The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-29 00:00:00

W. MOULS,
No. 8, HIGH-STREET, NEWINGTON-BUTTS

While Miss Tree was playin 'Juliet in Philadel-
phia; Mr. Hamilton, as Romeo, was suddenly taken ill just as
the balcony scene was about to commence: When she said .to
Mr. Lindsey, who had relieved Mr. Hamilton, " Romeo,
Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo ?" one of the pit said loud
enough to be heard by the whole house—" Kase trot her man's
sick."

A penny showman, who has for some years exhibi-
ted on a diminutive scale, in Ogle-street, Marylebone, the atro-
cities which have occurred in domestic life, has, with the avidity
usual with his craft and calling got up a " Representation of
the atrocious and horrible murder of Hannah Brown by James
Grecnacre, with the manner in which he divided the body of
the unfortunate woman truly depictured." Such disgusting
exhibitions are little calculated to improve the taste or morals of
the rising generation, and they must certainly excite the disgust
of all well-disposed persons.
CHURCII-RATES.—We cannot too often, or too ur-
gently, repeat that when Church-rates were first established
there was but one only form of worship and religious persua-
sion throughout the entire community. What therefore was
just then is now manifestly most unjust and nefarious. It has
been urged by the anti-abolitionists, that Dissenters having
bought land at a reduced price, owing to the Church-rate
charge, cannot reasonably complain that they are subject to
that charge, and that they are compelled to pay the rate.
Now, in order to see the sophistry hero employed, it is neces-
sary only to turn our eyes to the fact that there was a general
fund appropriated by the nation for the maintenance of reli-
gion, and that of this fund the Dissenters had not, neither have
hey now, any the smallest share whatever. On this point,
however, we cannot do better than quote the forcible language
of the Hon. Member for Hull :—" The term national esta
blishment" (he justly remarks) "applied to the establishment
of a single sect, is on the face of it a fraud and a falsehood ;
the establishment is not national, but the establishment of a
particular sect at the expense of the other sects. If the Dis-
smter chooses to waive his claim to his share of the proceeds,
this is anything but a reason why he should be oppressed by a
payment instead. As it is, Church-rates are taken from the
holders of all property subject to them, by the depreciation of
all such property ; for it is presumable the supporters of
Church-rates do not mean to say that Church-rates are paid
by nobody, because all property subject to them is bought at a
diminished rate. The Dissenters have property as well as
other people; the Dissenters therefore pay the Church-rates
like other people, through the depreciation of their property.
If then a Dissenter, after buying property at the universally
depreciated price in which the property of Dissenters has
shared, has the boldness or the good luck to be able to refuse
Church-rates, what he does is simply to recover, as far as the
case reaches, a portion of what ought from the beginning to
have been left in his hands as his share of the national contri-
bution for the maintenance of religion, and the amount of which
he is actually at this moment disbursing for the support of his
own ministers,"