The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-23 00:00:00

VAUXHALL GARDEN S.

This delightful place of summer resort was opened last night
for the season, and was attended by a respectable, and, consi-
dering the louring character of the evening, a numerous
assemblage of people. Considerable improvements have been
made, during the recess, in almost every quarter of the
Gardens. The Rotunda has been newly decorated, hung
with drapery, and lighted by a splendid new chandelier. The
illuminations were brilliant and appropriate, particularly the
" Welcome." In the Rotunda theatre, the three hunters of
the Styrian mountains, Helwig, Meinfahet, and Melk, from
the Austrian Court, made their first appearance, and performed
several appropriate pieces, vocal and instrumental. The air,
" Pria the l'impegna," so frequently performed by Paganini,
was very beautifully executed by one of the hunters upon a
pipe of peculiar construction, having only four vents. The
dioramic scenes, painted by Mr. Cocks, consist of views of
Dover and Calais, the former by moonlight, and the latter
with the effect of sunrise, from sketches taken upon the spot ;
Amsterdam, the Stadthouse-basin, with shipping, trickschuyts,
&c., Hermitage, Napoleon, a group of soldiers at the siege of
Antwerp, and representations of the Apollo Belvidere, and the
Gladiator after Canova, which were most remarkable for
accurate drawing. The concert consisted of songs, per-
formed principally by Misses James, Paget, and Bardole,
and glees, by Horncastle, Mears, and Bedford, which were
well received. The imitations of several performers by Mr.
Buckingham, were greeted with merited applause. The last
scene, entitled Fite of Versailles, consisted of three tableaux.
The tirst was the Batas of Apollo, with a group of statuary,
representing Apollo, attended by the Nymphs, about to enter
the bath, composed of living figures. The second represented
a colonnade in the gardens, decorated with flags, and silver
dolphins, from which real water was discharged. The third
tableau exhibited a perspective line of fountains, with the Pa-
lace of Versailles illuminated in the distance, and Neptune anj
his attendants mounted on a splendid car. This scene
further decorated with fountains, and a discharge 31e..csraornkss.
equal to any display we. have witnessed joie
reat attrac-
The unappr„,,i,eoachable of the men— e admiration
_'the of
lion.-``_
mum women. We never saw him bow in more faultless style,
or smile with more honied sweetness. He looks quite as
young, as when he took prisoner the Count de Grasse, and
vanquished the French fleet, i 3 the glorious days of Rodney.—
Floreat sternum

CHURCH RATES.

