The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

On Wednesday morning avery extraordinary and painful
sensation took place at Norwood, in Surrey, in consequence of
the discovery of the murder of a female, who, it appears, was a
married woman, about thirty-six years of age, and of very cre-
ditable connections. •
The name of the unfortunate deceased was Elizabeth Winks,
and at the time of her death was housekeeper to Mr. Roupell,
a shopkeeper, residing in the Blackfriars-road, who has also a
country-house in the vicinity of Brixton. The husband of the
deceased was also in the same gentleman's service. On Tues-
day the deceased left her master's residence in town to visit her
father and other relations, who re'ide at Brixton. She was
accompanied by her daughter. They left, it appears, about
nine o'clock in the evening to return home. On the following
morning (Wednesday), about six o'clock, as Sergeant Taylor,
of the P division of police, was g ing his rounds, between
Streatham and Norwood, he discovered the body of a female
lying on the gliss at the end of one of the lanes, within a few
yards of a pond ; she was not dead, but in an expiriv state.
It was evident that the unfortunate woman had been brutally
maltreated, as her clothes wet e dragged nearly over her hra-t,
her person being entirely exposed. There were appearances of
severe bruises about her person, filly proving that she had
been struggling with one or more parties. The vicinity of
the grass where' she was found also fully demon=tta.ted
that a violent struggle had taken place, as if the poor woman
had contended with her brutal aggressor in preventing being
thrown into the pond, which was only distant a few yank
from where she was discovered by the sergeant of police.
The situation she was found in is very lonely, and the oily
alternative Taylor, the police-sergeant, had was to run fo- ad-
ditional assistance, which he did without loss of time ; re-
turning to the spot with several of his brother constables, at
which time the deceased still continued to breathe; she was
• conveyed to the Horns at Norwood, where a surgeon 'w as
promptly in attendance ; but the unfortunate woman expired
on her way to the house. The father of the deceased states
that she left his house on Tuesday night perfectly sober and
comfortable. He cannot account for her being found at
Norwood, which was nearly two miles from his house ; nor
was he at all able to give any information respecting the
murderer of his unfortunate child. What is most extra-
ordinary is that the deceased's daughter has not yet been dis
covered. Yesterday several hundreds of persons visited the
spot where the unfortunate person was discovered in a dying
state. Information of the circumstance was forwarded to
Mr. Elyard, a Magistrate residing at Streatham, who has
been very active in his exertions to trace the perpretator of
the murder. The surgeon who has examined the body of the
deceased has given his opinion that her death was the result
of violence. The deceased had been five years in Mr. Ron-
pell's service, and was very much respected. The body lies
at the Horns at Norwood, and information of the subject has
been forwarded to Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, who has
appointed the inquest to take place to-morrow (Saturday).
When the deceased was discovered 17s. were found on her
person, and other trifling property.

SPANISH FINANCE.

MADRID, MARCH 14,

There were 1,490 lots of national property sold during
the last month, valued at rs. 15,568,780 5 ms., which have
fetched re. 40,929,671 20 ms. ; so that the total number of
lots sold since 1834 is 37,573, realising rs. 1,435,912,000
12 ms., or about fifteen millions sterling, independent of
seventy millions, or 735,000/. steiliag, that are still due by
the purchasers of national property in 1821 and 1822, among
whom there is one of the present influential excellene'es.
The censos sold, 1,833 in number, have obtained a capitalised
prize of rs. 24,481,476 5 ms. It would thus appear that,
although the sales have been so extensive, not more than
about two millions sterling have been settled for, there being
still outstanding, as due by the purchasers, the sum of
fourteen millions sterling, fur which Messrs. Mendiz atal,
San Milian, Santillan, Rio Pata, Gamboa, and the many
others who have been at the he'ad of the Finance Depart-
ment are answerable, because, had they not connived with
the fraudulent punthasers, these 1-Itta would have been
punctual is paying up the instalments as they bee ime due.
It is supposed that M. Ferrer will decline a:cepting
Messrs. Matheu and Co.'s offer for the nominal advance of
ninety millions of rials. Should such be the case his Excel-
lency will have acted with patriotic independence, because
it is not, in fact, a loan from Matheu and Co. to Govern-
ment, those gentlemen do not trust Government ; but
they, by the terms of their proposal, expect Government
to trust them.

M. Gonzales writes despondingly from London in
respect to the chance of inducing John Ball to come fo--
ward with some spare cash towards affording a lift to our
sinking financial condithn ; hence the reason why he has
told the deputation that waited on him at Mir art's Hotel,
on behalf of the bondholders, that his mission is quite un-
connected with financial affairs.

THE DAILY BREAD SOCIETY
OR 110 W TO REPEAL THE BREAD-TAX.

