The Sun. — London, England, 1837-03-04 00:00:00

FROM. LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. At the Court at St. Jailies's, the Ist day of March, 1837, PRESENT, The Kit's most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right Honourable Lucius Viscount Falkland was, by his Majesty's command, sworn of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and his Lordship took his place at the Board ac eurdingly. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE. 111...acx 1. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight atood upon Lieutenant-General Robert Barton ' Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guclphic Order. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, Macs 1. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Major-General Thomas Hawker, late of the 13th Light Dragoons, Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCH 1. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon F,dward Chetham, Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, Companion of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guel phic Order. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARcii 1. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Thomas Mansell, Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphie Order, and Knight of the Royal Swedish Military Order of the Sword. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, IklArtcw 1. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Woodbine Parish, Esq., Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and late his Majesty's Consul, General Plenipotentiary, and Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres. WHITEHALL, FEB. 2S. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Robert Inglis to the church and parish of Lochlee, in the presbytery of Brechin County of Forfar, vacant by the death of Mr. David Inglis. The King has also been pleased to present the Rev. o ain White, M.A., to the church and parish of North Ronalds'r, r , v, i n the presbytery of North Isles and County of Orkney, vacar .‘ by th e transportation of the Rev. Patrick Fairbairn to a church in .Glasgow. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCH 1. This day the Count de Ludolf, Envoy Extraordir.ary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary from the King of the Kingdr.o..i of the Two Si cities ; and the Baron de Cetto, Envoy ExtraeAbnary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Bavaria, 1- lad audiences of his Ma jesty to deliver letters from their respecti-,.e Sovereigns : To which they were respectively int:educed by Lord Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's P'rinc.pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Rnber.t Chester, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies. WAR-OFFY,7E, lIIARcn 3. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon J. Dim:, from the Bth Light Dragoons, to bo Ff4rgeon, vice Lightbody, appointed to the Staff, March 3. Bth Regiment of Light Drigoons—Assist ant-Surgeon J. Squair, M.D., from the 93d Regiment of Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dawn, appointed to the 2d Dragoc n Guards, March 3. 16th Regiment of Foot- —Lieut. F. Fairtiough to be Adjutant, vice Thompson, promoted , March 3. 34th Foot—Quartermater Sergeant J. Duke, to be Quarter master, rice Pepperail, c r .oecased, Jan. 10. 62d Foot—Licut. F. Corfield, to be Adjutant, vice Guy, ap pointed Quartermaster ; Lieut. W. Guy, to be Quartermaster, vice Egar, deceased, Au g. 16, 1836. 93d Foot Staff-Assistant-Surgeon W. Cruickshank, M.D. , to be Assistant-Surgeon, vita Squair, promoted to the Bth Light Dra goons, March 3. 99th Foot—Ensign H. F. Alston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Seton, who retires. R. B. Deering, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Alston., March 3. HOSPITAL STAFF. Surgeon J. Lightbody, from the 24 Dragoon Guards, to b' Sur peon to the Forces, vice Badenach, deceased. J. G. P. Moore, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Cruickshank, appointed to the 93d Foot, March 3. MEMORANDUM. The half-pay of Paymaster E. .M.Grath, 86th Font, has been cancelled from 3d instant, inclusive, he having ace; pted a commuted allowance for his commission. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN MACDOUGALL, merchant, Liverpool. BENJAMIN PURBRICK, victualler, Golden-lane. BANKRUPTS. JOHN ABSOLON, tailor, Jernnu-street, St. James's, to sur render March 13, at two, and April 14, at eleven, at the Court uf Bankruptcy. Clark, official assignee, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard street : Bevan, Old Jewry. JOHN HALLETT, Latter, Orange-street, Bloomsbury, March 10, at ore, and April 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, ofii ial assgnce, - Basingliall-street; Parker, St. Paul's Church-yard. CATHERINE ALEXANDRINA HALLlN„schoolmistress, Park-road, Regent's Park, March 21, at half-past one, and April 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. T ur t ivan d, Copthall buildings, official assignee; Smith, Chancery-lane. GEORGE MARTIN, shopkeeper, Burnham, Buekinghana shice, March 10, at eleven, and April 11, at twelve, et the Court of Bankruntcy. Abbott, official assignee ; Smith and Dry, Serle street, Lincoln's-Inn. GEORGE BEDFORD, grocer, Kcppel-street, Chelsea, March 10, at half- past one, and April 14, at one, at the,Court of Bank ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Lot, Bow -lane, Chcapside. 'THOMAS JAMES BREEDS and CHARLES BURFIELD, Jun., merchants, kenning's-wharf, Tooley- s treet, M arc h 21, an d April 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager ' Cornhill, official assi gn e e ; Hindmarsh and Sun, Cres cent, Jewin-street, Cripplegate. FRANCIS HurrsoN, woollen-draper, Ncwgate-street, March 9, . t twelve, and - April 14, Et eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Goldsmicl, Ironmonger-lane, official assignee; Landau, Old Jewry. GEORGE POCOCK, manufacturing chemist, Booth-street, Spit..ll-fields, March 10, and April 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basi nghall -street, cfficial assignee ; Howard, Norton -street, Portland-road. WILLIAM BROTIIERTON, saddler, Liverpool-street, Lon don, March 14, at two, and April 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Alderrrianinn v, official assignee; Clark and Tanqueray, Church-ya;d. JtJHN ALDRED, Laker, Manchester, March 17, and April 14., at eleven, at the Ccromissieners' Rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, tendon; Bent, Manchester. W JOSEPH POPPLEELL, builder, Silkstone, Yorkshire, March 23, and April 11, at eleven, at the Town hall, Sheffield. SheAcrd, Barnsley, Yorkshire; Perkins and Frampton, Gray's- Inn-square, London. JOHN iIOUSEMAN, indigo extract marmfacturer, Halton, near Leeds, March 25, and April 14, at eleven, at. the Court-house. Leeds. Mrkinson .and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle Temple, Lon don ; Feden, Leeds. SETH RICHARDS,miIIer, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, March 6, and April 14, at twelve, at the Sloop Inn, Lars; don. Walker, Chepstow ; Clowes and Wedlake, Temple, London. JOHN EVANS, EDMUND COUPE, JOHN BROWN, ARTHUR SOUTHWARD, CHRISTOPHER HARDY, FRANCIS DONNELEY, JOHN LINNEY, DAVID STOTT, ROBERT BERRY, and JAMES ROBINSON, dyers, Man chester, March 16, and April 14, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; Hitchcock, Manchester. WILLIAM WOODHEAD, RICHARD WOODHEAD, and JOHN WOODHEAD,, scribbling millers, Almondbury, York shire, March 21, at twelve, and April 14, at eleven, at the Pack Horse Inn, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. W. and S. Stephenson, Ileheirth, Huddersfield ; Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery lane London. JOSEPH PICKERING, upholsterer, Bedford, March 13, and April 14, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Bedford. Cardalcs and Iliffe, Redford-row, London; Iliffe and Garrard, Olney, Buck inghamehire. JAMES MERCER, brewer, Birkenhead, Cheshire, March 18, and April 14, at one, at the Clarendon 'kerns, Liverpool. Per kins and 'Frampton ' Gray's-Inn-square, London; Hilliar, Liver pool and Woodside, Cheshire. 'EDWARD PASSEY, Jun. china-dealer, Worcester, March 13, and April 14, at eleven, at the Hop Market Inn, Worcester. White and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London; Corbett, Sansorne stre,A, 'Worcester. ffILLIAM U;ISWORTH, silk-lace-manufacturer, Derby, March 11, and April 14, at eleven, at the New Inn, Derby. Cspes, Raymond -buildings, Gray's-Inn, Londcn ; Williamson, Con, Mart,et, Deiby. STEPHEN MORGAN, toy-merchant, Birmingham, March 18, a'ad April 14, at one, at the Union Inn, Birmingham. Hohne and Loftus, New-Inn, London ; Bartlett, Birmingham. DI VIDE.NDS. W. Kingsford, paper manufacturer, Buckland, Kent, March 29, at twelve, at the Bell Inn, Sandwich—J. Kingsford, miller, Bar tOn, Canterbury, March 28, at one, at the Guildhall, Canterbury —S. Kingsford, miller, Sherry, Kent, March 28, at two, at the Guildhall, Canterbury—J. Maintorice, victualler, Soham, Cam bridge, April 1, at twelve, at the Bull Inn, Cambridge—R. Fur ness, slater, Preston, Lancaster, April 7, at twelve, at the Town hall, Preston-11. L. Tailor, saddler, Highworth, Wilts, March 25, at one, at the White Hart Inn, Cricklade, Wilts—W. Poulton, cattle salesman, Broadleaze, Wilts, March 25, at two, at the White Hart Inn, Cricklade—W. Hanks, corn dealer, Gloucester, March 28, at two, at the Fleece Inn, Cheltenham—C. Seaman, goldsmith, Norwich, April 1, at five, at the office of Messrs. Sewell, Blake, and Co., Norwich—H. Brown, and J. H. Bradley, merchants, Gloucester, March 27, at eleven, at the office of Messrs. Winter botham and Thomas, Tewkesbury—W. Morley, commission agent, Manchester, March 25, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES.