The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-02 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Evening Post.)
An order has been issued that all pensioners having is.
a day shall be inspected, in order to ascertain the number
fit for service.
The depot of the 65th Regiment marched into Cork
on Wednesday from Fermoy, and yesterday morning for
Kinsale.

A troop of the Ist Dragoon Guards, now at Clonmel, is
under the command of Captain Morris, in room of the,
much-esteemed Captain Skinner.
Five corps of yeomanry were on Saturday inspected by
the lion. Colonel Molvneaux at Lisburn.
At Carlow a recruiting party from the 86th is at present
picking up several recruits.
Tuesday a company of the .59th Regiment, under the
command of Captain Floyer, left Nenagh for Birr. It was
replaced by another company of the same corps.
A detachment of Scotch recruits joined the 74th in
Limerick this week.

Thursday Major-General Macdonnell inspected at Ennis-
killen the Fermanagh Infantry and Enniskilleners.
The depots of the 85th and 73d are now at Plymouth.
His Majesty's ship Kent is under orders to convey the
S7th to the Mauritius : she will sail immediately.
There are sixteen Regiments of Militia ordered out in
England.
The inspection of the Carlow, Kildare, and Wicklow
Yeomanry has been just concluded by Colonel Evans, of
the 7gth Regiment.
The 9th Regiment replaced the 76th at George's-street
and the Beggar's-Bush Barracks in Dublin, on Monday.
The remains of the lamented Lieutenant B. Wharton,
of the 99th Regiment, were interred with military honours
on Monday, at Clare Abbey Church-yard, county Clare.
Already are the Militia on duty in Ireland. The Leitrim
Militia are at present mounting guard at Carrick-on-
Shannon.
Two reserve companies of the 77th Regiment, under
the command of Captain Paschal, joined head-quarters
this week at Youghal, from Kinsale, where they had been
stationed some time backs

The President thought it advisable that members of
different opinions should be selected, on which M. Van
Syt zatua declared himself satisfied.
JAN. 26.—The Chamber appointed the sections for the
month of January in the usual form.
THE HAGUE, JAN. 23.—0 n the 12th instant a rein-
forcement of 1000 men arrived at Luxembourg, who are
quartered on the citizens till th• Athenaeum can be prepared
for their reception. Hanoverian troops are also expected
to reinforce the garrison.
JAN. 25.—Baron Durand de M. Mareuil, Ambassador
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King
of the French, arrived here yesterday.
JAN. 27.—The King's answer to the protocol of the
9 h of January was communicated the day before yester-
day to the first Chamber : also by the Minister for Foreign
Affairs.

UTRECHT, JAN. 27.—The continued sending of troops
AD the army is a manifest proof that the King is resolved
:o assume an imposing attitude against our enemies.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

111ANSIO4V-110

For some time past the partners in one of the first
banking-houses in the City have been beset by a person
who formerly was in the East India Company's service.
The individual alluded to was in the habit of going into
the banking-house and demanding loudly recompense for
losses which he said he had sustained at the hands of a
great capitalist, who was well known to the gentlemen of
the firm, whom be considered, in consequence of the con-
nexion, morally, if not legally, responsible ter him fur the
amount of the injury inflicted. No notice was at first
taken of the application of this extraordinary claimant ;
but his violence had lately increased.
He had made an appeal to the Lord Mayor, in doing
which he gave a history of some very great kindnesses af-
forded to him by the firm. The Lord Mayor conceiving
that the unfortunate man was labouring under a delusion,
gave directions to Mr. Cope, the Marshal, to maks, some
inquiries on the subject. The Marshal ascertained that
the applicant had, some years ago, fallen into the hands of
some Jews, who were not, what they call a xiongst the
shopkeepers, " particular to a shade," and been stripped by
them of considerable property; that the bankers had, from
compassionate motives, rendered him pecuniary assistance;
but that he presumed upon their humanity, and, with cha-
racteristic moderation, limited his further request for as-
sistance to something under 10,000/., and declared that
they were his debtors to that amount.
It was thought necessary to station an officer near the
entrance to the banking-house liable to such disagreeable
aggressions, and Daniel Forrester had directions from the
Lord Mayor to take the intruder into custody if he should
impede the business of the concern. His Lordship had
previously expostulated with the man, but the reply to his
Lordship's observation—tiat the gentlemen accused had
acted with uncommon liberality—was," Aye, there it is—_
why did they do so? Why did they send me bele and
there, if I had no claim ?" . .

