The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-21 00:00:00

COURT CIR CUL 4R.
_ Their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Kent and the
P.rincess Victoria will arrive at Burleigh-house to-day, on a
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter.
The Duke of Cumberland, after remaining a short time at
Lis residence 2th near Berlin, left that capital on Saturday the
1 ir.stant, for Kalisch.
Visflount Palmerston has left town for his seat at Broad-
&lnds, Hants. -
4
Lord 4
John Russell arrived at the Duke of Bedford's seat,
Lord 1816 Devonshire, on Saturday, from the residence of
Ebri4gton.
Lord l_folland entertained Mr. Spring Rice an
party to dinner on Saturday evening, at Holland-house. select

(0111JRCII-RATES AND BUNGAY

PERSECUTORS.

Sin TO' TILE EDITO O THE SUN.
--The Norfolk and Suffolk parsons, celebrated for
12.°k-hunting, tithe exactions and stone cells for Church-rate
:ehecusants, are prepaying to revive their exactions and per-
crT•uotlions.
ride the greater chance of their being
le harder they
andwn out of the saddle. Let us hope that these sleek
°‘;h°lY men of God will ride furiously, and drive their
els. te the hilt into the already restive and suffering ani-
,,,Lll,ho bears them : he will the sooner throw the riders.
"4 Prom
t.l,e ess of resistance to church rates at Bungay, and
result produced upon the rate payers, bears some re-
-,ohlanc to the progress of corporation reform and thde
t upon the public mind, as to the 170 men ycleye
INTe shill beat them, and no thanks to them, for fair
fighting, despite of a renegade Reformer in the one In-
stance
Bun„ and of a. renegade Dissenter in the instance at
gay.
Churchwardens of Bungay St. Mary, who have
tenea an
Y' made themselves notorious by resorting to the
,r mercies of the Ecclesiastical Courts to obtain the
;Isian letter missive of the holy ministers of that belie-
etuielttribunal, have posted the following notice of an at-
at a further; exaction

