The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-10 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF EXETER ON

RAILWAYS.
(From the Western Luminary.)
A correspondent has favoured us with a copy of a letter,
which has been sent by the Lord Bishop of this diocese to
those clergymen with cure of souls whose names appear in the
lists of Provisional Committees of Railroad Companies :
" Bishopstowe, Oct. 2, 1840.
" Dear Sir,—Without the slightest intention of ascribing
any improper purpose to you, 1 scruple not to call your at-
tention to 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 105, ss. 29, 30.
"I think that the words ' dealing for gain or profit,' in
the 29th section, taken in conjunction with the exemption in
favour of benefit society, and fire or life assurance company
in the 30th section, may be held to bring Railroad Companies
within the provision of the statute, and therefore that the
being members of Provisional Committees might possibly
expose clergymen to the penalty of the statute.—l am, dear
Sir, yours sincerely, " H. EXETER."

SONG OF THE STAG.
(From Punch.)
The Railway lists proclaim the fact,
" Deposits paid this morn :"
All who hare cash must sign the Act,

All who have none must mourn.
Bulls, bears, around the alley throng,
It is the settling day ;
Then raise the burden of our song,
At last the Stag must pay.
With a hey-ho, chivey !
Hark forward, tantivy!

Then raise the burden Of our song,
At last the Stag must pay.
Lists, prices current pass around,
Their talk is of the Rail,
The Alley echoes with the sound,
And Capel-court looks pale.
The banks fill with an anxious throng,
And money's stiff they say ;
The settling's coins, too true our song
At last the Stag must pay !
With a hey-ho, &c.
Poor Stag, for cash thy brokers bore,
And rueful is thy face ;
All thy addresses serve no more—
Thy rigs are out of place.
But when the Alley runs thee down
As a tremendous don,
'Tis sad to think that half the town
Is
,just as bad as you.
_ Then hey-ho, chivey, &c.