The annoyance having been continued, it was at last
found necessary to oblige this singular claimant to procure
securities. He went into the banking-bou e a few days
ago, and after having repeated his demand upon the firm
in a furious manner, said, said, upon being told to quit
the counting-house, that he supposed the business would
end as Bellingham'e affair ended.
One of the partners appeared at the Justice-room, and
gave evidence as to the expressions used by the defendant,
and the frequent annoying visits paid by him to the bank-
ing-house, at the same time declaring that there was not
the shadow of a claim upon the part of the deluded man,
and that all that had been done for him had been done
from motivis of humanity.
The Loan Mayon, immediately ordered the defendant
to find bail.

The driver of the van of the Steam Washing Com.
pany was charged with having diiveu against the gig of a
gentleman named Jones, with intent to overturn or knock
it to pieces.

The driver of the van, it appeared, as he drove along
Lea.denhall-strert, got into the place of the gig which Mr.
Jones was driving, and, in doing so, whipped his horses
in such a manner against the small vehicle. that it ap-
peared impos,ible for the gentleman to escape without
loss of life. Mr. Jones called out to the fellow, but the
only reply he received was a hearty curse and a horrible
epithet, and the defendant again shipped his horses. The
wheel of the van at once dragged off the foot iron of the
gig, and many persons cried out that the gentleman would
be killed.

The Lotto "MAyon said, that such conduct was too bad
to punish with the fine of 1/., all the law permitted him
to inflict. He should oblige the defendant to find bail t.)
answer the complaint of Mr. Jones, who be hoped would,
for the sake of humanity, prosecute.
Mr. Jones most assuredly would prosecute.
13 OW-STREET.

An Irishman named William Healey was charged with
having assaulted a police constable named Wintle, by
wounding him in the eve with the point of his umbrella•
The defendant found bail in the course of the day.

On Tuesday last Mr. G. H. TRIMBEY7
merchant, of London, with Mr. WIMBLE, ironmonger, of
Lewes, had the honour of being introduced to his MA-
JESTY, at the Palace at Brighton, by T. R. KEMP, Esq.,
one of the Members of this borough, and of presenting to
his MAJESTY a cast-iron waistcoat, of the most delicate
texture, which the KING was graciously pleased to com-
mend as most exemplary and useful, and conducing, al,?,
to high attainments of perfection by the persevering skill
of artificers in iron.—Sussex Advertiser.

Bags, &c. Bags, &c.
Liverpool . 273,921 .22,V21
700
Glasgow ' 2,622

Bags, &c. Bass, &c
317 G 1

otal expo;
Same pet in,

2,414
qted in lik
,d 1.f7,30 -

rl --" .

DEATH OF SIR JOHN PERRING.—On
Sunday morning Sir JoHN PERRING, Bart. died at his •
house, Burton-crescent, at the advanced age of 69, after
a severe illness of several months. The highly respecied
and lamented Baronet was lately appointed one of the Ma-
gistrates at the Town Hall, Southwark, and was second
senior Alderman, being elected on the retirement of the
late Chamberlain, RICHARD CLARK, Estl., for Bread.
street Ward in 1793, was Sheriff in the year 1800, and
Lord Mayor in 1803. By this event there are two vacan-
cies for the Aldermanic gown.
BREAD-STREET WA RD.—ln consequence of
the death of Sir JOHN PERRING, late Alderman of this
Ward, a most active canvass is going forward for the va-
cant gown. There are two candidates in the field—Mr.
CHUBB, a Common Councilman, and 'F. WARD, Esq.,
late Sheriff for the City. It is also said that Mr. BooTH
intends to come forward.
THE MONUMENT.---Ile chipping off the
old lying inscription has begun.
A vessel has arrived at Nice, which brings a
report that a principality in Morocco has hoisted the tri-
coloured flig.
SELIi-ILLUSTRATION.—In the Jamaica
House of Assembly, a motion being made far leave to
bring in a Bill to prevent the frauds of wharfingers, Mr.
PAUL PittrPs,
Member for St. Andrew, rose and said—
" Mr. Speaker, I second the motion ; the wharfingers are
to a man a set of rogues; I know it well; I teas one,
myself for ten years."—Mirror.

