The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-25 00:00:00

CHURCH-RATES.

This being the season of the year for such unholy
contests--we tike from the Huntingdon Gazette, the
following, case of clerical invention in order to secure
the triumph of Church despotism, through the artful and
artificial ascendency of a❑ ambitious country Curate—
over the lay rate-payers _

" GREAT STAUGHTON.—This parish, in the county
of Huntingdon, containing, exclusive of its roads, 5,875
acres, and about 1,300 inhabitants, is a vicarage in the
gift of St. John's College, Oxford, and is in the diocese
of Ely. The present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Mead,
having always resided upon other preferment, at Stud-
ham, hear Dunstable, appointed for his permanent
Curate the Rev. C. Ridley, who, being the most righteous
representative of the Church-militant, thinks, no doubt,
that a permanent Curate should be dignified and dis-
tinguished by the possession of permanent power, has
resorted to the following scheme to sustain it :—Of
the total 5,875 acres, 288 were, at the inclosuro, ap-
portioned to the Vicar ; out of these 288 acres he and his
Curate have selected 40a. 2r. 16p. to be let out in poor
allotments, making,in the rate-book 87 assessments, and
75 votes, of which assessments for the poor-rate the
highest is Bd., the lowest ;d., and the average, taken
upon the assessments, 3/d. For a road-rate, the high-
est is 4d., the lowest 4d., the average 11d.; add
to the above 40i acres of Vicar's allotment, 12}
of school land, there are 53a. Ir. 14p. divided
into 100 assessments, which places 87 votes at
the entire and absolute disposal of the Vicar,
Mr. Mead, and his Reverend Curate, Mr. Ridley. For
what purpose, it may be asked, is all this intricate and
perplexed arrangement made, and, consequently, all
this unnecessary and vexatious duty imposed upon the
unpaid parish officers, who must, in their proper turn,
serve as overseers and surveyors of this extensive
parish ? Be it observed, too, that in January, 1839,
information of these facts was sent to the absent Vicar
the Rev. Mr. Mead, with a carefully respectful re-
quest that he would, as he could, relieve the then
overseer and his parish front this state of things ;
but the Reverend Vicar declined to comply with
so just and reasonable a proposal, thereby confirming
the means and manner which his Curate had contrived
and adopted to uphold their joint parser, by compelling
the collection of pence and halfpenny votes, in order to
prop the perilous position of the Curate in his office of
Guardian, to appoint all or any of the parish officers,
and above all, to carry the disputed question of Church-
rates, in a parish rapidly filling with Dissenters, some
of whom have just purchased a site for a ❑ew chapel,
undaunted, undismayed, and for ever indignant, as
men must be, at this, and the exercise of that re-
vengeful priestly power which turned out of their
farms two most respectable men, for having voted
against a Church-rate—turned out, as we know, solely
and entirely through the Curate's representations to their
non-resident landlords, as well as with the previous and
timely knowledge of the non-resident Vicar himself, the
Rev. Mr. Mead, who was written to on the 11th of
February, 1839, and requested to interfere with his un-
doubted power to prevent it. Thus is a parish of
5,875 acres, borne down and swamped by 53 acres cut
up and collected into 87 vexatious vicarial votes ; votes
too, manufactured out of land, which, as Vicar's land,
is exempt from the payment of Church-rates ; where,
then, we would ask, is the charity of these Christian
Churchmen—where is the justice of these Right Rev.
rulers in using this exempted land for the purpose of
making votes to force Church taxation upon others ?
Great Staughton, April 22, 1840."

TEMPLETON THE MURDERER.

The following letter has been received from the Home
Office, in answer to an application for the extension of
the Royal mercy to Thomas Templeton, accompanied
by the recommendation of the Jury :
Whitehall, 16th May, 1840.
Stn,—The Marquis of Normanby having carefully
considered your application in behalf of Thos. Temple-
ton, I am directed to express to you his Lordship's re-
gret, that there is no sufficient ground to justify him,
consistent with his public duty. in advising her Majesty
to coruply with the prayer thereof.—l am, Sir, your
most obedient, humble servant,

S. M, PHILLIPS.

James Ritchie, Esq., 129, Ingram-street, Glasgow.
We understand that the petition to the Queen from
the citizens in behalf of Thomas Templeton, now under
sentence of death, was sent off on Wednesday night,
with upwards of 11,500 signatures attached.—Scots
Times.

GRAND DINNER AT THE MAN-

SION HOUSE TO THE JUDGES.