We hope the aristocracy will ponder over the follow-
ing recommendation, which we find in a pamphlet en
titled " Daily Bread, or Taxation without Representa
tion Resisted," and learn, if they have not wholly Ins
the capacity to learn, something of the thoughts with
which the brains, or rather the hearts, of the people—
for these thoughts spring from their affections—are
teeming :
'rhoe of us who have read the Bible for ourse!vee, or
who have heard the parson read it for us, will rscolle;t,
that when food was difficult to be obtained in tee Land
of Canaan, the Children of Israel, hearing there was abun-
deuce in another country, sent over a sum of money to
procure it ; we don't hear that even in those barbarous
days, there was any law to prevent fetching corn from
where it was superabundant, to places where it was defi-
cient; or, th At the landowners levied a tax of five-pence
out of every shilling's worth. Jews or battens though
they were, they did not practise such inhumanity as—
with shame be it spoken—Christians, yes, Protestant
Christian English landowners practise now. Weil then,
the example of the Children of Israel is to be followed by
us : but, it may be said, in what manner is the money to
be provided, and in whet way is it to be sent? Thus, a
Society, to be forthwith commenced, to be called, Toe
Daily. Bread Society," having for its. motto, " Give us
this day our daily bread." Each person to eon.," ihsee fee
auto of one penny, and no more, but each member of the
fimily might contribute a penny, so that a man, his vs tie,
and four children, would contribute sixpence. The
Society to extend itself, in every town cf impertani e
throughout England, Wales, Scotland, and It
one million two hundred thousand sigred the petition fur
the Charter, one milim will he a very small number to
be members of the Daily Bread Society. O e mil-
lion persons, contributing a peony each, would raise the
sum of more than four thousand pounds, whic'e it is un-
derstood, they should subscribe for the purpose of fetching
daily bread. It is proposed, that the upper and middle
classes, such as the Members of the Anti-Corn-lvr
League, and the Anti-Ctra law Associations, who arc
anxious for the Repeal of the Bread Tax, should subscribe
more largely, and a separate fund, to pay the expense of
sending lecturers, or accredited agents, to form eecietiev
in each town, and give information on the subject, so that
no part of the pence should be expended except for the
purpose cf purchasing foreign corn. It is also proposed,
that three, five, or more gentler: en, of high standing, at
to wealth, and character, should receive the money, wh n
collected, it being collected for the purpose of sending for
daily bre id the persons appointed in each town should
lurai,hed with printed or engraved receipts, to give to
the parties of whom the pence arc received, that it may
be seen who are members, and how many. We have re-
ceived the information from a quarter where the eccuraey
of the statement may be fully relied on, that, at places in
other countries, separated from us by only a few miles cf
water, which our vessels can cross in a few hour's,' or at
most a few days, the price of corn is less than two-thirds
of the price it is in this country. In Germany, at the sea-
port town of Hamburgh, the price of a quarter, or eight
bushels, of fair average quality, of red wheat, wes,
on the 19. h day of February, thirty-eight shillings;
and at the seaport of Dentate, in Prussia, where the corn
from Poland is brought down for sale, the price of a quar-
ter of fine white evheat, was, on the same day, forty shil-
lings per quarter, whilst the current price in the Corn
Exchange of the London Markets, was, at the sameperiod,
sixty-five shillings per quarter for the Hamburgh red
wheat, and seventy-five shillings per quarter for the
„rm
Dant-
zic white wheat. The expense of bringing wheadt
threero
Hamburgh to this country does not usually
shilli gs per quarter; and the expense from
Dint
great
not usually exceed five shillings per quarter, buteas
and in
disproportion between the prices in thosaex I
exceed
does
England is occasioned by the Bread T
time to time,
owners. This is a tax which fluctuates from
of the seasons, but
Pof the land-
., and varies, not only from the naturoe
by those who carry
from stratagems which are resorted
e, than thirty shillir ga per
on the trade. Sometimes,.
point, but it never remai 's at
it is
suddenly
brought down for a
quarter, at other times it is
tiTadmit more than very slight'
week or a fortnight, to a low
the low point long enough
has for several years past,
and temporary relief.
levied' by the landowners,
tv and thirty shillings per quarter
averaged between twen ;
foregoing prices are stat•sd nart
and on the day the
of
shillings and
bee taxta x
quarter of wheat,
on every •ln the art'c'ew"
nineteenth of February,
eightpence.at oats—from 'which the
i bread of so largo a proportion of the inhabitants of Lanes.
I sbi.e and Yorkshire is made, and the porridge of the
Scotzh—the disproportion in price, and the landlord's tax,
are still more enormous. The current price of a quarter,
or eight bushels of oats, on the days before-mentioned,
was, at the various seaports on the conth.ent of Europe,
from which oats are shipped, from ten to twelve shillings
or quart r; and the price on the London Corn Exchange
was from twerty-two to twenty-four shillings per quarter ;
the tax levied by the landowners, on the same day, fil.een

EV 14,-1

ING EDITION.

