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eventful history; he can b e regar d e d on l y as a pure trading politician. Principle with him appears to be of no account; he granted the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, purely because he was beaten by the Commons, and for the sake of re taining his place. He joined in carrying into effect Catholic Emancipation, protesting that he had not altered one iota of his opinions, and heaping all ob loquy upon that measure. One day he joined with Lord Bexley in asserting in the face of the nation that there was no depreciation in our paper cur rency, and stultified himself with the House by de claring that a pound note and a shili:tig were of equal value to a guinea, when the latter was selling currently for thirty shillings. The next day he comes down to the House, proclaiming that depre ciation did exist, and that it must be corrected forth with, and at all hazards. At the same moment that he brought in his celebrated Bill to effect this pur pose, he joined in laying on three additional mil lions of taxes on the people.—(Shame, shame.) — He was cautioned again and eg.ain of the conse quences of his measures. Whether ignorance or design directed his conduct it is impossible to say; but if he has one spark of feeling in his breast, if lie possess one one particle of humanity in his composi tion, the most humble individual in this assembly may truly pity the feelings of his mind. As a Statesman I trust his power may never return. Mr. BRIGGS said, I trust that meeting..., like the present will be held everywhere—wilt show to the Minister that in the prosecution of his purpose he may confidently rely on the support of twenty mil lions of men—will convince the Government that the people are not indifferent to a measure which is the only mode of salvation for themselves and for posterity ; and demonstrate to the people of Eng land that, united and unanimous, they have hut to will it and their independence is achieved. In the reformation of our representative system our ob ject is to correct those glaring abuses, arid that mo nied, corporate, and aristocratic influence, which has completely paralyzed the democratic part of our Con stitution, and made our representation as useless, anomalous, and farcical, as human wickedness, de pravity, or cupidity cou ld p oss ibly d es i re ; h as ma d e it,instead of being the property of the people, as it originally was intended it should be, end as by right it ought to be, merely the property of a few wealthy, vicious, ignorant, and aristocratic families. The ob ject of a Reform is to return the power into the hands of those men with whom all power rests and originates —to return it into the hands of the people —to furnish to those people by the general and al most universal extension of the franchise, an absolute controul over the votes and public conduct of their delegated representatives, and to secure, by the adoption of the ballot, the manufacturing and labour ing population, the tenantry and peasantry, from suf- feting any inconvenience either in person or in pro perty, in loss of farms, or houses, or business, or employment, for voting according to the dictates of their consciences.—(Applause.) This is the Re form for which we must petition—this is the Re form without which no improvement can be ef fected, or any good done. I have the honour of submitting to your consideration and attention a re solution, the principle of which is the necessity, in any Reform, of establishing and associating with it the vote by ballot.—(Here Mr. B. read the resolu tion, and then continued.) The high importance of the vote by ballot (said he) is, I am happy to see, properly perceived and properly appreciated in every corner of the empire ; all rent,oners, all lovers of li berty, all advocates of Reform, must upon this point be strenuous and persevering; minor differences and secondary considerations must be given up or sus pended for a time, and the whole force of public opinion brought to hear upon this all-important , measure, the public Press must lend itself to the accomplishment of the same purpose, and every mode of petition and remonstrance within the limit of the law must be employed and persevered in till it is ultimately obtained. The votes of this commu nity are considered as the fee-simple of our corpc rate body, and the representation of the county as the hereditary property of the Duke of Rutland.— (Cheers.) It is to guard against the existence of such a monstrous injustice—it is to protect persons against property—to keep the peerage within its own limits—to confine wealth to its legitimate pur poses—to secure men from ruin and inconvenience for acting conscientiously, that we are anxious for the es ablishment of the vote by ballot, All the evils we feel, and which we complain of, and which weigh down our population to the dust, are all to be traced, in conjunction with our Aristocracy, to our wretched representative system. The rights of man, as propounded by Locke and Sydney, are that all men are born equal. That all men are born free. That all government originate from the people. That all government is a compact between the people and their rulers—and that all government ceases to be obligatory or binding, whenever that compact is infringed or violated. These are the principles which are eternal and immortal ; these are principles which shall endure when aristocracy shall have perished, and when the self-elected ma gistrate, arid the self-elected peer, shall be only talked and read of as relics of antiquity, or shall stalk like " gigantic spectres in the dim twilight of tradi tion."—(Applause.) Of all things, it is of the first and most paramount importance that men should be thoroughly and firmly grounded in their political rights. With an intelligent and public spirited po pulation, the imposition or the continuance of a bad government is impossible. Property and liberty must ever be safe in the hands of the mass of the community. There is always a sufficient love of justice, a sufficient patriotism, information, public spirit, and moral feeling, in the mass of the popula tion, to secure the continuance of public liberty. If all places were open to honourable ambition, and every institution liable to revision, the community would always be sure of being served by the best, the ablest, and most virtuous of its citizens, and the institutions themselves best preserved from decay. There is a natural tendency in all human institu tions to become corr u pt. There is a natural ten dency in laws framed in past times to become irk some, obsolete, and worse than useless. Hence the necessity of annual Legislation—hence the ne cessity of continual revision—hence the necessity of framing laws by men who annually represent the wants, the wishes, and the sentiments of the people ; and who, from the frequent dependence on the people for their re-election, would be more at tentive to public wants, public necessities, and public liberty.