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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1851.

heir having the full number of bishops they have now the vicars apostolic, and no ease was shown that there was 1
but any ilierease on that number they may think fit. any impediment to their religion.
The real *premien is, that they pretend not to recognise Lord H. VANE said he felt, like the right hon. bast., the :
say as Christians except thermelves-that they assume to' member fur Ripon, and some others who had spoken, that
govern the whole territory, and by their theory which is in the hands of the noble lord there was no danger, but this
f malty different from the fact. They assume that all bap- bill would be misapplied, and that upon him fell the re- ;
Used penults are subject to their own bishops, and to their sponlibility.
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own priests, and that they are not, as they . really are, per-
Mr. FARHERsaid he also trusted that this bill might be ,
sons Iselooging to the aumnt ?throws of this coustry, and . virtually inoperative, and that there would be nonecessity for
professing that faith, but that they themselves are calling it into operation.
the only Christians in the whole community. (Cheers.) 1 Mr. S. IlEltliEllT said he should not protest against this
Ls long as this pretendon is kept up we can- ' bill, because he had listened to the various arguments for
not allow such pretensions to prevail, nor can the bill, to the various amendments that had been proposed,
we allow to be erased from our statute honk cer- and had heard such various statements of authority,
Min previsions made against that assumption. (Cheers.) that it was impossible for him to say what the effect
But I own it appear, to me if they were guided by the of thee hill would be, or what the effect of the existing law
commonest prudence-if they were guided by ordinary ' was previous to the time when this bill was introduced.
common sense -nothisee would lie easier than for them to The two amendments which had been passed that night no
appoint their biehope and, r eirennsstances and with desig- ' doubt had materially altered the character and complexion
nation, which would give wf :nee to no one, which would ' of the hill ; and he lamented the difficulty under which the
not interfere with the ewer. missy of the Queen of this coon- , Solicitor-General found himself to be placed when he had
try. and which, being entirely of a religious character, to argue-first, that the amendments were of so dangerous
would be wholly innoceitt. (Cheers) This therefore, is a character that they ought to be resisted ; and secondly,
my reason for not considerine that, even with the amend- , anticipating defeat, that they were of such slight import-
=cuts which have been carried on the bill, there is anything since that the government could accept them. In the course
that can he called pereeeution et it. (Hear, hear.) We jof these diecuesione it was objected to this measure that, in
are bound, while we admit all persons to pro- ! the precipitation in which it was introduced, the governs
fess and praetice their awn religion, not to allow ! ment themselves were not aware of the extent to which
any foneen eisereign to presume to have a sway and i they were attempting to legislate. What he complained of
government in this countre which is inconsistent with the ! the bill principally for, however, was that it haul taken the
sway and government w'aieh fairly belongs to the Queen ! place of measures that might have practically counteracted
of England. (('imers.) Kush is the supremacy which, I the aggression which they viewed with so much apprehension
think, will be emerted by this bill ; and I trust that, after and dislike. A measure with respect to church property
the measure has passed. :he Roman catholic portion of the was in the Lords, and there was no chance of its being
people of this enmmueity will eee that they have a perfect sent down in time to be passed. Then the noble lord the
right to ellernise their own relirion ; but that they will have 1 W member for oodetock'e (the Marquis of Blandford's)
mo-
no
right at all to say that they are to override the powers tion respecting epiritual destitution, the motion upon
of the parliament of this country, and decide as they church rater, a question of immense practical importance
please with ri aped to its government. (Cheer', and to the church, and other measures which would have been
..illar, hear.")._ of great real efficiency against a system which they believed
Mt. oLAns-rosE In lieved that he spoke generally the to he hostile to the truth and prejudicial to the state-had
gentle:lents of the h0w..., and certainly the sentiments of the all been ' shelved." lie objected to the bill, moreover, on
noble lord, when he expreee il hie own unfeigned regret on the ground that it took from the church what in 1829 was
&scoutst of the position in which they were accidentally her proudest boast-namely, that being convinced of the
placid on that oreteien. When they were passing a soundness of her teaching and the justice of her claims,
law of a r strietive and penal nature, however justifiable she would not condescend to ask for the protection of legal
and proper that meteor.. might he, which of course he did enactments (Loud cheers.)
not ',tine re the ease of tb,• present bill, it was, in his The amendment was then put and negatived, and the
judirment, of the first importance, that at every stage of the original motion was carried without a division.