the effect being,
p.m.!, to aft",;.rd heuten bread
end sent
shillings and threepertte, per qua:',e7;
that if t'e working man, too
for his family, endeivoured to obtain ostcn mess!.
ehoVen shillings to puichase a quar:er of co .ti, he could not
be allAsei to use them, without paying a farther fifteen
shillings and threepence, for the landlord's tax !I
It is proposed, then, that as soon as the gentlemen sp.
poit.tei to be at the head of the Dri.;y Bi old SJcietY shall
ha a enrel:cd a sufficient number of Members', and received
a sufficient nurnier of pence, they shall purchase corn in
those Countries where it is cheap, whether in Germany or
Poland, and send over ships from England te bring it to thie
country, for the Members cf tho Daily Bread Society. Dur-
ing the tine that the ship cr ships are gone to Germany or
Poland, to bring, the corn, every possible means should be
tzhea to explain the mAter to the Members of the So-
cieous.try ; and they should be taught t repeat ti.c motto of
- t.o, and the inhabiianis generelly throoltb,:ol:
tie St.e;ety, " Gire us this day Our Daily Bread:. TIW
men shcoild chalk it on !i,e Vs-bits cf our stteets ; the little
boo shcoild write it in it copy books ; the little girls
should work it on their samplers; and the women shoul.! in.
scribe it on the fl,:gs and banners of the people ;—so that, by
te time of the rr.is',l of the cirri of the people, they
may thormghly understind the busine's. If only one
ship ho sent, it is propofei that siv! should come to the
seaport cf Goole, in York,,ltive, that being the nearest
point to Le !ds, and the manuf,cturipg town in the West
Riding f Yorlothire ; but there is no reaeon why more
t' an one shi;) should eat he employed, and then they
neigh' came to Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle, London,
or other ports. Now the way the Americans obtained
the suffrage, and exemption from heavy taxation, fur-
nishes us with an example wor:hy of imitative. The
English landlords said to the Americans, " We impose a
tax on your tea."—" No," said the Americans, " sve
shall out be imposed, upon ; we a-e not represented,
and we deny your rght to tax w." A cargo of tea
was sent to one of their !el-ports (Boston), and an
exciseman was sent to c.illeet the tax ; the exciseman
was tarred and feathered by tke Americans, and the tea
emptied into the tic,.2ao, rather than they would submit to
pay a tax upon it. Here, then, we see a practical way of
abolishing C Laws, and obtainieg the suffrage. When
the ship arrives at the destined port—or a few days before
_—let meetings of the Society he held in every town and
city in the kirglom, and let her Majesty be memorialised
to give an order in council for the abolition of the Bread
Tax;—perhaps she may hear and regard the cries of •
famishing people, wanting food. The fruit of 66; own
labour has been sent to purchase it, and who shall stand hi*
txcen s famishing people and their food ? If her Majesty
shall yield the just right; of the people—well; -but if she
slo,uld be ill-athiaed, and reftic it, a largo number of the
Members of the Secicty, say ten cr twenty thousand, should
down to thee! id.—norzhiog orderly, each with an empty
calculated :o hold .bout two pecks or half a bushel_
to precure samples of the e non which belongs to the
mernserr of the Society. It may, perhaps, not he' nem'.
nary, or judicious, to follow the example of the Americans,
ty tarring a,d feathering the Custom-house offsets,
tt tinned on board the vessel ; they will probably offer
no impediment to the pence obtaining samples of their
own corn ; but, if impediments are thrown in the way of
this, and if those irri clime:As rrt of a nature which it
is judged he; ter not to remove, then the course is to refuse
to pay the tax, and to coil ty the corn into the sea. All
this is petfecfly legal, the re Tie have as much right to
sand their pence to buy food, and to send ships to bring it
to England, as the large merchants have to send their..
They have a, much right to send their agents to receive
the cargo and take samples, as the large merchants have
to scad their clerks and w a ermen t) receive their ships
aul draw their samples; and sotre.irnes n erchants, rather
than pay the tax, lock it up for st a eral years, until it be-
comes much injured, and not worth the (men et of ware-
housing; in such cases the merchant; weeu!d hay, seen
gainers had they emptied it int) the set in the first in.
stat7c., inste id of Lcurring tic granary charges. The
Doily Bread Society will have a right to throw theirs into
the sea at once, if they choose ; and they will avail them-
selves of the right, if they arc denied the food earned by
their own labour.

We confess we pref,rr the American plan to the
concluding part of our author's scheme. If the Go-
vernment, the aristocracy, and the Custom-house should
be so ill advised as to resist the just claims of the
Daily Bread Society, to bring in and cat their own
bread—if they should be so monstrously unjust no
openly to iwi e.le men from feeding themselerf.i. fancy-
ing that a iaw can haiiow their idquity, the Americin
remedy applied to relieve the restraint on the
importation of a luxury would be too mild for them,
and they must take the consequence of their own in-
justice. The time is gone by whe❑ the decree of the
law-giver was pronounced like the fiat of Omnipotence,

PAYMENTS FOR NEW CHURCHES.

