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London, England, 1831-02-01 00:00:00

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PANORAMA OF THE .
gMPLRE.
LEICESTER CHRONICLE.
We understand diet 106 acres of lead,Widdn eve es sit miles of
this town, adjoining a good turnpike reed, within twining. of water
conveyance, part of it capable, under good adtivatioo of growing
barley and turnips, and the remainder four quarters of 'wheat to an
acre, bee recently been let for seven years on the following terms :
The landlord to put the buildings and fence-gates into repair, the rent
being 1111. per annum for the lest three years, and 11. per acre for the
fair lest, tithe-free, and subject only to the cannon rates of poor.
annul, end toads. It is evident that bad this land been subject to
tithe in kind, it could not have been cultivated split. In another part
a the county se acres of Intern:nth, not stocked after mowlog, have
been let from Michaelmas to Lady-day, for the stn et 101. the land-
lord paying tithe, poor, and all other rates. Pletrdx acres of land of
the same desetiption, for the same length of time, have beat Ist for 91.
The above were let by private contract. In another part of thl county,
by auction, SO acres of land, from Michaelmas to OM Lady-day, with
ten tons of good bay, the whole for the sum of 15L The rent of ads
latter land le at present at 21. per ME. These are afew of the " signs
of the times" in the county of Lekester, remarkable for the goodness
of
its land, and the former wealth of its occupiers.
On the Market Harborough and 'Loughborough Roads the tolls are
put Up as under !Bowden Gate,
1,0061. 13s 4d. Osdby Gate,
1,2211. es. 4d. Leicester Gate, 1,4561. 6d. &leave Gate, 1,5541.
IN. 4d. Loughborough Gate and Quorndon Sid ,gate, 1,4551. 19$ 44.
LICHFIELD MERCURY, JAIL 28.
The following petition, respecting the Tythe System and Church
Revenues, has been signed by many tythe payees at Bertoa-under-i
Nsedwood, and sent to Mr. Littleton for presentation :
To the Honourable the House of Commons, in Perlis:non assem-
bled. The Petition of the Tythe Payers of the pariah of Taught%
the county of Stafford, humbly strength,—
That the pariah of Tatenhill, comprising the townships of Tit/shill,
Danstall, Callingwood, and Bartmander.Needwood, is a rectory tithe
estimated value of between 2,0001. and 3,0001. per annum.
That the present incumbent is the Very Reverend the Dean of Uch-
field, of whom, as a rigid exacter of his lawful dues, your petitioners do
not complain ; but to whom, being a non-resident, they, In common
with his more humble parishioners, are not indebted for any spi-
vitual aid.
That the clerical duties of this extensive parish are performed by
two curates; any of them officiates at Tatenhill, the other at Barton-
nader-Needwood ; that their united stipends do not exceed three hun-
dred pounds per annum.
That your petitioners cannot but see, inthis instance, which they W-
arm le very far from being a solitary one, that the existing heavy int.
yel.e.sufa priestly
the !L ot essential or necessary to tbe due performanore
Onctions.
at your petitioners, led on by these reflections, naturally turn
their thoughts to the enormous ma's of wealth, commonly called
church property, but which is in reality the property of the public; the
distribution of which wealth, under 'the present system, is highly pre-
judicial to the general interests of the nation, and an obvious m
elfzition of the national resources ; calculated, as it evidend is,eloust
, by bringing the simple, pure, and benevolent a
the fro=n
of the Christian faith into contempt.
That your petitioners trace the cause of the univeesal embarrassment
and distress among themselves, and of the want and wretchedness
among the labouring and industrious dosser beneath them, to the per-
nicious pressure of taxation ; and in looking round them for relief
from this deadly weight, the sources of tythes and church revenues
present themselves to them as legitimate means of effecting in part, that
object.
That your petitioners, therefore, pray that your Honourable House
will take immediate measures to abolish altogether the abused impo-
sition of tythes, providing in some more equitable and efficacious
manner for the support of the parochial and labouring clew; nal
further, that your Honourable House will, after reserving an adequate
income for the above purpose, appropriate the whole of the
property now possessed by the Church to the exigences of the State
which means, and others under the eentroul of your Honourablelouse, your petitioners are convinced That the crying evils of the land
may be wholly removed, and this ones prosperous, energetic, and en-
viable people, be restored to the booninees they formerly enjoyed, and to
the'consideration they heretofore Mla among the minim of Metope.
