The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-16 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

( From the New Landon Price Current of July 13.)
SUGAR; -Parcels of good mid. Jamaica sold at 695. aria 705.,
fine, 725. and 735. ; Demerara good grocery, 68i. 6d. and
695. ; St. Vincent's good brown, 675. 6d. Loaves de
unr the
standard sold at 86s. Gd., and Lumps at 86s. ; the !atm' to
pars the standard arc freely offered at 875., and in s')mt... .
stances sales have been made Gd. and Is. under :hat pricti ;
line Crushed sold at 455. and 455. Gd., which is 86g. aid 86s_
61. long price for Lumps entitled to the double bounty. This-
afternoon the Refined Market remained quiet-435. adapted
for fine Crushed, whicli is equal to 86s. long price for Lumps
to pass the standard, at which there are generally sellers ;
Lumps under the standard of strong quality, suitable for the
Grocers, being scarce, are not to be had under 86s. A small
parcel of Dutch Crushed has been sold at 435. Gd., being Gd.
under former rates.
East INDIA.-Fine foxy Manilla brown at 31s. and 325.,
6t hde. chief
anp,
pa
sr,t thez former
d.a and
i price,
d2amsp. oral. brown,
Bengal
g6acil.laonlsd 285.m40i and 28
s.
6d.
(t3vdh.i t
e,
at
40sF.0;itugloGoNd.,_atT4h,lpon6131,. ;
sale by private
contract that has trans-
pired has been a parcel of good new white flavannalt, sold
at 555.

COCOA.—At auction this afternoon, 38 bags British Planta-
tion Cocoa sold at 49a. 6d. and 50i. for fair Trinidad. , _

COFFEE.--The public sales this afternoon were 83 casks.
14 barrels, and 99 bags British Plantation Coffee, mostly of '
unclean quality, and 2,057 bags Brazil, 1,344 bags of which
were damaged ; the former of clean quality, sold with much
spirit, Dominica fine to fine ord., at 87s and '893. ; Jamaica
good ord., 803. and 82s. ; unclean good ord. to mid:, 775. and
86s. 6d. ; the sound of the Brazil was all taken in at full
prim ; real good ord., but much mixed, at 525. ' • the damag•Pd
principally sold at former Market rates, slightly at 495. as 1
.50s. ; , first class sea damaged, 483. and 495. 6d. ; seco
class, 48S. ; third and packed from bulk, 465. and 48s.
R 1.31, BRANDY, AND BOLLANDS..-700 puncheons Jamaica,
16 to -20 over, 3s. 10d. and 4s. ; 25 to 29 and 33 over, haw,
fetched 4s. 3d., 4s. 4d., and 4s Bd. ; 400 puncheons Leeward i
proofs, 2s. 3.0., 2to 3 over proof, 2s. • 4d. and 2s. 4.4 d , 5
'over, 2s. 6d., 6 to 7 over, 2s. 61d. on shore, 20 to 30 over,
'3s. Id. and 25., 32 over, 4s. 2d. and 4s. 3d. ; also a parcel of
!fine Demerara, 32 over, 4s. ld. There is ittle demand for
i Brandy or Geneva.
TaLLo-,v.-Great heaviness in the Market here, and prices
have given way to 445. 6d. for parcels on the spot, and 445.
91 for arrival, at which there are ready sellers. This after-
noon the Market was in a state of great stagnation, and prices
again lower : sellers on the spot, at 445., and about the same
price for delivery,
PROVISIONS.-Cork Butter on board has baen sold at 82s.
and 84s. ; landed, 84s. to 865..; Limerick on board, 89s. and
!B)s., and for late months, 82s. and 84s. ; landed, 84s. ; \Va.
terfo:d landed, 8l s. and 84s. Foreign has secured a brisk
sale, and owing to the supply being short, fine qualities have
advanced 2s. Three vessels are daily expected. Bacon has
rallied ; there has been a good demand, at an advance of 2s.
and 3s. ; sales of prime small made at 48s. to 495., and large
at 443. and upwards. Scotch Pork is dull at 23. lower.

