The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-20 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS'.

Of the various Commissions originated by the present
Administration, about three•fourths of the members are
reputed to be Unitarians or something worse. In the
recent Commission for Inquiry into Corporations there
are three Liverpool barristers of no standing and little
repute, all Unitarians, exclusive of the rest, the majority
of whom with the disinterested secretary are of the same
cast. The Factory Commission and the Trade Com-
mission to Paris were similarly composed. The Law
Commission has some of this leaven in it. The head of
the Excise department has, at an expense of thousands
to the country, been lately selected from the same sect—
a sect, by the bye, the most contemptible in numbers of
any in Great Britain. In short t.iese worshippers of
self are to be found every where, and none so constant
in besieging and storming the Treasury as they. This
is a matter which more concerns Christian sectarians
than the Church of England; for people with no religion
have invariably been found the most dogged supporters
of any religion incidentally connected with their own
selfish purposes of aggrandisement. Such men as Parkes,
Rushton, Bowring, or Chadwick would be, if their capa-
cities admitted, the firmest props of the church, provided
they can flourish under it.

The inclination of Lord Brougham towards Unitari-
anism has been talked of ; of course a man is judged by
the company he habitually keeps. We are not among
those who suspect his Lordship of fixed principles of any
sort, except it be the principle of expediency am regards
his own interests. Excepting that he is not sooowerful
an orator, and in some other essentials not A. efficient
a man, Lord Brougham is but the double of Mithbeau,
and in nothing more evidently than the conversion of
the labours of other men to his own profit without ac-
knowledgment. Like Mirabeau, he would rather falsify
science or history than spoil a metaphor. Some time
ago the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, an Unitarian and political
doctor of Liverpool, was in London, and as an old friend
of his Lordship, they often took their grog together.
One Sunday morning he called upon his Lordship,
who, when he was about to depart, offered to convey
him to the chapel, where (as we understand) he
was going to preach, in his own carriage. Shepherd,
with more good sense than his host, represented the
scandal it. might cause to see the carriage of the Lord
High Chancellor of England at the door of an Unitarian
chapel, and his Lordship cheek by jowl with an Unitarian
parson. His Lordship persisted—perhaps damned the.
world—and the thing was settled. At the moment how-
ever drew up the carriage of Chief Justice Denman,
upon which his Lordship, having business with him,
apologized to Shepherd, but handed him into Denman's
carriage, and so he was driven to his meeting-house in
the equipage, %lot Of the Lord Chancellor, but of the
Lord Chief Justice of England. Shepherd himself tells
the anecdote with great glee in all companies, and we
are in consequence led to believe that the Liverpool
Commissioners for corporation inquisition owe their
appointment to the double advantage of their Unitarians
ism and convivial qualifications for consorting with hir
Lordship. Let the Dissenters look to it, for it is thei-
business—Guardian.

The letter of Mr. Brougham, which we published in
our last number, having given him the enjoyment of a
full week's imaginary triumph over us, it is high time
that we proceed to dissipate his delusions, by giving that
true character to the subject of it which further inquiry
enables us to impart.
Mr. Brougham very considerately wrote to us, " that
we might not go on in error." Now to one error we
in the first place plead (runty ; but that it is one which
in any wise improves the complexi9n of the matter, af-
ter the strong evidence we shall presently offer, we are
persuaded that the hon. gentleman himself will scarcely
be hardy enough to assert. The error was, that Mr.
Brougham had commenced suits to ea( me new tithe-ex-
actions ; whereas he has only commenced one suit ; and
this circumstance, mark, gives a far more odious colour
to the act than before—as the followinsfacts will show:—
In or about 1824, Hornby Hall and Udford estates in the
parish of Brougham, were purchased by Lord Lonsdale.
These, as well as other estates in the parish, were liable
to payment in kind of the tithes of corn, green-crop,
wool and lamb, to the Rev. Mr. Heelis, the rector of the
parish ; and. up to the period we have just stated, the oc-
cupiers of Hornbv Hall and Udford had an opportunity
of taking their tithes every year the same as their neigh-
bours. But Mr. Brougham, it would appear, was not
satisfied with this arrangement ; and he persuaded the
rector to grant him a lease of the tithes for twenty-one
years—not, be it remembered, of the whole parish, but
of this single farm only. And here is a mystery ; un-
less we could be so uncharitable as to suppose that his
object was to attain the power of showing a little petty
annoyance to the Lowther family; for the hon. gentle-
man agreed to pay £B4 a year for those tithes, whereas
we are assured, on the authority of the tenant himself,
that they are not worth £5Ol Well, the hon. member
for Kendal was no sooner lessee of those tithes,—how
he could have the conscience to meddle with such pol-
luted and polluting things, after all his wrathful denun-
ciations against them, we cannot now stay to inquire,—
but he was no sooner lessee, than he commenced draw-
ing both corn and green tithes, until he found that the
farmer would give him more for his turnips and potatoes
than he could make of them any other way, when he re-
verted to the old plan : the corn, however, he still con-
tinues to draw ; and, as a wind-up, he the other day filed
a bill in the court of Exchequer for the agistment tithe
of this estate only. This little word only, then, corrects
our error—we believe, we may say, in a double sense,
our only error. But whilst it does so on our part, what
does it on the part of our hon. opponent ? Wy hy, it be-
gets, first, the suspicion, that in the proceeding in ques-
tion he is influenced by the mostpaltry party feelings; and
it shows, secondly, despite his own assurance of having
" no interest'in the matter," that he has all the interest
in it imaginable. And this brings us back to his letter.
"'That you may not go on in error, I beg to inform you that
my name is used by the rector as lessee—that the suit is his and
his only, as he warranted to me the payment of agistment
tithe of this farm, and gets aflarger rent in consequence."

