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ous charge brought against the most immaculate
ecclesiastical establishment on record s?
Lord JOHN
RUSSELL ought to have known better than to
insinuate such things against the character of
Mother Church; and for not knowing better,
it is clear that he is neither more nor less
than a man of a " venomous and reptile mind,"
whose " impotent struggles" against the legitimate
supremacy of the Church, resemble nothing so
much as those of " a half-crushed wasp." such
is the furious language of our Contemporary, from
which we very naturally infer that he anticipates, in
a perfect fever of apprehension, the ultimate success
of Lord JOHN RussELL's education scheme.

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fIROGRESSIVE EDUCATION, translated
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11. Observations on the Latter Years of Childhood.
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We have little more than adverted to the plan
proposed by the Home Secretary for establishing u
system of National Education in England, chiefly
because we consider it utterly hopeless while the
House of Lords remains as it is, to carry into
effect any general measure based on liberal prin-
ciples, or calculated to convey really useful instruc-
tion to the people. The Bishops there are all-
powerful in every thing connected with this impor-
tant subject, and looking at the speeches made by
some of them in the House and out of it, but
chiefly at tho speeches made by their organs
throughout the country, within these few weeks, no
one can doubt that their great, nay their sole object
is to get the children of the country under
the education of the Clergy of the Esta-
blised Church. Any plan, therefore, not em-
bracing this object, Will meet ' with no
favour in the Upper House. It would perhaps be
ungenerous to say, of a whole body, like the Clergy
of England, that they would rather leave education
as it is, because ignorance and its offspring bigotry
give them a hold over the minds of the people,
which useful instruction might weaken ; but men
can be judged best by their acts, and the acts of the
heads of the Church, at all events, would lead to
spell an inference. What have the Bishops—so ge-
nerouily paid, for promoting moral and religious
instruction—done for education ? Theyhave been
actually asleep for many years on the subject, and
have been " awakened," to use the phrase of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, only lately by the loud knocking
of Lord BROUGHA M, the numerous calls made by
the Dissenters, and finally by the intimation from the
Government that the time for active work is come.
Hence thee meetings throughout the country. The
spirit that pervades them proves who are the agi-
tators. That spirit, as usual, is exclusive—it would
shut out the Dissenters from all controul, and esta-
blish a system of education only in connexion with
the National Church, and under the superintendence
of its Clergy. That is the system which the ma-
jority of the Bishops and the majority of the Lords
will support ; and in this, as in every other liberal
plan, Lord JOHN RUSSELL will find them too
strong for him. Besides, the means proposed for
carrying a great national measure into effect are
paltry in the exzeme—only 30,0001. a-year, not a
third of what the country pays to the QUEEN-
DOWAGER, and not more than a half of theamount
raised for education in Scotland—containing not a
fifth of the population. The measure should have

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been one worth contending for, and not a small
scheme of this sort, which, weak and dccrepid as it
is, the High Church party will render stil more
abortive.

