The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-19 00:00:00

CHURCH RATES.

BUNGAY, ST. MARY.
The Churchwardens of this parish have, after six months
delay, resolved on making another church rate. A Com-
mittee has in consequence been organised among the inha-
bitants. The following letter has been despatched to the
Archdeacon Glover, Perpetual Curate of the Parish. At
the outset of the affair, it may be useful to state that the
Churchwardens are Mr. Samuel Scott, tanner, in his third
year of voluntary office and Mr. .Tames Gower, farmer, in
whose favour, John Bobbit, ironmonger, resigned :
( Copy.) BUNGAY, SEPT. 17, 1835.
REV. SlR,—The Churchwardens of Bungay St Mary have
given notice of their intention to make another church rate ;
and in consequenCe of that determination, the Committee
which was appointed to watch the extraordinary proceedings
carried on against Mr. John Childs is re-organized.—There
are many persons who will consent to pay compulsory obedi-
ence only, to a law so unchristian and unjust as that which
demands payment for conducting religious ceremonies in which
their consciences do not allow them to participate.
This Committee had hoped the Churchwardens would not
again disturb the peace of the town, and have directed me to
communicate-the fact to you, in order that you may not, as on
the former occasion, be ignorant of what is about to be re-acted
in your parish.—l am, Rev. Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM CUDDON, Chairman.
N. B. The Vestry Meeting is called to meet on the 22d inst.
To the Rev. Archdeacon Glover, Southrepps, Norfolk.

GERMAN PAPERS.

ITALY, AUG. 25.—The Italian journals contain a corre-
spondence between Count Toreno and Don Jose Louis
Fodena, secretary to the Infant Don Sebastian, from which
it appears that the Queen Regent revoked on the 22d
instant the permission given to that Prince to reside in
Italy, and summoned him to return to Spain within 80 days
after receiving this order. The answer is dated 22d
July, and contains, besides a refusal to obey the order,
the following declarations :—" It is certainly true that his
Royal Highness, led by obedience to the commands of his
lawful Sovereign, has taken the oath of allegiance to the
eldest daughter of his Majesty, Ferdinand VII., as heiress
to the throne, in the opinion that the change made in the
order of succession rested on legal grounds. But the change
that his Royal Highness immediately at the commencement
perceived in the administration of the kingdom, entirely at
variance with the will of the late King, and of the Spanish
nation, as it was. pronounced in all the provinces of the mo-
narchy, and especially a most important fact, of which his
Royal Highness was informed immediately after the
death of the king, but which he refrains from making
known for the present, excited his attention, and in-
duced him to examine this question more closely.
His Royal Highness was soon convinced, that by the oath
of allegiance to the eldest daughter of the -late King, as
heiress to the throne, his illustrious uncle Don Carlos V.
was robbed of the rights given hini by the law of succes-
sion, formally sanctioned by the Cortes., and wl.ich was even
confirmed by Charles V., who is falsely said to have abo-
lished it. The documents which have since been pub-
lished, and which refer to the Cortes of 1789, instead of
removing these first doubts, served on the contrary to con-
vert them into complete conviction, because his Royal
Highness there found, with indignation and astonishment,
that the pragmatic sanction of 1830, and the printed pro
tocol of the Cortes, though a copy of the original, contains a
most essential alteration, and that on the very point re-
specting which the most perfect coincidence was necessary ;
this alteration is, besides, the more culpable, as it was
printed in the pragmatic sanction in Italic characters. The
consequences of such principles were, as might have been
expected, the overthrow of the Spanish legislation ; an
essential change in the fundamental law ; the support of
usurpation by rebellion of all kinds ; the persecution of in-
violable fidelity ; the kingdom in tears and confusion, de-
luged with blood—in short, an uncertain, but at all events, un-
happy prospect for the future till he shall ascend the throne
who is called to it by the laws. To him, to Don Carlos V., his
Royal Highness took the oath of allegiance as soon as he
was at liberty to do so, deeply regretting that the circum•
stances and facts were not known to him at the proper
time, which subsequently induced him to take this step ;
a step which may appear precipitate in the eyes of the Re-
bellious Usurpation, but not so in the eves of God and of
every Spaniard who remembers that the 'duties of a man of
honour and a Christian are not at variance, and that an
inadrnissable oath cannot have, throughout life, a criminal
obligation to the prejudice of him who has the right on
his side."
PIIUSSIA.—In order to hinder Prussian subjects who
have not fulfil:ed their obligations to military service, from
clandestinely embarking for America, the Senate of Bre-
men, iii addition to the Police regulation% hitherto in-force
for the superintendance of the embarkation of emigrants,
has decreed that not only Captains of Bremen and of
Foreign ships lying in that port, but more especially ship-
brokers, shall be prohibited, on pain of being punished as
enticing to desertion, from receiving on hoard Prussian sub-
jects desirous of emigrating, or agreeing for their passage
to America, unless they produce a certificate from the com-
petent provincial authority, attested by the Prussian Con-
sul at Bremen, proving either that they are not liable to
military service, or that they have duly obtained their ex-
emption from it.
MUNICH, SEPT. 6.—Various regulations and measures
of precaution have already been adopted by the Austrian.
authorities in the Tyrol, in consequence of the appearance
of the cholera in Upper Italy. Even here, some timid
persons are full of apprehensions for the approach of the
cholera. There are, indeed, numerous cases of bowel com-
plaints here, but this is nothing uncommon in our climate.
Here the changes of the temperature are so frequent and
so sudden.
We hear that besides Lieutenant-Colonel Lesuire and
Lieutenant Van Baumback, who have served in Greece,
the former as General and Minister of War, the latter as
Captain and Adjutant, and who lately returned to Bavaria
with their discharge, several other Bavarian officers will
shortly retire from the Greek service and resume their
former rank in the Bavarian army.—Frankfort Paper,
Sept. 13.
AUSTRIA.—The public are aware, during the visit of the
visit of the Sovereigns at Toplitz, the first stone is to be
laid of the monument to be erected in the field of battle
of Kalm, in honour of the Russian General Ostemann, and
the guards who devoted- themselves for the safety of
Bohemia. M. Kuhsman, professor of sculpture at Vienna,
was commissioned by the Emperor Ferdinand to design this
monument, which is to be a victory. The model is com-
pleted, and the artist himself will superintend the ,erection.
The ceremony of laying the first stone will be performed by
the Sovereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prussia on the 30th
Sept., twenty-two years after the memorable defeat Of
General Vandemme.—Supplement to the Allge»zeine
Zeitung, Sept. 13.

