The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-17 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

THE WESLEYANS AND THE
BREAD-TAXERS.
TO WESLE YA N ELECTORS.
Crt ArSTIA BRETHREN, —Our venerable founder John
Wesley was a powerful advocate for purity of election,
a genuine friend to liberty, and emphatically " the.poor
man's friend ;" and I have the pleasure of knowing that
many of oar ministers are nobly following in his steps.
But 7 altv, it is a matter of notoriety that the major part
of them are found warmly upholding the proud preten-
sions of the aristocracy, and of the State priests who de-
spise and trample on them, while they are but too indif-
ferent to the wrongs and woes of the working-classes,
by whom they are chiefly supported. This is
accounted for by the well known fact, that
they are governed generally by the few preachers who
constitute the LOntimi Committees, which Committees
are bat as the puppets of a certain celebrated Doctor
whose Church and" Tory feelings are inspired by the
hope of a mitre, and whose servile organ, the Watchman,
is inca:atntly trying tt., coax or frighten those of its
readers who detest it:; politics yet rejoice in the religious
information it. affords. While all this is lamentably true,
it furnishes us, ray fellow Wesleyans, with the strongest
reasons for strenuous ant: simultaneous exertions on be-
half of the starving multitudes around us. For how-
ever well it may suit thc., mushroom Doctors, of the
gorgeously furnished "Centenary. Hall" to .draw us,
for their own aggrandisement, nearer and nearer
to the Senti-Popish Church of England ; and how-
ever well it may suit our mushroom squirearchy
to strut and swell a.s the self-important supporters
of the haughty aristocracy, whom they attempt
to imitate, it does not suit us who live and labour among
the people, and who believe that Providence has scattered
its stores profusely over the earth, with a design that all
men shall be fea and sustained by mutual succour ; it
does not suit us, either as men or as Christians, to
stand coldly by and see thousands of our countrymen, and
among them numbers of the truly pious, sinking under
the iron hands of oppression and poverty, while they
are almost tempted to " curse God
.and die," while a
mere handful of tyrants are lavishly squandering in foreign
lands or on foreign luxuries, those millions which have
been wrung from the poor by a monstrous system
of monopoly,. and which might have supplied them
plenteousty With foreign corn. Merciful God !
can any of those who call themselves thy servants,
and who teach the children of the poorest in their Sun •
day schools to say to thee " Give us this day our daily
bread''—can any of them dare to ask thy blessing on the
present state of things ? The very idea is dreadful.
Then let us, my fellow Wesleyan, resolve and act aS
those who must give an account to God and not to our
preaehers, many of whom, though sound divines, are
sorry politicians. Let us, at the approaching general
election, honestly and fearlessly support those men, and
those only, who will'pledg:i themselves to put down
all - monepolies, especially the horrible corn mono-
poly."e came forward nobly in behalf of
the negi" o slaves, although Doctor Bunting then
disgracefully deserted us for the sweet smiles of a Tory
lordling. Let us, with equal earnestness and vigour,
exert ourselves on behalf of our oppressed and starving
countrymm ; and if our learned and our unlearned
Doctors will shut their eyes against the signs of the
times, and remain sticking in the venerable mud of
Toryism, tilt:re let us leave them to meditate on Pro-
verbs xi. 26, "Ile that withholdeth corn the people
shall curse him," while we labour diligently to obtain
the blessedness of " him that considereth the poor," and
thus testify that in this respect, at least, we are wiser
than our teachers.

In conclusion, allow me to recommend that the name
of every Wesleyan minister who exerts himself directly
or indirectly in favour of the corn monopoly candidates,
be forwarded immediately for insertion in The Sun, Pa-
triot, anl Leeds Mercury, in order that the people may
be able to recognise their dear (bread) friends and pas-
to:. Your's, with every sentiment of fraternal regard,
June. 1841. 1 TRUE WESLEYAN,

LORD BROUGHAM.
(raoM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The appear.ule or Lord 13rougham at this critical mo-
ment appear.; to have scored the Tory press, and to hale
rieed his brother Peers. The " Protestant ascendancy"
Standard led the way by regaling its pious readers
with the shocking impropriety or. his passing through
the ranks of the good people of Bonlogne as they were
going to church os Sunday. The 7 tines fbllowed up
by a spiteful attack on him, containing amongst others
the f&dlowing pass::ge :-77" It was Lord Brougham who
was the statmehest maintainer of those unjust and mow-
tur..l c'an'es (in . the New Pour-laws) which exempted
the seineer.of • innocence' from the obligations of main-
taining his children, and threw exclusively upon the
weaker a.:ld more helpless of two joint Sinners the whole
temporal consegtunees of the sin."
The memory of the Times is nt fault here. For Lord
Brougham, substitute Charles James Lord Bishop of
London, between whom and the Bishop of Exeter some
very warn language passed on these very clauses. It
is a singt:!nr instance of Tory effrontery that, identified
as many of their most eminent men in both Houses of
Parlia:nent are with this most obnoxious clauses of tht
New Poor-laws, they yet persist in attempting to throw
the otiiitui of the Measure on their political opponents.

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THE CENSUS.
(Fro::: tit!! Manchester (uardiake.)
A.::;;wIC ; 2T RICT. —We iitiVe received the following
a3count of tiw populaLioa of the Ardwiok di strict of the
Chorlton Union, in the present month, .Is 4. h the excep-
tion of tiw, township of Levenshuhuo., which, we sup-
p Ase, had not been received. We pla',:e it in comparison.
with the returns of the population of the same townships
in 1821. and 1831 :

1821. 1831.11841

Arts ick
l)prisho'n
Gori-,n

9,928
497 838' 2,981
1.5'04 2,421
9r: 1,078) 1,868
3,3:35:10,063:16,498

1/r-iholmc

otal of four Town.ships .

