The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

MR. FRERE and the P USE YITES.

Some time since a pamphlet, entitled " a Tract for
these'Thnts," was published and extensively circulated
throughout the United Kingdom. A Mr. R. Norman,
it appears, distributed the tract among his brother pa-
rishioners. This fact came to the ears of Mr. Frere, the
Rector, who sent the following letter to Mr. Norman :
" Cottenham—The Rectory, Aug. 5, 1841.
" MR. NORMAN- I write to inform you that, in pur-
suance of my duty as rector of this parish, I presented
you yesterday to the Bishop of this diocese, for circu-
lating among my parishioners a tract, entitled Tract
for these Times,' tending to dissuade persons from going
to the Bishop to be confirmed; and containing, among
other things that impugn the public worship of God
estab!ished in the Church of England, the assertion
that the Prayer-book does not agree with the Bible.
I have to acquaint you that the punishment for this
crime is excommunication, and that you will be cited
in the Ecclesiastical Court and condemned in costs.
As, however, my sole desire is to vindicate the honour
of God and his Church before men ; and, by making
you sensible that you have been guilty of a heavy
offence against both, to prevent your committing the
like in future ; and as I have no wish to trouble you,
or have you in any way punished, I requested the
Bishop to stay proceedings against you for ten days,
which his Lordship has readily granted. If you, there-
fore, will withdraw all the copies of this tract which
you can remember having circulated among my pa-
rishioners ; and will deliver them, together with as
many more as you may happen to have now in your
possession, to me, on or before Monday next, 9th inst.,
and' if you will further, on or before the same day,
acknowledge your fault in having circulated these
tracts, and will set your hand to the acknowledgement
of it which I herewith send you, consenting that I
shall cause the same to be read publicly in Church, on
some Sunda), which I shall appoint, during the time of
Divine Service, I 'will stay the proceedings against you
altogether. " JOHN FRERE, Rector.
" To Mr. Norman."

Mr. Norman's astonishment increased when he perused
the subjoined communication :

" THE RECANTATION OF ROBERT NORMAN, OF THE

PARISH OF COTTENITAM.

" I, Robert Norman, of the parish of Cottenham, in
the diocese of Ely, acknowledge myself guilty of having
distributed in the parish a tract, entitled °Tract for
these Times,' tending to persuade persons from going
to the Bishop to be confirmed, and impugning the
among other false and wicked assertions,
public worship of God established in the Church of
England ; and,
declaring that the Prayer-book does not agree with
the Bible.. I, Robert Norman, having been brought to
see the wickedness of these assertions, do repudiate and
renounce them ; I am heartily sorry that I have
contributed to disseminate them. I humbly ask for-
giveness of God and his Church, and I pray God not
to lay this sin to my charge. And, further, I hereby
promise and declare, that I will never again, by word or
deed, by. circulation of printed papers or otherwise, op-
pose or impugn the ministers, or liturgy, or rites and
ceremonies of the Church of England. In witness
hereof, Y have this day hereto set my hand.
Cottenham, the day of August, in the year of
our Lord, 1841."
Mr. Norman did not think proper to take any notice
of the recantation, and Mr. Frere, in consequence, for-
warded the following note to him ; and the upshot of
the business was, that Mr. Norman refused to sign the
recantation :

" Mr. ROBERT NORMAN—As I am to see the Bishop
to-morrow, and he will expect an answer, I request that
you will send me, by ten o'clock this evening, anything
in excuse or extenuation which you may have to offer to
his Lordship, that I may present it to him.

- - " Your;, truly,
" Monday, Aug. 10, 1841."

" J. FRERE.