(FROM A CORRSSPJNDRNT.)
As glaring abnEcs are frequently remedied by public
attention being called to them, 1 have to solicit the
insertion of the following hardship in your valuable jour.
nal :—I am residing in a parish in which some eight
years since, a church was built, partly by voluntal gifts
and partly by funds found by the nation at large. A
stipend for the Minister and Clerk, out of the few rents,
was appropriated by the Church Commissioners, and after
"other expenses" (for these are the very words of the
Act) hare been prcvided for out of the remaining pew rents,
the surplus, if any, is to g.) towards the purchasing a house
for the Minister. So far there is no objection, and
it was with such an understanding the ii hsbitants sub.
scribei their money towards the erection of the chords,
thinking dist two objects would be gained—one, that the
church would maintain itself without the imposing oa the
needy Church-rates, and thereby avoiding that obnoxious
impost, and the other that the less weslthy should be pro-
vided with seats free of expense. Such has hitherto bees
the nndcrstanding acted up to since the consecration of
the edifice ; but lately the minister either wishing to ren-
der himself obnoxious, or being Ici on by the advice of
those who never lose sight of an opportunity to fill their
pockets by litigation, has taken upon himself to demand
the whole of the surplus money over and above his stipend
and tho clerk's ; thus thinking to appropriate to himself
that which the Legislature intended should, by the term
other expenses, go towards the expenses which arc abso-
lutely nece*ary to provide for, in order that the service of
The churc'i may be decently proceeded with; that was
and is, no doubt, the intention of the framers of
the Act ; and that the parishioners should not be
taxed more than was actually necessary. If this is
not the meaning, we should like to know what
" other expenses "do mean ? Then se have -been most
egregiously deceived and i npesed upon, as wet as the
free-sire s being compelled virtually to. pay for their seat*
by enforcing a rate from them to maintain the cburcb, from-
which it was the anxious desire of their richer brethren to
release th;em. A vestry of the parish has beet coavened,
and the effect of that will be that in consequence of the
ahcvc claim being made, that vvhiltt it is being Tigated,
we are to be dedrived of fire, the choir, and lights for our
evening service, because the parish, and l think very
reasonably, will not have imposed upon them' more than
the law anticipate 4. I have troubled you with these few
remarks, tlo in all future subscriptions towards building a
church a perfect understanding should be come to between
the inh,.Vtants and those having control over them.

THE WEATIIER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF-SCIE
STREET.

NCE, ADELAIDE-

Noon MARCH 26.
Blrometer 29.72 Li.
Thermometer
Highest 67
Loweit

Wind S. W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

TILE GUIANA EXPEDITION.—Letters were
received on Wednesday, announcing the arrival at Demerara
of the Guiana( xpedilion, ant c int sinirg some interesting
p.,rt:cula,'s of iti future route a-id destiny. TOe Cleopatra,
i i which the expodition sailed, reached there in 2S days with
a fair passage from the f..,;zird. On their arrival the party.
c resisting of five persons, were severely introduced to Co-
lone' Light, he Governor, who expressed his desire to for-
ward th,-;r• co,-:ternplated operations to the utmost of bis
power, and piovidat-them with a house in the best part ofGeorge Town, to v,hich they had removed the whole of their
instruments, having had two tents erected intheillthaerden
M. Schomburack was endeavouring. procure
Pa-
rade-ground,position from
erect a t...mporary observatory, forint
the observations he
which, as the centre of the colony,
allconnected. The Maser and
may hereafter make will b?
',Trianon, although
Town Co ineil were against this p
aal Phad given their con_
a fire, open, and commandingt,o
a tract o n which to
the Governor and Attnrncy-
who was attended
c)me. Mr. Richard Schorathhue
gservice of the Prussian
sent, but it was thought theG!recroechrjke,ctions might be over.
by Mr. Hancock, both in
to the .exiedition, had
Government as naturalists
country, when the former
made a short tour in t
pepidemic of tie colony, and
startding up the coast as far as the Parima,
was seized with t_h-life was despaired of. The ex.
fer some time 3
hi in six or eight weeks time for
i c a boundary rcalr to distinguish the
where it would Pal . . territories ; from
Pttediituktenritwr
m the British hence it would
Spanish fro
towards the Cuyunuimyand
, sailing down
make a detour
at:t- junction • i E.
it arrives i . with the .c.ssequibot
this river till
Gecrge Town, thus leaving, the more disputed
turn to
re „t boundary until they have summed b
cr suuth-cv
and
up o -
recruited themselves. In concur-
rencescrvations.
,asprotocee .
with the views of the expedition, the Governor
had
just -
de patched to ' Dsrata (on the Portuguese
boundary line) the Inspeetor.General of Police
for the colony, toge,,lier with two officers of regi-
ments, to show the claim Mich Great Ehitain had to
50 distant a spot, and to sec that no more encroachment
should be made, nor atrocities committed upon the natives.
our subjects, It is feared that when they arrive at this
spo', the expedition may meet a skirmish with the Brazi.
Hans, for which purpose they and their.,. 1 attendants are
well armed, and are to be placed under military law. The
officers of the expedition are very sanguine as to their ul.
timate silecess.
TILE Two UNCLES.—A person applied on
Wednesday, to the sitting Magistrate rttoHatton-gards.n,
rests re to bun
for a summons to compel a pawnbroker..
eces which be lied pledged.
the identical 540 fourpcnny pi
Athat the fiurl.enny pieces had berg
The applicant state.. ,
by an 'ILL ~
1- end that"intended
he to
lx.queathed to him
posterity." The oledire t k.
band them down to . - - a Ing uncle
having no respect to the memcry of the mass's own uncle,
of the pieces in
d with the whole
bad ha te
it was impossible fur him to return them.
•
bTuh tness, and
e summons was refused.
EXTINCTION OF FIRE BY STEAM.—A gen.
denial-11f Manehes:er meetly in..ftutid a series of expe-
riments to ascertain how far the ar,ency of steam could be
made available for the extinction of fi,cs. It results from
these that steam, if applied its large quantities, will exiin-
gui4l a coal •g,•,:tion of any rucgnitude, in an opan or close
apartment, in a few mit:toes ; but that when only a small
current .sf steam is directed against fire, it rather increases
than diminil:el the combusfon. la the former cam,
however, ignition is not absolutely destroyed, for though
there is an end of flame, a low charring ttill goes on.

