The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-06 00:00:00

SOUTHALL CATTLE MARKET.—Feb. 4

The supply of Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Porkers, to th's dhy's mat
ket was moderately good. There was a pretty good attendance of tow
and country buyers, and the trade was dull, at the follow lug phet
per stone 01 Sib. to sink the oflals :
Beef 2s. 8.1. to 4s. Od. I Veal
Mutton 3 0 4 0 l Pork 3 0 4 0
Beasts,l23B ; Sheep, 2 215 ; Calves, 35; Pigs, :A A small ) ortion of
the supply left the market unsold

ROMFORD MA
s. it. to s. d. e. ,t. to ~ ,1
fleet 2 8 310 I Veal
Nltitton 3 0 4 0 Pork
Suckling Calves, 12s. to 305.; Quarter old Store Pigs. 10.. to Ws.
Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, 11/. os to 141. Os.
Supply moderate, and trade rather dull

RKET.—Feb. 4

HAILSHAM
Beef 3s. 4d. to :3s.
Mutton
_3 8 4

MARKET—Feb. 4.
H. Veal 4s. 4d. t,• 4s. &l.
I 4 Por

Supply short, and trade very dull.

CHICHESTER MARKET—Feb. 4.

Beef
Mutton '1 u 4 0 I Pork 3 0 3 6
Supply of fat stock moderately good, and trade rather dull.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT TIIE COURT,
BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

(From th, London Gazette) H. H.
J and T. Tombs, builder-, Emerson-street, Southwark 1 at H
R. Blair, coal-dealer, Hook, ' urrey

INCENDIARISM.—Yesterday information was re-
ceived in town, that on last Friday night, about half-past eight
o'clock, a large stack of meadow hay was fired in a field on
Outmarsh Farm, in the parish of Melksham, near Bath, the
property of Mr. Miles. Notwithstanding the engines soon
arrived on the spot, and there was a plentiful supply of water,
the flames could not be arrested, and between 20 and 30 tons
of prime hay were destroyed. There is not the slightest doubt
but that some diabolical incendiary set fire to the property.

Sir J. CAMPBELL stated that this was an action brought
to decide a claim for a sum of 300/. due to the plaintiff for
having negotiated a partne'rship between the defendant and
three other persons. The plaintiff was a law-agent, residing
in Chancery-lane, and his business was to negotiate these
partnerships, and for such negotiations he was usually paid
at the rate of if. per cent., but in difficult cases he received
10/. per cent. The defendant was Mr. Alderman Har-
mer, who, after having acquired an ample fortune, was very
deservedly elevated to the dignity of an Alderman ; and
who, then wishing to devote more time to the discharge of
the important public duties he had undertaken, and per-
haps also desiring to enjoy some degree of rest froto the la-
bours which he had long undergone, applied to the plaintiff
to negotiate a partnership for him. The plaintiff did so
very successfully, and introduced to him Messrs. Flower.
Holt, and Sandell, who now with him formed the partner-
ship. The premium which these gentlemen had paid Mr.
Harmer for their three shares in the business amounted to
6,000/., and on that the plaintiff claimed a commission of 51.
per cent. This was the case on the part of the plaintiff.
Mr. THESSIGER addressed the jury for the defendant,
after which,

Lord DENMAN summed up, and the Jury returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, damages 50/.

VINCENT V. HOLBROOK.

This was an action for goods sold and delivered, brought
by the plaintiff as administratrix of the estate and effects of
her late husband. The defence was, that part of the ac-
count. now sought to be recovered consisted of items tbr
small quantities of spirituous liquors furnished by the plain-
tiff in quantities less than those permitted by the statute.
Payments had been made by the defendant, and it was con-
tended that the plaintiff had a right to appropriate these to
cover the objectionable items. On the other side it was
insisted that this could not be done, but that part of the bill
being illegal the plaintiff was prevented from recovering any
portion Of it. This argument was answered by the Counsel
for the plaintiff insisting that they had the right, und'er the
authority of a recent decision, to appropriate the paymenbE
to any items in the bill.

Lord DENMAN allowed the plaintiff to make the .appro-
priation in the present instance, and the Jury, therefore,
gave a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the point of law.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

PERRY V. GREEN.

