The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-24 00:00:00

THE WESLEY ANS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—l am not one of those who object to any person's
mode or form of religion ; but I have a very great objection to
inconsistency, and especially religious inconsistency. The
Wesleyans appear to me to be the very essence of inconsis-
tency. They are not of the Church and yet are of the
Church, and how this is to be reconciled with reason I cannot
say. They make a practice, too, of attending church, diffe-
rent Dissenting places of worship, and are secretary and trea-
surer for each and all those sects of religionists. How is all
this to be reconciled ? To me it looks like " cock and hen"
religion, alias pounds, shillings, and pence worship.—Your
obedient servant,
February 18, 1845.

A LOVER OF CONSISTENCY.

A correspondent informs us, that in bringing for•
ward the budget of 1838, Mr. Spring Rice, then Chancellor
of the Exchequer, stated that between the sth of April, 1843,
and the sth of April, 1846, there would expire terminable
annuities for years amounting to 207,6991. This is an item
not to be lost sight of when the question of prospective tax-
ation is so much under consideration, and when all men
are endeavouring to form a just estimate of the strength
of the national resources. By the payment to the
South Sea Guarantee Fund of 222,2104, an annual charge of
above 8,0001. will cease from the sth of January last.—
Times.

The office of Lord Warden of the New Forest,
vacant by the death of the Right Hon. W. Sturges Bourne,
has been conferred by her Majesty upon his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge. '
Several of the French provincial journals contain
accounts of persons found dead on the roads from the effects
of the severe cold, and of the ravages of wolves. The Courrier
de la Drome states that near Fay-le-Froid several houses were
crushed by the weight of the snow which had fallen upon
them, and whole families killed, and that a young girl and
two children had been devoured by wolves. A similar catas-
trophe is said to have occurred near St. Bonnet.
SELF-MUTILATION.—A somewhat extraordinary
act of self-mutilation took place in Aberdeen Gaol on Mon-
day night. A person of the name of William Fentie, jun.,
rum New Deer, who ha., been indicted to stand his trial at
the ensuing Circuit Court of Justiciary on a charge of sheep-
' stealing, while in the act of cutting oakum with a small
hatchet, most unaccountably laid his hand upon the block
on which he was doing so, and snapped it off by the wrist.
No reason that we have heard can be assigned for his doing
so. Fentie, it appears, never seemed to feel the pain come•
quent upon the act, and his arm having been immediately
dressed,he is now doing well.--...4ber&en Paper.
THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY OF OMNIBUS
DRIVERS.—CS Friday a very numerous meeting of pro-
prietors, drivers, and others connected with metropolitan
stage carriages, was held at the Wheatsheaf Tavern, -Hand-
court, Holborn, to take into consideration the policy of form-
ing a Society having for its object the protection and benefit
of drivers of omnibuses, and other stage carriages. Robert
Allen, Esq., standing counsel for the Licensed Victuallers'
Society, stated the objects of the proposed Society to be the
creation of a fund that would assist the omnibus driver, or
driver of any other metropolitan stage carriage, in sickness,
to build alms-houses for them in adversity or old age, to pen-
sion their widows, and clothe and educate their orphan
children. The Association had also another object in view,
that• of providing each driver with the best legal advice in
all cases where the offence was not wilful. It was stated that
there are 10,000 stage carriage drivers in London alone.
The meeting then proceeded to elect the necessary officers of
the Society.
The Gazette of Silesia
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Cnumber of causes instituted
been presented
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Session, from the Ist day of January, 1844, to the Ist of
has
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order of the house of Commons, pur-
sajuaadn printeda rnutto' thelB4Ahs, yc t William IV., cap. 69. There appear
to be five Lords Ordinary--Lord Cunninghame, Lord
Murray, Lord Ivory, Lord Wood, and Lord Robertson.
In the " outer house," as it is called, the number of
causes enrolled for the first time before all the Lords
Ordinary amounted to 1,457, the number of decrees in
absence to 476 ; the number of final judgments pro-
nounced in litigated causes to 800, of which 267 were
pronounced by Lord Cunninghame, 25 by Lord Murray,
73 by Lord Ivory, 229 by Lord Wood, and 206 by Lord
Robertson. The total number of causes ready for de-
bate but not heard amounts to 94, and the total
of causes ad avizandum to 18. In the " inner house"
the number of reclaiming notes presented against
judgments of Lords Ordinary in the course of the
same year amounted to 289, viz., 207 in the first, and
82 in the second division. The number of incidental
and summary applications presented during the same
period amounted, in the first division, to 580, of
which 558 passed as matters of form ; and in the second
division to 362, of which 330 passed as matters of form.
The number of final judgments pronounced in litigated
causes, without the intervention of a jury, amounted to
122 and 96 in each division respectively. The number
of causes tried by jury to 25 and 23 respectively. The
number of causes ready for judgment on hearing coun-
sel or otherwise amount, in the first division, to 59, of
which 19 are to be tried by jury ; and in the second di-
vision, to 34, of which 15 are to be tried by jury.
VENEZUELA SUGAR.—A return has just been pre-
sented to the House of Oommons, stating the quantity of
sugar which has been admitted
c. litte2, a
dBfort
thehm rateeconsofumupsti. onperuncwdter.
the 7th and Bth
and 5 per cent., between the sth July, 1844, and the latest
period to which it could be made up. It appears that the
total amount is 11 cwt. 2 qrs. 1311 as. of sugar, all of which is
the produce of Venezuela.

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