On Saturday the Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress gave a very elegant entertainment to the
Judges, according to annual custom at the Man-
sion-House. There were amongst the company, Lord
Chief Justice Tindal, Lord Abinger, Mr. Justice Lit-
ticdale, Mr. Justice Williamz, Mr. Justice Bosanquet,
Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Erskine, Baron
Gurney, Count Hartiz, Governor of Lombardy, Mr.
W. Fielding, M. P., Sergeant Halcomb, Sergeant
Channel, Archdeacon Wilberforce, Dr. Burrows, Mr.
Frederick Salmon, Mr. S. Prior, Mr. Deane, Mr.
Tilson, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Cheshire,
Aldermen Sir C. Hunter, Sir W. Heygate, Lucas,
Thompson, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir J. Cowan, Harmer,
Lainson, Humphery, Maguay, Gibbs, J. Johnson, Sir
G. Carroll, &c.

After the customary loyal toasts were drunk,
The LORD MAYOR rose to propose the health of her
Majesty's Judges. He could not in adequate terms
express the sense he entertained of the distinguished
honour conferred upon him by the presence of so many
of the Judges at the festive board of the Mansion-
house ; and he rejoiced at the substitution of an ordi-
nary day for the Sunday, on which it was the practice
for Chief Magistrates to invite the great ornaments of
the legal profession to be their guests.—(Cheers.)
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL returned thanks in a
few words expressive of the very great pleasure and
honour which he and his brethren felt at the manner in
which the toast had been received, and proposed the
health of the Lord Mayor, after having warmly noticed
the judicious manner in which his Lordship performed
the duties of his office, and the very elegant hospitality
with which he and his Learned Brethren had been re-
ceived.

The LORD MAYOR next proposed the venerable
Archdeacon Wilberforce and the Church. The
Church had, his Lordship said, been given before, in
conjunction with her Majesty, but he could not resist
the temptation to propose it again, and unite it with
the name of so distinguished an ornament. The name
of Wilberforce, which was made for time, was nobly
supported by the son of the distinguished advocate of
Slave Emancipation.—(Cheers.)
Archdeacon WILBERFORCE returned thanks in ap-
propriate terms.

- The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of the
Governor of Lombardy, and stated that he felt great
pleasure in showing to foreign individuals of eminence
the hospitality of the Mansion-house. Subsequently
his Lordship noticed his other guests, and particularly
alluded to Mr. Salmon, the founder and the surgeon
of the Charterhousc-square Hospital, for the cure of
fistulous diseases. by whose great exertions multitudes
were daily relieved from the most poignant misery.'
The party separated at an early hour, after having
expressed high gratification at the entertainment. The
Lady Mayoress was, we are glad to see, well enough
to remain with her Ladyship's guests for some time.

CULTIVATION OF WHITE MOSS.-A por-
tion of this wild and hitherto unproductive tract is now in the
progress of cultivation, and will this year, it is fully expected,
turn out some fine crops of the corn and vegetable, which have
been sown upon it. The tract consists of seventy acres.—Man •
ckcster Guardian.

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.— A singular
occurrence, or rather a combination of occurrences, took place
in a cottage at Panfield last week. On Friday, the 15th inst.,
one of the inmates was married; the following morning the
bride became a mother; a few hours after a sister of the bride
died ; and thus a marriage, a birth, and a death took place
within twenty-four hours in the same family, and in the same
house.

On Thursday night, the 14th inst., the heaviest
load of merchandise that perhaps has ever been collected into a
single train, was transported from Liverpool to Manchester, by
two engines, the Elephant and the Hercules. The train con-
sisted of one hundred and six waggons, laden with cotton,
sugar, and various other articles of produce, occupying an
entire length of about one quarter of a mile. The
weight of this mass of matter would, no doubt, exceed 600
tons ; the average weight of the waggons, merchandise in-
cluded, being nearly 5i tons, the two engines 2i tons, and their
tenders 16 tons. On arriving at the foot of the Whiston Plane,
the engines were, of course stopped, to permit the division of
the train into the requisite number of manageable portions,
and the whole load, in three or four successive trips, was soon
transferred to the summit, proceeding to the Sutton Incline ;
a detention occurred in the descent, in consequence of the
breaking of a chain which coupled two of the waggons; but,
alter this interruption, no accident took place, and the train
arrived in safety at the end of its journey.—Manchester
Guardian.

