The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

17th urges the payment of Tithes from the authority of the
Liw of Moses. '

" Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which,
though mentioned elsewhere, it will not b amiss to repeat a
little more largely of in this place; I mean the grant of Tithes.
The Charter runs thus :

" I, Ethelwulph, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the
health of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent
resolution of granting the tenth partof all the lands throughout
my whole kingtoin to the Church and Ministers of Religion,
&c. &e.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic-
tion the second, at the Feast of Easter."
The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in-
duced several learned men to believe it spurious. But without
entering into the controversy, I shalt content myself with ob-
serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England
claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual
possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of
the Council of Calcuith, held in 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chas-
ter, therefore,lis not to be considered''a forgery, it seems at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth
part of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—
Page 111, Rapin's History of England.
" The plan which I have to enfold may at first appear start-
ling, . . . . to introduce within the Christian Church.
It may appear to encroach by th.)st who have strenuously ad-
vocated the sacredness of the clergy's income, and entered
their decided protest against any reform being necessary, as re-
lating to ecclesiastical affairs."—Espilon Theta.
" The King, Henry the Fourth. repreienting to the Parlia-
ment his great want of an estreortlinary aid, the Commons
went in a body and addressed him, That without burdening
his people he might supply his oceasions by seizing the revenue
of the clergy.' The Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop wele so prevalent with the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, -so the Commons were
famed to find other means to supply=. King's..oceasions ;.the
clergy gra e.t e4:-.. 't .—Penth and a-half. ig-e• 495.
4. The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
( Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the Kirg in order to save the rest."—Page 509,
Rapin's History of England. (1. )—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628,
14,662.

" No mention, Bishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, ( which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au-
thentic book in the world). Daring all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and the Church appear to have been sup-
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious."—See
Selden on Tithes, and Barb. Rem. 169.

" Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the
tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants."--2 Black. Corn. 21.

From the above readings the following scale is 'deducible :
Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quarte.n loaf a :severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the
hungry"—and its denunciations are upon those who arc unmind-
ful of " the child of misery ba}tised in tears."
Ethelwulplt's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, 31. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translatior —A tenth of a tenth taken on
produce, trds. per cent.
Hebrew —A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, Gs.
per cent.—An Insight to " Forced Interpretation."
We cull from the " blaze of eloquence" of immortal Milton
the epitaph for the natron of this work—" Revolutions of ages
do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse."

" In the House of Lords, the debate being on; he state of
Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, The Noble Lord had in-
sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right..
He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be-
lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament."—(Hear, hear.)—See Morning
Herald, June 20, 1823.
There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10
per ect.t. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,000/. netted him 500/. per annum, paid to the
State 501., under the operation of the tithe composition, an
outlay of 5001. subjects the cultivator to the sameso/. ; this, in-
deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs."
" The alarm excited by announcing a proposed continuance
of the income tax was now beginning to operate ; and the city
of London commenced an opposition by presenting to Parlia-
ment, on Feb. 8, two petitions against the tax, one from the
Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council, the other from
the Lord Mayor and Liverymen, both expressed in strong lan-
guage, respecting the odious and inquisitorial nature of the
tax. The Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts
to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fastened
by popular clamour and party manoeuvres. This attempt re-
ceived a final defeat by a petition, presented on March 18, by
Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London. The number of signatures was 22,000.
March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the
continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol-
lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the
cry of question, and the House divided, when the numbers were,
for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37.
When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose
in the House, which was re-echoed "y tkie crowd that filled the
lobby and avent*s, and the event was felt Ofroughout the na-
tion rs a relief from an oppressive burden."—Annual Register
for 1816.

" It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy
Examiner, No. 780, " to dabble in chemistry ; to look through
a telescope ; to in.culate for the small-pox ; to abate the viru-
lence of a psi ilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a
cow; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con-
clusive—to read the Bible. And in what has all this pre-
sumption generally consisted? In the anxiety of some men to
knlw more than it was convenient for other men they should
know. The moment the daring inquirer discovered a truth—
a truth !—which threatened to militate against a profitable
system of error, then the ' awful secrets' were invaded—the
ark of the sanctuary' disturbed. Any Barabbas of the day
was milk-white compared with the daring offender : in a word,
' away with him.' Could great men thunder,' says Shaks-
peare, ' there would be nothing but thunder.' Could they
make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there
would be a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.'
Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the
community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
gave permanency to the system.
" Protest." " In our opinion, therefore, the land is sub-
jected to a direct taxation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and
poor-rate, to 33 per cent !"
. _ _

On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn
Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Ilosslyn and Lauder-
dale.--Journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
1827.
"It would shake the foundation of all property in the king-
dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 23, 1825.
" Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Air.
O'Connell, Herald, Dec. 2, 1836.

