The Sun.
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FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, OCT. 14.—The Minister of Foreign Affairs ar-
rived at Paris yesterday. M. Lowenkjelm, the Ambassa-
dor of Sweden, whose approaching return was announced
almost with an air of triumph by the Moniteur, in fact ar-
rived yesterday, but be passed through St. Petersburgb, to
which city he was sent by King Bernadotte to be present at
the erection of the Alexandrine column. This, it must be
confessed, is a singular preparation for coming to enter on
the function of ambassador at Paris, while Marshal Maison
so well understood the character of that solemnity, that he
thought it his duty to refrain from being present at it.—
Messager des Chambres of Oct. 15.
BAYONNE, OCT. 9.—" Another General, Osma, retires
from the contest in the northern provinces. Caratala takes
his place at Vittoria. It is said that a new Carlist Chief
named Campano has shown himself in Castille. It seems
no longer doubtful that a vast conspiracy has been disco-
vered in the capital. Among the persons implicated and
arrested are three Brigadier Generals.

" Persons who come from Navarre give a most afflicting
account of the state of that province, where the cholera
rages in the most dreadful manner.
a All that is known of Zumalacarregui is that
be is on the plains (Rivera) towards Tafalla and
Tudela, at which points the insurgents had not yet ap-
peared, and was going towards the confines of Arra-
gon. He must certainly have an understanding with other
bands in these parts. It is probable that some columns of
the army will be detached against him.
"We still hear the firing of musketry in the Bastan. It
is the Carlists again attacking, but without success, Eli-
sondo, which is now well stocked with provisions, and has a
good garrison."

TO-TMON, OCT. B.—" Dispatches were transmitted this
morning, by the Lanzpron, to the squadron, anchored off
the Hieres Islands.

" The Arthemise, which put to sea yesterday, has orders,
after delivering its despatches to Capt. Lalande, to go to
Alexandria, where it is thought necessary to have a ship
of the first class."

Amounts from Toulon say that the squadron returned to
its anchorage off the Hieres on the 7th, in the evening. If
this is all that it does, our seamen will not derive much in-
struction from its cruise.

A letter from Calcutta says a dreadful fire had for 16
days ravaged whole forests, from a surface of eight square
miles in extent (170 square miles English). A dense smoke
rises, above which is the most brilliant flame. All the
snrronnding houses have suffered from this conflagration.
The damage is immense. A heavy rain put an end to the
ravages of this fire.—Messager des Chambres, Oct. 14.

FRENCH FUNDS.—FARDI, OCT. 14.
Five per Cents., 105 c. 90c. 75L.
Four per Cents., 93f. —c.
Three per Cents., 78f. 20c. 20c. 25c.
Rente de Naples, 95f. 85c. 90c. B'c.
Roman Five per Cents., 97% Y..
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 45 453¢ 44%.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 293 a
Royal Spanish Loan, 28 26.
Rente Perpet:cl'Espagne. Five per Cents., 44 402 43,4
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents , 9934.

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 14.—Yesterday there was a grand din-
ner at the Palace. The Marquis of Lansdowne was among
the persons invited.
Her Majesty the Queen of the French, accompanied by
Princesses Clementine and Mary, Countess Maier, Ma-
dame Angelet, and Count de Montesquieu, will arrive here
to-morrow. The Queen and Princesses will be at the
Palace of Laeken.
Mr. Hamilton, Secretary to the English Legation, is gone
for a few days to Frankfort, on private business.
The Journal du Commerce d'Anvers says that the police
Lad forcibly entered on the 11th of October, in the morn-
ing, the house still occupied by M. Cramer and his
children. Five or six gendarmes, with a commissary,
of police entered the house while a dozen others kept
guard outside. Their object was to see whether M.
Cramer, who has been conducted to the Dutch frontier,
had ventured to come back to see his family. They, of
course, sought in vain. Those gentlemen had not any
orders to act in this manner ; at least, on being asked by
Mad. Cramer to show their authority, they either would not
or could not exhibit it. We hear that that lady intends
to prosecute them for this unauthorized violation of her
residence.

