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London, England, 1838-03-29 00:00:00

that never-ending, still-beginning nuisance, the Irish policy of
the Queen's Ministers. It was provoked, moreover, by Lot d
John Russell, who seems to be now in a condition so inextrican-
ble; and plunged beyond his depth in a Popish vassalage so,
terrible; that " retreating were more tedious than go O'er."
His Lordships aa was manifest from the documents he brought
with him, cane down to the House armed to the elbow with
an elaborate imprortipti's reply to a question s;hich he knew
before-hand that Sir Robert Peel would be compelled by the
Noble Lord'e own proceeding to ask of him—namely, what
were the intentions; of the O'Connell Cabinet with reference
to that grand measure the Irish Tithe Adjustment Bill, upon
the strength of which—upon the promise of bringing forward
villith-ttpon the solemn pledge of carrying which through Par-
liament, tan:, same Lord .1. Russell and his accomplices rode
roughshod into of three long years ago ? The answer to
Sir R. Peel's interrogatory was, that on the 30th of April there
would be submitted to the Liousn of Commons the Ministerial
measure of 1838 for " settling" the Irish Tithe questions
His Lordship stated, further, that the proposed Bill was to be
so new, so comprehensive, so unlike all those which had pre-
ceded it, that it could not by possibility be founded on
" any one" resolution such as had been at in former
years. But it was to stand on no less than 13 resolutions,
driven like so many piles into the muddy bottom of the Whig,-
Romish policy, to support that bridge whereby Drs, M'Halc
and Murray were to be heralded by O'Connell within the
ramparts of our Protestant Constitution. But Lord .John
Russell vaunted something more on behalf of this palla-
dium of Whig fame and honour. He announced that
" his measure, if carried, would do that without which
no measure could be comprehensive and final---namely,
it would give security to the Church on the one hand,
and give satisfaction to the people of Ireland owe the
ether." How is all this ? We have heard that " fine wards
butter no parsnips." Fine words have indeed buttered some
people's bread. Mr. Daniel O'Connell's bread—Lord John
Russell's bread has been buttered by them, and on both sides
too. But this fresh attempt at buttering by fine words will
hardly serve the purpose now intended. Who are those of
the people of Ireland that require to have " satisfaction"
given them by any meddling with the Established Cliurch
Lord John Russell' did not mean the Protestants of Ireland—
he could not. He admits that it is " security" which they
(the Protestants) stand in need of, end that by the people a
Ireland he means no other than the priests and agitating Pa-
pists. Now, these men have one all declared, a thousand
times over, that what affords "security" to the Church will
not afford them " satisfaction," but the reverae ; for that they
will never rest, nor cease to agitate, until the Church, in all
its temporalities, has been " completely overturned." We
should like to have this in sore reasonable degree explained
for country gentlemen by Lord John Russell cr his master.
But there is other authority, and a more imposing
one, if not more than respectable, than that of his Lordship_
viz. that majority of the House of Commons which, with the
Noble Lord's full concurrence, and at his express instance,
placed on record its decided judgment as to what would, and
what only could, lead to " a final and satisfactory adjustment:
of the tithe question,"—to wit, a provision " whereby any stir-
alus of the Church revenues not required for the spiritual care
of its members should be applied to the general education of
her Majesty's subjects, without distinction of religious persua-
sion." Well then, we have, first, the above resolution of the
House of Commons of 1835, that nothing short of the appro-
priation (or spolia!ion) clause would give satisfaction to the
people of Ireland—that is, to O'Connell and the Papists; 2d,
we have the incessant and clamorous proclamations of the said
O'Connell, that even the clause for the partial plunder-
ing of the Church was, in his eyes so far from
satisfactory to the people, or conducive to the peace of Ire-
land, that he considered it no better than a pitiful instalment
of 2s. 6d. in the pound out of a debt of 20s. ; 3d, we have, in
the letters, pastoral, polemical, and pugnacious, of that mild
and gentle shepherd, John Tuam, a pretty fair specimen or
what he means by that " general education" which the
House of Commons majority in 1835 pronounced to be es-
sential to the peace of Ireland—viz., that. no book should be
admitted into any school paid for out of the confiscated rove-
slues of the Protestant Church, though professing to beset on
foot for the joint education of Protestant children and Pa-
pists, save and except such book as he or one of his mitred
brethren should formally authorize and sanction for that pur-
pose—that no teacher should dare to give instruction in anch
a school, save only such teacher as he ( M'Hale) or some
other mitred autocrat, should formally appoint, and. suclr
as should be liable to dismissal at his pleasure !—that nu
teacher brought up and qualified for his office at any
" normal" school governed or superintended by a Protes-
tant should be suffered to act as schoolmaster to any of the
AP Hale flock. Once more we call upon the majority of the
House of Commons—is this then the cause of " religious
liberty" for which ye are undermining the Protestant reformed
Church ? Is it for a community of Papists, trampled on and
ground down by the cloven-hoof of this bigoted barbarian,
that ye dream of ever legislating in the spirit of peace, or
hope to live in mutual charity ? The plot has not merely been
betrayed by chance—it has been ostentatiously and scornfully
paraded. In open defiance of a nation of Protestants, con-
spiracy has burst out into rebellion. The crosier and the
pike.are brandished over our heads in concert; and again, it
is the cause of " religious liberty," whose advancement is
blasphemously invoked, and in whose blessed name we and hu-
many are insulted ! But there is still something beyond.
Among all the thirteen resolutions on which is to be built
this vast edifice of " satisfaction," we look in vain from the
first to the thirteenth inclusive for that one fundamental,
indispensable, vital principle of appropriation. All, indeed,