—(Applause.) That system is the best which is based upon the broad principle of po pular rights—which banishes exclusiveness—which dispenses with castes, orders, and grades—which allows of no distinction but what merit may originate--which makes the happiness of the people its only aim, and the preservation of the people's rights its only supreme care. Such a go vernment is that of the United States of America. It is the only free Government in the world; the only one which is elective from the President to the constable; the only one without an aristocracy— without orders and castes—the only one which is founded upon the eternal principles of natural jus tice.—(Cheers.) The preservation of the liberties of America is certain.. They are an universal pro perty; every one enjoys, every one participates in them. I have been in their country, and this qua lifies me to speak of it ; and I can bear this testi mony, from personal observation, to the character of the people, and the character of their Government. No Englishman can leave the shores of his island home without a feeling of despondency and sorrow —of despondency when he thinks of the withering system, which preys upon her vitals, and which seems to bear the stamp of perpetuity—and of sorrow, that a warm-hearted, generous, and noble people should be debased and degraded by its withering influence. It is to the aristocracy that we are indebted for all the evils and all the taxation with which we are at present loaded. It is to the aristocracy that we owe that enormous amount of debt and tax es , accumu l ate d to carry on a war against the rising liberties of France, and it is to theexistence at this tiose of that same debt, rather than to any want of inclination,that we were not planged into a war to reduce nations struggling for existence. It is to the aristocracy and their de pendents that we owe that determined opposition to Reform in Parliament, without which, sooner or later, revolution is inevitable. It is to them that we owe the misgovernment of Ireland, the pauperism of England, the enormous amount of 'church re venues, and state sinecures. It to them that we owe the abuses of otu '•iirporation, the existence of our Gamo Lt%Vs, the closing of our own ports against the importation of foreign grain s and the consequent retaliation, as far a., it is practicable, of other nations against the itltroduction of our manu factures. To tliem, and almost them alone, are we to traze the evils of our half its vice, and rll its misery; and, until their undue power is im- mensely curtsied, or altogether annihilated, there is no hope for English liberty, or English happiness. —(Loud cheers.)-111r, Briggs concluded by moving the sixth resolotiot. The res'ol'utions having been cAr:ied, the CHAIR MAN proposed the adoption of a petition founded upon them, to both Horses of Parliament, which being read, was, like all the preceding resolutions, unanimously adopted. He then suggested that Earl Radnor should present the petition to the House of Lords, which v,Yas agreed to. On proposing that the petition be presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Evans, Mr. SEAL said he should propose that the peti tion be put into the hands of Lord Althorp. The CHAIRMAN thought that it would be im proper to put tht petition into the hands of Lord Althorp, as he was a Minister. Mr.SEAL said, that being the case he would suggest that the Chairman should write to Mr. Evans, and inform him of the enthusiastic manner in which the mention of the vote by ballot had been received by the meeting, and to say, that if he could give the measure his support when the House met, they would wish him to present it. If not, that it would be placed in the hands of Mr. Hume. The question having been carried in the affirma tive,—a relolution passed respecting advertising the resolutions, and thanks voted to the Chairman, followed by loud cheers ) the meeting separated— the business of the day having occupied from half past ten to half-past three o'clock. SURREY SESSIONS, J. 4. The Gcneral Quarter Sesfsin . 3 for the county of Surrey commenced this day, at the Court-house, Newington, before Robert Hedger, Esq., Chair man, Mr. Denison and Mr. Briscoe, Nlembers for the county, Sir W. 11. Jolliffe, Bart., High Sheriff, Mr. Holme Sumner. and an unusually nume rous attendance of Magistrates. At the sitting of the Court, Lord Grantley, Sir Thomas Turton, and several gentlemen, took the usual oaths of allegiance on being sworn in as Magi strafes of Surrey. The calendar is comparatively light, there being only 26 commitments for felony since tt►z last Ses sion, and IS for misdemeanours. Mr. CRAWFORD, Magistrate of the Croydon dis trict, and who Ines particularly active in suppressing the first rppearances of tumult in Surrey, rose and stated that he had to call the attention of the Court to a matter in which he was personally concerned. At the commencement of the disturbances in the county of Surrey, and in the neighbourhood in which he resided, he had found it necessary to call out a number of special constable , , and he of course had felt it his duty to remunerate them, and he had in all been at an expellee of about 120/.; and, on inquiry, he could not find any fund applicable for the purposes of defraying such charges. The worthy Magistrate then called the attention of the Court to the Acts of the -fist of Geo. 111., and the Ist of Geo. IV., and concluded by moving that a Com mittee should be appointed to consider and report upon the whole subject. Mr. HOLME SUMNER and other Magistrates joined in approving the sentiments of the last speaker, and eulogized his conduct in warm terms. Mr. DRUMMoND, in concurring in the praise so justly due to Mr. Crawford, said, that in his opinion the late conflagrations in the county were caused by foreign incendiaries, and he had many strong rea sons for that opinion. He thought the cultivators of the soil were in a most wretched state of poverty. The worthy Magistrate called the attention of the Bench to the rec,rmmendation of the Judges, that the country gentlemen would act so as to induce the lower classes to suppose that their distresses were not unattended to. Sir T. TußToti thought that the labouring popu lation at the present time were in a better condition than they had been for the last thirty-six years he had known the county. A lengthened discussion then took place between Mr. Denison, Mr. Briscoe, Sir Thomas Turton, and Mr. Drummond, to ascertain how, and from what fund, the special constables, and especially the ex pences which Mr. Crawford had been subjected to, were to be supplied. Mr. Lawson, the Clerk of the Peace, read a let ter which he had received from the Secretary of State, requiting him to forward the names, sexes, and ages of different parties committed and con victed for offences against the Game Laws in the county of Surrey.