The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

SINDE.

Never was the deceitfulness of foolish men more
completely put to silence than by the results already
seen of our occupation of Sinde, and the substitution
of good order for misrule and iniquity. The late
arrivals from India all admit that Sinde is prospering
under Sir Charles Napier's admirable management.
The people everywhere rejoice in their new masters;
and even the Beloochee chieftains have received, with
evident satisfaction, the guarantees of their jageers,
or feodal tenures, from the British Government. 'The
recent meeting has confirmed the allegiance of
many, and convinced all that the word of an Eng-
lishman is sacred in war and peace. This is the
most gratifying intelligence received by the last mail,
In Gwalior we were necessitated to take temporary
possession of Boorhampore, but the intrigues and in-
solence of the Aniil was considered to be sufficientl7
punished by his dismissal; and the Queen Dowager s
father, involved in these intrigues, was set free at the
prayer of the Queen. This has given satisfaction
generally, and convinced the surrounding Princes,
that though determined to punish intrigue or inso-
lence, the Supreme Government of India is lenient
and paternal.
The affairs of the Punjab are rushing on at railway
speed to their inevitable state of anarchy, when
British interference must check the evil. There
is no need of a prophet to declare, that before
another year elapses, we must interpose and
stay the plague. ur own frontiers and the
protected Seikh states are in danger of being
ravaged by a lawless host, and already there are signs
of preparation for resistance. The collection of
camels along the Indus, and the forwarding of war-
like stores to Ferozepoor, speak intelligibly to those
acquainted with India, of an expected assemblage of
an army on the Sutledge. This accumulation of
military means on the frontier, and our own prepara-
tions to land, almost simultaneously, four of .her Ma-
jesty's regiments in India, at the close of this year,
and thus provide a large European force, under the
guise of relief, all indicate that the Punjab is under
the surveillance, not only of the Indian, but the Home
Government. Sir Henry llardinge will, we feel as-
sured, see clearly the necessity of following out the
policy of Lord Ellenborough.—Naval and Militarg
Gazette.

THE HERII.I.NG TRADE.
PETERHEAD,:AUGUST B.—The herring fishing com-
menced here about the middle of last month, and, com-
pared with former years, has been prosecuted with in-
ferior success, both as regards the quantity and the
quality of the fish. The number of boats engaged, ex-
clusive of Boddom—where there are 36—is 401, and, up
to the 3d instant, inclusive, they average 30 trans each.
A few sales to Stettin and Hamburgh have been made
at 16s. per barrel, not Crown branded. The shipments
consist of three small cargoes—one to Bremen, one to
Hamburgh, and one to Stettin. For the last three days
the weather has prevented the boats from attempting
the fishing. A few were out, but obliged to return with-
out any fish.

FRAZERBURGII, AUGUST B.—Our herring fishing is
still without success, and the fishermen are getting very
low spirited at the bad prospects before them. On Tues-
day night they could not get to sea on account of the
weather. Last night (Wednesday) a trial was made,
but this morning the major part of them returned quite
clean, and the average in the harbour would scarcely
make one cran per boat. The total average to this date
not above 2S trans.

USEFUL PROPOSITION OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY.—
Mr. Baker yesterday held an inquest at the Needle-
makers' Aries, Dalglish-street Limehouse, on the body
of William Jackson, aged five years, the son of a grocer,
living in the above street. The evidence proved that on
Saturday afternoon, deceased, with some other children,
were playing on the banks of the Regent's canal, Lime-
house-fields. Deceased was flinging stones into the
water, and in so doing, over-balanced himself and fell in,
and no assistance being near he was drowned. When
the body was recovered by means of drags, it had been
too long in the water to restore animation. The coroner
begged to mention that it was the intention of the
Humane Society, in order to induce publicans and others
to receive into their houses the bodies of persons that
had been immersed in water, to give the sum of 11. in
each case, for assistance afforded in the shape of warm
water, blankets, brandy, &c. This fact he considered
ought to be known to the public. Verdict, " Found
drowned."