BRUSSELS, OcT. 13.—M. L. C. Dansaert, ship-broker,
has given notice that the proposed regular communication
between London and Brussels has commenced, by the ar-
rival of the Belgian ship La Suene, which sailed from
London on the 10th inst. Once a week a ship will leave
Brussels with goods for the different ports of Holland.
The King has just resolved that the officers of the army,
before they can obtain promotion, must have held the same
rank is the army for at least three years.
M. Lebeau set out yesterday for Namur, to enter on
his functions as Governor of that province. He had firs
long conference with his predecessor, Baron de Strassart.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausagts, Om 14.
Actual Debt, 2 34 per Cent. 52
Rothochild'a Loan, 5 per Cent 99
Loan of the City, 1832,4 per Cent. 97

.—Bru3sels Papers, Oct. 15,

Issratici, OCT. 6.—His Majesty, the Emperor, by a
resolution, dated Brunn, Aug. 31, 1834, has received with
peculiar satisfaction the address of the Estates of Tyrol ;
thanking him for the present of the marble statue of An-
dreas Hofer, adding, " that his Majesty had felt a strong
desire to present to the Estates a monument, which was, at
the same time a record of the loyalty of the faithful Ty-
rolese.---.FranAlort Papers, Oct. 12.
ROME, SEPT. 28.—Yesterday morning Don Miguel ar-
rived in this city from Genoa, and alighted at the Palace,
which he has hired.

The evacuation of Ancona, so long talked of, seems to
have met with some obstacles, France, it is said, having an-
nexed conditions to this evacuation which our Government
will not and cannot agree to, though by a preceding con-
vention the evacuation of the legations by the Austrians
was to depend on the departure of the French from Ancona.
As there is no longer any reason to fear for the tranquillity
of these provinces, and the Papal military force is very con-
siderable, it is to be hoped that a measure will be at length
accomplished which would be so advantageous to our
finances. These, however, are so far regulated, that the
Treasurer hopes to do without a loan this year, though se-
veral offers have been made, chiefly by French houses,
which the Treasurer has declined.

The accounts from Naples prove to the most incredulous
what they are to think of the Constitution so much talked
of. A circular of the Government to all the superior offi-
cers in the provinces, officially contradicts the report that
it i; mtended to introduce a Constitution, and is said to
acs d,that the King considers it as his most sacred duty to
preserve the State and its institutions as he received them
from his ancestors ; and that all the reports on the subject
are the inventions of malicious persons, who will be delivered
ever to justice. Later accounts speak of numerous arrests
by order of the Minister of Justice, Del Carretto ; among
them is mentioned the son of Count Carnaldoli, who re-
ceived that title from Murat, with the monastery of that
tame. The negotiations for the marriage of the Prince with
the daughter of the King of the French are broken off, and
not likely to be renewed, as all influence from Paris has
ceased. It is said that the Prince of Capua will marry a
German Princess.
Cardinal Albani, the richest Prince of the Church, Legate
of Urbin and Pesaro, is said to be so dangerously ill, that
news of his death is hourly expected. He is above 84 years
of age, and has hitherto enjoyed uninterrupted health.—
Allgepteine Zeitung, Oct. 10.