The Arros,Nev-GINEam, stated that this was au in.
formation, tilled at the instance of the Crowe, to recover
certain penalties incurred by the defendant, Wm. Finch,
for harbouring and concealing foreign manufactured silks,
knowing them to be ek.stra'iaud. The defendant was a
p rson who cart ied on business at the booking-office of the
Saracen's Head, in Friday-street, and from information
received by the Custore-house officers, they were induced
to proceed to the premises of the defendant, on the Slat of
August last, of whom they demanded permission to search.
The defendant desired them to produce their authority, and
having done cc, he deeied the correctness of their autho-
rity, and made use of several opprobrious epithets. The
officers then sent far farther assistance, during which
time two men canto and moved the cases out of sight
which contained the silks. Having procured the ne-
cessary assistance, the officers proceeded to seize the
cases, which they foend to contain 41 pieces of plain silk,
three pieces of figured silk, aid three pieces of satin,
which they conveyed to the Custom-house, and which
were valucal at 3841. In consequence of further
information, the efficere again went to the house of the
defendant, on the 34 of September, and discovered in a
back warehouse, which they described as a hay-loft, two
boxes containing 634 pieces of foreign gauze riband of
the value of 2251., together with a quantity of oil paper.
such as was said to be used in the packing of smuggled
silks. The cases seized on the 81st of August were di-
rected to Mr. Denis, Yen-office, Old 'Change, but it did
not anoear that there was any ..0b in existence
The direction to the packages seized on the 3d of Sep-
tember had bees torn off. Several witnesses were called
on the part •f the Crown, who detailed the facts above
related.

Mr. KELLY addressee' the Jury on behalf of the de-
fendant at a very considerable length.
ME ATTORNEY- GENERAL having replied,
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The LORD CHIEF BARON, in suintning up, said there
were three points for the consideration of the Ju y :-Ist,
whether tike articles in question were contraband ; 2d,
whether they were actually in the possession of the de-
fendant; and 3d, whether they were in his possession with
a knowledge that they had never paid duty.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, so far as re-
gards the first transaction, and Not Guilty on the second.
They likewise earnestly recommended a mitigation of the
penalties.

In January, 1751, a globularbottle was blown
at Leith, capable of holding two hogsheads. Its dimen-
sions were 40 inches My 12. This immense vessel was
the largest ever proclaim" at any glass-woz k.—New North
Briton.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—It appears from the
official returns, lint auto up, that the number of insol-
vent debtors discharged under the present Act, up to the
end of 18.'49, amounted to 51,000 ; their debts, four mil-
lions sterling; assets averaged one farthing in the pound,
and the expence of di,,charge 251 each prisoner. Not more
than 65 out of every 1,200 "estates" produced any assets
at all ! The annual salaries of the four Commissioners
amount to 11,2541. Their travelling expenses, which are
necessarily great, are net included in this sum.

The mode in which the financial question be-
tween Holland anti Belgium is to be disposed of, is neces-
sarily a matter of much interest and anxiety with the
Dutch capitalists. Some rumours have been current to-
day with regard to the intention of the Allies en this sub.
ject, which it is therefore worth while to repeat, especially
as there are reasons fur believing that they are not alto-
gether without foundation. It in proposed, then, according
to the prevalent report, to fix upon Belgium all that por-
tion of the debt which has arisen out of the construction
of the fortresses on the frontier; and also all the debt
created for the internal improvement of that country, by
the formation of roads, canals, bridges, and other public
works. Of the amount of the last named portion of debt
we have not heard any estimate made, but the cost of
erecting the fortresses is calculated at 210,000,000 francs,
or nearly 10,000,000/. sterling,—a large debt for a coun•
try of so small extent, and likely to be met with more
opposition than the debt for internal improvements, of the
fair liability to which there can be no second opinion.
It is understood to be the wish of the Allies, and on that
point there cannot, indeed, be any doubt, to apportion the
weight fairly, and not to cramp the energies of either
State by a debt disproportioned to its ttioans.— Times.

The anniversary of the formation of the Po-
litical Union, we rindai•ssand, was celebrated on Tuesday,
by dinners at various taverns and public houses. At
the Globe about sixty members dined, Mr. Tnostas Arr-
WOOD presiding sad Mr. MUNTZ and Mr. B. HADLEY
officiating as vice-chairmen. In the course of his re-
marks from the chair, Mr. Arrwoon is stated to have
said, that the Union " had now tegistered in their books
about 9,000 members, paying from 4s. to two guineas per
annum ; and that considering the inflnenee which these
9,000 men exercised over the whole population of the
town, containing liio,ooo souls, and that nearly equal
influence which they exercised over the inhabitants of the
populous manufacturing towns anti distriets around them,
containing also from 200,000 to 500,000 inhabitants
more, the importance of the Union, considered in this
light, as influencing a dense population of 400,000 souls,
was far too great to be disregarded. 'The Union, he ad-
ded, had condensed tie moral power of ibis great popm.
laton, and gathered it, as it were, into an electrical mass,
which was powerful to every good purpose, and utterly
impotent to every bad one. Suppose, for instance, their
good Kist should meet with difficulties in his path from
the pertinacity of the oligarchy,—suppose they should re-
fuse to obey the laws, and should make fight spun the
occasion—why, the very moment the KING commanded
them, they would produce a national guard that would be
like a wall of fire around his throne.—(Cheers.) It was
not too much to say, that if the KING required it, they
could produce hint, in this dist►iet, at his ordets, within a
month, two armies, each of them as numeroas and as
brave as that 11,trieli moque:red at NY aterloo."—Berminy-
i hoes Gazette.

