The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-24 00:00:00

MR. JOHN THOROGOOD.

London, Feb. 15, 1840."'
DEAR have received the inclosed mite from a
warm-hearted friend of religious liberty, with a request
that I will forward it to you. Pray drop me a line to say
thit it has reached you in safety.
The debate on your case, and on the abolition of
Church-rates, so far as Dissenters are concerned, was not
very satisfactory on Tuesday night in the House of Com—
mons; and it wo&d appear that all that we, the Dissenters
of England and Wales, have to expect is a law that will free
our persons from imprisonment, but not our property from
seizure for these rates.

I hear with sorrow of your declining health, and I think
that in your situition you should consult with your friends
as to the proper course to be pursued in the state of the
Church-rate question that has now arisen, and the pro-
spects it exhibits.—l am yours, very faithfully,
Mr. John Thorogood. EDWARD BAINES. c;
( Enclosing lOs.)

Chelm,ford Gaol, Feb. 17, 1840.".
DEAR SIR—I thank you for conveying the tribute of re-
spect from a friend at Halifax, his name not being attached
to his letter, I cannot thank him personally; but I hope;
Sir, you will, on my behalf.
The termination of the debate has not surprised me, for
I fully believe that a proud and overbearing aristocracy
have no sympathy for the honest and industrious classes of
society.

As it regards myself, no one could have devoted more
time, or expended more money, to promote the return of
the supporters of Lord John Russell's Government, than I
have, according to my moans ; therefore I thought, at the
least, he would have endeavoured to procure for Dissenters
the privilege of worshiping their Maker according to the
dictates of their consciences.

With him, as a public man, I feel disgusted at his
dis-
honesty ; and you may tell him, I would rather we tea
thousand deaths, if that were possible, than submit to him.
or any other man, and thereby violate sny principles.
Knowing that God will judge the world in righteousness.
I, for one, spurn his offer of a Bill to rob the just, with
as much contempt as he has treated my present sufferings.
I am sorry that you. Sir, should have retracted what )00
said relative to Mr. Mildmay, for you may rest satisfied I
should- not have been here but -through his dictation. I
beg also to tell you that he, with his warden, waited till
the Bishop came to consecrate a chapel of ease, towards
the building of which I subscribed a sovereign, before
they made up their minds to cite me. It was settled at at
sumptuous entertainment given by Mr. Gepp. one of the
Wardens.

As regards consulting► my friends, I believe you give me
your advice from the beat of motives ; but I tell you, Sir,
no power on earth shall cause me to yield what I know to
be right in the sight of God, feeling grateful to Him that,
be His grace, I am saved from suffering as a murderer, or a
thief, or a►, evil doer, or a busy body in other men's mat..
ters ; and, acknowledging all your kindness, I beg you will
believe me your obliged tied humble servant,

JOHN THOROGOOD.
Edward Baines, Esq., M.P.

_HEROIC CONDUCT OF A YOUNG LADY.
--
A few evenings ago, as a young lady was on a visit to a friend
in the peaceful village of Youlgreave, in this county, a young'
gentleman was escorting her from her friend's house, and hav-
ing to pass a small fish-pond situated in the pleasure grounck
attached to the house, from the darkness of the night he acci-
dentally slipped into the water, and would, in all probability,
have been drowned, had it not been for the determined resolu-
tion of the young lady, who, at the imminent peril of her own
life, rushed into the water, and succeeded in grasping firmly
hold of her lover's arm, and safely brought him again on terra
firma.—Derby Reporter.
The Silurian complains that the following fed
accident has been magnified into murder •—" On Friday week,
the woman employed by the Victoria Iron Company, in carry-
ing the letter-bags up from Aberbeeg was blown into the river
Ebbw at a dangerous part of the rood, about two miles front
the latter place, and was drowned. The body was found seve-
ral miles from the place where the accident happened, the flood
in the river being at the time very high, but the bags have not,
yet been recovered. [We (the Silurian) perceive by the.
London papers that some of their correspondents have magni-
fied this accident into a horrible murder. The reports fur-
nished during the late disturbances were in many instances ex-
aggerated in a manner highly reprehensible. We hope that
such practices will in future be discountenanced by our London
Contemporaries, as the injury done to business by continual
alarm is incalculable.]

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B IRTI-i
On the 14th inst., at Charlton, Dorset, the lady of G. Sloane
Stanley, Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Brixtun-rise, the lady of Edward Har•
vey, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Adlestrop-house, Glocestershire, the
Lady Eleanor Cathcart, of a son.
On the 22d inst., in Upper Gower-street, the lady of Edward
Esdaile, Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., in Chester terrace, Regent's-park, the lady
of Robert Lyall. Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., at South-bank, Regent's•park, Mrs. d.
Previte, of a (laughter.

On the 19th inst., at Clifton Church youngest son cf the
Rev. James Vaughan, Rector of Wrazall, Somerset, to Har-
riet, daughter of the Rev. John Hensman, Minister of Trinity
Church, Clifton.
On the 20th inst., at Walc-_,t Church, Bath, Langton Browell,
Esq., of Kentish-town, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Cap-
tain Leigh Lye, of Bath.
On the 22d inst., at St. James's Piccadilly, Mr. Augustus
Coleman Crocker, youngest son of 'Jonathan Crocker, Esq., of
Hanover- park, Peckhun, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of
Charles Cliffe, Esq., of Regent-street.
On the 22d inst., at St. Pancras Church, B. Harting, Esq.,
Albany, late of Calcutta, to Louisa Le Neve, widow of the late
G. F. Le Neve, Esq., Barrow, Suffolk.
Oa the 22d inst., at Charlton Church, Leopold Redpath,
Esq., of Blackheath-terrace, to Jessie, only daughter of Thomas
Sherman, Esq., late of Charlton.

DIRD.
On the 20th inst., at Cranford, Middlesex, Wiliam Cane,
Esq., formerly of Pall-mall, aged 61%
On the 21st inst., Henrietta Mary, second daughter of Corn-
wall Reynolds, Esq., of Hackney.
On the 21st inst., in Fitzroy-square, Thomas Wilkinson,
Esq., formerly of the Bombe) Civil Service, aged 81.
On the 16th inst., in Upper Berkeley-street, Benjamin Prep.-
ton, Esq., late of Calcutta, aged 58.
On the 17th inst., at Soham, Cambridgeshire, John Slack,
Esq , aged 53.
On the 18th inst., at Turnham-green, Susan Eliza, the wife
of James Home Renton, Esq., of the Admiralty.
On the 18th inst., at Cheltenham, Lady Drake, widow of the
late Sir Francis Henry Drake.
At Crofton Lodge, Hammersmith, Robert Cory, jun., Esq.,
of Burghcastle, and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, aged 65.
On the 2.oth inst., at Grays, l'..*sex, Matilda Bedford, youngest
sister of Just: ua T. lledf.rd, lar; it,2 rl•in -s,t; eef.

London: Printed and Publn.hed by AI fli11)0 () UM/ of
No. 112, Strand, at Mc Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, it t! 0
county of Middlesex.—Monday, February 2401840.

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