The Liverpool Correspondent of The Sun com-
plains, that Captain de Peyster, of the packet-ship
Sheridan, instead of delivering the parcels to the agents
for the papers, sent his bags to the Post-office, by which
much time was lost before the news the papers contained
could be made public. The complaint is not grounded
strictly on fact. Captain de Peyster not only allowed the
bags to be opened on board his ship in the river, but
every news-agent present was . permitted to take the
parcels addressed to him. It is quite true, that a few
parcels went to the Post-office, but they were mixed up
with letters, and there was not time to sort them for
prior delivery. A lonz acquaintance with the comman-
ders of the New York packet-ships enables us to say,
that they are, one and all, extremely anxious to accom-
modate the public, and particularly the presS, by the de-
livery, immediately on their arrival, of the newspaper
parcels ; nrd We have stated sufficient to show, that
Captain de Peyster did, on his arrival on Friday last, do
eYt•ry thing that any reasonable man had a right to ex-
pect to facilitate the delivery of the papers contained in
his bags.—Liverpool Albion,
RATHER TOO BOLD.—A few evenings since
two men entered the Rising Sun public-house, having
generously determined togive Mr. Foxwell, the landlord,
the benefit of their patronage, and ordered a supper,
which Was quickly dispatched. They then retired to
bed, and, on the followlng morning ordered breakfast.
They pretended, by their conversation, to be rather un-
easy i one said to his eonipanion, 4' I wonder where
master 11 staying, he . ought to have been here before
this time ;" then, addressing himself to Mn Vuxwell,
ho said, "We put a lot of etilvA to keep last night at
Farmer Blacker's, living
a little way off, and expected
master here" to let us haVe ti money to phy for
them, and also to discharge our reckoning ; but if you
will lend me eleven shillings, this man can go on with
the cows, and I will wait for master and pay you the
whole together." The apparent stfaight-Oirivard honesty
of the man oceited lid sliseinhili, and his request was
granted, Ur, FOXwelli however, thought it would be
prudent to see the cows discharged, and to get a further
acquaintante with hie gnosis. Away the men trudged,
with heeds as cheerful as the "Rising Sun ;" but all at
office a cloud passed and darkened the scene one of
them was taken veryill, and was assisted into a house
by the way-side, during which his
unfeeling ennipanion,
made himself scarce, and ran away: . The sick man
wondered where he was gone, and clesire.dMr: Powell
to step out and look for him.
tiaring done so, behold
the almost dying man suddenly recovered, and, seeing
the coast clear, started off at a greyhound pace i so that
when tho landlord returned, a rt!..,., Minutes afterwards,
from his unsuceesstlil search, the whole truth came upon
him like a thunder,clap, and he at once found that he
had been made the dape o e it 00,,p1t of vagabonds, of
whom EC) ghat a httrnber are about,
‘Li
wits."—Soniceset County Gazette,
4., ;,_5 al, non-
sense -
YOUNG LADIES AT TAiltni.---, t 1 ail non-
sense about young ladies not eating 4, living by their
; growing girls con-
sume a very respectable quantity:of victuals, and although
sume mothers encourage them in the hypocrisy
of eating
a substantial meal in private, that they may dine more
genteely at table, misses in expectation of a husband may
credit us when we say, that a man who is stupid enough
to believe that their soft cheeks and plump limbs are
produced by starvation, is not worthy of their hand ; he
who really possesses their heart should never have cause
to suspect them of hypocrisy or deceit; even to the eat-
ing of an apple, or the disseCtion cf a giblet pie.—Charn-
bers's London Journal.Several large
been sce:.: Crossing I" - -B • ; 1 'ir ~ 11. Y 414 : '
v epnuti, • a), Li , . ~ e al-
flecks of wild fowl have lately
ance indicates a severe and early winkr.—Somerset
County Gazette. sk

