The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-29 00:00:00

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that no submission was to be made. But this was
until the matter had excited considerable attention. clsewherc,
and was bruited throughout the country lay the public press.
Mr. Childs then referred to the manner in -which ho was re-
ceived by the working people on his arrival Bengay. To
deserve such an opinion of the working people was worth
living for. There was nothing like tumult, though they had
heard of tumults as well on that occasion as on the seizure of
Mr. Morris's goods; but he believed that, educated and intel-
ligent as the working people of Bangay were, it would be
altogether impossible to excite them to any tumultuous pro-
ceedings unless something was done to them calculated
morally to degrade them.—( Cheers.) It was impossible to
calculate upon such a train of favourable circumstances as had
attended the business. The Parliament was just commencing
-its sitting, and bad leisure to attend to his petition. The
-"aciety for the Protection of Religious Liberty held its an-
Ell II meeting about the same time, and he could not but con-
ceive that Providence had interfered to rid the country of that
intolerable nuisance, the Ecclesiastical Court.—(ineers.)
He Would ask, who had been the defenders of that Court and
the Churchwardens in Parliament? Why, my Lord Henniker
and. Mr. Kelly !—(Great laughter.') In Lord Henniker ho
had nothing more than a manly adversary, but he could not
say so much of Mr. Kelly. His Lordship declared that
the Churchwardens had &tie nothing more than they
were instructed to do, which showed that they acted,
as the tools of a party who kept behind the scenes.—
(Hear, hea-; hear.) Mr. Kelly made but one speech in
Parliament, and in that speech the immaculate and honourable
gentleman had been pleased to call him ( Mr. C.) " a rabid
coward,"—(Hear and laughter)—and to talk about the field cif
honour. Now he was disposed to leave Mr. Kelly to the con-
tempt and scorn of all good men ; but he would ask what moral
cowardice was ? Lord Bacon said that a liar was brave to-
wards God and a coward towards man. He hoped it would
reach the Learned Gentleman through the public press, that
he was legally as well as conventionally a coward. He had
been legally convicted of bribery ; and how after that he could
write a letter to the freemen of Ipswich, and solemnly declare
that none but honourable means had been used, exceeded all
power of belief; and unless such practices were 'Put down
by the strong arm of the law, what would be the effect on
the morals of the populace.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Fearless
of Mr. Kelly's sending him a challenge, he would throw
back the imputation of coward in his teeth, and he would
tell him that he knew of no man who had sunk so low, and
was guilty of ,ouch delinquencies as he—( Cheers)—and 'if
they were not careful to instruct their children to hold in
utter contempt and horror such practices as those in which
he had proved himself to- be guilty, it would soon be all
up with them. Mr. Childs ended by returning thanks to the
working people of Bungay, who had most cordially greeted
him on his return, when, if they had been tumultuously dis-
posed, they could have razed to the ground the premises of the
man whose malignity was, he believed, the chief cause of the
rigorous proceedings adopted towards him. Never did he be-
hold such a scene as on that occasion. He trusted this would
never be forgotten by his sons, who well understood the
principles by which he was actuated. He hoped to live to
see every disability for religious principle removed, and he
would give them—" Civil and religious liberty all over tho
World." Mr. Childs sat clown amidst great cheering.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The conscientious Ministers of
all Communions."

