The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-15 00:00:00

RENEWED TITHE WAR.

ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN.

Tuesday a Middlesex Patty Sessions was held in the
'workhouse of the Holborn Union, Little Gray's Inn-lane,
for the purpoiii of bearing the complaints of the Rector,
fee Rev. kir. Robiton, against upwards of twenty parish-
ioaers, for retbela to pay tithes.
The lillebtrates present were—MrsM‘William, Chair-
man; Mr. felseekinnon, Mr. Russell, Mr. Armstrong, and
Kempahed.
It appeared that no tithe had been paid by any of the
recusants since 1836, but the summonses were issued only
for the claims of the years 1839 and 1840, as the Magis-
t ates have no jurisdiction in cases of tithe due more than
t so years.
The first ease called on was that of Mr. James Sher.
endine, owner of the houses Nos. 21, 22, and 23, Fril—
rood's Rents, from whom the sum claimed for two years'
tithe was 21. 16s.
Mr. Shermendine being asked why he did not pay the
emend, stated that the houses in q\ 'lNion were not tithe-
able. Tho first claim made was thee of the last Rector,
Beresford, who, after much litigation and contention
rith his parishioners, excused the houses in question of a
}.art of the sum claimed, on account of the poverty of the
inhabitants, and the matter was supposed to be finally set-
t ed in 1835, since which time no demand bad been
Inade, and the defendant had no notice of the revival until
Saturday morning, when he received the summons to
'f:hich be now appeared. He denied altogether the Ree-
f is claim to tithe upon these houses, repeating that the
q estion was first raised by Mr. Beresford.
Mr. Turner, the Rector's Attorney, said that the right
of the Rector to tithes from the premises in question, and
f:orn those of all the persons now called upon to pay, had
been established by the Court of Chancery six years ago,
t nd, in point of fact, the defendant had recognised the
vector's title by paying, in 1835, according to the decision
cf the Superior Court.
Mr. Armstrong—Why has he not been applied to since ?
Mr. Turner—The Rev. Mr. Beresford did not press his
claims afterwards whilst he remained in the parish. He
s se, for the remainder of the time, satisfied with,establish-
Leg the right of the future incumbents. There are a Brea
teeny in use parish who will not pay now.
Mr. AaMeTßONG—There was forme:ly a great pert of
tile parish not sneered with buildings, and until those spaces
teere filled up, no tithe was claimed for the vacant inter-
vals. This desuetude seems to have given rise to the ex-
roption claimed for tho houses since erected in such
),InCCF. It was a great pity that no agreement was come
tat the time when it was attempted a few years ago. I
g enerally differed from Mr. Beresford upon most subjects,
tat I could not help thinking that his proposal at that time
tees very moderate. Ho proposed to commute the whole
tithe for 5001. a-year, and if that proposal had been ac-
t ptei, a great deal of irrlt4ion aid expense would be '
reided. The question seems to be now as unsettled al
cssr. I have a very greet objection to tithes myself; but
fter the decision of the Ceuta of Chancery, and the pay-
catS mer'e by those pales thealseber. I think that
1...tt,n hero as Magiatrataa, we trust errforce the law.
The" defuldent said hat in consequence of the poverty
t f the persons who occopi:d his houses, he could not pay
1. e tithe.

Mr. MoXILLism said that be would be glad to exempt
lie defendant on that pima, if he could do otherwise than
!minister the law as Le found it. He aiked Mr. Turner
)w long ha would allow the defendaut to take Lr pay-
tlent?

Mr. Tema said be would give defendant any time he
riked. It was not the Rector's wish to be harsh, but only
t establish ::'i right. In those cases he would not ask
c',Rn for corm.