—MA&cn 24. T. Thatcher, florist, Fleet-street—H. J. West, music seller, Bath—.W. Hindley, cheescmonger, Gray's Inn-lane—J. Platt, publican, Manchester—ll. Blain, merchant, Lime-street--H. J. Doubleday, oilman, Minories--R. Jones, farmer, Pontvane, Car mart henshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Stone and W. Finnimore, schoolmasters,Tirner-hill House, St. George, Gloucestershire--2M. Nightingale, H. Richardson, J. Moss, and T. Myers, wharfingers, Manchester—W. Bradbury and W. Wells, tailors, New Bond-street—R. Derwas and M. Jones, grocers, Shrewsbury—J. Clift and W. Fisher, attorneys, Ely-place, Holborn—S. Beddoes and F. Green, bakers, Kidderminster—G. Churchill and S. E. Molyneux, commission agents, Fenchurch street, City—J. and J. and G. Feather, worsted spinners, Haworth, Bradford, Yorkshire—R. Morrison and B. Brough, coal merchants, Pontypool, Monmouthshire—G. Row and J. A. Cotton, boot makers, Hackney-road—J. J. Grape!, E. V. Dadelszen, W. Prel ler, and G. M. V. Dadelszen, merchants, Banff, Scotland—R. H. Dawson and J. Bull, grocers, Boston, Lincolnshire—H. Munn, W. Elston, and C. W. Clark surveyors, Red Lion-place, West Smithfield—T. and W. Ryland, platers, Birmingham--C. Culshaw and T. Pemberton, builders, Preston—P. Tipping and P. Smith, bleachers, Openshaw, Manchester—G. W. Lee and E. J. Coates, London--R. Cooper arid W. Williams, silk mercers, Liverpool— J. Jone s an d W. A rms tr ong , t a il ors , M anc h es t er —W. B. Fother gill and H. Timms, brewers, Liverpool—J. Bowles and J. Paxman, millwrights, Greenstead, Essex—J. and E. Hunt, corn dealers, Edgware-road —T. Brown and G. P. Heap, tailors, Leadenhall street, City—J. Matthews and W. Gore—E. P. Mather and S. Parnell, druggists, Bolton-le-Moors ' Lancashire—J. Morrison and J. Cargill, coal mas t ers , Crumlin, Monmouthshire—J. Morris on , R. Per kins, - jun., and J. Cargill, coal masters, Crumlin, Newport, Monmouthshire—J. Knill, Pudding-lane, City, S. Potter, Rat cliff-highway, and J. Blashfield, Tedstone de la mere, Hereford shire, merchants. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. T. DRYSDALE, grocer, Glasgow, March 9 and 21, at two, at he Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. _ _ _ SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Spring Rice, it will be seen by our P'nellamentary report, eid before the House of Commons last nigh' ; , the leading points of he measure for the abolition of Church-r Aes. Upon the whole it appeared to give great satisfaction to the 11eformcrs, while it was objected to by the Tories. Mr. Humeoiid, r " It appeared to him that a more healing measure could not l and that if carried it would put an end. ease been brought forward, for ever to the general dis content which prevailed on the subj , sort of security to the Church Es U t, and thereby give the hest lblishment." Mr. Aglionby " strongly hoped and believed tha'e t h e measure would give great satisfacti 0n to general principle of the the country at large, and ' he esteemed one of the most heal's,. 'ls and wise measures that ever was brought forward in Parliar f Mr. Thonias Duncoinbe also expressed himself in fave ant of the measure. Satisfaction seemed to be the predomina at feeling with Liberal Members, though different Members star .ted objections to different parts of the plan. Of the plan itself we r shall endeavour as well as we can to put our readers in possessior In future the repairs of the fabric of the Church, and the provh ,ion for the celebration of its services, are to be defrayed entirel- f out of the property of the Church, out of the parish estates now . applied in aid of the Church-rates, and by the rent of a on e-fifth in some cases, ttion of the pews ; the other portion, cases, one-third in others, and one fourth in the rest being assigned as free sittings for the use of the poor. Dissenters are exempted from serving the office of churchsve eden, which officer is to be elected in future by the pew-renters. , .who,instead of the vestries, will also elect the clerk, sexton, of the Churcl- cradle, and other persons connected with the services But coupled with this purpose is another, which a ll real fri e '' d of the Church have been most anxious to accomplish. When , the .tund out of which the Church-rates are in future to be Paid 5na .,. .1 have reached a certain amount, it is proposed to apply the surritr s e after defraying the above expenses, to the increase of small . 'livings, for the benefit of that hardly-treated class, the work inclergy. But whence are to come the resources, for these pur -1 ',totes . ' It is proposed to raise them by abetter management of the land revenues cf the Archbishops, Bishops, and Deans and Chap ters. At present these properties are let on lease, renewable, by usage,'for ever, on the expiration of the life or lives inserted in the lease, or at certain recurring intervals, where the lease is held for a term of years. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer considers that although long-continued possession has created in the tenants' minds a feeling of ownership, and right of perpetual renewal on the old terms, this has not been uniformly respected when it was the interest of the Bishop to refuse it, and, as the right is not founded on any law, there are no means of enforcing it. But though the interest of the tenant is thus precarious, that of the Church is not ' so much the better. The Bishop or ecclesiastical person having the life interest, and, temporally speaking, no inte est in the suc cession, is anxious to make the most of the estate as long as he lives. He does not, therefore, impose a rack-rent, which he may not live to enjoy, but stipulates for a low one, with the payment in hand of as large a fine as he can raise. The two parties arc thus put in the position of the spendthrift and the usurer; each strug gling to make the best bargain, the one to make the most of his re version, and the other to pay as little as possible for a precarious estate. The tenant cannot he supposed to expend money on improvements with the same liberality as if he possessed a more certain title ; for he knows that the value of these improvements may be wrested from him with the estate by a more grasping successor, and the present in cumbent has little concern in improvements, which may never yield to him, nor to any one belonging to him, an increased reve nue. The Government propose, as they have already done 'with Crown lands and with the Church property in Ireland, to give the property an increased value for the interests of the Church, saving the interests of existing incumbents on the one hand, and of the lessees on the other. Thus present Church tenants may either, if they are so minded, take a new lease for 31 years, at a rack-rent, the value of their existing lease being allowed to them ; or they may buy a perpetual, indefeasible ownership in the land, in extent equal to fee-simple, by making themselves subject to the payment of a perpetual rent, varying, as in the case of the tithe-rents in the Tithe Bill of last year, with the price of corn. This rent will be computed with reference to the interest the tenante already possess in the estate. The value of the estate in fee-simple will be com puted at 25 years' purchase, from which will be deducted filo-value of the lease, which the tenant now has calculated at the rate of 4 per cent.; lessees for lives will be allowed the advantage of having the value of the lives computed from the Government tables, by which the fullest amount will be allowed for them. The value having been thus ascertained, the rent will be the interest of that sum, at 4 per cent. subject to future variation according to the price of corn. This will best be understood by a practical files tration :—Assuming the rental of the Church property now let on renewable lease to be, as stated by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, 1,323,0001., the tenants' share of it is represented by the difference between the whole rental and the sum which they an nually pay to the Church ou an average for fines, which is 261,000/. The tenants! annual interest is therefore represented by, the diffe rence of these two, or a rental of 1,062,000/. Supposing an addi tional sum of 250,000/. to be raised by the sale of reversions, the share left to the tenants is reduced by that amount; or