The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-21 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Chronicle.)
It is understood that no change will occur in the garrison
of Dublin until September.
The remainder of the Royal Marines at Cork will be shortly
withdrawn from this country. The detachment which em-
barked at Spike Island last week, in the Dee steamer for Eng-
land, consisted of Captain Burton, Lieutenants Anderson, Hol-
land, and 112 rank and file.
The Jupiter troop ship left Portsmouth on the 7th instant
for Cork, td take on board the 70th Regiment for Gibraltar.
She will be employed in the Mediterranean in removing regi-
ments, and will return with the 51st Regiment from Corfu to
this country.
The depot companies of the 51st Regiment are daily expected
from Portsmouth at Cork, and on their arrival the depot cont.
panies of the 58th Regiment will be passed on to England.
Lieutenant Gorse will be appointed acting Paymaster to the
depot companies of the 92d Highlanders, in the room of
Lieutenant Sutherland, who has been appointed to the Adju-
tancy of the regiment, vice Buckley promoted to a company.
The command of the 15th Hussars has not yet been disposed
of, nor can be done hastily. The authorities at the Horse
Guards will first dispose of Lord Brudenell's claim for com-
pensation.
The 18th Royal Irish expect to proceed to Quebec to relieve
the 79th Regiment.

The 89ths. Regiment, now at Cork, expect to proceed to

Canada.

Lord Brudenell, late of the 15th Hussars, arrived in Dub-
lin yesterday morning from London, and immediately after
started for Cork.

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FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1834.

The measure proposed by Mr. LITTLETON,
last night, for the abolition of tithes, is one of
the first importance, not only to Ireland, but to
England ; and as the same measure will proba-
bly be adapted to both countries, we tnay look
upon it as the Government plan for the abolition
of one of the greatest evils that ever afflicted a
civilized country. The details are prolix and
complicated, but the sum and substance of the
measure are simple enough. The chief features
are the total and final abolition of tithes, the
putting an end to the disgraceful and ruinous
altercations of the parson and tenant, and re-
moving one great drawback on agricultural
improvement. In lieu of the tithe the land-
owner is to pay to Crown Commissioners a tax
equal in amount to the compositions as fixed by
the tithe bills of Mr. GOULBURN and Mr.
STANLEY. These are the outlines of the Bill •
,
but they are modified by clauses to suit particular
interests, such as those for allowing the landlord
to redeem the tithe either for a sum of money
or land of equal amount, and thereby abolishing
every vestige of tithes. We remember no in-
stance in which any similar plan has been ef-
fected in any country except Scotland; but though
the plan adopted there effected the same purpose,
the adjustment was by no means so equitable to
the public. During the commotions of the re-
formation, the tithes were taken from the
Church by the Crown, or rather by the rapacious
landlords, and a miserable pittance was meted out
to the working clergy, all the rest going into
the pockets of the owners of the soil. This
continued till the general feeling of sympathy in
behalf of the clergy, and against the landed
interest, forced the Government to make a suit-
able provision for the clergy, out of the funds
plundered from the Church.. A valuation
of the tithes was effected, and each parish
was compelled to provide for the minis-
ter a competent maintenance—the sur-
plus being left in the hands of the landowner.
A proviso was at the same time made, that when
owing to the change in the value of money, or
any other circumstances, the grant was insuf-
ficient to maintain the clergyman, the Supreme
Court should have the power of augmenting
the living till the tithes were exhausted : and,
owing to the imperfect and partial valuation
made by the landed interest, this is the case in
a vast number of the parishes in Scotland.
The plan, therefore, proposed by the Go-
vernment, is infinitely more impartial and
just. The landowner is to pay to
the Government about four-fifths of the
actual value of the tithes, out of which a
sum is to be set apart for the support of the
clergy. The Bill does not at all allude to the
disposition of the surplus further than this—
that it is not, as in Scotland, to be swallowed
up by the landowner. Exceptions have been
made by Mr. O'CONNELL and other Catholic
Members to this part of the plan, but they ap-
pear utterly groundless, and will not be approved
by any impartial judge. No principle can be
clearer than this, and it is universally ad-
mitted by the landed gentry of England, that

whatever becomes of the tithes, the owners
of the soil have no claim to them. They
purchased the land, or it was devised
to them, on the condition that they were
to. give up
one-tenth of the annual value in
the shape of tithes, and they could not, on any
principle but that of robbery, get possession of
them. While we have an Established Church,
let the clergy be provided for out of these funds,
and let the remainder go to whatever purpose
the Legislature may think fit. The details may
be defective, but the principle is one which will
meet with general approbation. Some of the
statements of Mr. LITTLETON are extremely
interesting, and easily account for the universal
feeling excited against tithes in Ireland.

