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London, England, 1829-06-12 00:00:00

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applied to that great public object, from the
year 1823 to 1828 inclusive, and that the
whole amount has been about 130,0001. 'We
see no reasonable ground for compelling the
Corporation of London to run in debt for the
large sum by which the cost of the new bridge
over the Thames is likely to exceed the produce
of the city revenue. It surely will not be con-
tended, that the individuals composing the Cor-
poration of Loudon, or indeed that the citizens
whom they represent, possess a more valuable
or solid interest in the new bridge than the inha-
bitants of Essex and Kent, for several miles at
either side of the river, or indeed than the me-
tropolis at large. It is not, therefore, consistent
with equity that the whole weight of the expense
should fall on the Corporation only. As for
the struggle going on with regard to the London
tax on coal, the pressure of that tax is but
lightly felt by the population of the capital,
compared with the far more severe one which
resulted from the mode of conducting business
in the north of England,. but from which, I,y/-
the breaking up of the combination, we shall
henceforth, it is hoped, be relieved. The duty
paid on coals in London will go but a short way
to explain the difference between the price of
coal at the pit's mouth, and that which is paid
by the consumer. If the Committee now sitting
performs its task with diligence, the cause of that
extraordinary discrepancy will not long be a
matter of dispute.—Times.
A Correspondence has been pub&Tied between
" The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
(Kaye), the Rev, the Archdeacon of Lineilll,
and the Rev. John Wray, Vicar of Bardney, re-
specting the performance of ecclesiastical duty,"
which no man, whose heart is not more than
usually hard, can possibly read unmoved. On
the 25th of June, 1827, the Prelate writes thus
to the Vicar ;—" I take the opportunity of trans-
:pitting the enclosed Commission, to inform you
that I do not think single duty in your parish of
Bardney sufficient. You will, therefore, be so
good as in future to perform two Services. i
shall also desire the Incumbent of 1-lorsingWit
to nominate another Curate; as the care of the)
parish of Bardney is sufficient to occupy the
whole attention of one Clergyman." The Vicar,
with all humility, on the 7th July following,
answers—" I would not have troubled you with
a single word in reference to Bardney or myselr,
if I thought that you had been truly informed
as to the circumstances of the place or the indi-
vidual. Bardney is a dispersed village, which
affords but a very moderate congregation ; the
living, which is in your Lordship's gift, is, after
deducting the payment of interest entailed on it
by Gilbert's Act, worth about 781.; but front
losses of tithe, reductions of rent, &c. seldom
nets more than 601. It is not, therefore, of as
much value as a good curacy; and the additional
burthen thrown upon the Vicar, is, therefore
neither warranted by the revenues of the Church,
nor called for by any peculiar or expressed wants
of the parishioners. Some time ago I served three
churches : I have since resigned one, and am
now called upon to resign another. This, my
Lord, to a man with a.family of thirteen
dren, is a sacrce against which you
n willfir-
oe his repining. It is also the more cruel
''that upon this poor living to which I am directed
to confine myself, I have expended hundreds of
pounds, and have converted both the church

and vicarage from the condition of a barn to that
of one of the neatest in the county of Lincolu.
Few, my Lord, have done so much from their
own purse ; and with my consequently reduced
income and large family, it is hard to impose
upon me the strictest terms of even a prudent re-
gulation. The personal trouble I do not regard ;
it is the loss of income, which my necessities
and family can ill bear. I hope, therefore, your
Lordship will excuse me for asking the favour of
retaining Horsington, and giving au Evening
Service at Bardney." The Prelate, on July 11,
insists OR his giving up Horsington, as " a pa-
rish, containing nearly one thousand inhabitant:.,
certainly requires two services." On Dec. 13,
the same year, the Vicar informs his Prelate that
he would not have complained if he did not
" appear as an invidious exception in any district
which offers very many examples of churches
where the numbers and stipend are nzitch.
greater than at Bardney, and where single
duty is permitted, without molestation.'—
In a subsequent letter (4th Jan., 1828), he named
to his Diocesan a number of parishes more po-
pulous than his own in the archdeaconry of
Lincoln, in which service was performed only
once a day. On the 10th January, the Prelate
expressed himself obliged to him for the " in-
formation conveyed in his letter respecting the
state of duty in several parishes, concerning
which his information was previously imperfect."
On the 15th January, 1829, eighteen Months
after he had been directed to resign the curacy,
the Vicar again addresses his Diocesan Thus
then, my Lord, the matter stood in 1827, when
the little, but welcome addition, which the
curacy of Horsington made to my income, was
taken from me, and I was restricted to the ser-
vice of one parish church. I was selected, as I
then believed, for an example. Upon that
ground alone I complained ; and, as your Lord-
ship was pleased to think that a benefice—the
incumbent of which has only thirteen children
unprovided for, the revenue of which is less

