The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-21 00:00:00

Nortitutolollowl Hornlietp Of O ROYS., h. ft,, with 100

. .
added. Northumberland mile. "
Mr. Votbeeii'Piutiver
lArd Sligo's Vat
Lord IVliltoult's Codr;ngtou
Lord Clanmorriala Gentili

Citiotoo SiskOu of JO sov*. fYI ft. for T.Y.C.
Mr. J. Kelly'a Philip the Frit wulkoi.oveti.

CtAiatlurn ittakcs of 19 Novo. each, with O tohiell. Peel

Counat

_ _ •
IlutitrA Cup Ilon
I Howt It's Quitonsbei ry ...... 0 g
Mr. For Lottery . .... .... 0 I 3
Ahtell for h 0 /01., totit.....Colonel An..
hr. It. by sir Roger," beet Lord PortarlitigtoWn

THE ARMY.-LONG SERVICE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

your Paper of yesterday I oleatrver a paragraph
mentioning that the eldest Lirtoetitut in the Army ii now
doing duty with his regiment in Ireland, • after having
served seventeen years in India. I merely big to sta'
Rive is now Lieutenant Rennie, of, the loth Foot, whose.
Lieutenancy is of older date than the gentleman to,
Ind is, I have no doubt, equally deserving of promotion, he
having served abroad nearly the whole of that pel:oth,
twenty-three years, 28th January, 1831. .
AN OLD OFFICER,
Ltte of the 10th Ilegt. Foot.
Edinburgh Castle, Strand, Oct. 20, 11130,

CITY DINNER TO THEIR MAJESTIES.

It is not yet ascertained to whom tickets of aagnisson to
behold the grind city dinner to their Majtstieg are to be
issued. We may then as well mention that which was
acted on Lord Mayor's day, 1761, being the ceremonial of
theentertainment to his Majesty George 111. Qa that ocra.
%ion the issue of the tickets of admission was as follows

To the ladies of the .Metnbers of the Common-Council,
one each, in red letter; the whole 284.
To the Lord 'Mayor Elect, 12, black.
To the two Sheriffs, each eight, black.
To the Aldermen, not of the committee of management,
six black each.

To the Aldermen of the committee, eight Mack each.
To the Recorder, six black.
To the Common-Councilmen of the Committee, three
black and one led.

To the Representatives of the City in Pa! Lafleur, two
black each.

To the King's cooks, who are aheays engaged on those
occasions, two black ; to the Town Clerk, two Mark ; to
the Common-Serjeant, two black; to•ths lien' Esquires of
the Lord Mayor's Household, one eueb black.; to the senior
Attorney in the Lord Mayor's Court, ons li!stok;- to the
Comptroller of the Chamber, one black ; to the (ity Re-
membrancer, one black ; to the Clerk of the Conimittee,
ono black ; to the Clerks in the Town Clvtl.:4l (Mire, two
black ; to the Comptroller of the Bridge, Mle ; and
to the Secretary of the Irish Society, one Meek.

att.T. or FARE ♦S SteRYSI) UN AT THE stovAr. Tana IN
CIOILDNALL ON LORD MAYOIt.4 DAY, 1701.
King and Queen—Each four services and reablives.
First Service—Cousisting of tureens, fish, venison, &c.
—nine (liars.
Second Service—A fine roast ; ortolans, quails, knotty,
Tullio, pea chicks, &c.—nine dishes.
Third Service—Consisting of vegetable and made dishes,
green peas, green morrelle, green truffles, caroloons, &c..
nine diatom.
Fourth Service—Curious ornament* in pastry, jellies,
blancmanges, cakes, Le.—nine distort,.
• Eight of the Royal Family--Four on the right of the
King, and fpur on the left; each four services before them,
as follows to.—
First jservice—Consisting of venison, turtle, soups, fish
of every sort,—via. olorys, mullets, turbots, bets, tench,
soles, &c.—seven dishes.
Second 'Serviee.:—Ortolans, teals, quails, ruffs, snipes,
partridges, pheasants, Rue.—.even dishes.
Thin! Service-.. Vegetables and made didn't —green
pen!, artichokes, ducks' tunguos, fat live' a, ike. II mu,.
Fourth Service—Curious ornaments, in c.okes (both sa-
voury and sweet), jellies and blancmanges, in variety of
shapes, figures, anti colours,—nine dishes.
On the table where the Royal party sate, Letwren each
of the services, were placed nor 100 cold ornamentals,
and a grand silver epergne., filled with various Limb, of
ihell-fish, of various colours.
Ilot and cold dishes 414, the'desert not included.

