The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-02 00:00:00

INVIMBLE INFLUENCE.

Pelham, the late Bishop of Lincoln, was for
many years the chosen friend of the late King,
George the Fourth. It was an observation the
Bishop was fond of making, " that his majority
found him in possession of a commission in the
Guards and one thousand guineas 1 this was his
whole and sole patrimony as an Earl's younger
son." Accident introduced him to the late King,
when Prince of Wales, whom his address relieved
from a situation of some embarrassment, and upon
whom his ready wit and refined manners made a
deep and permanent impression. " I cannot," said
the Prince to him one day, when his conversation
bad been peculiarly happy and more than usually
gratifying to the Royal ear—" I cannot, Pelham,
serve you in the Guards, bat if you wilt enter the
Church, I will make you my father confessor, and
referrer, in order that t may live to have the plea-
sure *f making you a Bishop." This conversation
was acted on. Mr. Pelham took orders, and be-
came successively Bishop of Bristol, of Exeter, and
Clerk of the Closet to the King, It was while
holding this latter See that his influence had
reached its meridian. The palace at Exeter
Was most meagrely and miserably fitted up.
The drawing-room had no furniture in it at all,
And the reason assigned by the Bishop's friends,
was the Royal pledge, again and again repeated, of
a speedy translation to a more important see; Dur-
Immo Winchester, London—each and all were
pointed at as the Bishop's future and abiding rest-
mg-place. It was at this juncture that the Bishop
entertained a select body of his Clergy t and after
dinner made a jocular remark on the "new and rising
influence at Court," and his Majesty's liberality to
all the members of the favourite's family. The wit-
ticism was loudly applauded. What witticism is
not front the tips of a Bishop entertaining to his
Clergy ? Nothing more was thought of it. But
the Prelate, on his next visit at Court, was
astounded y being told of the conversation that
bad passed at his table, and of the very words he
had uttered. " Within eight-and-forty hours of
your rising from table, the party must aggrieved
was in possession of the entire conversation. A
further translation has been promised you, and the
promise will be kept; but your influence at the
Pavilion has ceased, and your presence there is no
longer acceptable." The Bishop some time after
Was removed to Lincoln, a " large, laborious, and
difficult diocese," where he daily ruminated on the
fact, to use his own expression, that " honour sur-
Alves nowhere; treachery exists everywhere."—Court
Journal.

JUITICIC O TILE ROMAN AGRARIAN
Laws..--The Remelt Agrarian law. have frequently been
ropreaeated as unjust and iniquitous. A moment's consi-
deration of their nature will prove such a supposition to
be groundless. it was the practice of Rome, and the 'ta-
bu' States in general, en making a conquest, to take a
portion, generally a third, of the enemy's land. This
then became public land, and wee occupied for tillage or
grazing, by the citixens of the state which had acqnired it ;
they paid a tenth of the produce by way of rent, and the
had was subject to resumption by the state. While the
Roman citizens consisted of the three patrician tribes alone,
there was no cause far murmur ; but when the plebs gra-
dually grew up, and as the infantry of the army was the
chief instrument in the sequiaition of public land, they
naturally claimed to have a share in what was gained.
Ithe Kings, therefore, were in the habit of assigning email
portions of the public land as property lto the deheiens
and thus the latter grew, by egrec lto be the mil;
or principal 14„4.,
waters in the *tote. After the expitl-
swtioilflutteZ4o:444l!ps!'wne.dnit.ibution of the crown-lands
beyond du, fiber, plebeians but the hiss of
taaati the lands
which
fell almost entirely on their►weight
eigltaotf_
Raving gotten the goeernmenthi-al
Lager paid the tenths off the plibuttit,4",rs 11411,4) no
Wane snore clearly discern 1,4
were treated, and be cleft:stew' tor an Agel,„l,"l""wch :h7
a law which was not, as has been erro7reo% ;toe—
to take their property front the rich and givY'ert -towed.
l
poor, but which would make the patrician* give up te !1,7
OM of the public land which they occupied witholit paying
goy rent or fazes, to he divided in email lots anteing those
whose blood had purchased it.—Dr. Lardtter's Cabinet
i!yttfoilial Vol IX.; Wog Outliner of Llitforv.

MICR* OP HUM STOCKS, MALIN, JULY 30.
Rank Stock —St. Patrick Incur. (per sh.)
Consola, 3me cent.
(Gov. Stock, 33 per cent. 99% National Ditto —
Ititto, New --;Patriotic Ditto —
4 per Cent IOO !Hibernian Bank
lov. Deb, 3!.,', percent,... l/..4ii !Provincial Ditto —
Royal (anal Stock ----itoyal Irish Mine —
Ciranit Canal Stock ...... ~. 2fl!i 'iltiPerial Mint
City Deb. 4 per cent ... --: Mining Co, of Ireland
Ballast Office Deb. 4p.%. .--.:Commercial Buildings —
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roma)" NXCICANOIS ON LONDON..
HAMIIIIRG, JULY 27.—M. IN.—Two months, 13. 9,
&woman, JULY tto.—S‹!venty.five days, 19 4.
111tEmEN, Juts Zl—Two months,
BERLIN. JULY '24.—Three months, ti. '25.
ST, PlSTRlttilitleGil, JUIN la—Three months, 10%.
A anankDASl, JULY 30.-12.
Two months—ht. 17 5.10.

MAlts.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due,
0 America 0 1 Ilamburg 0
0 Brazil
0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0
0 Cartliagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0
Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 1
1 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0
1 France 0 0 Sweden
0 Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford
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man WATILR AT LONDON RaIDOR TO-MORROW.
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE ELECTION.

wHE 'FREEHOLDERS of the County of
1 CAMBRIDGE, resident in and near London, who
are in the interest of Lord CHARLES MANNERS, are
particularly requested to meet at the ROBIN HOOD TA.
VERN, HOLBORN, or at the VINE INN, BISHOPS-
GA TE. STRE'ET, whichever may be most convenient to
them, where communications will be thankfully received
by his Lordship's Committees; and these gentlemen to
whom personal attendance may he inconvenient, will have
the goodness to send their address.

SURREY ELECTION.
IT is NOT a Fact, as has been industriously
circulated that Colonel JOILIFFE has resigned.--.
NE WILL GO TO TUE PULL CONFIDENT OF
SUCCESS, and there remain until the Election Closes.
Carriages will he provided for the Conveyance of Free-
holders to the Pull at Gui Mind on Thursday nest, the
15th instant, and every day during, the Election.
Applications are requested to be made and information
given to Colonel Jonitre's Committee, at the Three Tuns
Tavern, St. Margaret's-hill, Southwark, or to any of
Colonel Jolliife's Committees in the Country previous to
Thursday.
Committee Room, Three Tuns,
St. Margaret's-bill, August 2, 1880.

TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENIU FREE
BURGESSES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,
RESIDENT IN LONDON.
ZNTI,XMEN,
THE unanimous voice of the Free Bur-
gesses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne has raised me to the
proud situation of their REPRESENTATIVE in PAR-
LIAMENT. For this honour I feel most grateful, and
I never will forget how prompt and assiduous were the (ra-
tions of my friends in London to promote the object of
my ambition. The (lay of Election occurred at so early
a period after the time when I could with propriety solicit
in person your suffrages, that it was impossible for me to
wait on the Free Burgesses resident in London ; but I will
take the earliest opportunity of paying my respects to you,
and of thanking you for your staunch and undeviating
support. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and much obliged Servant,
Elswick, July 30, 1830. JOHN HODGSON.