ent" Daddy! It is a tax on vessels carrying goods in and out of the country, just as a custom-house duty is a tax. This may be a very wise tax, because it enables the Government to make the conditions on which foreign vessels trade with this country less advantageous than those on which our vessels carry on their trade. But, at any rate, it is a tax, and every article that we consume, and which comes from abroad, pays part of this tax; and every ounce of tea, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, that is used by the poor half-starved souls on the Daddy's estates, pays the Daddy something in this tax! But suppose it was not a tax, but an estate, it still belongs to the nation, as much as the crown-lands belong to it; the income is the nation's, and if the nation had had it here, instead of its being given to this old greedy Whig-Patriot, the nation would have owed a million less of debt; for he has had the interest upon interest 'of these 200,000l. or more!

to which use the whole ought to go. regular account; and in a place, too, He pretends that this is not public mo- where the Daddy and his brutal band of ney; that it is not a tax. What a oppressors will not be able to groan him miserable shuffle for the Old "independ-down, and where the ruffians will groan in earnest. The Daddy knows all this and, therefore, he hates reul reform: all the faction know it, and they hate too, and they are now shuffling about the cards to see how they can give the name without giving the thing. They know well that the POLITICAL UNIONS are resolved to support them and the bill; and why, then, do they want to put down the Political Unions? What! do they object to being supported! Oh, no! They love place as they love life. It is the Bill that they do not want to see supported. This is what they are afraid of. They know that the people will be disappointed; they know that they do not intend "the Bill;" they know that, when the Unions discover this, the Unions will be against them ; and, therefore, they want to put down the Unions. That is plainly the case; and I beg my readers not to believe in any other cause for this putting down. However, the country is alarmed; it is full of suspicion; and, though trick after And yet the bull-frog brutes bawled trick will be tried, the tricks will all fail at Sir Thomas Beevor! The truth is, at last; a real reform will come, and the brutes have tax-eating or tithe-eat- Daddy Coke's sinecure will be amongst ing sons and relatives. They are in the the first things to be overhauled, it besame boat with the Daddy, and theying one of the grossest and most scanwill all go down together. One would dalous abuses that ever was heard of in think that they had now blaze enough the long history of the abuses of this to enlighten them! And does the Daddy profligate system. hope to sack this money after the reform! If a reformed Parliament suffer him to sack it for a year, that Parliament will be reformed again: I can tell him LINCOLN COUNTY MEETING. that: ay, and he may think himself well off, if he be allowed to keep what THE proceedings in this great county he has got. Not if I can prevent it, he are rendered very interesting by the shall not. He has no ground whatever | RESOLUTIONS proposed by GENERAL to justify his ever having touched a JonNSON, particularly that relating to the hilling of this money. He was never bishops. By-the-by, they say, that he n the public service: he has no pre-of Winchester is dead! He was hanged tence of the sort; and yet he has been in effigy, on the top of the marketreceiving these immense sums during place, in my native town of Farnham, more than half a century. He, indeed, rail against tax-eaters! However, let Sir THOMAS BEEVOR laugh; for the time 1 not long before he will and must have it in his power to call the Daddy to a

which market-place is just opposite (500 yards distant from) his palace; and after hanging just about as long as the real body of poor Cook, of Micheldever, hanged in sight of his other pa

lace, the effigy was taken down, set fire Cast hill. During the day preceding the to, and flung over into one of his gar-meeting, it was generally rumoured that Col. dens. The Bishop of Winchester had Sibthorp, who is at Stamford, would be pre

sent at the meeting, and the greatest fears of a disturbance were entertained in consequence. Several hundreds of the inhabitants were sworn in special constables, and every precaution taken to prevent disturbance. Happily, however, the Colonel did not make his appearance, and every-thing passed off quietly.

The HIGH SHERIFF (Henry Bacon Hickman, Esq.) took his station on the hustings shortly before one o'clock, accompanied by Sir Robert Heron, the Hon. C. A. Pelham, Sir Charles Anderson, Sir Wm. A. Ingliby, Sir M. J. Cholmley, C. Tennyson, Esq., M.P., A. Tuunard, Esq., M. Allington, Esq., Major Boucherett, Esq., General Jackson, C. K. Handley, Henry Handley, Esq., Col. Braycroft, Col. King, Major Alix, Healey, Esq., and several other gentlemen of high reputation the county.

