As " spiritual destitution," the wants of the Establishment, and

the Voluntary principle, have been brought prominently before the public this week by Sir Robert Inglis's motion on Church-extension, our readers may like to see an amusing correspondence which took place some weeks ago between Mr. Swynfen Jervis, M.P., and a reverend gentleman who was soliciting subscriptions for a new church to be erected in a parish where 3Ir. Jervis possesses considerable property. The Tory papers in Dorsetshire are very persevering in their use of this correspondence, tin tho, purpose of injuring or annoying Mr. Jervis : but we guess it is labour lost.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE REVEREND T. wAnc, 110N. SEC., AND SWYNTEN JERVIS, Eso.,

( No. 1.)

Kidsgrove, Non easily, Slallbrdsliire, 3011t April 1840.

Sin-At the request of the r. ..oninhttee of Golden 11111 Church. I have the Itononr to

beg your particular and kind attention to euclosed statement. It is proposed shortly to publish a list of subscribers, annul 1 shall be mist thankful if yo.t will permit me to said your name. I Call I. fr011l actual observation as to the extreme spiritual destitution of tine in- habitants of Golden 11111. and th..ir liner inability to provide the me.tos of church- accommodation for thent,el% es in constattionee of their povetty. 'ruder these circum- stances, tile Committer ittee ale coropeliell to apply tin as,i,titnee to 1140 several proprietors of land it. the ticighbutulusal ; they will feel truly thankful for any support that you may Iv able to render them ill their itliere.tine umiettalting.

I hose the honour to month] your must faithful servant. P. NVAItt:, M Mister of Kidsgzove Chinch.

P.S. The favour of an early or will partiettlarly Swytiten Jervis, Esq., 51.1'.

(No. 2.) SIR-1 am favoured with your letter ou the subject of increased eltureloneconnalii- fon. as it is e tiled, at GOMM In answer to that communication, I beg leave respectfully to ole:erve that I will never contribute a sbillintr. it alto Will Mahe the application. towards the :we randisement or any t'avotired I•XelliSire suet ; mine espe- cially one which, like the (lot. ch of 1411,14,1 uotilean ilia having a greateramount

of lliall any priesthood sin 1110 Vac, liod..; ...trill po.,,,,:ses. still " howleth

on fur more," and cruelly poro'cilleS impris.als Ilene who refuse their support to an es'aldislunent Willis) nortrines they abhor. I lament as touch as yoll 130 that destitution and ignorance y. ta ',Hopi:tin of; but 1110.A. WOO (1:Ool be cured, or even mitigwed, in my opinion, bs the building ot' tett thousair I churches. 1 Lace the honour I., be, sir, your very obethent servant, 'Whitehall Place, 1st May 1840. SWYNFEN JsmIS.

(No. 3.)

Kidsgrov l'ar,,onatte, Newcastle, 12th Mar 1810. Sat-1 have to tteknowledge the receipt of sour lett.ae of the lot instant. ii. reply to

mitre of the :lath ; atilt which this day I laid bet.i e the Committee of t:olden Church. lit reply. I 113%1' 1 II, 1,,,11 °UV to Odium you, that is llwy Liu IRA e011,idel. that

either the applie they re.r.ested to make, or the langutee in which it was CDR- veyed, count atstity the manner which yon have replied. they feel it but due to tmcmsrkes in publish lathe twit number of the Nbriii,eai,,iee at.utic the correspondence which has taken place between its.

1 have the honour to remain your obedient servant, P. Want:.

1'.S. 1 10.4 to enclose s,..1 y !.oilr letter. Swyttfen Jervis, M.P. (No. 4.)

SWVEFEE JERVIS.

(NO. 5.) Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, 14111 May 1840. SIR-1 have to acknowledge your letter a tow 13411 instant; and in reply. I beg to say, that at your request it will ti,pear in the publication of (the eorresp, inteace which has taken Mace between us; anti that if thus you be injured in public ,pinion. as you appear to anticipate. time Committee would suborn that you has e alone no ascribe that effect to your own letter of the lit instant, which was a reply to a vent tespectful communication, addressed to you for assistance inn furtherance or au ol,ject which they at least intended :iambi prove beneficial to sumo of your own tett:nary.

Whitehall Place, 13th May 1E0.

SIR—I maim, 110 Dbt,eeS0o %%hale% or to yaur publishing toy letter whenever ;Mil wherever you plett.m. 'Though ...Weil inn haste, 1 s,a, whin.; is it opal re.sul- sitleration which 1 could wish to idler. canto d but admire, however, the truly Christian feelittg evinced tqa,ti re,ointion you have Alms seekit44 to :One ear inn public opinion; it 144.1144 clear as the sun at n on.day that the Church. a: 511011. could derive no possible advatilago from' aunt a proceeding. 1 had: upon it t het e',.cre us an act of pow but impotent vindictive- ness on their part. Publish my letter by all moans. It trill at least prevent any further applications of this kind from a Clutt eh which itwonsistetitiy etiong It decries, and if lain not mistaken designate • the Voltallary principle a: contrary to Scripture, :tint yet unruly saia's con- tributions for the erection mid maintenance a new planes wors11:1i, instead a setting aside ti portion of its superfluous wealth for those sacred purposes.

I have only further to remtest, that whenever our correspondence appears this letter may not be untitled.

I am, Sir, with the ereat:st respect, your very obedient servant, The Dorset County Chronicle, not content with a very abusive

graph by way of introduction to this correspondence, subsequent', charged Mr. Jervis with being himself a " Church-plunderer "—

" This gentleman is the owner of the great tithes of seventeen townsliips6 Staffordshire, and even of the small tithes of some of them; and yet, not cop: tent with so large a share of Church plunder, he adds the grossest insultk the most palpable injury, and refuses to contribute a shilling out of his suer;. legious possessions towards raising that church from its very limited mestizo( usefulness ; or, to use his own language, • towards the aggraudisement of a voured sect.' lieu pietas) Ileu prism fides."

This paragraph being copied into a Staffordshire paper, attracted:1k Jervis's attention, and produced a reply which " fitted the saddle to Ow, right horse," and exhibited Churchmen as the plunderers of the Church- " I am charged with being one of those who possess, for their own private es, and emolument, a large portion of the spoils of the very Church which I liaf, dared to characterize as rolling in superfluous wealth. The spoils of the Church, forsooth!—that Church, be it remembered, which had no recognized existence prior to the Reformation, which herself rose upon the ruins of PopeAl to the spoils of which, amounting, at the present time, to little less than Cre millions per annum, and not to her hold upon the national mind, she herself owes her present power 811d predominance. But to descend more into para, :Mars. According to this well-informed champion of the Church, I am the owner of the great tithes of seventeen townships, anti even the small tithes of some of them. This is a most unfortunate assertion ; for it so happens that the tithes of these several townships, forming together the parish of Chebsey, are not lay, but clerical, and are simply held by me under a lease from the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, whose reverend predecessors granted the lease in question to one of my predecessors, without any regard to their successors, whose interests were thus sacrificed to the greediness of those who went before m them. A clearer case of Cliurch-plunder, and by reverend Churchmen too, it V; would be difficult to point out."

No doubt, a very potent cause of the Church's poverty may be found in such bargains as Mr. Jervis alludes to. The Church has been robbed i'`4 by her own ministers.