The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-27 00:00:00

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C o lP ; ,p , u de A Oaf the iv j a lag" o from fro Ala"' ete' the f ool e , trfroin I fro, °rt 4 if i=t- 0 r i polli 00' 110 / 0 0 0 rowe r, in, well, A let°ll' pP 0 ; oeS ; sas fromSo , ort the was dri ven a ced. 0 , g ore la n u ; oil, lid "It . r ber AY.) 40' < ; E p t forin er : V iit t ld is [es th to- ere Jai' S eri 71cs n ec-p IO P, been the ore' twe en , cV; emc riOr ) St , A n •At I t o no f th, l in g ° fell , ri hors e ,vere nu P o ,svards'-' COURT CIRCULAR, The--41.--- l j,ord Chancellor arrived in town on Thursday after -11004 f rvn his seat, Brougham-hall, Westmoreland. Some of , n, Cabinet ters, including his . Lordship and Viscoun ‘lelbourne, v iOed Lord Holland in the evening at Holland t 40ase, Rensing , o.n, and dined with his Lordship. 4 T he Kin g ' s A, jvocate ( Sir. Herbert Jenner), and the Right „ i !t• Charlos Gran 4 : • t"'elhourne at the Ti[ had interviews yesterday with Viscount 1. , 7 ,e1 , 7 with the noble \'' , •a s ury. Mr. Secretary Rice had an in ,_ T he United States Ct . s count on Thursday. Psterday a the Foreign - office: Viscount d'Affaires-transacted business B Palmerston left town ° l ' : l'iartilasnds, Hants. Thursday, for his seat at tephen (Colonial Counsel) 11 .1 . 5 ''sta • ~.st Under Secretary of the Colonial been appointed As- Department. , ', l rn r• Phillipps, Under Secretary of State for the 1-fame De-, l'ct o ent, has arrived in town from Cheltenham . .. t ' td John Russell was expected to arrive in to, cn last night. WINDSOR, SEPT. 26. p h aeton, his Majesty took his usual airing in his p:'DY v' l 4ton, and drove through the Great Park. T he Queen did not leave the Castle. 10 i n the a f ternoon of yesterday the Du k e o f D orse t, a nd Co -4,V, Mrs., an d t h e M i sses C l i t h eroe, arr i ve d on a visit. his afternoo n , after lunching at the Castle, their Majest ies, v , t En th e i r Royal visitors and suite, among whom were t he 4 ke of Dorset, Prince George, Rev. Mr. Wood, Colonel r w ater, Col one l, M rs ., an d Mi ss Clitheroe, Miss Johnstone, 4 . 41 Y Sydney, an d M a d emo i se ll e d'E s t e , proceeded to Virgi t!4 Water, where they sailed on the lake. The band of the Il T si l le.er Guards were in attendance. t ind L's evening Lord and Lady Maryborough, Miss Bagot, °lll Burghersh, will have the honour of dining with their qesties. the King goes to town next Wednesday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. st reet ' °wager Marchioness of Salisbury, in Arlington at seam a visit to the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire , t at Roehampton ; Lady Dover and family, at Dover e use • Whitehall, from Hastings; Lord and Lady Albert se tt "Nbani, at Ayton, Yorkshire, from the Earl of Wilton's e str neaton House, Lancashire ; Lord Gardiner, in George gore' , Banover-square, from Willie Park; Colonel and Mrs. 8 5th Langton and family, at their seat, Newton Park , near G o ' rem Weymouth ; Admiral Sir Davidge and Lady laid at th e i r seat, Hawkes Head, Barnet, from a tour; A u- Kiatus Strickland, Esq.. at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, ttili Maidstone ; William . and Edward Edmundstone, Esq., _tto, from a tour • Mr. and Mrs. Strickland and family, at Otto, Hotel, St. James's - street, from the Continent ; Sir d o e il ilr Y and Lady Leson at Gould's (late .Hitchcock's) Lon w Hotel, Albemarle-s ' treet, from Dover ; the Rev. Mr. f ain r ap at ditto, from Oxford • Mr. and Mrs. M'Calmond and 3 . L Y, at Morley's Hotel, 'Trafalgar-square, from Belfast ; Eg a nlbert, Esq . , at ditto, from Dublin; W. and J. Scott, D ubli n at ditto, from Cork • T. Shirlock, Esq., at ditto, from ; B. Fox, Esq. and W. Ingle, Esq., at ditto, from Ceheste r ; Col. Smelt, at ditto, from Bristol; J. Smith, pl., at ditto, from ditto J. J. Barton, Esq., and W. Lewis, ti l ti at ditto, f rom D u bli n ; John Leslie, Esq., at Fenton's Estee S t. James's-street, from Aberdeen ; James L awton , 9., at ditto, from Paris. C a DEPARTURES. Pt• an.l Mrs. D o l v ill e , from Brook-street, for Learning his afajor Dixon ' for Brighton ; J. P. Larkins, Esq. , for fnif eat in Berks; Mr. and Mrs. Austin, from Regent - street , liot' u eir seat in Essex; Captain Malcolm, from Raggett , s bover-street, for Chatham; Mr. and Mrs. W. Gur ' ` 1.°41 Park-lane, for Tunbridge Wells. IRELAND. lies Excellency W e l? Q•xcellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness . Sat ' , e A sl eY entertained the following personages at dinner on l et -I ;maY at the Lodge in the Phcenix Park :—Lord Ebring tlet' ' 444 Cantalupe , - Lord Lovain, Sir W. Gosset, Mr. Lit he %; Colonel D'Agu ilar, Colonel Shaw, Colonel Montague, toy:S tir geon-General, Mr. Blake, Captain Watben, Mr. Fitz 11,11r. lontgomery, and Captain Clement!. fro iti l,Rlght Hon. W. Saurin is expected in town this day Li rlood Hall, county of Kilkenny. Vi v i a eut —General Sir Hussey Vivian, accompanied by Lady Pal 81 1 ' ,and her Ladyship's sister, are expected at Major-Gene- T , 14 • Arbuthnot's, in Cork, about the 2d or 3d of October. cienDke Ladies Butler, daughters of the Countess Dowager of la re gall, will, it is said, inherit a considerable portion of the f th e Ri o rertY of the late Sir J. Leach, the English Master VAUXHALL. :, ;r a n b t ri i te k a f re hli s i?l :N t n t o ,: t . t. this place has closed. The labours of the in trillsimpson have terminated for the season, and he privat e life ti4l next spring, to enjoy his otium cum qualified t the midst of those domestic comforts he is so we ll rary reti r dignify and enhance, arid to emerge from his tempo :unner- er nent with renova t e d vigour for the campaign of next an ... • Janique vale, not sternum vale, we may now say ye._ liinestimable acquaintance, whom we hope to meet next t h e '? those walks of the .‘ Royal property" of which he is t a n o u vi rnatnent and the attraction, and which are in a manner Lis aot ! c l by the recollections of his elegance, his urbanity, and no-':levements. The amusements of this evening presented ll N N elty, and therefore require no further description than Bet 0 1 4 , L 'e repeatedly given. At the termination of the second ""e Concert Mr. Williams delivered the farewell address, Sa y - ee„sub'oin • after which the national anthem of " God e qa; -"e King was sung by the whole musical strength of the Pie r in Y• The gardens were not deserted till a late hour, and A b° ,i d ; 3 ' appeared gratified by the entertainment. of th - -e5 and Gentlemen,-1 am deputed by the proprietors n e f s e t gardens to announce to you that this evening is the led the season, and also to express their grateful acknow ti,n —eats for your continued patronage, and for the approba 4, 0 u have invariabl bestowed upon their exertions to please. 'twa t . ue grand ? teatur y e of the season has been, as you are of Po ar Exp e dition of Captain Ross ; prov '' the fidelity amplyB r ePresentati or i (as far as artificial means c ould avail)is Th e proved i by the interest excited in the e xhibition of it. traublivhole was constructed at no inconsiderable expense and th e 4, ; but the proprietors have no hesitation in stating that crality of the public has amply rewarded the m. 'lav e t t , , di es and Gentlemen, —I am desired to add, that even n ow Will es are in v i ew f or ne xt season, and that the proprietors "411 a tec .eive you at that period, in the fullest confidence you dee vn g a 'a patro n i se an d reward their industry and anxious en ,4,rs to merit your favour. the ladi es and gentlemen of the establishment pre sent ti b est th an k s to you for the applause constantly bestowed apex,,their effo r t s to amuse , a nd your very humble servant begs Nil ; S , v r ess the same feelhip on his part, before we all respect - a y farewell." IA; i 'l. AT WENTWORTH PAR l i l e a has been the subjectconversation among the K.