The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-09 00:00:00

THE STATE CHURCH IN JAMAICA:

It is part of the missi iof Governor Grant to 111411,'-
into the influence of the Church of Englr:nd. As a Chur°':
man, we contemplate with sorrow and shame the resul
which such an inquiry, if faithfully and judicially con'
ducted, would shew ; but we have every hope that the
end will be to place the Church, which we Own!!
like to see exist and flourish in our midst, in its right
position, so that it might become a fit instrumentalitYll'
working out that regeneration which the new Governalelit
is to accomplish. The letter of the Rev. Henry vet
to the Bishop of Kingston, which we laid before on,'
readers a short time ago, speaks in eloquent an
,u
truthful terms of the diminution of the Church °
influence. The Church Missionary Society, which
commenced its operations here in 1826, to prepare
the country for the great boon of emancipation, gave 1113,1
the work in 1840, leaving the Jamaica Church a fair at
promising field. Under the successive episcopacies a t"'"
Lord Bishop of Jamaica and the Bishop of Kingston the
best opportunities have been afforded, not the least of
hrch
has been an annual grant from the public treasury to iraPr°l!
upon the work so admirably begun by the Church Missionary
Society. To what little account these opportunities hay°
been turned is patent to every one. The Church has CO
sullied annually for many years between £30,000 °'ll
40,000 of the public money, whilst its stewardship h°s
proved most unsatisfactory to the country and tC)
those pious men abroad who are moved by an axlllo--a
solicitude for the educational and spiritual welf3r
of the negro which the Chural. 1.-A .7 wk"'" "'°1)1
duty it was to see to the attainment of those ends, NO
do well to emulate. It has had a wide scope and la
fair field—what has it done? The sum of its labour°
is soon told. It sought to become a part of the States
for which there is no authority and no foundation ill
Jamaica, whilst the "well-cultivated plot in the foundation
sionary field, thickly set with fair and fruitful trees °
righteousness," which the society left it, has grown 1/9
with rank and bitter weeds. Morant Bay, Fort tf:
nio, and Mooretown—names which cannot now be uleja";
tioned without blushes and sighs were among t
abandoned stations of the society, At the end yit
twenty-five years, it is the opinion of many coniPeteL
judges, that the social and religious condition of the ne,,...vt
population, numbering more than 400,000, is below Iv;
it was at the time of emancipation.—Kingston Dig
Journal

gIGHWaY ROBBERY. —A daring highway robbell
was committed a few nights ago in the parish °fAS:,
Keverne, Cornwall. A Mr. Bouldon, provision de 0
was returning home from Redruth market, when his 11°„t
was suddenly stopped, and he was pulled backward °."-t
of his light cart on to the road. He was told to be °ilea
and he would not be injured. Three men then robbe
him of his watch and £lO, and were soon lost to vielid:
the night being very dark. Mr. Bouldon was left ex.lloB,toeo
The robbery was committed only a short distance 'lr-

his house.
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DOUBLE TIDES IN THE THAMES.—It is gel's-- fe.
believed that, although we may have had shifting of
ternatural tides, as recorded in " Maitland's Ifist°"'tbe
London," we have never experienced anything like„ot
phenomena which have taken place during the Pre
month. On Sunday, December 2, the tide flove'A—
;
Hammersmith in the first place until five o'clock a—
then ebbed until half-past four p.m., and then be":verf
flood again until half-past 7 p.m. This was, 11°.',.:A. of
greatly exceeded in its remarkable character by the "`":0
Saturday, the 7th inst., when two flows and one "re
occurred between midnight and eleven o'clock in the f°

noon. the
THE ALTON MURDER. —The execution
wretched criminal, Frederick Baker, for the atroctgs
murder of Fanny Adams, at Alton, on the 24th of AilgTor
last,
has been fixed by the high sheriff of the count Tuesday, the 24th instant, at eight o'clock in the 131.,h0•
ing. It is satisfactory to state, on unquestionable a"-cie
rity, that the conduct of the unhappy man has
lay,
c"'
gone a total change since his condemnation on lr';011
Apparently he now begins to realise the awful con
d
in which he is placed, and his callous demeanour is changed
into one of deep dejection. On Saturday naorning der,
high sheriff, accompanied by his chaplain and the tiAllticed
sheriff, and also the chaplain of the prison, was hiti.°7„een'
by the governor to the prisoner, and the date of hie e-030
tion was announced to him by the high sheriff;,,,oer
culprit was then addressed in the most solemn and `,7013,
sive manner by the sheriff's chaplain (the Rev. C. '1;130
rector of St. Thomas Church, Winchester), durihg',4- 001
he shewed considerable emotion. A strong hePe.,-A the
entertained that the unhappy man will not le3'"
world without making a full confession of his 81.113.
WELL-EDUCATED RUFFIANS.---At the IV' air--
Assizes, two men, named Allerton and Baton!
aco,
Hunter, alias Winter, were charged with stealing Pa tte
and assaulting the police. The police had erre: theY
men for stealing the bacon from a public-house, 10'etr,a
oe
offered the most desperate resistance. Rafton drego
officer with him into a canal, and while there bit biels
the head with life-preserver,
a and attempted to Water, 01,1
A second constable, however, jumped into the
staffwAte 0
persuaded the ruffian to submit by applying his ,IWhat
his head. They were both found guilty. 113ft°-,105.
had been three times prcviously convicted, began -9, Or
extraordinary harangue. He said, " I did not tleetoria,
preserver, and I knew I was innocent. I did retail-000
some effect, as he says. I was insensible ; `vas XOO
°
with blood. I could not stand it ;no man enw.deraDle
here entered into a long statement, showing ceue'citietlit
skill and the most intense excitement. Ire fre-cent
exclaimed with great warmth that he was inheci bat
having stolen the bacon. He admitted that he
b 3 a, hot
guilty of the crimes for which he had before suffehfare
;
he cried, " I was guilty, but I suffered mY Plulie,ote ba
a man should ; but during my incarceration I ren dojo o°,;
good and honest, and to serve my God, and wedf°, ever'
But now how can aman live? I am ruined—rila he at li.efd
His voice was raised to the highest pitch, 313. 0001'74
began to pretend to be crying. He frequentlY seatexPl„
the learned judge, and it was some time beforeeo ire the
could be pronounced. He was sentenced to fifteen
penal servitude—a doom which he receivec:,
_""ery alifv;
deliberate remark to his lordship, 4, you are 'to
old man, you are." Allerton was sentenced ...;goneP
Both 131--
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
were classed as " well educated."