The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

CHURCH RATES.

carriage, when in the act of crossing the boulevards, be-
tween the rue Louis-le-Grand and the rue de la Chaussee-
d'Antin. Her life is not in any danger, and the contusion
will only require a few days' attention. The driver of the
vehicle, whose negligence was very great, added to. his fault
by grossly insulting Madame Rossini. No doubt he will
be severely punished.—Paris Paper.
The Marchioness of Clanricarde has left Howick
Hall, where her Ladyship has been on a visit to the Earl
and Countess Grey, for Welbeck Abbey.
General Sablokoff left town yesterday to view the
Royal Palace at Windsor, the Lord Chamberlain having
forwarded an order to the Russian Embassy for the gallant
officer to be conducted over the Castle.

The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans leave Strat-
ton-street, on Saturday next, for Brighton, where the
Countess of Guilford, Sir Francis and Lady Burdett, and
other members of her Grace's family have already assem-
bled for the winter. _ _

The Earl of Minto has accepted the Presidentship
of the Medical Supplemental Society, and the Hon. Capt.
Elliott, C. 8., Lord of the Admiralty, Vice-President of
the same institution.

The Earl of Lichfield, who is a martyr to the gout,
is again suffering from that complaint. His Lordship came
to town from Shugborough to attend his official duties,
and is sojourning at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland will hold a Levee
at Dublin Castle on the 15th instant, preparatory to the
Irish Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons
leaving the Irish Metropolis, to attend their duty in
Parliament.

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A fashionable club at the West end of the town is
to be dissolved on the 6th of next month, for the purpose
of being remodelled, which will take place immediately
after it;dissolution.

The new Reform Club, though not in existence more
than a year, consists already of upwards of 1,000 Members.
The Carlton Club-house in Pall-mall, having un-
dergone several alterations and additions, will be ready for'
the reception of the Members against the Ist of January.
It is stated that the late Miss Vaughan has be-
queathed the immense sum of 150,0001. to public charities,
besides several large legacies. The paragraph was erro-
neous which stated that her landed property devolved on
the children of Mr. Norton ; Mr. Vaughan, her brother,
being still alive, is the deceased lady's heir ; and on his de-
mise, the heir-at-law is the ' present Lord Grantley. Mr.
Vaughan has been confined to his bed for some months, but
is now recovering from his severe illness.
By the demise of Lady Sydney, relict of Lord Syd-
ney, who survived her husband the extraordinary period of
62 years, Thomas Phillips Cosby, Esq., gains a large ac-
cession of property.
Prince Christian (Heir Presumptive to the Crown
of Denmark) is expected at Paris in the course of January,
and intends to remain there during the rest of the winter,
after which he will go to England. This Prince, who is
known for his taste in the arts and sciences, has undertaken
the journey in order to examine the new monuments with
which Paris has been enriched, and to observe in person the
great commercial undertakings recently entered into by this
country.
General Sablokoff and suite arrived at the Sablo-
niere Hotel on Monday from Paris. It was the General,
who is a Russian officer, that narrowly escaped drowning
by attempting to cross from Boulogne to Dover in an open
boat during the late gale. The General wore his undress
uniform, by which he was mistaken for a courier.
Lord Ward is forming an extensive domestic esta-
blishment, and is expected to leave town in a few days for
Himley Hall, near Dudley, Warwickshire, where a nume-
rous party are invited to pass the Christmas holidays.
Since the demise of the late Countess Howe the
Noble Earl has lived in strict retirement ; but extensive
orders have been given for alterations and improvements at
the family estate at Gopsall.
The Earl of Cadogan arrived on Tuesday at Queens-
bury House, Piccadilly.
Holdernesse House, in Park-lane, is being put into
a state of preparation for the arrival of the Marquis and
Marchioness of Londonderry.
The following notice has just been issued from the
Custom House :—" Tea.—By Treasury letter, dated the
26th of November, and Customs' order, dated the Ist of
December, 1836, Bohea tea, upon which the duty of Is.
6d. per lb. was paid on or before the Ist of July last, or
which was delivered for payment under the Treasury minute
of the 21st of June, and which still remains in the bonded
warehouses, is allowed to be exported, and the duty to be,
returned upon the actual exportation thereof."
The following is the exportation of gold and silver
coin and bullion for the past week, as made up from the
Customs' returns :—Gold bars to Hamburg, 150 oz. ; gold
coin to Rio Janeiro, 4440 z.; gold coin to the British West
Indies, 3750 z. ; silver coin to Lisbon, 42,0000 z.
The Englishman, Hawkins, who was arrested some
time back as he was proceeding to London with the docu-
ments of the Ouvrard Loan for Don Carlos, and has
been stopped again on his return from London, to the
frontier, has just been shut up in the gendarmerie bar-
racks. He had first been sent to Bourdeaux.
The winter fashionable season will commence the
ensuinc, winter earlier than usual in the metropolis ; a great
influx of company being expected next month, inconsequence
of Parliament meeting in January.
Friday night about twelve o'clock, as Mr. Byes, a
surgeon, of Rayleigh, Essex, was returning home from
South Bemfleet, with a pony and gig, on arriving at the
entrance to Wheatley's-lane, on the borders of the town, he
was stopped by three men, one of whom seized the reins,
another stood at the pony's head, while a third ransacked
his pockets, and robbed him of two 101. notes, and ten so-
vereigns. They instantly made off with their booty, and
have not yet been heard of.
During the raging of the late hurricane at Winches-
ter, part of a stack of chimneys fell on the Red Rover
coach while changing horses. The horses becoming
alarmed, started off, but were fortunately pulled tip by an
outside passenger who held the reins, or the consequences
might have proved very serious.
Among the patents lately expired, there is one by
a peruke maker, which is thus described in the specifica-
tion For a Forensic Wig, the curls whereof are con-
structed on a principle to supersede the necessity of friz-
zing, curling, or using hard pomatum, and for forming
curls in a way not to be uncurled ; and also for the tails'
of the wigs, not to require tying in dressing ; and further,
the impossibility any person untying them.—The Penny
Mechanic. ,
On Tuesday morning, about half-past 9 o'clock, the
wife of a respectable tradesman named Hamilton, residing
in High-street, Borough, put a period to her existence by
nearly severing her head from her body with a razor. The
poor woman had been in a state of insanity for some con-
siderable period.
The two members for Glasgow, Lord William Ben-
tinck and Mr. Oswald, have been invited to a public din-
ner by their constituents.
Great damage has been done in the eastern parts of
Norfolk by the hurricane of last week. It extended from
the eastern coast across to Thetford, Downham, &c. Near
the former place, at Riddlesworth, the property of T. Thorn-
hill, Esq., suffered very materially, and on the lands nearly
adjoining, and which belong to Sir W. Abdy, Bart., a barn
of the largest size, and filled with barley, unthreshed, was
completely laid prostrate, as well as a stable and cow-house,
and at one time it was feared that even the dwelling-house
and every other building would have been involved in the
general ruin. Much devastation also took place in the
vicinity of Norwich.
The Pavillon Marsan and the Pavillon do Fiore, at
the Tuileries, have been partly stripped
,of their slates by
the late high winds.
The Rouen Journal states that all the plains in that
country which border the river arc covered with water to
the depth of three feet, and present the aspect of vast lakes.
During the late hurricane the roof of the theatre at
Dunkirk was so much damaged that it has been necessary
to suspend the performances.
The Calais and Ostend Journals state that the late
hurricane has had no parallel within the last 30 years.
According to a list published by the National, the
subscription for the monument to be erected to the memory
of M. Armand Carrel amounts at present to 14,109 f.
Paulina has been added to the attractions of Jim
Crow at the Adelphi, and the private boxes are nightly
filled with fashionables. On Monday night the Duke of
Devonshire, Prince Esterhazy, the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans, Lord Lansdowne, with large parties were pre-
sent. Sir Edward and Lady Cast, and Lord Burghersh,
occupied private boxes last evening.
Mr. Jeffries, the actor, whose attempt at self-de-
struction has been noticed in the papers, expired yesterday
morning, at four o'clock, at his lodgings in Vinegar-yard,
Brydges-street, Covent-garden. During the last two days
he lost the use of his sight.
Between three and four o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
during the absence of Mr. Andrews, of the Duke of York
public-house, in the Hampstead-road, some thieves entered
the house, and called for some gin and water. The bar
maid being requested to get some water from the tap-room,
went there, where she was detained by ono of the gang,
whilst the rest wrenched open the desk, which is placed at
the side of the bar, and took therefrom a small red decan-
ter-stand, containing ten sovereigns, and about a pound's
worth of silver, with which they got clear off ; luckily, in
their haste, overlooking a
pocket-book, containing bank
notes and bills of exchange to the amoont of between 3001.
and 4001. A bag containing plate also escaped them. They
had been seen lurking about the neighbourhood for some
, days past, and had the appearance of respectable mechanics.