It was thou decided that the sum claimed should be paid
iv `2l days.
The nom else was that of Mr. Chaplin, No. 10, Gre-
s le.street, z Ito was summoned for JO:. A person who
a. :ended fir the defendant paid the amount, under a ptc-
e. against the iletfe:ity cf the decision agaiavt him.
hire. Hewertl, of No. 53, Gray's inn-lam::', was.surn-
tneeed for 165., the amount of two years' tithe. for whlch
Turner, upon her pl a of poverty, consented to take
8 . it being, he said, only his Object to establish the right.
Mr. Purdy, of 45, High Holborn, summoned for two
yt ars' arrrars cf tithe, amtiutiting to 1l , said, that what he
objected to was thet •err thirg that file. Turner wanted,
et6,:ablithieg the right."
la 1333 Mr. Bell, the Rse-
ti bttorrett, took advantage cf in iny of the inneiterits
1) false preweeet., stAtirig them to git: hiie .1 small por-
t .a of tee sure deintruled, by way or set:liritt the mat-
te for ever, but really for t'a pu rise or et:ter-tett it
trxiti the face of the collector's book that they had
I, .d, and tlitreby virtually acknowledeiritt the Rector's
1--11 t. The Rccter published a novice to the whole
yerish, pleugieg himself that if he could not trace the
/ments backio 1776, be won't abandon the eitiir.
1- • (Mr. Purdy) and others einseritel to ttito the
a- LAS word, end said if the claim was so established
t v would not refuse to pay. The R.retor failed,
b eater, and nct.titheianding his pledge summeeed
Li a (Mr. Purdy) to Hatton-garden, wh, re tiie et,te
sets twice dismiise,l, and upon a third summons Cie
!Magistrate gave Mr. Bell (tire attorney) a month's
,ne to make tett a case for the Rector. In Lie meantime,
hr. Bell called upon him (Mr. P.) several times, solicit-
i• g• to settio it amicably, but this was firmly refused, until
r day Bill callel on him, when he was in the hurry of
tetittess, and said if he would give him even 1/. for the
~-nand of 31., lie should have a receipt for time whole, and
v. iuld hear ntr' more of the tithe He was taken
surprise, and to get rid of the annoyance paid
S. e pound, protestitg at the same time against
injustice and the illegality of taking even that much
1. him. It was most unfair that he and others should
be inveigled by such moans to furnish a sort of etitleace
a -ejnst themseives, and then be dragged like criminals
1-. fore the magistrates, at great loss of time, and with
to their business. Ile would never pay the de-
r. Ind until the Rector proved his right.
.11r. llPWrwarst—lt is not our intention to allow the
Ltetor to rough-shod over you. We must make the
der against you ; but if yon wish to make the payment
ttlder a prckast, and to follow up that by ulterior proceed-
/ its, we will give jou some time to consult with your
fellow-parishioners as to what steps you ought to take.
After much discussion it was decided that the order
eaould be issued for payment in fourteen datig, to give Mr.
Tardy time to coeault, as recommended by the Chairman.
In the remainder of the defended cases the same deci-
si 1) was wood to, Mr. Turner saying that he would not
a A; for cootie unless be woe put to further expense.
Mr. T. J. Woeller and three or four others did not ap-
jetar-to their summons, arid judgment being given against
t.L.em, Mr. Turner asked for cost?. . _

Mr. APWIILIANI was not certain the Court had autho-
rty to grant costs. Ho knew it was doubtful in some
lies of disputed tithes.
Mr. Turner rcfsrred to the Act., the 7th and Bth Wil-
liam 111. tt. 6, nod act 534 Goo. 111. e. 137, to show that
i • the pressollassca he wee entitled to costs.
The Msgterates, after a short consultation, said that in
I:,e present ono" they would allow only the smallest sum
Oat would emir the actual expenses, and for this they con-
,lered Gs. ria etch case sufficient.
The Cow lion adjourned,