Mr. CURTIS, in seconding the resolutions, ar:-
madverted at considerable length upon each topic.
With respect to the payment of the Vicar he had
to observe that some few years ago his stipend was
between 4001. and 500/. per annum; 't
was subse-
quently made 1,2004, that the parish might not be
subjected to the odious tax of 2.. 9d. in the pound,
which was brought forward in certain quarters at
the same time, yet the 1,200/. a year was insuffi-
cient, and it had been raised to 1,800/. He (\lr.
Curtis) was satisfied that the parish of Cr ipplegute,
and every other parish in the metropolis, wouhi have
acted more wisely at once to have met and opposed
the tax of 2s. 9d. at the period it was proposed; had
that step been adopted, they would not now have
needed to debate on the point. The speaker then
entered upon a statement to chew that many cler-
gymen were paid for doing nothing, in fact, that
Jeremy Bentham had said, that a schoolboy could
perform their duties; and he (Mr. Curtis) spoke of
his own knowledge, when be said that a great num-
ber of the clergy were in the habit of paying at the
rate of 10s. 6d. for each sermon, which they read to
their flocks as their own composition.—(A laugh.)
He seconded the resolutions with much satisfaction.
Mr. DILLON contended that there was no autho-
rity for tithes in the New Testament, it was only to
be found in the Old, instituted on behalf of the Lc-
rites, who formed a tenth of all the people. The
heavy municipal tax to which coals are liable, was
much to be deprecated ; especially the system of
metage; there was a metage fee of 4d. charged for
coals on shipment, and an additional W. was im-
posed on the cargo being landed.
Mr. JONES (it prr cated the imposition of the as.
sessed taxes, and supported the laying on of a spe,
cies of property-tax, by which means the poor would
be relieved. He was decidedly opposed to the coal
tax; and in pressing for a revision of the tithe system
all over England, he stated of his own knowledge
that one individual, who withstood the payment of
21. 9d. in the pound, was drawn into the Court of
Exchequer, next into the Court of Chancery, and,
finally, the case was brought before the House of
Lerd., and the party appealing had to pay not only
the 2s. 9d. claimed, but 300/. of expences, so forti-
fied were the Clergy by Acts of Parliament. lir.
Jonesconeluded by eulogising Sturges Bourne's Act.
Mr. FRANKS said, that Sturges Bourne's Act
gave a plurality of votes.—(Hear.) •
Mr. Battly, Mr. Haines, Mr. Alderman, Mr.
Newell, and Mr. Taylor, severally supported the re-
solutions.

A letter from the Vicar of the parish was read,
in which he declined all conference with the pa-
rishioners on the subject of his tithes; and said the
tithe system was to be brought soon before Parlia-
ment; that it had been his great object to live on
terms of harmony and friendship with his parisL•io-
ners during the twenty-nine years he had been their
Vicar—( laugh)—and that arrears of tithes, to a
considerable amount, were due to him.

Mr. Alderman WOOD said he had intended to pro-
pose that some arrangement should be entered into
between the parish and the Vicar; but having heard
his letter read he should not make any remark on
the subject, farther than that soon after the assem-
bling of Parliament he should move for a return of
sixty-nine offices, and the emoluments attached, with
a view to their reduction to the standard of 1792.
After a protracted conversatiou of no int,rest, the
resolutions were carried, amid a Committee of nine
individuals was appointed to watch the progress of
the same, and to report thereon.

Thanks were thin voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

Yesterday the despatches for Bengal and
China, by the ship Farquharson, Captain JOHN CRUICK •
SMANK, were closed at the Elm India llou,e, and de-
livered to the purser of that ship.