By way of commentary upon the sif-sufficienc)
displayed by the Earl of MINT() in the House of
Lords on Monday night, in his Lordship's proffered
defence of the present administration of the British
Navy, we publish a very sensible letter from a gentle-
man long conversant with the working of our naval
ss stem, to which we invite general attention.
When the question of the Navy is before Par-
liament, we have no doubt that Lord MIN To
will redeem the pledge which he has given,
greatly to the satisfaction of himself and his
official Colleagues ; but we take leave to
remind his Lordship beforehand, that if he rest
the Ministerial defence upon Sir JOHN BARROW'S
tabular demonstration of figures—if he quote pre-
cedents from English naval history, in justification
of a seeming neglect of the fleet in time of peace
—and if he cannot make many revelations touch-
ing promotions, the distribution of prize-money,
pemsions, and an increase of seamen's wages, greatly
desired by, but as vet unknown to, the officers of
the fleet and the people of England, his Lordship
had as well be silent, for any effect which his
speech will produce upon the country. The
question is not now whether the British
Navy is equal to what it was during seasons
of peace at anterior periods ; but whether it
keeps pace with the navies of other countries, the
extent of our commerce, and, as regards its ad-
ministration, the improvements which a more
extended civilization is introducing in every
branch of the public service. When a system is
notoriously rotten to the very core, it is an insult
to common sense to claim praise for not having
rotted the core too. But the mal-administration of
the Navy, as of every other department in the
State, is so essentially interwoven with the practice
of discovering all desert among the scions of the
Aristocracy, that we almost despair of a remedy for
half the evils pointed out in the communication of
our intelligent and respected Correspondent. Still
something might—and what is more, something
must be done to remove the unpopularity of a ser-
vice upon the strength of which rests the greatness
and glory of England. The first steps arc easy
and obvious. With the abolition of impressment
and the lash, the conviction will go abroad that
vessels of war are no longer prisons where men are
treated as if they wert felons, instead of being
regarded as the gallant defenders of their QUEEN and
country. In point of fact, no service would be so
popular as the Navy—no life would be preferred
to that of a sailor on board a ship of the line,
were not human ingenuity stretched to the ut-
most to devise absurd regulations, seemingly in-
tended to render it intolerable. A service which it is
deemed requisite to maintain by the odiously un-
just and tyrannical practice of impressment, and
from which desertion is declared a crime of the worst
magnitude, becomes terrible in the imagination of
an ignorant peasantry. We never hear of
the necessity of having recourse to impressment
to recruit the merchant service. Why is this ?
Just because sailors on board merchant vessels are
subjected to none of the absurd, and to all intents
and purposes, useless, regulations which prevail in
ships of the line. They are not guarded as if they
were felons ; nor are they prevented from going
ashore as often as theirservices afloat can be dispensed
with. The chain by which they are bound is their
interest, and that is found more effective than the
presence of twenty squadrons of Marines.
We will venture to predict, from the salutary stir that
has been made upon this question, that however effec-
tive our Navy may be now, it will be much more
so before the 13th of February, 1840. Affect
confidence or indifference as it may, the Govern-
ment has learned a lesson which it will not forget
in a hurry. Nor is the worst past yet. Parliament
must take up the question, and deal with it in a
spirit adequate to its magnitude and importance.
While we arc writing a letter has been put into
our hands, addressed by the Hon. Captain
BERKELEY, R.N., one of the Lords of the A(111-il-
-1 ralty, to Sir JOHN BARROW, 011 die system of
war and peace complements ilk ;nips of the line, and
the means to be taken
'co popularize the naval ser-
vice. 'Though A a Member of the Board," of
which Sir JcjitN is second clerk, Captain BERKE-
LEY aci,-,nowledQoes that the naval system is as re
mo:te from perfection as it is possible to con

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 14,
Will be performed
THE LADY OF LYONS, or Love and Pride.
Claude Meinotte, Mr. Maercarly; Colonel Damns, Mr. Bartley ;
Pauline Desehappelles, Ali<s Helen Faucit.
After which
THE KING AND THE DUKE; or the Siege of Alengon.
Governor of Alengori, Mr. Bartle- ; Chapeanbas, Mr.
Harley ; Laura, Miss Taylor.
To-mirrow—There will be no performance.
'atur'?ay—The Tempest, and Fair Rosamond.
Lear, and Fair Rosamond.

Blond

ceive; and that without measures are speedily
adopted to increase the number of seamen,
the neglect may peril the safety of the country.
The scarcity of seamen, the gallant writer rightly
attributes to two causes—the establishment of
steam navigation, which has all but cleared our
coasts of wherries, smacks, luggers, and all the
small craft that used to swarm in every bay and na-
vigable stream of the United Kingdom form-
ing an excellent nursery for able seamen ; and the
system of sending out ships of the line without
sometimes more than half the proper comple-
ment of hands. The dismissal of crews when
ships enter the docks, leaving them to be unrigged
by " Greenwich pensioners, is a specimen of
paltry economy which we are not sorry to learn
Captain BERKELEY regards with that contempt
which it deserves. Alluding to the now constant
practice of " under-manning" ships of the line,
he states truly, " Men will not enter for ships
having masts and yards, anchors and cables, nearly
the size of a ship of the line, to be worked by
the reduced complement of a small frigate.
Men will not go where 275, a large proportion
boys, are required to do the work of 350 ; where
all hands have to be called when the watch done
onor,ht to be able to perform the duty. in time ships

