The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-05 00:00:00

ST. MARY'S, ISLINGTON.

We see by an advertisement that a rate-collector, in con-
junction with another person, lately a clerk in the vestry
clerk's office, has defrauded the parish of St. Mary's, Isling-
ton, and both have run off. Our readers will remember that
this is the parish in which the vestry clerk lately made away with
himself, because he had got to the end of his tether in fraud,
when the parishioners testified their approbation of his conduct
by electing his son in his place, and huddling up his accounts.
We should be inclined to say that they had invited the col-
lector to imitate the late vestry clerk, were it not reported
that the fraud has been going on for six years. It has not,
therefore, taken place in consequence of the conduct of the pa-
rishioners three months ago, but when we hear of two such
eases following so closely on the heels of each other, and
learn, at the seine time, that they are not the only once,
the suspicion arises that the parishioners, or those they
have placed: its power, 'must invite fraud by systematic
neglect and aystematic encouragement. Whether they are
systematically negligent or vrere only grossly indulgent on the
late occasion, they seem almost to merit being victimised by
their servants. In fact, it is known that for years the Tory
and very religious party in the parish have been suffered by
the too humble parishioners to have everything its own way,
and the Tories and the Pharisees, as in all places, have
kept in the ways of corruption. To all attempts to rouse the
p wishioners from this state of degrading indifference or ser-
vility, the bulk of them have turned a deaf car ; they
have encouraged corruption and fraud, and as they
have sowed so they now reap. The defalcations of
this collector are variously stated, between 1,010/. and
3,0001. ; and according to report it would appear that a syste-
matic system of fraud has been carried on, owing to the sys •
ternatic negli;ence with which tho:e who should have con-
trolled vestry clerks, collectors, and all other• servants, have
looked after the affairs of the parish. Another event or two
of this kind will possibly arouse the parishioners. It is enough
to alarm them to see the names of R. and W. Oldershaw
appended to the advertisements, as Solicitors to the Trustees,
one of those gentlemen being both vestry clerk and clerk to
the trustees, thus ;suiting in his own hand three distinct offices.

LORD CLONCURRY TO THE EDI
TOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING POST.

" The fact is, that the generality of men, in the _first place, have
neither the will nor the power to receive truths which are greatly incon.
sistont with previous impressions, and the anger at dissent is only the
result of an irritation incidental to the situation in which their opposi.
tion has placed them."—Chambers.

DEAR SlR—About to leave my home, in the wish rather
than in the expectation to serve my country, I think it right to
state, to the rl'ar friends I leave behind, my views of our pre-
sent prospects.
Ore of the fist questions likely to be agitated in Perlis-
me.nt is the Corn-laws. These unwise and unjust laws do not
so muck or so injuriously affect Ireland as they do the Sister
Country, as our poor people, alas l are not consumers of
bread. I could contemplate with some complacency the in-
flow of money in favour of the landholders, but that shall net
fee-vent me from doing jestice to the people of England, hoping
that they will evince equal conscientiousness towards my
country.
17 the franchise be discussed this Session, I will certainly
vote for its extausion ; but I doubt if a certain moderate quali-
fication be not desirable—the Ballot should be a sine (pH
.non
with all Reformers. •n the subject of the frenchiee aid of
her representation in general, the greatest injustice hrs been
done to Ireland ; but we deserved it when we gave up our
forty- shilling freeholders.
One principal measure to be breught forward will be the
Corporation Bill. I think every town of a thousand inhabi-
tants and upwards, should have an elective body to manage
their affairs. One of the best ingredients in our Poor-law
Bill, is the creation of union corporations, and such are equally
necessary for the domestic regulatioa of towns. The only rea-
sons I can assign for the violent opposition to a full measure of
corporate institutions are a general dislike of improvement,
malignant antip ithy to the people of Ireland, and the fear that
new corporations may expose, even if they cannot recover, the
plunder of the public property by their loyal predecessors and
their p ttroni. The robbery by exclusion was very bad, but
the robbery of land and money is worse and more difficult of
remedy. If corperationa were originally instituted to protect
the people from the nobles, never were they more neecseary
than at present.
The Tithe Act of last session is very bad, tot in its machi-
nate, but in the application of a fund ultimately raised from
a Roman Catholic population ; it will widen the breach al-
ready so deplorable between landlord and tenant in Ireland, and
between the landlords and the clergy. The enormous landed
wealth of the Church, so shamefully wasted by the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners, would have made a more ample, and
f,r more preferable provision for the Protestant clergy. How-
ever, "vogue /a yrden" as to tithe, I am a parson; but I still
hole to see the tithe rent applied to national purposes, no
way offensive to the opinions or feelings of any man. This
brings me to the subject of education—the funds at the
disposal of the National Commissioners should be greatly
inci eased, and they should be required, religiously, to net
apart five days in the week for school work exclusively,
leaving two for religious instruction. I only doubt whether,
when the present excitement may subside, our spiritual
friends will profit of the privilege—unless the schools afford
instruction in manual labour and in agriculture they will be of
little comparative benefit to the great body of cur people.
Trinity College should be opened and reformed, and fifty
thousand pounds a year should be secured to Maynooth. It is
easy to revile the laborious and virtuous pastors of the people,
but it would be far wiser to afford them more ample means of
suitable education, the more especially as the foundations ex-
isting on the Continent before the revolutionary war, for Irish
ecclesiastical purposes, were confiscated by the French as
British property, and no kind of compensation repaired by our
negociators at the peace.
After a suitable education for the people and for their clergy,
comes useful employment—this will be considerably favoured
by the pressure of the Poor-law on proprietors, but I think
the Government should forward these great public works, the
advantages of which have been se clearly demonstrated.
First, then, as to railroads—one to the South Western part
of Ireland would amply repay the outlay—it would form the
Post-office and passenger communication between the Old
World and the New. I believe it is now generally conceded
that such roads should be a Queen's highway, not a monopoly.
If any doubt could exist of its paying, the deficient interest
might be guaranteed by the counties through which it would
pass. I should name Berehaven as one hundred tons of coal
to windward of any English harbour, and so exempt from
any kind of danger that insurance would be merely no-
minal. Railroads branching to the North and West might
be constructed at a comparatively small outlay—on the
banks of our great canals, the ample space, the levels and
the lines are all that could be wished for ; it would
not interfere with the navigation, and the proprietors
would surely give the necessary ground to the Government
for a very moderate compensation. I still, however, continue
of opinion, that the great ship canal from Dublin to Galway,
joining the two seas, and reclaiming our great central bog,
would be the most desirable work, connecting it by branches
with the great estuaries and lakes of the North and West.
Our economists will not shrink from the expense ; the ex-
pence would, doubtless, be considerable, but it would be
remunerative. Can the same be said of wars against the rights
of mankind, and against opinions which have thereby become
more riveted and more triumphant—then works of peace, jus-
tice, and utility, would be an impregnable breastwork against
agitation and repeal, because they would render both unne-
cessary. My dear Sir, your faithful servant,
CLONCURRY.