—This Festiva. on Tuesday 4e7ter classes of the ofcounty of York, takes place general given in the county. te,,s„ N 0 expense has been spared to introduce all the el J. \ l ig!!! of the most complete fete ever ietyell'Pert's band, of sixteen performers, ; and the other ar-rtaatnigone; ve led by himself, will scale. The invi Tr 'ett e t taw! ' to-m9rrow for Wentworth s j etho s are oo a corresponding extensive the th e - me all the resident aristocracy county, among whom 44105 t prominent are the distinguished t es Fevershams, V Iv Vharncliffes, Pe r , rio k , ,°43cls, Carlisles, N , u unda.s ses m t ors _axle , uncas , families of the - Lee e d r s : r Foxes, &c. &c. , \i t ~ RA ND DINNER AT THE M very eleganttertain en 1, ihursd etit ay the Lord Mayor gave a Aldermen, the Chairmen MANSION-HOUSE.— tit t i le q the Mansion House to the ttlettiLscral Committees, and private Council, and some fti TN of the Court of Common which a great number of the other ;1 -4 Y is 11 smoked upon the table at half-past six 1.111 C 13 ;' T rtle and venison and every other dish for . cocIL, celebrated 1`,Z,,,,11d vras . accomp sometimes present. which ordinary tables -t. e c , i , the wines _anied by champagne, hock, burgundy, • • now T i Pk ily were nearly two hundred. P e,ller l i NEAP LAW APPOINTMENTS.—It that Sir Launcelot 44daj, U nderstood in the profession IS as e that the Solicitor-General " 8 M" (th V i ce-Chancellor) has received his appointment . C. Pep t er of th e Rolls, and 11,rtilli,3'8) is to be the new Vice-Chancellor.will be the new Solicitor "ener,r afloat that Mr. Spence There is also Pre h eetse l'aratory to the improvements r the Ar o , tit'eUt on the erection of t e sP su ension-bridge ove which will be survey has been made of . t fc he estate, fro m the North Parade, tulti e - ,°' the Right Hon. public improvement, i i, 13 . which stand in the way of Earl . a lk t s h la is nvers. To obviate di 1 . - t Ci,rebahle an Act of Parliament will be obtained.--Bat h com 14,4eectIcti ERNE REGATT A .--The T t Ely a h tt e a lowma tode c , on the d for the first cu ._ . gui s — i ~,,l he following boats start I T n h i s e d o n r e e y g , rne ; l' , , d(), -.Ys Bermuda • Mr. Creigo° 11th ins A ..a7t Maid o f the Est, kr. /Pillek's Phcenix • Mr. Johnston's the prize. Friday e I:lti n arton's winiam; Bermuda gained_ cup n's Lady E was postponed till g a dead calm, the race for the second Mr.i‘ir. Tre he Mist ; tt 'res alti;_.rdaY, when the following boats started:— B well contested, d Nielv z s li p ia ln ; .Mr. Johnston's Maid of t " 4 1 , 14,, wern.r. The race was remarkably Friday the Mar l'Aiy k,,,i",," by 'William. On Thursday and El lit,; 41arehioness of Ely entertained at y On Satur "4Y th", 4„Titt gentry who attended the regatta. f prizes to be r d ewed :ulcers of the arrison gave a numbe ve a splendid Lodge all the 'l e unei t h 41ZY trading g cots, and afterwards ga . P AST . "t 'ess-room. ,•1 A Ny.—A Half-yearly ,;i e ner4l k n '1.131-A DocK. t / omPt. of Shares in this Com ''allY w -e t'ng of the Proprietod • , r, nse , Great St. Il e i e , 14 held h os, Bis, Yesterday at the Dock-i.,.. --eiving a for the r ose of re,.._. ,"Ilort from "„qsgate-strcet, r an Y• Bc e : ,!1Q Directors, relative to the affairs of the Corn-. U2 slpA i 74 13 of ;0111°I•TARLE ARRIVAL. --Among South Atneri e ,:e last few days is a young alligator, from . o ver_ —Among the ar tl7llPerat 4 Pre sent t .'e' in 1 e witha" . o a but ..!eed, sn ap aving scarcely tasted e_ t 14' did not sw a n the head off a duck on the passage home, 4 „, 0 %er s i de . • eisto u3' the ri ' alt° ` ° it H s h herrings havefrer "" 1 Rater i 'e , where he will have the advantage of the tide, he fr e °f a temperature oe showthatthatfeelings.threeswan to him occasionally, but ----i'aisley Advertiser. GRAND DINNER AT CANTERBURY, TO COMMEMORATE HIS MAJESTY'S DECLARA TION IN FAVOUR OF THE CHURCH:' This dinner took place on Thurday last at Bellingham's Assembly Rooms, Canterbury, the Right Hon. the Earl of WINCHILSEA in the Chair, for the purpose of commemo rating the " Declaration" recently made by his Majesty in support of the Established Church. Among the Noblemen and Gentlemen present, were, be sides the Chairman — Earl Roden, Lord Maidstone, Right Hon. S. R. Lushing ton, Sir Edward Knatelibull, M. P., J. P. Plumtre, Esq., M. P., Hon. Gen. Phipps, Hon. Capt. King, Hon. W. Strat ford, Hon. Wm, Eden, Sir H. Oxenden, Bart,, Sir R. Bar low, Bart., Sir E. Dering, Bart., Rev. C. Oxenden, air Ilex bert Barlow, Hon. M. Harris, Archdeacon Croft, Rev: Man ners Sutton, the chamberlain of Canterbury, Wm. Lashing ton, Fsq., Hon. Capta;:: Davis, Dr. Poore, Norton Knatch hu:l- Esq., Rev. W. S. Ba Rev. S. Stratton, Rev. I. Molesworth, Rev. R. v. Tylden, Capt. Garrott, g:7lth7Rev Biron, Gen. Gosse.! io, . Edwin lßev. Rev. J. Hilton', Rev. H. Smith, Rev. Col. Groves, Rev. C. H. . ett, Dr. Russell, Rev. Dr. Spry, Rev. W. 'Wallace, Rev. ,T; Dawson, Rev. N. Toke, Rev: C. E. Dering, Rev. C. J, Bur ton; Rev. C. Graham, &c. The cloth having been removed The Noble PRESIDENT rose a nd said grace, in which the company ioined, after which his Lordship presented him self, and having called on the company to charge their glasses, proposed the health of " the King, three times three, and God bless him 1" which was drunk with the most marked enthusiasm. " The health of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, and the rest of the Royal Family" followed. The toast was drunk with loud and continued hurras, and followed by the excellent glee— " Here's a health to the King and Queen." After " the health of the Princess Victoria, and the House of Brunswick, and may they never lose sight of the principles which seated their family on the Throne of these Realms" had been drunk with enthusiasm, The Noble PRESIDENT rose and said—The toast which be had next to propose to the company was one which em bracea. those constitutional principles in support of which they were assembled on the present occasion—he meant their Protetant Constitution in Church and State.—(Great and long confirmed cheering.) Before leaving the toast in their hands, evinc;:tg as they bad already done, and evincing — as he was sure they would do—their warm attachment to the principles which it e :nbraced—judging, also, of their Constitution as a source of tvttional prosperity, he craved their attention while he addressee them for a few moments. —(Hear, hear.) In the first place he never, he begged to say, felt himself placed in a situation in ivlich he more re quired their indulgence than on the present occasion.— (Hear.) He was, therefore, confident how inadequate he was to discharge the duty which had fallen upon him on this most important day—the most important, he would say, of his life, and the most important that could arise in the history of the country. The object of the meeting was opposed to that infidel spirit with which their Constitution was threatened, a spirit which, if they did not arouse them selves, emanating as it did from the Church of Rome, would involve their constitution in ruin—(Hear, hear, and much applause.) The principles which he supported were of the most purely constitutional character, and could not but be supported by every man—be his principles Whig or Tory —( Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was in vain for them to shut their eyes to the danger which surrounded their Pro testant Constitution in Church and State—(Cheers) —and on this point it would be folly—nay, downright insanity, for them to deceive themselves--(Hear, hear.) In speaking upon this question, he could not but allude to the two most important measures which, in the last Session, were carried through the Commons House - of Parliament, but rejected in the Upper House, to which he (Lord Winchilsea) had the honour to belong ; and in speaking of those measures —the one, " the Jewish Relief Bill," and the other, " the Bill for the Admission of Dissenters to their Universities" — (Hear, hear, and applause)—and in alluding to those mea sures, he could not but advert, and he did so with great pleasure, to the manner—the conscientious manner, in which they were opposed by his two venerable and highly esteemed friends, the Members for the Eastern Division of the County of Kent. They