VENING EDITION

THE POPERY OF THE CHURCH

OF ENGLAND.

The following statement-, drawn up by the Rev.
William Thorn, a dissenting clergyman at Winchester,
rill he reed with f.larful interest by the sincere profes-
sors of the Protestant religion. While the new Popery is
making rapid strides to.vards Rome, and the leading
journal of the Church and of a large party in the State,
after having denounced the Puseyites, has turned round
and taken the T 1 under its protection, we think this a
fitting time to keep the subject before the public, and
show that in all human probabil ty the Church of Eng-
land and the Church of Rome will speedily be unit,.!d :
Episcopaiens frequently sneak of the Romish Church
as if they considered the Church of England perfectly
free from the corruption of Popery. We have often
been surprised at their want of inormation or honesty.
Oar present object is to show that those hierarchies are
very much alike'.
By the Romish Church, we shall not here understand
those Catholic societies which are supported by volun-
tary contributions, as in Ireland ; but Popery, main.
tamed by a coercive taxation, as in several Continental
nations ; and by the Church of England, that denomi-
nation which is established by law in this country.
We cheerfully admit that there are several points of
difference between these Churches, to the advantage of
the English hierarchy—wl&e it must be conceded that
there rre inconsisoncies in the latter communion,
which are not discovered in the Church of Rome.

It miy be observe!, that if there be one patty in the
Church of England more consister.t timrt tie rest, or
which more correctly and honestly expounds the real
views and character of the State religion, it is evidently
" The Oxford Puseyite l'arty," in their " Tracts fbr the
Times." _

It should be universol'y known, that in the year
1689, a Committee, composed of ten Bishops and
twenty other pious and learned dignitaries of the Church
of England, made 600 correct' ons in the prayer-book,
articles, and canons of the Establishment ; but which
were not adopted through the ir.fluence of certain
bigoted parties in the British Parliament.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking of certain
Catholic children in national schools being compelled
to attend the Church of England worship, stated some
time since that in this he saw no difficulty—" because
if ever them had been any expressions in the Liturgy
opposed to the Catholic faith, they had been expunged
by the good sense of those who reviewed it its after
times," subsequent to the Reformation.
OF all Protestant, Churches," says Bishop Butler,
" the national Church of England most nearly resemb!es
the Church of Rome. It has retained much of the dogma
and much discipline of Roman Catholics. Down to the
subdeacon, it has retained the whole of their hierarchy ;
and like theta has its deans, rural deans, chapters,
prebends, archdeacons, rectors, and vicars ; a liturgy
taken in a great measure from the Roman Catholic
Liturgy, and composed, like that of psalms, canticles,
the three creeds, litanies, epistles, gospels, prayers, and
respeneas. Both Churches have the sacrament of bap-
tism, and the eucharist, the absolution of the sick, the
burial, service, the sign of the cross in baptism, the
reservation of confirmation, and order to bishops, the
difference of episcopal and sacerdotal dress, feasts, and
fasts,." &e .

Ia drawissg up the following ptrallelF, our object is
not to irritate the ministers or members of the Este-
blishment--.whose condition we sincerely pity—but to
expose these errors of their system which require
amenclincei, and which most pious and intelligent
Churchmen deplore in common with ourselves.
The subsequent remarks will show, that the Puritans
had b, tter grounds for their exertions to purify the
Church than most Episcopalians are willing to admit—
and that, if we would be rid of the corruptions of
Popery, there must be a second Reformation of the
Church of England, greater than the first.
As no intelligent or candid person will question the
truth of our representations, it will not be requisite to
refer to proofs for their confirmation. A few prefatory
observations, however, may not be unsuitable :-
1 That the Prayer Book contains little beside the
Mirs Book translated into English.
2. That the Pope offered to confirm it, if the Church
of England would join that of Rome.
3. That Episcopal Clergymen of eminence have de-
clared such a union of the two Churches practicable.
4. That the efficacy of Episcopal Ordination is de-
rived entirely through the Popish prelates.
.5. That at the accession of Elizabeth 9,211 Catholic
Priests, out of 9,400, joined the Church of England.
6. That the Papists and Protestants long worshipped
together in the English Church, till prevented by the
Pope. _ _

7. That at the Reformation, Parliament transferred
the entire powers exercised by the Pope in this
country to Heary VIII and his Royal successors.
PARALLELS.