A singular circumstance took place at Sandgate, on
Saturday ; the tide had been rising very rapidly all the morn-
ing, and when it came to the usual height every body was sur-
priaed to find it still rising ; presently it overflowed the whole
beach, and the inhabitants began to fear for their dwellings,
'when luckily it began to abate, but not before it had swept
away ;even boats and two machines.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.—The extreme lightness of
the hops in the present season, and the necessity of picking,
in some instances, 1,800 instead of 1,200 or 1,300 bushels to
a ton, may be accounted for in the following ways. The ex-
tremely hot weather, and the sudden ripening of the hops,
caused each individual hop to swell, and the leaves composing
it to expand. This, of course, made it take up more room in
the bushel measure, which, consequently, was much easier
filed. The hops, although full of condition, were miserably
short of seed, the absence of which would hardly alter the
bulk of the hops, but would make a woful deficiency in the
weight. To these two causes—namely, the swelling of the
hope, and the absence of the seed—may be attributed the com-
parative deficiency of weight, compared with the bulk, which
will probably materially lower the duty when the whole year's
growth shall have passed through the scale.—Maidstone
Gazettel

PEST, SEPT. 28.—dn the celebrated vineyards ill
the environs of Ofen and Pest the vintage has been for this
fortnight in full progress, and promises the most prosperous
result. The present year will be numbered among the most
remarkable, both as to the quality and quantity of wine. The
produce is on an average nearly threefold greater than that of
the preceding year, and in quality the vintage of 1834 will
scarcely be excelled by that of 1811. The reports are equally
favourable from the other districts of Hungary. The new
wine sells at Ofen for from two to three florins the eimer, but
in proportion as Providence has this year provided us abun-
dantly with the juice of the grape, it has sparingly supplied
us with pure water. The extraordinary summer which we have
ust experienced, unexampled perhaps for its drought, and ac-
companied by a scorching he ci.gas dried up many streams,
ponds, and springs, so that ~many parts of the country a real
famine for water prevails. Numbers of cattle and sheep have
died for want of water and deficiency of fodder. The Danube
between Ofen and Pest has fallen lower than it was ever seen
within the memory of man. In Ofen the want of drinkable
is water felt, but Pest is still pretty well supplied.

PRICES OF STOCKS THII
Bank Stock .......... ......221 21.4
_ll4

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
New 5 per Cent.
India Stock

3 per Cent. Red. .. /.9A ?4
3 per Cent. Cones %
tW, per Cent 99%
Ditto Red.

New 34 per Cent. 9434 .-4
Agsented 99%
4 per Cent. iDissented -
Rank Long Annuities te expire
Jan. 3, 1860...... ...... 16 13-16 17
Oct. 10, 1539
._.. 16%

Jan. 5, 18th l7!ti 5-1;
Jan. 5, lABO -
April 5, 1880 -
Jan. 5, 18711 1

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds lO3
Belgian Bonds 10134
Ditto Account 10074
Brazilian Bonds 7t;f4
Ditto Account —
Buenos Ayres Bonds 3O
Ditto Account .......... Sclii
Milian Bonds 33IA
Ditto Account —
Columbian Bonds :2s'h

Ditto Account —
Columbian Bonds, 1824 2o'i
Ditto Account 3l
Danish Bonds 7B 5,4
Ditto Account —
Greek Bonds —

Ditto Bonds, 1825 —
Ditto Account —
Mexican Bonds 5 per cent —
Ditto Account —
Ditto, 6 per cent. 404
Ditto Account —
Neapolitan —

PRICES OF SHARES THI

itolanos Mining Company
British Copper Comp-ny .
United Mexican (issued at 21. pm.) ,
Ditto Subscription
Ditto New Scrip
Australasia Bank

Ditto Pond, l7 15 17 pm.
South Sea Stock -
Old Annuities -
New Ditto
-
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1:51 --
, Exch. Bills, .£1,11'0......40 .8 40 pm.
'Ditto 500 42 40 pm
Ditto Small 42 40 pm.
Ditto Commercial pin
Ditto Advertise,
Bank Stock for Opening -
India Stock for Account -
Consols for Account 9l 90X

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
I Peruvian Bonds .