The requisition being read,

The HIGH SHERIFF requested an impartial hearing for all who wished to address the meeting.

three palaces; one at Winchester, one at Farnham, and one at Chelsea. NORTH, some years ago, got an act passed to sell the palace at Chelsea, and to test the proceeds for the use of himself and successors. If law can be made to sell one palace, why not to sell the other two; and if to vest the proceeds for the bishops and their families, why not to vest them for the public? This is the point. It is the temporalities and not the spiritualities that are in question now. The law now declares, that Catholics and dissenters are just as fit for all offices of trust as church people are; that they are as fit to be Peers, Parlia-in ment-men, Judges, and every-thing else; and, therefore, there can be no reason at all for heaping ail this public wealth on bishops and other clergy. Sir Sir ROBERT HERON then came forward, and ROBERT HERON seems to have made a deliberation as to the policy of calling a meetaddressed the meeting. There had been much stand for the Right Reverend Fathers;ing at the present inclement season, but the but the reception that his proposition met with ought to teach him, that the day of delusion is gone by. We do not hear who is to succeed him of Winchester. He was far greater than four or five of petty" sovereigns" of beggarly Germany put together; those petty things, to whom England has so long been able of the limited time of the meeting. (Loud milch cow, surpassing one of my Alderneys at Kensington, and she gives eighteen quarts of milk a day, and makes about ten pounds of butter a week. Read the following report with attention: it is very briefly given; but it will show you that the doom of the "Church property," as it is called, is decided.

At Lincoln, on Friday, another procf (if more were wanting) of the sandy foundation on which the boroughmongering cry of reaction is raised, was given by the freeholders and inhabitants of Lincoln. In pursuance of a requisition to the High Sheriff, signed by several hundred freeholders, a meeting, atteaded by several thousand persons, was held on the Castle-hill. The original appointed place of meeting was at the Castle; but, as we understand, it being intimated by a noble Lord to the High Sheriff, that if any disturbance took place, the safety of the prison would be endangered, it was thought fit to hold it on the

magnitude of the subject for which it was to be called overpowered all objections, and it was alacrity with which the assembly had obeyed with great satisfaction that he perceived the the summons of the Sheriff. (Cheers.) As, doubtless, there were many gentlemen present who would wish to state their opinion to the meeting, he would endeavour to set them a good example, by consuming as little as possi

cheers.) It was utterly unnecessary for him to go in detail into the question of reform; it and been the object of the hope and fears, of was one that had so long agitated the minds, the people, as to render it totally unnecessary for him to give the meeting any information upon it. (Cheers.) It was not till the present Administration came into power, that a measure so beneficial to the interests of the people was attempted to be brought forward. The present Ministry, with all their great experience, and with the utmost anxiety to produce a measure which would be salutary and beneficial to the country, had brought forward one, to which every true-born Englishman looked with delight, and felt that the beam of hope had now gladdened on his path. (Cheers.) He (Sir Robert Heron) should content himself with making a few observations on the grounds which principally actuated the bitter opponents of reform. It had been said that Lord Grey ought to have resigned when the bill was rejected by the House of Lords-the bill was then permanently lost, and that he must and should resign. (Loud cheers, and cries of "We'll have him again if he does.") In his opinion, if Lord Grey were at the pre

sent crisis to desert his King, to abandon the people to anarchy, confusion, and blood, then he would deserve to lose his head upon the block. (Loud cheering.) It had been also said that Ministers were not sincere, that they had compromised the bill, that the one they intended now to introduce would not be satisfactory to the people. (Loud cries of "It will." Who among the present Ministry, he would ask, were the men that had done so Was it Lord Grey or Lord Brougham, or did Lord Althorp wear it on his sleeve for "daws to peck at? (Cheers.) For himself he had not the slightest doubt that the bill which would shortly be introduced into the House would be a far better bill than the one that had been rejected. (Loud cheers.) It would] preserve its essentials, and would probably have lost some of those anomalies, errors, and mistakes, which necessarily accompanied a measure so complicated as the rejected bill How could it possibly be said that a less efficient measure would be brought forward, when the country had the solemn pledge of Lord Grey and Lord Althorp that it should be as effective as the last? (Loud cheers.) If the meeting would not believe in the honesty of Lord Althorp, neither would they believe one though risen from the dead." (Loud cheers.) The hon. Bart. concluded by proposing the following Address :

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"To the King's most Excellent Majesty.

