The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

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Phil Flannigan's Adventures. By J. Sterling Coyne.
The Standard Footman. By Albany Poyntz.
The February Saint. By the Doctor.
Jonas Grub's Courtship. With Illustrations by Paul Pindar.
The Bullet. A Story of Italian Brigands. With an Illustra-
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Richard Savage. A Romance of Real Life. By Chas. White •
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 28,
Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN
OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine,
Mr. .Macread7 ; Proteus. Mr Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp-
ton; Launce, Mr. Keeley; Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia,
Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin.
After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime,
called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN-
NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON
STONE.
Doors tt be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance
to begin rt Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2e. 63.
Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Pace Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS

THIS EVENING, JAN. 28,
Will be presented. Sher:..4n.s Comedy of THE RIVALS.
Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute,
Mr. Walt-T Lacy; Faulkland, Mr. Cooper; Acres, Mr. Har-
Icy ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Brougham; David, Mr. Alea-
slows ; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett;
Mrs. Malaprop, Airs. Glover; Lucy, Mrs. Humby.
After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR.
'-IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.

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Doors to to epened at half-past .Sit—the performances to
c,mmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 79. ; Second Price, 39. 6d.;
First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
.Second Price. 2..; Gallery, Is. Ticket. 3 and places for the
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till Fear, where Season Tickets may be bad upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andre ,vs, bookseller,
, New Bond-street.

Tomorrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantomime.

ROYAL RREY THEATRE.
UNDER TiiE MANASUGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Amazing attraction. First appearance of Mrs. Norma, and
crowded Houses to witness Harlequin and the Ice Queen,
the best Pantomime of the Season.
THIS EVENING. JAN. 28
Will he acted Baines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti-
tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded
on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls."
After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music.
To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac-
teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint.
Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
sing, &c. Hatlequin' M. Httline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham • Columbine, Miss Sharpe.
Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers,
Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu-
lar Pantomime.

LONDON
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1842.

The Reverend JONAS DENNIS, " Prebendary ,
Bachelor of Civil Law, and owner of the
moiety of the beneficiary interest ia a
lease for a certain term of years of the
rectorial tithes of the parish of S.iint
David's, in the county of Exeter, and of the
Manor of Rooksdon, in the county of Devon,"
has written, and duly published, a protest
against the Commutation of Tithes Act, which
the said Rev. JoNAs DENNIS denounces as illegal
and unconstitutional. We reprint the Rev.
Prebendary's protest for the amusement and
edification of our readers.
The Rev. Gentleman obviously belongs to the
militant and cursing portion of the Church, for
he proudly revolts against the authority of the
State, and revives the practice of excommunica-
tion. He professes to be a member of the Pro-
testant and State-made Church, but he assumes
the worst powers of the Papal priesthood. He
is not, we believe, a Puseyite, he would pro-
bably scorn all communion with Rome,
but he is determined to act on the principles
of Rome. flow the people of Exeter can strug-
gle on with PHILPOTTS for Bishop, and DENNIS
fur Prebendary, we cannot tell; in peace it is
impossible they should live, unless they have no
such thing as conscience. To obey both the Law
and the Gospel, as expounded by the published
writings and speeches of-the Diocesan and his
Prebendary-, will be a harder task than to make
bricks without straw. Commute your tithes,
says the Law; you are, ipso facto, excommuni-
nicated, if you obey the law, says Prebendary
DENNIS; and the poor inhabitants of the diocese
of Exeter must be quite bewildered by now fol-
lowing the Law, and anon following the Church.
No other Bishopric, we sincerely hope, can have
two such men as PHILPOTTS for Bishop, and
DENNIS for Prebendary. •
The first reason assigned by the Rev. Pre-
bendary for the illegality and unconstitutional
nature of the Tithe Commutation Act, is, it " did
not obtain the previous consent of the respective
Convocations ofthe Bishops and Clergy of each
province." Accordiag to Prebendary DENNIS,
therefore, the assent of the Bishops in the House
of Lords to the Act, goes for nothing. It does
not bind the clergy. The Prince Bishops
must sit in Parliament by virtue of their own
inherent or divine right to speak for themselves.
Besides a vote in Parliament, they have a
rote in Convocation, and must there be consulted
before the two Houses can make a law affecting
the Church. The priesthood are resolved,- there-
fore, at_least Prebendary DENNIS is, to give per-
petuity to the wealth of the clergy. They will
accept ail they can extort from the State, they
have no objection even to filch a little from the
poor, but they declare, by the mouth of Pre-
bendary DENNIS, that there is no power in the
State to interfere with what they possess.
The worthy Prebendary states several other
reasons besides the main one, that the Convoca-
tions were not consulted—why the Tithe Act is
illegal and unconstitutional. It violates Magna
Charta ; it is contrary to a statute of HENRY
111., which denouncesa sentence of excommuni-
cation against all who infringe liberties and
rights, according to which the Parliament of
1836 is, ipso facto, excommunicated. It was
excommunicated in the reign of HENRY 111.
We can fancy that such obtuse people, on the
subject of Church property, as the Earl of
SPENCER and Lord J. RUSSELL will not hasten
to confess, arid procure absolution, by promising
to repeal the unconstitutional law; but Sir R.
INGLIs, Sir A. AGNEW, the Earls of WINCH IL-
SEA and MOUNTCASHEL, Sir R. PEEL, Lord
STANLEY, Sir J. GRAHAM, and several other
priest-fearing men, if not already grey from age,
will turn grey from grief, to learn that they
have actually been excommunicated, cursed by
the Church, banned from fire and from water,
cursed in their loins and their joints, for the
long space of five years.
Moreover, the Act is illegal and unconsti-
tutional, says the Prebendary, because it is con-
trary to the Coronation oath, which the State
Driesthood impose on the Sovereign. Whether
she do justice between man and man is of no
consequence ; the cardinal principle of all is,
that she preserve to the priesthood all their rights
and privileges. 'Without that, society will tumble
headlong to ruin—with that, Prebendary DENNIS
implies all will be well—men will be happy here,
and saved hereafter.
Before we conclude, we must remind Preben-
dary DENNIS that there is a class of persons
called tithe-payers, who pay tithes unwillingly,
and have much more respect for the secular than
the ecclesiastical power. Unless the former
made them pay tithes, it is to be feared that the
excommunication of the priesthood would be
as much disregarded as their blessing, and no
tithes would be paid.
Tithes are not property—they are a tax
They are not the produce of the tithe-owners
labour, but the produce of other men? la•
hour. They belong naturally and neces-
sarily to the tiller of the ground, and are
given to the tithe-owner because the law
says he shall have them. In placing himself
above the law, Mr. Prebendary DENNIS, there-
fore, also tramples under his feet his own right
to exact tithes. When there is no other autho-
rity for exacting and paying them than the
claims of the tithe-owners, whether secular or
ecclesiastical, it may be doubted whether they
will be paid fbr a single day.
We respectfully counsel Prebendary DENNIS,.
therefore, and all the tithe-owners, who must be
aware that the terrors of excommunication will
not enforce payment, to put their protests against
the legality of the Tithe Act into the fire as
speedily as possible. If they teach the commu-
nity that the Legislature cannot commute tithes,
it will go hard but the tithe-payers will mem
the lesson, and refuse to pay the unauthorised
and arrogant demands of a sectarian priesthood.