'that your petitioners, to jeadfy the reasenehleassa of their prayers,
beg humbly to remind your iheaunahle noise that the tithes, a purely
religious tax, are now in the pinennia. net splay el the dm, bra
others, some of whom do not sea aslimealate the Oleos Kea bar 1
that they were originally granted hen Ilheuvlbid Wpm. oh. the oop-
portEfolt ow, the repairs of the chnedmi, mainssealse of
the clergy residing in their whims the she Mean=
sees called church lands, was given Assn dies by liens
duals for the same and similar purposes }hat he many cams riesu.
purpoes were piously and faithfully fulid by die dm'a Cet
in the reign of Henry the Biel* nod Ns imnsediase anseamisa,-"=
possessions, together with the gthes, use wrens" bon the harsh 111
theithen-dominant clergy, and given, under the panes eflosneildiagiM
State, in part, to a clergy of another faith; and, In part, to an an&
clout and time serving aristocracy ; both of which isms have, in epee
defiance of justice, (but it must be admitted under the suredem of the
laws) evaded in every way the obligations named to the original
granting of these dues and possessions to the great injury of the people
larsa
Dirminetant Gazette states that the paragraph, which Lee ap.
peered in most of the papers, staring that the King of Haug MI
givea an order for gee pieces of cannon to the Coalbrook Dale Pena.
dry is untrue; no such order having been received by the Company,
nor do they manufacture such articles.
MARRIED.--At Burton-upon-Trent, H. J. Lea, Esq. of
Hill, to Charlotte Anne, fourth daughter of Charles Perks, Eark_oll/
nal Park.--The 23d inst. Mr. Blake, of Walkable'', so Mrs. Murray,
of Westbrornwich.—G. Walker, Esq. of Wootton Park, to Hannah, the
only daughter of W. R. Fellows, of Wetton.
DlED.—Aged 61, Mr. J. amen, printer and bookseller, of Wolves.
hampton, and proprietor of the Wolverhampton Chronic/B.—J. Wit
son, Fag of Market Drayton.—The Rev. IL itathbone, of Stafford, in the
44th year of his m&
NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, JAW. 29.
Thursday, the 20th inst. away numerous and respectable meeting
was bad in the Town Hall, Wellingborough, for the_purpose of peti-
tioning Parliament for reform. Charles Hill, Esq. in the chair. A
petition, including a prayer for the vote by ballot was namiassuily
agreed upon ea follows s—That your petitioners in anmeshkgre=
honourable house, are desirous of expressing their fm
and satisfaction at the benevolent and patriotic disposition miaihneol
.by his most gracious Majesty, in the choice of his mean mhistete,
and of his sanction of the pledge even by them to Wog for.
ward such a plan of reform in Parliament as shall NOW to
the House of Comatose the respect and Confidence of the eVantry.—
That your petitioning bet lnolypenuaded that the dillenidos and
evils under which this country has hem suffering during a paled of 16
years of uninterrupted peep, are mainly to be attributed is the dives of
a system of government founded on oorrupdon and undue Inluones, and
alien to the true interests and'vrilftre of the people, humbly hag sti
re-
present to your Honourable House the alterations and rsfoesuiln the
I present system of the Representation of the Country, which they con-
ceive to be essential to the rest ration of a sound and Colatitudes.' Go-
vernment. That your petitioners consider that one of the great bulwarks
of their sights. their Worths, and their property is to be feted hi the
independence of your amenable House, so that your Honourable
house may really and effectually and faithfully represent the feelings
and opinions, and have a eximmon interest in the welfare and prosperity
of the people.—That in order to accomplish so desirable an object, it
will be necessary that the entire system of reprowenatioo ba revised, and
that it should be adapted to the present state and interests of the ow.
try, conformably to the sound principles of the constitution, as set forth
and declared in Magna Charts, the Bill of Rights, and the resolutions
of your honourable house. That your petitioners are oil opinion that
this can be attained only by a more equal and impartial distributive of
the elective franchise, by the disfranchisement el those WM.%
which have fallen into decay, or have begonia the lissralle
of private individuals, by shortening the durations of Per t
conformity with the statute passed in the 6th year of the reign of
William and Queen Mary, and by securing the free and unbiassed exer-
cise of the Elective Franchise, by establishing the Vote by Ballot,
which your petitioners helirreto be the only effectual means of prevent.
ing the disgraceful Scenes of Corruptive. and the arbitrary exercise 4
power, 111111011 are now the usual essesenitants of all contested eft
and whisk serve tovaeleele limn year benotuabk house the honest
cooseleadons cior4iisio. however opal led he may be by talent min.
rector, whim umappmeed by emus and powerful influence, and he
sensweemsfeertsptlin.
• mead% woe at Buzzard, on Monday last, for the
pisspessof sicestaginepabe sentiments of the owners and occupiers of
landlidheted by the Insmeled railway, in its passage through the county
af Bedford, a corner of which it crosses. This however, was not effect-
ed, as a • nutriber of persons owning and occupying gardens, and other
Fillarepaties, in the immediate neighbourhood' of Leightea Buzzard,
nmajority of the meeting, and prevailed in passing a resolution
m/ llneev, affecting the head and throat is very prevalent* Peterbo.
thigh, and in the neiglificirathood. lt generally terminates in fever,
wbide has proved fatal in many cases, chiefly among children.