. So says Mr. Brougham,- and a very specious.sav it is,
truly. "My name is used by the rector as lessee." What
admirable plausibility ! "'flee suit is his and his only,
as he warranted to me the payment of agistment tithe of
this farm, and gets a higher rent in consequence." Most
admirable again! Well, suppose the rector did warrant
you " the payment of agistment tithe of this farm"—why
only of this farm, Mr. Brougham ? There are three other
large estates in the parish, at Woodside, precisely in the
Same situation as Hornby Hall so far as respects their li-

ability to the payment of agistment, the tithes of which
are leased by Mr. Hutchinson • but no actions are com-
menced against the farmers of those estates, although
there is the same rector in each case, and he is surely as
much interested in recovering agistment at W' oodside
as he is at Hornby : why then, we ask again, why, Mr.
Brougham, if, as you say, " the suit is his and his only,"
is the farm of whose tithes you are the lessee the only one
against which such suit is cojpmenced ? Until this be satis-
factorily answered, who can be expected to yield credit to
such a defence as this ? But, fin ther,
" The suit," continues Mr. Brougham, "is brought without
any reference to Lord Tenterden's Act. Several years ago,
notices of a suit for the tithe in question were given by the soli-
citors of the rector, which were only not proceeded in from the
farmer promising to settle arrears. Besides, agistmeut tithe
has been paid within twenty years to the rector."

We pass by the anxiety here manifested to justify the
suit in question, by one who has just before declared such
suit to be the rector's and not his—" the rector's and his
only,"—and who a few lines further on asserts that he
" has no interest in the matter,"—we shall not, we say,
dwell upon this, but come at once to the plain matter-of.
fact. We are authorised, then, to state, that Mr. Nel-
son, the present tenant, has never paid one shilling for
or in lieu of agistment tithe, and never promised to
settle any arrears in order to stay proceedings against
him. Mr. Nelson and his father have occupied the farm
for upwards of 20 years ' - and he never knew anything
paid for agistment. Of this we are assured from Mr.
Nelson himself.
' Then, again, as to the suit being "brought without
any reference to Lord Tenterden's Act,"—how does it
happen that Mr. Brougham should take these tithes so
long ago as nine years, and upon a lease of 21 years, in
which, he says, agistment tithe is included, and yet the
suit alluded to should not be commenced until within 'a
few days of . Lord Tenterden's act coming into opera-
tion p for the hon. gentleman acknowledges in his Bill
filed in the Exchequer, that lie has never received one
farthing for agistment! To say the least of it, this is
certainly a most remarkable, a most mysterious coinci-
dence ; and. until it is satisfactorily explained, Mr.
Brougham must really excuse our hardness of belief.
We have, we fear, well nigh wearied the patience of
our readers with these dry details; but they were essen-
tial to the proper appreciation of the matter, and to sup-
port our serious charge of a Whig patriot being a tithe
prosecutor. A pretty character, it must be confessed,
for one of the presiding genii of reform and liberality,
and such like high sounding virtues, to appear in. A
Whig patriot, a reforming representative of the people,
and brother of the Lord High Chancellor of England, a
relentless exactor of tithes—and one, not by any of those
accidents of birth, or profession, which make a man such
against his own will, and in spite of his better feelings,
' but one who has voluntarily assumed the obnoxious cha-
racter, either for a paltry party purpose, or for the sake
of filthy lucre ! But after this dull infliction, we shall try
to wind up with more of entertainment.
Although the bill filed in the Court of Exchequer bears
the name of James Brougham, and although its immedi-
ate purpose is to make good his own extravagant rent for
the tithes referred to, the honourable gentleman yet as-
serts, that the suit is the rector's and not his—nay, that
he "has no interest in the matter !" He will go snacks
for the proceeds; they are his portion equally with the
rector's; but as to the obloquy, the unpopularity of the
thing, oh ! that, of course, belongs only to the parson !
" The suit," quoth he "is the rector's, and not mine. I
have no interest in the matter"—not I! This reminds
us of the excellent Fable of the Travellers and the Purse;
and as the ingenious author of " iEsop in Rhyme" has
given the sprightliest, if not the faithfullest relation of it,
we here present his version as a happy illustration of the
case before us :

