The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-23 00:00:00

;PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

I've congratulate the country on the first division in the
committee
on the Corporation Reform Bill, and more
Pecially on the only point on which it was possible to
create delay. The Committee divided on the 4th clause,
giving to the King in Council the power to settle the
boundaries of certain towns named in the schedule. Sir
James Graham led the Tories in their attack upon the
constitutional objections to this clause, forgetting that he
Ras a party to the self-same provision in the first Parlia-
entary Reform Bill. With the assistance of the Dilly,
Lord Stanley, Sir P. Durham, Sir M. Ridley, Lord O.
ientinck, Mr. Galley Knight, Mr. Walter, &c., the Tories
could only muster 192 votes to 279, a pretty tolerable
Proof, beyond the recent returns for Ipswich, Carlow, and
"lull, of the daily decline of the Tory strength, and of in-
!teasing confidence in the Government. We must do
21laice to two Hon. Members who voted in the majority,
the only dissentients from the Tory attempt to make vexa-
tious delays—Sir Robert Inglis and Mr. Bingham
baring. The former is not always right in his opinions, but
We must do him the justice to admit he cannot he accused
of insincerity or factious motives in his votes. Sir R. Peel,
its usual, made a dexterous attempt to defeat the Bill, by
a skilful manoeuvre. He wished the boundaries to be set-
tled by a separate Bill, to be brought in next Session, and
to postpone, of course, the operation of this post Bill till
next year. Finding that impracticable, he offered his sup-
Port to Lord Dudley Stuart's motion. We cannot avoid
expressing the regret we feel at the encouragement given
by some of the unreflecting friends of Reform to the oppo-
nents of Government, by an unworthy submission to the
Maims of some of the Constituencies, having, or believing
they have, an interest in maintaining parts of the monopo-
li s and exclusive privileges in the existing Corporations.
eLord Dudley Stuart would have done better to have
avoided even the appearance of interposing delay or
:
Pposing his friends. Our greater fears are, how-
ever of any combination which may perpetuate the race of
freemen. The scenes that have taken place at the elec-
tions for Hull, York, Ipswich, Yarmouth, and other places,
should
satisfy all parties of the mistake made in the Reform
the
on this subject. Mr. Praed is to renew his motion on
the 9th clause. Neither Sir Robert Peel nor Lord Stan-
ley were very explicit in any expression of opinion on the
Point, beyond a wish that the discussion should be deferred
till the clause came before the Committee. We would ra-
ther rely upon Sir Robert than upon Lord Stanley and his
Dilly, for a direct and uninterested vote on this clause. Sir
M. Ridley seconded Mr. Praed's proposition, and he is too
important a member of this considerable party to be left in
the lurch by his leader or his associates.—Morn. Chronicle.
_ The early portion of yesterday's proceedings in the
Bowe of Commons was taken up with the presentation of
several petitions by Sir R. Inglis, some of which pressed
upon Parliament the necessity of resisting the clause for
appropriating any part of the revenues of the Irish Church
to other than ecclesiastical purposes, and others, especially
420 e from Birmingham, referred to a motion of Mr. Sheil,
for depriving any clergymen who might henceforth be ap-
pointed to benefices in that Church, of all right to com-
pensation, on the ground of vested interest, in case of such
benefice being afterwards suppressed. Mr. Sheil, as Sir
Robert Inglis seemed to think, had withdrawn the notice
of his motion, but the fact was denied by the learned
kember for Tipperary. We could wish that the question
of "perjury or no perjury, in the case of Catholics voting
on measures relative to the temporal interests of the
Church, had been more satisfactorily obviated than it ap-
pears to have been by the framers of the oath to be taken
by Catholic Members of Parliament. Where there is
room for argument on the subject of an oath, a man of ten-
uer conscience no doubt will feel himself hound by the sense
of him, or of them, who have imposed the oath. But unless
the House of Commons should by a precise resolution affix a
construction upon the existing oath, adverse to that meaning
in which Messrs. Sheil and O'Connell declare that they have
understood, and are disposed to act upon it, there is a cer-
tainty, that men whose consciences are swayed by their
Political passions will vote according to their own view of
the oath, not according to that of Sir R. Inglis, or of Mr.
t I I
'seas acdonnell, though himself a Catholic, and, there-
f.:_)re, we see no good to be attained by mooting, as the Hon.
Baronet with the best intentions has done, difficulties,
which throzigh such means can never be effectually settled.
The Government which prepared the Bill of Catholic
Emancipation might have done wisely to place the power of
tampering ever so little 7vith Irish Church property, beyond
the reach of any Papist, hov;ffer dexterous, by employing
words to that effect, either in the oOth to be taken by persons
of the Popish faith, or in the shape of a prohibitory clause to
that
effect in the body of the measure. Mr. O'Connell ra-
ther tauntingly drew a distinction between weakening the
Protestant " religion" and robbing the Protestant church.
Now this is poor and very vulgar sophistry. It is not, it
never
Was, in Mr. O'Connell's power before he was in Par-