that their future interest will be represented by a rental of 812,000/. ; showing a reduction of about 24 per eent. An equivalent for this reduc tion will be given by the increased value of the estate which the tenants will then. possess in their portion of the rental. Thus, suppose a tenant to have a Church lease worth eighteen years' purchase of property of the value of 10W. per an num, the saleable value of that lease is therefore 1,800/. By the additional reserved rent, amounting to 241., his leasehold 10e/. is turned into a freehold of 761. ; which, being saleable at thirty years' purchase, is worth 2,289/., or 480/. more than before. If, how ever, any lessee should prefer to enjoy his present estate, he will have the option of suffering his lease to run do for the whsle term ' for which it was granted. In that case the funds which will not be forthcoming from the sale of the reversion will be procured by sell ing annuities secured on those lends, and guaranteed by the Go vernment. This part of the scheme, however, is not likely, we should think, to come much into operation. The measure is to be carried into effect by a Commission, consisting of five dignitaries of the Church, three Great Officers of Stare, and three paid Commis sioners, two of whom are to be nominated by the Crown, and the other by the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the plan which was adopted in the Tithe Bill of last year. The Church Commis sioners are to be the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Dean of St. Paul's, and the Dean of Westminster. The other official Commissioners 'are the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State, and the First Com missioner of Woods and Forests. A Minister of the Crown is sure to be favonreblv received when he comes forward to announce the abolition of a tax ; but the measure of which we have just given an imperfect outline offers a subject of congratulation beyond the'mere pecuniary relief from an odious imposition, which both Churchman and Dissenter will rejoice to have paid for the last time. We allude to the cessation of those unseemly and angry brawls which have uniformly accompanied the agitation of the question of Church rates ; arid much will have been effected if the devotions of a Chris tian congregation nerd never again be disturbed by the thought that the means of performing their public worship were purchased by the desecration of the temple in which they were assembled. We have already alluded to the opinions expressed by several Libe ral Members in favour of the measure. The impression seemed to be, that whilst, On the one hand, the plan seeks a fund for the sup ply of the wants of the Church from the Church itself, on the other it respects existing interests. It was, however, observed by Mr. Aglionby, that there was an important distinction between lease holders under Bishops, and leaseholders under Deans and Chap ters. The distinction arose from this, that while a young. Bishop would very often run his life against that of a tenant, in the case of Dears and Chapters there was almost a moral ,certainty that the lease would be renewed. It was stated, in answer to a question put by that Hon. Gentleman to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that no distinction was made between the two descriptions of ecclesiastical property ; that the whole of the calculations were made in reference to ecclesiastical property generally, Which it was eupposed was subject to precisely the same rules. • In practice, however, we have occasion to know that considerable difference is made, for constant usage has so settled the proportion between the fines and rents in Dean ' end Chapter lands, that a mortgagee invests his. money with perfect confidence in the safety of his advance, on the principle of the usual calculation. However, upon the whole, it seems to have been thought by the House that sufficient allowance has been made in the scheme for the interests of the lessee. One circumstance yet remains to he noticed. Church-rates arc to be abolished ; but in the case of particular parishes, in which debts have been already con tracted on the security of the rates, a parochial rate is to be continued till the debt is liquidated. A plain principle of justice requires that these persons who have lent their money on the faith of an existing law shculd not have their security di minished, and, though in many parishes there may have been a pro digal expenditure, still the burden must be thrown somewhere. Considerable apprehension seemed, however, to be entertained by several Hen. Members with respect to the propriety of that part of the plan which continues a parochial rate in particular parishes till the debt is liquidated. The two Members for Lambeth. for in stance, assert that great injustice would be done to the Dissenters of the parish of Lambeth, which was subject to a heavy debt. Mr. Forster " saw in this arrangement a fruitful source of discontent, and he did not think the dissatisfaction would be at all mitigated by applications being made to the Court of King's Bench for writs of mandamus to enforce a rate, instead of rates being voted in vestries as heretofore." The care of superintending the repairs of paro chial churches and chapels will devolve on the Ecclesiastical Com missioners, who will apportion among the several dioceses the sum which will be annually paid over to them from the managers of the Church lands. It is not necessary to enter now into a discussion of the details of that superintendence, which will probably resemble those of Lord Althorp's Bill on the same subject. Little difficulty will be found in this part of the measure. The hard problem was to raise the means of expenditure in a manner which, while it should satisfy every scruple of the most conscientious Dissenter, yet contained no principle which has not been already recognised and defended by those who are prone to assume to themselves the credit of being the warmest friends of the Establishment. The Tories have incapa citated themselves from opposing tha measure now before the House by sanctioning its principle applied to Ireland. They are fond of telling us when it suits them, that the Irish and English Churches are one, and, being one, the proportion be tween the Protestants and other sects in both kingdoms ought to guide them, and not the proportion between the Pro testants and Catholics in one division of the Union. But there seemed to be a disposition in some of them last night to discover that there was really no 'analogy between England and Ireland. Sir Robert Inglis communicated the important discovery that many Dissenters were anxious to continue the payment of Church -rates, and, by way of encouraging the general manifesta tion of this fondness, he quoted the authority of their great leader, Matthew Henry. With all deference to the Hon. Member for Oxford, and all due respect for Matthew Henry, we think we can take it upon us to say, that the extinction of Church-rates will be viewed as a calamity by very few Dissenters indeed throughout the kingdom. It now remains to be seen how far the plan will give satisfaction to the country generally. In the House, as we have said, the prevailing feeling was one of satisfaction • and if greater objections are not start e d b y th e country than by 'Hon. Members, it may be concluded that the object of Ministers will be answered. To please all parties, in a matter of this kind, is an affair Of no small difficulty.— Morning Chronicle. Mr. Rice, it will be seen, announced last night his own precious plan for getting rid of Church-rates. It is, as we expected it would be, a pure piece of thimble-riggery—another hocus-pocus of sur-' plus-snaking. The Church lands are to be put into the ,hands of Commissioners, who are to manage to screw and squeeze out of the tenants an additional 250,000/. a year, and that sum is to be de voted to the purposes for which Church-rates are at present raised. Three of the Commissioners are to be paid Commissioners—of course. We say "of course," because, after an experience of five or six years, the public may now be quite certain that the Whigs, who came into office with a pledge that they would govern " with out patronage," never will suffer to pass, as they never have suffered to pass, a single session, without increasing their patronage by the creation of a number of new and costly places. We must defer till another day all examination of the details of the scheme. We were going to say that, in the mean time, we refer our readers to Air. Rice's speech, but we are afraid our readers would think we were laughing at them. Mr. Rice actually " occu h"tdatiVilfoor " (as his namesake, Jim Crow, would say) for two The Duke of Cleveland, we understand, is seriously fifty minutes, and we will venture to say that _ any man indisposed at the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Mark Milbanke, with a taste, with the least pretension to knowledge at Thorpe Perrow, near Bodale,..Durlaam Advertiser. I of business, and who was not eaten up with self-conceit, would THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1.37. have said all that the subject would bear in the odd fifty minutes— ay, and have plenty of time to spare into - the bargain for clapping his hands, and thumping , the box on the table, as often as Mr. Rice indulged in those - displays, which, by the way, are the only striking parts of that gentleman's speeches at any time. And yet Mr. Rice is precisely the person who has limited the size of news papers to a certain number of superficial inches ! Why, if every Member were as long-winded, and had as good an opinion of him self, as Mr. Rice, all the newspapers in London put together would. not hold a tithe of their speeches. We think it very monstrous that the: time of the House and of the public should be thus consumed in mere gabble ; and we must be allowed to express a hope that when Lord John Russell falls sick another time, he will, in his absence, limit Mr. Rice's liberty of speech by a scale of su perficial inches proportionate, at least, to that which Mr. Rice has applied to newspapers. This would be a great convenience to us, and an unspeakable comfort to the House.