Two friends once were walking in sociable chat, '
When a purse one espied on the ground;
" Oh see !" said be ("thank my good fortune for that),
What a large sum of money I've found !"
" Nay, do not say I," said his friend, "for you know
'Tis but friendship to share it with me;"
" I share it with you !" said the other, "How so?
He who found it the owner should be."
" Be it so," said his friend; "but what sound do I hear ?
`Stop thief!' one is calling to you;
He comes with a constable close in the rear !"
Said the other, "Oh! what shall we do !"
"Nay, do not say we," said his friend, "for you know
'Twas you claimed the right to the prize;
And since all the money was taken by you,
With you all the obloquy lies !"

—Carlisle Patriot.

TURKEY AND ENGLAND.—A PA RALLEL.--Alth ough
history, according to the kindly and patriotic Lord Plun-
kett, is but an " old almanack," still one cannot help
paying some attention to its pages, even when they re-
late to a distant land, especially if they suggest to the
mind comparisons which ought to operate like expe-
rience, and which, if they do not produce that effect,
must prove to be the " shadows of coming events." In
this spirit compare Turkey with England, and unless the
hand of Providence should stay the plague, the only real
important difference in the two cases will be, that the one
is complete while the other is still in progress:—
The present SULTAN is the WILLIAM the FOURTH is
most sweeping Reformer that the most sweeping Reformer
ever ruled the Othmans. He that has sat on the throne of
has swept away the ancient England since 1688. His mi-
discipline and system of the nisters have swept away the
empire; he has not renovated constitution of the "glorious
but revolutionised; and in- revolution ;" they have not
troduced forms, habits, and renovated, but in their own
usages wholly novel to his language, -revolutionised ; and
subjects. In his domestic af- they are introducing in reli-
fairs he has consequently ex- gion, law, commerce, colonial
perienced discontent, divi- policy, and the common in-
sion, and insurrection; and his tercourse of life, principles,
empire in a brief quarter of habits, and usages, wholly in-
a century has been virtually compatible with all that have
destroyed. He has lost ex- been. The consequence is
tensive provinces to Russia ; that England is fearfully di-
he has lost Greece; the pro- vided and filled with danger-
vinces of Bosnia and Servia ous discontent and distress;
are now disturbed and about and that the Empire itself is
to be pounced on by Austria; threatened with dissolution.
he has lost Egypt and the The \Veit Indies, almost of a
African tributaries, with the certainty, must become the
greater portion of his Asiatic prey of desolation or of the
vassals; he has been corn- United States; Russia is ma-
pelled to beg the support of a king ready her road into In-
Power which, in his own fir- dia ; the Oanadas are putting
forth their own strength as at
be variance with the mother
man of
he the
pronouncedt h of
to
" the leading enemy of the country ; an impoverished
Othmans, and whose inter- exchequer, pressing with an
ference in the internal affairs anti-colonial spirit, is fast
of Turkey, reason, sound po- preparing the ministers to
licy and religion prohibited abandon the Mediterranean ;
all acceptance of;" and he and they have made league,
has now no manner of seen- with that power which has fbr
rity whatever to protect the centuries been the avowed
empire of the Othmans from and bitter foe of England,
a total dismemberment—from and is fast robbing her of
an utter erasure from the list every ally she possesses. Such
of existing powers. is the work of three short
years ; continued for three
years more, and the British
Empire is—
" A tale of other days."
Old England.