It is now more than thirty years since the eminent linguist
Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical
of the highest literary character in the country, the "Classical
Journal ;" it is twenty- two years since we became adherents to
his promulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun,
the Exam'ner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted ie matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond lire."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or "the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of
vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and
" a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled
injcstice from the press of England.—We hope this will not be
overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the
Press.

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" What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the
Legislature ? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws—
openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease,
and death on large portions of the community to enrich its
members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton
affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the demand
for and the wages of labour. It plunders the working-classes
to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these
things are the very reverse of its duties. It holds power to
cherish and protect the people, and is highly criminal if it
shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one stick
of the property of the obedient people.'—The Sun, No.
14,8'69. May 6, 1840.
" The Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings,
and the members declared that they did not despair. Neither
do we. Our conviction that the Corn-law is a most iniquitous
impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of
Commons. We be_teve that to preserve such an impost for
any length of time is hevond the power of the House of Com-
mons. The debate and: the division of Tuesday may help the
degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can
neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor
mouthr
maintain it in opposition to the public conviction."—The Sun,
May 28, 1840.
It being spoken by him, " who spake as never man spoke."
Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. " But he (Jesus) answered and said, Itis
t p
written,roceeeh o Man shallut
to carry out, and the majority of a House of Commons to abro-
gate the mandate of the Deity himself, (2) though what we
t not live by b a along,
aof e
Gdod but by every word
it being our purport
submit " may at first appear startling," emboldens us.
This train of thought leads us to entertain the idea that it i
a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,0001.
to 30,000/. per annum should " writhe from the hands of pea-
sants their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf,
and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in-
tellectual character. The countr)'s dignity demands the
abolition.
that her Majesty will be pleased
Therefore we hopeto pro-
mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent
of 501. per annum, ii. per cent. on all houses at 100/. per an-
num ' • two per cent. on all at 2001. per annum ; three per cent.
on all at 2001. uwards at the annual rent-ch
eCI -.arge. This paid
into her Majesty's Exchequer, th ergy to be paid by a gra-

depraved mind
" hear us for our
dusted scale. -
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against her
shallhave cause to say,
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Orme, and Brown, St.
of Wales,the History of England
de Thoyras, translated into English with additional Notes, by
Wright, Bookseller to their Majesties
N. Tindal, M.A., Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, 1732.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
By the Right
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)
By Appointment : Budd and Catkin, Booksellers to her Ma-
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the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and all the Royal Family,
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A New Plan for Church Reform : in a Letter addressed to
the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell. By Epsilon Theta
London: Hatehard and Son, No. 187, Piccadilly.

NEWS FROM THE LEVANT.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 11.—We have to announce the arrival
this evening, at six o'clock, of the Great Liverpool steamer,
from the Mediterranean, having left Alexandria the 24th of
February, Malta the Ist, and Gibraltar the 7th inst.—from the
last-mentioned place only four days and five hours, which is
the shortest passage on record. '1 he Indian mails brought to
Malta were forwarded on the Ist to Marseilles by the Prome-
theus steamer, and have no doubt reached London ere this.
The report of Admiral Elliot's resignation from ill health is
confirmed, and he had arrived at Singapore on the 17th of De-
cember, and left that port on the 20th following, whereby
Commodore Sir James Gordon Bremer takes the command of
the squadron.
Syria had been evacuated by Ibraham Pacha, and the Egyp-
tian army, which had returned to Cairo. Ibraham and WO
men were brought to Damietta by the Hedjibaba steamer
on the 20th of February, and they were the last of the Egyp-
tians in Syria.