than you allot to a curacy, and of which the
tithes are annexed to the bishopric of Lincoln,
did not entitle me to complain—my only remain-
ing duty was obedience; an obedience which I

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have not rendered lazily and grudgingly—by
confiring the afternoon duty, as is done with
one or two exceptions, in the very few large
parishes, where two duties are performed, to the
bare reading of the Evening Service—but fully
and effectually by delivering a Sermon, as well
as reading prayers twice on the Lord's day.
But the matter has now assumed a different
complexion. Instead of having been selected
as an example, I find that I have been
picked out as an exception ; a year and a half
has elapsed since your Lordship began with me,
and I cannot learn that you have proceeded fur-
ther. When I cast my eye around the Arch-
deaconry in which I am situated, I see every-
where the same license and omission as before.

I do not find that the Rectors of opulent bene-
fices have been called upon to resign stipendiary
duty, or the Ministers of populous parishes
performing two services by your command. All
remain unreproved and undisturbed. I en-

dose an account of the present clear value of
the Vicarage of Bardney, together_ with a list of
the parishes in the Archdeaconry, which exceed
it in population and church revenue ; and I
would fain ask in how many haS double service

been performed by your Lordship's direction,
and in how many it is performed at all? . .
. . Perhaps, how-
ever, you only intended to make an example of
such an one, and then to leave the anomalies of
our ecclesiastical system to their fates but if sa,
I doubt whether it would not have been more
f*ctual to have tried the experiment upon the
jour Vicars of the princely endowPd Cathe-
dral of Lincoln, than upon the Vicar of a
Parish Church impoverisned both by lay cold
episcopal appropriation . .
Your Lordship has furnished me with an
example, from which a great nzany may be
established by the simplest induction in the
world. The rule applies where the income is
sixty pounds, and the population one thousand
—at least your Lordship has applied it to me ;
and, a fortioti, it must apply to cases where
the income is at the same time greater than sixty
pounds, and the population greater than one
thousand. Of such cases, in this Arch-
deaconry alone, I have furnished you with
a list of forty:five; and, in the name
of common impartiality, I may be allow-
ed to ask whether your Lordship has ex-
acted the same duty from them as from me, or
will extend the same license to me as to them."
—On the 19th of March, the Vicar addressed
the Prelate, who had been both silent and pas-
sive.—The reform, however, went on further.
" The extraordinary duties imposed upon me
(he says) are not directly for the good of the
Church, but indirectly a penance for non-con-
formity to the whims of a hot-headed superior.
My Lord, I am pointed at as an example--not
of the duty required of -Clergyman, but of the
penalty of a Ciergyir,an forgetting servility to his
Archdeacon." the Bishop of Lincoln, it ap-
pears, has 'iwo measures of duty, one for himself
and for others; and, like many other men
m:lho have risen in the world, he knows when to
see and when to shut his eyes. His Lordship
is himself a pluralist. He holds the Diocese of
Lincoln, and he holds the valuable Mastership
of Christ's College. " His episcopal dominion
is immense—his patronage great—his revenue
princely, and the souls under his care amount to
millions ! Surely (olserves the poor Vicar), I
may say such, a Diocese is sufficient to occupy
the whole attention of one Bishop.' " So here
is a 12:dor man, with a family of thirteen children,
Wllose " actual clear income is not more than
sixty pounds a-year," in consequence of the
tithes going to swell the princely revenue of the
Bishop of Lincoln, forced by that Bishop to re-
sign his Curacy, in order that the discipline
of the Church may appear in all its vigour.
Of course the poorer and more straitened
the individual, the more will the punish-
ment operate in the way of example. All the
45 incumbents in the Archdeaconry know that the
Bishop, if he pleases, can deal similarly with