The Rev. CREARE (from Yarmouth) acknowledged the
toast in a long speech, in which he warmly contended against
the connection between Church and State, and in favour of
the voluntary principle. •
The CHAIRMAN then, gave the late High Sheriff, J. Garden,
Esq., and in doing so said that he hoped, as that gentleman
had recently held a high official situation under the Crown,
he would at no distant period hold one of equal usefulness, if
not of equal dignity, by the suffrages and for the advantage of
the people. He hoped at the next election to see him the
representative of this county.—( Cheers.) He should couple
the health of Mr. Garden with " Equal laws and upright Ma-
gistrates."—( Loud cheering.)
Mr. GARDEN said that he felt a pleasure and a pride in
being present on this occasion. On Mr. Childs' case, his
opinion wes the same now as when the circumstance first hap-
pened. He thought it was unfortunate that in that town any
steps should have been taken to produce discord amongst the
different religious communities. As a Magistrate, he had
tendered his advice, his opinions bad since been fully con-
firmed. He thought they must look beyond the agents who
had figured conspicuously in dragging Mr. Childs to gaol ;
he imagined he saw the finger of some of the Aristocracy in
the Carlton Club.—(Hear,hear.)" He thought they should
make this not the case of Mr. Childs merely, for every Dis-
senter had an interest in it. In reference to the next election,
Sir Thomas Beevor had expressed a hope that he (Mr. Gar-
den) might be their Representative. Of this he would now
say nothing ; but in reference to that subject, he would say let
them look to the registration—that was of the first import-
ance. On a former occasion, and under less favourable cir-
cumstances than at present, he had proposed the health of
Lord Melbourne, as the person on whom their hopes were
fixed. to carry into effect the reforms that the country desired.
His Lordship was now in place, cud he trusted he would
now accomplish those reforms. They had been told, before
the last election, that if the Tories gained a majority, they
would repeal the Reform Bill. But what said Sir Robert
Peel, in his last dying speech and confession, at the Mer-
chant Tailors' Hall? He said, "Do not talk of repealing
the Reftsrm Bill, you frighten the people ;" and he was
consequently the advocate of reform. The cry now was "No
Poper3 ," and the " Church in danger," and he had no doubt
but the present meeting would be appealed to as a proof that
the Church was in danger. They were told that they pur-
chased their estates subject to Church-rates, and so it hap-
pened two or three hundred years ago that estates were pur-
chased subject to ship-money, but that had sot been deemed a
reason why it should be always charged. They were then
told, if the Church of England was not supported, men would
throw off the restraints of Christianity and become infidels and
atheists, or at least that morals would generally decline. But
he was pretty well satisfied on this head when he found that
some of the best theologians and the most moral and intelli-
gent men that the country bad ever produced were Reformers ;
while Home, Bolingbroke, and other infidels, were the pinks
of Toryism, and one of their own order, the author of " a
Tale of a Tub," had endeavoured to throw all religion into
contempt and ridicule. Perhaps they should now be told, as
the very lest attempt, that the Reform Bill ought to have
done every thing, redressed all their grievances, or it was
mere waste paper. He would answer that it had not yet deeply
struck its roots into the ground and extended its branches, be-
cause it was as yet a tender sapling requiring aid of the public.
The sapling, however, was solld within ; not like a pollard
all rottenness within with apparent soundness outside.—
(Cheers.) He would once more caution them as to the regis-
tration of voters for the next election. He would now propose
" His Majesty's Ministers."—( Great cheering.)
A messenger now arrived from Ipswich with intelligence of
the return of Messrs. Morrison and Wason, which was re-
ceived with long, loud, and hearty cheers from all parts of the
theatre.
The health of " Mrs) Childs and her family."
Mr. CHARLES CHILDS, in returning thanks, entered at some
length into the motives of his father, which, he said, were to
secure religious liberty ; at the same time noticing in warm
terms the kindness which they had all received from their
friends, especially from the Dissenters of Ipswich. By this
occurrence one nail more had been placed in the coffin of eccle-
siastical tyranny. Mr. Childs noticed particularly the manner
in which the public press had taken up the cause of his father,
and the mass of public feeling and sympathy that had thereby •
been brought to bear upon the subject. He then gave " Mr.
Shepherd Ray and the Dissenters of Ipswich."
Mr. JOHN CHILDS would give them the health of Sir Thomas
Beevor, with three times three.—(Great cheering.)
Sir Tnoetes BEEVOR, in returning thanks, said he was
pleased to see, what he hardly expected, so large a body met
on this occasion in so remote a town as Bung-ay, and such an
elegant assemblage of the fair sex too, as he now saw before
him.—( Cheers.) Neither did he expect to hear such senti-
ments advanced as he had that day heard with so much plea-
sure : sentiments which no man would have been tolerated in
expressing in a mixed company nine or ten years ago ;
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especially alluded to those of Mr. Creake. He proposed the
health of ". Mr. Ashurst, and the speedy abolition of Eccle-
siastical Law."—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. ASHURST returned thanks. They had met not to express
a triumph, but to sanctify a truth, to "confirm each other in a
principle of action. He then proceeded,' in a forcible man-
ner, to show the injustice of the prosecution of Mr. Childs,
and the great triumet which be had achieved for the cause
of religious liberty and the voluntary principle. If the clergy
of the Established Church had thought thereby to secure their
loaves and fishes, they had taken the readiest method to lose
them. When the familiars of the Ecclesiastical Court had
taken the body of Mr. Childs, the parsons unconsciously ste-
reotyped the voluntary principle. in the public mind—when
they placed him in bonds in Ipswich jail, that important prin-
ciple might be considered' as bound and made ready for publi-
cation, by the insane hands of its enemies—(Cheers)—and he
trusted that the many young men who were there would take
care in their progress, to bring out from time to time, in the
circles of their influence, new and improved editions.—( Cheers. )
These were much wanted by the clergy, for it was manifest
that errors had crept into their copies of the Seriptures. In
the Scriptures it was written, " Feed my flock ;" the Co..
pies used by the established sect he suspected read, " Fleece
-
my
flock," Mr.Ashurst proceeded at some length to argue
against the claims of the Established Church. He concluded
by giving the health of " Mr. Besley, and the liberty of the
Press."
Mr. 13.EsLey returned thanks, and proposed the health of
Mr. Robert. Childs.
. Mr. R. CIIILDS returned thanks and gave " Mr. William
Cuddon and the Stewards of the dinner."
Mr. CUDDON said the Committee, of which he formed a part,
appointed to watch over Mr. Childs' case, had had little or
nothing to do, so readily and effectually had other friends sup-
ported and defended him. The Committee was composed of
Dissenters, liberal Churchmen, and Catholics, and in this they
were all agreed, that each party ought to pay their own clergy.
He would give them " The intelligent working classes in Bun-
gay and. the neighbourhood."—( Cheers.)
The healths of Messrs. Barth and Shelly, of Yarmouth,
were also drunk, and each of these gentlemen returned
thanks. " Lord Brougham, and the education of the peo-
ple," and several other toasts were drank, and speeches followed.
The Chairman retired about half-past eleven o'clock.

DISTRESS IN CLARE.—The distress with which
Mayo and part of Galway is so:afflicted has found its way into
the county of Clare. Application has been mado to. Govern-
ment for relief.—Dublin Evening 'Post.