EXPORT OF IRON BOATS.—The ship Can-
ton, which sailed from Liverpool on Tuesday last for Demerara,
took on her deck a number of iron flat-bottomed boats or
punts, to he used for the conveyance of sugars and other com-
modities in the rivers and shallow waters of that colony. Each
of these boats is in two pieces, for the convenience of carriage.
The pieces are made to fit amid-ships, and have but to be ri-
veted together to be fit for use.—Manchester Guardian.

HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.--Ve have
great pleasure in stating, that, after an unexampled depression
in the silk-s .icking trade for the last three years, which almost
seemed to denote its utter extinction, an increased demand has
arisen, particularly at Derby, for that manufacture; tha num-
ber of frames employed in that place being reduced to less than
a third of the number in 1836. A great number of workmen
having left, hands have become so scarce, that one of the mas-
ters has been under the necessity of coming to Nottingham to
seek for workmen. There is some hope that the stoekingers
may yet see better days, as long stockings are coming gradually
into fashion ; the full dress of the higher classes is invariably
long hose, with elastic knee-bands. Should this become the
reigning fashion, to wear full-fashioned hose, and cut-ups for
under wear be no longer required, the frames now in existence
could not supply the demand, and stockings (as was the case in
Sheffield in the hardware manufactures) would be at a pre-
mium•—Nottiagham Journal.

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A

CLERGYMAN.

The inhabitants of Ncwchurch, in the Forest of Rossen-
dale, in the county of Lancaster, have presented their late
Curate, the Rev. Thomas Sewell, with an elegant pocket
Communion Service of silver, and a purse of gold contain-
ing thirty sovereigns and a half. This handsome compli-
ment was paid to Mr. Sewell on Friday last at Hasling-
den (three miles distant from the scenes of his former
labours+) to which place his e:erical services were trans-
ferred about a month ago, under an engagement to the
Rev, William Gray, the incumbent, and where a deputa-
tion, headed by George Hargreaves, Esq., waited upon
the Rev. Gentleman for the purpose of the presentation.
The address of Mr. Hargreaves, and the acknowledgment
of Mr. Sewell, accompanied with the evidently deep sym-
pathetic interest of all the gentlemen present on the occa-
sion, showed that what was done was indeed more than
ceremony, and afforded unequivocal indications of the pre-
valence of a state of feeling of nu ordinary character.
The paten bears the following inscription :—" Presented
(with a purse of gold) to the Rev. Thomas Sewell by the
inhabitants of Newchurch and the neighbourhood, as a
small token of respect and gratitude for his efficient services
during his residence there as Assistant Alinister.—May,
1810."

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, MAY 22.—The average price of wheat
last week was 23f. 23c., and that of rye 15f. 22e.
The importation of both, therefore, is duty tree, and
the exportation prohibited.
The Commission appointed for an inquiry into the
state of the commerce of the country met on the 19th
of this month. It chose for its President M. Def.:-
maisieres, and for its Vice-President M. do Focre.

His Excellency the Baron Van Zuylen Van Nye-
veldt, Minister of State of the King of Holland, and
his representative at the London Conference during
the protracted negotiations which led to the treaty of
19th April, 1839, arrived at Brussels on Tuesday
evening.

Several Commissioners, instituted by the Govern-
ment, are now proceeding to value the several scienti-
fic collections which the city of Brussels is on the
point of selling to the State, in order to assist in
paying its debts, and particularly to enable
it to pay the sums due in consequence of the dis-
turbances iu 1830 and 1834. It appears that the
original valuations made by the appraisers of the city
will undergo very great curtailments. Thus the cabi-
netsof Natural History, which the city appraisers valued
at 800,000 francs, are valued by the special commission
at 200,000. It is said also that the library of the city
of Brussels contains in reality no more at the most than
half the volumes which it has till now been supposed to
possess.

The Senate met to-day and appointed two Commit
tees to examine the budget of the Ministers of War am
of Justice.

