The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-25 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

EDWARD EMERSON and BARNABAS FENWICK,
ironfounders, Stella, Durham, to surrender Oct. 3, at ele_
yen, and Nov: 5, at one, at the Bankrupt Commission-room,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery_
lane, London; Forsters, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
THOMAS DODD, ribbon-manufacturer, Coventry, Oct.
10, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry.
Austen and Hobson, Gray's Inn, London; Troughton and Lea,
Coventry.

CHARLES HAMOND, Italian-warehouseman, Great Sur-
rey-street, Blackfriars.road, Oct. 4, and 5, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Kitchener, Lothbury, official assignee;
Newton, Gray's Inn.

JOHN CORNES, jun, timber-merchant, Nantwich, Che-
shire, Oct. 11, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Nant-
wich. Hilditch, Calthorpe-street, Gray's Inn-road, London ;
M'Clure, Nantwich.

DIVIDENDS.
D. Fraser, shipowner, Pulteney.terrace, Pentonville, Oct.
16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. Newington, wine.merchant, Lewes, Sussex, Oct. 17, at
half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
J. Turner, tailor, Great Portland-street, Oxford-street, Oct.
16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
G. Friend, wine-merchant, Great Charlotte-street, New Cut,
Lambeth, Oct. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
B. Bytes, merchant, Austin-friars, Oct. 17, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
S. Shepherd, wine-merchant, Upper Bryanston-street, Port.
man-square, Oct. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
G. Bower, jun., and M. Bower, gilt toy-makers, Birmingham,
Oct. 15, at eleven, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
G. Aynsley, grocer, North Shields, Northumberland, Oct. :2•2,
at eleven, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Greene, scrivener, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, Oct. 16, at
twelve, at the King's Arms Inn, Bedford.
T. Bulman and J. Mellor, drapers, Manchester, Oct. 23, at
two, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester.
W. Coles, broker, Mincing-lane, Oct. 17, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
CERTIFICATES—OcT. 15.
J. M. Roberts, copperplate-printer, Villiers-street, Strand.
J. Cross, cotton-spinner, Burnley, Lancashire.
T. Bracken, merchant, Calcutta.
T. Willoughby, cattle.drover, Partney, Lincolnshire.
J. Solloway, horse-dealer, Powick, Worcestershire.
W. Bellamy, corn-factor, Sheffield.
G. Pigott, corn-factor, Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
J. Gibson, innkeeper, Manchester.
P. East, bookseller, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden.
W. G. Stubley, hat-manufacturer, Castle-street, Southwark.
D. Brake, dealer in beer, John.street, West Smithfield.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Edwards and T. Stokes, jun., button-manufacturers, Bir-
mingham.
R. and W. H. Child, dyers, Bankside, Southwark.
J. Bentley and T. Hulland, cabinet-makers, Stoke-upon-
Trent.
J. and W. Holmes, woolstaplers, Halifax, Yorkshire.
C. Boncey, J. Cutten, T. Lansell, and H. S. AV Adams, coal-
merchants, Margate (so far as regards C. Boncey).
I'. and R. Cheshire and T. Shelton, brass.founders, Man-
chester (so far as regards T. Cheshire).
E. M'Elfrish, A. Bell, and J. Hutton, glue-manufacturers,
Linlithgow.
T. Nicholas and J. Hooper, tea-dealers, Maiden-lane, Queen-
street, London.
J. Dickins and J. Hill, whip-manufacturers, Daventry,
Northampton.
E. Pownall and W. P. Hunt, Attorneys, Ipswich, Suffolk.
J. Gibney and M. Cavanagh, stone-sawyers, Liverpool.
T. Hampton and T. F. Hampton, malt manufacturers,
Toxteth.park, Liverpool.
J. and J. Livt sey, farriers, Chorley, Lancashire.
G. Jackson and Co., composition ornament-makers, Ratb-
bone...place (as far as regards 0. Jackson, jun.)

REFUSAL OF CHURCH RATES.

ST. BOTOLPH'S, BISHOPSGATE.

The handbill which has for some days past been
in circulation in the parish of Bishopsgate, has pro-
bably prepared our readers for the contest which
took place yesterday on this subject.
At eleven o'clock, according to notice, the
Vestry assembled, and the Rector, the Rev. Dr.
RUSSELL, took the Chair.
The meeting, which was held in the body of the
church, amounted in number to about 300.
The auditor's report was read, received, ap-
proved, and ordered to be printed, after some few
remarks on the inutility of the churchwardens taking
a journey to the parish estates at Bromley to collect
the rents instead of leaving that task to the collector.
The report from the trustees of the parish estates
was then read and approved.
Mr. BURTON (the church warden) said, that great
complaints had for some time been made of the dirty
condition of the church. He would at present
simply move, " That it is expedient to whitewash
and paint this church."
Mr. ROGERS seconded the motion.

