The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-06 00:00:00

SCOTCH EXCHEQUER COURT BILL

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH proposed, that the Com-
mittee on the Scotch Exchequer Court Bill, should be
postponed till next week, as he had not had sufficient time
to consider the report of the Commons' Committee on this
subject.

The Earl of ROSEBERRY thought it would be suffi-
cient to postpone the Committee till Friday next, in order
to insure its passing this session.
The Earl of CAMPERDOWN concurred in this opi-
nion, and observed, that a similar Bill had already passed
this House, and hail been lost in the Commons by the pro•
rogation.
The Duke of HAMILTON deprecated the making rash
innovations in the Scotch law, merely to assimilate it to
the English law, as the foundations were entiiely dif-
ferent.

The LORD CHANCELLOR—Neither this, nor the
Bill for reducing the number of the Court of Session to
thirteen, had any such effect. As to the Bill, it only
went to put an end to sinecure judicial appointments.
The average number of defended causes in the Exchequer
had been, of late years, only two in each year; and it
was therefore proposed that a Judge of the Court of Ses-
sion shoulti do the duty at a small increase of salary,
while a judicial appintment of 4,000/. a year, and
another of 2,000/. a year, would be put an end to.
After a few words from Lord Ifor.r.AND and the Earl
of ilanntxcroN, it was agreed that the Bill should be
committed on Friday next.
The British Museum Bill went through the Committee.
Report to-morrow.

The Vice-Admiralty Courts Abolition Bill also went
through the Committee.
The other Bills on the table passed through their dif-
ferent stages, and the House adjourned until Half-past Two
to-morrow.

Lord J. RUSSELL has intimated that on
Thursday, June 14, he will apply for leave to bring in a
Bill for the better prevention of bribery and corruption at
the election of Members to serve in Parliament. This
will be the seventh Bill on the subject of Reform ; the
other six are—l. The English Reform Bill ;2. The
Boundaries (England) Bill ; 3. The Reform (Scotland)
Bill ; 4. The Boundaries (Scotland) Bill ; 5. The Re-
form (Ireland) Bill ; 6. The Boundaries (Ireland) Bill ;
and al! to be passed this Sesaion, besides disposing of the
Civil List charges, Bank Charter, West India Question, &c.
TITHES IN LONDON.—At Guildhall, yes-
terday, the Rev. Mr. BECKWITH, Rector of St. Albans,
Wood-street, and St. Olave, Silver-street, summoned Mr.
S. CLEASBY, of
,Broad—treet, for 26/. 195., being an
arrear of 29 quarters of tithes due on three tenements be-
longing to him in Silver-street. The houses were burnt
down 10 years since, and not having since been rebuilt,
Mr. CLEASBY had refused to pay tithes. The Rector
limited his claim to the arrears for seven years, due at
Chlistmas last. After arguments had been heard on
both sides, Mr. Alderman KELLY said he thought it his
duty to dismiss the summons. He though; that as long
as there was no occupation of premises there should be no
tithe. No ;tithe was paid in the country on an unoccupied
farm, and he did not see why a piece of ground on which
there was no house should pay tithe. Such summonses
were not beneficial to the cause of the clergy. The Counsel
who attended on behalf of Mr. BECKWITH said he would
certainly apply for a distress warrant against Mr. CLEASBY
to the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, as the Act if
Parliament directed,

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1832.

His MAJESTY held a Court and Levee this
day at St. James's Palace, which was numerously
attended. We were in error yesterday in stating
that a Privy Council would be held after the
Levee ; upon authority, we now state, that no
Council will be held, and that on Wednesday or
Thursday next, his MAJESTY will give his
Assent to the Bill.

The Lords Amendments to the Reform Bill
were last night agreed to by the House of Com-
mons. Previously however, there was a smart,
and somewhat personal discussion on the
" horrid measure," in which Sir R. PEEL, as
usual, eminently distinguished himself. But
the hero of the evening was Mr. FANE,
son and heir, we believe, of that plumpest
of Earls, Lord WESTMORLAND. This ge-
nius was wondrously animated, and poured forth
the words of wisdom and prophecy • with
a vehemence and volubility that occasioned uni-
versal merriment. The House shook with
laughter at his gravities, but subsided into per-
fect stillness when he essayed the facetious.
Great occasions produce great men, and it must
be consoling to the Ultra-Tories, in this their
hour of tribulation, to reflect that to the passing
of the Reform Bill, they owe the development of
Mr. FANE's transcendant intellect.

