The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-11 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1836.

we.
A Correspondent has directed our attention to a
Speech delivered by Mr. BRANFILL, at a meetin,
lately held at Chelmsford, to take into considerationh,
the Tithe Commutation Bill. We have read the speech,
it has served to confirm us in the opinion whichld.
we have already expressed, that the aim of the. ano.
Owuers is to chouse the tithe-owners out of their
prto
lletY• The revenue of the latter is to be cut downhe
111,11°1 dimensions as may suit the pleasure and the
pockets of the former. That is the first consideration—
s-I,P" that point there is a wonderful unanimity among
the landed gentry, however they may differ on othertil
nt• That they 'are not very scrupulous as to
means by which their favourite object may be attained,Bill
eir Proceedings since the introduction of the
have pretty well proved. Because the leading feature
of the measure is not altogether to their mind i)
,eause the tithe-owner is not stripped of more than
,4cull 25 to 40 per cent. of his property—they
Have set their faces against the Bill, exaggerating
I,l,:eryb
at every
difficulty, however unavoidable, cavilling
Lung that can admit. of dispute, and distorting
,i,viery
Provision] which they cannot fairly encounter..
the
is the species of warfare they have waged against
a e,lliii, and to do Mr. BRANFILL justice, we mus:
:sign him a high place among combatants of this
zescription. As a sample of his powers of misrcpre-
veiltati°n, tbe following extract from his speech will,
' e think' suffice. Speaking of the deduction pro-
Pt'sed to be
made from the amount of tithe for the
h of collecting, marketing, &c., he thus expresses
unself :...,...
%." BnPposing, then, we take the average between 40 and
14er:cent, we shall find that that which is called by many
0,,_ uers of the House of Commons—who, though very
tesernen, and capable of making powerful speeches, do
to thteiteitnti. to understand this matter—a boon of '25 per cent.
ithe-p
the ayer, is in fact a bounty of 71 per cent. to
,a4t.
for e-oe. The tithe-owner is only to allow 25 per
vete, , that which would cost him 32, and this corn-
,heideYr;:oes away with all idea of a bounty to the land-
Doe • •
lan_ 8 It indeed ? Then you, Mi. BRANFILL, a
7,s_itlied proprietor, and a gentleman, professing 'to be
0 versant with all matters relating to agriculture,
tt Ind have us believe that it will cost the fanner 32 per
\\;‘lt, of the value of the tithe to convert it into money !
whist; you
show us the process of calculation by
that th
1el: You arrive at this conclusion To us it appears
t farmer will be put to hardly any additional
elPener. 1
,they Y J)), the incorporation of the tithe with the
ventr Produce of his farm—or, to speak more cor-
TlY' 11 the non-separation of the tithe from it.
will
carat that carries from the field nine sheaves
1111 ,
iY ton, and we dare say if the farmer is sending
the sacK6 of wheat to market, he will contrive to stow
4`euth ‘rvitlicut being at the expellee of a separate
kin veYanco• It is true, the tithe owner must keep up
%xPensive establishment if he collect his tithes
in
and it is on this account that the Bill makes a

reasonable deduction from the gross amount of his
tithe—giving him only the clear value ; but it is equally
true that to the farmer, obliged as he is to have an
establishment adequate to the management of nine-
tenths of the produce of his farm, the extra expellee
incurred by including the other tenth, will be a sum
too trifling to be mentioned. In the one case the ma-
chinery has to be erected—ill the other it already exists.
And here we find one of the greatest recommendations of
the Bill. A large proportion of the tithe is, according
to the present system, absorbed i❑ the various processes
necessary for converting it to the tithe-owner's use. By
paying the tithe-receiver the clear value, instead of the
gross amount of the articles in kind, he will not he in
a worse situation than before ; whip the tithe-payer
will gain all, or nearly all, that is now absolutely lost
to both parties.

Mr. BRANFILL puts forth some other rather stag-
gering doctrines in his speech. He boldly asserts that
if tithes were entirely abolished, land would not let for
more than it does now. This, we think, is proving
rather too much. It is tantamount to saying that
all the clamour which the landowners and far-
mers have been raising against tithes as a burden
too heavy to be borne—weighing them down to the
earth—was mere moonshine ; for if it be really
a burden, its removal must increase the value of land.
But when the landowners have to pay for exemption
from tithe, it cannot, of course, appear so valuable in
their estimation as when they have to make out a case
of agricultural distress calling for Parliamentary relief.
In this latter case, tithe assumes quite a different
aspect. It is then the greatest and the most intole-
rable of all burdens, rendering land not worth cultivat-
ing, either to the farmer or the proprietor, and figures
away among the chief causes which give the landed
interest a claim to Legislative relief I
We rejoice to see that the farmers of Essex are not
to be imposed upon by Mr. BRANFILL'S disingenu-
ous statements. They—some of them at least, as
appears by the report of the meeting—are willing to
take the Bill, with such improvements as it may re-
ceive in Committee, rather than that the present State
of things should continue. In this, we think, they
show their good sense.