We are requested to state that NATHANIEL
BLOOMFIELD, the brother of the poet, did not die young,
as stated in a paragraph copied into the Herald of yester-
day, from an Evening Paper—he being still alive in his
seventy-second year, " in poverty and confined
by palsy for many months past, and receiving scanty re-
lief from a. parish in which he paid rates for more that
t irty years.—Morning Herald.

In some parts of the country reading clubs
upon a novel plan have lately been established. They are
open on Sundays only, and the meetings commence at
two o'clock. Each person, whether subscriber or not,
pays a penny. One of the company is appointed to read
aloud ; and thus, with intervals of discussion and con-
versation, the time is passed till about nine o'clock in the
evening. Neither drinking nor smoking is allow.d.
These institutions are, as yet, in their infancy : but at one
of them, in Norwich, 600 persons were collected on the
two last Sundays. None but ultra-radicsl papers are in-
troduced into these soirees,

The French, of all nations in the world, com-
mit the most ludicrous mistskee in copying or translatiog
from any other language. For instance, the " Revue
Encyclopedique," a Parisian work of some pretensions,
in noticing Sir WA LTI It SCOTT'S " Religious Discourses,
by a Layman," called them " Sermons, par on Rode
(Sermons, by a Poet), the translator, doubtless, imagin-
ing that " lay-man" must necessarily be a derivative from
the word lay (a poem), as used in the " Lay of the Last
Minstrel," a supposition the more plausible, as Sir WAL-
TER was th.e author of that work.

We understand that the Bill relative " to the
assaying and marking of gold and silver wares" has excited
a lively sensation amongst the jewellers and silversmiths
of this town. Apprehension appears to be entertained
that, should the Bill receive the sanction of the Legislature,
the gold and silver trade of Birmingham must be severely
injured, if nut destroyed. It is also considered matter of
fair complaint that the Bill, by attempting to inlet tyre
with the natural course of the trade, and prescribing the
particular manner in which it shall be conducted, is at
variance with those liberal commercial principles which
for sonic time have been acted upon, and ate now pretty
generally recognised.—Birmingham Gazette.

Extract of a letter dated Alexandria, Dec. 17.
We are now at Alexandria, and in a few days will be
going up the Nile to Cairo and Thebes. I cannot express
how civil the Turks, or rather Arab Turks are, at this
place. Perhaps, fen- the amusement of some people, Lou
(night like a description of a dinner given the other day
by a Kurshid Bey, to all the European Consuls, and to
which he gave me an invitation. Ile is a good-looking
man, remarkably fine open countenance, was formerly a
Nlameluke slave, but being a great favourite with the
Paella, is raised to the rank of General, and commands
all the troops about Alexandria. We met at his house
about twelve o'clock, and were entertained with music,
dancers, wrestlers, and jugglers. At two o'clock we were
called up stairs to dinner. I was surprised on entering to
find a long table laid out precisely in the English style,
and wine in decanters with glass services, saltcellars, &c.
The feast commenced with soup, followed by fish, and so
on to a second and third course. We drank wine with
each other : healths and toasts went round ; a few selected
will show you what a change has taken place in the sons
of Martostar. The health of the Pacira ;' then, pie
European Sovv.ftxtoNs, his friends;' Philanthropy, be-
nevolence, and good will between the subjects of the PAC7II-1,
and the Europeans ;' Success to the Arabs. and may I 1
increase in Egypt ;' and ' Civilization throughout the
world,' was proposed by a young Arab Turk, rr x
Colonel. About five p. m. axe broke up, all highly
sighted with our day's entertainment.„

FOOT PAVEMENT OF THE STRAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—As your excellent Piper was a few Months ago.
made the medium of some remarks pro-and con, respect-
ing the experimental use of a new description „of foot
pavement, which had been then lately, laid in tie Strand,
ne,,rly in front of your own office, I world, with your per-
,tate a simple fact, resulting from the. observation
el '"Y"'lf aml s,veral of my neighbours, which, in my
Lcmile o,inion, speaks volumes in favour of the stone.
striking contrast between the new stone (Scotch,
I believo,) and the Yorkshire pavement is this, that in
damp weather I observe the former remains perfectly dry
an I NV hen die litter is saturated with water and
covered with mud. This is a consideration of no small
moment to the public generally, hut more especially to us
trade,inep, as materially contributing to the comfort of our
customers, and consequently promoting our own interests.
The ohj,ct of these remarks is to attract the notice of the
10c7,1 authorities, and particularly of our public spirited
so, vt-vor, Mr. Cadegan. to the subject, in order that if in
other r,spects the stone is found to answer, my neighbours
may, in c•onmon with myself, reap the benefit of its ge-
neral adoption in the parish. With many apologies for
this intrusion on your valuable columns,
I remain your constant realer,
AN INHABITANT OF THE STRAND.

