The Sun. — 1835-11-26 (London, England)

ABOLITION OF TITIIES.—FrOM all that we have hitherto seen and read of the now leaders of the agriculturists, a shallower set 'of brainless quacks never claimed for their nostrums the attention of mankind. They seem not yet to have attained a'conception of ti fact, that the price of corn produced at the least expense, when the sellers are the offerers, determines the market price of the whole ; and that it is impossible for the growers of wheat at 50s. the quarter to compete with those who grow it at 30s. At this time wheat is grown cheaper in Ireland and Scotland than in any other part of Europe ; and that cheap wheat admitted freely into our • market determines the price of the whole. But we cannot keep the almost untithed produce of Scotland and Ireland out of our markets ; and these is no alternative 'therefore but to let the produce of the English agriculturists come into the market tithe free. There was ati Ise when we were the advocates of a compromise with the tithe-owners, and of commutation ; but the free admission of untithed produce to our markets alters the whole question. As long as the people were exclusively fed on tithed wheat, the consumers, and not the land-owners and farmers, paid the tithes ; but the instant untithed wheat came freely and abundantly into the market, and the instant, in consequence of the introduction of steam navigation, a great part of. almost untithed Ireland and of untithed Scotland could send produce cheaper to London than the farmers of the Weald of Sussex, the whole of the tithes fell on the farmers and the landowners. But a parliamentary parson is the parson of the whole of the people ; and the whole of the people, as well as the farmers and land-owners, ought to pay for his services. At present therefore a commutation of tithes, leaving the expense of the commutation to be defrayed ' out of the land, would not satisfy the justice of the case ; and we require the abolition of tithes, making the nation at large, if it choose to have a parliamentary church, pay a general tax for the service of the parliamentary parsons. Of course the life-interest of those who have a claim in tithe should be provided for, and sOme compensation should be made to those who have purchased tithes ; but neither the one nor the other has any more reason to expect a full compensation than the slave-owners could.—Brighton Guardian On Thursday se'nnight, an ox was killed in the slaughter-house of -Mr. P. Lockie, butcher, Sunderland, in which was found a case-knife about eight and a half inches long. MILITARY FLOGGING AT WooLwicil.=—Yesterday, Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for West Kent, attended, as we are informed, at the War Office, for the purpose of obtaining a copy of the minutes of the Court Martial held upon James Ramsay, the private in the Royal Marines, whOse death is alleged to have .been occasioned by the severe flogging he received for a breach of military discipline. As much importance is attached in cases of this kind to the question of responsibility, viz.,—whether it rests with the sentence of the CoUrt Mai tial or the Commanding" Officer who presides at the infliction - of the punishment, or the Surgeon of the regiment, whose authority is generally understood to be paramount on these occasions. The object'of Mr. Carttar's visit to the Horse Guards was understood to be for the purpose of thoroughly informing himself of the military customs observed in such instances. The inquest on the unfortunate man was, therefore, not held yesterday, as was expected, but will take place to-morrow evening. Yesterday forenoon an inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, Coroner, and a respectable Jury, at the sign of the London Apprentice, opposite Isleworth Church, to inquire concerning the death of a man unknown, whose body was found floating in the river on Monday last. - In the pockets of the clothes were found a book entitled the Perils of the Sea, a red leather memorandum-book, with a brass clasp and blank leaves, a knife, a lead-pencil, 3s. 6d. in silver, 7d. in copper, and a duplicate of a watch, pawned- for 12s. on the 30th ult. at the shop of Mr. Allen, 21, Clare-street; in the name of " Samuel Parker, 161, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields." The deceased has the appearance of having been a respectable tradesman, being dressed in a blue coat, drab trowsers, white stockings, and shoes, and is supposed to be about 40 years of age. The body appeared to have been in the water about three weeks, and is supposed to be that of a man who threw himself into the river at Twickenham on the 31st of last month. Verdict, " Found drowned." Another inquisition was taken before Mr. Payne, at the Grapes, Whitecross-street, on the body of Mr. James Stevens, butcher, of Newgate-muket, who committed suicide by cutting his throat. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."