CASE OF MR JOHN CHILDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-Time was, when the interested Aristocracy to whom
Henry the Eighth and his successors gave the plunder and spoil
of the Catholic Church were able to work upon the ignorance
and therefore upon the fears of the people, by shouting " No
POPERY," and thus to make them tools for saddling themselves
with plethoric priests and a crushing establishment. •
Time was when public distress existed, produced by wicked
wars and absurd and unequal laws—that the right divine au-
thors of the wrong could induce the people to pull down ba-
ker's houses, instead of looking to the authors of the misery
and the boroughmongering law-makers. the tools of the Court
and the Aristocrats. Time was when the people blindly
thought they had an interest in the Church Establishment.
Time was when the cry of the " Church is in danger" made
the people think they should suffer if it fell.
Time was when Tory priests could induce an ignorant
" Church and King mob" to destroy the house and library of a
philosopher, and compel him to fly his country, because he wel-
comed the first dawn of those principles of political liberty
which received their advent amidst the throes of the French
Revolution. But thanks to the spread of knowledge—
thanks to the energy and activity of men like your-
self, the time is come when aristocracy and priestcraft, in
all their selfishness and bitterness, stand exposed before the
people ; and we behold as at Newhall-hill, the peaceable but
mighty union of the masses who, by their quiet firmness in the
prosecution of a great moral purpose, produced, on nearly the
same spot from which Priestley had been hunted in the day of
the people's darkness, that " pressure from without,' which
sealed the downfull of Tory dominancy, and has made them
ever since chaunt the dirge of " the right divine to govern
wrong."
The time is come, and the people now know that the cry of
the " Church is in danger," means not that religion is in danger,
but that priestcraft, tithes, church-rates, spiritual persecution,
and clerical magistrates, are in danger—that the political
church is in danger—that that cry is made in the spirit of the
Ephesian silversmiths, when they shouted in the ears of Paul,
" Great is Diana of the Ephesians."
The case of Mr. Childs is an instance amongst the many in-
stances of the progress of religious and political knowledge,
since the days of the Gordon riots and the Church and King
mobs, and of the progress of passive resistance, against which
you wisely warn the slow sailing Whigs.
The feeling against compulsory contributions to one sect of
religionists from another, who think differently, has long been
extensively and quietly progressing in Suffolk and Norfolk.
In October last, warrants were issued against the goods of
several of the rated inhabitants of Bungay, whose perceptions
were not clear enough to see the duty of falling down and
worshipping the image which our Henry the Eighth, of pious
memory—like another Nebuchadnezzar—had set up. A Mr.
Morris of that town chose not to resist the law—be that always
borne in mind—but to allow his goods to be seized and sold,
which is a constitutional and a most effectual way of getting
a bad law repealed, by showing its true features in all their
deformity. Be it known unto thee, Gripe-all and Co., said
Mr. Morris and his friends, amongst whom was our valued
friend John Childs, that we will not worship the golden image
which thou hast set up. Whereupon Mr. Morris's goods were
seized ; but Gripe-all and Co.. could with difficulty find any
one to buy them. After some difficulty, a buyer was found ;
but the state of social misery into which the poor man was
brought, by touching " the unclean thing," is strikingly evi-
denced by the following humble apology, which he issued as
a peace-offering to his neighbours :
I, Robert More, grocer, desire publicly to express my deep and
unfeigned regret that I should have thoughtlessly suffered myself to
to be inveigled into the purchase of Mr. Morris's goods, which had
been distramed for Church-rates. This was effected only by a represen-
tation that another person was waiting on my refusal to take them
at the price asked, which was much below their value. I do not
think I can better express my sense of my unfortunate error, than
by publicly offering the best reparation in my power, and request-
ing Mr. Morris to accept his goods, and I have some satisfaction
in being able to restore them to him uninjured and entire.
(Signed) ROBERT MORE.
Bungay, November 2, 1833.
And they were restored publicly and by a peaceable pro-
cession.

The placard and the procession, so strikingly evidenced
the strong and deep feeling of the people, and their good
sense in confining themselves to peaceable and passive re-
sistance, that the craftsmen held a council together, and
though the speeches of the members of the Conclave have not
been reported, what they have done shows us it is but reason-
able to suppose, that the 19th chapter of the Acts, commencing
at the 23d verse, would supply a substantially accurate report
of the very Christianlike and disinterested sentiments of
these modern silversmiths. There is, from the treatment
Mr. Childs has received at their hands, reason for thinking,
that it was said of him, as it was said of Paul in a similar case—
Moreover,ye see and hear,th at not alode at Bun gay,but at Beccles
and almost throughout all Suffolk, this John hath persuaded and
turned away much people saying, that they be no altars that are
raised by acts of parliament, and supported by exactions " so
that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but
also that the temple of the Greet Goddess Diana should be
despised and her MAGNIFICENCE should be destroyed. And
thereupon, the item necessary for the repairing, supporting,
and cleaning of the Shrine, and of chaunting its service, was
commanded to be read.

And it was resolved that it was holy, just and proper, that

Heretics should be made to support the Saints, and that it wa
desirable that the saying " It is more blessed to give thin to
receive" should be taught to the people, and that the practice
of the saying should be enforced upon them ; for that other-
wise the people might in their simplicity suppose, that this.
saying was meant to be observed by the teachers instead of
the taught—the priests instead of the people. Now, we do
not pretend to have heard the debate in the conclave, but we
do know that the facts in the case of Mr. Childs, and the
treatment which he has received, in this day, from those who.
live by the Shrines raised by Henry the VIII., of pious me-
mory, is precisely similar to that experienced by the Apostl
from the craftsmen at Ephesus.
In my next, the history shall progress, and the acts of the
craftsmen make their appearance in due order.

