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

UPMINSTER, 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.
Oaly twenty months have elapsed since Mr. Hill began
the duties of this charge, and so unremitting has been
the zeal with which be has performed bis 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 700/. for the erection and
maintenance of national schools in the pariah,
which are now in active operation; and this was
the more creditable in a widely scattered population,
and considering the dlficulti,s, 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 welfare. We recollect that, acting en 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
juy of youth, while all looked on with parental
lovea
nd happiness. And when the sun began to sink
thein 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 bad 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. Dere lies her
strength—the strength in fact of all churches. She
must be in deed as well as in theory,
may make the poor m‘ an's
church. If this be wanting, " Synods
de-
clarations" and martial their forces to figh t for the "rights
of the clergy" in vain. The revival of forgotten canons and
obsolete forms will prove poor substitutes for the affec.
:4311 and confidence of her members.

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SUICIDE.—On Saturday an inquest was held on the
body of Mary, the wife of Mr. Start, a butcher, in Paul-
street, jhuegre.huSsbhaenwdas,
street, Finsbury. The deceased was an inveterate drunkard,
andviol usedviolent,
thoughto fetch
tr
etahtee
dg
his absence, and while she was drunk, she
ikninindlgyu
fastened
in her bed-room, and hung herself. Some h °mill
before the fact was discovered. The jury gave a
ours elapsed
" Temporary Insanity," and the coroner granted
his
of
este to the burial club, in which she was insured,
is certia-
had not been deprived of life by means of that she
flcially interested in her death. any person belle"
TON LOCK CONTROVERSY.--Th American
pick..
lock, Mr. Hobbs, has accomplished the jr-
of the famous Bramah's I, picking and opening
patent 1
this gentleman accepted the challengec)c—
A few weeks since
one of his patent locks, and in of
Mr. Chubb to pick
in opening it with common icifitivery brief period succeeded
lenged by Messrs. Bramah to picklocks. He was then chal-
lenged
styled impregnable locks, on what have
200/. if he should succeed i s, and was promised a forfeit of
trial might be fairly made, n opening it. In order that the
decide upon it, and thirty commissioners were appointed to
Bramah to Mr. Hobbs 1 y clear days were granted by Me
work, but in a few d or his operation. Mr. Hobbs went to
the weakness of his aYssuspended his operations, alleging
prepared he desired instruments. As soon as others had been
Messrs Br to continue his attempt, but to this
amah objectedcommissioners,however, in-
terfered, and Mr. Hobbs .
picked and
withheld,
The
and shortly
resumed his labours,
opened the lock. The reward was, however,
On the ground, as we understand, that contrary to
the conditions he had employed more than one instrument.
This 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 to the present
tune has come forward to accept his challenge. It is what is
known in America as the Poantothic Bank lock, and is de-
scribed as being
manifestly secure against the attempts of
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 .in the be-
-1 rough of St. Albans, Messrs. Slade, Q.O , Forsyth, and
1 Phiun, have appointed Mr. L. H. Fitzgerald, of the Western
• Circuit, as their clerk for the conduct of this inquiry, which
they have fixec to commence at St. Albans toward& the
middle of October. The mayor and corporation have placed
the Guildhall at their disposal, and proffered
every twists nce
iii the conduct 91 the ialmtigo.tica 0b 1— _ sever.