them ; and that if they are allowed to remain
pluralists, they owe this to his Lordship's grace
and favour. As Partridge in Torn Jones ob-
serves, one man with a musket will make the
whole of a large crowd take to their heels ; be-
cause, though he can shoot but one, no man
knows but he may be that one. A Vicar, with
thirteen children, consigned to an allowance less
than would be received at the usual parish rate
.to paupers for each child beyond two, must make
an impression on the diocese, er the deuce is in
it. Only think of the moral condition of an
establishment in which so many men are placed
in such a wretched state of dependence ! What
is there that men in such a humiliating condi-
tion would not do, to obtain a morsel of bread
to put into the mouths of their children The
Catholic Question. Who can blame these poor
creatures when hard necessity drives them to beat
up for such petitions as may be acceptable to
their superiors? But while we pity them, we
ought not to forget that the degrading bondage
in which the great body of the clergy are placed
can only produce the most lamentable conse-
quences in the way of sapping the principles of
the country. The fountain-head of our mora-
lity is tainted ; and can we wonder that hypo-
crisy, canting, and insincerity of all sorts, should
prevail to a degree in this country not known in
any other country in Europe ? There is hardly
a book written in England, in which there is
not a trace of some object intended different
from that which is put prominently forward.—
Morning Chronicle.
If any man were to ask us, in a case where
our liberty or property were at stake, whether we
would abide the decision of any one of the
Judges, from the Lord Chancellor downwards, in
preference to that of what is called a special or
petty Jury, our answer would be—" The deci-
sion of the Judge by all means, and under any
circumstances." It is not in cases of libel alone
that we should prefer the decision of a responsi-
ble and learned Judge ; but even in a matter of
civil contract, let the sum at stake be what it
may, we should rather hazard the justice of the
responsible one, than stand the consequences of
the ignorant and irresponsible twelve. We say
we should choose the decision of the former
under any circumstances. What we mea:i by
circumstances here has relation to time. If we
could have our cause tried by a Jury between
the hours of ten and two o'clock of the day we
should not despond, so far as the justice of the
verdict might affect us ; but if the trial should
be protracted, and the usual hour of dinner be
encroached upon—or the dining crisis past, and
that of supper coming on—hunger summing up
to an empty stomach—the comforts of the sirloin
and brandy-punch visiting the drowsy juryman in
. the form of a dream—the enjoyments of the
table broken in upon, as well as the quiet rubber
of whist, the smoking hour, and the clouds and
ale of the tavern—under these appalling circum-
stances we should say—" For God's sake, and
the sake of justice, spare us the infliction of an
English Jury, and give us the award of a single
clear-headed and unprejudiced Judge !" It is
monstrous to think that the liberty and property
of every man in this country should be at the
mercy of twelve persons who, in nine cases
out of ten, are swayed in their verdict by one
reluctant brother, who, as often happens, may
be related either to the plaintiff or defendant,
nd, who, inspired by malignity or hunger, by
doggedness or ignorance, wrings from the other
eleven a compromise in his favour. Call you
this justice, gentlemen of the jury ? It is a
perversion of justice. It is opposed to common
sense and common honesty. It is a revolting
oppression—it makes equity a word without
meaning—it extorts a verdict from the weak, the
infirm, the indisposed, and the nervous—it per-
the bully or the secret enemy, or him who
:.;_awatititia the best breakfast, or has lined his
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oelet! . the largest share of sandwiches or
• -% to dictate to the rest, and level or
• ___:elevate •41,4).iniona to his. This, we repeat,
;;;: 7: -It.- , - • inoatiions system. Its unavoidable ten-
`: dewy i ter make law and equity a farce, in
,ctors receive a fee for sanctioning at