—Ordered accordingly. WINTER ASSIZES. KINGSTON, TUESDAY, JAN. 4. William James Casey, aged 30, labourer, was in dicted, upon the Coroner's inquisition, for the wilful murder of Samuel Ward. The prisoner was also indicted for the manslaughter of the deceased. The circumstances out of which the charge against the prisoner arose, occurred at the last election for the borough of Southwark. The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. Peter Schmidt, a Bavarian, was indicted capitally for having assaulted Joseph Norris, on the King's highway, and taken by force from his possession half a-crown, and other monies, his property. Another man, and two females from the same country, and of the same name as the prisoner, who followed the oc cupation of broom-sellers, and a young woman, named Catherina Hoffman, another" buy a broom" girl, had also been charged with aiding and abetting the prisoner, but they were not put upon their trials, the prosecutor not being able sufficiently to identify their persons. After several witnesses had been examined, The Jury, under his Lordship's direction, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Richard Quigley, aged 17, John Taylor, aged 16, and Richard Koesel, aged 15, were capitally in dicted for breaking and entering the dwelling• house of James Ingram, at Newington, and stealing therein a great coat, two body coats, eight waistcoats, a hat, and other articles of wearing apparel, his property. The prisoners were found (iuilry, and Mr. Justice TAUNTON, in ordering sentence of death to be recorded against the*, observed, that it was a melancholy spectacle to see three lads, scarcely past the years of childhood, convicted of a capital offence. As to Koesel, he must expect to quit the country for life. Mr. STANLEY 1S to have the only Royal borough i❑ England, Windsor. By the arrangement com pleted, Sir Hussey VIVIAN, who sits for Windsor, is to vacate, receiving the appointment of Commander of the Forces in Ireland, from which Sir Join( BYNG is recalled. THE BELGIAN CHARACTERS-The scenes of stirring interest recently exhibited on the Continent have prominently brought forward for contemplation the character and history of the inhabitants of the Nether lands; anti the appearance of Mr. GitArrAN's last and very popular work, " The Heiress of Bruges," is in timely accordance with this circumstance. That production is the result of a personal residence on the spots d e pi c t e d, o f an active consultation of authorities, and, above all, of a sedu lous observation of living manners, so that it may be referred to not merely as a book of amusement, but as a record of romantic achievements, and an illustration of the early national peculiarities of a people who are now occu pying so large a share of European attention. FROM THE GAZE'T ' TE OP LAST NIGHT. War Office, Jan. 4, 1831. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. F. W. Ha milton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Beresford, pro moted. Dated Jan. 4, 1831. Coronet J. Childe to be Lieu►enant, by purchase, vice Hamilton. Jan. 4. J. J. Calley, Gent., to bP. o:tneZ, by purchase, vice Childe. Jan. 4. Ultati-a ti —tapt. W. Beresford, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Major of Lifantry, by purchase, Jan. 4. MEMORANDII3I.-Major T. J. B lines, upon half-pay Unattached, has bren allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of an unattrched c'Onithission, I , ari; 4. War-Office, .ian. 111EkonANnnt.—The half-pay of the under-mentioned Officers h a 8 been cancelled from the let instant, inclusive, upon their receiving a commuted allowance for their com missions : Lieut. W. B. Buchanan, half-pay 27th Foot. Lieut. J. C. Crellin, half-pay 4th Foot. Lieut. J. King, half-pay 3,ith Foot. Lieut. R. 'Christie, half-pay let Foot Guards. Lieut. C. J. K. Monck, half-pay 43d Foot. Lieut. J. H. Munnik, half-pay 73d Foot. Cornet B. W. Drechsler, half-pay Foreign Troops of the Royal Waggon Train. War-Office, Janb 3. His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 88th Foot, or Connaught Itangers, retaining on its colours and appointments the Harp and Crown, with the motto, " Buis separahit ?" in addition to the other badges and devices which it has been authorised to bear, in comme moration of its distinguished services on various occasions. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Kinross. C. Adam, Jun. EAq. of Blairadam, Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, to be Deputy Lieutenant, Dec. 21. The said C. Adam, Esq. to be Vice-Lieut., Dec. 25. Commissions in the Corsha►n Troop of Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts. Paul Methuen, tsq. to be Captain. Dated Dec. 13, 1830. Neston Fuller, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Dec. 13. Peter Hooper, Gent., to be Cornet. Dec. 13. Whitehall, Dec. 23. The Lord Chancellor has appointed W. D. Jones, of Wrexhain, in the county of Denbigh, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery, DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Francis William Paddon, Plymouth, printer. John Elliott, Holloway, carpenter. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. John Humfrey, Manningtree, Essex, merchant, from Jan. 14, to Feb. 1, between eleven and one, at the Suffolk Hotel, Ipswich. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Charles Couland, jun., Leeds, spirit merchant. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Blinman, Bristol, brazier, to surrender Jan. 18, 19, and Feb. 15, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Osborne and Ward, Bristol; Meredith and Reeve, Lincoln's-inn, London. William Wilson, Mincing-lane, sugar-broker, Jan. 11, 18, and Feb. 15, at eleveu, at the Court of Commissioners. Lewis, Crutched• Friars. John Crisp, Colchester, Essex, butcher, Jan. 17, 18, and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Three Cups Inn, Colchester. Bignuld, Pulley, and Mawe, Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Sarjent and Cooper, Colchester. James Key, Great Present-street, Goodinan's-fields, oil and colourtnan, Jan. 14, at one, 18, at twelve, and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Ripping ham, Great Prescot-street. Edward Jones, Canterbury, grocer, Jan. 11, at eleven, 18, and Feb. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Commis sioners. Stevens, Wood, Willtin,on, and Satchel', Little St. Thomas Apostle, Queen-street. David Jones, Cynwyd, Gwyddelwern, Merionethshire, victualler, Jan. 7,8, and Feb. 11, at the Lion Inn, Ilala. Jones, Crosby-square, London ; Anwyl, Bala. Frederick William Story, York, dealer, Jan. 13, 14, and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, York. Evans, Stevens, and Flower, Gray's Inn-square, London : Ord and Pearson, York. _ _ _ Mynliard Retemeyer, Bury-court, St. Mary-Axe, slip_ insurance-broker, Jan. 11, at twelve, 18, at eleven, and Feb. 