The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-13 00:00:00

before the Justices, and of levying the amount at a few shillings'
expense.
For seventeen hours out of twenty-four he is locked up alone,
and permission for his daughter to remain with him one hour later
than is usual, viz., till five o'clock in the afternoon, having been
conceded as a great favor : from that hour till ten o'clock the next
morning she is also excluded.
This treatment he receives because he is a Dissenter, for he has
not resisted the rate.

He, with his neighbours, Lave submitted to have their goods sold
to uphold a Church with which they do not communicate, and to.
support a Minister whose faith they do not hold.
I am sure your Lordship, if you were called upon to answer the
question, would net be able to declare that the same humility and
meekness of spirit would be shown by the dominant sect if their
goods were seized to support the worship of Dissenting Chapels.
The application of such prison rules to such a case is, I submit,
illegal.
Feeling confident that your Lordship thinks with me, that the
higher the station is, the more imperative the duties are which it
imposes, I solicit respectfully, but confidently, from your Lordship,
vour Lordship's interference, as Secretary of State for the Home
Department.
I ask your Lordship to write to the Lord Lieutenant or to the
Sheriff, or Gaoler, not to suspend the rules of the prison, but to
abstain from enforcing them in a case to which they never were
intended to apply.
The object of all prison regulations when they go beyond the
mere detention of the person, being to correct and reform, and to
deter from the commission of crime.

I need not say to Your Lordship that prisor s, and prison rules,
arc not intended in England at this day to be used to convert men,
by dungeons and solitary confinement, to the Established Church,
but to correct the morals of criminals, and deter from crime.
That the Lord Lieutenant, and that English Magistrates should
have allowed the application of such rules in such a case, when their
application is public and notorious is, I venture to say, though ad-
dressing your Lordship, and feeling due respect for those iu au-
thority, a most heartless proceeding.
I do not ask your Lordship to do more than to write to the par-
ties in authority, asking them why the rules are enforced in cases
to which it is palpable such rules were never intended to apply ?
and I ask this with confidence, because it is within the sphere of
your official duties.
My friend has been unjustly and cruelly treated upon a question
of religion and conscience, and a bad law has been tyrannically put
in force against him, notwithstanding he has peaceably submitted
to the infliction and oppression which that law, it is said, permits,
and the cruel practice of a Court which is ludicrously called the
Court " Christian."

I solicit your Lordship's interference; and I trust I shall not be
deemed disrespectful in saying that I hope it may not be of an un-
decisive character, for such treatment is really " too bad."
I have the honor to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
R. BESLEY.

His Lordship has not been, I have reason to know, guilty of
the civility of acknowledging its receipt. Perhaps in assum-
ing that his Lordship had duties to perform, and was under the
obligation of performing them, the letter may not have sounded
upon his Lordship's car so musically as the your-petitioner-
will-ever-pray-sort of lachrymose applications which issue from
the cells of the wretched, vor perhaps the aristocratic Whigs
not having had the honesty and firmness to cleanse the corn.
mission from the rampant Church and State sectarian parsons,
dare not yet call upon them to look to their ways and be wise.
Whatever may be his Lordship's motives for not acting, cer-
tain it is, that the Dissenters must look to themselves, and to
their own energies for emancipation.
If they would be religiously free, they must be politically
active ; they must show the Whigs that their possession of the
loaves and fishes depends upon their not trifling
.with the just
expectations of the people ; and convince the Tories that ram-
pant hostility to the voluntary principle may bring the steeples
into worse jeopardy.
ZENAS.

DINNER TO LORD BROUGHAM AT

LIVERPOOL.

On Friday a meeting of influential gentlemen, merchants,
and others, was held in the Public Sale Room over the Ex-
change, for the purpose of taking the most effectual steps to
celebrate Lord Brougham's intended visit to Liverpool, in a
mariner worthy of his Lordship and the occasion.
LAURENCE HEYWORTII, Esq. having been called to the
Chair, explained the object of the meeting. They were aware
that Lord Brougham had signified his intention of visiting
Liverpool on Monday, the 20th instant, in order to be present
at the foundation-stone being laid of the New Mechanics' In-
stitution. A number of gentlemen felt, in common with him-
self, that the occasion should not be allowed to pass without
paying that distinguished man some public compliment. The
most effectual way of doing so, appeared to be that of inviting
him to a public dinner. The gentlemen present would listen
with attention to any suggestions which might be made con-
ducive to that end.

JOHN EWART, Esq., proposed a resolution to the following
effect :—" That this meeting, feeling highly sensible of the
transcendant services which Lord Brougham has rendered to
the cause of education to the people, do respectfully invite his
Lordship to a public dinner on the coming occasion of his visit
to Liverpool."—( Applause.)
S. HOPF, Esq., seconded the resolution. He thought that
men of all parties would feel disposed to unite on the coming
occasion, to do honour to a man who was essentially the friend
of education, and who left no means untried that were calcu-
lated to further that sacred purpose. The friends of education
in this town were bound to act in a manner that would
be gratifying to the feelings of the distinguished individual,
who had done more than any other man living to promote the
education of the lower orders, and raise them in the scale of
civilization.