proerew of such a measure there should be demonstrative The SPEAKER, amidst loud cheers, then ordered, in
evidence of tlo calm, ant deliberate, and respectful atten- the usual form, the bill to be sent to the Lords.
tion of parliament, nue only to the arguments, but the The Assessed Taxer. Composition Bill, the Public Works
feelings of thew.: with whom they haul immediately to deal ; Fisheries, etc., Bill, and the l'ublic Works (Ireland) Bill,
and he feared that parties out of doors, who were not con- were passed through committee.
versant with the forme of the house, might be under the The amendments on the Loan Societies Bill were consi-
impreseien that there haul been a readiness. on the present deted and agreed to.
occasion to give Hu go-by to a fair discussion on the matter. The Chief Justices Salaries Bill was passed through corn-
The parliamentary bietory of the measure was an remark- mittee.
able, and the elnet of its legal bearings, as stated by legal The Eceleeirestical Property Valuation (Ireland) Bill was
gentlemen, oi compile:4nel and ...mimed, that it was greatly read a third time and passed.
to have been dueired that they should have had the oppor- The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Bill was read •
tunity of n s hewing the argument, and of having such a second time, and neutered to be committed on Monday.
diecuesion as might have afforded something like an autho- The Marriage; (India) Bill wearied a second time.
ritative description of the cher:weer and terceta of the coca- The Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill went threugh coin-
sure which they were about to send to the House of Lords. mete: pro forma, and was ordered to be recommitted or
(Cheers.) That opportunity, however, had passed away, Thursday.
and his right bon. fricko. the in: tuber for Ripon had given
an advice to the noble lord f,..kon which he (Mr. Gladstone)
did not dissent. Now that it was passed it was better to
refrain from making any fore, 41 or factious attempt to
regain it by diecoseing the te meet merits of the bill 011 a
motion whirl, did not warrant such a debate. (blear, hear.)
lie would therefore cont. at himself with saying, in the first
piece, how deeply he regretted if by the suggestion he had:
male yesterday he had been, either directly or indirectly, ,
the cause or OCCIIIIOII of what had occurred. (Hear,
bear.) 'flue noble led had alluded to one sub-
Jeri -a subject of great dekieney and great importance-the 1
responsibility of the govenont ut in regard to the posing
of this bill. The noble 1..1.1 bed stated that lie was newel- ,
Bible for the nicaeure a. a whole, with reference to all the:
eircumstanees tinder which It.• maimed that responsibility, I
but he was not emponeilile fir the particular amendments
introduced be the lion. and learned member for Abingdon. ,
Assenting ti the delinitien, the noble lord had given of the
measure of his reeponeibility, and to the principle he had I
laid down, he could not but liter from him as to the appli- 1
cation which lie had needy of that principle, betimes: it
seemed to bins the Inca-nee, as he had introduced it or as
he had ultintetely ineMithei it, had been an authoritative
interpretaien which the government had put upon the
solemn assurances whir% her Majesty had addressed to par-
liament at the ',melee of the session. Her Majesty
had said, :eluding to a large body of her subject.,
" I have assured them of my remilution to maintain the
rights of my crawl, and the independence of the nation
against all encrunchments from whatever quarter they may
proceed. I have at the rant: time expressed my earnest de-
sire and firm determiaati. ii, wider God's blessing, to main-
tain uninipeinel that relige.w. liberty which is to justly
prized by the people of this country." Ile (Mr. Oledetone)
held th.kt the principle, of toe bill then announced were the
authentic awl uneleineuse.le construction put upon these
words in her Majesty's epeech. Then: were different I iews ,
as to the effect of the amendments, hut if he took the
feeblest construction pat upon them, and assigned to them I
the smallest degree .if weigle-if he admitted what haul been
said that night by the Soie itur•Gencral, "'That there was
no pc rkellt.tl in these amendments, but there certainly
was vietetion," he isrulul not but regard it as a &eine, de-
parture from the eour.r at first determined on. In the se-
cond (dame, as it had originally stood, they legislated
aiuspiy agehet the essoingehia of titles, and only against
the act of the individual himself who bore the title, and so
difficult would it have hem to prove the offence ageinst
which it had been din ...eel that they might have had a
moat solemn meeting ef the Roman catholic church in West-
minster or Lambeth, up Illy conducted, with three or more
prelates of the 'Oman catholic church conferring the
office and title of bishop on others without being sub-
ject to any punishment. Now, however, as the ettuse
stood amended, it was an offence for any man to
speak or write of a ILa.e catholic prelate under the title
which any prod bull might Lave conferred on him. (Hear,
hear.) 'l be noble lord leal said that religious libeity would
nut be violated under this bill -that we would not institute
any such procetelinim AS haul Leidy taken place in 'ruseany,
where some geutleman had been most unwarrantably
punished fur nu other offmee than reading the word of
(Joel for the edification of his own and. (Hear, hear.) But
it said sorry little for the prime minister of England to stand
up at this time of day and point to a country centuries be-
hind this, as mitered freedom and the establish-
ment of enlightened institutions, and to say,
"don't be afraid that we are going back to
the dark ages, from which we, many centuries ago,
emerged." (" blear, he tr," and cheers.) He should resist
the first step backwards. (('heers.) And let him tell the
noble lord Cat wow was the time to decide whether if the
libertii e won by so many struggles, and tears, end pains,
during so many generator., were not to be swept away in
a single moment by a single act of parliament. Mid the
noble bed touch, ur did he not touch, relieieue liberty ?