lia e,nt, or by means of any authority accruing to him from
his m
admission to that assembly—it never, we say, was in his
power, nor is it within the province of any legislator or any
politician, to weaken or disturb the Protestant or any other
" religion," but through the medium of the temporal
Church, which is its outward, visible, and tangible symbol,
as well as the organ through which its doctrines re
autho-
ritatively (speaking of human authority) propagated, and
its spirit and influence recognized by the State and upheld.
The only other mode of assailing the Church or weakening
it—to wit, by the arms of reason, and by th
rs e prevalenceatho-
of
Superior piety and virtue among the membe of the C
lic faith—it Rever could have been in the contemplation of
any sane mind to interdict to Mr. O'Connell and his Ca-
tholic brethren, seeiaj that such spiritual warfare (and
experience of none other) is
Would to God we
jurisprudence. The only
not a fit subject of earthiiich can be affixed to the
rational sense, therefore, wh
Catholic: against weakening
declaration pronounced by
or disturbing the Protestant religion Is,, that they will
undertake nothing against that incarnationof religion,
Which is presented by the Church, its members, its
Ministers, and property. We see that there is a Report
come out from the Commissioners of Church Inquiry,
which, however, we have not yet had time, though ever sn
slightly, to examine, but of which the designed spirit and
tendency is to favour a deduction from the Ction so diverted
uses not immediately connected with the Church. Our
often expressed opinion need not here he repeated—that if
a positive demonstration be arrived at, through a process of
bone fide and careful research, that the reve of
Church of Ireland exceed the real wants of
that carithuries,
ch,
namely, the support of its clergy, its schools, its ch
and its sacred edifices, there is neither common sense nor hu-
manity in denying that after such essential objects are
authorityreverts'to
of the realm. In that sense we have ever b een
thfavourable
to an appropriation" of the surplus—but in
alone, Let us see how Lord John Russell dea
surplus, and first how he makes it out ls with his
. His Lordship, on
being asked what he would do with the revenu
per
of a
Parish where, for instance, the clergyman had 2001.
annum more than might be judged a fair remuneration for
his services, answered that he would apply the excess to
Purposes (if we are not mistaken—if we are, we shall
gladly correct our error) of general education for all sects.
But when his Lordship was further asked, Suppose there
be other Protestant parishes of which the incumbents are
Paid too scantily, as is known to be the case in a vast
number of lay impropriations, where the lay plunderers of
the Church reserve to themselves frequently 19-20ths of
the income, and leave the poor officiating vicar te starve
or, again, in cases, many of which are to be found through
out the north of Ireland, where rectories are altogether
insufficient to subsist a minister of the Gospel ;—when,
we say, the Noble Leader of the House of Commons
was asked whether he would not transfer the surplus of
one living to make up the deficiencies of another,
he an-
swered in the negative, to the effect that where
ben the Ch
other
urch
was fat, she should be sweated for thebenefit of
Churches ; but that where she was lean and famished,
our
e
should still be compelled to starve. Now this is
not
notion of a surplus, nor of the righteous rule for
dealing
with it. The Church ought to be taken as a whole. Her
income ought to be calculated in the same way,
and mea-
sured with renuence to her collective necessities. But
that to
mulct the too rice; parish, without giving succour to
in our
which is confessedly tar) poor, does come up, idea, to
the most gross and clumsy" iniquity that ever was devised
by party politician. When getitlemen talk o the
though
over-
grown wealth of the Church of Ireland, they rffer,
e
unconsciously, to what was once her wealth. She oncc pos-
. sessed those great revenues which now constitute the un-
holy inheritance of some of our most bloated granl
dees.
She once enjoyed, as has been put impressively hy our able
evening colleague, the Standard, the tithe of agistment,
which was collected from the rich proprietors of parks
arta pasture lands—but as they formed in
great mea-
,
sure, the materials of that virtuous body, the old Col-
lege-Green Parliament, they voted the tithe of agist-
ment a nuisance, and made a law that it should never
more be levied hy the Church. This was, we suppose,
loss to the clergy of at least one half their income, and al-
though the Tithe Composition Act of late years restored
the tithe of agistment to the Church, it did not re-establish
that tithe on its ancient footing of an addition to the tithe
on tillage, crops, but merely extended over grass and corn
together, the same amount which since 1735 had been paid
upon agriculture Alone, so that the Church gaine dersuad nothingd
by the alteration. Upon the whole, we well pe
that if the old Church revelries of Ireland had been
hae left
unimpaired by the rapacious laity, ±hey truld now v
'-
fully sufficed to provide for and accompils,; that object,
than which none more desirable, none more valuable, riirn
more sacred,
oiriesacred, can be imagined, for the general peace and
of that unhappy country—we mean the liberal
and comfortable support of all the clergy of all her three
denominations of Christian men, the Episcopalian Pro-
testants, the Dissenting Protestants, and tLe Catholics.