EFFECTS OF TIIE LATE STORM.—It has been
ascertained by authority that 3,283 firs, of large size, were
blown down by the late storm, on the Earl of Drby's domain
AO).

i• •
i tie state of tit.yottiig wheat, is el:cry direct:on
of this county of the must gratifying description, and the season
altogether has been highly propitious to the hopes of the agri-
culturist,—Somerset County Gazette.

SPORTIN (x INTELLIGENCE

TA TTERSALL' S-Y EJTEADA
THE DERRY.

Amongst the fluctuations in the odds on the Derby those which
affect the four principal favourites are the least important. Brother
to Bay :Middleton was backed at 9 to 1 several times, but just
before the close a point more was laid to 501. Erin-go-Bragh, at
one time, had a decided call of Flambeau ; at the finish, however,
there was scarcely any difference, the friends of each having ob-
tained 16 to 1, a point more than had been previously taken about
the north country nag. The old price was taken freely about the
Dey of Algiers in two or three quarters. Next to these come
Zimmerman, Westonian, and the Lord Mayor, each having several
backers. The first two advanced palpably, but the third, after a
temporary rise, dropped to the figure quoted last week. Tros was
backed in one part of the room at 24 and 25 to 1, at the same time
that 28 to 1 was betted in another ; the last odds laid were 30 to 1.
There were no other movements worth notice.
3 to 1 agst John Scott's lot—take 7 to 2
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot—taken
10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh—taken
16 to 1 asst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken
18 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dev of Algiers—taken
20 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Zimmerman
20 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot
23 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Westonian—taken
28 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord 'Mayor—taken
28 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Bulwark
30 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Gulnare colt—taken
31 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator—taken
35 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus
40 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti
40 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's /Ether
50 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Meunier—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Worrall's Peon
3000 to 40 agst Lord Jersey's Cain colt—taken
1000 to 12 agst Mr. Mostyn's Hugh Lupus—taken
300 even between Ferryman (Sontag colt) and A:flier—taken
500 even between Erin-go-Bragh and Flambeau—taken
500 to 25 agst Tros and Camelino—taken
1000 to 40 each agst Westonian and Bulwark in one bet—taken
30 to 1 apt Meunier and Delos—taken
2000 even Hugh Lupus agst Peon—taken
1000 even Hugh Lupus aget Cain colt—taken
1250 to 50 agst Ilderim and Cain colt—taken