FALLING OFF OF THE SUPPLY OF GAS IN THE ME-
TROPOLIS.—At an inquest held yesterday on a smith,
who died suddenly at the works of the Imperial Gas
Company, King's-cross, Mr. Wakley remarked that in
some part of the metropolis the brilliancy of the gas
lamps had very much diminished. It was the case in
Parliament street and that neighbourhood. Four or
five years ago the jets of light were full, strong, and
brilliant, but latterly they had become feeble and flicker-
ing. lie should like to know the cause. A juror said
it was because the gas companies found it more profit-
, able to make coke than good pure gas. Mr. Wakley
said the neighbourhood of Bedford-square was also very
badly lighted. He should like to know how butchers,
greengrocers, &c., paid for those strong gas lights which
flared away in their open shops. A juror—They pay
by meter, and very dearly too, for the meters are not
just, but in favour of the gas companies. I used to pay
by meter, but I now pay by contract, and I have re-
duced my quarterly payments for gas from 261. to 191.
Mr. Wakley—lf I see this defect in the lightine• ' of the
streets continue, I shall make it the subject ofParlia-
rnentary investigation next session. The jury urged him
to do so, as the result would be publicly advantageous.
VISIT OF THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY TO VIEW
THE RUSSIAN FRIGATE AURORA.--GRAVESEND, MON-
DAY ETENING.— This afternoon, shortly after two
o'clock, it was announced that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert intended paying a visit to the town, and
from thence proceed to view the Russian frigate Aurora,
which, it will be remembered, arrived a few weeks since
from St. Petersburgh, with valuable presents from the
Emperor of Russia to her Majesty, and now lying in the
river off the Terrace-pier. The yards were manned,
and shortly afterwards a Government steamer was seen
coming down the river. On arriving off Gravesend the
steamer was discovered to be the Black Eagle, with the
Admiralty flag hoisted, and when within about fifty
yards of the Aurora a party was seen to leave her and
proceed on board the Russian frigate. The Admiralty
flag was then hoisted at the masthead of the Aurora, and
a salute of twenty-one guns was fired in honour of the
visit, which did not last more than a quarter of an hour.
During that time the party, which consisted of several
Lords of the Admiralty, were shown by the captain and
officers orer the vessel. On leaving another salute was
fired, and the Admiralty flag was again hoisted on board
the Black Eagle, which proceeded to Blackwell, where
the noble Fitly landed. It is understood that the Aurora
will sail to-morrow (this day) for St. Petersburgh, hav-
ing on board several valuable presents, consisting prin-
cipally of rare birds, for the Emperor of Russia.;
CONCEALMENT OF CHILDBIRTH.—Yesterday Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an adjourned inquest at the Mary-
lebone Workhouse Infirmary, on the body of a newly-
born male child, the offspring of Sarah Jones, housemaid
in the service of Mr. Satchel], No. 6, Winsley-street,
Oxford-street, by whom it was alleged the deceased had
been murdered. The inquiry was adjourned for the
presence of the mother, who since the occurrence has
been an inmate of the Marylebone Infirmary. The fol-
lowing is a brief summary of the case :—On the morning
of Monday, the 29th ult., Sarah Jones became very ill,
and her mistress sent for Mr. Jones, a surgeon in the
neighbourhood, who, on seeing her, taxed her with
Flavin..' given birth to a child. This she ultimately con-
fessed, and it was found concealed in her box in the kit-
chen. Dr. Boyd said he had made a post mortem exami-
nation of the body, and had no doubt but the child had
breathed, and that it had died from hemorrhage consequent
on neglect at the birth. Sarah Jones was then asked if
she wished to make any statement, when she replied
that she had no idea the birth was so near, and that
having fainted, she knew nothing of what had happened
until she came round, and then found the child dead.
After considerable discussion amongst the jury, many of
whom were for returning a verdict of wilful murder, a
conclusion was come to that the child had died from he-
morrhage, consequent on neglect and the want of medical
aid at the birth. The Coroner remarked that there was
no doubt the mother was guilty of concealment of the
birth, for which she was amenable to the law. Saga
Jones remains in the custody of the police, and will be
taken before the magistrates on the latter charge.
A CHILD BURIED ALIVE.—An instance of the evil
of too precipitate interment occurred a few days ago at
Arles. After the burial of a child, the Sexton, who
remained alone to finish the filling up of the g rave;heard
a cry issuing front the ,
coffin, He immediately took it
up, and, without opening it, carried it to the house of
the mother. The. lid hting taken off, the poor child was
found alive, and is, Dm completely recovered. Not long
ago, in making a grave in the same cemetery, a coffin
was by chance broken into, and it was found that the
occupant had revived after burial, and had gnawed the
flesh of both the wrists, before life was finally extin-
guished.
DERBY AND LEGER SWEEPS, &c.—A correspon-
dent states " that the common informers are at their
dirty work again. The penalty sued for in several in-
stances is 2001. A writ was served on a friend of mind
this day, and the informer had no less than twelve or
fourteen others in kis possession."
ROI3BFIU7 AT THE ALFRED CLUD-HOUSE.-011 the
ith instant some persons stole from the Alfred Club-
house, 23, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, a black japanned
tin cash-box, containing a cheque for 401., drawn by John
Markham on Messrs. Dorrien, Magens, and Co., Finch-
lane, a 101. Bank of England note, a 5/. note, 15 sove-
reigns, and 5/. in silver, a gold pencil case, and a silver
one, together with a quantity of papers.:The thieves got
clear off with their booty, and the property has not since
been heard of.