The York Dinner given to Mr. O'CONNELL on
Thursday last, at which upwards of three hundred of
the most influential and intelligent gentlemen of the
neighbourhood attended, is a triumphant proof how
little injury the Tory calumnies have done the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman. Notwithstanding the Con-
servatives have, for months past, been incessantly ob-
jecting to him, that he is a bankrupt alike in public
and private character, and therefore to be shunned uni-
versally, the honest, observant, and independent Re-
formers of the North have everywhere received him
with open arms—thereby showing in what utter con-
tempt they hold his Tory slanderers. If these men
have a grain of discretion—which we greatly doubt—
left them, they will henceforth be silent on the subject
of Mr. O'CONNELL. They cannot do him injury by
their abuse ; indeed, so far from it, every sneer they let
drop against him, gives him an additional claim on the
sympathies of the people, who see clearly that he would
not be the subject of such constant Tory anathemas,
were it not for his transcendant talents and influence as
a Reformer. Far better then that these men ceased
to pour forth the vials of their party wrath on his
head, and succumbed to a moral power, which, do
what they will, they have not the means of destroying.
The reception given to Mr. O'CONNELL at York
must be full as mortifying to his persecutors as that
given to him at Nottingham and Hull ; and, combined
with other equally impressive signs of the times, must
convince the House of Lords that their irresponsible
authority, when exerted against the people's interests,
will no longer be tamely submitted to by them. The
great Duke may call a meeting of his party at Apsley
House, and come to as fierce a determination as he
pleases, of opposing the Irish Municipal Reform Bill ;
but his efforts will be of no earthly use : for the vital
popular principle of which Mr. O'CONNELL, in con-
junction with his MAJESTY'S Ministers, is the repre-
sentative, must triumph, in spite of the most desperate
opposition that the Tory clique can bring to bear
against it. Yet, unenlightened by the past, and heed-
less of the numerous significant warnings that they
have been in the habit of almost daily receiving since
the commencement of the Session, we question much
whether these men will not hold out to the last, and
only concede when concession has lost all its value.
Even now, we have good reason to believe, they are
busy concocting a variety of plans for the more speedy
and certain destruction of the Irish Corporation mea-
sure ; nor would it at all surprise us.to learn, that
the " Gunpowder Plot"—as the Morning Post with
ludicrous solemnity calls the blowing-up of King
WILLIAM'S statue in Dublin—was got up expressly
by the Orangemen for the purpose of supplying the
House of Lords with fresh arguments for opposing
any additional concessions to the " Papists." At
any rate, the " Plot" has been consummated at a most
seasonable juncture, just when Mr. O'CONNELL is
bespeaking the sympathies of the English Reformers.
for his Catholic brethren ; and the Irish Corporation
Bill is on the eve of discussion in the Upper House.

We have received from the Bungay Committee,
formed to watch the proceedings taken against Mr.
CHILDS last year, " an expression of their warmest thanks
for the zeal and efficiency with which the Editor of The
Sun supported the cause of civil and religious liberty
during the progress of that affair," coupled with " an
acknowledgment of the powerful advocacy which every
subject involving the principles of freedom receives
from the conductor of that journal."

To ourselves, such expressions are, as they ought to
be, gratifying, and we accept them frankly ; because we
know that our labours, whatever be their effect, are
honest, and deserve the recognition of honest men.
But beyond our own personal concern, such feelings,
operating in men so active, so bold, so intelligent, so
highly principled as this Committee have proved
themselves to be, are a pregnant sign of the times. If
the defenders of ecclesiastical corruption and oppression
were not blinded by the enjoyment of their gains,
they would learn from such things that their craft is
in danger—they would see that men have begun to
think, and what is the natural and forcible consequence,
to act, for themselves.
Men now perceive what is just in matters of religion
as in questions of social economy ; and the clergy and
their friends ought to see—and if they do not they will
be taught—that no class ever fought against justice in
an enlightened state of society, and prospered. Men
will not much longer pay for the spiritual, any more
than for the medical, doctors whom they do not consult,
especially when their teaching involves the pressure of
a plethoric Hierarchy and a crushing Establishment ;
and is enforced, as in Suffolk, by the ultima ratio of
distress warrants and writs of arrest, a felons' jail, and
iron bedsteads. •

