The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-29 00:00:00

the firth—unani:nously rcssed by the de!egates after their
intee6o.v Lord INIELeoIIaNE yesterday, which will by
tobna in another part of our paper,
We, therefore, hope that the government will .j,i'fase he-
fore it ttii,_t a Etep which it will be eitreittly di cult to
reral, and shish, cernidering the partial cmancipatlon
granted by Lord SLIGO, and other beutvolent individuals)
may be attended with the mnst disastrous conscqutoc;”;
bith to blacks and whiten.

The , resolutions to ht. Th',,;.,e(l by Lord JOHN RUSSELL
on April 3O V)iblel.l he is to found his new rneAsuro for
settling the question of Tithes in Irdarid, to which we yes-

terday adverted, are non, ptitited., and are As rOliow t
I. Tllat it ;A the opinion of thi3 Committee, that Tithe
Compalition in Ireland shculd be tornmutoi into a rent- charge
nt the rate of sever, tenths of their amount, to be tharg,d on

tlie owner of the first estate of inhcrittitt7r.
t. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that on the
expiration of existing Interests, so much of such Rent-charge
as shall be payable in lieu of EcelcsiaQtical Tithe, should be
purchased by the State, at the rate of 16 years' purchase of
the original Tithe Compolition.
3. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Ec-
clesiastical Commissioners for Ireland should be empowered,
with the consent of the Incumbents, to demand from the State
the purchase at the same rate of any other portion of Ecclesi-
astical Tithe Composition or Rent-charge, not exceeding onc-

tenth of the whole amount in any one year.
4. That it is the opinion of tliis Committee, that until such
Rent-charge shall be purchased or redeemed, the amount of
Ecclesiastical Rent-charge and Ministers' Money, should be
paid to the Incumbents from the Consolidated Fund.
4. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the ar-
rangement of such payments, and the invPstment of the Per-
chase-monies paid by the State for Ecclesiastical Rent-
charge, should be entrusted to the Ecclesiastical Commis-

sioners for Ireland,
6. That it is the o-pinion of this Committee, that the Rent-
charges for Ecclesiastical Tithe should be appropriated by law
to certain local charges now defrayed out of the Consolidated
Fund, and to Education ; the surplus to form part of the Con-
solidated Fund.
7. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Rent.
charges for Ecclesiastical Tithe and Ministers Money should
be collected by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for
five years, and until Parliament shall otherwise provide.
8. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that further
provision should be made by law for the regulation of Eccle-
siastical Duties, and the better distribution of Ecclesiastical
Revenues in Inland.
9. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that provision
should be made for the revision of certain Tithe Compositions,
where such Compositions operate with inju,tice.
10. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Rent-
charges for Lay Tithe should be collected by the Tithe-
owner, and facilities afforded for redemption upon mutual
agreement between the parties.
The Times, knowing the wishes and intentions of its(
party, assures us that the " measure will soon be disposed
of ;" and we, knowing the influence of the Protestant priest'.
hood in both Houses of Parliament, must at once admit
that it would be better not to waste the public time with
the discussion of measures which there is no chance of
completing, and which, were they completed, would neither
carry out any principle, nor satisfy the people. The
'two objects proposed by the Ministers—that of giving
security to the dominant and insulting Protestant Church
lof Ireland, and that of satisfying the Catholic Irish—are
'obviously and plainly incompatible, and impossible to be
accomplished. Lord JOHN RUSSELL may perhaps change
the winds or stop the tides ; but he never will satisfy the
Catholics of Ireland till their own priesthood arc placed on
a complete level with the priesthood of the Protestant
Establishment. Let him therefore look on this question
with the eye of a statesman, as he has looked on so many
others. Let him give over playing like boys at law-mak-
ing, and, recognizing the impossibility of both satisfying a
people and imposing a Church on them, at once admit that
the Protestant Church cannot be maintained in Ireland,
and take measures peaceably to bring it to a close.
Sir R. PEEL is just as inconsistent, and would he more
mischievous, than Lord JOHN RUSSELL. His political
opinions are spiced with bigotry, and he would try and
give security to the Establishment in spite of the people.
But he could not do that before 1829. He and the Irish
Church, and the stupid penal laws, which were established
to support it, were all defeated by their own inherent in-
justice, and by the power of the Catholics in 1829 ; and
how then can he dream of giving security to that Church
in opposition to justice, and to the now more powerful
Catholics in IS3B ? Either Sir ROBERT should never have
consented to Catholic Emancipation, or he should be pre-
pared to place the Catholic priesthood of Ireland com-
pletely on a level with the priesthood of the other Churches
and sects. He convinced the Catholics of their strength,
by conceding to them ; he increased and gave them the
legal means of exercising their power ; their aid turned
him out of office in 1835 ; the Protestant clergy have
since 1829 laboured most assiduously, and most suc-
cessfully, to exasperate the Catholics, and inflame
their animosity towards the Establishment ; and how then
can he, with all these disadvantages, accomplish in 1838,
what the Tories were too weak to achieve in 1829 ? It is
high time the politicians of both parties opened their eyes
to the facts of the case, and ceased to torment the nation
by their vain efforts to maintain in Ireland their impos-
sible theories.