could not dwell upon the sanction which those two Members received in the Com mons House of Parliament, without coming to the well founded, but painful conclusion, that the Commons, as at present constituted—that House, he would add, which formerly did honour to the country, and guarded from in roads their Protest'ant Constitution —required to be well and narrowly watched by the real friends of constitutional liberty—(Hear, hear, and cheers): Another object of the company meeting on that occasion, was to express their heartfelt gratification at the late declaration made by the Sovereign to the Bishops, and his firm determination to preserve the principles of the Protestant religion in Church and State—(Cheering)--of those principles which placed the House of Brunswick upon the throne of this kingdom. He would not conceal from the meeting his fears respect ing certain measures, which had received the Royal Assent—which assent, he maintained, was gained with a view to ulterior objects, and by means which ought never to be attempted nor practised. One measure to which he al luded was calculated to make a great alteration in the Con stitution—he alluded to the measure for making an altera tion in the Church of Ireland. He did not mean to assert that a Commission issued for inquiry into the Church Esta blishment, whether with the view of increasing the disci pline of the Church, or for the purpose of effecting improve ments in the Constitution, should meet with opposition from him ; but so far from it, he would place his hand upon his heart, and declare that he would most cordially give his assent to a measure introduced for such a purpose. But when he heard the Members of the Government openly avow that the object of the Commission was the diminu tion of places of worship and of the Members of the Church, he felt it his duty to oppose that measure to the full extent of his power.—( Hear.) He considered that the country had not a moment to lose in taking means to protect itself from the worthless duplicity, and the dangerous designs of a certain portion of its adversaries. He would not conceal from the meeting his apprehensions that those designs would be proposed to Parliament next session, for the evident pur pose of destroying the Established Church in Ireland, and also for the purpose of abolishing the Protestant religion in that country. Under these most appalling circumstances, it was their duty to make the public mind acquainted with those designs, to open the eyes of their fellow-countrymen, who have been misled by those encroachments upon the Constitution, to open the eyes of their Sovereign to the ad vice given to him by the adversaries in the Cabinet, in which, he knew, the same difference of opinion existed that prevailed there some time since ; "and," said the Noble Earl, " I must call upon you to look to the organised conspiracy which exists for the destruction of the Protestant religion in Ireland, and to the attempts that are made to pull down every thing that may be considered as the props of the country." The Noble Earl then alluded to the conduct of Mr. O'Connell, whom he described as an immoral agitator, and said it was a disgrace to the Government that he had been suffered to go on trilling with the laws, and insulting the House of Commons. That individual had been de nounced in the speech from the Throne at the commence ment of the last Session, as an enemy to the public peace and tranquillity of the country, but he had now become the bosom friend of the Government, and was acknowledged as a " dictator" in their councils. If the meeting valued the liberties they enjoyed under the Constitution, he called upon them to evince their feeling in its behalf. If they re garded the Established Church, and viewed it as the bright est gem that could be conferred upon the country, and con sequently an invaluable blessing—if they found it fitted to the frame of the Constitution, and embodied with that feeling an attachment to the Church, he implored the meeting boldly to stand forward, and resist the progress of that infidelity which was now making rapid progress.— (Hear, hear.) No sacrifice was too great to accomplish that purpose. He called upon them to give proof of the sin cerity of their attachment to the Church, and to transmit it to posterity as the most invaluable blessing that could be conferred upon them. The Noble Earl then proposed " Our Protestant Constitution in Church and State," and said he gave the toast with all his heart. The toast was drank, and cheered in the most enthusiastic manner, with three times three. " One cheer more" was repeated in several parts of the room, and the toast was again drunk with the same feeling, and amidst three times three more cheers. After several other loyal and patriotic toasts had been drunk, and after several appropriate speeches had been made the health of the Members of the Eastern Division of Kent was given, upon which Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL—In reference to the object of the meeting, he would venture to hope that the tenour of his life had been consistent with the opinions which the Noble President had expressed. He was himself proud to be a friend of the Established Church, and if he deviated from that opinion he knew he should not represent the feel ings of the meeting, or the feelings of his constituents generally.—(Cheers.) His Noble Friend had alluded to the course adopted with regard to the Jewish Emancipation re p e tecl by the House of Lords, the Mem was fortunatelßill, which was carried in the House of Commons, but Which y of which douse MIN opt: as Cbri§tians, fail to give it 1:40,1 oppesition. 1 - IP gjao have HiPst Rill for admitting Dissenters 1 "-tion to the bens .. the most unquai.— unqualified opposition to the to the Universities, from its first introu..... House of Commons, till it passed the Legislat ure . No one would wi s h t o w ithh o ld from the Dissenters that which could, with safety, be conceded; these, however, were topics that must come under consideration ; and he would wish that the Dissenters, who believe they labour under grievances, would have those grievances redressed. He did not believe that the Dissenters were the persons who raised the cry for a redress of grievances, but that it was made by usses • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEVTEMBER 27, 1834, individuals who were anxious for the separation of Church and State—(Hear, hear) —and he too, therefore, opposed that which, under other circumstances, he should have been disposed to grant—(Hear.) In reference to the question of the union of Church and State in this country, let him ask for whom and for what purpose is the Church Esta blishment maintained ? He would say—and lie would say without fear of contradiction—that the Church Establish ment was maintained for the people alone—(Cheers.) Look at the high offices in the Church, and, to the honour of the country be it spoken. that some of those high offices have been filled by individuals who have sprung from the humble ranks of society—( Hear, hear.) In the Universities were not all the opportunities of obtaining the benefit of a good education afforded to them? If, however, the Church was disunited, there would be an end of those advantages; and it was, therefore, the hound-on duty of the meeting to give to the Church Establishment their utmost support. They had assembled for the purpose of celebrating the Declaration of the King upon a late occasion . ; and in that Declaration there was not one word in which he did not concur— (Cheers.) His Majesty had said " that certain unhappy circumstances that have forced themselves upon the ob servation of all, require that he should make that decla ration. The threats of those who are enemies of the Church Inftko it the more necessary for those who feel their duty to that Church to TPA out, The words which you hear from me are indeed spoken by my mouth, but they flow from my heart." Those unhappy circum stances may still exist, but he felt that the declaration of the Sovereign must put an end to them. If those prin ciples are continued and supported by the people, they could not fail to entail upon us all the blessings of a free Constitution.