Sir E. KNATCHBULL'S motion respecting
the Committee of Inquiry into Baron SMITH'S
conduct, comes on, we see, to-night in the
House of Commons. We hope, as we ob-
served a few days since, that no further steps
will be taken in this painful business. Enough
has been already done to act as a salutary
warning.

Our readers will learn, with no less astonish-
ment than indignation, that the Pilot, Dublin
newspaper, has been suppressed by order of the
Commissioners of Stamps. The following are
the terms in which this precious order is com-
municated:—

" Stamp.office, Dublin, Feb. 18, 1834.

" SIR,—In consequence of your having received judgment for
printing and publishing a seditious libel, the Commissioners of
Stamps have ordered that in pursuance of the 20th section of
the Act 55th Geo. 111., cap. 80, you shall not from henceforth
be supplied with stamped paper for printing any newspaper upon:

" I have also to acquaint you that you are no longer entitled
to print or publish the Pilot newspaper,—l am Sir, your obe-

dient servant,

" J. S. COOPER,

" Comptroller, and Accountant-General
of Irish Stamps.
" To Richard Barrett, Esq., Suffolk-street."
On this the Dublin Evening Mail remarks:
" it is a dangerous thing to practise hoaxes
upon the public ; and we cannot forget that
some persons in Mr. BARRETT'S confidence
presumed to do so on a late occasion, by fabri-
cating the letter to the Crown Solicitor, in reply
to the demand made for Mr. O'CONNELL as
the author of the original libel ; and, we pro-
test, we think the foregoing bears the stamp of
having issued from the same mint. In fact, we
do not consider the document genuine." Our
contemporary adds—" but if it be true, it is
time for us all to be up and stirring. Our course
is clear. The Mail stands by the liberty of the
Press, and will throw its whole energy and in-
fluence into the scale to protect a brother from
persecution." This is generous language, and
will be at once caught up, and echoed by, every
newspaper in the three kingdoms.
On a supposition that the document be genuine
—though we must confess that, like the Mail,
we have our doubts—we hesitate not an instant
in declaring that it is the most wanton, the most
despotic act of authority that has been perpe-
trated for the last fifty years. Law has already
amply vindicated its power in Mr. BARRETT'S
case ; why should injustice step in, and inflict
on him still further penalties ? Is it not enough
that he has been subjected to a painful, and
protracted imprisonment ; but he must also be
utterly ruined ; his family and himself turned
adrift on the world helpless beggars, in a worse
condition than even the paupers in a workhouse.
And this, after the very Jury who found him
guilty, expressly recommended him to mercy
The plain state of the case is this :—Mr.
BARRETT has been found guilty, and received
sentence. He is now suffering under the judg-
ment of the Court, in order to satisfy the full
penalty awarded by the law. But this is now
(some months after the sentence has been
passed) not deemed enough. The man must
be utterly ruined, and his property robbed from
him, through the instrumentality of an Act of
Parliament—an Act so repugnant to justice,
that its perpetrators never dared to put it in force 1
Suppose Mr. BARRETT'S property in the Pi-
lot were worth ten thousand pounds—that
property is sought to be destroyed and
by its suppression is destroyed, although the
extent of his crime amounted in value only to
the sum of one hundred pounds by the sentence
of the Court ! And will Ministers abet such
spoliation ?—lmpossible !—They dare not.

Since writing the above we have just learnt,
by the proceedings of the Commons this after-
noon, that Government intend immediately to
repeal this obnoxious Act. They could not
do otherwise.

The Ordnance Estimates for 1834 have just
been published. They exhibit, as compared
with those of last year, a saving of 295,309/.
The chief saving is in the superannuation list,
amounting to 178,0661. This looks well.

We beg to direct public attention to the
extract from the Dublin Evening Mail, in an-
other column. It places Mr. O'CONNELL'S
consistency, with respect to Mr. Baron SMITH,
in a most enviable predicament. Surely after
this the Hun. and Learned Member for Dublin
will, of his own spontaneous accord, move to
discharge the order for a Committee—or rather,
he will never name the Committee !

