Star.
London, England, 1828-04-05 00:00:00

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WISDE-11, APRIL 4.—This forenoon, his MAJEETY, Arrived the Salamander,' Post•offics packet, Captain
accompanied by the. LORD STEWARD, Sir H.TAYLOR, HAMILTON, from .C.stais,.hasing on -board Lieutenant
Sir A. BA n NARD. ST W. KEPPEL, and others of his Suite,
SMART, R.N. with dispatches from Admiral Sir EDW
attended Diyiry S.-rvice, which was pert.' lined at the
Private Ch Are!. CODRINGTON; also a Psussian Messenger, from Berlin.
His MAJESTY is exprctt.d to take an airing this By the same packet came L-.rd GEORGE CAVENDISH,
afternoon. and about forty other passengers. The ve,s,:l made
YeAerday the Ks No again left the Ro) al Lodge in her passage acruss in less than three hours.
his pony phaeton, accompanied by the Lono STEWARD,
and visited his favourite retreats in the Great Park.
Oa Wednesday Sir HERBERT TAYLOR arrived at the
Royal Lodge,on a visit to his \I AJESTY.

COMMUTATION OF TITHES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sts—l am anxious to call your attention, and that of your
Ultmerous readers, to a subject of the highest Importance to our
Church Establishment, namely, the Commutation of Tithes,which
has lately been agitated in Parliament, and which I take to be
another masked battery opened against that Establishment. I bad
written you a very long letter on this subject, when a friend put
into my hands a work, by the Reverend CHAILIAS Mourne, Rector
of Quarley, Hants, on the Spirit and Constitution of the Church,'
in their relation to the general welfare of the State a work
which ought to be in the possession of all true supporters of our
Church Establishment. And as I find this able Champion has ex-
pressed himself on this very subject much better than I could pos-
sibly do, I take the liberty of copying his sentiments. After showing
how intimately the mode of provision by the system of Tithes Is
connected with the efficiency of the Church, he thus sums up hie
wend reasoning on the subject. LAICUS.
" As far as such a measure is eeconcileable with justice, we may
desire to act confOrmably with her dictates. In making such coo-
version, it may even be our wish to place the most liberal interpre-
tation on the value of their claims. We may calculate their exigen.
ties and seek to provide for them, even on the widest and most
extensive scale. But when we think our purpose has been
thoroughly attained, bow long can we depend upon chose edges.
des continuing the same ; that they shall be adequately answered
by the calculations we have made ? The wealth of one age becomes
the poverty of the next. Repeatedly has it happened In the past,
nor can wE say how often it may again occur, that the Cottage had
been adorned .by that which the Palace bad been proud to own.
That which has been prized as the refined enjoyment, or even
blamed as a luxurious indulgence of the rich, by the natural course'
of circumstances has been converted into the simple accommoda-
tion of the poor. Utilels, therefore, you can set bounds to the
discoveries of science ; unless you can number the combinations of
art; unless you can place a limit to the fertility of nature, and ar-
resting by these means the genius of improvement, say, thus far,
and thus far only, shalt thou go; in one period of society you'
never can define what shall be the wants, what shall be the neces-
saries, what fhall be the temperate enjoyments of the next ;—far
less were it possible to foretell what portion of your wealth, at any
given time. shall be, at another, equal to their purchase. Let the
period at which we would enumerate the former, at which we give
a fixed denomination to the last, be a period when society is rapidly
.progressive, and inevitably do we fix a time when the provisioO of
the Church, which shall he regulated by it, must become totally
Inadequate to every necessary purpose."

BRIGHTON, APRIL 3.
The Earl and Countess Cow Pen, who have been with
nri some days, are residing at East :Lodge, the Marine seat of the
Marl of FAIIIIIIONT, where, it is understood, they purpose giving an
Entertainment to their fashionable friends on Monday next.
The D.. • Jim La,ts DEEIt I NO, Ail 7 Mr. and i‘lirs.
Mouton and family, arrived at the Royal York Hotel yesterday.
Mts. DIRSIMBIRR and family removed thence yesterday, for a pri-
vate residence in Cannon-place.
Mr. ass.t Lady. L. Pe.et. and frailly ate a ith its, after
a ahoy. sojourn at PaliDoK'S elegant Sea House Hotel, at Worthing