FRONTIERS OF TURKEY, APRIL 7.—A serious in-
surrection has taken place in Servia against the new
order of things, and especially against the appointment
connected with it, of the new Counsellors of the Prince.
Since the national assembly on the accession of Prince
Michael there have been in several parts of the country,
at first secretly, and since openly, meetings of the peo-
ple, and public voice has everywhere pronounced against
the Counsellors and against the restriction of the
Prince's power by them, and accompanied by a wish
that the seat of Government may be transferred to
Kragujewatz, and that bounds may be set to the gene-
rally believed squandering of the public money. It was
said that only Wuesitsch and Petroniewitch, the two
Counsellors, and some Members and Senators, were
averse to the removal of the seat of Government, and
that of 13,000,000 piastres which were in the Treasury
on the resignation of Prince Milosch, only 5,000,000
are left and, therefore, 8,000,000 have been expended
without any satisfactory account of them. The Govern-
ment sent Protitsch, the Minister of the Interior, and
Golub, the President of the Court of Appeal, to the
places which were most threatened, and to purify the
people ; but they seem to have had little success, for
yesterday some thousands of armed men, some of them
persons of distinction, unexpectedly appeared before Bel-
grade to obtain a hearing for the wishes and complaints
of the people. The Prince himself; accompanied by
the Metropolitan. the Russian Consul, and the Kiaja
of the Turkish Pasha hastened on the first informa-
tion as far as Toptschitere, about a league from Bel-
grade, to meet the people, where he exhorted them in
the most earnest manner to return peaceably to their
homes, and to make him acquainted with their wishes in
a legal manner through the medium of the autho-
rities. He was, however, obliged to content himself
with the promise of the insurgents to advance no fur-
ther, and expressly not to attempt to enter the city
of Belgrade. On the other hand, they demanded that
the Counsellors should be dismissed and given up, as
well as Stojan Simitsch, Vice President of the
Senate, who is chiefly accused of having dissipated the
public money ; lastly, they required the transfer of the
seat of Government from Belgrade to Kragujewatz.
Several persons said plainly, if Prince Michael wants a
Counsellor, who can be more proper for such an office
than his father ? He assisted to gain our freedom, he
governed us well, we lived happily under him,—why
should he not now assist our Prince, his son ? Amidst
such expressions, Prince Michael left the rebels, if
they deserve to be called so, and returned to Bel-
grade, where the greatest anxiety is felt for the conse-
quence. Great fears are entertained for the tranquility
of the city. Patroles traverse the streets in all direc-
tions, to procure order ; the two Counsellors,
Wuesitsch and Pctromcivitsch, have taken refuge in the
Turkish citadel ; the Metropolitan has sought an
asylum at the Austrian Consul's. It is not known what
has become of Stojan Simitsch, the Vice-President
of the Senate. His brother Alexo, the Minister
of Finance, is at Pesti], in Hungary. The Turkish
Pacha has called the whole Turkish population under
arms to protect their houses ; the regular troops arc
confined to the citadel, and he threatens, on the first at-
tempt of the insurgents to penetrate into the city, to
fire on them with cannon. God knows how this crisis
will end. It is just reported that the two above men-
tioned Counsellors (who with Simitsch, were the chief
agents in the overthrow of Prince Milosch) have for the
present voluntary resigned.

The Russian Consul and the Turkish Pacha have
sent couriers to Constantinople.
VIENNA, MAY 13.—We learn from Presburg that
their Imperial Majesties were received with the greatest
demonstrations of joy. There was so much business to
be clone that the Diet could not be closed yesterday, as
it first intended, but it will be to-day. The sittings
have lately continued without interruption, and the bu-
siness was peformed with great rapidity.
It is generally reported among the Greeks here that
Prince MiloLch of Servia, will shortly visit Vienna.
THE HAGUE, MAY 19.—The sections of the Second
Chamber met to-day to consider the project of law on
the responsibility of Ministers. We hear that there was a
great diversity of opinion among the members. Some
were vehemently opposed to the insertion of such con-
stitutional securities into the fundamental law, while
others thought the proposed law insufficient.

AMSTERDAM, MAY 22.—The //andc/s/dad says,
"We have learned, with the utmost astonishment, a
change which the Government has proposed in the
eighth chapter of the fundamental law. It effaces the
most important enactments, and takes away guarantees
for the future, which are esential to it. It proposes
to substitute for the eighth chapter, consisting of twelve
articles, six others. This eighth chapter relates to the
army.

DUTCH FUNDS.—ASISTERDASI, MAY 22.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto;ditto 5 per cent.
Anion Svadic,4% per cent 92 12%
Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent 76% 76%
Commercial Company, 4!, per cent lBO 18814
Ditto (li' 33 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. lOO% 101%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 98% 99
Exchange on London, One month ll 92%
Two months ......
—Dutch Papers, May 22.
BELGIAN 1. UNDS—BitusexLs, MAY 23.
Actual Debt, 2V, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 112%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 957k
3 per Cent. 75
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, 4 N,per Cent llO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............
National Society . —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, May 23.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 15
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Font- per Cents. lOl%
Three ;ir Cents. -2X,
Bank Shares 1846
—Allgemeine &Ming, May 20