The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-15 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF EXETER.

On Saturday last the Lord Bishop returned to his palace
from his primary visitation of the whole diocese, which has
occupied six weeks, and we hear from all quarters that his lord-
ship has been received throughout, both by laity and clergy,
with every mark of respect and attention. The high station
which the Bishop of Exeter tills in the ranks of the church at
this critical juncture makes it a matter of no slight importance
that the public opinion of the diocese should go along. with him
in that manly defence of its sacred institutions which he, on
every occasion, in his place in Parliament, and in his episcopal
seat in his diocese, has shown himself prepared to maintain.
The support of such a body as the clergy of this diocese is a
strength which our bishop will be worthy to wield. We shall
not attempt to anticipate the matter of the bishop's charge,
which, we are rejoiced to learn, will he made public'; but we
cannot refrain from observing, that the 'tone and temper of
men's minds are fast returning to that sound and sober judg-
ment which will call truth and falsehood by their right names ;
which will place the clergy of this kingdom in that estimation
in which they ought to be held, as the poor man's best friend
and protector, and as the only sure link between the people and
any government.
The bishop in the course of this visitation has been incessant-
ly employed in the duties of the diocese. His lordship con-
firmed last year at above 40 places in Devonshire, and this year
at 28 places in Devon and Cornwall. The total number con-
firmed, we understand, is nearly thirty thousand ! The bishop,
• in his recent visitations, has had personal communication with
six hundred of his clergy; and we are sure we are only express-
ing the common sentiment when we say that the cordial affa-
bility which has been manifested throughout gives an earnest of
united strength much beyond the forms and business olthe day.
The bishop has, in his prof Tess, consecrated four new churches-
and six new burial grounds; and we are glad to be enabled to
take this opportunity of correcting a current but erroneous im-
pression that the expenses attending consecration were such- as
to be an obstacle to what parishes otherwise have wished. We
understand that the bishop took occasion to state publicly that
the expenses attending the consecration of a church did eot ex-
ceed twenty-one pounds, and the charges of the consecration of
the burial ground weie not snore than fifteen pounds.
At Plymouth the mayor and corporation met die bishop on
Sunday, and proceeded with his lordship to St. Andrew's• Church,
where the bishop preached, and the impression of a congrega-
tion of between three and four thousand, observing the most
perfect decorum, and exhibiting the marks of deep attention
throughout, was most ,gratifying. His lordship preached in the
afternoon at Stoke Dameret. At Dartmouth the mayor and
corporation met the bishop on his entrance to the town, and
conducted him to the consecration of the new church. The
churches consecrated are at Redruth, flesseuford, in St: Ger-
mans, Stonehouse, and Dartmouth. New churches are being
built at. Penzance, and at Bridgetown, Totness. A united
clerg,yompported as they are by the affections of the great body
of the people, will carry our church through all bials, and she
will yet be, what she eminently ever has been, the protector of
religious liberty, and the cradle of religious learning for all the
world.—Western Luminary.

ATTACK ON THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF BUCCLECCII.
We were averse to believe the report when it first reached us,
of a disgraceful attack having been made on the Duke and
Duchess of Buccleuch in the town of Biggar last week, because
we imagined this particular species of rudeness was confined to
the Hayrick radicals. We regret to find, however, from sub-
sequent information, that the report is true; and sorry are we,
for the credit of the country, that it is so. His grace, it is well
known, -had agreed to preside at the great agricultural meeting
which was held.on Friday last at Stirling, and for this purpose
he left Drumlanrig Castle, one of the family mansions iii Dum-
friesshire, on the preceding Monday, on his way to Dalkeith
Palace, in company with the Duchess. The same evening they
reached Biggar between seven And eight o'clock, where it was
necessary torhalt and change horses. Nu sooner were the dis-
tinguished travellers recognized than the carriage was beset by
a rabble of the lowest description, who, not content with applv-
ing the most vulgar and contemptible. epithets of abuse to his'
grace, assailed.the duchess in the same rude and ruffian-like

manner, advancing close to the carriage-door, that their gross
and indecorous language might be the more annoying. No at-
tempt, so far as we know, was made to put a stop to these in-
sults; it is but fair to add. however, that the authors of the out-
rage were the mere canaille of the streets; and we are satisfied
that no respectable person. in the town of Biggar, whatever his
political sentiments may be, would, for one moment, lend his
countenance to such shameful proceedings This base and das-
tardly assault, therefore, cannot be viewed as any indication of
the general feeling in the country; it is merely oue of those
ebullitions of popular frenzy which has, unfortunately, not yet
cooled and subsided since the agitation on the reform
Edinburgh Adveriiser.
11013PERY AT GLASGOW, AND CAPTURE OF THE THIEF ON
lIIS WAY TO LONDON.—An extensive robbery was committed
in Glasgow, last week, by a little gentleman of the synagogue,
of German extraction, (whose name we believe, is Plumberg,)
who left that city with the stolen property (about .E7W) at hail-
past ten o'clock that evening, on the pretence that he was
going to Greenock, and under the fictitious name of Mr. Miller.
No trace of him was got till next day at twelve o'clock, when
the gentleman who had lost the property, a partner, we under-
stand, of the fugitive, left Glasgow for Edinburgh, accompanied
by Mr. John Henry Morgan, of the Royal Exchange, one of
the commissioners of the Glasgow police
.establishment, where
they arrived at five p. m., and- after spending some time in
mairing the necessary enquiries, they found that the delinquent
had left Edinburgh for Newcastle by the Union coach, at six on
Thursday morning. lie was followed at hal-past six in the af-
ternoon, and although thirteen and a half hours in the rear, the
gentlemen from Glasgow arrived in Newcastle' in a chaise and
four, at half-past eight o,ri Friday morning, and to their morti-
fication they again found that the object of their pursuit had set
off for Landon by the Wellington coach, two and half hour's be-
fore. Mr.- Morgan then took a saddle horse, at a quarter to
nine and galloped after him, changing horses wherever he
could find them, and at ten minutes to twelve he overtook the
Wellington, at Northallerton, a distance of forty-nine miles
from Newcastle (and two hundred. and eleven from Glasgow,)
in three hours and five minutes. including all stoppages, and
with the assistance of the authorities of the place, ‘slio in the
most obliging manner, lent him their best assistance, he suc-
ceeded in making a capture of the fugitive, who was brought
back to Ne'weaste, and we rejoice to learn that the whole pro-
perty has been recovered.—We have seldom heard of an in-
stance of. such 'perseverance. It is quite clear that saddle
horses on such occasions are by far the best means of convey-
ance; and it is Only to be regretted. that a regular line of ac-
commodation of this sort could not at all times lie depended on.
The thief it appears was set at liberty, after surrendering his
booty, and was assisted with money to Pay for his journey to
London, instead of 'beiug taken back to Glasgow.