The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-12 00:00:00

THE SCOTCH REGISTRATIONS.

CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—The present Member is George
Sinclair, Esq., returned at the last election as a Reformer,
but who has since apostatized and gone over to the Tories.
Mr.. Trail], a Reformer, opposes him at the next election.
On the registration just closed Mr. Trail] has gained 27
votes, and Mr. Sinclair only 14. The Reformers of Caith-
ness feel confident of returning Mr. Trail]. __ _

CLACKMANNAN AND KINROSS SHlRES.—Admiral Chas.
Adam, a Reformer, is the present Member, having been
returned at the last election, in opposition to R. Bruce,
Esq., by a majority of 447 to 283. The registration gives
the Reformers 112 new votes, and the Tories 60, thus
adding 52 votes to the previous majority.

FALKIRK Buumis.----Mr. Gilfon, Radical Reformer,
elected without opposition. Registration, this year, Re-
formers 35, Tories 8.
FIFESHIRE.—Majority of Liberal voters for Colonel
Wemyss last election, 467 ; majority of Reformers on re-
gister this year, 84 ; total majority of Reformers at pre-
sent, 551.

INVERNESS COUNTY.—The present Member is Mr.
Chisholm, a Tory, and the registration has added to the
strength of the Tory party, so that his re-election may
be considered almost certain.

INVERNESS BURGHS.—Present Member Mr. Cumming
Bruce (a Tory), who was elected in opposition to Mr.
Henry Ellice, by a majority of only four votes. The In-
verness Courier states that the Reformers have greatly
added to their strength by the registration, and that at the
next election they will be able to return a Reformer as their
representative.

EDINBURGH COUNTY.—Sir George Clerk, a Tory, was
returned at the last election by a majority of 31 votes.
At the present registration the Reformers have gained 146,
and the Tories 79, giving the former a majority of 67 on
the present year's register, and 36 on the total number of
electors. Sir George will therefore probably lose his scat.
EDINBURGH CITY.--The majority of Sir J. Campbell,
who stood lowest on the poll of the two Reformers over
Lord Ramsay, who stood highest of the two Tories, was
1,122 at the last election. The present registration gives
the Reformers 642 votes, and the Tories 295, raising the
Reform majority to upwards of 1,400.
KIRKALDY BURGHS—One hundred new votes—four to
one Reformers. The present Liberal candidate is there-
fore safer than ever.

LEITH BURGHS.—Majority for the Lord Advocate pre-
viously nearly three hundred votes. The registration thi-
year gives 144 Liberals to 84 Tories—addition to the Lis
beral majority, 60.
ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ISLANDS.—ThOMRS Balfour,
Esq., a Tory, the present Member, elected by a majority
of 30. The constituency is nearly doubled, there being
40 new votes in Shetland alone. The result of another
election is uncertain.

PEEBLES-SHIRE.--This county, represented by Sir J.
Hay, a Tory, who was returned without opposition. Re-
formers claim an increase of 10 votes this year, which is
denied by the Tories. This county will be contested at
the next election by Mr. Carmichael, in the Liberal interest.
PERTHSHIRE.—Mr. Fox Maule, Reformer, chosen last
election by a majority of 82 votes. In the Dunkeld district
the ReformerslWave gained 62 votes by the registration
—the Tories only 39. We have no return from the
other districts.

STIRLINGSHIRE.—W. Forbes, Esq., Tory, was elected
by a majority of 22 over Admiral Fleming. This year's
registration gives the Reformers a majority of 50 on the
claims made, and consequently of 28 on the list of voters.
Admiral Fleming will therefore probably resume his seat at
the next election.

ROSS-SHIRE.—The Tories have gained considerably in
this county, though the sitting member, who is a Reformer,
has still a majority.
In addition to the above returns, the Reformers have
majorities in the cities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, St. An-
drew's, Perth,—in the Ayr, Dumfries, Dundee, Greenock,
Haddington, Kilmarnock, Montrose, Paisley, Wick, and
Wigton burghs, and in the counties of Argyle, Ayr,
Dumbarton, Forfar, Kirkudbright, Lanark, Renfrew, and
Sutherland.

