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

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1835.

say in his commendation ?—(Cheers.) The Irish Member
who would not be in the House of Commons upon the first day
of struggle, was an enemy to Ireland. They should be all
there at least on the 17th. He would leave Dublin himself,
with his family, on the 13th instant. The question of the
Speakership would be a vital one. If the Ministry were beaten
on it, must they not in decency at once resign ? And then
what a scuttling out there would be of Irish rats ! The man
who stayed at home, and would not on the 19th be found at
his post, was a mean recreant from his principles. Let there
be no plea of ill health ; if you are sick, then go to London
the sooner. Now was the time for a union of all parties
against the Tories. He would sink repeal, and everything,
in order to accomplish the defeat of the Tories. With regard
to repeal, he weuld say—
" Durate et rebus vosmet servate secundis."
" Peel and Wellington," concluded Mr. O'Connell, " I defy
you. Liberty's in every blow.'"

F.:s conversation, and endeavoured to get rid of him by increas-
g or slackening his pace occasionally, but in vain : his un-
welcome companion kept close to him until they got into Chis-
well-street, where the fellow at length showed himself what
he was—a thief; but, instead of " stealing quietly out of his
company," knocked him down and stole his watch. The villain
was pursued by some of the police, but got off through some of
the courts. He had something the air of a military man and
wore mustachios, which, however, are believed to have been
false.

We have been informed that the late Earl of Port-
more requested that his two favourite carriage-horses should
be shot as soon as his funeral obsequies had been performed,
which was done accordingly after the funeral at Weybridge.
Sheridan Knowles, it is stated in the last American
Papers, has been invited to dine with the President at Wash-
ington, who treated the " Actor-Poet," as he is termed in
America, with the most marked attention. _

Louis XII. used to dine at eight in the morning,
but to please his fair young wife he put off his dinner until
twelve; and instead of going to bed at six, he was tempted
sometimes to sit up till midnight.—Mirror.
A man, with a wife and family, hanged himself last
week at Southampton, after having betted and lost his last
shilling on a pigeon-shooting match.

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The term " coachmai," so reputable in England,
is considered an affronting title in America, where " driver "
is considered by far the genteeler expression.
After all that has been said, and the preparations
which have been made, we are given to understand that it re-
mains very doubtful whether their Majesties will inhabit the
New Palace during the approaching season.—Morning Paper.
[-Hsi' LITIGATION.—At a Quarter Session for
one half the county of Kerry, the civil causes entered for trial
amounted to 1,476, and the criminal cases to 199.

A set of splendid uniforms are preparing at one
of the principal army-accoutrement makers at the West-end,
for the Queen of Portugal's regiment of lancers. They will be
ready in a fortnight.
'There-are 33 Catholics in the Irish division of the
last Parliament; there are 32 in the present. Five of those
who were in the last Parliament are out, and four new ones in.
Those wlio are out are Messrs, Galwey, O'Reilly, Lalor,
Lambert, and Blackney ; those who are in are Messrs.
O'Loghlen; Brady, Bodkin, and Power.
The loss to the tradesmen, &c., at the west-end of
the town, by the non-residence of the Ambassadors, and their
respectiVe suites, of France, Austria, and Russia, is calculated
to be the fair and just profits on an expenditure of 150,000/.
per annum.
On Tuesday evening, a plantation on Twecdmouth
Moor, the property of J. S. Donaldson, Esq., was discovered
to be on fre ; and it is almost impossible to suppose that it
could have occurred unless by the hand of an incendiary.—
Berwick Advertiser.

The new farcical melodramatic production, to be
called Death and the Doctor, to be brought out shortly at
Covent-garden, is by Peabe, the author of upwards of fifty
dramas.

On Thursday night, just before twelve, a fire was
discovered bursting through the roof of a house adjoining Mr.
Morrish's, cooper, in Tiverton, which raged uncontrolled, and
was not got under until four houses in front and three behind
were totally destroyed.— Western Luminary.
We are authorised to say, that there is no founda-
tion for the report circulated in various newspapers, that the
present Lord Advocate is to be elevated to the Bench, and that
Lord Ramsay is to succeed him in the representation of Bute-
shire.—Courant.