There have been about 250 invitations sent to the
neighbouring gentry to meet the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria at Burghley House, near Stamford, on
Wednesday next, when there will be a ball and supper on
the occasion.

THE Bo WSTRING.—The Turkish bowstring, which
is amazingly strong, is formed of untwisted silk, generally
white, bound together at intervals by threads of a different
colour. At either end is a large loop attached to the
centre portion of the cord by a very curious and intricate
knot ; the executioners slip their hands through this, and,
having passed the string once round the victim's neck,
who is placed on his knees, they draw it in opposite directions
with all their force, and thus produce death by strangulation.
Since the gradual decline of archery among the Turks, the
bowstring has also been falling into disuse ; for the origi-
nal cause of its being adopted as an instrument of criminal
punishment, was the readiness with which it could be pro-
cured, when every man carried at his shoulder the weapon
of which it formed a part.—Auldjo's Constantinople.

The following dialogue took place recently in Paris,
between a Magistrate and a Nestor among the beggars who
was brought before him :—" You are accused of being a va-
gabond ; what have you to say for yourself?"—" Ninety-
two years, my Lord !"—" Have you any means of exist-
my stomach is still good for something,
ence ?"—" Why,
but my legs are quite gone. Ninety-two years, my Lord !"
—" Have you any children ?"—" Yes, I've got one little
one ; he's in the hospital for the aged. He is a poor fellow,
only sixty years old, and done up already ; I am such as
you see me, and ninety-two."—" Have you not been impri-
soned already ?"—" Not I ; I never ate any of the bread
of the State l"—" What wil you do to obtain the means of
existence ?"—" Ninety-two, M. le Juge ! Why, I mean to
work for the next ten years, and then I shall go to the In-
curables."—The noticeable old man was then handed over
to the custody of the gaoler for 24 hours, on the charge of
begging, and ordered at the expiration of that time, to be
sent to the depot de Mendicite.
PROSCRIBED PAPERS DURING THE CIVIL
WARS--The following curious passage is taken from a
newspaper called The Man in the Moon, published by the
Royalists in 1649, dated July 4, No. 17. Every pains
were taken to suppress it by Cromwell's party, but without
effect, and the venders of it were severely punished :—""A
hott combat lately happened at the Salutation Taverne, in
Holburne, where some of the Commonwealth vermin, called
soldiers, had seized an amazonian virago, named Mrs.
Strosse, upon a suspicion of being a loyalist and selling The
Man in the Moon, but she, by applying beaten pepper to
their eyes, disarmed them, and (with their own swordes)
forced them to aske her forgiveness, and down on their
Mary bones, and pledge a health to the King, and confu-
sion to their masters, and so honourably dismissed them."
" 0," adds the loyal news writer, " 0, for 20,000 such
gallant spirits, to pepper the rogues, when you see that one
woman can beat two or three." ,