Both Churches were constructed by human wisdom,
and established by national laws, which laws became
the rule of conduct, and the 'object of ultimate appeal
both to priests and people. The New Testament is
not the rule or law of Episcopalians or Catholics, as
such. _ - - _

Both have visible and human heads, who decree all
rites and ceremonies, and exercise absolute authority
in controversies of faith ; demanding implicit obedience
to their commands, whether agreeable to Jesus Christ
or not.
Both are the prolific source of party and Parliamen-
tary strifo--thereby destroying the peace and harmony
of the nation—scandalizing the gospel of Christ—and
causing the enemies of religion to triumph.
Both are supported by coercive taxation—Tithes,
Rates, Dues, and Parliamentary Grants. Nothing is
left to the zeal, charity, or piety of the people. They
can withhold nothing from the most unworthy clergyman.
Both systems impose ministers on their congregations,
and very frequently the most unsuitable and incompe
tent—depriving the people of their reasonable and
Christian privileges,
Both traffic in the souls of men. Benefices, involving
the cure of souls, are bought and sold in the market by
auction, equally with chariots, horses, or any other
property.
Both have settled forms of prayer, unalterable litur-
gie., articles of faith, of human composition, to which
all parties must subscribe. Nothing is left to the skill,
piety, or devotion of the clergy. An ability to read is
all that is essential.
Both have long grades of officers, with titles and
pOwers unknown to the Ne v Testament—Archbishops,
Bishops, Chancellors, Prebendaries, Canons, Deans,
and others, tamest without end.
Both dieido their territories into larger or smaller sec-
tions--as bishoprics, arclideaconfe3, deaneries and pa-
rishes ; and limit the labours of the clergy to particu-
lar di:tricti, leowever confined their s?aco, or few their
population.
BA, iniikg high pretences to supernatural powers.
The Bislings pretend to confer the Holy Ghost on the
persons they orda'n ; and all the clergy pretend to ab
solve men from all their sins upon a dying bed.
Both consider baptism a rea! reLe iervtion : by their
ceremony the subjects are made members of Christ, the
of God, and heirs of the kingdom of heaven.
They al ke employ sponsors, and use the sign of the
cross.

Beth perform the ceremony of confirmation ; in which
the Bishop tells the young (whatever be thou!
moral charaltor) that they were regenerated by the
Holy Ghost at their baptism, and assures them of the
favour of God.

Beth awfully pervert the sacrame..nitorof the Lord's
it at anonot
Sapper—priests administer to kneeling,
and often ungodly, communicants—Church earls it
transubstauti.ition ; and the other, in the Homilies, a
" mat vellous incorporation:*
Lith have displayed a cruel and persecuting spirit—
anathemat izing or excommunicatiog (to the loss of cha-
racter, property, and liberty) those who do not avowedly
conform. (See first twelve Canons.) They have alike
put thousands of Dissenters to death.
Both era peculiarly le.tarian, treating Noncon-
formists with contempt—confining their ce.itral, infant,
and other sehou4, colleges, and eharit.e,, to their own
pirdes ; and inculcating sntariacism with the utmost
assiduity.
Both systems tend to make Ministers haughty, CIVA.
aud petulant--frequently produce strife be-
tween pester and people—introduce idle and ungodly
men—and protect their vices.
d Both Churches, with unclt Arable creeds and minute))
dined rubrics, with yews and solemn ascevorations,
tolerate every wild notion and heresy in existence, and
produce a body of hypocrites
Both are upheld by the secular arm, fear, ignorance,:
avarice, and corruption, by denouncing the lass of bu-
sh:cis, reputation, and even of sa'vation, on seceders •
while prof t gates are seldom marked men.
Both treat all their conforming en'
parishioners alike,
Is bather good, bad, oriln,different. The same words
are addressed to op tlsame ceremonies performed
by all. There is "no difference between the unclean
and tile clean."'

Both havo a great de,l of pomp and ceremony in
their worship—standing, sitting, kneelipg, bowing, turn-
;ng towards the altar, dre3Fe?, &c.—all cdculated to
afford ignorant persons a ground of hope and confidence
in their own " bodily exerctse,."
Both attach extravagant and unchristian notions of
sanctity to their places of worship, their clerical habits,
titles, and ministerial performances ; their character is
indelibly sacred ; their churches holy ; theirdoings
alone efficacious.
Both prefer exclusive claims to ministerial efficiency,
not from the piety, talent=, and zeal of their preachers ;
but t: om the superstitious and unsupported notions of
apostolical succession and prelatical ordination.
Both read portions of the Apocrypha as a part, and
in place of, the Word of God. The Church of Eng-
land omits the public rea lino' of 211 chapters of the
bibßleo,thaadon
isott:htueteel.lo.l chapters of the Apocrypha.
holy days every yearreiigious observance ct numerous
and yearn
commemoration
most profligate of some of the
tyrannical beings that ever existed.
The Eaghsh hierarchysfive fasti as appointed (independent of.
Sundays)sicety-
feasting. {acting days, and thirty-one days of
Both Churches, either by unction, or words, or by

both, professedly send all their people to heaven ; bless
God for taking the most impenitent wretch to himself ;
and commit his body to the dust, in sure and certain
hope of a resurrection to eternal lire.. _

