The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-23 00:00:00

REMARKS BY THE WRITER OF THIS.

Ist. The value of the tithes (if collected) is sup-
posed. to be 3,500/. per annum, while the sum ac-
tually collected is 8001. per annum.
2dly. The head master's salary is 4.01. per annum !!
Second master's salary is 251. per-annum I !
Three priests hare 100/. per annum each !
3,11 y. The members of the corporation are at
present—Mr. Bankes and sons, and Rev. Sir James
Hanham's son, and eight other persons, more or less
dependent on Mr. Bankes ; and the Rev. Sir James
Hanham.

4tilly. The Rev. Sir James Ilanham and one of
his sous are two of the priests also.
sthly. The two great landholders, Mr. Bankes
and the Rev. Sir James Hatibam, by the great tithes
being collected infinitely below their real value, in-
demnify themselves by raising the rent of their lands,
as being nearly tithe-free.
The Bishop of Bristol is still the visitor, at gpio,
with absolute power.
Jar. IS, IS3O.

(Timcs )

The Duke of Wellington, in his answer to
the representation of the Sussex Magistrates, re-
lative to the distressed state of the county,
" both commercial and agricultural," after ac-
knowledging its receipt, says, he " will draw
the attention of the King's servants to it."
Were we inclined to quarrel with mere modes
of expression, we should say that the language
of his Grace's letter is not only cold and formal
in the extreme, but neither very statesmanlike
nor diplomatic in its terms. But what we regret
is, that his Grace should intimate that the atten-
tion of the King's servants remains to be drawn
to this awful subject. We rather wish that his
Grace had been able to tell his correspondents
that the subject was one to which the attention
of himself and his colleagues had been long and
anxiously directed. But then, to be sure, this
awkward dilemma would have arisen, " if such
be the case, why has not Parliament long since
been assembled to take the distressed state of the
country into its consideration ?" However, the
country may console itself with the assurance,
that now that it begins to speak out, the Go-
vernment is inclined to listen. We may also
add, without taking credit to ourselves for any
superior sagacity, that if the feelings of the
country were expressed in more determined lan-
guage, the Ministers would not only listen, but
act. We do not approve of violent and in-
temperate harangues—but if people meet to talk
over their sufferings and grievances, and are
afraid to speak their minds with firmness and
becoming force, they had better stay at home
and droop over their sorrows in secret. It was
not by tameness and indecision, any more than
by rashness, that our finefathers established that
free Constitution, which it is the duty, and ought
to be the pride, of their posterity to defend.
How can Ministers believe that distress exists
in the country to the extent it does, if the
people do not tell them so in the hold and Con-
stitutional language which English subjects ought
to use, and English Statesmen ought to hear?
When the Athenian suitor feebly detailed his
wrongs to Demosthenes, he would not believe
him ; but when he spoke with the indignant
energy which the repulse inspired, the orator
exclaimed, " Ah ! now, indeed, I give credit
to your story, for you speak like an injured
man."—Morning Herald.
However it may suit the politics of certain
prints to cast doubts on the existence of exten-
sive distress throughout the country, and treat
with ridicule those who, in perfect accordance
with one of the most valuable privileges of our
Constitution, assemble to consider its causes
and petition for their removal, the fact of the
distress, and the imperative necessity of apply-
ing a timely remedy, no longer'rest upon mere
newspaper authority. The " Men of Kent"
have met and vouched for it—the people of Nor-
folk, and Sussex, and Devonshire, have done
the same—numerous district meetings, of the
highest respectability, have also set their seal
to the same record ; and i : n another part of
our paper will be found an account of a meet-
ing of the freeholders of the county of
Cambridge, expressly convened for considering
a part of the same subject. That the repeal of
the Malt or the Beer Tax only would relieve
the country from its present difficulties, it does
not require much sagacity to perceive that it
would not, nor, we believe, has any one been
senseless enough to assert that it would; but
assuredly it is a more effective, as well as ob-
vious, remedy than the introduction of foreign
barley, which, at the present price of grain, and
'the generally low price of all kinds of agricul-
tural produce, could only tend to throw a consi-
derably greater portion of land out of cultiva-
tion than has hitherto been the case, and to
make bankrupts of those who are already impove-
rished. The existing distress must be dealt with in
quite a different fashion when any attempt is
made to remedy it. Its numerous and increas-
ing causes must be probed to the bottom, and
the most proper remedies applied, with a firm,
unflinching, and impartial hand. There must
be a return to the small note currency, and a re-
duction of taxes----a thorough removal of the nu-
merous shackles which prevent our manufactures
from finding their way to the foreign market, and
also of the obstructions thrown in the way of the

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trade of foreigners wan this C01111fty! for not
withstanding the outcry that has been raised
against the COnun'6reitil systaniiiitioduced by Mr;
a beliig a system of free trade, there
is no fact more certain, as may be gathered by an
inspection of the 'rates of duty levied on arti-
cles of foreign production, than that it is only
a modification of our old commercial code.—
The twaddle on
.this subject must be
throWn o';rerboard before any effectual good can
be accorriplished, and tha subject viewed, not As
it may affect this particular class, or that indi-
Vidual interest, but as it May injure or benefit
the community generally. "The landlords, if
they wish to preserve their property, must weigh
the matter well, and consider the signs of the
times, before they consent to support the pre •
sent extravagant rate of taxation and expendi-
turc, and the fundholdcrs, and etminierciai part
of the community, the inevitable ruin which
must result to them from a sacrifice of the in-
terests of their country to those of a more con,
tracted end individual character. The subject
presses daily more and more upon the attention
of every one who has property to lose—not to
say upon their humanity ; and if deferred or ne-
glected much longer, may press uponjit:iu a man-
lier which every friend to his country would
deplore.—Morning Advertiser.