— Times. Cordially, most cordially, do we congratulate, not only his Ma jesty's Ministers, but the bissenters of the United Kingdom, on the plan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the abolition of Church-rates. We announced many days ago that this measure would be such as to give satisfaction to the country ; and the result furnishes a most gratifying confirmation of the ac curacy of our statement. If there were anything wanting to prove the impolicy—and not merely the impolicy, but the impossibility— of continuing the assessment of Church -rates, it is to be found in the luminous and energetic speech made last night in the House of COramons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There are few subjects which afford less scope for attractive discussion than Church rates—yet, notwithstanding the length of the Chancellor's speech, it was received by the House with the deepest attention and in terest ; and well did it deserve such an evidence of the impression it produced, for the labour which must have been necessary to the preparation of its details, and the ability of their arrangement, are such as but few possess the capability of exercising. The speech first showed the necessity of a change in the existing law, then demonstrated the objections to the plans already pro posed, and next . developed the Ministerial measure, with a precision of calculation, and force of argument, which we have rarely seen equalled on any similar occasion. The Right Hon. Gentleman adduced several cases in illustration of the excitement, disturbance, and acrimony, engendered by attempting to levy these rates under the present statute, which, even with all the authority that it can array in its support, is utterly inefficient for the assessment of the unjust and obnoxious impost. In Sheffield, after the most disgraceful scenes had occurred in the Church, betweeh the Churchmen and Dissenters, amounting to personal vio lence, in contesting for possession of the chair, when the rates were about to be assessed, the rates became extinct, and none have been levied for the last twenty years. In Manchester a struggle of a si milar character was maintained from 1832 to 1834, when, the votes having been taken, there appeared a majority of 11,000 out of 15,000 against the rates ; and, notwithstanding this majority was declared on a scrutiny to be a minority, the Churchmen dared not proceed to the enforcement of the rate. At a subsequent meeting in 1835, the show of hands against the rate was so decisive that the Churchwardens declined going to the poll ; since when the r i le has been abandoned. In another place a rate of 2s. 9d. was agreed to at a vestry meeting ; but a spirited Dissenter —Captain Flower—his name is worthy of being recorded—opposed the rate on legal grounds, and was ultimately defeated, the cost of levying the 2s. 9d. amounting to 2501. ; but so great was the odium excited by the proceeding, that no rate has been granted ever since. After having enumerated these instances in proof of the inefficiemcy of the existing law, and the imperative necessity of its repeal, the Chancellor read an extract from a speech of Lord Stanley in 1834, which we quote as an authority for that Noble Lord's admirers : " Suppose (said Lord Stanley) that year after year the Church should be triumphant in maintaining the payment of these rates to the uttermost farthing, and maintaining every abuse connected with their collection and distribution, does my Hon. Friend (the Member for Oxford) think that such a course of proceeding would be advantageous to the interests of the Church, or lead to the pro motion of true religion ? Does my Hon. Friend consider the heart burnings, the acrimonious revilings, the constant quarrels, the jea lousies, the recrimination, the profanation of the Church itself where these meetings take place, by which year after year the cause of religion is violated and profaned, the house of God desecrated, and the very worst possible feeling excited among the majority of the people at large? I say that such a state of things imperatively calls for relief." This is a question which we leave to Lord Stan ley's present associates to answer. The plan proposed by the Chan cellor may be, in a great measure, understood by the following ex tract from his speech :—" The two points on which I rest," said he, "are these—that the average of the leases, taking the leases for years and the leases fcir life together, is twenty-four years ; and the average rats of interest allowed upon renewals is seven per cent. The average amount of fines, as now received, taking t oget h er the leases from Bishops, Deans, Chapters, and Prebendaries, is 260,6311. Now, I find upon calculation, and lam satisfied that the closest investigation would disclose the same facts, that such is the actual value of the rental of the C'huich. Thus working it out, I shall have a perpetual annuity of 261,0001., which will represent ' the present rental from a property of 1,323,000/. ; that is the actual rental of the property; and I have the authority of Mr. Finlayson bearing me out in this (although I have no doubt that I am within the mark), that I shall have sufficient, taking it at that mark. Now, Sir, I propose to convert these perpetual annuities into an annuity of possession from the present time, and that i s altogether a matter of arithmetic. The sum which I shall obtain altogether is 561,0001., for the perpetuity of 1,300.0001. Well, Sir, if the fines revert, and if by the reversion of the value of the property of the Church, you convert it to a perpetual annuity of 351,000/. and deduct from it the amount I have alluded to, it will leave an amount of 265,0001. surplus, which I intend to apil3r to the payment of the charg es now d e frayed by Church -rat es .' 'I he average rate of interest at present allowed upon- the renewal of Ileases is 7 per cent., but this is proposed to be reduced to 4 per cent. cn converting the leases subject to the rental into a perpe tuity, so that with the right of pre-emption guaranteed by the Bill the tenants will effect a saving of 3 per cent. in purchasing under the proposed arrange men t. F or th e f ur th er developernentof the measure, we must refer to the outlines• of the Bill, and to the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech, which was hailed by the House with the most marked manifestations of approval--a reception which we have iso doubt will be responded to ir. every part of the country with the same enthusiasm with which we have the satisfaction of laying it before our readers. Now for a dissolution, if the Tories dare it.