Lain—an opinion which is extorted from them
by the obdurate or the interested—which they
subscribe to in order to be released from confine-
nrtnit—which they surrender to the cravings of
hunger or the pangs of a head-ache—which they
return because thy have an appointment they
wish to keep or a jollification they wish to
z,njoy. We beg to state distinctly that these
observations al e addressed generally to the
verdicts of English juries. We by no means
,
confine tnem to our own case, which we have
already noticed, and of which have reason to
complain. It is On!: vstem we detest. It is the
principle we attack. It is the abuse of justice,
by placing it at the mercy of irresponsible men,
who, like easy, good-natured, and ignorant men
in general, are influenced by private engagements,
and by that numbness of feeling, which must be
dangerous, and must inflict grievous injury in
an age so degenerate and unprincipled as the
present. The law of libel, we admit, needs
amendment ; but it is in vain to hope for amelio-
ration when the people have the power to cor-
rect it in their own hands, and yet have not the
spirit nor the sense of justice to exert that power.
We, and every man, are at their mercy. The
press complains ; but it complains of the system,
not of the dotards and craty pensioners who gene-
rally contrive to officiate and be paid as jurymen.
Our contemporaries lay the lash on the wrong
back ; and, while they grumble at the law,
they permit its minions to doze on and
blunder with impunity. The name of every
special juryman should be as well-known as
that of the Judge by whom the case is tried.
His rank and place of abode should be published,
and his character identified with his verdict., He
would then stand compromised by his decisions,
and the opinions of his friends and society would
probably have a welcome influence on his ju-
dicial conduct. For our parts we shall act upon
this rule henceforward. In all jury cases, where
the cause is of the slightest importance we shall
publish the names of the jurors, and if possible
give their town address, whether that may be in
the sacred shades of Duck-lane, in old West-
minster, or the more classic regions of Mon-
mouth-street or Rag-fair. When jurymen con•
tinue thus careless, and thus ignorant—animated
by the hopes of a comfortable dinner, the fear of
imprisonment, or starved into a verdict by the
man of the least nervous stomach—while so
abominable a system is tolerated, what tempta-
tion is held out to the unprincipled attorney to
prey upon the public ? A beggar considers
himself insulted or injured, and a needy petti-
fogger takes up his case. Neither, it is pro-
bable, have either fortune or character to lose.
They cannot lose much by defeat---they may gain
something by success. Thus the press becomes
the preserve for the legal poacher. He lives
upon it ; if detected he is only sent to the tread-
mill ; if not detected he flourishes by his genius.
The metropolis is overrun by professional per-
sons of this description. Their conduct is the
reproach of the profession ; and it has in
a great measure engendered that distrust and
that proverbial abhorrence of lawyers which
is now so generally and so loudly expressed. It
becomes the duty, therefore, of the profession to
reform and purify their own body. This can-
not be done by thepublic—it cannot be done by
the Legislature—it must be done by the parties
most interested—and these parties are the re-
spectable portion of the legal community. We
beg once more distinctly to state that these re-
marks are not pointed at any one individual.
The class of men we have in view is composed
of a numerous body—an active body—as nu-
merous nearly as the officers of Low-street.
They are studded over the capital—they fill the
courts—and the poor and even the rich suffer
fir more from their practices than they do from
the housebreaker and the pickpocket.—illorn-
big Journal.

Money, it would appear from the various City
accounts, is every day becoming more scarce.
We do not wonder at this when we consider that
gold and silver are regularly going out of the
country for the Russian armies. It would give
us much pleasure if every Englishman would re-
solve to have nothing to do with Russian Bonds.
It would not surprise us if there were a regular
secret manufactory of them going on, as it is
probable there is one now going on with respect
to Brazilian Bonds. John Bull must make up
his mind to witness a pretty crash among these
things some of these days. The game of bor-
rowing on new Bonds, in order to pay interest
on old Bonds, cannot last for ever.—Morning
Herald.

