The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-12 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES, JAN. 1.

Jacob. Cohen, Chelmsford, Essex, cabinet-maker—
George Drew Keogh, Cornhill, commission-agent and ac-
countant—John Bradley, Leeds, linen-draper—John
Lewis Abbot, Bristol, saddler—James Fuller and John
Fuller, Radcliffe, Lancashire, provision-dealers—Wm.
Lyne, Liverpool, merchant—Joseph Charlesworth, Cop-
ley-gate, Halifax, merchant—John Taylor, Manchester,
timber-merchant—William Thomas Power, Birmingham,
and of Congleton, Cheshire, silkman—Thomas Pritchard,
Foot's-Cray, Kent, surgeon.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Robert Poston and Frederick Woolnough, Liverpool,
watch dial-makers—Francis Skelton and James Britton
Bailey, New Shorthorn, Sussex, brick-makers—John
Sworder and Thomas Lambert, Ware, Hertfordshire, barge-
owners—Thomas Jones, Wm. Jones, and Edward Jones,
Llwynon, Wrexham, iron-founders—Richard Denniston,
George Alston, R. D. Alston, George Scheviz, George
Campbell, and J. A. M'Whirter, Belize, Honduras, mer-
chants—James Young Knight and Robert Hird, Leeds,
booksellers—Martha Davies, Mary Jones, and Charles
Heath Chandler, Taunton, Somersetshire, dealers in porter
—John Greaves, Thomas Boler, William Boler, Newark,
Nottinghamshire, and Edward Roberts, Manchester,
millers—Joseph Green and Wm. Proctor, Oldbury, coal-
masters—John and Christopher Thornton, Lancaster, ca-
binet-makers—Jas. Bradley, and Wm. and John limber-
sky, (deceased) Ketley, Shropshire, maltsters—Samuel
Cannon, and John and Chas. Lockwood, Great Horton,
dealers—Wm. Gillibrand and Simon Hilton, Bolton-le-
Moors, patent pipe-manufacturers—Benjamin and Wm.
Whitehead, Dobcross, Yorkshire, merchants—Thomas
Ashton and George Power, Birmingham, waiter-makers
—Thomas Warham and Wm. Tarbottom, Leeds, stone-
merchants.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPARRING.

The admirers of this truly national sport had an epi-
curean treat at Jem Burn's Benefit yesterday, at the Royal
Tennis Court, Windmill.street. The attendance was in I
truth a bumper, and the sparring fully justified it, for on
no occasion for many years has it been better.
Jem Ward and Jem Burn opened the sports, and al-
though g 4 Ty Nr,-,7" ^SOPd creme rigl.")--handed conml;-
rnents, lie played his part with sonic judgment. At the
end, Ward said, that Neal had spoken of him as less
formidable than Baldwin, but he would alter his opinion,
by fighting him five fifties to four.
Uncle Ben and Ned Neal then mounted. Before, how-
ever, Ned's oratorical powers had been affected, he made
himself up for a reply to Jem Ward. The latter well
knew, he said, that be was matched with Baldwin, or
he would not be so forward. Nevertheless he would wil-
lingly fight him on the same terms when his present match
had come off; "For I mean fighting, Ward, and nothing
else (said he) before I leave the ring." In their set-to, of
two bouts, Ben seemed to have a great deal the best, and
left off prudently.
Young Dutch Sam and Harry Holt then presented
themselves. This match arose out of some chaffing, and
both seemed serious. Harry kept to his tether till his
vigour failed, and the day went off in favour of the Is-
raelite. The " mountain dew" had already done all the
mischief.

Peter Crawley and Dick Acton amused themselves and
the audience a little.

The interesting match " for the best " between Torn
Belcher and Baldwin was then looked for, and not in vain.
Bob mounted, and was saying that he had a benefit
to-incrrow week, and that he and Belcher were now going
to have a friendly turn. "Oh no," says the hero of the
Castle, " let him do what he likes."

This put the stopper upon Bob's eloquence, and "more
in sorrow than in anger," he went to work. He knew
that he must go in, and in he went. The first three bouts
were brought to the hug, almost without a hit. In the
6th, Bob's strong hitting got him the best, and the end of
7th, found Tom on the floor, from a slip, after which he
limped upon one of his knees. It was generally thought
" all gammon," but the next bout was thought any thing
else, for Tom seemed to have lost his coolness, and
received such a " persuader" from Baldwin's right, that his
" upper works" took precedence of his understandings in
seeking the centre of gravity. lie fell confusedly, and
Bob picked him up with the anxiety of a true Briton.
Tom never could keep him out, and had all the worst.
Couts, the runner, and Harry Jones—Murphy and the
Bristol Baker (the latter bit senseless), all lent their hand,
and were well received.