—(Hear, hear.) I, said the Hon. Ba ronet, should be glad if the proceedings of this evening can be commnnicated to the high quarter from whence the de claration emanated. I have, however, no means or making those proceedings known to my Sovereign ; for I am, un fortunately, not, like a distinisuished individual, in the ha bit of keeping up a correspondence with the Kin g ,— (Laughter.) If he had the means of making that commu nication- to his Majesty, lie would tell him of the loyalty of the Eastern. Division of the county of Kent...‹Cheers)—and that their hearts respond to his most gracious declaration ; and that they were determined to maintain the institutions of the country.—(Cheers). It had been stated that the next Session of Parliament would not far advance without certain measures for the reform of the Church being proposed :he believed it. We have been told that the reform will be carried to a great and dangerous extent, and that it may be considered in the nature of a Catho lic Relief Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Every thing that was con ducted by human agency was liable to human error, and in this respect the measure might be carried so far that it might prove detrimental to the interests of the country. In reference to some points, reform should be made, but he would come back upon the declaration that it was in the power of the Ministers of the Church to make those re- I forms. Believing that the Ministers of the Church would do so, it would give the meeting a better opportunity of contending with those subjects which were introduced in the shape of reform ; but which, in fact, were not reform, but intended to be the downfall of the Constitution.—(Hear, hear.) He repeated that nothing should induce him to rob the Church of its property, or to degrade its Ministers, • to whom we all looked up with feelings of regard and hopes of receiving consolation,...--(Cheers.) Mr. PLtmiPTRE then, at some length, went into a state merit of the course he had pursued in Parliament, more especially with regard to the votes he had given on the ' Jewish Relief Bill, and the Bill for the admission of Dis senters to the Universities. His eyes were, indeed, opened by the proposition for the separation of Church and State ; but he was glad to say that there were, among the Dissen ters, many who were opposed to that proposition.—(Hear, and cheers.) He admitted that much of the happiness and prosperity of the country was due to the religion of the Established Church. He could not consent to a mixture of Arians, Socinians, and Infidels, to be admitted to a situ ation in which they might become heads of their Universi ties ; and on those grounds it was that he had given his vote in opposition to the bill. The Noble PRESIDENT rose and proposed " The health of the Earl of Roden, united to Civil and Religious Liberty, which meant peace and tranquillity." The toast was drunk with enthusiastic applause. Earl RODEN rose and said that it was difficult for him to find words to express what he felt for the kindness of the meeting, of his Noble Friend, and of the Men of Kent, and also of the high opinion which he entertained of them on the subject which had that day brought them together. He also wanted words to express to his Noble Friend, and to the meeting, his deep sense of the obligation which they conferred upon him in connecting his name with that coun try to which he belonged—and he was proud to say he be longed ; and he felt pride also in the circumstande 'of his name having been connected with civil and religious liberty. It was his duty, he regretted, to say that there was no coun try in the world in which civil and religious liberty were less enjoyed, or less known, than in unhappy Ireland.— (Hear.) It was regretful to him to state to them, and he knew it would be equally so to them to hear the painful situation in which their Protestant and Roman Catholic fel low-subjects were placed in Ireland. He would not yield to any man to spread a genuine knowledge of true religion in that country, and to make her the brightest orna ment, and the really right hand of England.—(Hear.) Again, he could not but return to the Protestant people of Ireland. He had seen them endeavour by every means to escape insults to which they were subjected. He had seen them degraded and trampled under foot. He had also seen their Magistrates degraded and their Ministers insulted.— (Cries of " Shame," and disapprobation). It had been his duty to reside among the people of Ireland upwards of 20 years, and he could lay his hand upon his heart and declare that no man could have a greater love for his Irish fellow subjects than he had.—(Cries of " Bravo," and Hear, hear.") But when he saw his fellow Protestants abused : when he saw them obliged, by the oppression of the Romish priesthood, to emigrate to foreign countries, he confessed his heart sunk within him ; and it was with pleasure, there fore, that he had acceded to the invitation, so kindly given him, to attend this meeting, as it afforded him an opportu nity to speak to them on the sufferings of the Pro testants of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) It had been the ob ject of the Catholics of Ireland to detach it from this country. Why ? Because Ireland was Catholic and England Protestant.—(Hear, hear, and much cheering). But it had been the object—and it was a wise one for the former Government of this country—to check that disposition, by holding to the weakest party, and maintaining to it its privileges. Now, however, it would appear to be the object of the present Government to rob them of those privileges, and to put down their religion. But there was a band of brave and noble Protestants still in Ireland, who, notwithstanding all that they had suffered, were worthy of being placed in the front rank of the battle of the Protestants of England—(Loud cries of " Bravo," and cheering)—and he would say it was the battle of the Protestants of England that those of Ireland were now fighting.—(Loud cheers.) They were strong in their cause against a host of enemies, for they believed that while right and justice were on their side, they were stronger far than those who were against them—( Hear, hear)—and he could answer for them, that they would never shrink from the support of their cause, and that proud, indeed, will they be of the sympathy which was felt in their favour on this most important and memorable occasion. —(Cheers.) The attack now making on the Church in Ireland was al leged to be against its revenues ; but such was not alone the case—it was an attack against the Protestant faith, that faith which the Protestants of Ireland would lay down their lives in the defence of. The Protestant farmers, he re gretted to state, were constantly likely to be waylaid in Ireland on account of their religion ; and even the Protestant little children were reviled as they passed, and called " Orange men," " Sassanach," and various other vexatious names, meant to imply opprobrium. He could not also but call their attention to the persecution of the Protestant minis ters. He had seen a Protestant minister and his family, who had been accustomed to live respectably and comfort ably, compelled to descend into a kitchen and perform for weeks every menial duty, subject at the same time to the greatest privations.—(Cries of " Shame.) This was not a solitary case, and he would tell them of one in which he had raised a subscription amongst his friends of 2001. to assist a poor individual who, after he had collected the money, he had great difficulty, from the persecution which he had described, in finding out. 