This was an action of slander. Both the plaintiff and
defendant in this action are bakers, living in the neighbour-
hood of Ratcliff-highway. The defendant had take❑ some
pains to see the plaintiff's miller, and warn him to get his
money if he owed him any, for that if he did not look sharp
he would not be paid. It was laid as special damage that
in consequence of this Mr. Berry, the miller, had abridged
the plaintiff's credit, and some evidence was given to that
effect. It also appeared that the defendant told the plain-
tiff's butcher that he was a " d—d rogue," not to be trusted.
No witnesses were called for the defence.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages twenty pounds.

EXCHEQUER COURT.

DANVSON V. MOORE.

This was a suite instituted by the plaintiff, a shoe-
maker in Burlington-arcade, against the defendant, the
army accoutrement-maker, at the corner of Bond-street,
for a nuisance.

Between Burlington Arcade and Bond-street there is a
passage called Stambrook-court, in which are situated pre-
mises belonging to the defendant, just at the back of the
plaintiff's house,in the Arcade. The workmen employed in
this building, in hammering tin, make such a noise in their
avocations, that the plaintiff averred such noises injured
him in his business, and he brought this action to abate
the nuisance.

A great number of witnesses were then called to prove
!hat in the plaintiff's house the noise of hammering was
oudly heard, and some of them deposed that the hammer-
ng was a great annoyance, and gave them the headache.

Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS remarked, that if any trade which
in its operations made a noise, were to be prohibited as a
nuisance, business could not be carried on, when there was
so many pursuits which necessarily involved more noise than
the alleged nuisance. The business, of which Mr. Moore
was the head, had been carried on in the house in question
for nearly a century, and long before Burlington-arcade was
built ; and as the plaintiff ha come of his own accord to
the place in which were the noises complained of, ought
Mr. Moore to suffer ?

Mr. Sergeant Bomrns was examining a witness for the
defence, when

Lord ABINGER asked if be had many others to call?
Mr. Sergeant BoMPAS had several more to examine.

Lord ABINGER—We must remember the fate of the late
House of Commons, and not keep late hours.
The case, which occupied the whole day, was then ad-
journed at a quarter past six till to-morrow.

SHERIFFS' COURT.

G UILDHALL.

Yesterday Mr. Sergeant ARABIN sat in this Court, in
which the business is principally done by the City Pleaders.

CITY PRIVILEGES.

Mr. THOMAS (a Counsel, but not a City Pleader,) ap-
peared for a defendant, and when the case was called on
said that he was ready with the defence.
Mr. RYLAND, one of the Pleaders, said that there was
another City Pleader in the Court, and of course a gentle-
man without that privilege could not act in a case in
which the Pleader might have been engaged, the latter
having clearly, by the custom of the Court, the right of
pre-audience.
Mr. THOMAS was not aware of the existence of such a
system of exclusion. In the Marshalsea Court no such
practice prevailed.
Mr. RYLAND was very sorry that his Learned_Friend
was not better informed. In the Marshalsea Court such
practice certainly did prevail.
11Itd. Sergeant ARABIN regretted that neither the Learned
Counsel nor the attorney employed for the defence were
aware of the rules of thc Court, but it was obvious that
those rules must be aTiered to, or its privileges would be
;worth nothing. It %, as one of the most ancient Courts,
and formerly the Headers paid very large sums of money
for rho exercise of the privileges, which if they were not
sustair!ed resolutely would be lost. He was bound to pro-
tect the proctitioners in the Court in their claim of prece-
cedence, and therefore the Learned Counsel could not pro-
ceed with the ciefence. _ _

The attorney fo.- the defence begged to be allowed ten
minutes to draw up brief for Mr. Gurney.
Mr. GURNEY—No as the party pleads ignorance of
the rules of the Court I waive my privilege.

S i.geant ARABIN said ti, at the act of Mr. Gurney in
withdrawing his claim was certainly worthy of that Learned
Gentleman's character, and the ease might of course pro-
ceed. lie thought it, however, necessary to observe that
if such permission had not been given he should have con-
sidered it to be his duty to insist upon upholding the pri-
vileges of the Court. by refusing to allow Mr. Thomas to act.
The case, which was one of no interest, theta proceeded.

RED-LION SQUARE.
E. G. BARNARD, E(4., M.P. V. BRITTON.

This was an action brought by the Member for. Green-
wich to recover the sum of 6461. 6d. from one of his tenants
!Or rent, &c.

