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London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JAN. 3.
IP me was embed to assign the cause of th strange
sad limitable failures of popular parties in this
mushy to manes upon its government theebeervance
anatomy sod of principles ealesdated to alleviate
the promo em the leis and struggling sheet%
the mom could to pehtsd oatumbers ems is the
*Aim of the psgaWperty itself, and is the whims
secasioned by Wielded vanity or seek width
have distracted east:. and sheaths, and
led Dinh to sin views, and n
theorise, atm of the most metaphysisel
indeed at aiming at practical ends tar,
daylight of common seem which skims for all sod
was intended to keep all from straying.
Let m only look at the Birmingham sehool—what
Went" it has absorbed, what energies beamebsti,
what power asstrafised. It has withdrawn from or
roodwed stalkless,. and indifferent amidst the no-
current of opium one of the greatest towas of
the kingdom, and ?creed its Ohm mew to give up
to a entree' what was meant for otheldnd ; it hes,
at least in the past, thorn them of their doe influent),
sad weight both in parliareat and oat of it, and
Mord still detracts from their power, and mass their
assfulness.
It is theakulable what the gory and the red-teps
sobool hes owed to these theorise and halluchatioes,
to these mare quarrels between the colour of leeks,*
is the awes, whisk bas distracted popular &Wro-
th/a from true, vital, and palpable lots.
rests. Symptoms of a similar kind, and
movements that betoken similar schisms arta evident in
many inmert and local centres of the nerd
party. nos mss published a letter yesterday, an able
me, frost the Secretary of the Liverpool N. aniseed=
for the adjasbnent of taxation, in which the writer
forbids gs to stir one peg until we have grit settled
the esratroven, between threat and indirect taxation—
nay, net soly settled it to oar own doggish's. bat
brought round the world to oar °putties. Me.
OM= even falls under the wsight of this gentle-
man% dispassion, boomers be does not go forth
to hotfoot the people. He probably thinks
that the people Sr. sufficiently alive to the hordes&
which gall them and are sufficiently instructed to
make an immediate effort for retrenchment—that
rem effort, which, without metaphysim or political
sconeney. would, on the instant. Wag prandall
NAM' to their senses, and fora than peastacally into
aim very path which the Secretary of the Liverpool
Onefederation would prefer taking two years. lay, to
prove by syllogisms and advance by preschtm, with-
est being me atom mare advanced to the desired oat-
elision than be is at present
No maxim could be more true, than that a gauntry
ought not to be taxed more than it could pay on a
fair and emu scheme of direct taxation ; and had such
a scheme been originally and permanently a national
me, we amid never have expended, or been burdened
as we hays tom BM the Wise has been allowed to
gather, and were it now all distributed in direct taxa;
%ice at case, the become of realised property would net
Naos. And we am much mistakee, if eying ea-
paged in iadestry would sot thereby be leaded with
last se heava burden as that whale sow remise
it through the aireuit of indirect taxation. As it is,
this great mutual wealth of the comb, is distributed
is the shape of profits and of iadeedial incase. And
we doubt altogether the feasibility el any scheme,
sock as that of Mr. *demos's, for example, which
sets oat with their exemption.
And lhor,o.r=lises, one of the gladdest abserdi
tii,;:fir or would vemogreds philo-
os=ima who oboe industrial
sa pogrom An the moment that
menu maw the seemat the eimelietty of mode°.
tioq wow,fr IplM wousollyoopoti Wake,
Ms oily toot Meek remiss
from whams to draw revamp of the state is tbe
moans from recerluiCrtv, which at the very in-
sight wool I be sad confiscated by it. incept-
Mli:y to meet tech a dimand.