In a word, both systems are unscriptural, and have
sadly failed to answer the cud for which millions of
money arc annually expended, and for which the Son of
God introduced his gospel into the world.
It is a question of some difficulty, whether the Church
of England be really and truly entitled to the appella-
tion of Prot!stant ? That it is the least reformed of
ail the Protestant Churches, is universally admitted.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM TIM EVENING FAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From 6e Globe.)
The news from America, including the Inaugural Ad-
dress of the President, must be considered as of a satis-
factory aspect, so far as indicating the views which ap-
pear to be (-rite' tained by the Senate and Executive. Mr.
Bucha ,an stated, in the former assembly, that " there
was no foundation for the rumour which prevailed,
that there had bean an angry correspondence between
the British Minister and the Secretary of State since
the date of the last correspondence before the public.
It was t ue that, since that time, a single note bear-
ing upon that subje.t had been addressed by Mr. Fox
to Mr. Forsyth, which the 1. t'er had answered; but this note
and answer were of so little importance, that he ( Mr. B.)
did not deem it necessary to call for their publication,
and their tone was far from being of an angry cliata;ter."
Mr. Clay expressed his belief that both Gov.srnineats
desired peace ; that it was essential to the int rests of ea.th ;
and that, if war did come, it would not be from the w ill of
the governments, but from co:lateral causes, ever which they
would have no control. Where each of two G verntnents
desire peace, they must have very intractable matter to deal
with if they cannot Tr aiatain it. Mr. Clay gave it as
his decided opinion that t'ze state of the diff.e ences be-
tween the two countries was not such as to require especial
Minister. Mr. Buchanan had stated that "is the ri. ge-
tiation re'aaive to the Norah-eastern Boundary, nothing
t:al occurred inconsisteht with the sincere and anxious de-
ire which hal always been professed by that Govern-
H ment to p eserve the peace which now so happily
subsisted lastween the two countries, and to bring the
question to a final and satisfactory conclusion." The
terms of the Presi?ent's Address have Elmo degree of
vagueness and ambiguity ; and, like oracles of old, scorn
adapted to take the sense which events may put on them :
" I see in the personal characters of the Sovereigns, as well
as in the mutual interests of our own and of the Governments
with which our relations are most intimate, a pleasing ,guat antee
that the harmony so important to the interests of their sub-
jects, as well as our citizens, will not be interrupted by the ad-
vancement of any claim or pretension upon their part to which
our honour would not permit us to yield." _

The rest of the Address is, of course, a popular bill
of fare of the good things the now President holds out
from his opening administration. His promises, how-
ever, are chiefly of a negative nature. It seems to have
become a sort of expected compliment to the sovereign
people, that the Executive, on these occasions, should
decry its own power as much as possible ; and criticise the
Constitution for having given it almost any power at alt.
This establidiel fashion, in the present instance, answers a
double purpose; as it enables the new President to intro-
duce his censures of his predecessors. We are not dis-
posed in the slightest degree to question the justice of
those censures.

(From the Standard.)
The Presi,!ent's Address it is to which we look as the
best assurance of the pacific intention of the General. The
Address is long, and perhaps here and there openlo the
charges of peiantry and affectation of style; but slid
it is in our judgment a very able State Paper, im-
pressed with that character of came t sincerity which
constitutes the real force of all such compositions ;
a document very far indeed above the common order
of the Addresses of General Harrison's predecessors.
It is impossible not to see that the speaker is fully im-
pressed with the dangers from within which so formidably
threaten the ruin of the commonwealth, and that he de-
votes himself unreservedly to resist these dangers. This
feeling, that the commonwealth is on the very brink
of ruin—and how well grounded the feeling is
every one acquainted with the present circumstances and
condition of the United States is aware—renders proper
and seasonable that investiga ion of the principles of gc-
vornment which in another case might seem to be a mere
idle thesis, and which justifies an earnestness of manner
that would look like ludicrous exaggeration in a secure
and tranquil state of society. There are allusions, tee,
that may have the appearance of an ungenerous hos.
tility to the Van Buren Cabinet. But what was
General Harrison to do ? He found the republics brought
to extremity by the misconduct of his predecessor.
Was he to hide the sources of danger, because these
were the effect of the crimes of his rival ? The most
severe self-denisl in party struggles does not command this
extent of favour to adversaries ; and General Harrison has
really done no more than expose the sources of danger
most seriously threatening the State which he is called to
govern.

(From the Courier.)
The Inaugural Address of General Harrison, on his
entrance into functions as President of the American
Union, looked for with deep anxiety as it was both in
commercial and political circles here, as likely to he
indicative of the peculiar bearing of the foreign policy of
his administration in relation to the differences pending
between the t•.vo countries, will, from the entire absence
of the slightest reference to those matters, occasion con.
siderable disappointment. And yet it was scarcely rea-
sonable to expect that on the very day of taking the
reins of govtrarnont in hand, whilst still, as he re-
marks, " of course not well informed as to the state
of any pending negotiations" with any foreign States,
be would, further than the promulgation of some general
and necessarily vague principles, commit himself to the
expression of any definite opinion on passing events.
What ho does say in respect of the foreign relations of the
United States is, however, marked by a tone of dignity
and moderation to which we have for soma time past been
strangers, in the practical developments of American
diplomacy at least.

WALSALL ELECTION COM-

MITTEE.