A GOOD LEAPER.—An Irish gentleman, well
knows in the sporting circles of this neighbourhood for his
wit, was accosted by a friend, with—" Upon my word, —,
you are riding a good horse 1"—" And why should I not ride a
good horse ?"—" Well," rejoined his friend, " but will he
jump timber?"—" Timber !" replied the other, " Faith, he'll
just jump over your head, man, in a jiffey."
In the Dictum de Kenilworth, made in the fifty-
first year of the reign of Henry 111., there is the following
curious clause :—" Knights and Squires, who are robbers, and
among the principal robbers in war and plunderings, if they
have ro lands, but have goods, shall pay half their goods for
their redemption, and find sufficient surety henceforward to
keep the peace of the King and kingdom."
SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday
last 83 bead of game, viz., 66 pheasants, 10 woodcocks, 3
hares, and 4 rabbits, were bagged at Mountstewart in the short
space of three hours and a half by four gentlemen, Lord
Castlereagh, Mr. Echlin, Mr. David Ker, and Mr. William
Black wood. —Dublin Paper.
A LONG LAWSUIT.—After a trial, which lasted
eight successive days at Brussels, the Count Duval de Beau-
lieu has finally obtained a sentence in his favour, with all costs
and expenses, against the commune of Moortzel, on account of
his lady, the Countess de Toict. This extraordinary law-
suit commenced two hundred years ago, and related to the
avenue of a country seat belonging to him at Moortzel, in the
arrondissement of Antwerp, which the commune claimed as a
public road.
THE ECLIPSE STEAMER.—We are glad to find,
by the following paragraph from a Liverpool Paper of Tues-
day, that the account of the loss of this steamer, copied from
the Manx Paper, turns out to be untrue :—" The account
which appeared in an Isle of Man Paper of the loss of the
Eclipse steamer, with all her passengers and crew, is without
foundation. The Eclipse arrived on Thursday last in the
Clyde, and sailed on the following morning for Belfast."
LEAPING.—On Saturday night last, two fellows,
in a state of intoxication, undertook a bet of half-a-crown to
jump into the arena of the Royal Amphitheatre from the front
of the gallery ! The height is 32 feet. The one fell on the
seats in the pit, two of which were broken, and was carried to
the infirmary in a state of insensibility. The other lighted in
the circle seemingly nothing worse, and made his exit by the
pit.—Liverpool Chronicle.
The public are cautioned against two or three well-
dressed foreigners, who have been for some time in the habit
of soliciting relief in the streets, under the plea of having
been disappointed of a remittance of money expected by them
at the Post Office from Italy, on their way from that country
to America. They are young men of respectable appearance
and good address. One of them acts as spokesman to the
rest, who pretend to speak nothing but Italian. The office,
however, seems to be undertaken by turns, as the person from
whoa this communication comes was accosted first by one of
them, and a fortnight afterwards by another with the same
story. It appears that others have met with the same im-
postors.—Morning Paper.
AMERICAN FEMALE TRAVELLERS.—" Well,
Ma'am," said one of our inquisitive companions to an oldish
lad), " you are going, I suppose, as far as Worcester ?"
,6 yes." " Further, perhaps ?"—" Yes." "To Northamp-
ton ?"—" Yes." "To Albany ?"—" Yes." "To Buffalo ?"
Yes." " How much further ?"—" Why, to Mesopotamia,
in Ohio." " Bless me ! all alone ?"—" Yes, to be sure, it's
nothing at all • there are stages, and steam-boats, and canals,
and lakes, and rivers all the way ; and it is not above fifteen
hundred or two thousand miles." " And are you not afraid of
accidents ?"—" Accidents ! why, there can't be accidents."—
Monthly Repository.
REDUCTION OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.—It
has been affirmed for some days past that considerable reduc-
tions in the Imperial army are resolved upon. The army in
Italy is to be placed on the peace establishment, and in all the
regiments in general 40 men per company to be discharged,
and the horses of the cavalry, artillery, and train, which may
be spared in consequence of the reduction, will be sold. These
reports, though not authenticated, are believed, and many facts
seem to confirm them. They have had a favourable effect on
our funds. —A//gemeine Zeitung, Jan. 30.
REDUCTION OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY.—The
Journal of Arlon says, " The report of the reduction
of the Prussian army is confirmed by several of the jour-
nals. We can answer for the correctness of the following
facts :--At Luxemherg each company of infantry has been re-
duced ly seventy men ; of the two hundred lancers only four-
teen remain ; so that the garrison, which amounted to between
six thousand and seven thousand men, is now reduced to four
thousand. Thus the Prussians themselves no longer think an
invasion of the province of Luxemberg possible."
EXTRAORDINARY DROUGHT.—The inconveni-
ence felt so generally in other parts of the kingdom, from the
long absence of rain, is seriously experienced in this and most
towns and districts throughout the county ; even the marsh
lands, over which the flood generally prevails to an unwelcome
degree, apt the late and this season of the year, are no at ex-
hausted of their moisture, and the cattle in consequence ne-
cessarily driven, in many instances, a long distance to obtain
water. The wells are almost everywhere dried up, and a large
brewery n this town is compelled to get its water from the
river; to-rents of rain, when it does come, may not unreason-
ably be expected, after so long,a suspension of wet weather.
Tauntort Courier.