on the peace establishment, in fresh breezes or
short tacks, all hands are constantly on deck ; and
very few, if any, of the 74-gun ships arc worked
by the watch only. The spirit of the men ii
broken ; they are cowed and depressed. You
.to
longer hear of a ship's company boosting with
pride of the dexterity Ahd quickness of their evolu-
tions. Our toasts and yards, and all other things have
beeti increased that make work heavy, and yet the
complements of men have been reduced, and of that
reduced complement the greater proportion are offi-
cers and boys." This the fertile source of a hundred
other evils. All the choice hands avoid large ships
with reduced complements, and the Captains, in con-
sequence, are constrained to put up with theriff-raff
and the off-scourings of every other vessel in port.
To complain, or hesitate, would subject them, at
the Admiralty, to a charge of being personally
disliked by seamen a suspicion fatal to
officers without high family connections. And
thus, ships which ought to he full-manned are
compelled to put to sea with reduced complements
of men, one-fourth of whom can hardly tell a chain
cable from a mizen mast. As a remedy for this
evil, Captain BERKELEY recommends the proper
or war complement of men for each ship ; the re-
vising of those complements, so as to have in every
vessel men enough to fight and to work her
under every emergency ; and especially to make
the work properly light, which will at once
remove all dislike of the service. All va-
cancies he considers might be filled up witli stout
boys, properly classed, and kept in readiness at
every station to supply all casualties. The Gallant
Officer scouts the ridiculous, womanish, flourish of
Sir JOHN BARROW, about the strength of au
enemy being beneath the consideration of a British
tar. He proclaims aloud that the system of
under-manning is breaking the spirit of the
men ; and that such questions as " How
are we to compete with enemies ?" " See how
they are manned." " They have light work of
it ?" are agitated, though not so loudly as to reach
the ear of the clerks of the Board in White-
hall. The moral effect of this is, and must be,
most mischievous. To hold our enemies so cheap
as to leave it in their power to beat us, only tha
we may evince British prowess against over•
whehning odds, is so ridiculous as to sa-
vour of the atmosphere of Bedlam. And yet
to the practical operation of such egregious folly
and vanity combined, Captain BERKELEY very
rightly attributes the reverses we sustained during,
the last American war. It was only when the re-
ports arrived of the capture of half-manned English
vessels by the ships of the States, that the noodles
entrusted with the administration of the Navy could
be made to perceive that one ill-requited British
sailor was not a match for two or three of brother
Jonathan's water-spaniels. But the lesson then
taught us is forgotten at the " Board," and were it
not for the patriotism of naval officers working upon
the good sense of the nation, the next war would
find us as ill prepared, and as insanely presumptuous
as the last. But we have not done with this sub-
ject, nor with the able communications which have
led to our present remarks upon it.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all been re-
ceived, but their contents arc of no political mo-
ment. A report having been circulated that the
house of Rothschild was engaged in forwarding the
election views of the Cabinet, a letter in the name
of the firm appears in the papers, denying all parti-
cipation in political intrigues. The advices from
Madrid arc of the sth, but all they communicate of
interest will he found in the subjoined extracts from
'time French Papers:—
Accounts from Madrid of the 4th, state that serious disturbance
had taken place at Algeciras on account of the municipal elections.
It was necessary to call for the interference of the military. Some
persons have been arrested. It is said that the result of the elec-
tions was favourable to the Movement party.
Certain Spanish journals speak in no very measured terms of the
policy adopted by the heads of the State in France.
The Minister of War has given orders that the French officers
• and privates of the Foreign Legion, which was ceded to Spain in
1834, and who returned to France in consequence of the disbanding
of that corps, shall receive support to enable them to wait till a final
decision is made respecting them, according to the laws in force.
The Minister of the Interior on his part has taken measures for
the relief of the foreign soldiers who could not be employed in the
Foreign Legion in Africa.—Gazette de France.
Lieutenant-General Buge commanding one of the divisions of
the Army of Observation on the northern frontier, is expected at
Dunkirk, to review the 67th Regiment of the Line.
The Ministerial Journals have been jointed to day to the number
of 100,000 copies. The mail-coaches which left Paris this even-
ing, were crushed under the weight of the calumnies. with which
they are loaded.—Le Constitutionnel.
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We have received fifes Of the New York Daily
Herald, the Courier and Inquirer, and the New
York Times, to the 26th of January inclusive, with
the latest intelligence from the Canadas and Mexico.
In tl►e Canadas all continues tranquil. Sir JOHN
COLBORNE has issued a Proclamation addressed
to the inhabitants of British America, announcing
his appointment to the dignity of Governor-
General of all her MAJESTY'S dominions in
North America and the Islands thercunto adja-
cent. From Mexico tl►e news is not of much
stirring interest. Owing to the delay of the
Mexicans in acknowledging the neutrality of
Vera Cruz, the French Admiral, BAUDIN,
addressed a circular to the different Consuls,
dated the 20th of December, revoking his
order for permitting neutral trading vessels to
enter the harbours of Vera Cruz, Sactificios, and
Antone Lizardo, under penalty of being
seized, and the ships and cargoes confiscated as
lawful- prizes. This second arbitrary inter-
ruption of all trade in the Gulf must
call forth strong remonstrances on the part
of all Maritime Powers. The whole question
w►ll, however, assume a new form, as it is now ascer-
tained that Mexico has for►nally declared war against
France. A copy of the declaration was eagerly ex-
pected in the United States.

