineas ; Baron Rothschild 10 guineas ; Mr. Sheriff
Cubitt, 10 guineas ; Alderman Sir Peter Laurie,
10 guineas ; D. W. Wire, Esq., 10 guineas, &c.
Mr. Under-Sheriff WIRE moved a vote of thanks
to the chairman for presiding.
Sir G. CARROLL having returned thanks, the
meeting broke up.