— Morning Advertiser. The Administration has 'at length produced its plan for the alao;- litbn of Church-rates. Of this plan we propose, in the first place, to give as clear an abstract as we have been able to collect from the , verbose and confused speech of Mr. Spring Rice. The lands of i the Church are to be taken out of the hands of the Church, and Iplaced in those of eleven Commissioners, to be appointed by the Act. Five of these Commissioners are to be ecclesiastical and six lay. The five ecclesiastical Commissioners are to be the Arch bishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the Dean of St. Paul's, and one Other. The secular Commissioners are to be the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and three paid Commissioners, one to be nominated by the Archbishop of Cante, bury and two by the Crown (another manufacture of snug and alluring patronage). The existing leases of Church land are to be permitted to be run out, and the Commissioners are to let the land at its present. value, excepting when the actual tenant chooses to take it, in which case he is to have a preference, ! with a deduction in his favour of 5 per cent. from the esti mated value. The Commissioners are also to have the power of selling the fee-simple of the land to the tenant in possession, subject to a corn rent. Pew rents, which arc to be made as ge neral as possible, are to be carried to the fund in the hands of the Commissioners, and to be subject to their controul, although under the immediate management of Committees of pew 'enters. This part of the scheme is accompanied by a provision for progressively increasing the means of free accommodation for the poor. In or dinary cases one fifth of the epace in Churches is to be devoted to this purpose ; in Churches which have been built under the Church Building Act the proportion is to be one-third ; and where the pews have not been already let one-half. A diminution of charge is also to be effected by the adoption of a new mode of swearing in Churchwardens. Parish estates applicable to the purposes for which Church-rates are levied are to be subject to the controul of the Commissioners, but their rents, instead of being carried to the , general fund, are to be still applied to the uses of the particular parish to which they re spectively belong. It is comput e d th a t, f ro m the various sources we have - described, after paying to the dignitaries of the Church sums equal to their present income, a fund will accumulate in the hands of the Commissioners exceeding 250,000/. per annum, 1 the sum which, it will be recollected, Lord Althorp's plan, ap proved by most of the present Ministers of the Crown, for the abo lition of Church-rates, would have charged upon the Consolidated Fund. This sum the Commissioners, under the proposed Act ; are to pay over annually to the present Ecclesiastical Commission ers, to be distributed by them to the parishes of England and Wales, and the residue is to constitute a fund for the better endow ment of small livings. The debts which have been already contracted by parishes, upon the security of Poor-rates, are to be liquidated by means of a general rate upon the pre sent system. Such is the plan o f Mi n i s t ers f or th e aboliti on _ o f Church-rates, of which Sir Robert Peel, Sir R. H. Inglis, and other Conservative Members of the House of Commons, as well as one Member of that asse m bly w h o genera lly su pp or t s th e Adminis tration, expressed their decided disapprobation, on the ground at' once of its impolicy and its injustice. We need scarcely add that it was greeted with acclamations by Sir. Joseph Hume and his Radical associates, excepting that portion of it which provides that persons who have lent their money to parishes on the security of Church rates shall be paid by Church-rates. Having placed before our readers as clear and concise an epitome of this scheme as see have been enabled to form from the Parliamentary proceedings of last night, we shall content ourselves, for the present, with a few brief remarks in illustration of its principles and cha racter. The Church is the owner of a certain amount of real property, vested in various modes and on various terms, in its Bishoprics, its Deaneries, and its Chapters. This property is leased to numerous individuals, whose interest in it is of a more or less valuable character, according to the conditions of their tenancy. The whole property, however, belongs without dispute to the Church and its lessees. Whatever has been given up by the Church has passed to the lessee ; whatever has not been transferred to the lessee has been retained by the Church. His Majesty's Ministers, desirous to release some thousands of their best friends from payments to which by voluntary contract they have become liable, look for a fund which they may safely appropriate for this purpose ; and presently they cast their eyes on this particular pro perty, of which the entire interest is divided between the Church and its lessees. They discover that the property is, for the most part, leased out at inadequate rents, and they find that the Bishops, the Deans, and the Chapter-Houses are, in many instances, pre vented by enactment, or by prescription, or by usage, from obtaining more equitable covenants. They propose, therefore, to take into their own hands the future regulation of these revenues; and upon this principle they proceed in their management of them. They will guarantee to the Church precisely what the Church now receives; they will exact4rom the lessee more than what the lessee now pays. The surplus so created they will appropriate to the pur poses which hitherto have been satisfied by those payments from which their friends are so anxious to be relieved. The right and the wrong of this matter lie in the very,smallest conceivable com pass. We set aside for the present the violation exhibited in this scheme of all the principles on which an Established Church rests for support. We drop the obvious impossibility of main taining the justice Of tithe after recognising the injustice of Church-rates. We confine - ourselves strictly to the morality of the particular action which is contemplated by the Govern ment. Suppose the plan of the Government carried into effect; Bishoprics, and Deaneries, and Chapters compulsorily come pensated; leases suffered to expire without renewal ; fee simples purchased at high valuations; in short, the property of the Church seized and improved. There lies the sum which is the amount of the surplus. Call it what you will; a million, or ten millions--no matter. From whose pockets has it come? Why, if the Church has now the power by law to obtain this surplus from its lessee, the Legislature, depriving the Church, of that power, has robbed the Church. And if the lessee has now the power by law to withhold this: surplus from the Church, the Legislature, depriving the lessee of that power, has robbed the lessee. Surely, even the House of Commons will not be imaginative enough to regard this heap of coin as the product of some official necromancy, conjured into ex istence by the tap of Mr. Spring Rice's wand, by whose posses sion nobody was the richer yesterday ; by whose loss nobody will be the poorer to-day.--Morning Post. PRICES OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. II !nk Stock. ~ — f India Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. — ;Ditto gons 3 per Cent. Cens S9N ; !4i li South Sea Stock — 3 Kper Cent............. ...... ... 101(1 Annnities Dam Red . ••• - i New Ditto ___ New 34 per Ccut - 97 13i')i. New per Cent.-- ...." —; Bank LongAnnuitiestoC -- xpire Jan. 5, 1860 — i Oct. in, 1e3.%9 14% 13-16 Jan. 5, IF6O l- 1 5;, ' Jan. 5, ,88v — April 5, IRSO ..I,a. 5, 167 0 — o:nnium —Pm. 3 per Ccnt. AmiLit;es, 1751... Exch. Bills, £1,1 , 00 27 25 27 pm. Ditto 500 QS 25 pm. I Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Atlvertiseil — pin Lank Stock for Account . _ ...... India Stock for Account Consols for Acconnt 90% 90 PRICES 'OF lOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds ...... ......... . —i Ditto Acc0unt.....„....„..., — Ditto Account ..... .. ..... ..... —1 Portugucseßonds Brazilian Bonds —l Ditto Account — Ditto Account . BSN I Ditto New Bonds uenos Ayres Bonds —l Ditto Account 4BA D.tto Account ... ..... .. ..... ... Ditto, 3 per cent — Chillian 80nd5.....„ ..... . ....... — 1 Prussian Bonds Ditto Account. — Russian Bonds, 16121 107% Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account, — I litit) Account - Ditto Metallic ........... ...... .. Columbian Bonds, 1821 2 S IA I Spanish Bonds Ditto Account ' I Ditto Account — Daniih Bonds Ditta Account Grecx floods...—. Ditto Bonds, 1625 — 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — 2 per cent. —l. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —l— Exchange —f' , Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent...„....... —...! Ditto Account — Ditto Account ................ Ditto, 5 per cent. 102% Neapolitan —! Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Birmingham andinerby Railway Company lO 8 7% great Western Railway Company 4O 45 London and Birmingham Railway Company 75 102 100 South Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven Railway *2 lIA COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. I'2 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdain 2U. 12 514 Antwerp.~ Hamburg. M.I3. 13 l 2! Altona Faris, 3 days' sight 25 63 Ditto ....... .............. `.2 Us 25 90 Marseilles. Frankfort OH Mania, Ex. M 153 Petersbuigh, ruble '1 Us. 10 0 Berhit Vienna, effective 0 2M.10 16 Trieste ditto lO 18 Madrid 554 Cadiz 3614 !Whoa 13 Flarcelona 36 - Seville 36 Gibtaltar PRICES OF IRISH STO 3 per Cent. Consols ......... SS Ditto Reduced 3% per Cent. Stuck 96% ihtto'New, I c,30 3..; per Cent. Debentures S9?i, Bank Stock 197 Royal Canal Stock 3k Grand Canal Stock —..... ►NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn Genoa 'A 5 Milan `ll Venice 47 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 121 Lisbon 5.33' Oporto 5 33 Rio Janeiro 92 Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork l% PRICE. OF 'Bill:MON, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons ....... New Dollars Silver. bars, standard 0 5 11 /4 !ICS, DUBLIN, MARCH 2. Grand Canal Deb, 6 per cent SO Ditto, 4 per cent 5:34 Hibernian Bank City or Dublin . ..Steam Co - National Insurance Co :3O City Debentures, 4 per cent 7874 Balirst Ot - lice Debentures, 4 ner cent MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.' Arrived Due 0 A•uerica U I France 0 0 lAs6on I 0 1 1 razi1......