The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-26 00:00:00

EAST SURREY AGRICULTURAL

ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the friends of this Association, which
which was instituted for the purpose of giving rewards to
deserving agricultural servants, and thereby create an
incentive to them to persevere in a course of honest in-
dustry, and also for the general advancement of the in-
terests of agriculture, took place yesterday at Croydon.
Previous to the meeting a trial of skill at ploughing
took place upon the grounds of E. Lanfear, Esq , at
Maddon Court, when upwards of thirty competitors en-
tered the lists. The style of ploughing was considered
by the judges to be excellent. The proceedings ap-
peared to cause a good deal of interest. When this por-
tion of the business was concluded the successful com-
petitors were assembled together, and the different
prizes were delivered to them.
GEORGE ROBERT SMITH, Esq., M.P., the Presi-
dent of the Association, addressed the successful can-
didates, and observed that it had become his duty to
give the prises to the successful labourers. He hoped
that the proceedings of that day would be an incentive
to them to persevere in a course of honest exertion.
He was glad to see that the Association had already
been the means of greatly improving the style of plough-
ing; and he hoped that next year an equal improve-
ment would take place. With respect to the unsuc-
cessful competitors, he could only express hope that
next year they would be more successful.
After this portion of the proceedings had termi-
nated, the members of the Association dined together,
at the Greyhound Inn, Croydon. where an excellent re
past was provided for them by Mr. Gardner.
The company, consisting of about 200, was composed
of gentlemen possessed of considerable property in the
county, and of all shades of political opinions. Among
these we noticed G. R. Smith, Esq., M. P., Chair-
man, D. R. Warrington, Esq., J. W. Suther-
land, Esq., J. Currie, Esq., E. R. Adams, Esq.,
Sir H. Bridges, Bart., C. H. Turner, Esq., T. Weall,
Esq., W. Lanfear, Esq., W. Gutteridge, Esq., W.
Russell, Esq., Sir C. Grey, Sir Charles Farnaby, Capt.
Mellbank, and T. S. Carter, Esq.
When the cloth was removed the CHAIRMAN pro-
posed " The Queen, and long may she reign over a happy,
prosperous, and united people."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Queen Dow-
ager, a lady endowed with all those virtues which must
ever render her dear to the people of England, and the
rest of the Royal Family."
The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The Army and
Navy," and said they should never forget that if the
exigencies of the State required them, they would obtain
their best recruits among the hardy and industrious
agricultural labourers.
The next toast was " The Archbishop of Canterbury
and the C:ergy of the Diocese ;" and the Chairman, in
propo9lng it, said that although upon an occasion like
the present be might not 1)2 justified in going into a ue-
tail of matter* not connected with the ebj.'ct for which
thug were assembled yet he could not refrain from bear-
ing testimony to the unostentatious charity and the
exemplary conduct of the Reverend Prelate whose name
he had mentioned, and which in his opinion was an ho-
nour to human nature.

The Rev. Sir CHARLES FARNEBY briefly returned
thanks.

The CHAIRMAN then rose and proposed as a toast,
is Success to the East Surrey Agricultural Association."
He was sure that he need not wish them to drink the
toast with enthusiasm. There were many gentlemen
present who, from their knowledge of the sciez,ce of
agriculture, and their great experience, would have been
much better qualified to fill the chair that day than
himself. Still, however; he would yield to no one in
his zeal for the interest of that important branch con-
nected with the national prosperity, agriculture. Such
associations as the present
vfe"pa-rti rly. at the
portance at all_ tiu''''' os mpsible to deny that the
present time,
---,11/41tticting this important interest were,
*ivsfhe least of them, extremely ominous.—(Hear,
beer.) It was, therefore, their duty to rally round
such Associations it 3 these ; and it was a glorious sight
to see, as on the present occasion, the proprietors, the
occupiers, and the cultivators of land bound together in
one common object. The meeting of that day was a
most gratifying sight, and he felt convinced that the
carrying out of such Associations must lead to most
important results. He concluded by proposing—" Suc-
cess to the East Surrey Agricultural Association."—
(Great cheering.)
Mr. RICHARDS, the Secretary of the Association,
then read the minutes of previous proceedings con-
nected with it, from which it appeared that since its
establishment it had been gradually and steadily in-
creasing in numbers, and that there was every prospect
that the Association wauld be enabled to offer addi-
tional premiums at the next annual meeting—(Cheers.)
The healths of the Chairman, the Trusurer, J. W.
Sutherland, Esq., the Secretary, and the Committee,
having been drunk, the meeting separated, highly
gratified with the day's proceedings.
..adver...o.laarlarizerarr.MlMMllMMON
AUCHTERARDER CASE.