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23. 1
Number Dividend Price
of rer CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share.
1,760 61 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97s 18s. sh. 157
1,482 ('l. Ashby-de-le-Zoucla .. ...... .Average 113/. sh. 65
1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 51
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny... l5O . sh. 05
4,00015 h. 12/. 10s. Birmingham, I share 171. 10s. 241
4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct....116/. sh. all pd
600 ...... ... Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64
4'6 .1. Chelmer and Blackwater 1031. sh. 102
560 421. Coventry lOOl. sh.
4,5 iti Croydon Average 311.25.10 d. sh. 21
7,060* 31. 10s. Dudley 100!. sh. '74
600 61. Derby 100/. sh. I'lo
3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester...... Average 133/. sh. 88*
231 43'. Erewash 100/. sh. 515
1,297 28/ Forth and Clyde Average 400/. llis. sh. 606
11,501 121. Grand Junction 100/. sh. 237
2,8491 Grand Union 1001. sh. 23
1,521 Grand Surrey 1( 01. sh.
120,000/. 4/. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan .... ............ -100/. 73
3,096 Grand Western
600 131. lt.N. Bd. Glamerganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 280
1,9(11 Gloucester and Berkley 1001 sh. 15
749 'Os. Grantham 1501. sh. 202
6,238 1/. 10s. Huddersfield Average 57/. tls. 6d. sh. 33
100 Kensington lOO sh. all pd. 10
25,328 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 391.85. 10d. sh. 20f
2,8971 204 Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 525
515 121. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 149
947 4/. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 83/. 10s. SO
550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Uni0n......251. sh. all pd. 25
70 1411. Loughborough Average 142/. 17s. sh. 1,600
2,409 9/ Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 180
'5O 91. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 190
590 251. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 56)
3,000 Macclesfield lOO/. sh. all pd. 52
247 15/. Neath 100/. sh.
100 Nene Navigation Bonds ...1001. sh. WO/. pd. 100
1,786 321. Oxford 100/. sh. 615
522 21. Oakham 1301. sh. 38
2,400 41. Peak Forest Average about 78/. sh. 104
21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd, sh. 15
5,669 51. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 123
500 Si. Shropshire 125/. sh. 140
800 10/. Somerset Coal 150/, sh. 163
45,0001. 61 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 12,
700 361. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690
500 11/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 242*
300 8/. Stourbridge
3,9'17 11. 10s. Stratford-on-Av. i ...Average 791. 9s. lld. sh. :18k
533 131. Swansea 1001. sh. 205
3,76: I!. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 19
2,600 Ist). 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 1001. sh. 625
8,1 i 9 ...... ... Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Sd. sh. 2
1,(00 sh.l. iu Warwick and Birmingham 1001. sh. 280
I,o(klish. '
980 12, Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 218
0,000 3/.los Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 78/. Bs. sh. 87*
2...000 hs. Wilts and Berks. .. Average 161. 17s. Bd. sh. 5
800 61. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75
126 ... Wisbeach ... .., 1051. sh. 45
905 1/ Wey an) Arun llOl. sh. 221
DOCKS.
2,600& }3n c. Commercial 1001. sh. 61
1,06515 h - '
498,6671/.
3,238,310/. 21.55. p. ct. London Stock 57
Ditto Bonds lO3
1,380,0001. 5/. per ct. West India Stock 98
2,20) 31. 6s. 4d. Bristol Average 1411. 19s. sh.
68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6
1052,752 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 69
__._