We cannot but express our regret at the impolley of
the Ministry in suffering a single week of the present
Session to pass, without proposing a satisfactory settle-
ment of the question of Church rates. Here is a
large class in the community suffering an admitted
wrong, from a law which is too manifestly unjust to
fixed,
carried into full effect : here is the habit becoming
of passive submission for the purpose of pub-
itshLig, which it dous
most effectually, the recant and

odious enactments sustaining the dominant sect out of
the pockets of all others, and an ad captandum deck-
, ration of the Ministers' wily adversary recorded, that
he would long since have removed the grievance. The
Church which they profess to venerate is, in the mean
time, being shaken to her very centre by the agitation ;
and vet, notwithstanding Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
unequivocal declaration of last Session, the present
one has been suffered to proceed without mention
of the subject, until a question from the leader of their
opponents drew from the Home Secretary a reluctant
-implication that some measure would be introduced
after Easter. The Government is strong only whilst
supported by the people—they cannot afford to waste
their strength by doing their enemies' work, injuring
their friends, and postponing the claims of justice.
We warn them that the question of Church-rates is
onC which takes a large hold upon the public mind; and
that if they shall decide against the plain and distinct
principle that the Church shall pay her own expenses,
or attempt to foist any portion of them, under what-
eVer pretence or consideration, upon the members of
other sects, they will determine against themselves a
numerous body, who are already wondering at their
apparent vacillation, and enduring with much uneasi-
ness the delay of their measures. Let them be warned
by the fate of every Government which has attempted
the plan of doing half justice at a mark-time pace.

Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 3d instant
have been received. MENDIZABAL'S power increases
in the Chamber of Procuradores. The following is
the substance of the Address prepared for presentation
by the Cortes, in answer to the Speech from the
Throne :

" The Deputies express their loyalty to Isabella 11., and
declare their reliance on the wisdom and noble intentions of
the Queen Regent. They receive with gratitude the promise
of the new Electoral Bill, in virtue of which the fundamentals
laws of the kingdom shall be revised and matured. They
will devote particular attention to the difficult question of the
emancipation of Spanish America, consulting only the honour
of the nation and the rules of equity. Every brave Spaniard
must have heard with pleasure that the Sovereigns of the
Quadruple Alliance have given fresh proofs of their friendship
and sincere desire to restore peace to the Peninsula. France,
England, and Portugal have the same interests as Spain, and
the firm resolution with which they join her in stifling fana-
ticism and rebellion ought to tranquillise the most timid minds
to the issue of the existing struggle. They congratulate her
Majesty on the continuance of the friendship and goodwill of
the other Governments of Europe, the Emperor of Brazil, and
the United States of America. They join in praises of the intre-
pidity and endurance of fatigue of the troops, for whose valour vic-
tory is reserved, and who will exterminate the sanguinary hordes
that sully the territories of Spain. They likewise participate in the
praises given to the French, English, and Portuguese troops.
They predict that the example of the inhabitants of the valleys
of Navarre will find numerous imitators, and that the Spa-
niards who blindly persist in rebellion will soon be dispersed
by the veterans, in conjunction with the 70.000 young men
who are reads and eager for combat. They bear testimony to
the spirit daily displayed by the National Guards at all points
of the Peninsula, and express their satisfaction at learning that
the Queen has taken measures to supply arms to such of the
National Guards as are without them. They express theirpain-
ful regret at the disorders which have taken place, though they
were suppressed in their birth. They unanimously reprove
and execrate the crimes which were committed, and offer
their prompt and efficacious co-operation in maintaining
the authority of the laws. The Chamber expresses its sa-
' tisfaction at learninr, that no new pecuniary sacrifices have
been imposed upon the people in virtue of the vote of confi-
dence. It waits for an account of the use made of this vote,
hoping that it will have to approve the acts of the Ministry.
The Chamber promises to fix its attention on the reforms,
improvements, and measures of economy preparing by the
Government in the different financial branches, and that
even before the Bills are submitted to its consideration, and
will, by every means in their power, concur in remedying the
injury sustained by the public revenue from the unsatisfactory
state of several of the provinces. It also agrees with her Ma-
jesty in the importance of revising the codes. It then lays
before her Majesty a summary of the line of conduct it pro-
poses to follow. The ameliorations in the different branches
of the Administration as proposed by the Queen, the reduc-
ing the expenditure to a level with the receipts, the re-esta-,
blishment of public credit, uniformity in the administration of
justice, the welfare of the people, liberty and order, and a ter-
mination to the civil war. To this last end, it adds, that the
Government must assume an imposing and irresistible attitude,
the Chamber of Deputies offering a frank and decided sup-
port, believing that this manifestation will give it strength,
which is of the first necessity under critical circumstances,
multiplying its efforts, and if required, making sacrifices in
which it will have the satisfaction of bequeathing a salutary
example to their successors, who, in better times of tranquillity
and security, will realize the maternal promises of the Queen,
by establishing for ever, in a constitutional Act, the liberties
of the people."