On Saturday an inquest was held at the Crown
public-house, Soho, on the body of Frances Powell, a wi-
dow, aged 30. The deceased was a military epaulette-
maker ; but not having any work, was reduced to great
distress, and could not obtain any assistance from her re-
latives. She sank for want of nourishment, and was con-
veyed to the station-house in Dean-street, Soh9,in a dying
state, where she shortly expired. The Jury., returned a ver-
dict of " Died by the visitation of God."

On Friday evening last the first anniversary of the Ches..'
ter and South Cheshire Conservative Association was cele-
brated at the great room of the Albion Hotel, in the city
of Chester. Amongst those present were Lord Delamere„
Lord Combermere, Lord Cole, Lord Robert Manners, Sat
Philip Egerton, M.P., Sir Henry Mainvvaring, Wilbraham
Egerton, Esq., the Hon. W. Cholmondeley, the Hon. .E.
Napier, and a considerable number of the leading men of
the county. The Hon. Lord Delamere presided as Chair-
man.

After the removal of the cloth,
Lord DELAMERE rose and proposed the first toast,
" Church and King. (Great applause.) " The Queen,"
" Our glorious Constitution," and other toasts were given ;
in proposing the second of which the Chairman took occa-
sion to make a long speech (abusive of course) about Mr.
O'Connell.

RANDLE WILBRAHAM, Esq., then proposed " Health
and prosperity to the Conservative majority in the House
of Peers," which toast was acknowledged by Lord Corn-
bermere.

" The Army and Navy," " The Duke of Wellington,"
and several other toasts then followed. _ _

The Noble CHAIRMAN, in proposing the health of the
two Conservative Members for the county,. Sir Philip
Egerton and Mr. W. Tatton Egerton, took occasion to
pronounce a warm eulogium upon their public conduct and
private virtues.
Sir PHILIP EGERTON, M.P. for South Cheshire, returned
thanks. He congratulated Cheshire, and the country at
large, on the noble display of Conservative feeling now, be-
fore him. The day when the first Conservative Association
was established would be a glorious day in the annals of our
history—a glorious era in modern times. The Conserva-
tives were now beginning to feel their own powers—to know
their own strength ; they felt themselves equal to the diffi-
culties they had encountered, and they were now united
hand in hand, and heart in heart, banded together round the
throne of their Monarch and the altar of their Church. The
speaker then ran into a long story of the disasters which
threatened the kingdom in consequence of the support given
to the Government of Mr. O'Connell. His abuse of
the great Dan was received by the assembly with deafen-
ing cheers.
The health of Lord Combermere, as Chairman for the
ensuing anniversary, was then given with the usual honours.
Lord COMIiERMERE returned thanks. He would always
do his duty as a British senator. He would neither be
bullied nor intimidated by any party. He had not been
placed in the House of Lords for any particular or party
purposes. H e was not like one of the lately made Peers of
the pitchfork creation.—(Loud laughter.) From the man-
ner in which he was placed there, he considered it to be an
honour ; but whenever a reform was effected in that House,.
he for one would cease to belong to it, or to attend to the
duties which it imposed. [The naivete and the truth of the
Lordship's remark must be equally conspicuous. Who ever
said that his Lordship would be a Member of a reformed
House of Lords ?]
The Noble CHAIRMAN said, one Member of the House
of Commons he must give to them—the first and best—
one who deserved the highest honours they could pay to
him—to whom the whole body of Conservatives looked up
as their leader and guide ; need he name him.—( General cries
of " No, no !" " Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel !")
The loudest and most protracted cheering followed the
announcement of this toast.