'The meeting could not form an idea of the sufferings of the Protestant clergymen, nor of the great debt which society owed them ; but the day would come when those excellent men would come out of their places of exile, and when they would receive for their sufferings a crown of glory. After sonic further ob servations, the Noble Earl concluded by again thanking them for their kindness for the indulgence with which they had heard him. ... After several other toasts bad been drunk, and speeches made, the company separated at a late hour of the evening• It i highly probable that Carlisle will shortly be honoured with a visit from the Duke of Wellington. His Grace is expected, we understand ; at one of the Inspiil49 mansions 0'66 p 49 so p!wieuo, iz l §potlati*ci, ada'it is not unlikely he will pass through city on 4ji way thither. _,-Oarlislp P aper, 1 .411/ 44v VIBE. - 0 Moncky goon A 4 . pr eight p!clelt, s,Pectisb4rY North fI4IA, pccupled by Mr. Burge, farmer, a range of buildings, used as lambing —...discovered to be on fire, as well as a large "fireiv consumed; but by houses, &c., hayrick. The lambing house was the great exertions of the persods present a large part or Luu hay was saved. The farm being situated on an eminence the fire was distinctly seen for many miles round. There appears to be no doubt of its having been wilfully set on fire. The htlY, we are glad to hear, is insured in the Protector Fire Office. , " Dorset Chronicle. MR. RIPPON AND HIS CONSTITUENCY AT GATESHEAD. A highly respectable meeting was held on Monday even ing last at the' Grey Horse, in Gateshead, for the purpose of adopting a suitable reply to the letter of Cuthbert Rip pon, Esq., addressed to them at the close of the last session of Parliament, as their representative, a copy of which appeared in our paper at the time. The chair was taken shortly after eight o'clock by Mr. Walsh, and the business of the evening was opened by T. Doubleday, Esq., who spoke in the most laudatory terms of the representative of that borough, who, in his opinion, had set an example worthy of imitation by every member of the Reformed Parliament ; the letter, therefore, merited a cordial and manly reply, which he doubted not would be the opinion of the meeting. Mr. Rountree and Mr. Reveley, as electors of Gateshead, op posed the spirit of the address, so far as the severe censure upon Earl Grey was connected with it, and the former moved, as an amendment, the previous question, assuring the meeting that the Noble Earl had done more for the country during his short career, as prime minister, than all his predecessors for the preceding 150 years. He alluded to the Reform Bill, which was of itself a boon more valu able than any of his most ardent admirers could estimate. The attack in his (Mr. R.'s) opinion was uncalled for and unwarrantable, as was likewise that part of the address which called for the annihilation of the national debt at the expense of the fundholders. The address was, however, carried by a large majority, only five hands being held up against it. The following resolutions and address were ultimately agreed to : • Resolved I.—That this meeting have heard with great plea sure the frank, manly, and able exposition of his political sen timents by their Hon. Representative ; and that they deem the full expression of their sentiments to be the best return they can make to Mr. Rippon.—Moved by Mr. Doubleday, and seconded by Mr. Tucker. Resolved - 2.—That the letter read by Mr. Doubleday be transmitted to the Hon. Member for Gateshead, as the reply of this meeting.—Moved by Mr. Turnbull, and seconded by Mr. Gray. Resolved 3.—That the letter be signed by the Chairman on behalf of the meeting, and that he transmit the same to our Representative, Cuthbert Rippon, Esq.—Moved by Mr. Tucker, and carried by acclamations. TO CUTHBERT RIPPON, Esp., M.P. SIII,-It would be not only a want of courtesy but a want of truth were we to fail in our expression of the sin cere delight with which we have received your communica tion. Where collateral circumstances of a plea . surable nature are added to the more direct causes of gratification, the total effect cannot but be great. Such in this instance is our situation ; we have not only to thank you, our repre sentative, for a communication at once frank and flattering, but to acknowledge an indirect claim upon our gratitude for the excellence of the example ; and you will pardon us, Sir, if we attribute some share of the pleasure you have given us not only to the intrinsic merits of your kind com munication of sentiment, but also to the very novelty of the circumstances.--Too long have we been accustomed to be hold in persons insolently and audaciously styling themselves " the people's representatives" men mean enough to become crawling supplicants once in seven years to constituents, whom for the rest of that term they are predetermined to insult and disregard. With such imposters we are proud to see you resolved to have as little in common, as have we the independent electors of Gateshead, with the emascu lated herds who style themselves their constituents. We hail you as our representative indeed ; and we call with pride upon the long deceived people of England practically to learn from you the mean ing of the name. It is true, Sir, that from the hollow and mendacious deceivers whom you rebuke by your example, you may expect that example to be con demned. Their censure you will feel as praise —and for the petty annoyances of irritated aristocracy you will find ample repayment in the gratitude of the people, and in your own honest heart. Believe us, Sir, however, that to such alone will these unworthy feelings be confined. The pas sive and degraded beings, over whom in the guise of ser vants they domineer as masters, inwardly hate and despise their unprincipled tyrants—and admire in secret those examples which they have not the courage to enforce or to imitate. We now turn to th'e more general and therefore graver topics of your letter ; and permit us, Sir, to add the em phasis of our united voices to that of yours in general re probation of the conduct and of the measures of the minis try during the last session of Parliament. Trite it is, Sir, most true, that " they dare not abolish but endeavour to disguise abuses, and have sought to conceal a vicious policy by the low contrivance of shifting public grievance." The Reform Bill, it is now clear, was carried less by Earl Grey than by his traditionary character. His reputation has "ruled us from his urn." He has carried on his three years of shifting Government, not by being what he is, but by having been what he was ; and this is fully evinced by every measure of that Government from the time of his assuming the reigns of power until that period when they were filched from his nerveless hand, and he sunk at once into the imbecile old man twenty years behind his age in politi cal knowledge, and totally ignorant of the situation of the tottering country which events called upon him to govern. His errors were not the consequence of his want of heart, but his want of knowledge ; nor can any one wonder that he was alarmed and irritated by difficulties, which before they came he could not expect, nor when they came, un derstand. The great public grievance, which though it cannot, as a whole, be " shifted," has been assiduously sought to be " disguised," is the enormous disproportion of the taxes to the means of paying them. These toxin have been caused by the blind and devouring profligacy of the Aristocracy which has, for so many unhappy years, governed this most industrious, most cheated country. That profligacy has developed itself in the creation of pensions, sinecure places, unmerited promotions, clerical pluralities, and all the Pro tean varieties of corruption ; but most of all in the creation of that most unparalleled and enormous compound of folly and wickedness extreme, called, for the purposes of fraud, by its creators " the Nation's Debt"—.a thing for extent of unspeakable blindness and hideous corruptions, unequalled in the past and never to be equalled in the future history of mankind. In this monster of legislation we see a system, based in deception and fraud, the most barefaced and impudent—fostered by the madness of a profligacy in describable --aggravated by ignorance and arrogance me matched ;—and only endured by a passiveness engendered by centuries of toil amidst misrepresentations