" CHURCH RATES.
" Bungay St. Mary, 13th September, 1835.
Notice is hereby given, that a vestry meeting will be ZiCt. this parish, on Tuesday, the 22d inst. at 10 o'clock in I.4l;rsterenoon, to make a rate, to provide for the necessary re-
oPt!, of the church, and for defraying the other legal expenses
toe Churchwardens during the present year.
" SAMUEL SCOTT,}Churchwardens."
"JAMES GOWER, ff
tti.i,c. trust that the inhabitants of Bungay will now be
Pitio
e to their own interests. They must refuse to men
to • have shown their love of prison inflictions the power
Inflict them.
The
In st Y must refuse—to men who would place Dissenters
soft °tle cells, because they refuse to pay for cushions to
left seats, and organs to tickle the ears of the pious
bolo-Lis of the law church—the power to shut them up in
the", and if they think it ought not to be obligatory upon
1,,,.ms to wash the surplices of the heavy and husky phi-
ociottsnooft tthoe Act of Parliament faith—if they think they
pay for emblazoning in gold lettersr. the names
wardens :` John Maggs and Humphrey IN iggms, Church-
Gri
lens, ' they must withhold the power from the tools of the
is the'Ans. The John Scott, who has signed the above, notice
116 same John Scott, who, preferring a holy Court and an
c Wet judge, sued for 17s. 6d. in an Ecclesiastical
eas°Urt, b.efore a parson of his own sect, in preference to an
for VernedY by summons before a Magistrate. His love
s. neighbour was hot and bitter ;he evinced it by pui-
glig him into a
gaol, cold and biting.
spoi: reverting to these proceedings at the time, you thus
tak e of the holy mandate by which Mr. John Childs was
Ineee,il and incarcerated in Ipswich Gaol in solitary confine-
, for
Was
1, seventeen hours out of every twenty-four, which
dorsed TAKE NO BAIL. You observed," But if there
th'e°,l:st,thing more than another that . the aninzus—
nolieal spirit of this proceeding, it is the indorsement
ota° bottom of that most precious document—the. Writ.
Persw haPPiIY, how emphatically is the vindictive spirit of a
/14,1Lecut,,or exemplified in three short Words—TAKE NO
tiei, the fiend who dictated these words, feasted in an-
grevation on the sufferings of his' victim. Every sigh, every
the
an uttered by the inmate of the dungeon, is music to
Ivoer 1.11 a such a wretch as this, who, if he had the power,
wlingly immolate on the altar of bigotry every Dis-
',tient il
from his own religious system.
3
Das c are sure that this subject will not be allowed to
IderfWithout notice from the Legislature. Some Hon.
,weliber must bring it before the House of Commons, and
doer
not, that as good generally arises out of evil, this
rmse.„d in the total abolition of all ecclesiastical jurisdic-
A
No •
' • in this you spoke the indignation of a generous
rlOth
and the d and your prompt rend rcay advocacy of the course,
yo efficient efficient aid which Mr. Child's own press gave to
to; her
and ready exposure of the oppression, drew
liiZtertiner six thousand persons in rather a thinly populated
of resist(l to manifest their oneness of feeling, the progress
nciglce to injustice, and to welcome their friend and
fro,nl4.?or from the prison—not of 'the Inquisition—but
" n„ trig
Prison of the holy and pious members of the
the, "11 Christian," the remnant, the expiring remnant, of
holy
butlt'•°'"Ce.
flickering in its own virus, and these outbreaks are
I•nee the flickering fitful unsteady glarings of the sinking oppressor—
Ilieus, but weak—desperate, but self-destroying.
bushQ eler'Y are busy in digging the grave of the este-
roent
Let
414 Pray that they may not be disturbed in the holy
tbaetcseworthy purpose in which they are engaged, and
111%6 may not be disturbed until they have excavated
to be "11Y deep
entOmbed. to hold the dropsical and plethoric corpus
ZE N AS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
ni kat
4:lliliota
thy ''An Evening Contemporary of your's, a most wor-
opponent, has, with his accustomed .olubiilintya,
,kaiZed in a strain so ludicrous, and has exemplified
Is but'''. 80 Peculiar to himself, the familiar expressio. there
14- one step between the sublime and the ridiculous," that
tr4plet forbear reminding you of it by quoting thepa a-
nistaelti aollude to, as it appeared on the evening of the sthr
, /or the general edification of your readers. I do
topeto, More particularly, because I entertain the lively
to Le,t You also possess so high a sense of the ridiculous
terif-'.uP from the realms of fancy another of your very
the sPeeifics, for distribution amongst all the sectionsfahoef
lloo,iseirYstribe ; and thereby check the bane of their hoods
by-tribe
the genial influence of an efficient antidote of
gate , When law and reason speak plainly, we not _
to p j°l; 1.9 to direct our understandings. So think all friends
Chu" and religious liberty ; • otherwise the brawlers
th
Itittalpure,h and State as by laiv established."
diseir,"ieeiass appears your Contemporary and Withinhis
atrhdeemn et.
It must's, with•all their blushing honours thick upon
vati be observed that the writer of the following er
l'eerti in view the manifesto or speech of Sir Robert
his Tamworth constituents : in fact, he was aip-le
belch Alaudin,ig the masterly mind of that gentleman when
nada eu the
the rancour of his own. Basking as we are
ow r the sunshine of the present political horizon, we are
the sunshine
upon his dictum, to look up to Sir Robert as
Polar-star of political perfection ; the promised Messiah,d
private, he "ens divinior of all that. is politically good, an
(ribs 'elY virtuous. But to the question :—" Such a man
h-atiier:fes Your .Contemporary), takes his views. .of human
4i,s;vit • fro
1.44- own heart, andfroni hearlB, in alliance withs.
that etch iiittat be, therefore, uneurrupt." God -forbid,
~iat either
bol pi-• You or myself, -or any other individual differing
a:;fbreem your opponent, should for a moment with-
ftb.e,nieed of praise to which the colossal Statesman
entitled—rather let us act the good Soma-
jvSt"aLrln not be as other men are " extortioners or un-
viCT'ut• I must ask in the same breath whether
or a Villain one day can-possibly be an honest man the next ;
4 tr- "eW
00e hour and a Christian the other? So sudden
theiron -from bad to good would smother all belief in
Noe sincerity, and only raise their mind to the highest pin-
nets,bef susplcion. No, no, Sir ; they may spread their
effect we won't be caught. Clap-trap and theatrical
beep are so familiar to our cars and eyes, that they have
tne t° s the monitors of wisdom. When Sir Robert
,ie`:ll' /eel§
himself in sufficient courage to wipe his hands
can - the old and base leaven—then, and not till then,
ran vfrom
hie faithfully confide in his honesty of purpose, and en-
that ,r° in the brotherhood of sincere Reformers. Should
comi„ ever arrive in Sir Robert's political life—and as
events
' cast their shadows before them,, so there
to be gleam of hope that " a consummation so devoutly
beard w,lshed" will be realised—we will then shout with un-
res„_ °L enthusiasm,
" the Hosannah to the Highest," and
~r 8
.n,(l. Itwit the greatest satisfaction to ourselves, that he
11,a4, aced ake his views of human nature from his own
4"4 from hearts in alliance with his, which we, too,
eprfonounce uncorrupt. Allow me, in conclusion, to
most a Fel!' the pages of Junius a passage which I conceive
I ill PPlicable to the'present nervous times—a book which
eenta,e°lllruon with its admirers, believe, will " be found to,
It is Xii Principles worthy to be transmitted to posterity.'
liher t:ter:mains to be done concerns the main
%el- es body of"le people. They are now to determine for them-
will firmly and constitutionally assert
;it the eir it., Its ; or make an humble, slavish surrender of them
To feet of (the Ministry then, but now) the oligarchy.
it t:
(!Lnerous mind there cannot be a doubt. We owe
they 1;
1e d 7 ancestors to preserve entire those rights which
00'elivered to our care : we owe it to our poste-
ip It
fr' to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
ere(' %. were possible for us to be insensible of those sa-
r,al there is yet an obligation binding on ourselves,
which :eh nothing can acquit us,—a personal interest,
r".lhts we cannot surrender. To alienate even our owT
"id be a crime as much more enormow than sin-