The Stromboli war-steamer, bearing the broad pendant of
Commodore Napier, was in Alexandria harbour, and was to
proceed to Marmorice immediately after the sailing of the
Great Liverpool, which vessel he detained twenty-four hours
for the Pacha's answer to certain propositions from the
Porte, which were brought to Alexandria the 20th of Fe-
bruary by the Sultan's steamer the Tahri Bahri, but owing
to Mehemet Ali having given a decided refusal to conform
to those propositions before he is confirmed in the hereditary
Pachalic of Egypt, the Commodore will now remain at Alex-
andria until orders reach him from England.
The Egyptian fleet is hauled out, refitted and ready fur sea;
and commerce seemed to be reviving, many merchant vessels
having arrived and being in the harbour.
The Oriental steamer, with 40 passengers for Malta and
Alexandria, and the Tagus steamer, on her way to the Nile,
were at Gibraltar, and proceeded or, their voyage on the 7th
instant. There were also three transport ships lying at the
Rock.

The following ships of war were lying at Malta on the Ist
instant, viz.—Princess Charlotte, 120 (Admiral Stopford);
Ceylon, 6 (Rear-Admiral Louis); Bellerophon, 78; Ganges,
84 ; Edinburgh, 72 ; Thunderer, 84; Inconstant, 46 ; Carys-
fot t, 26 ; Dido, 18; Wasp, 16 ; Magpie surveying vessel ; Me-
dea, Gorgon, Hydra, Vesuvius, and Phoenix, steam-frigates;-
Confiance and Locust, steamers ; Acheron and Alecto, steam-
packets; Athol, trcop-ship; Numa, transport; and the Mete-
one, Mentor, and Sesostris, French steamers.

The Great Liverpool brings about forty passengers, and will
proceed this evening for Southampton.

CURE FOR MILDEW AND SCALE ON PEACH
Tnacs.—Get some tenacious clay and dilute it with water
till it comes to the consistency of paint. To every gallon
of tie clay add half a pound of sulphur; mix them well
and paint the trees all over. It will he better to apply
two dressing-, and the second must not be put on till the
first is thoroughly dry. The best season is when the buds
begin to swell. To prevent rain washing it off, it is ad-
vantageous to nail mats over the trees, taking them off
when the weather is dry. It will require at least a fort-
night to kill the scale with it. No mildew will make its
appearance till July, and but little then, compared to what
there would have been without the application. If mildew
does make its appearance, syringe the trees wi h water,
and apply flour of sulphur through the rose of a large
watering po;. By dredging it on while the trees are wet,
and leaving it on for a week, the mildew will be conquered.
REMARKABLE WILL.—One of the masters of
the Court of Chancery has this week, in ascertaining who
ate the next of kin to Thomas Spooner, Esq., late of
George's-yard, in Lombard-street, London, deceased,
decided in favour of a poor old woman residing in Sal
ford, (a client of Mr. W. Banks, solicitor, in this town)
by which a surplus fund of personal estate undisposed of
by the will of the deceased, amounting to 15,0001. and
upwards, will now become distributable equally between
her, another, and the widow of the deceased. The proof
adduced by Mr. Banks in establishing his client's claim
as one of the next of kin, and upon which the Master in
Chancery has decided, will also hereafter, if the legal
necessary steps be taken to perpetuate that testimony,
establish the claim of the " heirs at law" to the testator's
real estates in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, all of
which are devised to the widow for life (who is still
living) and upon whose decease, real estates to the
amount of 70,0001. will descend to the testator's heirs of
law, who are at present two poor labouring mer,, one
residing in Westmorland, the other in Lancashire.
Most strange to relate, the testator, by his will, after be-
queathing pecuniary legacies to his friends and t elations
amounting to 25,0001. out of his personal estates, pro-
ceeds as follows i--" I at present (1837) leave my real
estate after the decease of my wife, and the residue of my
personal estate, undisposed 0f.." Thus leasing his next
of kin and heirs at law to make out their kindred in the
best way they could ; he himself having 63 years ago
left his native place in Westmorland for London, wren
about twe,ty-one, and never after recognising any tingle
relative cf his either in Westmorland or Yorkshire.
t'vlae
inquiry has produced an innumerable number of relatives
eacha es
in the family, who neither knew nor before heard of
other,—Pieston Paper.