The speech of Sir R. PEEL was just what
might have been expected. He was astonished
—your small wits are always astonished at every
thing—at the conduct of Ministers ; grieved to
the soul at the triumph of the " horrid" Bill ; and
apprehensive that the worst was yet to come. Of
the House of Lords he spoke in a way that might
have drawn tears from a flint, and twaddled exceed-
ingly about the Political Unions, and the late:re-
fusal, on the part of the people, to pay taxes. We
always like Sir ROBERT best when he is most sen-
timental, for there is a mild imbecility in his pathos
that reminds its forcibly of the mob-cap and sto-
macher. Old women prose over their " rheumatiz "
in precisely the same style that the " PEEL of
PEELS" weeps over the triumph of the Re-
formers.

Alas for our Ex-Home-Secretary ! The
glory of the spinning-jennies is extinguished for
ever. Never more will Sir ROBERT be what he
has been. The party which first raised him far, far
above his level, now exists but in name, and the
" Second PlTT"—as the rising young champion
of intolerance • was once called—must hence-
forth stand on his own merits. Unfortunately
for himself, these merits are of the flimsiest, the
most unstable character. He might stand on the.
surface of an Irish bog, with quite as much
chance of a permanent footing. The fact is, the
age has outgrown Sir R. PEEL, and looks back
at him with contempt, as he comes.,, limp-
ing painfully behind it. Whatever talent
he may originally have possessed, has been
long since cramped and blighted by a systematic
course of intolerance. A bustling age like the
present, in which new habits of thought and
feeling are daily bursting into leaf, is calculated
only to make him stare. He cannot understand
it, but gets perplexed and bewildered like
a man in a labyrinth. Give him a plain every
day matter of fact to argue, and he will do
it with passable ingenuity ; but set him
to grapple with a great comprehensive question
which calls for the exercise of foresight, which
demands an expansive reach of intellect, and the
application of a sound and liberal philosophy,
and he will fail, miserably, irretrievably fail. His
whole conduct on the Reform Question has
been a blunder from first to last, such as no
statesman who aspired to a name in history,
could possibly have been guilty of. But Sir
ROBERT, we repeat, is no statesman, as the
world, and even he himself, are just now begin-
ning to find out.

Our readers will find in another part of The
Sun some curious particulars from the Cow rier
Fran ails of Saturday, respecting the late fran-
tic proceedings of the Carlists, with the Du-
chess DE BERRI at their head, in La Vendee.
LOUIS-PHILIPPE is now reaping the:fruit of C:

PER 'ER'S juste milieu system, who on every late
public demonstration of dissatisfaction, never failed
to treat the Carlists with as much injudicious lenity
as he showed bigoted rancour towards the Press
and the Movement party. We predict no very
protracted reign for the last, and by no means
the wisest, of the BOURBONS. They are a
doomed race.

Lisbon Papers have been received : their
contents are of no moment, consisting chiefly of
wholesale abuse of what they call, " the lying,
radical" English Journals.