EXPORTATION OF llonsrs.—Twelve stallions, of
remarkable beauty, were embarked on Sunday last, at
the St. Katherine's Wharf, Tower, on board the steamer
Antwerpen, Captain Jackson ; they were for account of
the 13elgian Government. This favourite ship was, on,
her departure,: crowded with: passengers and their
equipages for Belgium, and the Rhine. Amongst them
were Viscount Ebrington, ILP. ; the Hon. j. Stuart
Wortley, M.P., and family ; the Hon. U. Devereux
the Marquis de Terranova ; Sir John Walsham ; the
Count Dline ; Mr. Auldjo, &c.

THE FRENCH EMBASSY.--During the past week
there has been unusual activity apparent in the chancey
lerie of the embassy, by those engaged in the transaction
of the diplomatic business. No less than three couriers,
M. Lebas, M. Deliens, and M. Perrier, have arrived at
Hertford House within the last week, charged with
dispatches for the Charge d'Affaires, Count Jarnae, offi-
ciating in the absence of his Excellency Count de St.
Aulaire.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
LIMES.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Thirsday last made an announcement, on which, as it
somewhat regards ourselves, we may be excused for
commenting. He then intimated, that it was the in-
tention of Government in future not to furnish a re-
turn of the stamps issued to each individual news-
paper, but to give the aggregate of those used by all
of them. And the reason assigned for this recurrence
to ancient custom was one the fairness of which we
readily admit, inasmuch as it appears that the returns,
as hitherto published, have been prejudicial to the
circulation of some of our Contemporaries ; those of
them which have been but lately established, and
others which had not yet formed a connexion, having
made earnest remonstrances against a system which,
by a premature disclosure of their condition, too effec-
tually prevented them from improving it. As for us,
we are by no means sorry to see Ministers revert to
the practice of former days. This practice was first
infringed by a Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer for
the express purpose of injuring us. Mr. S. Rice,
whose political connexions had naturally made him
suspicious of trickery and cunning in every
department and profession, had lent himself
with too facile credulity to the notion that, for
the purpose of deceiving the public, we were
in the habit of purchasing an unnecessary number of
stamps, and selling those we did not require to other
papers. Hence the distinctive die—an invention
which, like many other shabby devices, instead of
effecting the harm it designed, was of great advan-
tage to us, and, we flatter ourselves, ultimately
visited its own authors with condign retribution. In
the amount of our circulation they have furnished
the public with a gauge of their own unpopularity.
They have given to our humble efforts to expose
them and their misdoings a weight—not altogether
factitious—but which we never could have obtained
for them ourselves, by enabling us to publish a quar-
terly evidence of our success. When we bade adieu
to the Whigs, we remember well the auguries of
failure by which we were beset. We had de-
serted, it was said, the cause of the nation, and the
nation would desert us. We had dared to separate
ourselves from the public opinion to which we owed
our strength, and public opinion would avenge itself.
The contrary has happened. It is not too bold to say
that the English nation has sanctioned the sentiments
which we then dared, at some hazard, to express. If
ever the circulation of a public journal testified the
accomplishment of a great revolution in public opi-
nion, soh an evidence is to be found in the increas-
ing amount of support which we have ever since
enjoyed, and, most of all, which we at this moment
enjoy; and for the official, incontrovertible, and con-
tinually recurring proof of this support, the Whig
Ministers of 1834 have only themselves to thank.
However, gainers as we have been in every way by
an innovation which owed its origin to the most con-
temptible spite, we are not unwilling to forego an ad-
vantage which can be obtained only at the expense
of our Contemporaries. It is true that each succes-
sive quarterly return has exhibited our continued
superiority both in circulation and advertisements—
it is true that the prestige thus obtained itself reacts
by.increasing the success to which it owes its birth—
it is true that to Mr. Spring Rice's manoeuvre we
are indebted for the most satisfactory, because hostile,
testimony to that position which it is our pride to
have achieved, as it must be our ambition to maintain;
yet we willingly abandon these advantages, convinced
as we are that we can well afford to dispense with
those guarantees of success which are furnished by
the indirect depreciation of our brethren of the press.
CHRONICLE.—The Otaheite affair is still the
Subj,ct of much discussion in the Paris papers, and
we are glad to observe that both the Mioisterial and
Opposition journals begin to look upon the question
with more moderation than heretofore, and with a
more decided inclination to look into the true merit,
of the case, and judge of the conduct of all parties
according to that conduct. We hear of no more such
absurd pretensions as that the conduct of Mr.
Pritchard shaild be disavowed, anti that gentleman
put upon his trial, and the Journal des Debuts has
ceased to speak of the conduct of Messrs. Brunt and
D'Aubigny as being perfectly justifiable. When the
Affair firet burst upon the public, followed, as it was,
Ire the declaration of the English Prime Minister
thet "a gross outrage " had been committed, the
Freitch Ministerial preseespoke of it as a matter
which required explanation ; and while they did lief
deny that, according to the statements which ap-
peared in the English papers, the affair looked badly,
they held out a hope that, since the statements were