Ile had been deeply struck with the word* of the nobie
lord, that " the real a tenesien is, that the Houten
eatholics pretend not to recognise any ehrietiane but
thenwelves, and pretend that all baptised persons are,
of right, subject to their p heti." (Hear ashear.). So said
the nut& lord, and he bail also mid, " that is the ease
we cannot consent to erase from the statute book certain
enactments penal in their principles." A more important
declaration and our more pregnant with fatal meaning he
had never heard fonn a minister of the crow .. (Loud
therm) Because whet was this aggression ? Was it a
new assumptian ? Ne, it was an essential prinriele of the
religion they profemul to tolerate. (Cheers and " Hem,
bear.") When, in 1k IN, lacy had removed the catholic
disebilities hail time ea.• been different (nen what it was
Row ? llad 001 the lioll6llll catholic church as much thew
as now refused hirceopi;,. any christians except themselves?
Most certainly it hoe ',IL •ir; hear.) The language of the
Roman catholic documents to which so much exception had
been taken, had net 14 n he need to go beyond seiritual
objects, and it teolllll lint. :wen our wisdom and our duty
in no maun. r to Is ive k!.•rhort 41, unite.. it had been proved
that a temporal she:ace r appertained to them. (Cheers.)
It could not be shown that the appointment of b:shops was
an act of temporal pr, r4a•ive. they might raise argu-
ments on the poiot ; but he could consist them out of their
own mouths, fur in Seetlen I there were territorial bishops,
whom they tech anted by an exception introduced into the
bill. (Cheers, and e Heir. hear.")
Sir O. Olt EV- -Th. y da not exist as territorial bishops.
Mr. 6 LADSTONFL-11., right hon. gentleman meant
that they did not exist according to law. Then let them
only just lease is moth exigence to the titles of the Re-
man sailed, cieney -eche, rs and " hear, hear ") -and
then not on,y they, hut fa.. Pope himself would he ',tastiest'.
(('heers.) It was wit!, t'ur deepest regret that he saw this
bill p ,--lug thready the harass. lie knew how vain it was
to reieerate cite' sly 011 sock a subject, more especially when
they had not had an opportuuity of re.examining for once
before the repent o, el* tie' measure the whole historical
sad legal bearings of this question. (Cheer.) Having
stated his sense of the deep responsibility unite r which the
noble lord had pl aced liimelf, and from which he could
nee be eatricated by soy argument, regarding the conduct
of private menthe-rat of the house--(lwat. bear)-he must
be coolest with °nee more solemnly reiterating
his protestation sist ewe this bill-as a bill, be
would say, in the lied place hostile to the institu-
tions of this country, end hostile especially to its
estehlished religion, lye 1111.11 it taught that religion to rely
on other supports then its own inherent spiritual strength-
(hear) -as a bill tending to undermine and weaken the
authority of the law is Irel Ind.-a bill disparaging to the
greet prlnciple of relittiouo freedom on which this wise and
Intelligent people Lad pre-eminently of 1 ite years built
their legislatioueand tentlina to relax and destroy those
bonds of concord riud g eid will which oug
of ht to unite all
chows and all persuasions of the subjects her Majesty.
(Loud cheer".)