It will be seen from our report of the pro.
ceedings of the House of Lords last night, that
Lord Goderich has moved for various returns
relative to the state of the Shipping Interest of
the United Kingdom, for the purpose of prov-
ing that the system of free trade, or rather of
equalization of duties, which took place while
the Noble Lord was Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, is not the cause of the distress which has
since been more than once complained of. The
anxiety of his Lordship on this subject does him
credit ; but every one who is acquainted with
the character of the measures which have been
complained of, is so well aware that they have
not been productive of the distress alluded to,
that his Lordship might safely enough have
saved himself the trouble. It is not, as may be
seen at a glance, the reciprocity system which
has caused the distress which is complained of
in the shipping trade ; for the distress in that
great and most important branch of the industry
of the country existed not only before those
measures had received the sanction of the
Legislature, but when other branches were,
apparently, in a prosperous condition—
and, what is still more to the point,
the distress has since extended not only to
every branch—the silk trade for example—which
these measures referred to, but to all branches,
without the least difference or exception. If the
distress, therefore, existed before the Legislature
determined on equalizing the duties, it cannot
well be said that it took its origin in those mea-
sures : and, indeed, every one who has taken the
trouble to inquire into the matter, knows that it
did not. The landowners, if they would only
open their eyes to their own, and to the real
interests of the country, would perceive no in-
considerable portion of the cause in the mono-
poly which they have foisted upon the public,
of supplying it with grain at an enormous price,
and an extravagant loss of capital ; while the
Government would materially tend to relieve
itself from a great load of complaint were it to
repeal instead of imposing, and reduce instead
of augmenting, taxes and duties. Of any
udden influx of light in the former quarters
we have but little hope ; but the interest and
duty of the Government are so manifestly con-
cerned in turning over a new leaf in the important
business of taxation, that we cannot help antici-
pating a very material improvement in the course
of next Session. In the meantime we must put
A • L_n_r

imposed upon the public, that " a Further im-
provement has taken place in some of the manu-
facturing districts, and that more hands have
been taken into employment." We know of no
improvement which has yet taker► place, which
May not fairly be attributed to the season of the
year ; and *e are confident that no progressive,
or permanent improvement can take place until
the laws affecting the Corn trade have been mo-
dified; a►ad the state of the country, in point of
taxation, equalized, in some measure, with that
of rival nations.—Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

DOW.STREET,

Yesterday morning Mr. Sheriff Copeland waited
upon the sitting magistrate, Sir R. BIRNIE, for the
purpose of obtaining a peace-warrant against an in-
dividual styling himself Captain Gouch, from whom
he (the Sheriff) had that morning received a letter
which was evidently meant to lead to a breach of the
peace by provoking him to fight a duel with Capt.
Gouch, the writer. " The letter," observed the
Sheriff, " contains epithets of the most abusive de-
scription that malevolence or vulgarity could
suggest."
Sir B. BIRNIE having read the letter, said, that
the writer had certainly been most unsparing of
abuse, and asked the Sheriff what had given rise to
such ungentlemanly treatment ?
Mr. Sheriff Copeland explained, that some time
ago, the person who called himself Capt. Gouch con-
trived to get some hundred pounds in his debt ;
and in consequence of the plausibility of his
manners, he (the Sheriff) was induced to give
him credit for a still larger sum. The Captain
continually promised payment, but as constantly
neglected to fulfil his word, in consequence of which
he (the Sheriff) was-obliged to institute legal pro-
ceedings to enforce his demand. A copy of a writ
was accordingly served upon Captain Gouch, but
upon his proposing an adjustment the proceedings
were stayed. In consequence of Captain Gouch
having again failed to fulfil his undertaking, a second
writ was issued, but to this hour it remained un-
served, as the Captain was no where to be found.
While he (the Sheriff) was upon Change yesterday
afternoon, he observed the Captain, and went to him
to ask him when he intended to pay the money
which he owed. Instead of returning an answer
both reasonable and civil, Captain Couch turned
upon him in a great rage, and in a most contemptu-
ous tone, said, " Are [you not a pretty fellow for a
sheriff, to bore people in this way for money ?" He
then walked away, and this morning lie (the Sheriff)
received the letter which the Magistrate had read.
Holding the office I do, continued the Sheriff, and
being a Magistrate of the city of London, I can
take no other notice of such a communication than
by applying to the laws of the country.
Sir R. BIRNIE observed that Sheriff Copeland
had acted with great propriety, and every assistance
he required should be afforded him.
A peace-warrant was then issued against Captain
Couch, and placed in the hands of Salmon, a prin-
cipal officer.