The accounts from the north of Spain received in
the capital were not so favourable as the Government
had reason to expect. The Carlists had approached
within four leagues of Saragossa, after sacking the
town of Caspe, and laying siege to the city of Teruel.

We have received the whole of the French Jour-
nals of Friday and Saturday. The trial of the
Ncuilly conspirators terminated on Friday. Of the
thirteen accused, five were found guilty, and sentenced
to detention during periods of from ten to three years.

PARIS, APRIL 8.-As yesterday, hardly any business was
done on Change to-day, the 3 per Cents. varied only 5 cen-
times. A general subject of conversation was the Address in
answer to the Queen's Speech, adopted by the Committee of
the Chamber of Procuradores on the 31st of March. This
answer, which is said to have been composed by Arguelles, is
still longer and more verbose than the document to whioh It
replies, but a tone of patriotism pervades it which will please
the public. The Committee dwells chiefly on the subject of
the war, and places at the disposal of the Government, in or-
der to put an end to it, the lives and fortunes of all good
Spaniards. If the Chamber adopts this address, which is
more Mcndizabalist than the Queen's speech, we do not see
who can therefore dispute the majority with the President of
the Council.
This proposed address has produced a great effect on the in-
habitants of Madrid. The deferred debt, which was at 12,
suddenly rose to 14,1-. On our Exchange, on the contrary,
Spanish stock has nut kept up well in consequence of the de-
cline at London.
This evening a project for the marriage of the Duke of Or-
leans to a daughter of the Archduke Charles was spoken of
with an air of mystery.-Messager, April 9th.
FitENcH FUNDS.-Pettis, Arm. 8
Five per Cents.,llo7l 95c. luSt; 11,7 L 95,
Four and a Half nor Cents. 1041.
Four per Cents., 1(111.
Time per Cents. 82f. 814 95e.
Bank Actians, 2,227 f. 50e.
Rente de Naples, 1021 10c. 10.21.
Roman Five per Cents., 105,
Spanish Actives, 4;14101.
Spanish Difthres, 21
Spanish Passives, 14,,t,i%
Iselgian Loan, Five per Cents., 100.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 8.2,4
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 53 3214
Ilaytiait Loan, aw. 392 E 50c. 393 f.
Grecian Loan, 10:.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, -f. -c.; money, 251. 47)4c.
Three months, paper, -I*. -e, ; money, 251. 3214 e.
-fours Authentigue.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 9.
Five per Cents., 1080 107 f. 95e. 10ST.
Four per Cents., 1011 20c.
per Cents., S2l. sc. 82f. Uf. sc.
Bank Actions, 2,V5f.
Route de Naples, 102 f.
Roman Five per Cents., 105 104% 103.
Spanish Actives, 4(; 47 46;74.
Spanish Differes, 21!.4.
Spanish Passives, 143,
!soya! Spanish Loan, 34.
Belgian Loan, Five-per Cents, 103.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 81 8:N.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 53 :,3!,g
EXCHANGE ON LeNlloN.
ole month, paper, -c. -c.; money, 251. 47 V,c
Tliree months, paper, -1. -c. ; money, 251.
-1 o,rs Aufkentivie.

BOURSE, THREE o'CLoex.—The Three per Cents. opened
at 82f. 15c., and remained fixed at that price. No business
has been done in the French funds.
The rise in London in the Spanish securities has given a
little impulse to the market here, where the Active stock has
been done at 47.

QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 10c. ; Three
per Cents., 821. 15c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, _ ; Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, 16a ; New Loan, ; Active's, 46i;
Passives, 141 ; Ducats, 102 20 ; Romans, 105 ; Pedros, 831 ;
Belgians, 103 ; Dutch, 57f. 20c. ; Haytians, 3951.
Miguels, 19; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 17 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan,

Brussels and German Papers have been received.
The Frankfort Correspondent of the Cowrie?. Beige
writes, under date of the sth April, in the following
terms, of the recent occupation of Cracow :
R
It is certain that Cracow is going to be evacuated. That
city wiii Fi
adopt the Prussian Tariff. It is also certain that
about 50 peiT,p)i,
fiipelled from Cracow and sent away in a
body, are now in Irt4sii, Where
09' 4
and will probably be sent to the mines in
4 Pcwtnight ago,
in Siberia.
Her Majesty the Queen of the french, Princesses Mary
and Clementine, and the Prince de Joinville, arrived at Brus-
sels on the ytli, in the evening, 4 went to the Palace at
Lacken.

In advices from Trieste to the 30th ult. we find the
following :
We expect here some hundreds more of the Polish fugi-