Mr. George Morris, bailiff to the plaintiff, proved ghat
the defendant had allowed a balance of 261. ss. Gd. to be
due for a farm called, Bonsor's Farm, three years' rent for a.
meadow called Ice House Meadow, amounting to 27/. ;
that the amount for underwood sold to him was 584/. ss. ;
and that some other monies were due, amounting to 91.,
which in the whole made the gross amount of 6461. Gd.
On the cross-examination of this witness it appeared that
two executions had been put in, but not for these farms,
but for another called Gorfield, which he rented ; that the
defendant and his wife (he not being much of a scholar) had
inspected the accounts, and admitted the correctness of
them ; that he was not entitled to claim for damage done
by game ; and that, in fact, be had no substantial defence
to the action.

Under the direction of the Sheriff, therefore, the jury
found a verdict for the amount claimed.

LYNES V. EDRIDGE.

This was an action to recover the hire of an omnibus at
the rate ofs/. per month from the defendant, who resides at
St. Leonard's, near Hastings.
The defendant had the article in question from the 11th
of June to the 28th of September ; the plaintiff went down
to St. Leonard's in August, and received 5/. on account.
On the part of the defendant it was stated that the om-
nibus had been let to a Mr. Neele, but this statement was
not confirmed by evidence, and consequently the jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff for la, being the balance.

TRADES' UNION.—On Sunday a meeting of the
Trades' Union was held at the Old Chapel, Townsend-street,
Dublin. Mr. O'Connell addressed the meeting at conside-
rable length on the subject of the late elections, and gave his
own party great credit for abstaining from agitation, up to the
period of the dissolution of the late Ministry. The Honour-
able Member animadverted in strong terms on the part taken
by Mr. Latouche, at the recent election for the city of Dublin,
and ascribed as the cause of that gentleman's conduct, what-
ever he (Mr. O'C. ) observed, might be its pretext, the " scut-
tling" he was giving his brother-in-law, the Knight of Kerry.
There were two resolutions passed, the one adjourning the
meeting of the Union for three months—the other, appointing
Tuesday week for a public dinner to Messrs. O'Connell and
Ruthven, as Members for the city.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1835.

It is consoling to reflect that, however greal may be
the difficulties in which the interests of our common
country are involved, there is always a mode of de-
liverance 'at hand, if she will only adopt the recom-
mendation of the old physician in the case of the
lawyer's cold, which was simply to take advice I This
is all that is requisite ; and, moreover, here ends the
analogy between the two cases ; for the practitioners
who prescribe for State distempers seek no other fee
for their trouble; than that internal pleasure which ac-
companies the performance of an extraordinary act of
virtue. Neither are their numbers so limited, or their
recommendations so much alike, that the object of
their solicitude need be under any apprehension of
wanting an ample choice of means, by which the
same end can be accomplished with equal readiness,
dispatch, and the absence of any very great incon-
venience. Turn which way soever she will, there is a
physician ready to give her such advice as he declares
will effect her restoration to perfect health ; and though
she may assure him that he need give himself no fur-
ther trouble about the matter, inasmuch as he neither
knows the nature of her complaint, nor the way in
which his own medicine would operate on a
constitution such as her's, still his determination
to serve her remains undiminished, and his
amplest revenge is to take every precaution to
let all the world know the good advice he gave her,
accompanied with his deep regret that her ignorance and
her obstinacy, alone stand in the way of her becoming
a paradise. There is a simplicity of manner, and a
cordial frankness about State physicians which is ab-
solutely enchanting. We are always delighted when
we get in company with any of them ; for half an hour
makes us acquainted with all the evils which afflict the
country, and in five minutes more, we are let into the
secret for removing every one of them, root and
branch. It is astonishing with what readiness one
of these gentlemen will solve a question which
the Legislature would require years to be able
fully to comprehend. One attributes all the suf-
ferings of the country to want of money, and re-
commends a paper currency, empowering every man
to make as much money as he pleases : another is of
opinion that the general distress is entirely owing to
the dearness of the necessaries of life, and as he thinks

high prices to be the consequence of our National
Debt, he earnestly entreats the Ministry to leave off
procrastinating, and pay the debt, and—be done with
it at once : and a third, more sagacious than
the rest, is convinced that all the people want to
make them feel very comfortable, is plenty to eat,
drink, and wear, with little or no work ; all which he
shows in a twinkling can be done by the adoption of a
plan, which he had the honour of submitting to my
Lord Somebody twenty years ago, and which is as
easy and as natural as to stretch out one's legs after
dinner. All this is very pleasant and 'agreeable ; and
it must strike every person, that men who have thus at
their finger ends, as it were, both the detail of our ca-
lamities, and the means of converting them into bless-
ings at a moment's notice, wer3 born to be Chancellors
of the Exchequer, had knowledge its legitimate in-
fluence in regulating the appointment.