The beautiful Hereford cow, which obtained the prise in close 3, at
the lea ibeithisid show, fed by Wm. J. ' Moakley gm. of West Had-
don HA weighed, whoa slaughtered, 1103 u. with23st. of rough fat.
Newport Pagnel waathe scene of great piety at Thursday last.
The osmosmultANted takers and privates of the Newport and Obey
Tour orgimmoney *miry gave a dinner to their Noble Colonel (the
Mande of Chaise) and arm, at the Swan lon.
t a Modes if thibraw=re sad occupiers of land in the county
of the pesqLoodoo and Birmingham
Railway is SO Ms, brides et Stratford, on the 28th of
Jarasery, P. D. P. Deasmobe. Jet,. in chair, Mr. Thornton, a
mosalter of the Toweemer Committee, having stated that he has found
a way general feeling as ex* anteopt the nobility, gentry, yeomen,
sad WWI pumas dieengh when beds the said railway is intended to
pro, that ft dabs dimbile to oppose the same, it was resolved, that it
h opinion Held easoling that the projected railway will, Warded,
bo painetive of Ws to the best interests of the country by the
Wm which it swot fell to produce to agriculture, the basis of its
*wity. By the destruction of turnpike roads, the sacrifice of the
eeansities created by Parliament, upon the faith of which individuals
bops abased obsesaids for the support of such roads,—by the entire
nebbeeion of vested rights in property d various descriptions,—by I
the depriving of the labouring dames of the community of employ.
mest.—by the barrier which it will create between those parts of the
country which it will intersect, and by a train of other evils too name. I
rose to particularise; and that this meeting do dissent from the pro.
pied measure, and do pledge themselves to use their best exertions to
oppose it in every constitutional way within their power, collectively
AfARIIIIID—At Ashburn, the Rev. J. T. Flasher, M.A. of Great
Easton, Leicestershire, to Kiss Elise Spencer.
DIED.—At Birmingham, It. Bird, Esq.—The Rev. A. Bold, Vicar'
of Stoke Pages.—Aged 74, George Bloomfield, of Bury St. Edmund's,
shoemaker. He was the elder brother of Robert Bloomfield, the author
of the " Farmer's Boy."—Susan, only daughter of Mr. Abel, bookseller.
—Mary, the widow of the late Alderman Comb, aged 79.—At Oodmait.
chatter, aged 38, Mrs. Fox, wire of Mr. Fox, surgeon —At South Luf.
fenlsam, Rutlandshire, Capt. James Thomas, formerly of the East loafs
Company's Service.
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, JAIN 27.
At the great meeting to petition for the Beral of the Union which took
place In the Arena on Tuesday, and by adjournment, on Wednesday,
96th January, 1831, Henry ()rattan, Req. is the chair, it was re.l
solved—That we are deeply impressed with the conviction of the
utility of British connection, and are firmly determlsed to preserve
that connection unbroken and entire, and to render that connection
unassailable by snakinf it equally beneficial to both countries.
—That after thirty years experience, all Ireland acknowledges that the
Union has not prdduced any one advantage to Ireland, whilst we all
recognise in that fatal measure the immediate and most efficient cause
of all the distress, starvation, misery, and woe, which now afflict this
wretched land. That we do, therefore, petition the Legislature for the
immediate and total repeal of that disastrous and most oppressive sta-
tute, the Act of Legislative Union, and that the Committee of Thirty-
we do prepare snd forward such petition. That the corrupt state of the
representation in the House of Commons is a national and perpetual
grievance—and that we pledge ourselves to use incessantly all legal and
constitutional means to obtain an effectual and radical reform of the re.
presentation of the people, in the Commons House of Parliament.
Resolved—That the warmest thanks of this meeting errs eminently
due and are hereby given to that fearless patriot, Daniel 0e
M.P. whose great talents have been at all times used for the benefit of
his country, the regeneration of which is, as it ever has been, his prin-
cipal object.—That the thanks of this meeting be given to Henry )rat.
tan, Esq. for his manly and dignified conduct in the chair, which he
tilled fix two successive days at the great risk of adding to illness under
which he has laboured for some time.
