The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-01 00:00:00

£958

£BB4

Of the above 8841. the members of the corporation
of Worcester, who attended the festival in state on the
first morning, contributed 231. The collection at
Gloucester last year was 8621., and at Hereford, in
1849, 8331. Worcester, however, always realises the
largest collection. It is anticipated that when the
general accounts come to be made up they will show
a considerable deficiency, which would have to be
made good entirely by the stewards but for the pre-
science of the managers, who have secured a guarantee
fund from the public amounting to nearly 8001. The
attendance at the morning performances, oompared
with those at the morning :performances of 1848,
showed the following result :

1851.
Tuesday morning
Wednesday morning
Thursday morning 739
Friday morning

1848.
• . 1,497
••• 1,400
602
••• 970

4,441 4,469
The falling off,
therefore, in the attendance at the
morning performances was trifling, but it is at the
evening concerts that there has been such a decline in
point of attendance.

In connexionwith the festival the following
strange letter has been published in to-day's Wor-
cester paper :

" Titiberton, near D roitwich, Worcestershire, Aug. 25.
illy Lord,—Ou Saturday afternoon I received a card
from the Mayor of Worcester, inviting me to a public
breakfast on Tuesday next. The invitation seemed to
take it for granted that I was going to attend the Musical
Festival. Unless your Lordship, who I perceive is pre-
sident, can show me that such an assemblage of opera
and theatre performers within the walls of the cathedral
is not making God's house of prayer a den of thieves, I
must, as I have hitherto done, avoid such a mixture of
sacred and profane persons and things, for I know it to
be contrary to God's most holy word, to the teaching of
the primitive church, and of the United Church of Eng-
land and Ireland.
" I write to thank the Mayor for his courtesy (be-
lieving that, with many excellent persons, he.
errs in
ignorance), but declining hies invitation, and it is myxn-
tention to publish this letter early to-morrow morning.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord, praying God to
give you grace to remove all scandals from your diocese,
servant and pry sci bsihytrotse:A,
" Your Lordship's faithful, sorrowful, and most humble
otRTWH:r
" The Lord. Rce,sCteur.rate of Oddingley.
" direct my messenger to wait for an answer,
if your Lordship should sce fit to send me one. "L. A.
" Through some mistake he has not met me here as
I expected. Worcester, Tuesday morning."

CHARGE OF CHEATING AT BRIGHTON.
Another application was made on Saturday for the
reception of bail in the case of Staden, who is charged,
together with Broome and another, with cheating at
Brighton. under circumstances already known to the
public. On Wednesday Mr. William Brisket Davies,
attorney, of No. 6. Swan-street, Trinity-square, applied
to the Lord Chief Baron, at his chambers, in Rolls'-
gardens, Chancery-lane, for the issuing of a writ of
habeas corpus to bring up the prisoner, Charles
Staden, before his Lordship, in order that bail might be
tendered on his behalf. The writ of habeas corpus was
ordered to issue, and made returnable at the chambers of
the Lord Chief Baron on Saturday, at two o'clock.—Mr.
Sill, of Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, attorney for the
prosecution, attended accordingly at the Lord Chief
Baron's chambers, at the time named. On appearing
before his Lordship, Mr. Silt said he wished that every-
thing should proceed with regularity, and he should
be glad, therefore, to know who the party was who at•
tended for the prisoner.—The Lord Chief Baron in-
quired of that gentlemen, and he replied that he was
clerk to Mr. Davies.—Mr. Sill said he apprehended
that Mr. Davies should have attended himself.—The
Lord Chief Baron: Certainly, where is Mr. Davies ?
The clerk replied that he was gone to bring the bail.—
The Lord Chief Baron: Where are they? why are they
not in attendance?—The clerk said they were gone to
get refreshments, and would be there immediately.
The Lord Chief Baron—Why are they not here? It
is now ten minutes past two o'clock.—The clerk said
they would be present in a few minutes.—The Lord
Chief Baron said he should not wait; they should have
been in ettendueee.—The clerk again repeated that the
bail would be immediately present. The Lord Chief
Baron, however, said he should not wait for them, and
added, "Go to the magistrates; go to the magistrates."
As his Lordship was having, .‘tr. Sill said that four ap-
plications fur bail bud already been made before tl,e
magistrates without success, and he expressed a hope
that the prosecutor should not be put to further expense
in attending before his Lordship, and that another
habeas would not be issued.—The Lord Chief Baron
said that none should be issued by him, and immedi-
ately retired. His Lordship had seercely left hie
chambers when Mr. Davies, attended by the proposed
bail, entered the outer office. He was accompanied by J.
Broome and Staden, the latter being brought up by the
gaoler in ebedit-nee to the writ of habeas. The Lord
Chief Baron, however, having gone, nothing could be
done, and the parties lett, Staden to be re-conveyed to
Lewes Gaol.

