Mr. Charles Pearson, so.licitor, has addressed a letter to the
Mae*, professedly because "so many errors are going the round of the papers" relative to Mr. Crowther, Mr. Newton, and Lord Ripon; and the writer has been instructed by the Earl to state "the facts." The principal facts stated are these. Lord Ripon is not patron of Dunston; though he helped to build the parsonage-house supplied lodging for the curate, and paid 40l. a year towards the salary. Mr. Crowther was a total stranger to him, had practised as a lawyer before be entered the church, and was engaged by the late Vicar as curate only for one year. Mr. Newton's father was originally a farmer's servant, but rose to be a tenant and steward to the late Lord Buckinghamshire, Lady Ripon's father. His son succeeded him in both posts; made a large fortune in twenty-one years; and bought a great quantity of land "For reasons, which I will avouch would have in- fluenced any landlord or employer to do the same, Lord Ripon dismissed him last Michaelmas (1845) from his situation of steward, and gave him notice to quit his farm." Living at Nocton, Mr. Newton was not Mr Crowther's parishioner.
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