PRICES OF IRISH STO

Ditto Account
Portuguese Bond.
Ditto Account —
Ditto New Bonds 81300,04
Ditto Account B9.
Prussian Bonds —

Ditto Bonds,
Russian Bonds, 1822
Ditto A econnt IC6 14

Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds 5114 2 1 g 1 s
Ditto Account
Ditto Bonds, 1833
Ditto Account
French, 5 per cent...—. —f. —c.
-- 4 per cent —f. —c.
n per cent. f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c.
Dutch, 2' per cent. 52 %
•
Ditto Account 5214%
Ditto, 5 per cent.. 99 14 4,
Ditto Account UtiVk.

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
150 125

ICKS, DUBIIN, OCT. 13

3 per Cent. Consols 9'lc Grand Canal Debe. 6 per cent. 91%
Ditto Reduced ...... ........ -- 89% Ditto, 4 per cent 63
WA per Cent. Stock 98,4 Hibernian Ilank
Ditto New, 1830
3k; per Cent Debentures
Bank Stock 223,4 City Debentures, 4 per cent... 797 y,
Royal Canal Stock .........» 314 Ballast Office Debentures, 4
Grand Canal Stock 25}4 pe- cent. 93%

: DUTCH FUNDS—AmsTranam, OCT. 14.
- Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. .......... 52% to 5234
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent. 914 to 9IN
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.............. 74% to 74
Loan (1630) 5 per cent —......,.....„ 100% to 10074
Ditto (1E32 and 1&93) 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, one month
Ditto, two months l2 10 to 12 12 5.10
- Dutch Papers, Oct 15 _ _ _

MAILS.

Arrived. Duel Arrived. Due.lArrived..
0 America 0 I 1 France 0 I 0 Lisbon

0 Brazil 0
0 Buenos Ayres 0
0 Carthagena 0
1 Dublin... .......
1 Flanders 0

0 Guern. &Jersey 0
0 Hamburg 0
0 Holland 0
0 Jamaica 0
0 Leeward Islands 0

0 Malta
0 Mexico .. 0
0 Ostend 0
1 Sweden ...... 0
1 Waterford . 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning 48 minutes after 1. I Evening !ii minutes after 2

THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY
PAPER IN LONDON.

Just ready, in Bvo.,
MEMOIRS of a MINISTER of STATE
By M. DE PEYRONNET,
Ex-Minister of Charles X.
Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER IG, 104,

We hare said that Ministers will be without excuse
if a proper Tithe Bill for England be not passed in the
ensuing session. We recur to the subject because we
are not sure that such a bill is yet framed. The one
which was abandoned two sessions ago was defective,
but it admitted of additional provisions, which might
have enabled it to work out its purpose, though cum-
brously and clumsily. But the Bill introduced last
session was incapable of amendment. It proceeded
upon the assumption that the valuation for a county
would suffice for every parish in it. We are utterly at
a loss to conceive bow such a supposition could ever
enter into the mind of any reasonable man. The value
of the tithe, and the quantity and quality of the pro-
ductions, and consequently the value of the land, is
not only different in every parish, but the quantity and

quality, and consequently the value of the land of every

proprietor is different. Now the main points to be
ascertained are the amount of the gross tithe, and the
portion of it payable by every proprietor in every
parish, which never can be arrived at by a county
valuation. But taking the average of seven years as
the rule, every tithe-receiver, and tithe-payer, knows
the one how much he has received, and the other how
much he has paid in the last seven years. The facts
necessary for the commutation of tithe being thus
already known to the parties concerned, we have said
that such commutation should be effected by voluntary
arrangements, which it is the interest of the parties to
make, because they will thereby be saved the time,
trouble, and expense of any compulsory provision, and

the force of such interest may be increased by pro-
viding that a majority in number and value of the tithe-
payers in every parish may with the tithe-receiver not
only bind themselves, and their successors in all time
to come, but may also bind the other tithe-payers in

