The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-22 00:00:00

THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN
RURAL DISTRICTS.

[UPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AT THE
SCOTCH WHARFS.
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HOARE'S WHARF, JAN 21.—Arrived the Banff and London
Shipping Company's smack London, John Morrison master,
from Banff, with a general cargo.
DOWNE'S WHARF, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Inverness and
London Shipping Company's smack Inverness packet, Robert
Paton master, from Inverness, with a general cargo.—Jan. 21,
sailed the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company's
magnificent steam-ship Dundee, John Wishart, commander,
and Thomas Ewing, sailing master, for the important and
flourishing port of Dundee, with passengers, and an extensive
and valuble cargo of merchandise. Advices—the Peterhead
and London Shipping Company's smacks Eagle, George
Stewart master ; and the London, George Hobb master ;
sailed from Peterhead for London, with general cargoes, the
former on Wednesday, and the latter on Saturday last.
LEITH AND GLASGOW WHARF, JAN. 20.—Arrived at five
o'clock p. in., the Leith, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London
Shipping Company's steam-ship Royal William, Commander
Chaplin, from Leith, with passengers and a valuable cargo._
Jan. 20, no arrivals, departures, or advices.
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ESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE
CUSTOM-HOUSE, JAN. 21.
Industry, Smith, from Lisbon • Northam, Charroum, liar-
in; en ; Branches, E art St. Lim's, N. B. ; Barlow, Bar-
ner, St. John's, N. B. ; tAizabeth Moore, Moore, Singapore
and Batavia; Resolution, Craig, Oporto.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, JAN. 21.
Lero, Berry, for Rouen; Archille, Inglise, Malta and Co-
stantinople ; Ann, White, Bilboa; Marys, Louther.
and Jersey; Maria, Miller, Sidney, N. S. ri,-uernse;
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITP
iti
Lucy, Grieves, for Alexand-' CARGO, Ja
; Morning Star, Linton,
21.
Ceylon Greenock,
nedy, damburn-
•
..caer, Jamaica; Earl Bathurst, Ken-
CI.P
A RED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, JAN. 21.
Royal William, M'Neilag, for Savannah • Lord Cochrane,
Kane, New Orleans ; Constance, Brittervillais, Cherbol

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.OVA SCOTIA.—Nova Scotia has been so Jong
and so unjustly considered in England a bleak, marshy, and
almost uninhabitable country, that I may be excused entering
into some detail as to its inhabitants and localities ; for, as has
been truly observed by a native of the colony, the extended
and well-cultivated valley of the Annapolis—the diversified
and picturesque country of Horton and Cornwallis—the rich-
ness and extent of views in the vicinity of Windsor—the un-
rivalled beauty of Mahone Bay, with its numerous verdant
islets—the whole country bordering on the Shubenaccadie—
very many spots in the eastern parts of the province—and the
extensive townships of Newport and Yarmouth, cannot fail to
excite the wonder of strangers, that they exist in a territory
which has always been represented as the most uninteresting
part of the continent of North America.—.Montgomery Mar-
tin's British Colonies.
STRANGE MODE OF CHURNING IN CIIILE.—
In Chile, butter is packed in sheep-skins with the wool side
out, and would be very good, in spite of appearance, were it
not so much salted. The operation of churning is performed
by a donkey : the cream is put into large gourds or dry skins,
placed on his back, and then the animal is kept trotting round
the yard till the butter is made. In this art they seem not to
have advanced a single step since its discovery; for we are
told that a countryman somewhere lost a large jug of cream by
carrying it for a distance on a hard-trotting horse, which acci-
dent led to the important invention of churns and butter. A
friend told me, that he had presented, some years ago, a
Yankee churn to a family residing near the capital, and taught
them to use it. So long as it was a novelty they were pleased,
but at the end of a few weeks they decided that the donl
e, made butter just as well, and consequently threw it aside.
Three Years in the Pacific.