The Dean of Faculty, Mr. Hope, formerly Solicitor-
General for Scotland, has addressed a letter to the
Lord Chancellor on this important question. The letter
extends to nearly 300 pages. This able Tory lawyer
sides with the Lord Chancellor and Lord Brougham in
their decision on the appeal from the General Assem-
bly, and reprobates, in no measured terms, the course
pursued by the Church Courts in Scotland. He says
the judgment of the House of Lords involved two
points.

First, that the rejection of the candidate by the people,
without a cause assigned and judged of by the Presby-
tery, was illegal ; and secondly, that the Presbytery
acted illegally, and violated the duty imposed upon them
by statute, in refusing to take the presentee upon trials.
The latter point it is very necessary to keep in view,
for it bas been thrown entirely out of view by the
Church in their subsequent proceedings.
In a few weeks afterwards, the General Assembly of
this year, on the motion of Dr. Chalmers, resolved to
continue in the exercise of the power thus declared, to
be illegal and incompetent to persist in doing the wrong
thus declared, and in refusing thereby to perform the
duty which it has been found formed a condition of the
establishment of the National Church. Such, as will
immediately appear, has been the resolution of the Gene-
ral Assembly—and it has been followed up by measures
marking even more unequivocally the object of that
general resolution—viz., instruction to Presbyteries to
continue to enforce the veto.

._ __-- ----
That this is a most extraordinary and alarming posi-
tion for an Established Church to assume, is manifest
to every one. That wrong should be openly done by a
Church in the knowledge of the law,—that the statutes
of the land should be deliberately and avowedly disre-
garded,—and that a judgment of the most authoritative
tribunal in the kingdom should be immediately followed
by a public resolution of the Church to persevere in
the assumption and exercise of power so declared to be
incompetent, is a scandal hitherto unexampled in any
Protestant country.
Dr. Chalmers proposes, with the aid of the Com-
112teee which was appointed in last Assembly, to corn-
wuuleate with Your Lordship's colleagues, to " demon-
strate of this
s sentence,altogether
that it is founded in
error,"---that IX,
he it e ' " a misinterpretation" of the law ; and
nocouraged in the hope of success, by the " igno-
rance,
ptlitieuzii•
dearest shness," and "reckless disregard of the
out in the apizfutshe Church," which can be pointed
Brougham. of your Lordship and Lord
A defence of the
judgment of the House of Lords
I do not propose to
con-
firmation, I should think that it If it required
acknovvledment made by Dr. &haal d received it in the
eech that the act of the Ch •
sp , Ters, in the same
urch in 1834, ' the Veto, was " A BLUNDER" in passing
whichhe had attempted
to prevent.
A local paper, the Edinburgh Adverarer,
following opinion of this document dran' i
guvp :s the
w
the
first lawyer at the Scottish bar :—" The whole subject
of the Veto controversy—the judgment of the House
of Lords on the illegality of that Act in reference to the
Auchterarder case—the proceedings of the General As.
sembly and the other Church Courts, prior as Nell as sub-
sequent to the decision of the civil tribunals--the changes
sought to be effected by the advocates of the non-ir, trusion
principle., and the divine right of the congregations to
choose their own Ministers—the speeches and re.iolu-
tions of that party in the Assembly, and on the
platform, as to the Independent Authority and Juri,--
diction of the Church ;—their misconceptions of the
law on the subject ;—the injurious effects which the
working of the Veto Act has had on the peace of the
country
; these and other points connected with the
agitation of this important question, are entered into
at great length, and discussed with all that ability,
minuteness, knowledge, candour,andcourtesy which
~.
the public would naturally anticipate from the Learned
Dean.

A gentleman has ofFered to build a wire bridge
over the
American M
Paper.ississippi, at St. Louis, for 500,000 dolk.rs..

CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGIS-

TRATION.-(YESTERDAY.)