Lord J. RUSSELL slid he wished to explain a passage
of his speech. whit"; the right hon. gentleman had quoted
in part without, he theuglit, giving the meaning that he
expruseed. The right hon. gentlemen had gunted a pert of
his speech, in which he said the cause of the offence was
that the see of Mane pretended to an exclusive character,
and did not :dhow the existence of other Christians. But
the right hon. genticeieu stepped there ; whereas he went
on to say that tee comegience of this assumption was that
the church of Rome pretended to give territorial titles and
to govern the whole people comprised within the territory,
and that taking that territorial title interfered with the duo
prerogatives sad rigids tithe sovereign.
The Martin:4 of Lilt.lN BY had heard no argument in that i
house or elsewhere to show him that the due exercise of 1
the Roman catholic religion was interfered with. The '
Roman catholic religion had increased while it was under

NEW BILLS.
Lord SEYMOUR obtained leave to bring in a bill for
ueiafforesting Whittlewood Forest. Also a bill to alter and
extend the powers of an act of the ninth and tenth years of
her Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act to empower the
Commiwioners of her Majesty's Woods to form a Royal
Park in Battersea-fields, in the county of Surrey."
Mr. BOUVERIE obtained leave to bring in a bill to
continue certain turnpike acts in Great Britain, and to
make further provisions respecting turnpike roads in Eng-
lund. Also a hill to suspend the making of hums and the
ballots and enrolments for the militia of the United King-
dom.
Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE obtained leave to bring
in a bill to continue an act of the scemil and third years
of her present majesty, "to extend and render more effec-
tual for live years an net passes' in tile fourth year of his
late majesty George IV., to amend an act passed in the
fifth th year of bis majesty George 111., for preventing
the administering and taking unlawful oaths in Ireland," '
as the same is amended by an act of the eleventh and
twelfth years of her majesty's reign. Also a bill to con-
tinue certain acts for regulating turnpike roads in Ireland.
Also a bill to continue a act of the filth and sixth years of
her present majesty, for amending the law relative to pri-
vate lunatic asylums in Ireland.
The above bills were severally brought in and read a
, first time, and the house adjourned at half-past eleven
o'clock.

Runs.—Mr. W. 0. Gore, jun., paired in favour of the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill with the O'Gorman Mahon, against.
Colonel Chatterton paired olf on Friday night with Sir D.
L. Evans. Sir E. Macuagliten has paired with Mr. Teal-
son for the end of the session. Viscount Scaltam in favour
of the posing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, with Mr.
Roebuck, against.
Mr. 1'4(08 was accidentally shut out of the division on
the third reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption
Bill, which he would have supported.

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Eviction has done its work. The rural districts
of Ireland have been " cleared" with a vengeance.
The increase of population in the towns forbids the
idea that the number of dwelling-houses can have
diminished there. Yet in Ireland there are 269,353
I fewer houses in 1851 than in 1341. The work has

not been done slothfully ; not only the inhabitants,
but their very roofs and hearthstones, have disap-
peared from the land. Theunfortunates have left no
more trace behind them than the snow flakes which

fall into water.

--..--.
Well, our Nialthusians assuredly cannot say now 1
that the rural population of Ireland is too numerous
foe the country to sustain. Famine and pestilence
have given them elbow-room. History teaches us in '
every page how rapidly the Daedal force of nature
fills up the gaps left in society by the visitations of
war and disease, where men arc intelligent and tole-
rably well governed. Nature will now as ever do
her part if men are true to themselves. If Ireland
does not emerge from her present desolation into a
more prosperous state than she has ever before expe-
-1 rienced, it will be the fault of the Irish people them-

selves and of their rulers.
Much will depend on the people themselves. No
government, no external influences, can impart real
permanent prosperity to a people who have not a
power within them to struggle for it themselves.
The root of all the evils which Ireland has suffimed
for centuries has been the disposition of the Irish to,
act from passionate impulse instead of reflection.j
When suffering, they have struck at the first person'
or thing within their reach, as a child strikes at the
stone over which he has stumbled. To this is to
be attributed the innumerable factions, religions,
political, and social, into which Irishmen have ever
been divided; and to the factious divisions of Ire-
land is it owing that the people have ever been
ruled by foreigners, or by indigenous cliques and
coteries, for the advantage of others than themselves.