INDIGo. —the advance on Bengal, when compared with
that of last sale, is 6d, and 101, and 4d. to 6d. on Madras
the former have gone at 3s. 2d. to Bs., the latter, 4s. -10 d. and
ss: 9d.

Yesterday his Grace the Duke of Devonshire visited
the works of the London and Greenwich ft4ilway

HE DEANS AND CHAPTERS '. THE

BISHOPS.

" The humble petition of the undersigned Dignitaries and
Ministers of the Established Church of England, to the
Honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in
Parliament assembled.
" This petition humbly sheweth—That a recommendation
has been made in the reports of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners, that the patronage hitherto vested in the existing
members of the cathedral churches should, after certain excep-
tions, be taken from them, and conferred upon the bishop of
the diocese. Your petitioners were not aware that it was in-
tended by the appointment of the Ecclesiastical Commission to
destroy any ecclesiastical institution, and to reconstruct it upon
a fresh plan, but merely to rectify existing abuses, and in doing
so to apply the remedy only so far as the evil was found to extend.
Your petitioners are not aware that any petitions have been pre,
rented to Parliament against the conduct of chapters in the exer-
cise of their patronage, or that preferment intheir handshas been
given away upon principles less pure than those which have
influenced the conduct of Bishops. The transfer of patronage
to Bishops has been recommended by Commissioners _where all
the Ecclesiastics are Bishops or Archbishops, of which Com-
mission no parochial Clergyman or Prebendary, or Dean has
been constituted a Member, and where, in consequence, only
one species of Ecclesiastical interest has been properly and
powerfully represented; and if it be supposed that the Bench
of Bishops (looking finis in their distribution of preferment to
the good of the public) have hitherto 'neglected their own fa-
milies and relations, your petitioners beg of you to observe,
whether or not at this moment most of the great preferments
of the Church are not in the hands of Clergymen nearly re-
lated to and connected with the various Bishops who have
filled the sees of this realm for the last thirty years ; * but if
the interests of the Bishops shall in this case be found to pre-
vail over the right of the Chapters, your petitioners may at least
consider such provision, as far as it concerns those to whom
such patronage now belongs, to be wholly unjust and untenable.
Many existing Members of Chapters have taken their
preferment from the fair expectation of exercising this patro-
nage, and have been waiting for it for years; many have
brought up their children to the profession of the Church,
hoping- that their characters and merits would fairly permit
that such preferment might be conferred upon them. Your
petitioners humbly represent that their interests in . the pa-
tronage they now possess ought to be considered as much a
vested interest as that which they have in their incomes dur-
ing their lives. It would be considered as a very violent and
unjustifiable proceeding to take away the patronage of the
Crown or that of laymen, and to confer it upon the bishops,
and the title of chapters to their patronage is older and more
indubitable than that which any layman can possess. The
whole pretence for meddling with ecclesiastical property
is founded upon the argument that no one has any
right to the succession, an argument which applies, of course,
to the future possessors, not to the present ; and leaves an ag-
gression of present rights, a mere act of violence_ and spolia-
tion. All the arguments which apply to the preservation of
iucome to the present possessors, apply with equal force to the
preservation of patronage. They are both valuable rights, which
can only be claimed by the State when the possessor is dead and
there is no heir. To deprive present possessors of their pa-
tronage is the infringement of a principle which has always been
holden sacred by. the Legislature, a principle which facili-
tates all future improvement, by removing present opposition,
and gives a feeling of security to property, which is of infinitely
greater consequence to society than any .present convenience
of accelerated reform. Taking the average lives of members
of chapters at 56, the probability is, that the present members
of chapters would he extinguished in a very few years from this
period; and as it is only proposed that the redundant patron-
age, not wanted personally for the members of each chapter,
is to be conferred on the bishops of the diocese, your peti-