PREVALENCE OF THE CRIALF
OF ASSASSINA-
TioN IN CHILE.—Early in the 11307ning, at the prison door,
may be seen, almost every „ay, one or two dead bodies,
stretched out upon the stones, with a plate upon the breast, to
collect alms for their interment. These are the result of the
horrid practice of deciding personal disputes among the lower
orders by ha,ving recourse to the murderous knife, instead of
the mto Ilktianil and innocent plan of John Bull's deseen-
dauts, of bruising each other with the weapons Nature gave
oieln_their fists. At the " pulperias," where the "peones"
resort at night to drink " chicha " and " agunrdiente" (brandy),
and sing and dance to the sound of harp and guitar, disputes
frequently arise when the brain becomes heated by strong
drink. Then the poncho is rolled around the left arm, to be
used as a shield, and the knife, constantly worn at the back, is
seized in tho right hand, and the antagonists are encircled by
a.d/1 ring 0 4standers, to see what gentlemen of "the science
efbnce" have been pleased to term " fair play," The
dexterity in the use of the weapon, which they manage like a
rapier, in the lunge and garde, is truly surprising. The at-
tack is fierce on both Sides: death ath of one of the parties, or
severe weurids, ii4i the certain consequences of such rencontres;
`ell4o 4 is; tiu4t 'foreigners are under the impression that assas-
sMation is a common crime amongst the Chilenos. Yet the
practice, having strict regard to the term, can hardly be said
to be frequent ; for we should hardly say : them a man is assas-
sinated who falls by an unlucky 1146,1 Y in a fist fight.-- Three
Years in the Pacific
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" I have been ferretting about," writes Hannah
More, in 1789, " these two months among the ne-
glected villages of this hardly Christian country, to
find out those places which are particularly destitute
of religious advantages, and have fixed on the central
parish of six large ones (in Somersetshire), which
have not as much a.s a resident curate, for the princi-
pal scene of my operations. I have hired an old par-
sonage house, which has had no inhabitant these three
hundred years, and in 'this I propose to place some
pious and knowing people to instruct the poor, who
are more vicious and ignorant than I could have con-
ceived possible in a country which calls itself Chris-
tian. The vicar, who lives a long way off, is repair-
ing the house for me ; and,.as he is but ninety-four
years old, he insists on my takiks a lease, and is as
vigorous about the rent as if I were taking it for an
assembly room. It will-- take some time to put this
in order, but next Sunday we are to open a smaller
school, a sort of detachment from these head-quarters ;
and as all these villages are from six to ten miles from
me, you will believe that I am not a little engaged.
I asked the farmers if they had no resident curate ?
They told nee they had a right to insist on one, which
right, they confessed, they had never ventured to exer-
cise, for fear their tithes should be raised. I blushed
for my species. The glebe house is good for my pur-
pose. The vicarage .of Cheddar is in the gift of the
Dean of Wells I the value nearly fifty pounds per
annum. The incumbent is a Mr. Rwho has
something to do, but I cannot here find out what, in
the University of Oxford, where he resides. The
curate lives at Wells, twelve miles distant. They have
service only once a week, and there is scarcely an in-
stance of a poor person being visited or prayed with.
The living of Axbridge belongs to the Prebendary of
Wiveliscombe, in the Cathedral of Wells. The annual
value is about fifty pounds. The incumbent is about
sixty years of age. The prebend to which this rectory
belongs is in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells-.
Mr. G. is intoxicated about six times a week., and very
frequently is prevented from preaching 'by two black
eyes, honestly earned by fighting. It is grievous to reflect, that while we are sending missionaries to our
distant colonies, our own villages are perishing for lack
of knowledge. We have in this neighbourhood thir-
teen adjoining parishes, without so much as even a
resident curate. lam deeply convinced how very in-
adequate any miserable attempts can be to rectify so
wide-spread an evil ; yet I would not be comfortable
till something was attempted. We have therefore es-
stablished schools and various institutions over a tract
of country ten or twelve miles, and have near five
hundred children in training. And as the land is al-
most pagan, we bring down persons of great reputation
for piety from other places, and the improvements are
great for the time. But how we shall be able to keep
up these things amidst so much opposition, vice,
poverty, and ignorance as we have to deal with, I can-
not guess."---Life and Correspondence of Mrs. More.
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By the Dundee papers an-her ot sources we have learnt
that an alarming and destructive fire, attended with the loss
of five lives, broke out about one o'clock on Tuesday
morning last, in the premises in Doek-street, belonging to
Mr. James Watt, junior, and used as a warehouse.