Tho husband of one of my patients (says Dr. Ley,
in a paper on the pathology of the nerves, in the Medical
Gazelle), in' a sortie for the recovery of a superior officer who
had been taken prisoner by the enemy, lost his leg by nearly
the last shot which was fired at the conclusion of the Penin-
sular war. From some mechanical irritation, or more proba-
bly frcrn chronic inflammation or other diseased condition of
the nerves of the stump, he is subject to such agonizing neu-
ralgic affection, with spasm of the remnant of his thigh, as,
notwHistanding his natural cheerfulness and courageous bra-
very, almost to make him faint. He constantly complains of
his otlending lcg and toes, which are buried in the south of
France. Some persons attribute Lord Anglesey's dreadful
attacks of the tic-doloureux to the some cause.
THE GREAT FIREFLY.—Some years since, a
Spanish lady had a masquerade dress trimmed and ornamented
with these splendid insects, and cicindelas, smaller, though not
brilliant fire-flies, which emit scintillations while in the act of
respiring. The effect of this costume was magnificent beyond
description ; the lady had them placed within plaits of very
fine net ; and not, as the author of " Six Months in the West
Indies" insinuates, "strung through the middle, as children
string cockchafers ; for, in fact, those insects are so very beau.
tiful that I scarcely think the most cruel naturalist would have
the heart to harm them. I, on one occasion, applied their
lamps to some advantage. Being situated as an overseer on
a plantation under the direction of a manager, who considered
all reading and writing, save that ,vhich was necessary to keep
the estate's journal, as idleness, I was obliged either to relin-
quish my stuclaes, or to prosecute them in secret. To ti:corn-
plish the latter (not being allowed candles) I proctored eight
or ten fire-flies, which I secured in a tumbler, and fed them on
small pieces of sugar-cane. I concealed them dur:,n the da,
and at night, while I was supposed to be in bed. I
made use y
of
my " insect lamp," which afforded me stiff
the smallest priut.—Monthly Magazi.-
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THE CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As it is most likely the revenues of the Church will
come under discussion in the ensuing Parliament, allow me to
ask if the clergy, in making the late return of the incomes de-
rived from their Bishopries, Deanaries, Rectories, Vicarages,
and Perpetual Livings, included the surplice-fees, Easter
offerings, annual value of glebe lands and houses (some of
which are mansions), and the enormous sums paid fer the hire
of pews, as well as the Church rates, for the salaries of elerk,
sexton, organist, singers, &c. &c.—for surely the whole ex-
pense of maintaining a " political" Church should have been
specified. The rental of Pews alone would amount to a very
large sum, and the system itself is a disgrace to a moral and
Christian nation, as the English report themselves to be. An
individual, for example, with a family, after having been as-
sessed enormously for the support of the Parson and the
Church, is told after all, he cannot have a pew, unless he pays
51. or 61. a year besides for accommodation. Then what in
the name of heaven is he " compelled" to pay tithe and as-
sessment for? Is it any wonder so many should dissent from
.such a Church, where you are obliged to pay for the sump-
tuous and needlessly splendid support of your pastor. and.then
be told " you now cannot attend divine worship unless you
still pay a further sum for a sitting ?" There can be no
doubt at all, if the whole of the revenues and expenses for the
support of the Church (comprehending tithes, value of glebe
lands and houses, salaries, church rates, surplice fees, Easter
offerings, rental of pews, salaries and fees to clerks, sextons,
organists, singers, &c.) were fully and fairly stated (not that
I think they ever will be), the sum total would not fall short of
six millions annually-1 speak, of course, of England and Ire-
land. Now, as out of the 23 millions of inhabitants of these
two countries, there are certainly not more than seven mil-
lions of Churchmen, what an enormous amount this is to pay
the clergy, when it is considered the remaining 16 millions, if
they choose to attend divine worship at all, must tax them-
selves voluntuily to support their own Divines, as well as
those of a Church they do not, and often times cannot,
attend for want of accommodation. Such an injustice does
not even exist in France. Even the Jewish Rabbies are pro-