BER 19, 1841.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
Although the subjoined list of favourites reaches
within one of a dozen, it is right to state that not
more than three were in any serious demand, viz: The
Melody colt, The Young-'un, and Henri Quatre. The
first of this trio stood at 4 to 1 at the opening, but was
backed freely at 3 to 1 before the books were closed for
the day ; the influence of this movement on Lord
Palmerston's mare will be seen below—she is friendless.
The Young-'un was backed repeatedly at 9 and 10 to 1,
leaving off second favourite at Bto 1 (layers). Henri
Quatre began at 12 and finished at 10 to 1, having
several backers at both quotations. Some small sums
were laid out on others at odds, which we doubt not,
would have been willingly betted again, particularly
in the case of Wardan, against whom 30, 12, and 15 to
1 were laid—we have guessed his price at 16 to 1 without
pledging ourselves for its being the actual one. The
Derby prices, stated underneath, agree almost in every
instance with those reported from Newmarket last week.
CLOSING PRICES.
. 6 to 4 agst John Day's lot
4 to 1 agst Dawson's lot
8 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's lot
3 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Melody colt—taken
8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's The Young-'un
10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Henri Quatre—tkn.
11 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen
12 to 1 agst Mr. Denham's Compensation—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Meililam's Broadivath
12 to 1 agst Lord Palmerston's Iliona
16 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wardan
20 to 1 agst Mr. Holnics's Vulcan
20 to 1 agst Mr. Eddison's The Ruler
25 to 1 agst Mr. Greydon's Roscius—taken
The Dey of Algiers, Gibraltar, and Taurida are scratched
DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila—taken
20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hester colt—taken
26 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clarke's Lord of Holderness—t.
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barrier—taken
40 to 1 agst Hon. S. Herbert's Nessus—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clarke's William Le Gros—tkn.
A large sum was laid even between Palinurus and
Sideboard.
GOODWOOD RACES.—The Molccomb and Lavant
Stakes for 1842. and the Drawing-room, Nassau, Sussex.
and Racing Stakes for 1843, and the 300 Sovs. Stakes
for 1844 close during the Newmarket Houghton Meeting.
NORTHALLEIITON RACES—FRIDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, with 10 added. Once
round.
Mr. Dawson's Temptation, 2 yrs (Lebrun) 1
l'ylr.'Susith's Sister to Henriade, 3 yrs
Mr. Kitching's Priscilla Tomboy, 2 yrs
Mr. Bell's Rory O'More, 3 yrs
The Gold Cup of 1001. Two miles.
Mr. Wormald's Millepede, 3 yrs (Noble) 1
Mr. Eddison's Recorder, 5 yrs 2
Cul. Cradock's Pagan, 3 yes
Lord Zetland's Diavolina, 3 yrs 4
Mr. Vansittart's Smollett, 6 yrs
WLLSHI'OOL RACES—Fr:mai/.
The Innkeeper's Purse and Sweepstakes, mile and
half, were won in four heats by Mr. Barrow's Catharina,
beating Cattonian, Kitty Cockle, and Fat Jack (fell.)
The Selling Stakes, mile and half heats, were won by
Mr. Pilkington's Isabella and the Galloway Stakes by
Little Brunette.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
The Brighton harriers will meet on Wednesday, at
Patcham ; Friday, at Dyke Road—at a quarter to eleven.
The Brookside harriers on Thursday, at Telscombe
Tye—half-past ten.
Mr. Long 's harriers on Friday, at Crowle Common—
eleven.
Mr. Bulteel's hounds to-morrow, at Slade ; Friday, at
Bideford Bridge—half-past ten.
The United pack on Friday, at Roverie's Gorse—eight.
Mr. Robertson's hounds, on Wednesday, at Leaming-
ton Branch ; Friday, at Howick ;• Saturday, at Morriek
—half-past ten.
The East Kent harriers to-morrow, at Blacksbourn
Hill ; Thursday, at Lydden Street ; Friday, at Barn-
sole Mill—half-past ten.
The York and Ainsty hounds to-morrow, at Walsford
Bridge ; Thursday, at Pill Moor ; Saturday, at Mil-
bourne—half-past ten.
The Earl of Harewood's hounds on 'Wednesday, at
Becca Mill ; Friday, at Deighton Bar—half-past ten.
The Eddlethorpe hounds on Wednesday, at Castle
Howard Inn ; Friday, at Pluckharn—half-past ten.
The Cleveland hounds on Friday, at Court-Green—
half past ten.
. Mr. Tudway's hounds to-morrow, at Charlton Mus-
grove ; Thursday, at Nettlebridge.
Sir W. Carew's hounds on Thursday and Saturday—ten.
'rlie F. B. H. on Wednesday, at the Punch Bowl Inn,
Trelissick ; Friday, at Freewater Gate—ten,
The Wynyard hounds to-morrow, at Shincliffe ; Fri-
day, at Seaham Lodge—half-past ten.
The Whitecross harriers on Thursday, at Marsh ;
Saturday, at Culverton—ten.
The Perth honnds to-morrow at Delvisie ; Thursday,
at Lintrose; Saturday. at Murthley Castle—half-past ten.
The Devon and 'Somerset stughounds to-morrow, at
Harford—ten.
Mr. Villebois' hounds on Thursday, at Stradsett Park
—eleven.
Colonel Wyndham's hounds on Wednesday, at Dune-
ton Hill—half-past eleven. •