SECRET LETTER WRITING.—For several
ecks page lealtweee have bee=t received through the Re-
c ester anti Olittbam post-office; by sevaral respectable
la nillea. Them letters are written by some villain,
Mao states tai the son of the parties, who is sta_
ti atm ea such a piece (naming it) is either
k led, droieme4 or hat died of sonic disease; thereby
throwing families into the utmost distress. It
appears tb. rtretei finds out respectable families
aao bare a son abroad, and then immediately
tv ites to them a most distressing letter. detail-
ing their deaths, The family of Mr. Hillier have had
three or four of these letters; also a widow lady lining
it Rochester, having an only son. The writer assured her
that her son was drowned at the place he was stationed
s' road. It however happened that her son was in this
• untry ow leave of absence, and was visiting at Stafford.
S 'me clue, has been obtained to the villain, and vs e hope
r, en to bear of his being placed before the tribunal of
jutice....araidstone Gazette.
CITY ANTIQUITIES.--On Wednesday last the
ourers engaged in excavating the foundations of the
each Protestant Church, in Threadneedle-street, found
• a depth of fourteen feet below the surface a fine speci-
ea of Roman tesselatod pavement, and not a stone with
r inscription on it, as has been erroneously stated. It is
a very perfect specimen of tesselm of the third or fourth
t. ntury, and is about nine feet long and six feet wide.
Moxhay, the proprietor of the ground, has not only
eral ly allowed the pavement to remain as it was found,
e: the base of a pillar near Threadneedle-street, but has
placed over it a platform in order more freely to allow
public inspection. Many per sons have the last few days
a evilhd themselves of the opportunity of witnessing this
• cient specimen of art in the earlier domestic arcbitec-
t re of this country. The site of the chte ch., it may be
resumed, is that of a Roman house of the higher order;
e..d it is singular that within the last few years siinda.r
et ecimens have been found, in nearly a direct line,
n
r artholomew-lane and within tbo Bank, which may show
e connected series of these villas. Unhappily all rem-
) ants of these were lost to the public, as they wcro broken
tta by the workmen, as was the case about two years since
ie excavating the sewers in Paternoster-row, where a fine
t. ass of tesselatod pavement, of about forty feet in length,
a as thus broken up. The site of the late Royal Exchange
lag produced few objects of interest to the antiquary, but
ithin the last few days the excavations approaching
Cheapside have disclosed some solid specimens of Roman
1. asonry, Under St. Bartholomew's Church were found
e me curious structural arches coeval with or antecedent to
e Norman period.
FAST-DAY IN SCOTLAND.—The following
f a Swatch paper gives a strange account of the mode
which sacred days are observed in Scotland. Addi-
t anal watchmen were required to keep in order the then-
sends who poured in by steamboats and railroads to wor-
laip in a city, so renowned for its religion :-_Thursday
1.4 being Fast-day in Glasgow, and the weather being
ce: eedingly fine, we had an immense number of visitors.
On the joint line ti.cre were about 6,000 passengers con-
veyed—on the Greener:a line about 4,oeo—end on the
ar line about 3,000 The Canal Company, too, had far
riOre than they could take in their gigs, and had to set on se-
veral trading boats to convey the surplus. The number
twried amounted to 3.072. The steamers on the Clyde
a ere filled to overflowing, and the Renfrew Railway was
Cll patronised ; but we have not heard the numbers stated
that worst by either cf these cocveyarce.. 'ILc streets
t ere, of sours, much crowded during the day. but all
I cut on quistly. The right. watchmen were increased in
C-30 of need, but there were no disturbances worth notice,
t ad before eleven o'clock the town was es qui_ t as usual "
TRIESTR, APRIL 2.—The accountf;, so many
letters tr# of the breaking out of the plague at Malt
are to ,cd upon as reports but little entitled
credit. At Athens (frore which city we accounts to
t e 27th of March) tight bankrup! cies (some of them
c. msiaerable) have taken place. According, to accounts
at ought by the steamer which arrived yesterday at Dal-
/ wtia, a s regefinary conflict hew t.krri place batweal the
ja.entenegries and the Austrian weeps on the frostier, in '
bich an Austrian Captain was mortally wounded,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Hertfordshire Tories sustained a severe defeat
on Monday last, by the decision, in an unprecedentedly
numerous meeting. of county Magistrates, which goes
to substitute a County Police for the proverbially in-
efficient parochial constables. It is true that the ques-
tion was not strictly a party question, and ought not
to have been so regarded by either the supporters or
opponents of the proposition. It was, however,
wade to assume that character by those who resisted
the introduction of the New Police system. The Mar-
quis of Salisbury being the leader of the Opposition,
the great bulk of the Tory Magistrates, including nearly
all the Parson-Justices (of which there are a large pro-
portion in the Commission), were, of course, of opinion,
with the Noble Lord, to whom they owe so much,
that the old system is preferable to the new one, both
for its efficiency and cheapness ; and that both the
property and persons of the people in rural districts
would be far more secure under their protection than
by the presence of a regularly disciplined and con-
stantly employed day and night police, duly inspect-
ed, and responsible to superior officers for their per-
sonal conduct and activity, and also for the state of the
respective districts committed to their charge. Hap-
pily, although but by an unit, common-aense prevailed
in the Court. over the attempt to perpetuate the parish
constables in the county of Hertford—to the peat,
satisfaction of the bulk of its inhabitants, who see plainly
that the TOfiC3, as a body—there are exceptions, which
become more honourably conspicuous because of their
rarity—oppose the most obvious and imperatively-de-
manded improvements, if by so doing they can but gain
a paltry temporary advantage, which they may be able
, to exhibit as a proof of superior numerical strength.
(From the Standard.)
The real business of the session may be expected to
commence at the re-assembling' of Parliament next
week. The rival bills of Lords Stanley Morpeth—
and
the bill of Mr. Colquhoun for the Ereaneit7ation "of
the Romanists clergy from the mock control ea" the
Government—the motion of Sir Rebert Inglis for ex-
tending the means of religious worship in some approxi-
mation to the wants of the country—will all soon
force themselves upon public attention—and, lastly,
that moat peremptory of all clays, the day of
reckoning, the day of "the budget," is promised to ar-
rive before the end of the month. Of the two Irish
registration bills it is not necessary to say much. The
public of all parties concur in the acknowledgment that
the present vile and abominable system of the Irish
elections cannot be longer endured ; and the Chartists
and Radicals must, by this time, have learned
from Mr. Lyon M'Kenzie, if they did not
know it before, that universal suffrage, such as
Lord Morpeth's Bill would establish), whether es-
tablished with or without " the ballot," is not
only no remedy for fraud, perjury, and corrup-
tion,'but the most effectual means for rendering ail three
of easy practice, and therefore all but universal. Lord
Stanley's Bill may he rejected, but it is impossible that
Lord Morpeth's Bill can ever puss ; and the rejection of
Lord Stanley's Bill will be no more than a simple de-
claration, on the part of the majority, that they
have an interest in the villainies of the Irish elec-
tions,. which villainies they confess to the full extent
of their atrocities, but which, nevertheless, they vote
to perpe:uatc. The principles at issue in the rival
bills is now perfectly clear to every one. Let gentle-
mea take their side in the dispute according to their
notionz of profmand honesty and political morality,
and let the public judge of their conduct when
next they shaq pres.eat themselves IA the hustings.
Equally clear are the merits of Mr. Colquhou'n's
Bill. It in plain that under the exiting law the
College of Ma:, nooth fulfils none of the' conditions
upon which it was first established and has since
been supported. However proper it may be to inves-
tigate the causes of the failure, by a minute inquiry into
the discipl:ae and course of st7i-ly in fie college (and
such an inves:ig-ation were highly luioper), at present it is
eloily,ir u that he institution 112 not pro
muted the loyalty of the itccosa Catholic clergy