- ..... 0 0 ttu.rn.StJeresy 0 0 Matta 0 ituenos Ayres.. 0 1 Hamburg ...... .. 0 0 Mexico 0 Carthagena ~... 0 0 Iloti.and 1 Dublin.— ...... 0 0 Jamaica ...... 0 0 Sweden . 0 0 Fenders ......... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 I Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'Fo_moßnow. 0 minutes after L I Evening...... 29 minutes after 1 HAMBURGH, FEB. 24, 1837. "ill. those having to remit to us 201., before the 15th of March, are requested to avail themselves of the next mails, as else it might become too late for reaching us in doe time. HEINE BROTHERS. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. IA 1. , ....- 4- ': • •P' -.' -10, 7 ' . :a:;,11.),; -„., ' , "41 ,4 %, _. t .'•:,,,Z_„, 6 .k * ' OA? A - ' - `-t ~ LS. s t,:liZZ% - % •, :. 9 .. ...414.1,,,,- 4 7 . , ! _. ~ 1:- - . ig LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 4, 1837. Ia the House of Lords yesterday, after the presenta tion of numerous petitions, both against and in favour of the extinction of Church -rates, the Leasing Bill—the ob ject of which is to assimilate the law of Scotland and Eng land as regards seditious libels—was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Their Lordships then adjourned. In the House of Commons, some remarks made by Sir C. BoanELL, relative to the conventional rule established in the presentation of public petitions, led Mr. HOME to observe that the course pursued by the Chair, of not even allowing- the names of the petitions to he mentioned, was highly objeeionable. " Honourable Members were en trusted with an important duty when petitions were con fided to their care, and he thought they completely neg lected their duty, when they allowed aemselves to be pre vented from even naming the parties presenting the peti tions. If such an important right were to be given up, the best way would be to abandon presenting petitions alto gether." Several Railway Bills were forwarded a stage. In the course of some conversation on one of them Sir R. PEEL denounced the system of canvassing for private Bills as most abominable." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. then brought for ward his resolution for the extinction of Church Itates. The details of this important measure, and the discussion which followed its development, will be found in another part of our paper. His Majesty's Ministers have nobly redeemed their pledge to the Dissenters and to the country. They pro mised a measure that would satisfy those who complained of the grievance of Church -rates, without affording any just ground of complaint to the supporters of the national Establishment. That they have amply fulfilled their pro mise—fulfilled it both in letter and in spirit—we need only refer, our readers for proof to the admirable exposition of the Government plan, contained in the speech of the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, with which a considerable portion of our paper is occupied—a speech, we may add— distinguished ❑o less by perspicuousness of detail, and mode ration of tone, than by the unanswerable power of argu ment which it brings to bear upon a great public question. Before the Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded to deve lope the plan, which he proposed to substitute for the pre sent mode of providinlifor the repairs of Churches, and other objects to which Church-rates are now applied, he cleared the ground by demolishing the various structures which fanciful or factious persons had reared upon it. Some are for letting things remain as they are—the system, according to them, works exceedingly well— why meddle with it at all ? In order to show the force of the argument for things as they are, Mr. SPRING RICE instanced a few cases, as specimens of the general effects produced by the compulsory levying of Church-rates, from which it appeared, that where resistance was made to a Church -rate, the consequences were equally fatal to the in terests of the Church, whether it came off victorious or vanquished from the contest. The case of Manchester is one eminently in point, where, during the last four years, violent and protracted struggles had repeatedly taken place, and where, although the majority had on every occa sion been declared in favour of the rate, the Church wardens had never dared to collect it !—so that the only fruit which the Church derives from such attempts to enforce the payment of an unrighteous tax is to excite a spirit of strife in the community, and to make herself an ob ject of hatred to far the greater portion of the people. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER made out a triumphant case against the continuance of the present sys tem, and concluded this part of his subject by an appeal to the authority of Lord STANLEY, who, a few years ago, in denouncing the existing mode of levying Church-rates, asked the Hon. Member for Oxford, whether he thought that " the heart-burnings—th e acrimonious revilings—the r ecriminations—the party and personal violence, which took place in the Church itself, and by which the cause of true religion was profaned, and the name of GOD desecrated, and ill-feeling generated amongst the people at large, could pro mote the interests of the Church ? I say," added the Noble Lord, " such things call imperiously for an immediate remedy." Right Hon. Gentlethan then took a rapid view of the different remedies which have at various times been proposed for the evil, all of which he shelved to be inade quate to the attainment of their object. He then opened up to the House the plan of the present Government ; the main features of which are, the total abolition of Church rates, under every form, and without transfer to any department of the public revenue ; and to provide for the maintenance of the fabric of the churches out of the lands which are now the property of the Church, and in the hands of the Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, and Preben daries throughout England. These lands are now, and have always been, grossly mismanaged. Instead of the system of taking fines—of granting leases for years—leases for lives, and concurrent leases—it is intended that the leasing power shall be entirely done away with, and the manage ment of these lands vested in Commissioners, who shall have power to deal with Church lands precisely as the Commissioners of the Crown lands deal with them. The Lessee of the Church is to have the right of purchasing the fee simple of the land he now holds on lease, subject to a fixed rent payable to the Commissioners. The land is to be estimated at twenty-five years' purchase, and the sum which the Lessee will have to pay will be the difference between that value and the value of his lease, whatever that may be. Neither is the tenant to be obliged to pay down the purchase-money, as , it is proposed that this shall be commuted into a proportionally in creased annual rent. By this means the tenant will acquire a property in the land which he now holds at the precarious mercy of the Church, and the land will yield an additional amount of revenue, to be applied to such pur poses as may be deemed necessary. In the present in stance, no Churchman, however staunch, can object to the application of the new fund, for if there be a purpose strictly ecclesiastical, it is the maintenance of the Churches ; while he must allow that the State has an un doubted right to do. as it pleases with a property created entirely by its own act, as is the case with the additional value given to Church lands, by the contemplated legislative enactment. We refer our readers to the Resolution which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed at the conclusion of his Speech, which states in a few words the principle in which the new mea sure is founded—a principle which we are sure will prove completely satisfactory to the Dissenter, and ought to be equally so to the Churchman. The first great argument against the plan for abolishing Church-rates is that it would destroy the nationality of the Church, and amount to the separation of Church and State. But has not that calamity, then, befallen the esta blished Church of Ireland ? The Church cess was abo lished some years ago, and a substitute found for it out of the revenues arising from Church lands. Nay more—is it not a well-known fact that originally Tithes and other Church property were set apart, not only to maintain the Clergy, but to keep the Churches in repair, and that at a period when the connection between Church and State was infinitely stronger than at present? The second objection is, that as lands and houses are devised or purchased liable to these rates, the possessor is legally bound to pay them, and no circumstance can exempt him from the obligation. But would not the same argument apply in many other cases ? It would apply equally against the abolition of the House duty, or the reduction of the Window -tax, or against