For the following important explanations by Govern-
ment, rest ecting the opening of the China trade, we are
indebted to our zealous member for the city, Mr. Ewing:

James Ewing, Esq., M.P. India Board, Sept. 12, 1833.
Dear Sir,—ln compliance with my promise, I have now the
honour to transmit to you a series of Replies to the Queries
which you put to me, relative to the opening of the China
Trade, together with some additional information, which, I
trust, will be satisfactory to the merchants on whose behalf you
applied. 1 have the honour to be, dear Sir,
Your faithful servant,
(Signed) CHAS. GRANT.
WERIES. REPLIES.
At what time British Ships Not till after April 22, 183-I.
will be allowed to clear and sail
for Canton ?

At what time Teas will be Any time after April, 1834,
permitted to be landed, a are- " from the Cape of Good Hope,
housed, and sold, by the Private and from places Eastward of
Trades in this Country? the same to the Straits of ➢la-
gellan, and not from any other
place."
How is the stock of Teas be- By sales under the superin-
longing to the East India Corn- tendence of the Company and
pan v, and supposed to be equal Board of Control, which sales
to about 22 years' consumption, must be regulated according to
to be realized ? Are any re- the discretion of the Court and
straints likely to be imposed on Board, with a view as well to
the mode in which the Peas are the advantage of the Indian
to be brought to market, so as Revenues, as to that of the
to prevent an unnecessary glut, British Public and the Free
and consequent depression of Trader.
price?' Is any arrangement in
contemplation for an assump-
tion of the stock by Govern-
ment ?

Has any resolution now been The Act of Parliament fix-
formed, or, if not, can any in- ing rates on certain different
formation be afforded, as to the classes of Teas, varying from
probability of the mode in which Is. fid. to 3s. Od. per lb., has
the duties on Teas are to be passed.
chargeable?
Is the silk raised in Bengal The Silk to be sold in Ce-
ti,/ the Company, to be sold in cutta ifpossible. The Filatures
Calcutta, or how is it to be dis- to be disposed of as spe-dilylis
posed of? And under what re- practicable. The particulars of
gulations, as to time, &c., is the arrangementto be managed
the transition of the Company's by the Indian Government.
Silk Factories to Private Par-

ties to take place ?
Is the Company to cease after The Company will continue
the 30th April, 1834, to act as so to act tilt their Commercial
Warehousemen and Salesmen, concerns are wound up. Pri-
and what is to be done with the vate Merchants to avail them-
Warehouses ? selves of this arrangement, as

at present, at their option.—
Due notice will be given of the
Company ceasing to actin that
capacity.

Glasgow Courier.

CCRIOCS FACT.-Cut a couple of cards each into a circle of
about two inches in diameter. Perforate one of these at the
centre, and fix it on the top of a tube, say a common quill.—
Make the other, card ever so little concave, and place it over
the first, the orifice of the tube being thus directly undel, and
almost in contact with the upper card. Try to blow otf the
upper card. You will find it impossible. We understand that
the cause that counteracts the effects at first expected at this
singular phenomenon has lately puzzled all the members of the
Royal Society. A medal and a hundred guineas are said to be
the reward of the successful discoverer. We recommend the
ingenious reader to find it out.-Sheffield Mercury,

;.7.-bipping Entelligente.

TUESDAY, ntli September.—Noon. Wind N.W.—Fair.

ARRIVED :—Fair Ellen, Weakman, from Bahia, (sailed :lith July;—
Andromeda, Wilkie, Maranham—Colossus, Wylie, from Philadelphia
Albion, Putnam, New York, (sailed 25th ult. —Orwell, Gow, Quebec
—Enmore, Struthers, Demerara.

Hercule'an, Battersby, from Calcutta, (sailed 23d April,) and from
St Helena jth August.
The Clyde, Ireland, from New South Wales, sailed from Sydney on
the 20th May, and from New Zealand on the Bth June. On the 2d
August. in lat. 23, S.. long. 38, W., spoke the Gilmore, Lindsay, from
London for Bombay. Same day, spoke the William,. Hutchinson,
hence for Bombay. On the 23d August, in lat. 14, N., long. 26, W.,
spoke the Dryade, from Sydney, N.S.W. tbr London, all well. In
lat. 37, S., long. 108, E. spoke the Ashmey. from Sydney and New
Zealand for London. She had been in the ice for several days, and
had received some damage. The Alice, Hepburn, from this port, had
arrived at Hobart Town.