TIIE CEIURCI-I-TITIIES-POOR LAWS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sig, The present critical state of this kingdom crliv
firtli every well-meaßing Englishman to state fairly his
,pioiru,s, and as the whole of the grievances the people so
lotullcomplain of cannot be treated simultaneously, I beg
t, ycu with the following remarks on our Pro-
t. tent Clergy as a body, connected with our poor laws;
which r, . marks, if you think well to insert in your truly
ind,pendent and most usefil Paper, I shall be glad, as my
oh;t-ct is, that every fair argument may be made use
of to shex the necessity of the Government hearing fairly
all sides., and not let any body of men, be they whom they
may, live unc,nstitutionally upon the hard earnings of the
peoplo, which pervert the intentions of all our truly

gucri instituti,ns.
Our inother church I hope will never by the people be
left to fail into lißreApect. To insure its permanent ascen-
d,mcy, the people and Government have only to look
strlct,y after the conduct of its Ministers, and see they do
their i-toty as becomes them, and not suffer the sacred chit-
raoer a clergyman ought to possess disgraced, by finding
SO many of its members of the present day foremost in
our brawls of contested elections, as well seated upon our
I),.ncl,es as magistrate?, political writers in newspapers,
. in short, thirsting daily after power, place, and pen
sion, and pith aities of church livings, which the meanest
cdpacity of the present day loudly cries out against. I
speaking, Mr. Editor, s)f. the Protestant Church as a
body riot individually, as many of our Church Clergy I
)(now. are meek, humane, gaud men, and truly prais•-

v. °Ft; y.
The old •ttaiu on the character of the Clergy as a body,
I wiii to removed, viz. the charge brought vgainst
them tiai‘y of having se.zed upon the poor marl's right in
the titi.ea, anciently granted by our forefathers, for the
tape-chi! poses of maintaining and upholding our places
of wersaip, the pone and needy, and the Clergy them-
selitea, all of which tithes have been sequestered by the
Clerey for their sole use and benefit, and the people again
called upon, out of their hard earnings, to maintain their
poor, and euoptirt our places of worship.
Surely for the character sake of our Clergy, and the
reverence we lipid our Church in, the Government cannot
too p:oinptly ',move this stain from our Clergy, by remo-
dJlitoy their income ; and as I am much attached to the right
the pestpla have to know what they pay their money for, I
yet Lope to see tie voice of the people in each palish ap •
point their own Clergy ; but I would have the Govern-
ment fir m iu seeing the Clergymen duly paid, and enabled
to live indepetient as their sacred duty demands they
alooill 010, and on no account allow them to trade and
Inaffic with the people.
.1 contend, Mr. Editor, that the occupiers of land should
not be It to lie eiiaded by the Clergy for the tenth of
prodace, by which system all stimulus to improve-
ment is par ,lystl.
itt the aliseace of a letter mode of paying the Clergy,
Jet the rate of their incomes become chargeable upon the
owner -nf the land, houses, &c., and not the ocupiers, as
it is stsninst COM OIVII sense to expect the clergyman and his
parisleitmera can n eat in charity on a Sunday, when tliev
have been squalibling all the week over the tithe.
Fearing I may occupy too much of your valusble time
any Paper, I will hasten to make a few remarks on our
poor laws, which I consider may be easily improved, and
no individual suffer by it, unless it is the profession Gf
the law, whose practitioner& it would much diminish in
number ; and that by removing at one sweep all the pro-
ceedings of disputed settlement cases which daily disgrace
our Cootts, and help to break down all sense of truth in the
pauper, as five shilling.; will induce him to swear himself
to any parish tt.e present race of guardians of the poor
wish ifirti to be removed to—in short it is considered, I
sun sorry to say. fair to get rid cf a pauper by any means,
sn that the law is kept clear of.
My plan t r effeet en immediate Reform in the poor
law:, would be, to do away all settlements from the pea-
mut ;moment but what were obtained by birth ;—let every
child, /jell and poor, from the present time, follow his
parents' settlement, and by whittle remove the present curse
sta the poor man as the low now stands, viz. gaining set-
tlements by hiring for twelve months, apprenticeships,
or renting ten pound per annum. Let nothing but tie
parents' set than: tit exist, and you then give the
paar man a chance, who lives out of the parish
he may belong to, by gond condoet to induce his em-
ro-,er to let him land, &c.. which self-defence, be the
poor mania conduct ever so good, as the law now stands,
fothicis, as the master says I cannot encourage this roan,
fir it I let him land, 1 shall make a settlement, conse-
ou ntly not only injure myself but my neighbour: as such,
the law of settlement as it now stands not only narrows
tic poor non's means of gaining bread, but whet is still
werse, narrows the heart of man to moan.
Again, a poor man requiring temporary relief in a
parish lie deem not belona to. In place of receiving relief
when necessary, and making his own parish refund under
nn from a Magistrate, the reverse is. the palish
officer applied to, gives some trifle, then takes the poor
applicant to a Magistrate, swears him to his settlement,
packs him and his family into a pass-cart, trots him over
to his and there leaves him to the frowns of those
be is thus thrown amongst; and his lord and master
the parish officer, by sending him to break stones or sonic
ceiter description cf work for a bare existence, thinks he
will drive the poor man again into the world, to seek
Letter fere, and more humane treatment.
Settlements by hiring, renting, and apprenticeship,
orate not rid of, half the present expense on parishes would
be saved, which is DOW spent in officers dancing attend.
ance on Magistrates for orders of removal, and expensive
litigations growing out of the same : in fact, the removal
of paupers, I have no doubt, has been one great means of
increasing the number of the gentlemen of the law, say
some thousands, which, I think, is not one of the least
enila vos to lay to the present practice of administee-
ing th • poor laws. A PROTESTANT.
N.D. When vested rights in tithes ran honestly be
shown, suet) as private endowments', in such caaes tat the
value of the said living be set out upon said estate in land,
I y proper Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament,
or the etelowtnent valued and charged upon the estate, and
land Intl-chased in other districts to uphold the said endow-
sinoit ; hut on no account allew the tithe of the oceopier's
produce tci be subject to said tithe.