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Hut chinson and Imeson, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. Matthew Houghton, Ipsley, Warwickshire, grocer, Jan. 11, at fire, 12, and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Alcester. Cresswell, Redditch, Worcestershire ; Lowndes and Gatty, Red Lion-square. John Illyllar, Brighton, horse-dealer, Jan. 7, at ten, 14, and Feb: 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Heathcote, Coleman-street. William Stoddart, Freshford, Somersetshire, cloth-ma nufacturer, Jan. 20, 21, and Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Blue Bell Inn, Carlisle. Mounsey and Gray, Staple Inn, London ; Watts and Son, Bath ; Dixon, Calthwaite, Penrith. DIVIDENDS. W. Plume, Stock, Essex, builder, Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—T. T. Ryan, Pitfield-street, merchant, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners —J. Crisp, Idol-lane, Great Tower-street, wine-merchant, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—A. Dobbie, Manchester, wine-merchant, Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Blackfriars Inn, Manchester—T. Floud, Exeter, hanker, Feb. 5, at eleven, at the New London Inn, Exeter—T. Atkinson, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, wheel wright, Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Chequers Inn, Hol• beach—J. Riley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, grocer, Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Tontine Inn, Sheffield—T. Parkinson, eon., T. Parkinson, jun., and J. Lilley, Mill-place, Scawby, Lincolnshire, raff-merchants, Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston-upon-Hull—T. Sylvester, Witney, Oxfordshire, currier, Jan. 26, at ten, at the house of R. Bartratn, Oxford—NV. Wales, York, flax-dresser, Feb. I, at eleven, at the house of Mrs. E. Monkman, Old Sand Hill, Yorkshire. CERTIFICATES, JAN. 35. J. R. Stevenson, Manchester, ironmonger—R. Baker, Birmingham, linen-draper—T. Anderton, Leeds, York shire, grocer—R. Ferguson, Great Prescot-street, Good man's-fields, carpenter—J. Steel, Southwark Bridge road, builder—ll. Wilson, Sunderland Wharf, Milbank street, Westminster, coal-merchant—T. Sedgwick and J. Hearn, Billiter-street, merchants—NV. Prince, Grace church-street, slop-seller—R. Silvey, Norwich, bornba zeen-manufacturer—T. Rishworth, Keighley, Yorkshire, worsted-spinner—W. Denman, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, shopkeeper—G. Stedman, Watton, Norfolk, merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. W. and R. Norman, Tokenhouse-yard, merchants— H. and M. Verinder, St. Paul's Church-yard, cutlers— S. and J. Morrell, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, common brewers—R. M. Phillipps and A. Whellock, Littler Tower-street, lightermen—J. Dempsey and J. Pickard, Liverpool, timber-merchants—J. Dempsey, J. Pickard, and L. Frost, Liverpool, timber-measurers—J. Stubbs and S. Danks, Birmingham, attorneys—B., W., and G. Gibbing, Birmingham, merchants—T. Slade, W. Cox, and T. Slade, jun., Poole, Newfoundland, merchants— J. Harrington, W. Wilde, and R. Robley, Woodbank, Cumberland, calico-printers—J., J. W., and H. Knapp, Cirencester-place, Marylebone, builders—R. Verity and T. Wood, Bolton-street—J. Sugden and R. Gill, Woodsome Lees, Yorkshire, manufacturers of fancy goods—W. Ridley and R. Beckley, Charlotte-steet, Sloane-street, paper-stainers—J. and A. A. 13 di, New Sarum, Wiltshire, millers—S. Paget and D. Turner, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, beer-brewers — T. and J. Dyson, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, scythe manufacturers—B. Ford, E. B. Goffe, and J. Parrniter, Winchester, grocers—J. Cook, T. P. Warren, and J. P. Cook, Crown-court, Cheapside, warehousemen—A. Webb, T. Moore, and C. Webb, Miles's-lane, wine-merchants— R. Barrett and R. Floyd, Cbacewater, Cornwall, drapers— J. Macdon Ad and W. Ravenscroft, Liverpool, merchants —G. and F. Squibb, Saville-row, Westminster, auctioneers —J. Williams and R. Gillow, Liverpool, painters—W. Venables and D. Wilson, London—J. Scott, P. Bell, C. Alexander, and R. Duckworth, London, commission agents—J. Ha.selden and G. B. Highfield, Liverpool—C. Cawton and B. Turner, Sheffield, file-manufacturers—J. Andrew and J. Hutton, jun., Liverpool-street, Battle bridge, wine-merchants—J. Preston, and W. W. and J. N. Wimble, Hull—W. Allport, W. Rees, and B. All port, Liverpool, coffee.dealers—P. Burgess and J. Dollery Holborn-hill, perfumers—W. H. Stewart, and G. C. and W. 11. Lee, Birmingham, iron-dealers—W. Spurrier and C. Ingleby, Birmingham, attorneys—W. Monzani and E. Smyth, Strand, flute manufacturers—F. Clarke and D. and S. Morgan, Archangel, merchants—D. Whatley, sen., and D. Whatley, jun., Cirencester, Gloucestershire, at torneys—J. Driffill and J. Menuell, Kingston-upon-Hull, rail-merchants. The Marchioness of ANGLE,SEA and the younger branches of her family still remain in London. tier Ladyship will shortly tyke her departure for the beau tiful seat in Wales. The Marchioness is not expected to join the Marquis in Dublin, until early in the spring. THE CALUMNIATORS OF THE CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-Although your columns are at all times open to calumnies against the Church,—no doubt for certain weighty and substantial reasons,"`—l claim from your candour a place for my reply to the attack made on me in your publication of the 28th ult. And, first, the accusation of deception on my part, I meet with the distinct avowal, that whatever I have as sumed in my " Reasons" for the Society for the Propa gation of the Gospel, as to its efforts—success,—the cha racter, zeal, and vigilance of its clstgy, the anxiety mani fested by risitig townships to enjoy the labours of a Mis sionary, and their willingness, the moment it was in their power, to remunerate them, has been assumed on facts contained in the Reports, which neither have been, nor can be, contradicted. No inference has been drawn in its favour, no opinion has been pronounced on its merits, unaccompanied by a direct reference to the patticulCr Report cud spnci6 page oh which that inference or that opinion has been founded : so that the accuracy both of my statements and arguments may be proved or disproved at a glance. With respect to deception on the part of the Society, I unbesit.itingly affirm, after a very severe scrutiny of its Reports for the last twenty years—l say scrutiny, because I have not read but studied there that I have found but two inetatices in which a pledge has been given in one Report, and not fully redeemed in the next : and these were cases in which a sufficient reason was assigned why the good proposed to be effected could only be partially accomplished. The next charge of my assailant, that " the Mis sionaries sent out by the Society have been, with few exceptions, mEN OF NO CHARACTER, " I dismiss with the simple observation, that if public parish meetings, assem bled to record their sorrow at losing their Missionary—if entreaties to remain, and invitations to return—if public testimonies to their ministerial ability and private worth