tioners humbly suggest, that it is not a sound policy to violate
a received principle in legislation for an advantage so slight, ncr
to give to reform an air of violence and injustice, for objects
which a little patiencq and deference to vested interests would
so soon place within your power.
.‘ In the 52d clause of the 4th Report of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, your petitioners observe with great surprise
and alarm, that a power is recommended to be given to the
Commissioners of dividing livings, even during the lives of the
present incumbents, and taking away from them any portion of
the value, and this to he dime without the consent of the pa-
tron, unless the patron be a layman or a bishop. A just and
equitable protection is therefore granted to'every species of pa-
trons except deans and chapters ; in fact, is granted to all those
who arc present in Parliament and can complain of injustice,
and is denied where the injustice can be practised and the corn-
plaist be disregarded with impunity. Your petitioners would
consider :his recommendation of the Commissioners, if carried
into a Jaw, as a very gross act of partiality and oppression. In
the proposed reduction of prebends, your petitioners humbly
request that it may be specially provided that the houses of the
vacant _ prebends within the precincts of the cathedral, may
continue under the control of the deans and chapters, so that
unfit end improper persons, may be kept out of the precincts of
the cathedral, and the same order and decency be preserved
there which ought to characterise any place dedicated to the
residences of ecclesiastical; personages. Your petitioners ob-
serve with considerable alarm the following passage in the 4th
Report o? the ' Ecclesiastical Commissioners :—" We have
already pointed out the necessity of making some alteration in
the Statutes of the respective chapters, by which the times and
periods of residence are regulated, we nosy recommend
that the visitors of the respective chapters should make
those alterations, as . well as such other alterations as
may be necessary, in order to render the Statutes and
rules consistent withthe altered constitution and duties of
these bodies." The archbialiops and bishops cf the commission
being themselves visitors of the greatest part of the chapters in
England, the Commissioners have in this paragraph recom-
mended a very serious and important increase of the power of
the bishops, and which may in many instances be exercisedao
the great prejudice and injustice of your petitioners. Your
petitioners therefore pray :hat the powers proposed to be given
to the visitors, of altering and creating rules- for the future
government of cathedrals may be few, definite, and such only
as change of circumstance may strictly require, and that the
present members of chapters may rot be harassed by new
and vexatiQus regulations, but suffered to live under the
rules to which they have been aceustomed. There is, in fact,
nothing by which your petitioners are more alarmed than
the existence of a -central board, sheltered by general and
indefinite powers, armed v..ith a public purse, and inflamed
by a zeal for change. Such tribunals always fall under the
absolute influence of some active individual, become a cloak
for tyranny, and a source of endless vexation to the indivi-
duals who are subjected to their irresistible power. As a re-
medy against this evil, your petitioners humbly request that'in
any Bill which in your wisdom you may choose to enact for
the constitution of such Commissioners, you will give them
powers clearly and plainly defined, and nothipg more than the
necessity of the case requires. Your petitioners wish to live
tn her the control of laws, and not under those ill-defined and
general pou;c:-3 %%lila, to the great alarm of your petitioners,
arc asked for the present Occasion.
" SYDNEY SMITH, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's.
THOS. SINGLETON, Archdeacon orNorthumberland.
P. HUNT, 'Vice-Dean and Prebendary of Canterbury.
W. F. BAYL AY, Prebendary of Canterbury.'
THOS. HILL LOWE, Preeenter and Canon of Exeter.
W3l. 31ACDONALD. Canon of Salisbury.
'l'. MANNERS SUTTON, Sub-Dean of Lincoln."
'l' The late ArchLishop of Cantcrbury's distribut:on of patronage,
in whesc diocese thEr.! are 339 livings, varying from 10/, to 150/. ;
the majority from 50L to 70/.
His son-in-law, Dr. Percy, Finsbury prebend, 1,513/. per an-
num ; Chancellorship of Salisbury, 841. per annum t and fines
from 1811 to 1834, 30,000/. (Bishopsbourne, R. 1,x401; resigned
when appointed Bishop of Carlisle, 2,585/0 ; held by vested
interests.