THE " LA'rITAT FAMILY."--A Cone-
s3,lnient calculates, from official documents, the number
of barristers at 1,134, whose fees constitute nea.rly 15 per
cent. of the Ivlmle exp.!uces I.tv suits ; conveyancers
and pleadtrs, 14'2; London attorney, 9,342 ; country
ntternev,:, 2,732 ; •total number of "gentlemen learned
in the law," in England an:l Wales, 13,348, being 453
more than there were on thl.lst of January, 1830. For
the 10 years ending in 1830, the attorneys paid in duties
on articles of clerkship, admi.sious, and yearly certificates,
nearly one million one hundred thousazd poun:ls sterling !

KNACKERSN ovrLE GliosT.—lt has
seldom fallen to our lot to nutlet! a " ghost story' which
Ivim gained greater ground in the belief of the deluded pea-
santry that; the one we ::re shout to record. A little girl,
about 1:2 years of pr, the victim of a designing woman:
it WOUA FeVlll, flept apart from her parents, and bearing,
upon various OCCASitrus,frig.l.tful noises, as if proceeding
frota tia•cicr tie heti on wheli ske lay, suffered so much
agitation aad alar:n, that ire; mental faculties have be-
come impairt,l, aad she refuses ‘04.11 meat and drink.
Ileitee the t the told by the credulous and vulgar—_
" The child's both witc'h and watchl,,.?
As usual, the Clergyman has been called, with the parish
ow:table, to
" lay the ghost," which proves (by her own
iconf ssion) to be a Wonrin, whose diabolical spirit could
Itit:l:ten an innocent child for the sake of punishing its
Site is about to bt. brought up for examination
bforee RALPFI FitaNco, Esq., when we hope she will
with a punishment commensulate with her de-
btrt-.—/roin a Correspcnclent of the Plymouth Journal.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

Office of the Lord Chamberlain to the2B, Queen,B: Queen's House,
. e'ss,,Jan. 1I!.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE DRAWING-ROOM AT ST.
JAMES'S PALACE.
The ladies who propose to attend the Drawing-room to be held
on Thursday, the 24th of February next, are requested to bring
two cards, with their names thereon written, one to be left with
the Queen's Page in attendance, and the other ro be delivered to
the Queen's L,:rd Chamberlain, who will announce the names
to her Majesty. And those ladies who arc to be presented are
hereby informed that it is absolutely necessary that their names,
with the name of the lady who is to present them, should be sent
into the office of the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen before
twelve o'clock on Saturday, the 19th February, in order that
E they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation, it being her
Majesty's command that no presentations at the Drawing-room
shall be made through the Lord Chamberlain, unless the name
of the lady presenting, with that of the lady to be presented,
shall appear on the card to be delivered, as before directed, cor-
responding with the names sent into the office of the Lord
Chamberlain to the Queen.
No lady can be received by her Majesty, but in conformity
with the above regulations.