ostonsib!e porpoiic), or oven reerimmended itself to the
cure and affection of the Roman Catholic population.
(From the Courier.)

Nobody ill; doubtzd for ono Innin•.nt since the esta-
blishment of the ne s Ponr-law, tiler is nobody out Of
the sph,re of a foo!i3li fox•huntieg squirearchy, that
coequally and eontempraneotrly vita it Corn-laws
could not long be tolerated, and to spcak truth, ought
not to b:. It is impossible in a free country like this
that ono law for t'he ricl!, but another and a totally dif-
ferent law for the poor, should long exist together.
Now, fire and water would ahnorat blend as harmo-
niously together physically, as Corn-laws and new
Poor-laws morally. The principle of each in many
respects is esseotially and vitally hostilc the one
to the other. The Corn-laws are protective of the
interr'sts of one part of the counmunity, that is,
of the agricultural classes in especial ; the new
Poor-laws are destructive of the interests and hap-
piness of every class of the community, save the proud
and pursy landlords of the soil and the millionaire tra-
ders of the city. The question which must come to be
solved therefore sooner or later is, bow long will the
masses be disposed to submit to the one-sided legislation,
by which their old Poor-law protective rights have been
swept away, and replaced with the decimating despotism
of new Poor-law gaolery and starvation, whilst they sec
the upper classes revelling in all the exch.'s:Ye wealth

and enjoyments springing out of property rights well
and rigorously protected. It is not difficult to foresee
the result to which this " experimentalising" 113 W Poor-
law legislation will lead ev,!Etnally ; for an " experi-
..

ment,"although a long one, the new Poor-law is, a

cording t) Sir Robert Peel himself.

The son of a farmer named Packer, seeing that
Captain Seymour and some other gentlemen, who were
out with her Majesty's hounds last Saturday, were about
riding over his father's crops, attempt,,cl to stop them, and
in doing so a pole which lie had in his hand at the time
came in contact with the Coptain's eye. It is said that he
purposely struck Captain Seymour, who contemplates
legal proceedings against his assailant.