Mr.MvLrot and Mr. CRAIG, the Barristers appointed
to revise the list of voters for the City of Westminster,
this morning opened their respective Courts at the
Guildhall, Westminster.
Mr. MYLNE said that it was intended to proceed
in the course adopted on former years, which had been
found most convenient and expeditious. After the pre-
sent officers had delivered in the lists, and verified
them, he and his colleague would proceed to revise the
ists in their respective Courts. He would take the
first six parishes, viz., St. Anne, St. Clement Danes,
St. George, St. James, St. John, and St. Margaret.
, Mr. Craig would take the remaining four, viz. St.
Martin, St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Paul, Covent Garden,
and the Savoy Precinct.
The various lists were then handed in by the parish
officers in the usual manner.
Mr. MYLNE said the only lists he should take to-
day would be St. Anne's and St. Clement Danes.
Several parties were in attendance for St. James's ;
but they were informed that in all probability their cases
would not be taken before Friday, the objections in the
parish of St. George being likely to occupy the whole
of this day.
The total number of objections we understand is 560,
and that of claims 69.

Mr. Trott and Mr. West appeared on behalf of the
Reformers ; Mr. Score and Mr. Score, jun., for the
Tories.

TO THE QUEEN.

An't please your Majesty—We, of the Protestant
Association, who lately addressed your Majesty, as
head of the Church, with our respectful remonstrance
against the promotion of papists to offices of trust and
pay in the government of this country, beg leave now
to present another humble petition at the foot of the
throne in behalf of a brave and zealous Protestant.
The individual for whom we feel so lively a concern is
one of those staunch and strenuous defendersof " Church
and State," for whose sole use and advantage, in our
opinion, all places and appointments of the slightest
honour or value were made, and ought to be filled up.
Nevertheless, the object of our present prayer is, that
that your Majesty would be graciously pleased out of a
tender regard for his soul, to remove him from the rank
which he holds in the military service of Great Britain,
as being totally incompatible, according to his notions,
with the obligations and practice of true religion.
We speak, an't please your Majesty, of the most
Noble the Marquis of Londonderry, who has,
unfortunately conceived that there are two or
perhaps three Gospels adapted to mankind in
their several stations ; one for the Clergy, an-
other for the Army, and another for the Civil
service , and that the Christianity of the army autho-
rises the perpetration of murder and the gratification of
reveege ,even as, peradventure, gluttony may be sanc-
tioned by another class of professors, and a monopoly of
all the loaves and fishes stoutly maintained by a third.
Now we, of the Protestant Association, being exceed-
ingly grieved for the error of this our brother, whom, in
common with the Clergy of Ripon, we regard as a valu-
able champion of the true religion, and being most de-
sirous to remove from him so lamentable a stumbling-
block as he has, in his warlike fancy, interposed between
his honour and his hopes of salvation, do humbly en-
treat your Majesty to dismiss the said Marquis of Lon-
donderry forthwith from your Majesty's army, and re-
duce him to the condition of a civil Christian, in which
capacity we doubt not that he will see and acknowledge
the necessity of abstaining from shedding blood in private
quarrel, as a part of a Christian's duty. Thus will your
Majesty strengthen the Protestant religion, and confer a
most inestimable boon on your humble servants,
THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

P.S. That was a pretty squad of Papists that went
to mass last Sunday out of Windsor Castle, in the suite
of the Queen of Belgium—Lord Fingal and the rest of
them ! Had O'Connell and his tail been on a visit with
your Majesty, they could not have made a grander dis-
play. " How long, Lord, righteous and true !"

FUNERAL OF THE LATE RIINJEET

SING U.