That an adjustment should take place between the
digermat kinds of income warmed is too obvious not to

be in every one's Wad. AU pectins allow it and
W diSsehy at pianist lies rather in the isles of the
' mode, then is the denial of the !abuses of the de-
mand. Bat it would be a sad mistlinetioa of the
public marries to concentrate them ups& this cue point,
and by so dela( separate and hitter the great =Wrests
whisk might be tecteght to bear for a more anti=
sesesurs
The writer d the letter in ear hapremien of yestes•
day map rely it, that to make the re-adjustment
of die the great besinem of 1849, is anti
oat of patilaammt, woad be simply throwing
away the year with the public' and the seek= with
the padiamset. The pastime' dillioultien of the ad-
jnotaisst nee, in the first insanme, peat. The Mails
would give rise to a thawed MIMS. The mein
would come forward se the eirogisea of dm purer
holden of realised property, and the =dads= woad
haw appoitimity of weighing the arguments
of seallang parties, and drawing from both a
for=reams for raiding questioae at economy
sr, and deferaafasa thaw respecting the equali-
sation of the pans
But there k sae one eq, in which all can
join, biome all andimetned, aid that is retresehment.
Confine adaiders within the illemeitie chola of forty
million of expeditors, and they will soon squibs
and reform. Indira= and direst taxation are two shores
of an napetnons river, of whisk the current now sets
with violence spinet the indirect bank. Of this
every flood sweeps away a flake, which, if not car-
ried away by the stream, is silently delimited
upon the direct taxation shore. The washing away
from the one are forming the sew bounder" of the
other. And this natural phenomenon is taking plea
of itselL without argument or agitation, by neemity,
sad by the silent conviction= of the public, of podia-
mint, and of statesmen. Let the Liverpool Confede-
ration then avoid the =elm effort of adding Oxen to
what is already programing. The vessel floats of it.
self towards port, the wind is for it as well es the
tide with it—why add or apply the steam-tug ?
But whilst the theory sad expediency of direct
taxation makes rack= ws of itself, and bide fair
to bees realisable as the came of retrench-
ment, which in at the root of this and ail other finan-
cial reforms, requires all the combination, the efforts,
and the energy, that liberal men can devise. Let them
concentrate their ids= and their power upon this,
which, if realised, mast have the widest results, sot
merely on finance, but on the piece of the world, and
on the predominance of parties in this country.

Ws are always. es is suggested by a oornepoodeat
who.. letter in explanation of the stare on
Caddewits Palace will be found elsewhere, ready " to
do the tallest justice" toot on the bishops. But in too
mazy inehmese this doing full justice on them involves
an eyesore of their own iajustice to the church.
lUist fir sample, we are very desirous of doing
the " Mestjesties "to Dr. SUMNER, the Primate ;
to his pirsomel piety, to his just moderation, and to
his earnest devotion to those views of Christian doc-
trine whisk be holds to be the troth. But, notwith-
standing title desire, we entertain not the smallest
doubt that the enormous income assignoeed by law,
16,0001. a year, besides a brace of palaces, to the
primacy, M a pima of the rankest injustice to the
church and to the people of Eogland. And if it be the
fact, as we infer from the evidence given Ware a
parliamentary committee of last session, that the pre-
sent primate receives 3,0001. a year, in addition to his
legal stipend of 16,0001., cot of the Episcopal Fend,
to pay the interest of the sum borrowed on security of
the spoof Canterbury for the repair of Lambeth Palms
and Addington House, the doing full jostles to that
fad very materially diminishes the respect we desire
to feel for Dr. Bunn= personally.