MORTALITY AMONGST INFANTS.—On Tues-
day an inquest was held at the Robinson Crusoe, Earl-
street, Lis3nn-wove, before Mr. Wakley, M. P., on the
body of a female infant, aged 13 weeks, that died on
day eight last. The Coroner observed that the number
of sudden deaths which .occurred amongst fine healthy
children under the age of eighteen menths was enormous,
and had latterly very much increased. He could not at all
account for it. Immediately on an infant being found
dead in bed it was invariably rumoured that it had been
overlaid ; but no such thing, not one in a hundr;cl met its
death that way; death was the result of some internal
complaint.

On Tuesday evening between seven and eight
o'clock, a respectable married woman named Mary
Parker, whose husband keeps a chandler's shop, at No.
16, St. Anne's-street, Westminster, and is well to do in
the world, threw herself, as:is asserted, out of a first floor
window. She is about 35 years of age, and is in the
last stage of pregnancy. The husband's account of the
melancholy affair is, that he and his wife having had some
words on Tuesday evening, she ran up stairs into the
front roam and bolted the door on the inside. He fol-
lowed her up and tried to obtain admission, but his wife
threatened that if he forced the door she would throw her-
self out of the window. He kicked at the door and a part
of it gave way, and at that moment he heard the window
raised, and something heavy fall to the ground. He hn-
rnediately ran down stairs and found her lying CH the
ground. From the woman's condition, little or no hopes
are entertained of her recovery.

BRUNSWICK, MA r.cit 27.-1 can give you
from good authority the following intelligence, which is of
much importance to the north of Germany. Our negotia-
tions for the prolongation of the customs union with
Hanover and Oldenburg, have been decidedly broken, just
when they seemed to be near to a favourable conclusion,
and the renewal of them is out of the question. Hanover
Made demands which could not possibly- be acceded to,
without knowingly sacrificing the interest of the country.
During the formation of the dams for the bridge
about to be erected at Springfield, for the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, the workmen discovered a large number of
horns, seven or eiplat feti low the bed of the river. They
consisted of a fragment of stag's burn, a goat's horns,
with a portion of the skull,
rsmall horns of an ox or ram,
and many others of a similar
was also found : it is 1 ft. 4i.
10 in. in length, and harp at the
a woodman's; bill. Those robes ofL
orlga;e
in a good state of preservation; and by which is
character.l A curious knife
,tfhbecibnigalcu'rved like
sore
raraege are all
of the Croydon Bench of
to be the remains of a Roman sacrifice.—Essex Herald.
to the Croydon Union,
belongingmaigiisttrtalttoes,laastpamup%crting
named James Adams, was charged with the following of..
fence, under the New Poor-law. It appeared, from the
statement of the relieving officer, that the defendant had
been chargeable to the union, with his family; and, upon
his representing that he could not get work, a letter was
given to him for a person named Hutchins, who is an over_
looker upon the Brighton Railway, and who has an ar-
rangement with the union authorities to employ the able-
bodied paupers when he is able to do so, r. questing him
to employ him. The defendant returned., and said that he
had made the application to Mr. Ilu'eh.i.,s, and that these
were no more bands required ; and from this statement he
was again taken into the hens^. It was afierwards ascer-
tained that his story was false, and that he had never
made any application to the person to whom the letter
was addres;ed. Mr. Andrews, the clerk to the Board of
GuaHian,-, said the fact was, Ada.ns did not like railroad
work, and he had, therefore, attempted to deceive the
Board, who considered that it was a case they cught not
to pass over. The Magistrate,: at first expressed their
doubt whether the case came within the Act as misconduct
in a pauper. but they ultimately eon: icted the defendant,
awl ordered him to be imprisoned for seven d.p.

TIIE VOLUNTARY PRI NC IPLE.—On Friday
last the anniversary of the Sabbath Schools connected with
the congregational denomination of Dissenters in this town
mts held, when an rateresting address was delivered to
thorn by their beloved p:-tst.t.;r, the Rev. W. H. Griffith,
I 3 A. ; after which they were p!entifully supplied with
I.,:utu-calte and tea. The day was siJent in the most Elie-
re3ting :.ltd delightful manner. Considering the smallness
of t'te town, and the tyrinnizinn.. periecutiag spirit of the
State Church, the number of criii.:n‘n truly a, tonishing,
there being 580 scholars and 70 voluntary teachers 1!!
Chard, April J.