fall to the lot of " men of no character," then I admit the Missionaries of this Society are bankrupts in reputa tion, and idiots in intellect. With these tributes the Re ports abound, and with these impartial attestations to their worth staring him in the face, I must admire in say turn, " his enviable assurance" in makin; a charge so opposed to truth, and so easy of refutation. Is reference to the alleged exclamation of Sir James Keinpt on the arrival of certain Missionaries in the colony, that " he knew not what the Board could mean by sending out such men, and was at a loss what to do with them," I have frankly to observe, that it is ao com pletely at variance with what Sir James has said in other quarters, with the written testimony which he has borne to the value and services of the Society, and the readiness with which lie has at all times lent his influence to aid its views and mature its wishes, that until it rests on surer testimony than the mere " ipsc dixit" of an anonymous assailant, I SHALL NOT BELIEVE ir ! The same remark will apply to my antagonist's covert sneer on the wild and reckless debauchee in the garb of a Clergyman who came out to the colony " with letters of recommendation from the Lord Bishop of London!" His Lordship will readily remember the circumstance ; and it is not for me to attempt to defend him. The censure passed on the Society by Bishop Moun tain, from his death-bed, is, I admit, somewhat startling ; more particularly when coining from a " relative !" But on consideration, it is so completely contradicted by every previous act of that Prelate's life, so amply refuted by his unlimited confidence in the Society, and his cheerful co-operation in its munificent designs, that I hesitate not to pronounce it an imputation on his sincerity, and a libel on his character which, were he living, lie would be the first to repel with disdain. 1 am, Sir, your very humble servant, ERSKINE NEALE. Weston, near South Shields, Jan. 1, 1831. [* We insert this letter as a mere act of justice to our correspondent, who fancies himself aggrieved by another ; though at the same time we beg leave to express in the most unqualified manner our astonishment, not to say our disgust, at the in famous insinuation with which this Mr. Erskine Neale chooses to commence his long diatribe, " Al though your columns are at all times open to ca lumnies against the Church—no doubt, for weighty and substantial reasons."—Pray, what does the man meal' by this ? Does he dare to imply that we have been bribed to calumniate the Church ? If so, we can only say that he measures our standard of inte grity by his own—and we indignantly reject such a test. Of the two contending parties, Mr. Erskine Neale and his opponent, we know nothing, and with regard to the former, we shall be proud and happy to remain always i❑ the same contented igno rance. We omit the conclusion of this gentleman's letter; it is grossly libellous.—EDlTOß aur.] TITHES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 51R,..-.As the Editor of the Times refuses, or, at any rate, omits to insert communications opposed to the opi nions expressed in the leading article of that Journal, I request, as a fevour, the insertion of a few remarks on the subject of tithes. In the Times of the 31st ult. is the following—" And in the name of law we will say a few words on the subject of tithe being a tax, and not properly, as is now asserted, as what will not be asserted by impudence, to impose on selfish ignorance? If it be a tax, of course it came out in the Budget. Whit Chancellor of the Exchequer laid it on ?" 84c. Who can read t'ie above, and not exclaim what stuff!— what silly, weak, and contemptible proof is adduced, or rather no proof at all ! Did the Editor never hear of pa rochial taxes? Did he never call the poor-rate, the high way-rate, and the church-rate, tuxes? All these (call them rates or taxes) are levied by authority of the Legis lature, yet they do not appear in the Budget, nor are they laid on by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But to call tithes a tax is impudence, it seems, although levied under the same authority as all other taxes. That a particular ' class of persona or individuals have received the right to take tithes, does not alter the 'value of tithes—that can not make them property. The right to tithes is properly. I admit, so long as the law which confers that right re mains in force ; but I assert that such right is derived solely from the law of the land ; that tithes area mere sti pend or pay for services performed or intended to be per formed for the benefit of the people, and that, whenever it appears no longer for the welfare of the people, such law ought, and may, without injustice, be repealed. Now the right to property is riot derived from the law of the land ; laws are made to protect and preserve our property. In disputed property the law does not give the tight, but only decides' which claimant shows the greatest right to it. I assert that the "impudence to iinpose on selfish igno rance" is displayed by the Editor of the Times most strikingly. The article seems written on purpose to catch the unwary, and to check and smother the few rays of light that have lately broke forth on this dark subject; but I would tell the writer it is now too late to make persons in the country believe such monstrous untruths— they begin now to inquire into the history of tithes ; for what purposes this tax was imposed, and by whom and when, the people are generally acquainted ; the Editor of the Times will find the " impudent assertion" that tithes are only a tax, and a very oppressive and unjust tax, will be made in every parish in the kindom. It will be found that it was imposed under the influence of priestcraft and superstition, when the Church of Rome was the only community professing Christianity, and that it was one of the impure things retained in the Reformation of 1520, but against which several of the early perfarmers protested as unchristian. The payment of tithes was nowhere en forced until several years after the Christian era. The Editor of the Times quotes from " Blackstone ;" but he will find that Blackstone states (see the first edition of the " Commentaries,"—" At the first establishment of parochial Clergy, the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, one for the use of the Bishop, an other for maintaining the fabric of the Church, a third for the poor, and a fourth for the incumbent." Now, even if it could be proved that tithes are property, not merely dependant on the law of the land, yet they are not a pplieel to their original purposes ; and who is guilty of the injustice of appropriating them to their own use ? I a m surprised at the inconsistency of many persons warmly attached to the Established Church, who, professing to con sider tithes as a c t ua ll y t h e property of the Clergy, yet would petition for their diminution or commutation into a tax upon the rent instead of