Mr. Spall, the Church-rate Collector of this parish, al-
leges that he received a parcel on Thursday last, containing
15s. 6d. and a note, stating it to be sent for payment of
our Church-rate.
As a point of form, we declare that the payment has not
been made, directly or indirectly, with our knowledge, pri-
vity, or consent. A fraud has been committed, and the
question is—by whom ?In order to trace this out, we
have requested of the collector permission to inspect the
note and cover, and information of the messenger by whom
it was conveyed. He declines to show us the note, except
at a vestry meeting, and profeises not to know how it was
brought. The author of the fraudulent transaction is al-
most evidently some person having access to the rate-books,
as the sum alleged to have been sent,,is exactly the amount
due on our four several assessments, two of which have re-
cently been altered.
We hesitate not to declare, with the strongest ex-
pressions of our conviction, that the Churchwardens, or
their well-known Church-rate abettors, have paid this rate
or caused it to be paid. The Churchwardens dared not
take proceedings against us—(one of them knows they dared
not)—and they or their friends have adopted this mode of
extricating them from their dilemma. Besides, a falsehood
would cost nothing, and it might help in collecting the
remainder. Accordingly we find, that-although Mr. Spall
had never asked us for the rate, and the mode in which he
received it would on that account alone be a subject to
remark upon, he instantly applied to some of the pa-
rishioners who were known, like ourselves, to have declared
they never would voluntarily pay another Church-rate, and
told them, without an observation of any kind, that ours
was paid.
To the abolition of an impost so odious and so oppres-
sive as the Church-rate, our best exertions will never be
wanting. The supporters of the injustice have forbidden
that we shall have an opportunity of employing them for
ourselves ; but they and the parishioners may be assured,
that whatever aid we can tender to the good cause will be
as freely and as heartily offered in the case of any other in-
dividual as in our own.

J. R. & C. CHILDS.

Bungay St. Mary, Dec. 5, 1836.
We hereby offer a reward of Five Pounds for the dis-
covery of the Messenger who carried the parcel to Mr.
Spall, and of the person who employed him.