The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

POPULARITY OF BISHOP
PHILLPOTTS.
At Stokeinteignhead, on the ith inst., the Rev.
Nutcombe Gould, rector of that parish, held his
tithe dinner, and about twenty-seven tithe-payers
and their representatives sat down to a substantial
repast at the Rectory. The Ray. Mr. Gould
presided ; Mr. Langley, the attorney, was vice-presi-
dent. The company was respectable, those paying
under 2/. having been cut off from the privilege of the
dinner. After the cloth was removed, grog was sup-
plied, and the chairman gave as the first toast " Tne
Church." The Vice-Chairman, Mr. Langley, then
gave "The Queen." As the company had not drunk
the Chair's toast, that gentleman added " Church and
Queen," and the toast was given in that form. The
next toast was " Prince Albert and the Royal
Family? After these preliminaries had been ar-
ranged and completed, the Vice-Chairman gave the
health of Mrs. Gould. Mr. Gould, in reply, thanked
the company for drinking his wife's health, and with
that domestic blessing in his house, appeared to be re-
minded of the hard lot of the Roman Catholic clergy-
man, who is not allowed the solace of the domestic tie,
and naturally came at once upon the subject of the
Popish aggre.ssions L whereupon Mr. Tuckett, a farmer,
said, " It's all the fault of the clergymen—look at
Mr. Maskell. he not only went astray, but led his
flock astray." Mr. Gould replied—" Although a few
had gone astray, he trusted that the remaining por-
tion would stand true to the Church, and that a friend
of his at Torquay was drawing up a petition, which
was well calculates to have a beneficial effect in the
present Crisis ; that he should have a copy of that pe-
tition, and would wait upon each of them personally
for their signature, when he trusted he should meet
with that reception which he expected from all lovers
of the Church.

Mr. Tucie aTT—How about the Bishop, Mr. Gould ?
Mr. GOULD—In reply to that observation said
whatever their private opinions about the Bishop
might be, he could not allow any person to sit at his
table, and express anything derogatory to the Bishop's
character.
As soon as the Rev. Gentleman had sat down, the
whole of the company arose and immediately left the
table, in the most marked and emphatic manner.
Some of them had just mixed their second glass of
grog ; others had got half way through that moderate
manifestation of the tithe dinner, and every one seemed
to be animated with the same feeling. They were
determined not to be tongue-tied by the parson,
and at the same time not to make any rude return
far his hospitality. They retired to the " Church
Inn" and discussed the general question as to the po-
siti which the clergy held with regard to those
Romish aggressions, and the conclusion of the ma-
jority appeared to be, that too many of the clergy
would turn over to the Pope at the present moment,
if they could take the -loaves and fishes with them.
We hove received this statement from a highly re-
sieectable party, who was one of the guests at the
dinner, who witnessed the spirit which prevailed, anti
who thinks it right, that the Bishop should know,
through the medium of the papers, what his neigh-
bours.think about him and the Church generally, and
that he , would be more likely to be edified by the in-
formation, on receiving it through the present chan-
nel.— Western Times.

THE CUItitENCY QUESTION.
(From the Berkyshire Courier.)
We beg leave to call the attention of our readers to
the address delivered by the Rev. Mr. Twells at the
currency meeting at Derby, of which a full report
appears in another pert of the Courier. Many
of the facts referred to in that address de-
serve, we think, the serious consideration of
thinking men. Not to go far back into
the historical sketch of the monetary system
which Mr. Twells laid before the meeting, take
the financial position of this country no the ac-
cession of William the Third in 1689. " The
revenue of the United Kingdom, as stated by
Mr. Macaulay; was about 2,000,000/. per annum,
or 165,000/. less than the amount collected,
principally by pennies, by our post-office in the
year 1849." The Bank of England was chartered in
1693, and from that period a gradual increase took
place, by means of the bank paper and that of private
banks, in the circulating medium of the country.
Now under this system the progress made by the
country was considerable ; and this was quite in ac-
cordance with the opinion expressed by Mr. Hume,
in his Essay on Money. " The good policy of the
Magistrate," said he, " consists only in keeping it
(money), if possible, still increasing; because by that
means he keeps alive a spirit of industry in the nation,
and increas.es the stock of labour, in which consists all
power and riches." The medium of exchange, then,
undergoing a gradual increase, during the period be-
tween 1693 and 1775, the wealth of the country in-
creased also. "In 1775 the revenue had increased
to 10,038,000/."—i. e., to five times the amount of
the revenue in 1689, when William the Third began
his reign. But in 1793 the revenue nearly equalled!
eighteen millions, or almost nine times its amount in
1689. By the year 1796 the total expenditure of
the nation, including the interest on the debt, had
risen to 37,000,0001. ; and of this expenditure Mr.
Pitt said in Parliament that it was so large that " it
never had been equalled, and probably never would be
surpassed." And yet within twenty years the actual
expenditure of the country was three times the
amount of what it was in 1796. For 1816 the
actual expenditure amounted to the enormous sum of
111,045,249/. ! Now it is quite evident that to enable
a country to raise such a sum as this some most power-
ful agent must have been called into operation. This
agent we have no hesitation in saying was a Repre-
sentative Paper Money. But observe, we do not mean
to say that Paper Money, and nothing but Paper
Money, will make a nation rich and powerful.
We have many and great advantages for which
to thank Providence in this country. Our insular
position has great advantages—the natural produc-
tions of our soil are varied and valuable, the religious
light and liberty (may they never be less) with which
this nation was early favoured, the freedom of our
institutions—all these have doubtlessly contributed
largelyto our national greatness. And let us not
omit the indomitable energy, perseverance, and in-
dustry of our people. For if, as Adam Smith says,
labour is the source of all wealth, a people able and
willing to work are the primary source of a nation's
greatness. We take, therefore, all the advantages
which we possess, and we allow them all full value, and
then we say that jwhat the paper-money system did was
this—it called forth all the nation's energies, developed
ail its:capabilities, and expanded all its resources.
Just as good roads—or railways, the perfection
of roads—improve a district by affording greater
facilities of communication, so does a representative
money, whether made of paper or of anything else,
improve the condition of a country by increasing its
facilities of making exchanges. We say a represen-
tative money, because if Hume is right, as we believe
he is, in saying that it is important that money should
be kept increasing, it is evident that the material
of which money is made must be something not
dependent, as are gold and silver, on the quantity
which maybe discovered in mines, or washed out of
rocks by rivers.. But we return to the existing state
of the currency, and we say that a great mistake
'has evidently been made in its regulation. The de-
pressions, panics, and ruinous monetary convulsions
of recent years are matters of fact. Science, skill,
and wealth increase—we have more men, and men
more capable of working, and with better tools to
work with, than ever, and yet what is, at frequently
returning periods, the condition of the great body of the
people ? Are the masses of the people educated, clothed,
fed, and lodged as they ought to be ? as the wisest and
the best men in the nation wish them to be ? Then
is there not, we respectfully submit to the con-
sideration of our readers, a flaw in our system ? We
say with the distinguished historian of the French Re-
volution, Mr. Alison, that the bad monetary system
established by Sir R. Peel is this flaw. And that the
nation will never' for any lengthened period prosper,
nor will the industrious producer obtain the just
reward of his labour, till that system is revised.
We think, therefore, that the efforts making by the
members of the Retford Currency Society to inform
the country on this vital subject deserve encourage-
ment. And we hope that the meeting of that society
at Retford to-day, November 16th, will encourage
those who are labouring in this matter to persist in
their exertions, and uphold the cause of " Truth and
Justice."