The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-26 00:00:00

DEACONS.

Wm. Cape, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cdnihridge.
Edward Dudley, B.A. Worcester College, Oxon.
Wm. Harding, B.A. University College, Oxon.
James Harwood Harrison, M. A. Merton College, Oxon.
Wm. Doveton Pliilpot, B.A. Lincoln College, Oxon.

PRIESTS.
Archibald Campbell, M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge.
James Robert Chaplyn, M. A. Trinity College, Oxon.
Fred. Edward Gretton, B.A. St. John's College, Camb.
A dispensation has passed the Great Seal to
enable the Rev. Thomas Best, 1.L.8. rector of
Kirkby upon Bane, to hold the rectory of East
Barkwith, Lincolnshire. Patron, G. R. Ileneage,
Esq.
The Rev. William Ilett, M.A. of Jesus College,
has been presented to the living of Elkesley, Notts.
Patron, the Duke of Newcastle.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE'.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.

The Auglesea Hounds, on Monday, at Pwllcoch ; Thurs-
day, at Llanerchymedd Wind-mill; and Saturday, at Pea-
craig—at half-past ten.
The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on Tuesday, at Inn Wood ;
and Friday, at Stock-house—at ten.
The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed •
nesday, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke
at half-past ten.
The Brookside llarriers will continue to meet every
Monday, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race
Course ; and Friday, at Tellescombe Tye —at half-past ten.
The Cadbury Harriers, on Monday, at Puddimore ;
and Thursday, at the Red Post.

Mr. O'Kelly's Buelt.hounds, on Saturday, at the Ken-
nel, Henbury ; and Wednesday, at Ashley Barn, near
Milborne Clumps—at half-past eleven.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Norley Beach ;
Wednesday, at Marbury, near Northvtich—at half-past ten.
Sir T. Stanley's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Hinderton—
at ten.

Mr. Price's Hounds, on Tuesday, at the Kennel—at
half.past ten.

The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Wry-
man ; and Friday, at the Kempsey Grove—at half-past ten.
• Upton-upon-Severn Harriers, on Wednesday, at Bir•
lingham ; and Friday, at Holly-green—at ten.
Mr. Boycott's Hounds, on Monday, at Norton ; and
Thursday, at Weston—at half-past ten.
Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Monday, at Tibberton Viilsge ;
and Thursday, Pencomb—at ten.
The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Feuhill
.—at half-past ten.

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The Cottesmere Hounds, on Monday, at Gritnsthorpe
Castle ; Tuesday, at Brook ; and Thursday, at Carlby
Windmill—at a quarter before eleven.
Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Bedford Pur-
lieus; and Thursday, at Abbot's Ripton—at ten.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Grainsby-
house ; Wednesday, at Langmore Furze ; Friday, at Lea-
house ; and Saturday, at the Kennel—at eleven.
Sir Rich. Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Langworth-
bridge ; Tuesday, at Saxilby ; Thursday, at Belchfold-
town ; Friday, at Blankney ; and Saturday, at Skelling-
thorphee
Gransden Hounds,anelWinceby
Village—at
on Tuesday, eelsday
eleven.
The
at Toft-mill ; and
Friday, at Downing Arms—at ten.
The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Wadesinill
Wednesday, at Takeley Forest; and Saturday, at Benning-
ton-street—at half-past ten.

Royston Harrier; on Tuesday, at Mr. Norris' Farm,
Barley-road ; Thursday, Odsey-house.
Mr. G. Mure's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Riddles vorti
at ten.

We understand that the Hon. W. L. We!-
lesley has purchased the late splendid t.:evn resident„ e, in
Dover-street, Piccadilly, of the Duke of Rutland.

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SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

We need hardly point attention to a document
which will force itself on the minds of our readers,
and which,, however variously regarded in some
respecid, will by all be considered with deep and
anxious interest. We allude to a letter from
the Duke of Wellington, addressed to Dr. Cur-
tis, Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, in reply
to one from that ecclesiastic, inviring, we pre-
sume, what might be his Grace s intentions re-
Lair° to Catholic emancipation. The Duke's
letter is that of an honest man ; but there is im
one passage a carelessness of expression, which,
if his language were construed literally, would
present a strange and even ludicrous contradic-
tion. His Grace wishes "to bury the subject
in oblivion for a short time, but to spend that
time in a diligent consideration of its difficul-
ties !" which is pretty much as if the Duke
bad said some 18 years ago, " I will bury in
oblivion that Massena ,with the French army
is before me, and I will take the oppor-
tunity of forgetting him, to consider diligently
" how I shall beat him." But we will not press
in this literal manner upon words which may
possibly conceal a less objectionable meaning.
The intention may have been to express a wish
that the question might not be openly and vio-
lently agitated,—that men might drop it as an
argument of popular debate, and take it up as
one of calm and deliberative consideration, in
which case the Duke does not despair of seeing-.
a satisfactory remedy. The furious partisans,
we lament to say, have so far succeeded, as to
kaise obstacles unconnected with the merits of
the question, sufficient to alarm the Duke of
Wellington's imagination ; though if his Grace's
civil courage bore any just ratio to his decision
in the field, we know how he would at once
dispose of the " difficulties" created by faction. •
In the mean time,' it argues no distinct concep-
tion of the bearing of Catholic exclusion upon
the empire, to meditate the possibility of such a
grievance ever ceasing to disturb meds minds
hut on its absolute and permanent removal.--
Times.