expnrte, the explanations to be received from the
French officers would, in some degree, exculpate
them. No sooner did Lord Aberdeen, and his
Lordship's organ, the Times, show symptoms of
weitkness and vacillation than the pretensions of the
Freed' papers rose. They declared that there was
nothing in the conduct of MM. Brunt and D'Aubigny
that was inconsistent with their honour as French
officers, or with the law of nations. Since that time
the strong feeling exhibited by the people of England,
the masked opinion expressed in Parliament, and,
above all, the last declaration of the Duke of Wel-
lington in the House of Lords, that a gross outrage
had been committed, for which some one must be ac-
countable, have made a strong impression in France.
Some accounts of the negotiations going on between 1
the Governments on the question are looked for-
ward
to with some anxiety. It was reported in Paris
that the answer given to the first communication of
the English Government by the French Cabinet,
was simply that it had received no official accounts
from its officers, and that it was necessary to wait for
information. A second communication from the Bri-
tish Government is said to have given very complete
and authenticated documents, which place the impro-
priety of the conduct of the French authorities in a
very striking light ; and it was further said, that, in.
dependently of the conduct of M. d'Aubigny to Mr.
Pritchard, he had offered a decided insult to the Bri.
tish flag in the manner in which he ordered the Cor-
morant steamer to quit the island. It has always
struck us that the unceremonious manner in which
the Cormorant was told to " be off" was not a little
extraordinary. The expulsion of that ship removed
almost the only protection remaining to the British
inhabitants, and we shall be glad to find that further
light can be thrown on the matter. Should it be true
that there was discourtesy or insult on the part of
M. d'Aubigny in regard to the British flag, the in-
jury sustained by England will certainly be greatly
aggravated ; but the difficulty of settling the ques
tion will, if anything, be lessened, as the French Go-
vernment should have no difficulty in at once acknow-
ledging end repairing the injury.
POST.—Our modern clever men have a wondrous
facility at detecting and denouncing an evil when it
is quite too late to rectify it After four months or
more of the Parliamentary sitting are wasted in im-
pertinent or mischievous talking, and much less than
two months devoted to the actual "dispatch of the
business " of the country, Lord John Russell and Sir
Robert Peel, the two great party leaders, simulta-
neously discover that the superfluous talk is a con-
summate nuisance and a hindrance to urgent and im-
portant matters. In the month of August these pro-
minent members of the Legislature come to the ac-
knowledgment of the lugubrious truth that three-
fourths of all their fellow-senators have been doing
and saying for more than six months were a good
deal worse than useless—that the time occupied in
Parliamentary prating would have been more bene-
ficially addressed to practical pursuits of local and
general utility—that the session holds much too long
—and that a bad use of a long session is to spend all
the early and vigorous months in sheer logomachy,
giving only the dwindling, thinly-attended skeleton
sittings of the few weeks at the "fag end"
to the actual performance of legislative func-
'tions. Caution and prudence are qualities surpassingly
commendable in your grave and potent statesmen who
have charge of the public interests ; and to caution
and prudencee we suppose we must refer as a reason 1
why two greet men put off their avowal of a fact
notorious__ to all England, to the very moment whereat
the fact ceases to have present importance. In the
months of February, and March, and April of this
year, and of last year too, we made earnest represen-
tations to the Premier and his friends of the folly and
public scandal arising from the time wasted in listen- ,
outpourings ing to the pourinss of dull inane conceit, from
noisy and impudentintruders at either side of the
especiallyhappened among "gentlemen opposite."
Exactly what has
we then made bold to
predict—that, as mat were proceeding, so much
time would be sacrificed in noiseandprate, as to leave
none whatever for thought and
t legislation.heer 'We re-
minded Sir Robert Peel that were many
azy.questions of exceeding importance that
qsire long and deliberate consideration by both
Houses of Parliament—that some of these questions
were embodied in Bills—and that a first duty of as
" strong" Government was to see that such business
have due and timely attention, and not be shelved for
the gratification of vulgar, ignorant, and frequently
disgusting garrulity. Most of the motions in which
the " debating" of the session was spent were evi-
dently and confessedly factious, or brought forward
for the purpose of ‘‘ testing some principle" which
any presuming shopkeeper might choose to make the
stalking-horse of his loquacity. Our strong Govern-
ment was certainly strong enough to crush or curtail
such discreditable displays—to break them in the
opening with stern, and, if necessary, with con-
teroptUotis --reproof. Not liumerically merely, but
,_..e. Alone. fly, intellectually, the Administration was :strong
•....,„.. ~ •
..,N, ',enough to sweep away this unclean froth of the r,-.;-
\:-
___,/, prest.stative seething-pot. Our strong Government,
se... , had it taken couniel from the warnings we addressed
ko„„- 0.... tin the
. early'months of the year, by going on
:="44ll.bwTheees"ini despising the bubble and muddle of
Is 'Ake ,yuloo
S'wouldsha 'e found full time for the con-
deration_, in. either ,`have found
every important mea-
\\6ld
caure,
-and avoided the eon.emptible and intolerable
mockery of legislation. presented by the latter days
of a protracted session. It might possibly, too, have