the parish by throwing upon them, (if they shall refuse
to come into the agreement after the expiration of a
certain time which may be allowed them,) the whole
expense of ascertaining the portions of the gross tithe
to be payable in all time to come, pursuant to such
agreement by the refractory tithe-payers, when
their portions shall be ascertained by compulsory,
as the portions of the others have been already
ascertained by voluntary means. Such volun-
tary arrangements will suit the exception as well as the
rule ; and there will be cases of exception : for in-
stance, decrees may have been obtained in suits brought
in consequence of Lord Tenterden's Act, or sirch suits
may be still pending, and it would be against the first
principle of legislation to legislate otherwise than with-
out prejudice to such decrees or such suits ; but the
parties may be empowered to deal with such decrees
or suits in such manner as may be agreed upon among
them ; and in the case of the exception, as in the case
of the rule, the commutation of tithe in every parish
of England may, through the Bill, receive effect by
voluntary arrangements, without the loss of much time,
trouble, or expense.
But it is not enough that the gross amount of the

tithe in every parish, and the portion of it to be pay-
able by every proprietor therein, in all time to come,
should be ascertained in money, because money, which
began to rise in exchangeable value in 1811, still con-
tinues to rise, whereby the price of all commodities,
and corn among the rest, is brought down. The
abundance of late harvests has brought down the price
of corn still more. If such circumstances shall con-
tinue, the money payment of tithe will operate unjustly
to the tithe-payer. If, on the other hand, money
shall again begin and continue to fall in exchangeable
value, as it did for three hundred years previous to
1811, or if bad seasons shall raise the price of corn,
the money payment of tithe will operate injustice to
the tithe-receiver. The money payment, therefore,
must be converted into a corn rent, which again must
be convertible into a money payment. Fortunately
the means of such conversion already exist. Weekly
returns of the prices of corn sold in the local markets
of England are made to the Comptroller of Corn
Kett.,, t. When the gross amount of the tithe shall
once be fixed by a voluntary agreement in money, it
then only
becomes necessary- to ascertain through
the Comptroller of Corn Returns the quantity
of corn that might be purchased by such gross money
amount, according to the average price of such corn in

the last seven years, and the quantity of corn pur-
chaseable with the money portion of each tithe-payer
may be ascertained through the same officers ; and this
quantity of corn, in place of the money portion, should
be made a charge upon the land of each existing pro-
prietor, and be converted into a money payment every
year thereafter through the same officer, who should be
required by the Bill, in every year after its passing, to
make up an account shewing the average price of corn
in the local -market of each district from whence re-
turns are received, say for each year ending on the
25th of March, and to publish such account in the
London Gazette in the first week of every month of
April, whereby every tithe-payer will thus at once
be enabled to see what is the amount or value, in
money, of the portion of tithe in corn which he
has to pay to the tithe-receiver, who, in like man-
ner, will be enabled to ascertain not only the
gross amount in money which he is thus to receive in
every year, but also the amount to be paid by each
person liable to pay it. Such a conversion is not new.
It has received the test of experience for a long period
in Scotland. There the stipend of a clergyman is
fixed at so many chalders of victual, convertible into
money every year according to the fiar prices, which
are struck in the month of February in every year, by
a jury under the direction of the sheriff in every county.
The stipend of every clergyman in that country is thus
converted into money, and so paid and received with
perfect ease and satisfaction to all concerned ; and
surely such annual conversion may take place in
England, as it has done and continues to do in Scot-
land, with equal advantage to all parties.
The public interest is the aggregate of the interests of
individuals, who best know how to promote their own
interests ; and no bill ever can be wrong, which leaves
individuals at liberty to prosecute their own interests
in their own way. Moreover, whatever is done volun-
tarily is always best performed, and compulsory means
should not be resorted to, until voluntary means shall
have failed. We, therefore, press these suggestions
upon the consideration of every tithe-receiver and
tithe-payer. Above all, we press them upon the con-
sideration of his Majesty's Ministers, whose duty it
is forthwith to prepare a proper tithe bill, to be intro-
duced at the commencement of the next session, and
to have it passed as soon as possible thereafter.