upon the produce ; say, for instance, two shillings in the pound to be paid on the rental of every parish : this would, doubtless, be a great alleviation ; but I contend that if tithes are actual property, we have no more right to petition for their being arbitrarily lessened or commuted, than my neighbour has that my land may be given to him or exchanged to please him ; but it iS clear that tithes are not property, correctly speaking; Repeal the tithe laws, and where is the title to them But it is not so with an annuity or quit-rent claimed from any estate; this will always appear in the title, which title would remain if all laws and Government were at an end, even if not respected. Can we wonder at the unsettled state of Ireland, when seven millions of people, not a tenth of whom are members of the Established Church, are taxed for its support, besides having to contribute to their own churches and religious offices—a people, most of whom are members of that church with which establish ments and tithes originated. h this just? Can we won der at their wishing to repeal the Union ? A LANDOWNER. [We insert the above letter because the article on which it comments appeared in The Situ; but we have no desire to be putting in the remarks of cot respondents on articles which have appeared in other papers.—ELt. SUN.] LAFAYETTE. Letter from Lafayette to the National Guard of France " A short time has passed, my dear Lrt-thren in arms, since I was invested with an immense com mand. To-day lam no more than your old friend, the veteran National Guardsman. This double title will accompany me, as my chief happiness, to the grave. That which I have ceased to own, found me in the great week, springing from the boundless confidence of the people amidst those glorious bar ricades, under the re-elevated tri-colour, where, in three days, were fixed the fate and institutions of the present race of Frenchmen and the destinies of Europe. The functions which I refused in 1790, I accepted in 1830 from the hands of the Prince whom we have since hailed as King. They have been, I trust, exercised for the public good. Seventeen hundred thousand National Guards, already en rolled and organised at the voice of their happy chief, are my witnesses. They may still be useful, I declare it, at a time of which I am permitted to be a judge, and of which I would be a rigid censor. " The majority of my colleagues of the Chamber of Deputies have formed an opinion that these func tions ought to cease for the present, and the same opinion has been avowed by the organ of the Go vernment. " Besides this, jealousies quite unjustified by any recollection, 1 have a right to say it, arose from various sides ; they manifested themselves strongly, and could not be satisfied by less than a total and unreserved abandonment of the power; and then, though the kind intervention of Royal solicitation was employed to retain my services, that instinct of liberty which has never deceived me through the vocation of my long life, warned me that I must sa• crifice this power, and these pressing affections, to the austere duty of preserving all the fruits of the revolution of 1830. " My course has not been without advantage : of this I am assured by an immense correspondence.— In fact, if the sublime movement of the French na tion in arms has been spontaneous—if to guarantee France against the future commotion of a narrow, a malignant, or a timid policy, it is enough to place her beneath the protection of the principles of 1789 and 1791, and above all of the v►tal and universal principle of election—it is not less true, that s cen tral influence, and, if I might dare to say it, the confidence claimed by some personal consideration, have beneficially contributed to harmonize, during the suspension of law, conflicting wishes and opi nions, and to defeat the intrigues of the party that was overthrown, but which still retained the power to hurt. I love to recall the circumstances of the second general inspection, which in this regard so powerfully supported me. " I will not recount all that has been done to or ganize for us these admirable legions of cities— these numerous battalions of the villages. * * * Alas! far from fearing this great institution, formed without delay, without hesitation, or trouble, solely by the influence of a boundless and unqualified confidence in the body of the nation, let us hasten to use them as the model for our ether institutions. " How can I describe the delight with which, at the end of a few weeks, I presented, to the admira tion of our people, of our King, and of strangers, the National Guard of Paris, which for 40 years had been my pride, and in truth my family—at length reviving, more brilliant and more numerous than ever, and with its gallant associates, the beau tiful legions of the vicinity, exhibiting in the Champ de Mai a force of more than eighty thousand men. This was a delight which could be surpassed only by what I felt when, within a few days, I know that to the National Guard Paris owed its safety—the revolution its unsoiled purity from crime. If one department, that of the Seine and Oise alone, has given me such enjoyments, what must have been my gratification at the reports from all the departments—reports describing armies created, equipped, and disciplined, as if by miracle—in beholding myself throughout surrounded by the Deputies of all France come to assist in the second inaugurat'on of their King, and who, in their affectionate confidence, made me the deposi tory of their complaints upon general questions, or upon local grievances, and their mediator with the Government—a mediator, as it were, commissioned by the spirit of the great week. This duty I have discharged. I have expressed as freely as in the tribune my ardent—l may call them my impatient wishes—for the full realization of the programme published, while the blood of our 6,000 patriot fellow-citizens still smoked upon the ground; and I have sought that at the earliest possible moment France should have a representation chosen subse quent to the revolution of 1830 ; and if I have the opportunity, in any discussion relative to the forma tion of the other Chamber, I shall contend for the prisiciple of presentation of aspirant Peers to the King for his selection, iii preference to the existing s yst e m. If I have scrupled to lend my name to the procrastination or the abandonment of measures which were in my opinion necessary, let not such hesitation be treated as urging coups d'etat, or as endeavouring to exercise upon others a dictation to w hi c h I myself would never submit, of which his tory will do me the justice to offer more than one proof. " But I had rather repeat what everybody knows —Frenchmen of all parties, and foreigners of all countries—that if the constitutional order conquered in the great days—if the popular throne, raised by our bands, were even menaced—no matter from what side, the whole nation would rise to defend them. " In the painful moment of bidding an adieu, which I had thought was not so near, I offer to my dear brethren in arms my gratitude for their friend ship, my confidence in their recollections, my prayers for their happiness, my admiration for what they have done, my foreknowledge of what they will yet do, and my hope that the calculations of intrigue or the interpretations of malice will not prevail in their hearts against me. Finally, I offer them all the feelings of tender affection which will not leave me until my last sigh. " LAFAYETTE." He has addressed another letter to the National Guard of Paris, in which the same sentiments are repeated at somewhat less length. LORD HILL AT TALAVERA.