We are sorry to learn from the observations of
Mr. WEIR at the meeting of the Corn-law Dele-
gates Yesterday, that some underhand w hispers
have been circulated to the prejudice of the cause.
We presume that those whispers have originated
amongst the Delegates themselves, and we fear
that some of them are not impressed with the
immense importance of the mission now confided
to them. The future weal or woe of the country
is, in a manner, in their hands. The country must
have room for its population ; they must have em•
ployment and food ; they must increase and mul-
tiply as nature commands ; they must prosper and
progress, or a fearful and bloody commotion will
remove the feeble impediments of the law, and re-
store the rights of outraged humanity.
The strong language used by some of the
Deputies assures us that all are not insensible
to their high calling, and the swift and just pu-
nishment of Mr. WooD was properly referred to,
as a warning against wavering and doubting whe-
ther there may not, by remote possibility, be some-
thing advantageous and hallowkd in plunder. We
were not partictilarly well pleased with the proceed-
ings of the meeting the day before yesterday, and
the proposal of a comintmication with the land -
owners, made by a brother of the deceased Duke
Hof BucKi.riGuAm,- uncle of the present Duke,
and the Delegate of Marylebone, rich in the ex-
penditure of Government, scarcely having a com-
mon cause with the suffering Nottingham stocking
manufacturers and the Manchester weavers,
gave rise to some suspicions which we should
have wished never to have been awakened. What
interest has Lord NUGENT in this important
question that he should have been selected
as the Delegate of Marylebone ? We must tell the
Delegates, while we admire their spirit, their deter-
mination, their looking to the future, that they
have not congregated in London to make long
speeches, or constitute a forum where itinerant
orators and aspirant Members of Parliament may
win their way to public notoriety. Business, real
business, and not a rivalry of the do-nothing House
of Commons, in flashy orations, is expected of the
Delegates.
It was real business to propose, as Mr. BAINES
did, that some steps should be taken to ascertain
what answer Lord JOHN It ussEr. will, to-mor-
row, give Sir ROBERT PEEL, and to endea-
vour to influence him in favour of hearing evidence.
It would be fatal for the country, not for the cause
of the total abolition of the Corn-laws, for by
peaceful means or by violent commotion that must
prosper, were the Ministers to decide against hearing
evidence, unless they at the same time decide to pro-
prose the abolition themselves. It is of pressing
importance, therefore, that the Delegates, if they
cannot prevail on the Ministers to assent to hearing
evidence, or to propose the abolition, should prevent
Lord JOHN RUSSELL from giving the information
Sir ROBERT PEEL desires. What right has Sir
ROBERT PEEL to overawe Lord JOHN RUSSELL
into a premature disclosure of the intentions of the
Government ? Courtesy does not require that Sir
ROBERT PEEL should be told what the Ministers
mean to do next Tuesday ? Before then the Dele-
gates may have such an accumulation of evidence
arranged as to convince the Ministers of the neces-
sity of acceding (though it is sorrowful that evi-
dence for such a purpose should be required) to the
demands of justice. To besiege the Ministers
with their remonstrances against a hasty decision,
and to remind the Members for Stroud, Notting-
ham, and Manchester of the fate of Mr. WOOD,
and of the certainty of their losing for ever the sup-
port of the town population, if they be backsliding
or wavering on this great question, is one part of
the proper business of the Delegates.
It is another not to enter into compromises and
negotiations with the landowners, but to circulate
accurate information of the injuriousness of the
Corn-laws to the agriculturists themselves. Sonic
months ago we threw out some hints on the sub-
ject ; and we quite agree with Mr. TAYLOR at the
meeting yesterday, that those laws are as injurious
to the agriculturists as any other classes. It should
be one of the objects proposed by the Delegates to
bring that sort of information before the Parliament
and:the public. The wildest assertions, fancy born,
are made by the advocates of the Corn-laws. We
have lying 'before us a paper which asserts that the
repeal of the Corn-laws would throw nearly two
millions of persons out of employment, and eight
million acres out of cultivation. Surely it would
not be difficult to prove that this is a mere
invention; and the author of the paper, if he can be
found, should be called by the country gentlemen
to the bar of the House of Commons to prove it.
A Mr. M`QUEEN asserts, in the Standard, that
to abolish the Corn-laws " would yearly diminish,
to the extent of 12,500,0001., the trade of every
human being nho works for the home market;"
meaning, we presume, that the home trade will be
diminished to the extent of 12,500,0001., by
allowing our manufacturers to feed themselves by
their own industry. Better views than these may
be carried before the agriculturists,
and the Dele-
gates should undertake the task.
Perhaps, too, they should demonstrate the ab-
surdity of the principle of protection on which the
landlords rely. If the landowners must be ensured a
certain per centage on their capital by
law, why
should not the manufacturers make the same claim?
Tr

Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates
have been received to-day. Advices from Stock-
holm of the 25th announce that the ironworkers of
that city have petitioned the KING for the aboli-
tion of the export duty on iron goods, and that the
Government would endeavour to procure a repeal
of the heavy import duty on Swedish iron in foreign
countries. The Government has directed the Cham-
ber of Commerce to report upon the prayer of the
petition. Orders of Knighthood were conferred by
his Swedish MAJESTY on 70 persons, in comme-
moration of his last birth-day. This looks like a
cheapening of honours, and is a policy far from po-
pular among the old Nobility.
The accounts from Hanover represent the public
mind as in a state of great discontent. On the 30th
ult. the electors of Osnaburgh assembled to elect
Deputies, but those selected as candidates refused
to serve. The people have also refused to pay
taxes imposed by the Government since the revoca-
tion of the Constitution. The University of Got-
tingen has likewise refused to elect representatives.
No news of any interest from Belgium.
riELGIE AN t UNDS—BaussELs, FEB 12
Actual Debt, 2Y per Cent
R ;23i
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Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.

6e%

Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent .................
Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent ............. 115
Bank of Belgium, per Cent ............. ...... 5(1
National Society . ...................... ............ 190
Brussels Papers, Feb. 12.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViEwrre, FES. 4
Five per Cents. Mctalliques ...... 167%
Boer per Cents.
Three per Cents.
i
Bank Shares ...
14:88
Zeitung, Feb. 9.
HA MB URG BORSEN HALLE, FEB. 8.

ills. Money,
Austrian MetePtqucs, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 3 per cent. —
Ditto aitto 2; per cent
Idtto flank Shares 1465 1,60
Afl.glo-Russian Loan 107% 1(77%
Russian 5 per cents. Metal
.10;;N 11314
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent 154 191
Russian inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portugucne Regency Bonds, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 3 per cent —
Dutch ,2,..2 yer Cents.
Date 5 per Cents 9l
9,1%,
IVish Ponds, 3 per cents ' — Rl5
New Tickets 155;4 155
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 72 713
Norwegian Lean of IK)4, 4 per cents
SPanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cm' — —7
Greek 4 per cents. 1633, guaranteed by France —.—•
EXCHANOES ON LONDON.
Hciintino. }go. 8.-13 6t'. ;Iwo months, 13 5.
VIENNA, JAN 29.—Two months, 9 50.
--liantburg Papers, Feb. 6.