The evidence given yesterday by Mr. FRANKS, a
Liveryman of the Merchant Tailors' Company, before
the Corporation Commissioners at Guildhall, is an
admirable elucidation of the grave considerations which
induced the worshipful fraternity of Tailors to protest
against the power of our most gracious Sovereign to
issue such a Commission, as well as their fixed resolve
to treat the Commission with contempt. It will be
remembered, that when his MAJESTY, in compliance
with the prayers of his people, granted a Commission
for the purpose of investigating the conduct of muni-
cipal bodies throughout the kingdom, the Merchant
Tailors, under the sanction of Sir JAMES SCARLETT
and some other Tory lawyers of the same stamp,
thought proper to denounce, as unconstitutional, the
power exercised by the KING, and to publish to the
world their determination to resist its exercise. The
country was taken , by surprise by this declaration,
and no doubt there were not a few who gave
the Tailors credit for being the champions of the
liberty of the subject. It was noised abroad, that the
authority of Parliament was necessary to give validity
to the investigation, and hundreds believed this—igno-
rant or forgetful of the fact, that the right of granting
and annulling charters is one of the royal prerogatives
with which Parliament has never interfered, and that
as no charter granted before the reign of WILLIAM
and MARY received the sanction of Parliament, so
likewise the abrogation of all such charters may be
executed by the King without the consent of the other
estates of the kingdom, as frequently happened during
the reign of JAMES I. But, as we before observed,
the evidence of Mr. FRANKS—weII known as an able
and most indefatigable reformer of corporation abuses,
and who is as well read on all subjects connected with
the old charters of the civic companies, as any man in
the city of London—is a complete exposure of the
real motives of the Company of Tailors in resisting
all inquiry. The truth was, the affairs of the Company
were not so conducted as to bear a public exposure, with
any hope of impunity to those entrusted with their
' management. The principal persons concerned felt
the delicate situation in which certain awkward dis-
coveries would place them, and therefore they resolved
in secret to assume a swaggering gait out of doors, to
talk big of the liberty of the subject, and to endeavour
to excite a sympathy in their favour on the plea of
martyrdom for popular privileges. They were too
early suspected to succeed to any great extent. The
past history of the Merchant Tailors of London
offered no guarantee for their political honesty, and of
late years several members of the court were not very
particular in their choice of epithets, when denouncing
every liberal measure undertaken by the Government.
Still it was not before yesterday that the public were
put in possession of the fact, that the Merchant
Tailors were not more exclusive in their politics, than
in their religion. We ourselves were not aware that
the profession of creeds was made a subject of
enquiry among the candidates for office in this frater-
nity ; but what says Mr. FRANKS ? We give the
query of the Commissioner with his answer :

" Mr. DRINKWATER asked was there any religious distinc•
ion made in the election to the Court ?

Mr. Franks said there was a marked distinction, for no
one who was not a member of the Church of England had a
chance of being elected. He knew of no instance of a dis-
senter or a Roman Catholic being elected. One of the pre-
sent Sheriffs, Mr. Raphael, who is a Roman Catholic, and a
liveryman of the Company, was refused to be admitted on the
Court of Assistants. Political opinions also had great influ-
ence in excluding or accepting members on the Court. Family
connection, too, had great effect. Of the present thirty-five
members of the Court, eight of them were connected by mar-
riage, &c. The election for clerk was by ballot, but all was
done in secret. Indeed such was the secrecy that at each
meeting the members of the Court read the oath net to di-
vulge any of the secrets except to a member of the Council
admitted."