We have been led to make these observations, in
consequence of casting our eyes over a pamphlet, pub-
lished by RIDGWAY, entitled " A New System, or
Taxation no Burthen," by Mr. GEORGE DICKIN-
SON—a gentleman of very original views, if we may
judge from his first proposition :—" That a want of
profitable employment both for labour and capital is
one of the main causes of the depression under which
a large portion of the community are now suffering."
There are, we believe, few of the old nations of Eu-
rope, who might not advance the same cause for the
suffering which prevails among their respective inhabi-
tants ; indeed this proposition be irs a strong resem-
blance, in point of self-evidence and simplicity, to the
one already cited, which attributes the distress to the
want of abundant food and clothing, without toil and
without expense. We regret to say that what follows
of the author's system is not quite so well elucidated.
He recommends the abolition of the Malt Tax ; and,
to make up the deficit which this would cause in the
revenue returns, advises an increased duty of two shil-
lings a gallon on British spirits, and four shillings on
foreign wines, which he is confident would lead
an increase of one-sixth of the present consumption of
the first of these articles. We dare say our readers
will be content that we stop here. It will be time
enough to submit the other parts of the new system
to them, when they come to understand how the increase
of duties leads to the increase of consumption—a
mystery in the science of political economy of which
we confess ourselves wholly ignorant. The author tells
us that the abolition of the Malt Tax would enable
us to supply- ourselves with cheap beer, and that
the surplus saved of the present price paid for that
beverage, would be at our disposal to do what we liked
with it ; and so, of course, we should indulge in more
spirits. This proposition is about as sagacious as that
one in simple arithmetic, which teaches that twice two
arc four ; but what becomes of the surplus saved in
the beer, when the spirits to be bought with it rise in
price in the same ratio as the beer has fallen ? If the
working-people now prefer beer to spirits of every kind,
will not the inevitable consequence of the new arrange-
ment be a diminution in the consumption of spirits, even
were the duty to be lowered instead of being increased
To assume the contrary is to maintain that the people
now drink as much beer, and possess as many other
necessaries as they require—a fact which once esta-
blished would do away with all necessity for new sys-
tems. We do not deny that many of the author's
views are most correct—we do not wish to have it in-
ferred that we differ from him in our estimate of the evils
of the excise laws, which cripple industry and extinguish
the spirit of enterprise; but we take the liberty of thinking
thet he has not sufficiently studied the subjeet on which
he writes ; and that his best system is one which might
he learned from a sleeping goose, which, when tired on
one leg, rests on the other. He does not propose the
removal of the load—he only recommends the shifting
of it from one shoulder to the other. His Paper
Currency scheme has been too often repudiated, to
merit even a passing censure. We approve of tbe
author's motives, which, we are sure, are disintrested
in the extreme; but we advise him to artei;iy-- himself a
little more diligently to the study of the affairs of the
country, before he prepares ar.isther nostrnm for her
regeneration.

A letter signed c, Zeta," on the right of Peers
to vote for Mem.bers of Parliament, appears in another
part of The Sun. Our opinion is not in the least
altered by Zeta's letter. A Peer labours under a
political incapacity to vote, which no entry in a re-
gi:ter can remove. Any man, however disqualified,
may succeed in getting his name fraudulently
inserted in the register ; and if he does, he cannot
be prevented from giving his vote, but his name would
be expunged by a Committee of the House of Com-
mons : and in addition to this, were he a Peer, he
would be guilty of a breach of the privileges of the
House. There is no law, as our correspondent sup-
poses, to prevent Peers from voting at elections. By
doing so they infringe the privileges of the Commons,
and no clause of the Reform Bill in the least affects
their former position with respect to that House.

`We have inserted in another column a letter from a
correspondent, which contains some observations well
deserving the attention of those who are engaged in
the important work of digesting such a plan of Church
Reform, as shall be satisfactqfy to a people groaning
under the greatest ecclesiastical burden that ever
weighed a priest-ridden nation to the earth. This bur-
den is not only oppressive from its absolute weight, but
intolerably galling from the consideration that the pro-
fessed objects for which it is imposed, are notoriously
defeated, and that a large proportion of the immense
revenues, wrung from the reluctant industry of the
country, instead of being devoted to the support of
true and undefiled religion, is consumed in pampering
idleness, and in ministering to the gratification of
pride and worldly ambition.