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At a numerous and respectable meeting at Leinip. it was resolved—
That we yield to DO portion of the people of these realms is loyalty
attachment to our beloved sovereign Within; IV. and thee we re
any design or idea of a separation between Great Britain eel I
Tbat we view with unfeigned delight the general hell% of manimikr
which now pervades all claim et Nehmen in menet hayed to seek hr
a repeal of that ruinous mateure,die leglehdra valea,iniddise been meet
disastrous to this country in redudng people home Mame
and combat, to hie present state of etWeginees aul Rimer=
fully convinced that It is the only mramee that an AWN& the dis-
tress and misery which annually saisi this eidattumes ad miegoverned
sounury.—That we pledge ouredves to plow lady MI temperately,
by every constitutienal mane, to mesh theipeot depot of oar aura-
try's rtgeneratlon—norady, a. repeal of the ihnen ; sad that we will
not CMOS to rate the tends* use It Is inally awned; sod,
moreover, we omo that bandiewerd we wining support or
vote for any for the gopeemerades of any county, dry. es town
in Ireland, who will not pledge blegeolf. IM the most solemn manner, to
edemas sad ouppon,b ittle Mee and Ineragete in Pentagram", question
of the Biped of Utiles between Chest NMI& and Its-
land.—That we view with foellap d deep wet, the awe htely par-
sued by a portion of the enragegagy, to wheat the people Moult's.-
turally look her liCiteseed
oft alas dem arrayed
opium us whom he the oft menene to pemenendy
relieve this corgrazyo— we do aempilden perilmemel fie alt iaqu
lifted repeal et the Am Pith George IV. MO. L eagmenly atW the
" Alpoine Aa ;" ehl albs for the Ng* of the Act of the Legislative
Unica lemma Chem Behan and behind t—tb• forage we abbog as
most &epode, tyramileel, and unoomdtational ; and the repeal of the
latter we. leeks as the only mans that can give peon and remora
prosperity ea thle unfortunate country.
At a megerawit the trailed Earlobes at Bildepk, Myth, Lilbanack,
DdilitasynirYe and ,hid at the pada school-
rooms of en the 23d of January, the following resolution*
were mosinously agreed to—Lathe Plunkett, Esq. of Portmamock la
the chair a—
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That after an experience and trial of thirty years, the legislative
union betimes the two kingdom's of Great attain and Ireland, bee
proved beanie be entirely ineinciart to the peulnetion at any national
advantage whoever to our country r but, as do sentrary, has been
too powerfully elks*, towards rendering 4 Almost MO ungraded
scene of wasteheams, pospedstariewney, shatment, and disgrace.
—That in gewgaws kunst No heeds of trade wiener, not even
I the linen trade atagtel, his been alik to hem op spinet Ma dasoladig
halides, and as is what resoks thoost, as yet umenehed, me*
=l4 astruggllng, Waft leakistod existence, weedy ~lke
of foodingtoksept to poems Maui &mum hubs slid katb,
ersimsfeetasate rating eethoon.That our 'mesa anakesiss
meat kortfult gratitude seaway iseined to D. 010 small, Ital. M.P.
the !Atoms?, regeneraterc sal peeilkalero: hiss fee Tea:
vane sf tiini's cad and et pile liberty an
over the workL—That wr meet thanks on justly doe and
hereby given to those gonna awl *Auk Orakiekso us& die Pro-
tes who have of km ea =My sal NW&
to able dos se
thek .std
by ae ikonstie
resident legisksteen, think= fir a mall of .1 's _, evil
and sane—abeenteskon.
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suawaaetwzit.-0. Seaday, die f#th lastest, a blie "weft
was held, pursuant to =dee, le the whit chapel ef
Charles 11,Deanell, Req. Mips *dr, -to tale him eme=itti
propriety of pethleateg Padleadat for a repeal et die hailedative
Miss. A petition to that WM wee amenhoonal aped osc and a
resolution, pledging the dwehdies edlectively sod lsliaslp to sap-
' ret DO oaDdidSti
wsmH support hem eite
the twashe the at
pawed= who
thegii=attlytt
the aseet:g.
Ms paper castaira, mess ether paw. tho filletsbir es thead.
daps to the Marvin ef Asginsy s—" The aped* sod 'see. db.
*wade have, we polities, palled adios if wino ii hash= sad
a few midst. LA hill-bookers el Dahlia, la the App. d Cisiplikke
for as address to the Matiakef Ategiasey. Dy thi saes peplos we
ad tell that the lid ter likprdsow Ms at the loyal Betel, and at
the dillireet bealtimphowles la the dty. We hove Ciffelhdly permed
this list sad it at ease *tidies a dee to the mods* of the mu
la it we bad the mate el ea ate awn et public gbh or lad* lade.
peadeose. There are the Baum et, we believe, bd g i dem La-
teaches. Of this fewilly we have rarer spoke. disperegimply. That
000301 a poop of Doak Directors. That le all a matte of twee& Who
have signed the regeisidow, balite these we have wined?—Why as few
mediate I ! (bless the Rath) sad discaudes d