(From the Bombay Times.)
CONVEYANCE OF THE ASHES OF REINJEET SINGH
TO THE GANGES.—Everything having been prepared
the previous day for the removal of the ashes of the
late Maharajah Runjeet Singh towards the sacred Gan-
ges, at Hurdwar, the procession left the palace at about
an hour after sunrise, on the morning of the 2d of July,
an moved through the city of I ,-0-,,,-- • - • - •rs ,ne Lin:l,i
order. One squadron of Skh
Gate in th,. 4-"•-'-o pr
.....,e,s, one by one, on account of the narrowness of the
streets, followed by five gold cloth flags carried on foot,
in the same order ; a little in the rear of those came a
golden khass:th or palkee, containing the ashes of the late
Maharajah ; the Premier, Rajah Dehan Singh, on foot
to the left, bearing a peacock feather chowry, and driv-
ing away the flies ; and on the right Jamandar Khoos-
sial Singh, also on foot bearing a golden punkah ; on
the left, and near to Rajah Dehan Singh, was the late
Maharajah's principal chutry bearer, carrying a golden
chutry, and immediately behind him came his personal
servants, such as dressers, chowry walla, cup bearer,
&c. ; a little behind came four khassahs, containing the
ashes of the four ranees, burnt with him, followed by a
fifth, containing the ashes of the seven slaves also
burned with him, and immediately behind marched his
favourite horses, covered with gold ; about fifty paces
behind them came the heir to the throne, Kurruck
Singh, on an elephant, dressed in plain white muslin,
followed at a short distance by the whole court in the
same dress, without any kind of arms, and mounted
on elephants. On arriving at the Delhi Gate, the
procession received a salute of eleven cartridges
per gun from Captain Ford's, Elli Bukh's, Emam-
sha's, and Sooltan Mamood's artillery (amount-
ing to about twenty-six pieces, drawn up there for that
purpose), and proceeded through a street, formed of a
'quadron of the body guard, Captain Ford's, and Mr.
Steinbach's two battalions of infantry, at a slow pace ;
and receiving the salute of those two regiments, turned
towards Hamb (a favourite barrah durry of the late
Maharajah, about six miles from Lahore, being the first
march). Half way to Hamb the procession passed
through a street formed by Kurruck Singh's regiment
of cavalry, two battalions of infantry, and four guns ;
and received a salute of eleven cartridges per gun.
East of Shalahmar, again the procession passed through
a street formed of two battalions of infantry and two
guns, belonging to the Missir, from whom they
received a salute of eleven cartridges per gun ;
and, lastly, on arriving at Hamb (the place of
halt for the day), and on entering the line of sentry
surrounding the barrah durry, the procession was re-
ceived by a battalion of Monsieur Anitabili's, under a
salute of eleven guns. At the barrah durry, close to
w hich there was a splendid tent pitched to receive the
reLnains of the noble old Maharajah, the procession
stopped, and the ashes were deposited in the tent ;
everything was conducted as if the worthy man had
been alive travelling about. The line of sentry, the
door-keepers, &c., all with the same exactitude ; so
much so, that a person accustomed to his way of
travelling, and arriving, unaware of his demise, would
not have seen anything that could have led him to
suspect that deplorable and mournful event, except,
perhaps, the absence of troops and the sirdars' and urn-
labs' tents, &c. ; and even these omissions to persons
who had travelled with him, would have created no
surprise, for how often have the tents (except the
Maharajah's which always followed him on an ele-
fphant,) not come up for several hours after halting;
and even then how few would hazard to pitch for the
day, knowing that no dependance could be placed on
the Maharajah's movements ; for his people often
watched until, the evening being so far advanced, there
could be no chance of moving till next morning, to go
nobody knew where, before they thought of making
themselves comfortable for the night.
The Sikh troops, accompanying the remains, are said 1
to be in a high state of discipline and order, and do great
credit to their different commanders, especially a squad-
ron of the Lancers under Captain De la Roche's com-
mand, who are a remarkably fine body of men, and well
equipped.
From other authentic sources we learn, to the aston-
ishment of every one, all has hitherto gone on in the most
tranquil manner possible, and that there is every prospect
of a continuance of this state of affairs.
Monsieur Court is expected there in three or four
days, having been, with his corps, recalled from Pesha-
wur. General Ventura has left the British camp with
the Sikh forces, and encamped seven miles from it.
Monsieur Anitabili is to remain with No Nehal Singb
in the government of Peshawar. The Rajah Dehan
Singh continues Premier, and all the other places are to
be kept by those who held them in the Maharajah's life
time ; the army, in fact everything, is to be kept on the
same footing as formerly. Kurruck Singh has made
over his private forces and the country he held to his
brother-in-law, Mungul Singh.
Shair Singh, who had not been near the Maharajah
since the departure of the Governor-General, and who
did not even attend the funeral ceremonies of his
father (the late Maharajah), is now said to be raising
troops, but this is not believed by our correspondent,
who says " he is too wise for that, and I should not be as-
tonished to see him at the coronation ; he has been
written to to come in,"
A few days before the poor Maharajah died, he
gave away to fuckeers gold and silver howdahs, ele-
phants, horses, saddles, and bridles of the most costly
articles covered with jewels and
ne,arly three crores of rupees, precious stones of all
kinds and descriptions, g,oldand silver plates, shawls, cows
death,
.ttil,a,rpunting,amiauhs,tpfehr ooapmvlee t shgaieyv
e,dntaoyaawocaf ryohriteso
buffaloes, hard cash, gold, silverprecio sstones &C '
,o
illness of
fuckeers,rupees.
t o thatb ra homf i hisns,
&c.,•
sent. to Gaya-Gaya and Juggurnaut.

Letters from Vienna mention, that M. Tatischef
bar. taken part in the conferences regarding the East. The
same letters say that the Russian fleet in the harbour of
Qebastopol is victualled and watered for four months.