CHARTISM AND ITS ADVOCATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin—ln my former letter I ventured to disapprove
of some of the plans of the Chartist leaders, but, as
they were past errors, I did not comment upon them
at much length. I have now to allude to what, I hum-
bly venture to pronounce one of the greatest mistakes
En their tactics. I allude to their plan of opposing
and overruling all public meetings, excepting those
called for the purpose of advocating the Charter. I
call it a mistake, because I wish to speak in the mildest
language of the conduct of men who are suffering under
the cruellest oppression, and who, I believe, are ho-
nestly striving to rescue themselves from misgovern-
ment. I term it a mistake, too, because the plan is cer-
tain to prove a failure ; and such abortive efforts tend
only to weaken and discourage their party. Public
meetings aro never called unless by a nume-
rous body, who take an interest in the question for consi-
deration—requisitions, placards, and advertisements are
put forth stating the objects of the meetings, and a
certain organized support is thereby leueeed.
~Now to
oppose successfully such a movement, the ite;:..rtists
must issue their placards and advertisements, and g• t up
a counter-movement. This requires money as well as
men. Before people will subscribe funds for such pur-
poses, they begin to consider what good is to be effected.
The more sagacious of the working men stand aloof;
and thus we have seen that, in nine cases out of ten,
either no Chartist opposition is attempted, or, if it be,
that it fails ; and even where such a plan succeeds, it
is difficult to see what good object is attained to com-
pensate for the expenditure of time, money, and labour,
necessary to secure success. I wish it to be understood
that I do not dispute the right of the very poorest man
to teke a part in all public meetings ; but that is a rea-
son why be, of all others, should be favourable to the
principle of holding public meetings to discuss every
popular grievance. Such meetings are the poor man's
parliament, where he can proclaim his views and wants to
the whole world. But besides being a mistake in t ictics,
the plan of upsetting or interrupting ell public meetings,
is, I think, unjust in principle, whenever they are held
for the purpose of forwarding an object in which the
working classes are interested ; and, by way of illustra-
tien, I will allude especially to the Anti-Corn-law meet-
ings. When'it was lately recommended, by a leader of
the Chartists, to oppose the public meetings against
the Corn-law, it was almost calculated to make the
dead bodivo I Cobbe.t, Hunt, and Carte e.gilt, start
from their graves!
I am old enough to remember all that passed when
the Corn-law of 1815 was enacted. London has never
since witnessed such scenes as then passed under my
personal observation. Tens of thousands of people
surrounded the House of Commons, assailing the ob-
noxious Members as they entered, dragging them from
their carriages, tearing their clothes from their persons,
and tossing them upon the backa of the crowd like so
many scare-crows. The police force was unable to
guard the avenues of St. Stephen ; the military were
called out, and took possession of Parliament-street. In a
word the Corn-law was passed, whilst the indignant
populace were kept at bay at the point of the bayonet.
In the riots which, for three days and nights afflicted
the metropolis, several lives were lost, houses were at-
tacked, and Mr. Robinson's mansion (the author of
the Corn-law, and now Lord Ripon) was gutted, and
the furniture thrown into the Street. S multaneous
rieingt took place all over the north of England.
Public meetings were called in the principal manufac-
turing towns to protest against the Corn-law. Many
plates in the south of England sent up petitions to the
same effect. A meeting was called by Lord Darn-
ley, and the landowners of Kent, in favour of the law,
but the people attended and carried a resolution against
it. I remember, too, that William Coblett, then a
farmer at Botley, got up a requisition to the High
Sheriff of Hampshire, signed by 600 persons, for a
county meeting, in which requisition he stated that the
farmers had no interest in dear corn and high rents,
and that the Corn-law could not benefit any body but
the landowners.
I remember the effects of the Corn-law of 1815,
the distress, want of employment, and fall of wages
that ensued for several years, and, in fact, have
continued their baneful operation to the pre-
sent day. The great popular movement for radical
reform grew out of the passing of the Corn-law of
1815. The manufacturing districts were never quiet
freM that. !inlet At all their public meetings they
i 4 ' 1-1 Of
raised aloft the banner of " and the
leaders and ()Wore of the movement n f.v or failed to
declaim against the Corn-law
government. When, in 1816, asclimax the
°I
m
Henry
enr Hunt held bit
great meeting in Mancheste the first flag pi Intod updn
the field of Peterloo, borer,
the inscription of c‘ 110
Corn-law." That champion of the people was elected
Member for Preston, ten years later, upon the same
popular cry ; and one of his first efforts in the House
of Commons was a motion for the repeal of the Corn-law.
ti
The people (I mean e working class) proved, by
their determinedfaropposition to the Starvation Act, that
warethey more alive than the upper classes
to those •
"'ls which all are now able to see
have arisen from it. The people saw, with 10-
stinctive and unerring sagacity, that a law