Thus, again, we are most inpous to do the "fullest
justice" to Dr. llavree, the Bishop of Durham; we
acknowledge the orthodoxy of his whiggery and the
soundness of his Omsk. Bat we think that the bar-
gain he made with the Ecclesiastical Commission
on his translation to Durham, Whereby he has alien-
ated from the cause of church extension to his own

see and behest sword them es& a yew—that the
jobs (for they are sethiegleitjahs) he has sanctioned
at Hoegblesda-liedeg asa Bids= Wearmouth—that
his lova allemes bt Loados be his see—ors most un-
just to the ohm&
And = it is with Dr. WlLexesoics, the Bishop of
Oxford, in whole defence the letter which provokes
these observations is written. We wish to do " the
feaLestrimedmaise "to his as smallest qualities ;to his
eiheissibip, to his reedy eloquence, to
heisfeel tests @obis refined sociability, and to his ele-
hespitality. But to do the "fullest jostle@ "
hile seeded is digress, to Caddeeden Pales*, W-
edges grave censure, not praise er satisfaction. For
the efrimeo est ur b 7 . Ow ae Ms EMT,/ gals Dio-
s* to Oxford is an avoidance of, and not an
waver to, the charge against Dr. Waiter:tam
That prelate obtained from the Ecclesiastical Com-
nisei= 3,8001. wherewith to repair the poises, on
condition that all expenditure thereon beyond that
ma should be defrayed by himself, " his exertion,
or administrators." When it was spent, Dr. WIL-
-51131011C1 disregarded the imodition, which had been
laid before parliament, and indoced the odentisidon
to grant hen 1,3001, Caere. And that ems being
also laid oat. he made a third application for more
money—be asked for the further sum of 1,7004: but
the eocamissies had no farther funds at the time to
indulge him with. The Bishop of OXFORD, there-
upon, turned his application for a grant into a re-
quest to be permitted to. charge his we to that ex-
tent. And at a board. meetieg, whoa there were
sixteen ecclesiastical commiseioners and only two lay
commissioners present. this request was acceded
to. Now, to do the " fulled justice " to these
fade we are coopelld to mai, that they display
an utter disregard by Dr. WILDWORCS of the
conditions into whisk be voluntarily entered ; and that
bare justice to the Church on kis part sight to lead
him, or " his emeders sr administrators," to pay to
the Eccleeiestical Commission the sum of 2,0001. That
reinnded, we will he bold enough to add that, both
himself and the twenty candidates for orders fur
whom he has, aecording to our correspondents pro-
vided beds at Cuddeeden, will sleep all the better for
the fulfilment by him of the terms on which be bad
the original 3,94.101. to spend.
' Leaving Da.,WILDIPZOICZ, in the hqe that be will
nesse or !este do " justice" to himself in this peed-
osier, we proceed to "do justice" to some others of
W Weans on the episcopal bench.
&fare, however, giving further instances of the
sulkies@ way in which the Ecclesiastical Commission
Ise waded, for the bent fit of bishops, the property of
ehoweb, entrusted by the legislature to them for its
administration, we must repeat our sense of the
imperfect manner in which Mr. EVELYN DIMON'S
IWO bete ineeetigated and reported= the =b-
eamed to it. Had indeed that gentleman been
and paid by the Ecclesiastical Commission to
do its work on the committee, he could not have
mere efficiently sad zealously misted that body.
The composition of the committee, the times at
which it at, the order of witnesses chiefly examined.
the delays that wen practised, the important quo-
te= that were shirked and cushioned, and the pre-
deiniesese that wee given in the inquiry to a mere
leselquedion in which Mr. Dasisosi was pecuniarily
iStemesei, lave not the slightest doubt that the
what !abject.
.of the policy and conduit of
the iellldelesis Commission las been mod imper-
fectly essliesd into; and that had it not been for the
interlunar eel energy of Mr. Holmium, something
very like sews between the committee and the eons-
mild= info* have bees the result of the reference.
?be emednes vas first moved for by Mr. Dawn
`the min of 1141. Lord JOHN Rueens. sweet=
to the meekk es esaditioa that the names of the
tombs= to ammo the committee should previously
to its nomination receive the approval of the Primate,
and that every ecclesiastical commissioner in the
Mouse of Commons should be placed thereon. The
committee, as is usual, consisted of fifteen members;
and when to the five cocleriutical commissioners
we add Mr. EVaLTX trar4lB73-Y. Mr. Gismo@ E,
Lord MAYON, Lord ASHLEY, Sir JOHN YEOL-
Lorz, and Sir JOHN Y. Boutelt, we have thus
a majority of eleven members from whom little
that was useful was to be expected. In 1847 the
committee did not commesee ite labours until the
session was on the point of expiring, and it or mired
no witnesses unconnected with the commission. The
followi^g semi= commenced in November, 1847, bat
it was not until May,lBlB, that Mr. Damao@ get
the committee re-appointed ; it was nut until Ivor
that is sittings began again : and it was not until
August (when the attendoust on the committee was
reduced toile) that the report was agreed on. The
consequence is the unworthiness of that document ;
ev, n thou4h it is • document condemnatory of the
commission.