We, e, your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the inhabitants of the county of Lincolu, by the authority of our Sheriff duly assembled, beg leave to approach your Majesty with the warmest feelings of admiration and gratitude -gratitude for your gracious desire to grant to us the sacred right of a real aud fair representation-admiration of the firmness of purpose with which you have persevered in that benevolent resolution, amidst so many difficulties and against so much opposition.

"We rely with the fullest confidence on the success of the efforts of your Majesty and your honest servants, and we pray that your reign may be long and happy, as we know that it must be accounted glorious by the latest posterity."

had brought it forward-and who, he (Mr. A.) trusted, would live to see its happy conclu sion. It was impossible also to suppose that the people would not trust to Lord Brougham -a man whose talents had excited the admiration of the whole country-one who, in a simple hour, did more than ordinary mortals could accomplish in the course of a day. (Loud cheers.) It was impossible, also, to suppose that the country would not trust the Marquis of Lansdown and Lord Althorp— whose very names need only be mentioned to ensure their sincerity. He begged of the meeting to be united and firm, and they would be sure of the Reform Bill being carried. Mr. Anderson concluded by secouding the address.

Mr. TENNYSON, M.P., suggested that the word " grant" in the address should be left out, and the word "promote" substituted, as it appeared to imply that the liberties of the people were grants from the crown. Sir R. HERON accepted the alteration with thanks.

The address was unanimously agreed to. General JOHNSON then rose: He was extremely glad to see the unanimity that prevailed in the meeting, and though he thought the Address perfectly satisfactory as far as it went, yet he could not suppose that it conveyed the sentiments of that large county, and he should, therefore, with the permission of the meeting, follow it up with one or two resolu tions, which he would read :

"1st. That we the inhabitants of Lincoin, in County Court assembled, feel most grateful to our good King for his assistance in effecting the great work of reform in the Commons House of Parliament. We desire to support his Majesty's Ministers in carrying the bill into a law, imploring them urgently to advise his Majesty to dismiss from official situations under his control all persons who have shown decided hostility to that measure."

"2ud. We reflect with indignation upon the conduct pursued by a majority of the heredi tary peers in rejecting the Reform Bill. This conduct we ascribe to faction, to self-interest, and thirst of immoderate power. (Tremendous cheering.) For the conduct of the spiritual peers we entertain a feeling which no language C. ANDERSON, Esq., seconded the address. can adequately express. (Loud cheers.) We He thought the present meeting would be are firmly of opinion, that in order to secure considered as a sufficient proof that no re-the right of the crown and the liberties of the action had taken place in the sentiments of people, faction must be suppressed, mal-ap the freeholders and inhabitants of Lincoln propriation of public money he corrected, and with respect to this great and important mea- ecclesiastics confined to their spiritual funcsure, and that they trusted still in the great, tions." (Deafening cheers.) talents of the Ministers speedily to pass the "We are determined to use our utmost exReform Bill. It was utterly impossible to ertions to maintain peace and order, convinced suppose that the people of England would not as we are that through them alone can the trust their truly British Monarch, who, from people obtain redress of grievances, relief the very first period when he mounted the from excessive taxation, and such a representhrone, had been endeavouring to do all in his tation as will insure a wise and cheap Governpower for the benefit and happiness of his ment." people. It was impossible to suppose, too, that the people would not trust Earl Grey, who had grown old in advocating this measure-who, on his first entering into power,

At the first meeting that he (Gen. Johnson) had the honour of attending in the county of Lincoln, he had avowed that his object was then precisely what it was now, and he had