Wild and aimless though it has often been, we are
not disposed to blame the " agitation " which has
pervaded Ireland ever since the days of the " Volun-
teers." It was the lung thunderstorm that
' was needed to shake the stagnating moral atmo-
aphereandexpelmiasma from it. ltut " agitation,' since
itecasedtobe an impulse and became a trade, has lost
all its partial and equivocal utility, while it has re-
tained all its destructive qualities. The first essen-
tial to the salvation of Ireland is the deposal of all
professional agitators lay and clerical ; the self-
emancipation of the Irish from the hands of religious
and secular factions and faction leaders; and the
steady devotion of tho national energies to regular
industrial enterprise and the acquisition of know-
led
This must be the doing of the Irish themselves ;
but a brave, honest, and intelligent government can
do much to aid them. And it ought never to be for-
gotten that the British government have a long
arrear of injustice to make good to Ireland. We will
not affect to believe that the rulers of Britain have
been always in fault, or that their misgovernment
and oppression have been always, or even in great
part, deliberately pre nieditatA Divisions among
the Irish themselves first led to the conquest
of Ireland by the English. Theological discord
prolonged the reign of despotism. Front the time
of the Commonwealth to the present day no British
government has begun by desiring to oppre,s Ire-
land. The misery has been that the English, though
in advance of Ireland in knowledge and civilisation,
have never been sufficiently in advance to possess tho
skill and temper to deal with a lively and impulsive
people, their inferiors in knowledge and the self-con-
trol which it teaches. One after another the go-;
vernments of Great Britain have set themselves to
work to improve the condition of Ireland and Irish-
men ; they have mistaken the means, mid got into a
passion with their intractable patients ; and in al-
most
Every instance have ended by tyrannising
where they began with benevolent intentions. This
diminishes their responsibility for the crime, but does!
not diminish the criminality or alleviate its conse-
quences. Blundering or wicked, or partly both,
England owes large compensation to Ireland.
And this compensation a judicious government will
seek to make, less by positive laws and regulations
than by diminishing in numbers and simplifying
those which exist. Their Min ought to be not so
much to direct and guide Irishmen as to aid and en-
courage their spontaneous efforts, and remove all
impediments that the cumbrous and erroneous legis-
lation of former days may place in their way.
In offering these remarks we are not vain enough
to imagine that we are saying anything that has not
been as well or better said before. But with the tip-
' palling results of the last census before us, the
moment appears favourable for their repetition.
Such a condensed record of suffering, sickness, and
death does seem sufficient to make the most dull and
thoughtless reflect, mid to animate them to strenuous
and well-regulated exertion.

OUR recent remarks on the ecclesiastical state of
WERE Ireland's recent years of famine and pesti_ the great parish of St. Pancras appear to have been
lence obliterated from our memory, the results of the - misunderstood; fur, whilst we were merely stating
census would saffice to recall them. In 1841 Ireland I the facts of the case, a correspondent thinks that wo
had 8,175,124 inhabitants; in 1831 it has only were imputing motives. According to him, we have
6,315,791. In 1811 Ireland had 1.381,380 dwelling- made "sweeping accusations of covetousness and'
houses; in lsal it has only 1,113,007. These facts love of power" against its vicar. Whereas, in
alone would tell the stranger utterly ignorant of the reality, we have done nothing of the sort. The Vicar
history of the ill-fated land that the destroying ma be the most disinterested and least mercenary
angel had winnowed it with his wings. ecclesiastic in the church ; possibly he is ; but thaw
Ilud Ireland enjoyed but a moderate degree of his personal excellences don't at all alter or
prosperity, its population in 1851 ought to have out- modify the most unsatisfactory condition of the
hundiered its population in 1841 by at least a mil- churchin his hu"e benefice. Ile may be—probably
lion. i
Instead of that it is less in the former year he s--speinling Ins days and wasting his nights in
than it was in the latter by more than a million I attempting to improve it ; and yet on so defective a
and a half. Add the blighted hopes of increase to Principle that he is only engaged in " Love's labour
the actual diminution, and it will bo seen that Ireland 'amt."
has now two million and a half of inhabitants fewer i The church in St. Pancras was handsomely en-
than in a healthy state of society it would have had. dowed by our ancestors. But what they gave nobly
Starvation, typhus, cholera, have played their ; for its religious edification, the Dean and Chigger of
part in working out this sad result. It is some re-ISt. Paul's surrendered a centur
barons
e modern 'y ago very acur-
lief, however, to think that death has not done it all.ro , vilY for the benefit of th
A large proportion of the deficit have contrived to 'of Southampton. The consequence is that
make their escape front the " island of the plague." the church is now ill endowed in that;
Of a million and a half of persons who have emi- parish. For many years, however, its inhabitants ,
grated to .anierica and the colonies from the United taxed themselves heavily for the erection of the I
lkingdoms since 1841, it has been estimated that great parish church and several minor churches, and!