is to be converted, but nothing ostensibly taken away unccrm-
rnsated over and above that 30 per cent. by which it was
proposed on former occasions that the Clergy should be,
mulcted in consideration of an increased security for their in-
comes. But if there be no plunder after the nibbling fashion
of 1835, there is a good deal wore ; for there is wholesale.
barefaced, unmitigated confi'cation. The existing revenues
of the Church are turned over bodily to the payment of a
police force, of which the entire appointment, dismissal,
patronage, and control, will be in the Romish agitators, and,
like the schoolmaster, in the Bishops M'Hale, Murray, and Co.
It is, as we told the public three weeks ago; the scheme con_
cocted by Mr. Daniel O'Connell for giving " security" Lo
the Protestant Church, and by him imposed upon his grovel-
/Mg minions in the Cabinet. It gives the Church revenues
in the shape of rent, charge to the Romish police, as locust
tenentes for the Romish pricsthcod, who are, as we sail before,
to be made landed proprietors, while the humbled Protestant
clergy arc to be cast down into creeping pensioners, crawling
before a Finance or Civil List Committee for their daily'
bread. The mixture of iniquity and effrontery in this mea-
sure will soon, we are aware, dispose ot' it. But in the course
of the debates which it must of necessity, if only proji,rnut,
t:niergo, we trust that some shrewd Member of Parliament
will put it broadly to O'Connell, whether this, too, like past
measures of Church adjustment for giving " satisfaction t
the people of Ireland," is n purely another " instalment ;"
for sure we are—nay, as well satisfied as of our own being--
that yet a further adjustment is already resolved on in the.
Popish Cabinet after this—namely, a measure for expelling;
the Butestint clergy front their glebes, and transferring them
to the Maynooth-bred pupils and dependents of Drs. M‘flalc
and Murray. Let it be watched, that's all.— Times.
Last night the adjourned debate on Lord Eliot's motion was
brought to an abrupt and rather ludicrous conclusion. The
Orders of the Day and preliminary business of the House
hewing been disposed of, the Speaker formally read the reso-

. . .
lution moved by Lord Eliot, am! as Mr. Shed had spoken last
on the previou, niAlit in opposition to the motion, and etoosed
in a brilliant speech the malevolence and turpitude of the mo-
tives acwating its supportira, it wss of course expected that
some Tory Member would have spoken in reply. But the
Oppo.,i!ion benches a;pcared affected with an unusual tacitur-
ni'y, and an awful pause, during which the Teies looked at;
.

each other in vain for a speech, -having folloWed the reading
of the rusAution, the Speaker put the question, when the
ayes being declared in a raino..-ity, a division was called -for,
and the result was as follows :
For the motion
Against it
Majority

6'2

• 70

But this did not conclude the proceeding. The Tories de-
clar..tl they were taken by surprise. Lord Mahon modestly,
and with great simplicity, demanded that the. debate should be

resumed.- Sir H. Peel stated that an Honourable Member

lad expressed to him an intention of opening the debate, and
e was astonished on arriving at the House to find that no

speech had been forthcoming-, and that a division had taken
plsce. ,Lord. Eliot admitted with amusing candour that he
intended to have cast censure on the Government, and hoped
that to effect a purpose so desirahli., the debate would be al-
lowed to be continued on some verbal amendment to the

original motion. This hint was eagerly adopted by Lord
Mahon, who made a motion in accordance with it,
Lord John Russell professed the utmost readiness to
take the most ample sense of the House upon a ques-
tion so deeply involving • the foreign policy of the coun-
try. But the mischief likely to result from such a pre-
cedent as re-opening a debate after the question had been
decided, was too apparent to allow the question to be en-
tertained ; and after a brief discussion, and some hearty
laughing on one side of the ll,use, and a few painful
contortions of countenance on the other, Lord Mahon with-

drew his prop,2sition to fight the battle over again, the House
adjourned, and thus endad the third attempt by which the
Tories have endeavoured effect that to them most desirable
y
consummation—the expulsion o: Ministers from office. The
have now assailed the Government on cl Irish, the Colonial,
and the Foreign Administrations—a breau..l' was attempted
even by means of the Poor Law Amendment Act.--but all to
no effect. Their weapons have recoiled upon themselv,;:; but
this last defeat, to lose a victory merely from . the want. of a
speech, of which there is such a redundant supply in the mar.,
ket, and of which, fruits the drivelling Burdett to the hullf,cyg;
D'lsraeli, there are so many rival manufacturers on the Tory
benches is the most vexatious and mortifying of all. What a
pity that- Peter Borthwick is.not s.i!l a M-mber of the House,
or that the Tories had not purchased a speech from_hini for the
nonce, and confided its delivery to some of the senatorial
scions who droop in melancholy silence and-never tell their pa-
triotism, but pine in thought, without a single hope of office
or any of its agreeable concomitants to cheer their couttiik.
plations.—Morning Advertiser.

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James Perry and 'Co. ; but so rapid have been the strides of
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these gentlemen towards improvement,
feetion, that we do not scruple to own they have not only i
quished our old-fashioned notions, but they also
Chester Assizs commence on
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