I ONCE before strongly recommended this pamphlet, which is called, "AN ARGUMENT, SHOWING THAT THE TITHES BELONG TO THE PUBLIC AND THE POOR." In this pamphlet there is what I never was able to give, namely, the law of the Sir ROBERT HERON said, to the first resolu-case. As far as history and reason went, tion he could not object; to the third no man I showed this matter clearly enough; could object; but he must object to the second. but Mr. EAGLE has given us LAW for it, With regard to the bishops, he at all times

should be ready to conciliate the respect of from the first dawn of Christianity in the country for their characters by taking England to the present day, and has

business to seek out the great- ithe owner. In cases where there is neither rector nor vicar, and the parish is left to a poor miserable curate by the lay-improprietor, the notice ought to be given to him. You will find him out at fleecing time, I'll warrant you.

proved that, according to law, the Parliament has the clear right to take all the tithes, and to dispose of them as it thinks proper. I was so well satisfied of the great utility of this pamphlet, that, as my readers will remember, I recommended the author to publish an edition to be sold for 6d. This he has Mr. O'CONNELL, in a speech recently now done, and I have just got a copy made upon the subject of tithes, is refrom his booksellers, Messrs. Saunders ported to have said, that he wished that and Benning, No. 43, Fleet-street. But, I knew that the tithes in Ireland were besides the price, this edition has ano- collected by the police. I have long ther great convenience, íor, in an ad- known it, and a hundred times state vertisement prefixed to it, the author the scandalous fact. They are not colhas given the form of a notice, which he leeted by the police, but by soldiers, and recommends all parish officers to serve oftener that way than in any other. in writing upon the tithe-owners of their But, in fact, is it much otherwise in respective parishes, in order to obtain England? Ask any farmer whether he from those tithe-owners the portion of thinks; nay, ask any parson whether the tithes necessary for repair of the he thinks that tithes would be collected churches and for relief of the poor. I in England, if there were no soldiers. do hope that parish officers will at once Ask him that! But what surprised me act upon this advice. The clergy will bery much was, to hear Mr. O'CONNELL not obey, perhaps. Then a subscription say, that he would suffer the present of several parishes will bring the matter parsons to have the tithes for their lives! into a court of law, and then we shall Lives! why, a plenty of them will live have the matter clearly understood by for fifty years. Besides, what confusion! every living soul. Lord LYNDHURST, in This parish would be paying tithe-tax, opposing the Reform Bill, and in stating and the next parish would not. And that the bill would overset the Church, then, deans and chapters (the greatest alluded to this pamphlet as put forth devourers of all) never die. And then with "high legal sanction." His Lord- again, the lay-parsons; what right to ship did not say, nor insinuate, that the take from their sons more than from pamphlet contained any-thing false, or them. And then, an old lay-parson may even erroneous. He knew well that it sell to a young one. The Duke of Dedid not he knew that it was unanswer-vonshire may sell his tithes of twenty able: but he voted against the bill, parishes in Ireland to a parson half as because the bill would bring the doc-old as himself, Oh, no! it must be trines of the pamphlet into practice! clean work, or no work at all. There is That it would have done this is certain; and that some other bill, or some event or other, will very speedily do it, Lord Lyndhurst may be well assured.

The copy of the notice which Mr. EAGLE has given, is, the reader will see, addressed to the Dean and Chapter of Ely, they being the receivers of the great tithes of the parish of LECKENHEATH, in which he is a landowner. They are also church landowners in the same parish; and, therefore, this notice applies to them in the latter capacity also. But, in general, the notice ought to be served on the RECTOR, or, where here is a vicar, on him; for it is his

law for taking away at once; but no law (at least no precedent) for garbling work, like that talked of by Mr. O'Connell. The country wants immediate relief; and, besides, who ever yet heard of a dead parson? It is a saying in the country, that no man ever yet saw a dead parson or a dead exciseman. I never did, at any rate; nnd I never knew any body that did. I now insert the advice of Mr. EAGLE to parish officers; and, as I said before, this pamphlet ought to be kept in the hands of every parish officer in the kingdom.