avoided the humiliating catalogue of abortions and
postponements, and the parallel between the conduct
so pungently satirised in Lord Lyndhurst's Parlia-
mentary resumes, and that which is now pursued by
the Government of which that eminent person is a
distinguished member. And what has been the prac-
tical course of the Administration ? Far from check-
ing impertinent prating, our highly-gifted Premier
plunged as readily into prolonged debating"—was
as liberal in the exhibitions of his wit, his eloquence,
his vast range of knowledge and great argumentative
power, upon some trumpery motion of a Hawes, or
Hume, or Bowring, as on the most vitally important
questions of national practice or polity that could
engross the devoted attention of a patriotic statesman.
And now, at the close of the session, the Premier
grows pathetic at the recollection of the abuse,
whereof his own good nature, or complaisance, or as
singing folks say, " willingness to oblige," was as-
suredly a main promoter.
HERALD.—Of all the productions of the Trac-
tarian school, the work of Mr. Ward, of Banjo' Col-
lege, which has just appeared, is the most offensively
Romish. He inculcates what his predecessors only
insinuated, and proclaims as his deliberate creed those
conclusions at which the subtleties of Newman and
the mysticism of Pusey merely hinted. What is still
more remarkable, and perhaps important, he avows
himself to be the author of those anti-Protestant and
anti-national articles on which we commented at the
time of their appearance, with no disguised indigna-
tion. In fact the work before us, which he designates
The Ideal of a Christian Church, consists of the no-
torious articles which disgraced and ultimately de-
stroyed the British Critic, enshrined and set in a
series of defensive comments. He does not retract
one sentiment, or recant or abjure one expression.
He glories,!,on the contrary, in what most Church-
men must reprobate as his shame, and sets up a de-
fence for papers which demand from a clergyman of
the Church of England un qualified retrac tation and apo-
logy. From Mr. Ward's remarks it is easy to perceive
that what has been long anticipated has at length come
to pass—the Tractarian party are divided against
themselves. Mr. Palmer, startled at the ominous re-
sults which their writings were precipitating, shrunk
back into a moderate and by no means helpless Trac-
tarian ; but Mr. Ward has pushed on his Roineward
excursus till he finds himself at the very doors of the
Vatican, a fugitive from Protestantism, and a penitent
and patient candidate for admission, absolution, and
communion with Gregory XVI. It is the pervading
characteristic of this book that it denounces every
person and institution, Protestant and English, and
lauds and idolises everything foreign and Romish.
After quoting other doctrines, usages, and persons in
the Church of Rome, on all of which he pronounces
glowing eulogies, he turns to speak of things nearer
home as follows :—" I know no single movement in
the Church, except Arianism in the fourth century,
which seems to me so wholly destitute of all
claims on our sympathy and regard as the Eng-
lish Reformation." "The Lutheran doctrine
of justification and the principle of private
judgment sink below Atheism itself." " That a
sustained and vigorous attack on the principles of
the Reformation is the only course, is my deep and
certain conviction." " The Church of England is
wholly destitute of external notes, and wholly inde-
fensible as to her position by 'external historical ec-
alesiastical arguments." " When I feel called on to
use strong language about the corruption of our
Church or the sinfulness of the Reformation, the
.cords I use do not even fully express the convictions
hat are among the very deepest I feel." This
work brings Tractarianism to a crisis. It is the
concentration of all its heresies in the ample and
wowed creed of Mr. Ward. Palmer, Hook, and some
others, whose policy modifies their principles, he de-
eounces as timid and intractable associates. In New-
man, Pusey, Oakley, and hi ms elf, does he see the
types of Catholicism—the livin, ;exponents of primitive
se-inciples, the fearless witness es of true religion. We
'ave no great fear that sentiments so alien to the
Protestant faith and to English feeling will very
widely prevail. The recollections of other days will
rise with freshness and with for ce in the minds of our
countrymen, and lead them to• protest against this
nflux of pollution and persecution into our churches
Ind our families. English maid ens will not approach
the confessional, and English men will never cringe
at the feet of a presumptuous pr it st, and neither the
one nor the other, we trust, will part with Old Eng.-
land's heir-looms—the Bible wit in nit a clasp, and the
cross without a screen. Mr. Ward may find an echo
to his sentiments in Belgium and: Spain, and there also
plenty of scope for his thirst for confession in their
convents and nunneries. But a Protestant people
abominate alike the principle and the practice, and
honest men will ask with yet g renter emphasis, why
is this man suffered to designate kiimself a minister of
the Church of England?