Now that the battle is won, and the enemies
of freedom completely disarmed, the rage of the
defeated party is beyond all hounds. Their at-
tacks on Ministers—their rabid vituperations
against the first characters of the land, and, above
all, their maledictions on those who, in their
opinion, have annihilated the House of Peers,
excite, not the anger, but the pity and regret of
every rational and disinterested mind. To
charge Ministers with trampling on the Peers
is more absurd than to say, in the lan-
guage of CA ST LEREA G 11, the Peers have trampled
on themselves. Would a stranger, on going
into either House, where these tirades have
been carried on night after night, and on no oc-
casion more furiously than in the Commons last
night, be at any loss on a careful analysis of the
debates to attach the blame to the proper
quarter? The charge in fact against Ministers
is so utterly unfounded, that one must sup-
pose those who make it either not serious
or infatuated by the grossest folly. Whether
looking at the primary or proximate cause
of this degradation of the House of Peers,
no impartial judge can deny that the Anti-Re-
forming Peers have been at the bottom of all
the mischief. Reform may be said to be the
primary cause; and what raised the universal
outcry for it, but the mad declaration that no
Reform was necessary ? Had the Conser-
vative Party, two years ago, acted with
common foresight—had they not been as blind
as the mud walls of Old Sarum—they
would have watched the aspect of the
times and yielded, but not without manliness,
to the storm collecting around them. At that
period had the Duke of WELLINGTON come
forward candidly, and stated that Reform being
inevitable, he was ready to grant a measure even
more extensive than any ever proposed by Lord J.
RUSSELL, thegreat body of the people would have
been satisfied—one-half of the small boroughs
now blotted out for ever would still have been
allowed to return a Member—the nation would
have been spared the throes and convulsions
which have shaken it for the last eighteen months,
and the independence of the Peers would have
been preserved. Looking at the proximate
cause, there is even less doubt where to attach
blame. After the general election—after the forty
counties of England had returned Members all
determined Reformers except six, and Scotland,
ivhicti every one admits is little better than one
rotten borough, had returned a majority in
favour of the measure, who could doubt its ulti-
mate success? Even the elder BANK ES, with
his high Tory principles and the bigotry of his
party, foresaw the result, and on losing his
election exclaimed with prophetic sagacity,
" The Bill is carried." Majority after ma-
jority in the Commons carried the measure
triumphantly through that House, and the House
of Lords, the very strong. hold of Toryism, ac-
ceded to the principles of the Bill—yet the con-
servative party were still blind—they madly
struggled against a whole nation, till that na-
tion rose like one man, and with its breath
scattered them as chaff before the wind. Had
that party, at the great crisis, the second reading,
come manfully forward anti admitted the folly of
contending against a united people, they would
have been revered by their countrymen, their
order would have been placed on an imperish-
able foundation, and our beloved SOVEREIGN
would have been, as he was till he listened to
their fatal advice, the idol and delight of the
nation. These are the men who have trampled
on the SOVEREIGN, and undeservedly alienated
the affections of his people. We say unde-
servedly, for the KING throughout has been
stanch in the cause—he was the soul of
of it from the beginning, his dissolution of Pa-
liament sealed its fate, and even when in the
hands of his enemies, he insisted on an extensive
measure of Reform. When all the circum-
stances of the case are fully known—when the
people learn how their SOVEREIGN has been
tormented in season and out of season, they will
then do him justice, and lay the blame on the
proper quarter,—on those men who, for their
own selfish purposes, have trampled on the
Crown, and brought the country to the brink
of a revolution.

In our Guildhall Police Report this morning,
our readers will see another beautiful illustration
of that cormorant appetite, that harpy voracity for
tithes which Churchmen are so prone, at all times
and under all circumstances, to exhibit. A Mr.
STEPHEN CLEASBY, of Broad-street, was yes-
terday brought before Mr. Alderman KELLY for
refusing to pay to the Rev. Mr. BECKWITH,
the Rector of St. Alban's, Wood-street, and
St. Olave, Silver-street, the sum of 26/. 18s.,
being an arrear of twenty:nine quarters' tithes,
due on certain tenements in Silver-street. The
edifying and most characteristic feature of this
case is, that the houses for which the tithes were
claimed, were burned down ten years ago ; and
notwithstanding that the ground has ever since
lain a blank space, producing not one shilling
income, yet the Rev. Pluralist has actually the
face to demand the tithe arrears for seven years ;
even though at the present moment there are no
materials on the ground on which such arrears
may be levied ! After hearing the particulars of this
most flagrant case, Mr. Alderman KELLY very
wisely refused a warrant to distrait', observing at
the same time, that " there was a sore feeling
among the people, and when such claims as this
were set up, it was calculated to make them ob-
ject to pay anything to the clergy." Sore feel-
ing ! To be sure there is. And one that will

rankle in the public mind till the cause that gave
rise to it is removed. What right, in common
sense or justice, whatever he may have in law,
has the Rev. Pluralist of St. Olave's, &c. to
tithes on tenements ttiat do not exist—nay,
that not only do not exisr, hut that actually have
not existed for ten years ? With quite as much
propriety may the Rector of Hampstead demand
tithes for the vast mass of buildings with which,
some day or other, Sir THomAs M. WILSON
proposes to disfigure the Heath It was evi-
dently the intention of the Legislature that there
should be a beneficial occupation to render pro-
perty liable to tithe. But here there is nothing
of the sort, nothing that even the most expert
legal quibbling can torture into a beneficial oc-
cupation. It is painful to reflect that clergymen
seldom come under public notice, except in con-
nexion with some grasping, unpopular transaction.
They are rarely conspicuous, except by bigotry or
avarice. As Bishops, they make a point of setting
their faces against every thing their countrymen
have most at heart ; as rectors, vicars, &c. they are
notorious for the dexterity with which they fleece
their flocks, and win their hostility in return.
It will never be well for England, till the whole
Church Establishment has been subjected to an
AngTan process of purification, till the whole
system of tithes is put on a more enlightened
and more satisfactory footing.