the most un ceasing—and under the night of obedient ignorance, per petually played upon by knavery grown gigantic in success, and endless in devices. At the very mention of the pre tended necessity which is set up as a pretext for borrowing this money, we do not know whether indignation or surprise ought to predominitte, or to which we shall yield. Ne cessity ! why can any man be ignorant that in cases of na tional necessity not only every man's property but every man's person, may be levied upon en masse by the Govern ment, and that if this money had really been wanted for purposes of urgent State necessity it might have been de manded and taken by the King with every sanction of na tional law. This necessity would have justified—but not a borrowing at usurious interest, not a mortgage on the country and its future possessors. In the security offered for these fraudulent loans we see the same contempt of , equity, law, and common sense. That a man may mortgage property over which he has an entire control is evidently proper because he may,if he pleases,sell it. But men cannot sell their country, much less their children and their childrens' children. How then can they mortgage that in which only a Ilk_ estate is theirs, or make a bond slave of the babe la:Lem ? yet this is what the horrible abortions called. hational debts do—they not only pledge to usurers the free soil of a country but give an unholy lieu upon the very bodies of its future inhabitants. If the pretended security, however, be founded in fraud and wickedness, the value supposed to be lent we know was not less so.—We know that the money lent was a false money, the declining value of which was only saved from utter annihilation by the mistaken con fidence of the people ; and we know further that it was only by the usurious gains of one loan that another was enabled to be made ; and that in the application of this false money the nation was cheated doubly and plundered on all sides, Thus by means the most nefarious we behold our country saddled with a pretended debt, probably equal in value, if its lenders are not liars, to all the lands, houses and property of every i d ennstltuting that country. At an assgrtipAl sp apparently wild, we can readily believe that even a man of your political information may start in be wildered surprise. We speak it however advisedly and de liberately ; and in %du tlio we may make clear to Yq4 1)1 oTtuißn§ 91 - 4 g Matter so important, we beseech Your Wl' 6441gepee to allow us to quit f or a mo ment the 'routine of epistolary communication, in order to crave your attention to a simple set of figures, which, sim ple as they may be, are powerful as to this matter. The following estimate ? Sir of the actual value of England as it • exists (leaving its people out of the question, who are inva luable) was made with the most careful attention to aeon. MPY: 49t 1 With OP *MA and the realms pf the Income, property ann'ether Taxes. We respectfully beseech you to ever-read this valuation, and supposing you to have done so we shall continue our address : Value of Land at 28 years purchase £812,000,000 Value of Houses at 20 years purchase 170,000,000 Manufactories, Machinery, &c. &c.., 20,000,000 Household Furniture 42,500,000 Apparel, provisions, fuel, wine, plate, watches, jewels, books, carri ages , & c 40,000,000 Cattle of all kinds 90,000,000 Grain of all kinds . Hay, Straw, &c 6,600,000 Implements of Husbandry 2,000,000 Merchant Shipping The Navy Coin and Bullion Goods in the hands of Merchants, &c 16,300,000 Goods in the hands of Manufacturers, Retail and Wholesale Dealers.. 20,000,000 £1,272,800,000 Since this estimate was made, which was three or four years after the war, the rents of land and the prices of most commodities have fallen not less than forty per cent. The rents of houses and manufactories have also fallen, but the houses and manufactories themselves have increased • leav ing out, then, the houses and m a n u f ac t or i es , an d the coin and bullion, and deducting one-third from the remainder, and adding the two together, the total value of England, and all it contains, is not more than nine hundred and nine teen millions, eight hundred and seventy thousand pounds, that is to say—a very few millions above its debt, so callf:a, including the funded and unfunded debt, and the Govern meat debt to the Bank. From this we must dea:act, if the debt is to be liquidated, all that belongs to the fuadholders. Thus, then, in order to pay this pretendr..Cl debt, it would be necessary to give up England, and all it contains, to a body of people consisting principally of old persons of both sexes, of the middle rank ; gantlilers in loans and in stock ; Government pensioners ; younger sons of the Aristocracy, who have amassed forties in Military, Naval, and civil si tuations of trust ; corporate bodies ; savings' banks, and in fants under pardianship ;—an idea so enormously extrava gant as to exceed the wildest hallucinations of moony mad ness, and outstrip the most outrageous fictions of even Eastern romance. It is here, Sir, that we find the grand grievance of the country so long " disguised" under specious forms and names. It is under the phantom weight of this unnatural nightmare that England is gasping for breath—struggling for utterance—and panting to push the monster from her breast. Other reforms would no doubt give partial relief ; the repeal of the corn law monopoly would in time do something ; the extinction of pensions and sinecure places would be a small respite from the overwhelming weight. But we firmly believe, that until the incubus of the debt be got rid of, England cannot know what happiness means. Neither do we despair of being happy. To take from the people yearly, a sum equal (since the carrying into effect of Peel's Bill) to the rent of all the land, and all the houses of that Great Britain which they inhabit, is something too monstrous to continue. To talk of " liberal institutions" under such a system is a farce. Free government consists in protection to person and to property. Protection to property is, that it cannot be taken with ou t t h e owner ' s consent. How there can be protection to r,roperty when that consent is pledged and mortgaged fife) , years before the owner is born—bow there can be protection to person, when the very labour and talent of every man may be pledged and mortgaged fifty years before he is born—let those who support such systems show. For your bold and persevering efforts to reform that corrupt corporation, which is styled " the Church of Eng land," we take this opportunity cordially to thank you. In that church we, as you do, see an institution, for the con tinuance of which there remains, not only no reasonable ground, but not even a plausible pretext. Whilst all Eng land believed in one and the same creed, there was reason in supporting the church as a national establishment. Whilst the higher dignitaries of the church were really or naments of religion, and beloved by their flocks however re duced in numbers, good feeling stept in and pleaded its continuance. But now, when we sie the spiritual work which remains to be done left to starving curates ; when we see clergymen, from the Archbishop down to the Vicar, men of whom the best we can say is that Mammon is their God—the dining-room their temple—the bill of fare their liturgy, and the dinner-bell the most sacred music in their ears—when we see this, disgust takes the place of pity, and we gladly call upon justice to destroy that which no mistaken feeling would persuade us to preserve. This is the Church in England ; but of the Church in Ireland what shall we say ? You, Sir, have applied to that prostitution of the name of religion to the base, sordid, and sensual passions of the aristocracy, the term of the " hideous Harlotry of Church and State. " Your enemies have enveighed against the use of such a term to such a purpose. We, Sir, your constituents, think the term not strong enough. This metaphor, strong as it is, does not apply here. The aberrations of one of the strongest passions of our common