The next toast proposed was " The Lord Bishop and
Clergy of the Diocese."—(Drunk with three times three.)
The Rev. J. KING returned thanks. After protesting
against being always called upon to acknowledge this toast,
he said that probably some of them were aware that subse-
quently to their last meeting an attempt was made in some
of the public papers to throw an air of discredit on what
passed, and to implicate the meeting as well as himself in
disgrace by preferring a truly appalling charge against them
for having called upon him to speak, and against him
for having spoken. And what did they think was the
nature of this astounding charge ? Why, that "he was
selected to address them because he was the greatest
pluralist in the county." Now if he were the greatest
offender in this particular in the whole county, he was in-
clined to think that pluralities were not so crying an evil as
to require their excision by the extirpating knives of Papists,
Dissenters, and Infidels. Although a pluralist, according to
the modern nomenclature, must surely mean something dread-
fully bad—he must be a sort of nondescript animal, or worse
than a murderer, if nothing he utters be worthy of evi-
dence. This charge was preferred by the Chronicle:4l do
not mean that paltry, despicable, farago of coarseness, scur-
rility, and abuse, to be invariably met with in the columns
of the Chester Chronicle—for any observations from such a
quarter I should consider beneath contempt—but the charge
was preferred in a leading article in a Government paper
called the Morning Chronicle. True, he held two church
livings—the one his patrimonial property, the advowson
having been for centuries in his family—the other being the
reward of merit or good fortune, call it what you will, having
been presented to him by his college. Even the Whig rulers,
reckless as they were of change, destitute as they had shown
themselves to be of principle, and bent as they cordially
were upon spoliation, would not, he hoped, attempt to rob
him of the former. If they did, his fervent wish was that
they would not send down a set of briefless barristers, with-
out principle or character, to exercise inquisitorial powers,
and to institute a Star Chamber in every district, as the
fittest agents to execute nefarious purposes—but that my
Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Morpeth,
Master Daniel O'Connell—(Laughter)—and the leading•
members of the degraded Whig Administration, would
themselves, in person, come down to eject him and take
possession ; and he had no hesitation in saying, it should
be the last robbery they would ever again attempt to corn-
mit.—(Marks of impatience.) The other living, he was
proud to affirm, he had the laudable ambition of attempting
to obtain by burning for years the midnight lamp, and by
being elected to an open fellowship at Brazennose. Let the
interests
of revolutionists who, unfortunately for the best
of the country, were now at its helm, do away With all dis-
tinctions ; let them, in compliance with the clamour of their
mob masters and papistical rulers, abolish all pluralities,
all places of honour and emolument in the Church, and
bring us down to one degraded level, and the Church would
then soon become an easy prey to her inveterate :enemies,
and sound piety and religion, as in France, be banished the
land. What would there be to induce men of the most
splendid talents, exalted attainments, and genuine piety, to
enter our Church, if the great prizes were all taken way ?
And from whence but from those learned abodes of leisure
which some of the dignities of our Church afford, have
issued those ponderous works of erudition, which have from
time to time silenced the infidel, reproved the gainsayer, and
established, upon a firm and impregnable basis, the great
truths of Christianity.—(Hear.) And, he would fearlessly
ask; what was it that either the one or the other of his pa-
rishes lost by his being a pluralist ? In the one he con-
stantly resided, performing all the clerical duties, and in the
other he had provided two curates to perform those duties
which, during many years of his residence there, he had per-
formed alone. And he allowed those curates a larger an-
nual sum than he received from the parish, with the excep-
tion of the' fees, of which it was evident they were shortly
to be robbed, to gratify the malignity of the Dissenters
against the Church, should the present Ministry continue
much longer in office. Such was the extent of his delin-
quency as a pluralist ; and he confidently appealed to them,
and asked if it rendered him undeserving of,their confidence
or the public esteem ? Having now cleared away the rub-
bish- and cobwebs with which the artful and disguising had
attempted to obscure the truth, he would proceed to advert
more particularly to the toast, " The Bishop and Clergy of
the Diocese." The Bishop and the Clergy then, it would
seem, notwithstanding the villanous attacks and bare-faced
calumnies that had been heaped upon them from every
quarter, had still some friends left. Yea, and those not in-
considerable in point of numbers, and distinguished by ta-
lent, property, character, and influence in society. But the
time was now come when the Church stood in need of
something more than bare professions of attachment from
her sons. Yea, the time was now come when it was neces-
sary to nerve their arm, to buckle on their armour for the
conflict, and to form the noble resolution of dying, if needs
be, in her defence, or scaring away the ruthless destroyers
from their prey ! They had not to contend against a com-
mon enemy. Were they to go to war with savages, they
would expect nothing but the poisoned arrow or the scalp-
ing-knife ; but their foes were much more dangerous than
the most ferocious savages, inasmuch as they attacked them
under the assumed and treacherous disguise of friends,
falsely pretending that their sole object was to reform the
abuses, or pretended abuses, of the Churoh, and so to add
to her efficiency and usefulness. Now, how had they at-
tempted to show their friendship and redeem their pledge ?
By withdrawing the Government grants which all former
Governments bad made for supplying the means of Scrip-
tural instruction in the East, and to our colonists in North
America, and that too at a time when emigration to
America was encouraged to an unparalleled extent, and
when the missionaries were so disproportionate to the