Mr. BAINES inquired whether it was the intention of the
gentlemen present to pay this compliment to Lord Brougham
merely on the ground of his being a friend to the education of
the people, and that all party politics be eschewed ?
Mr. HOPE replied in the affirmative. Men of all parties
must regard the Noble Lord with admiration as the active,
able, and useful friend of education. They did not wish to
impose any restrictions on his Lordship, or point out to him
any course which he might pursue on his anticipated visit, but
it was in his character, as the friend of the education of the
people, that they felt it their duty to invite him.
Mr. BOLTON moved—" That a Committee be appointed to
carry the Resolutions into effect." A long list of names was
,here read, including a great proportion of the individuals in
Liverpool, remarkable for talent, influence, and respectability.
Mr. EGERTON SMITH wished to make a remark about the
price of the tickets. He trusted that the price would be fixed
low enough to admit the middle and lower classes. Lord
Brougham was the friend of education and the lower classes of
his fellow-subjects—it was to advance the one, and benefit the
other, that he was about to come amongst them. Was it not,
then, desirable that a proportion of that class, in whose welfare
Lord Brougham was most deeply and patriotically interested,
should be gratified by seeing and hearing their friend and bene-
factor ? Lord Brougham was a man of the people. He de-
lighted to meet large bodies of his more humble follow-sub-
jects. He was an advocate of every thing cheap. He had
started a Penny Magazine, and if they were to believe the
sneers of his enemies, he was in favour of a " penny church,"
and a "penny king." With regard to politics being entirely
eschewed, he thought that might safely be left to Lord
Brougham.
The CHAIRMAN said that he concurred in the view of the
subject taken by Mr. Smith, and it was well entitled to their
attention.

Mr. SMITH also 'suggested that they should form a proces-
sion on the morning of Lord Brougham's arrival, and meet
him at the Railway, from whence he might he escorted into
the town.

Mr. BOLTON thought it would be desirable that the Com-
mittee of the Mechanics Institution should meet his Lord-
ship at the railway-station. From that point they could easily
proceed to the site of the new building in Mount-street, and
lay the foundation-stone. _ -

Mr. RADCLIFF thought the present occasion a favourable
one to show the Mechanics how deeply the Committee were
interested in their comfort and welfare. He suggested that
they should ask the Corporation for the use of the market.
Mr. Ibex thought that the suggestion might be safely left
to the Committee of Management.
After a long desultory conversation, in which Mr. EGERTON
SMITH thought, that instead of Lord Brougham delivering an
address on the site of the new building, where only a few per-
sons near his Lordship could hear him, it would be better
.Frn,ilannarornnny In murrth In lo_rocession to Clayton-square,
where, from the window of the Bull Hotel, his Lordship could
be heard by the thousands who would be in attendance. It was
at length determined that this and a number of other sugges-
tions should be referred to the Committee of Management,
whose regulations would be advertised in the newspapers and
by placards on the walls throughout the town.

The Unionists in the Potteries have determined not
to allow women to be employed on a branch hitherto princi-
pally executed by women in the china trade, and to which they
have generally served a regular apprenticeship. Women who
have been in the habit of earning 10s. or 12s. per week will,
by this arbitrary decision, be thus thrown out of employment,
and the manufacturer compelled to pay an increased rate of
at least 100 per cent. upon the usual price.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

The General Steam Navigation Company's Mail
Packet, the Sir Edward Banks, from Rotterdam, arrived off
the Custom- House, at four o'clock yesterday.

MONEY MARKET.—The English Stock market
continued heavy on Saturday evening, under the impression,
which still prevails, of the approaching negotiation of the West
India loan. It is not the belief, however, of the best informed
persons among the moneyed interest that this loan, should it
actually be raised, will produce any permanent effect in de-
pressing the funds. They distinguish very properly between
a loan raised for such an object and a loan contracted during
war, or for any foreign purpose. In this case the money will
remain in the country or its dependencies, and will merely
change hands. Those who advance it must necessarily dispose
of some investment for that purpose, but those to whom it is
paid will have investments to seek for it, so that the markets
for public securities, so far as they can be influenced by ene
transaction, must soon be brought back to the same level as
before. That portion of the compensation money which will
require to be paid in the colonies themselves will be, it is
generally understood, extremely small, for very large sums
must be applied ill the first instance to the redemption of mort-
gages of West India property held by persons residing in
England, and of the remainder the remittances will probably
take place in goods rather than in money, so that of the whole
loan not one-twentieth part, perhaps, will leave the country.
When to those considerations are added the circumstance, that
three or four years, or more, will elapse before all the colonial
claims are examined and adjusted, over which time the
advajiec of the instalments would he spread, the opinion that
the operation can make no permanent imprc s,ion injurious to
Public credit would appear to be a very sa►e one.—Morning
Paper.