nature, may be sinful and punish able, but are still natural. Far different are those disgust ing practices in which the name, form and language of reli gion are made subsidiaries to oppression and rapine ; to which the moral sense of every human being, and the reli gious feeling of every real Christian are equally opposed ; of which the sincere believer and the honest Atheist would be equally ashamed ; which, beginning always in perjury, end commonly in murder ; which, in short, with a degree of blas phemy that almost attaches to the description of them, commit robbery in the name of the Holy Spirit, and endea vour to make the Deity himself an accomplice in picking pockets. To such a thing as this no language can be too stronc , to be applicable ; no retribution t o o sweeping to be desirable. That the House of Lords should by an almost suicidal vote have endeavoured to prevent the mitigation of this intolerable abuse, is perhaps not to be wondered at. That their Lordship's conduct should have called down your severest reprehensions is still more natural. Admiring as we do, the boldness and straightforwardness of your vies s and language upon this topic, you will, we fear, deem us inclined to draw too largely upon your courtesy, when we beg to be allowed to pau se b e f ore we entirtAy concur in them. Such, however, unwillingly, we 'must do. Man is the creature of habit, us, that substantial and essential changes may be made with more of ease and less of Ganger, than changes in mode and form. When men appear to be walking upon the same path they go on as before, though the real substratum of the road be changed. We had rather change the spirit of that house than its form, and that change is practicable. Men are made in a vast measure by circumstances. What is the House of Lords ? A set of country gentlemen of average ability and character, placed amid circumstances of peculiar temptation and consequent difficulty. The Lords are not what they are because they are part of the legisla ture, but because for a century and more they have been the whole of it. They were an oligarchy with the whole plunder of the country at their feet. The consequence is natural ; and the true cure is not to remove the Lords and leave tempta tions, but to remove the temptations and leave the Lords. An elective senate placed amid the same sources of cor ruption, and legislating amid the same difficulties would share the same fate ; nor is there any reason why, if that corruption and its existing effects were destroyed, the House of Lords in conjunction with a really popular House of Commons should not be fully competent to carry on the business of the country. " Government is a plain thing," and honesty, not cunning is the grand requisite. Good government mainly consists in husbanding resources and in a moderate expenditure ; and what interest could men, who had ceased to live upon the taxes, have in augmenting them? Such is the view we take of this subject, but, we quarrel not with others who may differ from us. If, however, we hesitate to remodel the Hose of Lords we do not scruple as to the House of Con:; mens , had no other reason to acknowled ge *2 and if we de necessity of a still further extension of the right of suffrage of triennial parlia ments and the vote by bal l :ot, we must candidly confess that the one great measu re of the last session, " the Poor Law les Am s n would have decided us. We shall feel in expressing our opinions as to this bill, be ediroselin:ity auf,"e though in the communication with which you have honoured us, you have not expressed your sentiments regarding it, yet we know that, on another occa sion, you have calledit, and most properly and most sensibly called it a " harsh and dangerous measure." It is so ; and because it is " harsh" we thank God it is " dan gerous"—and we fervently pray that every meature "harsh" to the people, and especially to the poor may b e " dan gerous"—dangerous, indeed, to the contrivers and abettors. And first, Sir, permit us to remark upon the singular mis nomer of this Bill. What business has the term " amend ment," with a measure of abrogation and bereavement ; with a measure the same as that which was meted out to --- Count Ugolino and his children--a prison and starvation ; with a measure at once the most unjust, cruel, and impolitic that ever was entertained by any Legislature ? This Bill is not a Bill of " amendment," but a Bill of destruction. The meaning of the Poor Law is to prevent persons, by any possibility, from suffering through want, by providing relief. This Bill is a means to make persons suffer through want, by denying relief. This, Sir, whatever may be said to the contrary, we hold to be the intention of this. Bill, and that intention we hold to be at open war with the law of nature, of God, and of society. Natural law, as laid down by all civilians, holds that no man is bound to die from want, if food is within reach ; and that the taking it in such a case is not crime. The law• of God, as written in the moral precepts of the Old and New Testaments, puts charity in the very front of moral and Christian duties ; and that which holds society to gether is the preservation of all its members, without which bond the rights of property must cease. With all this de nial of relief, and the imprisonment of the poor, are at war. To a man of your great information it must be known, that the poor always have been relieved, first by private charity, or the Lords of the soil, next by the church out of the proceeds of estates, left especially for that pu t . pose by virtuous individuals ; and that the English poor law of Elizabeth was an express compensation for the seizure of those estates in England, by the monster Henry VIII. and a rapacious aristocracy. The poor then hold their right to relief, by the same tenure under which the Russells hold the lands of Woburn Abbey s formerly the property of the poor ; and the resumptioe of the ore. in our opinion, includes legally the resumptiea of the other. To a man•of your historical knowlck ! it must be well known that these laws existed almost, unchanged from the time of Elizabeth in 1597, to tbn middle of the reign of George the Third ; through these centuries they were never felt as a grievance. The people cheerfully taxed themselves, and distributed that tax,, which until the time of the American war and growth of the debt (we respect fully beg you, Sir, to mark that), did not exceed a few hundred thousand pounds—they cheerfully distributed that tax by means of an overseer chosen by themselves, and who was the friend and neighbour of poor men whom he relieved. If bad management has increased the poor rate, why did it not take place then ? Are we less wise or less industrious than our forefathers two cen turies since ? Whatever others may do, we, Sir, cannot belierve in the monstrous absurdities upon which this bill is founded—and especially the incredibly ignorant assertion of Malthus, that men increase too fast unless they are starved, when the direct contrary is the case, not only with men, but with all animals, and even with the vegetable creation, as every farmer and gardener knows, and when Malthus ought to have known that every House of Lords, which have just passed this bill, would not have been there to pass it but for continual new creations by which alone their num bers can be kept up. Oh ! no, Sir ; if the poor law needs amendment, it is the amendment of softening not of harden ing. The weight of the poor rate is aconsequence, not a cause of the misery of the country.