mom THE EVENING PAPERS; .OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—A case of an ext raordinary, if not al-
together unprecedented, character, was last Tuesday,
brought before a court constituted under the provi-
sions of the Church Discipline? Act, and held at
Totnes, Devon, by special apponintment of the Right
Rev. relate who presides over the diocese of Exeter.
The circumstances out of which the charge arose,
the proceedings in the case, an especially the im-
portant principle involved, cm nbine to render the
affair one of special interest to the clergy of
the Church of England, and o f importance to all
classes of the community. Th a Rev. James Shore,
was the party proceeded against : the charges alleged
against him, and into the prima P•cie validity of which
it was the province of the commits ,ion to inquire,were
briefly these :—Bridgetown, a hat al et containing nearly
2,oooinhabitants, is a portion of:' •the parish of Berry
Pomeroy, and is the property of his Grace
the Duke of Somerset. f:-re 1832 his Grace
built a chapel, a capacious s 'rid costly structure,
for the convenience of the in avabitants. The Rev.
J. Shore, who had been curate of the parish for about
two years previously, and was much esteemed by the
then vicar, the Rev. J. Edwai Nls, was appointed and
licensed by the Bishop, minist P..r of the chapel. In
1836 Mr. Edwards died, and Mr. Brown succeeded
him. He did not renew the appointment of Mr.
Shore, nor was it required by th are Bishop. Mr. Shore
continued to officiate as the Mit Lister of Bridgetown
chapel, without interruption or qu testion from any quar-
ter, his Grace the Duke of Somei !set paying all the ex-
penses of the service. In 1843 Mr.. .Brown wished to ex-
change livings with a Rev. Mr. Cc sens, and the Duke of
Somerset facilitated that arran Bement, which was
carried into effect. Mr. Cosens• grained an addition
to his income by the change, to the extent of be-
tween 1001. and 2001. a year. Tb is change could not
have taken place without the I rood offices of the
Duke. A few days after the induction of Mr.
Cosens, Mr. Shore received a ?letter from Mr. R.
Barnes, the Bishop's Secretary *, inquiring whether
he had received a fresh appointritc3nt from the Rev.
Vicar ; because if he had not f Bishop would not
permit him to continue minister of the chapel. Mr.
Shore consulted the Duke of f.lomerset. An appli-
cation was thereupon made to IV) rr. Cosens to give the
required appointment to Mr. Sho. :te The application
was met by a positive refusal. Mr. Cosens was
"highly indignant" that Mr. Sho T e should have first
gone to, "a mere layman ;" and observed that he
could not conscientiously appoint Mr. Shore.
He was pressed to state is •hether he knew
anything against Mr. Shore. This was em-
barrassing He confessed th 31 he had heard
nothing of him except from t' b a Bishop. Matters
had now arrived at a crisis; either the chapel
must be closed, and the people c f Bridgetown be de-
prived of a pastor who had fai Vhfully ministered to
them for thirteen years, or the ;lapel must be with-
drawn from the Establishment. Mr. Cosens refused
to re-appoint Mr. Shore ; and t Ile Bishop of Exeter
withdrew his license from the cl iapel, and thus ren-
dered any clergyman who officia t ed within its walls
liable to pains and penaltie as an offender
against ecclesiastical order. There remained
one of two courses to the I ti uke of Somerset.
His Grace might, of course, oh e y the Bishop's be-
hest, deprive the people of E ridgetown of the
minister to whom they were aff 2tionately attached,
and send him forth injured and h elpless, leaving the
pubit of the chapel which he h v I erected at great
cost to be filled by whomsoever the Vicar 'and the
Bishop might please to select and appoint. This was
• one course; and this was, evidt t itly, the course to
which it was expected the combine s 1 operations of the
Prelate and the parish priest NV ould reduce the
Duke of Somerset. But there w.) i another course.
The chapel might be licensed umi ler the provisions
of the Toleration Act. Mr. Shu re might qualify,
himself as a teacher and preachy r under the pro-
vision of the same statute. Thus 1. separating himself
from the Established Church, t' it 9authority and
control of the Bishop of Exeter ow* T him and over
the chapel in which he officiated, woc uld, he naturally
supposed, terminate. The control,' ef •sy would thus be
brought to a close. This course flu z Duke of Somerset
sanctioned and approved—it wou' id even seem, sug-
gested. The Duke's agent lit ensed the chapel;
and Mr. Shore duly qualifier 1 himself as the
minister of a separatist congre, ration, by making
the prescribed declaration, and obtaining the ne-
cessary certificate. Mr. Shor. notified to the
Bishop's Secretary that he 1 sad taken refuge
.under the Act of Toleration ~ and asked if
there were any other net to be do. le by him to com-
plete his desired severance from t he Church of Eng-
land. The Bishop's monition was thus converted into
moonshine. The chapel, enjoined tc be closed against
its minister, remained open. The a, 3rvice in it, how-
ever, continued to be performed in . exact conformity
with the directions of the Book of Common Prayer.
The most careful observer would have detected no
variance between the former and tl t E! present state of
things. Within the Duke of Som e rset's chapel, at
Bridgetown, the prayers and other re gious ordinances
were performed as they had been _from its erection.
The mode in which the dilate ty •created by the
Bishop had been obviated by the Duke, pleased and
satisfied all parties —except, indet id, the 'relate and