NOVEL MEDICAL PRACTICE.—The Signora Car
peneta, of Turin, is ordered to drink as,es' milk ; but, being
too weak to take any medicine, they administered it to the
ass.--.3.1i1an Gazette.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.—CLOSE OF THE SEASON.—
These gardens closed on Wednesday, after an unusually long
season, which we were glad to hear from the lessee, in his
address, was prosperous beyond his most sanguine expecta-
tions. The entertainments for the close were varied and bril-
liant, and promise well for the coming season. Mr. IL Green
also made one of his perilous night ascents in his " corona-
tion" balloon, discharging fireworks from the car. The prin-
cipal artists engaged during the season just ended have been
retained for the next, and Widdlcomb, Lewis, and Darby are
to be preserved to their innumerable admirers.
THE CORPORATION NAVY.—We are sorry to find,
from an accident which nearly swamped the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs a few days ago on the Thames, that the navy of the cor.
poration of London is in a very deplorable condition. The civic
authorities were on board their barge, and had just made Lambeth
with a fresh breeze springing up from Millbank, when the Lord
Mayor seated in his chair of state, observed that the craft lurched
a little to leeward, and he entreated the Sheriffs and Aldermen to
trim the vessel, by sitting in equal numbers on each side of the
table. This seamanlike manceuvre was performed amid a low jokes
at the Lord Mayor's well known anxiety to keep a balance. The
mace lay on the table, among several empty decanters and a few
plates, each of which had contained sixpennyworth of sponge
cakes, when suddenly a loud wheeze of " Ahead there!" ema-
nated from the corpulent:old coxswain who was intrusted with the
rudder. The venerable old rowers still went on, for they
being all deaf with age could not hear the coxswain, and
plump they drove against one of the piers of Westminster-
bridge, throwing the Mayor and the mace, the Sheriffs and
the sherry, the aldermen and the sponge cakes, all together in one
dreadful jumble on the floor of the vessel. The crew, who at
their time of life have not the nerve to sustain a shock of the
kind, could render no assistance, and the coxswain, who is the
" Admiral Hyde Parker" of the City, a very gallant fellow, but
completely worn out, took that opportunity of resigning his situa-
• tion, from which indeed he had been thrown by the violence of the
• concussion. One of the Lord Mayor's footmen, on going below
to render assistance, found the whole of the civic authorities a
mere heap of ruins under the table. Wire was nearly crushed by
a large lump of Wood that had fallen upon him, and it was
almost feared that Gibbs had gone to his last account, which, by-
. the-bye, would have been his first also. Wire was found to be
• literally an under-sheriff, for everybody had tumbled over him.
• When the general consternation had subsided, it was found that
the civic party had been more frightened than hurl. But the con-
- sequences might have been very serious. The City might have been
_ left in a state of anarchy, without a legitimate sovereign ; and it is
- possible that a sort of cockney " Cromwell" would have declared
himself Protector, and made it necessary, some 500 years hence,
to inquire whether he should have a statue ? We understand that
_-
a Committee will be appointed to inquire into the cause of the ac-
_ cident. Some say it was occasioned by the upstart conduct of
_ Father Thames, who started up under the influence of a blow
- from Boreas, which no river who feels its own dignity wi.l tamely
- stand. Father Thames should, however, learn to say, " Down,
- swelling bosom, down 1" when the lives of the civic authorities,
--who are his own conservators, areutduiepseenamdeanntsohinp,h
cisautrseadnlbuyillitthye: For our own parts, we think unskilful
_ very venerable state of the civic navy, occasioned the accident.
The Times suggests that a barge proper, stranded with broken
- oars, should be added to the,civic areas, as a memento of the acci-
- dent ; and we think a cracked skull, placed beside the broken oars,
- would be still further emblematical of what might have happened.
- —Punch.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—There are two
- provisions in the Coal Act of last session, which are appointed to
- take effect on the 31st of December next, in respect to metro-
_
politan improvements. By the 3d and 4th sections of the Act it is
- declared that, in order to provide a fund for the opening of poor
- and densely populated districts in the metropolis, or for keeping
- owning spaces in the immediate vicinity of the same, as a means
of promoting the public convenience and health, the duty of Id,
- per ton on coals, fee., shall, from the 3lst of December, be applied
- to the creation of a fund for the execution of such improvements
- as Parliament shall direct or sanction. From the day mentioned
- the duty is to be laid out to form an accumulating fund until the
- fund shall be required for, and appropriated by Parliareent, to the
execution el improvements in the metropolis.
Mr. Lambert Jones has given notice of a motion in the
Common Council, for conveying the northern part of Far-
- ringdon-street, and the site of the Fleet Prison to the Lon-
- don and Birmingham Railway, for the erection of a grand
central station ; and the Lord Mayor has given a similar
notice for the conveyance of Farringaon-market to the Direct
- London and Manchester, Aahurst's line.
- DEATH OF AN IDIOT BY SUFFOCATION IN ST.
Luxe's Woaeliouse.—Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Baker held an
inquest at the Cumberland Head, City.road, on the body of Sophia
• Pocock, aged twenty-two years, an idlot, who for some time
- past had been an inmate of St. Luke's Workhouse. It
- appeared, from the evidence, that en Sunday last, the de-
- ceased, who was in the lunatic ward, with others, had her
- dinner, which consisted of brisket of beef and potatoes, it
was cut tip in small pieces, as usual, by the nurse; whilst eating
- which a piece of the beef stuck in her throat, and she became
- black in the face and violently convulsed. The master of the work.
- house, who saw the imminence of her danger before the arrival of
• any medical gentleman who was sent for, used the tube of the
- stomach pump and forced the meat from the gullet; but she died
2% before he succeeded in so doing. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental Death by Choking."
ILLEGAL NETTING IN THE THAMES, AND CONVIC-
TION OF THE OFFENIML—On Saturday last, Henry Dean, fisher-
man, of Old Brentford, was convicted before the Lord Mayor, upon
the information of water.bailiffs, John Milbourne and Thomas
Webb, for fishing with a net of an unlawful size in the mesh in the
Twickenham preserve early in the morning of the 30th ult. The
Lord Mayor condemned the act, and told the offender he should
fine him In the full penalty of 51. on his next appearance on a
similar charge.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. T. Hour, or VAUXIIA.LL •
Thomas Holt with
ma splendid
nd im
aesnattoeximra.--iolauon of
nh Wednesday t
ed Mr. he domestics of the establishment pre.
lfperienced from that gentleman diamond ring, as token
h
and liberal treatment they have ex.
during
the season, in his *opacity
as treasurer of the" Royal Property "
By the death of the Rev. Dr. Perkins three livings,
in the county and diocese have become vacant, z.
the Rectoryt e Vicarage
Dean
of Dawlish, in the gift of the and Claaptevri.
31amhead, in the gift of Sir Robert Newman, Bart. ; and thoef
Rectory of St. Lawrence, In this city, in the gift of the Crown.—
Watern Luminary.