Here we have a whole host of the most enormous
abuses summed up in three or four brief sentences.
Religious and political opinions—family influence
secret elections—and all the horrors of inquisitorial
adjurations are here represented as among the common
causes which influence the appointments made by the
Court of Assistants. No wonder, then, that the Mas-
ter and Wardens of this Company thought it safer to
brave the Crown and the Commissioners, than to detail
such accounts as these in the ear of a nation indig-
nant for having remained so long the victim of irres-
ponsible power. After recounting the mode of elect-
ing the clerk of the Company, and instancing several
cases of gross imposition and swindling, in which more
than one individual was implicated, Mr. FRANKS
thus goes on exposing the present constitution and
practises of the Court of Assistants :

" There were cases of persons continuing members of the
eourt of assistants after having been bankrupts, although no
person was eligible to be elected into the court after having

been a bankrupt and compromised with his creditors. All
the acts of the company are performed by the master, wardens,
and court of assistants. The livery have no meetings for
business, but are called together to eat and drink three times
in the course of the year. No fines are paid to the company
on a person being placed in the court ; but he was called upon
to contribute 1001 to a distinct fund. In the case of the de-
falcation to which he had referred, the court declared that the
loss did not fall on the corporate or charitable funds of the
company, but on the funds at the complete and entire disposal
of the court of assistants, and they made up the defalcation,
by curtailing their expenses, and reducing, for a time, the
number of their entertainments."

This is all sufficiently intelligible, and must be a
most happy state of things in the estimation of the
eating and drinking Liverymen, and the guinea-
pocketing members of the Court of Assistants. But
who pays for the turtle and the wine, and who sup-
plies the guinea which crosses the palm of the sage
Assistant ? Mr. FRANKS answers the question,
though not directly, in the following words
The duty of the office of master was considered onerous
previous to 1688, bnt this was no longer the case. The mas-
ter, the wardens, and assistants, were paid the fee of a guinea
for attending each court or committee. In 1705, the fee for
the Court of Assistants was ten guineas ; in 1795, was raised
to 30/. ;in 1800, to 70/. ; and in 1811, to 1051. On a per-
son being admitted a freeman of this Company, he received
notice from the clerk of the Company to attend and take the
oath, and pay his fees. A fee of four shillings a year was de-
manded of every member of the Company. This fee was
compulsory, as he had been threatened with disfranchisement
for non-payment of it. This quarterage was paid only by the
freemen ; it was neither demanded nor paid by the livery. A
fee was paid on binding apprentices, which took place in the
presence of the master and clerk of the Company."
So the poor freeman pays for the dinner, and the
wine, and we presume contributes the guinea likewise.
This is what we were prepared to expect from men so
tenacious of the right of taciturnity. Here is not only
an usurpation of office, a distribution of gifts, but an
assumption of the power of levying taxes without
either the knowledge or concurrence of Parliament.
But we shall have other opportunities of dwelling upon
this point, and of pointing out the consequences of
such a system to the Legislature.
Among those unacquainted with the present condi-

tion of Municipal Corporations, there are many who
think that the members of those fraternities, taking the
name of a particular trade or calling, belong to it ; as,

for instance, that a freeman of the Tailors' Company
is himself a tailor by trade, and so on of the rest.
This was once the case, but it is no longer so.
When these Companies were first established, in the
reigns of HENRY 1., RICHARD 11., and EDWARD
111., every member of a Company exercised the call-
ing by which that company was distinguished. The
object of the establishment of the companies was three-
fold :---the advancement of the knowledge of commerce
and the arts ; the establishment of a power distinct
from the nobles by which the Kings might be able to
coerce the Barons in cases of any sudden emergency ;
and the creation of a source of wealth which in
the shape of customs, charges of renewal of
charters, and fines for real or pretended acts of
insubordination, might enrich the royal coffers.
But when such companies had reached the height at
which they ought to have been for ever abrogated, the

members were mercers, and drapers, and tailors only
in name. The whole system became a complete hum-
bug—a scheme for taxing the industrious for the bene-
fit of the idle and the luxurious. Secresy, which was
at first necessary to preserve the secret of the wealth
of the city from kings, who resembled peacocks in pre-
ferring the present taste of the eggs to the future
pleasure of a happy progeny, became an engine of
cruel tyranny and exaction, when exercised in times
when the monarch was the first to rejoice in the pro-
sperity of his subjects. The following statement,
made by Mr. FRANKS, is a curious illustration of
this fact :

" There were at present about 1,200 freemen, and between
300 and 400 liverymen. His authority for this was the Par-
liamentary returns for 1832, which gave 1,100 as the number
of freemen, and 370 as that of the livery ; but since that time
between 100 and 200 persons had been made freemen of the
company.
" Not a single tailor was in the court of assistants of the
Merchant Tailors' Company. Only three tailors were in the
livery of that company. By the last charter of the company,
granted in the reign of Henry the Seventh, merchants gene-
rally were admitted, and since that time very few tailors have
been members of the company."