That such a state of things should have been per-
mitted to exist so long, is a proof that patience ranks
high among our national virtues. Happily, however,
the people of England have now made the discovery
that a virtue, carried to excess, becomes a vice. They
have determined that either the abuses of the eccle-
siastical system, or the system itself, shall cease ; and it
is to the convictio❑ that this determination will be re-
solutely carried into effect, that we arc indebted for
the tardy confession that the " house" wants setting in
order, and the declaration that there is a sincere desire
to commence the work.

Whether the exactions to evhich our correspondent
alludes are included in the returns !:lade to the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners, we dq not know ; but we should
think that if the object jjthe Commission was to ascer-
tain the amount of clerical emoluments, these origi-
nally voluntary, but now compulsory contributions,
could scarcely have been omitted. We believe the re-
turns have not yet been completed, either from the
want of sufficient antnoTity in the Commissioners, or

from reluctance on the part of the Clergy to reveal the
sources and extent of the:r incomes. But until the
amount of the ecclesiastical revenues is known, it
would seem somewhat preposterous to set about a more
equal distribution of them. It is like building the
house without laying the foundation.

Various estimates of the value of Church property
have been made, but it is evident that the best can be
only an approximation to the truth. We copy the
following from a very able pamphlet on Tithes by
" Biblicus," published by DENNIS, Paternoster-row,
which we strongly recommend to all who wish to un-
derstand the extent and evils of the English tithe

system :
Value of tithes from land in tillage
Ditto of parishes become parts of towns, &c 200,000
Ditto of coal, iron, tin, and copper mines
1040 perpetual curacies, at 1001. each
100 benefices not parochial, 75!. each
9,000 glebes, at 401. each
Fees of 10,872 livings, at 201. each
Incomes of Bishops 220,000
Ditto of Deans and Chapters 325,600

£10,974,765
Deduct annual value of lay impropriations 3,117,434

£7,357,331
To which must be added—Church-rates 300,000
Additions to Queen Anne's bounty ... 100,000
College and school foundations. 632,130
Parliamentary grants for building churches

£9,539,481

If the above statement be any thing near the truth
(and it falls short of some estimates by a million),
there can be but- one opinion as to the amplitude of
the provision made for the support of our spiritual
guides. Indeed, if the spiritual benefit received werP_
in proportion to the temporal, or, as Wit may say,
carnal benefit returned, the Ent)Visil would be the
most religious people on the face of the earth. The
following table, which we copy from the pamphlet
,
before mentioned, sets this matter in a strong light :-
Expense of
Name of Nation. Number of Clergy per Total Ex-
Hearers. million of penditure.
hearers.
France
United States of America 9,600,000 60,000 576,000
Spain
Hungary-Catholics 4,000,000 80,000 320,000
Calvanists
Lutherans 650,000 40,000 26,000
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Prussia
German States
Holland
Netherlands
Denmark
Sweden
Russia-Greek Church 34,000,000 15,000 510,000
Cath. and Luth 8,000,000 50,000 409,000
South America
Dispersed Christians 3,000,000 50,000 180,000
Christians in Turkey 6,000,000 80,000 180,100
England, Church of ...
Ireland, Church of 400,000 3,250,000 1,300,000
Thus the clergy of 195,678,000 hearers abroad, receive
8,591.0001. While the clergy of 6,400,000 hearers at home receive
8,896,0001., if not a much greater sum.

According to this calculation, we ought to be about
thirty-five times as religious as the French, and seventy
times as religious as the Russians !

New York and Washington papers to the 17th
ult., have been received, i❑ which we find that all ap-
prehensions of a hostile collision with France are
happily removed for the present. This has been
effected by a vote of the Senate, during the sitting of
the 14th, to the effect :—" That it is inexpedient at
present to adopt any Legislative measures in regard to
the state of affairs between this country and France."
By this vote that part of the PRESIDENT'S message
which refers to France is at once disclaimed by the
Senate ; and of course will henceforth be regarded as
the act of an individual, unless the Chamber of Re-
presentatives adopt the language of General JACKSON,
This is not altogether unlikely, however injurious it
might prove to the internal repose of the United States.
The Senate is well known to be as hostile to most of
the views of the PRESIDENT as the Chamber of Re-
presentatives is attached to them ; and there is reason
to fear that the recent collision on the Deposit question
will again be renewed: Let us hope the best, how-
ever. France i? now at liberty to act as becomes her,
willout being supposed to be influenced by a me-
We trust the pacific disposition shown by 'the
stern Republicans of the United States, will stimulate
France to the discharge of those claims, which she
herself has acknowledged to be due to the American
Government.