.500,003 41 Per cent. Ditto Bonds
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 yea is lO.l
Shoreham Harbour 2571
BRIDGES.
1,6C0 IL Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 23
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 21
1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 15
5,000. . .. Waterloo lOOl. sh. 3.i
5,000 .11. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6Ol. pd 251
5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 221
60,0001. 51. per cent. Vitto Bonds llB
6,000 11. Vauxhall Average '7Ol. 10s. 3d. eh. 22
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 761

31103

L‘,,,,, [5 per cent.] Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 10/. pd 11;
100/. sh. 51. pd
'5'0,700 6 paenrdcsean. t. Ditto, Marine
24,000 10s. per sh. Atlas
1,200 ash. 4/. Birmingham Fire 2501. sh. 551. pd 105
20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40
12,000 ft. per cent. British Commercial ... . ..-......50/. sh. 51. pd 6;
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Li1e...1004 sh. 2! lOs pd 31
4,000 21 lOs Count/ 100!. oh. 10/. pd 42
6,000 ' ss. Eagle 504 sh. 51. pd 5;
~,, f 5 per cent.} Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 315
"`"' land 301 be.
2,271 514 per cent. European Life 00/. sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New .01. sh. 21. pd 11
1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 156
20,000 14 Guardian 1004 sh. 20/. pd 33;
Fire 5 p ct.
40.°°° EL'f 8 tl Hope
ie pc 50/. sh. 51. pd 6
2,400 5/. 74. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 117
7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 14
51. per cent. Indemnity Marine li 04 sh. 8/. pd 12
2,020 31. Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 85
10,000 las. Law Life 100/. sh. 101, pd 26
3,900 1/. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 231
31 000 11. London, Ship 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 23;
30,010 Si. per cent. Palladium Life 501. sh. 21. pd 215 s
250,001 Is. ed. Protector Fire 204 sh. 2/. pd 11 lOs
2,500 14 Provident Life ICO4 sh. 101. pd 19;
100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 21. pd 51 11s.
619,2201. 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 1864
Sun 2lO
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life ' V. pd 212 s 6d
.J.‘otlrNall.aliSTOCK BANKS
A 5,000 a 4Ol. sh. 26/. pd 32
10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 101. pd 121
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank ... 501' sh. 51. pd 12
18,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster-1001 sh. 151. pd
3,000 Lancaster 1001. sh. 201. pd 30
12.5,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 1004 sh. 10/. I.d 15
20,000 7 per cent. Provincial Bank of I reland 100/. sh. 251. pd 491
10,000 National Provincial Eng. IOW. sh. 251. pd 123.1
10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire ,
.501. sh. 54 pd 11
6,000
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 1/ 12s Bath 2O/. sh. 16/. pd 26
5,000 6/. per cent. British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 23
5,000 f
/and 5/.per censs.t./ Ditto i'rovincial 204 sh. 191. pd 24
" Bs.
844 5/ lOs Birmingham
4,250 2/ Os Bristol
1.500 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 14
750 ...... ... Ditto, New
2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. eh. all pd 19
4,000 3/. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 5111. pd 76
1,000 101. City of London lOO/ sh. all pd 1921
1,000 6/. Ditto, New
4,000 41. Equitable .... 354 pd 31
6,000 AL per cent. East London .5/. sh. 41. pd a;
10,000 51. per cent. Imperial 504 sh. 43
800 51. per cent. Isle of l'hanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 214
2.350 6/. per cent. 1 ndependent 3Ol. sh. all pd 50
9,000 4/. per cent. Phcenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 24
1,000 4!. per cent. RatclifF 100/. sh. CO/. pd
4,000 South Metropolitan 5"l. sh. 13/ pd 141
6,200 54 per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 44/. pd 391
210 5/. per cent. Warwick 50/. sh. K"

Wakefield 25/. sh. 224
Westminster Chartered 504 sh. 41
Ditto, New 5Ol. sh. 10!. pd t 4
Yarmouth 201. sh. 18/. pd 10