-HILL was moving up to reinforce Colonel DoNxIN, and was in the act of giving some orders to the Colonel of the 48th regi ment, when he was fired at from this summit ; and not doubting that the shots proceeded from some British strag glers, who mistook the direction of their fire, he rode ,martly up, accompanied by his Brigade-Major, FORDYCE, to stop them. These two were instantly surrounded by the enemy ; FORDYCE was killed on the spot, and the band of a French grenadier was already on the bridle of Him:s charger ; but the General spurred his horse hard, broke away, and galloped off. Directing the wounded beast downwards, he met a part of the 29th, and, turning, led them up with uacalculating courage to the charge. The old 29th did not disappoint him ; they won back the sum mit at the point of the bayonet. But scarcely had the General placed them in position by the side of Colonel DorouN's brigade, ere a heavy mass of French battalions ag ain advanced , and a violent attack, of which the first was but a prelude, burst upon them. The fire flashed red upon the night, and was delivered so close, that the com batants discerned each other's formation within a few paces. The British having poured in their deadly volley, rushed on d w ow. ith n t_ c heir a b b a i y n o e n t Lets,ibbrray_ okrethmemor the column,dark isof i; a re n i d drove _ lington. DREADFUL DISTRESS IN DERBY SHIR guarded M (FROM OR CORREsrownENT.) omitted to bar The distress which prevails amongst the m i ners an d Tiers took ads,: weavers of this mountai nous an d co ld di str i ct i s almost to rescue th e i r beyond description. We were present at a numerous and of the sentinel, respectable meeting of the inhabitants of the village of one hand, a Bradwell, held on Wednesday last, for the purpose of con- What became sidering the best means of administering relief to the suf- learn, but the faring families in the neighbourhood, especially those who p an i On in Wre are in indigent eircutsist.ances in consequence of the very i n a great b low rates of Wages afforded to those empl oye d i n t h e a b ove reached it, the trades, who it is well known cannot, by the tssoat diligent h e met rite r exertion, earn n more than from three to four shillings per ceived hi m w i week ! It is impossible to conceive the vast d e pth o f w ieDNEsnA misery which exists. It appeared from the st a t ements of a nd proceeded some of the speakers, that many of these po o r su ff erer s j o i ned their fe had their children in bed when visited, whose bed- c l o th e s b ourhood. 1 had not a vestige of either linen or flannel about them, than on tire but was ccAnpoge lof wrappers and old cloths—others had Miners. Tht not a tittle of fire! To all who have spent pleasant days but the Riot in the summer in this interesting and beautifully pictu- most laudable resque country, we would say (and we humbly beseeci their wants, them on behalf of the poor mountaineers of Derbyshire), and Sir Watt send your mite, and send it without delay :—to all who the British are connected with the district by birthright and family he had, it connections, we especially address ourselves, and urge the workmen, Ist cause of these oppressed sons of labour to their benevolent to the Comp; attention. The respectable inhabitants of the village and at Acrefair. neighbourhood have done their duty, having already sub- complaints, scribed nearly 50/ , which sum they are actively distri- tent, which buting amongst the sufferers, in coals, meal, and blankets. nothing, as Several resolutions were unanimously adopted, appoint- provisions a ing a committee, and earnestly recommending a aubscrip- Mr. Wood, lion from all who could afford it. wishes of the The miners in this quarter labour under greater diffi- Wood replied culties than the miners of Peak Forest, in consequence of had another the extra quantity of lead which his Grace the Duke of there being Devonshire, as Lord of the Manor, receives from the this charge. former. A petition was presented to his Grace a foe mined to sen years ago, praying that they might be placed on the same for a pound footing as their brethren of the Peak Forest, to which he weighed in was pleased to promise Iris attention, but which his grace.' Penny pi eces ship has never yet done. Since that period the distress_ stated that ti and difficulties the miners have had to contend with have lost weight greatly increased. The meeting therefore resolved to res was agreed ti new the application. We wish, with better success. We on the follow hear often of the gaieties and splendid hospitality of the Rhuabon, w: princely mansion of Chatsworth, but would it not snore the workmen redound to his Grace's patriotism and love of country, for THIIRSDA surely, if he is an Englishman, he must love the soil and Hers and mit the labourers too, which afford him the means of die- the meeting persing the luxuries of the world to those who do not lie one. TI stand in need of them? We would advise his Grace to the coalman attend to this, as we may have something further to sal Pickering, a on the subject. At this merry season we had no idea of men were se meeting, or even witnessing such scenes of misery and tan could nt wretchedness amongst the once happy, kind, and hospi- return hom e table peasantry of Derbyshire—a class with whom it was to the work only necessary to be acquainted to be able to appreciate Inn with d( enraged the their worth. It was also resolved, that as the natives of this neigh.. T. Griffith, bourhood are generally able to till the ground, and be- and Jones lieving that they would be greatly bencfitted by being Placed, for I allowed to occupy a small plot of ground to be cultivated works. Bu by spade labour, on the same moderate terms as it io Plny, had generally let out to the farmer it was therefore agreed to hayrick in petition Earl Newbury, who holds property in this district, dragged out that he would be pleand to apportion such small allot- rnenced an ments to those applicants whom the committee would re. he .was m commend. God grant that the petition may be sue- NO other ou cessful. noon, Sir Ni Another resolution appointed Mr. A. Deakin, as tres- House, whe surer, and Mr. Charles Pearson, as secretary. men to lay It is said that one great cause of the misery which his utmost i exists