A meeting of the merchants, manufacturers
and others of Birmingham, and of deputies from
several neighbouring manufacturing towns, was
held at Birmingham on Wednesday. Similar
testimony was borne by all present to that
which has been borne at all the other recent
meetings held in the manufacturing districts, of
decaying trade, falling Wages, and expatriating
artisans.

To give examples, : Mr. BOULTBEE quoted the
ease of a manufficturer whose trade with Ame-
rica has fallen off from 1,0001. to 601., and the
reason assigned for this is, the Americans are
manufacturing for themselves, They cannot buy
our goods, because we will not take what they
have to give us; and, therefore, they are driven
to supply their own wants themselves, which we
could supply, greatly to the advantage of both
countries, better than they can.
r SdOTT, the Member for Walsall, quoted

We publish in another part of The Sun Cap-
ta'n TROTTER'S Report of the unfortunate failure
of the Niger Expedition, addressed to the Lords
of the Admiralty. It is a distressing record of
the exertions of gallant men to effect a physical
impossibility. One sad consolation only remains
to the nation. The naval records of no nation
in this world recount instances of officers and
crews who surpassed in zeal, in strict
discipline, in uncomplaining endurance of
the greatest sufferings, and in acts of
high individual heroism, the fine fel-
lows who composed this expedition. For
what act of heroism performed in a field of
battle can be compared with the courageous
conduct of an inexperienced medical officer
navigating alone a large steamer, and by his
unexampled skill and fortitude saving the
vessel and the lives of all on board? As the
Report will be generally read, we need not
here attempt an analysis of it. Captain TROTTER
is of opinion that the Niger cannot be navi-
gated by white men, but yet with that
utter regardlessness of self which distinguished
our naval officers, he expresses his willingness to
accompany another expedition next year. The
Gallant Captain is now in London, and in direct
communication with her MAJESTY'S Government,
so that shortly after the meeting of Parliament
the country will be put in possession of all the
details of this unfortunate expedition. Much as
we may regret the throwing away of sixty thou-
sand pounds, we are decidedly of opinion that no
niggardliness should be exhibited in dealing with
the pecuniary claims of the gallant survivors.

The importance of the debate in the French
Chamber of Deputies on the Right of Search
question, appears to be overlooked by our Con
temporaries. The French Government, in con-
cert with the other great European Powers, hav-
ing guaranteed a right of mutual search, we may
affect to despise, or denounce as factious, the
opposition made in the Chamber of Deputies to
the ratification of a treaty to that effect; but
surely before doing so it would be as well to ask
ourselves of what use would be a Treaty with
France opposed to the national prejudices of a
majority of the French people ? In an absolute
Monarchy the ratification of a Treaty by the
Government may preclude all regard for public
opinion; but can this be said of a country which
boasts even of such a shadow of a Constitution as
France ? Would the Treaty hold good were we
foolishly to embroil ourselves in a hostile contest
with the United States'.' Most certainly, in the
present temper of the French Chamber of De-