ZENAS.

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day at
the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were
the Lord President, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord
Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Baron Parke, and the
Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court.

SWIFT V. KELLY, OTHERWISE SWIFT.
This was an appeal from the decision of the Arches Court,
declaring the marriage of the appellant with the respondent
null and void. The facts of the case were as follows :—lti,
the year 1830 Mr. Swift, and his mother, the Countess of More-
land, were at Florence, where they became intimate with Mrs.
Kelly and her daughter. The consequence of the acquaintance
produced an attachment between Miss Kelly, then twenty
years of age, and the appellant. That attachment, at the re-
quest of Miss Kelly, was concealed from the parents of both
parties ; but a secret marriage was proposed by the appellant
to Miss Kelly, with a request that she would seriously cota.--
sider the proposal before she gave an answer. Miss Kelly
promised to give the appellant an answer in a week, observing
that if she did not do so within that time, he must not look
cross. In a short time afterwards Miss Kelly returned an an-
swer, in which she promised to marry the appellant. In con--
sequence of this promise the appellant took measures.
for the purpose of effecting a private marriage, but during their
stay at Florence it could not be accomplished. In February
of the same year, Mrs. Kelly and her daughter, and also tiva
appellant and his mother, left Fiorence together for Rome ; 01A
their arrival there they took apartments at the Hotel Della:
Gran Bretagne, and the attachment which had been formed:
between the appellant and Miss Kelly continuing, that lady
consented to his making a proposal of marriage to her mother.
The appellant wrote a letter to Mrs. Kelly, requesting per-
mission to pay his addresses to her daughter, and in answer to
that letter he received one from respondent's mother, declining
his proposals, but at the same time expressing her sense of the
gentleman-like conduct he had adopted, and the regret she
should feel if the friendly intercourse subsisting between the
two families should be interrupted. The appellant having
communicated to Miss Kelly the contents of her mother's note,
she observed, that her mother's objections were trivial ones ;
that she was ashamed to say they were so, but that she did not
despair, at the same time ac.vising him to write again. The
appellant again wrote to Mrs. Kelly, who, in answer, stated
that she could not say more on the subject then she had for-
merly done. In consequence of this, the appellant and Miss
Kelly determined to be privately married, and for this purpose
they applied to the Abbe de Sair, an ecclesiastic of the
Roman Church, who informed them that there would be no
difficulty in the celebration of the marriage, provided the
parties would abjure the Protestant religion and become Ca-
tholics. Miss Kelly consented to the abjuration, and a peti-
tion was presented to the Holy Office, to which answers were
received from the Father, Commissary, and the Cardinal
Vicar, bearing the approbation of the Pope to the abjuration
and the marriage. The Cardinal Vicar, in consequence
thereof, granted his authority to the Abbe Ludovico
Lepri to receive the abjuration of the appellant and
Miss Kelly. On the 24th of March, 1830, Mr. Swift
and Miss Kelly abjured the Protestant religion and became
members of the Roman Catholic Church, and on the evening
of the following day, their marriage was solemnized by tlr--
Abbe Lepri. After the event the appellant and Mis!tr--
(then Mrs. Swift) carried on a clandestine intercosi. A T.l:
known to the mother of Mr. Swift. On the jge"
M. e and her daughr leßome for
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Mrs. Swift wrote a note to the akin ormin him tlfaat
lock of her hair, calling herself his wife,..e.
at' the Hotel Vittoria her mother meant to stay at Naplino-ther arrived at Naples, the
Shortly after Mrs. Swift and
appellant, who had followedied him
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appellant, received a note from
her little l, and
Mrs. Swift, in whichsweet soul,
entreated of him to away as soon as he got the note, as-
suring him that s i7o-uld see him the next night, but not I(be-
fore twelve . S!:e also stated in that letter, that they
were s,oleep,
sal remove to the Esterhazy Palace, and that, if slit!.
he should throw a pebble at the window, to give
,‘..'-,.!ittice that he was there. On the 21st of April Mr. Swift
wrote a letter to Mrs. Kelly, informing her of his marriage with
her daughter, and of the reasons which had induced them to have
it solemnized in private. Mrs. Kelly being adverse to the mar-
riage, instituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court to set it
aside ; and after that suit had been fully heard in the Eccle-
siastical Court, judgment was given, annulling the marriage,
and condemning the appellant to pay the costs. From that
decision the present appeal was brought.
Mr. PEMBERTON, with whom was Dr. Pifinnimoita on behalf
of the appellant, contended that if the abjuration was a legal
act, the marriage, to all intents and purposes, was valid. The
case, which is one of great importance, and seems to excite
considerable interest, appears likely to occupy a considerable
time. Sir Charles Wetherell and Dr. Lushington are Couniel
for the respondent.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, MAY 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Fox, Chever-
Icy, from Canton—sailed Feb. 1 ; Chaser, Ritchie, from Ha-
vannah ; Posthumous, Rivington, from Demerara ; Waterlily,
Ritchie, from Havannah.—Remain for orders, the SUccess,
Wheeler, from Stockton ; Reform, Bun; Stockton to Wey-
mouth ; New Ann, Kelly, Stockton to Exeter ; Alfred, Mills,
\Visbeach to Liverpool.—Arrived from the River and sailed,
the Lernia, Dale, for Guernsey ; Ranger, Smith; for Belfast.
—Remain, the Black River Packet, Wright, for Jamaica; and
Friendship, Rundell, for St. Domingo.
PORTSMOUTH,MAT 22.—Wind N. E. to W., fine.
HASTINGS, MAY 22.—Arrived off port, the Olympus, Cowl,
from Ceylon.
POOLE, MAY 22.—Arrived the Resolution, Meinckc, Memel.
DARTMOUTH, MAT 22.—Arrived off port, the Slakesby,
Doutby, from Manilla.
PENZAN'Cii MAY 21.—Arrived the Towan, Cundey, from
Gottenburg.
LIVERPOOL, MAT 21.—Arrived off port, the Chandos,
from Jamaica.
HULL, MAY 21.—Arrived the Rhine, Thompson, from Pil-
lau ; Frau Christine, Miers, from Keil ; Frau Antje, Albers,
from Griefswald.
HUMBER, MAY 21.—Arrived the Milton, Meggett, Riga.
BRISTOL, MAY 22.—Sailed the William Rogers, Crawford,
for Bombay.
CORK, MAY 20.—Sailed the James M'lnroy, Cleland, for
Batavia and China.

(PIZOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PLYMOUTH, TIICIODAY EVENING, MAY 21.—Tho Arachnc,
16, Commander James Burney, which arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Sunday evening ast from Portsmouth, has since
gone up harbour, and will be paij off in a few days. The
ship's company were exercised at the great guns on Tuesday,
in the presence of the Captain of the San-Josef, the flag-
ship at this port.
The Nimrod, 18, Captain M.Dougal, and the Leveret,
10, Lieutenant Trail, were paid off on Tuesday last. The
former vessel was unmasted on Monday—neither the fittings or
bulkheads of these vessels are, it is said, to be disturbed ; the
probability, therefore is, that they will shortly be re-com-
missioned.
The General Hewitt, freight ship of 960 tons burden, is
expected to arrive here from the River, in order to embark a.
detachment of the 66th Regiment, destined for Quebec.
The Champion, Commander Fair, is, we understand, to
proceed hence to Jamaica with the " Fountain" tank vessel,
which has been fitted expressly for that place.
There is no truth in the report, that it is intended to with-
draw Sir William Gage from the command in the Tagus.
By letters received here from his Majesty's frigantine For-
rester, Lieut. George Gover Mial, we learn that on the 23d
day of February last, she captured in the Bony river, after a
chase of six hours, the Spanish brigantine, El Manuel, having
on board 396 slaves, consisting of men, women, and children.
The latter vessel was taken into Sierra Leone.

In Hamoaze—the San-Josef, Champion, Arachne, and
Duck and Swail lighters.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.

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New 314 per Cent 100
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FUNDS.

India Stock
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