here is the facility which Spain possesses of pro' diselosure; clueing the metal at a much cheaper rate, and importing it bodi e d men into this country, and selling it lower than it can be third class. worked in England ; and that the Derbyshire miners mean following st to petition for a restrictive duty. The age of restrictions' rt et, and ex however, is passed. The Duke of Devonshire must refill' verbatim et qiiish some of his perquisites, and then Spain, nor no gentleim other country will come into the market with British skill, before you enterprise, and industry. All we want is a clear stage and habitants of no favour, and we fear not the result. First,—' same pitch, STATE OF NORTH WALES. (From the Chester Courant of Tueeday.) Our city and the whole of this county have been intro' dated during the week with rumours of serious riots in Wales, particularly at Wrexham, Rhuabon, Hawarden, and Mold ; and to such an extent were the most ridiculous tales propaged by the busy-bodies of the day, that at one time it was gravely said, and by some believed, that the Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry had been annihilated br the mob, that the town of Wrexham and the houses in its vicinity had been reduced to ruins, and that the mansion of Sir W. W. Wynne had been sacked of all its valuable contents. In order to set matters at rest, we made an ex' cursion into the country, where we obtained such infor' motion as enables us to say, that the working classes in the northern parts of the Principality were never less posed to riot than they are at present, although a good deal of dissatisfaction prevails among them on the subject° of employment and the remuneration they ought to receive as wages. About ten or twelve days ago, the colliers in Hawarden and its neighbourhood turned out, and demanded of their, employers an increase of wages, which, after a few days or parley, they generally obtained. Inflated with this s ue' cess, they instantly communicated the result of their exec' tions to the mineis and colliers in other parts of the court' try, and it was soon evident that similar demands woul d be made throughout the whole of the coal and mining die . ' iricts in North Wales. We have not heard that at th o time there had been among the workmen any indicatiort° of a spirit to riot, or to commit any breach of the peace i they confined themselves exclusively, we believe, to ° " turn out," and to a remonstrance with their employer° on the abject and distressed condition of the colliers pointing out the necessity for an increase of wages. V° may here remark, as will he seen by and by, that the eel' Tiers and miners in this part of Wales have really been f°' a long time in a most distressing situation, unable to earl' by their hard and willing labour a fair proportion of the necessaries of life. Late on Sunday night, the 26th ult" Thomas Fitzhugh, Esq., of Plas Plover, received by ea' press a letter from John Wynne Eyton, Esq., of Leeswoodt urging him to forward it with the utmost despateh to Sir Watkin Wynne, Colonel of the Denbighshire Yeo' manry Cavalry, as the turn-outs would repair to Wre%' ham on the following diy. This letter was itnmediatell forwarded to Sir Watkin, who, without loss of timer transmitted it to Captain Morris, with orders for SY sembling all the members of the Yeomanry' Cavalry s' Wrexham early on the following morning. Accord' ingly, about ten o'clock on Monday, the streets 0 ' Wrexham were paraded with the cavalry, where thei remained inactive during the day. Towards the after', noon a messenger was sent off to Mr. Wynne Eyton, Leeswood, to ascertain if " the rioters" intended to rito Wrexham or not ; and about five o'clock in the evening he returned with a letter from Hawarden, soliciting Sir Watkin to be there that night with his troops, or e arly' on the following day. Between seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday morning his troops assembled in Wrexham as before, and proceeded to Hawarden ; but when thef, had advanced a few miles on the road, they receiv e° , information that the Ffrwd and Brymbo colliers ba° joined, and were travelling in a body to Rhos P oll ard' rugeg, where they intended to coalesce with the work' men there, and proceed to Acrefair. On the re; ceipt of this news the cavalry turned to the left, and by cross-lanes and bye.roade reached the back of Rhee Llanercyrugog, where they found several hundred co!' tiers assembled, but who were peaceable and not ind!' eating the least symptoms of disorder. Sir Watkt o inquired of them what they wanted ? They replied( " Employment, and an increase of wages." They wer e rec ommended to disperse quietly to their bottles, as t?' cavalry could do no good for them. The men either roll', understood this advice, or refused to comply with it, ao ' the Riot Act was then read (query, in English?) by Mr' Lloyd, of Wrexham. This was at Gutter-hill. TV men stood in mute astonishment, seemingly not under' standing what was meant ; when Mr. Roberts, a coal-rnas' ter interfered, and begged that the cavalry might retire, he had lived among the men and was certain they ;cool' not do any harm. He likewise addressed the crowd, mill were !standing on the brow of the hill, cov e red veit_ A P clinkers (the residuum of the iron ore). They replie' they did not want the cavalry, and told Mr. Roberts to b e off, as they had plenty of clinkers at hand, which the; could use if necessary. He went away, and s evers clinkers were hurled down the hill, as we are informe d ' by women and boys, without doing the least injury to O i l one. Several of the cavalry th en en d eavoure d t o charg e the bill, which was found impracticable, and three or o, i ' r blank cartridg e s w e re fi re d over the peoples' head'' which Sir Watki n re p ro b a t e d in severe t e rms. Thy'' men were then captured, one of them (David Joie) was instantly mounted, and strapped to a cavalry ma n ' accompanied by six others, and conveyed to Wreab t "; pi ison, which town the escort entered with their pist ° ,, pointed at the prisoner's bead !! ! This created no Ittt emotion and alarm among the inhabitants, as it was I' ll 4 day time, and a great number of the country people li* o assembled to enjoy themselves in the town. The t°' SATUR and the tc universal the collier burst wit] declared I outs were near Chit Oswestry and that 5. Two rr at Wroch seriptions and neigh young me Prtserrati het in n a stormy Were 300 of the tru to !uppos seription, he called The 'Vies pose, —t o and not been thre not props period (: officers n. caused ai 1001. Wa The o o'clock, 1 Sign of a On Sa Park, to they did out, and time no i The (Dr. 1); Archiepi . . three times Secondly per - course chase 24 cl for the regt robed of 0' load, and tl vent this th every neigh and by so d Thirdly,. rent now a in this pad rooms, wit Now get to stgte to difficulty oi First,_ eider to IN which arise which is a many of of 3rd, an a Waggon rc any &lowa Waggon ro or a collier a whole