—There are ten times as many poor people ; and ten times as much poor rate as there were in Queen Anne's time, because there is more than ten times as much debt, and more than ten times as many taxes as there were in Queen Anne's time ; and the only way to reduce the poor rate is to reduce that debt and those taxes—one has grown up with the other, and with the one the other will die. There is one topic more, Sir, to which we should not have alluded, had not you, by set ting the example, rendered it in some measure proper that we should do so. You have alluded to an illustrious Earl to whom the electors of Gateshead owe a debt of grati tude, and to the probability of his being Prime Minister of this country. To that Noble Earl we probably owe the privilege we are now enjoying, that is to say, of replying to a letter addressed to us as electors by our representa tive. We seize this opportunity to acknowledge that ob ligation, and to express the feelings of gratitude we must ever entertain towards that Nobleman. Upon his Lord ship's qualification for well-governing this too long misgoverned country, it would be arrogance indeed for us to decide, because his Lordship has never yet dis tinctly said what his intentions are in the event of his having power to carry those intentions into effect. His Lordship has indeed made use of general terms, conveying a desire to extend the liberty and happiness of his country ; but we have so long and so often been deceived by these general professions in the mouths of statesmen—these indefinite phrases have been so often and so long polluted by the mouths of knaves ; that even the high character and ho uourable breath of the Earl of Durham cannot sanctify or sweeten them to our apprehensions. We feel that the time is now past for treating the people like children—for bidding them " open their mouths and shut their eyes," and trust to the giver for what they shall receive, and we there fore can only say, that if the Earl of Durham will plainly pilmise to reduce our taxes to twenty millions a year when he is a Minister, he will assuredly receive the support of the people of Gateshead. These, Sir, are our opinions ; and for some of them, and especially for those regarding what is termed the national debt, we are all well aware we shall receive the virulent abuse, both of those who are blinded by want of honesty, and those who are blinded by want of wisdom. We con sole oursels with the reflection that some of the best, most acute, and most profound of mankind, of all political parties, have advocated these opinions. We recal to mind that the Tory, David Hume, has as serted that " country must destroy public credit, or public credit must destroy the country." That the Whig, Burke, has said that " the nations of Europe are running into an ocean of boundless debt, which must eventually be their destruction." That the Republican Paine has said " the funding system will be the, wonder of posterity, not so much for the length to which it has been carried, as the folly of believing in it." That. the Constitu tionalist, W. Cobbett, has predicted that the debt must, in the end, bring down the Aristocracy and the Church for the sake of which it was created ;" and that Sir James. Graham and Daniel O'Connell have recommended its re duction ; and, lastly, we read in Scripture that when Nehe miah was sent by the great Artaxerxes to restore Jerusa lem, then unwalled and in a state of ruin and distress, he found them oppressed by a heavy debt, contracted, however, for the sacred purpose of defending their city ; buying corn in famine for the poor ; and keeping' the remnant of the people together ; they naturally complained (as he tells us in his fifth chapter) to Nehemiah of the bondage caused by this debt. " Our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren," said they ; " our children as their children ; and lo ! we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already ; neither is it in our power to redeem them, for oth e r men have our lands and vineyards." What was the conduct of Nehemiah in this. exigence ? We shall quote his own inspired words I was very angry when I heard their cry, and these words and I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, ye exact usury every one of his brother, and I set a great assembly against them ; and I said unto them, we, after our ability, have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen ; and will ye even sell your brethren ? And shall they be sold unto us ? Then they held their peace and found nothing to answer. And I said restore I pray you to them, even this day, their lands, their vin e y ar d s , th e i r oliveyards and thei r h ouses ; a l so the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil that ye exact from them." Then said they we will restore them, and will require nothing of them, so we will do as thou gayest, and all the congregation said Amen, and praised the Lord." So dealt Nehemiah with the Jewish " National Debt," thus committing under the immediate direction of God himself, that which some persons, who must be Heathens, as they cannot be Christians, or Jews, style a " public rob bery." Upon these most beautiful and useful texts, it has probably never been your lot, Sir, as it has certainly never been ours to hear any discourse in any place of worship. Nor do we expect to do so until that reform of the church, which you have so well advocated shall be made ; and for your able advecacy of which, the hope of such a pleasure impels us once more to thank you, We now hasten to conclude. This full declaration of our sentiments appears to us, Sir, at once the most respect ful and manly reply we can give to your kind and flattering communication. In all and every one of these opinions we cannot expect you to concur ; but it would be an ill com pliment to ourselves to imagine that a man of your intelli gence and public spirit, should not concur in most. Be that as it wily ; we believe them to be founded in immuta ble trued, and to that truth, courtesy does not forbid us to say, we are determined to adhere. With deep and sincere regard, We have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient and most humble servants, (Signed) JAMES WALSH, Chairman. So abundant is the crop of grapes, that in many in stances they are selling at a penny per lb. In one garden at Little-hampton the crop is calculated to exceed a ton weight. On Monday evening, the Halifax and Sheffield mail was upset, at Salterhebble, near this town, by coming in contact with the gate-post at Dry Clough toll-bar; but none of the passengers sustained material injury. The vehicle was so much damaged that it could not proceed ; and a temporary , gig mail has been substituted.—Halifax Express. On Saturday last a melancholy accident happened, on Crich Cliff, to a man in the employ of Mr. Wass, of Lea. He had descended an old shaft in order to clear it out, to re commence working ; it is supposed he was striking a piece of limestone with his hammer and lost his balance, and was pre cipitated headlong to the depth of 26 yards. Having been spoken to several times, and not answering, a miner descended and found the poor fellow at the bottom, nearly dead. He ex pired before he could be got up. He has left a wife and nine children. It is singular that his father, grandfather, uncle, and nephew, were all killed in a similar way.—Derbyßeporter. EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—On Friday last, a man named John Smith, a green-grocer, Westgate, Bradford, whilst in a state of intoxication, struck a violent blow at his wife with a carving knife, which fortunately struck her stay_ bones, otherwise it must have killed her instantly. ---11 n Sun day afternoon a man named Joshua Cunliff, of White Abbey, Bradford, who had just returned from a beer house greatly intoxicated, after quarrelling with his wife about soAne money, a Icnife, which, w struck hend h re e s s r e a d v i b o y l e a n t s u h r l g o w e n o , n washer r a t: e l l e g r l t l a N n V e l t d h to be six inches deep ; the poor woman was considered in danger, but is now e if e ax a tI on is Express. A o curious now in prog ress near the r mias cle n ring de Saute, alp atr Montmart r e , near Paris. It is the re. moval of a windmill entire from the ground whereon it stood, to another eminence at some distance. The removal is being effected by means of strong ropes worked by a capstan in front, while it is propelled behind by a windlass, such as is employed for moving large masses of stones. The mill has already ad-. vanced about 80 yards in two days, and will arrive at its dest'A. nation in two days more.