These statements need no commentary. A system
such as this cannot be defended on any principle ad-
mitted among the people of England in the nineteenth
century. It is no longer necessary to sanctify one
spot, so that those born within a certain charmed circle
shall possess privileges denied to the great mass of
their fellow-subjects. Shoemakers will now make
shoes, and mercers deal in silks, without seeking im-
punity from the danger of a Royal visit : and the
world begins to think that there is no great differ-
ence between a man's having been born on this
side of the kennel or on that, to qualify him
for a retailer of tea, tapes, or crockery. What re-
spect can the public have for any system which per-
mits such absurd--and were it not for the impositions
in the shape of fees—ridiculous abuses as the follow-

ing, to exist for a moment. We still quote from Mr.
FRANKS' evidence :
" The Merchant Tailors' Company in Bristol was composed
of one master, one warden, and one liveryman, and those three
characters were at present embodied in one person.—( A
laugh.) Some years ago he (Mr. Franks), went with a
young man who had been his apprentice, to take up his free-
dom, when a fee of 41. 20. was demanded. He protested
against the payment, and was told that it was customary to pay
it, and that if it was not done, the freedom could not be
granted. In consequence of this a qui tam action was brought
against the master and wardens, and they suffered the verdict
to go by default, and the penalties imposed by the Act of
Henry VIII. were recovered, and the payment of the fee was
no longer demanded."

We observe by the report that Mr. FRANKS is to
continue his evidence on next Monday, when the Com-
missioners are again to go on with the enquiry. Per-
haps we also may return to the subject.

There is no news from Spain of a later date than
what appeared in The Sun of yesterday. The Quoti-
dienne, a French journal, states that Don CARLOS
has assumed acting on the offensive. We think
otherwise.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday supply no intelli-
gence of any moment. They are chiefly taken up with
accounts of the arrival at Algiers of the new Governor,
M. LAURENCE, and of the many reforms which he
hopes to effect in that colony. The Journal des
Debats confirms a statement in the Augsburg Gazette,
of Don MiGuEL's being at present in Rome, where
he arrived from Genoa on the 27th.

A new edition of the " Oriental Memoirs" of James
Forbes, Esq., is nearly ready for publication. This gentle-
man it will be recollected, resided 17 years in India, where he
realized a splendid fortune. So comprehensive a work in
every way connected with our Oriental possessions was never
given to the public, whether as regards the strange manners
and customs of the Hir!doos, the scenery and productions of the
country, its natural history, or its interesting illustrations of
the Holy Scriptures. In the latter respect, especially, it is
singularly instructive. Mr. Forbes, in the capacity of magis-
trate, enjoyed unusual facilities of becoming thoroughly
acquainted with the various topics on which he so delightfully
treats. It is edited by the author's accomplished daughter,
the Countess de Montalembert, and is to be accompanied by
a quarto Atlas of 71 plates, consisting of remarkable views,
plants, flowers, animals, &c.
At Fareham, on the 3d and 6th inst., the thermo-
meter rose to the extraordinary height of 123 degrees, at
which height the index having reached the bulb, the subse-
quent increased heat, if any, could not be ascertained.
The Potatoe Crop is so abundant in the Western
districts of Gloucestershire, that a correspondent assures us
potatoes have been dug, sold, and delivered to the purchaser
at is. per sack !--Cheltenham Journal.

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