the abolition of that ancient, universal, and venerable tax called Peter's-pence. If it can be shown that the necessity for payment ceases, then the obligation ceases also. It re mains, therefore, for the opponents of the measure to prove, that the funds of the Church are so scanty that the sum of 250,0001. cannot be spared as a substitute for Church rates, without endangering or destroying the nationality of the Church Establishment. But for the practice ever resorted to by the high Church party to deceive the multitude, to call in the sacred name of religion to their aid, and mix up that with interests which are purely selfish and political, the very attempt to establish such a proposition, consider ing the vast wealth of that Church, would be treated with ridicule by every rational being. The revenues of the English Church may be safely stated at upwards of four millions sterling for a population of thirteen millions ; the revenues of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland do not amount to 300,0001. for 2,460,000 inhabitants, about one-sixth of the population of England ; and notwith standing the recent applications for an additional grant, it is admitted on all hands that there is not in existence, and perhaps never was, a Church more effective in every point, both as regards morals and religion, than the Church of Scotland. If the revenues of the Church of England, there fore, were placed on the same footing, they would amount to 2,000,0001. sterling, leaving a surplus of the same amount ; and yet it is gruvely.affirmed that 250,0001. cannot be spared out of this enormous income to make good Church-rates. The parties who repudiate the plan have not a particle of reason to urge against it ; and their only and constant re source, therefore, is, to excite the religious fears of the people. The Paris Papers of Thursday are filled with the debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the Civil and Military Tri bunals' Disjunction Bill, which is supported and opposed with a vehemence of passion little according with the recog nized usages of a deliberative assembly. It is reported that the Cabinet is divided respecting the necessity of this mea sure. Count M oLE, M. DUCHATEL, and M. ROSAMEL, would willingly give up the Bill, and rest content with the law as it at present stands ; but M. GUIZOT, M. PERSIL, and General BERNARD contend that the Bill ought to be forced on at every risk. The KING agrees in opinion with the Ministers of Public Instruction, Grace and Justice, and War ; so that the President of the Council, and the Minis ters of Finance and Marine have been compelled, in some shape, to give their tacit consent to the carrying of a mea sure which they regard as fraught with danger to the Crown. The state of political feeling in the army greatly alarms the KING. His MAJESTY had hoped that the distinctions which he so lavishly heaped upon a few favourites of the troops would win every heart ; but to his great mortification he now finds that the very objects of his bounty are not heartily attached to the support of the ORLEANS dynasty. The KING is quite certain that in a case of great and sudden emergency, there is not a regiment in his service, nor even a body of officers in the command of one, oe whose united loyalty he could depend. Those of the old Marshals who are not decided Royalists are at heart devoted to the cause of Republicanism. The majority of the Generals, and nine tenths of the inferior officers, are led by early recollections to distrust and abhor the ORLEANS family, as one of the most rotten branches of the old BOURBON dynasty—as one inheriting its crimes without its dignity, its legitimacy, or its moral greatness in adversity. Were all else equal, there is not one of them who would not rather serve a descendant of Louis XVI., than a son of the infamous EGALITE. But will severity banish the causes of the KING'S well founded fears of the army ? Most certainly not. We rather think it will accelerate the approach of the very danger of which his MAJESTY is so apprehensive. Marshal CLAUSEL has refused an invitation to dine at the Palace, till his conduct in Africa shall have undergone investigation. Three individuals, one of whom is a medical student, an other a tailor, and the third a mechanic, have been seized and imprisoned, on a charge of plotting the KING'S death. The prisons are filled with victims of the KING'S fears, many of whom have been three months incarcerated, and are yet ignorant of the crimes of which they are accused FRENCH FUNDS.—Psais, MARCII 2. Five per Cents., 109 f. 50c. 60c. 55c. Four and a Half per Cents. 10:3f Three per Cents. 79f. :30e. 45c 40c. Bank Actions, 2,405 f. 2,402 f. 50c. 2,405 f. Rente oe Naples, 98f. 50c. '7sc. Roman Five per Cents.,! 1023. Spanish Actives, 204 %%%. Spanish Differes, 11%. Spanish Passives, 7 Belgian Society, 1,550 f. Portuguese Three per Cents. 31%%. EXCHANGL ON LONDON. One month, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 32%c. Three months, paper, —f. —c.; money, 23t. 12%c. Authentiaue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 109 f. 90c. Three per Cents. :3f. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,405 E Rente de Naples, 910. 20e. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Brussels Bank, 1,432 f. Oc. Portuguese Three per Cents., 32. Spanish Actives, 26%. Spanish Passives. 7%. New Differes, 113¢. Miguelites, 12. BELGIANFUNDS—Baussats, MARCH I. Actual Debt, 2i"; per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions.... 92% Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 99% Society of Commerce, 4N, per Cent l3lyi Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 139% —Brussels Papers, March 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-..VIENNA, FEB. 22. _ Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shan ,res —Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 27. Canton papers to the 28th of October have been re ceived. The trade between Great Britain and China is greatly increased, and promises to increase still more. This is one of the happy results of the abolition of the East India Company's monopoly. His Celestial Majesty the EMPEROR has issued an edict, prohibiting the introduction of opium into his dominions. This edict has filled the natives, who all smoke that drug, with deep affliction. A memorial from Canton, praying the suspension of the was about to be forwarded to the EMPEROR. The Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Count yesterday evening returned two true bills against Mrs. and Miss Newman. The trial is expected to take place this day. DESTITUTION 1N SCOTLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l have just read, in The Sun newspaper of this even ing, your heart-rending remarks relative to the poor sufferers in Scotland. As lam on the point of leaving London, may I request the favour of your forwarding my mite for their ac ceptance, which I do under the impression that the old motto, " Bis dat qui cito dat," will be fully verified. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, THOMAS HOOTER. Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, March 4, 1837. [We have received a sovereign inclosed, which shall ber handed to the Committee. We hope to be able to acknow ledge the receipt of many more, in such a truly benevolent cause, from our humane and patriotic readers.—ED. StsN.] CRIMINAL COURT-(TIIIS DAY)• OLD COURT. Bartholomew Kent, a person of rather respectable appearance, was indicted for embezzling a bill of exchange for 851. 13s. 9d, which came into his possession while in the service of the Argus Insurance Company. The trial had not concluded when our Reporter left• LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DEAL, MARCH 3.—Wind N. E., moderate.—Arrived the Ari; - cat, Mackie from Belfast ; and Alert, White, from ditto. The American ship Gladiator, from New York, arrived in the Downs last evening, and drove on shore last night abreast of Deal ; she was assisted off this morning, with loss of anchors and cables, which have been supplied, and remains. PLYMOUTH, AIARCH 3.—Arrived the Aurora, Bassett, from Waterford, bound to London, with bows stove, having been in con tact with a steamer. FALmounr,..MAßcii 2.—Arrived the Reindeer packet, from the West Indies—sailed from St. Thomas's the 2d ult. ; and Mary, Rudd, from Youghal. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 3. —Wind N.E.—Arrived the Montreal, Griffin, from London ; and Dido, Cunningham, from Swansea. Sailed the Monireal, Griffin, for New York; his Majesty's steamer Messenger, for Plymouth ; Vansittart, from London, for Madras. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 2.—Wind N., light.—Arrived the Mar tha, from Canton—sailed 26th October ; Congress, Fox, from New Orleans; and Eliza, from Palermo. CLY DE, MA acts I.—Arrived the Eliza and Abby, from Mobile ; Cornelia, Easton, from Charleston ; and Alfred, Ledstone, from St. Michael's. WA TE It FORD, Al.l RC I.—Arrived the Commodore, Cosens, from Loudon. BELFAST, MARCH I.—Arrived the Quelch, Emporte, St. Übes. MARYFORT, MARCH 2.