UPAIII VS TE ESSEX.
The poor of this parish the other day presented their
young pastor, the Rev. W. A. Hill, with a handsome
silver inkstand, on the Occasion of his leaving them to
take a larger charge at St. Barnabas, South Kennington.
Only twenty months have elapsed since Mr. Hill began
the duties of this charge, and so unremitting has been
the. zeal with which he has performed his duties in the
church, the school, and in the sick room, that he
has won the universal esteem and affection of rich
and poor. During this period Mr. Hill has suc-
ceeded in raising 7001. for the erection and
maintenance of national schools in the parish,
which are now in active operation; and this was
the more creditable in a widely scattered population,
and considering the ddlieuities, known only to country
clergymen, of collecting money for similar purposes.
By thus earnestly providing for the intellectual and
temporal, as well as the spiritual wants of his pa-
rishioners, he gave the best proof of his anxiety for
their weltare. We recollect that, acting ou the benevo-
lent principle of the Rev. Mr. Brown, late of Spital-
fields, he invited the poor of his parish to spend one long
summer day at his house, where, in the lawn in front,
after having partaken of their worthy pastor's hospi-
tality they joined in various country sports and games
prepared for them, and the air rang with the
joy of youth, while all looked on with parental
love and happiness. And when the sun began to sink
in the west, and each pressed forward to thank their
young pastor for the happy day they had spent, it was
impossible to mistake the hearty shake of the hand—the
starting tear of the old—the glad eye of the young—
only toned down by an expression of love and respect
for one who had made them so happy. The dullest ob-
server might have seen that an important spring of
human action had been touched, and that the minds of
these simple peasants, like a well-ploughed field, were
open to receive the seed of truth. For it is in the hearts
of her people that the Church must hope to develope the
power and divinity of Protestantism. Here
lies her
strength—the strength in fact of all churches. She
must be in deed as well as in theory, the poor mans
de-
church. If this be wanting, " Synods" mss make
"rights
clarations" and martial their forces to fightfor t eand
of the clergy" in vain. The revival of forgotten canons __
obsolete forms will prose poor substitutes for the affec•
;'on and confidence of her members.

during
SuiCIDE.—On Saturday an inquest was held on the
yh
person
eurrsso
n elapsed
ba_ne:
body of Mary, the wife of Mr. Start, a butcher, in Paul-
street, Finsbury. The deceased was an inveterate drunkard,
and used to fetch the
a verdict of
gin in quart jugs. She was habitually
her
violent, though treated kindly by
his absence, and while she was drunk, she fastened herself
in her bed-room, and hung herself. Somean
beforeri,ern ptohrearf.laf
it
dwsaarsiicloi,F.
and the
Tcohreonjeurryg
certifi-
cate to the burial club, in
.which she was insured, that ~he
had not been deprived of life by means of
ficially interested in her death.
THE Loch CONTROVERSY.—The American
pick-
lock, Mr. Hobbs., has accomplished the • 1,•
plc -in
of the famous Bramah's patent lock. A g and opening
this gentleman accepted the challenge of tow weeks since
one of his patent locks, and in Ur' Chubb to pick
a very brief
in opening it with common picklock period succeeded
lenged by Messrs. Bramah to ex •s' He was then chal-
lenged styled impregnable locks perirnentalise on what have
2001. if he should succeed in , and was promised a forfeit of
trial might be fairly made, commissioners it.
In order that the
decide upon it, and thirty clear d were appointed to
Bramah to Mr. Hobbs for his days were granted by Messrs.
work, but in a few days operation. Mr. Hobbs went CO
the weakness of his suspended his operatior.s, alleging
prepared he desired instruments.to As soon as others had been
Messrs Bramah objected continue his attempt, but to this
terfered, and Mr. Hobbs re The commissioners, howerstro,ritr,
picked
and
opened
the sulem,ked his labourds,
aans,dhowevj,
withheld, nn the ground, as We understand, reward was,
contrary to
the conditions he had emploed more than one instrument.
'['his point is to be decided by the commissioners, whose re-
port is to be published in a few days. With reference to Mr.
Hobbs' lock in the Exhibition, and the reward of 5001.
offered to whomsoever shall pick it, no one up t the presetntis
time has come forward to accept his challenge. It is wha
known in America as the Parantothic Bank
the lock, and is deof-
scribed as being manifestly secure against attempts
even the inventor, being susceptible of 479,001,000 changes,
through the moveable wards in the key.
The Commissioners appointed under the Act of last
session to inquire into the practices at elections irns the bo-
rough of St. Albans, Messrs. Slade, Q e., 10 Yth, and
appointed Mr. L. H. Fitzgerald, of the Western
Phinn, have
conduct ofthis '
Circuit, as their clerk for the
they have fixed to commence at St. Albans towards the
middle of October. The mayor and corporation have placed
the Guildhall at their disposal, and proffered every Arsi3tan'ee
in the conduct Of the niVest4,-Atieht.DOidfrver,