WEALTH OF THE SPANISH cI.ERGY.

(Iron the Athenattno.)

The annual income of the Spanish clergy
as been generally valued at 19,000,0001„
al-
hough the clergy themselves have always denied
hat it was more than 12 or 13,000,000/.
Up to 1799, all the taxes and °wham-
ions paid to the Government did riot exceed
5,500,000/. yearly, so that the Spanish people
paid nearly three times as much for their ten.
gigue as for their civil Government.
From the beginning of the 18th century to
1792, we do not tied that the clergy ever coo-
tribute(' to the charges of the Static, more than
180,000/. lent to the Government in i 780„ and
a donation of 400,000/. in 1792,
From 1792 to 1808, the clergy advanced to
Government either by loan or donation 1,890,000/.
and received from the people within the same
period, at least 195,000,0001., so that they con-
tributed much less than one per cent. or their
income ; while the people, in addition to the
payment of 7,500,000/. annually, as ordinary
contribution to the Government, were obliged to
pay within that same period 56,000,000 k, as
extraordinary contributions.
Up to the year 180, the clergy enjoyed
great privileges ; they and their property were
exempt from all contribution and tases,',and they
pushed this rrivilege to eo monstrous an extent,
that every clergyman received yearly from she
Royal Treasury, a sum of money in repayment
of such tax us it was prevumed he might have
paid in the purchase of provisions bought iu the
open markets; such provisions being vubjeoted
to a municipal tax at the gates of the city.*
From 1808 to 1814, they were obliged to
disgorge some of their enormous wealth, for
neither .French nor Spaniards spared them.—
The Cortes were of opinion that they ought, not
to be exempt from contributing to the charges
of the State ; that, having possessed themselves
of their enormous wealth by illegal and foul
means, it was high time to deprive them of it ;
that the important interests of religion required
a more just and impartial distribution, and not
to allow a great majority of the, rectors of pas
liaises to starve on 80 or 40
.pounds it year,
while the prelates, the canons, in a word, the
whole of the high clergy, enjoyed immense le-
venues. In consequence, of this determination,
the bishops, canons, and pluralists conspired
against the Cortes; and, in 1814, eventually
triumphed ...but their triumph was of slim t aura-
tion. In 1817, the King deprived them of
their privilege of exemption, and, having imposed
a property tax, the Spauish people everywhere
contrived to make the ehurchlauded property pay,
perhaps, twice as much us in justice it ought.—
the clergy, growing weary of these burdens,
beheld with indifference the revolution of 1820,
concluding that their condition could not he
worse under the dominion of the Cortes, than it

I:v lhe ertheueliitsrtt:ti nett:
I::rpotif)loteerr :si
tyl:es:olu.,,Ting,
national debt, which MINN] the dissensions be-
tween the clergy and tires Cortes to break out
afresh. There cannot be the least doubt that
the contest would have terminated in favour of
the Cortes, had not the Duke tr.lngottletne in-
%ldea Spahr, with his 100,000 French troops,
for the avowed purpose of compelling the
Spaniards to pay more for their religion than
they wore disposed to do, Front that period
the cletgy. have enjoyed their former privileges
m u,
but the A great billing off in their revenues,
owing to the little value of every description of
agricultural produce, and to its having tecome
a common practice among the Spaniards to u:.e
every endeavour to cheat them of their tithes.
Tike clergy, on the other baud, have resottcd to
the most violent measures to compel their flocks
to pay the full amount; they have,generally been
unsuccessful, anti have rendered flienvolvas t.tb
jects of detestation, without finding a remedy for

lecYS Pl4i4v it4S.