Mr. JOHNSON had been requested to move, by
way of amendment, the resolution which he held in
his hand :—" That from the burdensome and op-
pressive amount of parish rates, it is quite inexpe-
dient that any thing fending to their increase should
be countenanced by this Vestry—(Cheers)—and
that the inhabitants this day declare that they will
not give their consent that the Churchwardens, or
any oilier person acting on their behalf, should em-
play workmen to perform the several items proposed
to be done to the church and church-yard at the
expense of the parishioners in general, because they
consider that to levy a rate for such a purpose would
be an act of injustice to the majority of the inhabi-
tanN."—( Loud cheers.) The great principle which
they were there to contend for was, that they had a
right to refuse their support to a religious establish-
ment from which they conscientiously dissented.—
(Cheers.) This was the principle—let them for a
few moments regard the circumstances of the case.
About twelve years since that edifice cost them, in
repairing and beautifying, no less a sum than 1,8001.
Such was the state of the parish funds at that time, •
that no less than 1,400/: was borrowed, which was
still considered as a debt—an incubus on their in-
dustry, the interst of which they were compelled
to pay. No less a sum than 3,0001. was shortly
after expended upon a new rectory.house, and a new
church-yard was thrown open—an extravagance
which was quite unnecessary, since, up to the pre-
sent time, only two or three graves had been sold in
it ; whilst it exhibited to the parishioners a sight at
which humanity must shudder—that of a garden ap-
plied to the purpose of raising flowers and vegetables,
and manured with the dead bodies of their friends
and neighbours.—(Hear.) He would not dilate on
the indelicacy of such an appropriation of sacred
ground, but it was certainly to be wished that their
feelings had been spared such an exhibition. He
would ask his fellow-parishioners whether they were
prepared to submit to this further imposition which
was demanded of them? They were already
called on to pay 2,500/. a year to their worthy
rector—(Hear)—and when he said worthy rector,
he meant what he said ; for he believed no man was

more deserving of such an epithet. In addition to
this, they had to pay the interest of the debt of
1,4001. contracted on account of the church; and
they were now further called on to pay the expense
of rep►►iring that place in which their friends of the'
Church of England chose to worship. thher sects
supported—aye, well and cheerfully too—their own
pastors, and built and repaired their own places of
worship ; and he called !hem now manfully to stand
forward and break asunder the first link in the
chain that bound them, or else consent to be
shackled for ever.—(Cheers.)
Mr. MARTIN seconded the amendment.
Mr. ARTHUR CLARK thought the question was
taken up in too serious a light and made of too much
importance. If the parishioners thought the pro-
posed repairs unnecessary, they could refuse their
consent, From the feeling exhibited, he could

opinion, fraught with important consequences, not
only to that parish, but to the Church of England
itself.—(Hear.) The Dissenters bad here, for the
first time, came forward to object to the church
rate.—(No.) Yes, they had ; they had often
grumbled in private, but they had never dared be-
fore to come openly forward.—(Hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Johnson, Mr. Rogers,
Mr. Burton, and Mr. Rogers,
Mr. ST EELE said, as a member of the Church of
England, he felt it his duly to call upon them
to resist the amendment. If the members of
that communion were left to pay the whole
expenses of the church, it must fall.—(Hear.)
The question was, were they to have any na-
tional establishment for theological education ?
He considered that the preservation of such an
establishment was of the first importance. Even
Dissenters themselves would admit this; and he
felt assured that those Dissenters around him, who
had religion at their hearts, would be the first to
water the funeral of the national establishment with
their tears.

Mr. BROWN—As to the amendment being in-
jurious to the Church of England, and as to its
being an act of injustice to that church,he differed very
much from the last speaker. The three hierarchies
were spoken of, but no allusion had been made to
that which was the foundation of them all, viz., the
Christian religion. It was by this tenure alone
they held sway. And what was Christianity before
it was ever attached to civil government ? What
was it from its commencement down to Constantine?
How was it as it came from its Author ?—that Author
declared that his kingdom was not of this world.—
(Hear.) What were the wealth, the honours, the
power, and the splendour of this world to Him ?
Now the member of the church says, "My re-
ligion is the most powerful, wealthy, and pom-
pous in the world ;" but how was such a boast re-
concileable to the declaration of the foundersof Chris-
tianity, that his kingdom was not of this world ? For
three centuries after its foundation did the Christian
religion go on rapidly increasing and flourishing, not
only unconnected with temporal power and honour,
but in spite of all the opposition which power and
influence could direct against it, in spite of all the
persecutions of its disciples, and in spite of all the
priestcraft and superstition of the Paganism which it
overturned.—(Hear, hear.) Then came Constar:-
tine, who united it with the temporal kingdom.