It appears to us that the Secretary of State
for the Home Department might, with credit
to himself; and with infinite usefulness to the
public, bestow some attention on the subject re-
ferred to in a letter which we publish this day,
from ‘, An Inhabitant of Camberwell." The
number of burglaries, and the atrocity of the
robbers, have increased beyond
_all precedent
during the last few months in most parts of the
outskirts of the metropolis, and for many miles
round. The personal outrage which, in some
instances; accompanies these ruffian enterprises
against the repose of society, as evidenced in the
attack on Mr. Warrington's dwelling, is enough
to make us shudder for what may befid the
most helpless families in these long nights; and
it the Government do not consider and pro-
pose the means of protecting with more effi-
cacy than hitherto the property which the tax-
gatherer leaves in the hands of its owners, there
IS no calculating how far this capital and its
neighbourhood may return towards the state
in which it existed before the war of 1793,
when burglaries, robberies of the person, and
murders, were as certain as the succession of
night to sunshine. Nothing, we are sure, can
or will be effected for the real security of the
public, without the introduction of preven-
tive principle into our police operations,—with-
out also some, though not a considerable,
iiri-
crease in the number of policemeir; for let it be
remembered, that the whole number under
Vidocq, while he commanded the " Police de
Stlret6" did not exceed 18 or 20 men, who
maintained Paris in admirable peace and safety.
But we must likewise add, that nothing, or worse
than nothing, will be done, without holding out
to the policeconstables such liberal rewards, and
such prospects of gradual promotion, as may in-
duce them to devote their whole time and ener-
gies, and to risk without scruple thcir.persons
- and lines in the voluntary and unbribed perforM-
ance of their functions, as protectors of their fel-
low-citizens from violence.—Bid.
Our contemporary, "the Baconian Logician,"
as the Standard terms himself, objects to our
propositions, that the Aristocracy are interested
in the maintenance of the Church Establish-
ment, and that " power in every country will
be exercised for the benefit of those who pos-
sess it."
" If the Morning Chronicle (he observes) indeed
had said that men generally exercise power for
what they deem their benefit,' the proposition,
though as a very general truth doubtful (for men
frequently,. perhaps most frequently, prefer enjoy-
ment to benefit), would still have some colour ; 'but
then it would not have supported the argument, for
a state of things might be supposed which would
make it seemingly more beneficial to the Aristo-
cracy to divide among them the possessions of a
sinecure Church, than to leave those possessions as
a lottery fund, to provide for unborn sons, nephews,
and cousins,"
We will take the proposition as corrected and
modified, without attaching much importance to
it ; for in general parlance, men's ben fit means
that which most men covet, namely, riches.
There are men who are indifferent to wealth—
there are men who even prefer poverty to wealth,
as giving them a better title to eternal happiness
and there are men who are solely bent on pro-
moting the happiness and comfort of their fel-
low-creatures, and who have no pleasure in ap-
propriation. But nineteen out of every twenty
men seek to procure the means of enjoyment,
and nineteen out of every twenty men would
prefer doing the same act for the pecuniary
reward usually assigned to it to doing it
without the pecuniary reward. Ben fit is there-
fore sufficiently intelligible, but we have no ob-
jection to the other mode of expression. If the
• Aristocracy of the Empire could agree on any
feasible means of dividing among themselves
the lands of the Church Establishments of the
two countries, it might be their interest to do
so, rather '6 than to leave those possessions as a
lottery fund to provide for unborn sons, nephews,',
and couans.” But in the present day these
lands could not be bestowed at the caprice of a
Sovereign, but must be distributed according to
souse general principle. It would shock the no-
tions of modern times too much, were a certain

number of individuals to say we are Hereditary
Peers and Boroughulders—let us divide these
lands among us, in the ratio of the share of
legislative power we respectively possess.—The
very boldest attempt which durst be made would
be a distribution among all Landholders, in
something like the way commove are divided.
But they who wield political power in this
country, and who can manage to obtain the
greatest share of the good benefices, do not pos-
sess one-twentieth part of the laud ; so that it ,

never could be their:interest to divide the Church

Lands among Landholders in general. Again,
with respect to Tithes, the Aristocracy could
only benefit by a transference of this source of

revenue from the Church to themselves.

abolition of Tithes in England and Ireland