His nephew, T. Manners Sutton, Great Chart R. 658/. ; Tun-
ital, R. 479/., which he holds with the subdeanery of Lincoln,
1,8401. per annum • in all 2,987/. ; all held by vested interests.
R. Croft, son-in-law, Archdeaconry of Canterbury and Prebend,
9001. ; Cluire st Hoo, 8., 1,2971. ; Saltwood, R., 784/. Total,
2,981/. All of which he now holds by vested interests.
Bishop of Ely (Sparks), eldest son, Chancellor and Prebend of
Ely, 8001. ; Liverington R, 2,099/. ; Gunthorpe R., 534/. ; Lit-
tlebury ( sinecure ), 24/. Total, 3,457/. (besides fines, 5,0001.) All of
which he still holds by vested interests.
His voungest son, 'Prebend and Registrar of Diocese, 700/. ;
Feltwa 11., 1,207/. ; Littleput, V., 1,487/. Total, 2,764/. All
held by vested interests.
His son-in-law (Fardel), Prebendary of Ely, 6501, ; Wisbeach,
1,779 ; Waldbeach, 474/. Total, 2,903/.
Bishop of Lincoln, Pretyman, G. T., eldest son--Prebendary of
Winchester, 600/. ; Chancellor and Canon Residentiary, Lincoln,
2,0001. ; Chalfont St. Giles, R., 6151. • C. Nettlesham,
Wheathamstead, R., 1,356/.—Total, 5,771/.
Pretyman, R., youngest son—Canon Residentiary, Lincoln ;
Precentor ditto, 2,000/. ; Middleton Stoney, R., 900/., not re-
turned, but at least this sum ; Walgrave, R., 900/. ditto ; Wrough-
ton, Sin. R, 700/. ditto, with fines; Master of Hospital, Northamp-
ton, fines unknown, but immense; in all about 4,000/.
Pretyman, John, cousin only—Prebendary of Lincoln, 400?.,
with fines ; Sherrington, R., 631/. ; Winwick, R. 5671.__
Total, 1,238/.
Bishop of St. Asaph's eldest son, Luxmore, Charles—Dean of
St. Asaph, 1,185/. ; Chancellor of ditto, 65/. and fines ; Preben-
dary of Hereford, 300?. ditto ; Broughton, Sin. R., 300/. ditto ;
Bradley, R., —, not returned ; Darowin, Sin. R., 751., exclusive
of fines.

Luxmore, J. H., secundus—Prebendary of St. Asaph, 3821.
with fines ; Llanarmon, Sin. R., 4331. ; Marchaviel, IL, 7081.
Merton, P. C. ;„ Whitford, Sin. R., 7391.
Luxmore, C., cousin—Bridestow, R., 424/. ; Lantcglos, R.,
4741.—T0ta1, 8981.
; Llangmynech, R.,
Luxmore, J., cousin—Berriew, V., 356/
3:941.—T0ta1, 759/.
Luxmore, C. T. C.—Guilsfield, V., 3601.
Bishop of London's brother, Blomfield, G. B.—Stevenage, 603/. ;
swapped for Fulham (in esse), under his Lordship's new Bill.
Smith, John, brother-in-law—Prebendary of Chiswick, St.
Paul's, with fines, about 2001. ; Ealing, 6791., to be exchanged
for either Tottenham, 1,500/., St. Pancras, 1,7001., or St. Giles's,
Cripplegate, 1,830/., which will fall to his patronage by his new
Bill,

•
We have just seen an engraved plan of a tesselated
pavement which was discovered in the parsonage of Bishop-
stone, county of Hereford, in the year 1812, while some la-
bourers were digging for a drain. The engraving is executed
with considerable ability, and the subject of it forms one of the
most curious antiquities ever discovered. The place where i t
was dug up is supposed to have been the site of a Roman sta-
tion. .Mr. Friedel is the publisher of this singular engraving,
and deserves the thanks of all antiquarians for the skilful man-
ner in which he has caused it to be executed.

NETTLES.—In Scotland I have eaten nettles, I
have slept in nettle sheets, and I have dined off a nettle table-
cloth. The young and tender nettle is an excellent potherb,
and the stalks of the old nettle are as good as flax for making
cloth. I have heard my mother say that she thought nettle-
cloth more durable than any other species of linen.— T. Camp.
in the Now Monthly.