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arduous uti e s imposed upon them, that in one district
alfon God.,
containing a population of 5,000,000, the word
d had not been heard, nor the sacrament admi-
nistered 3 for nearly five years. The next demonstra-
tion of friendship to the Established Church, doubt-
lass wits a view of adding to her efficiency and use-
fulness, manifested by their destroying ten bishoprics
o
whilst
hey continued the enormous grants of the
the pub c taxes to Dissenting ministers and to Maynooth
College n 3 Ireland, for the education of Papist priests, who
'have been the grand promoters of murder, midnight confla-
grations, treason, and rebellion. This had been followed up
y one of the most atrocious, unprincipled, and diabolical
'measures that ever disgraced a Christian Legislature, and
which none but the very refuse of the Whig faction, im-
pelled onwards in the mad career of revolution by Popish
agitators, intriguing fanatical Dissenters, and infidel Repub-
licans, would have ever had the audacity to insult the public
by proposing ; he meant that most infamous, destructive,
and disgraceful of all measurrs, which, if carried into execu-
tion, would be subversive of Protestantism in these lands,
entitled " A Bill for the better Regulation of Ecclesiastical
Revenues and the Promotion of moral and religious In-
struction in Ireland." He had intended to go more into
detail, but at that late hour he would not pursue the sub-
' ject farther.,--[The Rev. Gentleman had been repeatedly
interrupted by the impatience of part of his auditory.] He
wished, however, to advert to the conduct of the Whig-
Radicals in the House of Commons, with reference to the
Church. Whenever the clergy of the Established Church
were disparagingly mentioned (and they were never alluded
to by certain Members without acrimony and the bitterest
invective), such discordant yells were set up as were not sur-
passed in a menagerie of wild beasts at feeding time, there
being nothing human but their form ; and he was told that the
two Whig Members for that county, and the shallow-pated
Radical for the city, had learnt the Irish yell to such per-
fection, that they would on such occasions astound even a
keeper at Pidcock's or Wombwell's menagerie. (Laughter.)
And this was the conduct of Legislators in the first re-
formed House of Commons. The next reform would be,
should the Whig missionary of Government, O'Connell,
not succeed in exciting the mob throughout the kingdom
to overt acts of revolution, for them to order all the pri-
sons to disgorge their inmates, and the dens and cages
their indomitable inhabitants, for the sake of obtaining, if
possible, still more proper auxiliaries for the execution of
their purposes.. Were such creatures as these fit to legis-
late to the Church ? No—and he had the satisfaction to
be assured that neither of the Whig Members, nor any
Whig, nor any approver of the unprincipled conduct of the
present Administration, would be again returned for that
county or city.—(Hear, hear.) Such was the execration
and abhorrence with which he contemplated the conduct
of every one who voted for or approved of the Irish Church
Spoliation Bill, that he declared he would not trust him-
self in company with any of them, except on two condi-
tions. The one was, that he should be allowed to wear
his hat all the time, lest some of them should filch it ; the
other, that he should be permitted to go amongst them
without any money in his pocket, lest some of them should
steal his purse.—(Great laughter.) He begged to propose,
as a toast, " May the Whig-reformers learn to reform their
own principles and to become honest men, and may they
be taught to have as much respect for the property ofl
others as for their own."