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PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, FEE, 5,
Bills.
St sr.
• huld. Sch., 4 per cent 101!4
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 10'214
11/4xchange on Lend
—Prussian State Gazette. Feb. B.
Landon, three nionrois 6 19%

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of the rnetropoli
Mansion Ho
"e, Tuesday, three men, deputed by the Coal-whippers
of certain hardships to which they said the whole body were cx.
s, presented a petition to his Lordship on the subject
posed, and from which they begged his lordship would endeavour to
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relieve them. petition stated that the coal-whippers were ,000
in
number, and had, the great majority of them, wives and children,
but that the practice of the trade, which left them at the mercy of
publicans and tradesmen should engage coat-whippers Publicans, grocers, and others, who were in the interest of the great
northern combinatory, was th cause of considerable loss and demo-
ralisation amongst them. It was regularly appointed that
work cf the river, and thus the poor men were at the mercy of
I' who turned their employment to account by overcharges.
i-whippers to do the
The publicans accumulated large fortunes by their mode of
smoking had as much employment as they
charging, furthey n ,
only employed those who ran up long scores.
Thus the men who were enemies to sotting were sure to get as little
work as possible, while those who spent their time In drinking and
might spare time to at_
tend to. In the course of the conversation between the deputation
and the Lord Mayor, the latter asked why the coal-whippers did not
establish an office, and so get out of the publicans' power ? The pe-
titioners replied, "That has been tried, my Lord, but the consequence
was, that the publicans met us in the teeth by sending to the coun.
try for paupers, to whom they promised excellent pay. The moment,
however, they got the poor fellows into their power, they imposed
upon them so grossly that, instead of being properly remunerated
fostheir labour, the men were obliged to sell their coats and waist-
coats to pay for their food. In the meantime we were sent adrift,
and in great distress. We are all poor men, my Lord, and all peo_
ple know what sort of work ours is. Then, is it not too hard for a
number of poor fellows to be obliged to destroy themselves and their
families to fill the pockets of others ?"
FINE ARTS.—Messrs. Fry and Son, of Ply-
mouth, have just
published lithographic engravings of three of her
Majesty's finest ships of wart which are executed with great skill
And q}irit.
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llt farmers must be remunerated for their exertions by
Corn-laws, with what justice can the Legislature re-
fuse to establish for the labourers a minimum of
wa,ffes, and a maximum price of the loaf ? lf the Le-
gislature be bound to maintain in opulence landlords,
farmers, bishops, and rectors, how can it answer for the
degraded condition pf the agricultural labourers of

THE SUNS LONDON, TiIURSDAY,-EVENING EDI

Wiltshire and Kent, and for the starving condition
of the Jumper-fell Irish ? One principle or the
other must be followed in legislation, and either the
Legislature must iltidtrta6 rtti ithpossible iii•oject
to eMiiit at fill times, an ample revenue to every
class and condition of the community, according to
their rank and station, making itself responsible for
their.poverty and misery, or-it must give up the folly
of keeping priests opulent, landlords wealthy, and
farmers out of the Gazette. Protection for all
classes, for every individual, or protection for none,
must be the guiding principle of the Legislature.

A communication from Mr. CIIILDS: in reply
to the statement lately published by the Auditors
of the Church-rate Abolition Society, will be found
in another part of our Paper. Mr. CIIILDS, it
will be seen, not only repeats his charges against
the Committee, but fortifies them by the authority
of a gentleman who was one of themselves until a
month or two ago, when he resigned from dissatis-
fation with their proceedings. The management of
affairs, as too frequently happens, has, it would ap-
pear from Mr. BEsLEY's statement, got into the
hands ofa small clique who, he alleges,
or at least in-
sinuates, have misapplied the funds, by devoting
them to objects in winch they themselves are more
interested than those who subscribed the money.
and it behoves the independent and
This is what in common parlance is denominated
u"njt()abiiii)teed rY;:»embers of the Committee to vindicate
themselves from so foul a reproach, by publishing
without delay, the detailed accounts which Mr.
CIIILDS demands. This is now the only course by
which the Committee can clear themselves from the
heavy charge publicly brought against them ; and
if they do not adopt it, silence will unquestionably,
and we must add justly, be construed into a confes-
sion of guilt.