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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1835.

Despatches have been received from Lord ELIOT,
dated Logrono, the 29th April, by which it appears
that an agreement for the mutual exchange of prisoners
had been signed, both by General VALDEZ and Gene-
ral ZUMALACARREGUI.

The Conservatives have been celebrating their late
triumph in South Devon by a public dinner, which
they gave to Mr. PARKER, at Exeter, on Thursday
last. Little or nothing worthy of comment was spoken
on this ocaasion, if we except a remark let fall by the
Rev. Precentor LOWE, to the effect that the " cause
in which they (the Conservatives) had been lately
engaged, was not the cause of the Clergy, but it was
the cause of the people. The property of the Church
was all the people's." If this be really the case—and
we are far from being willing to dispute it—how comes
it that the Clergy are making such an outcry about
" plunder," " spoliation," and so forth ? Even upon
the Conservatives' own showing, the people have " a
right to do what they will with their own !" The

Duke of NEWCASTLE has laid this down as an axiom
not to be controverted. It is the foundation-stone of the
Tory creed. With what justice then can the Rev. Pre-
centor LOWE find fault with Lord JOIIN RUSSELL
for attempting, temperately and dispassionately, to act
upon it ? All that his Lordship contends fot is, that
the people, speaking through their Representatives,
have a right to a voice in the disposition of whatever
surplus may remain, after the wants of the Irish Church
have been duly provided for. But our Devonshire
parson goes far beyond this. He asserts, that
in England, as well as in Ireland, not a
surplus merely, but the whole Church pro-
perty belongs to the people ; yet, notwithstanding
this wholesale admission, he will not permit them to
have the slightest voice in the distribution of it. The
truth is, the Church, with that fine tact for which it has
always been distinguished, finds it convenient just now
to enlist the people in its cause by a little adroit flat-
tery. The Whale, it seems to think, is approaching too
near the ship ; it is necessary therefore to throw out a '
Tub, by way of diverting its course. In the palmy
High Church days, a Parson would as soon have given
up all hankering after promotion, as have acknow-
ledged that the property of the establishment belonged
to the people. Such a doctrine would then have been
little short of blasphemy. But now things are changed ;
and Churchmen, like other monopolists, are fast de-
scending to their proper level. The people whom
they once braved, they must now conciliate ; hence the
Rev. Precentor LowE's flattering dictum, that Church
property is the property of the nation.
It is not, however, to be supposed that because the
Church concedes this fact, it will be in any great
hurry to follow it up in a worthy spirit. Such an in-
ference, however plausible, would be a very erroneous
one. He must know but little of the real character of
Churchmen, who thinks they would surrender one
farthing of their enormous property,except on compulsion.
It may belong to the nation nominally, but in reality
they will take good care it shall be theirs. They are
not the men—whatever they may assert to the con-
trary—to let the clerical loaves and fishes slip through
their fingers without a struggle.
It is clear from the way in which the Conservatives
speak of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S defeat, that they
look on it as another triumph gained for the Church.
They will find, however, that its result will be far dif-
ferent to what they anticipate ; for instead of protract-
ing, its only effect will be to precipitate a searching,
Reform, not only in the funds, but also in the disci-
pline and general conduct, of the establishment. That,
notwithstanding their victory, they are not altogether
without fears on this head, is evident from the pains
they are taking to prove that their pet-apostle PHILL-
POTTS behaved with infinite religious forbearance
throughout the South Devon Election. He con-
ducted himself, say their organs, as a Protes-
tant Divine should do, keeping decorously aloof
from all its vulffar nn,l T!inn
.11,u enuuse to believe this assertion may ; for our
parts we rank among the sceptics. We are well
acquainted with the Bishop's tastes and turn of mind
as a public man. We have read his pamphlets ; we
have heard his speeches ; and know that a more red-
hot, unflinching, neck-or-nothing political partizan
never existed. Nor is he over-fastidious about the
means which he employs to serve the ends of his party.
He can, for instance, drop the " No Popery" cry (as
in the case of the Catholic Question) when it is neces-
sary to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S purpose that it
should be dropped ; and raise it again when that shrewd
Statesman gives a hint that it should be raised. Is
there a man in existence, with two ideas in his head,
who believes that Lord JOHN RUSSELL would have
been defeated, if the whole combined influence of the
diocese of Exeter had not been brought to bear
against him ; if the " No-Popery" cry had not been
craftily raised to confirm the wavering—alarm the
timid—and infuse fresh metal into the bigoted ? And
is it to be supposed, that while all this open and secret,
direct and indirect, clerical influence was at work, the
leader of the Church party in Devonshire should have
been passive and quiescent? Those who can give
credence to such a preposterous absurdity are fit only
for the meridian of Bedlam.

It gratifies us to find that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
defeat has created just the sort of popular excite-
ment that was to have been hoped for. No sooner did
the news reach Manchester, than the Reformers of
that intelligent and public-spirited town called a public
Meeting, at which they entered into a resolution to
subscribe five hundred poudds, in aid of the neces-
sary expenses of his next election, should he be op-
posed !" When Sir GEORGE MURRAY was defeated
in Perthshire, and Mr. WOOD, in Middlesex, we do
not find (even though both these gentlemen professed
themselves Reformers) that Manchester volunteered
funds to assist them at any future election. This is
strange, and perhaps the Conservatives will help us to
an explanation.

