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such a request will not be denied me by one of the
greatest travellers of the age, and one, who, having
been hitnself the victim of injustice, and the envy
of his conte►rporaries, must feel the more deeply
the pleasure of performing a►i act of justice towards
another.

This notice is accompanied by the first chapter of
my " Philological and Oriental Fragments," which
contains a new System of Chronology, and an ac-
count of the origin of writing*.
Mr. Salt, to whom I sent some detached portions
of my Travels in Ethiopia and Abyssinia, and of my
System of Hieroglyphics, promised to have them
published for me in London. It appears, however,
that he has forgotten me.
I am on the point of leaving Singapore for Ba-
tavia and Sumatra ; and should it meet with your
approbation, on my arrival at the latter place, I
shall feel honoured in transmitting to you my Work
on Hieroglyphics, which I have prepared for the
press, and which may possess some degree of inte-
rest at a moment like the present, when all Europe
appears to be ,-;ccupieJ with a subject which cannot
fail to throw great light on the History, Chronology,
and Literature of the Ancientst.
Mr. R. Humphrey; Director of the Anglo-Chi-
nese College at Malacca, being about to return to
London, has kindly charged himself with the deli-
very of this.—l have the honour to be,
With sentiments of the highest respect, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
L. D. DE RIENZI.

" This chapter will be given entire in the first number
of the Oriental Quarterly Review, which is shortly to
appear, as the successor of the work to which M. De Ri-
enzi refers.

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These will also find a place in the pages of the Ori-
ental Quarterly Beview.

REVENUES OF IHE CHURCH.

Last night, the Meeting in the Mechanics' Insti-
tute, Southampton-buildings, was to take into con-
sideration " the more equitable appropriation of the
Revenues of the Established Church." The ad-
mission was a radical 2d. each person. The Meet-
ing was very thinly attended. Mr. Hunt and Mr.
French were not present.
Mr. J. HIBBERT was called to the Chair. He said

the subject was most important; for the Church cos
this country 44,0001. more than was expended for
the support of all the other Christian Churches in
existence. He, however, had some hopes of our
Church—for a Rev. Gentleman, a Mr. Pratt, had
lately applied for, and succeded in getting a grave-
digger's place. The question, he begged to say,
was not a religious one ; it was to discuss whether
the Revenues of the Church were now properly
appropriated.
Mr. HETIIERINGTON rose to propose a series of
resolutions, and in so doing he stated that the
Clergy of the Church of England, Wales, and Ire-
land, which Church consisted of 6,400,000 people,
received 8,896,0001.; while the Clergy of all the
rest of the Christian world, including France, the
United States, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Italy,
Austria, Switzerland, Prussia, &c., making in all
198,728,000 people received only 8,852,0001.;
being 44,000/. more than was paid to all the other
Christian Churches. There was paid to the Dis-
sentin Clergy of all denominations in Great Bri-
tain andc Ireland 1,024,000/., their flocks amounting
to 14,600,000; thus though their flocks were nearly
three times as numerous, they had not above an
eighth of the pay of the Established Church.—
(Hear.)—He then spoke of the vigilant attention to
profit observed by the Established Church, as seen
in the christenings, marriages, &c.; but he had
hopes that we might have a really " working"
Clergy, since it was a remarkable fact that a
Clergyman had become a candidate for, and suc-
ceeded in, obtaining the office of sexton to the pa-
rish of St. Giles.—(Laughter.)—The newspapers
had truly noticed it as a remarkable event; it was
one of the curious signs of the times. The revenues
now enjoyed by the Church were not lequisite for
that Church, even if the country were not in diffi-
culties. It had been stated that .he income of one
Bishop in England was sufficient to pay 84 Bishops
of France, leaving a balance of 151. undisposed of.
Ha maintained that a very large part of the Church
property might be, and ought to be, appropriated to
the services of the State; indeed, he should like to
see the Church separated from the State, feeling
assured that the interests of the country, as well as
of religion, would be promoted by it. He might
quote the authority of George IV. against the pre.-
sent system of Church government ; at all events,
" The Treatise on Christian Doctrine," by John
Milton recently found in the State Paper Office,
and published under his Majesty's sanction :—that
work said, " The custom of holding assemblies is to
be maintained, not after the present mode, but ac-
cording to the apostolical institution, which did not
ordain that an individual, and he a stipendiary,
should have the sole right of speaking from
a higher place, but that each believer in turn
should be authorised to speak, or pro-
phecy, or teach, or exhort, according to his
gifts; insomuch that, even the weakest among the
brethren had the privilege of asking questions, and
consulting the elders and more experienced mem-
bers of the congregation."—(Hear.) There was
the doctrine of mutual instruction ; but he wished
not to press such point. He limited himself to the
property ; but he thought they ought, at all events,
to call on the tithes, &c., to be appropriated to their
original object To repair the church ; 2. To
support the poor; and 3. To maintain the incum-
bents.(Hear.) He spoke at great length, and
concluded with moving six resolutions, descriptive
of the distresses of the people, &c., and respect-
fully, but urgently, impressing upon his Majesty's
Government the propriety of placing the Clergy of
the Church of England upon the same footing as
the Dissenting Ministers—namely, upon the volun-
tary contributions of their respective congregations;
and declaring the conviction that the tithes should
be forthwith restored to their original and lawful
uses, namely, the support of the poor, the payment
of the Clergy, and the repair of the churches—a
proceeding which would be highly beneficial to the
members of the Established Church and the people
at large.
Mr. WARDEN seconded the resolutions, and Mr.
CLEAgg supported them.
Mr. CARI4LE
,then presented himself, and was
greeted with some applause and loud and earnest
hissing; and it was some time before the Chairman's
various efforts could procure a hearing from him.
He proposed amended resolutions—more calm ones,
as he termed them, than the original propositions;
but in the same spirit, and to the like effect. He
attacked the system and not the men, and declared
the English Clergy to be equal in merit to what any
men 4o.tojd be, circumstanced as they were.—(Much
laughter and hissing%)
The " Rev." Mr, TAYLOR, from amongst the
crowd, seconded the amendment. As soon as he
was l‘nown, he also was greeted with much hissing,
and the progress of his speech was much interrupted
by the contents and mal-contents. He deemed
there of a more pacific character, and as reform was
required, they ought not to excite angry feeling.
If they wished to remedy the evil, let all keep from
church.—(Loud laughter and hissing.)-,He de-
clared that he had the firmest conviction in the
wisdom of the Government.—(Laughter.)
After remarks from Mr. BEAUME, &c., the reso-
lutions, in “00 degree altered, we understood, were
adotped.
The original resolutions ,wgre carried by a large
majority; and a petition to the Legialature agreed
to, and sigaed by many persons.

Norwich has been in a feverish state during
the week. The weavers have been pilty of some out-
rages.

Earl DUDLEY .continued his pecuniary patron:-
sgs of the late Mr. Errzozn,stm, of " jtejected Addresses"
memory, 0 the last ; and even extended beyond the bounty
of his late father thP annuity originally given, Tv a thump-
ing check upon his banker, amounting to some thousand
pounds sterling.