nearly a million must have emigrated front Ireland I arc now derived of all power in its ecclesiastical
alone. In all the large towns of England and Scot-; lain ni.by way, we suppose, of compensation fur and
land, and throughout the manufacturing districts of recognition of the pecuniary sacrifices they made
both countries, the proportion of Irish to the other !thirty years ago. But, though the church therein is
inhabitants has considerably increased since the last lill endowed as a whole, the Vicar has nevertheless a I
census ; and even in some of our agricultural dis-; very substantial income. Tithes or pew rents he
tricts the number of Irish settlers has been aug- ; has none ; but so productive are the surplice 1
witted. The visitations of death in Ireland have ; fees in so large a parish, that his revenues'
been indeed appalling, and the titles of what has are not less, it is calculated, than 2,1010/. a I
been sullied on board of Irish emigrant shills and in Year ; and his stall in St. Paul's is worth another
the quarantines of Quebec and New fork are scarcely 1.9901. a year. So that he has an ecclesiastical in- I
less harrowing ; still there is consolation in come of probably 3,0001. But we du not draw from
the thought that so many have escaped with that fact the inference imputed to us, that the Vicar 1
the minor infliction of compulsory expatriation. It is covetous. Nothing of the sort. We use it, and
is not only that a considerable proportion of the desire to apply it, for a public, not a personal pur- '
actual reduction in numbers can be thus accounted Pn'`e.
, for; the emigrants have been principally persons of . That purpose is to contrast the exceedingly largo
that age front which the progressive augmentation income Of the Vicar with the exceedingly low stipends'
of population proceeds; the very old and the very which the other beneficed clergy in the parish have.'
young front whom no increase is to be looked for, , Whilst he has 2,000/. a year for serving in the parish
constitute a disproportionately large amount of those church, few of them have whereon to maintain them-
left behiud. I'he children, who would in ordinary selves in respectability and comfort as gentlemen
circumstances have added to the numbers of Irelands front their churches and chapels. And why ? lies
inhabitants, have gone to swell the ratios of increase' cause either the surplice fees for the offices of the
church performed therein go to the Vicar, or because
shown by the censuses of England and America. I
With the single exception of Dublin, the decrease' his church lets a monopoly of all marriages in the
in population extends over all the counties. In
`parish containing 170,000 inhabitants. 'lbis is the
Ulster, however, with the exce Tyrone, the. law, we know. ]tut we contend that it is a state of
p tiou of
law requiring alteration ; and that before piteous ap-
I e p
rate of decrease variety front ~6 to 14 per cent,:
s arc made for money to pay the assistant clergy
, while in the other threrovinces it varies front 20 rat
inhabitants
of St. l'ancras, and before its are dunned
to 30 per cent. The manufactures of Belfast have,'
to a large extent, counteracted the destroying in-1 for veluntary church rates, some more equitable ais-
, tribution of the total ecclesiastical revenues of the
Buena% which have more than decimated the rest of
Ireland. i church iu the parish amongst all its working clergy
I
Another remarkable feature of the census returns
: ought to be made. For the existing contrast be-
ns that while the population of the counties has so 3 twecn a rich vicar with ,0001. a year, and a series
uniformly and so enormously fallen off, the popula-: of poor depeair play in. nt eler Stgy. is not calculated to give
ithe church t l'ancras.
tion of the larger towns has almost uniformly been
is BO , Then again we find that there arc 18 subordinate
augmented. In Belfast the rate of increase
large as 32 per cent.; and the employment which is' churches and chapels in the parish; and that of 11
there provided fur the industrious accounts for this the Vicar has the patronage ; but we are not so
iu a manner satisfactory to humane minds. But the . illogical as to say, therefore he has a love of
deficiency of industrial occupations in almost all the , power. The inference we draw is something
other towns of Ireland suggests the melancholy idea, ; much more important, viz., that the manage-
that too many have only exchanged destitution in . meat of eleven subordinate churches must des
the pure atmosphere of the country, for destitution tract greatly from the Vicar's power and his
amid the etowded and squalid by-lanes and pesti- opportunities of usefulness in his own church; that
lential courts of towns. What must be the conch- it is not seemly, or fitting, or decorous, that the in.
Lion of the poor in Galway, where the rate of in-, eumbeuts of these eleven churches and their curates
mew for the last. ten 'eats is 43 per cent.? ' should be liable to the control, interference, or coin-