The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN SURVEYS.

MEDITERRANEAN.—The opposite shores of the Archi-
pelago having been nearly completed, these parties are
now about the intermediate islands :—Commander
Graves, in the Beacon ; Commander Brock, in the
Bonetta.

ST. LAWRENCE.—This party, having completed the
survey of the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, from
Montreal to the island of Anticosti, as well as the Strait
of Belle Isle, is now employed on the southern shores of
the Gulf, and round Prince Ed vrard's Island.—Lieutenant
Shortiand, in the Columbia steam-vessel.

GULF OF FUNDY.—The survey of places on the shores
of this large and dangerous arm of the sea has been exe-
cuted, as well as upwards of 100 miles of the River St.
John; and this party is now uniting these partial surveys
in a general chart, as well as endeavouring to determine
the set of the prodigious tides there, which rise upwards
of 60 feet.—Lieutenant G. B. Lawrence, in the Lark.
WEST INDIES.—Thee parties having nearly finished
the Mosquito and Honduras Gulfs, as well as the intri-
,a,ate channels across the Bahama Banks, have now under-
f-tken the Gulf of Campeche, and the shores of the Gulf
of Mexico.—Commander E. Barnett, in the Thunder.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.—The survey of these islands,
which contain some of the finest harbours in the world,
is now nearly completed.
entsA.--These parties are employed in determining
positions of the various &tigers on the coast of China,
and in examining the approaches to the several commer-
cial poits, access to which was conceded by the late
treaty.—Captain Sir E. Belcher, K.C.8., in the Sama-
rang, and Captain Collinson, C. 8., in the Plover.
AUSTRALIA.—These parties are engaged in an exten-
sive survey of the long line of reefs lying to the east-
ward of Australia, and intervening between the Pacific
Ocean and Torres Strait, which is the only direct com-
munication with India.—Captain H. P. Blackwood in
the Fly, and Lieut. Yule in the Bramble.
WESTERN COAST OF AMERICA —These parties will
take up the survey at Guayaquil (to which place it had
been extended from Cape Horn, and published in 16
sheets); and they will continue it to the northward,
along the coasts of Granada, Guatemala, Mexico, and
California, of which long interval there is but little accu-
rately known.—Captain Kellett, C. 8., in the Herald, and
Lieut. Wood in the Pandora.

TIM BISIIOP OF EXETER AGAIN !—lt appears that
as soon as his Lordship learnt that the curate of Falmouth
had relinquished the popish forms and ceremonies which
had been so long performed at the church, he wrote both
to Mr. Symonds,and to the churchwardens, stating, that
while he readily consented, for the sake of peace, to the
discontinuance of any practices not ordered by the Church
(such as chantings, &c.) he could not permit, in any of the
churches of the diocese, the discontinuance of any part of the
Liturgy (as ordered by the Rubric) which was used there at
the date of his last letter to the clergy ,the Bth of January of
the present year. He must, therefore, require that the reading
of a sentence at the Offertory, and of the prayer for the Church
Militant after the morning sermon, be continued at Falmoath
as before.— West Briton.

BURY.—A PRIEST OF THE ORDER OF MELCHI-
SEM:C.—The Rev. W. H. Henslowe, of Tottenhill, who has
been proceeded against in the Court of Arches, in conse-
quence of his refusal to bury the child of a dissenter, has
published a letter cf thanks to those clergymen who have
" assisted or protected" him through the proceedings ; in
which he says—" The number of those friends I now find
was very small : the cause for which I personally-
stood the trial does not prosper ; . a repetitition of such
trial I may still be called to sutler any future day ; and, but
for one or two most kind supporters, I had been victimised
already and entirely to our anomalous Church laws ! My
sense of all these things is, therefore, such as shakes my
churchmanship itself to the foundation. An Anglo-Catholic
in Holy Orders I shall be fur ever ; but, of the Church Esta-
blishment of England I foresee that L and every other faith-
ful
.priest or 'Bishop of the order of naeln.sedee, moat ens
day cease to be."—NoriiiM ..W1(75. •