What was the consequence ? It became corrupt
the first century, more corrupt the second, still
more corrupt the third, and so on till the 14th or
15th century, till its corruptions became so mon-
strous, that the people would no longer submit to
them.—(Cheers.) Therefore all tie argument as
to the necessity of supporting a church establish-
ment in order to support Christianity must fall to
the ground if they took the whole truth into con-
sideration. So far from doing any injury to the
church, it would prove its greatest blessing. Let it
stand as other churches stood, on the word of God
as its foundation. Let those support it who believed
in its doctrines, and they would then go forth in
their native strength and purity, unaccompanied by
that prejudice which now prevailed against them
throughout every class of society.—(Hear.) how
often have the professors of the church establish-
ment been warned that these things would prove
their downfall—how many authors of the first emi-
nence have written upon the subject They would
not listen to reason—they shut their ears to convic-
tion, and yet they now come forward and express
their surprise at the resolution which prevails, not
merely in this church, but all over the kingdom, that
church rates shall no mote be paid. What will be the
consequences of this resolution? Why the churchman
must either maintain his own church or suffer it to
fall ; for mark, it is not the Dissenter that will pull
it down—if it fall at all, it will be because the other
lets it fall.—(Hear, hear.) If in the earlier period
of Christianity, men encountering every opposition
could not only maintain but propagate their reli-
gious sentiments, why should not the churchman be
enabled now, with no such obstacles, to uphold his
church ? If it could not stand on the support of
those who belonged to it, he was justified in saying
that it ought not to stand at all.—( Hear.) He
believed, however, that by ceasing to be an esta-
blishment it would flourish more than at present,
and its ministers could be better maintained.
After some unimportant discussion, Mr. JonNsoN
agreed to confine his amendment to the repairs of
the church, as it was alleged those of the church-
yard stood on a different footing.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, in
favour of which the hands of nearly all present were
raised. On the contrary, about nine hands only
were elevated. The amendment was then declared
to be carried amidst great applause.
Mr. ARTHUR CLARK then moved, '6 That the
consideration of the churchyard railing should be
referred to the 'Workhouse Committee, who should
report to the Vestry before incurring any expense."
Mr. DAvis hoped that this would also be rejected.
The principle was the same as before.—(Hear.)
Great expense would be incurred by such a vote,
and he had known the railing to be in the same
condition fur twenty years, and he did not see why
it should mot wand twenty years longer.
Other gentlemen also opposed the motion, which
was lost by as overwhelming a majority as that by
which the previous amendment was carried.
This final victory was hailed with loud cheering,
and the Vestry then proceeded to the election of au
engine-keeper and other business of no public im-
lmtance.

MINISTERS' STIPEND.—The issuing of
diligences against the inhabitants for non .payment of the
annuity tax, has been going briskly on this week, and
another " jailfui" of recusanti are ready for the Calton
march. We understand that, between 9 and 10 o'clock
this morning, five men went to 57, George-street, 59,
George-street, and 9, Lauriston-lane, and poinded goods
for ministers' stipend from Alexander Cruickshank and
Son to the amount of about 3001., which the poinders
have very modestly valued under 501.—Scotsman.

A MOUNTED ItIFLEMAN.—BtIt to judge
of the militia, you should see those of the west and south.
A regiment of mounted riflemen—men inured to all the
fatigues and privations of the almost savage life of a first
setlemunt, mounted each upon his favourite horse ; armed
with his trusty carbine, to which, not seldom, he and his
family have been indebted for a dinner in time of
need—these are people who make a sport of all fatigue.
To them a campaign is really a party of pleasure. They
know the woods, can find their way by the suit
and the bark of the trees, whether to track an enemy
or a stag ; their dogs assist them here, for each bas
a dog with him. They have no uniform ; every one
comes as he is dressed for his daily labour, with some
' new extra covering spun and wove by his wile from,
cotton planted by himself. A hat of twisted palm leaves
protects his person, blackened by the smoke of this
bivouac ; an otter skin, artfully folded and sewed, contains
his ammunition, the means of kindling a fire, and his
little stuck of tobacco ; a wallet behind his saddhe
carries provisions for himself and his horse. The sal.
coal himself is as little fastidious as the mastoe. A
few handsful of maize per day suffice him ; but in the
evening, on arriving at the camp, he is unsaddled, un-
bridled, and two of his legs fastened together : then be
left in the woods, where grass in abundance very ,•00,0,
invites him to a frugal supper. No great discipline:
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a troop like this ; no regular exercises :
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ever for his own account yb, and as if
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