The
warehouse being nearly chock-a-block, containing in all
about 300 tons of Jute hemp, hemp and codilla, wards of 200 barrels of tar in the cellars under, thegreytest
fears were entertained for the safety of the
neighbourhood. The fire is said to 'property in th©
have originated in the
north-east corner of the second flat ; but it s first, seen
in front in the eastmost window, and in the conrse Of an
hour it had spread over the whole front. dooreaanc
of the flames issuing from every window and and from
the cart entry, and likewise from the roof, was grand be-
yond description. In the lower flat was a great quantity
of Jute hemp, packed very lightly hi bales, and when the
fire reached them they swelled to a swelling of the goods having in great extent. The
wall creased still farther, the back
not long afterwardA fell down in section; at about four o'clock ; and
a tonsiderable piece of the top
of the fron. next Mr. George Clark's house,
fell with A trot wall
nendous crash. About six o'clock the
remin" of •
the front wall began to assume various
1141 r s and forms, and evidently gave notice of the likeli-
hood of its experiencing the same fate as the back wall.
After having bulged out in various places, it could no
longer stand the pressure from within, and it fell, leaving
the high west gable standing alone. After the front wall
fell, the spectacle was most awful. The whole goods in
the three stories of the warehouse were mingled together
in one burning mass, to the height of at least the top of
the second story of the adjoining house. The fire conti-
nued burning all Tuesday, and throughout the following
night. No serious apprehensions for the stability of the
gable were entertained, as the plumb line was applied to
it ; and, besides, a man was stationed with a line in his
hand, to observe if it should go off the plumb. At at-
tempt was made, on Tuesday forenoon, to pull down the
wall by means of a five-inch rope ; but, as it broke in the
attempt, it formed a still stronger ground for trusting to
its stability. It was said that, upon Tuesday afternoon
or evening, the gable had swung eighteen inches at the top,
and had gone back again ; but this is hardly credible. Sorry
are we to say, that the hopes of the stability of the gable
were fearfully disappointed ; for, on Wednesday morn-
ing, at half-past five, it fell inwards, without givin ,th
least warning, and buried among its ruins five of the perg onse s
employed in removing the now-partially-extinguished goods,
and two of the lookers-on. Workmen were instantly set to
work to clear away the fallen materials, and in about
twenty minutes they had taken from the ruins four lifeless
bodies—a boy, with his leg broken, who was immediately
sent to the Infirmary; and one young man considerably
hurt, but who had been saved from being
more injured by
a beam overhanging him, and preventing 'ale falling ruins
from striking him. In about
filling of the gable, another lifP'
an hour *and a half after the
The men killed were harbour ess body was dug out.
by Mr. Leslie to assist ir workmen, who had been sent
sons standing ~ removing the goods. Some per-
escapes. ,
al"...o.sia'e, looking on, made very narrow
clearestpaes: 13
mid-day, the ruins of the gable were so far
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away
: that the work of removing the burned' hemp,
.c., was resumed. The fire-engines were, however, kept
playing every now and then upon places where any cost
siderable quantity of smoke appeared from the stilt
smouldering mass, and upon the gable of Mr. Clark's house.
Till Wednesday night fears were entertained that the fife
might communicate with the tar in the cellar. ' Fortu-
nately, however, the fire has been so completely kept
under, that there is little or no danger of any further da-
mage being done. The goods were - all removed from
another warehouse of Mr. Watt's, immediately behind the
one destroyed ; but Mr. Clark did not move an article from
his house, although all that was between it and the fire was
the gable-wall. The cause of the origin of the fire has
never been found out. It is supposed to have b the
een
heating of some part of the stuff which had been
damp, or
some sparks having gone down one of the ehimnies.. Neither
the warehouse nor its contents were insured,: When will
the merchants and insurance-offices in Dv. When
be brought
to see the necessity of having a repArlytrained band of
firemen and a proper supply of efficlent engines ? At first
there were only two engines at this firs, and during the
whole time never more than three. The want of engines
was not greater than the want of proper management - and.
how can it he otherwise, when, upon occasions of this liind,
the men who work the engines likely meet for the find" time,
and know nothing of the wq•
rking of them, and the persons
who have the management know nothing of the men who
are working under them ? Great praise is due -to lir.
Leslie and his assistants for their portions during the whole.
time Of Ott nursling.