Manchester, May 7, 1835.

SlR,.—in consequence of the rejection of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL for Devon, some of the friends of
Reform in this place met soon after the intelligence
of this Tory achievement arrived, and entered into a
resolution to subscribe Five Hundred Pounds in aid
of the necessary expences of his next election, should
he be opposed. You are aware that a subscription
was sent to his Committee from this place, to aid in
defraying his expences in the late contest ; and as we
feel that a large debt of gratitude is due to Lord
JOHN for his uniform support of the best interests of
his country, we have great pleasure in having an op-
portunity of showing him that the people are not
unmindful of his services. You are at liberty to make
any use of this communication which you may think
proper. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

EDWARD BAXTER.

We call the earnest attention of our readers to a
paragraph headed " Church Rates," which we have
extracted from a provincial paper. It appears that
the Churchwardens of Bungay, in Suffolk, have insti-
tuted proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court against
several of the inhabitants of that town, for the recovery
of Church-rates, which they, being Dissent Pr's, could
not conscientiously, and therefore would not volun-

tardy, pay. The result of these proceedings is, that
an attachment has been issued against Mr. CHILDS,
one of the non-payers, and he is on the eve of being
lodged in a jail, until he shall provide himself with a
more accommodating conscience I This is admirable !
This is the true way to ensure a sweeping measure of
Church Reform. The Dissenters, it seems, stand in
need of an occasional fillip of the Bungay sort to rouse
their fagging spirit, and stir up the dying embers of
sectarian zeal. Those, too, among the liberal fre-
quenters of the Church who object to the imposition
in question, will not feel their reluctance overcome
by the imprisonment of a man who is so highly re-
spectable as a member of society, and whose eer-
tions, as a printer and publisher, have been more in -
trumental in the dissemination of knowledge than those,
perhaps, of any other man in the kingdom. So far,
therefore, are we from regretting this outrage upon
Mr. CHILDS, that we sincerely rejoice at it, and think
him highly honoured in being singled out, for the
liberality of his sentiments, and his efforts to enliglitci;
mankind, as the object of ecclesiastical hatred and
vengeance.
The Churchwardens of Bungay may now enrol

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1835.

By the Packet Ship, North America, which has
just made the voyage from New York to Liverpool in
twenty-one days, we have received a file of Ame-
'-an papers up to the 18th of April. Their contents,
- are of little importance. The trial of LA w-
howeve,,
'.empting to shoot President JACKSON,
RENCE for L.

themselves among those Reformers who have laboured
most successfully in ridding the country of this most
obnoxious and disgusting impost this nuisance,
which owes its origin to priestly rapacity, and its
continuance to a greedy and sordid spirit, which
cannot brook the surrender of that of which it has once
by any means become possessed. This nuisance, with
others, thank God, is about to be abated. Measures
arc in progress that will draw the fangs of the Tory
aristocracy, and pare the claws of the clergy, while
they will restore to the people the rights of which
they have been deprived, by the unprincipled usurpa-
tion of those who ought to have been their natural pro-
tectors.

The Gazette of last night contains two elevations
to the Peerag—Mr. LITTLETON and Sir JOIIN
BYNG. The title of Mr. LITTLETON is Baron
Hatherton, of Hatherton, in the county of Stafford.
Sir JOHN BYNG has selected the family title of
Strafford, being descended from the Earl of that name.
His grandmother (Lady ANNE CONOLLY), Lady
Lucy HOWARD, and Lady HARRIET VERNON,
were the daughters of the Lord STRAFFORD who
signed the peace of Utrecht. The Earldom has been
extinct since 1799, and Mr. BYNG, of Middlesex, in-
herited all the Earl's estates and personal property,
which are settled on Sir JOHN BYNG.

