Star.
London, England, 1831-04-09 00:00:00

THR CHURCH.
CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 8.
The Rev. John Fisher, jun. has been instituted by the Bishop of Lin-
coln to the Rectory of Stoney Stanton, in the county of Leicester.
Patron, the Marquis of Hastings.
The Rev. Robert Jervis Coke Alderson was last week Instituted to the
Rectory of St. Matthew's, Ipswich, on the presentation of the King.
The Rev. Arthur Roberts, M. A. was last week instituted to the Rea
tory of Woodrising, Norfolk, on the presentation of John Wayland,
Esq. of Woodrising.
The Rev. W. Pullen, Curate of Caversham, has been presented by
the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Gilding Pares, in the county of
Huntingdon.
At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells on
Sunday last, the following persons were ordained
Deacons—Walter Alford, B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford ; Robert
John Bartlett, M.A. St. John's Coll. Cambridge ; Henry Joseph Bow.
den, B.A. Queen's Coll. Cambridge; John Based Duveton, B.A.
Downing Coll. Cambridge; Wm. York Draper, B.A. Wadham Coll.
Oxford ; John King Eagles, B.A. Trinity Coil. Cambridge; Wm.
Irving, B.A. Jesus Coll. Oxford; James Morgan, Student of Trinity
Coll. Cambridge; Thos. Beagley Naylor, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Ox-
ford ; G. W. Nepotism. M.A. Corpus Clristi Coll. Oxford ; J. Nurse,
Student of Merton Coll. Oxford ; Edward Phillott, B.A. Pembroke
Coll. Oxford ; Dan. Dod Sampson' BA. Trinity Hall, Cambridge ;
Robert Allan Se:, M.A. Rallied Co IL Oxford; Sam. Stalky, B. A.
Trinity Coll. Cambridge; Feed. Stunner, B. A. Queen's Cull. Oxford;
Chas. Agar Hunt, B. A. Queen's Coll. Cambridge ;• Arthur Irwin
Fehir, B. A. Trinity Coll. Dublin ;• Win. Strong Bore, B. A. Queen's
C. min iclge ;t Rufus Ho .ton, B. A. Hader Coll. Oxford Chas.
Thomas James. B. A. Exe1:..,',011. Oxford ;t Arthur Johnson, B. A.
Chris, Church, Oxford te tn. John Phillpotts, B.A. Odd Coll. Ox.
ford .1+ Sytlenleam Pit:•ier, 11. A. Worcester Coll. Oxford ;t Chas.
Road, B. A. Exeter Coll. Oxford ;I- Jas. Serjeseet B. A. Queen Coll.
Crinbridx:;+ Rich. Stranger, B. A. Pembroke Coll. Oxford; Henry
S red ing, 11. A. Queen's Coll Oxford.+
Priaeoe--Jolen Betts, B.A. Queen's Coil. Cambridge; Thomas Boo-
dle, B.A. Trinity Coll. Cambridge; Richard Beadou Bradley, B.A.
Exeter Coll. Oxford ; William John Chesshyre, 31. A. Balliol Coll.
Oxford ; Charles Joseph Furlong, B.A.Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge;
G.:otg? Gregory Gardiner M.A. Exeter Coll. Oxford ; John Nuteombe
Gallo, B.A. iFadharn doll. Oxford ; Thomas Henry Paddon, B.A.
Trinity Coll. Oxford; Henry William Stuart, B.A. Queen's College,
Cambridge; Geo. Meaker Valentine, IL A. Trini.y Coll. Cambridge ;
J. W. Watis.B.A. Alagelsien Hall. Oxford; T. Bevan, B.A. Balliol
Coll. Oxford ;1. Courtensy J. Cooper Bolted, B.A. lisillol Coll. Ox.
ford ; t John Iloekin Cartwright, B.A.Exeter Coll. Oxford ; t John
Sparke Cookealey, RA. St. John's Coll. Cambridge ; t Francis John
rourtenay, D. A. St. Peter's Coll. Cambridge; + James Campbell Crow-
ley, B.A. %radium Coll. Oxford ; .1. Arthur Grueber, B.A. tat. Edmund
Hall, Oxford; t Robert S,eplien Hawker, ILA. Magdalen Hall, Ox.
ford; Dashwood Lang, B.A. St. Allsn's Hall, ()sacra; t John
Ley, M.A. Exeter Coll Oxford; .1 John Henry Stockham, B.A. Pem-
broke Coll. Oxford t
• By Lagers Domissory from the Lord Bishop* of Lichfield and
Coventry.
t By Letters Domissory from the Lord Bishop of Exeter.
PARISH POLII ICS--TROFANATION OF CIIVRCIIEB.-

