The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

MUNICI PAL ELECTIONS.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—Our municipal election, which
took place yesterday, has terminated in a more decisive
victory to the Tory party .than they themselves antici-
pated. Out of the 16 councillors elected, 13 are Tories,
and three are Reformers. The three successful Re—
formers are Mr. Wm. Preston, who was returned without
opposition for Vauxhall-ward; Mr. John Holmes, who
was elected for Castle-street, also without opposition; and
Mr. Henry Holmes, who triumphed in Exchange-ward by
a majority of 21 over his Tory opponent, Mr. J. Ridgway.
BIRMINGHAM, NOV. I.—(Tory Staterner.t.)—The
election for town councillors, in the room of those re-
tiring from office, took place this day. In consequence of
the unsettled state of the Charter and the utter contempt
into which the Corporation has fallen, the Conservatives
refused in the slightest degree to interfere, so the Whig-
Radicals and ex-Chartists had the game all to themselves.
YORK, Nov. I.—(Tory Statement.)—These elections
terminated to-dey (Monday) in the return of seven Con-
servatives and five Whigs. On the 9th of November five
Whig Aldermen and one Conservative Alderman go out
of office. The Members of Council who will have votes
in the election of new Aldermen stand as follows:—Con-
servatives, 29; Whigs, 13;—Conservative majority, 16.
The Conservatives have, therefore, the power of electing
all the Aldermen from the Conservative citizens if they
think proper. At all events the Conservatives are
securely in the ascendant for a year to come.
WORCESTER.—The Tories have been moving heaven
and earth, but with all their exertions they have been
foiled, for the Liberals gallantly maintained their ground
—ten of that party and two of the Tories having been
elected to the vacancies.

POOR-RATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stepney-green-terrace, Oct. 30, 1841.
SIR—I am much pleased to see the subject of the
equalisation of the Poor-rates taken tip in the City. It
is one of the many heavy burdens we, at the East end of
London, have to complain of, the burden of the Poor-rates.
Now it is once begun to be agitated, I trust it will not
be suffered to die until it is equalised throughout the
whole county of .111iddlesex. The parish of Islington
pays only sd. in the pound, and some other parishes pay
little or nothing, while Spitalfields, Bethnal-green, and
other parishes adjoining pay four rates in the year, at ls.
to ls. 3d. in the pound each rate, varying only a little,
summer or winter. Although the complaint has begun
in the City, I trust it will not end there, but will be ex-.
tended to the whole of London- and its vicinity—yea, to
to the whole of Englund if necessary—and not cease till
it is altered and equalised throughout. Should you con-
iider with us that a general equalisation of this rate
ought to lm effected, you will be so good as to notice it
in your valuable paper, by calling public attention to the
equalisation of the poor rates ; and you will confer a be-
nefit on many a • rate-payer, besides our ) • humble
servant. A CONSTANT READER.

LAWYERS AND PAINTERS.—A sign-painter
carried a bill to a lawyer once fur payment. The lawyer,
after examining it, said, " Do you expect any painters
will go to heaven if they make such charges as these ?''
" I never heard of but one who went," said the painter,
" and he behaved so bad they deterthined to turn him
out, but there being no lawyer present to draw up a writ
of ejectment, he remained."—Borton -Poo. -

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin—l request that you will be so good as publish the
following in your Paper :
For several years previous to 1839, especially while
residing in Greenock, I was greatly molested by certain
persims making themselves busy in asking, " Why did
you leave the Kirk of Scotland?" telling me "Yow are an
apostate and a traitor to the Kirk of Scotland." And
to my remark that I got a discharge from the "Kirk of
Scotland, it was replied, " And you got a diploma along
with it." "You cannot prove a Legativer. was gravely
retorted, on my denial of a grievous revived slander,
insinuated in a very artful, though apparently careless.
manner. These persons manifested a great anxiety that
I should attend the Established Kirk, and keep silence
on the cause of leaving it. Compliance in this point
would have been a virtual acknowledgment of the truth
of grievous slanders in the shape' of Kirk censure, to
which I had fallen a victim. many years before. The
case was a very flagrant breach of the usual rules of
judicial procedure in tke Kirk of Scotland. These cen-
sures were contained in a discourse delivered in the
parish Kirk of Keith, in the ;county of Banff, and
Presbytery of Strathbegie, Scotland, by the Rev. Mr.
Findlater, Minister of the 'adjacent parish of Carnie, in
the course of Divine Service on the Sabbath day. The
following passages of Scripture formed rather the sub-
stance than the subject of the said discourse :—Rom. i.
28 (regarding the preceding verses I am not confident),
ii. I to 6, 17 to 24, xii. 9 to 18; Hub. x. 26 to 31, Psalm
1. 16 to end ; the lii. Psalm 107 was sung, and a para-
phrase Rota. ii. from verse 4. These passages were in-
terspersed with these, and the like sentences, " 0 man,"
" 0 Christian," " He has given thee wealth, which thou
appliest to thy sinful gratification, and yet thou art not
satisfied ;" " Thy blasphemies, thy lies, thy talebearings,
and thy uncharitable judgments, thy treachery, and
fraud !" and the passages of Scripture reprobating the
impious arts and practices of Simon Magus. All these
put beyond a doubt the intention of applying the dis-
course to an individual. I was not questioned on any
of these counts by any Elder or Minister, or I would
have declared (as I do now) that of these impious arts
and practices, or of any other of the same nature, by
wish, word, or deed, or of any of those agencies not
human or common, reputed to be resorted to with impi-
ous intention, lam and was entirely ignorant and inno-
cent ; and also that the alleged breach of the seventh
Commandment was entirely false and groundless. These
two are a sample of the falsehood of the others. Mr.
M`Lean, the parish Minister of Keith at that time,
denied any knowledge of any such transaction, or of any
records regarding it. His letter has been thrice pub-
lished. Dr. INPFarlane, of Greenock, when a member
of the Commission, refused to receive a memorial which
I preferred to him. A solicitor-at-law in Edinburgh, Mr.
Mickle, disadvised any application to the Kirk authori-
ties ; and so I have no other resource but to apply to get
this published, in order that I may for the future be re-
lieved from those insults and injuries from which I have
suffered so much in time past (as I believe), from a mis-
taken motive of religion, and ignorance of the merits of
the case. WM. SUTHEIILAN:),

Late officer of Excise in Buckie, Keith, Greenock, &c

CENSUS of the UNITED STATES.

[The following epitome of the Census, prepared from
the official tables laid before Congress, is taken from the
New York Journal of Commerce.]

EPITOME OF THE WHOLE
TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED' STATES, MIMI:TING THE
GENERAL AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF EACH DESCRIPTION
OF PERSON BY CLASSES.
FREE ;WHITE PERSONS
Mates

Females

6,939,342