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London, England, 1830-05-06 00:00:00

ties arraigned kept their seats in silence. Not
one word was offered in answer. The motion was
negatived without division or debate. Was this
silence the result of a conviction in their Lordships minds
that the charges were entirely groundless ; that, in fact,
none of the various abuses which his Lordship enu-
merated, actually exist, that his complaint was a dreani ;
the dream of a poor infatuated visionary, which it would
be a pity to disturb ? Their conduct will not admit any
such apology. The Bishops know perfectly well that
their incomes are as much too great as the salaries of
the useful, the labouring, members of the profession,
are too small; that they are out of all proportion, and
that justice demands a very different diqribution. The
ARCHBISHOP of Dumas; lately :,:übseribed to a fund
for providing for the support of the pauper cler-
gy. Was there ever known such an anomaly ? A
pauper clergy with a church immensely rich ! and the
Bishop of FERNS, in his epistolary controversy with the
Earl of MoosTCASHEL stated, that the enormous incomes
of his brethren were large prizes necessary to tempt Gen-
tlemen to embark in the profession—thus viewing the
Church establishment as a lottery, in which the favourites
of Fortune would gain the prizes, and the poor Curates
might share the blanks. The lottery has been deemed
unfit for a place in the Minister's budget: its principle,
it seems, is necessary to the welfare of the Church.—
But if the eyes of the episcopal bench be seared: if
they cannot see these things, or if their hearts be
callous, and will not open to receive them, the peblic arc
not equally blind, nor is their temper equally adverse to
the correction of abuses. The mode proposed may have
been objectionable, but it is not of its rejection we cons
plain, bet of the mode of that rejection. We complain
that the charges have been left to sink and settle
in the public mind, without any attempt to reduce their
weight. For what is the consequence? The friends of
the Protestant Church maintain that its welfare depends,
not upon wealth and power, but upon the purity of its doe-'
trine; but what becomes of this purity if it be polluted,
disfigured, and disgraced, by its practice ? and must not
the statement of the Noble Earl, going out to the world
without an answer, be now assumed as founded in fact,
and received as decisive evidence of such pollution ? '
Convinced as we are of the flagrant abuses of the Church,
we do not, therefore, regret the fate of the motion. It
will accelerate reform by the very means its opponents
expected to defeat it.

Sir Thom/is WILSON'S Bill for the enclosure of
Hampstead Heath was rejected last night in the House
of Lords. This was no ordinary case of enclosure. It
was not intended for the conversion of a barren, un-
sightly, often a noisome waste, or moor, into a smiling
garden, verdant meadows, or fields clothed with golden
grain. No, it was intended to be the conversion of one
of the most picturesque scenes, of which the citizens of
London can boast ; the scene of their amusements and
recreations, which they have been accustomed to visit for
exercise, health, and pleasure, into a dull and heavy mass
of brick and mortar,depriving the wealthy of their pleasant
drives, the humbler classes of their favourite promenade,
and the present inhabitants of the beautiful distant views,
in the contemplation of which they now feel so much de-
light, and which so much enhance the value of their ha-
bitations ; and dooming them, instead of enjoying the
fresh, pure, and salutary breeze as before, to inhale con-
taminated air and dust, while burned up in the heat of
the sun, reflected from brick, slates, and tiles : in short,
to find themselves pent up in a town, on the very spot
where they new enjoy all the pleasure of an open country.
The citizens of Westminster have always proved themselves
jealous to excess of any encroachments upon the Parks.
There, an old tree cannot fall without exciting their
sympathy, nor an inch of ground be yielded to gratify
the taste, or contribute to the personal convenience, of
a beloved Sovereign, without a grumble. What the
Parks are to the citizens of Westminster, Hampstead
Heath has been, from time immemorial, to those of the
North-eastern districts of London. To use an expres-
sion of the late Mr. WINDHAM'S, it is " their lungs."
It is worthy of remark, that this is not the only recent
instance in which the House of Lords has shown itself
more anxious to preserve the rights and comforts of the
people than the Commons.

An able article on the subject of the Four per Cents.
will be found in our first page. It will be read with great
interest by the holders of that Stock.

In the new Stamp Act, Soda-water, in bottles, and
Friar's Balsam, about which there have been so many
disputes with the Stamp-office, are expressly exempted
from the necessity of using stamps.
Professional men are seldom sparing in their sarcasms
upon each other; as a recent proof of it, it is said that
during the unavoidable absence of certain eminent me-
dical practitioners from London, nearly all their patients
have recovered.

A great many farmers in Hampshire have lately been
robbed of their bacon, which, contrary to the old pro-
verb, they have not been able to save.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the ship Ann and Amelia, engaged
for China, was thus timed, viz—to be afloat the 10th
inst. and sail from Gravesend at the expiration of twenty
days from the date of her coming afloat.
The Pope was lately said to have fallen into a state of
weakness, which excited apprehensions for his life : but
it is now said that his complaint is not dangerous, being
chiefly an attack of gout in the knee.

A meeting of the County of Edinburgh was held on
Friday last, to consider the Bill now before Parliament
for altering the Scotch Judicature, when it was unani-
mously resolved that a Committee be appointed to exa-
mine the contents and probable effect of the Bill, and to
report upon it and any matter connected therewith, to
the County meeting in July next; and that the Duke of
BUCCLEUCH, the Lord Lieutenant, and Sir GEORGE
CLERK, the Member for the County, be requested to
use every means in their power to prevent the Bill pass-
ing into a law this Session, in order that time might be
given for the full consideration of a measure of so much
importance to the people of Scotland.