the Vicar. These co-operators, to eject Mr. Shore '
from the chapel, found themselves foiled by a move
for which they were utterly unprepared. But
there was yet another chance. Mr. Shore had,
by virtue of his ordination vows, engaged to obey :
his Diocesan in all things pertaining to the clerical
office. By preaching and administering the sacra-
ments in an unlicensed place—he having been duly
cautioned and admonished of the fact, that the Bishop's
license had been withdrawn from the chapel at Bridge-
town—Mr. Shore had been guilty of a breach of
ecclesiastical discipline. He was, therefore, cited to
appear before the Commission issued to inquire into
the facts. This proceeding was preliminary to his
being prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court, to be
therein dealt with, for the restoration of his soul's
health ; the wholesome discipline of the spiritual
court having wondrous efficacy to raise the fallen,
and to restore the erring sons of the Church to the
fold from which they have strayed.
STANDARD.—There is something heroic in the
determination of the Irish Whigs to contribute their
share, small though it be, to the general discontent,
notwithstanding that they are so cruelly assaulted by
the O'Connellite faction on every possible oppor-
tunity. Their affection for agitation is willing, like
true loyalty, to suffer alli things not only for, but
from, their taskmaster. It is unfortunate that a fa-
tality of rendering themselves ridiculous should at-
tach to personages so self-denying, but what choice
can they have when the repealers abuse with
equal ferocity Whigs and Tories, and there
is only left for Lords Charlemont and Gosford the
opportunity of attacking those inconsidered trifles
in which Mr. O'Connell is pleased to think the
guilt of the Conservatives greater than that of the
Whigs ? The close of the session has produced
another manifesto from Charlemont House, relating,
it does not exactly appear to what, but kindly
advising the Minister to take the state of Ireland
into his considoration, as though that were a piece
of policy hitherto untried or now likely to be neglect-
ed. His Gracc the Duke of Leinster, though his
timid Whiggism has deprived him of the right to the
hereditary and questionable motto of his house, heads
this very select list ; and, in addition to that circum-
stance, the authors of the document demand attention
to their opinion 3 on tho ground of Choir boing pro-
prietors of estates in Ireland. The claim is
one which we are not at all disposed to
deny ; for opinions on Irish questions have been of
late years too generally taken from persons who are
proprietors of nothing Irish but assurance. We
cannot, however, see why even such a qualification
should enable these few noblemen to give the sanc-
tion of their names to statements calculated to
strengthen the false outcry of the O'Connellite
clique, that there is a disposition on the part
of her Majesty's Government to neglect the
affairs of Ireland. If the determination of
Ministers to devise measures for the amelioration of
Ireland were prompted by any anxiety for popu-
larity, the flood of unfounded abuse with which
every measure is assailed by the adherents of Lord
Charlemont's party might well induce them to
abandon the attempt. One of the complaints made
in this document is, that the Government seems to
apprehend a civil war by augmenting the
number of the troops, and that in this seeming
apprehension there is some great evil which their
Lordships are not pleased more fully to explain. It
is perhaps clear to the Duke of Leinster and Lord
Charlemont that the best course to pursue, when
a whole population has been excited by lan-
guage most violent and inflammatory, is to
leave that population to take their own course for
the redress of supposed grievances, without
presenting to them the visible tokens of the
power of the law. Such, however, is not the most
obviously rational view of the matter. From what-
ever supposed apprehensions their Lordships may
think the augmentation of the number of troops in
Ireland arises, it is plain that that augmentation is
the most effectual mode of removing the ground for
all species of apprehension, and is a course preferable,
we cannot but think, to the coercion Bills and daily
proclamations with which the Whigs have found it
necessary to treat their present allies.

THE DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL.

A large and respectable meeting of the electors and
inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury was held last
evening, at White. Conduit House, to consider the
best way of forwarding the Duncombe Testimonial,
so as especially to mark their gratitude to their inde-
pendent and indefatigable representative, Thomas
Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., M.P.
At seven o'clock, W. NICIIOLSON, Esq., the eminent
gin distiller, was called to the chair. He briefly ex-
plained the objects of the meeting, and after highly
extolling the talents and patriotic c mduct of Mr.
Duncombe, called upon the meeting to contribute
towards the testimonial.

