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London, England, 1847-06-26 00:00:00

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PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
From the returns made in the week ending June 22,
1847, is 295. 3%d. per cwt.

TOWER HAMLETS ELECTION.
We have been requested to publish the following cor-
respondence:—

" 4, Triangle, Hackney, June 19, 1847.
" Sir,—As an elector for the Tower Hamlets, having
seen that you intend to offer yourself for the representa-
tion of the borough at the ensuing general election, I
beg very respectfully to put to you the questions enclosed
with this; and, as probably the same or similar questions
will be put to you by many of my brother electors, I
shall hope to learn your sentiments upon the subjects to
which they relate through some public channel of com-
munication, since it were obviously unreasonable to ex-
pect a private answer.—l am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
(Signed) " J. M. HARE.
_ .

" Major-General Fox, M.P.
" P.S. As myself a member of the Committee of
Deputies' spoken of, I beg to inform you, should you
not be aware of the fact, that this committee represents
the Dissenting congregations in general throughout the
metropolis, and is charged with the guardianship of
their civil and religious rights."
(Copy.)
PRINTED QUESTIONS

" Recommended by the Committee of Deputies to be
put by electors to candidates for the representation of
the city of London, the metropolitan boroughs, and the
adjoining counties, with a view to ascertain their senti-
ments upon points affecting the civil and religious rights
of Protestant Dissenters.
" 1. If they are prepared to vote against any grant of
public money for religious or ecclesiastical purposes,
whether such money is to be appropriated to the Estab-
lished Churches of the United Kingdom, or to any of the
non-established religious bodies of the country?
" 2. Whether they will oppose all plans for endowing,
either out of the Consolidated Fund or otherwise, the
ministers of any religious body, Roman Catholic or
Protestant?

" 3. Whether they are prepared to oppose any system
of general education, at the public expense, which either
directly or indirectly compels the use of a catechism or
creed, and attendance on any particular form of public
worship?
4. Whether they will embrace every opportunity of
voting for the abolition of church-rates and of the eccle-
siastical courts?

" 5. Whether they will, on all occasions, vote in favour
of extending equal civil rights to all classes of her Ma-
jesty's subjects, so that no person shall be excluded from
eligibility for office, place, or service, on account of his
religious opinions?"

" Addison-road, June 19, 1847."

" Sir,—l. With regard to your first question, I am by
no means prepared to vote against the grant of public
money for ecclesiastical purposes, so long as the money
is to be distributed fairly amongst different creeds and
sects

" 2. I am not aware of any plans for endowing, out of
the Consolidated Fund or otherwise, the ministers of any
religious body, but I will not give a pledge one way or
the other.

" 3. I should certainly oppose any system of education
that compels the use of any catechism or creed, or at-
tendance on any particular form of worship.
_

" 4. I am foi the abolition of church-rates and eccle-
siastical courts, but I will not pledge myself to vote
against them on every opportunity, knowing well from
experience how measures may be mixed up with other.
that may render it inexpedient to vote as the resolution
may be worded.
" 5. Though adverse to pledges, I have no objection
to pledge myself to this question, which is a principle I
have upheld from my childhood.
" I am. Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " C. It. FOX."

Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview wilh the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday.
ENCROACHMENT ON THE THAMES.—(From a COT-
respondent).—Tho quiet parish of Twickenham has
lately been thrown into a state of great excitement by
the attempt of a Noble Lord, the proprietor of a man-
sion on the bank of the river, to shut up one of the
thoroughfares on that favoured and much frequented
water way. Those who have enjoyed the delight
of a boating excursion up the river from Richmond to
Twickenham will remember that immediately below
Orleans House, formerly the residence of the present
King of the French, there is a small island, the channel
between which and the north bank of the Thames is by
far the pleasantest and safest course (when there is a suf
ficient depth of water) for those proceeding upwards
who would avoid the strength of the current
and the chance of collision with the steamers
which now ply in numbers in that locality. This
channel has from time immemorial been open to
its
value public, and, from what has been said above,
value is sufficiently obvious. A few weeks ago the in-
habitants of Twickenham were astounded at seeing
labourers at work driving stakes and constructing a dam
or causeway between the Orleans house bank and the
island in question, and on inquiry it was found that they
were acting under the directions of the Noble Lord
alluded to. The work has proceeded, and the channel is
now effectually blocked up. It appears that without an)
previous notice to the parishioners the Noble Lord ap•
plied to and obtained the sanction of the Conservators
of the Thames to this very vexatious infringement on
the rights and comfort of the inhabitants of Twicken-
ham. The work appears to be one of pure wantonness,
unattended with any possible benefit to the projector,
and is regarded by the parishioners with the most in-
tense disapprobation—as, independently of the stoppage
of the right of way hitherto enjoyed, the dam is sure
to cause an accumulation of filth and to prove a serious
nuisance. All attempts made by the parishioners
to induce the Noble Lord to stay the progress of his
vexatious work having failed, the inhabitants met in
vestry, and, after strongly reprobating the proceeding,
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