Lord Clyvnberlain's-Office, Feb. I.
List of Collar Days My observed by the Knights of the seve-
ral Orders who have been installed,•or received the Sovereign's
!loyal Warrant dispensing with Installation :—February 24, St.
Matthias, the Queen's Birth-day kept —March I, St. David.—
March 17, St. Patrick.—Easter Sunday.—Easter Monday.—
Easter Tuesdity.—April 23, St. George—April 25, St. Mark.—
May 1, St. Philip and St. Jaines.May 28, the King's Birth-day
Kent.—May 29, Restoration of the Royal Family.—Whit Sunday.
—Whit Monday.—Whit Tuesday —June 26, his Majesty's Ac-
cession to the Crown.—June 29, St. Peter.—July 23, St. James.
—August 24, St. Bartholomew.—September 21, St. Matthew.—
October 18, St. Luke—October 28, St. Simon and Jude.—The
sth of November.—November 30, St. Andrew.—December 21,
St. Thomas.

At the Court at Brighton, the 31st day of January, 1831,
PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
This day the Right Hon. William George Earl of Errol, and
the Right Hon. Richard William Earl Howe were, by his Ma-
jesty's command, sworn of his Majesty's Most Hon. Privy
Council, and took their respective places at the Board accordingly.

Duchy of Lancaster, Jan. 31.
The King has been this day pleased to appoint Peregrine
Edward Towneley, of Towneley, Esq. to be Sheriff of the county
Palatine of Lancaster, for the year ensuing.

At the Court at Brighton, the 31st day of January, 1831,
PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Sheriffs appointed by his Majesty in Council for the year 1831.
Bedfordshire—Samuel Charles Whitbread, of Cardington, Esq.
Berkshire—Charles Eyston, of Kist Hendred, Esq.
Buckinghamshire--Henry Andrewes Uthwatt, of Great Linford,

- -
Esq.
Cambridge and Huntingdonshire—John Bendyshe, of Knees-

worth, Fsq.
Cheshire—Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley, of Hooton, Bart.
Cumberland—John Taylor, of Dockray-Hall, Esq.
Cornwall—John Hearle Trernayne, of Heligan, Esq.
Derbyshire—Sir Charles Henry Colvile, of Duffield, Knt.
Uevonshire—Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, of Tawstock, Bart.
Corsetshire—The Honourable Henry Dawson Darner, of Milton
Abbey.
Essex—William Davis, of Leyton, Esq.
Gloucestershire—Sir Thomas Crawley Boevey, of Flaxley-

Abbey, Bart.
Herefordshire—John Arkwright, of Hampton-court, Esq.
Hertfordshire—Augu,tus Smith, of Ashlyns-hall, Esq.
Kent—Baden Powel, of Speldhurst, Esq.
Leicdstershire—George John Danvers Butler Danvers, of

Swithland, Eq.
Lincolnshirc—l lenry Bacon Hickman, of Thonnock-house, Esq.
Monmouthshire—William Hollis, of Mounton, Esq.
Norfolk—John Angerstein, of Weeting, Esq.
Northamptonshire—Beriali B Afield, of Norton Hall, Esq.
Northumberland—George Silvertop, of Minster Acres, Esq.
Nottinghamshire—Thomas Moore, of Ruddington, Esq.
Oxfordshire—Sir Henry John Lambert, of Aston, Bart.
Rutlandshire—Thomas Birch Reynardson, of Essendine, Esq.
Shropshire—Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, of Acton Burnell

Park, Bart.
Somersetshire—Thomas Shewell Bailward, of Horsington Esq.
Statfbrdshire—Thomas Fitzherbert, of Swinnerton Park, Esq.
County of Southampton—Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, of Tich-
borne Park, Bart.
Sutiblk—John Read, of Primrose-hill, Holbrook, Esq.
Surrey—Harvey Combe, of Cobham Park, Esq.
`Buzzes—William Courthope Mabbott, of Uckfield, Esq.
Warwickshire— George Lucy, of Charlecotes, Esq.
Wiltshire—Paul Methuen, of Corshain-house, Esq.
Worcestershire--Osman 'heard.), of Bromsberrow-place, Esq.
Yorkshire—Sir Henry Goodricke, of Ribtone,hall, Esq.