Curtis and Tisdale were ready, but the stage being oc-
cupied by some noisy orators, Dick complained of the cold,
and was retreating off again. However they set-to at last,
and Tisdale came off with a little the best.
Alexander Reid then challenged any man in the world of
10 stone for 200!.
Dick Curtis said he would meet hint if he would fight
9st. 101 b., Reid afterwards offered to fight 9st. 111 b., but
no deposit was made. He challenged Bishop Sharps if he
would fight 10st.
Ned Stockman takes a benefit on Boxing night, at the
Minor Theatre, Catherine-street, and Baldwin next Wed-
nesday at this Court, when all the stars have promised to
attend.

The Sunday Times for the three next weeks
will contain a practical plan of equalising Bishoprics and
raising small livings without taxing the public; also ob-
servations on the present enormous law charges which
curtail law; and a complete scheme for Reducing It least
Five Millions of our Expenditure without injury to such
as are now pensioned, Rte. The Sunday Times, price 7d.,
is published every Saturday evening to go by post, free into
the country, and every Sunday morning in London, and may
be had of all Newsmen.

HORRIBLE MURDER.-OXFORD,
Yesterday morning one of the watchmen of this city dis-
covered a female lying in the street, at the bask of Christ
Church, in a state of insensibility; and at first supposing'
that she was stupified by intoxication, be procured a wheel-
barrow for the purpose of conveying her to some place of
safety; but he soon discovered that she had sustained injury
of a nature too horible and disgusting to he described. Tile
unfortunate woman, whose name was Pincer, recovered
her senses sufficiently to disclose the facts of a murder so
appalling as to exceed in atrocious brutality any event upon
record. It seems that she had been prevailed upon to ac-
company two demons in human form, during the afternoon
of Thursday, and drank with them till a late hour in the
night, when they laid her down in the street in which she
was found—where, with a stake, they inflicted such wounds
as left no chance of her life being saved. She lingered in
the most excruciating torments till this morning, when she
expired. The poor creature, however, gave such a descrip-
tion of her murderers as we have the most sanguine hopes
may lead to their detection...... Gloucester and Cheltenham
1 Herold.

BISHOPS OF NORWICH AND CHESTER.

(FROII THE TRIES.)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Areb:leacon Bathurst will be ?ativ obliged to the Editor
of the Timem, if he will, as 8,;o:i a; possible, insert cor-
rectly the following statement of the affair between the
Bishop of Norwich and the Bishop of Chester :--

TO THE EDITOR, &c.
• SIR,—As, owing to the conduct of some injudicious
friend, or of some concealed enemy to either the Bishop of
Norwich or the Bishop of Chester (if it be possible that
the limner can have an enemy), a long dissertation has
taken place respecting a difference between these two
Bishops, I feel that it will l; interesting to the public, and
just to all parties, to state all particulars material to the
understanding of the questi.n ; and therefore I venture to
trouble you with an account containing the history of the
case from original documents.
The first communication on the affair took place in a
letter from the Archbishop, No. 1, with an enclosure No. 3,
from the Bishop of Chester. It was not received while at
cards, as is impudently insinuated in one of the newspapers
(for the post arrives in the morning), but while my dear
and honoured father was straining his eyes, which he em-
ploys to the last dregs of his existence, and while exercising,
with a weak bodily frame, his still vigorous anderstanding,
over the pages of Hoadley, or Jortin, or Jeremy Taylor, his
favourite authors.

I leave to your indignation and that of the public, the
attacks made on such a man : they are beneath notice.

(No. 1.)

LETTER FROM THE ♦RCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, DATED

ADDINGTON, JULY 2S, 1827.

" My Lord,-.--I received the enclosed letter from the
Bishop of Chester last week : your Lordship will see in
this instance the mischief that belongs to the practice of
giving orders without titles to them.
" It was probably unknown to your Lordship that Mr.
Purdon had been rejected as a candidate for orders by the
Bishop of Chester : but here lies the basis o the mischief ;
because, if a rejected candidate in one diocese can obtain
orders in anothefsummarily, without title, in violation of
the Canon, the discipline of the church, as it affects ordi-
nation, is utterly defeated.
" Your Lordship, I am sure, will take this admonition in
good part, and give it the attention it may deserve.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your faithful friend and servant,
" C. CANTUAR."

(No. 2.)
THE REPLY OF THE 13ISHOP OF NORWICH'.

" My dear Lord Archbishop—lt is impossible that an
admonition from you should gire offence to any one, be-
cause, upon all occasions, the good sense and good feeling
with which your admonitions are accompanied, entitle
them not only to attention and respect, but also cannot
fail to secure to them the effect which they have in view.
" I will not trouble your Grace with a statement of the
case alluded to by toy angry brother Bishop, but rest satis-
fied with assuring you that I did not know the Bishop of
Chester had rejected Mr. Purdon, who is a very well-
informed and exemplary young man, and nearly related to
one whose memory I shall never cease to love and revere.
" I am your Grace's faithful Ecrvant,
" H. NORWICH."