The healths of " The Vice-Presidents," and of " Lord
Eldon," followed.

Lord Delamere and the principal part of the company
then retired, it being considerably past eleven o'clock.
His Lordship, as he retired, was greeted with three
hearty cheers ; but a great number still remained behind,
and prolonged the conviviality of the evening until a late
hour.

THE REGISTRATIONS.

CITY OF LONDON.
(Continued from The Sun of Saturday.)
(Before Mr. TAMLYN.)
ST. GILES,CRIPPLEGATE.

Mr. Rowcroft, for Mr. Rodgers, objected to James Hit-
chins, Bridgwater-gardens.7-Decision reserved.

James Johnson, jun., Redcross-street, was objected to by
the Conservative party.—The objection was sustained.
Mr. Trantz Kruse, Milton-street, was objected to by the
Conservative party.—The objection was disallowed.
An objection by the Conservatives to Mr. W. Lake was
withdrawn.

James Molyneux was objected to by the Conservative
party.—Judgment was postponed.
An objection to Mr. Richard Mason Wood, of Beech-
street, Barbican, was made for the Conservatives.—The
objection was sustained.
The decision in the csse of Messrs. Morrison was post-
poned, owing to the non-attendance of Mr. Scaley, the
overseer of the parish, to whom a request was then sent by
the revising barristers. •
An objection having been taken by the Conservative
party to the claim of Mr. John Williams of the firm of
James Morrison and Co., of Milton-street, on the ground
that he, as the occupier of a house, No. 32, of that street,
was rated, not in his own name, but under that of James
Morrison and Co., or Messrs. Morrison and Co., (the rating
of which it was contended was insufficient), the Barristers
on Saturday proceeded to give judgment in the matter.
Mr. TAMLYN stated, that the question for decision was,
whether or not Mr. Williams was rated according to the
meaning of the Act. The best means of ascertaining that
meaning was to refer to the decisions upon the subject that
had been given by the Committee of the House of Com-
mons. Guided by two of those decisions he felt himself
under the necessity of deciding that Mr. Williams's rating,
as a partner of Morrison and Co., was insufficient, and that his
name should be expunged.
The case of Mr. Godman, of the firm of Whitbread and
Co., which lay over for decision, and the circumstances of
which were similar to those of Mr. Williams's case, was
decided in the same way.

The Barristers then proceeded to give judgment in the
case of Samuel Charles Whitbread, a partner in the same
company, which stood over from yesterday. This gentleman
was rated under the company firm of " Messrs. Whitbread,"
which has been the mode of rating them in the books for
many years past.
The COURT was of opinion that Mr. Whitbread's occu-
pation was sufficiently proved, and that if the rate collector
was not acquainted with his Christian name, the proper
mode of describing him was that which had been adopted.
Mr. Whitbread's name was therefore ordered to be retained.
Mr. TA3ILYN gave judgment in the case of Colbeck,
which stood over for decision, and upon which several other
cases depended. The question depended upon the rating,
and, from the evidence adduced, he was of opinion that the
poor rates could not be considered as paid. The objection
was allowed, and the name expunged.
George Thomas Brown, a resident in the parish of St.
Olave, Hart-street, having been objected to, Mr. Sca-
ley, overseer of this parish, underwent a long examina-
tion by Mr. Rowcroft, for the Conservative party, with
the 'view of making it appear that he (Mr. Scaley) was the
proper person to whom to_ serve the notices of objection.
The 'Barristers gave a contrary opinion yesterday, and
Mr. Scaley was to-day personally examined at the spe-
cial request of Mr. Rowcroft.
Thizt.i,l3arristers stated that the additional evidence
which had been elicited by the examination of Mr. Sea-
ley did not in any degree induce them to alter the opi-
nion' which they had yesterday expressed, viz., that Mr.
Seeley was not the overseer, neither did he hold any office
or appointment by virtue of which he was authorized to
accept of the notices of objection in terms of the Reform
Act.

After the respective professional parties had exchanged
compliments with each other respecting the propriety and
impartiality of their proceedings and decisions, the Court
was adjourned.