Samuel Brown, Harding, hence, at Calcutta the 20th April.
Crown, Cowman, hence, at ditto.
Morganiana, Tethers, hence, at Madras 14th April, and sailed for
Calcutta 27th.

Winscales, Fisher, was to sail from Calcutta for this port 25th April.
Linnteus, Smith, sailed from St, Helena for this port sth ult.
Reliance, Cornish, hence and Glandore, at Newfoundland, in 17
days.
i
11 ghlander, Gardner, hence, at ditto, 29th ult.
Pomona, Spriggs, hence, at Malta.
Waterloo, Lowes, which sailed 13th instant for the Gulf of Mexico,
has put hack leaky.
The Venus, Butters, from St. Petersburgh for this port, ran on shore
on Dragoe 4th instant, but was got off with assistance, and will pro-
bably proceed on her voyage.
The John Welch, Woodhouse, hence for Montreal, was spoken 9th
instant, in lat. 48 56, N., long. 26 30, W.

WEDNESDAY, 18th September.—Noon, Wind N.W.—Cloudy.

ARRIVED :—Eleanor, Stevenson, Quebec—Clyde, Ireland, Sydney,
N.S.W.—Charlotte, White, Manzenillo—William the Fourth, Fair-
clough, and Eldon, Faddy St Petershurgh.
Mercury, —, and Alcyone, Muir, hence at Cape Chat.
Colonist, Thompson, and liehenziah,—, hence at St.Andrew's,N B.
Fanny, Taylor ; Lady of the Lake, Harris ; and Eggardon Castle,
hence at Newfoundland.
William, Boag, hence at Sydney, N . S.W. , and was to sail for London
29th May.
Robert Scurfield, Clough, from Bombay at Cuxhaven.
Marinas, Patterson, from Bahia at ditto.
John William, Wulff, hence at Danzig.
Goede Verwachting, hence at Ifelvoet.
Maria, Wallis, hence at Kiel.
Navarin, Schauer, hence at Pillau.
Flora, Backer ; Phmnix, March ; Helena, Anderson ; and George,
Balls, hence at Riga.
Lagan, Murphy' and Marathon, Corthie, from Demerara at Belfast.
Success, Williams, hence at Cork.
Sarah, Adamson, from Demerara at the Clyde.
Thames, Cameron, from Sierra Done ; Fortitude, Arnold, from Ha-
vannah ; and Eleanor, Grundy, from Matanzas at London.
Castor, Thompson, from St. Jago de Cuba at Swansea.
President, Moore, from New York off the Wight, sailed 21st ult.
A ship, 660 tons, on fire, with maintopsail and foresail, spanker and
foretopmast staysail set, topgallant sails flying: loose, and apparently
abandoned, was passed on the sth inst. at midnight, about two leagues
to the northward of Flores, by the Ivanhoe, M'Alinn, arrived at Cowes
from New Orleans.

Johanna, Murray, hence for Quebec, was spoken Bth inst. in lat. 47
3, lon. 3137.
Wilsons, Inglis, hence for Demerara, was spoken 16th instant off
Tuskar.

THURSDAY, 19th September.—Noon, Wind N.—Fair.
Ault TVED:—Hebe. Field ; and 3 P Dolru, M 'Gibbon, St Petersburgh.
OFF PORT :—Ann Paley, Rolstone, Lisbon.
George, Wright, hence for Maranham, was spoken 3d instant in lat,
44 N, ion. 11 W. _ _ _

LYra, Head, hence for Tampico, was spoken 29th July in lat. 26,
lon. 34 W.
Robert, —, from Para at Trieste.
Fearon, Leonard, hence at Dublin.
SAILED :—Huron, Hardy, for Bombay—Bedford, Campbell, Bremen
Superb,Clucas, Jamaica—Edmond Castle, Fleming, Rio Janeiro—Jean
Steuart, Godber, St Thomas and St Domingo—Bntannia, Short, Bahia
—Tamar, Selkirk. Cape. Good Hope—Robert Russell, Bell ; and Dale,
Burton, New Orleans—George Bentinck, M'Kinney, Pernambuco—
Betsey Heron, Harvey, Revel and St. Petersburgh.