(Joseph Marlowe's examination, continued from The Sun of
yesterday.)
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM—In the
interval between the first time he got drunk and drinking the
second time was not altogether sober—was, in fact, tipsy
during the whole time. Saw several of the persons whom he
mentioned as quarrelling bleeding from the head. Could not
say whether it was before or after he saw those persons that
he was told it would be unsafe to leave the inn and go home.
Had not a clear recollection of what took place at the time.
Is an elector of Walsall ever since the first election in the
borough, and always voted for the Conservative candidate.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that at that stage of the pro-
ceedings the Counsel for the petitioners should proceed to esta-
blish the quention of agency.
Mr. COCKBURN said that the agency of Mr. Barnett was
admitted on the other side.

Simeon Burns examined—ls a voter for the borough of
Walsall, -and was canvassed by Mr. Gladstone at the last
election. When. Mr. Gladstone called he saw Mr. Edmund
Swift standing on the street. On the evening of the nomina-
tion day Mr. Busst called and took him to his house•
He stopped there for two hours. Then went with Mr.
Busst and Mr. William Roper to the George. Knew Mr.
Barnett, but did not recollect seeing hiss there on that occa-
sion. Mr. Busst took him to Mr. Barnett at the George. Did
not speak to Mr. Barnett. Heard Mr. Barnett desire
Mr. Busst to get a car to take him to the inn. Wit-
ress went to the New Inn on foot with Mr. Busst.
Saw a goal many people is the long room there.
there might be atmut forty or fifty persons present. There
were liquors on the table ; took some wine. Mr. Dickson
was in the chair. The persons present were, he believed,
generally votes,. Saw persons
Franklin, Mr. Swift, Mr.
Box, and others there. Did not remain at the
New Inn all night. Went home and got to bed.
In the morning Mr. Busst and his son came for wit-
ness, and took him to the Stork. Took breakfast there. The
room was not very full. Witness did not pay fur anything he
took at the New Inn or Stork.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Wnasorrwas—Left the
New Inn in the coarse of the evening. Could not say at what
hour. Mr. Busst and Mr. Francis accompanied bins. Betore
leaving the New Inn saw a row outside the inn. There were
several persons bleeding—among them saw Mr. Kilner, the
landlord of the inn, bleeding from the head. The cut was a
severe one. Upon leaving the inn a crowd of persons followed
him, Mr. Francis, and Mr. Besot. They took up Francis and
carried him off. Those people were the opponents of wit-
ness's party. Mr. Busst got off, as also did witness. There
was a great deal of violence going on during the evening.
Many of the friends of Mr. Gladstone were knocked down by
persons a' the opposite party.
Re-examined by Mr. Cocxnuarr—When at the inn saw
some of the voters tipsy. It was in the night time, after it be-
came dark, that he saw the persons knocked down. There was
nothing of that sort took place in the early part of the evening.
Samuel Tooks examined—ls proprietor of the Rising Sun
beer-house. The evidence of this witness went to corroborate
the statement of the last witness as to seeing a number of voters
eating and drinking at the New Inn on the evenini, of the
nomination. Witness partook of the refreshments pro;i4cd on
the occasion. Was brought to the New Inn by a Mr. John
Stone, who was not a member of Mr. Gladstone's Committee.
Witness provided breakfast at his house for a number of
voters. The bill was 2+31. Did not exactly know to whom he
should apply for that sum.
I3v an Hos. ;Vaal BE a—Cnnsidered that he ought to look to
tjr.'Brace for payment. Mr. Brace was a saddler's iron-
monger. Saw nobody on the subject of the breakfast but Mr.
Brace and Mr. Emery.
By co , Nsst—Brace said he would be responssibetlheleacftosiroonntheoeff
cost of the breakfast.
Saw
aa,tv
with
las:r.elect'
M um
M ri.-1 eJnors4l3husst Boost,e xaanrjhi no
etto.l ohkya DI
rt
t. I e Cp°aer part Bi
in nt
hse—h lastl
because he
His
itvio.otngt:ote
atsimaet
11 and the • •
ass father
dd
gentleman. Mr. Potter, Mr.
Glad-
stone some persons in the streetwin i
ee,antas-inge foris were
thMe.
the George on the day of the election,
among these persons. Mr. Perks was
haelstonoeft
(tiheermin.g
the evening, and
of canvassing. Was et the New Inn
nomi-
nation. Went ther. at about three o'clock in
there merely
the evening. of the
s'aid until four o'clock next morning. Went
Walkedhad.
continue drinking till four o'clock in tho morning.
the greater part of that time about the inn.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIA 3I objected to Counsel on the
other side continuing to prove the act of drinking on
the part of some of the voters without seeking to connect that
drinking wills the sitting member or his agents. The Lear-lied.
Sergeant proceeded at some length to show that nothing had
been given in evidence to connect the sitting member in any
way with the conduct of the electors in the George or New
Inn, and submitted that counsel on the other side had no
right to continue the course they were then pursuing by them.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee did not wish to
preclude counsel from bringing forward whatever evidence
they might think necessary. It was, however, the opinion of
the Committee that the agency ought in the first instance to
be proved.
Mr. Com:Bums submitted that he had connected the evi-
dence as to drinking with Mr. Barnett, who was admitted to
be Mr. Gladstone's agent. The Learned Counsel contended
at some length that he was entitled to consider whatever was
done at the New Inn, on the evening of the nomination, as
connected with Mr. Barnett •
Mr. Sergeant WILANciIAm addressed the Committee in
reply.
The Committee, after deliberating for some time, decided