With respect to the plan to be proposed by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, we hare no objection to converting
the tithes into a rent-charge at the rate of seven-tenths
of their amount ; but we know no reason why the land
of England should be burdened with a rent-charge to the
full amount of the tithes, as recently settled by the Tithe
Commutation Act, and the land of Ireland, where the
tithe is already two-thirds less than tithes in England, be
only burdened to the extent of seven-tenths. We are not
aware of any good reason for the Legislature showing
favour to the landowners of Ireland. But admitting the
propriety of making this large concession to the land-
owners, in order to procure their consent to the measure—
and it must, we suppose, be paid for—the rest of the
plan of collecting the rent-charge by the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, that is by a Government Board,
and of paying the Clergy out of the Consolidated Fund,
under the control of Ecclesiastical Commissioners, is excel-
lent in principle, as placing the whole revenues of the
Church of Ireland at the disposal of Parliament, and to
enabling it, when the proper time comes, to appropriate
those revenues usefully than to maintaining in the
land, as at present, an ever living source of bloody discord.
We have not the slightest hope, however, that any such
measure will be carried through the two Houses of Parlia-
ment, the Members of those assemblies persisting, as we
know from all experience, to hold by gross abuses, till their
consent to remove then be exto;ted by a dread of the
people.

By the arrival of thn 31.CR111Cr, Middleton, at Falmouth
from the Tagus, we have received advioes front Lisbon
of the 20th inst. inclusive. The ...rttAal Wfts then as tran-
tptil as if the occurrente,s tli the .7th, Bth, and 13th, had
never taken pia&L After the dispersion of the refractory
corps, and the dismissal of the civil Cloverher of Lisbon,
no attempt was made by thz QUEEN either to get rid of
the Cabinet-4 Zir to institute further proceedings against
I the: leaders of the late revolt. On the centraty Viscount
SA DA BANDEIRA, in an a.ddrctA to the Cortes on the re-
cent disastrous events in the capital, delivered on the 15th
inst., intimated that the QUEEN only waited a rness9ge
from the Deputies, to accept and promulgite the new
Constitution, This announcement was received with
so little enthusiasm as to create an impression
out of doors either that the Cortes did not believe
the QUEEN to be sincere, or that they preferred to
the immediate promulgation of the Constitution the conti-
nuance of their own political influence, and along with it
their salaries as deputies. The latter supposition is coon-
tenanced by the fact that a promulgation of the new Con-
stitution would be immediately followed by a dissolution of
the CLambers.

Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 20th instant
have been received. On the 19th, a Royal Decrees ap-
pointed General LATRE Minister of War, in the room of
General CAartATALA, whom Count OFALIA fOLIO(1 it
troublesome to keep in office till Ministers could pro-
vide themselves with a suitable Colleague. LATRE is at
the bead of a division of the Queen's army, and was on the
19th, hot in pursuit of the Carlist expedition in the direction
of Palencia. On the same day, the Carlist chief BASILIO
vas at Aljofrin, a village to the south of Toledo. PAR-
niNAs, with his division, had entered Madrid, with a view
to cover the capital, should the insurgents penetrate any
farther in that direction. A thousand Carlist prisoners
had likewise been conveyed to Madrid, which they entered
a few hours before the arrival of PARDINA'S division.
There is no other news from Spain of any moment.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Tuesday have been
received. The official columns of the /Voniteur announce