The Paris papers of Thursday bring the report of
the third day's sitting of the Chamber of Peers in the
New Court of the Luxembourg, together with the
close of the proceedings at the previous sitting. To
the report itself, which will be found in another
column, we beg to refer for the particulars of these ex-
traordinary and disgraceful exhibitions of judicial
jugglery. The Peers, after all, are but indifferent
performers. They have had rehearsals—their memory
never fails them—they know well what the Royal
Manager expects of them; but notwithstanding all this,
they find that they cannot proceed without incurring a
responsibility from which they shrink with horror.
The appearance of the prisoners disconcerts them,
and from a variety of causes. Some of their Lordships
must feel a qualm of conscience as they sit in judg-
ment on men whom they well know to be miracles of
loyalty, and gratitude, and goodness, compared with
themselves. The religious and political renegades who
waded to honours, and preferments, and dignities,
through rivers of blood, shed by their own machina.
tions, cannot but feel some twitch of conscience, as
they behold themselves about to pass judgment on men
whom they themselves, by precept and example, ini-
tiated in the mystery of dethroning Kings—men too
whom they, their judges, would have extolled to the
stars as paragons of patriotism, had they succeeded in
wresting the sceptre of France from the hand -which
now retains it within its nervous grasp. Others
among them cannot avoid asking themselves—is the
present among the glorious privileges obtained by the
exnul,inn of rr nr.r.s X. ? Is it indeed come to
such a low ebb with France, that her .fecr. 1,111,,t
mit to become the violators of all law, under a pretence
of upholding it, so as to suit the caprices of the golden
image which they themselves have set up ? A Corre-
spondent of a Morning contemporary, who writes from
the New Court of the Luxembourg, states that the cla-
mour of the prisoners, protesting against the competency
of the Court, had such an effect on the PRESIDENT,
that he fainted in presence of the Tribunal. Some-
thing more than the mere sound of the prisoner's
voices must have unstrung the nerves, and stilled the
breathing of Baron PASQUIER. AGRIPPA was
struck dumb by the defence of PAUL, even while
FEsTus, the Roman Governor, ascribed his elo-
quence to insanity. The KING'S conscience was
alarmed, and he trembled at the " words of
truth and soberness." May there not have been
some such cause for the PRESIDENT'S fainting fit ?
May it not have struck him that the ermine on his
own shoulders was worn for unholy purposes ?
The resolution of the Peers, after some three hours'
deliberation on the demand of the Procureur-General
for punishing CAVAIGNAC, and the prisoners who
joined him in interrupting- the proceedings of the
Court, is a manifest proof of the terrors of that
august assembly. Instead of inflicting the punish-
ment provided by the laws, the Peers content them-
selves, after the manner of a village shrew in the cor-
rection of a dirty little urchin, with threatening that
the next chastisement shall be a double one. This is
pitiful in the extreme. It moreover holds out an in-
direct encouragement to the prisoners to continue
to oppose the judicial proceedings of the Peers; for if the
Peers leave the punishment of the latter offence until
the accused are convicted of treason against the State,
an indefinite postponement of the sentence is tanta-
mount to an acquittal.
No person will pity the KING should these trials
terminate in another revolution ; and there is reason to
apprehend some such catastrophe in France within the
memory of the present generation. The unfortunate
victims of Royal perfidy and ruthlessness arc all but
driven mad by the extreme hardships they have endured,
during eighteen months rigorous incarceration, sepa-
rated from their wives and children. The nation sym-
pathises with their wrongs, and will revenge them.

FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Mar 7.
Five per Cents., 1071. 90c. 95c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 20c.
"lime per Cents.,
_Blf. 75c. 70c. 75c.
Bank Actions, 1,997 f. 50i. 1,990 f.
Rente de Naples, 9f3f. 95c. 99f. 20c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1004 19C.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 50K 51 50%.
Rents d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 31% 31.
Royal Spanish Loan, 50 51%.
Rente I'erpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 551,81A34.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102.
Portugue,e Loan, Five per Cent., 101 U N.
Haytian Loan, 4.!01.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 25f. 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. -c. ; money, 125 f. 25c.
-Ours Auth,,itique.
Boma, THREE o'CLocx.-The market is very flat, the 3
per Cents. 81f. 95c. sellers. Spanish remains steady, but
little business doing. From the frontiers the accounts are
favourable to Don Carlos ; from Madrid the reverse.
QUARTER TO FOUR O'CLOCK.-Five per Cents., 108 f. 20e. ;
Three per Cents., 81f. 95c. ; Five per Cents., Spanish, 50i;
Three per Cents. Spanish, 31 ; Cortes, 501 ; Coupons, 30a ;
Guebhards, 50-1 ; Differ6s, 20 ; New Loan, 65 ; Passives,
; Ducats, 99f. 40c. ; Romans, 100 ; Pedros, 1011 ;
Miguels, 26 ; Dutch, 59 20 ; Haytian, 430 f. ; Brabant
Bank, 20 pm.

Montreal papers have been received to the sth
April, also Halifax to the 21st March.
The Hudson River is now open the whole distance from
New York to Albany. A steam-boat made her way through
the ice, which still remained on the Overlaughs, and arrived at
Albany on the 29th ult.
The Legislature of the State of the Maine, for a great
part of the Session, were engaged in considering the expe-
diency of abolishing capital punishments, but did not come
to any vote upon the subject, prefering to wait another year,
that the public might have an opportunity of expressing their
opinion.
Crossing to and from Lapvaire still continues dangerous.
The ice on Lake Champlain still remains firm. The Up-
per Canada Mail has been about a day behind its time
owing to the badness of the roads, and the difficulty of cross-
ing the river.
The sales of Bank and other Stocks by auction, on Saturday,
brought, we learn, the following prices :—Montreal Bank,
641. 10s. for 501. ; Quebec Fire Assurance, 101. for 19/. 10s. ;
Quebec Exchange, 91. for 121. 10s.
UPPER CANADA—THE WEATIIIR.--0111* farmers have
severely felt the almost total want of snow during the winter,
but on Saturday night it began to make its appearance in
downright earnest, and during the entire of Saturday con-
tinued to fall unremittingly.
OPENING OF THE NAVIGATION.—It was with the utmost
satisfaction we again saw at our wharfs the British pennant
_floating.