framed for the avowed purpose of shutting out food
from our shores could not be other than a hurtful law
to them. All the ffmsy sophistries of educated and
selfishly heartless politicians, weighed as dust in the
balance in the unsophisticated minds of working men,
against the one glaring fact, that the Corn-law was cal
culated to make bread scarce and dear. If I wanted an
argument to convince a Corn-law repeJler of the policy
of making universal suffrage the law of the land, I
would remind him of the fact, that if the people hth!
had votes in ISIS, the corn-law would not have been
passed. I believe that the Corn-law has done, and is
doing, more to degrade, impoverish, and weaken the
working class, and more to rivet the chains with which
the aristocracy have bound the people, than any other
act in the long catalogue of legislative crimes under
which we are now suffering. Believing this, I
have seen with deep sorrow the sad mistake
into which the young Radicals of the present
day have fallen, in offering frequent opposition
to the Anti-Corn-law party. They are thus fighting
the battle of the aristocracy, and, if they wish for proofs
of their error, let them mark the cheers with which the
Duke of Richmond bailed the announcement the other
night in the House of Lords, that the Chartists were
opposed to the repeal of the Corn-law. I have observed
that some of the Chartist speakers do not scruple to
argue obliquely in defence of the Corn-law ; and of them
I shall only remark, that they are, unfit to lead the
people, since they must be ignorant of their best in-
terests. In most cases, however, they are found heartily
joining in condemning the Bread tax, but objecting to
the attempt to repeal it, on the ground that it is in vain
to expect to succeed with the House of Commons as at
present constituted. The Chartists are therefore advised
to oppose the agitation, on the plea that the middle class
cannot succeed without Ovir aid, and they wid come
ever to their racks, in despair, and go for the Charter.
Upon this most important practical point I should wish
to offer a word or two of comment.

The Reform Act has given a great share of political
power to this midi& class, whenever they choose to
exercise it. The ten-pound franchise is a very different
state of things from the borough-mongering s 3 stem, and
although the electors are hampered and trammelled by
aristocratic influences, they are now able, whenever
driven by distress or tecessity of any kind, to carry a
middle-class measure of reform, without the aid of the
non-:lectors. The present sufferings of the electoral
class are forcing them to take up the corn question.
The aristocracy see this, and, with their usual cunning,
they are prepared to play the game of compromise.
The present Corn-law is, therefore, condemned by all
parties—by Peel and Buckingham, as well as their
aristocratic rivals, Melbourne and Russell. The only
question now is, what law shall be substituted in the
place of the present one ? The next six months will
decide this. I repeat, the middle class can carry a
middle-class measure, without the help of the nen-
elector s, but they can do no more ; with their aid they can
carry a thorough measure o f justice to the whole people.
Under these circumstances I suggest that the working
class enter hew thy into the agitation, on one conoition,
that theAnti-Corn-law party go for Me total and im-
mediate repeal of all taxes on bread and provisions.
No meeting ought to be held, and no petition signed,
for less than the entire measure of justice to the whole
peopls. The aristocracy will use every effort to
present this junction of the middle and working
classes. They will spend money in profusion to save
their monopoly ; wad they will endeavour to play the
game of 1819 over again, by bribing some of the leaders
of the people to betray them. I believe that the
landowners wid risk every thing, up to the very point of
an overthrow of the monarchy and a social convulsion,
before they yield up their darling food monopoly ; but,
spite of their rage and desperation, they will be forced
to surrender their blood-stained booty, if the middls
aed working classes are united ageinst them.
In advising this union, I do not wish to see the
working men lose sight of their right to the suffrage.
I believe they will never eejoy equal laws
until they have a voice in the Legislature. I could add
the expression of my disapprobation of the culpable
apathy of the middle class to the wants and interests of
the masses ; but this is no time for feeding class jea-
lousies and dissensions. We have arrived at the time
when the question of the Corn-laws has become the
practical question. It must be decided next year—nay,
in a few months. lam anxious that the middle class
should not agree to a fixed duty, and have an excuse
for neglecting the interests of the working classes, by
appealing to the fact, that the latter refused to aid in
carrying the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-
law, when such aid was necessary to enable them to
effect it. Most happy shall I be to live to see this
object attained ; because I am convinced that if the
teeth and claws of the wolf be extracted, there will be a
far better prospect of wrenching from his ravenous maw
the remaining rights of the working class.
I am, Sir, &c.
Oct. 14. AN OLD RADICAL.

BOROUGH OF REIGATE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stu—As an elector of the borough of Reigate, I
feel exceedingly anxious that you should assist us, by
your powerful influence, in the cause now pending
against the overseer of this parish.

I deeply deplore the want of your assistance during
the late election, feeling persuaded that so valuable an
auxiliary as the press would have considerably improved
our position on that occasion.
I fully rely that the legal proceedings which have
commenced will be decided in our favour, and thus
effect our political redemption from that vassalage
which has hitherto bound us. And here I would ob-
serve, that much gratitude, on the part of the Liberal
electors of the borough, as well as of all lovers of civil
and religious liberty, is due to Dr. Bedford, for the
zeal and perseverance he manifested in attempting to
destroy the great influence of the Somers family, and
of elevating our borough to the proud position of a free
and independent constituency.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Reigate, Oct. 14,1841. GEO. PIPER.

MORNING SUN