The above figures enable us to .arrive at the relative in-
creai,, of population within the, two. last periods of text
years. • Thus the township of Ardwick had increased irt
population in the ten years ended 1831, by 1,979 per-
sons, or rather more than 56. per cent. uln the ten
years ended this month, it he.; increased by 4,104 per—
sons, or very nearly 80 per cent; being an increased.
ratio of 24 per cent. of progress over the preceding ten
years, notwithstanding the number of houses pulled
down in the line of the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway. The increase in the twenty years is about.
180 per cent ; in other words, this township has nearly
trebled its population in that period. In Openshaw„
there is a still more striking increase. That in the ten.
years ended. 1831, was of :141 persons, or 68 per
cent. In the ten years ended this month, it was
an increase of 1,443 persons, or no less than 172
per cent. increase in the ten years ; the increase,
being 104. per cent greater than in the corresponding:
period of ten years. The increase in the twenty-
years has been 1,784, or 358 per cent. ; in other
words, it has more than quadrupled its population in
that period. In Gorton there was an increase, in
the ten years ended 1831, of 1,011 persons, or 63 per
cent. ; while within the last ten years there is a slight
decrease of 202 persons, caused doubtless by the closing
of the large mills of a bankrupt in this township, and
the consequent migration of the operatives to other
townships. In Rushohne, which is not a manufacturing
township, but has lately been selected for 'respectable
residences, the increase of population, in the ten years
ended 1831, was 165, or only 18 per cent. ; within the
ton years ended this month the increase has been 790, or
73 per cent. In the twenty years the population of this
township has doubled. Taking the aggregate population
of these four townships, which, as we have said, include
one in which there bas been a small decrease within the
last ten years, there would appear to be an aggregate
increase, in the ten years ended 1831; of 3,504, or 5:3
per cent. ; and in the ten years ended this month, of
6,435, or 63 per cent. ; showing the ratio of increase to
have exceeded, by ten per cent., that of the preceding
ten years.

MIDDLSTON.—The following is the result of the census
taken on the 7th inst. as to the population of this town-
ship:—lnhabited houses, 1,441 ; uninhabited ditto, 56 ;
ditto building, 6.—Population, males. 3,837 ; _ forth".
3,894 ; total, 7,731.—1 n 1831, there were in the town-
ship;--Inhabited houses, 1,246 ; uninhabited ditto, 32 ;
ditto building, 13.—Population, males, 3,415 ; females,
3,488; total, 6,9ol—The increase, therefore, during the
or about 12
last ten years isB2a,
per 4c2e2n
tt.LalTesh, e 406rhi
chief'
mealmepsh;,.rlpneerns
operatives is silk-iveaving.. persons,
the
TONCE.—The population of the township of Tong,,, by
the census taken this month is 9,442, and we understand
there are only six empty houses in the township. In
1631, the population was 1,800; so that the inereask.-
during the last ten rears has been 642 persons, or
35 2-3 per cent. The chief employmer tof the working
classes in this township is silk-weaving.

ani;leatsint,gliolrf the
purpose THE STRATEIBOCIE MINIStERSe---11l tettllS.
sympathy with the eight ministers
joit:hlittbrietilnit:tsisitirnsast toifyst,oansblieisdc
orStrathbogie, and to condemn the conduct of the As-
purpose of expressing
semblv. The meeting was most numerous and respecta-
oheltihleati,
ble, cOmprising individuals of all political sentiments,
among which were almost the whole of the most influen-
tial inhabitants. The Provost was called on to preside,
soul opened the business in a verp happy and impressive
address. The resolutions were moved •by Ranald
m,Grigor, Est}, and seconded by Mr. Young Leslie of
Kininvie, ; Th 3 meeting WILA nil It. i k
..-..reoset. byseveral gen-
tlemen, whose speeches were listened to with much cor-
diality, and received with great applause : and the ex-
pression of public opinion on the momentousssubject was
warm and enthusiastic in,the extreme. A county meet-
ing for the same -purpose iS to be held at Banff on the
I inst:—Elgiu Courant.

_ .....
A short • tune back. two valuable horses were
stolen from a paddock at Croydon, in which they had
been placed by Mr. Turner, their owner. Information
was given to the pollee, and the particulars of the rcb-
bory were imufethately transmitted in the Hue and Cry
by the railways to the constables of the different towns
in the country, and the information was conveyed by the
Birmingham Itailny, among others, to the constable or
Henley-on-Arden, in Warwickshire. It appeared that
the thief, immediately after taking the horses, started off
across the country, by way of Kingston and Uxbridge,
and made the best of his way down the North-road, and
proceoled to the town of Henley, but the railway train
the fastest traveller, had prepared a rather un-
welcome reception for him, for the constable, being on
the look-out, war etliatcly suspected that the horses were, saw as those stolen from Croydon, and he accord,
tugly took them, and the man who was with them in
his charge, and 14ave information to Mr. Tuvuei, who.
had
dhebiememn
tsent
he
antim.,sdeoswt•tist ttiitlellseannaleeyt,hl7 ately identi-
fied
en and the
next (lay the. prisoner was en ta k be fore a Magistrate,
Cur fully committed for trial.