Easter week is the period when the parochial year termi-
nates—when parish accounts are made up—the various items
of expenditure discussed with a view to economy and re-
trenchment—the conduct of the old officers investigated,
and the mei its of new candidates sifted and scrutinised.
These local matters are deemed of considerable importance
at all times ; but owing to the general excitement ou the
subject of Parliamentary reform, they have engaged a more
than ordinary share of attention during the last week,
several of the parishes having had their contested elections,
which have been conducted with as much zeal, and, unfor-
tunately, with as little decorum, as usually distinguish the
elections of members of Parliament. 'We do not object to
the zeal ; and it would be vain to attempt a remedy for the
indecorum ; but we do decidedly object to the place chosen
for the display of the latter. In these fierce contentions all
the bad feelings of the patishioners, all the petty jealousies
and party feuds, which have been growing up in the
course of the previous twelve months, are brought into
play ; and the church is profaned by language and con-
duct which must disgust every well-constituted mind.
Falsehood, scandal, gross personalities, vulgar jests, and ri-
baldry of all kinds, ending in uproarious confusion and riot,
are the characteristics of parochial struggles, conducted under
the roof of that edifice which is consecrated to the promotion
of " peace and loving kindness" amongst men ! In one
parish, which we could name, the opposing parties assembled
at eleven o'clock in the morning, and continued in debate,
accompanied by cheering, hissing, hooting, and yelling,
until five o'clock in the afternoon. They then adjourned
until seven, when the war of words was resumed, and did 1,
not terminate until eleven o'clock. The whole scene was
one of the most revolting character, and we understand that
even the pulpit was not held sacred. This must be reformed
altogether. The Bishop of London, some time since, very
properly iefused the use of the churches in the ward of
Farringdon Without for the annual elections of the Common
Council ; and, in cordially recognizing the propriety of the
course pursued by the Bishop in this instance, we earnestly
trust that offences of a deeper dye will not be allowed to
I pass unnoticed, and that our parish orators will be compelled
to find a more appropriate stage for the display of their
petty animosities. Apart from any religious considerations,
and regarded merely as a matter of economy, the subject is
one which might fairly be brought under the notice of the
parochial authorities themselves. We have heard of an in-
stance in which an item of a few shillings in the accounts
was made the subject of a riotous contest in the church,
which occasioned an outlay of more than 501. in repairs.—
Herald.

WH Y was France a party to the protocols depriving the
Belgians of public freedom, and prescribing arrangements
inconsistent with Belgic interests ?
BECAUSE in the meetings of the ministers of the Five
Powers, France was represented by the same minister who
had represented her at the congress'of Vienna, and because
the court of France was seeking to conciliate, and to be ad-
mitted into the junta of European Powers.
W T did the people of France permit their imitators
and Belgic brethren to be thus circumvented, seeing that
the French government was the choice of those who in
July had set them an example ? •. ks•
BECAUSE the organization of the people was destroyed,
and that of the government strong and concentrated.
Wily have not the French government aided the Poles,
seeing that the Polish insurrection was a consequence of the
Russian government preparing to march the Polish armies
against France?
BECAUSE the French armies were not oa tllc war esta-
blishment, because there was some derange:nent in the.
finances, and because energy of action is not a characteristic
feature of the government which the Fr...ach people have
chosen.

Wily has the French government pe. mitt( J the Austrians
to repeat in Italy the very titero,ui es which they adopted
against Naples when the Bourbons reigned in France, and
sanctioned all the acts of the Holy Alliance ?
BECAUSE the same negative policy is preferred, and fear
is evinced of the barbarians which some powers may being
against France, and of the slaves whom others may employ.
There are doubts whether the auxiliary freemen who may
join the liberating armies of France are a match for the
dependents and adherents of the old governments.
Wily does the French Government proscribe the public
men who volunteer their lives and fortunes in its defence,
and in asserting the liberties of other countries which are
struggling against adverse fordign interposition ?
BECAUSE such positive conduct at home is a balance to
its negative policy abroad.
Wily does the French Government prefer to look on
while the old confederacy are recruiting their armies, and
baffling or putting down the patriots of other countries who
are the natural allies of France ?

BECAUSE forbearance is considered as the safest poliey,
and wars u more just and certain, which may be waged in
France in defence of France, than a war carried into the
dominions of the enemy.
WilY are these apparent equivocations practised by thr
new French Government?

BECAUSE the King and Court were not the authors of
the late Revolution, but its patients,—and a vacant throne
was accepted without a recognition of all the principles of
those who conferred it. The Revolution was intended to
cancel the obligations created by the Congress of Vienna ;
but this was not recognized by the new sovereign, and he
has uniformly endeavoured to identify himself with the
European confederacy.
Why are the French patriots forming a general asso-
ciation ?

BECAUSE facts lead them to suspect the good faith of the
King in supporting the genuine principles of the Revolu-
tion, considering France as dishonoured by yielding to
Foreign Diplomacy, and as endangered if a war is rendered
necessary in defence of liberty.

The East India Company's ship Macqueen arrived off
the Start the 6th instant. She left China the 3d December,
and St. Helena 7th February. The Macqueen parted com-
pany a ith the Abercrombie Robinson, on the 16th January,
in lat. 31 deg. S. long. 40 deg. E. all well.
Such is the height to which mendicity is carried in Ma-
drid, that sturdy beggars meet the passenger at every ten or
twenty yards of his progress, some of them walking into •
houses, which they refuse to quit; and the whole, as before
the Reformation in England, encouraged by the mock charity
of the canvents.
During the time when Swing was in all his glory, a coun
try Justice nctually committed a poor ploughman for" being
found, under suspicious circumstances near a hav-rick, with
intent t► set it on fire ;" when the whole of the evidence
against the poor man was, that he had been seen near the
stack, not with a lighted candle, but with a pail of eater !
This is a fact. The sapient Magistrate still holds tho Com-
mission in the county of Berke, where be is as likely as ever
to set the Thames on fire !
A well-known brow-beating barrister was last week cross-
examining a witness on Circuit. The man was rather pert
and lliplant in his ans..% ers, which provoked the counscl!ur
to say, " If you do not cease your impudent remarks, I
shall claim the protection of the Court !" " Humph !" re-
*sled the other, " from the language 1 hosed from vvu, I
thought I could not be far from some court or A Ley !; ' This
was too much; a laugh resounded through the Court, in
which even the Judge participated, although he comes from
tb . refined neighbourhood of the Park.