Mr. R. MOORE (the Secretary) read letters from
gentlemen who, from various reasons, were unable to
attend.

N. HEWETT, Esq., rose to propose the first
resolution, which he supported by an able and
eloquent address. The resolution was to the effect
that they, the electors and inhabitants of the borough
of Finsbury, express their high admiration of the
conduct of Mr. Duncombe, whose energetic and dis-
interested exertions in the House of Commons de-
mand their warmest thanks, and something more.

NV. BALLS, Esq., seconded the resolution, which
was supported by J. P. BARNARD, Esq., and carried
unanimously.
W. ROGERS, Esq., proposed the next reso-
lution, which was seconded by Mr. SAVAGE, sup-
ported by Mr. M‘LEon, and carried unanimously. It
was to the following effect :--" That this meeting
learns with pleasure that a large portion of our coun-
trymen have already originated a subscription for the
purpose of enabling them to present to Mr. Duncombe
a testimonial of public gratitude for his public ser-
vices; and, as the immediate constituents of that gen-
tleman, we feel it our duty to be among the foremost
in promoting and adding value to the projected testi-
monial, by immediately opening subscription-lists in
Finsbury, and to take steps to render the testimonial
worthy of the borough, and the acceptance of its re-
presentative.
Mr. CAMERON then addressed the meeting, and
warmly eulogised the conduct of Mr. Duncombe, and
detailed the most prominent acts of his life. If six
millions of men subscribed but one penny each, so
large a sum as 24,0001. might be raised towards the
testimonial. After earnestly calling upon the meet-
ing to support the object of the meeting, he concluded
by moving the next resolution, which had reference
to the collection of the fund, and placing the task in
the hands of those gentlemen who signed the requi-
sition.
Mr. KNIGIIT seconded the resolution. He said he
was a Chartist—(Cheers)--and was one of those who
commenced the opposition in that borough to the
noxious Masters and Servants' Bill, which was so
strenuously opposed by Mr. Duncombe in the House
of Commons.—(Cheers.)

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The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. BURBIDGE moved that the chairman be re-
quested to act as treasurer to the fund.
Mr. KNIGHT seconded the resolution. He de-
scribed himself as a working man, and as a stanch
friend of the working classes. He as warmly eulo-
gised the conduct of Mr. Duncombe as the speakers
who had preceded him.
This resolution was also carried unanimously.
The SECRETARY then read a list of the subscrip-
tions collected in the room during the evening
towards the testimonial, at the head of which was the
name of the Chairman for 261. 55., which, by the
close of the meeting, amounted to a considerable sum.
A vote of thanks was passed unanimously to Mr.
Rouse for the gratuitous use of the large room in
which the meeting was held, and also for the use of
committee-rooms, &e.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman
for his able conduct in the chair, and the meeting
separated.

STUNG TO DEATIL—On Wednesday last, an ex-
traordinary and fatal occurrence took place in the village
of Iladdenham. About one o'clock in the afternoon, a
horse belonging to Mr. Uppinden, farmer, strayed from
his yard into the garden of Mrs. Cox, adjoining. Here
the animal kicked down a hive of bees, which instantly
surrounded and attacked him with great fierceness. The
poor horse kicked and plunged violently, and a man
named Blunt, a shepherd, who happened to be in Mrs.
Cox's house, went to its rescue. Ile succeeded in get-
ting hold of the horse, but had scarcely done so, when
the bees attacked him, covering his head, face, and every
exposed part of his body. It was in vain he strove to
beat them off. Wet cloths were flung over him, and
every other appliances resorted to, but it was a long time
before the enemy left him. The unfortunate man was
conveyed to his home, but died on his way thither, within
ten minutes of the attack. The horse died the next
evening. An inquest was held on the body of Blunt, on
Friday, and a verdict returned according to the circum-
stance. The deceased has left several children to lament
his untimely end.—Cambridge Independent.
CABINET COUNCIL.—Sir Robert Peel, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, and the
other Cabinet Ministers who are in the country, return
to town this day, for the purpose of attending a
Council, to be held at the Foreign-office at half-past
three o'clock. The summonses for holding a Cabinet
Council to-day were issued on Saturday evening.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—Capt. O'Brien, private
secretary to Sir James Graham, has been appointed,
under the provisions of the Joint-stock Companies Act.
(recently passed by the Legislature), to the office of
Principal Registrar.
LAWYERS IN CIIINA.—NO attorneys are authorised
by law in China; those self-constituted, are thus defined
and described by a Chinese classic writer:—" V. illano!is
and perverse vagabonds, who are fond of making a stir,
and who, either by fraudulent and crafty schemes, excite
discord; or by disorderly and illegal proceedings, intimi-
date and impose upon people I"—From Captain Piddinus
Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 15.