The accounts of the reception of Sir JOHN
CAMPBELL yesterday, by his Dudley consti-
tuents, are highly flattering to his success, and
no doubt is entertained of his election. The
new Attorney-General is opposed by a Mr.
THOMAS HAWKES, a neighbouring trades-
man, of unknown political opinions, the candi-
date having been, we believe, the professor of
every political opinion as the tide turned. At
Stafford, when an opponent of Sir JOHN CAMP-
BELL, he was a reformer. Now he is the nominee
of a section of the Dudley Tories. We under-
stand that Mr. HAWKES has not the most dis-
tant chance of being the Representative of
present or future. The Dudley at any time,
Reformers now see the good sense and principle
of pulling together, and since the exposure and
demolition of Mr. SADLER, at Leeds, the Ra-
dicals are not to be gulled by political impos-
tors, who profess any opinions suitable to an
occasion, Or present purpose.
If Sir WILLIAM HORNE prefers Mary-

lebone to an Exchequer Judgeship, he will no
be allowed to hold the office of Attorney-
General in commendanz. Sir JOHN CAMP-
BELL is the Attorney-General, and will be
re-elected for Dudley.

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return to their duties. Marseilles papers of the
14th mention that some riots had occurred
there on the 12th; and that there had been some
fighting in the streets, which, however, had led
to the dispersion of the rioters :
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, FEB. 19.
Five per Cents., 105 f. 95c. 106 f. 95c.
Four and a Half per Cents, 100 f. 90c.
Four per Cents., 92f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 76f. 761. sc. 15c.
Bank Actions, 1,757 f. 50c. 1,900 f.
Rente de Naples, 91f. Sjc. 9`lf. 92f. 25c.
Roman Five per Cents., 92%.
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 2714 2t3
39 29N.
Rente d'Espagiie, Three per Cents., 38% 39%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 73 73%.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 61 6134 14,
Belgian Loan, IS:31, Five per Cent., 98%.
Haytian Loan, 270 f. 272 f. 50c. 270 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 27%c. ; money, 2af.,eac. lOC.
Three months, paper, 2.5 f. 12%c.; money, !...)f.
—Cours Authentioue.

German papers, received this morning, state
that the Queen Regent of SPAIN had applied
to the POPE to recognise her daughter : but the
answer of his Holiness is not given. We find
in these papers, under the head of Munich,
some laudatory remarks on the great good likely
to be conferred on Greece by the Bavarians,
and the benefits that must result to German
commerce in consequence. A chief concern o
the Regency is stated to be-
- The distribution of the landed property among the natives,
and of what remains among foreigners, especially Germans.
The land is granted on highly favourable terms, with a period of
30 years for the payment, to begin with the fifth harvest.
" Great joy was lately caused by the appearance of the flag
of Bremen in those seas, as authorising a hope that a direct
commercial intercourse with the North may be opened, and
that Bremen, Hamburg, Hanoverian, and Prussian ships will
visit the Greek port. The disappearance of the Barbary pi-
rates, and the transformation of Algiers into a French colony,
have made an essential change in the state of things in
the Mediterranean. Neapolitan, Roman, and Genoese
ships (formerly engaged in the coasting trade only)
have ventured into the Channel and even to America. The
latest Bremen shipping list notes the arrival of 1 ship from
Samos, 1 from Cephalonia, 1 from Messina, I from Leghorn,
3 from Trieste, 4 from the south of France, and 13 from
Spanish ports, in all 24 ships from the Mediterranean. We
particularly notice this circumstance, and found on it flatter-
ing hopes for the rising commerce of the new kingdom. Ger-
man industry and German probity are especially to be desired,
and a vigorous German population would undoubtedly find
much greater advantages than, according to many concurring
accounts, they have hitherto done in many states of North
America, in Brazil, and in Mexico."
The following is another instance of the
liberality of the Emperor of RUSSIA, and forms
a very fitting sequel to his conduct with respect
to Sir STRATFORD CANNING. In fact,
NICHOLAS, will have no Ambassador at his
Court who knows, or is supposed to under•
stand, the true interests of the country he is
sent to represent :
" SYRA, JAN. 9, 1834.—We learn from Constantinople that
the Ambassador appointed to St. Petersburgh by the Greek
Regency, General Church, will not be received by the Emperor
of Russia.
VIENNA, FER. 10.—Metalliques Five per Cent., 961; Four
per
.Cent., 86% allank Actions, 1.28.-41//gansine Zeitung,
Feb. 15.

nit?. FUNDS.-CflitS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning are Dutch and French mails; no
ship letters, nor any thing from Lisbon; but there is an arrival
at Penzance from Oporto, but as yet we have not ascertained
the dates, or the information this vessel brings.