vided for by the State, which nevertheless has a " political"
religion also.
If the present Government intend making a real and effi-
cient reform in the distribution of the Church property, and
indeed its Government altogether, they will allow no Arch-
bishop to have more than 5,0001. a year. It is an ample remu-
neration for what this Prelate does, and quite sufficient to
support him, as a teacher of the word of God, and a follower
of Christ, should live. The Suffragan Bishops should have no
more than 2,000/. a year. Rectors not more than 500/., nor
less than 2001., according to the duties they have to perform.
Curates 2001., nor less than 1501., according to their cure of
souls. All should have a respectable house to live in, with (in
the country) four or five acres of land attached to it—but not
more, for otherwise the Parson will become a farmer, and
neglect his flock for the cattle-market. Dignitaries (so called)
of the Church, as " venerables" et hoc genus omne, as they have
very little duty to perform, should not have more than
rectors—their ecclesiastical dignity and title they might have
as a make weight. But no clergyman, Mr. Editor, should le
allowed to hold or be appointed to any civil ;ffice. At pre-
sent, one-third of the Magistrates are clergymen, and what
kind of Magistrates do they make ? They are for the most
part, severe, self-conceited, and wholly ignorant of their
duties. They are mostly carried away by the impulse of
sacerdotal consequence, and not unfrequently by local pre-
judice. A " venerable" in the west of England declared
from the Bench some short time ago that Blackstone was no
authority in law—he knew of no other than " Burn's Jus-
tice," and in the case of a ferryman threatening to com-
mit personal violence on one of his passengers, because he re-
monstrated with him for remaining twenty minutes before he
pushed off, this reverend Sage said there was no law to re-
strain him—he might do the like again, and insult his pas-
sengers whenever he pleased. Now, while such men are al-
lowed to remain on the Bench, they are a disgrace to the
name of Justice. In parishes, clerical Magistrates are fre-
quently firebrands ; instead of healing the dissensions of the
parishioners, they do all they can to widen the breach, so that
at last all parties shun them. This evil of appointing clergy-
men to be magistrates has been long complained of, and should
be immediately taken into consideration by the present Admi-
nistration. In almost every parish, there are now gentlemen
fully competent in every way to hold the Commission of the
Peace, without having recourse to the clergy, who, if they do
their duty, have quite enough to attend to and employ their
time, without employing it on Justices' meetings, and pushing
their noses into every quarrel of the neighbourhood.
Whatever reform, Mr. Editor, the present Administration
contemplate making in the Church, it should be a real and
efficient one ; such a one, in fact, as will leave no grievance
unredressed; for otherwise, it is not likely, in the present en-
lightened era, we shall slumber on our expectations, and allow
them to be stifled by the mere semblance of a change.
I remain, Mr. Editor,
Your constant Reader,
Feb, 3, 1835. . A. F. H.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Viscount Sidney, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from
his seat, Frognal, near Foot's Cray, Kent ; Edward Rose
Tunno, Esq., M. P., in Upper Brook-street, from his seat,
Red Rice House, Andover, Hants ; Captain and Mrs. Sitwell,
in Brook-street, from Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, in
Park-lane, from their seat, in Essex ; Mr. aryl Mrs. Knight,
at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Kent ; Charles
Tyrell, jun., Esq., at ditto, from a tour; Sir Thomas Far-
quhar, Bart., at the Hoo Welwyn, from his seat, Seven
Oaks, Kent; Mr. and Mrs. W. Richards, in Regent-street,
from the Continent ; Captain M‘Mahon, in Pall-m.ll. from
Dublin ; Colonel Wollaston, at Fladong's Hotel, o:.ford-
street, from Hinckley ; Colonel Deacon and T. Deacon, F.sq.,
at ditto, from Beaconsfield ; John Wright, Esq., Mrs. Wright,
and family, at ditto, from Essex ; J. F. Sligo, Esq., at ditto,
from Greece ; Edward Griffiths, Esq., and - Griffiths,
Esq., at ditto, from Herefordshire ; Lieutenant-Generai. Sir
Henry Fane, at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Hants;
T. L. Yates, Esq., at ditto, from Brockhurst Lodge, Hants ;
J. Bramstone Slane, Esq., at ditto, from Chipping Ongar,
Essex. _ .