—The Ann, which was on shore near Carrickfergus, has been got off and brought into this harbour. WORKINGTON, MARCH I.—The hull and materials of the Au tumn, of Whitehaven, now a wreck near this port, are to be sold on Saturday, the 4th instant. RAMSGATE, 11. IA 'wit 3.—A fir beam of a vessel of about 200 tons has been towed in here this day by Ramsgate boatmen. The Johns, 11PLeary, from Londonderry to Drumore, is on shore at Lockindaul. YARMOUTH, MARCH 2.—The Prec:osa, Hillman, from Nevr• castle to Algiers, is discharging her cargo, to enable her to enter the harbour. ANTIGUA, JAN. 30.—The Bunker Hill arrived from New haven—experienced a heavy gale on the 2d inst., which continued twelve days, during which she lost twenty-six horses: On the 16th, spoke the Black Hawk, from Newhaven—had lost seventy horses in the same gale. KIENsAi.i., Fee. 28.—The Formidable, from Liverpool to Singa pore, came in to-day leaky, and will be ready to proceed in three days. SIIOREHAm, MAncit 3.—The Shakspeare steamer, bound La Rio Janeiro, came in to-day to repair engine. The Favourite, Byers, on shore at Allonby, has not received any damage ; her situation being on the sand, it will require labour to get her out. The Ann, Boucher, has received damage on both bilges; if the weather holds good both vessels may be got off on Wednesday or before. The President, from Amsterdam, has arrived at Plymouth, with loss of sails, yards, &c., bound to Batavia. Vessels spoken with—the Elizabeth and Mary, from Bristol, bound to Honduras, lat. 17., lon. 52, by the Dennison, Poole, arrived at Antigua. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T W ELVE O'CLOCK Our arrivals this morning are the French and Hambro' mails, S. Leeward Island mail, and ship-letters from Canton. By the arrival of the Leeward Island mail, by the Reindeer, which sailed on the 2d of February from St. Thomas, we have re ceived the Barbadian Journal of the 25th of January, which states that the ship Tulloch, Castle, long expected from England with the Commander of his Majesty's Forces in these colonies, Lieut.- General Sir Samford Whittingham, arrived there on the Ist of February. The steamer Carron came in from Jamaica, and broughtdispatehes to the 'Vice-Admiral, conveying some unpleasant news from Car thagena. Report says that the public authorities there had violated the acknowledged privileges of the British Consul, whose papers they had seized, and whose person they had imprisoned. His Ma-- jesty's brig Serpent was immediately dispatched to New Grenada, for the protection of British lives and property, connected with these circumstances. A public notice from his Excellency the Go vernor notified the blockade of the ports of New Granada by his Majesty's ships. By the arrival of the Martha at Liverpool, from Canton, whence she sailed on the 28th Oct., we have received the Canton Press of the 22d Oct., containing accounts of the difference which had taken place between the Black tea men and the Hong merchants , by which it appears the former are dissatisfied with the mode of payment and the general conduct of the Hong merchcnts ; and thel had passed a number of resolutions binding themselves under heavy penalties not to transact business with them on the same terms as formerly. The business at Canton was dull, and little demand for cotton manufactured goods. In tea little doing. TILE FUNDS. The commercial affairs in the city during yesterday were of 2 , more cheering nature than during the whole of the week, as n° doubt was entertained that the measures adopted by the Bank of England would tend to give considerable relief to the commercial conuatunit v. The Foreign Exchanges in the course of yesterday continued firm ; but towards the close of the Market they rather receded. Consols left off heavy at 89/ far Money, and 891 for the Ae" count-01)4:mA this morning at the above prices with scarcely $ bargain doing ; at present 891 90 ; Exchequer Bills 25 27 prem. ; India Bonds 23 25 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; several of the trans" fer books are shut, previous to the payment of the dividends. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing as yet. The speculators in Spanish are still bewildered, and greatly disappointed at the continued delay of the combined attack on the Carlists- Spanish Active 254 ; Passive 7* ; Portuguese 481 ; Three per Cents. 311 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 524 53. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. _ This being the day for several very heavy payments becoming due in commercial affairs, up to the present hour we hear only of two failures of consequence—one of which is a very old established commercial house ; and there is no doubt that a number of minor ones will follow in the course of the day. Consols, which were in the morning 89 i 1 90, have improved to for the . Account, Money, £9l ; Exchequer Bills, 27 prem. ; India Bonds, 23 prem. ; Bank and India Stocks shut. Spanish Active, 251 26 ; Passive, 74-; Deferred, 11h ; Portu guese, 49 ; Thre e p er C en t s ., 31h ; D u t c h T wo an d a haf, al; Colombian, 25h Mexican, 251. Consols for the Account, 90k. THREE O'CLO or. BATH TIIEATRE.—The theatre on Saturday evening presented a galaxy of beauty and fashion, assembled to witness Mr. Kean's representation of Macbeth, being his last appearance this season on our boards. At the end of the tra gedy, the audience rose, and, in the most enthusiastic manner , called for Mr. Kean, who came bef6re the curtain, and when the deafening plaudits had subsided, addressed the House 111 nearly the following words :—" Ladies and Gentlemen—The I exhaustion consequent on my exertions this evening, will, trust, plead sufficient apology for having so tardily obeyed your summons. It is not the province of an actor to intrude upon his audience the expression of his own feelings, nor to in' dulge in the resources of his own language ; but there are oc casions when, perhaps, he may be pardoned for bursting the icy chains of custom, and yielding to the impulse of that excit ing moment, which repays him for the anxious struggles of bp: gone years. At such a moment permit me to express the high sense I entertain of my reception, and to thank you most cor dially for your liberal tokens of public approbation, and nume rous manifestations of individual kindness." HOUSE OF LORDS.—In the case of Ross v. Mac leay and others, which was proceeding when we went to press yesterday, the arguments of the appellant's counsel, directed to a vast variety of letters and accounts, were not finished wile° the time for legislatorial business arrived, and the further hearing was postponed to Thursday. FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE COUNTR Y are supplied with TEAS and COFFEES at the WHOLESAL E ' PRICE for CASH lack ...2s. Od. 2s. 4d. 2s. Bd. Ss. Ss. 6d. 4s. 4s. 6d. t g ' Green.. 3s. &I. 4s. Od. 4s. &I. ss. ss. 6d. Os. 7s. Od. 85 * Coffee, Is. 6d. Is. Bd. Is. 10d. 2s. ..Finest Mocha, 2s. When the order exc ee d s £lO, the Carriage is Paid. G. T. MANSEL L, and CO., Wholesale Tea Dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. SILVER WATCHES TWO GUINEAS EACI . An Assortment of S econ d-h an d W a t c h es, a ll o f t h em warrantej, and of various size s , may b e se l ecte d f rom, f or t h e . a b ove price, - T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Corn- _ . London. of N.B. A pamphlet, co n t a i n i ng a d e t a il e d li s t o f th e price° or Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had grat l9 ' will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. _....... BIRTHS. On the 2(1 inst., the lady of H. P. Collett, Esq., of Chan cel' lane, of a son. - JO' n the Ist in Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, Mrs. L. Leslie, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 2d inst., at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, Charles Joh' let f:, Esq.; of Hackney, to Mary Ann, second daughter of H. Fe ar° - Es q., of Devonshire-square. of th e On the 2d inst., at Chelsfield, Kent, Mr. William Key , gr. General Post•office, to El i zabeth, eld es t d aug ht er of the Mt' J. Brooker, of Chelsfield. A tho On the 27th of December, at St. John's, lsrowfoundlaP•tthe Rev. 0. J. Howell, eldest son of J. Howell, Esq., of Quee nbl field: London, to Mrs. Dix on , widow of J. Dixon, Esq., of Hud ders and London. DIED. of th e On the 27th ult., at Exeter, Mary Ann, second daughter late Thomas Burnett, Esq., of Woolwich Dockyard. j . 6 4, On the Ist inst., Joseph Dixon, Esq., of Isleworth, age" On the 2d inst., at Camberwell, Donald Davidson, ES+ ',. () of the Island of Jamaica, aged 79 London: Printed and Published by lIIURDO YOUNG , _ OO l 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11" St r and, in the of Middlesex .— Saturday, March 4, 1837. LADY CHARLOTTE BURY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., 18s., H E D IV O,R C E D. By the Authofess of " Flirtation." " Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame."—Pope. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street.